It is efficiency. We are no longer in a time where people are competing primarily by defining HTML standards. The standards are set and the competition is who can make the best browser experience. This could be integration into other servies, speed, or UI.
So, as a small company,m,m,. if Opera is to compete it has to make the front end look good, not spend time on the engine. Only MS has the money to spend competing on the engine.
It has to do with the nature of worship and the nature of faith. For some people, those who worship a book, worship and faith have to do with knowing their place in the world. Knowing that even though they are adulterers and sinners in the eye of the almighty, that the gay people are worse. Knowing that even they have no hope of ever having enough money to be confortable, it is not because the almighty made it that way, but because others, the worshippers of the anti-christ, have conspired to keep them from the wealth that is rightfully theirs. These people focus on ritual, and material objects, and fabricated customs to create a world in which they do not have to be responsible for their lot in life, actions, or the consequences of those actions. Sure their speech or actions may harm people, but that is the will of the being they have created to worship
There is another way. A way in which we do not assume that all that is known is already known, that the book that sinners wrote is the ultimate repository of knowledge. In this way we accept that there is an almighty, that the almighty created the universe, and, more importantly, that the almighty cannot be limited by the wishful rules and regulation that the creation tries to impose. In this way all we can do is try to study the creation, the rocks, the plants, the animals, including us, to try to understand what is excepted of us. This, I believe is the genius of Galileo and Newton, who freed us from the bonds of ancient religions and allowed us to find better lives, to attempt to create the heaven on earth for all people, not just the few that believe they have been 'chosen' to exploit and oppress the rest of creation.
Science does not question the existence of the almighty. Science does not question the existence of creation. Science causes no crisis of faith in one that is faithful. All science does is disrupt those that want to use faith to gather personal power, wealthy, and in the process elevate themselves to the level of the almighty.
1) on the iPhone the cellular can be turned off so it can be used as a WiFi only device. Skype can be used to make calls.
2) I thought the whole advantage of an Android phone is that it was not locked down like an iPhone, so could always be used to as a router to accept connections, i.e. tethering. That is what the ads and everyone on/. says when they say that iPhones suck.
Lecture has ruled the classroom for hundreds of years, usurping the dialogue. However we now know that lecture is not effective for all students, and probably more damming, is may not be effective at teach concepts that students are not previously familiar
As Khan Academy, at least in my exposure to it, is about listening to someone talk watching writing on a board, do you think that this is teaching good pedagogy? Do you think it reinforces the idea that visual learners are the smartest people, the people who deserve to be educated? Is there any plans to expand the current format ot include other learning styles. For instance, I am not one of those that thinks manipulative have to be used in math, but I do think a math classroom with no manipulative is not as reaching to as broed a learner base as it could be. Or having an interactive element where a formative assessment might be conducted during the video?
The old college system essentially is a few intense hours a week with a professor, a lot of time studying what the professor said, then doing reading, or writing, or calculations, or whatever.
This works, except when a computer is brought in the classroom, the prof is no longer the center of attention. It is the computer. It is correct to say that there is no advantage to putting the class on the computer. It takes a lot of work, and the payback at the college level is not that great. This is especially true when you consider some profs just come in, read from the book, assign from the book, and don't really give it any more thought.
The value of the class system, which really does not have to cost very much, is that they silllybus is no longer a separate document, but an integrated set of readings, activity, etc. Students can be given the option of online or paper texts. It is easier to refer to a variety of texts. For freshman lit, for example, anthologies can be collated from online source. listed in the proper place in the syllabus, instead of having students buy a book. For science simulations can be collated. Online tests can be created so that each student had an individual test. TAs can be used to tutor students instead of grading test.
Using such a system, though, is a skill, and it is time consuming. I have heard of that hourly profs are not given time to set such a system up, so I understand why it is not popular.
Absolutely. Start making websites. If you can't find a job, then find a non-profit and volunteer. This is what I did. I was other there coding for production sites when I was 17. It was simple stuff, but it got me in the games. My degree is in science, so most of the computer stuff I learned I learned in high school, with just a few college courses. By the way, I wish I had more computer science courses because it would have taught me the jargon of computer development. Such shorthand is used quite a bit in communications for large projects, and my lack of it is an impediment.
