Disclaimer: I am a business analyst at an insurance company that uses Accenture policy administration software (I do production support).
I can see the value in a product like this. There's a lot of complexity in billing based on premium rating, fx rates, taxes in different states/countries, etc. that are constantly changing. Maintenance teams struggle to keep up with the requirement changes and there are a lot of weird defects and missed requirements that make their way into billing. It's taken as a given that our financial system will include mistakes that need occasional manual correction. So if the blockchain is going to emerge as the new industry standard ledger system, there needs to be a way to correct mistakes.
I imagine you're probably correct to some degree, since the existence of a supply chain enables American corporations to contract H-1Bs at all. But that isn't within the jurisdiction of the United States. The fact is that this is a problem for the US economy, and the US has to figure out what to do about it. Not to mention that your recommendation seems to imply that the US should either increase diplomatic relations (with, as you already mentioned, corrupt officials), or intervene in foreign nations' domestic affairs (doesn't the world hate us enough already?), neither of which are likely to have much success. And even if we could find a way to combat corruption and "empower voters," political empowerment in developing nations doesn't happen overnight, and this is a problem for the United States right now.
An intellectual by the name of Ice-T once said, "don't hate the player, hate the game."
The British and Israelis have to be looking at us as if we are epic cowards. Both have endured terrorist bombings like we do thunderstorms. Yet, they didn't turn into whining sniveling dogs, cowering to authority, handing over civil liberties for a hint of safety.
Have you been to either of these countries? Cameras litter the streets of Britain, many have claimed they are more of a police state than the U.S. is now. Israel has security checkpoints with metal detectors at shopping malls (I've been through them, and the guards aren't much more charming than TSA agents). Make no mistake, this isn't an American problem, this is a progression in Western society in general.
I'm not sure this is a fair statement to make. By pirating media you are boycotting the media companies; by not partaking in that media at all, you are boycotting both the media companies and the artists who perform the work. This is not to suggest that you are not hurting the artists by doing either; in both cases, lower revenue will hurt artists as much as the production companies (both directly and indirectly). But a boycott is a concept, and in that sense, the act of pirating media (for the media pirate in question) is a boycott of the payment, not the art which the payment is for.
Your analogy fails to acknowledge this distinction. An alternative would be if saying you are going to protest the ridiculous pricing of Mars bars by stealing the recipe and making them yourself. And in this way, you may hurt Mars all the same (well, slightly less so because they aren't out any manufactured goods at all) but you aren't saying anything negative about the food itself, just the pricing/corporate policies/etc.
I don't think that anyone debates how easy it is to steal a bunch of pamphlets. I think it's more about the price of losing a bunch of pamphlets versus losing a tablet.
I appreciate the idea of searching for extraterrestrial artifacts, but the moon does not seem a logical place for aliens to drop off their stuff. If anything, it seems far more likely that the earth would be such a place, seeing as it has life already (and has been far more active over the course of its history) so if it makes sense to search anywhere, it's here. I'm not sure what could really be accomplished by scouring the moon...
Honestly, I have no idea what you're talking about.
If you wanted to build a rig capable of playing Xbox 360 ports with graphics on-par with the console, you wouldn't need to spend more than $50 on a video card, if that. The whole computer would probably run you less than the Xbox 360, AND it would be capable of upgrades, not to mention a real operating system with real programs. If you really prefer the console controller, you can hook that up to your PC. If you really prefer playing on a TV, get a cheap HDMI cable, or place your PC by your TV.
Besides exclusive games (which is entirely a marketing issue), there is no reason to use a console, certainly one like the Xbox 360, over a PC.
When you're talking about books being phased out in a few generations, nitpicking about current OCR is irrelevant. OCR technology will improve, industrial design will improve, and it probably won't take more than a decade before all of the "kinks" are worked out of digital literature. And at that point, new generations will be born into it. I think it is a given that digital text will overtake print; it is merely a question of how long.
Okay, so they claim that the memory is denser than NAND, and cheap to boot. That's great. But TFA makes no mention of its performance. How does the read/write speed compare to that of NAND, or magnetic drives? Could the 3D architecture potentially slow read/write times? I'm not trying to make any claims here, but it's a little disconcerting that there is no mention of it at all within the article.
In fact Obama claimed to be for network neutrality so if hes changing his mind on an issue as critical is this, it's a shame he wont be re-elected because hes going to lose virtually all of the youth vote if he messes up on the internet.
You're assuming that most of the youth will actually realize that their rights are being taken away, or be in any way aware of how serious the situation is. It is unfortunate that many of the younger voters who flocked to Obama did so because of his celebrity status, because people want to be part of something big (first black president), etc. The youth vote went to Obama for many of the wrong reasons, and most of them won't notice the danger of losing network neutrality until it's too late. I'm a youth voter in a city that votes strongly dem.
I thought infrastructure support was supposed to be the job of tax dollars? And we would have to pay them even if we weren't connected to an energy grid.
Hey, come on now. No one RTFA anyways, so what difference does it make? They can link to a picture of goatse, and everyone would just be arguing about how great/bad of an idea it is.
Then why would they buy technology designed for a format that was largely funded and designed by Sony, especially when there's an alternative (HD-DVD)?
Well, it looks like we'll find out what the shareholders want soon enough. Since Microsoft doesn't look like they're taking no for an answer, my guess is that they're going to try and win the shareholders over without even bothering with Yahoo's board.
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Disclaimer: I am a business analyst at an insurance company that uses Accenture policy administration software (I do production support).
I can see the value in a product like this. There's a lot of complexity in billing based on premium rating, fx rates, taxes in different states/countries, etc. that are constantly changing. Maintenance teams struggle to keep up with the requirement changes and there are a lot of weird defects and missed requirements that make their way into billing. It's taken as a given that our financial system will include mistakes that need occasional manual correction. So if the blockchain is going to emerge as the new industry standard ledger system, there needs to be a way to correct mistakes.
