It's not always safe to stop immediately. Sounds like it was only five minutes or so... Which is only enoug time to get the car safely off the road in moving traffic.
As far as "danger" he hit a piece of trailer hitch? Which tore up the inderside of the car. More Ferraris have burned for real, preventable, design defects and nobody investigated them.
The govt spokesperson is blowing their credibility to hell claiming the same spy agency is defending Nationsl Security and tracking down sex offenders. One is important, the other is a fractional part of criminal society chosen for its "Godwin" value.
They are basically admitting that the spy apparatus is pointed at CITIZENS already... But just the bad ones.
the INSURANCE COMPANIES were not suppose to CHANGE OR MODIFY plans that were to be grandfathered. BECAUSE companies made material changes to plans between 2010 and 2013 but did not make the plans COMPLY with the government rules, they do not QUALIFY to be grandfathered. They knew what they were doing because they read the law and found their way out.
the INSURANCE COMPANIES played folks for suckers, by taking their customer's money another 3 years and quietly nullifying their grandfather status. This is all about greedy insurance companies, not the President trying to get insurance out there.
it's like people that think Blackjack is a "game of chance" when it's just a statistics exercise.
Casinos know most people don't have the mental training to beat the games like Blackjack and they like taking people's money. but when the shoe is on the other foot it's "highly criminal" for those that know the lie to also play the game.
That quote about not knowing what was in the law is horribly out of context. It was given while the bill was passing DAILY between the Senate and House, with amendments being added and subtracted by BOTH PARTIES. Just like a bunch if chefs in the kitchen, you have to wait at the dinner table till the food comes out to see what you are gonna get.... Just like software development!
The Feds had to pick up the slack for like 30 states. That means not following just the new FEDERAL rules, but also the state insurance rules for each state, and hundreds of insurance companies. It could be better, but it isn't that bad, there is plenty of time to get everybody insurance by January.
It's not like the government used EA to make their site or anything. Capitalist companies don't do any better for big roll outs when it's their ONLY JOB. Besides, it's not like anybody is doing anything useful except complaining after obstructing and trying to break the process for the last THREE YEARS... this is a GOVERNMENT problem, not a Democrat problem... Too bad we just spent the last month busting the ability to do work I the balls.... But hey, we get the govt we deserve!
People tend to forget Linus does very little "desktop" OS work, and hasn't for a very long time. He is a "nuts and bolt" guy, who'd rather be knee deep in developing the kernel itself and interesting technologies at the source code level. That's about as far away from Apple's new shiny happy personal device desktop as you can get. Apple had a brief go at getting OSX officially certified "UNIX" during the Intel switchover heyday (like maybe 2007-2009), but that was a few versions ago and then Apple stopped selling servers or even supporting OSX as a server since then.
If there's any ill effects, it's that the armchair Geek set is floating away with OSX and those of us that work in IT are further away from it at home than ever... It's Microsoft mopping up lately. So when Microsoft comes for your IT department, we've all been playing with out iPads and iPhones too long to care about recompiling out Linux and Microsoft's slick suits swipe the bosses business away from "real" computing like HP or IBM.
Microsoft is for all practical purposes of Notebooks and desktops a solid monopoly( sales >90% of all x86 computers) , with $60B+ cash in the bank. So WHY CANT they get Windows power management working better? They literally have "all the money in the world" in practical terms. Apple was beating Microsoft in Power management with the SAME Intel chips out of the gate back in OSX Tiger with a fraction of a cash budget at that point.
Do I CARE if the problem is hardware or software. I was forced to buy Windows installed on my computer by the company. In that case it should be the BEST it can be, right?
the answer is that program hangs like this STILL HAPPEN after a Decade of XP??? we don't care WHY it happens... we just know that Apple has done whatever work is needed to make it NOT HAPPEN 1/10 as often as on Windows.
did you see the part of the Mavericks keynote where they talked about Timer Coalescing and grouping calls to wireless? The idea is that when the OS issues a network device wakeup event, any other processes that need update events all request data in the same milisecond... so the wireless antenna powers up once and down once making all the processes happy. It's also controlled by the OS, not apps, so they can stretch that refresh time out really far to save battery. They're pulling that highly optimized code out of ios and moving it to Mavericks.
