In most medium+ organizations the hel dek woul have nothing to do with stability or downtime. Resolutions would not be any better than resolution time. First call resolution are tracked a lot. They are also subject to eBay manipulation. There are not any help desk metrics not subject to what is discussed in the article.
The view is cynical. Unfortunately, it is also accurate.
As I just stated previously, there is a huge reason. The land was earning thousands a year in Tax revenue before and now it is earning millions. They are not giving away money, they are simply providing a discounted tax rate. Try to understand what you are reading, it will help your arguments become sound.
Most of the core dow components pay dividends , which keep their stock prices stable. Being in the same place for dividend paying stocks is perfectly ok. For non-dividend growth stocks like Apple it would be troubling. Apple is no where near its price twelve years ago. (Apple was trading around $27 a share in 2000)
People on reedit must be a collective bunch of morons. With the 6.25% return you described the principal would double in 11.43 years, not in 40. In four decades your $80,000 would be worth $904,000.
You talk about the magic of compound interest but don't seem to understand it applies to all reinvested returns. Your scenario is only true if you take the $5,000 a year and hide it under your mattress.
Not sure why you would believe Clark Howard is any more insightful than anyone else. He hosts a mildly interesting radio show and occasionally offers good advice. He does not have some monopoly and financial knowledge.
It is actually undeniably good. All of those middlemen were inefficient and should find better things to do with their time. It is silly to try and argue we would be better off with film and CDs because it would create more jobs.
* The ability to effectively address more than 4GB of ram actually impacts a lot of end users here in 2011 (Particularly engineers and scientists). * Sending client facing staff into the field with Windows XP is embarrassing. It is bad for business and can cause a lot of legitimate concern about how technology savvy your company is. * Office 2010 is a required upgrade for anyone you put on 2007 because 2007 remains completely unstable. * CYGWIN supports actual portable scripting and Powershell is an MS centric hack to try and keep sysadmin skills from being portable. There is no comparison. Powershell is good, but it is no Cygwin, not even close. * Windows 7 is more secure. Period. End of story.
If the business is not providing the funds to upgrade from XP, than IT management is a complete failure. They should be able to easily make an effective business case. Even people with a 5-year hardware upgrade cycle are rapidly leaving XP behind. (Only their oldest machines required a hardware upgrade to support 7). Anyone who is still deploying machines with XP today should be concerned about their jobs when senior management realizes how ineffective they are.
The ASU page you linked lists 10s of millions of dollars of NSF grants. I think it is ago if a private individual wants to grant money to a school to do the same thing.
Your post indicates you did not even bother to read the slash dot summary. If you had, you would realize this grant is about doing, not telling. It has nothing at all to do with lecture videos.
YEs they do require the same activation, you just don't notice because despite what you may think no carrier has sold even half that many of any Android phones in a day...One did reach about half in a weekend though. Not sure why you think the carrier doesn't have to activate Android phones.
Just install iTunes does not require a reboot. If you installed the 10.7.2 update at the same time , that requires a reboot. I updated iTunes alone last night and no reboot was required.
It took me a total of 21 minutes to download the update for my iPhone, iPad and the 10.7.2 update for OSX. I am on a really crappy hotel system. iCloud servers are working great to. If the download are slow you should make sure you are not using google's 8.8.8.8 for DNS, this has been known to screw up whatever CDN Apple is using.
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I don't know. When Android actually becomes decent and stable, perhaps we will say the same thing about it? Perhaps when Android becomes somethign people desire to have on their phones, we will same the same thing about it. Why do the Android phones all have such crappy screens? Why did it take years to get Netflix on Android after it was on iPhone? Why does Android only have about 5% of the games available that iOS does? Why do most Android phones have a talk time of 2 hours? Why does the back button on Android have a completely random behavior? Why does that behavior change depending n who you buy your damn phone from?
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Why did you enjoy that. There is nothing about it that is funny or unclear...
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After iOS5 is installed updates will be incremental and over-the-air, so the answer to your question is no, not tomorrow.
Ironic that most people doing meaningful work in free software will be glad when RS is gone. Stallman is one of the most negative forces on computing in general and free software in particular.
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In most medium+ organizations the hel dek woul have nothing to do with stability or downtime. Resolutions would not be any better than resolution time. First call resolution are tracked a lot. They are also subject to eBay manipulation. There are not any help desk metrics not subject to what is discussed in the article.
The view is cynical. Unfortunately, it is also accurate.
You think? Your wrong.
