It IS the user's choice. The problem is that 95% of the users are too stupid to realize what they put online will be online forever.
Recently (couple of months ago) one of my friends decided to change her name on MyFace and SpaceBook etc. and close down her pages. A recent search however still had it matched now as a 'typo correction': You searched for John Doe, no results - did you mean Fake Name and sure enough, not only could you find her pages but you could also see a preview of the pictures etc. that were supposed to be locked down.
However, the Supreme Court affirmed several times that the constitution specifically protects children against indoctrination (usually against theirs or their parents will) of the school religious flavor of the day whether that be compulsory prayer, pledge of allegiance or singing of national anthems.
The constitution specifically demands for a separation of church and state since there should be no law (whether that be local, state or federal) establishing a religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof which compulsory school prayer, pledges of allegiance etc. do either establish a local, state or federal religion or prohibit others from exercising their religion.
In China however, your work is also your home (very similar to the Industrial Revolution in Europe) and home is usually far far away (in rural China). Management is also a lot harder on their employees.
I agree that they should get better working conditions but to blame Apple for it is far-fetched. Open up any computer-like device and you're bound to find at least one component in it that comes from FoxConn. But do you really want to pay 3 times as much for the same product built under better conditions - or do you really want to pay 10 times as much to get the whole world on equal wages?
Since when does an API need to be user friendly? I found Google's documentation much more user friendly and straightforward than say Microsoft's.NET documentation on File I/O. It's not an end-user product. Just skimming over the contents of the linked sites, it seems very easy to use even if you're not an advanced programmer. If you don't understand what's on those websites after some thorough reading, please hand in your geek card.
No it isn't, that's the way Microsoft has worked in the past and how they try to assimilate other markets. The same happened with Windows 95 - it got given away as a near freebie on all computers and even hardware components (hard drives would come preinstalled with Windows 95). The same happened with SQL Server - nobody was using it when they took it over from Sybase, they got people hooked by giving away a free version of it.
There are plenty of benchmark tests around. For C-level executives, the ones that score the machine overall performance with a number would be the simplest. Also see what customer reviews say.
The simplest way to go (and that's what I always do) - spec out a machine according to what you need + a little extra. Go shopping among the vendors (Apple, Dell, HP,...) and see what the prices say for the machine you spec'ed out (don't forget all the little additions you need to make to make a machine complete - display, video card (missing in my recent HP buy), keyboard+mouse, warranties, support). Then go shopping for a lower and a higher level performance (with Dell the cheap stuff will include yesteryear's technology and gets very expensive with the higher clock Nehalem-architecture), look at the benchmark scores and compare them in a nice table (not too much info - 3 models & 3 benchmarks will give you a 3x3 raster). Next slide you can compare prices, warranty and support (http://www.laptopmag.com/mobile-life/tech-support-showdown-2009.aspx) for 3 vendors (another 3x3 raster).
All in all in about 5-7 slides you should tell them - this is the machine I recommend, you can also get this lower and this higher performance one. This vendor I recommend because they got A+ support ratings according to consumer reviews, you can also go with this and this, here are the prices. These options you can get extra for this price in case some of the departments need them. If necessary you can also add mobile computers and workstations if that's what your end-users need.
You can track anyone's family ties and forecast certain inherited diseases or disorders - access to such a database would allow insurance companies to allow or deny coverage, raise premiums etc. You can track anyone's heritage, race and according to some check if you have certain 'evil' bits in your DNA thereby including or excluding you from a list of suspects of a crime or 'protect society' against future crimes (see Minority Report). You could track down (yours or others) families against their will (eg. fathers and mothers of abandoned, adopted and single-parent children). In the future you might even be able to clone somebody as a replacement in a political or other scheme (see Manchurian Candidate) or steal somebody's identity by cloning blood samples if DNA ever becomes a universal identifier (like SSN).
The good thing is that you could also check the rate of duplicates in DNA sampling methods. There is a lot of scientific and statistical proof that it is possible that certain DNA sequencing methods used in criminal investigations could result in collisions (like MD5 hashes) however it is unclear at this moment what the 'error rate' of DNA sampling is.
