You are putting the cart before the horse. Managing ID's can be expensive, and they are still not guaranteed to prevent fraud since they can be faked.
Perhaps the money would be better spent on investigations, inspections, auditing, etc. We want the most fraud prevention with the least amount of tax dollars and voter hassle. Whether ID's are the best solution or not hasn't been determined.
There is more known voter fraud in vote-by-mail than poll-center misrepresentation, for example. But Republicans don't focus on that because their base tends to be elderly, who prefer vote-by-mail.
Typically one would want to know they are looking at a stale copy. I'd suggest a prompt such as:
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Another thing that MS has going for it is their focus on business intelligence. That is going to be a huge differentiator as more business learn the power of BI.
BI is a fuzzy buzzword. And Microsoft has no "Business Intelligence", or else they wouldn't keep failing at mobile and forcing Windows 10 on customers who don't want it.
If you mean IT resource monitoring, then say IT resource monitoring. It sounds less PHB-ish, and carries more meaning.
IT resource monitoring could indeed help one manage cloud rentals, but Amazon can probably do it also if that became key difference, unless MS finds a way to keep other vendors from monitoring Windows OS's using their usual proprietary games. The usual "standards" battles may play out again in this new market.
AWS sucks because it's impossible to know what you need to buy and how much you're going to get billed. They keep splitting their services up into different categories and changing the names...
After some well-publicized disasters involving cloud providers who croak, cloud-vendor-swappability will become in vogue, and when perfected those very same tech/standards will make it easier to migrate servers in-house.
One may argue that a croaking cloud vendor will sell their resources to a healthier hoster, but if they are proprietary or the new vendor doesn't understand their configurations, the migrations could be really ugly, disrupting customer operations. It's back to the issue of swappabilty being the key to useful cloudness, not offsite-ness.
It may take a while for the proprietary clue-stick to work its magic by murdering companies, but I'm betting it will happen.
I've know cases where people stood on overpasses and threw down bricks to cause crashes. Nobody published papers on the "brick loophole"
Don't need bricks; get a scantly-clad attractive female* to walk down the side of a busy road. I can think of several times where such distractions almost got me into a tangle. And it's legal, unlike bricks.
I'd be happy to assist in such research by inspecting the applicants for free.
* Or scantly clad males might work also, who knows. Didn't mean to be discriminatory. (Insert obligatory Commander Taco joke here.)
I almost flattened a pedestrian the other night who was wearing clothing that blended into the background. His pants were the same color as the road, and his shirt the same color as the foliage on the other side of the road, and he happened to be lined up so that his shirt boundary matched the road/foliage boundary of the other side of the street. The stealth was probably not intentional, but effective nevertheless.
Reminds me of a prank where actors wore stripes that blended into the Abbey Road crossing, made famous by the Beatles. (Google & Bing failed me when I went to find it. Damn WebTubes!)
I predict cloudness is mostly fad for bigger co's because our current OS's, conventions, and management techniques haven't caught up to the virtualization possibilities that networking offers. Cloud vendors are ahead of the curve because that's their direct goal and job. But the lessons will trickle out to general IT.
When they catch up, orgs will choose to keep most of their hardware on premises for security and a desire to not depend on the financial viability of a cloud vendor.
The OS and/or app design will have to be more divorced from hardware design so that servers or server farm units are easier for internal stuff to swap in and out as needed.
If a server or component of the "internal cloud" gets sick, an app stack could automatically switch to a different hardware unit and/or its spare or replication partner. A new off-the-shelf "cloud box" could then be casually plugged in as needed.
I see no reason why an in-house cloud farm couldn't be ran almost as cheep as a warehouse-style cloud could if the cloud boxes are almost plug-and-play. Servicing 30 plug-and-play box farms shouldn't be significantly more expensive than servicing 30,000. It's only like that now because the app stack has to match the hardware in most current shops.
Small companies are probably still more likely to use external clouds because they don't want to hire server hardware staff, electricians, etc. to build and run on-premises cloud rooms.
If the adjustments are "simple" fixes like curing a disease by correcting a mutation or two, I see no problem with it.
But if it's about making a "super race" by fiddling with body type or the brain, then I say let other countries be the guinea pigs and learn the hard road lessons of fiddling.
We can gradually adopt practices that prove themselves over time.
