The Sports leagues have an incentive to keep games fair and sportsmanlike for the fans so its not really self-regulation in the sense that they are in danger of being regulated. I suspect sports leagues would be self-regulating without any government pressure. ESRB is a good example. However, do you really think that ISP or any telecom company will opt-in to net neutrality when there are buckets of money to be made by behaving in a monopolistic or oligopolistic way? I don't think so.
Guess what? The CEO's and Politicians ARE the market. They control everything, but grant you some illusion that you have as much of an ability to achieve what they achieved in their life so you believe its all fair. Do you seriously think that a collection of day-traders moves the market? Human beings are random and irrational, and they do things perpendicular to eachother all the time. What occurs in market pricing most of the time is Brownian motion, which is basically totally random and extremely difficult to predict. Whenever you see a big move, its because big money traders (those with multi-millions or billions of dollars) have decided to reach consensus and move the market as they want it to. Day-traders make money by gambling. Professional traders make money by conspiracy, corruption, and playing along with eachother as they sap the money from those stupid enough to try to get into their game. Its like a poker champ toying with a novice.
The USSR was the very worst nation on earth for the environment.
And now China is polluting so much it travels all the way to Montana.
Voluntary self-regulation is typically a step an industry will take to prevent the government from regulating them. Oftentimes, the government actually prefers this, and will only step in to regulate if the industry fails to police itself. This threat is often good enough to keep the industry in line.
Citation needed. I have yet to see any voluntary regulation work on any corporation when profits are at stake.
What boggles my mind, is that the blood of the wealthy classes hasn't been running down the streets if so many people feel the way you do. I am speaking metaphorically, I do not advocate killing people. There comes a point when you have to realize that the majority of Americans feel the same way you do and probably vote along the same lines as you, and yet these politicians who cater to big business keep getting re-elected or new ones come in. Its true, Congress has record low approval ratings by the average American. When do we stop bitching about it (or in your case, being satirical / sarcastic) and do something when we know the whole system doesn't actually put people in office you voted for?
As a dude with a beard I can tell you that I sort of pick up doors opening (wind and pressure change causes the whiskers to move) and bugs near my face with my whiskers.
I said I hate Macs because of these people, I don't hate any person at all. In my experience, Apple fanboism breeds assholes, and because of that I do not particularly like Apple. The same could probably be said about other forms of fanboism, but Slashdot seems to have a huge percentage of Apple fanbois compared to other websites. When you get your inbox bombarded by twenty different people praising Apple and calling you an idiot or all manner of other names for constructively criticizing Apple's business practices or hardware/software, it gets old. Its as simple as that. Fanboism basically made it so I dislike Apple products, so in effect fanbois are ruining their goal of having everyone agree with them by being assholes.
Apple Fanbois are the worst kind of stupid. They think because they own or maybe can afford a Mac is somehow makes them a power-user and technology guru. Funny thing about that, they spout the same old bullshit lines again and again without actually knowing what they are talking about at all. Sure, some of them are OK and smart people, but its a minority. I used to think Macs were OK but after being flamed and having my inbox bombarded repeatedly every time I criticize anything that Apple does it makes me hate Macs out of principal.
Reread that again. It took less exploits to Pwn the Mac. Furthermore, the Windows and Mac PC's were being attacked at the same time by two different teams. Last year the same shit happened, Mac went down first. Furthermore, you win 15000 dollars when you take down a machine so people have more of an incentive to go for speed. You misinformed, willfully ignorant and delusional Fanboi's are the reason people on / . hate Macs.
Shit, Mcafee is these days as well. I used to use the enterprise edition since its the only one worth a damn that doesn't bombard you with popups and have an overbearing UI.
That is because Apple users are simply uninformed assholes that like to bash everything that isn't Mac even if they know nothing about it. Sure, I am over-generalizing, but there are enough Apple fanboi assholes on Slashdot that it actually makes people who used to think Macs were OK hate them out of principal.
Democrats are just as bad. Its all about money. That is why we need to vote third party and eliminate incentives to be career politicians or remove the revolving door between industry and government and make it harder to corrupt politicians with special interest donations. There's ways to do it, but since we can't directly vote on it ourselves it keeps getting worse and worse. A self perpetuating aristocracy is what we have with our current system.
Im glad someone knows what they are talking about. All I see in here are Apple fanboi's taking every opportunity to bash something they clearly know nothing about.
It was author speculation that it would be layered on top. I think it will be more like an instant-on OS like Asus has right now in some of their laptops.
HP has touchscreen desktop computers as well as touchscreens on some of their laptops. I suspect this means they will probably make this a standard feature on WebOS devices.
Nope. WebOS is on HP phones and their tablet. Its a good OS for this purpose. I suspect they want their line of laptops and desktops to sync up with the mobile devices and this is why they are doing this.
Presumably it would be an instant-on OS you can use instead of Windows. I actually like the idea. Furthermore, HP has touchscreens on some of their laptops now so I suspect they may take advantage of this feature. WebOS is supposed to sync up and partially control all your mobile devices (SMS texting, emails, facebook, twitter, etc) even if you don't have your phone right next to you, so I don't see why this is a bad thing. You can have a tablet, phone, and laptop all in sync without thinking about it.
Frankly, its the only thing that has be eyeballing Nvidia cards these day. I need to learn more about OpenCL as I think it may be a player here shortly once AMD's fusion line starts getting the better desktop processors. Then we can use the GPU on die to speed up matrices calculations.
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It takes bravery to say that even in a forum. Surprisingly no-one has insulted you for it.
The Sports leagues have an incentive to keep games fair and sportsmanlike for the fans so its not really self-regulation in the sense that they are in danger of being regulated. I suspect sports leagues would be self-regulating without any government pressure. ESRB is a good example. However, do you really think that ISP or any telecom company will opt-in to net neutrality when there are buckets of money to be made by behaving in a monopolistic or oligopolistic way? I don't think so.