Wrong analogy. Open WiFi is like opening your windows and then walking naked in front of it (or do anything else that you want to keep private) and then be mad at somebody else when they see you.
I don't know the case but it might be that because the managers let her do the stealing (for whatever reason, maybe she was blackmailing, sharing the wealth, romantically involved or she had family ties), all the previous occurrences that were documented but not acted upon were dismissed. If you let somebody steal from you, you can't really expect them to be punished whenever it suits you - you actually have to document the occurrence, fire the person, notify the authorities and sue for damages. If you document but let it go on you might have (depending on your locality) implicitly given permission to those occurrences.
The last time when somebody actually went through the steps of firing her, they might not have sued for damages. According to your story she only got to criminal court, the lawyers pointed out that they let the other occurrences slide so implicitly allowed it, got a slap on the wrist because it was her 'first' offense for petty theft and maybe she has to do some community service or pay a fine. The company can still sue for damages if it's enough money but for whatever reason (cost of litigation maybe) they might not have - this is usually in another court (not criminal) though.
Mac OS X Leopard still runs on those machines you mentioned. Mac OS X Leopard will not run on the Pentium 3-era machines simply because some of the hardware might not support the full functionality (eg. because it has a PCI video card) but if you upgrade them to that level of hardware (upgrade video card, ram and hard drive), Leopard can be installed on them.
Apple doesn't support that hardware anymore because it cannot support the features advertised on the box and some software will not work properly. Microsoft's OS might install on such an old machine but then it won't support the features on the box or some software won't run properly (eg. Office 2007 or 2010).
And Snow Leopard doesn't work on PowerPC's at all but it's not like you're missing any new features because of it.
Usually (as in the case with the iPhone and Blackberry), all data is encrypted by default and the remote wipe deletes the encryption key a couple of times. This makes all data unreadable and unrecoverable - even if you could read the data it would still be worthless.
Even though you're sitting in a Faraday cage? Citation please! I'll take one of my wife's x-ray badges next time I go through the airport, they will be analyzed to see if you've been exposed to an unhealthy amount of x-ray radiation.
You can install Leopard officially on any G4 up to 9 years old. Technically you can install them on any G4 but that involves a hack and might not work as expected/performant. It would be the same as saying: Windows Vista doesn't run on my Pentium 3 - which were mainstream when your computer was purchased. If you really want to run something on those old beasties, install Linux which has a recent webkit browser.
The thing is, most programs still work on those old machines and there is still software being made that is compatible with it.
The oil spill response plans for the Exxon Valdez were drafted and filed by Alyeska (BP is the primary owner of the consortium). They were at that time responsible for the cleanup crews but they had been firing the response teams and they didn't have any containment machinery in that area - it took them 24 hours to even start going.
There is no significant radiation hazard with most nuclear weapons. There might be some fallout the first couple of hours/days but a couple of months later there are no significant radiation dosages.
First of all, the DOC format (the original Word formats) are not open, only DOCX are somewhat open. The problems are in: charts, styles, watermarks, fonts, tracked changes, and SmartArt.
Charts, watermarks, tracked changes and SmartArt are not open/documented in the OOXML formats. Styles and fonts are usually converted pretty well unless the document is generated by MS Office because then it isn't according to spec anymore.
For the uneducated part, the general US public schooling system is to blame, not the higher education institutions. There are MANY things wrong on MANY levels with the current public school system starting off with NCLB, interdistrict exchange programs (meritocratic segregation), unionizing of school staff, ease of transfers to 'special' education classes, unaccountability of school leadership, commercialization of school supplies etc. etc. which all contributes to the all-out dumbing down of high school graduates.
On the other hand there are too many children that are not properly taken care off - especially in city schools - that simply don't have the resources to get properly thought. The increasing funds that are channeled towards schooling programs should be diverted to properly (not just hand them a sum of money) support parents and children that simply don't have the necessary funds to get clothing, food and books for school. In other countries there are programs where families will get actual food and clothing items (not coupons that can be traded for cigarettes) when parents can't support their own children, books and school materials are all paid for by the government (with limited commercial printeries being used - usually only for speciality items).
