The idea of tacking completely unrelated issues together on an up-or-down vote basis is one of the ugliest facets of the US legislative process.
True. But this is a funding bill, and the provision relates to the funding of Obamacare. Pretty simple.
That said, I agree overall. If they don't have the votes to actually rescind Obamacare (and override the inevitable veto) they should quit the grandstanding and move onto other things.
Most developed Western countries are whole countries with administrative districts also known as states. They also tend to be fairly homogenous, the needs and conditions of one state not being too far off the needs and conditions of others.
The United States is 50 individual sovereign states banded together in cooperation that created a federal government as a front and gave it certain powers. These states also tend to be quite different. Alaska is nothing like Missouri by pretty much any measure. What works in Massachusetts probably won't work in Arizona.
The idea here is that a state, if it wanted, would implement universal healthcare. If it is a good thing, it would attract the best workers and businesses.
I haven't seen any sign of the republicans being the ones to listen to people
The idiocy going on now is because the Republicans are listening to people -- their hardline vocal Republican minority that doesn't want Obamacare and will definitely vote on that issue in the next primary. The rest of the Republicans who don't really care or even like Obamacare may or may not vote, and aren't calling their reps.
Imagine if with alcohol you couldn't tell the difference in strength by taste, and people drank all they were going to drink to get drunk in one chug. Say you know chugging a bottle of 80 proof liquor would get you blitzed, but not dangerously so.
Now imagine Alcohol were illegal, no labeling for strength. So you go to chug that 80 proof and find out on the way to the hospital that it was actually 180 proof. Worse, quality suffers. As in prohibition, you find that your booze has methanol in it, and you're now blind.
Or we can just make it legal, regulated and standardized, with purity and dosage labeled and guaranteed.
People forget when Microsoft injected cash in Apple when it was going nowhere.
Apple was going nowhere, but that money was a settlement of Apple's lawsuit. Apple actually had plenty of cash on hand at the time. Pledging to continue Office products for Mac for years to come was more valuable. But instead of falling all the way Apple was reinvented, the same thing that Nokia and Blackberry desperately needed, and didn't get.
Apple did very well to change some of the paradigms of the mobile phone platform, but they have contributed very little and the release of "cheaper" iPhones recognizes that the only differentiator now is in price not in features.
The "cheaper" iPhone means nothing. Apple always sells the last generation $100 cheaper. This year they just repackaged it. Notice how few people bought it vs. the 5S.
Proof: people wanted a phone just because it was golden
People who bought iPhones were tired of the limited black/white choices. They were happy to get something else.
All this says to me is "Waaaaa people aren't buying our stuff so they must be stupid. Eventually people will wise up to Apple ripping them off." Slashdot has only been saying that since the rather negative review of the first iPod years ago.
I thought it would be stupid flashy bling, and then I saw one. It's more understated than it appeared at first, not bad really. Still, I'd get the dark one.
For computers, the CPU/GPU performance has pretty much been plateaued for years for basic operating system function. Any moderate x64 chip from 2010 and a decent GPU can run the latest OS X, Windows or Linux with no noticeable performance hit.
This is not so with phones. iOS 7 is still pushing the 5S hardware to be able to perform. As noticed by the 5 and 5C not performing as well, that extra power is needed. Just look at the performance progressions of the A series (I'll use the claims, actual depends on individual benchmark):
A4 to A5 - 2x CPU, 7x GPU A5 to A6 - 2x CPU, 2x GPU A6 to A7 - 2x CPU, 2x GPU
In going from essentially a tweaked Samsung Hummingbird to a bespoke ARMV8, and from a single Power VR SGX535 to a 4xG6430, they have a difference of 8x CPU and 28x GPU.
For mobiles were are obviously where desktops were years ago, struggling to keep up with the CPU and GPU needs of the latest OS. It will plateau soon, and older phones will be able to run the latest OS better.
That said, a 4S runs iOS7 reasonably well. That's two years support for the latest OS, and will at least run until three years. That's standard for Apple, and better than you normally get from Android. We have three Androids and an iPhone purchased around the same time. Each Android got a dot version update and was then abandoned. Two of the Androids even had promises of Android 4 from the manufacturer, not delivered. The iPhone 4S came with iOS 5, then got feature updates with 5.1, 6, 6.1 and 7. An Android user complaining about Apple updates is definitely pot/kettle.
