Exactly. Thank you for agreeing that military is an industry. A key industry. Which when Clinton downsized it caused ripple effects that contributed to the 2000-2003 recession. It was military build up that brought us out of it. As it brought us out of the late 70s recession... As it brought us out of the 1939 Great Depression...
Nuclear deterrence via an overwhelming stockpile of missiles is the defense... Maintaining a football team is not deference either. It is both offense AND defense. That also provides many people with jobs and healthcare.
Woops a few of those "would"s should be wouldn'ts. Please excuse me and I hope you get the idea.
Re:MacPro is a closed platform?
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The Apple Two
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I've used Macs (and Apple II's) my whole life and I have always dealt with this nonsense from people. I upgraded and Apple IIci to a Mac that was more powerful than Apple's base Mac in 1997. Using 3rd party hardware. In may cases we have been able to swap out logic boards - its just cheaper to buy a new computer. In the late 90's you could swap out the CPU! Desktop Macs have always been upgradable and expandable. Different story for laptops, but you could always put in more RAM and a bigger harddrive. About the only thing a Mac user could do *with ease* is build a Mac from scratch. But the typical Mac user would want to do this anyway. The core of the Apple solution is off the shelf, plug it in, and it just works.
I am on a 3 yr old MacBookPro right now that is just fine snf speedy. My iPhone is 2 yrs old. My media Mac Mini is 4 yrs old, my second media Mac mini is 5 yrs old. Even my iBook G3 that is dedicated to playing music in the living room is 7 years old. All of them run fine. And only the non-intel ones are not running the latest OS (but they run the latest iTunes, Quicktime, and other apps that matter). Cost per hour of use without upgrading is far superior than those other platforms.
And best yet, on my Intel Macs I can run OS X, Windows, and Linux - all at the same time. FInd me a Linux user or Windows user who can do that. Off the shelf.
There are long term costs to these weapons: r&d, tooling, production, periodical testing and calibration, and future maintenance. They are a significant investment and vital industry.
A small amount of weapons could do the *offensive* job but the smaller the cache, the more vulnerable they are to detection and interception. The defense concept is mutual assured destruction - and it requires a staggering overwhelming abundance of ready-to-use weapons. What really screwed the USA was the Carter admin agreeing not to further nuclear weapon r&d. We were on the way to a half-life of a matter of days in which the impact site could be habitual again...
Regardless of the morals and ethics, the bottom line is its good skilled and technical jobs for America that include retirement packages and healthcare. Get rid of the nukes and we put 10s of thousands of people out of work. (This is definitely putting my dad out of work.)
Plus the USA has the right to amass any sort of defense we feel necessary. We are a sovereign nation - no other entity has legal domain over us. Time and time again other nations break their promises to the US. To trust them at their word is foolhardy.
Maybe, there should be a moderation label "obvious" because it sounds like that word is more appropriate in this case than 'exceeding what is necessary.'...Because stating the obvious is sometimes necessary. Especially when one is trying to be funny.
LOL - relax. By writing "very first definition" you inadvertantly acknowledged that there are multiple definitions. But yet you ridiculed the guy for not using the definition you prefer...
I was just (teasingly) pointing out that the definition you chose to embrace was entirely subjective... which means using your preferred definition you could call ANY comment redundant.
Second, because peeps around here claim to default to science, naturally an objective definition is more suitable. Look up subjective and objective if you aren't familiar with the difference.
While I agree with you, and I appreciate the potential value of a tiered internet, I have no other choice but feel doomed by this decision.
Net-neutrality almost ensures that everyone one has an equal opportunity/experience on the internet (for those who have access). It is the first step to freeing information.
As well as it is evident that Comcast, and other companies like it, want to move to a measured-rate means of charging. Combine that with tiered traffic speeds and the cost of using the internet is going to skyrocket. Online gaming and media streaming will cost a fortune to the user.
And while the FCC is not the appropriate entity to regulate this, they were our only hope in maintaining net-neutrality. Democrats and Republicans, and politicians in general have demonstrated time and time again they are not capable of managing issues like these.
