I am always shocked by the vitrol thrown out by anti-MS people on this board. I have no idea why, but I am....
1) MS should be on the list. Not debating that point. The closed nature is dangerous. 2) Their forced upgrades are not file format related. They exist, but file formats are not the reason. I would argue that the upgrades to Windows and Office are like Star Trek movies. Every other upgrade is worthwhile for new features. 3) The whole MS taxc thing is silly. Any business has required tools. You dont hear people complaining about the 'pen tax' or the stappler tax, even if I do have to replace those almost as often or more than an OS. (bad anaology I know but you get the point) 4) Of course Windows and Office make up a huge part of their sales. They are core technologies in the business world. That would be like castigating McDonalds for 'half their profits coming from burgers and fries'
you are more than welcome to your opinion, but I HATE the gmail client as well as google apps. The mail client is horrid at scheduling and sorting/foldering. The apps are fine for reading attachments at home (which is where I use it) but any real work for it is horrible).
Exchange/outlook is unfortunatley the best email/calendaring option out there today.
So I pay the same as netflix just for the chance to watch crappy network TV? Ill opt to take my $10 elsewhere.
I bet this fails. Miserably. People will pay or watch commercials, but not both. They learned their lessons from the move to cable TV. Plus they expect more now.
excellent post. I agree with 90% of your concerns, although I am more concerned with religious extermism (actually all extremists) than anything else currently. But you are correct that moderation may not solve any real problems.
The problem is that most people dont want to actually sacrifice. It is not that people are more selfish now, it is that there are more options, and it is far to easy for one side to cite a quote or paper supporting their side of any argument, and thus invalidate the other side completely in their minds.
There are plenty of examples, the extreme ones being truthers and birthers. But we all do it to an extent.
I am actually fairly pessimistic as well. I dont see any good solution because humans are by their nature short sighted. The best we can do it try to keep fighting the good fight and hope the rest of the idiots in the world catch up eventually.
You are assuming that the driving paradigm doesn't change. I used to think the same thing until I realized that the vast manjority of people could do just fine with either a volt style hybrid with ICE backup or simply by using a 100 mile range electric and renting a car for long trips. I drive 70 miles to work 3 days a week and I could still do electric if they get the range up too 150 miles (with overnight charges).
I literally cannot remember the last time I needed to drive father than 150 miles in a single day. And a rental would have been fine for that type of scenario.
Don't be a drama queen. You are looking at history through rose colored glasses.
1) The country got through McCarthyism, and the so called 'greatest generation' let that go on for years.
2) Father Coughlin was as big a demagogue who rose out of economic turmoil as anyone today. 70 years later he is a footnote. again the so called 'greatest generation' made himn one of the most popular speakers of the generation.
3) while I agree that there is a definite selfishness to the last 3 generations, it is not much worse that those before it. It IS however mopre overexposed due to mass media.
for someone who is touting moderation later in his post you need to embrace it more.
Ask anyone in the military, there is A LOT of time spent carrying stuff from point A to point B. loading and unloading equipment takes a great deal of effort. Think the aliens scene where they use the lifters to load the dropship.
This is a non issue. Run IE 6 in APP-V as a Citrix streaming app, or on a Citrix server. costs far less than redesign and works just fine. That gives you plenty of time to fix the problem and still goto IE8 or 9 as your standard.
One final comment, I find it odd that the same peole who designed COBOL apps and mini computer apps and Windows 16 bit apps did not see the fact that IE6 would go away in a relatively short period of time when they were crating their web apps. Just ploain stupid and they get what they deserve.
Noone outside of MS wanted IE integrated into the OS. It was done as slight of hand to give MS a reason why they could not simply make IE a download as part of anti trust legislation.
There is nothing in the constitution which defines corporations as citizens with 1st amendment rights. That is an artifact of judicial decisions and law on the books. Get rid of corporations (which reducing liability for shareholders), or make the shareholders criminally liable for actions of the company and we can talk about giving corporations more rights. If you were to strictly interpret the constitiution, any group that took money from non-citizens should be exluded from the political process. If a company feels its shareholders are best represented by a certain political movement, then it should hand out a special divadend and send a note to the shareholders suggesting they give the money to a specific cause. And if that shareholder is a mutual fund, then the fund should do the same. At the end of the day, the decision to give money to a political campaign or cause should be done by the individual.
"People form groups, corporations, unions, non-profits, and the like, to give more weight to their voice"
People do not form corporations to give more weight to their voice. They form corporations to make money.
