You forget that bribery can take many forms depending on the culture. It's common in the Asia for example to have low level bureaucracy with bribes significantly speeding it up.
It's common in North America and Europe to have high level bribery, with services and gifts exchanged at highest echelon of the society to facilitate functionality of legislation.
Essentially this is a question of "where is the power in the bureaucracy". In the countries with our system, the power lies with those who make laws - the rest just implement them. In more traditionally corrupt countries laws are followed only to the extent and leeway can be gained by bribing low level officials.
In a nutshell, bribery exists everywhere. But goal of bribery is achieving goals. And in some systems, it's enough to bribe a low level official, while in others, you need to go to those who make the laws.
Facebook and twitter addressed a tangible problem inherent to communication between groups of people. There is a reason why "ordinary people" adapted them en masse. It solved a communication problem for them. Nowadays, instead of having to call many people, they just post it on their facebook or twitter.
Yes, because everyone who's poor and doesn't have a job needs to be dinged for a new PC that has an up to date browser that is as html5 compatible as possible.
Because some people in IT are zealots and will not give up on the message, even if that message directly harms them. But the dip firefox took, and continues to suffer from due to corporate dropping them was very noticeable, and still is.
Considering mozilla's track record with corporate IT departments, I'd say there will be a cold day in hell before anyone sane from those departments will trust mozilla's products enough to actually start using them ever again. The epic bait and switch they pulled with firefox and versioning system followed by the whole "we don't care about corporate" quote from the Asa "foot in the mouth" Dotzler, ensured that any dumbass intern in IT who decides to peddle a mozilla product will be hit on the head with a monitor that has a short version of the entire adventure until he gets the point.
By the time someone on the mozilla leadership team got their people to at least consider that corporate just might actually matter to mozilla which eventually resulted in firefox ESR, it was basically too late. Corporate heads who bought mozilla's message from before and rolled out firefox as the main workplace browser learned their lesson and migrated to the only major browser with sane updating and versioning system. IE. As much as many hated it. And it was completely mozilla's own fault.
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice... They fucked corporate hard with browsers. How much harder could they fuck corporate sector with the OS? Who will be stupid enough to take that risk when taking their recent history in consideration? How much key infrastructure and support will you move to use it before mozilla goes off the deep end again in the name of the next shiny "right way to develop software" that pisses in the face of reason and sanity?
And technology able to display this signal... is not really coming at all. We've taken a huge leap backwards in terms of color gamut displayed by TVs when we made the switch to LCDs, and the only decently promising tech that is coming that has decent enough gamut to compete with CRTs is OLED... which doesn't seem to scale all that well to big screens and has huge problems with longetivity (dimming).
What's the point of having the awesome signal being able to carry a much large color space, when you have no monitor that can display it?
That's not really true. The current limit on the display gamut is typically not the broadcasting spec but the display technology. Essentially all LCDs available on the market have significantly worse gamut then CRTs, and CRTs don't have enough to cover the current HDTV spec.
The breakthrough that is currently waiting to happen is OLED. It's the only technology in addition to plasma that has a decent chance of actually making use of gamut available from the signal spec. Considering the difficulties in making large OLED panels even in HDTV resolution, I would imagine that reasonably afforable OLED 4Ks are not coming any time soon.
Until then you're basically stuck with twisted nematic and in plane switching LCDs which are both utterly terrible in terms of ability to display a wide array of colors.
In terms of APUs, they have intel not just beat but utterly demolished. Intel has absolutely nothing on AMD when it comes to combination of slowish low TDP CPU and a built in GPU with performance of a low end discreet GPU.
And while they lack CPU power for high end, wouldn't you want a discreet CPU with a discreet GPU in that segment in the first place?
With bullet often having speeds and in some cases mass orders of magnitude greater then actual bullets. And in situation where anything you shoot will cause recoil significant enough to force you to counter-fire to offset it.
That's not "slightly". For comparison, the least corrupt countries in the world got the score of 90, whereas the most corrupt EU countries that do not have significant corrupting impact of the formerly communist culture scores 62. There is a huge uncrossable chasm between those, and yet the difference in points is only 28 Difference of even a few points suggests significant differences between levels of corruption. This is why TI itself was essentially forced to revise its scale from 1-10 to 1-100.
Otherwise you could claim that there isn't all that much difference between three least corrupt countries in the world and Ireland's state at its worst.
