There's only a hand full of nations with the technical capability, much less the financial ability to launch something up that far. Most of them have a lot invested into the ISS. Blowing it up or something would be a tremendous waste. There's much easier ways to destroy a city.
Nah, that's not the case for me. 99% of the time it's across the LAN and isn't an account that has access to do anything but FTP to that particular server.
Okay, so I didn't see what your name was, but I was totally expecting your second paragraph to discuss the benefits of chiropractic care with respect to the immune system. Dr. Bob has trolled me one too many times.:(
IMHO Visual Studio is a great product. Really my favorite MSFT product and the only one I'll ever bother to talk about in a positive light. If they add additional language support and do a good job of it without pulling a J++ type deal then good on them.
I consider myself techy but I use FTP first if it's available. It's simple, I can do it with my eyes closed. I can SCP if necessary but frankly I find it a waste. If I needed to send files I considered really important (financial data or something) then I'd do something more secure than FTP. Appropriate tool for the job. Lowest common denominator task on a closed network? Use the lowest common denominator tool.
I don't go out of my way to protect the bank. All of my cards have a Visa/Mastercard/Amex logo on them, which means all the liability is on the issuing banks, not on me. If someone robs the bank (via my credit/debit card) it's no skin off my back and a phone call + signature is all it takes to get it off my statements.
Page load time is incredibly important. Google, for example, has spent millions upon millions of dollars putting servers closer to users so they can knock milliseconds off the page load times. The difference is usually imperceptible to the conscious mind but does have a tendency to bring users back. Also, IMHO we're just now seeing the building blocks for full fledged 3d gaming and other "enterprise" applications running in the browser (Docs hardly counts).
I was assuming the cost of running the schools this year is the same as last year (with minor adjustments for inflation), but that economic circumstances meant that a lower level of economic activity meant less sales tax was collected, and lower property values meant less property taxes were collected, etc. If the cost of running the fire department and police remain a constant but the level of economic activity goes down then the % at which economic activity is taxed must go up, even if only temporarily while over-all revenues are low. I'm also assuming that the vast majority of citizens want the schools to remain open (even if they're uninterested in paying the cost). It doesn't take an ideologue to support raising taxes. I supported raising taxes when we went to a war I disagreed with. I didn't support going, but if we're going to go let's at least make some attempt to pay for it.
Yes, I'm familiar that taxes are a % of the income/sales/etc. going on in the area. If total economic activity goes down but the cost to running the police, fire department, schools, etc. remain constant then the % must go up.
The $100k salaries are a myth in most of the country, but the pensions are usually pretty generous. At the same time, that $30k/yr as an hourly wage isn't bad when you consider the hours. Young teachers spend a lot of hours building lesson plans and such while more experienced teachers have a "full tool set" to deal with just about any type of student/lesson for their subject area. This is pretty similar to what other professions experience.
Education majors have among the lowest entrance requirements of any degree. I'm sorry, but a MA in underwater basket weaving won't earn you big bucks either.
Your first mistake is thinking that the public education system in this country is broken. Consider this your "there is no spoon" moment. The public education system does exactly what it is intended to do and will not be changed until the market demands it.
I'm interested, if anyone knows, whether voters were given the option of raising taxes in the most recent elections there to avoid this issue. My guess is that raising taxes wasn't something that had a chance of passing. People are pretty short-sighted.
It really stinks for the childcare industry as well, it's hard to have staff to handle a huge amount of business for one day per week.
That's weird, I'm reading e-mail off our Exchange server on my Evo 4G as we speak. Never had a problem with it. I'm not sure about disk encryption but it certainly has remote wipe and all the other nonsense our IS department needs.
I'm not trying to weigh in on either side here.. but I'm having a hard time understanding why a phone manufacturer would care about their hardware drivers. I know, for example, video card manufacturers will sometimes use the same chipset on high and mid-tier products and make the "switch" in the software. I don't really see much use for that sort of thing in the phone world since the lifecycle for phones is so short. Re-imaging a phone might extend its life, which could be bad for the phone manufacturers but without official support you're really only going to have fringe users doing that sort of thing. Does anyone have any insight as to why a Motorola, HTC, etc. would care about open sourcing their phone drivers (aside from standard corporate managerial fear of the unknown)?
There's no benefit for hardware manufacturers to support new software. They can't charge you for the new version of the OS but they can charge you for the next version of the hardware.
It's that companies are being bought not for their product, or customer base, or innovations, or capabilities.. but effectively for legal ammo to sue the shit out of other companies/protect themselves from being sued.
Technically that legal ammo you're talking about *is* the innovations. At least in this case the innovations/patents are for actual hardware rather than mathematical formulas.
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There's only a hand full of nations with the technical capability, much less the financial ability to launch something up that far. Most of them have a lot invested into the ISS. Blowing it up or something would be a tremendous waste. There's much easier ways to destroy a city.
Had it been licensed under the gpl, all the child implementations wouldn't have been based off the BSD version.
Nah, that's not the case for me. 99% of the time it's across the LAN and isn't an account that has access to do anything but FTP to that particular server.
Okay, so I didn't see what your name was, but I was totally expecting your second paragraph to discuss the benefits of chiropractic care with respect to the immune system. Dr. Bob has trolled me one too many times. :(
IMHO Visual Studio is a great product. Really my favorite MSFT product and the only one I'll ever bother to talk about in a positive light. If they add additional language support and do a good job of it without pulling a J++ type deal then good on them.
