Well there's the lighting costs which although are fairly small, count for something.
The datacenter can have a lot taller rooms - less pesky ceilings to install.
Presumably the robots can move faster than a human, so less time walking around locating the correct rack/server. I imagine they wouldn't be able to solve all problems, but they might be able to bring an entire server to a place where a human could be repairing it (much like robotic inventory/library systems do).
It's possible there could be some security savings. If people are restricted from entering at all, then there would be less need to secure servers individually.
Right...a confusing and hostile situation (which the President and staff clearly botched) that happened over an evening is comparable to a planned out and very public taking of American's rights?
It might be fun to jump on the whole government conspiracy bandwagon, but the two situations are in no way comparable. There are a lot of questions about Benghazi and some answers may seem obvious now in retrospect, but the Japanese Interment was clearly wrong.
But the search built into the start menu is better for the general user than search previously available. It's easy to find and launch programs (what I primarily use it for), and it shows documents/music/normal files that people often look for.
For a power user or anyone that does development, it's pretty useless - many times I've stuck queries in the search and then had to tell it to try again, this time look at ALL the files.
Most website won't hash your password on the client anyways because that's sort of pointless (an attacker could just replicate the process). It's perfectly possible the server has one function that hashes the password and stores it in the database, then emails the login details in a confirmation email.
Sending out password info in email raises a whole new set of security issues for the user (intercepted or email hacked).
Slavery was the primary reason for the war - it was the reason the southern states seceded (generally thought to be illegal), in turn forcing the north into the war to preserve the union. Southerners wanted to take their slaves to Northern states where they wanted Federal law to protect them, but at the same time they also didn't want any new laws limiting slavery.
Lincoln wasn't a fan of slavery (part of the reason the south seceded), so he made abolishing it a part of the war and law. He didn't initiate the war (the south started that by attacking supply ships sent to Fort Sumter and the taking of Federal forts.
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Several years ago I worked for a company that reported record profits for 6 consecutive quarters. What happened? The stock price went down 25%..
Definitely not hiring you if my stock is going to go down 25%
I think he's saying the house costs $60k to build, but because of the land value it costs $415k to buy. The same house in the middle of no where would be a different value.
How about instead of an increased minimum wage, we abolish it and provide a minimum income for people. At that point employers lose the upper hand in forcing people to take low wages to survive and instead they have to compete with pay and benefits people think fit the job.
Of course there are issues with funding that (higher taxes on the rich would work best) and it would work better on a sliding scale so people that do work get more money, it doesn't just get taken out of their minimum
They probably had the commercial version which autoupdates as soon as it can, and they thought that was great. Why they had A/V on their servers (or were using windows servers) is another question...
I said severe austerity - obviously they didn't full out because that would have destroyed their economy even more, but it's clear from the trend what would have happened.
That article seems to have forgotten Ireland which went through some severe austerity (hundreds of thousands left the country, most public sector took a 20% pay cut). While their government is slowly recovering now, I don't think you'll find many Irish happy with the situation.
So basically the libertarian world:
1. Lax regulations giving corporations free rein to abuse consumers
2. Women get oppressed as they have for millennium
3. same
4. This message brought to you by the NRA? Isn't free education for everyone against the libertarian way?
Immediate life saving help costs a whole lot more than preventative health care. It's the unfunded emergency care that makes health care cost so much for the paying customers - they've got to recoup that money from somewhere. Seems a bit contradictory that eating a lot is a pre-existing condition, but smoking a lot is not.
I'm sure you're a healthy person that rejects health insurance, but some day you're going to be sick and want the help from insurance. Health insurance only works if you have it all the time, not just when you're sick. Pretty much everyone is going to need serious medical care at some point, so it's logical that they should get it now.
The socialist countries (even the ones with crippling austerity measures) survive with their health care and are MUCH healthier than Americans.
Do you really think the old system with tens of millions of people without access to health care was the BEST one? Been a bit short on other ideas...
There's always going to be the extreme libertarian view that Government should be abolished and everyone should fend for themselves, but countries with GOOD governments tend to be much better than countries with little or bad governments. Now I'm not saying the US has the best government, but it's not a bad one (despite some bad things it does) and it won't help to cut it down so it just functions less efficiently.
The mess of the health care act was because of the TeaParty/GOP/libertarians that are actually in favor of millions of people dying as a legitimate solution. It may sound crazy - because it is. Pretty much all other developed countries manage to provide health care to their citizens, but in the US we're worried about "death panels" killing off grandma and providing health care to women so we can't go there. ObamaCare was a first step - get everyone to have some sort of health care. A single payer would likely be more efficient than running through insurance companies, but that's too scary for some. We very much need more health care reform, but while some are offering solutions in reforms that will cover more people and bring down costs, others think the best solution is to drop tens of millions of people from the system and "scrap it". The system we had was fairly poor for those with money and horrible for those without - and costs were going up, yet people keep believing it's the American way that we should go back to. You can't make this stuff up, and you can't fix stupid.
This article immediately reminded me of the part of Snow Crash where the US Government monitors its employees reading the memos and disciplines them for taking too long or not long enough - and how the good employees will go back to reference earlier parts of the memo, etc.
Of course the employees were all basically gaming the system so they appeared to be doing it correctly.
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Well there's the lighting costs which although are fairly small, count for something.
The datacenter can have a lot taller rooms - less pesky ceilings to install.
Presumably the robots can move faster than a human, so less time walking around locating the correct rack/server. I imagine they wouldn't be able to solve all problems, but they might be able to bring an entire server to a place where a human could be repairing it (much like robotic inventory/library systems do).
It's possible there could be some security savings. If people are restricted from entering at all, then there would be less need to secure servers individually.
