The point is that some policy that may work (or not cause much damage) in Finland may not work at all in the UK or US simply because we are talking about very different people.
In 2001, 92.1% of the population identified themselves as White, leaving 7.9%[298] of the UK population identifying themselves as of mixed ethnic minority. [..] In 2011, 26.5% of primary and 22.2% of secondary pupils at state schools in England were members of an ethnic minority.
Different people, different test scores, who would have thought that?
It is better because it has not changed a lot in the last 20 years. It may be true that there were some incompatible revisions somewhen in the 90s, but for all practical purposes that is history with no practical importance today.
Also, simply because of its age, you can be sure that RTF does not infringe any patents, because *all* relevant patents have expired. So you can legally create a RTF-reader/writer, even when you use the Microsoft-RTF-specification (their specification is copyrighted of course, but you don't copy the specification, you just use it.)
Have you ever read letters from American Civil War soldiers to their families back home? We're not talking a college education demographic by a long shot, but the eloquence and care of language in these letters is often breathtaking. Are we "dumber" than them as a populace for not being able to write like an average farm boy could 150 years ago?
Yes we are. After 5 generations of cheap oil the population lost the need to plan for hard winters. I'm sure you personally know quite a lot of people who are living from paycheck to paycheck and/or are living on welfare (which by the way is also only possible because of cheap oil). Those people just didn't exist back then because they could not survive the winters.
But don't worry. The oil will become very expensive again soon enough.
Well, why did Apple gain over 30% last year - on the desktop, that means EXCLUDING tablets and phones? I don't know about chromebooks, but I guess those have also nice gains.
Sure, PC-sales would have not been stellar in any case, that is true. But the sharp drop on the PC-side combined with the upswing on the everything-except-Windows side was caused by Windows 8.
1) Stop insulting people. Maybe it is that the arguments where not convincing enough, or simply wrong.
You are certainly wrong about that. Insults DO help their cause.
Up until 1998 (which is still the warmest year on record), the alarmists actually supported their views with data (even though the famous "hockeystick" was manipulated and distorted it was at least indirectly connected to real data). But since about 2000, the data is ignored (For example, this outdated nonsense is still on the Wikipedia "Global Warming" page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... and in the main article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming) right beside it is the sentence: "The Earth's average surface temperature rose by 0.74±0.18 C over the period 1906–2005" - hey, 2005 is already 9 years ago - what gives?) and the alarmists have stopped posting data and instead run almost completely on insults.
And yes, it does work. Nobody wants to be insulted.
On the other hand, of course the whole "climate science" needs alarmism as a reason for existence. They can't forecast "the climate will change slightly as it did numerous times before" - such a paper is boring, uninteresting and unlikely to get much interest for further funding. Also, successful climate scientists who pull the party-line can pump out paper after paper, literally swamping some dissident who writes a critical paper on his own time and dime.
So you have the carrot (grant money, good quasi-tenured jobs) and the stick (insults, social stigma). It is no wonder that you get >90% of approval that way, especially if you count papers (which can and are mass-produced).
But time is working against the alarmists. Every year that passes which is cooler than 1998 is yet another year they cannot explain. If we are living in an era of perpetually rising temperatures, one might think that the 1998 record should be broken by now.
Microsoft breaks things all the time, just look at Windows 8.
In fact they not only break things accidentally, they quite often do it on purpose to force upgrades. They already promised to delete all downloadable support software for Windows XP when support runs out. Why? Because the bandwidth costs so much?
At my workplace the IT department is already struggling for over 2 years with the transition from XP to 7 because there is just so much software and hardware that doesn't work with 7. The "solution" is to put the XP-machines, where no Win7-transition is possible on isolated non-internet-connected networks.
The 1300$ model is of course for those who want a status-symbol, i.e. the high price is a feature.
Basically the classic consoles are the printer/toner sales-model: You get the hardware relatively cheap, but you pay through the nose afterwards.
For an open platform that is impossible, so for the Steambox, you have to pay a little bit more for the hardware (i.e. about 500-700$), but you save money on the software.