Let me add one more thing, which you college professors may have already told you. College is not there to prepare you for your first job, but for your last job. To put it more starkly, a college graduate may be more likely to have a well paying job into retirement than someone without. This is because you are trained to learn and so can a number of different jobs.
Here is an example. In the late 70's if you have an a math degree and a knowledge fo Frotran and the IMSL library, you could get a high paying job immediately. That was because Fortran was really hard to write and debug(error messages had little to do with the actual error). However, 15 years later if you still expected to make money writing Fortran, you were not so lucky. Flash forward to 2000 and much of the code we need to run the world had already been written, and there was not a lot of money to be made just reimplementing old code. If one is not versatile, one did not have a job.
Today with the web and major sharing of code, there is not an opportunity to rewrite a product from scratch as there was 20 years ago. We do not have 10 different word processors. Most of the web browsers run on one of four engines. Very little web development is done hand coding HTML like I did many years ago. Five years ago there was no App market and coding for tiny screens did not exists. Just imagine what they world is going to be like when you are mid carrer?
So apply the skills you have now. Many of us made a pretty penny in college not by waiting tables or working at a shop. but doing what we loved. The advantage was that we learned a skill and got paid to do it. However remember it is easy for a young person to get a job, not so easy for an older person with responsibilities.
The possible irony has nothing to do with the free markets. It has to do with his view of the UN.
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Its global planners fully intend to expand the UN into a true world government, complete with taxes, courts, and a standing army. This is not an alarmist statement;
So the UN is trying to destroy the US. This is not alarmist, simple the facts
we either follow the Constitution or submit to UN global governance
If we follow the UN, we are not being faithful to the constitution of the US
As such, the Charter is neither politically nor legally binding upon the American people or government. The UN has no authority to make “laws” that bind American citizens
Even if the UN says the domain is his, the UN has no legal authority to make it his, at least in the US.
Like any government or quasi-government body, the UN is rife with corruption and backroom deals. Worst of all, it serves as a forum for rampant anti-Americanism. Perhaps the time has finally come when more Americans will choose to rethink our participation.
So by going to the UN, he might as well be asking Al Qaeda for help. He is hob nobbing with terrorist who are against America.
Ron Paul is the worst kind of Texas Politicians. He will do whatever his friends want, no matter what it does to the budget. His friends wanted a million dollar bus stop so he gave it to them. His friends wanted a million dollar game room so their kids could play video games instead of train for the military like they promised, so he gave it them. His fishing buddies wanted the government to pay to advertise their seafood products, so, you guessed it, he passed a billed transferring tax money directly into their pockets. And of course when the nuclear energy lobby come a courtin', he is there to give them as much as they want, even though Texas ratepayers end up paying for everything all over again.
As far as the free market, instead of letting firms decide what infrastructure is best for them, he mandates from washington what they need. He spent 2.5 redeveloping one the small towns in his district, instead of letting the free market decide if it was vialble. He spent 8 million redeveloping fishing pier instead of letting private firms take the risk and reap the reward. He spent 18 million on commercial waterways, instead of letting the private sector decide and pay for what it needed. And of course I believe an empty terminal for cruise lines is in his district.
The reality is that if he were not such a crackpot none of this would matter. Just like everyone else he greedy and does not want to pay a reasonable price for property he considers to be already his. But he is a person who has used extreme language to win election and raise funds, over $40 million in 2012. That he would now validate the authority of UN is quite troubling.
Back in 200 when Bush II was elected. most people did not really know or care about immigration. Reagan had solved a big part of the problem of the problem through amnesty, the ones most effected, tech, recreation, and oil, were not a huge part of the national psyche. Bush was elected on a very soft policy towards undocumented workers.
But then those undocumented workers started entering the midwest, the economy tanked to 10 years, 9/11, etc and everyone began to freak.
Some of the problems with firms who need technical labor is legitimate. Multinational firms, for example Oil firms, do have a need to transfer people to the US for temporary or long term assignments. Software developers simply trying to use the H1B visa to gain indentured servants is going to interfere with that. Like wise recreation facilities, like ski resorts, simply looking for seasonal labor needs available H1B visas to grant non-US residents short term assignments. Again, firms looking for indentured servants though the H1B visa program interferes with this.
