If it is horrible looking and unusable as Yahoo news and sports then it is not just complainers afraid of change.
It is people upset that they ruined it.
There has been a noticable decline in quality at Yahoo since Marissa Meyer took over. In performance, usablilty, editorial standards, everthing has gone down hill and yahoo was pretty bad in all those areas before she showed up.
Why not just buy caffeine pills and skip the fake sugar and other crap in Mountain Dew?
It is funny how marijuana is so controlled and regulated but caffeine is not even a little bit regulated.
If the courts can find a rationale they can declare the law unconstitutional and refuse to honor it.
That the courts have not found FISA warrants and the "Patriot" Act unconstitutional means they are complicit in the undermining of the very document they swore to uphold.
The only GOP nominee that had a very good chance of beating Obama was Jon Huntsman. He could have picked up many states that the brain-dead Romney couldn't.
The guy is incredibly intelligent, tells it like it is, and actually has some honor, which of course makes him poison to the GOP.
If you don't want Hillary for President in 2016, talk this guy into switching parties and it is game over for Hillary, she will be banished into the closed of failed presidential candidates in the head museum..
Maybe he will join the green party and be able to win some states, but his best hope for winning is to move over to the dems.
You actually think that an extreme right winger could get the GOP nomination and win the general election?
That is an impressive reality distortion field you live in. I hope the GOP goes that way because maybe someday we will actually get a liberal president. Obama is fairly right wing on most things, it is just that the GOP has gone so far off the map to the right that he looks liberal from their far off position.
A true liberal would have ordered an investigation into the war crimes of the previous administration.
A true liberal would have reigned in the NSA.
A true liberal would have the bankers in court answering for their crimes.
In many ways Nixon, Ike, and Teddy Roosevelt were further to the left than Obama. Even Reagan pulled off a few things that would get him thrown out of the party today-raising taxes multiple times, illegal alien amnesty and a few other things. Like Bush I && II, I can't name one good thing that Obama has done.
I think it is more than clear by now that Obama obeys his corporate masters(who are right wingers themselves) without any question or resistance.
Simple: Because our educational system is at such a low point that any serious economic policy discussion is going go over the majorities heads.
It is a sad state of affairs in the US. Take a freshman level macro or micro economics course and one freshman level calculus course and pass and you are now heads and shoulders above the average American in those topics.
Just like that "unskewed polls" clown, he had no mathematical methodology and no mathematical training of any real sort, and even though he was wrong he is still listened to by the extreme right-wingers that don't want facts just supposition that supports their invalid view of "reality".
You would think it would be painful to live in such a turbulent reality distortion chamber, but they seem to like it.
I feel I am on the wrong side of things here because I despise marketing whores and ignore marketing as much as possible and when I can't I put that company on my do not buy list, because they were obnoxious enough to get my attention.
But what the candidate is doing when giving speeches/talking to people IS marketing.
They are telling them who they are, what they believe and what they hope to accomplish. To put a crass spin on it, they are buffing and polishing the product(themselves) to get people to not only vote for them, but to get people to volunteer their time and make phone calls and knock on doors on your behalf.
Whether you like Obama or not, you can't deny his ability to get people out there for him. He had dozens of offices in every state, sometimes10:1 or better compared to what Romney did.That is marketing.
Agree
I dealt with it until about a year ago when it started up and immediately grabbed about 600MB of RAM. Ditched it and been happy with Clementine ever since.
It is a shame that they ruined what was once the best music player you could get.
I do agree with you in part, but even if you have the best interests of the people, you still need to market yourself to win any election. From a local school board member all the way up to the President.
How do you get your views out there? By marketing. Just because you have a pure heart, doesn't mean it isn't marketing.
Not an Obama fan, just stating the truth of the matter.
I guess Bush used the NSA, etc to help him in 2004, eh?
You don't realize that the rank and file of the government organizations are not political appointees, just your average joe working a job.
The IRS went after non-profits that were engaging in direct political activity, like they should have been doing the past 30 years. If you want to play in the game you have to pay. It is illegal to claim non-profit status and engage in politics as that organization.
Right wing hate groups like Focus on the family and the moral majority have been breaking the law for decades. These types of groups(no matter the political leanings) need to be shut down and its adminstrators tossed in jail for tax-evasion.
Obama won because he had the best marketing and market research, period.
I guess if you don't understand the benefits of an education it may seem like a waste of time.
If you teach a man to fish(a skill) he eats fish every day. If you educate a man about the world around him, he eats wants he wants.
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Not the OP but felt like responding.
There are cases where the embedded device can't run an OS, even a stripped down one.
I don't work in the embedded space but a friend does and he often doesn't have the luxury of being able to put an OS on it, and has to handle all of the low-level details. Some of the devices he programs for only has 4-16MB of RAM for everything.
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Assembly line worker?
