The better solution to this is to take the $100M and put it out for competition to competitive bidders. Stipulate minimum service levels, required coverage areas AND require a matching investment from the bidder.
An even better solution to this might be an armed uprising. Take all though fucking guns that you Americans are so proud of, and show us you know what they are for.
That's a really neat idea, and I think you could go a long way with that. I Really think there would be a good market for that sort of self-service, distributed hotel. (HaaS? Hotel in the Cloud?) In fact, most people would probably also be willing to forgo the daily maid service (not sure about you, but I don't launder my bath towels daily, and I'm quite capable of making my own bed).
The lack of AAA class games for Linux are holding it back. The lack of AAA class games for OS/X are holding it back. Windows has the most AAA class games.
That's a bit like complaining that lack of 4x4 offroad packages is holding back Ferrari -- maybe in Sticksville, Missouri.
Linux has many strengths, as does OSX, and PC gaming has become a niche market. Complaining that Ferrari doesn't have an offroad package just emphasizes your ignorance. It means you are trying to use the wrong tool for the job.
Over 5 Billion dollars was wasted on political campaigning in 2008. That is enough to run a small country, and certainly enough money to resolve many, many of the current problems in that country.
The "war on drugs" cost over $15 Billion in 2010.
The US Military budget for 2011 was $660 Billion with an adition $37 Billion dollars to supplement the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Adding to tax revenue is not going to fix anything.
It's not that there isn't enough money to solve the problems, it's a lack of political will.
You mean a modern country like the USA? I hear they are doing a great job of providing clean water, and reliable utilities, and I'm sure there are a bunch of AT&T customers in Florida that would love to tell you about the quality of phone service that they no longer have available, since it was too expensive for the private telco to maintain. After all, it's easy to show 13% growth in the short-term while you still have assets to sell and people to fire.
Well if after $1,000,000 you'd be handing most of it over to Uncle Sam that probably encouraged business owners to instead reinvest into the company more than taking profits for themselves while looking for more ways to cut costs and shaft the employees.
You are absolutely correct. The higher tax rates were a great incentive for companies to invest in CAPEX and actual tangible growth. The company could avoid taxes by spending money on infrastructure and workers that would increase share value by creating greater productivity. The current trend in "trickle down economics" is for the corporations to increase share value by moving money overseas to dodge taxes and showing a bigger bottom line while decreasing productivity and crippling future growth.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that only one of these strategies is sustainable in the long-term.
So, to back the OP. If one of the UEFI design goals was "eliminating boot code malware." Having run-time writeable boot code looks like an EFI design bug.
The difference is that When Ford brings out a new model, you can usually count on the old one working for another 5, 10, even 20 years. iPhone, not so much. Usually when Apple ships a new product, they target updates to the operating system for the latest platform, while failing to address manufacturing defects (yes, bad software is paramount to a manufacturing defect) and ceasing support the previous generation. In fact the updates are ofter to the detriment of the older platform, causing huge performance degradation, despite the fact that the phone is perfectly suitable for most people's needs, thus people are in fact forced to buy the new phone.
At least with a car, once it is out of warranty, and the manufacturer has ceased to support it, there are plenty of after-market vendors that are still willing to support it. I can still buy newly manufactured parts to operate and maintain my 1972 vehicle without getting sued into bankruptcy and thrown in jail.
actually latency is a HUGE issue for ALL internet connections. It's know as Bandwidth Delay Product and high latency links create problems with TCP window sizing, such that a typical internet link using geostationary satellites is limited to under 200Kbps. So that 20MB Power Point presentation is going to take about 15 minutes to download.
HFT is not about reaction times to public information. It is about exploiting timing so that a customer placing a single large order that can be fulfilled only through many different stock exchanges is taken advantage of by predatory stock scalpers. Scalpers, upon noticing the order would not be able to be fulfilled by one single exchange, instead buy the securities on the other exchanges, so that by the time the rest of the large order arrives to those exchanges the scalpers can sell the securities at a higher price. All these events happen in milliseconds not perceivable to humans but perceivable to computers. It really is about exploiting information before anyone else has had a chance to see it, which is essentially insider trading.
