In other words, the United States (for all it's pluses and minuses) got Microsoft/Dell/etc going, why aren't they giving back to the United States? I'm not some hippie liberal douche but I tend to believe that there are more important things than the bottom line. We owe it to future generations not to undercut our own population in the perpetual search for lower wages.
This is because Dell is in competition with other OEMs. If Dell does the honorable thing, and their competitor doesn't, Dell disappears.
Consider one of the reasons that Microsoft exists in Washington...there is no state income tax. Why shouldn't all these rich Microsoft employees be paying into the Washington community?
Well, they are. Every time a person buys something, the state gets a share. So I can be Bill Gates and earn billions of dollars - but I don't pay into the community until I start using the wealth for acquiring services or products.
The nation does not have to tax a corporation to see the revenue stream - as long as they corporation is paying local employees, the money goes into the federal and state community coffers.
It is interesting that we want to create more jobs, but also take the money away from the entities that create jobs. Make the burden too heavy, and Atlas will shrug it off.
I actually changed my driving habits after giving the car ahead too much room caused some very bad situations to arise.
1: Getting cut off by a car trying to merge into traffic or make a left hand turn across the flow of traffic because my gap was wider than most - giving the illusion of opportunity.
2: From a further distance, it is harder to tell if the car in front of you is braking hard, or just slowing down. By the time you realize which one it is, you now have a significant speed delta between you and the car ahead. This can result in you breaking even harder, causing the guy behind you to have to suddenly react.
I do realize there is a optimal middle ground - but I just want to point out that adding distance does not always make the situation safer.
Consider the maximum speed difference a tailgater can impact you with versus the guy giving you plenty of room and not paying attention.
If 2 operating systems are designed to use the exact same drivers, they may as well be the same OS.
They are the same OS, and it's called 'Windows'.
Are you aware that drivers that work for the client edition of Windows also work on server edition? In fact I have XP 64 bit drivers allowing me to use a couple of devices on my Windows Server 2008 system. Just because Microsoft doesn't break a bunch of functionality doesn't mean there isn't a huge change in the OS.
You cannot judge the changes of an OS solely by the UI you work with either. There are many things that have changed under the hood to support many new scenarios and technologies. Microsoft will generally create a new API for the industry to use, and eventually depricate the old API. This allows you to run DX9 display adapters on an OS that was built for DX10, etc.
While I agree with you that there is no perfect motherboard manufacturer; I do want to point out that there manufacturers that are better than others (obviously). Having a BIOS that makes sense, and healthy stores of drivers/documentation really helps. I have been burned by BIOS issues from ASUS and SuperMicro before, and so now I pay more for Intel boards. I have yet to have any probles with the Intel boards (other than shorting one out by dropping a screw in while it was running on its side.)
By increasing the consequences, you decrease the likelihood that the courts will correct these problems. Can you imagine the complete circus that would have been erected if the outcome of this decision had a large negative effect on President Bush?
As much as I hate the things that this administration has done; I do want the courts to be able to do their jobs and clean up the mess without being harassed. While judges have some protections against political retribution, they are not immune.
That's why we call them heroes. It isn't that hard to do the right thing when there are no negative consequences. I mean, sure, I would have done it - but I have a family, or some other excuse.
Keep in mind that freedom is something that needs to be preserved and fought for - it isn't permanent. This man is one of our freedom fighters, and our society owes him a debt. Unfortunately, he will probably never be properly rewarded for his service.
I recall an experiment I read about many years ago where the subject had their hearing artificially impaired. This person was put into a situation with people he or she did not know. These other people were having a humorous conversation - unrelated to the subject. Since the subject could not hear the conversation, he or she made the assumption that the conversation was about him/her. This fed into paranoia and resentment.
I don't suffer from either paranoia or schizophrenia (my other personality does, har har) - but I can only imagine how difficult it would be. I guess I would really need to build a system of benefit of the doubt in order to cope.