But in a larger sense this about competition. If one works in meat packing plant, one does not want to be competing against someone who will do a days work, instead of the 90% that has become the norm. If one is looking for technical job, it is much harder to compete with a million world wide candidates than 100,000 US candidates.
So to me these are the question. Are we so afraid of the free market and competition that we are going to continue to impose regulations on businesses that say they are not allowed to hire the best candidate possible.? It is clear that most conservative believe we should. The second is are we going to invest in education and training, hold out kids up to the highest standards, and leave behind this idea that we deserve a job just because we were born in the US, and expect people to get out there and hustle instead of sitting back on the sofa waiting for a job to be presented? This is a hard pill to swallow, but the internet,cheap air travel, and the widespread teaching of english, means that isolation is no longer a viable policy.
This has nothing to do with ethanol and limiting the discussion to ethanol is simply going to make the problem worse. This si about a corn economy in the US, and the willingness of the midwestern corn interest to put national security at risk to make a profit.
The we have switch grass and poplar. Both require a technology that can transform it into ethanol. It is known that processes can be developed that will result in no additional greenhouse gasses. But these processes need to be developed. Instead over the past 10 years we have paid 60 billion dollars in taxes for people to grow corn that we then have to pay for out of our personal pockets. The US only produces around 10 billion bushels of corn a year, a price of around $5 per bushel. If you do the math we pay for the corn twice. Once at the store, and once through our taxes.
Move the tax incentive to sugar, poplar, and switch grass and see our gas prices, and green house gases, plument.
One reason that Apple was able to take over the market was because they realized that there is a large number of customers that don't really care if their mobile device is nor a great phone. This seems counter intuitive, but a lot of people predicted that the iPhone would fail because it was a bad phone. History has told the real story. Even with Android Phones I see people buying them because they have a HDMI output, not really because of the quality of phone or ease of use.
So I assume that watches are going to be no different. As mentioned, it could be something like the iPad nano. What is likely going to the killer feature is connection to an iPhone or iPod for caller id, bluetooth speaker and microphone, viewing new mail, and the like.
If you look at the watch market, the watch is hardly the killer feature in sales. A watch is piece of jewlery that happens to markt he time. Very few people buy a watch primarily to know the time. This was even before a phone was a more reliable time keeping device than a watch.
Youtube and google are in the business of selling advertising. There has never been ant deal to be 'fair' or 'honest' or 'open'. There is only a deal to make money. This is not broadcast TV where for profit corporations were given public airwaves in exchange for a level of public service. This is not cable TV where for profit firms are given monopolies in exchange for reliable programming.
No google hosts content so that it can get users to log in and allow cookies so it can mine data that can be sold to advertisers. Nothing more, nothing less. Anything that costs it money, like defending content on the basis on first amendments rights, is likely counter to that profit mission. In particular most advertisers do not want to be associated with weapons of mass murder, and it is the advertisers, not the end users, that are the customers.
Now, google at one time said it would do no evil, but doing no evil is far from doing good. I mean I can go into a school, threaten to kill everyone, and then not do it, and claim to have done no evil. Google never said it was in business to make the world a better place. It is in business to make a huge profit, while causes minmal damage to it's victims.
This is why *nix should really be installed on production machines.It can be customized, locked down, and secured in a way that MS WIndows cannot. Years ago, before Apple integrated all the entertainment stuff into the OS, I often argued that APple products were the preferable machine for production work. MS simply included too many toys that were ultimately security risks.
Of couse the expectation quickly became that a 'modern; OS was primarily used as a toy, i.e. Mac OS was inferior to MS windows because it did not have a solid game base.
I buy ebooks when, usually from Amazon, when they are $10 or less. Mostly I don't buy from Apple 1}because I can only read on my iPad and 2) because it is usually more. Increasingly music is the same way, but because there is no lockin it is not so critical. Amazon gets my money for streaming video.
Which is to say I think that I don't think that the price is the critical factor here. Over time we are going to see more open sales and less lockin. This will happen as publishers depend less on printing paper and more on quality books.
Pretty much any free email service can and should be assumed to read emails. Most of it is going to be automated scanning for ads or other data mining, but there is no presumption that your email is private. Fortunately most of us are not important enough to actually read by a human, but that does not mean so bored grunt is not going to randomly read email. I am sure that there are policies to discourage this, but whether there is actually any consequences we really don't know. We know the terms of service allow it.
