You don't want national healthcare.
Thanks for telling me what I want and don't want. Now some other questions: Do I want Windows, OS X or Linux? Do I want vi or emacs?
For you, evidently, Capitalism exists to provide us with great things (and be discarded, if it fails â" or appears to). In fact, its existence derives from Human Rights â" those, with which we are endowed by our creator. It is my right to bake pizza, write software, issue stock and buy it. The society is not suposed to allow me to do it merely for fear of not having pizza â" it must allow me to bake it, because it is my right as a free man to do so, or anything I please (which is not actively harming others).
Sadly, this view is getting eroded over the years, and we are worse off because of it. But that's why the US is Capitalist to begin with â" it is not written anywhere in the Constitution, that we must be such, we just are. China, for a counter-example, became Capitalist deliberately, because they've decided (correctly), that it is the most efficient way of running an economy...
Mexico and many third world nations are the best capitalist nations in the world because they don't have a middle class. The middle class in general is bad for capitalism, you can outsource their jobs to foreign countries or import cheaper labor here.
I would suggest that you read Super Capitalism when you get a chance. Corporations should exist to maximize profit while governments should exist to help its citizens. People actually died due to air pollutions (yeah I know the government shouldn't stop corporations from polluting and naturally selecting out the weak citizens.)
It's odd that you equate the Government to only the federal government (of which I'm not a huge fan.) State and local governments are great as well, especially if they pay for public schools and universities. Pay for research like NIH, NSF and LBL (I interned there.) Look at the internet and how we're communicated right now, damned federal government. If only the government didn't pay for this, I would never have had to interact with you. We should have waited for Fox News to create the internet for us. Or perhaps Microsoft.
It's funny because in general I'm a libertarian. My ideal government would focus on military security, Police, Fire fighters, science and education. You're making me seem like a far more liberal person than I truly am. I voted for Ron Paul last election (wrote him in after the primaries.)
But letting the government run TV or radio (and thus free us from all solicitations) is gravely dangerous and may lead to totalitarianism within a generation.
Am I being trolled? Seriously, I can handle it but I fear that you're earnest. NPR is far from government run and they ask real questions, they don't read from Bushes or Obama's talking points. Even my beloved Simpsons lampoon Fox News.
Meme's needn't survive on their own merit. If they have corporate backing they can be pushed and pushed even if they fail and fail and fail. Rupert loves his Fox News and has plenty of assets to support this no matter what happens. This is akin to Microsoft's Zune. It has failed but it won't go away and perhaps one day could have a large marketshare.
Capitalism is great, but we needn't prostrate ourselves to it. Nor should we have blind allegiance to it. Why not let Capitalism save the day regarding porn, tobacco, drugs and alcohol? I'm a fan of less government is better, yet a smart government that is investing in our future is my dream. Sesame Street is better WITHOUT McDonald's commercials in my humble opinion.
Capitalism just maximizes for profit not for equity, not fairness. NPR versus Fox News is a great example of this. Fox News will be going strong for a long, long time; regardless of their bias. NPR could be hurt if the government cut off all their funds.
Saying that capitalism will save the day overly simplistic.
Let's compare orange and apples. Since a node with 2 GB of memory is equivalent of 4 GB of memory, because a node is a node. What about myrinet is the same as ethernet. What about gigabits?
Or if we really wanted to compare the numbers we would ensure they sort the same data on the hardware.
I would be find with verbose, but off topic?
We're talking about extrapolating a linear rate and this is off topic? Mark Twain's punchline of "And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. " without the preceding paragraphs.
People who use websites that only work in IE (like my employer's time card system brought to you by Mrs. Arnold's fifth grade class).
There will be a tipping point when any new web application will have to support all the standards. Janus now does this, but when I first was using them 8 years ago, they didn't support any of my browsers so I left them. Today they do, but now I use Scottrade. I think we're close to the tipping point for this particular line item, the others we're just SOL.
First off I love Firefox and I enjoyed it when it was Phoenix and then Firebird but interpolation is bad enough with trends; but extrapolation? There is a certain percentage of people who care about their computer experience, the rest just "do computer stuff."
