Doubtful, Ms. Palin seems to be deliberately obtuse about foreign policy. For God's sake she thinks that being governor of a state next to Russia counts as experience with international relations. And she spend most of her time in office running for VP.
The better question is why other people didn't see that coming. I mean the whole point of computing earlier on was to get through a set of data more quickly than one could manually do it. And to keep going longer as well. Both of which point to larger amounts of memory and disk space being needed.
Given the amount of scientific discovery at the time it seems a bit odd to not think there was a huge need in the future.
I remember using a friend's Nokia which was essentially a flip-out camera with a phone embedded into it, and it took 1/3rd of an hour of searching and 7 menu clicks to take a photo.
I suspect that a lot of those shops probably bought it when that was more or less expected. I know that I used to buy software without considering what file formats were involved. Now, I think about that and if it's something which could possibly be useful beyond that application I don't buy without a viable export feature.
Main exception being games which wouldn't really make any sense to export.
An escrow service doesn't generally get to keep the money that it's moving. Usually they get some sort of a cut of the transfer whether or not it's successful. But the remainder has to be given to either of the two parties involved in all cases. Either the intended recipient or if that's not possible back to the originating party.
Paypal however takes the position that in the middle they own the money and can do with it what they like. They can pass in on as intended or they can refund it back or secret option C they can just keep it and drag their feet giving it back.
I don't think that rolling releases work well for an OS which is comprised of a Kernel and 3rd party contributed apps. Especially since Ubuntu doesn't have much control over the Kernel. To try and enforce a release schedules on 3rd party developers would be foolhardy at best.
However, for OSes like FreeBSD where the entirety of the userland is maintained and controlled by the project they probably could get away with it. And in a sense they do with -STABLE.
In general though, it's not particularly easy to balance the needs of QA and the production environment with regular releases. Less so when you're pulling in a set of outside programs which might very well be on a different release schedule.
Generally speaking you want to prove that the patent isn't patentable, and only if it is do you want to go with prior art. Particularly for somebody like the OP who doesn't necessarily want to make money off of it that's probably the way to go.
Probably, I suspect that might be the sort of thing that resulted in Facebook being granted the trademark to "Face." Back when MS was trademarking for their new GUI, they had to include Microsoft in the name to get the trademark because windows is eponymous. I don't think they would've bothered even trying to get Windows.
I know that ISO is apparently no longer a standards organization preferring to let the markets make the selection. Which begs the question of why do we need ISO if somebody else is choosing the standards.
We don't, we just don't want to go over to fix computers belonging to people like you only, to find out that there is no patch that fixes the problem and that anything short of replacement if futile.
Citation necessary. Android has hardly floundered. Apart from a few things that pretty much just Apple fanbois seem to want, very little is available on the iPhone which isn't available on Android. And considering how Apple has treated the developers I'd be surprised if that lasts long.
Seriously, you make it sound like there's some sort of shortage of developers working on the Android platform. And I'd have to point out that Android has attracted a pretty vibrant community considering how much shorter its time on the market has been. It's in phones, tablets hell even my Nook using Android as its OS.
Sure there is it's called "elections" or at least it would keep them on their toes if a substantial number of voters didn't reward bad behavior. Example, the Republican party ran up nearly $10tn in debt between Regan and the Bushes. And more recently gridlocked the legislative branch for the last couple of years and they get rewarded by being voted in as a vote for bipartisanship.
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That's bad, but what's worse is how all the geeks seem to think that a CPU is made by either Intel or AMD. Those are processors that they're primarily known for and the CPU is the box that holds the processor, RAM and the rest of the goobins in.
Now for all those that will correct me on that, give off my gall darned lawn.
You do realize that the term "crash" isn't a particularly technical term, right? A computer crash could be anything from a hard disk head crash to massive data corruption leading to the box not booting to a literal "the computer just fell out a window and crashed on the sidewalk scenario." As for that last one as dumb as it is, I bet somebody here knows of a place where that happened.