I am not sure what the OP was getting at but that works.:)
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Mozilla wouldn't even let us apply security patches without prior consent from them. In addition the logo license is incompatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Ubuntu on the other hand apparently doesn't care that much about that.
So you are not using Firefox for religious reasons?
Grats?
Treating product logos the same as open source code is foolish if you at all care about its value.
There were so many voters that they didn't even know existed.
Anyone with the tiniest bit of intelligence knew Romney didn't have a chance to even make it close, much less win, yet Romney et.al. believed in their make believe statistics. Which is why they where throwing money away in WI and PA where they had zero chance when they were behind in OH,CO, IA and FL, places they at least had a decent shot at.
On the other hand, Obama's team was first class and knew exactly where to spend money, down to specific districts and won easily.
To expand the point, let's say a professor is getting a grant for some research. He figures paying for equipment and students to help will cost $100,000. That is not what he requests, the actual amount is $150,000 because most research universities charge professors about 50% of the needed amount to cover the of the professor, rooms, electricty etc.
Right there, the professor has brought in $50,000 to the university and the amounts I used in this example is pretty low for a typical research project.
Unless you are going to a university that isn't focused on research, your tution dollars are not paying for the professor. It pays for support staff,supplies, electricity, water, maintenance and all the other expenses.
It is laughable when students pull out the "we are paying your salary" card. No, you are not.
Do you know that many professors actually pay their own salaries out of research grants?
Any research-heavy university has most of its tenured faculty bringing in far more money than they get paid.
I have taught at the University level and teaching two courses(especially if they are large) is not part-time work. By itself it can be full-time work and then the faculty has committee, research, outreach and advising requirements. If you actually think college professors don't work hard, you live in a fantasy world.
I have taken numerous art history, philosophy, literature and sociology courses along side my math, physics and CS courses and none of them were a waste of time. They constantly add to my life in positive ways.
What is the difference between having a company pay for it and having the government foot the bill?
In the end it is neither the company nor government that actually pays.
It turned out to be a bad investment for the company but if the government paid for it there would have been a return on investment.
University has never and will never be a job training program. Their goal should be to educate their students.
Teach a kid a skill and he can do only what he was taught. Educate a kid and they can advance far past any specific skills they might pick up along the way.
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If it is horrible looking and unusable as Yahoo news and sports then it is not just complainers afraid of change.
It is people upset that they ruined it.
There has been a noticable decline in quality at Yahoo since Marissa Meyer took over. In performance, usablilty, editorial standards, everthing has gone down hill and yahoo was pretty bad in all those areas before she showed up.
Why not just buy caffeine pills and skip the fake sugar and other crap in Mountain Dew? It is funny how marijuana is so controlled and regulated but caffeine is not even a little bit regulated.
How many billionaires started out poor? There are so few, they can be considered outliers.
Billy Gates was a millionaire the day he was born.
I wonder if any of them are not sociopaths.
Why does it matter?
That is the way it should be.
That's how Linux can thrive dispite the chaos of getting patches from 1000's of independant programmers.
What is the difference between minor league and college?
Pull athletics out of schools and replace them with a farm system. Same difference, except taxpayers aren't footing the bill for it.
If the courts can find a rationale they can declare the law unconstitutional and refuse to honor it.
That the courts have not found FISA warrants and the "Patriot" Act unconstitutional means they are complicit in the undermining of the very document they swore to uphold.
The only GOP nominee that had a very good chance of beating Obama was Jon Huntsman. He could have picked up many states that the brain-dead Romney couldn't.
The guy is incredibly intelligent, tells it like it is, and actually has some honor, which of course makes him poison to the GOP.
If you don't want Hillary for President in 2016, talk this guy into switching parties and it is game over for Hillary, she will be banished into the closed of failed presidential candidates in the head museum..
Maybe he will join the green party and be able to win some states, but his best hope for winning is to move over to the dems.
You actually think that an extreme right winger could get the GOP nomination and win the general election?
That is an impressive reality distortion field you live in. I hope the GOP goes that way because maybe someday we will actually get a liberal president. Obama is fairly right wing on most things, it is just that the GOP has gone so far off the map to the right that he looks liberal from their far off position.
A true liberal would have ordered an investigation into the war crimes of the previous administration.
A true liberal would have reigned in the NSA.
A true liberal would have the bankers in court answering for their crimes.
In many ways Nixon, Ike, and Teddy Roosevelt were further to the left than Obama. Even Reagan pulled off a few things that would get him thrown out of the party today-raising taxes multiple times, illegal alien amnesty and a few other things. Like Bush I && II, I can't name one good thing that Obama has done.
I think it is more than clear by now that Obama obeys his corporate masters(who are right wingers themselves) without any question or resistance.
Simple: Because our educational system is at such a low point that any serious economic policy discussion is going go over the majorities heads.
It is a sad state of affairs in the US. Take a freshman level macro or micro economics course and one freshman level calculus course and pass and you are now heads and shoulders above the average American in those topics.