Come on, 13,000 people inconvenienced? That's like a square block in New York. And what kind of mayor reacts to in a knee-jerk fashion to a story written hours ago in a newspaper?
What make you think that bit you cited is the entire definition of the word redundant? "exceeding what is necessary or normal" is entirely subjective. Most of us use the word by its objective meaning, repetitious, which is entirely objective and can be counted to a finite result.
"I would personally expect to keep at least equivalent purchasing power"
And that was part of my comment. Obama is reporting that the cost of living is decreasing.
However, I also question why, if we are doing the same amount of work and the revenue-value of our widgets is dropping due to inflation, why we would be compensated for inflation? What you are proposing is that we get more money even though the value of our work is worth less.
"an employer will raise their prices to compensate this themselves anyway" You do realize that you appear to be saying that you want to be compensated for the inflation you and your employer are causing, don't you?
"but if an employer fails to make me feel apprieciated"
I agree. Many studies show that appreciation does not need to be monetary, however.
Just because I cant help myself
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iPad Review
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"almost nothing in the box" - what else should be init besides the unit, sync cable and getting started manual?
sync 20GB takes a long time. Not much different than moving 20GB from HD to HD!
Doesn't have folders? I put my items in folders and lists on my HD and that arrangement transfers over in the sync.
Apps asking for location: Sounds like an app developer issue, not the iPad. The iPad isnt asking you for location.
The first is that a lot of websites are serving iPhone pages to the iPad. Again, the problem of the site developers not the iPad.
Flash uses mouse events that are not available on a touch screen.
The NetFlix app is really nice, but it doesn't let me rate selections using their little star system. Again, mouse events.
One user account. That's because the content distributors don't want users sharing content. Not really an apple issue. Plus, multiple user accounts will dramatically diminish disk space.
Weight of the device. Lots of people said it was heavier than they expected. However, one review said their pre-teen children said it was light. Maybe we need go outside and play more to tone up.
I'll end up getting one and using it most of the time as digitial picture frame. For the added functionality its a huge cost saving to comparable feature sets.
I am not in IT but my employer is doing the same: increasing costs of healthcare contribution, decreasing benefit packages and vacation time, and skipping raises.
But, I have to point out that the cost of living has generally decreased according to the Obama admin.. And, while many of us are doing more work, an even greater amount of us are doing the same amount of work - in some cases, less. I question the ideology that one gets a raise simply for putting in time. The cost of labor is a huge problem for American companies causing them to leave (move jobs from) major states and the country altogether. I would prefer to keep my job at my current pay than to lose it.
Why are we wasting American tax dollars to solve a foreign auto company's technical error!? To further drive American auto industries out of business? We should just ban Japan's defective lead-foot autos like we ban China's lead-filled products.
I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't coming from NASA's already diminished budget.
Yes, one better way is to build the software you need, yourself. Then you wouldn't have to pay for labor, education and experience.
Otherwise, "Companies have to follow and adhere by a common set of rules " means paying people to write code for your benefit. Even when it's an update or patch.
It has nothing to do with ethics! Ethics are subjective, as well.
For it to be unethical, the company would have to release software knowing that the bugs or security holes exist *for the purpose of* selling a fix. As much as we like to hate big companies, I highly doubt that is the cast.
No one with a sound or mature mind would believe that buying software these days is going to be without bugs or eventual security holes. Its *impossible* to make perfect software when the makers are unanimously imperfect.
People are benefiting from the buggy software - otherwise they wouldn't use it at all. They need to compensate for that use.
There are a multitude of issues to accommodate for - many of which are due to user error and failure of users adhere to specs or follow necessary procedures.
Nor is it an issue of capitalism. If you just open your eyes and look around some of the most notable infamous people are are socialists or communists.
I think people need to grow a pair... and acknowledge that if you want people to do stuff for you, you need to compensate them for it. Thinking you are entitled to free support, perpetually is living in a fantasy world.
