1. Per capita, their population has a lower percentage of skilled workers than the US, hence a lower average IQ. 2. Per capita, Chinese citizens are poorer, by far, than those in the US and cannot afford that new HDTV or car. They'd all like to have them, but can't. 3. A significant percentage of Chinese exports come from sales to the US, those same citizens you would imply are a problem. Without the US China's economy would be in serious trouble.
As for the cpu guys putting the gpu guys out of business... we know how successful Intel has been trying to do just that with their GPU offerings... you expect that to change in the next, say, 10 years? Not likely given their past track record of failure.
You do know that phone companies have had this capability for years, right? They can, and do, pretty much anything they want to the remote platforms in the way of remote pushes of new features/capabilities/apps/etc. The extent of which they can do so will of course vary by model and capabilities of the device, but this should not be news to anyone.
Doesn't necessarily make it right, but not surprising in any event.
Of course the fact that every movie avail on DVD has been out in the theaters already, and reviewed.... and music albums are played on radio stations regularly, and streamed...
Yeah you are right. Walmart is the problem you buy crappy DVD's and music, not you. They absolutely should take back that opened container that you absolutely did not RIP to your media server at home...
Wow! So I guess I should trade in my 35mpg car for a 20mpg car!
Really now, how is this helpful in the least? If I acquire a car that has a higher mpg rating than my current car I am saving MORE gas, so do I really care what happens from 10-20? No.
They can certainly be called to task for anti-competitive trade practices - like not allowing flash thereby creating a situation where untold numbers of companies are forced to modify their websites, drop certain advertisers and and thereby materially affecting Adobe's business.- just so they can use that to enter into the advertising market....
Don't be fooled by the pretty box cover, it's pretty dank and dark inside.
Why should drivers be standard for Linux? Considering that it represents a pretty minuscule percentage of their market it seems to me they are going above and beyond by supporting it at all. On top of that they have "standard" drivers for previous cards.
It's also a materials design problem. Primarily a material design problem. One could argue that you need more funding to design, but that's just twisting the argument to be self serving.
I have to agree. I'm not sure how stating the obvious "that this is "merely an engineering problem at this point" qualifies as insightful.... but I guess the bars been set a lot lower on SD of late;)
What is important about this is NOT the obvious. It's that this should have been SO obvious. The problem with a cannon is one of "runway" if you will. Building a cannon above ground introduces huge amounts of engineering hurdles, much like building bigger and bigger buildings so oh on the scale of 3x what we have now. Put a cannon in the water however! Wala, relative density starts working for you, you can feasibly build a device that can be sustained at long lengths that can build acceleration in the package over the tube distance.
What I want to know is why we didn't think of this before.
Congratulations on CES purchasing controlling rights to the Venetian and Palazzo hotels such that they can control what you can or cannot do in your rented suite! What's next, you won't be able to fly into Vegas unless you have a CES badge?
It's not about whether or not a developer can administer his or her machine, it's about security (or should be). Local admin rights are removed from users in order to protect the machine AND the organization from attack. Developers should be an exception, but not on their corporate boxes if at all possible. Developers are NOT IT staff or security experts, normally, and assuming they are is making the same kind of mistake companies make all the time when allowing users (which developers are) more rights than they require to peform their jobs.
Developers can just as easily test their code in sandbox environments that don't make the network more vulnerable to attack.
Abolutely agree with you. And I'm not a proponent of just going in willy nilly. I'm just stating the obvious - that they have to be removed, one way or the other, before we can be safe - and it won't be easy. While they don't care about the value of life we do, and that means taking care in how we eliminate the threat.
Bruce tries to make a case that "movie theater" attacks are all the government plans for and that in some way we OVERPLAN and think about such attacks. He also states that we need better intelligence and to look at the "little stuff" and be smarter about security, sure that makes sense. But movie theater attacks are over emphasized?
Bruce, here's where you are missing the point. On 911 the largest "movie theater" attack ever was executed. Do you think this was a fluke? Do you not think that they'd do this again, every day, if they could? You my friend are missing the point. Sure, smaller types of attacks are likely to be more common, but not nearly as impactful. You miss the forest for the trees. Preventing another 911 is top priority. 911 killed thousands, greatly disrupted the world economy and led to even further deaths and destruction due to necessasary retaliation.
Don't get so caught up in the little stuff that you miss the bigger picture. We can't afford another 911.
Give them something to care about? And exactly what might that be? You make an interesting quip but don't provide anything to support it, that's not wisdom it's foolishness. Foolishness get's people killed.
Here's my take. There are two types of terrorists, 1) the fanatical leaders with an agenda and 2) the recruits who, through the use of peer pressure and brainwashing, are made into the cannon fodder. The second can be stopped but only if the first are eliminated. Yes, eliminated. Why? Because these people don't want ANYTHING from us other than our deaths. That is their world view, their religion, their paradigm. Not until we are all dead will they rest. To stop them they must be eliminated. Ruthlessly and without mercy.
