That makes very little sense. Raising the minimum wage just slides the imbalance, it doesn't reduce it. If the low end makes more money, prices will rise, the increase will make its way back up to the higher wage workers, and in the end, the wage paid on the low end is not really any higher when you factor in the inflation.
If you want to really help the poor, then try to reimagine the economy as a whole. Think about the fact that we have created a system by which the rich make their money by exploiting the poor. Think about the fact that when earnings reports are king and share price is all important, then a company is forced to constantly squeeze every penny out of every place, and that means paying lower wages, paying suppliers less, and charging customers more. The goal becomes to screw others so that you can get more money. The economy needs to be about the fact that as a people, we all have needs (food, shelter, etc) and we all have skills or resources. Instead of focusing entirely on profit and greed, we need to focus on having an efficient and effective system.
Of course, that's not the American Dream or the American Way - it's much more desirable to just get really rich, and try not to think too much about the fact that we have a broken system that isn't going to be fixed by welfare or minimum wages.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. -Martin Luther King Jr
Errrm, I assume by this you think that the DRM is somehow fragile and will self destruct the songs if you somehow handl it wrong? Nope, not gonna happen. I have protected AAC files all over my network, all I have to do to use them on a new PC is press Play then enter my ITMS login credentials. Oh yeah - only once. For every song. ONCE. How is that fragile?
How nice for you. I moved my iTunes to a new computer, and my iPod won't play any of my purchased music anymore. They play just fine in iTunes, but neither of my iPods will play the songs. Apple has no solution for it, and their forums are full of people with this problem. Sucks for us, I guess.
Too bad he didn't notice their train system while he was over there too. Our lack of a national public transportation system is wasteful and embarassing.
Compare the population density of Germany to that of the US!
Have you considered the causes? School was entirely a waste of my time. I learned very little that I did not already know, never cracked open a book and passed all my tests. I was subjected to junk like keeping a notebook (have to put all of your assignments in it and keep them in order of date - 40% of your grade for that period!). Since we're not going to put any money into education, we'll have to keeping medicating kids.
The problem isn't that there was content of this nature, it was that it was hidden from the review committee, which can be considered deceptive. If this were allowed, then all games could get through with an E and then actually have violent/pornographic/profane content "hidden" in the game, provide the user enter the secret code that "accidentally" found its way on to the Internet. This decision makes reasonable sense. It's not so much about the content in this particular instance, it's about the potential abuse of this "loophole"
Call my analogy a bad one if you will, but the SECOND you put ANY type of system into the hands of the criminals / spammers, they will find ways to exploit it. This is proven time and again.
Then why are there locks on doors? Seems like a waste of money and raw materials.
Dude, I envy you! Mine ranges from $275 (winter) to $375 (summer) per month.
I don't have much interest in the device discussed here, what I really want is something I can hook up to my breaker box and tell me how many kilowatt hours are going to each breaker. Even better, it would have a database of appliances and average elec consumption and would generate some reports for me showing me where my usage was out of whack. If my bill starts going up, I have no way of knowing that it is because my heat pump is old and becoming inefficient. I just have to guess. With bills as high as mine, it's worthwhile to know where you're using it and whether your appliances are doing well.
I used to install and consult for QIP. It's a good program, but you need to be pretty large in order to see its real benefit. A class B would certainly qualify for this, but I just wanted to alert other readers that this was major league DNS/DHCP management, not something for a medium sized company.
I don't understand how people can purchase a Xbox/Gamecube/PS2 and not have a problem with not being able to play games made for another console, but computers have to have every app run on it or the consumer gets angry. Maybe it's a marketing shortcoming.
Go to a computer store. How many Linux apps are on the shelf? 3? How many Windows apps? 300? Show me a console that has just 1% of the titles available and I'll show you a console no one buys. People buy consoles because of the games available. Linux is a console with no games. Don't talk about package repositories and apt-get and yum and emerge and all that crap because you know that the average user doesn't have clue one about them. Even if they did, they're not that easy to use. Linux apps have wierd assed names, so seeing a list of programs you can install doesn't always clear much up.
If Linux isn't ready for the desktop, there's no such thing as "ready for the desktop". I see absolutely NO criteria of "desktop readiness" that (a)applies to Windows, (b) doesn't apply to Linux and (c) is an attribute solely of the operating system.
