Just to chip in here on your statement that annual crop production and environmental nightmare. Vegetarianism is NOT environmentally friendly. In general, growing plants that humans can eat directly requires lots of what farmers call "inputs". These include lots of water, fertilizers, etc. Trying to grow these crops on land that is better suited for grass is a bad deal in many ways. There is simply no way you can feed the worlds population on vegetarian foods without killing the environment. Most land is better suited for grass and the most environmentally friendly thing you can do is eat herbivores that are fed on that grass.
"A few hundred offices"? Think again. California is truly huge. If you assume one office per municipality there would still be thousands. The actual number is likely 10's of thousands.
Unfortunately, if you follow the logic of those that want to balance the budget through revenue increases you will find that it is impossible to do so by only increasing rates on those making more than $250K. Theres also the argument that increasing tax rate could be as bad or worse for the economy than dramatic spending cuts.
Anybody with a moderate level of intelligence and aptitude can become a competent professional programer in four years. The idea that it takes decades of experience is ludicrous.
Symbian was never an ecosystem. Symbian was an operating system. Being part of the Google or Apple ecosystem has an impact on users. Using Symbian was completely transparent to them.
Never heard of IMAP? There are many enterprises that have moved to open mail platforms. Even calendaring works well now. ActiveSync is handy but it's hardly mandatory.
Now to get recursive... What "Control, Monitoring, and Provisioning" does Blackberry have that the iOS and Android do not? The answer: none that anyone cares about. If anyone did care it would rapidly be available either from Apple/Google/Samsung or the hundreds of third party device management providers.
What you just described is a server...That was kinda his point. If it can't be done with a quad core i7, 16GB of RAM, and a fast SSD then your really into server territory. You might call it a "workstation" but to try to put it into the same category as a common "desktop" computer is a bit much.
You don't need to access the file system for that. There is an entire API framework for data synchronization or you can roll your own. There are many apps, including spreadsheets, that do this automagically.
I've actually seen some situations close to your example. Imagine 286 desktop machines running Netware 2.X for SAA. It was at a hospital and the only guy that knew anything about them had been dead for almost 6 years. Finally enough of them failed to impact connectivity to the mainframe.
Actually, you can do all of those as a single-person business. Your customers are those large businesses you mentioned. They want the skills but often don't want to hire. This is the way I make my living. I lead and work with large teams but I'm self employed.
Strange...most of the fortune 500 are running Java apps that I was involved in either writing or deploying. Those apps are critical to their business and the paid me well. I guess I should give back the money....
There is not a single grocery store in Choctaw unless your counting convenience stores. Thats the point...they are all closed. There is a Country Boy grocery in Newalla and and there is another independent grocer in Midwest City. All three of the stores formerly in Choctaw are gone. They were killed by the three nearby Walmart stores. There were several Krogers, Homelands, and IGA stores in Midwest City. Almost all of them are gone now as well.
Sure, Choctaw Oklahoma, Population about 12K. At one time there were three different grocery chains with a presence there. Today the three nearest stores are all Walmarts. There are thousands of more examples.
Drive through any city in the central US and you will find multiple empty and abandoned grocery store properties. Note that I didn't say anything about Walmarts effect on prices. My concern is with the lack of alternative distribution channels. The idea that we have a healthy and open market for groceries is flat wrong.
Walmart is keeping prices low by squeezing their suppliers. A single dominant distribution channel is not healthy in the long term.
Actually, in some parts of the country Walmart has eliminated the competition. There are many areas where they have an effective monopoly on grocery distribution. I'd say your analogy should actually be looked at in reverse and we take a good hard look at the impact of having a single distribution chain.
Actually, the nearest vehicle Ford makes to my 450GL is over 60K well equipped. I was simply refuting the assertion that Fords are better put together than MBs. I have both...it's not even close even though the price difference is under $20K.
Wrong. My Benz has 11 airbags. My Fordrd does not. My Benz has massive brakes that can bring me to a stop in 1/3 less distance. The list goes on and validates the previous posters point.
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This system isn't just accessed by actual DMV offices. There are multiple users in every municipality.
Just to chip in here on your statement that annual crop production and environmental nightmare. Vegetarianism is NOT environmentally friendly. In general, growing plants that humans can eat directly requires lots of what farmers call "inputs". These include lots of water, fertilizers, etc. Trying to grow these crops on land that is better suited for grass is a bad deal in many ways. There is simply no way you can feed the worlds population on vegetarian foods without killing the environment. Most land is better suited for grass and the most environmentally friendly thing you can do is eat herbivores that are fed on that grass.
