I think what we (the consumers and people concerned with lock-in) should be pushing for is the ability to go back to older versions of iOS on devices that we own. If every story about this failure mentioned that people who try the new version are locked in without the ability to go back to a working version, maybe Apple would cave.
"Now, those beliefs could land him in serious trouble."
Hammond is not in trouble because of his beliefs. He is free to have beliefs and advocate for change. Instead of building and making, he destroyed and discredited his ideas.
Yes, high taxes could be used to build a quality school system and good infrastructure to make life better.
Or it could be spent to buy votes and enrich the politically connected. Rochester school district does spend $15,614 per a pupil. Way above the national average. http://www.newyorkschools.com/districts/rochester-city-school-district.html What does that buy? Good pay for political powerful unions members. The district was very proud that in 2010 the graduation rate was 46.1%, up from 42.1% http://www.whec.com/news/stories/s2155841.shtml
Throwing money does in its self make it a better place. Outputs are what is important.
I am personally getting ready to start a business with my PhD research. The high taxes
The white verse blue shirt is also related to the terms white collar and blue collar. Though currently not nearly as rigid of a class distinction as it was in the past. Basically, you "high" status of doing desk work was publicly shown by wearing white clothing that you could not keep unstained if you were to preform manual labor. Blue coveralls are often issued those engaged dirty work. Such as an auto mechanic. Google searching "mechanic coveralls." The top link: http://www.automotiveworkwear.com/Merchant2/coveralls.html Out of 12 garments shown, 9 are variations of blue and 3 are variations of Khaki.
2) If this study actually significantly contradicts our knowledge of global heating, why has it been published in Remote Sensing, and not a more reputable journal?
Tell me what do you think the phrase "Remote Sensing" refers to?
I'm guessing that you are confusing it with "Remote Viewing."
About a year ago the dispenser listed the price as being $1 per GGE. I assume that was a subsidized price. Unfortunately it did not take regular credit cards only cards issued specifically for the station.
The primary interface for most people is X. There needs to a way to switch between multiple X sessions as seamlessly as switching between console sessions.
To make the most out of a single large gift to humanity, it should be something that effects everyone. Thus other IP owners can be influenced. Maybe the credits of commercial works could be required to cite the public license and a statement to encourage other works to be released.
Doing the "The Happy Birthday Song" together with a broader set of serious works (textbooks etc..) will get the attention of the whole populace. Thus be more likely to kick off a chain reaction.
You get no more then you pay for. In most states there are low limits
on the liability of free services. If you depend on a free
service try to use open source. That way it will only really die
when something better comes around.
The.com implosion will continue. When half of the customer base
unable to pay their bills the providers start having problems too.
The capital markets allowed for great experimentation with many business
models and corporate structure. Now with so many out there now it
is time to find out which models will survive. Only the strong will
survive. But, they will survive.
As a group, people over estimate the short term effects and under estimate
the long term effects of any new technology. The ASP model has its
merits and niches. The short term predictions will not reached.
In the long term it will be even greater then predicted.
The early predictions for the computer were something like there would
be a need 8 to solve all the worlds problems. I bet in the very short
term, the companies who wanted to sell and service those 8 computers were
sorely disappointed that there were not 8 buyers to be found.
Most of those early companies probably went under. But, we know how
that ended up. The same thing happened with lasers, cars, railroads,
airplanes and fiber optics. We do not have the laser ray guns
but we do have bar-code readers, cd/dvd players and the basis of our long
distance commutation network.
ASP's are still in their early stages. They are still looking
for the killer app. ASP's are not the answer to all of our problems
like the marketing would suggest. But, they ASP model does help to
solve many real problems.
Right now if you find a ASP that is a good fit for you, go for it.
Read your contract. Have a contingency plan. Read the
SEC filings of possible providers. Calculate the cash burn rate.
Are they going to be around much longer?
I happen to work for verio on the
hosted oracle product. With verio having been bought by NTT,
I have the resources to do things in the way that makes the most sense
in the long term. Even if someone already has an in house oracle
shop they still could use the product to store their recovery catalog,
to push out data to share with a partner or cache data for their co-loc
/ hosted web server etc...