There really is no sound business model for making software of this caliber unless its done on a subscription base. Especially when it comes to security. No entity is capable of foreseeing the ingenuity of others. Especially hackers.
Without income, there is no point continuing to develop.
Or even - what did the communist revolution do to Chinese culture!? The communists KILLED and imprisoned everyone who disagreed. Those are the same communist complaining about the USA.
WOW - you really don't understand the situation at all, do you?
Please point to one RIAA lawsuit were the user was making a Fair Play copy as described by recording pop radio... Its always been about unlicensed distribution.
Plus your unsupported theory "They're against P2P because that's how their competetion gets their stuff heard." is contradicted by the various legal subscription-based companies, some of which use peer-to-peer.
And since we are talking, just how does this compare to someone with no military, economic, nor executive experience!? Someone who's resume of Hope and Change has been "more of the same," and continues nearly all of Bush's policies!?...Cause that's the underlying point of this Slashdot article. If Bush was "absolute incompetence" from day one, how is doing what Bush did for a *ninth*year* an improvement!?
This is how I feel about just about every government bail out program and social service. Nearly 100 yrs and people still think throwing money at an issue and painting over the symptoms some how fixes the problem. Most of the time the actual problem is never addressed.
In this case there are a few easy measures to end the illegal immigration problem - arrest the illegal immigrants, document them, and deport them - arrest the people who hire illegal immigrants and charge them huge fines - eliminate citizenship via birth and make it necessary for everyone to naturalize
As we see with via this recession, remove the profit from the individual, and the employer, and illegal immigration dwindles.
While it is true the movie, music, and book publishers need to come up with modern business plans, I think the summary wrongly implies that "both the MPAA and the RIAA continue to fight emerging technologies like peer-to-peer file sharing " for the sake of blocking peer to peer sharing.
***They want you people to stop sharing and distributing their copyrighted material without paying for it***
They embrace peer to peer systems and networks who don't steal from them.
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Exactly. Thank you for agreeing that military is an industry. A key industry. Which when Clinton downsized it caused ripple effects that contributed to the 2000-2003 recession. It was military build up that brought us out of it. As it brought us out of the late 70s recession... As it brought us out of the 1939 Great Depression...
Nuclear deterrence via an overwhelming stockpile of missiles is the defense... Maintaining a football team is not deference either. It is both offense AND defense. That also provides many people with jobs and healthcare.
Woops a few of those "would"s should be wouldn'ts. Please excuse me and I hope you get the idea.
I've used Macs (and Apple II's) my whole life and I have always dealt with this nonsense from people. I upgraded and Apple IIci to a Mac that was more powerful than Apple's base Mac in 1997. Using 3rd party hardware. In may cases we have been able to swap out logic boards - its just cheaper to buy a new computer. In the late 90's you could swap out the CPU! Desktop Macs have always been upgradable and expandable. Different story for laptops, but you could always put in more RAM and a bigger harddrive. About the only thing a Mac user could do *with ease* is build a Mac from scratch. But the typical Mac user would want to do this anyway. The core of the Apple solution is off the shelf, plug it in, and it just works.
I am on a 3 yr old MacBookPro right now that is just fine snf speedy. My iPhone is 2 yrs old. My media Mac Mini is 4 yrs old, my second media Mac mini is 5 yrs old. Even my iBook G3 that is dedicated to playing music in the living room is 7 years old. All of them run fine. And only the non-intel ones are not running the latest OS (but they run the latest iTunes, Quicktime, and other apps that matter). Cost per hour of use without upgrading is far superior than those other platforms.
And best yet, on my Intel Macs I can run OS X, Windows, and Linux - all at the same time. FInd me a Linux user or Windows user who can do that. Off the shelf.
There are long term costs to these weapons: r&d, tooling, production, periodical testing and calibration, and future maintenance. They are a significant investment and vital industry.
A small amount of weapons could do the *offensive* job but the smaller the cache, the more vulnerable they are to detection and interception. The defense concept is mutual assured destruction - and it requires a staggering overwhelming abundance of ready-to-use weapons. What really screwed the USA was the Carter admin agreeing not to further nuclear weapon r&d. We were on the way to a half-life of a matter of days in which the impact site could be habitual again...
