The parent post was tongue-in-cheek, but seriously, it's something to consider. North Korea needs money badly. The United States doesn't want them to have nuclear materials. The United States has money and needs nuclear materials. Why don't we just buy it from them? It solves a lot of different problems.
This is just a clarification of "harassment" as it already exists. It's not an attempt to shut down blogs. If someone is obviously and intentionally harassing someone else, I have no problem with them having legal recourse.
Why online storage? Why not just copy everything to a couple USB drives and then backup off-site occasionally with DVDs? It's not like we're talking about a lot of storage, they're probably just text documents mostly, right?
I think that age group is too young to build robots on any informative level. I'm sorry, but they just won't "get it". Instead, why don't you buy some working robotic toys and let the kids program them to repeat an action, maybe, or just play with them? Maybe stage a battle with robotic dinosaurs or something? That would be way better for a five year old than actually building a working system.
Not only is NCR still around, I would place them in the top 5 cash register manufacturers. And when you start adding up the numbers, there is a LOT of money in the retail cash register market. a LOT. And retailers are the kind of people that don't want to rock the boat; they just want to use a system they know has worked for 50 years, so they will continue to buy from NCR heavily for the forseeable future.
The AW 18650 is a lithium ion rechargeable battery. This is a capacitor system, they are a very different technology. Try to get an AW 18650 to recharge in 90 seconds. It will asplode.
Thanks, that is one of the best articles I have read in a long time. I've been on the development side and the business side. Usually the business folks appreciate the developers, but the developers have no idea how important the business folks are.
Get a safe that is rated for "Media", they are much more expensive than normal fire safes (I have one of each), and have much thicker walls (my fire safe has 2" walls and the media safe has 5" walls). If a floppy can survive inside of one of those babies, a USB thumb drive should be safe (but I'm not an electrical engineer, so maybe you shouldn't trust me...)
They're not an exact opposite of the Apple ads, but that's not the intent. They're not trying to say, "Apple has it wrong." They're trying to say "People need to open their minds and not have a right or wrong argument". I think it's great. And yes, I have owned and used Mac, Linux, and Windows machines. Operating systems need to stop being argued like a religion, I'm getting tired of it.
No big surprise here to me. Data centers are very easy to turn around and use for a different purpose in a new company. Office space and other assets are much more difficult to reuse. In fact, there have been several very large (F500) tenants move around near my office. When they move out, they usually just throw away most of their assets instead of trying to re-use them.
I was going to post a very similiar response, but now I don't have to. The parent post is right on. I care about the planet and want to make sure we can live on it far into the future, so I try to be responsible.
But the only thing that will make most environmentalists happy is to wander around in the forest naked, eating raw vegetables. There are some very good environmentalists, but in my experience, most of them are just wacko sensationalists that want or need attention.
He didn't call the fire department to invite them to his house. He most likely called the local emergency dispatch center (911) and requested help. it is well established that the emergency dispatcher can send whatever help she feels is necessary (car accidents usually get police, fire, and medical, for example). Having a nearby cop without a current call respond to a nearby fire call is not unusual at all. I have worked heavily with emergency dispatch software in the past, and I have talked to lots of dispatch operators-
For most consumers, BluRay is just another kind of DVD that is more expensive, more confusing, and requires a new DVD player, when their own one works just fine, thank you.
DVD was much better than VHS not because of quality, but because they lasted better and you didn't have to rewind and fast-forward them. The menu options are what caused the jump to DVD, not the quality.
Mind you, this isn't my opinion, but it is the majority of consumers.
Signal strength and battery time remaining can get pretty complicated, the more you look into it. There are a ton of different measurements, historical information, performance expectations, etc. that are constantly changing based on how the device is being used, who is using it, etc.
At some point, you need to condense all of that information into some pretty little bars that a *normal* user (i.e. someone who has never heard of Slashdot) can comprehend.
Is there going to be some precision lost? Of course. Is the graphical representation going to convey all the data gathered and interpreted by the device? Of course not. But the idea is to make it as useful as possible.
Because if you could build said tube, there would be no vacuum at the end on earth. The weight of the air in the tube would precisely counter-act the effect.
I worked for a big company for a while (Fortune 100, 60,000+ employees). They found out one of the guys I worked with didn't have a pay grade high enough for him to have an office. So they moved him into a cubicle and turned his office into a storage room. Now THAT's insulting.
And how does IT view Management? Do they view them as nothing more than an employer? Somebody who writes payroll checks and should stay out of the way of IT? Does IT understand the value of business investments, legal contracts, general ledgers, due diligence, SEC problems, etc?
I think in order for Management to care about IT, it is going to have to be a two-way street. IT and Management need to learn to work *together*, and that is going to require some understanding from IT as well.
Come on, guys. This is not government money, it's MARKETING money from a large Kimchi manufacturer, who will undoubtedly reap hundreds of millions off of their "Space Kimchi" marketing ploy.
If something doesn't make sense, follow the money. It doesn't make sense to spend space research money on kimchi, so you need to look deeper. This is a corporate interest, people.
Same with the "Coca-cola" in space stuff.
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Or Geniuses?
The parent post was tongue-in-cheek, but seriously, it's something to consider. North Korea needs money badly. The United States doesn't want them to have nuclear materials. The United States has money and needs nuclear materials. Why don't we just buy it from them? It solves a lot of different problems.