So I am not sure how any MS online service is different. I don't think MS is going to fight to keep you email private when law enforcement shows up. We know the MS will not tell us who is listening to our Skype calls, even when we pay to make them.
I think the ad is fair because Google is a ad service that provides end user tools to collect data on said end users. MS is becoming such a thing, but still primarily actually sells products to end users, so, unlike Google, the end user is to a greater degree the customer and therefore more likely to drive corporate decisions.
This is what I have done for my Windows needs. I buy a Macbook, put whatever version of Windows on it. If you are not going to the current version, this is not expensive. A licensee for MS Windows 7 Pro can be had for about the same price as an upgrade from home to pro version. Oracle VM Virtual Box has served me well, but one can buy Parallels or VMware. Or just dual boot.
It works really well. On my old 17" Macbook the rendering software ran better than on the new PC laptops other were using. I have had Ubuntu and Chrome virtual machines as well. Back up the virtual machine regularly, and if MS Windows borks of it there is virus, just copy on a clean copy.
I am waiting for an affordable 512GB SSD and then I will go back to having a Windows VM on my everyday machine.
If cost is an issue, maybe a used machine? or go to you local computer store. My local store shows several windows 7 machines in stock for half the cost of a decent Macbook.
There is the issue of mobile devices. Then there is the issue of requirements for number, or no support for special characters, or some websites will not accept words in the dictionary, even in combination.
But passphrases are not going to be magic bullet. A website that claims to be secure should actively try to crack passwords and tell users which are weak. One time pads, i.e. texting to phones a code, is also a highly secure procedure. But users forget their phone, and websites have to have something to get around the security. Which is always the issue. Sites always have to have a means to get around the security.
Here is the problem with everyone's complaint. If we are to be pedantic, when we talk about a PC we should talk about an IBM type machine which sits on a desk and allows a single person to conduct a primary business application with some ancillary application, i.e. a computing machine that is personal.
Traditionally these have include the knock-offs, the cheap garage built units that fall apart in a day,the transportables that sat on a desk but could be lugged from desk to desk, but not the mac. Over time this definition included portables, since they were IBM knock offs, and did work.
The the 'pc market' and 'pc shipments' then began to not only Macs, but also laptops that were primarily made to browse the web. No real work was ever intended to be done on these laptops. They were toys. Unlike Macs that all could create content, the laptops were primarily intended to consume. Even today, the iPad has a LaTex app, a python app, shell apps that can be used to code scripts and manage remote servers, complete simple spreadsheets, jobs that in some cases surpass the abilities of the long dead IBM PC.
LibreOffice doesn't read or write the constantly mutating, rubbish file formats of MS Office the way only MS Office can.
While it may not write the file formats developed by the marketing teams to encourage users to upgrade, it certainly reads them quite well, and often more reliable than MS. Not in the sense that it 100% present the random formatting exactly as MS would, but in that it will, in my experience, read 100% of the files and present the text in relatively accurate manner.
In my experience, MS office will not, mostly because one does not always have the most up to date version of MS office, and one does not always have the most up to date filter.
Unlike politicians in the US and many western countries, who are mostly elected to serve but are free to do as they please, politicians in other countries are often seen as 'chosen' to lead the country, like a king or queen. While behavior might be acceptable to a governor, it would not be acceptable for a queen.
So it does not really matter if the girl was a gift or a bribe, or just someone who wanted a favor, it has to be seen as corruption due to the circumstances and the power of the leaders in China. We assume that congressperson in the US are routinely bribes with trips and sex partners. However, as the power of a politician is limited, and they are not really servants of the state, it is not automatically corruption when they are caught, and it si hard to prove.
Look at it this way. Right now a lot of military people are have sexual encounters with those who rank below them. As they are being paid to do a job, and the US is not in the business of pimping, these encounters whether consensual, a form of quid pro quo, or rape is kind of immaterial. It is corruption. Like for powerful officials.
