Aw thats just wrong! 'Petty Evil' is a nice description too. I had thought carriers and hardware vendors were moving away from this nonsense with the adoption of USB. I was furious at HTC when I got my myTouch and saw the proprietary connector until I realized it was a superset of miniUSB and took a standard cable just fine... that was sort of clever. But the phone doesnt care where the power comes from. Neither does the iPhone, nor Palm, nor Blackberry. In the latter case it negotiates high current mode with a laptop port and wont pass without the blackberry driver installed. Thats annoying but the driver is free, and as I said the phone itself doesnt care... plugged into a powered hub it doesnt need to negotiate to get high current; same for straight chargers.
WRT Verizon, I couldnt agree more... thats a deal-breaker, even if they gave me free chargers for life.
Hey thanks for the tip! Not everything cool is in the Android store... oops I mean T-Mobile store (and thats part of the problem as TFA points out). I found PdaNet to add tethering last week, which addressed my only big objection to TMob; works *exceptionally* well!
I should say battery life has improved over last two weeks, and not sure why... OK not gaming as much:-) but it seems to be power managing WiFi a little. Just added BlueTooth H2D headphones an hour ago so we'll see if that kills the battery any worse...
Only thing worse than TMobile is AT&T here... my wife has an iPhone and has to keep the Blackberry to make calls. I went with the myTouch 3G and absolutely love it, better form factor and it actually does a good job making calls, and TMobile hasnt been as bad as I thought it would be. The myTouch on TMobile is remarkably better than the BlackBerry on TMobile, so better ABB circuitry. In 6 months, Ive owned a Blackberry, Palm Pre, iPhone, and myTouch and the one I kept is the myTouch. On the downside the battery life on all except the BBerry is horrendous. At least they all take a standard USB cable to charge, except the iPhone of course:-)
A much better way would be to map the led's to a big flat-screen tv, using a fractal traversal mapping. This would show clusters of activity on servers as 'blobs' of color on the monitor.
And you dont factor in LED duty cycle or voltage drop
Also there is no mention in TFA as to what the comparative contamination *level* is only the *rate*; TFA mentions they detect to.006 micrograms. "Zuo utilized a modified form of a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer which allowed him to study bills more accurately" and I would bet that the sensitivity is much higher than equipment used in the 80's and I wonder if the sensitivity and level of contamination is taken into account. If the rate is up but level is down, that would point to cross-contamination.
I knew a company that had sales meetings renting out the the local range. They'd line up the competitor's stuff and let the sales reps go at them with full auto (the range had a nice selection). The reps had a blast and a good story to take home, & it was cheaper and more interesting than your average dining and entertainment. The range policy was "you shoot it, you clean it up" and other than that they were fine with it. Then again they rented out the whole range... don't think they'd allow sending an HD down the line on a paper target holder... cant think how you'd do that and comply with any sort of range safety.
Well, yeah, but you have to admit the irony of it; an $18m website to convince people a $1t expenditure was not wasted, and an apparent cover-up to see if the $18m was wasted. Rarely is cynicism and humor this conjoined, and yet so recursive.
Your point that there is built in bias is probably correct though, as all polls have bias for all the reasons you list and more. I'd attach very little significance to the "IT Professionals" that took it because they were either assumed to be that by nature of them visiting the Sophos web site or because they claimed to be IT professionals, which is not quite the same thing.
The results have no meaning out of context either... given the current state of love for the USA I bet 71% of respondents wouldnt extradite anyone even if they confessed and had the victim's severed heads in their duffel bag.
For an automated web administration gui? Yeah that's pretty advanced. Advanced for 95% of users probably, maybe not advanced enough for everyone. Wait, whats your point?
Ive had the opposite experience with GoDaddy. Im not a fanboi but their pricing is good, setup and maintenance is insanely automated and still lets you do pretty advanced stuff like tweak MX records. For the few sites I host and a few dozen domains registered, I have a few thousand email accounts for free, with decent mailbox depth. Web, POP and SMPT all work OK-ish. Tech support answers with a person, they speak English, they listen before they talk, and know what Im talking about. Usually what is wrong gets fixed. Twice things that have required them to change their global policies, they changed them. OK they refused to, and then did it anyway.