Just because PayPal decides to tell you that they have the right to murder your baby and eat your dog, doesn't mean they can do it without consequence. PayPal does not have the authority to dismiss federal legislation. In Canada, at least, we still actually have some semblance of a real justice system that is not for sale to the highest bidder. Robo-calling and spamming are quite explicitly opt-in only in Canada, and they MUST provide a means to opt-out.
Something similar was done by Miami drug smugglers in the 80's. They used to spray entire warehouses with marijuana residue so the dogs would trigger on every single box. Eventually, the cops just gave up using the dogs. Well, that, and the drug smugglers eventually just bought off the cops.
I think that is the point the OP was making. The US government (and it's various arms, subsidiaries, et al.) have made so many of those steps they have become tyrannical.
Actually, a more complete look at unemployment statistics puts it over 12% when you count for all the people that want to work, but have given up in frustration:
There is nothing in there stating that the carriers must unlock the device free of charge. We got burned by the same sad lack of foresight in Canada: The carrier must unlock your device, and they will actually do it right on the phone with you in most cases, but not until you have paid the $75 fee!
They might have looked a bit alike on the surface, but Apple really did turn the industry inside out. All of the existing mobile vendors were struggling to implement their own proprietary protocols and develop their own in house apps, but they still considered it to be a phone with features. Kudos to Blackberry--they did some amazing stuff with the limitations they had at the time they first came to market, but they weren't paying attention to the where things were going.
Apple saw the future: just make everything use standard well developed and well understood protocols, with the new data standards at the time there was no longer a requirement to try and make every bit count in the data streams. It really extended the internet into the mobile market space, while blackberry was still trying to play gatekeeper and only give little submarine porthole views.
They also released developer tools so anyone could produce apps for their platform, and they made sure they had a product with enough horsepower to actually do useful stuff--really it was just an extension of the iPod. At the time Blackberry was still just flogging messenger.
Apple turned the problem-space upside down. They created a pocket computer that happened to be able to make phone calls. That is about as similar to a phone that can read email as a Barbie Power-Wheels is to a Land Rover.
The fix to this is to implement a really high tax rate (say 90%) on licensing fees paid to foreign companies. Suddenly it becomes less expensive for apple/google/etc. to try and funnel money out of the country and they pay US corporate taxes on money earned in the US. (also a 90% inheritance tax on inheritance over, say, $10M, would go a long way to fixing the dangerous imbalance of wealth, but that's another story...)
You may be right. Apple did not create the smartphone segment. What Apple did was create a whole new market segment: Pocket computers, that could make phone calls. (well, technically, mp3 players that could make phone calls...).
This is such a load of complete narrow-minded thinking by small-minded people who can't see beyond their own greed.
Really!
As long as politicians are for sale this problem will not be solved. There is simply too much profit to be made by selling guns and bombs that there is no REAL motive to solve the terrorist problem. (See what I did there? This isn't a problem of Islamists, Christians or Moonies for that matter!)
The terrorists are fighting because they have NOTHING TO LOSE.
Take a fraction of the BILLIONS of dollars that are being literally thrown away on bombs and bullets, and invest in infrastructure: roads, hospitals, communications ; justice: the real sort, not the typical highest bidder type of justice we are all becoming used to; and education. Yes, you will still have nut-jobs. They are everywhere, but if the majority of the people feel secure, and productive, they will be happy, and WAY less likely to pick up a gun and start shooting infidels.
Hollywood has spewed forth a bunch of pre-digested vomitus, and re-re-recycled stories at a time when the cost of a trip to the cinema has reached epic proportions. Meanwhile Netflix, HBO and others are producing high quality ORIGINAL works with intriguing stories that we can consume at our own convenience, without waiting in lineups, and putting up with a bunch of drunk teenagers running back and forth chatting and texting. Top this off with the proliferation of Apple TVs and set-top boxes that have shifted on-line viewing to the living-room screen. Sprinkle with a dash of unemployment and a growing social trend towards cocooning, and this really should come as no surprise.
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The better solution to this is to take the $100M and put it out for competition to competitive bidders. Stipulate minimum service levels, required coverage areas AND require a matching investment from the bidder.
An even better solution to this might be an armed uprising. Take all though fucking guns that you Americans are so proud of, and show us you know what they are for.