When people go to 4 year colleges, they shouldn't have to spend their WHOLE first year learning algebra, integrals, basic statistics and experiment design. If you can't do those things, you shouldn't get accepted in the 4 year program - either take a lower level program, self-educate or pay someone to tutor you.
an emphasis on "curated computing" could rob resources from old-skool computer development
That doesn't necessarily have to be true. It's not like developers are en-masse converting to develop for mobile platforms. There is an ecosystem in the desktop software that has to be maintained however the market for that is pretty much saturated. This means that new developers will probably lean towards mobile computing because that market is new and pretty much open. As more people get these devices, that market will also start to get saturated and probably much quicker as the gatekeepers try to keep the bad and duplicate apps out.
Well, it's very, very deep first of all but that's not a huge problem, they can engineer around that. However, BP has been lying through the nose throughout the whole experience. The cap might have worked earlier if BP didn't lie about the depth and extent of the leaks, historically lied and bribed around the potential problems with this specific platform as well as lied and bribed around their countermeasures in case of a spill. They didn't even retain the engineers or crews to respond to these disasters. Government regulation requires them to file 'disaster recovery' plans but all their plans were wrong, their procedures inadequate and they had fired a lot of their people that respond to these calls over the last couple of years for better quarterly reports.
In order to make a good comparison I need to see: - Performance when not plugged into the wall - CPU and Memory usage throughout the experience - Battery life throughout the experience - Comparison between eg. HTML5 YouTube and Flash YouTube
I don't have an iDevice but I have a Nokia N800. I removed Flash from the thing because it's slow, it crashes regularly and eats through my battery.
That also means that half or a quarter of all computers (depending on the figures there are 1-2 billion computers) in the world (including corporate, obsolete, laptops, servers) have illegal software installed.
Either they have a very broad range of what is "illegal" (eg. purchased the but the license lapsed and left the software on the machine) or a very broad range of what is "pirating" (what about backup copies or downloads because you lost the original disc).
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It IS the user's choice. The problem is that 95% of the users are too stupid to realize what they put online will be online forever.
Recently (couple of months ago) one of my friends decided to change her name on MyFace and SpaceBook etc. and close down her pages. A recent search however still had it matched now as a 'typo correction': You searched for John Doe, no results - did you mean Fake Name and sure enough, not only could you find her pages but you could also see a preview of the pictures etc. that were supposed to be locked down.
However, the Supreme Court affirmed several times that the constitution specifically protects children against indoctrination (usually against theirs or their parents will) of the school religious flavor of the day whether that be compulsory prayer, pledge of allegiance or singing of national anthems.
The constitution specifically demands for a separation of church and state since there should be no law (whether that be local, state or federal) establishing a religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof which compulsory school prayer, pledges of allegiance etc. do either establish a local, state or federal religion or prohibit others from exercising their religion.
In China however, your work is also your home (very similar to the Industrial Revolution in Europe) and home is usually far far away (in rural China). Management is also a lot harder on their employees.
I agree that they should get better working conditions but to blame Apple for it is far-fetched. Open up any computer-like device and you're bound to find at least one component in it that comes from FoxConn. But do you really want to pay 3 times as much for the same product built under better conditions - or do you really want to pay 10 times as much to get the whole world on equal wages?
Since when does an API need to be user friendly? I found Google's documentation much more user friendly and straightforward than say Microsoft's .NET documentation on File I/O. It's not an end-user product. Just skimming over the contents of the linked sites, it seems very easy to use even if you're not an advanced programmer. If you don't understand what's on those websites after some thorough reading, please hand in your geek card.
No it isn't, that's the way Microsoft has worked in the past and how they try to assimilate other markets. The same happened with Windows 95 - it got given away as a near freebie on all computers and even hardware components (hard drives would come preinstalled with Windows 95). The same happened with SQL Server - nobody was using it when they took it over from Sybase, they got people hooked by giving away a free version of it.
There are plenty of benchmark tests around. For C-level executives, the ones that score the machine overall performance with a number would be the simplest. Also see what customer reviews say.