Windows has simply never TRIED to do that level of OS-hardware integration because of the "blame the device drivers" gambit. It's obvious just from basic power management facilities STILL not handled correctly as of my last Windows 7 "enterprise class" notebook that can't do basic operations like "open and close the lid". I can close the lid on my 2009 macbook and get DAYS of sleep time with apps ready to go when I open it. My 2012 Windows HP Elitebook simply cannot do that... it can't even hold the battery 24 hours when the lid is closed, let alone manage to remember exactly where all the apps are processing.... Apple solved that back in Tiger. That's been a joke for Mac users since Apple moved to Intel... what's a "reboot"? you just don't HAVE to reboot a Mac unless something is broken. With a Windows Notebook you HAVE to power down every night because the OS cannot handle uptime/downtime and all the various network events going on worth a hill of beans to maintain a useable state with just "closing the lid" as a daily signout event.
The problem is that too much choice will always let the Cheapskates win. That is EXACTLY the problem Microsoft has with Windows right now. Nobody can sell a machine with $50 extra buck in quality improvements except Apple. That means every device has its own special "hellish" bugs.
People have been used to Windows fragmentation for years. There are still 1/3 or more XP users that just don't run patches out there.... People got used to not having their out-of-date system supported, or getting terrible experience from RAM, CPU, GPU so much they STOPPED BUYING SOFTWARE... Note how there's no WINDOWS software at stores anymore and there are still millions sold every year. People got used to just stealing what they wanted from online... Which was even cheaper than learning Linux.
Fast forward..... All those things about Windows are starting to come true with Android. As the mobile industry moves 5x faster than the desktop world Android has already skipped to the "browser app" model on Google Play because the system is already too difficult for devs to navigate at the same speed iOS Eva can churn out bits.
The push for "everybody to have android" is working... Except that means most people are buying 3 year old handsets rebadged.. Kind of like Windows users buying rebadged Core 2 Duos or WORSE as the MAJORITY if units sold at retail now.
Google fell for "Android everywhere" versus Android ALWAYS being good. Eventually, people live with a minimum functionality but they don't spend time looking FORWARD because they CANNOT.
So yea, Android is everywhere and it won! So now its just like Windows...
But Facebook and Google have BACK END problems all the time for Advertisers and people that want money out of them. Few of the big online sights deal with BUSINESSES and CONTRACTS that have to follow the law.
The only thing comparable in scale to this would be the airline/hotel reservation systems... And until very recently those were (still are) highly proprietary, invite only systems. And the fancy websites are just third party front ends. The back ends are old and locked up tight as hell. A true government service between CITIZENS and BUSINESSES of this scale hasn't been done anywhere that I can think of.
The point would be that you don't need the CHARGER, just the cable... Because the other end is plain USB.
Of course 2/3 of the companies complaining. Wire the CABLE right to the charger, and use substandard parts so the charger "just barely works" with their phone.
That's because the EBT cards function like Debit cards, not credit cards. So they need to contact the account to verify funds every time.
They could make it some other way, but we wouldn't want people cheating the government by getting one extra cart of groceries early, would we. All because we didn't program the computer to check the cards balance every time.
I have to admit he's right for commercial games... Linux is just not the platform.
I run Minecraft on Mont Linux. Minrcraft is almost pure Java... So this should be easy, peasy, right? Ha! Every Mint refresh breaks something, every Java update breaks something, each update of one breaks the other breaks Minecraft.
Minecraft is about the most "universal" Java application out there because it runs the same code in all the platforms. It's he best you are going to get for a cross-platform game experience... And On Linux its just plain tough.
Microkernels lost out because they add too much programming overhead. In a fancy server environment there were already ways around rebooting anyway. In a consumer OS people turn the devices off often enough that adding 20% more programming work to EVERY project made micro kernels stay in a hobby niche.
It's the pragmatic how much work do I make for people NOW, versus using a new way that might save people a bunch of time in certain cases.
And Valve is willing to extend the Steam system to Apps and not just games. That might be enough to entice some porting, maybe some of the smaller Mac houses will bite.
THAT... is SPECIFICALLY why we have copyright. Because the law says that the signal sent by the broadcaster has a performance copyright. So people cannot just copy and REBROADCAST it to compete with them. That way they done need take "technical measures".
The law has been just fine with TiVo filling the technical void for DVR and tone shifting (the article snip is wrong about that) . As long as it is AN INDIVIDUAL PERSON. Posting your personal copies online is still not allowed, which is basically what they are doing here. This is a company hiding behind a thin veil of "personal sharing" and "personal copying" to just reproduce whatever they want. The court is going to shut them down.
About the only thing I can see is Steam OS becoming a hardware target for "white box" makers. Microsoft is back to an x86 console, so how will they keep game devs on the console and not just Windows? At some point they will lock up and cripple Windows... Again... To push everybody to console.
Enter SteamOS based on Linux. If they make it play nice with Ubuntu or Mint Linux they could grab the "power gamer" market and those people can just use Linux for their "homework". Even then Steam is already looking to be a target for APPS on windows and Mac so that might fix the missing multimedia stuff people bellyache about.
