They're doing it to themselves in the PC market. They spent their resources on the Fusion crap, which while nice for low power devices, leaves the rest of us who want Phenom IIIs and Radeon 9900s out in the cold.
I'm at a FX-8150, and I have no AMD upgrade path. I am at the zenith of their multi-core designs, save switching to an Opteron processor, and I don't want to, because the motherboards are absolute crap. The next time Intel comes out with a top of the line processor, they're likely to get my money over AMD, simply because AMD isn't putting anything out there to compete.
"How can you be a libertarian and be against corporate money in politics?" -> You're joking, right? I take it you watched a Ron Paul rally on TV or talked to someone claiming to be libertarian, or talked to someone who claims they knew someone who knew a libertarian, and just totally believed the simple summary they gave you, right?
How about attaching a prize / royalties / some sort of agreement that actually makes pursuing some of the riskier ventures feasible? When cracking cold fusion or solving world hunger only nets you a cool million, there isn't a lot of motivation to achieve them. And that's a major problem these days -> everyone wants to be cheap, offering up intangibles (15 minutes of fame on an evening broadcast, a standing ovation, and a medal) that are kind of a bad joke for the time, effort, and energy spent on creating those solutions.
Even on kaggle.com, which deals with finding / creating new algorithms, there is only one prize (the health prize) that come anywhere near tickling my fancy. $x0,000 to develop a new Kinect algorithm? What? MS is smoking some serious dope. Here is a company that is bringing in billions in revenue, quarterly, and potentially millions more if they can get a killer app for their little device, and they want it for less money than a decent car. I can't tell, did our current generation of 'business' 'leaders' go full retard? Who instructed them to act like this, and why? Seriously, I want to know which business school(s) they graduated from, so I can forbid my children to attend them.
Looking back in history, when Benjamin Franklin and friends were around, you were rewarded (heavily) for your inventions. The inventors, who came up with neat inventions, and allowing for the occasional Edison, got PAID. And until inventors start getting PAID again, humanity's progress will remain at a stand-still, or rather, a mediocre pace.
Indeed, but I imagine in the near future, it will be trivial to frame someone using that very kind of evidence.
You'd be amazed how much DNA human beings shed on a daily basis. And how trivial it is to grab a randomly discarded hair-brush, using the hair / skin on it to contaminate a crime scene. We all know the DA will never question it, the judge certainly won't, and the defendant, of course, no one believes.
Donate blood? Good, good. Perhaps you also cut your hand when you broke that glass on the jewelery store window last night, and left a little blood on it. With such an obvious treat like that, no forensics team or police investigator would question it.
But we all know things like that simply don't happen in this world. It's all pure fantasy...
Sovereign nations are almost...human in their actions. The paranoid planning, pre-emptive strikes on the basis of fear alone, and seeing corruption the same way some of the founders of old saw debt (always need to maintain a minimal amount of it, for "reasons") is strangely familiar.
It's almost like, having banded together as a giant group, the best and the worst of humanity has suddenly been increased a thousand fold.
Indeed. Subject has made usage of his / her 'Constitutional Rights'...it's obviously a prelude to a new terrorist attack on...*throws dart at board*...Wisconsin.
It appears that they do. It's odd to have a rights system whereby you would have to petition the government for the right to speak freely. *laughs*. Who would embrace such a backwards system?
Indeed. But for some odd reason, people are willing to trade in their neighbor's freedom, reasoning, somewhat erroneously, that neither of them needs it.
Common law, perhaps? The inbuilt regulation system that humanity has relied upon time and time again, despite visiting different countries and cultures?
Or perhaps they didn't. Given the difference in cranial sizes, it is conceivable that they progressed technologically much faster than we did. As such, they may even still be among us, albeit hidden.
And yet surprisingly, natural monopolies are not as common as one might believe. I for one love the trade-offs that some municipalities engage in, as they are willing to offer any number of rights (including being the sole servicer of a region) in return for acquiring said service.
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They're doing it to themselves in the PC market. They spent their resources on the Fusion crap, which while nice for low power devices, leaves the rest of us who want Phenom IIIs and Radeon 9900s out in the cold.
I'm at a FX-8150, and I have no AMD upgrade path. I am at the zenith of their multi-core designs, save switching to an Opteron processor, and I don't want to, because the motherboards are absolute crap. The next time Intel comes out with a top of the line processor, they're likely to get my money over AMD, simply because AMD isn't putting anything out there to compete.
