Always remember, had Germany not picked on our Mother Great Britain, most people of influence in the USA in 1938 LIKED what Germany was selling. They were disciplined, efficient, and brought order to Europe's petty fighting. The really nasty stuff we didn't find out till much later... I mean, most US people didn't like Jews either. They were still penning up savage Indians, cutting the balls off gays, and making Blacks have their own water fountains as a matter of policy.
My opinion, that any legal foreign residents should leave Arizona NOW! Just plain walk. It would get the point to all those tech companies they won't get ANY help. Who do you think runs those big IT businesses? Which students pay 3x foreign tuition? People have to act when they are attacked. Even if it means taking a short term hit.
No, prices rose because of the shortage... But customers continues to PAY rather than waiting it out, so that means the price was too low.
As the price of HDD went up, that left a gap for SDD to squeeze in. Most companies have horses in both races so they don't mind.
More importantly, as profit margind start to build up, that opens the door for people to get in the game.
In the case of the article, we need another few disasters to happen so that it's PROFITABLE to open computer hardware facilities elsewhere. That means a TEN YEAR future, not momentary spikes in price. There is so much underused hardware out there you could shut the industry down for a YEAR and nobody would notice. Which would create a NEW business in software for old hardware.
That's the case for Apple. They dealt with Microsoft's monopoly so long they just kept looking for a business Microsoft couldn't handle. Now they take in the bucks, but they had to work hard to create that be market... Percisely BECAUSE they almost lost the company.
Companies NEED to die. So they can be reborn or replaced. That's why they shouldn't be allowed to get "too big to fail". Sometimes you have to create a vacuum for services and enough extra profit to make people jump in. All these big tech companies are spending all their time fighting for little bits of turf. Rather than staking out NEW ground.
They already played that game with LGPL drivers and such in locked-down devices that nobody could touch (like the old TiVo battles).
If Devs kept an API for 5 years, then their kernel would just be support for a series of binary blobs hanging off. Nvidia would share their blob info with Intel (under NDA) and intel would share with HP (under NDA) and HP would share with Autodesk... Then Linux would only be "usable" with 90% closed modules.. Kernel devs would be working on the OS for FREE and not getting any intellectual sharing for their trouble.
Not to mention, moving to a new kernel after 5 years that does break things means all the interactions the devs have no way to debug, at that point even third-party software will rely on the closed modules more than open ones. Then the Fevs would NEVER be able to upgrade their OWN work without corporate PERMISSION. Like Microsoft does trying to make win7 run winXP programs... Only without the monopoly money to go with a crappy job.
I work in Midrange stuff and I understand exactly why the Kernel devs are so hard line. In our MRP system, we have a licensed copy of the source code. That code has run on CISC, RISC, and POWER IBM hardware with little input from the manufacturer in 15+ years. 90% of the time the code just needs to be recompiled under the new compiler version. SOMETIMES it as to be touched to change depreciated data types, etc... The box uses Object code, but some things still need the source TOUCHED and without that ability we would have been dead I the water so many times and shut our business down.
Fundamentally, it is a "I'll show mine, you show me yours" thing. Nvidia can download any of the Linux pices THEY need to make drivers work... It's FREE! It becomes "just too bad" that they can't share back. Kernel Devs want to work in Source Code or they will get cornered by the guys like TiVo-ize and don't give the MEANINGFUL parts back to the Devs.
The cornerstone of the issue is that they legally cannot just publish the source to their firmware. They have licenses for OTHER people's IP they have signed agreements to use. So much of what makes the "GPU" work is tied up in software run on the local CPU.
There was a point in the 80's when PCI bus was created that cards were going to have enough of their OWN firmware and smarts they could talk to any type of CPU via API.
The IBM PC wrecked that. First, IBM wanted cheaper systems. Then when Intel and Microsoft took over having cheaper parts where more of the work was done on the CPU (used up cycles) by custom Drivers (tied to the leading OS) became the base model of computing.
That was one reason Apple's PPC add-in boards cost more because they followed the cross-platform hardware specs. They had the proper guts to be used in cross-artecture systems which went extinct about the same time.
