Comment Can't avoid it (Score 1) 365
How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon
That's a pipe dream, especially if there's a large asteroid in a direct collision course with the Earth (hint: we will be scrambling).
How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon
That's a pipe dream, especially if there's a large asteroid in a direct collision course with the Earth (hint: we will be scrambling).
you're right on the 1st part,
But the agency is not a customer of Google. Just that a free Internet is what it is....
There's a saying in the spy business: if I can see you, you can see me (intel 101).
Google is spinning PR that the problem is the gov't agencies and not their, nor the Internet companies, entire business model.
One does have to ask: do we blame the playas.... or the game?
Funny they, like that other two companies doing some sort of space mining, they advertise the brains of the operation vs the tech....like an old established corporation. And each site is like a resume platform--where's the concept art, approach, tech, overviews, schedule? Just cheesy high level art work.
The tech is what going to get you there, like there's competition to steal it.. yeah right. Come on it's rocket science, we know it hard to reproduce.
I just feel a bit weird (Vegas announcement, TFA sources FoxNews?), maybe more embrassed as some of those brain are from my Alma Mater, JHU-APL...
why it's called the Emerald City.
It's a marketing excerise.
Considering SpaceX has hired a lot of ex-NASA/JPL folks and aerospace experts and that to make the custom-ground up built rockets cheap, Musk has heavily invested his own dollar bills. SpaceX is in the red currently and if they can market the heck out their rockets to Wall Street (for funding) and undercut everyone, hopefully timing will allow them to get into the black.
They do great work, but either SpaceX will survive as much as OSC did in the 90's (they did well to start subcompanies) or they will flame out hard from debt.
And note both use Oracle RDBMS,11g AS and OID....
"recently only works so much better because..."
because the domain experts of the system now know what it should do. You're only a domain expert by experience, not by taking a class.
When you do stuff complicated by human factors (aka diverse user base, laws, regs and legacy systems) and not physics for the 1st time, it's always bound to fail on some major items. Nothing new here. Facebook had launch issues in the past, same as Google... also remember Apple Maps fail or even the days when good'ole fail-whale was incredibly frequent?
The obamacare site failed because of the deadline imposed indirectly on it... that the law require everyone sign up before Dec. The Republicans just stuck their finger in the wound to make it sound way bigger than the real problem, which Obama knew was a mistake on his part. This failure is not the tech, but the poor clarification of requirements. And guess what? Healthcare systems are piss-poor in use cases and design from the get go.
I seriously doubt Google, Amazon, a bunch of smart ass college whiz kids or the such would have done better within the same man-hours used. Of course college kids could have done better, but would have worked twice, maybe 3x as many hours to get to this point.
3 main CXX's left the company near the same time. CEO has been replaced.
LIRC, the company is still running (though in bad shape). This is proof positive: CXX's are not critical to a company, but we sure pay them like they are.
If the $2 billion offer was 75% cash and 25% options and the $5billion offer was 25% cash and 75% options, the $2bil offer may have been better. Especially if the options tank. That's the risk I guess.
Heck, $1bil is nothing to laugh at anyway. 10000x more than my salary.
Also I find grading on a curve hides the fact that it's likely a bad/ignorant professor.
I typically had lots of professors conduct lectures with either note inconsistently or with simple general case demonstrations/examples, then assigns you a poorly written text book (favor for some PhD friend?), and gives you problems that are so difficult, everyone, and I mean everyone gets it wrong: the highest score is like 33% out 100%. And then grade under a curve, so everyone gets A,B,C's and looks "fair". As an advanced Physicist, I remember 1 question final exams that took 3 hours to solve and again, the highest grade was 40/100. Throw it in a curve and viola, looks fair, but everyone ends up very frustrated and no one learns anything!
Boy, it sure builds character, but does show how bad the professor has prepare his class to tackle the problem--he didn't basically. I means I'm sure I was in a class with bright folks, but there is such thing as proper prep to be able to get 50% or more...
Heck, Facebook easily saw that "opportunity" and wrapped it in a nice exclusivity wrapper to make you feel important.
And 75% of the population eat it up. In wholesale....
I guess democratic gov't does reflect the people it governs. No news here folks.
As I have said before, information doesn't want to be free, it wants to be exploited. 'Free' (as in beer) and 'private' are just aspects of exploitation folks.
Why download a 4GB HD file and have to store, let it sit there for years when you can stream it and forget about it after 'consuming it'. As for youtube videos, no one wants to hold on to that stuff--it's short term memory videos anyway and google stores it for free....
Sure you can take that BT file and store in your cloud, but LIRC lots of cloud storage costs money (since the free account limit you at what, 5GB?).
What's killing P2P file sharing is not the offerings (though the netflix, youtube), but the content sizes and streaming. People aren't thinking about distributed backups and availability.
Yep, why ask for info: if that store has a CCTV (to see you and your parked car on their lot), stores their money in a safe or bank (can count serial #'s on bills). And keeps receipts (id-ing what you bought)...
The world of opt-in/opt-out is coming to close folks and becoming a more tactical situation. Even if you opt-out, I'll eventually have the ability to single you out and then make up a profile of you using public info...the systems are that good nowadays.
Just live in group housing, and share mail (unrealistic?)...
ruthlessly funny and keenly self-aware sendup of right-wing militarism
OK, with co-ed showers, military love triangles, a women of color running the planet, and old guys (the washed up training sergeant come private) saving the day... Now that's the kind of right wing conservatism we need compared to current attitudes. Then again the movie showed we had smarts to fly in large space ships, but still fight with cheap lead bullets and armor?
Only one good thing about the movie was the CGI... come on guys, that was pretty cutting edge at the time.
Sure they built it in 4 months...
But likely spent the last 9 years figuring out why SAP was bad. Hence they knew what they wanted (by now)... Hire some good s/w developers and voila... you'll have a better system from the get-go. That's business systems 101: it's all about domain knowledge. Sure they built it in 4 months, but I see it took them 8.6 years to create it... by understanding why the SAP solution sucked and the experience on what worked and what didn't.
If they started from scratch with no SAP experience.... well I'm sure we'd see a different story. The same story as Oracle, MS, HP, IBM, and SAP (i.e. their in-house systems suck big time).
Now some new MBA graduate will disagree: now new systems can be built in 4 months, muck did it... then again...
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
