bingo, consumerist green wash.
average person will never get enough use out of those to offset the waste of creating half baked tech/products.
the awful truth? whats green? stop buying so much junk!
yea and where do you buy those? i don't mean online, do regular hardware stores carry them?
never heard of such a thing. he doesn't supply links thats for sure:(
james mays new show on this type of stuff was rather amusing. the number of licenses you have to get to be able to fly a flying car is quite insane:)
he flew in an actual flying car in one episode. design from decades ago.
if you are talking about importing only the very top of the field yes. stealing extraordinary talent, that works. importing massive numbers of simply competent educated workers does the exact opposite. it drives down wages of educated workers through over supply and diminishes the incentive of americans to go into such fields.
thats just unlikely. those attracted to math tend not to have culture/sports as a viable option to begin with.:P
anyways, weren't these mathematicians the ones that got us into this credit mess?
and well the pictures in the article kind of say it all:P sadly enough.
top math folks do have innate skill at the subject like it or not, like how top athletes have some genetic advantage. it is not all hard work. one can get proficient, but one cannot become extraordinary talent at such fields without innate ability. this is the uncomfortable truth. and no amount of culture change or wishing will fix that.
people don't buy a computer to run applications through an emulator:P
apple with the ipod shows how they concentrated on what people actually want. the pre ipod mp3 players were a bit like linux. they were designed for techies and couldn't see what was wrong with that. techies might sniff at the countless usability tweaks the ipod system has and thats the problem. a certain blindness. and because ofthis that company ran away with the market.
linux popularity has nothing to do with branding. linux is good at certain things. being a home desktop just isn't one of them. techies who live and breath this stuff don't realize they have accumulated thousands of hours of knowledge throughout their lives to be able to use this stuff comfortably and so cannot see a perspective outside of this. and so they wonder why linux is not popular and cannot think of a way to fix it.
not everything is best done in open source communities. the example of games has already shown this quite well. if linux were better it would be self evident and people would flock to it. but it isn't. it has to ape its competitors trying to copy interfaces to try to gain market share. it doesn't create something new and innovative to prove its worth to the home user and thats the problem.
but thats false. in the past during the growth of the computer industry there were many different computers and o/s's. many of those companies have gone out of business yes but there was significant competition out there.
"Sweatshops are the most demeaning, soul crushing places imaginable, and people only work there because their options are either that or death. This is no option at all. The existence of the sweatshop economy is the result of foreign investment interests deliberately influencing local politics and economics in such a way that a large pool of otherwise unemployed people is created who thus have no option *but* to work in a sweatshop."
nonsense. china has people flocking over from the country side to work in factories because they are well paid by the standards of where they came from. many go work in factories for a few years and are able to return home and buy a home. frankly something most americans could never imagine being able to do these days. poverty of preindustrialized areas where people worked the land for very little was hardly doing anything good for their souls.
well if we have no right to complain about bad behavior, neither do they.
so really where does your position bring you really. you feel good slapping yourself on your back for your moral superiority. its a cheap position that places the most oppressive governments like china where your equivalent post would have landed you in a jail cell to western democracies. its cheap moral relativism.
oh please, its the same old double standard. your candidate for the PRESIDENCY is unqualified, yet you put absurd standards to the opposition VP candidate. like it or not she had executive experience, as head of leadership she had ultimate responsibility whereas obama had the diffused responsibility of being in legislatures. always someone else to blame or hide behind in that position like it or not. and well, so far she comes ahead in character. obama spent a decade with a hate monger reverend wright. a man who gave unrestrained praise to the likes of antisemited bigots like lewis farrakhan. if obama really stood for everything democrats really thought he did, he would have either stood up to that man, or left that church. instead he stood by him, exposed his children to that man, and called him his spiritual guide. that just doesn't jive, and its revealing what a man does when he thinks no one is watching.
and the assumptions made by the left are amazingly arrogant. some people follow bush so intently they have defined the so called "bush doctrine" for themselves. and since they hang out with like minded folk, they think its become gospel. well sorry, thats not how it works. judging her for asking for a more specific question because she didn't have your predefined judgment of bush is just moronic frankly.
well finally a little info from wikipedia. whats disturbing is this cut and paste journalism is hitting all the blogs, and the lack of any real detail is stunning. i guess to cover the lack of research they toss in ipod to stir things up. what kind of solid state memory did this use, how much did the memory cost, how much did the device cost, what sound quality, what audio format...etc etc etc!!