Luckily there's a lot less of the number 1s than there are number 2s. The problem is finding them. Until such time we need to be dilligent and face the fact that they do nothing other than hide and plan ways to kill us. Expect the unexpected and plan for it, that is the key to security of our nation and our allies.
This isn't a yes or no answer. If you are an ass-hole manager who is constantly checking to see how far along your coder is, then you should probably get your ass home and leave him/her free to think and work. If you are supportive, can add value - even if it's to say "hey, I'm here if you need me", grab the pizza, stock the sodas in the fridge, whatever - then you should hang. Knowing that you are there to back them up can be very helpful.
You have to know what kind of manager you are and how your team feels about you, then you can answer your own question.
You know, based on your logic, I have come to a realization! In reality NOTHING is "ownable". Really, consider. Everything is essentially comprised of atoms of one sort or another. Can you "own" an atom? A molecule? NO, the ideal is absurd! So really how can you own ANYTHING???
I mean, it's all just a string of molecules right?
Of course I might have a problem if I take your stuff cause you'd probably be pretty upset, and if you have a special configuration of molecules commonly referred to as a gun, you might just use it on me. Of course I won't understand why, I mean how can you be upset that I took your molecules?
How about another idea. Why don't you stop paying your bills. Why should you have to pay for those silly electrons that flow across the special configuration of molecules called a wire? Or why pay for that stream of numbers called a digital broadcast, it's just not right!
I have to thank you for opening my eyes. I can't believe I've been so blind all this time.
I've got an idea for you ATT to resolve your "network problems"... upgrade the fucking thing. You've had a POS network for years, it's no wonder it's struggling.
Nothing has bothered me more since I moved to an iPhone than the fact I had to move off Verizon and onto ATT's network. Why Apple chose to work with ATT is beyond me, it's been the single biggest flaw in the solution since it's inception.
How about everything? If I don't' want to share my code what gives you the right to take it without my consent? I find it hard to believe that there are people out there that would promote the theft of the work of others and try to imply some sort of nobility about the act, as if by not sharing you are somehow a lesser person.
I'd suggest that by not doing your own work, yourself, and expecting others to provide it that YOU are the lesser person not the originator.
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A few things you are missing in your "analysis".
1. Per capita, their population has a lower percentage of skilled workers than the US, hence a lower average IQ.
2. Per capita, Chinese citizens are poorer, by far, than those in the US and cannot afford that new HDTV or car. They'd all like to have them, but can't.
3. A significant percentage of Chinese exports come from sales to the US, those same citizens you would imply are a problem. Without the US China's economy would be in serious trouble.
They are called, specifically, FPU's not FP's.
As for the cpu guys putting the gpu guys out of business... we know how successful Intel has been trying to do just that with their GPU offerings... you expect that to change in the next, say, 10 years? Not likely given their past track record of failure.
Curious.
You do know that phone companies have had this capability for years, right? They can, and do, pretty much anything they want to the remote platforms in the way of remote pushes of new features/capabilities/apps/etc. The extent of which they can do so will of course vary by model and capabilities of the device, but this should not be news to anyone.
Doesn't necessarily make it right, but not surprising in any event.
So you don't think Google's professional and you think that the things they do are random? Interesting....
Of course the fact that every movie avail on DVD has been out in the theaters already, and reviewed.... and music albums are played on radio stations regularly, and streamed...
Yeah you are right. Walmart is the problem you buy crappy DVD's and music, not you. They absolutely should take back that opened container that you absolutely did not RIP to your media server at home...
Please...
Wow! So I guess I should trade in my 35mpg car for a 20mpg car!
Really now, how is this helpful in the least? If I acquire a car that has a higher mpg rating than my current car I am saving MORE gas, so do I really care what happens from 10-20? No.
It's called "Pacing" but you were probably too young to know.
They followed you for a distance to get your speed.
Light bulbs work because they are filled with an inert gas NOT air. So your analogy does not apply here.
They can certainly be called to task for anti-competitive trade practices - like not allowing flash thereby creating a situation where untold numbers of companies are forced to modify their websites, drop certain advertisers and and thereby materially affecting Adobe's business.- just so they can use that to enter into the advertising market....
Don't be fooled by the pretty box cover, it's pretty dank and dark inside.
Why should drivers be standard for Linux? Considering that it represents a pretty minuscule percentage of their market it seems to me they are going above and beyond by supporting it at all. On top of that they have "standard" drivers for previous cards.
Seems to me they are doing the right thing.
Neither does your mom's! Shazam!
It's also a materials design problem. Primarily a material design problem. One could argue that you need more funding to design, but that's just twisting the argument to be self serving.
I have to agree. I'm not sure how stating the obvious "that this is "merely an engineering problem at this point" qualifies as insightful.... but I guess the bars been set a lot lower on SD of late ;)
What is important about this is NOT the obvious. It's that this should have been SO obvious. The problem with a cannon is one of "runway" if you will. Building a cannon above ground introduces huge amounts of engineering hurdles, much like building bigger and bigger buildings so oh on the scale of 3x what we have now. Put a cannon in the water however! Wala, relative density starts working for you, you can feasibly build a device that can be sustained at long lengths that can build acceleration in the package over the tube distance.
