Xerox is probably a lost cause. Their failure to license solid ink technology, and instead try to hoard it for themselves, has probably cost them tens if not hundred of millions in revenue. They are an old fuddy-duddy company, that has long lost their way and have been living on borrowed time granted them by their towering forebearers ever since. I'll be surprised if they last another decade.
This is done on purpose. It's nothing new. They give a steep subsidy to get the players all excited and people buying in and then they crash the subsidies all at once. It tanks the market and turns people off for decades to come.
Almost a decade ago it occurred to me it would only be a matter of time before we would be registering computers for "safe" surfing on the Internet. All it will take is a nasty enough cyberattack (black flag or no).
There shouldn't even be license plates on cars. Cars can be manufactured with permanent ID numbers right out of the factory. Getting a title reissue would tie a person to the ID. The whole state plates system is a big revenue scam. And now they want to do it to drones? This keeps up much more and I guarantee they will soon be requiring us to register every computer b/c "cyber-security".
First you build a shipyard in orbit, then you build a long-term interplanetary research vessel, deploy, rinse and repeat. Do that and Mars will naturally follow.
The present mode of expensive one-off mission after another is horribly flawed.
I also worry that they are using super computers (and I *know* they have the fastest computers in the world) to calculate how to win a limited nuclear war. Now, some will say that's a good thing. And maybe it has to be done. But one also has to worry that the computer will came back with a result like "99.5% Success!" And then certain powers might be all to inclined to go for it.
The Federal Reserve Bank should just abruptly announce that pennies are worth a dollar. In one stroke the penny (as we know it) would be no more, and America would have a dollar coin people would actually use. (Not to mention a little financial relief for the lower class penny pinchers.)
From the looks of the comments, none of you have any clue whats really going on. This is all simply part of the run-up to the invasion of Iran. Timeline for the destruction of all chemical weapons in Syria is mid 2014, the same time the next phase our new missile defence system goes online in Israel (David's Sling). And by then Iran will be realling from a near 100% emargo on their oil exports --a bill currently making its way through Congress. Unless something very drastic changes, it looks like we will see war with Iran as early as 2014. Th only thing I can see delaying it is if poltically the powers that be would rather put the war under a new Republican president in 2017.
Just get rid of comments altogether and instead find a way to direct the conversion to other sites designed specifically for conversion about externally posted stories, e.g. Slashdot. I hate that I can't comment on a story if I want to, but I am not about to become a member of every website under the sun to do so. So in the end I just end up not reading stories on sites that don't support commenting without membership as much.
Let's assume for a moment that it is only fair that online retailers pay sales tax too. Put aside the fact that online sales of anything physical requires shipping. And shipping involves many other taxes, such as fuel taxes.
Now the problem that arises is not so much the tax in itself (that will just serve to raise consumer costs approx. 6%, but benefit state coffers). The real problem is in administration of that tax. Not only will it cost small retailers more to sell on the internet, it will be effectively IMPOSSIBLE to do it on one's own. It will simply be too burdensome to manage all the sales brackets and filings. So prices will rise even more cover the new administrative overhead. The inevitable result will be the erosion of small online retail companies and the loss of more high-tech jobs.
What's really sad about this, is that there is a simple solution to at least preventing the admin overhead cost.... have the shipping companies levy the tax. They are already fully equipped to levy charges per zip-code. There are only a handful of companies involved, and they are all large businesses. So the new overhead for them would be negligible.
Haught sounds reasonable? It's just a bunch of sophistry. He hardly makes a single concrete statement about anything.
Coyne is somewhat rude, and I think that isn't necessary. But he's rather unabashed about it and admits upfront he is going to be. Yet overall his argument makes a great deal more sense. However it is very much a rebuttal argument.
You don't know? All those android tablets are not keeping their manufactures "afloat" either.
The death of TouchPad boils down to one single factor: Microsoft. If M$ says, "kill it or we'll pull your Windows licenses". What else is their to do? Leo, had an idea: Give up and focus on enterprise. Of course, that got him fired.