blogosphere is failing big time
imagine all the things Gene Roddenberry (startrek) could have "patented". Flat panel monitors, PDAs, hand held electronic devices in general, cellphones, wireless communication, Hypospray/sonoprep, telepresense/net conferencing, voice recognition...
its good his patent expired. such patents are a bit absurd.
i had one of those rio pmp300's. "successful" isnt the term i'd use. it was an interesting gadget, but in real use it was worthless. my original model have 32MB!!! yes, 32 stinking megs, and it sounded quite horrible to boot. nothing about its interface worked well, and it felt cheap to boot even when it was far from being cheap. needless to say it didn't get much use.
ipod was the first easy to use mass market player.
as for this patent business, yes its just another overly broad patent on the obvious.
well the fastest ssd aren't here yet. so this will be an affordable stop gap. people want performance now as well as in the future. its why there are 400+ dollar video cards. sure you could wait a year or two and it will cost half, but lifes short.
there is no context to heaping unrestrained praise on racist antisemitic bigots. let alone associating yourself as closely as obama did with wright. obama gets a slide because of race. imagine if your wrote up a page of apologist nonsense defending a candidate who called a minister who gave awards and praise to the grand dragon of the kkk his spiritual advisor for years. i'm sorry, its just not excusable. like it or not the truth is obama grew up after dr king, not before, associating with extremists so recently doesn't reflect well on his character. he had the option of leaving or if he had the leadership skills he is claiming, change the church. but he did neither.
and of course obama has serious character issues. The reverend wright issue is not behind us. When he thought no one was looking he decided to spend his time with extremists. Reverend wright has said things that are quite horrible, and obama called this man a spiritual advisor for a long long time and exposed his children to that man. a man so bent that he called reverend Farrakhan a known racist antisemite a great man and gave him awards. of course now that it has become politically inconvenient he throws wright under the bus. its funny that he stood by that man in silence those many years. either he tacitly agrees with wrights views or is a moral coward. Mccain was tested before he was anywhere near running for office, he behaves honorably when no one is looking. Obama seems good at acting decent but before he knew eyes were on him he behaved quite differently. i don't trust a man like that.
the nazis's were anti capitalist. National Socialists should be the clue
from the nazi's 25 point platform
7. We demand that the state be charged first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood and way of life for the citizens. If it is impossible to sustain the total population of the State, then the members of foreign nations (non-citizens) are to be expelled from the Reich.
11. That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished.
12. Since every war imposes on the people fearful sacrifices in blood and treasure, all personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as treason to the people. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all trusts.
14. We demand profit-sharing in large industries.
15. We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions.
16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle-class, the immediate communalization of large stores which will be rented cheaply to small tradespeople, and the strongest consideration must be given to ensure that small traders shall deliver the supplies needed by the State, the provinces and municipalities.
17. We demand an agrarian reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the enactment of a law to expropriate the owners without compensation of any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land.
18. We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race.
19. We demand that Roman law, which serves a materialist ordering of the world, be replaced by German common law.
20. In order to make it possible for every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education, and thus the opportunity to reach into positions of leadership, the State must assume the responsibility of organizing thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people. The curricula of all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life. The conception of the State Idea (science of citizenship) must be taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State.
21. The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young.
mccain is pragmatic. he will do what needs to be done once in office and has a firm record of working across the isle. his views on foreign policy were more responsible and realistic. clinton whatever has been said would have been just as pragmatic in foreign policy if following in the footsteps of the first clinton, neither is fringe like obama. i'm not willing to throw our foreign policy for the future under a bus just to get civil unions on a fast track. somethings are more important than others.
russia supported a low level war for years now. there was no peace. who are you kidding.
russia doesn't care about free break away states. look at Chechnya. its all about their own interests and you are a convenient idiot as they used to call apologists for the ussr, i guess they still exist for todays russia.
thats such a cop out. you could say that about all fireworks. they were certainly hiding reality, no one in their right mind expects a live event on this scale to have fake sequences. esp onew here the preparation for supposedly real spectacle was so hyped. we were watching for real results of work, not cgi.