The market is still very young and most oracle people simply do not
believe that it is possible for us to offer what we do. Everybody
thinks that it is too cheap. There are some great gains to
be had with economies of scale. The fundamental issue is that
specialization and scaling do provide economic advantage. That
concept is the foundation of the free market. If somebody has found
a better cheaper way to do things then you do what you are good at and
pay somebody else to do what they are good at.
The fundamental idea for ASP's is sound. Change always is slower
and more sweeping then we think.
For those people feeling the need to bash turing the "peace loving" X-33 over to the military. The X-33 started out military. For many years the X-33 was under SDIO. (Strategic Defense Initiate Office) AKA Star Wars. You see to launch enough missile killing satellites to do any good, a economical launch vehicle is needed. What is important to the military is results.
NASA has very little interest in being economical. Remember NASA's job is to spend money in the right congressional districts and to not publicly screw up. (Recently the purpose has been expanded a bit to include gainfully employing the Russian scientists so that the do not give any tech to "Rough"(sp?) nations) Those purposes are best server by big projects with big budgets and huge bureaucrat class. NASA has learned that to do nothing receives less public criticism then to try and fail.
The military is a much better place for cheap risky experiments. The skunk works model has produced some fabulous things at bargain prices. (think U-2, SR-75, Aurora etc...) The great thing about classifying a project is that it mandates small teams.
If you look at the bottom of the sidebar, there is a link called "Rent E-mail Lists". Sure enough they will rent you lists for $0.10 a address. Minimum of 4,000 addresses. I guess this is the cost of Linux going main stream. And being embraced by the get rich quick suites. I guess linuxplanet is an example of what happens when a linux site joins a "network". Watered down newbe content and abandonment of internet principles for greed. humm... Run Rob Run... Save your sole while you still can.
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I think what we (the consumers and people concerned with lock-in) should be pushing for is the ability to go back to older versions of iOS on devices that we own. If every story about this failure mentioned that people who try the new version are locked in without the ability to go back to a working version, maybe Apple would cave.
NOAA forecast model of aurora activity and visibility
http://helios.swpc.noaa.gov/ovation/
If the little red line is south of your location, you might see something (assuming northern hemisphere). So far no love for the lower 48.
"Now, those beliefs could land him in serious trouble."
Hammond is not in trouble because of his beliefs. He is free to have beliefs and advocate for change. Instead of building and making, he destroyed and discredited his ideas.
Comparing the intelligence and genes of those who did and did not survive to 90 would also be interesting.
Yes, high taxes could be used to build a quality school system and good infrastructure to make life better.
Or it could be spent to buy votes and enrich the politically connected. Rochester school district does spend $15,614 per a pupil. Way above the national average. http://www.newyorkschools.com/districts/rochester-city-school-district.html What does that buy? Good pay for political powerful unions members. The district was very proud that in 2010 the graduation rate was 46.1%, up from 42.1%
http://www.whec.com/news/stories/s2155841.shtml
Throwing money does in its self make it a better place. Outputs are what is important.
I am personally getting ready to start a business with my PhD research. The high taxes
The white verse blue shirt is also related to the terms white collar and blue collar. Though currently not nearly as rigid of a class distinction as it was in the past. Basically, you "high" status of doing desk work was publicly shown by wearing white clothing that you could not keep unstained if you were to preform manual labor. Blue coveralls are often issued those engaged dirty work. Such as an auto mechanic. Google searching "mechanic coveralls." The top link: http://www.automotiveworkwear.com/Merchant2/coveralls.html Out of 12 garments shown, 9 are variations of blue and 3 are variations of Khaki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-collar_worker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-collar_worker
A few notes about TFA: .....
2) If this study actually significantly contradicts our knowledge of global heating, why has it been published in Remote Sensing, and not a more reputable journal?
Tell me what do you think the phrase "Remote Sensing" refers to?
I'm guessing that you are confusing it with "Remote Viewing."
Sounds like it was hard to published it on its merits alone. The last line of the paper is a bit cryptic.
"The project was funded privately by Lottolab Studio, as the referees argued that young people cannot do real science."
What does the funding source have to do with the referees' prejudices? Was some extra funding needed to resolve their concerns?
Personally, I am going to look for an excuse to cite their paper.
When we were kids we couldn't afford science kits. We just had to play with gun powder, gasoline, matches and plastic models. And we liked it.
... a big magnifying glass and the ants were free.
