How much do you expect them to pay? They don't have any money and they already pay sales and payroll tax etc...
No one is going to put forward a useless, but symbolic bill that requires people making 20k to pay like 100 dollars in income tax. They'd have "skin in the game", but it's pointless and political suicide.
You're lucky you don't have an old HDTV with analog inputs. Your spiffy new sony blu-ray player would downgrade the HD content from blu-rays to something on par with a VCR.
But unlike RIM they see the writing on the wall and want to stay ahead of the android/iOS encroachment on their space. Eventually the Nexus sphere or whatever will re-launch, or maybe something else similar, and it will be a huge contender in the casual gaming space.
Right, so it wasn't really malicious on the part of On2 or Google for the sale to go to Google, but now that it has it kind of looks bad on Google to hold a domain that's meaningless for them and could obviously benefit a competitor. In the spirit of professionalism they should sell (or give) the domain itself to DDG.
I really don't understand the argument against Isreal on this one. They've done a lot of wrong towards Palestinians, especially on the west bank side, but hundreds of rockets are being fired from Gaza targeting civilians. Isreal's assassination was a military target. Maybe they've killed some civilians in Gaza too, which is horrible, but at least accidental. They seem to avoid that when they can. Hamas is firing rockets directly at civilians. You have to see the difference.
This is the kind of relative peace where you maintain a blockade that keeps out not just arms, but also enough food for the people's children not to be malnourished that we're pretending about, right?
And the correct response is to fire rockets at other children.
Not only do you have to worry about processors, screen ratio, resolution and anything else hardware related... you also have to worry about fragmentation of the operating system. Some people might have gingerbread and haven't upgraded to ice cream sandwich yet. And perhaps their phone can't handle the newest version.
It really shouldn't be that difficult for anyone that expects to make money doing this. The guides are great (I've picked this up as a hobby) and the SDK is obviously built to allow re-use over different sizes and configurations. You design for scalability and the OS takes care of the rest.
You can also target specific hardware and android versions if you'd like. Pretend you're in Apple land and only target Samsung Galaxy S3 phones as if they're the only Android phones being produced. Anyone that doesn't have the same software version or screen size etc will not be able to download it. Also, I believe the latest iPhone has a different res/ratio as well.
Well technically you could develop for the "real" and "hijacked" android OS's at the same time if the hijacked one really did run regular android apps. You wouldn't have to admit (or even care) what phones you're targeting.
So consider some other form of torture. Maybe a person is impaled every hour for years. Would you find it just as unethical then to assume they'd want to be put out of their misery if there was little hope of alleviating their pain (assuming you couldn't communicate)? My point here is that there is a line. Maybe you don't agree with my line, but throwing out "gross violations of human rights" is a little far fetched. I expect most people would not want to be locked in their own mind for years.
I'm not even sure why they let vegetative people live if they've been in that condition for so long. If they're truly unconscious then they're already gone, and if they're not you definitely want to kill them. It makes me sick that we even *potentially* leave people in such a state for so long.
I see gtalk as a big problem for Google right now that's gone seemingly unnoticed. People will more and more be switching to free VOIP services as carriers more and more become dumb data line providers (it's coming whether they like it or not). In trying gtalk, people are probably experiencing what I've experienced which is utterly crappy service, especially for video chat. They're going to have a lot of catching up to do if it isn't fixed quick. I think BB is on to something if they can produce a *quality* free VOIP solution that works out of the box on BB phones and is also compatible with other phones via an app.
I don't like the idea of "wars for oil" any more than you probably do, but if we don't, a lot of people will suffer and have their livelihoods destroyed.
I get your point. People want cheap shit and they don't care who loses their job to pay for it. My point (which still goes unaddressed) is that we could collectively restrain ourselves from such economically destructive behavior. No need to be rude.
There's a reason why Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the US, and why practically every other retailer has all but bankrupted themselves trying to compete.
A large part of that reason is that they treat their employees like dirt. Are you suggesting we should allow this in the name of "prosperity"? If wal-mart was forced to allow unionization I wonder if they would be able to stomp the competition (other job creators) as much. I also wonder if they would still be reasonably successful.
