I would say so, except that our system, has made vocational schooling a joke, where lazy dump people who can pass college go. Most people who go to school is because they need an advantage in the market. I was programming professionally while I was in high school, but I went to college because I knew the system wouldn't allow me to advance without a college degree. Then later I got to the point where work wouldn't respect my business decision so I got an MBA to force a degree of respect. It would be great if people who went to collage for a real education, however for most people it a licences to get paid more then minimum wage. If you want college to be for the pure education and learning, we need respectable vocational training for many professional activities.
Social Reform Issues tend to be counter democratic in nature. When there is a minority group that needs more protection, you need a powerful group to push these changes, as the majority sees the plight of the minority as not effecting them or worse their plight is in the majority self interest. But before you go So you think Social Reform is Anti-American, you need to remember the United States is a Democratic Republic, We are not a pure democracy, We elect Representative to make the decisions for us, and if we get good ones we get someone(s) willing to risk political backlash to do the right thing as they can see a bigger picture of the issue.
We need companies, they make a lot of these tough decisions a little more easier because they can break down such decisions into dollars and cents.
No, Here is the real trick... Keep the ship there, Gut out the insides, and rebuild the floors so they are level, and make a specialty hotel out of it.
I think technically HDMI includes digital sound too. Which allow for better integration with a computer to TV and try to resolve the issue of way to many video options.
We have a bunch of ways to connect your device to a Montior/TV however lately because there are so many options most computers/devices costs and size are going toward supporting different ports. VGA and DVI are one of the bigger slot fillers, compared to the smaller HDMI, Which also does Audio too. The issue you are having with HDMI is probably more towards bad drivers then the actual connection itself (I am willing to guess most PC's with HDMI are configured to use VGA/DVI as the primary then there is some secondary code to use HDMI).
There is discussion the HDMI will stop the analog hole however I don't see that as too relevant. Because even though the data transmission may be encrypted, over HDMI. For the most part the hacks to get the data is done on the PC or at least you can always hack your hardware (say unplug your monitor off your laptop and plug in the connection into a recorder. Because the data will need to be decrypted before it hits the display.Those wires that gives the electrical contact to those millions of pixels to show the display cannot be encrypted, and really isn't that far past human comprehension, to reverse engineer say an LCD display to record the data stream onto a storage device.
Also it is apparently better to keep the fact one is racist private, vs. letting them be public about it, so everyone knows that they are racists.
Granted if a minority can see that there are more people with the same idea the concept grows and puts more weight behind it. However in the same breath if you try to censor people for having an unpopular belief it just gives them extra reason to be angrier, and get more hateful.
If a person is a bad person, I would like to know that they are bad, and they should feel free to discuss their evils. That way I know to avoid them.
What I find more threatening is there are so many people with these thoughts and feeling but are keeping quite about it allowing to increase the chances to put them and some other innocent victim together where it could get out of hand.
Most Companies do not like to get political in front of their customers. They normally see it as a way to instantly alienate a good percentage of their customer base. Wikipedia main goal was to keep its site to be neutral and objective. Google who gets a lot of heat from the Right already. To go an protest a bill publicly could have/may have severity backfired on them.
For the SOPA bill it is about these peoples bottom line. If there are too tight controls then they cannot operate. You need to remember companies like Google Wikipedia and even Wired give a lot of service for Free, that means they are keeping costs under a tight control. Bills like this will make operations more expensive for them. Just as we protest bills and ideas that normally work against our own public interests, companies do the same.
Space Junk No... I plan to make a satellite that will broadcast on all channels the Old 1990's version of Hamster Dance. Because I am doing it from space, there are no laws against it! If you call that junk, then you are probably quite sane and rational. But where is the fun in that.
That isn't that bad of an idea. Say facebook, you setup a special joint account that temporary merges all your data together. And your friends and their friends are combined. Then when/if you breakup the data can dis-join
Usually I am the one taking the picture and posting it on facebook under my account just for my wife to take it and put it on hers so her friends and see the same pictures my friends do...
I do not let her to use my accounts though, nor do I use hers, but because we do things together it would be nice to have a joint account that can be separated if need be.