The simplest way to go (and that's what I always do) - spec out a machine according to what you need + a little extra. Go shopping among the vendors (Apple, Dell, HP, ...) and see what the prices say for the machine you spec'ed out (don't forget all the little additions you need to make to make a machine complete - display, video card (missing in my recent HP buy), keyboard+mouse, warranties, support). Then go shopping for a lower and a higher level performance (with Dell the cheap stuff will include yesteryear's technology and gets very expensive with the higher clock Nehalem-architecture), look at the benchmark scores and compare them in a nice table (not too much info - 3 models & 3 benchmarks will give you a 3x3 raster). Next slide you can compare prices, warranty and support (http://www.laptopmag.com/mobile-life/tech-support-showdown-2009.aspx) for 3 vendors (another 3x3 raster).
All in all in about 5-7 slides you should tell them - this is the machine I recommend, you can also get this lower and this higher performance one. This vendor I recommend because they got A+ support ratings according to consumer reviews, you can also go with this and this, here are the prices. These options you can get extra for this price in case some of the departments need them. If necessary you can also add mobile computers and workstations if that's what your end-users need.
You can track anyone's family ties and forecast certain inherited diseases or disorders - access to such a database would allow insurance companies to allow or deny coverage, raise premiums etc. You can track anyone's heritage, race and according to some check if you have certain 'evil' bits in your DNA thereby including or excluding you from a list of suspects of a crime or 'protect society' against future crimes (see Minority Report). You could track down (yours or others) families against their will (eg. fathers and mothers of abandoned, adopted and single-parent children). In the future you might even be able to clone somebody as a replacement in a political or other scheme (see Manchurian Candidate) or steal somebody's identity by cloning blood samples if DNA ever becomes a universal identifier (like SSN).
The good thing is that you could also check the rate of duplicates in DNA sampling methods. There is a lot of scientific and statistical proof that it is possible that certain DNA sequencing methods used in criminal investigations could result in collisions (like MD5 hashes) however it is unclear at this moment what the 'error rate' of DNA sampling is.
Get a MacBook/MacBook Pro with 10 hours of battery life on a freakin' full size laptop.
Here we go, maybe we should put this in all our sig's and webpages we maintain:
Smiley Muhammad ibn 'Abdullh:
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Wrong analogy. Open WiFi is like opening your windows and then walking naked in front of it (or do anything else that you want to keep private) and then be mad at somebody else when they see you.
I don't know the case but it might be that because the managers let her do the stealing (for whatever reason, maybe she was blackmailing, sharing the wealth, romantically involved or she had family ties), all the previous occurrences that were documented but not acted upon were dismissed. If you let somebody steal from you, you can't really expect them to be punished whenever it suits you - you actually have to document the occurrence, fire the person, notify the authorities and sue for damages. If you document but let it go on you might have (depending on your locality) implicitly given permission to those occurrences.
The last time when somebody actually went through the steps of firing her, they might not have sued for damages. According to your story she only got to criminal court, the lawyers pointed out that they let the other occurrences slide so implicitly allowed it, got a slap on the wrist because it was her 'first' offense for petty theft and maybe she has to do some community service or pay a fine. The company can still sue for damages if it's enough money but for whatever reason (cost of litigation maybe) they might not have - this is usually in another court (not criminal) though.
Mac OS X Leopard still runs on those machines you mentioned. Mac OS X Leopard will not run on the Pentium 3-era machines simply because some of the hardware might not support the full functionality (eg. because it has a PCI video card) but if you upgrade them to that level of hardware (upgrade video card, ram and hard drive), Leopard can be installed on them.
Apple doesn't support that hardware anymore because it cannot support the features advertised on the box and some software will not work properly. Microsoft's OS might install on such an old machine but then it won't support the features on the box or some software won't run properly (eg. Office 2007 or 2010).
And Snow Leopard doesn't work on PowerPC's at all but it's not like you're missing any new features because of it.
Usually (as in the case with the iPhone and Blackberry), all data is encrypted by default and the remote wipe deletes the encryption key a couple of times. This makes all data unreadable and unrecoverable - even if you could read the data it would still be worthless.
Even though you're sitting in a Faraday cage? Citation please! I'll take one of my wife's x-ray badges next time I go through the airport, they will be analyzed to see if you've been exposed to an unhealthy amount of x-ray radiation.