The movie Flags of Our Fathers did a pretty good job of showing the dire straits the US was in at the time, how desperate the leaders were to sell bonds to continue funding the war. We needed the war to end, and fast. We might not have been able to pull off a mainland invasion.
Just before the bombing, Japan had rejected the Potsdam Declaration. Japan was recalling of soldiers from China to bolster the expected attack from the Allies. They had millions of soldiers and sailors in place, and millions more civilians trained as militia.Their plan was to inflict such mass casualties, such horror, that we'd back off and negotiate a more favorable surrender.
A server based system learns and updates constantly.
But I could see moving some of the simpler, well-known recognition onto the phone to avoid lag. If the phone can't process the request with near 100% confidence it forwards it to the server.
One last time for the simple: "You don't like it" doesn't mean "boring." Again the Fiero was a perfect example. I don't like it. It was a crap car, not nearly as good as competition such as the TOYOTA MR2, yet in no way boring.
Here is how an intelligent person uses the quotes here:
No, that's how a pedantic moron who is trying to detract from his displayed stupidity does it. I obviously know how to use them, but I obviously am tiring of wasting the effort on a moron.
Lack of "reading comprehension" is obvious. I stated not boring. You stated not better. Boring != not better. Is that really too difficult? You have the definition of boring wrong. The Pontiac Fiero was a piece of crap, no good reason to buy one over a Toyota MR2, yet it still wasn't boring.
All cars are in competition in their segments, all cars wiill have advantages and disadvantages vs. the competition. An FJ does offroad better than an XTerra, but does onroad better than the Jeep. It's more expensive than the XTerra, but cheaper than a similarly loaded Jeep. You pick what fits your requirements.
And Toyota has the longest continuous AWD experience of any of those companies.
That would be nice. Right thumb for normal operation, left middle finger (or one you'd never accidentally use) to come up with some generic looking data that'll get you off the hook, while your real data is wiping in the background.
The datacenter takes the input from tens of millions of users, their results, retries, pronunciation corrections, etc., and uses the learning from that to produce better results. I doubt the phone software is using magic.
I'll just take a guess here, but I'd think speech recognition using the CPU and storage capacity of a phone will be nowhere near the quality of speech recognition using the resources of a large datacenter.
Again, ugly wasn't the criteria I was opposing -- it was boring. By all accounts it's a very fun off-roader competing with the likes of the Jeep Wrangler and the Nissan XTerra, and the price is competitive. So I am right, Totota does make a non-boring car.
But I don't think it's ugly. It looks like a rally truck, and I like rally.
While I am sure there are some efficiency improvements in iOS 7 UI and features, overall people should be keenly aware that not much has really changed under the hood.
OpenGL ES 3, Core Motion (goes with the M7 chip), new multitasking API, SpriteKit API, game controller API, many additions to camera API, new mapping APIs, inter-app audio, AirDrop API, many additions to Core Location. And more.
Not to say this is revolutionary. Apple spent most of the effort in the makeover. But there are definitely many improvements under the hood.
to Jony Ives, who simply ripped all the leather, glass, metal and felt out of iOS free from any repercussions because Tim Cook is a spineless half-wit
More like Cook realized that Ive was right, skeumorphism is getting old. It was cute in the beginning, but by now everyone knows what a notepad app is, they don't need skeumorphism to be comfortable. Jobs listened to Forstall too much, and had a strange affinity for this cutesiness. His pet peeves have been damaging before, such as his hatred for fans.
(again, the ONLY thing new about iPhone 5c),
The color is the only new thing, and it's more than we'd normally get. Normally, the 5 would be the cheap phone while the 5S remained the top of the line. Still I hear it manages to retain a solid feel while being plastic, unlike most other phones.
how they brought their camera into the 21st century by focusing on quality rather than simply "having a camera" on a phone like their competition has already realized
The cameras on the iPhones have generally been among the best quality in phones, if not the best. Right now only Nokia is better with that badass camera in the Lumia.
So, while everyone is tripping over to glow about all the "new" things Apple released last week, investors are pulling out of Apple because they can see past the lipstick and realize Apple hasn't innovated since Jobs passed away.
The A7 appears to be quite innovative. The new Mac Pro, like it or hate it, is definitely innovative. The fingerprint reader is quite innovative (and expect its use to expand in the future).
As far as phones go, remember Apple operates like Intel's tick-tock (innovative new phone, speed bump, repeat), and this is only the speed bump year. Their wearable and the iPhone 6 will be real tests of whether Apple has lost innovation.