The issue with Linux is that Nvidia HAS to keep all this stuff in a BLOB for license sake. But then they have to go through more layers to obfuscate the IP used AND properly follow the license to link to the Linux Kernel.
Kernel Devs won't support because they can't touch it or open up the hood... Nvidia's engineers can't seem to get unstuck from the land of compiling the interfaces themselves... And Linux moves too fast for them to keep up versions.
What they really need ate a handful of Linux Devs they could build a Chinese Wall with. But it has to be in a manner that doesn't require NDA. Linux Kernel Devs don't sign those... You can download their BEST work in the open for free!
That is where the empass lies. Nvidia knows the "Chinese Wall" doesn't really work with guys at the level of Kernel devs... They are clever enough to figure out what you left OUT of the documentation, and that leads to legal trouble with Nvidia's IP partners.
Persepolis is a really good movie about how crazy the middle east became in just the second half of the 1900's. For most of the European Middle Ages Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan were the progressive core of the WORLD. It was late into European Colonialism before the "west" had eclipsed them for sciences, art, history, and civility.
Really the post WW2 world was like the "Fall of Rome" to the West. The rise of Radical Islam is like a modern retro long of the plagues in Europe and the rise if the various Inquisitions. Both the Middle East and Africa are historically in the middle of a cultural "Dark Age" like 1300's Europe.
To draw those comparisons, you realize we might be taking entirely the wrong approach to dealing with them.
There is no framework because the State SPECIFICALLY dismantaled it as a "gun rights" thing. THAT is the point of the article.
Even though there is a ban in the park on campfires which includes securing lawn mowers, BBQs, and even cigarette butts... It DOESN'T apply to guns... Feel free to shoot away!
Of course if we didn't have people with guns, then we could start REMOVING guns from police that do nothing more than write traffic tickets. Then they would be more responsive to resolve situations peacefully and stop shooting unarmed citizens because they are afraid of a little fistfight.
First, the ATF, like all executive agencies is packed with Right wing nuts. Obama's 3 years hasn't changed that.
Planting "false flag" ops was the hallmark of the SOP book written by Cheney for these guys. Don't think for a MINUTE that REPUBLICANS don't want to take YOUR guns away. They are for "gun rights" but only for people on THEIR team.
In my state the gun boards (all LEOs or related) simply wouldn't issue CCW permits to anybody not tied to military or law enforcement or their families... Until the state had to pass a law that said CCW could only be denied for cause.
Republican LEOs want to "under arm" the country by classifying everything except hunting and sport guns as "tactical" weapons.
Besides, the assault gun ban expired so it's basically legal to sell ANYTHING to ANYBODY now if you can get away with it.
But they also were on a county OWNED Bomb Range and took every precaution asked of them by the sheriff in charge. They also carry insurance policies to compensate the homeowner and crew should something go wrong.
So MythBusters is EXACTLY the same as a bunch of guys showing up on public land to shoot their guns.
But failure to put out a campfire, or a careless burning barrell, or throwing a lit cigarette on the ground CAN all be punished. And they ARE punished VERY severely in these states with wildfire problems.
A civil suit would be the way to go. Take names at the incident and hand them over to the 9000 people that had to be evacuated. It was a group that caused the fire without safety measures in place. You just need a court that will allow the case.
Because if I labeled every Microsoft email "spam" in my Gmail would they get blocked for EVERYBODY on Gmail? Obviously each filter list has a SECRET way of keeping high profile organizations from being put on Filter lists no matter how many Slashdot admins try to get Microsoft.com blocked.
So WHO decides to put the Big Guys on that "untouchable" list that are known honest sites? This is the "secret censorship" of the modern corporate-run world. Just find a label like "Gambling" and you shame people from even REPORTING there is an error. The list is private so "facts" have nothing to do with said rating.
The most obvious answer is that a handful of Microsoft fanboy admins submitted the site just to mess with FSF fanboys. These things have all been crowd sourced for years.
Most of these tools us a proprietary list that takes an unknown number of input votes to block something. Then you have to ask very nicely to get off the list that gets published to the masses. It's censorship by the noisiest submitters. It's much like how big websites like yahoo or Engadget keep getting their emails "automatically" blocked by spam filters. A few high influence admins just keep hitting the Spam button on work accounts and 1000 users have to unblock to get it off the spam list.
