Look where all those arguments about how ridiculous it is to have such draconian security at airports but not in malls and trains leads -- to draconian security in malls and trains.
The Hill reports that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists will continue to look for US vulnerabilities, making tighter security standards necessary.
Terrorists hadn't figured out that malls, schools, buses, trains, etc. are US vulnerabilities? That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard and just shows how little respect Homeland Security has for the intelligence of US citizens.
I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime.
Translation: Look at how terrified and inconvenienced we've gotten away with making people. It's time for Phase 2 of Operation Immobilize the Populous.
The long-term [question] is, how do we get out of this having to have an ever-increasing security apparatus because of terrorists and a terrorist attack?
If we haven't gotten out of this by now (because that's not really the goal), we're never going to.
I think having a better understanding of what causes someone to become a terrorist will be helpful.
Perhaps it's, oh I don't know, feeling your religion, culture, way of life, and independence are being threatened by a force dramatically more powerful than you? Let's stop picking on people smaller than us and maybe the won't retaliate in desperation.
I'd love to be less tin-foil-hat about this, but I just don't see any other realistic way to interpret what Homeland Security is trying to accomplish. I just can't see how it's truly about the security of the populous.
With a computer, I have 100% control of what I want to happen and how it will happen.
What kind of computer are you using?! I've used Windows, Mac, and Linux, and none of them give me 100% control of what I want to happen and how it will happen. In fact, a girlfriend would be the perfect analogy for a computer. It pretends to be simple and predictable while being completely temperamental and arbitrary. It will just "lock up" after hours of seemingly normal use, sometimes just "crashing" for no apparent reason. If I tell it I want to save something, it constantly asks me if I'm sure I want to do that. It believes it can multitask, but instead does none of the tasks well.
When Microsoft or Apple put something in their product that people don't like, FOSS proponents respond, "The beauty of FOSS is you if you don't like what someone is doing, you can just go off and do your own thing." When someone actually does this the FOSS proponents seem to respond with, "We can't afford to splinter into tiny interest groups or we won't be able to compete with Microsoft and Apple."
Granted, it's only one hour downtime, not eight. I'm not going to defend.NET here, it's obviously much hated by the/. community, but you're already seeing that Linux isn't going to make this a rock solid platform simply by virtue of being Linux and/or open source. Linux,.NET, Java are all just platforms and they are all flexible enough to do whatever you're trying to do and all complicated enough to screw up when even very intelligent minds are at work.
I disagree. The taxes they are avoiding paying would be used to pay for infrastructure, services, etc, so, in a very real way, it *is* his money because without those taxes, the system is not as well funded and projects/services/infrastructure have to be cut
It's not only that. It's even more his money, because if corporations/the rich weren't avoiding having to pay taxes, less would need to be taken from everyone else. He would have more actual real money in his pocket, not just access to more infrastructure and services. Of course, you could take this reasoning even further; if the corporations had to pay more taxes, they would have to charge more for the products/services and you would be paying more and then have less money.
I can't claim to know enough about taxes and money to argue where you say it all comes out in the wash, but I think it's fair to say it's at least ethically questionable.
They'll discover that while celebrity behavior disappoints fans, it's also a crucial part of the entertainment. In five years, you'll be able to watch YouTube videos of Hatsune Miku getting drunk at a party, slapping a fan, and lifting her top for Virtual Girls Gone Wild.
I never knew you could include "imagination" as a component of your patent. Seriously, looking at just the figures, you'd think they were patenting using their invention to put your ideas into the computer! They should be suing every software maker in existence! Oh wait, they are.
So how is this different to developing games/apps for the desktop[...]
It isn't, and that would be the point. You shouldn't compare mobile devices to desktops, you should compare them to game consoles. The value (to a developer) in game consoles is they are set known hardware. And until now, so with mobile phones. The promise of a platform like iOS or Windows or Android is that the developer programs to a framework that hides all the differences in hardware, thereby reducing testing time. One expects to have to do multiple tests for Apple, Windows, Android, but not to have to test for every variation in hardware of the Android platform. But then, hindsight is 20/20.
First, infinite repeating decimals isn't a matter of "argument". It's the definition of 0.999... That is what the symbolism means--an infinite number of 9's.
Second, tacking a zero on to the end of a number is one method of manipulating symbols to carry out multiplication by 10. But I don't think you could say this is the "essence" of multiplication by 10. I'm not a math professor, so I can't bring a proof to the table, but I think it's reasonable to reason that multiplication by 10 can also be processed by "shifting" the number to the left one place. This is typically how computers do multiplication and division (as I understand it). If you shift an infinite number of 9's, you do not lose a 9. Infinity is infinite and it's weird. Infinity divided by ten is still infinitity.
You know, I was going to nitpick that using gift as a verb couldn't have been in usage when the original was written, but sure enough. I guess I'm going to have to give that up as a pet peeve.