I'm sure you don't mean to be obtuse, but what I wrote was, "passed without anyone reading the whole thing first." Are you going to deny that is true? They were making massive deletions and additions up till the last moment. Do you think passing major laws with massive effects on 1/6 of the economy without reading them first, let alone study, understand, and debate them, is a good thing?
Obviously I can't speak to what each congressman did or did not read before voting, but my point was that by the same token neither can you. Neither of us know the inner workings of what each and every congressman does in preparing for a vote and it's possible, since this is what they do for a living, that they have a way of dealing with last minute changes. Let's see how the bill turns out before shunning them for supposedly not doing their job.
Such was the case with a 300-page amendment to the cap-and-trade bill the House passed on June 26.
A March 18 report from House Ways & Means Committee Republicans estimates the IRS will need to hire between 11,800 and 16,500 new agents to enforce the bill.
Strawman
Fox New, AP, whatever, I can't account for you being uninformed.
Nice how you only quoted the first half of this article, let me finish it for you Mr. Informed:
However, if a child is accepted for coverage, or is already covered, the insurer cannot exclude payment for treating a particular illness, as sometimes happens now. For example, if a child has asthma, the insurance company cannot write a policy that excludes that condition from coverage. The new safeguard will be in place later this year.
Full protection for children would not come until 2014, said Kate Cyrul, a spokeswoman for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, another panel that authored the legislation. That's the same year when insurance companies could no longer deny coverage to any person on account of health problems.
Most of the bill takes effect in 2014.
href="http://online.wsj.com/article
Please.
The healthcare reform bill referred to as "Obamacare" was sloppy work done in a reckless manner, passed by hook or by crook, that stands a good chance of being an expensive fiasco. It has already had plenty of unintended consequences, and more are likely.
I can see why you think that, and I'm not saying it's a perfect solution but your facts don't add up.
Coverage hasn't really been getting cheaper, but more expensive as insurance companies see the writing on the wall and so raise prices now because they know that they probably won't be able to do so easily in the future. They have also been dropping children's policies for similar reasons.
So let's perpetually bend over to the insurance companies hoping to God that they keep rates reasonable. The point of the exchanges is to introduce some competition so that insurance companies can't easily abuse customers as you describe.
The lack of reading it first explains the stream of negative news about yet another unintended consequence of the law. What is it that explains that? Ignorant ideology?
Yes assuming this "new negative news stream" that I haven't noticed is coming from Fox News. It also explains why you think no one has read the bill.
I can't afford health insurance right now, and would rather do without as I don't feel it is right for everyone else to subsidize it and pay for it for me. What makes it worse is that I am penalized for not even being able to afford the insurance.
This pretty much sums up the misinformation surrounding obamacare. Let me guess, you're too poor to afford insurance without your employer helping out, but still not poor enough to qualify for medicaid. The affordable care act was built with you in mind, my friend. It's actually less efficient for everyone else to let people like you go without insurance, so the affordable care act is going to (hopefully) make it cheaper for you to buy insurance from the exchange or at least require your employer to help out. You won't be "fined for being poor" unless you're ignorant ideology prevents you from taking advantage.
They could have tried to get webos from HP or partnered with them.
This makes a shit load of sense. A great OS looking for hardware matched with a great hardware manufacturer looking for a popular OS. WebOS wasn't *that* popular but the firesale gave it a lot of publicity and everyone seems to love it. Too bad.
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How much do you expect them to pay? They don't have any money and they already pay sales and payroll tax etc...
No one is going to put forward a useless, but symbolic bill that requires people making 20k to pay like 100 dollars in income tax. They'd have "skin in the game", but it's pointless and political suicide.
With any luck it'll kill it off and they can start pushing for AMOLED panels in desktop displays.
Yes, please. Why is it my phone has better contrast and vibrancy than my laptop.
It's 4G up to 5 gigs and then you get unlimited 3G.