That's a really neat idea, and I think you could go a long way with that. I Really think there would be a good market for that sort of self-service, distributed hotel. (HaaS? Hotel in the Cloud?) In fact, most people would probably also be willing to forgo the daily maid service (not sure about you, but I don't launder my bath towels daily, and I'm quite capable of making my own bed).
The lack of AAA class games for Linux are holding it back. The lack of AAA class games for OS/X are holding it back. Windows has the most AAA class games.
That's a bit like complaining that lack of 4x4 offroad packages is holding back Ferrari -- maybe in Sticksville, Missouri.
Linux has many strengths, as does OSX, and PC gaming has become a niche market. Complaining that Ferrari doesn't have an offroad package just emphasizes your ignorance. It means you are trying to use the wrong tool for the job.
Over 5 Billion dollars was wasted on political campaigning in 2008. That is enough to run a small country, and certainly enough money to resolve many, many of the current problems in that country.
The "war on drugs" cost over $15 Billion in 2010.
The US Military budget for 2011 was $660 Billion with an adition $37 Billion dollars to supplement the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Adding to tax revenue is not going to fix anything.
It's not that there isn't enough money to solve the problems, it's a lack of political will.
You mean a modern country like the USA? I hear they are doing a great job of providing clean water, and reliable utilities, and I'm sure there are a bunch of AT&T customers in Florida that would love to tell you about the quality of phone service that they no longer have available, since it was too expensive for the private telco to maintain. After all, it's easy to show 13% growth in the short-term while you still have assets to sell and people to fire.
Well if after $1,000,000 you'd be handing most of it over to Uncle Sam that probably encouraged business owners to instead reinvest into the company more than taking profits for themselves while looking for more ways to cut costs and shaft the employees.
You are absolutely correct. The higher tax rates were a great incentive for companies to invest in CAPEX and actual tangible growth. The company could avoid taxes by spending money on infrastructure and workers that would increase share value by creating greater productivity. The current trend in "trickle down economics" is for the corporations to increase share value by moving money overseas to dodge taxes and showing a bigger bottom line while decreasing productivity and crippling future growth.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that only one of these strategies is sustainable in the long-term.
So, to back the OP. If one of the UEFI design goals was "eliminating boot code malware." Having run-time writeable boot code looks like an EFI design bug.
I couldn't agree more. Although that doesn't mean the registration needs to be an onerous process.
The difference is that When Ford brings out a new model, you can usually count on the old one working for another 5, 10, even 20 years. iPhone, not so much. Usually when Apple ships a new product, they target updates to the operating system for the latest platform, while failing to address manufacturing defects (yes, bad software is paramount to a manufacturing defect) and ceasing support the previous generation. In fact the updates are ofter to the detriment of the older platform, causing huge performance degradation, despite the fact that the phone is perfectly suitable for most people's needs, thus people are in fact forced to buy the new phone.
At least with a car, once it is out of warranty, and the manufacturer has ceased to support it, there are plenty of after-market vendors that are still willing to support it. I can still buy newly manufactured parts to operate and maintain my 1972 vehicle without getting sued into bankruptcy and thrown in jail.
So to counter your supposition,
I do have a very effective strategy for wiping mobile devices using a third party device. Unfortunately it tends to reduce the resale value a bit :)
Maybe they paid off the departing employees with stock, until they ran out.
actually latency is a HUGE issue for ALL internet connections. It's know as Bandwidth Delay Product and high latency links create problems with TCP window sizing, such that a typical internet link using geostationary satellites is limited to under 200Kbps. So that 20MB Power Point presentation is going to take about 15 minutes to download.
HFT is not about reaction times to public information. It is about exploiting timing so that a customer placing a single large order that can be fulfilled only through many different stock exchanges is taken advantage of by predatory stock scalpers. Scalpers, upon noticing the order would not be able to be fulfilled by one single exchange, instead buy the securities on the other exchanges, so that by the time the rest of the large order arrives to those exchanges the scalpers can sell the securities at a higher price. All these events happen in milliseconds not perceivable to humans but perceivable to computers. It really is about exploiting information before anyone else has had a chance to see it, which is essentially insider trading.