IMHO, this will have more to do with the problem being solved. There are touch screen POS (point of sale, not piece of shit) devices which use touch on the screen allowing much faster order management. Microsoft is showing off some of their touch devices, which include tourist kiosks where you can interact with maps - make reservations, etc.
There are plenty of places where a keyboard/mouse doesn't make sense - but short of neural implants, I don't see my desktop system having any other input method.
I see it less of breaking up companies, and more of preventing acquisitions/mergers.
But like your idea, mine also won't stand up to corruption or manipulation. I really don't like the fact that folks who depend on contributions (really a form of bribes) would be in control of the fate of players in the marketplace.
Oooh Oooh! I can answer this one (as I actually have one of these cards).
The memory on the card is being accessed by the GPU, not the CPU! So it doesn't matter if you are running on a 32 bit system - the graphics card itself can use >4 GB on onboard memory.
What about getting in line for a movie and holding the spot for a friend? Or letting your girlfriend go use the restroom while you wait in line?
Both are examples of a form of cutting - as you yourself cannot come and go without someone holding a place for you in the line.
This is what I am assuming (DRTFA) the researchers were taking advantage of - when I see people join friends in a line, I assume that the whole intention was to hold a place for them.
I know the data can be very misleading. The average Windows Machine has about 87 devices on it, the majority of which are supported by class drivers (hard drives, chipsets, processors, etc).
In the Windows world, almost all display devices are covered by VGA.sys - so the device has a driver, but is the user experience good?
Also, what is considered a unique device? Most hard drives have a unique identification string, but they are all supported by a null driver. By just supporting a generic hard drive, you have covered close to 40% of the unique devices on the market. If you bias this towards market presence, this gets even more ambiguous. An extremely high percentage of the popular devices on the market are chipset devices - boring things that you just expect to work.
The information about device support metrics only becomes interesting when it applies to less popular devices. Peripherals like printers, scanners, networking, display devices running on full functionality are really the only thing worth measuring - and this is very difficult to do.
Really - I would love to go buy a PS3 so that I can use java faster. Maybe I could also use a TV tuner card in my PC so I can multitask while using my PS3 on my PC to surf the web so much faster.
I find it somewhat ironic that higher access to broadband will probably reduce the number of users who will be exploited vs the Blaster virus.
Sitting behind a NAT or other firewall because your machine is not direct dialing and ISP and getting a public IP will probably mean that an attacker won't be able to directly exploit this.
What part of downloading it later did you not understand? Personally, I like the notion that I don't have to install a whole lot of crap that I wouldn't use otherwise.
IANAL: But I am sure there is precident where a company cannot charge such an unexpected amount of money for the services. I cannot think of a technological reason why this surcharge should apply. For $20,000 the guy could have probably hired a limo driver to deliver the printed emails back to portland by hand.
I can't imagine that AT&T wants to have this situation - I am sure they would rather keep this customer long term, and not scare away the rest of us who realize the implications of this.
Actually, that would depend on your time slices where determining if the clock is 'right'. I would suggest that your clock is correct an infinite number of times per day - just during specific periods.
A hard drive marketing person might be able to spin this as your clock is always right.
Not always. Email is a very good mechanism to be used in court out of context - or at least in the worst possible light.
Also, many business decisions are made for the sake of the business (ie doing something that really helps one partner by lowering your standards: Example http://www.msvistablog.com/article.asp?articleid=27472&MS-lowered-Vista-demands-to-help-Intel/). In this case Microsoft had good reason to maintain a strong relationship with Intel, at the expense of end users. This would then be ammunition for an end user lawsuit.
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In other words, the United States (for all it's pluses and minuses) got Microsoft/Dell/etc going, why aren't they giving back to the United States? I'm not some hippie liberal douche but I tend to believe that there are more important things than the bottom line. We owe it to future generations not to undercut our own population in the perpetual search for lower wages.
This is because Dell is in competition with other OEMs. If Dell does the honorable thing, and their competitor doesn't, Dell disappears.
