Not really. An economics degree is useful in virtually all businesses, if only to balance the sheets. Of what value is a history degree to Goldman Sachs or Microsoft or GM?
In 1946 the stock market DOW Index (~150) was still lower than 1929 (~300). We were still in the middle of a ~20 year long recession which I would not describe as a "roaring" economy.
It's also a myth that war boosts an economy. It helps employ people, but it's the equivalent of building millions of cars and then blowing them up. Or taking billions of dollars and burning them. It's non-productive and drains a country of resources/materials/money.
>>>He said that there should be limits on how much education the Government will subsidize.
Precisely. Nobody funded my college degree. It was funded by my dad working long hours in the factory, and then I paid him back later. We did not receive one single penny from government.
Neither should people go study History or Sports Science, only to become tree cutters or walmart employees. The government should not fund this waste, and if it does, it should be tied to the expectation of results (like the ROTC). If you don't use your Pointless degree, then you must repay the money spent.
>>>Patents in general are all evil and nothing more than greedy asshat tools.
Bet you'd feel differently if you were the guy who invented Saran wrap. (Of course his patent should have expired after ~28 years.) Patents aren't evil. They serve a purpose of encouraging innovation in the hopes of getting rich. Never-ending patents that never fall into public domain is the evil.
- Microsoft copied Mac in the 1980s, and Apple sued but lost. - Microsoft blatantly copied Mac OS *again* with Win95 (trashcan, shutdown procedure, finder), and Apple again lost. - I think it's time we let Apple win for once.
Let the little guy have ownership of multitouch and collect money from the big guys (MS, Google, and so on). It will restore balance to the Force... ooops, I mean the market. Like the EU's browser chooser menu is restoring balance to the web (MS-IE is losing its monopoly).
Your idea is "anticloud". We ALL know the world will be better when distant mainframes do all the processing, and you are just using a dumb terminal to display the video. Your idea of having local smart machines (PS3, Xbox, etc) to do the processing is old-fashioned and not progressive thinking. It is anti-cloud thinking. We will now stone you . ./end humor
>>>There are many other forms of DSL as well: DSL technologies.
Question: I have a friend who has *zero* access to DSL. Or ADSL. Or IDSL. Or cable. Anyone know where he can get cheap satellite service (i.e. less than US$30 a month). Everything I've seen so far is outrageously expensive. .
>>>I only get ~1mbps
The government ought to pass a law that websites must provide a "low bandwidth friendly" alternative to their site that will work on 750 kbit/s or less. I'm sure the politicians can invent some appropriate moniker like the "Equal Access Law" or "Equal Virtual Opportunity Law" to sell it. IMHO it's ridiculous that you can have high-speed internet and yet still not be able to watch youtube due to video bloat (VEVO being the worst culprit).
>>>unpredictability in the service of ADSL from BT
Why is ADSL unpredictable? I have ASDL here in the States, and it always gives me what I paid for. It's *very* predictable. I think the previous poster is correct that you'd only need a narrow upstream path to send back joystick commands, player's data, et cetera.
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I remember playing head-to-head Populous on only a 2 kbit/s phoneline (circa 1988). It worked fine. I don't understand why today's games need anything faster than ~120k upstream. Maybe the programmers don't bother to optimize/compact their data anymore.
>>>>>I'll stick with the physical objects that are in MY control. >> >>And within the next decade or so, that means you will not be able to play *any* new games
Then I guess the corporations will stop receiving money from me. Hopefully they'll go bankrupt too. I won't buy a virtual product that can be erased/deactivated whenever the company feels like it (like amazon's kindle and the book 1984). I'll simply drop-out and stop being a customer if I can't buy physical objects that *I* control.
Now maybe if they drop the prices to reasonable rates, like $2 to "buy" a movie online, then I'll participate. That's equivalent to a rental. But I'm not paying $20 for a movie that the company can deactivate whenever they desire. Forget it. I simply won't watch that movie.
EXAMPLE: My previous manager refused to sign my last day. It was only 8 hours but still I'm entitled to get paid for it. That corporation, Rockwell Collins, stole ~$320 from me. This is how megacorps operate. They don't care. They have no soul..... no morals. They steal from the citizens with impunity and without fear of consequences.
And no I can't sue them. Being a contractor I had no legal recourse.
Neither is +0.1 a whole new OS. It's Vista renamed "Mohave" (in the ads) and then "Seven" (in real life). It's just the same OS with reworked code to use less RAM. It's part of the NT 6.x family. - It should have been a service pack provided free of charge.
>>>manufactured by Sony after such an injunction has been issued, the bid is V
False. What you describe is a "ex post facto" law and unconstitutional. If the U.S. Government forbids use of Sony products effective today, then it only affects contracts from May 13 onward. It does not affect contracts or designs that Lockheed, Northrop, etc created prior to that date. They may continue using Sony for those existing/older projects. They would not be voided.
Stating the truth (megacorps like AIG, Exxon-Mobile, Sony steal from citizens) doesn't make me a troll. It makes me insightful. The fact that you've not observed the obvious is your own dumb fault.