"How can you be a libertarian and be against corporate money in politics?" -> You're joking, right? I take it you watched a Ron Paul rally on TV or talked to someone claiming to be libertarian, or talked to someone who claims they knew someone who knew a libertarian, and just totally believed the simple summary they gave you, right?
How about attaching a prize / royalties / some sort of agreement that actually makes pursuing some of the riskier ventures feasible? When cracking cold fusion or solving world hunger only nets you a cool million, there isn't a lot of motivation to achieve them. And that's a major problem these days -> everyone wants to be cheap, offering up intangibles (15 minutes of fame on an evening broadcast, a standing ovation, and a medal) that are kind of a bad joke for the time, effort, and energy spent on creating those solutions.
Even on kaggle.com, which deals with finding / creating new algorithms, there is only one prize (the health prize) that come anywhere near tickling my fancy. $x0,000 to develop a new Kinect algorithm? What? MS is smoking some serious dope. Here is a company that is bringing in billions in revenue, quarterly, and potentially millions more if they can get a killer app for their little device, and they want it for less money than a decent car. I can't tell, did our current generation of 'business' 'leaders' go full retard? Who instructed them to act like this, and why? Seriously, I want to know which business school(s) they graduated from, so I can forbid my children to attend them.
Looking back in history, when Benjamin Franklin and friends were around, you were rewarded (heavily) for your inventions. The inventors, who came up with neat inventions, and allowing for the occasional Edison, got PAID. And until inventors start getting PAID again, humanity's progress will remain at a stand-still, or rather, a mediocre pace.
I went with the horde of robot ninjas over the telepathic mind control. The upkeep costs are significantly lower...I have a brochure if you want one.
Because Mac addresses aren't unique by a long shot?
Indeed, but I imagine in the near future, it will be trivial to frame someone using that very kind of evidence.
You'd be amazed how much DNA human beings shed on a daily basis. And how trivial it is to grab a randomly discarded hair-brush, using the hair / skin on it to contaminate a crime scene. We all know the DA will never question it, the judge certainly won't, and the defendant, of course, no one believes.
Donate blood? Good, good. Perhaps you also cut your hand when you broke that glass on the jewelery store window last night, and left a little blood on it. With such an obvious treat like that, no forensics team or police investigator would question it.
But we all know things like that simply don't happen in this world. It's all pure fantasy...
Because wireless access points? And even 'secured' access points are trivial to access with the right software?
I believe the button you are looking for is 'Hate.'
Yes, because wanting a smaller, less leviathonic government == wanting slavery. Thanks.
Yes, because we're all about gold. Just like the Jews...
Indeed.
That's an insult to savages in the jungle.
Sovereign nations are almost...human in their actions. The paranoid planning, pre-emptive strikes on the basis of fear alone, and seeing corruption the same way some of the founders of old saw debt (always need to maintain a minimal amount of it, for "reasons") is strangely familiar.
It's almost like, having banded together as a giant group, the best and the worst of humanity has suddenly been increased a thousand fold.
Indeed. Subject has made usage of his / her 'Constitutional Rights'...it's obviously a prelude to a new terrorist attack on...*throws dart at board*...Wisconsin.
Indeed. The law should be changed such that all DMCA requests must now be signed by a judge.
Indeed. Does anyone actually know anyone else who is swayed by the various debates / speeches?
It appears that they do. It's odd to have a rights system whereby you would have to petition the government for the right to speak freely. *laughs*. Who would embrace such a backwards system?
Indeed. But for some odd reason, people are willing to trade in their neighbor's freedom, reasoning, somewhat erroneously, that neither of them needs it.
Common law, perhaps? The inbuilt regulation system that humanity has relied upon time and time again, despite visiting different countries and cultures?
Or perhaps they didn't. Given the difference in cranial sizes, it is conceivable that they progressed technologically much faster than we did. As such, they may even still be among us, albeit hidden.
My nipples.
I'm actually curious who thought transitioning the US to a service economy was a good idea.
You wouldn't download a car, would you? Well, that's what you're doing when you use adblock on the internet.
Sanitation, medical engineering, flight, etc.
What if it's being used with Windows 8?
And yet surprisingly, natural monopolies are not as common as one might believe. I for one love the trade-offs that some municipalities engage in, as they are willing to offer any number of rights (including being the sole servicer of a region) in return for acquiring said service.