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bingo, consumerist green wash. average person will never get enough use out of those to offset the waste of creating half baked tech/products. the awful truth? whats green? stop buying so much junk!
yea and where do you buy those? i don't mean online, do regular hardware stores carry them? never heard of such a thing. he doesn't supply links thats for sure:(
james mays new show on this type of stuff was rather amusing. the number of licenses you have to get to be able to fly a flying car is quite insane:) he flew in an actual flying car in one episode. design from decades ago.
if you are talking about importing only the very top of the field yes. stealing extraordinary talent, that works. importing massive numbers of simply competent educated workers does the exact opposite. it drives down wages of educated workers through over supply and diminishes the incentive of americans to go into such fields.
thats just unlikely. those attracted to math tend not to have culture/sports as a viable option to begin with.:P anyways, weren't these mathematicians the ones that got us into this credit mess? and well the pictures in the article kind of say it all:P sadly enough. top math folks do have innate skill at the subject like it or not, like how top athletes have some genetic advantage. it is not all hard work. one can get proficient, but one cannot become extraordinary talent at such fields without innate ability. this is the uncomfortable truth. and no amount of culture change or wishing will fix that.
people don't buy a computer to run applications through an emulator:P apple with the ipod shows how they concentrated on what people actually want. the pre ipod mp3 players were a bit like linux. they were designed for techies and couldn't see what was wrong with that. techies might sniff at the countless usability tweaks the ipod system has and thats the problem. a certain blindness. and because ofthis that company ran away with the market. linux popularity has nothing to do with branding. linux is good at certain things. being a home desktop just isn't one of them. techies who live and breath this stuff don't realize they have accumulated thousands of hours of knowledge throughout their lives to be able to use this stuff comfortably and so cannot see a perspective outside of this. and so they wonder why linux is not popular and cannot think of a way to fix it. not everything is best done in open source communities. the example of games has already shown this quite well. if linux were better it would be self evident and people would flock to it. but it isn't. it has to ape its competitors trying to copy interfaces to try to gain market share. it doesn't create something new and innovative to prove its worth to the home user and thats the problem.
but thats false. in the past during the growth of the computer industry there were many different computers and o/s's. many of those companies have gone out of business yes but there was significant competition out there.
wasn't worth the bother it seems.
yup, forced joint ventures to do business in china= being ripped off from the start.
"Sweatshops are the most demeaning, soul crushing places imaginable, and people only work there because their options are either that or death. This is no option at all. The existence of the sweatshop economy is the result of foreign investment interests deliberately influencing local politics and economics in such a way that a large pool of otherwise unemployed people is created who thus have no option *but* to work in a sweatshop." nonsense. china has people flocking over from the country side to work in factories because they are well paid by the standards of where they came from. many go work in factories for a few years and are able to return home and buy a home. frankly something most americans could never imagine being able to do these days. poverty of preindustrialized areas where people worked the land for very little was hardly doing anything good for their souls.
well if we have no right to complain about bad behavior, neither do they. so really where does your position bring you really. you feel good slapping yourself on your back for your moral superiority. its a cheap position that places the most oppressive governments like china where your equivalent post would have landed you in a jail cell to western democracies. its cheap moral relativism.
yup, lefty editors modding conservative comments down, very telling.
oh please, its the same old double standard. your candidate for the PRESIDENCY is unqualified, yet you put absurd standards to the opposition VP candidate. like it or not she had executive experience, as head of leadership she had ultimate responsibility whereas obama had the diffused responsibility of being in legislatures. always someone else to blame or hide behind in that position like it or not. and well, so far she comes ahead in character. obama spent a decade with a hate monger reverend wright. a man who gave unrestrained praise to the likes of antisemited bigots like lewis farrakhan. if obama really stood for everything democrats really thought he did, he would have either stood up to that man, or left that church. instead he stood by him, exposed his children to that man, and called him his spiritual guide. that just doesn't jive, and its revealing what a man does when he thinks no one is watching. and the assumptions made by the left are amazingly arrogant. some people follow bush so intently they have defined the so called "bush doctrine" for themselves. and since they hang out with like minded folk, they think its become gospel. well sorry, thats not how it works. judging her for asking for a more specific question because she didn't have your predefined judgment of bush is just moronic frankly.
well finally a little info from wikipedia. whats disturbing is this cut and paste journalism is hitting all the blogs, and the lack of any real detail is stunning. i guess to cover the lack of research they toss in ipod to stir things up. what kind of solid state memory did this use, how much did the memory cost, how much did the device cost, what sound quality, what audio format...etc etc etc!! blogosphere is failing big time
imagine all the things Gene Roddenberry (startrek) could have "patented". Flat panel monitors, PDAs, hand held electronic devices in general, cellphones, wireless communication, Hypospray/sonoprep, telepresense/net conferencing, voice recognition... its good his patent expired. such patents are a bit absurd.