Then there's the nature of corruption. Ireland's problems are from significant financial impact of the crisis. Southern Europe has problems with deeply ingrained culture of corruption which is absent in Ireland. As a result we can expect Ireland to improve on the metric this year, while Southern Europe will likely keep on being where it is.
Okay. They'd spend 1.350.000€ on cleaning, because the contractor cleaning those would happen to be a son-in-law of the chief of the agency and successfully charge for ten times the work. Then they'd spend the 190.000€ on new hardware a year later and throw the cleaned PCs out anyway, and pay another 1.000.000€ on consulting fees on how to buy these to the same company.
Welcome to corrupted as hell Southern Europe. This is pretty tame to stuff that actually happens there. Worth noting that Ireland is NOT in that basket.
And yet someone talking to nobody also apparently doesn't "look like a douche". Because microphone in a phone itself and microphone in the handfree set is pretty much the same thing.
It's all about the cultural premise. Eventually people will likely accept wearable devices as well as ones carried in hand, just like they accepted mobile phones.
I am old enough to remember the "you shouldn't use your mobile phone to talk to people in public places, it makes you look like a douche" movement in early 1990s.
After a decision of that level, highly unlikely but possible. The fine itself is not much, and as far as I know they can still appeal to ECJ if this is a matter of European rather then state law. But this does in fact seem to be state law matter, so wikileaks won. It's a bit of a phyrric victory at this point due to the fact that those who wanted to donated when it was needed were prevented from doing so. Wikileaks was essentially a target of a massive media hit campaign, followed by funds blockage to avoid them from being able to function, which was largely successful. When was the last time you heard about them in mass media in relation to their actual work rather then some juicy scandal aimed to discredit them?
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You forget that bribery can take many forms depending on the culture. It's common in the Asia for example to have low level bureaucracy with bribes significantly speeding it up.
It's common in North America and Europe to have high level bribery, with services and gifts exchanged at highest echelon of the society to facilitate functionality of legislation.
Essentially this is a question of "where is the power in the bureaucracy". In the countries with our system, the power lies with those who make laws - the rest just implement them. In more traditionally corrupt countries laws are followed only to the extent and leeway can be gained by bribing low level officials.
In a nutshell, bribery exists everywhere. But goal of bribery is achieving goals. And in some systems, it's enough to bribe a low level official, while in others, you need to go to those who make the laws.
Facebook and twitter addressed a tangible problem inherent to communication between groups of people. There is a reason why "ordinary people" adapted them en masse. It solved a communication problem for them. Nowadays, instead of having to call many people, they just post it on their facebook or twitter.
Tablets are another story entirely.
Yes, because you know, the people who are in need of benefits are known to be geeks, and love to learn new IT systems.
Yes, because everyone who's poor and doesn't have a job needs to be dinged for a new PC that has an up to date browser that is as html5 compatible as possible.
From frying pan and into the fire.
It appears to be like leaving your spare keys with a friend you trust that lives nearby. Makes sense.
Because some people in IT are zealots and will not give up on the message, even if that message directly harms them. But the dip firefox took, and continues to suffer from due to corporate dropping them was very noticeable, and still is.
Considering mozilla's track record with corporate IT departments, I'd say there will be a cold day in hell before anyone sane from those departments will trust mozilla's products enough to actually start using them ever again. The epic bait and switch they pulled with firefox and versioning system followed by the whole "we don't care about corporate" quote from the Asa "foot in the mouth" Dotzler, ensured that any dumbass intern in IT who decides to peddle a mozilla product will be hit on the head with a monitor that has a short version of the entire adventure until he gets the point.
By the time someone on the mozilla leadership team got their people to at least consider that corporate just might actually matter to mozilla which eventually resulted in firefox ESR, it was basically too late. Corporate heads who bought mozilla's message from before and rolled out firefox as the main workplace browser learned their lesson and migrated to the only major browser with sane updating and versioning system. IE. As much as many hated it. And it was completely mozilla's own fault.
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice... They fucked corporate hard with browsers. How much harder could they fuck corporate sector with the OS? Who will be stupid enough to take that risk when taking their recent history in consideration? How much key infrastructure and support will you move to use it before mozilla goes off the deep end again in the name of the next shiny "right way to develop software" that pisses in the face of reason and sanity?
Money.