From Life On The Mississippi: One of the Mississippi's oddest peculiarities is that of shortening its length from time to time. If you will throw a long, pliant apple-paring over your shoulder, it will pretty fairly shape itself into an average section of the Mississippi River; that is, the nine or ten hundred miles stretching from Cairo, Illinois, southward to New Orleans, the same being wonderfully crooked, with a brief straight bit here and there at wide intervals. The two-hundred-mile stretch from Cairo northward to St. Louis is by no means so crooked, that being a rocky country which the river cannot cut much.
The water cuts the alluvial banks of the `lower' river into deep horseshoe curves; so deep, indeed, that in some places if you were to get ashore at one extremity of the horseshoe and walk across the neck, half or three quarters of a mile, you could sit down and rest a couple of hours while your steamer was coming around the long elbow, at a speed of ten miles an hour, to take you aboard again. When the river is rising fast, some scoundrel whose plantation is back in the country, and therefore of inferior value, has only to watch his chance, cut a little gutter across the narrow neck of land some dark night, and turn the water into it, and in a wonderfully short time a miracle has happened: to wit, the whole Mississippi has taken possession of that little ditch, and placed the countryman's plantation on its bank.
Pray observe some of the effects of this ditching business. The Mississippi between Cairo and New Orleans was twelve hundred and fifteen miles long one hundred and seventy-six years ago. It was eleven hundred and eighty after the cut-off of 1722. It was one thousand and forty after the American Bend cut-off. It has lost sixty-seven miles since. Consequently its length is only nine hundred and seventy-three miles at present.
Now, if I wanted to be one of those ponderous scientific people, and `let on' to prove what had occurred in the remote past by what had occurred in a given time in the recent past, or what will occur in the far future by what has occurred in late years, what an opportunity is here! Geology never had such a chance, nor such exact data to argue from! Nor `development of species', either! Glacial epochs are great things, but they are vague--vague. Please observe. In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. This is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Please at least read my post before responding. I didn't say that the service was a failure, just that Google hasn't delivered as promised. They announced that it was going to be rolled out to everyone who wanted an account back in March and they haven't done it. If I were the only person without an account it'd be different. As Ben Franklin said, "Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies."
It's all about managing expectations. When this was originally announced, they were saying weeks. Why did they even announce it if they weren't ready to go live?
There is even a Vaporware discussion.
I'm confused, how does Google get DOSed or clogged? As long as it's VoIP and not SMS.
I have a few friends like you, who assumed I would see all missed calls. This assumption is dangerous, especially if you have AT&T. If you are going to call someone, for the love of all that's good and holy, at least have one sentence summary about why you're doing it.
~~
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Their "crown jewels" are the source code for their products.
I would change that to "Their 'crown jewels' are the products that make them money." Microsoft wisely open sourced Atlas now their Ajax components and MVC so that developers could be more productive with Visual Studios (a crown jewel.)
It would be foolish of Microsoft to open source either their OS or Office because these are their cash cows. Contributing to HBase won't hurt them financially, unless it obviates the need for developers to use SQL Server. For icing on the cake, this could negatively impact Oracle.
Since that didn't work out so well for them re: the internet, I'm not all that worried.
I would look at Sharepoint, nobody seems to be noticing this huge dragon, yet it's growing daily. Just go to dice.com and look at all of the sharepoint positions. It requires Windows server 2003 or 2008. More and more businesses are using it, hence IIS continues to climb in usage.
Although I agree in general with what CAN BE DONE with DNA, versus what actually happens with DNA. I think that Mendel called and wanted his genetics back.
DNA misses many genetic facts about you, identical twin obesity, Mitochondrial DNA, Gene Imprinting, your body can turn on and off genes, etc
Ergo I would say "DNA tells every single genetic medical fact about you." is a bit of a stretch.
You're correct about the data that COULD BE derived from it, yet it depends what kinds of tests the run on it.
Fortunately the US isn't at a point of running a full genome screen. 23andme still only offers a ~ 1000 genes.
Regarding collecting it, a cheek swab hardly more intrusive.
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You don't want national healthcare.
Thanks for telling me what I want and don't want.
Now some other questions:
Do I want Windows, OS X or Linux?
Do I want vi or emacs?
For you, evidently, Capitalism exists to provide us with great things (and be discarded, if it fails â" or appears to). In fact, its existence derives from Human Rights â" those, with which we are endowed by our creator. It is my right to bake pizza, write software, issue stock and buy it. The society is not suposed to allow me to do it merely for fear of not having pizza â" it must allow me to bake it, because it is my right as a free man to do so, or anything I please (which is not actively harming others).