So what if she did have a "commercial interest" to protect? Could the court have ruled that Yahoo! could be sued for search results in that case? How would you prove that it's not just someone with the same name? It's almost too bad she didn't have a commercial interest to protect, because it would be interesting to see what the ruling would have been in that case. And it would be even more interesting to see how Yahoo! could comply.
Aww. Thanks for the support, but I realized right after I posted that this exact analysis was given about five times before me if I had just bothered to read the rest of the posts. That's what I get for not reading all the current posts before I post.
Probably pointless to post this this long after the original posting, but the developer explains that the reason the game is so low-tech is because he's a programmer, not a graphics artists, and he figured this was a good was to make the game more visual than Dwarf Fortress (one of the game's influences), but still within his capabilities.
I'd say these articles at least demonstrate a history that indicates this product is in true development and why the company might have shifted direction so dramatically.
And while Wikipedia is certainly an indicator that a company is known, its absence doens't necessarily mean a company isn't valid (or even successful).
You seem to be implying a lot of things without actually saying them. GoSolarUSA hasn't made a product yet? Well they're only two years old. No big surprise there. This is their first product--sounds like a good one too.
I don't see this as being a concession to Puritans. If I'm looking for sextants, I have to type "sex" first. If that autocompleted, I would certainly not want to see those results while I was typing. It's one thing to show results that aren't necessarily relevant while I'm typing, it's another for those to be "adult" in nature. What if I'm searching while at work? Or what if it's my kids doing a search?
This could be as simple as adding a setting that let's you check a box to let you have porn show up in your results when you're in the muddle of typing "cummerbund". That way everyone can be happy.
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The difference is, Israel is interested in preventing actual terrorism.
Come on. Everyone knows terrorists don't fly business class! They are a poor, raggedy peoples who can barely afford economy plane fare.
Look where all those arguments about how ridiculous it is to have such draconian security at airports but not in malls and trains leads -- to draconian security in malls and trains.
The Hill reports that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists will continue to look for US vulnerabilities, making tighter security standards necessary.
Terrorists hadn't figured out that malls, schools, buses, trains, etc. are US vulnerabilities? That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard and just shows how little respect Homeland Security has for the intelligence of US citizens.
I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime.
Translation: Look at how terrified and inconvenienced we've gotten away with making people. It's time for Phase 2 of Operation Immobilize the Populous.
The long-term [question] is, how do we get out of this having to have an ever-increasing security apparatus because of terrorists and a terrorist attack?
If we haven't gotten out of this by now (because that's not really the goal), we're never going to.
I think having a better understanding of what causes someone to become a terrorist will be helpful.
Perhaps it's, oh I don't know, feeling your religion, culture, way of life, and independence are being threatened by a force dramatically more powerful than you? Let's stop picking on people smaller than us and maybe the won't retaliate in desperation.
I'd love to be less tin-foil-hat about this, but I just don't see any other realistic way to interpret what Homeland Security is trying to accomplish. I just can't see how it's truly about the security of the populous.
The data on my Facebook site is mined.
TFTFY
With a computer, I have 100% control of what I want to happen and how it will happen.
What kind of computer are you using?! I've used Windows, Mac, and Linux, and none of them give me 100% control of what I want to happen and how it will happen. In fact, a girlfriend would be the perfect analogy for a computer. It pretends to be simple and predictable while being completely temperamental and arbitrary. It will just "lock up" after hours of seemingly normal use, sometimes just "crashing" for no apparent reason. If I tell it I want to save something, it constantly asks me if I'm sure I want to do that. It believes it can multitask, but instead does none of the tasks well.
When Microsoft or Apple put something in their product that people don't like, FOSS proponents respond, "The beauty of FOSS is you if you don't like what someone is doing, you can just go off and do your own thing." When someone actually does this the FOSS proponents seem to respond with, "We can't afford to splinter into tiny interest groups or we won't be able to compete with Microsoft and Apple."
The beauty of capatilism is you sell yourself the rope with which to hang yourself.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3242509/london-stock-exchange-hit-by-glitch-after-linux-launch/
Granted, it's only one hour downtime, not eight. I'm not going to defend .NET here, it's obviously much hated by the /. community, but you're already seeing that Linux isn't going to make this a rock solid platform simply by virtue of being Linux and/or open source. Linux, .NET, Java are all just platforms and they are all flexible enough to do whatever you're trying to do and all complicated enough to screw up when even very intelligent minds are at work.
I disagree. The taxes they are avoiding paying would be used to pay for infrastructure, services, etc, so, in a very real way, it *is* his money because without those taxes, the system is not as well funded and projects/services/infrastructure have to be cut
It's not only that. It's even more his money, because if corporations/the rich weren't avoiding having to pay taxes, less would need to be taken from everyone else. He would have more actual real money in his pocket, not just access to more infrastructure and services. Of course, you could take this reasoning even further; if the corporations had to pay more taxes, they would have to charge more for the products/services and you would be paying more and then have less money.