They throttle POP and FTP which kinda scks. They refused a refund when I canceled a service once, but then gave in after only a few minutes of whining and begging. They filter email even after you turn filtering off, but not that much. All in all I gotta give them a B+ which is miles ahead of anyone else Ive used.
And they do Superbowl ads that piss off the network censors! C'mon!:-)
If I tried to run a modern word processor on an Atari or Commodore computer, it wouldn't even fit
Just for perspective every few years I drag my home built CPM80 2.7mhz 32k ram Z80 dual 8" floppys and fire up Wordstar. Its primitive by almost any measure, but its impressive how much it did and how well. It is certainly usable to write documents, especially if you already know how to spell. (Although it did in fact have a serviceable spell checker). Im not saying Id trade my laptop in, but with 1000x increase in processor speed, 1000x increase in memory and 1000x increase in disk, I'll give Word/Openoffice 10x improvement in useability.
Its a good reminder what can be accomplished with minimal resources.
The thing is 'NASA' didnt do it... 'Some Guy' did it. Someone pissed off at the budget cuts making his job difficult after not getting a raise. I can pretty easily imagine some mid-level engineer saying "screw the bean counters and the public that hates us now, maybe recycling THESE will wake someone up". The same kind of thing happens every day all around us.
Maybe OT but does anyone know Google figures location when GPS isnt available? I assume it has access to raw tower data i.e. signal strength and tower location(s) and it triangulates from there. But the accuracy in sparsely-towered areas surprises me, and Im not sure how they would subscribe to a carriers tower data. Im guessing they also use some pretty tricky map heuristics to fine-tune location based on estimated location and speed compared to known roads.
Maybe a little Karma whacking me in the head, but I just got my quotes for 2010 contract period, and they were ugly. Competitive quotes against other major carriers was even worse. For family, Cigna up by 50% and around $1500 like you, though most $1200-ish. Some new hires brought my average age below 40 though and I'll stay below $1k thankfully. My best price on couple (I assume thats you?) was $782. If 1580's your best option in whatever state (country?) you're in, I'm really sorry, that stinks.
Yes, true. Mercedes SL500 on 3yr corporate lease is $976/mo. Family health insurance, middle-of-the-road plan PPO, is $991/mo. So you are correct that insurance cost more than a Mercedes. Though I downgraded to GL450's at $765 or E-class sedans for even less.
And you'd be surprised how many fewer sick days I get from people with free Benz's.
A much better argument than previous poster, but your price is half his. $100k? Sure, I'll buy that, and $125 for a big business or mid-size startup with no existing assets? Yes. $150 to $225 per hour for a fully-burdened employee is a number I hear a lot for big business, and those are the numbers I assume Im bidding against when Im bidding subcontracts to big business. I win those contracts precisely because my costs are lower than that because of small business efficiencies. A company with 10 people should be able to do better than 66% gross overhead before markup and fixed costs. While we can rationalize why it *might* cost $18m, I dont think that changes that if it were put to serious bid it could be done for a fraction of that. Or if it should be done at all.
BTW 401k matching isnt a simple cost issue... companies match not out of generosity but deferral of payments and taxes. Its arguably -3000 instead of +3000.
Health care is closer to $1500 for a family and far less for HMO, and you'd be the only one generous enough to shoulder 100% of that. $3000/mo is insane. So is your payroll processing fee BTW - go find another payroll service. Or is that for your whole payroll and you forgot to divide by # of employees? Still too much. Anyway. My SEP/IRA fees are tiny, as is workman's comp, direct deposit fees, $2 million of general liability per employee, all just a drop in the sea. Your list double-counts taxes; your half is only matching federal funds on $75k, so $6k / yr. Aside from your asinine insurance figure of $36k/yr you're at $81,000. Go ahead and amortize out your floor space, hvac F&F and other fixed costs, and I might believe you own a business, but claiming taxes and insurance are your 66% overhead is a lie or idiocy or both.
Jailing dopers may be wasteful but its not evil. "Partnership For A Drug Free America" may have been ineffective (or maybe not) but I dont think educating school kids on the dangers of drug use is inherently 'evil' either. Both may be naive and represent unrealistic goals, but no more so than, say, renewable energy and world peace.