You eat what we let you eat. smoke the cancer sticks we let you smoke. see a doctor if have the right job but we'll give you welfare if you have babies b/c we need your babies to fight our future wars against the food we won't let you eat and the grass we wont let you smoke and the hope we have dashed against the rocks day after day after day.
I get bitchy when I run out of toilet paper. Am I addicted?
Marijuana is no more addictive then anything else you might *want* but no longer have. It just so happens that you tend to want it more than many other things b/ it's a lot better than many other things.
Ask a starving crack addict if they want food or crack. They take the crack. Ask as starving pot head if they want food or pot. They take the food.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the broken U.S. patent system, and by extension, the broken U.S. government, along with some good-old boy corporate nepotism, is leading us right back to the old Microsoft/Apple duopoly? No more webOS, no more Meego, RIM is on the ropes and Android looks to be next.
Oh, so you actually think THEY want to go to mars? Or any such thing.
The problem is that the people that tend to rise to power are megalomaniacs and control freaks. All they care about is maintaining power and exerting their ego on others. The have no vision beyond that. And worse still, most of them are just as happy to murder people in unjust wars as to do something good for humanity. And the murder thing pays better $, so there you are.
Bullshit answer. When society chops up world into roads, making it almost impossible to get any where accept by those roads. (and yes, it is illegal to walk along an interstate), then things are way past any argument of privilege. It's bordering on necessity. Saying that driving is a privilege, is paramount to accepting a police state.
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Xerox is probably a lost cause. Their failure to license solid ink technology, and instead try to hoard it for themselves, has probably cost them tens if not hundred of millions in revenue. They are an old fuddy-duddy company, that has long lost their way and have been living on borrowed time granted them by their towering forebearers ever since. I'll be surprised if they last another decade.
That's my feeling too. The whole thing smelled too much like a witch hunt.
This is done on purpose. It's nothing new. They give a steep subsidy to get the players all excited and people buying in and then they crash the subsidies all at once. It tanks the market and turns people off for decades to come.
I'm sure we'll get to this soon: http://theswca.com/duncan-images/Buttons,Badges/BADG-369.JPG
Almost a decade ago it occurred to me it would only be a matter of time before we would be registering computers for "safe" surfing on the Internet. All it will take is a nasty enough cyberattack (black flag or no).
There shouldn't even be license plates on cars. Cars can be manufactured with permanent ID numbers right out of the factory. Getting a title reissue would tie a person to the ID. The whole state plates system is a big revenue scam. And now they want to do it to drones? This keeps up much more and I guarantee they will soon be requiring us to register every computer b/c "cyber-security".
First you build a shipyard in orbit, then you build a long-term interplanetary research vessel, deploy, rinse and repeat. Do that and Mars will naturally follow.
The present mode of expensive one-off mission after another is horribly flawed.
I also worry that they are using super computers (and I *know* they have the fastest computers in the world) to calculate how to win a limited nuclear war. Now, some will say that's a good thing. And maybe it has to be done. But one also has to worry that the computer will came back with a result like "99.5% Success!" And then certain powers might be all to inclined to go for it.
The Federal Reserve Bank should just abruptly announce that pennies are worth a dollar. In one stroke the penny (as we know it) would be no more, and America would have a dollar coin people would actually use. (Not to mention a little financial relief for the lower class penny pinchers.)
From the looks of the comments, none of you have any clue whats really going on. This is all simply part of the run-up to the invasion of Iran. Timeline for the destruction of all chemical weapons in Syria is mid 2014, the same time the next phase our new missile defence system goes online in Israel (David's Sling). And by then Iran will be realling from a near 100% emargo on their oil exports --a bill currently making its way through Congress. Unless something very drastic changes, it looks like we will see war with Iran as early as 2014. Th only thing I can see delaying it is if poltically the powers that be would rather put the war under a new Republican president in 2017.