I wouldn't shoot someone just for being on my land, but if that someone started breaking-down my door, damn straight I'm going to shoot him. Better to spend 10 years in jail for "unjustified assault with a gun" than become wormfood under the ground. (At least in jail I can catch-up on all those books I've been meaning to read.)
>>>Allowing the world anonymous access to your network is beyond irresponsible.
Why? We allow people to have anonymous access to the Networks of macadam (walking, biking, horses and carriages). The world has not collapsed as a result, and the owner of these macadamized networks is not held responsible if someone uses that network to speed. Or steal. Or whatever.
>>>Windows 7 is as much "Vista SP2" as Windows XP was "Windows 2000 SP1".
You are correct sir. Windows 2000 == NT 5.0 while XP == 5.1 -(basically 2000 with bugfixes). Likewise Vista == 6.0 and Seven == 6.1, the bugfixed and memory-optimized version of Vista.
Don't be duped. Remember this is the company that tried to trick people with "Windows Mohave" which was really just vista. They followed through with that plan.... "Seven" is just Vista SP2. "XP" is just 200 SP1.
1 or 2 million spent on Sony's "AV, IT, and media equipment" is nothing compared to the billions directed at Lockheed, Northrop, et cetera to build military planes, ships, and so on. I stick with my original statement.
>>>Yeah, millions of dollars in fines vs. billions of dollars in profit really dissuades those naughty contractors
It does actually. My company was fined ~700 million about three years ago, and now they come down hard on the employees to charge time precisely. Even if we take a barthroom break, we're supposed to subtract that 0.1 or 0.2 from the government project and put it in an overhead account. My company doesn't want to be fined again.
This is why I have no qualms about stealing from corporations..... they have no qualms about stealing from us. They do it daily - it's part of their business plan. They even lobby Congress for the right to steal from the People's Treasury.
I'd like to aim my gun at the RIAA's CEO's head. I think that would solve a multitude of issues... the replacement CEO would be so scared he'd stop trying to sue everyone... effectively impotent.
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Sounds reasonable. Let's just raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour, even for McDonalds hamburger flippers, to ensure a "fair wage" for everyone.
I don't mind paying $10 or more for a happy meal. What's that? It won't work? Oh. Never mind then.
Not really. An economics degree is useful in virtually all businesses, if only to balance the sheets. Of what value is a history degree to Goldman Sachs or Microsoft or GM?
>>>roaring econom
In 1946 the stock market DOW Index (~150) was still lower than 1929 (~300). We were still in the middle of a ~20 year long recession which I would not describe as a "roaring" economy.
It's also a myth that war boosts an economy. It helps employ people, but it's the equivalent of building millions of cars and then blowing them up. Or taking billions of dollars and burning them. It's non-productive and drains a country of resources/materials/money.
>>>He said that there should be limits on how much education the Government will subsidize.
Precisely. Nobody funded my college degree. It was funded by my dad working long hours in the factory, and then I paid him back later. We did not receive one single penny from government.
Neither should people go study History or Sports Science, only to become tree cutters or walmart employees. The government should not fund this waste, and if it does, it should be tied to the expectation of results (like the ROTC). If you don't use your Pointless degree, then you must repay the money spent.
>>>Patents in general are all evil and nothing more than greedy asshat tools.
Bet you'd feel differently if you were the guy who invented Saran wrap. (Of course his patent should have expired after ~28 years.) Patents aren't evil. They serve a purpose of encouraging innovation in the hopes of getting rich. Never-ending patents that never fall into public domain is the evil.
I think we should cut Apple some slack:
- Microsoft copied Mac in the 1980s, and Apple sued but lost.
- Microsoft blatantly copied Mac OS *again* with Win95 (trashcan, shutdown procedure, finder), and Apple again lost.
- I think it's time we let Apple win for once.
Let the little guy have ownership of multitouch and collect money from the big guys (MS, Google, and so on). It will restore balance to the Force... ooops, I mean the market. Like the EU's browser chooser menu is restoring balance to the web (MS-IE is losing its monopoly).
>>>a system that can host games locally
Your idea is "anticloud". We ALL know the world will be better when distant mainframes do all the processing, and you are just using a dumb terminal to display the video. Your idea of having local smart machines (PS3, Xbox, etc) to do the processing is old-fashioned and not progressive thinking. It is anti-cloud thinking. We will now stone you /end humor
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>>>There are many other forms of DSL as well: DSL technologies.
Question: I have a friend who has *zero* access to DSL. Or ADSL. Or IDSL. Or cable. Anyone know where he can get cheap satellite service (i.e. less than US$30 a month). Everything I've seen so far is outrageously expensive.
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>>>I only get ~1mbps
The government ought to pass a law that websites must provide a "low bandwidth friendly" alternative to their site that will work on 750 kbit/s or less. I'm sure the politicians can invent some appropriate moniker like the "Equal Access Law" or "Equal Virtual Opportunity Law" to sell it. IMHO it's ridiculous that you can have high-speed internet and yet still not be able to watch youtube due to video bloat (VEVO being the worst culprit).