There IS a process at most of these filter agencies if you grease the right palms, you will get on the mythical "white" list. Whether you are big name sites like Amazon that can bully to keep your name off, or the list runner has a sweet spot for Equestria Daily... But that's a "private list decision"
Craig's list surely is copyright able. Precisely because it constantly changes. Also Congress specifically included "database run sites" under copyright a few years back. Hence one slashdot post would be fair use, but the collection has its own copyright because somebody has to maintain it. Sports stats, musc charts, etc it's all affirmed to be locked down.
How true. When I was hired at McDonald's 20 years ago, you could not have visible tattoos on anybody, any jewelry for men, and women could only have stud earrings (one per ear, no necklaces, etc). The majority of the time hey wouldnt bother to HIRE people that interviewed outside that norm. That was BRAND policy.
Any office job was the same thing. If you got tattoos, they had to cover under tees or you would be wearing long sleeves forever.
Well you only pay tax on PROFIT. Beyond living expenses that's pretty easy to knock down. Of course a good portion of millionaire wealth is held in securities or company ownership and while they may HAVE millions, they only RECIEVE $100k a year that they live off.
That group is where most of the Tea Party crowd is from in my opinion. That $70-$100k a year has went from being RICH in the 90s when they peaked, to being just "better than average" and they have no children, no college to pay, home paid off, so no real deductions... they are single people sitting on a lot of money (when per capita household is $44k)
In most of the country $11 ($22k per year) is an OK factory job. If you have a roommate and marry her, the sex and dating is cheaper and she still pays half the rent. Two jobs at $11 put you at just about the per capita household median (about $44k) in the USA.
Why do you think one auto worker at $19/hr with 60 hr weeks is such a "good thing"? That's almost enough money mom doesn't have to work, or if she does it buys "toys" (or private school, babysitters, second car,etc) They also get pension and health insurance so that makes them terrible greedy bastards!
$11/hr jobs are what the politicians are promising us!!! THAT is the Great Recovery. Even though Romney made minimum "living wage" in Mass. Higher than $11/hr and required you to carry health insurance, he doesn't think. That is the right plan for ALL of America now. When you hear them complain about taxes at $250k being "unfair" remember that HALF of the households operate on $44k or less. THAT is what the 99% thing is all about.
That's almost $60k a year. For retail that's killer. that's average programmer or sys admin pay (that youre going to get without a specific degree) in most of the US. Even for Union Auto workers that pay either takes 60 hour weeks (on the line) or REQUIRES 60 hour weeks min. (welder, carpenter, etc)
The low end is not terrible. That's about what your average entry level PC tech would get. And WAY over mall rat pay. Comparing Tiffany's to Apple is still Apples to.. Golden Apples. Tiffany's is great, but it's the peak of the Shop Girl jobs. (the best you can really hope for is not to get killed by the plastic dummies)
So for a 10am to 9pm job with no specific college required, little overtime, no on call, etc, its pretty good pay. (not for NYC)
All the pieces and parts are hard enough to keep running on a good day. Thing takes weekly downtime just to cycle modules....even simple patches shut your business users out for hours. Upgrading your version and OS shuts your business down for a week just to properly test. Sure you can use Dev boxes an HA, but you have to have ALL the users PROVE IT WORKS. So you waste terrible amounts of their TIME the could be selling stuff!!
And of course, SAP doesn't INSTALL anything THEMSELVES. You have to use some fly-by-night third party. So just like Microsoft, it's YOUR fault when you didn't include hiring an extra $1m per year in employees to run the thing and use all the "secret settings" after they all leave you.
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Always remember, had Germany not picked on our Mother Great Britain, most people of influence in the USA in 1938 LIKED what Germany was selling. They were disciplined, efficient, and brought order to Europe's petty fighting. The really nasty stuff we didn't find out till much later... I mean, most US people didn't like Jews either. They were still penning up savage Indians, cutting the balls off gays, and making Blacks have their own water fountains as a matter of policy.