However, I can image a scenario where a given set of tweaks makes say 95% of the subjects faster, smarter, and/or more disciplined, etc., but 5% have nasty side-effects. Such countries may conclude the trade-off is worth it and have an overall better GDP even if some suffer because of it.
That creates a conundrum: how do you compete with a country ready to throw a percentage of their population under the bus to get aggregate gains, especially if they become a military risk to us.
A Hillary victory means everything Bernie fought for was for nothing
Even if Bernie were elected prez, GOP would probably block most his initiatives. Compromising is thus necessary to get any progressive agenda through, and Hillary, being a centrist, is more likely to successfully compromise.
Bernie's strength was in getting the message out, and nothing is stopping him from delivering more messages. If H doesn't push for the reforms she promised to push for, you'll probably hear it from Bernie. He's giving her a fair chance, first.
Nobody has proven that Warren has no native Americans ancestors*, and there's no record of Dolezal claiming to be black. The NAACP even said being black is NOT a qualification for the position. They didn't fire her, she left on her own volition.
You are off base.
* There is no clear-cut definition of that anyhow. Humans are all mutts. At the very most, DNA tests can show that one is probably related to a particular group of people at a particular place and time.
That's a standard for exchanging documents in XML format, not documentation on the existing Office file formats. I just opened a.docx document in an editor, and it's not XML (unless it's somehow compressed or encrypted XML). One would have to do a Save-As in Office to get an XML version.
The "test" here is for a non-MS product be able to open and read an Office file as-is and render it the same way it would in MS-Office.
Further, the mere existence of a written standard says nothing about the quality or accuracy of it.
Amen per patents! Most "inventions" these days come from casually running into ideas in the course making a specific product, not a big expensive research lab like in Thomas Edison's day.
Thus the theory that patents provide an incentive to invent is mostly false.
I randomly sampled some software patents, and every one was either too vague to be useful, too obvious, or combos of bullshit buzzwords glued together.
The second alleged justification of patents, publishing ideas to spread knowledge, is also shaky. The wording used and sheer volume of trashy patents often makes searching a waste of time. Most searchers are probably lawyers. The patent system is for and by lawyers, NOT inventors.
Countries who reject or ignore patents will start kicking our can. We deserve it.
[Economics] is not a science, it's a series of ideologies.
It's a science with too many variables to easily test models against, somewhat like the field of psychology.
When something is hard to test, that by itself doesn't make the field a non-science, just a messy science.
The problem with such fields is that it's easy for ideology and political bias to creep into theories and models. Human nature and egos muck it up.
But so far we have no alternative. People MUST make decisions about economics, such as whether to issue a stimulus or change interest rates, and very-rough-draft theories and models are all we have right now. A half-running Yugo is usually better than walking (unless you have asthma).
It fails to properly load almost all the Microsoft Office files...
To be fair, MS's "standards" are not standards, and poorly documented. One would have match Office kludge-for-kludge to make it truly compatible with Office.
MS has negative financial incentive to make it easier to migrate away from Office. Bad formats make them rich.
I didn't think I have to make it clearer, but I guess I have to.
I'm still asking for a specific example/scenario/use-case to illustrate your point. You are talking in generalities. Take an example from a university grade tracking system or airline reservation system or something from everyday life to construct a specific scenario. Make a quick and dirty schema for your example, and walk through the scenario steps.
Whether that's true or not, I'm surprised The Donald is not talking MORE about this kind of thing, instead of trolling the parents of a fallen soldier. This should be right up his political alley.
It's like someone has cleared a path for him to the goal line, carefully handed him the football, but instead he goes off to beat up a cheerleader. #Idontgettit
In theory "lopsided" trade where one side cheats is still beneficial to the more-open partner.
But, it seems such formulas and simulations fail to account for or detect "emergent" side-effects, such as income inequality, and financial bubbles caused in part by one side building up cash from the imbalance. Bubbles still puzzle economic simulation experts.
The simulation may predict that average GDP increases, which may technically be accurate, but most of the increase is flowing to the top 1%, not regular folks. This excess power allows them to buy the political system, giving us crap like the Citizen's United ruling, which in terms gives them even MORE influence, risking a slippery slope into a full-blown plutocracy.
They can simulate consumer buying behavior to some extent, but so far not the related politics that affect everything in practice.