>>>unpredictability in the service of ADSL from BT
Why is ADSL unpredictable? I have ASDL here in the States, and it always gives me what I paid for. It's *very* predictable. I think the previous poster is correct that you'd only need a narrow upstream path to send back joystick commands, player's data, et cetera.
Trivia-
I remember playing head-to-head Populous on only a 2 kbit/s phoneline (circa 1988). It worked fine. I don't understand why today's games need anything faster than ~120k upstream. Maybe the programmers don't bother to optimize/compact their data anymore.
Would you hire someone to do C++ if they only have a C background?
Would you hire someone to do C# if they only have a C++ background?
>>>>>I'll stick with the physical objects that are in MY control.
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>>And within the next decade or so, that means you will not be able to play *any* new games
Then I guess the corporations will stop receiving money from me. Hopefully they'll go bankrupt too. I won't buy a virtual product that can be erased/deactivated whenever the company feels like it (like amazon's kindle and the book 1984). I'll simply drop-out and stop being a customer if I can't buy physical objects that *I* control.
Now maybe if they drop the prices to reasonable rates, like $2 to "buy" a movie online, then I'll participate. That's equivalent to a rental. But I'm not paying $20 for a movie that the company can deactivate whenever they desire. Forget it. I simply won't watch that movie.
EXAMPLE: My previous manager refused to sign my last day. It was only 8 hours but still I'm entitled to get paid for it. That corporation, Rockwell Collins, stole ~$320 from me. This is how megacorps operate. They don't care. They have no soul..... no morals. They steal from the citizens with impunity and without fear of consequences.
And no I can't sue them. Being a contractor I had no legal recourse.
>>>A .1 release is not a Service Pack.
Neither is +0.1 a whole new OS. It's Vista renamed "Mohave" (in the ads) and then "Seven" (in real life). It's just the same OS with reworked code to use less RAM. It's part of the NT 6.x family. - It should have been a service pack provided free of charge.
Our toilets are labeled "1" and "2" on the handle. Why? "1" uses less water while "2" uses more.
>>>manufactured by Sony after such an injunction has been issued, the bid is V
False. What you describe is a "ex post facto" law and unconstitutional. If the U.S. Government forbids use of Sony products effective today, then it only affects contracts from May 13 onward. It does not affect contracts or designs that Lockheed, Northrop, etc created prior to that date. They may continue using Sony for those existing/older projects. They would not be voided.
Stating the truth (megacorps like AIG, Exxon-Mobile, Sony steal from citizens) doesn't make me a troll. It makes me insightful. The fact that you've not observed the obvious is your own dumb fault.
I wouldn't shoot someone just for being on my land, but if that someone started breaking-down my door, damn straight I'm going to shoot him. Better to spend 10 years in jail for "unjustified assault with a gun" than become wormfood under the ground. (At least in jail I can catch-up on all those books I've been meaning to read.)
>>>Allowing the world anonymous access to your network is beyond irresponsible.
Why? We allow people to have anonymous access to the Networks of macadam (walking, biking, horses and carriages). The world has not collapsed as a result, and the owner of these macadamized networks is not held responsible if someone uses that network to speed. Or steal. Or whatever.
It's not Microsoft I'm scared of. It's the US Government, the DMCA, and an overzealous prosecutor.
>>>There's really no good excuse for staying on XP any more
My hardware didn't die yet.
And I'm not going to spend $150 to buy Seven.
>>>Windows 7 is as much "Vista SP2" as Windows XP was "Windows 2000 SP1".
You are correct sir. Windows 2000 == NT 5.0 while XP == 5.1 -(basically 2000 with bugfixes). Likewise Vista == 6.0 and Seven == 6.1, the bugfixed and memory-optimized version of Vista.
Don't be duped. Remember this is the company that tried to trick people with "Windows Mohave" which was really just vista. They followed through with that plan.... "Seven" is just Vista SP2. "XP" is just 200 SP1.
1 or 2 million spent on Sony's "AV, IT, and media equipment" is nothing compared to the billions directed at Lockheed, Northrop, et cetera to build military planes, ships, and so on. I stick with my original statement.
>>>Yeah, millions of dollars in fines vs. billions of dollars in profit really dissuades those naughty contractors
It does actually. My company was fined ~700 million about three years ago, and now they come down hard on the employees to charge time precisely. Even if we take a barthroom break, we're supposed to subtract that 0.1 or 0.2 from the government project and put it in an overhead account. My company doesn't want to be fined again.
This is why I have no qualms about stealing from corporations..... they have no qualms about stealing from us. They do it daily - it's part of their business plan. They even lobby Congress for the right to steal from the People's Treasury.
I'd like to aim my gun at the RIAA's CEO's head. I think that would solve a multitude of issues... the replacement CEO would be so scared he'd stop trying to sue everyone... effectively impotent.
(Of course first I'd have to go buy a gun.)