No, that's pretty good. Businesses NEEDED a small pickup truck. Something that was a step up from a typewriter, and could let things "look pretty". An excellent word processor was GEOS, or AppleWorks, or Gobe.
Ms Word is a bad engine with pretty stickers on it. No matter how much fancy bling they added, it never fixed the basic fact that MS Word "format" is half structured document, and half inserted binary blobs of display "logic".
The problem is that everybody else can make very well formatted MS Word document files.. But Word ITSELF blows them all to hell just by opening and saving in the quirks of each version... And it's been left that way for decades, and you can't kill it with fire... Because its the Word APPLICATION that is the problem.
Exactly. Office Documents are a "done" trchnology now. Microsoft frankly doesn't give enough of a damn to bother fixing it at this point... Is operational leverage over big installs that there is still "secret sauce" embedded in the spec.
Microsoft can throw HUNDREDS of millions of dollars at devs to implement the crappier parts of win/x86 MS Word formats on ARM or PPC with each revision. Ultimately rewriting just helps people get away from MS at this point, why bother.
Much of Bill's strategy in the 1990's was simply to swamp even their own partners and OEMS with so much incompatibility they spent all their time fighting eachother and not him.
It's not like we have similar schemes in the USA. Go into Legal, Entertainment, or Teaching and they all require long UNPAID internships doing work vaguely related to their field. Medical internships vary... Some are paid, some are not... It's really Manufacturing and Engineering internships in the USA that are Unique for almost always being paid in addition to college credit. Many internships you pay for college credit, and you pay again for "supervision" fees... And you work a bunch of free hours.
I used to work at a contractor that built radio based stuff. It was intended for at-sea use, so the devices were overpowered and overlapped with regular radio and TV so testing needed to be contained. We had whole labs 20x30 and bigger with copper mesh under the cheap tacky paneling, even the doors had mesh seals so the rooms were a perfect Faraday's cage.
It's been 10 years since I worked there... Those would be Awesome for NOT getting signals now!
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It's not always safe to stop immediately. Sounds like it was only five minutes or so... Which is only enoug time to get the car safely off the road in moving traffic.
As far as "danger" he hit a piece of trailer hitch? Which tore up the inderside of the car. More Ferraris have burned for real, preventable, design defects and nobody investigated them.
The govt spokesperson is blowing their credibility to hell claiming the same spy agency is defending Nationsl Security and tracking down sex offenders. One is important, the other is a fractional part of criminal society chosen for its "Godwin" value.
They are basically admitting that the spy apparatus is pointed at CITIZENS already... But just the bad ones.
the INSURANCE COMPANIES were not suppose to CHANGE OR MODIFY plans that were to be grandfathered. BECAUSE companies made material changes to plans between 2010 and 2013 but did not make the plans COMPLY with the government rules, they do not QUALIFY to be grandfathered. They knew what they were doing because they read the law and found their way out.
the INSURANCE COMPANIES played folks for suckers, by taking their customer's money another 3 years and quietly nullifying their grandfather status. This is all about greedy insurance companies, not the President trying to get insurance out there.
it's like people that think Blackjack is a "game of chance" when it's just a statistics exercise.
Casinos know most people don't have the mental training to beat the games like Blackjack and they like taking people's money. but when the shoe is on the other foot it's "highly criminal" for those that know the lie to also play the game.
iPad with Retnia display will save us. Those are 2048x1536. Retnia display MacBooks are 2880x1800.
It gives something for RoboCop's Drone buddies to target lock on. Cops just roll back and a missile strike ends it. Go summary execution style!
That quote about not knowing what was in the law is horribly out of context. It was given while the bill was passing DAILY between the Senate and House, with amendments being added and subtracted by BOTH PARTIES. Just like a bunch if chefs in the kitchen, you have to wait at the dinner table till the food comes out to see what you are gonna get. ... Just like software development!
The Feds had to pick up the slack for like 30 states. That means not following just the new FEDERAL rules, but also the state insurance rules for each state, and hundreds of insurance companies. It could be better, but it isn't that bad, there is plenty of time to get everybody insurance by January.
It's not like the government used EA to make their site or anything. Capitalist companies don't do any better for big roll outs when it's their ONLY JOB. Besides, it's not like anybody is doing anything useful except complaining after obstructing and trying to break the process for the last THREE YEARS... this is a GOVERNMENT problem, not a Democrat problem... Too bad we just spent the last month busting the ability to do work I the balls.... But hey, we get the govt we deserve!