It's been the term used for a generic catastrophic computer failure for as long as I can recall, and that goes back decades.
Doesn't work that way. I remember at a previous job needing extra batteries for the radios. The radios which were our only line of communication if we needed help. But they couldn't find the money for that even as they were pushing for more aggressive means of dealing with trespassers.
IT is a lot like that as well, just because there's a pressing need doesn't mean that there's somebody to convince that cares about anything more than the bottom line. A job like that is going to fill, somebody is always that desperate, but suggesting that the admin has any responsibility for that is pretty ignorant. You can't convince somebody that isn't listening.
It's not necessarily that simple. Backup tends to get no respect or funding. A horrifying number of sites don't include backup solutions as a part of the cost of funding new machines. And if it was there that long it's entirely possible that whatever backup solutions were available and used then aren't going to be useful now.
Unfortunately just because the volume of data increases doesn't mean that the systems used to back it up are so easily scaled, the increased need doesn't guarantee extra funding either.
Or it could be an incompetent admin. Wouldn't be the first, however it's more likely that the problem is higher up in the chain.
Indeed, Qwest has been promising service up to 40mbps for quite a while now, and there's been precisely no improvement in my area. We're still roughly where we were a decade ago, and there's no evidence that Qwest actually cares about the Seattle market. The only reason why they're here at all is that they were allowed to buy US West. If there were any viable competition I think people would leave them, and I suspect they are as cell service is often more useful. Internet wise they're essentially the only game in town that isn't Comcrap.
I've heard rumors that FiOS exists in Seattle, but there's no information about when if ever they're going to extend it to my neighborhood. In fact the only ISPs that I've seen anybody talk positively about lately are Speakeasy and Sonic. Sonic isn't available in Qwest's region and Speakeasy is twice as expensive and not the service it was before they were bought.
That's a good point. But, I'm guessing that they also aren't expected to pay for the sort of lavish lifestyles that our executives expect. Those telecoms probably also put a larger portion of the money to actually upgrading their networks.
I'm in a similar situation, it can only be incompetence that explains why you can't get more than 3mbit from them. I'm in North Seattle and we get up to 5mbps and you're significantly closer to the CO.
But the reason why it's taking them so long is that they're run by a bunch of incompetent assholes. They sold their wireless unit off about a decade or so ago, and that's where most of the other companies have been getting the pocket change to upgrade their network. The price for life thing isn't doing them any favors either. While the cost of providing service has gone down, it doesn't give them much money to upgrade their network to join the modern era.
At least that's available. I live in Seattle and the best speed I can get from Qwest is apparently 5 Mbps for $50 a month excluding tax. Speakeasy allows for faster connections but it's well over a hundred for the connection you've got.
Our best bet is Google coming in and fixing the situation, it's been years since Verizon and Qwest have supposedly been upgrading their equipment, but they've yet to actually get here. And Comcrap was such a joke when we had them years ago that whatever they're offering we don't want. Qwest might be slow, but at least it's rarely if ever out.
Because that's not realistic. They have been dragging their feet, but giving them only a year to upgrade that much line and not just in urban areas is asking a bit much. A better solution would be to require telecoms to invest in their infrastructure and not raise their rates unless they can demonstrate that they're needing the extra money to pay for actually expenses. That's worked in other industries which were essentially utilities.
It happens regularly. Sen. Coburn uses it frequently to kill spending bills. He'll obsess and waste tax payer dollars trying to get rid of the $5m in a multibillion dollar spending bill. Amazingly enough he never seems to think that it's important to do that when it's a sizable sum of money. Realistically unless it's more than $15b it's probably not worth wasting a lot of time worrying about.
Not really, she sold the home looking forward to the position. Then later after she couldn't find work as a result of the fraud, she wasn't able to buy a new one and from the looks of it ran through the money.
I don't see anything there that's unreasonable in terms of causality.
