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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I would assume it wouldn't. The key to this decision is the fact that Azure is clearly in trouble. Almost no one uses it including .Net developers (I have to assume Microsoft was counting on their support right off the bat). That's key be
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Because having a job at Foxconn is the equivalent of being rich there. You have air conditioning and in door plumbing. Foxconn workers make 2,000 renminbi (after Foxconn doubled their salary to stop the suicides). That's 3 times what a n
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Moral rarity how. What has he done that has been so moral exactly? Other than banning porn (which isn't inherently moral) I can't think of anything. Second there is a big difference between calling people "dumb f*cks" and forcing your chi
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Sorry I meant 1,000 there. But my typo doesn't invalidate the point. The total suicide rate includes the elderly, the painfully poor, and so on. Foxconn workers by virtue of having a job at all are in the higher ranks of society. They s
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
On the other claims are you capable of using Google? If you had the time to post this you should have the time to verify the data for your own piece of mind. As far as Foxconn the company is huge but 30 suicide attempts in 3 weeks is not n
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Would this be the same CEO that would fire people if they couldn't justify their job in an elevator ride? Or the Steve Jobs who denied his daughter's existence until it was painfully clear she was his (going so far as to force her mother o
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Not so much video games as news sites like TMZ, MLB.com and so on. Definitely not work related but that's sort of the point. They won't install the TMZ or MLB app on their iPad because they don't want to get in trouble but they can't acce
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
As someone who runs an IT department and has tested these things pretty extensively this article is uninformed. To address his points... On Resentment: No IT department in their right mind acts because "users might resent us if we don't"
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Did you read my comment? Because you certainly didn't respond to it. My argument in regards to Prop 13 and taxes was "if it's so hard to raise taxes to an acceptable level why are we already the 9th highest taxed state (I mistyped 5th)".
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
1) Actually I was wrong in that I meant to type 9 instead of 5 (I didn't reach high enough on my number pad). I got the number from here: http://www.statemaster.com/graph/eco_tot_tax_bur-total-tax-b... 2) The Economist calls itself a "Cl
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I'm not a fan of direct democracy but this article isn't factually based. Notice they only give one specific example. That one example is Prop 13 which limited the amount of taxes that could be put on property and required a two-thirds ma
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
That doesn't contradict anything I said. My whole point was the government will have to impose hardships on the private sector once the amount of debt gets too large to otherwise service. At which point people will start leaving.
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
These numbers are dubious: http://tomstechblog.com/post/Blackberry-Playbook-Selling-Wel...
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
My understanding, and I could be wrong because I don't know the percentages, has always been that research done on energy and medicine is primarily done by Universities with government grants. Don't get me wrong. I don't deny there are jo
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
This is willful blindness masquerading as well thought out analysis. The assertions here would be true if we had a system that said people who lived in the United States when the United States ran up these crazy debts are still responsible
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Academia is NOT notorius for low salaries. Your average Professor makes $108,000 per year plus generous benefits and a lifetime pension (think about that one because it means they don't have to save for their retirement which adds a lot to
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
What he fails to mention is that a lot of his salary statistics are self-supporting. If you have a doctorate than your primary source of employment is the education system. So it feeds back onto itself. You have people paying outrageous fe
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Well HTTPS wouldn't have prevented that. In the AOL case the company at the other end of the connection released the information. I guess someone in a sensitive position (e.g. someone with access to the routers at a major ISP) could interc
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'm sorry but I just don't believe that. I'm not calling you a liar since you (or I) could have heard wrong but the simple fact is there's too many ways for a software program to mine data for the Military not to at least look at the sourc
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'm saying we don't spend enough given the tasks they have been assigned. If the President (whoever he might be) wants to be the World's Police Man than we need to spend accordingly and that's not what's happening now. What's happening now
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I said "start wars" so saying Obama campaigned on escalating Afghanistan doesn't really discredit that. As far as the cuts I wasn't taking a side either way. I'm not a conservative or a tea party activist (in fact I think it's foolish to
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
With all due respect to Military GPS (which is more accurate than Consumer GPS) it can't identify friendly combatants from unfriendly ones on the ground (and again they have IFF for that). As far as air strikes they're only called in if you
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
It depends what you mean by that. The military requires companies hand over their source code for security reasons anyway. So even Windows is open source to the Military (though in fairness it's also available to other select partners).
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
A cell. phone is not going to prevent friendly fire. The military already has extensive technology for this (Google "Identification Friend or Foe"). More to the point if you've ever been in a live fire situation you realize fairly quickly
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
My only problem with this article is it frames it in consumer terms which obscures the point. The military would never use iOS because the Military demands complete obedience from their contractors and Apple would never give them that. Wha
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
First, No, we really don't spend enough on the Military. If you want to spend less money on the Military try voting for Presidents who don't start wars (though since you seem like a liberal you probably thought you were doing that last tim
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Blackberry Playbook Selling Well After All? Not So Fast…(tomstechblog.com)
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
One point I would make is that being a Linux developer is harder than being a Windows developer. Giving Developers neat new tools to expedite development is something Microsoft does well. So while the figure about them being paid more is p
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
As someone who has worked with Windows or Supervised people who worked with Windows for most of the last decade I can confirm this type of behavior. What I've noticed about Windows is that certain bugs just seem to linger. I can list about
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Can we be real here? If they were to downgrade the U.S. credit rating they'd be shooting themselves in the foot. Because the dollar would plummet and the dollar is still the world's reserve currency. And as the article itself says... "One

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