You can install Leopard officially on any G4 up to 9 years old. Technically you can install them on any G4 but that involves a hack and might not work as expected/performant. It would be the same as saying: Windows Vista doesn't run on my Pentium 3 - which were mainstream when your computer was purchased. If you really want to run something on those old beasties, install Linux which has a recent webkit browser.
The thing is, most programs still work on those old machines and there is still software being made that is compatible with it.
The oil spill response plans for the Exxon Valdez were drafted and filed by Alyeska (BP is the primary owner of the consortium). They were at that time responsible for the cleanup crews but they had been firing the response teams and they didn't have any containment machinery in that area - it took them 24 hours to even start going.
BP didn't pay for the Exxon Valdez either even though it was BP's responsibility.
There is no significant radiation hazard with most nuclear weapons. There might be some fallout the first couple of hours/days but a couple of months later there are no significant radiation dosages.
First of all, the DOC format (the original Word formats) are not open, only DOCX are somewhat open. The problems are in: charts, styles, watermarks, fonts, tracked changes, and SmartArt.
Charts, watermarks, tracked changes and SmartArt are not open/documented in the OOXML formats. Styles and fonts are usually converted pretty well unless the document is generated by MS Office because then it isn't according to spec anymore.
For the uneducated part, the general US public schooling system is to blame, not the higher education institutions. There are MANY things wrong on MANY levels with the current public school system starting off with NCLB, interdistrict exchange programs (meritocratic segregation), unionizing of school staff, ease of transfers to 'special' education classes, unaccountability of school leadership, commercialization of school supplies etc. etc. which all contributes to the all-out dumbing down of high school graduates.
On the other hand there are too many children that are not properly taken care off - especially in city schools - that simply don't have the resources to get properly thought. The increasing funds that are channeled towards schooling programs should be diverted to properly (not just hand them a sum of money) support parents and children that simply don't have the necessary funds to get clothing, food and books for school. In other countries there are programs where families will get actual food and clothing items (not coupons that can be traded for cigarettes) when parents can't support their own children, books and school materials are all paid for by the government (with limited commercial printeries being used - usually only for speciality items).
When people go to 4 year colleges, they shouldn't have to spend their WHOLE first year learning algebra, integrals, basic statistics and experiment design. If you can't do those things, you shouldn't get accepted in the 4 year program - either take a lower level program, self-educate or pay someone to tutor you.
an emphasis on "curated computing" could rob resources from old-skool computer development
That doesn't necessarily have to be true. It's not like developers are en-masse converting to develop for mobile platforms. There is an ecosystem in the desktop software that has to be maintained however the market for that is pretty much saturated. This means that new developers will probably lean towards mobile computing because that market is new and pretty much open. As more people get these devices, that market will also start to get saturated and probably much quicker as the gatekeepers try to keep the bad and duplicate apps out.
Well, it's very, very deep first of all but that's not a huge problem, they can engineer around that. However, BP has been lying through the nose throughout the whole experience. The cap might have worked earlier if BP didn't lie about the depth and extent of the leaks, historically lied and bribed around the potential problems with this specific platform as well as lied and bribed around their countermeasures in case of a spill. They didn't even retain the engineers or crews to respond to these disasters. Government regulation requires them to file 'disaster recovery' plans but all their plans were wrong, their procedures inadequate and they had fired a lot of their people that respond to these calls over the last couple of years for better quarterly reports.
In order to make a good comparison I need to see:
- Performance when not plugged into the wall
- CPU and Memory usage throughout the experience
- Battery life throughout the experience
- Comparison between eg. HTML5 YouTube and Flash YouTube
I don't have an iDevice but I have a Nokia N800. I removed Flash from the thing because it's slow, it crashes regularly and eats through my battery.
A vasectomy is much safer, much simpler and lower cost compared to tubal litigation.
That also means that half or a quarter of all computers (depending on the figures there are 1-2 billion computers) in the world (including corporate, obsolete, laptops, servers) have illegal software installed.
Either they have a very broad range of what is "illegal" (eg. purchased the but the license lapsed and left the software on the machine) or a very broad range of what is "pirating" (what about backup copies or downloads because you lost the original disc).