Welcome to the "free" post cold-war western society. Watching everybody praise the fall of Berlin's wall yesterday was particularly laughable when everybody is being spied on my the western equivalent of the stasi/kgb/fsb/politburo...
The problem is that People expect Government to fix Government, while Government fucked everything to begin with. This is the same in every western societies, especially in France, where People have lost all responsibilities... or actually, they have been raised that way, thinking that Government is the answer to all the problem create by... Government... So heads after heads, nothing is changing, every new head lead People to false hope, and the circle continues. In the mean time, People are (kept ?) too busy to realize what's going on.
Headlines are supposed to be brief, not redundant. This headline could be chopped in half without losing anything, the second half is just redundant. Just say "President Obama Backs Regulation", or since this is a nerd site, "President Obama Backs Regulation of.+".
If Obama had his way, he wouldn't go through Congress for anything. Even the Congress goes beyond its prerogative through wide interpretation of the constitutional Commerce Clause. The level of authoritative, unconstitutional, power each part of the federal government goes with is amazing...
No. I'm gonna think about your remarks, and eventually come with counter arguments about why I did things the way I did.
I have been on the other side of the fence, ie. being looked at by uptight people who thought they were right because they were older than me, and they ended up wrong. As well, I have stopped contributing to many open-source projects because the old guard always wants to be right and discarded any input from people without the right email domain.
I have family who ended up working in *large* billions dollars tech company after having been bought. Their comment goes pretty much on the same way as the blog post. The company itself is so big, and has a so large customer base that every piece of shit software they will produce will generate sales and millions dollars in revenue... but it doesn't change the fact it's P.O.S. software nobody will likely ever use.
You can have huge revenue, but end up so much in debt, if you sell everything as a loss, that you have to declare bankruptcy... This is the core of the problem, Amazon is so aggressive with prices that it almost don't break even. If you cared to read the article, I wouldn't feel safe knowing that all amazon execs are jumping ship by selling their stocks...
Why does it matter ? If the opinion was from a New York Times journalist, nobody would have cared about the author, and the message would have been discussed following everyone belief on the NY Times. Here, it's a nobody giving an opinion, and he is judged as a nobody, rather than being judged on the content.
This is all intellectual laziness. You are judging the content following the fame (and political orientation) or the author/support publishing it. You have lost all critical sense. If something get published by an author/support you have affinity with, you're gonna like it, if you don't have affinity with the support, you're gonna dislike it.
It is not only a bandwidth issue. If you take an uncompressed 1080p streamed on IP-over-pigeon, the bandwidth can be incredibly high, but the latency sucks. As such, once I get a 512GB SD, I can only watch so much content. To complement my previous comment, I generally get a lot of buffering with European content streamed to the west coast (about 180ms RTT). These link are typically both low bandwidth and high latency (compared to local content).
There is only so much technology can provide. Wide scale fiber deployment will likely cost billions if not more, and even as it is deployed, 64K will have replaced 16K which will have replaced 4K. At this point, it is more a matter of whether or not you truly need 4K video...
I disagree. Each time I encounter a buffering event during a video playback, it pisses me off.... even if my video consumption is mostly youtube/streaming.
The "future" argument is irrelevant. Nobody could have predicted HD streaming 5 years ago. Technologies are merely reactive to people's need and behavior. The problem is there is many cases where I don't want a general purpose tool good at nothing. You are yourself being hypocrite on the subject. You want both low-latency tele-conference, and a general tool. Both are mutually exclusive.
If the problem was only economical, there wouldn't be a problem nowadays for a new launch vehicle to go to Mars. The $6 billions NASA budget in 1966 would be equivalent to $43 billions today. Even at FY 2013 budget, $17 billions, assuming the R&D had already been done, documented, and tooling still exist, the saturn launch vehicle could easily be re-made. But strangely, it could not. you are also disproved by the fact the NASA engineer have only been testing the Rocketdyne F-1 engine quite... recently... http://www.nasa.gov/exploratio...
Let's face it, the US space program is not what it used to be, but hey, if you like to live in the past, good for you:-/
Actually, no, it would seem the US were finally able to re-manufacture FOGBANK after 10 years and nearly $100 millions spent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
AFAIK, today, even the US is back to the pre-1970 era. IIRC, NASA has lost knowledge about the Saturn's engine. Even in the nuclear domain, the industrial knowledge on how to produce some critical element of nuclear warhead has been lost.
Low blood sugar is actually something perfectly natural, and most of us, even the fittest have enough fat stored to cope with it. If you start to need to monitor your blood sugar to be in a good mood, you really need to grow some skin...
It's actually the same design as the newly build RD-180 which has been used successfully so far by the Atlas rockets. Though, the antares rockets just use repurposed and upgraded NK-33.
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Welcome to the "free" post cold-war western society. Watching everybody praise the fall of Berlin's wall yesterday was particularly laughable when everybody is being spied on my the western equivalent of the stasi/kgb/fsb/politburo...