What I want to know is why we didn't think of this before.
Congratulations on CES purchasing controlling rights to the Venetian and Palazzo hotels such that they can control what you can or cannot do in your rented suite! What's next, you won't be able to fly into Vegas unless you have a CES badge?
Translation:
"I have no friends to link on Facebook and neither should you"
It's not about whether or not a developer can administer his or her machine, it's about security (or should be). Local admin rights are removed from users in order to protect the machine AND the organization from attack. Developers should be an exception, but not on their corporate boxes if at all possible. Developers are NOT IT staff or security experts, normally, and assuming they are is making the same kind of mistake companies make all the time when allowing users (which developers are) more rights than they require to peform their jobs.
Developers can just as easily test their code in sandbox environments that don't make the network more vulnerable to attack.
Abolutely agree with you. And I'm not a proponent of just going in willy nilly. I'm just stating the obvious - that they have to be removed, one way or the other, before we can be safe - and it won't be easy. While they don't care about the value of life we do, and that means taking care in how we eliminate the threat.
Bruce tries to make a case that "movie theater" attacks are all the government plans for and that in some way we OVERPLAN and think about such attacks. He also states that we need better intelligence and to look at the "little stuff" and be smarter about security, sure that makes sense. But movie theater attacks are over emphasized?
Bruce, here's where you are missing the point. On 911 the largest "movie theater" attack ever was executed. Do you think this was a fluke? Do you not think that they'd do this again, every day, if they could? You my friend are missing the point. Sure, smaller types of attacks are likely to be more common, but not nearly as impactful. You miss the forest for the trees. Preventing another 911 is top priority. 911 killed thousands, greatly disrupted the world economy and led to even further deaths and destruction due to necessasary retaliation.
Don't get so caught up in the little stuff that you miss the bigger picture. We can't afford another 911.
Give them something to care about? And exactly what might that be? You make an interesting quip but don't provide anything to support it, that's not wisdom it's foolishness. Foolishness get's people killed.
Here's my take. There are two types of terrorists, 1) the fanatical leaders with an agenda and 2) the recruits who, through the use of peer pressure and brainwashing, are made into the cannon fodder. The second can be stopped but only if the first are eliminated. Yes, eliminated. Why? Because these people don't want ANYTHING from us other than our deaths. That is their world view, their religion, their paradigm. Not until we are all dead will they rest. To stop them they must be eliminated. Ruthlessly and without mercy.
Luckily there's a lot less of the number 1s than there are number 2s. The problem is finding them. Until such time we need to be dilligent and face the fact that they do nothing other than hide and plan ways to kill us. Expect the unexpected and plan for it, that is the key to security of our nation and our allies.
This isn't a yes or no answer. If you are an ass-hole manager who is constantly checking to see how far along your coder is, then you should probably get your ass home and leave him/her free to think and work. If you are supportive, can add value - even if it's to say "hey, I'm here if you need me", grab the pizza, stock the sodas in the fridge, whatever - then you should hang. Knowing that you are there to back them up can be very helpful.
You have to know what kind of manager you are and how your team feels about you, then you can answer your own question.
Go see Avatar in 3D and come back and say that 3D isn't worthwhile.
You know, based on your logic, I have come to a realization! In reality NOTHING is "ownable". Really, consider. Everything is essentially comprised of atoms of one sort or another. Can you "own" an atom? A molecule? NO, the ideal is absurd! So really how can you own ANYTHING???
I mean, it's all just a string of molecules right?
Of course I might have a problem if I take your stuff cause you'd probably be pretty upset, and if you have a special configuration of molecules commonly referred to as a gun, you might just use it on me. Of course I won't understand why, I mean how can you be upset that I took your molecules?
How about another idea. Why don't you stop paying your bills. Why should you have to pay for those silly electrons that flow across the special configuration of molecules called a wire? Or why pay for that stream of numbers called a digital broadcast, it's just not right!
I have to thank you for opening my eyes. I can't believe I've been so blind all this time.
I've got an idea for you ATT to resolve your "network problems"... upgrade the fucking thing. You've had a POS network for years, it's no wonder it's struggling.
Nothing has bothered me more since I moved to an iPhone than the fact I had to move off Verizon and onto ATT's network. Why Apple chose to work with ATT is beyond me, it's been the single biggest flaw in the solution since it's inception.
Let me translate your post for you so others can better comprehend:
"This makes no sense (blah blah blah)... or you can just believe in theft and ignore laws entirely.
How about everything? If I don't' want to share my code what gives you the right to take it without my consent? I find it hard to believe that there are people out there that would promote the theft of the work of others and try to imply some sort of nobility about the act, as if by not sharing you are somehow a lesser person.
I'd suggest that by not doing your own work, yourself, and expecting others to provide it that YOU are the lesser person not the originator.