Bah. When I was a Teen, and I shared my Password as a form of intimacy I would have gotten a response at best "Your such a Nerd!" (Back then a Nerd wasn't good) at worse she would walk away from you, and place a restraining order on you because you were just too weird.
I was an out cast partially because I had an Internet account of my own, with Email. When I explained why I liked it they just looked at me if I was from outer space.
Oddly enough By my Sr. Year things started to change and the Internet stated to become cool, as well I started to become a little more popular, but by that time I was use to being unpopular and I didn't welcome this new popularity.
The problem is not as much of believing in Global Warming or Climate Change, but the degree that it is happening, we get "Science" every day saying it is far worse then we expected or far better then we expected. There are Self Proclaimed Environmentalists who spew out half science to the public who in term get confused by all the information getting passed around, so they will naturally get defensive and just say, It must not be real because all the data I got doesn't make a logical conclusion. Also the fact that there is a really poor job trying to explain the difference between Global Warming vs Local Weather. So you get a very cold winter when everyone is saying Global Warming you are not going to make a correlation.
I think a big part of the problem is the bulk of fear mongering. The way a lot of this material is presented is to say "You are Bad People!" You should feel guilty having to use a Car, to get from point A to point B. And your actions will cause worst possible case.
A few decades back it was popular opinion that we were going into an other ice age, because of all the smog blocked the sunlight. So understandable the average Joe is getting mixed signals of what they are doing but with the same solution of giving up the devices that gives you the highest quality of life.
Be careful those blacked out screen shots could be Copy-written, That link you just put in doomed Slashdot.
Why isn't slashdot blacking out?
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Why isn't Slashdot blacking out? It is one of those sites that could be greatly effected by this bill. Besides I need to be more productive today. And most of the sites I visit are blacked out too.
Of course most of the people Pirate software because they can. I want it, so Ill pirate it for free, then they will use some ideology to justify it to themselves.
That said DRM makes it worse because it only cuts on the casual piracy Eg. I buy a copy and I share it with my friend. But it doesn't effect the hard core pirates who will disable the DRM (By manipulating the program) and Mass distributing it over the internet to many people.
The Casual Pirate is actually helpful to the company. Because the number of Purchase to users is low. 1 Purchase for 4 users. And those 3 users who got the free copy from a friend get to play it and if they like it they will return the favor and buy an other game (perhaps from that company because they liked the game) and share it with their friends.
Back in the olden day me and my friend shared copies of Sierra Games, combined we probably bought more copies of Sierra Games then we would have if we didn't share them.
I have been finding lately I have getting more respect with Microsoft products and less towards Apples.
Most of the Slashdotters are suck in the 1990's, where there was huge gap in quality between the Popular Microsoft Products and Basically Everyone else. Microsoft Products were crap, most people didn't know it back then, and their counterparts of the time were often far superior in many aspects. But at the time where Software Distribution is primary based on going to the store and buying software Microsoft was King, they had (and still have) rows and rows of MS-DOS then Windows Compatible Software, A row if you are lucky of Apple/Mac Software, and a little spot for everyone else.
Now what happened, well who goes to the store to buy software any more. 1. App Stores (Like the apple App Store or Apt-Get in Linux) makes installing software easy you are not checking for compatability as much and you find what you want and a version for your OS and your computer is ready for you.
2. Web/Cloud Apps. With the Exception of Games and CAD for normal Desktop usage most new software can be done well as a Web Based App. Web Applications really take the OS out of the picture. You can do the computing you want on any modern OS really. Even the majority of mobile apps are just additional UI commands on top of a web page. Leading me to figure that these multi finger gestures will be integrated in future HTML standards.
3. Download Free (as in Beer or Speech, Your choice) software. Fortunately/Unfortunately if a type of software gets popular there are usually free alternatives that come out soon. So selling you stuff at the store will not give you much of an advantage.
What this does was put Microsoft in a fare playing field now. No I doubt they are going to die and still stay as a major player for decades. However they are no longer going to enjoy 95%+ Market share it will go down to a respectable 30% share.
Get the Vaccine. It just works out mathematically.