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Doubtful, Ms. Palin seems to be deliberately obtuse about foreign policy. For God's sake she thinks that being governor of a state next to Russia counts as experience with international relations. And she spend most of her time in office running for VP.
The better question is why other people didn't see that coming. I mean the whole point of computing earlier on was to get through a set of data more quickly than one could manually do it. And to keep going longer as well. Both of which point to larger amounts of memory and disk space being needed.
Given the amount of scientific discovery at the time it seems a bit odd to not think there was a huge need in the future.
Indeed, unlike Woz who seems more interested in playing pranks on people.
I remember using a friend's Nokia which was essentially a flip-out camera with a phone embedded into it, and it took 1/3rd of an hour of searching and 7 menu clicks to take a photo.
What were you using the emacs interface?
Don't be silly, I'm pretty sure that he doesn't weigh the same as a duck so...
I suspect that a lot of those shops probably bought it when that was more or less expected. I know that I used to buy software without considering what file formats were involved. Now, I think about that and if it's something which could possibly be useful beyond that application I don't buy without a viable export feature.
Main exception being games which wouldn't really make any sense to export.
An escrow service doesn't generally get to keep the money that it's moving. Usually they get some sort of a cut of the transfer whether or not it's successful. But the remainder has to be given to either of the two parties involved in all cases. Either the intended recipient or if that's not possible back to the originating party.
Paypal however takes the position that in the middle they own the money and can do with it what they like. They can pass in on as intended or they can refund it back or secret option C they can just keep it and drag their feet giving it back.
I don't think that rolling releases work well for an OS which is comprised of a Kernel and 3rd party contributed apps. Especially since Ubuntu doesn't have much control over the Kernel. To try and enforce a release schedules on 3rd party developers would be foolhardy at best.
However, for OSes like FreeBSD where the entirety of the userland is maintained and controlled by the project they probably could get away with it. And in a sense they do with -STABLE.
In general though, it's not particularly easy to balance the needs of QA and the production environment with regular releases. Less so when you're pulling in a set of outside programs which might very well be on a different release schedule.
Generally speaking you want to prove that the patent isn't patentable, and only if it is do you want to go with prior art. Particularly for somebody like the OP who doesn't necessarily want to make money off of it that's probably the way to go.
Probably, I suspect that might be the sort of thing that resulted in Facebook being granted the trademark to "Face." Back when MS was trademarking for their new GUI, they had to include Microsoft in the name to get the trademark because windows is eponymous. I don't think they would've bothered even trying to get Windows.
I know that ISO is apparently no longer a standards organization preferring to let the markets make the selection. Which begs the question of why do we need ISO if somebody else is choosing the standards.
We don't, we just don't want to go over to fix computers belonging to people like you only, to find out that there is no patch that fixes the problem and that anything short of replacement if futile.
Citation necessary. Android has hardly floundered. Apart from a few things that pretty much just Apple fanbois seem to want, very little is available on the iPhone which isn't available on Android. And considering how Apple has treated the developers I'd be surprised if that lasts long.
Seriously, you make it sound like there's some sort of shortage of developers working on the Android platform. And I'd have to point out that Android has attracted a pretty vibrant community considering how much shorter its time on the market has been. It's in phones, tablets hell even my Nook using Android as its OS.
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve
George Bernard Shaw
That's bad, but what's worse is how all the geeks seem to think that a CPU is made by either Intel or AMD. Those are processors that they're primarily known for and the CPU is the box that holds the processor, RAM and the rest of the goobins in.
Now for all those that will correct me on that, give off my gall darned lawn.
You do realize that the term "crash" isn't a particularly technical term, right? A computer crash could be anything from a hard disk head crash to massive data corruption leading to the box not booting to a literal "the computer just fell out a window and crashed on the sidewalk scenario." As for that last one as dumb as it is, I bet somebody here knows of a place where that happened.
It's been the term used for a generic catastrophic computer failure for as long as I can recall, and that goes back decades.