J.J. and Joss both do certain things well. Joss is able to do some pretty interesting things on a pretty low budget, and has a good handle on story structure. When he has a budget, sometimes that is a problem. I can't believe that he did not know cows don't walk on grates. One thing that people like about Joss is he a writer that does promote strong female characters, which may or may not be of value
J.J. OTOH, does not get bogged down in continuity or story structure, which allows him to move in direction that would otherwise constrain some writers, and is not afraid of taking a plot element to extreme, and is ok leaving plot elements with no payoff. Like in alias Laura being all of the sudden a double agent, and every male character being married to a double agent. Or the black gas ghost in Lost. It is pure random crap, which many people like. I can tolerate it there are pretty people to look at. Which apparently is that basis of Star Trek now, at least much more than it was before.
The package delivery will continue on saturday, something you have to pay extra extra extra for with Fedex and UPS.
The reason saturday delivery of letters is going to save money is because everyone pays the same for a letter. This means that some delivery guy may have to drive 20 miles and be paid an hour of work to deliver one letter to one person. This is why the rural people are so pissed off. They are going to have to pay scaled delivery charges if they want something on saturday.
Pretty much we could live with monday-Wednesday-friday delivery for first class letters. This would not effect most of us, since increasingly we are not sending mail.
And it would still be competitive with Fedex and UPS. Have dealt with rural delivery, I can tell you the USPS wil drive out a deliver a letter or package. Unless a letter or package is overnight or two day guaranteed, my experience is that UPS and Fedex will keep it int he office until they have a few deliveries in the area.
The reality is that much of the money wasted has to do with rural delivery. At one time in the US history, when much more of us were rural, and mail was a prime way to keep us together, this made sense. Now we just need to adjust and let businesses that need frequent mail delivery pay for it.
Given the price, and that it only has an i5 and 4GB of ram, one can get a better laptop for the same money. Unless a case can be made for a touchscreen, it seems to be a questionable purchase
One this that I like in a table is all day, meaning 7-10 hours, of battery life for light use, and a small charger, meaning USB, so I don't have all that extra bulk to carry around.
I have seen tables used as point of sale in shops. It could be that the surface would work there.
I am not fan of drones. I am no fan of murder. I don't think, unlike most of the country, that violence solves anything. Given that, I am a fan of facts and the working within the real world, not some fantasy.
So here is what is missing from the head line. These people who the US are going to murder are working for a foreign state that is hostile to US. I don't think even those that feel the need to make up facts so they can continue to hate Obama will dispute this. Oh, yes they will. Remember the elimination of Bin Laden.
Entering or serving in the armed forces of a foreign state engaged in hostilities against the U.S. or serving as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer in the armed forces of a foreign state;
In other words if someone who was at a time a US citizen is currently working for an organization whose purpose is to murer US citizens, it seems arguable if not an indisputable fact that citizenship is subject to loss. And once this is loss, then one can't really say that US CITIZENS are being targeted.
Again, i am not a fan of murder, under any circumstances, but if we are having a discussion let's at least start with an honest set of fact patterns.
If we care, then we should live lives and encourage others to live lives where violence is not the solution. There are people out there who are trying to solve problems with diplomacy. Unfortunately they are overwhelmed with people who are so scared all they can think of how best to defend themselves against what are all too often manufactured threats.
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So, as a small company,m,m,. if Opera is to compete it has to make the front end look good, not spend time on the engine. Only MS has the money to spend competing on the engine.
There is another way. A way in which we do not assume that all that is known is already known, that the book that sinners wrote is the ultimate repository of knowledge. In this way we accept that there is an almighty, that the almighty created the universe, and, more importantly, that the almighty cannot be limited by the wishful rules and regulation that the creation tries to impose. In this way all we can do is try to study the creation, the rocks, the plants, the animals, including us, to try to understand what is excepted of us. This, I believe is the genius of Galileo and Newton, who freed us from the bonds of ancient religions and allowed us to find better lives, to attempt to create the heaven on earth for all people, not just the few that believe they have been 'chosen' to exploit and oppress the rest of creation.
Science does not question the existence of the almighty. Science does not question the existence of creation. Science causes no crisis of faith in one that is faithful. All science does is disrupt those that want to use faith to gather personal power, wealthy, and in the process elevate themselves to the level of the almighty.
Yet when MS talks about piracy, it treats every unlicensed copy as lost revenue. So in that logic, the analysis is correct.
2) I thought the whole advantage of an Android phone is that it was not locked down like an iPhone, so could always be used to as a router to accept connections, i.e. tethering. That is what the ads and everyone on /. says when they say that iPhones suck.