Consider one of the reasons that Microsoft exists in Washington...there is no state income tax. Why shouldn't all these rich Microsoft employees be paying into the Washington community?
Well, they are. Every time a person buys something, the state gets a share. So I can be Bill Gates and earn billions of dollars - but I don't pay into the community until I start using the wealth for acquiring services or products.
The nation does not have to tax a corporation to see the revenue stream - as long as they corporation is paying local employees, the money goes into the federal and state community coffers.
It is interesting that we want to create more jobs, but also take the money away from the entities that create jobs. Make the burden too heavy, and Atlas will shrug it off.
I actually changed my driving habits after giving the car ahead too much room caused some very bad situations to arise.
1: Getting cut off by a car trying to merge into traffic or make a left hand turn across the flow of traffic because my gap was wider than most - giving the illusion of opportunity.
2: From a further distance, it is harder to tell if the car in front of you is braking hard, or just slowing down. By the time you realize which one it is, you now have a significant speed delta between you and the car ahead. This can result in you breaking even harder, causing the guy behind you to have to suddenly react. I do realize there is a optimal middle ground - but I just want to point out that adding distance does not always make the situation safer.
Consider the maximum speed difference a tailgater can impact you with versus the guy giving you plenty of room and not paying attention.
If 2 operating systems are designed to use the exact same drivers, they may as well be the same OS.
They are the same OS, and it's called 'Windows'.
Are you aware that drivers that work for the client edition of Windows also work on server edition? In fact I have XP 64 bit drivers allowing me to use a couple of devices on my Windows Server 2008 system. Just because Microsoft doesn't break a bunch of functionality doesn't mean there isn't a huge change in the OS.
You cannot judge the changes of an OS solely by the UI you work with either. There are many things that have changed under the hood to support many new scenarios and technologies. Microsoft will generally create a new API for the industry to use, and eventually depricate the old API. This allows you to run DX9 display adapters on an OS that was built for DX10, etc.
That, or one guy will just run in screaming "LEROY JENKINS"!
And then get promply pwn3d by the guards.
While I agree with you that there is no perfect motherboard manufacturer; I do want to point out that there manufacturers that are better than others (obviously). Having a BIOS that makes sense, and healthy stores of drivers/documentation really helps. I have been burned by BIOS issues from ASUS and SuperMicro before, and so now I pay more for Intel boards. I have yet to have any probles with the Intel boards (other than shorting one out by dropping a screw in while it was running on its side.)
By increasing the consequences, you decrease the likelihood that the courts will correct these problems. Can you imagine the complete circus that would have been erected if the outcome of this decision had a large negative effect on President Bush?
As much as I hate the things that this administration has done; I do want the courts to be able to do their jobs and clean up the mess without being harassed. While judges have some protections against political retribution, they are not immune.
That's why we call them heroes. It isn't that hard to do the right thing when there are no negative consequences. I mean, sure, I would have done it - but I have a family, or some other excuse.
Keep in mind that freedom is something that needs to be preserved and fought for - it isn't permanent. This man is one of our freedom fighters, and our society owes him a debt. Unfortunately, he will probably never be properly rewarded for his service.
I recall an experiment I read about many years ago where the subject had their hearing artificially impaired. This person was put into a situation with people he or she did not know. These other people were having a humorous conversation - unrelated to the subject. Since the subject could not hear the conversation, he or she made the assumption that the conversation was about him/her. This fed into paranoia and resentment.
I don't suffer from either paranoia or schizophrenia (my other personality does, har har) - but I can only imagine how difficult it would be. I guess I would really need to build a system of benefit of the doubt in order to cope.
IMHO, this will have more to do with the problem being solved. There are touch screen POS (point of sale, not piece of shit) devices which use touch on the screen allowing much faster order management. Microsoft is showing off some of their touch devices, which include tourist kiosks where you can interact with maps - make reservations, etc.