I consider myself techy but I use FTP first if it's available. It's simple, I can do it with my eyes closed. I can SCP if necessary but frankly I find it a waste. If I needed to send files I considered really important (financial data or something) then I'd do something more secure than FTP. Appropriate tool for the job. Lowest common denominator task on a closed network? Use the lowest common denominator tool.
I don't go out of my way to protect the bank. All of my cards have a Visa/Mastercard/Amex logo on them, which means all the liability is on the issuing banks, not on me. If someone robs the bank (via my credit/debit card) it's no skin off my back and a phone call + signature is all it takes to get it off my statements.
Page load time is incredibly important. Google, for example, has spent millions upon millions of dollars putting servers closer to users so they can knock milliseconds off the page load times. The difference is usually imperceptible to the conscious mind but does have a tendency to bring users back. Also, IMHO we're just now seeing the building blocks for full fledged 3d gaming and other "enterprise" applications running in the browser (Docs hardly counts).
I was assuming the cost of running the schools this year is the same as last year (with minor adjustments for inflation), but that economic circumstances meant that a lower level of economic activity meant less sales tax was collected, and lower property values meant less property taxes were collected, etc. If the cost of running the fire department and police remain a constant but the level of economic activity goes down then the % at which economic activity is taxed must go up, even if only temporarily while over-all revenues are low. I'm also assuming that the vast majority of citizens want the schools to remain open (even if they're uninterested in paying the cost). It doesn't take an ideologue to support raising taxes. I supported raising taxes when we went to a war I disagreed with. I didn't support going, but if we're going to go let's at least make some attempt to pay for it.
Yes, I'm familiar that taxes are a % of the income/sales/etc. going on in the area. If total economic activity goes down but the cost to running the police, fire department, schools, etc. remain constant then the % must go up.
The joke is that when my grandfather was my age the iPad hadn't been invented.
The $100k salaries are a myth in most of the country, but the pensions are usually pretty generous. At the same time, that $30k/yr as an hourly wage isn't bad when you consider the hours. Young teachers spend a lot of hours building lesson plans and such while more experienced teachers have a "full tool set" to deal with just about any type of student/lesson for their subject area. This is pretty similar to what other professions experience.
Education majors have among the lowest entrance requirements of any degree. I'm sorry, but a MA in underwater basket weaving won't earn you big bucks either.
Your first mistake is thinking that the public education system in this country is broken. Consider this your "there is no spoon" moment. The public education system does exactly what it is intended to do and will not be changed until the market demands it.
When my grandfather was my age he didn't have an iPad. Therefore I'm a spoiled brat who expects everything to be handed to me on a silver platter.
I'm interested, if anyone knows, whether voters were given the option of raising taxes in the most recent elections there to avoid this issue. My guess is that raising taxes wasn't something that had a chance of passing. People are pretty short-sighted.
It really stinks for the childcare industry as well, it's hard to have staff to handle a huge amount of business for one day per week.
Google is a manufacturer in the same sense that Dell is a manufacturer. Dell is one of the 3 companies that manufacture more servers than Google. I don't think Google is manufacturing their own processors, memory, or hard disks either. They all find vendors for that stuff. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/technology/03google.html?ei=5088&en=11ad7f241098c6e2&ex=1309579200&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1151888719-NxrsEO+IzRvSa28feeFzfw&pagewanted=all&pagewanted=all
It is clear: Google wants to get into the hardware business.
Correction. Google is already in the hardware business. They are the world's 4th largest server manufacturer.
That's weird, I'm reading e-mail off our Exchange server on my Evo 4G as we speak. Never had a problem with it. I'm not sure about disk encryption but it certainly has remote wipe and all the other nonsense our IS department needs.
I'm still in my 20s, so while I'm sure it's a little of both I would lean more towards the nature of the job. And of course, anecdote != data.
I'm not trying to weigh in on either side here.. but I'm having a hard time understanding why a phone manufacturer would care about their hardware drivers. I know, for example, video card manufacturers will sometimes use the same chipset on high and mid-tier products and make the "switch" in the software. I don't really see much use for that sort of thing in the phone world since the lifecycle for phones is so short. Re-imaging a phone might extend its life, which could be bad for the phone manufacturers but without official support you're really only going to have fringe users doing that sort of thing. Does anyone have any insight as to why a Motorola, HTC, etc. would care about open sourcing their phone drivers (aside from standard corporate managerial fear of the unknown)?
There's no benefit for hardware manufacturers to support new software. They can't charge you for the new version of the OS but they can charge you for the next version of the hardware.
The patents are the only thing of value to Google. They don't need a hardware company and they probably shouldn't be in the hardware business.
Google is the world's 4th largest manufacturer of servers. They are already very much in the hardware business.
That's true. I hadn't considered that. Google is the 2nd or 3rd largest manufacturer of server hardware in the world.
It's that companies are being bought not for their product, or customer base, or innovations, or capabilities.. but effectively for legal ammo to sue the shit out of other companies/protect themselves from being sued.
Technically that legal ammo you're talking about *is* the innovations. At least in this case the innovations/patents are for actual hardware rather than mathematical formulas.