Sadly, this view is getting eroded over the years, and we are worse off because of it. But that's why the US is Capitalist to begin with â" it is not written anywhere in the Constitution, that we must be such, we just are. China, for a counter-example, became Capitalist deliberately, because they've decided (correctly), that it is the most efficient way of running an economy...
Mexico and many third world nations are the best capitalist nations in the world because they don't have a middle class. The middle class in general is bad for capitalism, you can outsource their jobs to foreign countries or import cheaper labor here.
I would suggest that you read Super Capitalism when you get a chance. Corporations should exist to maximize profit while governments should exist to help its citizens. People actually died due to air pollutions (yeah I know the government shouldn't stop corporations from polluting and naturally selecting out the weak citizens.)
It's odd that you equate the Government to only the federal government (of which I'm not a huge fan.) State and local governments are great as well, especially if they pay for public schools and universities. Pay for research like NIH, NSF and LBL (I interned there.) Look at the internet and how we're communicated right now, damned federal government. If only the government didn't pay for this, I would never have had to interact with you. We should have waited for Fox News to create the internet for us. Or perhaps Microsoft.
It's funny because in general I'm a libertarian. My ideal government would focus on military security, Police, Fire fighters, science and education. You're making me seem like a far more liberal person than I truly am. I voted for Ron Paul last election (wrote him in after the primaries.)
But letting the government run TV or radio (and thus free us from all solicitations) is gravely dangerous and may lead to totalitarianism within a generation.
Am I being trolled? Seriously, I can handle it but I fear that you're earnest. NPR is far from government run and they ask real questions, they don't read from Bushes or Obama's talking points. Even my beloved Simpsons lampoon Fox News.
Meme's needn't survive on their own merit. If they have corporate backing they can be pushed and pushed even if they fail and fail and fail. Rupert loves his Fox News and has plenty of assets to support this no matter what happens. This is akin to Microsoft's Zune. It has failed but it won't go away and perhaps one day could have a large marketshare.
Capitalism is great, but we needn't prostrate ourselves to it. Nor should we have blind allegiance to it. Why not let Capitalism save the day regarding porn, tobacco, drugs and alcohol? I'm a fan of less government is better, yet a smart government that is investing in our future is my dream. Sesame Street is better WITHOUT McDonald's commercials in my humble opinion.
Capitalism just maximizes for profit not for equity, not fairness. NPR versus Fox News is a great example of this. Fox News will be going strong for a long, long time; regardless of their bias. NPR could be hurt if the government cut off all their funds.
Saying that capitalism will save the day overly simplistic.
Isn't 1.0 production for most software jargon?
Let's compare orange and apples.
Since a node with 2 GB of memory is equivalent of 4 GB of memory, because a node is a node. What about myrinet is the same as ethernet. What about gigabits?
Or if we really wanted to compare the numbers we would ensure they sort the same data on the hardware.
It'd be nice to put it into a production app...
If it's winning competitions at 0.20, when will they release it?
I would be find with verbose, but off topic?
We're talking about extrapolating a linear rate and this is off topic?
Mark Twain's punchline of "And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. " without the preceding paragraphs.
People who use websites that only work in IE (like my employer's time card system brought to you by Mrs. Arnold's fifth grade class).
There will be a tipping point when any new web application will have to support all the standards.
Janus now does this, but when I first was using them 8 years ago, they didn't support any of my browsers so I left them. Today they do, but now I use Scottrade. I think we're close to the tipping point for this particular line item, the others we're just SOL.
First off I love Firefox and I enjoyed it when it was Phoenix and then Firebird but interpolation is bad enough with trends; but extrapolation? There is a certain percentage of people who care about their computer experience, the rest just "do computer stuff."
From Life On The Mississippi:
One of the Mississippi's oddest peculiarities is that of shortening its length from time to time. If you will throw a long, pliant apple-paring over your shoulder, it will pretty fairly shape itself into an average section of the Mississippi River; that is, the nine or ten hundred miles stretching from Cairo, Illinois, southward to New Orleans, the same being wonderfully crooked, with a brief straight bit here and there at wide intervals. The two-hundred-mile stretch from Cairo northward to St. Louis is by no means so crooked, that being a rocky country which the river cannot cut much.