The problem is that People expect Government to fix Government, while Government fucked everything to begin with. This is the same in every western societies, especially in France, where People have lost all responsibilities... or actually, they have been raised that way, thinking that Government is the answer to all the problem create by... Government... So heads after heads, nothing is changing, every new head lead People to false hope, and the circle continues. In the mean time, People are (kept ?) too busy to realize what's going on.
Headlines are supposed to be brief, not redundant. This headline could be chopped in half without losing anything, the second half is just redundant. Just say "President Obama Backs Regulation", or since this is a nerd site, "President Obama Backs Regulation of .+".
FTFY.
If Obama had his way, he wouldn't go through Congress for anything. Even the Congress goes beyond its prerogative through wide interpretation of the constitutional Commerce Clause. The level of authoritative, unconstitutional, power each part of the federal government goes with is amazing...
No. I'm gonna think about your remarks, and eventually come with counter arguments about why I did things the way I did.
I have been on the other side of the fence, ie. being looked at by uptight people who thought they were right because they were older than me, and they ended up wrong. As well, I have stopped contributing to many open-source projects because the old guard always wants to be right and discarded any input from people without the right email domain.
I have family who ended up working in *large* billions dollars tech company after having been bought. Their comment goes pretty much on the same way as the blog post. The company itself is so big, and has a so large customer base that every piece of shit software they will produce will generate sales and millions dollars in revenue... but it doesn't change the fact it's P.O.S. software nobody will likely ever use.
You can have huge revenue, but end up so much in debt, if you sell everything as a loss, that you have to declare bankruptcy... This is the core of the problem, Amazon is so aggressive with prices that it almost don't break even. If you cared to read the article, I wouldn't feel safe knowing that all amazon execs are jumping ship by selling their stocks...
Why does it matter ? If the opinion was from a New York Times journalist, nobody would have cared about the author, and the message would have been discussed following everyone belief on the NY Times. Here, it's a nobody giving an opinion, and he is judged as a nobody, rather than being judged on the content.
This is all intellectual laziness. You are judging the content following the fame (and political orientation) or the author/support publishing it. You have lost all critical sense. If something get published by an author/support you have affinity with, you're gonna like it, if you don't have affinity with the support, you're gonna dislike it.
They're barely making any profit at all... http://www.ibtimes.com/amazon-...
Money, certainly, but not profit. http://www.ibtimes.com/amazon-...
It is not only a bandwidth issue. If you take an uncompressed 1080p streamed on IP-over-pigeon, the bandwidth can be incredibly high, but the latency sucks. As such, once I get a 512GB SD, I can only watch so much content. To complement my previous comment, I generally get a lot of buffering with European content streamed to the west coast (about 180ms RTT). These link are typically both low bandwidth and high latency (compared to local content).
There is only so much technology can provide. Wide scale fiber deployment will likely cost billions if not more, and even as it is deployed, 64K will have replaced 16K which will have replaced 4K. At this point, it is more a matter of whether or not you truly need 4K video...
I disagree. Each time I encounter a buffering event during a video playback, it pisses me off.... even if my video consumption is mostly youtube/streaming.
The "future" argument is irrelevant. Nobody could have predicted HD streaming 5 years ago. Technologies are merely reactive to people's need and behavior. The problem is there is many cases where I don't want a general purpose tool good at nothing. You are yourself being hypocrite on the subject. You want both low-latency tele-conference, and a general tool. Both are mutually exclusive.
"simplicity and security" are merely excuses to compensate for the lack of manpower.
Obviously, not the average US raised kid.
cf. http://amyshirateitel.com/2011...
If the problem was only economical, there wouldn't be a problem nowadays for a new launch vehicle to go to Mars. The $6 billions NASA budget in 1966 would be equivalent to $43 billions today. Even at FY 2013 budget, $17 billions, assuming the R&D had already been done, documented, and tooling still exist, the saturn launch vehicle could easily be re-made. But strangely, it could not. you are also disproved by the fact the NASA engineer have only been testing the Rocketdyne F-1 engine quite... recently... http://www.nasa.gov/exploratio...
Let's face it, the US space program is not what it used to be, but hey, if you like to live in the past, good for you :-/
Your analogy would be correct if the US were capable to build Saturn rockets, which is NOT the case. http://amyshirateitel.com/2011...
Actually, no, it would seem the US were finally able to re-manufacture FOGBANK after 10 years and nearly $100 millions spent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
AFAIK, today, even the US is back to the pre-1970 era. IIRC, NASA has lost knowledge about the Saturn's engine. Even in the nuclear domain, the industrial knowledge on how to produce some critical element of nuclear warhead has been lost.
Low blood sugar is actually something perfectly natural, and most of us, even the fittest have enough fat stored to cope with it. If you start to need to monitor your blood sugar to be in a good mood, you really need to grow some skin...
Space shuttle don't have a perfect track record either...
This is BS. The engines have been re-purposed by the Aerojet, a US company.
Lockheed-Martin's Atlas have been performing well so far and are just as privately funded as Orbital Sciences Corporation.
It's actually the same design as the newly build RD-180 which has been used successfully so far by the Atlas rockets. Though, the antares rockets just use repurposed and upgraded NK-33.