You're saying that it's possible to launch a satellite into orbit around the earth, turn a camera on that satellite towards earth, and watch what's happening in "almost" real-time?!
Whatever you do, don't let the NSA know about this - they might start spying on us...
Was 2013 the year Linux 'exploded' and took over the desktop market, as predicted? It failed to do so in 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, etc...
The machine you are working on was 'Designed of Windows 8/8.1' and you choose to install an unsupported OS on that hardware (Win 7), you may be the only person surprised by this.
The Mfg. never intended to support Win7 on that box, so support is missing.
Did you try a wired Ethernet connection to download the drivers?
Did your install media include SP1? That would have better driver support, Win7 is a few years old now...
The real issue with the Keystone XL pipeline is that it crosses an international border, allowing the Federal government to play an over-sized role in the approval process. Were this a truly domestic pipeline, the impacted states would be the decision makers... Once federal land or national borders are crossed, the Feds take over, and it's much easier for the anti-pipeline groups to petition the federal government than a handful of individual states.
You do realize a century is 100 years, right? You argue that the the US rail system is over 100 years behind 'everyone else'?
What, exactly, did the European rail system look like in 1914? Is THAT what the US Rail system looks like in 2014? I think not.
The US freight railroads are doing fine, passenger service is limited to regions it makes either practical or political sense - rail service isn't cost-effective, and is typically subsidized extensively. I am not aware of ANY passenger railroad in America that can operate on the ticket & light freight revenue their services generate, period.
In California there is a massive 'high-speed' rail service going in between SF and LA, it will cost hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars, take over a decade to complete, and once operational will NEVER be faster or cheaper than a commuter air flight between SF and LA.
The publicly stated alternative to the Keystone XL pipeline is not railroad cars in and out of Canada, it's a purely Canadian pipeline that will run the crude oil to the west coast, where it will go on to tanker ships and be carried over to China.
Will anyone argue that running all that crude oil in oil tankers to China's refineries to be burned in China is better for the GLOBAL environment than running that same crude through a pipeline right to the refinery where our own US EPA controls the emissions of the refinery?
Pipeline deaths seem to occur, as best I can remember, when natural gas pipelines explode, not when crude oil is spilt - oil spills result in clean up operations, natural gas explosions result in numerous corpse-less funerals... See the difference?
Though railroads have sharply improved their safety in recent years, moving oil on tank cars is still only about half as safe as in pipelines, according to Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane University Energy Institute. 'You can make the argument that the pipeline fights have forced the industry to revert to rail that is less safe,' says Smith.
Well, duh. Refusing to build pipelines hasn't caused oil production to be capped, the increased supply has simply found alternative paths to market that are less safe...
One problem is that the trains go through small towns with volunteer fire departments, not well schooled in handling a derailment and explosion.
Wait, is the problem what the firemen do on e the oil train derails and bursts into flames OR that the oil train derails and bursts into flame? Seems to me that the training of the firemen in the town when the trai derails makes very little difference: their training won't prevent derailments or other accidents with trains, and the firemen are not 'on the scene' when the accident happens - their training and professional status has very little to do with anything.
There are probably about 5-10,000 school districts in the US, and over the course of 12 months there were exactly FOURTY-NINE incidents is far from an epidemic. It's slightly less than one book by one school district per state.
That's one book in Texas, one in New York, one in Florida, etc., in exactly one school district each state.
It appears that dropping a book from the curriculum now passes as being 'banned'?
So when the new Norton Anthology of American Literature is published, are we now saying that the previous version/edition was 'banned'? Of course not, but if a school district decides to drop, for example Huck Finn, BUT the district keeps the book in the school library, is it considered 'banned'? By this group, the answer is yes.
Test subjects were able to match faces using the low resolution images but the important result was that if the subject knew the person in the photo then recognition went up to 90% with false positives down at 10%.
So, if I know who I'm looking for I can find them in a blurry, low-res picture?
How can anyone be expected to recognize anyone they don't know?
Wouldn't the reflection in a subject's eye be of the picture taker with their camera in front of their face?
No, powershell wouldn't be the right tool even in a windows-only environment because by sticking to it you are locking yourself to a single vendor, which is a wrong thing to do all by itself.
So a "windows-only" environment needs to avoid "locking (itself) to a single vendor"? Seriously? I think that ship already sailed...
In a "windows-only" environment what value would a multi-vendor solution offer? That's like arguing that a US auto repair shop that only works on metric-based imports should also have imperial measurement tools, to allow them to also work on domestic cars.
Because they Havel accept whatever electricity these panels provide, whenever they provide it, and pay a massive premium for that electricity over the cost of the electricity they generate in their larger, more efficient facilities.
Imagine you ran a factory that made shoes, and the government said you had to buy any pair of shoes produced by any outside entity (that met certain quality standards) at a price two or three times your own production cost, and you could never refuse to buy the shoes.
That is essentially what the electric companies are faced with.
The house controls the purse strings and has oversight powers over the operation of the government.
Healthcare.gov has allocated some $634M and to date had expended just over half of it by the time it went live, lord knows what they spent since Oct. 1... The house withheld not one nickel from the project - it's fully funded.