But you can other tricks such as taking a second photo using the same negative to similar effect. A bit more challenging, but still possible
If your text-to-speech program can read the text, your text-to-text program can copy the text to somewhere else.
Ah yes! What if someone connected a voice recognition program to that!
Verizon offers a TV package that's $10 cheaper without any sports channels.
Right...a confusing and hostile situation (which the President and staff clearly botched) that happened over an evening is comparable to a planned out and very public taking of American's rights?
It might be fun to jump on the whole government conspiracy bandwagon, but the two situations are in no way comparable. There are a lot of questions about Benghazi and some answers may seem obvious now in retrospect, but the Japanese Interment was clearly wrong.
But the search built into the start menu is better for the general user than search previously available. It's easy to find and launch programs (what I primarily use it for), and it shows documents/music/normal files that people often look for.
For a power user or anyone that does development, it's pretty useless - many times I've stuck queries in the search and then had to tell it to try again, this time look at ALL the files.
Obviously he wanted to browse the whole world wide web. Wouldn't want to miss a new site!
Most website won't hash your password on the client anyways because that's sort of pointless (an attacker could just replicate the process). It's perfectly possible the server has one function that hashes the password and stores it in the database, then emails the login details in a confirmation email.
Sending out password info in email raises a whole new set of security issues for the user (intercepted or email hacked).
I didn't say it was a proclamation by the North - you can read the secession papers - they mention slavery.
Slavery was the primary reason for the war - it was the reason the southern states seceded (generally thought to be illegal), in turn forcing the north into the war to preserve the union. Southerners wanted to take their slaves to Northern states where they wanted Federal law to protect them, but at the same time they also didn't want any new laws limiting slavery.
Lincoln wasn't a fan of slavery (part of the reason the south seceded), so he made abolishing it a part of the war and law. He didn't initiate the war (the south started that by attacking supply ships sent to Fort Sumter and the taking of Federal forts.
Several years ago I worked for a company that reported record profits for 6 consecutive quarters. What happened? The stock price went down 25%..
Definitely not hiring you if my stock is going to go down 25%
Did the software beep enough? It needs to beep for each magnitude you zoom in.
Best if every face scanned is shown on screen next to the original and beep.
I think he's saying the house costs $60k to build, but because of the land value it costs $415k to buy. The same house in the middle of no where would be a different value.
Do all questions need to have a purpose? I bet you complain about the lack of options on the polls too.
How about instead of an increased minimum wage, we abolish it and provide a minimum income for people. At that point employers lose the upper hand in forcing people to take low wages to survive and instead they have to compete with pay and benefits people think fit the job.
Of course there are issues with funding that (higher taxes on the rich would work best) and it would work better on a sliding scale so people that do work get more money, it doesn't just get taken out of their minimum
Or it was taking the Skynet approach and preemptively blocking the largest vulnerability - people using the system
They probably had the commercial version which autoupdates as soon as it can, and they thought that was great. Why they had A/V on their servers (or were using windows servers) is another question...
That's crazy - a ban infringing our liberties and legal bean enthusiasts won't help.
The only way to stop a bad person with an assault bean is to have a good guy with an assault bean.
I said severe austerity - obviously they didn't full out because that would have destroyed their economy even more, but it's clear from the trend what would have happened.
That article seems to have forgotten Ireland which went through some severe austerity (hundreds of thousands left the country, most public sector took a 20% pay cut). While their government is slowly recovering now, I don't think you'll find many Irish happy with the situation.
Probably because that's a lot of work. It's much easier to just to see the result you're looking for and publish.
So basically the libertarian world: 1. Lax regulations giving corporations free rein to abuse consumers 2. Women get oppressed as they have for millennium 3. same 4. This message brought to you by the NRA? Isn't free education for everyone against the libertarian way?
Immediate life saving help costs a whole lot more than preventative health care. It's the unfunded emergency care that makes health care cost so much for the paying customers - they've got to recoup that money from somewhere. Seems a bit contradictory that eating a lot is a pre-existing condition, but smoking a lot is not.
I'm sure you're a healthy person that rejects health insurance, but some day you're going to be sick and want the help from insurance. Health insurance only works if you have it all the time, not just when you're sick. Pretty much everyone is going to need serious medical care at some point, so it's logical that they should get it now.
The socialist countries (even the ones with crippling austerity measures) survive with their health care and are MUCH healthier than Americans.
Do you really think the old system with tens of millions of people without access to health care was the BEST one? Been a bit short on other ideas...
There's always going to be the extreme libertarian view that Government should be abolished and everyone should fend for themselves, but countries with GOOD governments tend to be much better than countries with little or bad governments. Now I'm not saying the US has the best government, but it's not a bad one (despite some bad things it does) and it won't help to cut it down so it just functions less efficiently.
The mess of the health care act was because of the TeaParty/GOP/libertarians that are actually in favor of millions of people dying as a legitimate solution. It may sound crazy - because it is. Pretty much all other developed countries manage to provide health care to their citizens, but in the US we're worried about "death panels" killing off grandma and providing health care to women so we can't go there. ObamaCare was a first step - get everyone to have some sort of health care. A single payer would likely be more efficient than running through insurance companies, but that's too scary for some. We very much need more health care reform, but while some are offering solutions in reforms that will cover more people and bring down costs, others think the best solution is to drop tens of millions of people from the system and "scrap it". The system we had was fairly poor for those with money and horrible for those without - and costs were going up, yet people keep believing it's the American way that we should go back to. You can't make this stuff up, and you can't fix stupid.
This article immediately reminded me of the part of Snow Crash where the US Government monitors its employees reading the memos and disciplines them for taking too long or not long enough - and how the good employees will go back to reference earlier parts of the memo, etc.
Of course the employees were all basically gaming the system so they appeared to be doing it correctly.