While you may not like it because it does not fit in a shoe box, some groups ARE different than others. The charter of a union for instance makes it clear that their role is to represent the needs/welfare of their members. Same with an advocacy group such as NOW, various pro life groups, environmental groups, etc. A corporation has no such requirement. They exist ONLY to make money for their shareholders. They are duty bound to try to make money without regard to morality, but only by ethics and, in theory, within the laws of the land. That is it. Non monetary considerations cannot be taken into account BY LAW. A union also wants its members to get more money, but they also have the flexibility to look at other issues which may influence their decision. Advocacy groups are more flexible as well.
citizens United was a bad decision on its face. By giv
Endorsing a canidate in by DEFINITION transparent. You have the newspaper company saying who it endorses and why.
I dont think anyone here has an issue with say....HP or Microsoft or BP or whomever running a commercial or renting newspaper space saying 'BP endorses this canidate because of X Y and Z. We do not like this other canidate because of A,B, and C.
The problem comes with shadow organizations, who are funded indirectly. The answer to that is fairly simple. If you are a company which is a subsidary of another company, both company names must be exposed.
Now, some people are saying that individuals should have to be exposed as well. This is where it gets sticky. Should a really rich guy have to disclose if he spends 5 million of his own money to create a shadow corp which then buys airtime and runs commercials and is 'issue' based?
My gut instinct is to say no. He has a right to anonmyous free speech. But we already regulate speech somewhat with out election laws, so there has to be some middle ground. The fact that he is hiding behind a corporation instead of buying the advertising directly means he gives up some 1st amendment rights in my mind.
Like all election laws, the best we can hope for is to curb the worst of the abuses. Short of government funded campaigns, you just cant expect money not to influence elections. But if you at least force corporations to be transparent in their actions you give the voter more informaiton on the source of the
Unless the government wishes to squelch all scientific study to prevent any actual debate to begin with....
I am not form Canada, and my knowledge of their politics is lean, but it sounds very much like the current government is doing just that. Cutting funding and silencing dissent where it cannot get away with funding cuts.
The age of mass comsumption of music is coming to an end (sort of). Many people still comsume from American Idol or Pop radio, but a growing group like the parent above and myself are becoming more focused on smaller acts, nniche genres, and local artists.
Perhaps this is just me getting older, but I personally have completely revamped how I digest music in the last 10 years, and am now far more focused on bands most people have never heard of (I dont mean this in a pretentious hipster kind of way, just in a 'this is what appeals to me' kind of way)
There will always be Pop music. The quesiton is how much it will decline and how much other options will become available.
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or you could tell them they are being stupid and ignore their hysterics. That is more straight forward and takes less time. Not to mention you can still use WiFi.
It is hard not to feel arrogant when you really are intellectually superior to those you are debating.
I am a very socially conservative coworker with whom I have ongoing rational polite debates as to the nature of various political social and economic topics. I enjoy those conversations highly. We are able to disagree without vilifying the other.
But that is the exception to the rule. Most of the things I read from conservatives (and many liberals as well) show them to be ignorant of the facts and unwilling to approach the issues with logic and reason. The difference between the ignorant liberals and the ignorant conservatives is that as a general rule the liberals are willing to listen to your idea or opinion and at least consider the validity, where the conservatives (especially social conservatives who base their opinions on religion) are willfully ignorant and really make no effort to educate themselves.
As for ratings, Three's Company and the Dukes of Hazard were top rated shows in the 80's, that does not grant them implicit value. Hell WWE Raw gets more viewers than O'Reily. Ratings !=value
This is absolutely shocking. For the past few years it seems every article I have read has advocated that data be soley kept 'in the cloud' and that users will never need to download their data to a perosnal machine ever....
'The Cloud' is hype. Just like all the other hyped techs in the last 15 years (ATM will change networking, Java will be out OS, thin clients will rule the business world)
I? do think it will be interesting if real competition comes to FB how this will be used to transfer data.
1) Police service is mandatory to my knowledge. I have never heard of a optional police fee.
2) We as a society place a much higher value on human life than we do property. This is why anyone can walk into a hospital and get treatment to stablize them for free.
Does this mean you dont mind paying the entire fire department tax bill for your city? Because if you allow people to not pay for the service, yet use it when needed, that is what you will get. No one will pay for the service, and everyone will use it.
This guy got what he deserved.
I do think it would have been nice to offer him a one time service for say $10k though.
It has nothing to do with this being a US Army server. It has everything to do with bad design. The people given the responsibility of a root server should NOT take that responsibility lightly.
Having a root server without multiple instances running is horrible. Anyone who has spent an hour studying DNS would understand how bad a decision this is.....
That having been said, this is one root server amongst many, so the actual impatc is almost zero. If your DNS server is only pointing at 1 rot server, than you are more foolish that the US Army and deserve what you get.
Still, they need to fix this and move into the 1990's.
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I am always shocked by the vitrol thrown out by anti-MS people on this board. I have no idea why, but I am....
1) MS should be on the list. Not debating that point. The closed nature is dangerous.