Regardless of the morals and ethics, the bottom line is its good skilled and technical jobs for America that include retirement packages and healthcare. Get rid of the nukes and we put 10s of thousands of people out of work. (This is definitely putting my dad out of work.)
Plus the USA has the right to amass any sort of defense we feel necessary. We are a sovereign nation - no other entity has legal domain over us. Time and time again other nations break their promises to the US. To trust them at their word is foolhardy.
Freaky comments like this give huge hints of your emotional state...
I sincerely hope you have a nice day!
Maybe, there should be a moderation label "obvious" because it sounds like that word is more appropriate in this case than 'exceeding what is necessary.' ...Because stating the obvious is sometimes necessary. Especially when one is trying to be funny.
LOL - relax. By writing "very first definition" you inadvertantly acknowledged that there are multiple definitions. But yet you ridiculed the guy for not using the definition you prefer...
I was just (teasingly) pointing out that the definition you chose to embrace was entirely subjective... which means using your preferred definition you could call ANY comment redundant.
Second, because peeps around here claim to default to science, naturally an objective definition is more suitable. Look up subjective and objective if you aren't familiar with the difference.
It's all good. No harm; no foul.
While I agree with you, and I appreciate the potential value of a tiered internet, I have no other choice but feel doomed by this decision.
Net-neutrality almost ensures that everyone one has an equal opportunity/experience on the internet (for those who have access). It is the first step to freeing information.
As well as it is evident that Comcast, and other companies like it, want to move to a measured-rate means of charging. Combine that with tiered traffic speeds and the cost of using the internet is going to skyrocket. Online gaming and media streaming will cost a fortune to the user.
And while the FCC is not the appropriate entity to regulate this, they were our only hope in maintaining net-neutrality. Democrats and Republicans, and politicians in general have demonstrated time and time again they are not capable of managing issues like these.
Come on, 13,000 people inconvenienced? That's like a square block in New York. And what kind of mayor reacts to in a knee-jerk fashion to a story written hours ago in a newspaper?
What make you think that bit you cited is the entire definition of the word redundant? "exceeding what is necessary or normal" is entirely subjective. Most of us use the word by its objective meaning, repetitious, which is entirely objective and can be counted to a finite result.
"I would personally expect to keep at least equivalent purchasing power"
And that was part of my comment. Obama is reporting that the cost of living is decreasing.
However, I also question why, if we are doing the same amount of work and the revenue-value of our widgets is dropping due to inflation, why we would be compensated for inflation? What you are proposing is that we get more money even though the value of our work is worth less.
"an employer will raise their prices to compensate this themselves anyway"
You do realize that you appear to be saying that you want to be compensated for the inflation you and your employer are causing, don't you?
"but if an employer fails to make me feel apprieciated"
I agree. Many studies show that appreciation does not need to be monetary, however.
"almost nothing in the box" - what else should be init besides the unit, sync cable and getting started manual?
sync 20GB takes a long time. Not much different than moving 20GB from HD to HD!
Doesn't have folders? I put my items in folders and lists on my HD and that arrangement transfers over in the sync.
Apps asking for location: Sounds like an app developer issue, not the iPad. The iPad isnt asking you for location.
The first is that a lot of websites are serving iPhone pages to the iPad. Again, the problem of the site developers not the iPad.
Flash uses mouse events that are not available on a touch screen.
The NetFlix app is really nice, but it doesn't let me rate selections using their little star system. Again, mouse events.
One user account. That's because the content distributors don't want users sharing content. Not really an apple issue. Plus, multiple user accounts will dramatically diminish disk space.
Weight of the device. Lots of people said it was heavier than they expected. However, one review said their pre-teen children said it was light. Maybe we need go outside and play more to tone up.
I'll end up getting one and using it most of the time as digitial picture frame. For the added functionality its a huge cost saving to comparable feature sets.
I am not in IT but my employer is doing the same: increasing costs of healthcare contribution, decreasing benefit packages and vacation time, and skipping raises.