It has four times the pixels. Because when you double both vertical and horizontal, total is quadrupled.
Basic math.
And technology able to display this signal... is not really coming at all. We've taken a huge leap backwards in terms of color gamut displayed by TVs when we made the switch to LCDs, and the only decently promising tech that is coming that has decent enough gamut to compete with CRTs is OLED... which doesn't seem to scale all that well to big screens and has huge problems with longetivity (dimming).
What's the point of having the awesome signal being able to carry a much large color space, when you have no monitor that can display it?
That's not really true. The current limit on the display gamut is typically not the broadcasting spec but the display technology. Essentially all LCDs available on the market have significantly worse gamut then CRTs, and CRTs don't have enough to cover the current HDTV spec.
The breakthrough that is currently waiting to happen is OLED. It's the only technology in addition to plasma that has a decent chance of actually making use of gamut available from the signal spec. Considering the difficulties in making large OLED panels even in HDTV resolution, I would imagine that reasonably afforable OLED 4Ks are not coming any time soon.
Until then you're basically stuck with twisted nematic and in plane switching LCDs which are both utterly terrible in terms of ability to display a wide array of colors.
In terms of APUs, they have intel not just beat but utterly demolished. Intel has absolutely nothing on AMD when it comes to combination of slowish low TDP CPU and a built in GPU with performance of a low end discreet GPU.
And while they lack CPU power for high end, wouldn't you want a discreet CPU with a discreet GPU in that segment in the first place?
Indeed. You should tell to guys that run rovio that all the ad money they've been bathing in is actually imaginary.
With bullet often having speeds and in some cases mass orders of magnitude greater then actual bullets. And in situation where anything you shoot will cause recoil significant enough to force you to counter-fire to offset it.
In a same way that a bank employee can spend your cash anonymously I imagine.
That's not "slightly". For comparison, the least corrupt countries in the world got the score of 90, whereas the most corrupt EU countries that do not have significant corrupting impact of the formerly communist culture scores 62. There is a huge uncrossable chasm between those, and yet the difference in points is only 28 Difference of even a few points suggests significant differences between levels of corruption. This is why TI itself was essentially forced to revise its scale from 1-10 to 1-100.
Otherwise you could claim that there isn't all that much difference between three least corrupt countries in the world and Ireland's state at its worst.
Then there's the nature of corruption. Ireland's problems are from significant financial impact of the crisis. Southern Europe has problems with deeply ingrained culture of corruption which is absent in Ireland. As a result we can expect Ireland to improve on the metric this year, while Southern Europe will likely keep on being where it is.
Strange how northerners can work with each other without this corruption. Must be a conspiracy. Southerners are just victims in this!
You're mistaking "relative" with "absolute".
Those zeroes at the end. They mean nothing?
Ah, the "technological solution to human factor".
Good luck implementing it.
Okay. They'd spend 1.350.000€ on cleaning, because the contractor cleaning those would happen to be a son-in-law of the chief of the agency and successfully charge for ten times the work. Then they'd spend the 190.000€ on new hardware a year later and throw the cleaned PCs out anyway, and pay another 1.000.000€ on consulting fees on how to buy these to the same company.
Welcome to corrupted as hell Southern Europe. This is pretty tame to stuff that actually happens there. Worth noting that Ireland is NOT in that basket.
A few cities. "Government" is not a single solid entity.
And yet someone talking to nobody also apparently doesn't "look like a douche". Because microphone in a phone itself and microphone in the handfree set is pretty much the same thing.
It's all about the cultural premise. Eventually people will likely accept wearable devices as well as ones carried in hand, just like they accepted mobile phones.
I am old enough to remember the "you shouldn't use your mobile phone to talk to people in public places, it makes you look like a douche" movement in early 1990s.
This is on the level of "black hole calling kettle black" at this point.
"Health of the industry". Good one.
After a decision of that level, highly unlikely but possible. The fine itself is not much, and as far as I know they can still appeal to ECJ if this is a matter of European rather then state law. But this does in fact seem to be state law matter, so wikileaks won. It's a bit of a phyrric victory at this point due to the fact that those who wanted to donated when it was needed were prevented from doing so. Wikileaks was essentially a target of a massive media hit campaign, followed by funds blockage to avoid them from being able to function, which was largely successful. When was the last time you heard about them in mass media in relation to their actual work rather then some juicy scandal aimed to discredit them?