Doesn't work that way. I remember at a previous job needing extra batteries for the radios. The radios which were our only line of communication if we needed help. But they couldn't find the money for that even as they were pushing for more aggressive means of dealing with trespassers.
IT is a lot like that as well, just because there's a pressing need doesn't mean that there's somebody to convince that cares about anything more than the bottom line. A job like that is going to fill, somebody is always that desperate, but suggesting that the admin has any responsibility for that is pretty ignorant. You can't convince somebody that isn't listening.
It's not necessarily that simple. Backup tends to get no respect or funding. A horrifying number of sites don't include backup solutions as a part of the cost of funding new machines. And if it was there that long it's entirely possible that whatever backup solutions were available and used then aren't going to be useful now.
Unfortunately just because the volume of data increases doesn't mean that the systems used to back it up are so easily scaled, the increased need doesn't guarantee extra funding either.
Or it could be an incompetent admin. Wouldn't be the first, however it's more likely that the problem is higher up in the chain.
Indeed, Qwest has been promising service up to 40mbps for quite a while now, and there's been precisely no improvement in my area. We're still roughly where we were a decade ago, and there's no evidence that Qwest actually cares about the Seattle market. The only reason why they're here at all is that they were allowed to buy US West. If there were any viable competition I think people would leave them, and I suspect they are as cell service is often more useful. Internet wise they're essentially the only game in town that isn't Comcrap.
I've heard rumors that FiOS exists in Seattle, but there's no information about when if ever they're going to extend it to my neighborhood. In fact the only ISPs that I've seen anybody talk positively about lately are Speakeasy and Sonic. Sonic isn't available in Qwest's region and Speakeasy is twice as expensive and not the service it was before they were bought.
That's a good point. But, I'm guessing that they also aren't expected to pay for the sort of lavish lifestyles that our executives expect. Those telecoms probably also put a larger portion of the money to actually upgrading their networks.
I'm in a similar situation, it can only be incompetence that explains why you can't get more than 3mbit from them. I'm in North Seattle and we get up to 5mbps and you're significantly closer to the CO.
But the reason why it's taking them so long is that they're run by a bunch of incompetent assholes. They sold their wireless unit off about a decade or so ago, and that's where most of the other companies have been getting the pocket change to upgrade their network. The price for life thing isn't doing them any favors either. While the cost of providing service has gone down, it doesn't give them much money to upgrade their network to join the modern era.
At least that's available. I live in Seattle and the best speed I can get from Qwest is apparently 5 Mbps for $50 a month excluding tax. Speakeasy allows for faster connections but it's well over a hundred for the connection you've got.
Our best bet is Google coming in and fixing the situation, it's been years since Verizon and Qwest have supposedly been upgrading their equipment, but they've yet to actually get here. And Comcrap was such a joke when we had them years ago that whatever they're offering we don't want. Qwest might be slow, but at least it's rarely if ever out.
Because that's not realistic. They have been dragging their feet, but giving them only a year to upgrade that much line and not just in urban areas is asking a bit much. A better solution would be to require telecoms to invest in their infrastructure and not raise their rates unless they can demonstrate that they're needing the extra money to pay for actually expenses. That's worked in other industries which were essentially utilities.
Wouldn't it be simpler if they just banned wearing clothes? Of course then you'd have to put up with the consequence, but there you go.
It happens regularly. Sen. Coburn uses it frequently to kill spending bills. He'll obsess and waste tax payer dollars trying to get rid of the $5m in a multibillion dollar spending bill. Amazingly enough he never seems to think that it's important to do that when it's a sizable sum of money. Realistically unless it's more than $15b it's probably not worth wasting a lot of time worrying about.
Not really, she sold the home looking forward to the position. Then later after she couldn't find work as a result of the fraud, she wasn't able to buy a new one and from the looks of it ran through the money.
I don't see anything there that's unreasonable in terms of causality.