The results obviously point to that.
Just like that "unskewed polls" clown, he had no mathematical methodology and no mathematical training of any real sort, and even though he was wrong he is still listened to by the extreme right-wingers that don't want facts just supposition that supports their invalid view of "reality".
You would think it would be painful to live in such a turbulent reality distortion chamber, but they seem to like it.
I feel I am on the wrong side of things here because I despise marketing whores and ignore marketing as much as possible and when I can't I put that company on my do not buy list, because they were obnoxious enough to get my attention.
But what the candidate is doing when giving speeches/talking to people IS marketing.
They are telling them who they are, what they believe and what they hope to accomplish. To put a crass spin on it, they are buffing and polishing the product(themselves) to get people to not only vote for them, but to get people to volunteer their time and make phone calls and knock on doors on your behalf.
Whether you like Obama or not, you can't deny his ability to get people out there for him. He had dozens of offices in every state, sometimes10:1 or better compared to what Romney did.That is marketing.
Agree I dealt with it until about a year ago when it started up and immediately grabbed about 600MB of RAM. Ditched it and been happy with Clementine ever since.
It is a shame that they ruined what was once the best music player you could get.
I do agree with you in part, but even if you have the best interests of the people, you still need to market yourself to win any election. From a local school board member all the way up to the President.
How do you get your views out there? By marketing. Just because you have a pure heart, doesn't mean it isn't marketing.
Not an Obama fan, just stating the truth of the matter.
I guess Bush used the NSA, etc to help him in 2004, eh?
You don't realize that the rank and file of the government organizations are not political appointees, just your average joe working a job.
The IRS went after non-profits that were engaging in direct political activity, like they should have been doing the past 30 years. If you want to play in the game you have to pay. It is illegal to claim non-profit status and engage in politics as that organization.
Right wing hate groups like Focus on the family and the moral majority have been breaking the law for decades. These types of groups(no matter the political leanings) need to be shut down and its adminstrators tossed in jail for tax-evasion.
Obama won because he had the best marketing and market research, period.
I guess if you don't understand the benefits of an education it may seem like a waste of time.
If you teach a man to fish(a skill) he eats fish every day. If you educate a man about the world around him, he eats wants he wants.
Not the OP but felt like responding.
There are cases where the embedded device can't run an OS, even a stripped down one.
I don't work in the embedded space but a friend does and he often doesn't have the luxury of being able to put an OS on it, and has to handle all of the low-level details. Some of the devices he programs for only has 4-16MB of RAM for everything.
Assembly line worker?
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I am not sure what the OP was getting at but that works.
Mozilla wouldn't even let us apply security patches without prior consent from them. In addition the logo license is incompatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Ubuntu on the other hand apparently doesn't care that much about that.
So you are not using Firefox for religious reasons?
Grats?
Treating product logos the same as open source code is foolish if you at all care about its value.
There were so many voters that they didn't even know existed.
Anyone with the tiniest bit of intelligence knew Romney didn't have a chance to even make it close, much less win, yet Romney et.al. believed in their make believe statistics. Which is why they where throwing money away in WI and PA where they had zero chance when they were behind in OH,CO, IA and FL, places they at least had a decent shot at.
On the other hand, Obama's team was first class and knew exactly where to spend money, down to specific districts and won easily.
I know who I would hire.
To expand the point, let's say a professor is getting a grant for some research. He figures paying for equipment and students to help will cost $100,000. That is not what he requests, the actual amount is $150,000 because most research universities charge professors about 50% of the needed amount to cover the of the professor, rooms, electricty etc.
Right there, the professor has brought in $50,000 to the university and the amounts I used in this example is pretty low for a typical research project.
Unless you are going to a university that isn't focused on research, your tution dollars are not paying for the professor. It pays for support staff,supplies, electricity, water, maintenance and all the other expenses.
It is laughable when students pull out the "we are paying your salary" card. No, you are not.
Do you know that many professors actually pay their own salaries out of research grants?
Any research-heavy university has most of its tenured faculty bringing in far more money than they get paid.
I have taught at the University level and teaching two courses(especially if they are large) is not part-time work. By itself it can be full-time work and then the faculty has committee, research, outreach and advising requirements. If you actually think college professors don't work hard, you live in a fantasy world.
What are these filler/fluff classes?
I have taken numerous art history, philosophy, literature and sociology courses along side my math, physics and CS courses and none of them were a waste of time. They constantly add to my life in positive ways.
A university is not a job training center.
What is the difference between having a company pay for it and having the government foot the bill?
In the end it is neither the company nor government that actually pays.
It turned out to be a bad investment for the company but if the government paid for it there would have been a return on investment.
University has never and will never be a job training program. Their goal should be to educate their students.
Teach a kid a skill and he can do only what he was taught. Educate a kid and they can advance far past any specific skills they might pick up along the way.
Few collegiate athletic programs actually pay for themselves.