Actually not that hard. We've had radars since the very early 70's that can do it easily. Intercepting it is the hard part....seeing it is easy.
ehhhhh..... You can add a MacBook to the domain and install Outlook on it.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/outlook
Group Policy even works.
"A few hundred offices"? Think again. California is truly huge. If you assume one office per municipality there would still be thousands. The actual number is likely 10's of thousands.
Unfortunately, if you follow the logic of those that want to balance the budget through revenue increases you will find that it is impossible to do so by only increasing rates on those making more than $250K. Theres also the argument that increasing tax rate could be as bad or worse for the economy than dramatic spending cuts.
Average price of a new car in the U.S. = $30,748
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/04/11/average-price-of-new-cars-hits-all-time-record/
Anybody with a moderate level of intelligence and aptitude can become a competent professional programer in four years. The idea that it takes decades of experience is ludicrous.
More recursive... What does BES provide that is not available from either the native tools or the many MDM products?....Nothing!
You do realize the largest mail services, like GMail, use IMAP? It does not need to be inefficient or require more hardware.
Symbian was never an ecosystem. Symbian was an operating system. Being part of the Google or Apple ecosystem has an impact on users. Using Symbian was completely transparent to them.
Never heard of IMAP? There are many enterprises that have moved to open mail platforms. Even calendaring works well now. ActiveSync is handy but it's hardly mandatory.
Now to get recursive... What "Control, Monitoring, and Provisioning" does Blackberry have that the iOS and Android do not? The answer: none that anyone cares about. If anyone did care it would rapidly be available either from Apple/Google/Samsung or the hundreds of third party device management providers.
What you just described is a server...That was kinda his point. If it can't be done with a quad core i7, 16GB of RAM, and a fast SSD then your really into server territory. You might call it a "workstation" but to try to put it into the same category as a common "desktop" computer is a bit much.
You don't need to access the file system for that. There is an entire API framework for data synchronization or you can roll your own. There are many apps, including spreadsheets, that do this automagically.
I've actually seen some situations close to your example. Imagine 286 desktop machines running Netware 2.X for SAA. It was at a hospital and the only guy that knew anything about them had been dead for almost 6 years. Finally enough of them failed to impact connectivity to the mainframe.
Government funded services != Socialist services. Your promoting a false dichotomy.
Actually, you can do all of those as a single-person business. Your customers are those large businesses you mentioned. They want the skills but often don't want to hire. This is the way I make my living. I lead and work with large teams but I'm self employed.
Strange...most of the fortune 500 are running Java apps that I was involved in either writing or deploying. Those apps are critical to their business and the paid me well. I guess I should give back the money....
There are many citations of the same observation I just made. Here is great one:
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/21101/1/sp06ma03.pdf
There is not a single grocery store in Choctaw unless your counting convenience stores. Thats the point...they are all closed. There is a Country Boy grocery in Newalla and and there is another independent grocer in Midwest City. All three of the stores formerly in Choctaw are gone. They were killed by the three nearby Walmart stores. There were several Krogers, Homelands, and IGA stores in Midwest City. Almost all of them are gone now as well.
YP.com must be pretty useless.
Sure, Choctaw Oklahoma, Population about 12K. At one time there were three different grocery chains with a presence there. Today the three nearest stores are all Walmarts. There are thousands of more examples.
Drive through any city in the central US and you will find multiple empty and abandoned grocery store properties. Note that I didn't say anything about Walmarts effect on prices. My concern is with the lack of alternative distribution channels. The idea that we have a healthy and open market for groceries is flat wrong.
Walmart is keeping prices low by squeezing their suppliers. A single dominant distribution channel is not healthy in the long term.
Actually, in some parts of the country Walmart has eliminated the competition. There are many areas where they have an effective monopoly on grocery distribution. I'd say your analogy should actually be looked at in reverse and we take a good hard look at the impact of having a single distribution chain.
Actually, the nearest vehicle Ford makes to my 450GL is over 60K well equipped. I was simply refuting the assertion that Fords are better put together than MBs. I have both...it's not even close even though the price difference is under $20K.
Wrong. My Benz has 11 airbags. My Fordrd does not. My Benz has massive brakes that can bring me to a stop in 1/3 less distance. The list goes on and validates the previous posters point.