I dont see how either compare in any way to spending $18m on a website meant to espouse the joys of spending money on things like itself. Its voyeurism, masturbation, and an MLM all in one. And now that we're seeing the pre-sales chatter of a second trillion package, its a Ponzi scheme too, except with an $18m advertising budget.
> A 75K/yr worker can easily cost an employer $125K/y
If you think small business pays 125k for a 75k worker, no small business owner are you. Small business owners know to three decimal places what their employees cost in actual dollars, even if there are 47 different ways to calculate it, and they still stay up until 3am thinking of a 48th way. None of those ways cost 66% of gross pay, not even close. Unless your leasing them a new Mercedes every year.
While there is a *possibility* that OP meant 'intrinsic evil' when s/he says 'unconstitutional', I think it is absolute *certainty* that you mean 'disagree' when you say 'doesnt help the discussion', and when you say 'fundamentalist' and 'religious' you mean 'asshole'. You confess that OP may be factually correct but label them 'mental' and 'lunatic'? If you would go to the extreme of -6 foe'ing someone, I seriously doubt you are the kind of person that has any discussions at all, as opposed to surrounding yourself with like-minded peer groups. If you were truly their foe, you would study them as Sun Tzu teaches instead of tuning/. to protect you from dissenting ideas.
Calling them 'lunatic' and 'just plain mental' is far more flaming trollish than anything OP said; and nothing you said contributed anything factual, speculative, theoretical, or in any way advanced a dialog you claim to seek.
If you think there is gray area for moderating 'disagree' than shall I bestow some of my mod points on you? I got karma to burn, and I certainly disagree with your attitude that/. moderation guidelines are optional when anyone disagrees with The Great Bagorange.
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Aw thats just wrong! 'Petty Evil' is a nice description too. I had thought carriers and hardware vendors were moving away from this nonsense with the adoption of USB. I was furious at HTC when I got my myTouch and saw the proprietary connector until I realized it was a superset of miniUSB and took a standard cable just fine... that was sort of clever. But the phone doesnt care where the power comes from. Neither does the iPhone, nor Palm, nor Blackberry. In the latter case it negotiates high current mode with a laptop port and wont pass without the blackberry driver installed. Thats annoying but the driver is free, and as I said the phone itself doesnt care... plugged into a powered hub it doesnt need to negotiate to get high current; same for straight chargers.
WRT Verizon, I couldnt agree more... thats a deal-breaker, even if they gave me free chargers for life.
An application called WiSyncPlus
Hey thanks for the tip! Not everything cool is in the Android store... oops I mean T-Mobile store (and thats part of the problem as TFA points out). I found PdaNet to add tethering last week, which addressed my only big objection to TMob; works *exceptionally* well!
:-) but it seems to be power managing WiFi a little. Just added BlueTooth H2D headphones an hour ago so we'll see if that kills the battery any worse...
I should say battery life has improved over last two weeks, and not sure why... OK not gaming as much
Only thing worse than TMobile is AT&T here... my wife has an iPhone and has to keep the Blackberry to make calls. I went with the myTouch 3G and absolutely love it, better form factor and it actually does a good job making calls, and TMobile hasnt been as bad as I thought it would be. The myTouch on TMobile is remarkably better than the BlackBerry on TMobile, so better ABB circuitry. In 6 months, Ive owned a Blackberry, Palm Pre, iPhone, and myTouch and the one I kept is the myTouch. On the downside the battery life on all except the BBerry is horrendous. At least they all take a standard USB cable to charge, except the iPhone of course :-)
And you dont factor in LED duty cycle or voltage drop
Also there is no mention in TFA as to what the comparative contamination *level* is only the *rate*; TFA mentions they detect to .006 micrograms. "Zuo utilized a modified form of a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer which allowed him to study bills more accurately" and I would bet that the sensitivity is much higher than equipment used in the 80's and I wonder if the sensitivity and level of contamination is taken into account. If the rate is up but level is down, that would point to cross-contamination.
I knew a company that had sales meetings renting out the the local range. They'd line up the competitor's stuff and let the sales reps go at them with full auto (the range had a nice selection). The reps had a blast and a good story to take home, & it was cheaper and more interesting than your average dining and entertainment. The range policy was "you shoot it, you clean it up" and other than that they were fine with it. Then again they rented out the whole range... don't think they'd allow sending an HD down the line on a paper target holder... cant think how you'd do that and comply with any sort of range safety.