Surely, there is a place for the printer/toner sales-model, therefore the PS3/XBone have their place - but not everybody likes it that way. (Of course for the brainwashed the fact that different products may use different sales-models is very, very hard to grasp.) So there is place for the open sales-model as well.
But the Steambox has some other advantage: It is also a PC, and you can use it for everything a PC can do:
For example if you use a tablet for EMail/Web and have only moderate PC-use (write Christmas cards once per year, etc.) - and your PC gets old, you may buy a Steambox instead of upgrading the PC. In that case you save money - and space because you can scrap that desk where the PC is sitting on.
If you take the sales figures from the US, assume that all non-Apple units are shipped with Windows, you get:
Apple: +28.5%
Windows: 15380497 down to 13627274 = -12.9%
Obviously it is NOT just the competition from tablets and smartphones. (if it were, Apple would see similar declines)
It is two things:
- Windows 8 - Microsofts reluctance to allow Windows 7 on new PCs
When Microsoft inflicted Vista, almost all PC-makers just ignored it and continued with XP, but now things are different, it is pretty hard to get a Windows-PC without Windows 8 today. You seem to need some special deal with Microsoft.
It looks like we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Windows-hegemony. While Windows will hold the largest marketshare on the desktop for some time, the alternatives will grow into "too large to ignore" territory.
Obama was secretive right from the start in his campaign. He closed down all documentation from his supposed studies in university. (Which proves that he has pretty powerful forces behind him - not every candidate can get such kind of secrecy.) What does the public know about Obama? Not much. All his supposed friends he describes in his book turned out to be fictitious, nobody has ever seen him in the universities he supposedly went, nobody knows why he used two different social security numbers, etc.
His presidency is just a continuation of all that secrecy.
The only thing I know about him is that he turned up and the media told the American people to vote for him which they duly did.
The US government already directly controls more than 50 cents on every dollar. And this does not include several bookshelves of regulations and laws that gives the government indirect control over the rest.
How can anybody be so brainwashed to call this system "free-market hands-off ideology"?
Don't worry, as soon as the European and American aid dries up (currently about half of all sub-saharan Africans are dependent on food aid) Africa will revert back to the pre-colonial times. As the economic crisis will harden in the next years, this is just a matter of time.
And as we have all learned in school, colonialism was a really bad thing, therefore the coming decolonialization (not what we saw in the 1960's, but the real thing that will destroy any remnant of evil western civilization in these lands) will be a Good Thing.
The great irony is that all the phony starvation (Ethiopia doubled it's population during the "famine" in the 1980s - compare that to a real famine for example the Irish potato famine in the 19th century where the population was cut in half) was televized all over the world, but the real thing probably won't - because it's no longer profitable to collect cash for a famine in an economic depression.
And what a coincidence, in only a few decades after that statement was made, Athens lost their independence for over 2000 years. (Athens history crashcourse: First Macedonians subdued Athens, then the Romans, then the Turks. Under the Turks Athens turned into a small village with less than 10.000 inhabitants. What is now Athens has been created before and after Turkish rule.)
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The point is that some policy that may work (or not cause much damage) in Finland may not work at all in the UK or US simply because we are talking about very different people.
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The share of foreign citizens in Finland is 3.4%, among the lowest in the European Union. Most of them are from Russia, Estonia and Sweden.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
In 2001, 92.1% of the population identified themselves as White, leaving 7.9%[298] of the UK population identifying themselves as of mixed ethnic minority. [..] In 2011, 26.5% of primary and 22.2% of secondary pupils at state schools in England were members of an ethnic minority.
Different people, different test scores, who would have thought that?
We worship the Low IQ and brawn. (NFL players for example)
We have to. Otherwise the universities cannot fill their race-quotas.
It is better because it has not changed a lot in the last 20 years. It may be true that there were some incompatible revisions somewhen in the 90s, but for all practical purposes that is history with no practical importance today.