2) Their forced upgrades are not file format related. They exist, but file formats are not the reason. I would argue that the upgrades to Windows and Office are like Star Trek movies. Every other upgrade is worthwhile for new features.
3) The whole MS taxc thing is silly. Any business has required tools. You dont hear people complaining about the 'pen tax' or the stappler tax, even if I do have to replace those almost as often or more than an OS. (bad anaology I know but you get the point)
4) Of course Windows and Office make up a huge part of their sales. They are core technologies in the business world. That would be like castigating McDonalds for 'half their profits coming from burgers and fries'
Congress is the #1 danger to freedom.
Fixed that for you.
or for that matter IE with the Internet.
you are more than welcome to your opinion, but I HATE the gmail client as well as google apps. The mail client is horrid at scheduling and sorting/foldering. The apps are fine for reading attachments at home (which is where I use it) but any real work for it is horrible).
Exchange/outlook is unfortunatley the best email/calendaring option out there today.
So I pay the same as netflix just for the chance to watch crappy network TV? Ill opt to take my $10 elsewhere.
I bet this fails. Miserably. People will pay or watch commercials, but not both. They learned their lessons from the move to cable TV. Plus they expect more now.
excellent post. I agree with 90% of your concerns, although I am more concerned with religious extermism (actually all extremists) than anything else currently. But you are correct that moderation may not solve any real problems.
The problem is that most people dont want to actually sacrifice. It is not that people are more selfish now, it is that there are more options, and it is far to easy for one side to cite a quote or paper supporting their side of any argument, and thus invalidate the other side completely in their minds.
There are plenty of examples, the extreme ones being truthers and birthers. But we all do it to an extent.
I am actually fairly pessimistic as well. I dont see any good solution because humans are by their nature short sighted. The best we can do it try to keep fighting the good fight and hope the rest of the idiots in the world catch up eventually.
You are assuming that the driving paradigm doesn't change. I used to think the same thing until I realized that the vast manjority of people could do just fine with either a volt style hybrid with ICE backup or simply by using a 100 mile range electric and renting a car for long trips. I drive 70 miles to work 3 days a week and I could still do electric if they get the range up too 150 miles (with overnight charges).
I literally cannot remember the last time I needed to drive father than 150 miles in a single day. And a rental would have been fine for that type of scenario.
Don't be a drama queen. You are looking at history through rose colored glasses.
1) The country got through McCarthyism, and the so called 'greatest generation' let that go on for years.
2) Father Coughlin was as big a demagogue who rose out of economic turmoil as anyone today. 70 years later he is a footnote. again the so called 'greatest generation' made himn one of the most popular speakers of the generation.
3) while I agree that there is a definite selfishness to the last 3 generations, it is not much worse that those before it. It IS however mopre overexposed due to mass media.
for someone who is touting moderation later in his post you need to embrace it more.
Ask anyone in the military, there is A LOT of time spent carrying stuff from point A to point B. loading and unloading equipment takes a great deal of effort. Think the aliens scene where they use the lifters to load the dropship.
This is a non issue. Run IE 6 in APP-V as a Citrix streaming app, or on a Citrix server. costs far less than redesign and works just fine. That gives you plenty of time to fix the problem and still goto IE8 or 9 as your standard.
One final comment, I find it odd that the same peole who designed COBOL apps and mini computer apps and Windows 16 bit apps did not see the fact that IE6 would go away in a relatively short period of time when they were crating their web apps. Just ploain stupid and they get what they deserve.
Noone outside of MS wanted IE integrated into the OS. It was done as slight of hand to give MS a reason why they could not simply make IE a download as part of anti trust legislation.
Two things which make your assessment invalid:
There is nothing in the constitution which defines corporations as citizens with 1st amendment rights. That is an artifact of judicial decisions and law on the books. Get rid of corporations (which reducing liability for shareholders), or make the shareholders criminally liable for actions of the company and we can talk about giving corporations more rights. If you were to strictly interpret the constitiution, any group that took money from non-citizens should be exluded from the political process. If a company feels its shareholders are best represented by a certain political movement, then it should hand out a special divadend and send a note to the shareholders suggesting they give the money to a specific cause. And if that shareholder is a mutual fund, then the fund should do the same. At the end of the day, the decision to give money to a political campaign or cause should be done by the individual.
"People form groups, corporations, unions, non-profits, and the like, to give more weight to their voice"
People do not form corporations to give more weight to their voice. They form corporations to make money.