There are plenty of places where a keyboard/mouse doesn't make sense - but short of neural implants, I don't see my desktop system having any other input method.
I see it less of breaking up companies, and more of preventing acquisitions/mergers.
But like your idea, mine also won't stand up to corruption or manipulation. I really don't like the fact that folks who depend on contributions (really a form of bribes) would be in control of the fate of players in the marketplace.
...or the person was already in prison, and started blogging from there (where no "professional" would be employed).
Keep in mind that I DNRTFA.
Oooh Oooh! I can answer this one (as I actually have one of these cards).
The memory on the card is being accessed by the GPU, not the CPU! So it doesn't matter if you are running on a 32 bit system - the graphics card itself can use >4 GB on onboard memory.
What about getting in line for a movie and holding the spot for a friend? Or letting your girlfriend go use the restroom while you wait in line?
Both are examples of a form of cutting - as you yourself cannot come and go without someone holding a place for you in the line.
This is what I am assuming (DRTFA) the researchers were taking advantage of - when I see people join friends in a line, I assume that the whole intention was to hold a place for them.
I know the data can be very misleading. The average Windows Machine has about 87 devices on it, the majority of which are supported by class drivers (hard drives, chipsets, processors, etc).
In the Windows world, almost all display devices are covered by VGA.sys - so the device has a driver, but is the user experience good?
Also, what is considered a unique device? Most hard drives have a unique identification string, but they are all supported by a null driver. By just supporting a generic hard drive, you have covered close to 40% of the unique devices on the market. If you bias this towards market presence, this gets even more ambiguous. An extremely high percentage of the popular devices on the market are chipset devices - boring things that you just expect to work.
The information about device support metrics only becomes interesting when it applies to less popular devices. Peripherals like printers, scanners, networking, display devices running on full functionality are really the only thing worth measuring - and this is very difficult to do.
Nobody fucking cares.
Really - I would love to go buy a PS3 so that I can use java faster. Maybe I could also use a TV tuner card in my PC so I can multitask while using my PS3 on my PC to surf the web so much faster.
I find it somewhat ironic that higher access to broadband will probably reduce the number of users who will be exploited vs the Blaster virus.
Sitting behind a NAT or other firewall because your machine is not direct dialing and ISP and getting a public IP will probably mean that an attacker won't be able to directly exploit this.
What really annoys me is the forking and joining of the client and server kernels.
Windows XP x64 Edition is actually NT 5.2 (as this version of XP was actually based off of the Server 2003 kernel, and not the Windows XP kernel).
What part of downloading it later did you not understand? Personally, I like the notion that I don't have to install a whole lot of crap that I wouldn't use otherwise.
...they can now fire you at any time for lying on your application.
I am sure that Uncle Enzo can get a pizza out to your aircraft carrier.
IANAL: But I am sure there is precident where a company cannot charge such an unexpected amount of money for the services. I cannot think of a technological reason why this surcharge should apply. For $20,000 the guy could have probably hired a limo driver to deliver the printed emails back to portland by hand.
I can't imagine that AT&T wants to have this situation - I am sure they would rather keep this customer long term, and not scare away the rest of us who realize the implications of this.
You realize that most US PCs are either designed and manufactured in China and Taiwan?
...or they are responding to recent market analysis for NVIDIA long term. Having Intel take away all the bottom end customers is not a good thing.
Actually, that would depend on your time slices where determining if the clock is 'right'. I would suggest that your clock is correct an infinite number of times per day - just during specific periods.
A hard drive marketing person might be able to spin this as your clock is always right.
Not always. Email is a very good mechanism to be used in court out of context - or at least in the worst possible light.
Also, many business decisions are made for the sake of the business (ie doing something that really helps one partner by lowering your standards: Example http://www.msvistablog.com/article.asp?articleid=27472&MS-lowered-Vista-demands-to-help-Intel/). In this case Microsoft had good reason to maintain a strong relationship with Intel, at the expense of end users. This would then be ammunition for an end user lawsuit.