He's managed to paint the government as a corrupt agency of fat-cat Democrats, by ignoring the measurable good of government programs and focusing only on how much they cost.
Is that worse than ignoring the cost and focusing only on the measurable good of government programs?
Maybe we need to operate on his premise for a few decades instead of continuing to operate on yours.
(hint: In the United States, the governments spends more per household than the median income of households)
But if he is not part of the segment that pays more in taxes than the value they derive from them, then its a net win. Most of the people in this country fit this description, and either don't realize it or are self-motivated not to complain about the injustice they benefit from. I'm not talking about the poor here. The government (federal + state + local) spends more per household than the median household income (50% of the households couldn't even pay their fair share if they dedicated every penny of their income to it.)
Indeed. The thing to keep in mind is that originally patents did not cover the stuff inside products but instead the methods of making products. The idea was that a company could get a time-limited exclusive right to use a specific manufacturing improvement (efficiency, etc) if they made that improvement public knowledge.
Its still optional, and in fact some companies specifically do not patent some of their manufacturing techniques in order to keep them a secret (so called "trade secrets").. Intel is in fact one such company that purposely does not patent everything in order to keep some things secret. They patent enough of their techniques to block other companies from using the same process, but they dont actually confirm the precise methodology they use.
HTC's problems werent from Microsoft.. HTC was the target of the opening salvo of mobile patent lawsuits, initiated by Apple.
When the first wave of the mobile lawsuit armageddon geared up, the three companies distinctly absent from either end of these lawsuits were Google, Palm, and Microsoft (citation.)
To accuse Microsoft of being somehow a big offender is ignoring the history of these battles. Patent lawsuits wasn't how Microsoft operated, and to a large extent still isn't because nearly every lawsuit that targets Microsoft or is initiated by Microsoft ends in a (cross)licensing deal rather than a judgment and that includes Microsoft taking the short end of it (ex: licensing from Acacia Research.)
I do understand that Microsoft is one of the only companies that have gone after Linux, and its probably unforgivable, but that doesnt make them one of the big offenders in mobile patent lawsuits. Making that claim just doesnt hold up to reality.
The war was started by Apple. I wouldn't classify them as a patent troll.. just a patent abuser. Prior to Apple there was an understanding that everyone in the mobile business was guilty of patent infringement so nobody should press the issue. Then Apple came along and pressed anyways...
Now Apple is involved in something like 60% of the patent lawsuits. There were some mobile patent disputes before Apple got involved, but it was never two manufacturers duking it out.. it was always patent holding companies (the trolls) vs a manufacturer.
It was a pretty good bet that a video patent violation claim would not stick to Microsoft since they not only license H.263 and H.264 but also contributed 39 (just on H.264) patents to the consortium.
The claim was essentially that MPEG-LA didn't cover its ass with the many hundreds of patents it had collected on each, which is doubtful when one of the only motives that MPEG-LA used when determining the standard was that the methods used be patented and contributed to the consortium.
Honestly I've never seen the value in multiple monitors.
Everyone stopped reading right here. Seriously.
More pixels for less money than single monitor solutions. You were talking about value, right? Then why is it that you didnt even try the value calculation?
Do you think automated parsing of an email to target ads is "reading your private emails"?
No, but I think automated parsing of an email and storing the information in a persistent database entry that corresponds specifically to me to target ads not just next to the email but every time I visit any service that uses Google advertising is "reading my private fucking emails."
Stop apologizing for Google.
There are two schools of thought: (A) its acceptable, and (B) its unacceptable. Thats it. Thats all there is.
Notice that there is no (C) they arent spying, because thats a fucking lie.
I think many people are in support of third party authentication semantics for non-critical sites..
Even though ultimately facebook is probably a bad choice for it, what else is so ubiquitous as to be a reasonable option that also doesnt suffer the same essential problems (certainly not a google account?)
1) Hardware component manufacturers don't provide updated drivers. Many of them are binary blobs that aren't compatible with newer kernel/Android versions.
There is certainly room for a debate between binary blobs vs source code, but no matter how that argument plays out the breaking of binary compatibility is an inefficiency. If its happening often then somebody is making bad decisions.
(disclaimer: I do not own any "smart" mobile devices at all.. my phone is just a phone, and tablets don't solve any of my problems)
The difference is that the idea of a scram jet came well before the implementations because the idea was theoretically sound. The theory preceded the implementation.
This device, on the other hand, seems to be an implementation before there is a theory of how it could possibly work in a vacuum. In other words, we should most certainly be skeptical of what the supposed observed results mean because it simply doesnt make any theoretical sense that it would work in a vacuum.
Consider the team that reported faster-than-light neutrinos (a project known as OPERA.) Turned out to just be a measurement error.
Offer a separate "dongle" for anybody who doesn't have a smart phone and you are set.
