WettowelReactor

Having worked in starting up new communities anything that makes the prospect more "real" tends to work as you described for one portion of the population but is usually offset by a spike in withdraws as well. Once people are faced with a final commitment point the end result seems to trend words a small decline. How much of that applies to the car market I do not know,

Your argument hinges on the statement "The field will be used anyway." As people are not binary in their decision making. The arguments of others that partial demining will increase the likely hood of use and thus increase the risk of harm is completely valid.

Bruce Schneier address this very topic in his post on CYA security.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/cya_security_1...

Drug users and terrorist are wholly separate groups that need wholly separate approaches but to claim that drug users only harm themselves is just not true. That being said the War on Drugs seems to amplify the impact of drug use on society rather than minimize it but just leaving drug users alone is as failed a policy as leaving the terrorists alone.

Having used Google customer service as a paying customer I have never had an issue. Customer service on their free offerings is another story all together but what do you expect on that end anyways?

I believe the article is referring to 99% of small business ventures being outside tech and not referring to the income disparity of the recent referred to in the occupy movements.

They dont have enough heat to start fires generally. They are cold from their travel through space and the outer layer that does heat up on reentry tends to ablate leaving a core that is cold to warm on impact.

Given OSX install base that accounts for almost 2% of all devices infected. That seems rather serious to me.

We used an agency to buy are last car and the process couldn't be any easier. Not sure how much better we could have done on our own but we trust the agency we used and compared to prices we where seeing online it seems that we got a very good deal.

Thank you. This is the first time I have seen dividend explained in a matter that makes sense.

I wonder how much of the articles view is biased due to being a PMC. My experience in the actual army are more like cobrausn than the authors.

Having run several arms rooms in my day I find it hard to believe that weapons are being smuggled out. The accountability (down to the individual bullets) and multiple layers of oversight at all units are probably the only time I have seen government control done right.

The consumer and enterprise markets are still vastly different. For as strong as Apple is on the consumer side Microsoft is on the Enterprise side. Yes both are likely headed to convergence but if MS alienates its Enterprise market going after the consumer space it risks loosing its core strength.

IANAL but I do not believe you have to answer any questions about your travels as a citizen re-entering the country. It probably worth your while to avoid lengthy delays but they cant deny a U.S. citizen entry into the U.S.

Then instead of regulating wage and hours shouldn't we focus on providing affordable healthcare (including coverage for preexisting conditions). If healthcare is the barrier to fluidity on the supply side then this is where we should focus our efforts.

>What's the disadvantage in giving something like Bitlocker and UNIX to regular professional users?

>>The cost. These features cost money to develop and they cost money to support. Imagine if Microsoft was getting calls from everyone who enabled BitLocker and then forgot their password. Enterprise costs a lot more than Home Premium.

I dont know who is doing your purchasing but through volume licensing enterprise pay significantly less per cal than a home user could ever hope of getting. Also enterprise tend to purchase MS support but home users do not.

>MS's stock hasn't moved in the past decade.

>>That's a sign of a mature company. They rake in a lot of money. They're no longer "cool" but they're a steady source of a lot of income. And unlike Apple, they actually pay dividends on their stock. [1]

While gangbuster growth is not usually sustainable flat earnings are not a sign of maturity they are a sign of stagnation. Without growth (real or expected) dividends are required to keep share holders happy. Also I am not sure its clear cut that dividends in general are a great thing.

>(and they're not anymore)

>>I'd like to see some numbers on this, because every number I've seen shows Microsoft in the mid 90% range for computer install base.

This only takes into account the desktop market which is quickly becoming less relevant than the mobile market where MS has no dominance and little growth. Even in the desktop market the user experience is shifting away from the OS to the web, again not a dominant area for MS.

>If MS could stream easily, people wouldn't be buying Roku boxes, Boxee boxes, PS3's.

>>And where are people streaming from? Their PC, among other places. Because Vista and 7 have it built in, and XP has the feature as a download.

They are streaming mostly from the web not saved content.

>Why not just give Access away!

>>You would make a great businessman.

Is Access really the killer app from Office? I cant see the case. Outlook and Excel are still killer apps but charging for access, or at least not making it part of the most basic bundles like word is did not do MS any favors.

>If MS had simply given away SQL server licenses, Apache would have never taken off.

>>Because if there's one thing Apache servers are known for, it's SQL (wtf is this?)

Agreed here I am not sure what the OP was referring to unless he means the power of the LAMP stack. Had microsoft had a competing offering that was not under such expensive licensing it would have given them a big bost in server licenses.