Seriously, as much as people complain about facebbok, at least you can request your profile be per antsy removed. Why /. Won't do this is beyond me.
As Khan Academy, at least in my exposure to it, is about listening to someone talk watching writing on a board, do you think that this is teaching good pedagogy? Do you think it reinforces the idea that visual learners are the smartest people, the people who deserve to be educated? Is there any plans to expand the current format ot include other learning styles. For instance, I am not one of those that thinks manipulative have to be used in math, but I do think a math classroom with no manipulative is not as reaching to as broed a learner base as it could be. Or having an interactive element where a formative assessment might be conducted during the video?
This works, except when a computer is brought in the classroom, the prof is no longer the center of attention. It is the computer. It is correct to say that there is no advantage to putting the class on the computer. It takes a lot of work, and the payback at the college level is not that great. This is especially true when you consider some profs just come in, read from the book, assign from the book, and don't really give it any more thought.
The value of the class system, which really does not have to cost very much, is that they silllybus is no longer a separate document, but an integrated set of readings, activity, etc. Students can be given the option of online or paper texts. It is easier to refer to a variety of texts. For freshman lit, for example, anthologies can be collated from online source. listed in the proper place in the syllabus, instead of having students buy a book. For science simulations can be collated. Online tests can be created so that each student had an individual test. TAs can be used to tutor students instead of grading test.
Using such a system, though, is a skill, and it is time consuming. I have heard of that hourly profs are not given time to set such a system up, so I understand why it is not popular.
Let me add one more thing, which you college professors may have already told you. College is not there to prepare you for your first job, but for your last job. To put it more starkly, a college graduate may be more likely to have a well paying job into retirement than someone without. This is because you are trained to learn and so can a number of different jobs.
Here is an example. In the late 70's if you have an a math degree and a knowledge fo Frotran and the IMSL library, you could get a high paying job immediately. That was because Fortran was really hard to write and debug(error messages had little to do with the actual error). However, 15 years later if you still expected to make money writing Fortran, you were not so lucky. Flash forward to 2000 and much of the code we need to run the world had already been written, and there was not a lot of money to be made just reimplementing old code. If one is not versatile, one did not have a job.
Today with the web and major sharing of code, there is not an opportunity to rewrite a product from scratch as there was 20 years ago. We do not have 10 different word processors. Most of the web browsers run on one of four engines. Very little web development is done hand coding HTML like I did many years ago. Five years ago there was no App market and coding for tiny screens did not exists. Just imagine what they world is going to be like when you are mid carrer?
So apply the skills you have now. Many of us made a pretty penny in college not by waiting tables or working at a shop. but doing what we loved. The advantage was that we learned a skill and got paid to do it. However remember it is easy for a young person to get a job, not so easy for an older person with responsibilities.
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So the UN is trying to destroy the US. This is not alarmist, simple the facts
If we follow the UN, we are not being faithful to the constitution of the US
Even if the UN says the domain is his, the UN has no legal authority to make it his, at least in the US.
So by going to the UN, he might as well be asking Al Qaeda for help. He is hob nobbing with terrorist who are against America.
Ron Paul is the worst kind of Texas Politicians. He will do whatever his friends want, no matter what it does to the budget. His friends wanted a million dollar bus stop so he gave it to them. His friends wanted a million dollar game room so their kids could play video games instead of train for the military like they promised, so he gave it them. His fishing buddies wanted the government to pay to advertise their seafood products, so, you guessed it, he passed a billed transferring tax money directly into their pockets. And of course when the nuclear energy lobby come a courtin', he is there to give them as much as they want, even though Texas ratepayers end up paying for everything all over again.
As far as the free market, instead of letting firms decide what infrastructure is best for them, he mandates from washington what they need. He spent 2.5 redeveloping one the small towns in his district, instead of letting the free market decide if it was vialble. He spent 8 million redeveloping fishing pier instead of letting private firms take the risk and reap the reward. He spent 18 million on commercial waterways, instead of letting the private sector decide and pay for what it needed. And of course I believe an empty terminal for cruise lines is in his district.
The reality is that if he were not such a crackpot none of this would matter. Just like everyone else he greedy and does not want to pay a reasonable price for property he considers to be already his. But he is a person who has used extreme language to win election and raise funds, over $40 million in 2012. That he would now validate the authority of UN is quite troubling.