Well, see, as of a month ago, I still had to hand edit a text file to get wireless working on my laptop. That gets filed under "not ready for the desktop". While it may seem simple to you to type 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' you have to keep in mind that *average* users don't ever want to see a command prompt. You're also correct about (c). You can't get Quicken for Linux, and GnuCash doesn't magically talk to my bank for me.
Can everyone please stop with this 'port everything to a web based app' stuff? It sucks. It sucks for the developers and it sucks for the users. Even with AJAX, web development still sucks. Web apps still suck. A good GUI app will beat a good web app in terms of UI every single time.
A few people in our organization have them and I find them (the devices) to be somewhat distracting. During meetings, I see coworkers constantly, not so covertly, glancing down to IM someone, read their mail, or mostly check stock quotes.
Then don't be so boring when you're talking to them! In some meetings, I hope and pray that something comes through on my Blackberry.
Dell now has real reason to be worried as they can't survive on that razor-thin margin without huge volume, and I'm betting sales of Apple hardware are going to spike very soon.
Dell only has to worry when I can run Windows apps without rebooting. Sorry, but rebooting is not a valid option for me. If I choose to have my email client in OS X, am I just not using email while in Windows? Substitute any app in there. What if I have an app in OS X and an app in Windows that I need to go back and forth between? It's going to suck. It's going to suck to the point that I'll just have two machines and a KVM. Maybe at home I wouldn't care as much, but at work, it's a no go. The only thing I'd really use this for is to play Windows games.
EMAIL Is Just that EMAIL. And the system is stressed to hell. I had a client of mine attempt to attach a 500 meg file an email.. Wtf.. I asked him if he would put a postage stamp on a brick and mail it... and quite didnt understand. Email should be left to its "mail" - dont start adding layers to something that was never meant to be.
What a moron! Why didn't he just ask the recipient to setup an FTP server in the DMZ, configure FTP over SSH, set him up a user account and give him the IP and relevant login information so he could just FTP it? Sheesh, when will these users ever learn?
I'm with you... Is it a US thing to always say it wrong?
Yes. Most Americans can't be bothered with learning the English language. They consistently justify it with statements like "Oh, you know what I meant!"
Yeah, but why bother with important information like that? If your company sells fill dirt, there probably aren't too many people looking up your website and thinking it needs to be better. We're going to town redoing our website, but I think it's just an image thing. Our customers don't have much interest in the site, because it's not really useful to our interaction with them.
People currently use CDs and old DVDs to do primarily three things: Transfer/backup important data, Audio (whether Orange-book audio or MP3/WMA/AAC), and home-video. All three of these things fit nicely into the current DVD/CD sizes
No, they don't fit nicely. I have 8GB of photos (and my oldest kid is not yet 3), 12GB of MP3/AAC, and I haven't even started getting the video off the camcorder. Backing up 20GB onto DVD sucks. I currently do it to another HD and at less frequent intervals to another computer. A 50GB DVD wouldn't be so bad, provided they can get that price down to $.50 per blank.
If you think that all that combines to make a "responsible decision" on the part of Blizzard, then allow me to be the first to point out that you're a heartless tyrant, and I really do hope this happens to you. Perhaps you'll see things different from the other side.
If you think that you have any idea what really happened in this situation, let me be the first to point out that none of us do. We have two sides of a story, with both storytellers having an interest in how they are perceived by the telling of the story. In other words, we have no idea what really happened.
What does this have to do with the First Amendment? The First Amendment prohibited Congress from infringing on speech. It has nothing to do with a local school board. I know we have misinterpreted the crap out of it in the courts (especially the commerce clause).
Pretty good? Have you really administrated XP anytime in a larger enviroment? Its a big ugly PITA and demands crazy amounts of work to stay awake. Easy to use is the last thing i would accuse it of. I battle furious users all day long thats as lost now as they was the first time XP came out.
It's really not that difficult. You can accomplish what you need to accomplish to keep problems away and users working without that much effort. The availability of applications for Windows is worth far more than any contrived example of how Linux is easier to administer.
3) Most of the e-books I have are PC based. This means that I have to keep switching windows if I am reading a technical book while I am working.
Seriously, get a second monitor. It's well worth it if you're a coder, and I'm sure it can be justified for other highly paid employees as well. The time savings are there.