Also, simply because of its age, you can be sure that RTF does not infringe any patents, because *all* relevant patents have expired. So you can legally create a RTF-reader/writer, even when you use the Microsoft-RTF-specification (their specification is copyrighted of course, but you don't copy the specification, you just use it.)
With OOXML all that is not so clear.
Have you ever read letters from American Civil War soldiers to their families back home? We're not talking a college education demographic by a long shot, but the eloquence and care of language in these letters is often breathtaking. Are we "dumber" than them as a populace for not being able to write like an average farm boy could 150 years ago?
Yes we are. After 5 generations of cheap oil the population lost the need to plan for hard winters. I'm sure you personally know quite a lot of people who are living from paycheck to paycheck and/or are living on welfare (which by the way is also only possible because of cheap oil). Those people just didn't exist back then because they could not survive the winters.
But don't worry. The oil will become very expensive again soon enough.
First rule of political correctness: If a protected class fails, it is always somebody else's fault.
Well, why did Apple gain over 30% last year - on the desktop, that means EXCLUDING tablets and phones? I don't know about chromebooks, but I guess those have also nice gains.
Sure, PC-sales would have not been stellar in any case, that is true. But the sharp drop on the PC-side combined with the upswing on the everything-except-Windows side was caused by Windows 8.
This kind of messages does not help your cause.
1) Stop insulting people. Maybe it is that the arguments where not convincing enough, or simply wrong.
You are certainly wrong about that. Insults DO help their cause.
Up until 1998 (which is still the warmest year on record), the alarmists actually supported their views with data (even though the famous "hockeystick" was manipulated and distorted it was at least indirectly connected to real data). But since about 2000, the data is ignored (For example, this outdated nonsense is still on the Wikipedia "Global Warming" page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... and in the main article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming) right beside it is the sentence: "The Earth's average surface temperature rose by 0.74±0.18 C over the period 1906–2005" - hey, 2005 is already 9 years ago - what gives?) and the alarmists have stopped posting data and instead run almost completely on insults.
And yes, it does work. Nobody wants to be insulted.
On the other hand, of course the whole "climate science" needs alarmism as a reason for existence. They can't forecast "the climate will change slightly as it did numerous times before" - such a paper is boring, uninteresting and unlikely to get much interest for further funding. Also, successful climate scientists who pull the party-line can pump out paper after paper, literally swamping some dissident who writes a critical paper on his own time and dime.
So you have the carrot (grant money, good quasi-tenured jobs) and the stick (insults, social stigma). It is no wonder that you get >90% of approval that way, especially if you count papers (which can and are mass-produced).
But time is working against the alarmists. Every year that passes which is cooler than 1998 is yet another year they cannot explain. If we are living in an era of perpetually rising temperatures, one might think that the 1998 record should be broken by now.
Because the steambox is a plug-and-play device that works out of the box with couch-friendly controllers and remotes.
People are happy with Win 7 and even XP.
If that is the case why does Apple gain so many users (WITHIN the desktop market) while Windows is losing them?
Microsoft breaks things all the time, just look at Windows 8.
In fact they not only break things accidentally, they quite often do it on purpose to force upgrades. They already promised to delete all downloadable support software for Windows XP when support runs out. Why? Because the bandwidth costs so much?
At my workplace the IT department is already struggling for over 2 years with the transition from XP to 7 because there is just so much software and hardware that doesn't work with 7. The "solution" is to put the XP-machines, where no Win7-transition is possible on isolated non-internet-connected networks.
So yes, Microsoft breaks a lot on every update.
The 1300$ model is of course for those who want a status-symbol, i.e. the high price is a feature.
Basically the classic consoles are the printer/toner sales-model: You get the hardware relatively cheap, but you pay through the nose afterwards.
For an open platform that is impossible, so for the Steambox, you have to pay a little bit more for the hardware (i.e. about 500-700$), but you save money on the software.
Surely, there is a place for the printer/toner sales-model, therefore the PS3/XBone have their place - but not everybody likes it that way. (Of course for the brainwashed the fact that different products may use different sales-models is very, very hard to grasp.) So there is place for the open sales-model as well.