But then those undocumented workers started entering the midwest, the economy tanked to 10 years, 9/11, etc and everyone began to freak.
Some of the problems with firms who need technical labor is legitimate. Multinational firms, for example Oil firms, do have a need to transfer people to the US for temporary or long term assignments. Software developers simply trying to use the H1B visa to gain indentured servants is going to interfere with that. Like wise recreation facilities, like ski resorts, simply looking for seasonal labor needs available H1B visas to grant non-US residents short term assignments. Again, firms looking for indentured servants though the H1B visa program interferes with this.
But in a larger sense this about competition. If one works in meat packing plant, one does not want to be competing against someone who will do a days work, instead of the 90% that has become the norm. If one is looking for technical job, it is much harder to compete with a million world wide candidates than 100,000 US candidates.
So to me these are the question. Are we so afraid of the free market and competition that we are going to continue to impose regulations on businesses that say they are not allowed to hire the best candidate possible.? It is clear that most conservative believe we should. The second is are we going to invest in education and training, hold out kids up to the highest standards, and leave behind this idea that we deserve a job just because we were born in the US, and expect people to get out there and hustle instead of sitting back on the sofa waiting for a job to be presented? This is a hard pill to swallow, but the internet ,cheap air travel, and the widespread teaching of english, means that isolation is no longer a viable policy.
The we have switch grass and poplar. Both require a technology that can transform it into ethanol. It is known that processes can be developed that will result in no additional greenhouse gasses. But these processes need to be developed. Instead over the past 10 years we have paid 60 billion dollars in taxes for people to grow corn that we then have to pay for out of our personal pockets. The US only produces around 10 billion bushels of corn a year, a price of around $5 per bushel. If you do the math we pay for the corn twice. Once at the store, and once through our taxes.
Move the tax incentive to sugar, poplar, and switch grass and see our gas prices, and green house gases, plument.
So I assume that watches are going to be no different. As mentioned, it could be something like the iPad nano. What is likely going to the killer feature is connection to an iPhone or iPod for caller id, bluetooth speaker and microphone, viewing new mail, and the like.
If you look at the watch market, the watch is hardly the killer feature in sales. A watch is piece of jewlery that happens to markt he time. Very few people buy a watch primarily to know the time. This was even before a phone was a more reliable time keeping device than a watch.
No google hosts content so that it can get users to log in and allow cookies so it can mine data that can be sold to advertisers. Nothing more, nothing less. Anything that costs it money, like defending content on the basis on first amendments rights, is likely counter to that profit mission. In particular most advertisers do not want to be associated with weapons of mass murder, and it is the advertisers, not the end users, that are the customers.
Now, google at one time said it would do no evil, but doing no evil is far from doing good. I mean I can go into a school, threaten to kill everyone, and then not do it, and claim to have done no evil. Google never said it was in business to make the world a better place. It is in business to make a huge profit, while causes minmal damage to it's victims.
Of couse the expectation quickly became that a 'modern; OS was primarily used as a toy, i.e. Mac OS was inferior to MS windows because it did not have a solid game base.
Which is to say I think that I don't think that the price is the critical factor here. Over time we are going to see more open sales and less lockin. This will happen as publishers depend less on printing paper and more on quality books.
So I am not sure how any MS online service is different. I don't think MS is going to fight to keep you email private when law enforcement shows up. We know the MS will not tell us who is listening to our Skype calls, even when we pay to make them.
I think the ad is fair because Google is a ad service that provides end user tools to collect data on said end users. MS is becoming such a thing, but still primarily actually sells products to end users, so, unlike Google, the end user is to a greater degree the customer and therefore more likely to drive corporate decisions.
It works really well. On my old 17" Macbook the rendering software ran better than on the new PC laptops other were using. I have had Ubuntu and Chrome virtual machines as well. Back up the virtual machine regularly, and if MS Windows borks of it there is virus, just copy on a clean copy.
I am waiting for an affordable 512GB SSD and then I will go back to having a Windows VM on my everyday machine.
If cost is an issue, maybe a used machine? or go to you local computer store. My local store shows several windows 7 machines in stock for half the cost of a decent Macbook.