Well, yeah, but you have to admit the irony of it; an $18m website to convince people a $1t expenditure was not wasted, and an apparent cover-up to see if the $18m was wasted. Rarely is cynicism and humor this conjoined, and yet so recursive.
"Plutocracy"; from "pluto" meaning "way way way the hell out there" and "cracy" a misspelling of "crazy". Yeah thats about right.
You're not the only one.
... except I gave up before I got it.
According to Sophos the question was simply "Should Gary McKinnon be extradited to the USA?", link to Sophos here http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2009/07/mckinnon-loses.html While I have seen CNN change poll questions when reporting results, I wouldnt assume that here. However, another Sophos poll http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2005/07/va_sasserpoll.html on a completely different topic also had exactly 550 respondents, which strikes me as remarkably coincidental.
Your point that there is built in bias is probably correct though, as all polls have bias for all the reasons you list and more. I'd attach very little significance to the "IT Professionals" that took it because they were either assumed to be that by nature of them visiting the Sophos web site or because they claimed to be IT professionals, which is not quite the same thing.
The results have no meaning out of context either... given the current state of love for the USA I bet 71% of respondents wouldnt extradite anyone even if they confessed and had the victim's severed heads in their duffel bag.
For an automated web administration gui? Yeah that's pretty advanced. Advanced for 95% of users probably, maybe not advanced enough for everyone. Wait, whats your point?
But, yes you can set up SPF records.
Oh, their 'Domains By Proxy' stuff is a leach on the internet. Yeah, gotta go with dgatwood on that.
Ive had the opposite experience with GoDaddy. Im not a fanboi but their pricing is good, setup and maintenance is insanely automated and still lets you do pretty advanced stuff like tweak MX records. For the few sites I host and a few dozen domains registered, I have a few thousand email accounts for free, with decent mailbox depth. Web, POP and SMPT all work OK-ish. Tech support answers with a person, they speak English, they listen before they talk, and know what Im talking about. Usually what is wrong gets fixed. Twice things that have required them to change their global policies, they changed them. OK they refused to, and then did it anyway.
:-)
They throttle POP and FTP which kinda scks. They refused a refund when I canceled a service once, but then gave in after only a few minutes of whining and begging. They filter email even after you turn filtering off, but not that much. All in all I gotta give them a B+ which is miles ahead of anyone else Ive used.
And they do Superbowl ads that piss off the network censors! C'mon!
If I tried to run a modern word processor on an Atari or Commodore computer, it wouldn't even fit
Just for perspective every few years I drag my home built CPM80 2.7mhz 32k ram Z80 dual 8" floppys and fire up Wordstar. Its primitive by almost any measure, but its impressive how much it did and how well. It is certainly usable to write documents, especially if you already know how to spell. (Although it did in fact have a serviceable spell checker). Im not saying Id trade my laptop in, but with 1000x increase in processor speed, 1000x increase in memory and 1000x increase in disk, I'll give Word/Openoffice 10x improvement in useability.
Its a good reminder what can be accomplished with minimal resources.
NASA wouldn't think
The thing is 'NASA' didnt do it... 'Some Guy' did it. Someone pissed off at the budget cuts making his job difficult after not getting a raise. I can pretty easily imagine some mid-level engineer saying "screw the bean counters and the public that hates us now, maybe recycling THESE will wake someone up". The same kind of thing happens every day all around us.
Right you are! You grab some water balloons and I'll put together 12 miles of rubber tubing. Wham-O is going into the launch business!
Maybe OT but does anyone know Google figures location when GPS isnt available? I assume it has access to raw tower data i.e. signal strength and tower location(s) and it triangulates from there. But the accuracy in sparsely-towered areas surprises me, and Im not sure how they would subscribe to a carriers tower data. Im guessing they also use some pretty tricky map heuristics to fine-tune location based on estimated location and speed compared to known roads.