The thing you myopic twits dont seem to get is that most people do not have a smart phone so these silly arguments of yours are bullshit that don't mean anything.
To open some eyes, the PassMark G3D scores for various parts are:
Intel HD 3000 - 318
NVidia GT 610 - 340
Intel HD 4000 - 470
NVidia 8800GT - 759 (a card many slashdotters should be familiar with due to its extreme price/performance dominance upon release in 2007)
NVidia GTX 650 - 1799 (a current low TDP desktop card, currently ~$110 on NewEgg)
Radeon HD 7770 - 2112 (a current low TDP desktop card, currently ~$120 on NewEgg)
You don't seem to realize that this is exactly what we are talking about. Cutting out the Saturday delivery enables cost savings by reducing the number of man-hours sunk delivering the mail. This is a downsize.
Volume really is down. Fewer and fewer people use the postal service. The proposed idea ($5 opt-out) reduces demand even further by also reducing the volume of junk mail, so more downsizing would be inevitable unless we want to swallow increased inefficiency as a jobs program.
These things are neither good nor bad. They can be bad, and they can be good.
Inefficiency is bad and efficiency is good.
When even a gov't job is subject to layoffs and there is no job security ANYWHERE we have truly failed.
Hey, lets have them dig holes this week, then fill up the holes next week. We can repeat this process forever and we can also parallelize it in order to give everyone a job. if we do this then we have truly not failed and there would be complete job security.
When you are done with not thinking about reality, go ahead and post again.
For myself and all the Steam users that I know personally, this wouldn't actually be fast enough for any of the games they play.
Indeed. The TF2 rendering engine is from 2004. Some will say that its received updates since then, but that just makes it a DX8-level (fixed function pipeline) engine with some sugar coating.
If TF2 is running poorly on this hardware, then its bad gaming hardware. If you want to build a cheap gaming box using integrated graphics then an AMD A-series processor in the ~$100 range, with an FM2 motherboard in the ~$60 range is probably the best choice.
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He's managed to paint the government as a corrupt agency of fat-cat Democrats, by ignoring the measurable good of government programs and focusing only on how much they cost.
Is that worse than ignoring the cost and focusing only on the measurable good of government programs?
Maybe we need to operate on his premise for a few decades instead of continuing to operate on yours.
(hint: In the United States, the governments spends more per household than the median income of households)
But if he is not part of the segment that pays more in taxes than the value they derive from them, then its a net win. Most of the people in this country fit this description, and either don't realize it or are self-motivated not to complain about the injustice they benefit from. I'm not talking about the poor here. The government (federal + state + local) spends more per household than the median household income (50% of the households couldn't even pay their fair share if they dedicated every penny of their income to it.)
Yes. they operated one of these early cash registers.
Note the distinct lack of a 3x3 grid of numbers 1 through 9, because these cash registers were mechanical not digital.
Indeed. The thing to keep in mind is that originally patents did not cover the stuff inside products but instead the methods of making products. The idea was that a company could get a time-limited exclusive right to use a specific manufacturing improvement (efficiency, etc) if they made that improvement public knowledge.
.. Intel is in fact one such company that purposely does not patent everything in order to keep some things secret. They patent enough of their techniques to block other companies from using the same process, but they dont actually confirm the precise methodology they use.
Its still optional, and in fact some companies specifically do not patent some of their manufacturing techniques in order to keep them a secret (so called "trade secrets")
OMG someone on slashdot that understands the scope of patents. Unreal.
HTC's problems werent from Microsoft.. HTC was the target of the opening salvo of mobile patent lawsuits, initiated by Apple.
When the first wave of the mobile lawsuit armageddon geared up, the three companies distinctly absent from either end of these lawsuits were Google, Palm, and Microsoft (citation.)
To accuse Microsoft of being somehow a big offender is ignoring the history of these battles. Patent lawsuits wasn't how Microsoft operated, and to a large extent still isn't because nearly every lawsuit that targets Microsoft or is initiated by Microsoft ends in a (cross)licensing deal rather than a judgment and that includes Microsoft taking the short end of it (ex: licensing from Acacia Research.)
I do understand that Microsoft is one of the only companies that have gone after Linux, and its probably unforgivable, but that doesnt make them one of the big offenders in mobile patent lawsuits. Making that claim just doesnt hold up to reality.
The war was started by Apple. I wouldn't classify them as a patent troll.. just a patent abuser. Prior to Apple there was an understanding that everyone in the mobile business was guilty of patent infringement so nobody should press the issue. Then Apple came along and pressed anyways...
Now Apple is involved in something like 60% of the patent lawsuits. There were some mobile patent disputes before Apple got involved, but it was never two manufacturers duking it out.. it was always patent holding companies (the trolls) vs a manufacturer.
It was a pretty good bet that a video patent violation claim would not stick to Microsoft since they not only license H.263 and H.264 but also contributed 39 (just on H.264) patents to the consortium.