As I just stated previously, there is a huge reason. The land was earning thousands a year in Tax revenue before and now it is earning millions. They are not giving away money, they are simply providing a discounted tax rate. Try to understand what you are reading, it will help your arguments become sound.
Even at incentive tax rates, they generate far more property tax revenue than empty grassland.
Most of the core dow components pay dividends , which keep their stock prices stable. Being in the same place for dividend paying stocks is perfectly ok. For non-dividend growth stocks like Apple it would be troubling. Apple is no where near its price twelve years ago. (Apple was trading around $27 a share in 2000)
People on reedit must be a collective bunch of morons. With the 6.25% return you described the principal would double in 11.43 years, not in 40. In four decades your $80,000 would be worth $904,000.
You talk about the magic of compound interest but don't seem to understand it applies to all reinvested returns. Your scenario is only true if you take the $5,000 a year and hide it under your mattress.
Not sure why you would believe Clark Howard is any more insightful than anyone else. He hosts a mildly interesting radio show and occasionally offers good advice. He does not have some monopoly and financial knowledge.
It is actually undeniably good. All of those middlemen were inefficient and should find better things to do with their time. It is silly to try and argue we would be better off with film and CDs because it would create more jobs.
Even restaurant suppliers like Sysco are fairly massive companies.
Apple never claimed to be building data centers as a jobs program....
* The ability to effectively address more than 4GB of ram actually impacts a lot of end users here in 2011 (Particularly engineers and scientists).
* Sending client facing staff into the field with Windows XP is embarrassing. It is bad for business and can cause a lot of legitimate concern about how technology savvy your company is.
* Office 2010 is a required upgrade for anyone you put on 2007 because 2007 remains completely unstable.
* CYGWIN supports actual portable scripting and Powershell is an MS centric hack to try and keep sysadmin skills from being portable. There is no comparison. Powershell is good, but it is no Cygwin, not even close.
* Windows 7 is more secure. Period. End of story.
If the business is not providing the funds to upgrade from XP, than IT management is a complete failure. They should be able to easily make an effective business case. Even people with a 5-year hardware upgrade cycle are rapidly leaving XP behind. (Only their oldest machines required a hardware upgrade to support 7). Anyone who is still deploying machines with XP today should be concerned about their jobs when senior management realizes how ineffective they are.
The ASU page you linked lists 10s of millions of dollars of NSF grants. I think it is ago if a private individual wants to grant money to a school to do the same thing.
Your post indicates you did not even bother to read the slash dot summary. If you had, you would realize this grant is about doing, not telling. It has nothing at all to do with lecture videos.
They may mean you are using a word in an unusual way. In that case, you should only use quotes the first time.
Actually they will get deferments if they are unemployed.
How to ruin your $99 tablet.
Why would you want to shit up a perfectly capable device with Android?
YEs they do require the same activation, you just don't notice because despite what you may think no carrier has sold even half that many of any Android phones in a day...One did reach about half in a weekend though. Not sure why you think the carrier doesn't have to activate Android phones.
No matter how you feel about patents, Apple, or Samsung, this is funny.
Just install iTunes does not require a reboot. If you installed the 10.7.2 update at the same time , that requires a reboot. I updated iTunes alone last night and no reboot was required.
It appears to be iRequired. Also a bit iAnnoying.
It took me a total of 21 minutes to download the update for my iPhone, iPad and the 10.7.2 update for OSX. I am on a really crappy hotel system. iCloud servers are working great to. If the download are slow you should make sure you are not using google's 8.8.8.8 for DNS, this has been known to screw up whatever CDN Apple is using.
I don't know. When Android actually becomes decent and stable, perhaps we will say the same thing about it? Perhaps when Android becomes somethign people desire to have on their phones, we will same the same thing about it. Why do the Android phones all have such crappy screens? Why did it take years to get Netflix on Android after it was on iPhone? Why does Android only have about 5% of the games available that iOS does? Why do most Android phones have a talk time of 2 hours? Why does the back button on Android have a completely random behavior? Why does that behavior change depending n who you buy your damn phone from?
Why did you enjoy that. There is nothing about it that is funny or unclear...
After iOS5 is installed updates will be incremental and over-the-air, so the answer to your question is no, not tomorrow.
That was so blatantly false it was comical. Sometimes you have to wonder if anyone reads the submissions.
Ironic that most people doing meaningful work in free software will be glad when RS is gone. Stallman is one of the most negative forces on computing in general and free software in particular.