This is just a clarification of "harassment" as it already exists. It's not an attempt to shut down blogs. If someone is obviously and intentionally harassing someone else, I have no problem with them having legal recourse.
Why online storage? Why not just copy everything to a couple USB drives and then backup off-site occasionally with DVDs? It's not like we're talking about a lot of storage, they're probably just text documents mostly, right?
I think that age group is too young to build robots on any informative level. I'm sorry, but they just won't "get it". Instead, why don't you buy some working robotic toys and let the kids program them to repeat an action, maybe, or just play with them? Maybe stage a battle with robotic dinosaurs or something? That would be way better for a five year old than actually building a working system.
Not only is NCR still around, I would place them in the top 5 cash register manufacturers. And when you start adding up the numbers, there is a LOT of money in the retail cash register market. a LOT. And retailers are the kind of people that don't want to rock the boat; they just want to use a system they know has worked for 50 years, so they will continue to buy from NCR heavily for the forseeable future.
The AW 18650 is a lithium ion rechargeable battery. This is a capacitor system, they are a very different technology. Try to get an AW 18650 to recharge in 90 seconds. It will asplode.
Thanks, that is one of the best articles I have read in a long time. I've been on the development side and the business side. Usually the business folks appreciate the developers, but the developers have no idea how important the business folks are.
Get a safe that is rated for "Media", they are much more expensive than normal fire safes (I have one of each), and have much thicker walls (my fire safe has 2" walls and the media safe has 5" walls). If a floppy can survive inside of one of those babies, a USB thumb drive should be safe (but I'm not an electrical engineer, so maybe you shouldn't trust me...)
They're not an exact opposite of the Apple ads, but that's not the intent. They're not trying to say, "Apple has it wrong." They're trying to say "People need to open their minds and not have a right or wrong argument". I think it's great. And yes, I have owned and used Mac, Linux, and Windows machines. Operating systems need to stop being argued like a religion, I'm getting tired of it.
No big surprise here to me. Data centers are very easy to turn around and use for a different purpose in a new company. Office space and other assets are much more difficult to reuse. In fact, there have been several very large (F500) tenants move around near my office. When they move out, they usually just throw away most of their assets instead of trying to re-use them.
I was going to post a very similiar response, but now I don't have to. The parent post is right on. I care about the planet and want to make sure we can live on it far into the future, so I try to be responsible. But the only thing that will make most environmentalists happy is to wander around in the forest naked, eating raw vegetables. There are some very good environmentalists, but in my experience, most of them are just wacko sensationalists that want or need attention.
WalMart's data warehouse is already 4 petabytes: http://storefrontbacktalk.com/story/080307walmart.php
He didn't call the fire department to invite them to his house. He most likely called the local emergency dispatch center (911) and requested help. it is well established that the emergency dispatcher can send whatever help she feels is necessary (car accidents usually get police, fire, and medical, for example). Having a nearby cop without a current call respond to a nearby fire call is not unusual at all. I have worked heavily with emergency dispatch software in the past, and I have talked to lots of dispatch operators-
I think the posts talking about line doubling are actually referring to video scaling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_scaler
For most consumers, BluRay is just another kind of DVD that is more expensive, more confusing, and requires a new DVD player, when their own one works just fine, thank you. DVD was much better than VHS not because of quality, but because they lasted better and you didn't have to rewind and fast-forward them. The menu options are what caused the jump to DVD, not the quality. Mind you, this isn't my opinion, but it is the majority of consumers.
Signal strength and battery time remaining can get pretty complicated, the more you look into it. There are a ton of different measurements, historical information, performance expectations, etc. that are constantly changing based on how the device is being used, who is using it, etc. At some point, you need to condense all of that information into some pretty little bars that a *normal* user (i.e. someone who has never heard of Slashdot) can comprehend. Is there going to be some precision lost? Of course. Is the graphical representation going to convey all the data gathered and interpreted by the device? Of course not. But the idea is to make it as useful as possible.
Because if you could build said tube, there would be no vacuum at the end on earth. The weight of the air in the tube would precisely counter-act the effect.
Yeah, but I bet that's one DAMN FINE CUBICLE.
I worked for a big company for a while (Fortune 100, 60,000+ employees). They found out one of the guys I worked with didn't have a pay grade high enough for him to have an office. So they moved him into a cubicle and turned his office into a storage room. Now THAT's insulting.
Done.
I would just abstract all of that and define, inside my own world, that cold is a thing. Most of the equations still work with some tweaking...
And how does IT view Management? Do they view them as nothing more than an employer? Somebody who writes payroll checks and should stay out of the way of IT? Does IT understand the value of business investments, legal contracts, general ledgers, due diligence, SEC problems, etc? I think in order for Management to care about IT, it is going to have to be a two-way street. IT and Management need to learn to work *together*, and that is going to require some understanding from IT as well.
Come on, guys. This is not government money, it's MARKETING money from a large Kimchi manufacturer, who will undoubtedly reap hundreds of millions off of their "Space Kimchi" marketing ploy. If something doesn't make sense, follow the money. It doesn't make sense to spend space research money on kimchi, so you need to look deeper. This is a corporate interest, people. Same with the "Coca-cola" in space stuff.
Lindon, Utah. Hmmm. Where have I heard that before? Oh, that's right, ***SCO*** is from Lindon Utah. Seem familiar?