The claim was essentially that MPEG-LA didn't cover its ass with the many hundreds of patents it had collected on each, which is doubtful when one of the only motives that MPEG-LA used when determining the standard was that the methods used be patented and contributed to the consortium.
Honestly I've never seen the value in multiple monitors.
Everyone stopped reading right here. Seriously.
More pixels for less money than single monitor solutions. You were talking about value, right? Then why is it that you didnt even try the value calculation?
You sort of dont know how hibernate works.
Indeed, just because Google CAN play the censorship tool of the government doesn't mean it SHOULD play the censorship tool of the government.
Note to FBI annd SS: The above poster should be suspect #1
Lets not kid ourselves, he is guilty of something so let the investigation commence.
Do you think automated parsing of an email to target ads is "reading your private emails"?
No, but I think automated parsing of an email and storing the information in a persistent database entry that corresponds specifically to me to target ads not just next to the email but every time I visit any service that uses Google advertising is "reading my private fucking emails."
Stop apologizing for Google.
There are two schools of thought: (A) its acceptable, and (B) its unacceptable. Thats it. Thats all there is.
Notice that there is no (C) they arent spying, because thats a fucking lie.
Indeed.
I think many people are in support of third party authentication semantics for non-critical sites..
Even though ultimately facebook is probably a bad choice for it, what else is so ubiquitous as to be a reasonable option that also doesnt suffer the same essential problems (certainly not a google account?)
1) Hardware component manufacturers don't provide updated drivers. Many of them are binary blobs that aren't compatible with newer kernel/Android versions.
There is certainly room for a debate between binary blobs vs source code, but no matter how that argument plays out the breaking of binary compatibility is an inefficiency. If its happening often then somebody is making bad decisions.
(disclaimer: I do not own any "smart" mobile devices at all.. my phone is just a phone, and tablets don't solve any of my problems)
Android has only been out for four and a half years.. and you've already accumulated six android devices?
Do they break easily or something?
The hypervisor that runs the constitution was rooted.
The difference is that the idea of a scram jet came well before the implementations because the idea was theoretically sound. The theory preceded the implementation.
This device, on the other hand, seems to be an implementation before there is a theory of how it could possibly work in a vacuum. In other words, we should most certainly be skeptical of what the supposed observed results mean because it simply doesnt make any theoretical sense that it would work in a vacuum.
Consider the team that reported faster-than-light neutrinos (a project known as OPERA.) Turned out to just be a measurement error.
Government work cannot infringe a patent, because the government was kind enough to give itself an exemption.
Offer a separate "dongle" for anybody who doesn't have a smart phone and you are set.
The thing you myopic twits dont seem to get is that most people do not have a smart phone so these silly arguments of yours are bullshit that don't mean anything.
oh, I meant to include a current AMD integrated GPU such as found in their inexpensive A-series APU processors:
Radeon HD 6550D - 683
To open some eyes, the PassMark G3D scores for various parts are:
Intel HD 3000 - 318
NVidia GT 610 - 340
Intel HD 4000 - 470
NVidia 8800GT - 759 (a card many slashdotters should be familiar with due to its extreme price/performance dominance upon release in 2007)
NVidia GTX 650 - 1799 (a current low TDP desktop card, currently ~$110 on NewEgg)
Radeon HD 7770 - 2112 (a current low TDP desktop card, currently ~$120 on NewEgg)
Downsizing due to a lack of volume is fine.
You don't seem to realize that this is exactly what we are talking about. Cutting out the Saturday delivery enables cost savings by reducing the number of man-hours sunk delivering the mail. This is a downsize.
Volume really is down. Fewer and fewer people use the postal service. The proposed idea ($5 opt-out) reduces demand even further by also reducing the volume of junk mail, so more downsizing would be inevitable unless we want to swallow increased inefficiency as a jobs program.
Downsizing is good? Layoffs are good?
These things are neither good nor bad. They can be bad, and they can be good.
Inefficiency is bad and efficiency is good.
When even a gov't job is subject to layoffs and there is no job security ANYWHERE we have truly failed.
Hey, lets have them dig holes this week, then fill up the holes next week. We can repeat this process forever and we can also parallelize it in order to give everyone a job. if we do this then we have truly not failed and there would be complete job security.
When you are done with not thinking about reality, go ahead and post again.
For myself and all the Steam users that I know personally, this wouldn't actually be fast enough for any of the games they play.
Indeed. The TF2 rendering engine is from 2004. Some will say that its received updates since then, but that just makes it a DX8-level (fixed function pipeline) engine with some sugar coating.
If TF2 is running poorly on this hardware, then its bad gaming hardware. If you want to build a cheap gaming box using integrated graphics then an AMD A-series processor in the ~$100 range, with an FM2 motherboard in the ~$60 range is probably the best choice.