As for House interference, you are simply inventing a conspiracy out of whole cloth... You really think the House 'secretly' met with those overseeing the development of the website and told them to mess it up? It was obvious to anyone looking at the situation that this was a train wreck waiting to happen - remember Republicans saying the best way to defeat Obamacare was to let it play out and fail on it's own? If there was a conspiracy as you imagine, how is it not one person has stepped forward to expose it?
The contractor selected had a history of failed projects, why is it so hard to believe they failed again?
How else can Microsoft claim that paying for Windows has cheaper TCO than using Linux and controlling your own destiny?
That presents me with exactly two choices - either you have figured out something that has eluded every major IT organization around the world for the last 20 years OR you are wrong.
I suspect the latter to be the case.
I work in K-12 education, and we pay MS about $35/desk for all their latest software per year. With that, along with all the server software we use (it's factored into the above per desktop cost), we get Active Directory, System Center, etc. to help us manage our environment.
Please price out an alternative deployment for 1,000 desktops and laptops that provides a level of desktop management equal to the one provided with the MS solution... I'll wait. When we made a cursory look into management suites for Large Linux deployments we found their cost to be a multiple of what we were paying MS ($100/desk per year for management suite v. $34/desk per year for the MS solution suite)...
But mainly, it would be the fact that a majority of departments I can imagine would have been fighting the change tooth and nail, not to mention pressure from MS sales reps who would have been doing the rounds convincing everyone they could that a change would be the end of the world!
And it only took Munich ten years to upgrade - at that rate Linux will bury Microsoft in just a few years...
This is an interesting "glass is half-empty or half-full" issue:
Linux "advocates" will focus on the "switch completed" part of the story, MS advocates will focus on the TEN YEARS and their "need" to create their own distribution.
No CIO in any organization of any serious size will look at this ten year effort as anything other than justification for their decision to remain on MS software.
This is declaring our dependence on gasoline is almost upon us because one fellow in town just converted his diesel VW Rabbit to run on used cooking oil.
Linux is 20 years old and has less than half the market share of Microsoft Vista... (3.57% v. 1.56%)
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You're saying that it's possible to launch a satellite into orbit around the earth, turn a camera on that satellite towards earth, and watch what's happening in "almost" real-time?!
Whatever you do, don't let the NSA know about this - they might start spying on us...
Was 2013 the year Linux 'exploded' and took over the desktop market, as predicted? It failed to do so in 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, etc...
The machine you are working on was 'Designed of Windows 8/8.1' and you choose to install an unsupported OS on that hardware (Win 7), you may be the only person surprised by this.
The Mfg. never intended to support Win7 on that box, so support is missing.
Did you try a wired Ethernet connection to download the drivers?
Did your install media include SP1? That would have better driver support, Win7 is a few years old now...
The real issue with the Keystone XL pipeline is that it crosses an international border, allowing the Federal government to play an over-sized role in the approval process. Were this a truly domestic pipeline, the impacted states would be the decision makers... Once federal land or national borders are crossed, the Feds take over, and it's much easier for the anti-pipeline groups to petition the federal government than a handful of individual states.
You do realize a century is 100 years, right? You argue that the the US rail system is over 100 years behind 'everyone else'?
What, exactly, did the European rail system look like in 1914? Is THAT what the US Rail system looks like in 2014? I think not.
The US freight railroads are doing fine, passenger service is limited to regions it makes either practical or political sense - rail service isn't cost-effective, and is typically subsidized extensively. I am not aware of ANY passenger railroad in America that can operate on the ticket & light freight revenue their services generate, period.
In California there is a massive 'high-speed' rail service going in between SF and LA, it will cost hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars, take over a decade to complete, and once operational will NEVER be faster or cheaper than a commuter air flight between SF and LA.
The publicly stated alternative to the Keystone XL pipeline is not railroad cars in and out of Canada, it's a purely Canadian pipeline that will run the crude oil to the west coast, where it will go on to tanker ships and be carried over to China.
Will anyone argue that running all that crude oil in oil tankers to China's refineries to be burned in China is better for the GLOBAL environment than running that same crude through a pipeline right to the refinery where our own US EPA controls the emissions of the refinery?
The pipeline is safer than rail transport of crude oil - that's kind of important...
Because "spill" = "explosion"?
Pipeline deaths seem to occur, as best I can remember, when natural gas pipelines explode, not when crude oil is spilt - oil spills result in clean up operations, natural gas explosions result in numerous corpse-less funerals... See the difference?
Of course, their over-reliance on above ground power lines that can be knocked over by trees in the first place couldn't be to blame, could it?
Trees don't take out high tension power lines, trees take out neighborhood and individual power feeds to buildings...
Well, duh. Refusing to build pipelines hasn't caused oil production to be capped, the increased supply has simply found alternative paths to market that are less safe...
Wait, is the problem what the firemen do on e the oil train derails and bursts into flames OR that the oil train derails and bursts into flame? Seems to me that the training of the firemen in the town when the trai derails makes very little difference: their training won't prevent derailments or other accidents with trains, and the firemen are not 'on the scene' when the accident happens - their training and professional status has very little to do with anything.