But passphrases are not going to be magic bullet. A website that claims to be secure should actively try to crack passwords and tell users which are weak. One time pads, i.e. texting to phones a code, is also a highly secure procedure. But users forget their phone, and websites have to have something to get around the security. Which is always the issue. Sites always have to have a means to get around the security.
Traditionally these have include the knock-offs, the cheap garage built units that fall apart in a day,the transportables that sat on a desk but could be lugged from desk to desk, but not the mac. Over time this definition included portables, since they were IBM knock offs, and did work.
The the 'pc market' and 'pc shipments' then began to not only Macs, but also laptops that were primarily made to browse the web. No real work was ever intended to be done on these laptops. They were toys. Unlike Macs that all could create content, the laptops were primarily intended to consume. Even today, the iPad has a LaTex app, a python app, shell apps that can be used to code scripts and manage remote servers, complete simple spreadsheets, jobs that in some cases surpass the abilities of the long dead IBM PC.
While it may not write the file formats developed by the marketing teams to encourage users to upgrade, it certainly reads them quite well, and often more reliable than MS. Not in the sense that it 100% present the random formatting exactly as MS would, but in that it will, in my experience, read 100% of the files and present the text in relatively accurate manner.
In my experience, MS office will not, mostly because one does not always have the most up to date version of MS office, and one does not always have the most up to date filter.
So it does not really matter if the girl was a gift or a bribe, or just someone who wanted a favor, it has to be seen as corruption due to the circumstances and the power of the leaders in China. We assume that congressperson in the US are routinely bribes with trips and sex partners. However, as the power of a politician is limited, and they are not really servants of the state, it is not automatically corruption when they are caught, and it si hard to prove.
Look at it this way. Right now a lot of military people are have sexual encounters with those who rank below them. As they are being paid to do a job, and the US is not in the business of pimping, these encounters whether consensual, a form of quid pro quo, or rape is kind of immaterial. It is corruption. Like for powerful officials.
J.J. OTOH, does not get bogged down in continuity or story structure, which allows him to move in direction that would otherwise constrain some writers, and is not afraid of taking a plot element to extreme, and is ok leaving plot elements with no payoff. Like in alias Laura being all of the sudden a double agent, and every male character being married to a double agent. Or the black gas ghost in Lost. It is pure random crap, which many people like. I can tolerate it there are pretty people to look at. Which apparently is that basis of Star Trek now, at least much more than it was before.
The reason saturday delivery of letters is going to save money is because everyone pays the same for a letter. This means that some delivery guy may have to drive 20 miles and be paid an hour of work to deliver one letter to one person. This is why the rural people are so pissed off. They are going to have to pay scaled delivery charges if they want something on saturday.
Pretty much we could live with monday-Wednesday-friday delivery for first class letters. This would not effect most of us, since increasingly we are not sending mail.
And it would still be competitive with Fedex and UPS. Have dealt with rural delivery, I can tell you the USPS wil drive out a deliver a letter or package. Unless a letter or package is overnight or two day guaranteed, my experience is that UPS and Fedex will keep it int he office until they have a few deliveries in the area.
The reality is that much of the money wasted has to do with rural delivery. At one time in the US history, when much more of us were rural, and mail was a prime way to keep us together, this made sense. Now we just need to adjust and let businesses that need frequent mail delivery pay for it.
One this that I like in a table is all day, meaning 7-10 hours, of battery life for light use, and a small charger, meaning USB, so I don't have all that extra bulk to carry around.
I have seen tables used as point of sale in shops. It could be that the surface would work there.
So here is what is missing from the head line. These people who the US are going to murder are working for a foreign state that is hostile to US. I don't think even those that feel the need to make up facts so they can continue to hate Obama will dispute this. Oh, yes they will. Remember the elimination of Bin Laden.
Here is another fact, from the US consulate.
In other words if someone who was at a time a US citizen is currently working for an organization whose purpose is to murer US citizens, it seems arguable if not an indisputable fact that citizenship is subject to loss. And once this is loss, then one can't really say that US CITIZENS are being targeted.
Again, i am not a fan of murder, under any circumstances, but if we are having a discussion let's at least start with an honest set of fact patterns.
If we care, then we should live lives and encourage others to live lives where violence is not the solution. There are people out there who are trying to solve problems with diplomacy. Unfortunately they are overwhelmed with people who are so scared all they can think of how best to defend themselves against what are all too often manufactured threats.