People tend to forget Linus does very little "desktop" OS work, and hasn't for a very long time. He is a "nuts and bolt" guy, who'd rather be knee deep in developing the kernel itself and interesting technologies at the source code level. That's about as far away from Apple's new shiny happy personal device desktop as you can get. Apple had a brief go at getting OSX officially certified "UNIX" during the Intel switchover heyday (like maybe 2007-2009), but that was a few versions ago and then Apple stopped selling servers or even supporting OSX as a server since then.
If there's any ill effects, it's that the armchair Geek set is floating away with OSX and those of us that work in IT are further away from it at home than ever... It's Microsoft mopping up lately. So when Microsoft comes for your IT department, we've all been playing with out iPads and iPhones too long to care about recompiling out Linux and Microsoft's slick suits swipe the bosses business away from "real" computing like HP or IBM.
Microsoft is for all practical purposes of Notebooks and desktops a solid monopoly( sales >90% of all x86 computers) , with $60B+ cash in the bank. So WHY CANT they get Windows power management working better? They literally have "all the money in the world" in practical terms. Apple was beating Microsoft in Power management with the SAME Intel chips out of the gate back in OSX Tiger with a fraction of a cash budget at that point.
Do I CARE if the problem is hardware or software. I was forced to buy Windows installed on my computer by the company. In that case it should be the BEST it can be, right?
the answer is that program hangs like this STILL HAPPEN after a Decade of XP??? we don't care WHY it happens... we just know that Apple has done whatever work is needed to make it NOT HAPPEN 1/10 as often as on Windows.
did you see the part of the Mavericks keynote where they talked about Timer Coalescing and grouping calls to wireless? The idea is that when the OS issues a network device wakeup event, any other processes that need update events all request data in the same milisecond... so the wireless antenna powers up once and down once making all the processes happy. It's also controlled by the OS, not apps, so they can stretch that refresh time out really far to save battery. They're pulling that highly optimized code out of ios and moving it to Mavericks.
Windows has simply never TRIED to do that level of OS-hardware integration because of the "blame the device drivers" gambit. It's obvious just from basic power management facilities STILL not handled correctly as of my last Windows 7 "enterprise class" notebook that can't do basic operations like "open and close the lid". I can close the lid on my 2009 macbook and get DAYS of sleep time with apps ready to go when I open it. My 2012 Windows HP Elitebook simply cannot do that... it can't even hold the battery 24 hours when the lid is closed, let alone manage to remember exactly where all the apps are processing.... Apple solved that back in Tiger. That's been a joke for Mac users since Apple moved to Intel ... what's a "reboot"? you just don't HAVE to reboot a Mac unless something is broken. With a Windows Notebook you HAVE to power down every night because the OS cannot handle uptime/downtime and all the various network events going on worth a hill of beans to maintain a useable state with just "closing the lid" as a daily signout event.
The problem is that too much choice will always let the Cheapskates win. That is EXACTLY the problem Microsoft has with Windows right now. Nobody can sell a machine with $50 extra buck in quality improvements except Apple. That means every device has its own special "hellish" bugs.
People have been used to Windows fragmentation for years. There are still 1/3 or more XP users that just don't run patches out there.... People got used to not having their out-of-date system supported, or getting terrible experience from RAM, CPU, GPU so much they STOPPED BUYING SOFTWARE ... Note how there's no WINDOWS software at stores anymore and there are still millions sold every year. People got used to just stealing what they wanted from online... Which was even cheaper than learning Linux.
Fast forward..... All those things about Windows are starting to come true with Android. As the mobile industry moves 5x faster than the desktop world Android has already skipped to the "browser app" model on Google Play because the system is already too difficult for devs to navigate at the same speed iOS Eva can churn out bits.
The push for "everybody to have android" is working... Except that means most people are buying 3 year old handsets rebadged.. Kind of like Windows users buying rebadged Core 2 Duos or WORSE as the MAJORITY if units sold at retail now.
Google fell for "Android everywhere" versus Android ALWAYS being good. Eventually, people live with a minimum functionality but they don't spend time looking FORWARD because they CANNOT.
So yea, Android is everywhere and it won! So now its just like Windows...
But Facebook and Google have BACK END problems all the time for Advertisers and people that want money out of them. Few of the big online sights deal with BUSINESSES and CONTRACTS that have to follow the law.
The only thing comparable in scale to this would be the airline/hotel reservation systems... And until very recently those were (still are) highly proprietary, invite only systems. And the fancy websites are just third party front ends. The back ends are old and locked up tight as hell. A true government service between CITIZENS and BUSINESSES of this scale hasn't been done anywhere that I can think of.
Nice try Steve Ballmer.