25k= 5000 gallons of gas at $5 gallon and 150,000 miles range at 30mpg. basically you'll never break even on this environmentally or financially.
i had one of those rio pmp300's. "successful" isnt the term i'd use. it was an interesting gadget, but in real use it was worthless. my original model have 32MB!!! yes, 32 stinking megs, and it sounded quite horrible to boot. nothing about its interface worked well, and it felt cheap to boot even when it was far from being cheap. needless to say it didn't get much use. ipod was the first easy to use mass market player. as for this patent business, yes its just another overly broad patent on the obvious.
well the fastest ssd aren't here yet. so this will be an affordable stop gap. people want performance now as well as in the future. its why there are 400+ dollar video cards. sure you could wait a year or two and it will cost half, but lifes short.
there is no context to heaping unrestrained praise on racist antisemitic bigots. let alone associating yourself as closely as obama did with wright. obama gets a slide because of race. imagine if your wrote up a page of apologist nonsense defending a candidate who called a minister who gave awards and praise to the grand dragon of the kkk his spiritual advisor for years. i'm sorry, its just not excusable. like it or not the truth is obama grew up after dr king, not before, associating with extremists so recently doesn't reflect well on his character. he had the option of leaving or if he had the leadership skills he is claiming, change the church. but he did neither.
and of course obama has serious character issues. The reverend wright issue is not behind us. When he thought no one was looking he decided to spend his time with extremists. Reverend wright has said things that are quite horrible, and obama called this man a spiritual advisor for a long long time and exposed his children to that man. a man so bent that he called reverend Farrakhan a known racist antisemite a great man and gave him awards. of course now that it has become politically inconvenient he throws wright under the bus. its funny that he stood by that man in silence those many years. either he tacitly agrees with wrights views or is a moral coward. Mccain was tested before he was anywhere near running for office, he behaves honorably when no one is looking. Obama seems good at acting decent but before he knew eyes were on him he behaved quite differently. i don't trust a man like that.
the nazis's were anti capitalist. National Socialists should be the clue from the nazi's 25 point platform 7. We demand that the state be charged first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood and way of life for the citizens. If it is impossible to sustain the total population of the State, then the members of foreign nations (non-citizens) are to be expelled from the Reich. 11. That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished. 12. Since every war imposes on the people fearful sacrifices in blood and treasure, all personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as treason to the people. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits. 13. We demand the nationalization of all trusts. 14. We demand profit-sharing in large industries. 15. We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions. 16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle-class, the immediate communalization of large stores which will be rented cheaply to small tradespeople, and the strongest consideration must be given to ensure that small traders shall deliver the supplies needed by the State, the provinces and municipalities. 17. We demand an agrarian reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the enactment of a law to expropriate the owners without compensation of any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land. 18. We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race. 19. We demand that Roman law, which serves a materialist ordering of the world, be replaced by German common law. 20. In order to make it possible for every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education, and thus the opportunity to reach into positions of leadership, the State must assume the responsibility of organizing thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people. The curricula of all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life. The conception of the State Idea (science of citizenship) must be taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State. 21. The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young.
mccain is pragmatic. he will do what needs to be done once in office and has a firm record of working across the isle. his views on foreign policy were more responsible and realistic. clinton whatever has been said would have been just as pragmatic in foreign policy if following in the footsteps of the first clinton, neither is fringe like obama. i'm not willing to throw our foreign policy for the future under a bus just to get civil unions on a fast track. somethings are more important than others.
yup, people are starting to see through his slick marketing image. and mccain is gaining on him. chock up another clinton voter for mccain.
russia supported a low level war for years now. there was no peace. who are you kidding. russia doesn't care about free break away states. look at Chechnya. its all about their own interests and you are a convenient idiot as they used to call apologists for the ussr, i guess they still exist for todays russia.
thats such a cop out. you could say that about all fireworks. they were certainly hiding reality, no one in their right mind expects a live event on this scale to have fake sequences. esp onew here the preparation for supposedly real spectacle was so hyped. we were watching for real results of work, not cgi.