There is another station 3 to 4 miles away on RIT campus and another one at the GM facility.
http://www.rit.edu/research/sustainability_story.php?id=26
About a year ago the dispenser listed the price as being $1 per GGE. I assume that was a subsidized price. Unfortunately it did not take regular credit cards only cards issued specifically for the station.
The press conference said she had ear pain.
The primary interface for most people is X. There needs to a way to switch between multiple X sessions as seamlessly as switching between console sessions.
Why does it need to be a written work?
The most widely known piece of music in the English speaking world is "Happy Birthday to You"...
http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp
To make the most out of a single large gift to humanity, it should be something that effects everyone. Thus other IP owners can be influenced. Maybe the credits of commercial works could be required to cite the public license and a statement to encourage other works to be released.
Doing the "The Happy Birthday Song" together with a broader set of serious works (textbooks etc..) will get the attention of the whole populace. Thus be more likely to kick off a chain reaction.
Ross
The .com implosion will continue. When half of the customer base
unable to pay their bills the providers start having problems too.
The capital markets allowed for great experimentation with many business
models and corporate structure. Now with so many out there now it
is time to find out which models will survive. Only the strong will
survive. But, they will survive.
As a group, people over estimate the short term effects and under estimate the long term effects of any new technology. The ASP model has its merits and niches. The short term predictions will not reached. In the long term it will be even greater then predicted.
The early predictions for the computer were something like there would be a need 8 to solve all the worlds problems. I bet in the very short term, the companies who wanted to sell and service those 8 computers were sorely disappointed that there were not 8 buyers to be found. Most of those early companies probably went under. But, we know how that ended up. The same thing happened with lasers, cars, railroads, airplanes and fiber optics. We do not have the laser ray guns but we do have bar-code readers, cd/dvd players and the basis of our long distance commutation network.
ASP's are still in their early stages. They are still looking for the killer app. ASP's are not the answer to all of our problems like the marketing would suggest. But, they ASP model does help to solve many real problems.
Right now if you find a ASP that is a good fit for you, go for it. Read your contract. Have a contingency plan. Read the SEC filings of possible providers. Calculate the cash burn rate. Are they going to be around much longer?
I happen to work for verio on the hosted oracle product. With verio having been bought by NTT, I have the resources to do things in the way that makes the most sense in the long term. Even if someone already has an in house oracle shop they still could use the product to store their recovery catalog, to push out data to share with a partner or cache data for their co-loc / hosted web server etc...
The market is still very young and most oracle people simply do not believe that it is possible for us to offer what we do. Everybody thinks that it is too cheap. There are some great gains to be had with economies of scale. The fundamental issue is that specialization and scaling do provide economic advantage. That concept is the foundation of the free market. If somebody has found a better cheaper way to do things then you do what you are good at and pay somebody else to do what they are good at.
The fundamental idea for ASP's is sound. Change always is slower and more sweeping then we think.
Ross
My starting as a SDIO project comment was a little off. I was thinking about the Delta Clipper project.
For those people feeling the need to bash turing the "peace loving" X-33 over to the military. The X-33 started out military. For many years the X-33 was under SDIO. (Strategic Defense Initiate Office) AKA Star Wars. You see to launch enough missile killing satellites to do any good, a economical launch vehicle is needed. What is important to the military is results.
NASA has very little interest in being economical. Remember NASA's job is to spend money in the right congressional districts and to not publicly screw up. (Recently the purpose has been expanded a bit to include gainfully employing the Russian scientists so that the do not give any tech to "Rough"(sp?) nations) Those purposes are best server by big projects with big budgets and huge bureaucrat class. NASA has learned that to do nothing receives less public criticism then to try and fail.
The military is a much better place for cheap risky experiments. The skunk works model has produced some fabulous things at bargain prices. (think U-2, SR-75, Aurora etc...) The great thing about classifying a project is that it mandates small teams.
If you look at the bottom of the sidebar, there is a link called "Rent E-mail Lists". Sure enough they will rent you lists for $0.10 a address. Minimum of 4,000 addresses. I guess this is the cost of Linux going main stream. And being embraced by the get rich quick suites. I guess linuxplanet is an example of what happens when a linux site joins a "network". Watered down newbe content and abandonment of internet principles for greed. humm... Run Rob Run ... Save your sole while you still can.