While you may not like it because it does not fit in a shoe box, some groups ARE different than others. The charter of a union for instance makes it clear that their role is to represent the needs/welfare of their members. Same with an advocacy group such as NOW, various pro life groups, environmental groups, etc. A corporation has no such requirement. They exist ONLY to make money for their shareholders. They are duty bound to try to make money without regard to morality, but only by ethics and, in theory, within the laws of the land. That is it. Non monetary considerations cannot be taken into account BY LAW. A union also wants its members to get more money, but they also have the flexibility to look at other issues which may influence their decision. Advocacy groups are more flexible as well.
citizens United was a bad decision on its face. By giv
Endorsing a canidate in by DEFINITION transparent. You have the newspaper company saying who it endorses and why.
I dont think anyone here has an issue with say....HP or Microsoft or BP or whomever running a commercial or renting newspaper space saying 'BP endorses this canidate because of X Y and Z. We do not like this other canidate because of A,B, and C.
The problem comes with shadow organizations, who are funded indirectly. The answer to that is fairly simple. If you are a company which is a subsidary of another company, both company names must be exposed.
Now, some people are saying that individuals should have to be exposed as well. This is where it gets sticky. Should a really rich guy have to disclose if he spends 5 million of his own money to create a shadow corp which then buys airtime and runs commercials and is 'issue' based?
My gut instinct is to say no. He has a right to anonmyous free speech. But we already regulate speech somewhat with out election laws, so there has to be some middle ground. The fact that he is hiding behind a corporation instead of buying the advertising directly means he gives up some 1st amendment rights in my mind.
Like all election laws, the best we can hope for is to curb the worst of the abuses. Short of government funded campaigns, you just cant expect money not to influence elections. But if you at least force corporations to be transparent in their actions you give the voter more informaiton on the source of the
So you are saying that the current government did NOT try to prevent genverment scientists from public communications on their work?
Unless the government wishes to squelch all scientific study to prevent any actual debate to begin with....
I am not form Canada, and my knowledge of their politics is lean, but it sounds very much like the current government is doing just that. Cutting funding and silencing dissent where it cannot get away with funding cuts.
The age of mass comsumption of music is coming to an end (sort of). Many people still comsume from American Idol or Pop radio, but a growing group like the parent above and myself are becoming more focused on smaller acts, nniche genres, and local artists.
Perhaps this is just me getting older, but I personally have completely revamped how I digest music in the last 10 years, and am now far more focused on bands most people have never heard of (I dont mean this in a pretentious hipster kind of way, just in a 'this is what appeals to me' kind of way)
There will always be Pop music. The quesiton is how much it will decline and how much other options will become available.
or you could tell them they are being stupid and ignore their hysterics. That is more straight forward and takes less time. Not to mention you can still use WiFi.
Here you go!
http://www.who.int/uv/intersunprogramme/en/
It is hard not to feel arrogant when you really are intellectually superior to those you are debating.
I am a very socially conservative coworker with whom I have ongoing rational polite debates as to the nature of various political social and economic topics. I enjoy those conversations highly. We are able to disagree without vilifying the other.
But that is the exception to the rule. Most of the things I read from conservatives (and many liberals as well) show them to be ignorant of the facts and unwilling to approach the issues with logic and reason. The difference between the ignorant liberals and the ignorant conservatives is that as a general rule the liberals are willing to listen to your idea or opinion and at least consider the validity, where the conservatives (especially social conservatives who base their opinions on religion) are willfully ignorant and really make no effort to educate themselves.
As for ratings, Three's Company and the Dukes of Hazard were top rated shows in the 80's, that does not grant them implicit value. Hell WWE Raw gets more viewers than O'Reily. Ratings !=value
Did anyone else notice the matchbox appeared in the mirror in the video?
This is absolutely shocking. For the past few years it seems every article I have read has advocated that data be soley kept 'in the cloud' and that users will never need to download their data to a perosnal machine ever....
'The Cloud' is hype. Just like all the other hyped techs in the last 15 years (ATM will change networking, Java will be out OS, thin clients will rule the business world)
I? do think it will be interesting if real competition comes to FB how this will be used to transfer data.
two parts of this statement are false
1) Police service is mandatory to my knowledge. I have never heard of a optional police fee.
2) We as a society place a much higher value on human life than we do property. This is why anyone can walk into a hospital and get treatment to stablize them for free.
Does this mean you dont mind paying the entire fire department tax bill for your city? Because if you allow people to not pay for the service, yet use it when needed, that is what you will get. No one will pay for the service, and everyone will use it.
This guy got what he deserved.
I do think it would have been nice to offer him a one time service for say $10k though.
It has nothing to do with this being a US Army server. It has everything to do with bad design. The people given the responsibility of a root server should NOT take that responsibility lightly.
Having a root server without multiple instances running is horrible. Anyone who has spent an hour studying DNS would understand how bad a decision this is.....
That having been said, this is one root server amongst many, so the actual impatc is almost zero. If your DNS server is only pointing at 1 rot server, than you are more foolish that the US Army and deserve what you get.
Still, they need to fix this and move into the 1990's.