Apple giving up its proprietary adapter would be like Microsoft Word XML format actually being Open, and Useful.
The only people that care so much are the people NOT BUYING Apple products and sad they cannot use Accessories made for Apple x....
The point would be that you don't need the CHARGER, just the cable... Because the other end is plain USB.
Of course 2/3 of the companies complaining. Wire the CABLE right to the charger, and use substandard parts so the charger "just barely works" with their phone.
That's because the EBT cards function like Debit cards, not credit cards. So they need to contact the account to verify funds every time.
They could make it some other way, but we wouldn't want people cheating the government by getting one extra cart of groceries early, would we. All because we didn't program the computer to check the cards balance every time.
I have to admit he's right for commercial games... Linux is just not the platform.
I run Minecraft on Mont Linux. Minrcraft is almost pure Java... So this should be easy, peasy, right? Ha! Every Mint refresh breaks something, every Java update breaks something, each update of one breaks the other breaks Minecraft.
Minecraft is about the most "universal" Java application out there because it runs the same code in all the platforms. It's he best you are going to get for a cross-platform game experience... And On Linux its just plain tough.
Microkernels lost out because they add too much programming overhead. In a fancy server environment there were already ways around rebooting anyway. In a consumer OS people turn the devices off often enough that adding 20% more programming work to EVERY project made micro kernels stay in a hobby niche.
It's the pragmatic how much work do I make for people NOW, versus using a new way that might save people a bunch of time in certain cases.
And Valve is willing to extend the Steam system to Apps and not just games. That might be enough to entice some porting, maybe some of the smaller Mac houses will bite.
THAT... is SPECIFICALLY why we have copyright. Because the law says that the signal sent by the broadcaster has a performance copyright. So people cannot just copy and REBROADCAST it to compete with them. That way they done need take "technical measures".
The law has been just fine with TiVo filling the technical void for DVR and tone shifting (the article snip is wrong about that) . As long as it is AN INDIVIDUAL PERSON. Posting your personal copies online is still not allowed, which is basically what they are doing here. This is a company hiding behind a thin veil of "personal sharing" and "personal copying" to just reproduce whatever they want. The court is going to shut them down.
About the only thing I can see is Steam OS becoming a hardware target for "white box" makers. Microsoft is back to an x86 console, so how will they keep game devs on the console and not just Windows? At some point they will lock up and cripple Windows... Again... To push everybody to console.
Enter SteamOS based on Linux. If they make it play nice with Ubuntu or Mint Linux they could grab the "power gamer" market and those people can just use Linux for their "homework". Even then Steam is already looking to be a target for APPS on windows and Mac so that might fix the missing multimedia stuff people bellyache about.
No, that's pretty good. Businesses NEEDED a small pickup truck. Something that was a step up from a typewriter, and could let things "look pretty". An excellent word processor was GEOS, or AppleWorks, or Gobe.
Ms Word is a bad engine with pretty stickers on it. No matter how much fancy bling they added, it never fixed the basic fact that MS Word "format" is half structured document, and half inserted binary blobs of display "logic".
The problem is that everybody else can make very well formatted MS Word document files.. But Word ITSELF blows them all to hell just by opening and saving in the quirks of each version... And it's been left that way for decades, and you can't kill it with fire... Because its the Word APPLICATION that is the problem.
Exactly. Office Documents are a "done" trchnology now. Microsoft frankly doesn't give enough of a damn to bother fixing it at this point... Is operational leverage over big installs that there is still "secret sauce" embedded in the spec.
Microsoft can throw HUNDREDS of millions of dollars at devs to implement the crappier parts of win/x86 MS Word formats on ARM or PPC with each revision. Ultimately rewriting just helps people get away from MS at this point, why bother.
Much of Bill's strategy in the 1990's was simply to swamp even their own partners and OEMS with so much incompatibility they spent all their time fighting eachother and not him.
It's not like we have similar schemes in the USA. Go into Legal, Entertainment, or Teaching and they all require long UNPAID internships doing work vaguely related to their field. Medical internships vary... Some are paid, some are not... It's really Manufacturing and Engineering internships in the USA that are Unique for almost always being paid in addition to college credit. Many internships you pay for college credit, and you pay again for "supervision" fees... And you work a bunch of free hours.
I used to work at a contractor that built radio based stuff. It was intended for at-sea use, so the devices were overpowered and overlapped with regular radio and TV so testing needed to be contained. We had whole labs 20x30 and bigger with copper mesh under the cheap tacky paneling, even the doors had mesh seals so the rooms were a perfect Faraday's cage.
It's been 10 years since I worked there... Those would be Awesome for NOT getting signals now!