>Why am I shown different deals if i'm a home user, a small business user, a medium size business user, or a larger business user?

>>Because home users buy one computer. Businesses buy dozens or hundreds.

But this segmentation does not work if everyone can see every deal. You can achieve similar results based on volume discounting or segmentation along less artificial lines. For example as a home user I do not care if the same modle of PC will be guaranteed available for a 3 year life cycle. As a business customer I am willing to pay extra for that.

>Why are my computing needs different if I'm a small

>>business user vs. a medium size business user? Business machines need to be stable, supported, and perform well for the task they do. Home computers tend to be less stable, less supported, easier to break, but above all closer to bleeding edge and cheaper.

Home PC tend to fall into bleeding edge or cheap but reliability and support are just as important too the two groups. Delivery of service is different but expectations are the same. At the end of the day these are the same components and are used by users at work and at home. The reason consumerization of IT is hitting business hard is because users no longer have a difference in expectations between what they can do at home and what they can do at work.

>Why is it such a struggle for me to order a machine with an SSD and 16GB RAM?

>>Because you can't figure out how to read? Your mouse is broken? Monitor is unplugged? I don't know, you tell me. Listen, complain all you want, but it makes sense from a business standpoint.

His point on 'What's the different between a "vostro" and an "optiplex"and an "inspiron" and an "xps"' is completely valid. What the hell do those mean and where do I even begin looking for what i want when these are the initial choice presented to me. To make matters worse I can configure near identical machines under these different lines but get vastly different prices. Now I need to configure my PC several different times and track that pricing to make an intelligent choice? That is insanity.

>>If you can't wrap your head what Microsoft is doing, just take a step back and realize that there are really only two options for Windows 7: Home and Professional. That's all you need to know.

And Microsofts marketing does a horrible job at making that clear. That is not a fault of the consumer.

I am curious why this is not a more popular option across the board. Free with AD's or pay for no ads and no tracking. I would gladly pay for some of the free services if I could get these options and wont even use them for free while the tracking is in place.

If the other party is armed and you are not then chances are your fate is sealed. Still a sudden violent attack when no option to escape is present is still likely the correct course of action. As Harris states in his early post(1) if they shoot you during the struggle (or escape attempt) they where likely going to shoot you anyways.

1. http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-truth-about-violence

You still need to defend yourself against the suits no matter how unjustified. That is not a free activity in terms of money or time.

Any network connected to the general internet (even NIPRnet) is not a highly secured network. Maybe highly regulated but sure as hell not secure.

Then it depends on what you destroyed. If the data is provenly destroyed there are limits to what you can be charged with. If what your hiding is worse this still maybe a viable option. If however the data is still recoverable with your cooperation I believe you could be jailed in contempt indefinitely (until you cooperate).

Technically true with one caveat. If you have a reasonable expectation of litigation you are required to put all data destruction on hold. Reasonable can be up to the court to decide and the burden of proving that you did put a litigation hold into place is yours to prove.

While the points you make are valid it is naive to believe that the FBI and other major government organizations are not political animals who will consider the political and PR impacts of such high profile raids. Like most things in life this is a very complicated issue with no black and white answers or clear division of sides.

I dont know why they do this for their client OS but for server OS you can get a free evaluation download of any server product and activate it with a purchased key, no muss no fuss. Also using the provided download manager I have never seen speed issues with these downloads. As far as phone activation, which we have to do for several sites without internet access, the process is a bit long but not nearly as tedious as described. I am admittedly against DRM but if anyone comes close to doing it right its Microsoft on their OS software.

Well seeing as we have different degrees of murder maybe we should have a sliding scale for stealing. While stealing physical content deprives the seller and the creator digital theft only impacts one party. Also since the majority of an items physical value comes from inflation from middle men the "value" of a digital item is probably considerably less as well.

If so this is exactly the kind of thing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was invented for.

I would be curious what your thoughts are on Murdoch and the News of the World scandal. In that case everyone seems to think that Murdoch new or should have known yet in this case Google execs get a pass?

Except that Paypal has only solved fraud from the consumer side. Policies like this leave the sellers ripe for fraud.

But you cannot ignore the fire in a crowded theater portion when it comes to politics. Unlike many other avenues in politics money = power. By having a consecrated few such as corporations or the RIAA against the populace you have a huge power imbalance. This allows those with the cash to effectively gag the competition preventing their speech which cannot be considered fair. Perhaps individuals should be allowed to do what they wish with their money but the individual rights granted to corporations has gone to far.

Sorry I misread your post. I just couldn't fathom a storage solution without hot swappable drives.