I'm with you on the eBooks, though - paper is better in so many ways (ability to buy used, ability to loan out, ease on the eyes, no format issues, no device issues, no complication whatsoever, smell, feel).
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If you want to really help the poor, then try to reimagine the economy as a whole. Think about the fact that we have created a system by which the rich make their money by exploiting the poor. Think about the fact that when earnings reports are king and share price is all important, then a company is forced to constantly squeeze every penny out of every place, and that means paying lower wages, paying suppliers less, and charging customers more. The goal becomes to screw others so that you can get more money. The economy needs to be about the fact that as a people, we all have needs (food, shelter, etc) and we all have skills or resources. Instead of focusing entirely on profit and greed, we need to focus on having an efficient and effective system.
Of course, that's not the American Dream or the American Way - it's much more desirable to just get really rich, and try not to think too much about the fact that we have a broken system that isn't going to be fixed by welfare or minimum wages.
How nice for you. I moved my iTunes to a new computer, and my iPod won't play any of my purchased music anymore. They play just fine in iTunes, but neither of my iPods will play the songs. Apple has no solution for it, and their forums are full of people with this problem. Sucks for us, I guess.
One other thing you can learn from those statistics - you need to be nearly as concerned with users in 256 color mode as you do with Macs.
Too bad he didn't notice their train system while he was over there too. Our lack of a national public transportation system is wasteful and embarassing.
Compare the population density of Germany to that of the US!
Have we considered the consequences?
Have you considered the causes? School was entirely a waste of my time. I learned very little that I did not already know, never cracked open a book and passed all my tests. I was subjected to junk like keeping a notebook (have to put all of your assignments in it and keep them in order of date - 40% of your grade for that period!). Since we're not going to put any money into education, we'll have to keeping medicating kids.
The problem isn't that there was content of this nature, it was that it was hidden from the review committee, which can be considered deceptive. If this were allowed, then all games could get through with an E and then actually have violent/pornographic/profane content "hidden" in the game, provide the user enter the secret code that "accidentally" found its way on to the Internet. This decision makes reasonable sense. It's not so much about the content in this particular instance, it's about the potential abuse of this "loophole"
Call my analogy a bad one if you will, but the SECOND you put ANY type of system into the hands of the criminals / spammers, they will find ways to exploit it. This is proven time and again.
Then why are there locks on doors? Seems like a waste of money and raw materials.
I don't like farting around the internet looking for software...I like GNU, I like Linux
Those are incompatible statements.
My electric is about $20 a month
Dude, I envy you! Mine ranges from $275 (winter) to $375 (summer) per month.
I don't have much interest in the device discussed here, what I really want is something I can hook up to my breaker box and tell me how many kilowatt hours are going to each breaker. Even better, it would have a database of appliances and average elec consumption and would generate some reports for me showing me where my usage was out of whack. If my bill starts going up, I have no way of knowing that it is because my heat pump is old and becoming inefficient. I just have to guess. With bills as high as mine, it's worthwhile to know where you're using it and whether your appliances are doing well.
I used to install and consult for QIP. It's a good program, but you need to be pretty large in order to see its real benefit. A class B would certainly qualify for this, but I just wanted to alert other readers that this was major league DNS/DHCP management, not something for a medium sized company.
I don't understand how people can purchase a Xbox/Gamecube/PS2 and not have a problem with not being able to play games made for another console, but computers have to have every app run on it or the consumer gets angry. Maybe it's a marketing shortcoming.
Go to a computer store. How many Linux apps are on the shelf? 3? How many Windows apps? 300? Show me a console that has just 1% of the titles available and I'll show you a console no one buys. People buy consoles because of the games available. Linux is a console with no games. Don't talk about package repositories and apt-get and yum and emerge and all that crap because you know that the average user doesn't have clue one about them. Even if they did, they're not that easy to use. Linux apps have wierd assed names, so seeing a list of programs you can install doesn't always clear much up.
Sony? Highest level of trust?
I buy their TVs and they are great. I wouldn't go with any other. I don't buy their proprietary crap, but they make excellent televisions.
If Linux isn't ready for the desktop, there's no such thing as "ready for the desktop". I see absolutely NO criteria of "desktop readiness" that (a)applies to Windows, (b) doesn't apply to Linux and (c) is an attribute solely of the operating system.