We've had such a backlash against the current habit of putting one paragraph per page in order to increase hits that we've forgotten pagination does have it's place, such as when the pages are very long as in this case.
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True. But this is a funding bill, and the provision relates to the funding of Obamacare. Pretty simple.
That said, I agree overall. If they don't have the votes to actually rescind Obamacare (and override the inevitable veto) they should quit the grandstanding and move onto other things.
Most developed Western countries are whole countries with administrative districts also known as states. They also tend to be fairly homogenous, the needs and conditions of one state not being too far off the needs and conditions of others.
The United States is 50 individual sovereign states banded together in cooperation that created a federal government as a front and gave it certain powers. These states also tend to be quite different. Alaska is nothing like Missouri by pretty much any measure. What works in Massachusetts probably won't work in Arizona.
The idea here is that a state, if it wanted, would implement universal healthcare. If it is a good thing, it would attract the best workers and businesses.
The idiocy going on now is because the Republicans are listening to people -- their hardline vocal Republican minority that doesn't want Obamacare and will definitely vote on that issue in the next primary. The rest of the Republicans who don't really care or even like Obamacare may or may not vote, and aren't calling their reps.
Imagine if with alcohol you couldn't tell the difference in strength by taste, and people drank all they were going to drink to get drunk in one chug. Say you know chugging a bottle of 80 proof liquor would get you blitzed, but not dangerously so.
Now imagine Alcohol were illegal, no labeling for strength. So you go to chug that 80 proof and find out on the way to the hospital that it was actually 180 proof. Worse, quality suffers. As in prohibition, you find that your booze has methanol in it, and you're now blind.
Or we can just make it legal, regulated and standardized, with purity and dosage labeled and guaranteed.
There's a difference between a server farm learning and distributing the latest among the local servers, and periodiocally sending updates to phones.
Again, the paper would be nice.
Apple was going nowhere, but that money was a settlement of Apple's lawsuit. Apple actually had plenty of cash on hand at the time. Pledging to continue Office products for Mac for years to come was more valuable. But instead of falling all the way Apple was reinvented, the same thing that Nokia and Blackberry desperately needed, and didn't get.
The "cheaper" iPhone means nothing. Apple always sells the last generation $100 cheaper. This year they just repackaged it. Notice how few people bought it vs. the 5S.
People who bought iPhones were tired of the limited black/white choices. They were happy to get something else.
All this says to me is "Waaaaa people aren't buying our stuff so they must be stupid. Eventually people will wise up to Apple ripping them off." Slashdot has only been saying that since the rather negative review of the first iPod years ago.
I thought it would be stupid flashy bling, and then I saw one. It's more understated than it appeared at first, not bad really. Still, I'd get the dark one.
For computers, the CPU/GPU performance has pretty much been plateaued for years for basic operating system function. Any moderate x64 chip from 2010 and a decent GPU can run the latest OS X, Windows or Linux with no noticeable performance hit.
This is not so with phones. iOS 7 is still pushing the 5S hardware to be able to perform. As noticed by the 5 and 5C not performing as well, that extra power is needed. Just look at the performance progressions of the A series (I'll use the claims, actual depends on individual benchmark):
A4 to A5 - 2x CPU, 7x GPU
A5 to A6 - 2x CPU, 2x GPU
A6 to A7 - 2x CPU, 2x GPU
In going from essentially a tweaked Samsung Hummingbird to a bespoke ARMV8, and from a single Power VR SGX535 to a 4xG6430, they have a difference of 8x CPU and 28x GPU.
For mobiles were are obviously where desktops were years ago, struggling to keep up with the CPU and GPU needs of the latest OS. It will plateau soon, and older phones will be able to run the latest OS better.
That said, a 4S runs iOS7 reasonably well. That's two years support for the latest OS, and will at least run until three years. That's standard for Apple, and better than you normally get from Android. We have three Androids and an iPhone purchased around the same time. Each Android got a dot version update and was then abandoned. Two of the Androids even had promises of Android 4 from the manufacturer, not delivered. The iPhone 4S came with iOS 5, then got feature updates with 5.1, 6, 6.1 and 7. An Android user complaining about Apple updates is definitely pot/kettle.