You're lucky you don't have an old HDTV with analog inputs. Your spiffy new sony blu-ray player would downgrade the HD content from blu-rays to something on par with a VCR.
they already dominate the low end console market
But unlike RIM they see the writing on the wall and want to stay ahead of the android/iOS encroachment on their space. Eventually the Nexus sphere or whatever will re-launch, or maybe something else similar, and it will be a huge contender in the casual gaming space.
I think your making some big assumptions. Rooting the one x is very easy. Worst case scenerio most of the time is you have to reflash.
Or just deal with a locked phone full of crapware...
Right, so it wasn't really malicious on the part of On2 or Google for the sale to go to Google, but now that it has it kind of looks bad on Google to hold a domain that's meaningless for them and could obviously benefit a competitor. In the spirit of professionalism they should sell (or give) the domain itself to DDG.
It would still be wrong if the rockets were aimed at innocent civilians.
I really don't understand the argument against Isreal on this one. They've done a lot of wrong towards Palestinians, especially on the west bank side, but hundreds of rockets are being fired from Gaza targeting civilians. Isreal's assassination was a military target. Maybe they've killed some civilians in Gaza too, which is horrible, but at least accidental. They seem to avoid that when they can. Hamas is firing rockets directly at civilians. You have to see the difference.
This is the kind of relative peace where you maintain a blockade that keeps out not just arms, but also enough food for the people's children not to be malnourished that we're pretending about, right?
And the correct response is to fire rockets at other children.
Not only do you have to worry about processors, screen ratio, resolution and anything else hardware related... you also have to worry about fragmentation of the operating system. Some people might have gingerbread and haven't upgraded to ice cream sandwich yet. And perhaps their phone can't handle the newest version.
http://developer.android.com/training/multiscreen/index.html
It really shouldn't be that difficult for anyone that expects to make money doing this. The guides are great (I've picked this up as a hobby) and the SDK is obviously built to allow re-use over different sizes and configurations. You design for scalability and the OS takes care of the rest.
You can also target specific hardware and android versions if you'd like. Pretend you're in Apple land and only target Samsung Galaxy S3 phones as if they're the only Android phones being produced. Anyone that doesn't have the same software version or screen size etc will not be able to download it. Also, I believe the latest iPhone has a different res/ratio as well.
Well technically you could develop for the "real" and "hijacked" android OS's at the same time if the hijacked one really did run regular android apps. You wouldn't have to admit (or even care) what phones you're targeting.
So consider some other form of torture. Maybe a person is impaled every hour for years. Would you find it just as unethical then to assume they'd want to be put out of their misery if there was little hope of alleviating their pain (assuming you couldn't communicate)? My point here is that there is a line. Maybe you don't agree with my line, but throwing out "gross violations of human rights" is a little far fetched. I expect most people would not want to be locked in their own mind for years.
I'm not even sure why they let vegetative people live if they've been in that condition for so long. If they're truly unconscious then they're already gone, and if they're not you definitely want to kill them. It makes me sick that we even *potentially* leave people in such a state for so long.
I see gtalk as a big problem for Google right now that's gone seemingly unnoticed. People will more and more be switching to free VOIP services as carriers more and more become dumb data line providers (it's coming whether they like it or not). In trying gtalk, people are probably experiencing what I've experienced which is utterly crappy service, especially for video chat. They're going to have a lot of catching up to do if it isn't fixed quick. I think BB is on to something if they can produce a *quality* free VOIP solution that works out of the box on BB phones and is also compatible with other phones via an app.
I don't like the idea of "wars for oil" any more than you probably do, but if we don't, a lot of people will suffer and have their livelihoods destroyed.
wow
I get your point. People want cheap shit and they don't care who loses their job to pay for it. My point (which still goes unaddressed) is that we could collectively restrain ourselves from such economically destructive behavior. No need to be rude.
As far as energy goes, the cost of defending myself from getting blown up by someone that hates me isn't comparable to energy costs.
I can't even imagine living inside your head. I genuinely feel sorry for you.
Corrupt union directors will want to protect and grow their empire, not put their energy in representing their members.