Whoever wins, we lose.
I imagine you're probably correct to some degree, since the existence of a supply chain enables American corporations to contract H-1Bs at all. But that isn't within the jurisdiction of the United States. The fact is that this is a problem for the US economy, and the US has to figure out what to do about it. Not to mention that your recommendation seems to imply that the US should either increase diplomatic relations (with, as you already mentioned, corrupt officials), or intervene in foreign nations' domestic affairs (doesn't the world hate us enough already?), neither of which are likely to have much success. And even if we could find a way to combat corruption and "empower voters," political empowerment in developing nations doesn't happen overnight, and this is a problem for the United States right now.
An intellectual by the name of Ice-T once said, "don't hate the player, hate the game."
And half of the debate in Parliament is whether or not "Jewish" refers to an ethnic group or a religious group.
The British and Israelis have to be looking at us as if we are epic cowards. Both have endured terrorist bombings like we do thunderstorms. Yet, they didn't turn into whining sniveling dogs, cowering to authority, handing over civil liberties for a hint of safety.
Have you been to either of these countries? Cameras litter the streets of Britain, many have claimed they are more of a police state than the U.S. is now. Israel has security checkpoints with metal detectors at shopping malls (I've been through them, and the guards aren't much more charming than TSA agents). Make no mistake, this isn't an American problem, this is a progression in Western society in general.
I'm not sure this is a fair statement to make. By pirating media you are boycotting the media companies; by not partaking in that media at all, you are boycotting both the media companies and the artists who perform the work. This is not to suggest that you are not hurting the artists by doing either; in both cases, lower revenue will hurt artists as much as the production companies (both directly and indirectly). But a boycott is a concept, and in that sense, the act of pirating media (for the media pirate in question) is a boycott of the payment, not the art which the payment is for. Your analogy fails to acknowledge this distinction. An alternative would be if saying you are going to protest the ridiculous pricing of Mars bars by stealing the recipe and making them yourself. And in this way, you may hurt Mars all the same (well, slightly less so because they aren't out any manufactured goods at all) but you aren't saying anything negative about the food itself, just the pricing/corporate policies/etc.
I don't think that anyone debates how easy it is to steal a bunch of pamphlets. I think it's more about the price of losing a bunch of pamphlets versus losing a tablet.
I appreciate the idea of searching for extraterrestrial artifacts, but the moon does not seem a logical place for aliens to drop off their stuff. If anything, it seems far more likely that the earth would be such a place, seeing as it has life already (and has been far more active over the course of its history) so if it makes sense to search anywhere, it's here. I'm not sure what could really be accomplished by scouring the moon...
What are you talking about? There's no such thing as two.
Honestly, I have no idea what you're talking about. If you wanted to build a rig capable of playing Xbox 360 ports with graphics on-par with the console, you wouldn't need to spend more than $50 on a video card, if that. The whole computer would probably run you less than the Xbox 360, AND it would be capable of upgrades, not to mention a real operating system with real programs. If you really prefer the console controller, you can hook that up to your PC. If you really prefer playing on a TV, get a cheap HDMI cable, or place your PC by your TV. Besides exclusive games (which is entirely a marketing issue), there is no reason to use a console, certainly one like the Xbox 360, over a PC.
Wow, at that resolution, you can practically see back in time...
I'll hold out for the social enhancement chip. Could use some pheromones right about now...
When I saw the headline, I thought Apache was going to warn retailers about selling HP touchpads...
When you're talking about books being phased out in a few generations, nitpicking about current OCR is irrelevant. OCR technology will improve, industrial design will improve, and it probably won't take more than a decade before all of the "kinks" are worked out of digital literature. And at that point, new generations will be born into it. I think it is a given that digital text will overtake print; it is merely a question of how long.
Okay, so they claim that the memory is denser than NAND, and cheap to boot. That's great. But TFA makes no mention of its performance. How does the read/write speed compare to that of NAND, or magnetic drives? Could the 3D architecture potentially slow read/write times? I'm not trying to make any claims here, but it's a little disconcerting that there is no mention of it at all within the article.
In fact Obama claimed to be for network neutrality so if hes changing his mind on an issue as critical is this, it's a shame he wont be re-elected because hes going to lose virtually all of the youth vote if he messes up on the internet.
You're assuming that most of the youth will actually realize that their rights are being taken away, or be in any way aware of how serious the situation is. It is unfortunate that many of the younger voters who flocked to Obama did so because of his celebrity status, because people want to be part of something big (first black president), etc. The youth vote went to Obama for many of the wrong reasons, and most of them won't notice the danger of losing network neutrality until it's too late. I'm a youth voter in a city that votes strongly dem.
I thought infrastructure support was supposed to be the job of tax dollars? And we would have to pay them even if we weren't connected to an energy grid.
Hey, come on now. No one RTFA anyways, so what difference does it make? They can link to a picture of goatse, and everyone would just be arguing about how great/bad of an idea it is.
Well, if you think about it, that's essentially what bittorrent does -- and in response, they began to throttle it.
Then why would they buy technology designed for a format that was largely funded and designed by Sony, especially when there's an alternative (HD-DVD)?
Don't mod me down because you don't understand.
Well, it looks like we'll find out what the shareholders want soon enough. Since Microsoft doesn't look like they're taking no for an answer, my guess is that they're going to try and win the shareholders over without even bothering with Yahoo's board.
That's a silly thing to say. Ever seen some of the water you drink before it's been processed? That ice looks downright clean to me.
What does the Z mean?
Which Z?
All of them.
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