My opinion, that any legal foreign residents should leave Arizona NOW! Just plain walk. It would get the point to all those tech companies they won't get ANY help. Who do you think runs those big IT businesses? Which students pay 3x foreign tuition? People have to act when they are attacked. Even if it means taking a short term hit.
No, prices rose because of the shortage... But customers continues to PAY rather than waiting it out, so that means the price was too low.
As the price of HDD went up, that left a gap for SDD to squeeze in. Most companies have horses in both races so they don't mind.
More importantly, as profit margind start to build up, that opens the door for people to get in the game.
In the case of the article, we need another few disasters to happen so that it's PROFITABLE to open computer hardware facilities elsewhere. That means a TEN YEAR future, not momentary spikes in price. There is so much underused hardware out there you could shut the industry down for a YEAR and nobody would notice. Which would create a NEW business in software for old hardware.
That's the case for Apple. They dealt with Microsoft's monopoly so long they just kept looking for a business Microsoft couldn't handle. Now they take in the bucks, but they had to work hard to create that be market... Percisely BECAUSE they almost lost the company.
Companies NEED to die. So they can be reborn or replaced. That's why they shouldn't be allowed to get "too big to fail". Sometimes you have to create a vacuum for services and enough extra profit to make people jump in. All these big tech companies are spending all their time fighting for little bits of turf. Rather than staking out NEW ground.
We have this OS... It's called Android. Linux devs washed their hands years ago.
NO, NO, and NO
They already played that game with LGPL drivers and such in locked-down devices that nobody could touch (like the old TiVo battles).
If Devs kept an API for 5 years, then their kernel would just be support for a series of binary blobs hanging off. Nvidia would share their blob info with Intel (under NDA) and intel would share with HP (under NDA) and HP would share with Autodesk... Then Linux would only be "usable" with 90% closed modules.. Kernel devs would be working on the OS for FREE and not getting any intellectual sharing for their trouble.
Not to mention, moving to a new kernel after 5 years that does break things means all the interactions the devs have no way to debug, at that point even third-party software will rely on the closed modules more than open ones. Then the Fevs would NEVER be able to upgrade their OWN work without corporate PERMISSION. Like Microsoft does trying to make win7 run winXP programs... Only without the monopoly money to go with a crappy job.
That is a fundamental Phillosophy problem.
I work in Midrange stuff and I understand exactly why the Kernel devs are so hard line. In our MRP system, we have a licensed copy of the source code. That code has run on CISC, RISC, and POWER IBM hardware with little input from the manufacturer in 15+ years. 90% of the time the code just needs to be recompiled under the new compiler version. SOMETIMES it as to be touched to change depreciated data types, etc... The box uses Object code, but some things still need the source TOUCHED and without that ability we would have been dead I the water so many times and shut our business down.
Fundamentally, it is a "I'll show mine, you show me yours" thing. Nvidia can download any of the Linux pices THEY need to make drivers work... It's FREE! It becomes "just too bad" that they can't share back. Kernel Devs want to work in Source Code or they will get cornered by the guys like TiVo-ize and don't give the MEANINGFUL parts back to the Devs.
The cornerstone of the issue is that they legally cannot just publish the source to their firmware. They have licenses for OTHER people's IP they have signed agreements to use. So much of what makes the "GPU" work is tied up in software run on the local CPU.
There was a point in the 80's when PCI bus was created that cards were going to have enough of their OWN firmware and smarts they could talk to any type of CPU via API.
The IBM PC wrecked that. First, IBM wanted cheaper systems. Then when Intel and Microsoft took over having cheaper parts where more of the work was done on the CPU (used up cycles) by custom Drivers (tied to the leading OS) became the base model of computing.
That was one reason Apple's PPC add-in boards cost more because they followed the cross-platform hardware specs. They had the proper guts to be used in cross-artecture systems which went extinct about the same time.
The issue with Linux is that Nvidia HAS to keep all this stuff in a BLOB for license sake. But then they have to go through more layers to obfuscate the IP used AND properly follow the license to link to the Linux Kernel.