But the Steambox has some other advantage: It is also a PC, and you can use it for everything a PC can do:
For example if you use a tablet for EMail/Web and have only moderate PC-use (write Christmas cards once per year, etc.) - and your PC gets old, you may buy a Steambox instead of upgrading the PC. In that case you save money - and space because you can scrap that desk where the PC is sitting on.
So there is definitely a market for the Steambox.
Of course if you don't want to use it as a doorstop, you will need software for it:
XBox One: A handful of games at typically 50$
Steambox: Already over hundred games at typically 20$
And that is exactly why the Steambox will be a success.
If you take the sales figures from the US, assume that all non-Apple units are shipped with Windows, you get:
Apple: +28.5%
Windows: 15380497 down to 13627274 = -12.9%
Obviously it is NOT just the competition from tablets and smartphones. (if it were, Apple would see similar declines)
It is two things:
- Windows 8
- Microsofts reluctance to allow Windows 7 on new PCs
When Microsoft inflicted Vista, almost all PC-makers just ignored it and continued with XP, but now things are different, it is pretty hard to get a Windows-PC without Windows 8 today. You seem to need some special deal with Microsoft.
It looks like we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Windows-hegemony. While Windows will hold the largest marketshare on the desktop for some time, the alternatives will grow into "too large to ignore" territory.
The whole point of affirmative action is to *NOT* hire the best candidate.
a "complete 180"? What are you talking about?
Obama was secretive right from the start in his campaign. He closed down all documentation from his supposed studies in university. (Which proves that he has pretty powerful forces behind him - not every candidate can get such kind of secrecy.) What does the public know about Obama? Not much. All his supposed friends he describes in his book turned out to be fictitious, nobody has ever seen him in the universities he supposedly went, nobody knows why he used two different social security numbers, etc.
His presidency is just a continuation of all that secrecy.
The only thing I know about him is that he turned up and the media told the American people to vote for him which they duly did.
I'm sure you can find a hundred non-controversial examples.
Yeah... We all know that evolution only applies to non-controversial things, i.e. everything except the brain.
The US government already directly controls more than 50 cents on every dollar. And this does not include several bookshelves of regulations and laws that gives the government indirect control over the rest.
How can anybody be so brainwashed to call this system "free-market hands-off ideology"?
Hmmm, maybe you should search on youtube for "knockout game" and/or "flash mob robbery".
you really need to fix that overpopulation.
Don't worry, as soon as the European and American aid dries up (currently about half of all sub-saharan Africans are dependent on food aid) Africa will revert back to the pre-colonial times. As the economic crisis will harden in the next years, this is just a matter of time.
And as we have all learned in school, colonialism was a really bad thing, therefore the coming decolonialization (not what we saw in the 1960's, but the real thing that will destroy any remnant of evil western civilization in these lands) will be a Good Thing.
The great irony is that all the phony starvation (Ethiopia doubled it's population during the "famine" in the 1980s - compare that to a real famine for example the Irish potato famine in the 19th century where the population was cut in half) was televized all over the world, but the real thing probably won't - because it's no longer profitable to collect cash for a famine in an economic depression.
5 years was ancient in the 1990s, but in the 2010s it's rather "good enough" for anything that is commonly done with MS Office.
But not because "XP needs to be wiped out", but because that will be the great chance for LibreOffice and the odt Format.
Mod parent up, this is great.
And what a coincidence, in only a few decades after that statement was made, Athens lost their independence for over 2000 years. (Athens history crashcourse: First Macedonians subdued Athens, then the Romans, then the Turks. Under the Turks Athens turned into a small village with less than 10.000 inhabitants. What is now Athens has been created before and after Turkish rule.)
In the USA there are enough "disadvantaged" lumpen proletariat to start deadly riots in every city of or above medium size.
Abolish the welfare-checks and they will starve in the next winter.
Or cut off the water, no city can survive for longer than a week without a water-supply from somewhere else.