Well, see, as of a month ago, I still had to hand edit a text file to get wireless working on my laptop. That gets filed under "not ready for the desktop". While it may seem simple to you to type 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' you have to keep in mind that *average* users don't ever want to see a command prompt. You're also correct about (c). You can't get Quicken for Linux, and GnuCash doesn't magically talk to my bank for me.
Can everyone please stop with this 'port everything to a web based app' stuff? It sucks. It sucks for the developers and it sucks for the users. Even with AJAX, web development still sucks. Web apps still suck. A good GUI app will beat a good web app in terms of UI every single time.
A few people in our organization have them and I find them (the devices) to be somewhat distracting. During meetings, I see coworkers constantly, not so covertly, glancing down to IM someone, read their mail, or mostly check stock quotes.
Then don't be so boring when you're talking to them! In some meetings, I hope and pray that something comes through on my Blackberry.
Dell now has real reason to be worried as they can't survive on that razor-thin margin without huge volume, and I'm betting sales of Apple hardware are going to spike very soon.
Dell only has to worry when I can run Windows apps without rebooting. Sorry, but rebooting is not a valid option for me. If I choose to have my email client in OS X, am I just not using email while in Windows? Substitute any app in there. What if I have an app in OS X and an app in Windows that I need to go back and forth between? It's going to suck. It's going to suck to the point that I'll just have two machines and a KVM. Maybe at home I wouldn't care as much, but at work, it's a no go. The only thing I'd really use this for is to play Windows games.
EMAIL Is Just that EMAIL. And the system is stressed to hell. I had a client of mine attempt to attach a 500 meg file an email.. Wtf.. I asked him if he would put a postage stamp on a brick and mail it... and quite didnt understand. Email should be left to its "mail" - dont start adding layers to something that was never meant to be.
What a moron! Why didn't he just ask the recipient to setup an FTP server in the DMZ, configure FTP over SSH, set him up a user account and give him the IP and relevant login information so he could just FTP it? Sheesh, when will these users ever learn?
I'm with you... Is it a US thing to always say it wrong?
Yes. Most Americans can't be bothered with learning the English language. They consistently justify it with statements like "Oh, you know what I meant!"
Yeah, but why bother with important information like that? If your company sells fill dirt, there probably aren't too many people looking up your website and thinking it needs to be better. We're going to town redoing our website, but I think it's just an image thing. Our customers don't have much interest in the site, because it's not really useful to our interaction with them.
People currently use CDs and old DVDs to do primarily three things: Transfer/backup important data, Audio (whether Orange-book audio or MP3/WMA/AAC), and home-video. All three of these things fit nicely into the current DVD/CD sizes
No, they don't fit nicely. I have 8GB of photos (and my oldest kid is not yet 3), 12GB of MP3/AAC, and I haven't even started getting the video off the camcorder. Backing up 20GB onto DVD sucks. I currently do it to another HD and at less frequent intervals to another computer. A 50GB DVD wouldn't be so bad, provided they can get that price down to $.50 per blank.
If you think that all that combines to make a "responsible decision" on the part of Blizzard, then allow me to be the first to point out that you're a heartless tyrant, and I really do hope this happens to you. Perhaps you'll see things different from the other side.
If you think that you have any idea what really happened in this situation, let me be the first to point out that none of us do. We have two sides of a story, with both storytellers having an interest in how they are perceived by the telling of the story. In other words, we have no idea what really happened.
What does this have to do with the First Amendment? The First Amendment prohibited Congress from infringing on speech. It has nothing to do with a local school board. I know we have misinterpreted the crap out of it in the courts (especially the commerce clause).
Pretty good? Have you really administrated XP anytime in a larger enviroment? Its a big ugly PITA and demands crazy amounts of work to stay awake. Easy to use is the last thing i would accuse it of. I battle furious users all day long thats as lost now as they was the first time XP came out.
It's really not that difficult. You can accomplish what you need to accomplish to keep problems away and users working without that much effort. The availability of applications for Windows is worth far more than any contrived example of how Linux is easier to administer.
3) Most of the e-books I have are PC based. This means that I have to keep switching windows if I am reading a technical book while I am working.
Seriously, get a second monitor. It's well worth it if you're a coder, and I'm sure it can be justified for other highly paid employees as well. The time savings are there.
I'm with you on the eBooks, though - paper is better in so many ways (ability to buy used, ability to loan out, ease on the eyes, no format issues, no device issues, no complication whatsoever, smell, feel).