I can't claim to know enough about taxes and money to argue where you say it all comes out in the wash, but I think it's fair to say it's at least ethically questionable.
They'll discover that while celebrity behavior disappoints fans, it's also a crucial part of the entertainment. In five years, you'll be able to watch YouTube videos of Hatsune Miku getting drunk at a party, slapping a fan, and lifting her top for Virtual Girls Gone Wild.
No, your penis is as phallic a shape as you can get.
Uh, cops *do* have the power of life and death.
But... Duke Nukem Forever really IS coming out next year!
I never knew you could include "imagination" as a component of your patent. Seriously, looking at just the figures, you'd think they were patenting using their invention to put your ideas into the computer! They should be suing every software maker in existence! Oh wait, they are.
So how is this different to developing games/apps for the desktop[...]
It isn't, and that would be the point. You shouldn't compare mobile devices to desktops, you should compare them to game consoles. The value (to a developer) in game consoles is they are set known hardware. And until now, so with mobile phones. The promise of a platform like iOS or Windows or Android is that the developer programs to a framework that hides all the differences in hardware, thereby reducing testing time. One expects to have to do multiple tests for Apple, Windows, Android, but not to have to test for every variation in hardware of the Android platform. But then, hindsight is 20/20.
First, infinite repeating decimals isn't a matter of "argument". It's the definition of 0.999... That is what the symbolism means--an infinite number of 9's.
Second, tacking a zero on to the end of a number is one method of manipulating symbols to carry out multiplication by 10. But I don't think you could say this is the "essence" of multiplication by 10. I'm not a math professor, so I can't bring a proof to the table, but I think it's reasonable to reason that multiplication by 10 can also be processed by "shifting" the number to the left one place. This is typically how computers do multiplication and division (as I understand it). If you shift an infinite number of 9's, you do not lose a 9. Infinity is infinite and it's weird. Infinity divided by ten is still infinitity.
Don't forget, and change your password every X days.
I think you mean, they're exactly like people except they have no responsibilities.
You know, I was going to nitpick that using gift as a verb couldn't have been in usage when the original was written, but sure enough. I guess I'm going to have to give that up as a pet peeve.
So what if she did have a "commercial interest" to protect? Could the court have ruled that Yahoo! could be sued for search results in that case? How would you prove that it's not just someone with the same name? It's almost too bad she didn't have a commercial interest to protect, because it would be interesting to see what the ruling would have been in that case. And it would be even more interesting to see how Yahoo! could comply.
Aww. Thanks for the support, but I realized right after I posted that this exact analysis was given about five times before me if I had just bothered to read the rest of the posts. That's what I get for not reading all the current posts before I post.
Probably pointless to post this this long after the original posting, but the developer explains that the reason the game is so low-tech is because he's a programmer, not a graphics artists, and he figured this was a good was to make the game more visual than Dwarf Fortress (one of the game's influences), but still within his capabilities.
Hmm, let's see what else is playing that weekend:
The Black Hole... in 3D!
Planet of the Apes... in 3D!
Forbidden Planet... in 3D!
Crap.
I'd say these articles at least demonstrate a history that indicates this product is in true development and why the company might have shifted direction so dramatically.
Apple Peel 520 Ready for Retailers
Massive iPod Touch Sales Figures Prompted Apple Peel Deal (It was actually Chinese firm Yosion that developed the device)
Huge iPad Sales Figures Prompted New Deal with PREE Corp. (It's not just the Touch market they're looking to capitalize on)
GoSolarUSA Appoints New President and CEO (All the iPod/iPad stuff weeks after Rohde is on board. This might explain the dramatic shift in the company's direction)
And while Wikipedia is certainly an indicator that a company is known, its absence doens't necessarily mean a company isn't valid (or even successful).
You seem to be implying a lot of things without actually saying them. GoSolarUSA hasn't made a product yet? Well they're only two years old. No big surprise there. This is their first product--sounds like a good one too.
Biotricity hasn't done anything? "Biotricity has developed a new combustion technology for the burning of woody biomass to generate electricity to address America's growing demand for green power." Sounds like they've done something to me.
Brewer Capital Group doesn't have a website? Well they're a financial advisor for the Houston area. Perhaps they aren't focused on their company's web site. They're still a company.
Goldbridge Energy Partners? Probably an even smaller company (also local to the Houston area), even less likely to appear on the Internet.
Or is this, "I'm not saying. I'm just saying."
I don't see this as being a concession to Puritans. If I'm looking for sextants, I have to type "sex" first. If that autocompleted, I would certainly not want to see those results while I was typing. It's one thing to show results that aren't necessarily relevant while I'm typing, it's another for those to be "adult" in nature. What if I'm searching while at work? Or what if it's my kids doing a search?
This could be as simple as adding a setting that let's you check a box to let you have porn show up in your results when you're in the muddle of typing "cummerbund". That way everyone can be happy.