Kernel Devs won't support because they can't touch it or open up the hood... Nvidia's engineers can't seem to get unstuck from the land of compiling the interfaces themselves... And Linux moves too fast for them to keep up versions.
What they really need ate a handful of Linux Devs they could build a Chinese Wall with. But it has to be in a manner that doesn't require NDA. Linux Kernel Devs don't sign those... You can download their BEST work in the open for free!
That is where the empass lies. Nvidia knows the "Chinese Wall" doesn't really work with guys at the level of Kernel devs... They are clever enough to figure out what you left OUT of the documentation, and that leads to legal trouble with Nvidia's IP partners.
Persepolis is a really good movie about how crazy the middle east became in just the second half of the 1900's. For most of the European Middle Ages Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan were the progressive core of the WORLD. It was late into European Colonialism before the "west" had eclipsed them for sciences, art, history, and civility.
Really the post WW2 world was like the "Fall of Rome" to the West. The rise of Radical Islam is like a modern retro long of the plagues in Europe and the rise if the various Inquisitions. Both the Middle East and Africa are historically in the middle of a cultural "Dark Age" like 1300's Europe.
To draw those comparisons, you realize we might be taking entirely the wrong approach to dealing with them.
And the State SPECIFICALLY took guns out of those rules... Hence the problem.
There is no framework because the State SPECIFICALLY dismantaled it as a "gun rights" thing. THAT is the point of the article.
Even though there is a ban in the park on campfires which includes securing lawn mowers, BBQs, and even cigarette butts... It DOESN'T apply to guns... Feel free to shoot away!
Of course if we didn't have people with guns, then we could start REMOVING guns from police that do nothing more than write traffic tickets. Then they would be more responsive to resolve situations peacefully and stop shooting unarmed citizens because they are afraid of a little fistfight.
First, the ATF, like all executive agencies is packed with Right wing nuts. Obama's 3 years hasn't changed that.
Planting "false flag" ops was the hallmark of the SOP book written by Cheney for these guys. Don't think for a MINUTE that REPUBLICANS don't want to take YOUR guns away. They are for "gun rights" but only for people on THEIR team.
In my state the gun boards (all LEOs or related) simply wouldn't issue CCW permits to anybody not tied to military or law enforcement or their families... Until the state had to pass a law that said CCW could only be denied for cause.
Republican LEOs want to "under arm" the country by classifying everything except hunting and sport guns as "tactical" weapons.
Besides, the assault gun ban expired so it's basically legal to sell ANYTHING to ANYBODY now if you can get away with it.
But they also were on a county OWNED Bomb Range and took every precaution asked of them by the sheriff in charge. They also carry insurance policies to compensate the homeowner and crew should something go wrong.
So MythBusters is EXACTLY the same as a bunch of guys showing up on public land to shoot their guns.
But failure to put out a campfire, or a careless burning barrell, or throwing a lit cigarette on the ground CAN all be punished. And they ARE punished VERY severely in these states with wildfire problems.
A civil suit would be the way to go. Take names at the incident and hand them over to the 9000 people that had to be evacuated. It was a group that caused the fire without safety measures in place.
You just need a court that will allow the case.
Because if I labeled every Microsoft email "spam" in my Gmail would they get blocked for EVERYBODY on Gmail? Obviously each filter list has a SECRET way of keeping high profile organizations from being put on Filter lists no matter how many Slashdot admins try to get Microsoft.com blocked.
So WHO decides to put the Big Guys on that "untouchable" list that are known honest sites? This is the "secret censorship" of the modern corporate-run world. Just find a label like "Gambling" and you shame people from even REPORTING there is an error. The list is private so "facts" have nothing to do with said rating.
The most obvious answer is that a handful of Microsoft fanboy admins submitted the site just to mess with FSF fanboys. These things have all been crowd sourced for years.
Most of these tools us a proprietary list that takes an unknown number of input votes to block something. Then you have to ask very nicely to get off the list that gets published to the masses. It's censorship by the noisiest submitters. It's much like how big websites like yahoo or Engadget keep getting their emails "automatically" blocked by spam filters. A few high influence admins just keep hitting the Spam button on work accounts and 1000 users have to unblock to get it off the spam list.
