The right to free speech has minor limits. The right to free speech does not allow you to trespass inorder to exercise that speech.
Free speech is limited for matters of immediate public safety. You cannot falsely yell fire in a crowed theater.
Similarly, BART explicitly restricts civil protest in the BART system. Train platforms can be dangerous places when crowded and tempers flare. BART also restricts eating and drinking, both activities that we also have natural rights to.
Since BART is very crowded during rush hour. Any tussle between police, protesters or others (including irate commuters) could result in people being pushed onto the tracks, electrocuted by the third rail or run over by an approaching train. BART has a public obligation to maintain order and safety within the system.
The protesters have been allowed to protest and speek their message outside the stations, their right to speech has not been violated.
The thunderbolt display is $1000, but i don't think you'll find another IPS 27" 2560x1440 LED display for cheaper elsewhere. Dell's version of this monitor without the thunderbolt and hub connections is also $1000. (Dell UltraSharp U2711 27”)
So since much of this cost is the monitor itself, not the thunderbolt/usb/firewire/ethernet hubs, there is no reason why a similar break out box with external pci slots a video card, USB 2 (or 3) hubs, ethernet, firewire and power shouldn't be possible.
Also, the usb over thunderbolt would have perfect compatibility since thunderbolt is PCI Express (combined with Display Port). As USB 2 and 3 already work on PCI cards with 100% compatibility, they will work over thunderbolt.
Moving the power supply to larger stationary computer components and then powering the smaller portable devices makes more sense. There is no reason for the computer to provide power to its accessories, when they could just as easily provide power to the computer. Also there is no reason to have additional transformers for each device.
The ultimate goal should be 1 plug for a monitor/hub, and all other devices receiving thier power and data through a single (or no) cable from the monitor. USB 3 could help by powering printers and scanners, but i am not sure if it is capable of driving displays under any serious graphics demand.
Interesting comparison, but the big difference is that the time for the US government to debate taxes and spending is when the government passes a budget, not when bills come in.
Congress has already approved this spending, if they want to change it, change the next budget.
What is happening now is pure extortion. Cut our previously agreed to budget (a legal document for the executive branch must follow) or we will destroy the countries credit rating.
Also, Passing a balanced budget amendments would not prevent our current debt.
Since W became president, almost all of our debt is from the following: 1. Reduced tax income from the mortgage crisis recession (unregulated corporate corruption) 2. War spending that was never offset in budgets and intentionally kept separate from the budget process by the Bush Administration. 3. The Bush "Temporary Tax Cuts". These tax cuts were temporary solely to avoid having to pay for them through budget spending cuts.
Each of the items above would be excluded from a balanced budget amendment.
War spending has been excluded from all balanced budget amendments. Extent of revenue losses during economic downturns also cannot be accurately predicted and will cause deficits. Lastly, Republicans have always excluded paying for tax cuts through spending cuts, (they prefer to give you the tax cut now and starve the system after you are hooked, kind of like drug dealers the first one is free)
Ethernet ports are definitely nice on laptops, but with wifi the are not essential, especially when trying to limit the size and number of different ports.
An extra thunderbolt port with an ethernet adapter may be more useful than a single function ethernet port on a laptop since whenever you may want to plug into an ethernet port, you also would likely be at a desk where you could plug in all your other items through a thunderbolt dock connector.
More multi use ports are better than fewer sole purpose ports on a laptop.
There seems to be a misunderstanding of what thunderbolt is. It is not a competitor with USB, Firewire, Displayport. It is more of an umbrella technology that can deliver each of these peripheral technologies and others over one cable.
Thunderbolt is an external PCI Express connector. If you want to use a PCI Express connector to plug in a mouse or external HD, you might be able to in the near future, but thats not the intent. I doubt many people will be buying Thunderbolt HD's in the near future (beyond high speed raid systems) even if the
The most imminent Thunderbolt products are monitors that are more like laptop docks. A single cable between your computer and your monitor, where you monitor can have its own graphics card, usb, firewire, eSATA...
Go ahead, buy your USB, Firewire, eSATA hardware. One day you might be connecting them all to you computer though a thunderbolt dock.
Also with thunderbolt the number of port types on laptops could be reduced to 3. 1. Power 2. USB 2.0 (keyboard, mouse or other) 3. Thunderbolt (monitor, ethernet, USB 3.0, Firewire, eSATA, PCI, everything else)
Also, if banks lend someone money, or buy packaged loans, they are solely responsible to their investors and stake holders and make sure that those depts are viable? Buyer beware!
No one was ever forced to loan money to anyone. Congress and the president did not issue the loans,
Banks didn't care about loan risk because the lender was never planning on collecting on the loans, they were just interested in getting a commission and selling the loan off to another sucker who would have to figure out how to collect on the loans.
Our financial institutions lost all sense of fiscal rationality, responsibility and morality.
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The right to free speech has minor limits. The right to free speech does not allow you to trespass inorder to exercise that speech.
Free speech is limited for matters of immediate public safety. You cannot falsely yell fire in a crowed theater.
Similarly, BART explicitly restricts civil protest in the BART system. Train platforms can be dangerous places when crowded and tempers flare. BART also restricts eating and drinking, both activities that we also have natural rights to.