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You are putting the cart before the horse. Managing ID's can be expensive, and they are still not guaranteed to prevent fraud since they can be faked.
Perhaps the money would be better spent on investigations, inspections, auditing, etc. We want the most fraud prevention with the least amount of tax dollars and voter hassle. Whether ID's are the best solution or not hasn't been determined.
There is more known voter fraud in vote-by-mail than poll-center misrepresentation, for example. But Republicans don't focus on that because their base tends to be elderly, who prefer vote-by-mail.
Naw, he'd enjoy it too much.
Typically one would want to know they are looking at a stale copy. I'd suggest a prompt such as:
BI is a fuzzy buzzword. And Microsoft has no "Business Intelligence", or else they wouldn't keep failing at mobile and forcing Windows 10 on customers who don't want it.
If you mean IT resource monitoring, then say IT resource monitoring. It sounds less PHB-ish, and carries more meaning.
IT resource monitoring could indeed help one manage cloud rentals, but Amazon can probably do it also if that became key difference, unless MS finds a way to keep other vendors from monitoring Windows OS's using their usual proprietary games. The usual "standards" battles may play out again in this new market.
So it's a virtual Oracle sales-team.
They are measuring speed, not accidents.
After some well-publicized disasters involving cloud providers who croak, cloud-vendor-swappability will become in vogue, and when perfected those very same tech/standards will make it easier to migrate servers in-house.
One may argue that a croaking cloud vendor will sell their resources to a healthier hoster, but if they are proprietary or the new vendor doesn't understand their configurations, the migrations could be really ugly, disrupting customer operations. It's back to the issue of swappabilty being the key to useful cloudness, not offsite-ness.
It may take a while for the proprietary clue-stick to work its magic by murdering companies, but I'm betting it will happen.
I meant debilitating diseases, not getting D's in Algebra. In such cases, minor or longer-term side-effects are less of a worry in comparison.
However, I suspect it would be hard to stop people from going overseas or crossing borders to get minor gene tuneups.
Don't need bricks; get a scantly-clad attractive female* to walk down the side of a busy road. I can think of several times where such distractions almost got me into a tangle. And it's legal, unlike bricks.
I'd be happy to assist in such research by inspecting the applicants for free.
* Or scantly clad males might work also, who knows. Didn't mean to be discriminatory. (Insert obligatory Commander Taco joke here.)
So it was YOU!
I almost flattened a pedestrian the other night who was wearing clothing that blended into the background. His pants were the same color as the road, and his shirt the same color as the foliage on the other side of the road, and he happened to be lined up so that his shirt boundary matched the road/foliage boundary of the other side of the street. The stealth was probably not intentional, but effective nevertheless.
Reminds me of a prank where actors wore stripes that blended into the Abbey Road crossing, made famous by the Beatles. (Google & Bing failed me when I went to find it. Damn WebTubes!)
I predict cloudness is mostly fad for bigger co's because our current OS's, conventions, and management techniques haven't caught up to the virtualization possibilities that networking offers. Cloud vendors are ahead of the curve because that's their direct goal and job. But the lessons will trickle out to general IT.
When they catch up, orgs will choose to keep most of their hardware on premises for security and a desire to not depend on the financial viability of a cloud vendor.
The OS and/or app design will have to be more divorced from hardware design so that servers or server farm units are easier for internal stuff to swap in and out as needed.
If a server or component of the "internal cloud" gets sick, an app stack could automatically switch to a different hardware unit and/or its spare or replication partner. A new off-the-shelf "cloud box" could then be casually plugged in as needed.
I see no reason why an in-house cloud farm couldn't be ran almost as cheep as a warehouse-style cloud could if the cloud boxes are almost plug-and-play. Servicing 30 plug-and-play box farms shouldn't be significantly more expensive than servicing 30,000. It's only like that now because the app stack has to match the hardware in most current shops.
Small companies are probably still more likely to use external clouds because they don't want to hire server hardware staff, electricians, etc. to build and run on-premises cloud rooms.
If the adjustments are "simple" fixes like curing a disease by correcting a mutation or two, I see no problem with it.
But if it's about making a "super race" by fiddling with body type or the brain, then I say let other countries be the guinea pigs and learn the hard road lessons of fiddling.
We can gradually adopt practices that prove themselves over time.