Just get rid of comments altogether and instead find a way to direct the conversion to other sites designed specifically for conversion about externally posted stories, e.g. Slashdot. I hate that I can't comment on a story if I want to, but I am not about to become a member of every website under the sun to do so. So in the end I just end up not reading stories on sites that don't support commenting without membership as much.
Let's assume for a moment that it is only fair that online retailers pay sales tax too. Put aside the fact that online sales of anything physical requires shipping. And shipping involves many other taxes, such as fuel taxes.
Now the problem that arises is not so much the tax in itself (that will just serve to raise consumer costs approx. 6%, but benefit state coffers). The real problem is in administration of that tax. Not only will it cost small retailers more to sell on the internet, it will be effectively IMPOSSIBLE to do it on one's own. It will simply be too burdensome to manage all the sales brackets and filings. So prices will rise even more cover the new administrative overhead. The inevitable result will be the erosion of small online retail companies and the loss of more high-tech jobs.
What's really sad about this, is that there is a simple solution to at least preventing the admin overhead cost.... have the shipping companies levy the tax. They are already fully equipped to levy charges per zip-code. There are only a handful of companies involved, and they are all large businesses. So the new overhead for them would be negligible.
Haught sounds reasonable? It's just a bunch of sophistry. He hardly makes a single concrete statement about anything.
Coyne is somewhat rude, and I think that isn't necessary. But he's rather unabashed about it and admits upfront he is going to be. Yet overall his argument makes a great deal more sense. However it is very much a rebuttal argument.
http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/viewsonic-g-tablet/4505-3126_7-34431221.html?tag=subnav
You can get a Viewsonic g tablet for about the same price and it has more ports:
http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/viewsonic-g-tablet/4507-3126_7-34431221.html?tag=mncol;subnav
Show me some hard figures. Doing a 9,000 unit run and claiming success b/c you sold 10,000 doesn't fly.
You don't know? All those android tablets are not keeping their manufactures "afloat" either.
The death of TouchPad boils down to one single factor: Microsoft. If M$ says, "kill it or we'll pull your Windows licenses". What else is their to do? Leo, had an idea: Give up and focus on enterprise. Of course, that got him fired.
All hail the King!
You eat what we let you eat.
smoke the cancer sticks we let you smoke.
see a doctor if have the right job
but we'll give you welfare if you have babies
b/c we need your babies to fight our future wars
against the food we won't let you eat
and the grass we wont let you smoke
and the hope we have dashed against the rocks
day after day after day.
All hail the King!
I get bitchy when I run out of toilet paper. Am I addicted?
Marijuana is no more addictive then anything else you might *want* but no longer have. It just so happens that you tend to want it more than many other things b/ it's a lot better than many other things.
Ask a starving crack addict if they want food or crack. They take the crack. Ask as starving pot head if they want food or pot. They take the food.
That's not all they're out of!
Does anyone else find it ironic that the broken U.S. patent system, and by extension, the broken U.S. government, along with some good-old boy corporate nepotism, is leading us right back to the old Microsoft/Apple duopoly? No more webOS, no more Meego, RIM is on the ropes and Android looks to be next.
Who looses? The customer.
Oh, so you actually think THEY want to go to mars? Or any such thing.
The problem is that the people that tend to rise to power are megalomaniacs and control freaks. All they care about is maintaining power and exerting their ego on others. The have no vision beyond that. And worse still, most of them are just as happy to murder people in unjust wars as to do something good for humanity. And the murder thing pays better $, so there you are.
Petition for the Real Thing
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/%21/petition/develop-system-which-we-people-petitions-can-become-law-directly/PPvS53y2?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl
Bullshit answer. When society chops up world into roads, making it almost impossible to get any where accept by those roads. (and yes, it is illegal to walk along an interstate), then things are way past any argument of privilege. It's bordering on necessity. Saying that driving is a privilege, is paramount to accepting a police state.