Union directors are elected democratically by their members. I'm not saying this has never happened, but there's checks in place.
There's a reason why Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the US, and why practically every other retailer has all but bankrupted themselves trying to compete.
A large part of that reason is that they treat their employees like dirt. Are you suggesting we should allow this in the name of "prosperity"? If wal-mart was forced to allow unionization I wonder if they would be able to stomp the competition (other job creators) as much. I also wonder if they would still be reasonably successful.
They were trying to work out how to get you off the phone as quick as possible without insulting you.
I'm sure you don't mean to be obtuse, but what I wrote was, "passed without anyone reading the whole thing first." Are you going to deny that is true? They were making massive deletions and additions up till the last moment. Do you think passing major laws with massive effects on 1/6 of the economy without reading them first, let alone study, understand, and debate them, is a good thing?
Obviously I can't speak to what each congressman did or did not read before voting, but my point was that by the same token neither can you. Neither of us know the inner workings of what each and every congressman does in preparing for a vote and it's possible, since this is what they do for a living, that they have a way of dealing with last minute changes. Let's see how the bill turns out before shunning them for supposedly not doing their job.
Such was the case with a 300-page amendment to the cap-and-trade bill the House passed on June 26.
A March 18 report from House Ways & Means Committee Republicans estimates the IRS will need to hire between 11,800 and 16,500 new agents to enforce the bill.
Strawman
Fox New, AP, whatever, I can't account for you being uninformed.
Kids with Pre-Existing Conditions NOT Covered By Obamacare Now the AP tells us
Nice how you only quoted the first half of this article, let me finish it for you Mr. Informed:
However, if a child is accepted for coverage, or is already covered, the insurer cannot exclude payment for treating a particular illness, as sometimes happens now. For example, if a child has asthma, the insurance company cannot write a policy that excludes that condition from coverage. The new safeguard will be in place later this year.
Full protection for children would not come until 2014, said Kate Cyrul, a spokeswoman for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, another panel that authored the legislation. That's the same year when insurance companies could no longer deny coverage to any person on account of health problems.
Most of the bill takes effect in 2014.
href="http://online.wsj.com/article
Please.
The healthcare reform bill referred to as "Obamacare" was sloppy work done in a reckless manner, passed by hook or by crook, that stands a good chance of being an expensive fiasco. It has already had plenty of unintended consequences, and more are likely.
I can see why you think that, and I'm not saying it's a perfect solution but your facts don't add up.
Coverage hasn't really been getting cheaper, but more expensive as insurance companies see the writing on the wall and so raise prices now because they know that they probably won't be able to do so easily in the future. They have also been dropping children's policies for similar reasons.
So let's perpetually bend over to the insurance companies hoping to God that they keep rates reasonable. The point of the exchanges is to introduce some competition so that insurance companies can't easily abuse customers as you describe.
The lack of reading it first explains the stream of negative news about yet another unintended consequence of the law. What is it that explains that? Ignorant ideology?
Yes assuming this "new negative news stream" that I haven't noticed is coming from Fox News. It also explains why you think no one has read the bill.
I can't afford health insurance right now, and would rather do without as I don't feel it is right for everyone else to subsidize it and pay for it for me. What makes it worse is that I am penalized for not even being able to afford the insurance.
This pretty much sums up the misinformation surrounding obamacare. Let me guess, you're too poor to afford insurance without your employer helping out, but still not poor enough to qualify for medicaid. The affordable care act was built with you in mind, my friend. It's actually less efficient for everyone else to let people like you go without insurance, so the affordable care act is going to (hopefully) make it cheaper for you to buy insurance from the exchange or at least require your employer to help out. You won't be "fined for being poor" unless you're ignorant ideology prevents you from taking advantage.
They could have tried to get webos from HP or partnered with them.
This makes a shit load of sense. A great OS looking for hardware matched with a great hardware manufacturer looking for a popular OS. WebOS wasn't *that* popular but the firesale gave it a lot of publicity and everyone seems to love it. Too bad.