But, I have to point out that the cost of living has generally decreased according to the Obama admin.. And, while many of us are doing more work, an even greater amount of us are doing the same amount of work - in some cases, less. I question the ideology that one gets a raise simply for putting in time. The cost of labor is a huge problem for American companies causing them to leave (move jobs from) major states and the country altogether. I would prefer to keep my job at my current pay than to lose it.
The name was probably "Pat"
Why are we wasting American tax dollars to solve a foreign auto company's technical error!? To further drive American auto industries out of business? We should just ban Japan's defective lead-foot autos like we ban China's lead-filled products.
I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't coming from NASA's already diminished budget.
Yes, one better way is to build the software you need, yourself. Then you wouldn't have to pay for labor, education and experience.
Otherwise, "Companies have to follow and adhere by a common set of rules " means paying people to write code for your benefit. Even when it's an update or patch.
It has nothing to do with ethics! Ethics are subjective, as well.
For it to be unethical, the company would have to release software knowing that the bugs or security holes exist *for the purpose of* selling a fix. As much as we like to hate big companies, I highly doubt that is the cast.
No one with a sound or mature mind would believe that buying software these days is going to be without bugs or eventual security holes. Its *impossible* to make perfect software when the makers are unanimously imperfect.
People are benefiting from the buggy software - otherwise they wouldn't use it at all. They need to compensate for that use.
There are a multitude of issues to accommodate for - many of which are due to user error and failure of users adhere to specs or follow necessary procedures.
Nor is it an issue of capitalism. If you just open your eyes and look around some of the most notable infamous people are are socialists or communists.
I think people need to grow a pair... and acknowledge that if you want people to do stuff for you, you need to compensate them for it. Thinking you are entitled to free support, perpetually is living in a fantasy world.
There really is no sound business model for making software of this caliber unless its done on a subscription base. Especially when it comes to security. No entity is capable of foreseeing the ingenuity of others. Especially hackers.
Without income, there is no point continuing to develop.
Or even - what did the communist revolution do to Chinese culture!? The communists KILLED and imprisoned everyone who disagreed. Those are the same communist complaining about the USA.
Plus - Free Speech. Choice.
WOW - you really don't understand the situation at all, do you?
Please point to one RIAA lawsuit were the user was making a Fair Play copy as described by recording pop radio... Its always been about unlicensed distribution.
Plus your unsupported theory "They're against P2P because that's how their competetion gets their stuff heard." is contradicted by the various legal subscription-based companies, some of which use peer-to-peer.
Thanks for the example of bias!
And since we are talking, just how does this compare to someone with no military, economic, nor executive experience!? Someone who's resume of Hope and Change has been "more of the same," and continues nearly all of Bush's policies!? ...Cause that's the underlying point of this Slashdot article. If Bush was "absolute incompetence" from day one, how is doing what Bush did for a *ninth*year* an improvement!?
Who gave Bush 4 yrs before they howled, vandalized, bitched and moan - and ridiculed!?
This is how I feel about just about every government bail out program and social service. Nearly 100 yrs and people still think throwing money at an issue and painting over the symptoms some how fixes the problem. Most of the time the actual problem is never addressed.
In this case there are a few easy measures to end the illegal immigration problem
- arrest the illegal immigrants, document them, and deport them
- arrest the people who hire illegal immigrants and charge them huge fines
- eliminate citizenship via birth and make it necessary for everyone to naturalize
As we see with via this recession, remove the profit from the individual, and the employer, and illegal immigration dwindles.
While it is true the movie, music, and book publishers need to come up with modern business plans, I think the summary wrongly implies that "both the MPAA and the RIAA continue to fight emerging technologies like peer-to-peer file sharing " for the sake of blocking peer to peer sharing.
***They want you people to stop sharing and distributing their copyrighted material without paying for it***
They embrace peer to peer systems and networks who don't steal from them.
my gut reaction too! Government says - everyone come let us run scripts on your computer/connection.... Cannot result in something good.