There IS a process at most of these filter agencies if you grease the right palms, you will get on the mythical "white" list. Whether you are big name sites like Amazon that can bully to keep your name off, or the list runner has a sweet spot for Equestria Daily... But that's a "private list decision"
I thought we weren't using FunnyJunk this week?
Did the internet win? Can we go there now?
Want ads posted Daily clearly wouldn't qualify as "just facts" if all you did was skim them from a site.
Craig's list surely is copyright able. Precisely because it constantly changes. Also Congress specifically included "database run sites" under copyright a few years back. Hence one slashdot post would be fair use, but the collection has its own copyright because somebody has to maintain it. Sports stats, musc charts, etc it's all affirmed to be locked down.
How true. When I was hired at McDonald's 20 years ago, you could not have visible tattoos on anybody, any jewelry for men, and women could only have stud earrings (one per ear, no necklaces, etc). The majority of the time hey wouldnt bother to HIRE people that interviewed outside that norm. That was BRAND policy.
Any office job was the same thing. If you got tattoos, they had to cover under tees or you would be wearing long sleeves forever.
Well you only pay tax on PROFIT. Beyond living expenses that's pretty easy to knock down. Of course a good portion of millionaire wealth is held in securities or company ownership and while they may HAVE millions, they only RECIEVE $100k a year that they live off.
That group is where most of the Tea Party crowd is from in my opinion. That $70-$100k a year has went from being RICH in the 90s when they peaked, to being just "better than average" and they have no children, no college to pay, home paid off, so no real deductions... they are single people sitting on a lot of money (when per capita household is $44k)
In most of the country $11 ($22k per year) is an OK factory job. If you have a roommate and marry her, the sex and dating is cheaper and she still pays half the rent. Two jobs at $11 put you at just about the per capita household median (about $44k) in the USA.
Why do you think one auto worker at $19/hr with 60 hr weeks is such a "good thing"? That's almost enough money mom doesn't have to work, or if she does it buys "toys" (or private school, babysitters, second car,etc) They also get pension and health insurance so that makes them terrible greedy bastards!
$11/hr jobs are what the politicians are promising us!!! THAT is the Great Recovery. Even though Romney made minimum "living wage" in Mass. Higher than $11/hr and required you to carry health insurance, he doesn't think. That is the right plan for ALL of America now. When you hear them complain about taxes at $250k being "unfair" remember that HALF of the households operate on $44k or less. THAT is what the 99% thing is all about.
And what kind of markup does Tiffany's have? Jewelry and fancy dresses have 100%+ markup at retail... Especially with a Tiffiany's logo.
You are SO going down for sexual harrassment! I can imagine the lawyers trying to write the HR policy for a sex toy shop.
I bet your Internet is STILL blocked. Free porn means your customers aren't paying for it!
That's almost $60k a year. For retail that's killer. that's average programmer or sys admin pay (that youre going to get without a specific degree) in most of the US. Even for Union Auto workers that pay either takes 60 hour weeks (on the line) or REQUIRES 60 hour weeks min. (welder, carpenter, etc)
The low end is not terrible. That's about what your average entry level PC tech would get. And WAY over mall rat pay. Comparing Tiffany's to Apple is still Apples to.. Golden Apples. Tiffany's is great, but it's the peak of the Shop Girl jobs. (the best you can really hope for is not to get killed by the plastic dummies)
So for a 10am to 9pm job with no specific college required, little overtime, no on call, etc, its pretty good pay. (not for NYC)
All the pieces and parts are hard enough to keep running on a good day. Thing takes weekly downtime just to cycle modules....even simple patches shut your business users out for hours. Upgrading your version and OS shuts your business down for a week just to properly test. Sure you can use Dev boxes an HA, but you have to have ALL the users PROVE IT WORKS. So you waste terrible amounts of their TIME the could be selling stuff!!
And of course, SAP doesn't INSTALL anything THEMSELVES. You have to use some fly-by-night third party. So just like Microsoft, it's YOUR fault when you didn't include hiring an extra $1m per year in employees to run the thing and use all the "secret settings" after they all leave you.