Maybe a little Karma whacking me in the head, but I just got my quotes for 2010 contract period, and they were ugly. Competitive quotes against other major carriers was even worse. For family, Cigna up by 50% and around $1500 like you, though most $1200-ish. Some new hires brought my average age below 40 though and I'll stay below $1k thankfully. My best price on couple (I assume thats you?) was $782. If 1580's your best option in whatever state (country?) you're in, I'm really sorry, that stinks.
Yes, true. Mercedes SL500 on 3yr corporate lease is $976/mo. Family health insurance, middle-of-the-road plan PPO, is $991/mo. So you are correct that insurance cost more than a Mercedes. Though I downgraded to GL450's at $765 or E-class sedans for even less.
And you'd be surprised how many fewer sick days I get from people with free Benz's.
A much better argument than previous poster, but your price is half his. $100k? Sure, I'll buy that, and $125 for a big business or mid-size startup with no existing assets? Yes. $150 to $225 per hour for a fully-burdened employee is a number I hear a lot for big business, and those are the numbers I assume Im bidding against when Im bidding subcontracts to big business. I win those contracts precisely because my costs are lower than that because of small business efficiencies. A company with 10 people should be able to do better than 66% gross overhead before markup and fixed costs. While we can rationalize why it *might* cost $18m, I dont think that changes that if it were put to serious bid it could be done for a fraction of that. Or if it should be done at all.
:)
BTW 401k matching isnt a simple cost issue... companies match not out of generosity but deferral of payments and taxes. Its arguably -3000 instead of +3000.
Excellent breakdown considering 'IANASBO'!
Health care is closer to $1500 for a family and far less for HMO, and you'd be the only one generous enough to shoulder 100% of that. $3000/mo is insane. So is your payroll processing fee BTW - go find another payroll service. Or is that for your whole payroll and you forgot to divide by # of employees? Still too much. Anyway. My SEP/IRA fees are tiny, as is workman's comp, direct deposit fees, $2 million of general liability per employee, all just a drop in the sea. Your list double-counts taxes; your half is only matching federal funds on $75k, so $6k / yr. Aside from your asinine insurance figure of $36k/yr you're at $81,000. Go ahead and amortize out your floor space, hvac F&F and other fixed costs, and I might believe you own a business, but claiming taxes and insurance are your 66% overhead is a lie or idiocy or both.
Jailing dopers may be wasteful but its not evil. "Partnership For A Drug Free America" may have been ineffective (or maybe not) but I dont think educating school kids on the dangers of drug use is inherently 'evil' either. Both may be naive and represent unrealistic goals, but no more so than, say, renewable energy and world peace.
I dont see how either compare in any way to spending $18m on a website meant to espouse the joys of spending money on things like itself. Its voyeurism, masturbation, and an MLM all in one. And now that we're seeing the pre-sales chatter of a second trillion package, its a Ponzi scheme too, except with an $18m advertising budget.
> A 75K/yr worker can easily cost an employer $125K/y
If you think small business pays 125k for a 75k worker, no small business owner are you. Small business owners know to three decimal places what their employees cost in actual dollars, even if there are 47 different ways to calculate it, and they still stay up until 3am thinking of a 48th way. None of those ways cost 66% of gross pay, not even close. Unless your leasing them a new Mercedes every year.
If it was a guy, clearly it wouldnt have gotten stuck. Would've had bigger mud tires and a hemi ...
While there is a *possibility* that OP meant 'intrinsic evil' when s/he says 'unconstitutional', I think it is absolute *certainty* that you mean 'disagree' when you say 'doesnt help the discussion', and when you say 'fundamentalist' and 'religious' you mean 'asshole'. You confess that OP may be factually correct but label them 'mental' and 'lunatic'? If you would go to the extreme of -6 foe'ing someone, I seriously doubt you are the kind of person that has any discussions at all, as opposed to surrounding yourself with like-minded peer groups. If you were truly their foe, you would study them as Sun Tzu teaches instead of tuning /. to protect you from dissenting ideas.
/. moderation guidelines are optional when anyone disagrees with The Great Bagorange.
Calling them 'lunatic' and 'just plain mental' is far more flaming trollish than anything OP said; and nothing you said contributed anything factual, speculative, theoretical, or in any way advanced a dialog you claim to seek.
If you think there is gray area for moderating 'disagree' than shall I bestow some of my mod points on you? I got karma to burn, and I certainly disagree with your attitude that