However, I can image a scenario where a given set of tweaks makes say 95% of the subjects faster, smarter, and/or more disciplined, etc., but 5% have nasty side-effects. Such countries may conclude the trade-off is worth it and have an overall better GDP even if some suffer because of it.
That creates a conundrum: how do you compete with a country ready to throw a percentage of their population under the bus to get aggregate gains, especially if they become a military risk to us.
Even if Bernie were elected prez, GOP would probably block most his initiatives. Compromising is thus necessary to get any progressive agenda through, and Hillary, being a centrist, is more likely to successfully compromise.
Bernie's strength was in getting the message out, and nothing is stopping him from delivering more messages. If H doesn't push for the reforms she promised to push for, you'll probably hear it from Bernie. He's giving her a fair chance, first.
Nobody has proven that Warren has no native Americans ancestors*, and there's no record of Dolezal claiming to be black. The NAACP even said being black is NOT a qualification for the position. They didn't fire her, she left on her own volition.
You are off base.
* There is no clear-cut definition of that anyhow. Humans are all mutts. At the very most, DNA tests can show that one is probably related to a particular group of people at a particular place and time.
That's a standard for exchanging documents in XML format, not documentation on the existing Office file formats. I just opened a .docx document in an editor, and it's not XML (unless it's somehow compressed or encrypted XML). One would have to do a Save-As in Office to get an XML version.
The "test" here is for a non-MS product be able to open and read an Office file as-is and render it the same way it would in MS-Office.
Further, the mere existence of a written standard says nothing about the quality or accuracy of it.
Amen per patents! Most "inventions" these days come from casually running into ideas in the course making a specific product, not a big expensive research lab like in Thomas Edison's day.
Thus the theory that patents provide an incentive to invent is mostly false.
I randomly sampled some software patents, and every one was either too vague to be useful, too obvious, or combos of bullshit buzzwords glued together.
The second alleged justification of patents, publishing ideas to spread knowledge, is also shaky. The wording used and sheer volume of trashy patents often makes searching a waste of time. Most searchers are probably lawyers. The patent system is for and by lawyers, NOT inventors.
Countries who reject or ignore patents will start kicking our can. We deserve it.
It's a science with too many variables to easily test models against, somewhat like the field of psychology.
When something is hard to test, that by itself doesn't make the field a non-science, just a messy science.
The problem with such fields is that it's easy for ideology and political bias to creep into theories and models. Human nature and egos muck it up.
But so far we have no alternative. People MUST make decisions about economics, such as whether to issue a stimulus or change interest rates, and very-rough-draft theories and models are all we have right now. A half-running Yugo is usually better than walking (unless you have asthma).
The Sarcasm Detector is also broken.
To be fair, MS's "standards" are not standards, and poorly documented. One would have match Office kludge-for-kludge to make it truly compatible with Office.
MS has negative financial incentive to make it easier to migrate away from Office. Bad formats make them rich.
I tried Base once a few years ago, and it was a steaming pile of sh!t. I take that back; it was not coherent enough to be called a "pile".
Anybody try it recently?
Rename it "RoR.node.nosql.js++"
I'm still asking for a specific example/scenario/use-case to illustrate your point. You are talking in generalities. Take an example from a university grade tracking system or airline reservation system or something from everyday life to construct a specific scenario. Make a quick and dirty schema for your example, and walk through the scenario steps.
Whether that's true or not, I'm surprised The Donald is not talking MORE about this kind of thing, instead of trolling the parents of a fallen soldier. This should be right up his political alley.
It's like someone has cleared a path for him to the goal line, carefully handed him the football, but instead he goes off to beat up a cheerleader. #Idontgettit
In theory "lopsided" trade where one side cheats is still beneficial to the more-open partner.
But, it seems such formulas and simulations fail to account for or detect "emergent" side-effects, such as income inequality, and financial bubbles caused in part by one side building up cash from the imbalance. Bubbles still puzzle economic simulation experts.
The simulation may predict that average GDP increases, which may technically be accurate, but most of the increase is flowing to the top 1%, not regular folks. This excess power allows them to buy the political system, giving us crap like the Citizen's United ruling, which in terms gives them even MORE influence, risking a slippery slope into a full-blown plutocracy.
They can simulate consumer buying behavior to some extent, but so far not the related politics that affect everything in practice.
They are using spherical cows.