Since BART is very crowded during rush hour. Any tussle between police, protesters or others (including irate commuters) could result in people being pushed onto the tracks, electrocuted by the third rail or run over by an approaching train. BART has a public obligation to maintain order and safety within the system.
The protesters have been allowed to protest and speek their message outside the stations, their right to speech has not been violated.
The thunderbolt display is $1000, but i don't think you'll find another IPS 27" 2560x1440 LED display for cheaper elsewhere. Dell's version of this monitor without the thunderbolt and hub connections is also $1000. (Dell UltraSharp U2711 27”)
So since much of this cost is the monitor itself, not the thunderbolt/usb/firewire/ethernet hubs, there is no reason why a similar break out box with external pci slots a video card, USB 2 (or 3) hubs, ethernet, firewire and power shouldn't be possible.
Also, the usb over thunderbolt would have perfect compatibility since thunderbolt is PCI Express (combined with Display Port). As USB 2 and 3 already work on PCI cards with 100% compatibility, they will work over thunderbolt.
Moving the power supply to larger stationary computer components and then powering the smaller portable devices makes more sense. There is no reason for the computer to provide power to its accessories, when they could just as easily provide power to the computer. Also there is no reason to have additional transformers for each device.
The ultimate goal should be 1 plug for a monitor/hub, and all other devices receiving thier power and data through a single (or no) cable from the monitor. USB 3 could help by powering printers and scanners, but i am not sure if it is capable of driving displays under any serious graphics demand.
Sounds like the apple thunderbolt display, except there you get ethernet, firewire, usb, power, and two monitors all over one cable.
http://www.apple.com/displays/
Interesting comparison, but the big difference is that the time for the US government to debate taxes and spending is when the government passes a budget, not when bills come in.
Congress has already approved this spending, if they want to change it, change the next budget.
What is happening now is pure extortion. Cut our previously agreed to budget (a legal document for the executive branch must follow) or we will destroy the countries credit rating.
Also, Passing a balanced budget amendments would not prevent our current debt.
Since W became president, almost all of our debt is from the following:
1. Reduced tax income from the mortgage crisis recession (unregulated corporate corruption)
2. War spending that was never offset in budgets and intentionally kept separate from the budget process by the Bush Administration.
3. The Bush "Temporary Tax Cuts". These tax cuts were temporary solely to avoid having to pay for them through budget spending cuts.
See the breakdown here: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24editorial_graph2.html?ref=sunday
Each of the items above would be excluded from a balanced budget amendment.
War spending has been excluded from all balanced budget amendments.
Extent of revenue losses during economic downturns also cannot be accurately predicted and will cause deficits.
Lastly, Republicans have always excluded paying for tax cuts through spending cuts, (they prefer to give you the tax cut now and starve the system after you are hooked, kind of like drug dealers the first one is free)
The US dept has consistently grown under Republican presidents and shrunk under democrats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Federal_Debt_as_Percent_of_GDP_by_President.jpg
Ethernet ports are definitely nice on laptops, but with wifi the are not essential, especially when trying to limit the size and number of different ports.
An extra thunderbolt port with an ethernet adapter may be more useful than a single function ethernet port on a laptop since whenever you may want to plug into an ethernet port, you also would likely be at a desk where you could plug in all your other items through a thunderbolt dock connector.
More multi use ports are better than fewer sole purpose ports on a laptop.
There seems to be a misunderstanding of what thunderbolt is.
It is not a competitor with USB, Firewire, Displayport. It is more of an umbrella technology that can deliver each of these peripheral technologies and others over one cable.
Thunderbolt is an external PCI Express connector. If you want to use a PCI Express connector to plug in a mouse or external HD, you might be able to in the near future, but thats not the intent. I doubt many people will be buying Thunderbolt HD's in the near future (beyond high speed raid systems) even if the
The most imminent Thunderbolt products are monitors that are more like laptop docks. A single cable between your computer and your monitor, where you monitor can have its own graphics card, usb, firewire, eSATA...
Go ahead, buy your USB, Firewire, eSATA hardware. One day you might be connecting them all to you computer though a thunderbolt dock.
Also with thunderbolt the number of port types on laptops could be reduced to 3.
1. Power
2. USB 2.0 (keyboard, mouse or other)
3. Thunderbolt (monitor, ethernet, USB 3.0, Firewire, eSATA, PCI, everything else)
I assume you didn't actually read the link...
It is a disaster preparation campaign with zombies as a hook to get people to read about how to prepare for natural disasters or outbreaks.
I'm sure you mean Bush's bailout, not Obama's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008
Also, if banks lend someone money, or buy packaged loans, they are solely responsible to their investors and stake holders and make sure that those depts are viable? Buyer beware!
No one was ever forced to loan money to anyone. Congress and the president did not issue the loans,
Banks didn't care about loan risk because the lender was never planning on collecting on the loans, they were just interested in getting a commission and selling the loan off to another sucker who would have to figure out how to collect on the loans.
Our financial institutions lost all sense of fiscal rationality, responsibility and morality.
Regardless of your phone, the mobile phone carriers are storing your location history by cell towers...
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/26/179257/German-Politician-Demonstrates-Extent-of-Cellphone-Location-Tracking
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/business/media/26privacy.html