The movie Flags of Our Fathers did a pretty good job of showing the dire straits the US was in at the time, how desperate the leaders were to sell bonds to continue funding the war. We needed the war to end, and fast. We might not have been able to pull off a mainland invasion.
Just before the bombing, Japan had rejected the Potsdam Declaration. Japan was recalling of soldiers from China to bolster the expected attack from the Allies. They had millions of soldiers and sailors in place, and millions more civilians trained as militia.Their plan was to inflict such mass casualties, such horror, that we'd back off and negotiate a more favorable surrender.
A server based system learns and updates constantly.
But I could see moving some of the simpler, well-known recognition onto the phone to avoid lag. If the phone can't process the request with near 100% confidence it forwards it to the server.
One last time for the simple: "You don't like it" doesn't mean "boring." Again the Fiero was a perfect example. I don't like it. It was a crap car, not nearly as good as competition such as the TOYOTA MR2, yet in no way boring.
No, that's how a pedantic moron who is trying to detract from his displayed stupidity does it. I obviously know how to use them, but I obviously am tiring of wasting the effort on a moron.
Lack of "reading comprehension" is obvious. I stated not boring. You stated not better. Boring != not better. Is that really too difficult? You have the definition of boring wrong. The Pontiac Fiero was a piece of crap, no good reason to buy one over a Toyota MR2, yet it still wasn't boring.
All cars are in competition in their segments, all cars wiill have advantages and disadvantages vs. the competition. An FJ does offroad better than an XTerra, but does onroad better than the Jeep. It's more expensive than the XTerra, but cheaper than a similarly loaded Jeep. You pick what fits your requirements.
And Toyota has the longest continuous AWD experience of any of those companies.
So it's based on old training and heuristic data. Got it.
So it does use the server. I'd like to see the article though.
"Totota does make a non-boring car."
"The car you refer to is not better in any way "
You have basic reading comprehension issues.
And how does this defeat the RF scanner that looks only at the live tissue underneath?
That would be nice. Right thumb for normal operation, left middle finger (or one you'd never accidentally use) to come up with some generic looking data that'll get you off the hook, while your real data is wiping in the background.
The datacenter takes the input from tens of millions of users, their results, retries, pronunciation corrections, etc., and uses the learning from that to produce better results. I doubt the phone software is using magic.
Notice MS is giving most of the money. It's the payoff for selling Nokia for cheap.
I'll just take a guess here, but I'd think speech recognition using the CPU and storage capacity of a phone will be nowhere near the quality of speech recognition using the resources of a large datacenter.
Again, ugly wasn't the criteria I was opposing -- it was boring. By all accounts it's a very fun off-roader competing with the likes of the Jeep Wrangler and the Nissan XTerra, and the price is competitive. So I am right, Totota does make a non-boring car.
But I don't think it's ugly. It looks like a rally truck, and I like rally.
On a screen 1050px high, browser maximized, you're talking about 76 vertical pages of image-heavy article. Very bad idea to put it all on one page.
OpenGL ES 3, Core Motion (goes with the M7 chip), new multitasking API, SpriteKit API, game controller API, many additions to camera API, new mapping APIs, inter-app audio, AirDrop API, many additions to Core Location. And more.
Not to say this is revolutionary. Apple spent most of the effort in the makeover. But there are definitely many improvements under the hood.
More like Cook realized that Ive was right, skeumorphism is getting old. It was cute in the beginning, but by now everyone knows what a notepad app is, they don't need skeumorphism to be comfortable. Jobs listened to Forstall too much, and had a strange affinity for this cutesiness. His pet peeves have been damaging before, such as his hatred for fans.
The color is the only new thing, and it's more than we'd normally get. Normally, the 5 would be the cheap phone while the 5S remained the top of the line. Still I hear it manages to retain a solid feel while being plastic, unlike most other phones.
The cameras on the iPhones have generally been among the best quality in phones, if not the best. Right now only Nokia is better with that badass camera in the Lumia.
The A7 appears to be quite innovative. The new Mac Pro, like it or hate it, is definitely innovative. The fingerprint reader is quite innovative (and expect its use to expand in the future).
As far as phones go, remember Apple operates like Intel's tick-tock (innovative new phone, speed bump, repeat), and this is only the speed bump year. Their wearable and the iPhone 6 will be real tests of whether Apple has lost innovation.
We've had such a backlash against the current habit of putting one paragraph per page in order to increase hits that we've forgotten pagination does have it's place, such as when the pages are very long as in this case.