I think it's a Soviet thing.
Just because PayPal decides to tell you that they have the right to murder your baby and eat your dog, doesn't mean they can do it without consequence. PayPal does not have the authority to dismiss federal legislation.
In Canada, at least, we still actually have some semblance of a real justice system that is not for sale to the highest bidder. Robo-calling and spamming are quite explicitly opt-in only in Canada, and they MUST provide a means to opt-out.
Something similar was done by Miami drug smugglers in the 80's. They used to spray entire warehouses with marijuana residue so the dogs would trigger on every single box. Eventually, the cops just gave up using the dogs. Well, that, and the drug smugglers eventually just bought off the cops.
Anything less, is simply a step towards tyranny.
I think that is the point the OP was making. The US government (and it's various arms, subsidiaries, et al.) have made so many of those steps they have become tyrannical.
Actually, a more complete look at unemployment statistics puts it over 12% when you count for all the people that want to work, but have given up in frustration:
http://www.bls.gov/news.releas...
What could possibly go wrong?
There is nothing in there stating that the carriers must unlock the device free of charge. We got burned by the same sad lack of foresight in Canada: The carrier must unlock your device, and they will actually do it right on the phone with you in most cases, but not until you have paid the $75 fee!
They might have looked a bit alike on the surface, but Apple really did turn the industry inside out. All of the existing mobile vendors were struggling to implement their own proprietary protocols and develop their own in house apps, but they still considered it to be a phone with features. Kudos to Blackberry--they did some amazing stuff with the limitations they had at the time they first came to market, but they weren't paying attention to the where things were going.
Apple saw the future: just make everything use standard well developed and well understood protocols, with the new data standards at the time there was no longer a requirement to try and make every bit count in the data streams. It really extended the internet into the mobile market space, while blackberry was still trying to play gatekeeper and only give little submarine porthole views.
They also released developer tools so anyone could produce apps for their platform, and they made sure they had a product with enough horsepower to actually do useful stuff--really it was just an extension of the iPod. At the time Blackberry was still just flogging messenger.
Apple turned the problem-space upside down. They created a pocket computer that happened to be able to make phone calls. That is about as similar to a phone that can read email as a Barbie Power-Wheels is to a Land Rover.
The fix to this is to implement a really high tax rate (say 90%) on licensing fees paid to foreign companies. Suddenly it becomes less expensive for apple/google/etc. to try and funnel money out of the country and they pay US corporate taxes on money earned in the US. (also a 90% inheritance tax on inheritance over, say, $10M, would go a long way to fixing the dangerous imbalance of wealth, but that's another story...)
You may be right. Apple did not create the smartphone segment. What Apple did was create a whole new market segment: Pocket computers, that could make phone calls. (well, technically, mp3 players that could make phone calls...).
This is such a load of complete narrow-minded thinking by small-minded people who can't see beyond their own greed.
Really!
As long as politicians are for sale this problem will not be solved. There is simply too much profit to be made by selling guns and bombs that there is no REAL motive to solve the terrorist problem. (See what I did there? This isn't a problem of Islamists, Christians or Moonies for that matter!)
The terrorists are fighting because they have NOTHING TO LOSE.
Take a fraction of the BILLIONS of dollars that are being literally thrown away on bombs and bullets, and invest in infrastructure: roads, hospitals, communications ; justice: the real sort, not the typical highest bidder type of justice we are all becoming used to; and education. Yes, you will still have nut-jobs. They are everywhere, but if the majority of the people feel secure, and productive, they will be happy, and WAY less likely to pick up a gun and start shooting infidels.
Hollywood has spewed forth a bunch of pre-digested vomitus, and re-re-recycled stories at a time when the cost of a trip to the cinema has reached epic proportions. Meanwhile Netflix, HBO and others are producing high quality ORIGINAL works with intriguing stories that we can consume at our own convenience, without waiting in lineups, and putting up with a bunch of drunk teenagers running back and forth chatting and texting. Top this off with the proliferation of Apple TVs and set-top boxes that have shifted on-line viewing to the living-room screen. Sprinkle with a dash of unemployment and a growing social trend towards cocooning, and this really should come as no surprise.