Guess what? The CEO's and Politicians ARE the market. They control everything, but grant you some illusion that you have as much of an ability to achieve what they achieved in their life so you believe its all fair. Do you seriously think that a collection of day-traders moves the market? Human beings are random and irrational, and they do things perpendicular to eachother all the time. What occurs in market pricing most of the time is Brownian motion, which is basically totally random and extremely difficult to predict. Whenever you see a big move, its because big money traders (those with multi-millions or billions of dollars) have decided to reach consensus and move the market as they want it to. Day-traders make money by gambling. Professional traders make money by conspiracy, corruption, and playing along with eachother as they sap the money from those stupid enough to try to get into their game. Its like a poker champ toying with a novice.
The USSR was the very worst nation on earth for the environment.
And now China is polluting so much it travels all the way to Montana.
Voluntary self-regulation is typically a step an industry will take to prevent the government from regulating them. Oftentimes, the government actually prefers this, and will only step in to regulate if the industry fails to police itself. This threat is often good enough to keep the industry in line.
Citation needed. I have yet to see any voluntary regulation work on any corporation when profits are at stake.
What boggles my mind, is that the blood of the wealthy classes hasn't been running down the streets if so many people feel the way you do. I am speaking metaphorically, I do not advocate killing people. There comes a point when you have to realize that the majority of Americans feel the same way you do and probably vote along the same lines as you, and yet these politicians who cater to big business keep getting re-elected or new ones come in. Its true, Congress has record low approval ratings by the average American. When do we stop bitching about it (or in your case, being satirical / sarcastic) and do something when we know the whole system doesn't actually put people in office you voted for?
No. I routinely get bombarded by foul or insulting responses whenever I criticize Mac. If I criticize Android I get bombarded with praises.
So they are always irritated?
As a dude with a beard I can tell you that I sort of pick up doors opening (wind and pressure change causes the whiskers to move) and bugs near my face with my whiskers.
I said I hate Macs because of these people, I don't hate any person at all. In my experience, Apple fanboism breeds assholes, and because of that I do not particularly like Apple. The same could probably be said about other forms of fanboism, but Slashdot seems to have a huge percentage of Apple fanbois compared to other websites. When you get your inbox bombarded by twenty different people praising Apple and calling you an idiot or all manner of other names for constructively criticizing Apple's business practices or hardware/software, it gets old. Its as simple as that. Fanboism basically made it so I dislike Apple products, so in effect fanbois are ruining their goal of having everyone agree with them by being assholes.
Apple Fanbois are the worst kind of stupid. They think because they own or maybe can afford a Mac is somehow makes them a power-user and technology guru. Funny thing about that, they spout the same old bullshit lines again and again without actually knowing what they are talking about at all. Sure, some of them are OK and smart people, but its a minority. I used to think Macs were OK but after being flamed and having my inbox bombarded repeatedly every time I criticize anything that Apple does it makes me hate Macs out of principal.
Reread that again. It took less exploits to Pwn the Mac. Furthermore, the Windows and Mac PC's were being attacked at the same time by two different teams. Last year the same shit happened, Mac went down first. Furthermore, you win 15000 dollars when you take down a machine so people have more of an incentive to go for speed. You misinformed, willfully ignorant and delusional Fanboi's are the reason people on / . hate Macs.
Shit, Mcafee is these days as well. I used to use the enterprise edition since its the only one worth a damn that doesn't bombard you with popups and have an overbearing UI.
They are too busy trying to figure out more ways to nickle-and-dime you.
Safari fell first which means either its easier or the other hacker was better. Either way, its close enough to call both browsers pieces of shit.
All true Slashdotters......
That is because Apple users are simply uninformed assholes that like to bash everything that isn't Mac even if they know nothing about it. Sure, I am over-generalizing, but there are enough Apple fanboi assholes on Slashdot that it actually makes people who used to think Macs were OK hate them out of principal.
Well, keep being the pawn of the wealthy ruling class as they throw you scraps from their table then. At least you have a job.
Democrats are just as bad. Its all about money. That is why we need to vote third party and eliminate incentives to be career politicians or remove the revolving door between industry and government and make it harder to corrupt politicians with special interest donations. There's ways to do it, but since we can't directly vote on it ourselves it keeps getting worse and worse. A self perpetuating aristocracy is what we have with our current system.
Im glad someone knows what they are talking about. All I see in here are Apple fanboi's taking every opportunity to bash something they clearly know nothing about.
It was author speculation that it would be layered on top. I think it will be more like an instant-on OS like Asus has right now in some of their laptops.
HP has touchscreen desktop computers as well as touchscreens on some of their laptops. I suspect this means they will probably make this a standard feature on WebOS devices.
Nope. WebOS is on HP phones and their tablet. Its a good OS for this purpose. I suspect they want their line of laptops and desktops to sync up with the mobile devices and this is why they are doing this.
Presumably it would be an instant-on OS you can use instead of Windows. I actually like the idea. Furthermore, HP has touchscreens on some of their laptops now so I suspect they may take advantage of this feature. WebOS is supposed to sync up and partially control all your mobile devices (SMS texting, emails, facebook, twitter, etc) even if you don't have your phone right next to you, so I don't see why this is a bad thing. You can have a tablet, phone, and laptop all in sync without thinking about it.
Dell is not acquiring AMD. It was speculated, but most people don't take it seriously.
Frankly, its the only thing that has be eyeballing Nvidia cards these day. I need to learn more about OpenCL as I think it may be a player here shortly once AMD's fusion line starts getting the better desktop processors. Then we can use the GPU on die to speed up matrices calculations.