-1 You suffer pain 0 Pain and suffering are negligible. 1 You feel joy
Value of not taking the vaccine. 1. You don't get the Vaccine and you live in fear of getting the flu: -1 2. You don't get the Vaccine and you Don't get the flu: 0 3. You don't get the Vaccine and you get the flue: -1 4. You don't get the Vaccine and you save like $10: +1
Sum of Risk vs. Loss is -1
Value if you take the vaccine. 1. You get the Vaccine and feel good about being immune: +1 2. You get the Vaccine and you get the flu: -1 3. You get the Vaccine and don't get the flu: 0 4. You get the Vaccine and you spend $10 (Not that much): 0
However they are ok with selective breeding, which is the same thing as genetically modified. Hey look this tomato is less prone to insects, let's use it's seeds. It's organic so it's natural poisons that stops bugs won't be bad for us.
Umm there is a cost to retrain your developrs to use new tools. If the developers like.net it is probably worth a few K to give them the tools to do what they need..NET doesn't suck neither does MS SQL (Microsoft has upped its game in product quality the last few years). The time and cost of finding an appropriate Open Source tool and get your coders up to speed will more often then not be more expensive then using the first decent solution that is available and liked by your staff.
Also, if they do have them, can you trust the information in them? So say at the end of your visit you have a CCD (Community Care Document, the standard XML based format for sharing Medical Records across Electronic Medical Records) What is there to stop me from altering my record to say that I really need those pain killers or "Pain Killers" in other states prescription refilled, or to prescribe me a higher dose, or heck the person is a hypercondreact<sp?> (Yes I got sick of trying to find the right spelling in Chrome) and they will add symptoms without the doctors consent? What is needed is a secure and reliable method of sharing medical records across many organizations, not giving it to the person.
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I would say so, except that our system, has made vocational schooling a joke, where lazy dump people who can pass college go.
Most people who go to school is because they need an advantage in the market. I was programming professionally while I was in high school, but I went to college because I knew the system wouldn't allow me to advance without a college degree. Then later I got to the point where work wouldn't respect my business decision so I got an MBA to force a degree of respect.
It would be great if people who went to collage for a real education, however for most people it a licences to get paid more then minimum wage.
If you want college to be for the pure education and learning, we need respectable vocational training for many professional activities.
Social Reform Issues tend to be counter democratic in nature.
When there is a minority group that needs more protection, you need a powerful group to push these changes, as the majority sees the plight of the minority as not effecting them or worse their plight is in the majority self interest.
But before you go So you think Social Reform is Anti-American, you need to remember the United States is a Democratic Republic, We are not a pure democracy, We elect Representative to make the decisions for us, and if we get good ones we get someone(s) willing to risk political backlash to do the right thing as they can see a bigger picture of the issue.
We need companies, they make a lot of these tough decisions a little more easier because they can break down such decisions into dollars and cents.
No, Here is the real trick...
Keep the ship there, Gut out the insides, and rebuild the floors so they are level, and make a specialty hotel out of it.
I think technically HDMI includes digital sound too. Which allow for better integration with a computer to TV and try to resolve the issue of way to many video options.
VGA, DVI, Mini-DVI, Component, SVidio, TSR, Coax, USB...
We have a bunch of ways to connect your device to a Montior/TV however lately because there are so many options most computers/devices costs and size are going toward supporting different ports. VGA and DVI are one of the bigger slot fillers, compared to the smaller HDMI, Which also does Audio too. The issue you are having with HDMI is probably more towards bad drivers then the actual connection itself (I am willing to guess most PC's with HDMI are configured to use VGA/DVI as the primary then there is some secondary code to use HDMI).
There is discussion the HDMI will stop the analog hole however I don't see that as too relevant. Because even though the data transmission may be encrypted, over HDMI. For the most part the hacks to get the data is done on the PC or at least you can always hack your hardware (say unplug your monitor off your laptop and plug in the connection into a recorder. Because the data will need to be decrypted before it hits the display.Those wires that gives the electrical contact to those millions of pixels to show the display cannot be encrypted, and really isn't that far past human comprehension, to reverse engineer say an LCD display to record the data stream onto a storage device.