The water cuts the alluvial banks of the `lower' river into deep horseshoe curves; so deep, indeed, that in some places if you were to get ashore at one extremity of the horseshoe and walk across the neck, half or three quarters of a mile, you could sit down and rest a couple of hours while your steamer was coming around the long elbow, at a speed of ten miles an hour, to take you aboard again. When the river is rising fast, some scoundrel whose plantation is back in the country, and therefore of inferior value, has only to watch his chance, cut a little gutter across the narrow neck of land some dark night, and turn the water into it, and in a wonderfully short time a miracle has happened: to wit, the whole Mississippi has taken possession of that little ditch, and placed the countryman's plantation on its bank.
Pray observe some of the effects of this ditching business. The Mississippi between Cairo and New Orleans was twelve hundred and fifteen miles long one hundred and seventy-six years ago. It was eleven hundred and eighty after the cut-off of 1722. It was one thousand and forty after the American Bend cut-off. It has lost sixty-seven miles since. Consequently its length is only nine hundred and seventy-three miles at present.
Now, if I wanted to be one of those ponderous scientific people, and `let on' to prove what had occurred in the remote past by what had occurred in a given time in the recent past, or what will occur in the far future by what has occurred in late years, what an opportunity is here! Geology never had such a chance, nor such exact data to argue from! Nor `development of species', either! Glacial epochs are great things, but they are vague--vague. Please observe. In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. This is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi 173-6 (1883)
Please at least read my post before responding. I didn't say that the service was a failure, just that Google hasn't delivered as promised. They announced that it was going to be rolled out to everyone who wanted an account back in March and they haven't done it. If I were the only person without an account it'd be different.
As Ben Franklin said, "Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies."
How do I apply for UK citizenship?
It must be nice to live there. What happens if you turn your phone off for the theatre, etc? Still a text?
It's all about managing expectations. When this was originally announced, they were saying weeks. Why did they even announce it if they weren't ready to go live?
There is even a Vaporware discussion.
I'm confused, how does Google get DOSed or clogged? As long as it's VoIP and not SMS.
> ~~
Happiness = Reality - Expectation
I have a few friends like you, who assumed I would see all missed calls. This assumption is dangerous, especially if you have AT&T. If you are going to call someone, for the love of all that's good and holy, at least have one sentence summary about why you're doing it.
~~
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun.
~ Benjamin Franklin
This isn't available to everyone in the USA, just the Grand Central customers. This has been one of Google's larger failures.
Their "crown jewels" are the source code for their products.
I would change that to "Their 'crown jewels' are the products that make them money." Microsoft wisely open sourced Atlas now their Ajax components and MVC so that developers could be more productive with Visual Studios (a crown jewel.)
It would be foolish of Microsoft to open source either their OS or Office because these are their cash cows. Contributing to HBase won't hurt them financially, unless it obviates the need for developers to use SQL Server. For icing on the cake, this could negatively impact Oracle.
"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side?
And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?"
~Mark Twain
Since that didn't work out so well for them re: the internet, I'm not all that worried.
I would look at Sharepoint, nobody seems to be noticing this huge dragon, yet it's growing daily. Just go to dice.com and look at all of the sharepoint positions.
It requires Windows server 2003 or 2008. More and more businesses are using it, hence IIS continues to climb in usage.
I totally agree with you here.
This is very dangerous.
Please read this post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1203823&cid=27632349
Then take off your tinfoil hat.
Although I agree in general with what CAN BE DONE with DNA, versus what actually happens with DNA.
I think that Mendel called and wanted his genetics back.
DNA misses many genetic facts about you, identical twin obesity, Mitochondrial DNA, Gene Imprinting, your body can turn on and off genes, etc
Ergo I would say "DNA tells every single genetic medical fact about you." is a bit of a stretch.
You're correct about the data that COULD BE derived from it, yet it depends what kinds of tests the run on it.
Fortunately the US isn't at a point of running a full genome screen. 23andme still only offers a ~ 1000 genes.
Regarding collecting it, a cheek swab hardly more intrusive.
UK the mother of democracies?
Greece called from 500 BC and wanted that title back.