There are probably about 5-10,000 school districts in the US, and over the course of 12 months there were exactly FOURTY-NINE incidents is far from an epidemic. It's slightly less than one book by one school district per state.
That's one book in Texas, one in New York, one in Florida, etc., in exactly one school district each state.
It appears that dropping a book from the curriculum now passes as being 'banned'?
So when the new Norton Anthology of American Literature is published, are we now saying that the previous version/edition was 'banned'? Of course not, but if a school district decides to drop, for example Huck Finn, BUT the district keeps the book in the school library, is it considered 'banned'? By this group, the answer is yes.
How long until the much-maligned faceback app in 'The Other Guys' becomes real?
So, if I know who I'm looking for I can find them in a blurry, low-res picture?
How can anyone be expected to recognize anyone they don't know?
Wouldn't the reflection in a subject's eye be of the picture taker with their camera in front of their face?
So a "windows-only" environment needs to avoid "locking (itself) to a single vendor"? Seriously? I think that ship already sailed...
In a "windows-only" environment what value would a multi-vendor solution offer? That's like arguing that a US auto repair shop that only works on metric-based imports should also have imperial measurement tools, to allow them to also work on domestic cars.
Because they Havel accept whatever electricity these panels provide, whenever they provide it, and pay a massive premium for that electricity over the cost of the electricity they generate in their larger, more efficient facilities.
Imagine you ran a factory that made shoes, and the government said you had to buy any pair of shoes produced by any outside entity (that met certain quality standards) at a price two or three times your own production cost, and you could never refuse to buy the shoes.
That is essentially what the electric companies are faced with.
What a staggeringly ignorant post.
The house controls the purse strings and has oversight powers over the operation of the government.
Healthcare.gov has allocated some $634M and to date had expended just over half of it by the time it went live, lord knows what they spent since Oct. 1... The house withheld not one nickel from the project - it's fully funded.
As for House interference, you are simply inventing a conspiracy out of whole cloth... You really think the House 'secretly' met with those overseeing the development of the website and told them to mess it up? It was obvious to anyone looking at the situation that this was a train wreck waiting to happen - remember Republicans saying the best way to defeat Obamacare was to let it play out and fail on it's own? If there was a conspiracy as you imagine, how is it not one person has stepped forward to expose it?
The contractor selected had a history of failed projects, why is it so hard to believe they failed again?
How else can Microsoft claim that paying for Windows has cheaper TCO than using Linux and controlling your own destiny?
That presents me with exactly two choices - either you have figured out something that has eluded every major IT organization around the world for the last 20 years OR you are wrong.
I suspect the latter to be the case.
I work in K-12 education, and we pay MS about $35/desk for all their latest software per year. With that, along with all the server software we use (it's factored into the above per desktop cost), we get Active Directory, System Center, etc. to help us manage our environment.
Please price out an alternative deployment for 1,000 desktops and laptops that provides a level of desktop management equal to the one provided with the MS solution... I'll wait. When we made a cursory look into management suites for Large Linux deployments we found their cost to be a multiple of what we were paying MS ($100/desk per year for management suite v. $34/desk per year for the MS solution suite)...
But mainly, it would be the fact that a majority of departments I can imagine would have been fighting the change tooth and nail, not to mention pressure from MS sales reps who would have been doing the rounds convincing everyone they could that a change would be the end of the world!
They really, REALLY wanted to stay on Windows NT?
I doubt it.
And it only took Munich ten years to upgrade - at that rate Linux will bury Microsoft in just a few years...
This is an interesting "glass is half-empty or half-full" issue:
Linux "advocates" will focus on the "switch completed" part of the story, MS advocates will focus on the TEN YEARS and their "need" to create their own distribution.
No CIO in any organization of any serious size will look at this ten year effort as anything other than justification for their decision to remain on MS software.
This is declaring our dependence on gasoline is almost upon us because one fellow in town just converted his diesel VW Rabbit to run on used cooking oil.
Linux is 20 years old and has less than half the market share of Microsoft Vista... (3.57% v. 1.56%)
And being able to easily hire low-cost admins to run the environment...
Why waste time and money creating your own distro when there are many good ones available?
How many good ones were there TEN YEARS AGO when they started this adventure?
This project started a year before Ubuntu Linux's first public release in 2004...
"hosted Exchange" isn't an alternative TO Microsoft, it's an alternate way to STICK WITH Microsoft...
The last users to be converted (upgraded?) to LiMux spent the last TEN YEARS on WinNT? Whoa!
Munich proved it took TEN YEARS to migrate off Microsoft to Linux, and in the process they had to roll-their-own distribution.
This won't convince major corporate installations to cutover to Linux, it will scare them off! I mean seriously, a ten year process?
So wait, Steve Jobs was wrong? He said Apple stuff was the best, but he also profited off it greatly...
And what about all those politicians telling the kids they "have to go to college"? Last year the Federal Government made over $40 Billion in PROFITS off the Student Loan program - slightly less profit than (good) Apple and (evil) ExxonMobil...