Also it is apparently better to keep the fact one is racist private, vs. letting them be public about it, so everyone knows that they are racists.
Granted if a minority can see that there are more people with the same idea the concept grows and puts more weight behind it. However in the same breath if you try to censor people for having an unpopular belief it just gives them extra reason to be angrier, and get more hateful.
If a person is a bad person, I would like to know that they are bad, and they should feel free to discuss their evils. That way I know to avoid them.
What I find more threatening is there are so many people with these thoughts and feeling but are keeping quite about it allowing to increase the chances to put them and some other innocent victim together where it could get out of hand.
Most Companies do not like to get political in front of their customers. They normally see it as a way to instantly alienate a good percentage of their customer base.
Wikipedia main goal was to keep its site to be neutral and objective. Google who gets a lot of heat from the Right already. To go an protest a bill publicly could have/may have severity backfired on them.
For the SOPA bill it is about these peoples bottom line. If there are too tight controls then they cannot operate. You need to remember companies like Google Wikipedia and even Wired give a lot of service for Free, that means they are keeping costs under a tight control. Bills like this will make operations more expensive for them. Just as we protest bills and ideas that normally work against our own public interests, companies do the same.
Space Junk No... I plan to make a satellite that will broadcast on all channels the Old 1990's version of Hamster Dance.
Because I am doing it from space, there are no laws against it!
If you call that junk, then you are probably quite sane and rational. But where is the fun in that.
In other words he is a sicko professor who traded sex for a passing grade.
That isn't that bad of an idea.
Say facebook, you setup a special joint account that temporary merges all your data together. And your friends and their friends are combined. Then when/if you breakup the data can dis-join
Usually I am the one taking the picture and posting it on facebook under my account just for my wife to take it and put it on hers so her friends and see the same pictures my friends do...
I do not let her to use my accounts though, nor do I use hers, but because we do things together it would be nice to have a joint account that can be separated if need be.
That probably cost as much as getting married living together for a time and getting divorced. For every girlfriend.
Bah. When I was a Teen, and I shared my Password as a form of intimacy I would have gotten a response at best "Your such a Nerd!" (Back then a Nerd wasn't good) at worse she would walk away from you, and place a restraining order on you because you were just too weird.
I was an out cast partially because I had an Internet account of my own, with Email. When I explained why I liked it they just looked at me if I was from outer space.
Oddly enough By my Sr. Year things started to change and the Internet stated to become cool, as well I started to become a little more popular, but by that time I was use to being unpopular and I didn't welcome this new popularity.
The problem is not as much of believing in Global Warming or Climate Change, but the degree that it is happening, we get "Science" every day saying it is far worse then we expected or far better then we expected.
There are Self Proclaimed Environmentalists who spew out half science to the public who in term get confused by all the information getting passed around, so they will naturally get defensive and just say, It must not be real because all the data I got doesn't make a logical conclusion.
Also the fact that there is a really poor job trying to explain the difference between Global Warming vs Local Weather. So you get a very cold winter when everyone is saying Global Warming you are not going to make a correlation.
I think a big part of the problem is the bulk of fear mongering.
The way a lot of this material is presented is to say "You are Bad People!" You should feel guilty having to use a Car, to get from point A to point B. And your actions will cause worst possible case.
A few decades back it was popular opinion that we were going into an other ice age, because of all the smog blocked the sunlight. So understandable the average Joe is getting mixed signals of what they are doing but with the same solution of giving up the devices that gives you the highest quality of life.
Geekculture.com is blacked out too. Their version is fairly cool.
Be careful those blacked out screen shots could be Copy-written, That link you just put in doomed Slashdot.
Why isn't Slashdot blacking out? It is one of those sites that could be greatly effected by this bill. Besides I need to be more productive today. And most of the sites I visit are blacked out too.
More to the point the companies that go full IPv6 will they put their IPv4 back in the pool for all of us to share?
Of course most of the people Pirate software because they can. I want it, so Ill pirate it for free, then they will use some ideology to justify it to themselves.
That said DRM makes it worse because it only cuts on the casual piracy Eg. I buy a copy and I share it with my friend. But it doesn't effect the hard core pirates who will disable the DRM (By manipulating the program) and Mass distributing it over the internet to many people.
The Casual Pirate is actually helpful to the company. Because the number of Purchase to users is low. 1 Purchase for 4 users. And those 3 users who got the free copy from a friend get to play it and if they like it they will return the favor and buy an other game (perhaps from that company because they liked the game) and share it with their friends.
Back in the olden day me and my friend shared copies of Sierra Games, combined we probably bought more copies of Sierra Games then we would have if we didn't share them.
I have been finding lately I have getting more respect with Microsoft products and less towards Apples.
Most of the Slashdotters are suck in the 1990's, where there was huge gap in quality between the Popular Microsoft Products and Basically Everyone else. Microsoft Products were crap, most people didn't know it back then, and their counterparts of the time were often far superior in many aspects. But at the time where Software Distribution is primary based on going to the store and buying software Microsoft was King, they had (and still have) rows and rows of MS-DOS then Windows Compatible Software, A row if you are lucky of Apple/Mac Software, and a little spot for everyone else.
Now what happened, well who goes to the store to buy software any more.
1. App Stores (Like the apple App Store or Apt-Get in Linux) makes installing software easy you are not checking for compatability as much and you find what you want and a version for your OS and your computer is ready for you.
2. Web/Cloud Apps. With the Exception of Games and CAD for normal Desktop usage most new software can be done well as a Web Based App. Web Applications really take the OS out of the picture. You can do the computing you want on any modern OS really. Even the majority of mobile apps are just additional UI commands on top of a web page. Leading me to figure that these multi finger gestures will be integrated in future HTML standards.
3. Download Free (as in Beer or Speech, Your choice) software. Fortunately/Unfortunately if a type of software gets popular there are usually free alternatives that come out soon. So selling you stuff at the store will not give you much of an advantage.
What this does was put Microsoft in a fare playing field now. No I doubt they are going to die and still stay as a major player for decades. However they are no longer going to enjoy 95%+ Market share it will go down to a respectable 30% share.
Get the Vaccine.
It just works out mathematically.
-1 You suffer pain
0 Pain and suffering are negligible.
1 You feel joy
Value of not taking the vaccine.
1. You don't get the Vaccine and you live in fear of getting the flu: -1
2. You don't get the Vaccine and you Don't get the flu: 0
3. You don't get the Vaccine and you get the flue: -1
4. You don't get the Vaccine and you save like $10: +1
Sum of Risk vs. Loss is -1
Value if you take the vaccine.
1. You get the Vaccine and feel good about being immune: +1
2. You get the Vaccine and you get the flu: -1
3. You get the Vaccine and don't get the flu: 0
4. You get the Vaccine and you spend $10 (Not that much): 0
Sum of Risk vs. Loss is 0
However they are ok with selective breeding, which is the same thing as genetically modified.
Hey look this tomato is less prone to insects, let's use it's seeds. It's organic so it's natural poisons that stops bugs won't be bad for us.
Umm there is a cost to retrain your developrs to use new tools. If the developers like .net it is probably worth a few K to give them the tools to do what they need. .NET doesn't suck neither does MS SQL (Microsoft has upped its game in product quality the last few years). The time and cost of finding an appropriate Open Source tool and get your coders up to speed will more often then not be more expensive then using the first decent solution that is available and liked by your staff.
Or the other way, you loose control of your document then your Dr. is in a ton of trouble.
Also, if they do have them, can you trust the information in them?
So say at the end of your visit you have a CCD (Community Care Document, the standard XML based format for sharing Medical Records across Electronic Medical Records)
What is there to stop me from altering my record to say that I really need those pain killers or "Pain Killers" in other states prescription refilled, or to prescribe me a higher dose, or heck the person is a hypercondreact<sp?> (Yes I got sick of trying to find the right spelling in Chrome) and they will add symptoms without the doctors consent?
What is needed is a secure and reliable method of sharing medical records across many organizations, not giving it to the person.
Nah there were more Lobbyist who were interested in SOPA to fail too. Big money won once again, the only difference is big money won on our side.