Hell. My sister-in-law is playing the latest SIMS version, and it's plenty fast on an AMD X2 from about 8 years ago. We've upgraded the memory and the video card, and that's it.. still plays all her stuff just fine.
I know. That's the stupidest part. Just because YOU (not you, who i'm responding to.. but you know.. YOU) don't like WIndows 8 doesn't mean nobody likes it. There are a lot of people that like it a great deal.
Fact is, People just aren't buying desktop PC's much these days. That's the real problem.
That's complete bull. I've worked for a public union in the past (I'm not a fan of them, as I feel I can negotiate my salary a lot better than a union can. In fact, in the private sector I make 3x more money).
Pensions are about 40% funded by the employee, 30-50% funded from interest and investment gains, and only a small amount is matched by the employer (ie, the government, ie the taxpayers).
I *WISH* my retirement had had more than 10-20% match from my employer. That would have made things a lot more palatable. As it was, I was making less than half what the private sector was paying for the job.
The only reason I even took the job was because of the crappy economy, back in the early 2000's.
So because someone's salary is paid by tax dollars, that means that tax payers have a right to say what they can do with the money they have earned?
That's BS. Once that money goes into their paychecks, it's no longer "tax money". Whether or not they are a member of the union, they get their money and they can spend it however they choose. They choose to contribute to union dues with THEIR money.
This is crux of the issue, greedy assholes that think they can dictate what people do with their money just because they happen to work for the government.
Sure, you can find extremists on either side. The problem was that the tea party had far more extremists per capita.
Yeah, you could probably find a few bigoted OWS people, but everywhere you looked you could find bigoted TPers. Seriously, I got caught in one of those TP rallies and the number of people wearing T-Shirts of Obama with a bone through his nose was oppressive. What was worse, is they were like "What? That's not offensive..."
Why is it that a large percentage of self-proclaimed Tea Party members believe Obama was born in Kenya? Or that he's a muslim? I mean, come on.. You can't tell me you don't see this everywhere in your party.
The reason we think you're racists is because *ALL THE PRO TEA PARTY REPUBLICAN NEWS OUTLETS ARE FILLED WITH RACIST AND MYSOGENISTIC PROPOGANDA". The Bill O'reilly's and the Glen Becks and for sure the Rush Limbaughs. Come on, calling a woman a slut for 4 hours a day, day after day, hour after hour?
If you want people to take you seriously, as an objective and non-hate inducing organization, then get your god damned media mouth pieces to tow your party line...
This has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Seriously. Stupid. Moronic. This "information" had to have come from Fox.
First, understand that Unions are self-funded. They're funded from dues paid by the members. They don't take anyones taxes.
Likewise, pensions are largely funded by contributions from the employees. I know, I was a member of government union. Yes, the government chips in a portion as well, but only to a certain point.
While people that are high up in the ranks may get a 6-figure pension (I doubt it though), 99% of the rest of the union employees don't. And what money the do get comes largely from their own contributions, interest and investment gains.
Fox news pretends that pensions are entirely funded by taxpayers, and that's simply not the case. Most Public employees pensions end up less than $30k per year.
Finally, Public Employee Unions taking over OWS? Seriously? Where do you get this shit? Oh yeah, Fox. If you had spent any time there, you would know that this to be flat out wrong. What is the motivation exactly for a PEU to do this? There was absolutely nothing there in the interest of a PEU, either for or against.
This Is just ridiculous. and you're a fucking moron for believing it and worthy of ridicule.
Because Microsoft is a UEFI promoter, no Linux companies have representation at that level.
A quick perusal of the UEFI members shows several Linux companies, and a number of hardware vendors that contribute to the Linux kernel, including Red Hat, IBM, Canonical, Cray, etc...
Why do you think the rich stepped up during the great depression? Why did the rockafellers and Getty's donate tons of money to the poor, and help out?
Because it was in their self interest to do so. Helping the poor meant improving a society that had all but collapsed. You can't make more money if nobody has any to give you.
That article appears to be a textbook example of the old adage "Correlation does not imply causaility". It cherry picks data, then tries to imply a correlation and causation without examining the other factors that affect such data points.
And it's funny, but I work with a lot of people from India, all of them say they are better off her than at home and they all want to bring their families here (many have). If they're so happy, why are they in such a hurry to get out of India?
Crime rates in india are also hard to determine, because reporting policies are different, classification policies are different, etc.. many crimes are simply not reported in public statistics and many crimes are mis-classified.
For instance, Rape in india is almost never reported. It's widely under-reported world-wide, including in the USA, but in countries like India where it is a huge societal stigma (the woman is considered to be at fault in a rape), and where women are considered property (and thus rape is not considered possible in many situations that would otherwise be).
Then, let's not even get into the huge levels of corruption within the police and other law enforcement organizations.
Now, having said all that, India is still probably below the US for crime, but part of that is historical. People have always been poor, for centuries. There is also a relatively peaceful religion in place in much of the country, which helps, as well as the fact that most people grow up in large families that are self-policing, with people living in the same household.. that means that people have a place to live and a large number of people to pool resources.
None of that is true in the US. Plus, weapons are hard to find in India, while in the US there are more guns than people.
Yes. The solution is helping people to be gainful members of society. We all know that.
The problem is that the current right wing philosophy is cut cut cut, with no money to spend "Teaching a man to fish". He just wants to take the fish away and say "Go get a job" when there are few jobs to be had, even for those that are motivated and educated.
I'm not arguing Welfare is good, but it's a far sight better than simply throwing people to the wolves.
I get it. You don't like paying for lazy people. Fair point, neither do I.
But what happens if you stop welfare? Crime rates go through the roof. People that can't eat get desperate and start doing things they'd never do otherwise. Poor people won't just starve and go away, they WILL rise up and take a lot more from you.
People are only complacent when they have something to lose. If you give them a little something to lose, then you can control them better. Create a society of have's and have not's and eventually the have's are all destroyed by the have not's.. It's happened throughout history, and apparently people don't learn from it.
Coding standards were largely developed to prevent developers from reformatting each others code in a format war.
Joe works on code, checks it in. Bill gets a task to work on that code, doesn't like Joe's formatting, so he reformats, checks that in.. Joe works on the code again, finds it's been reformatted, then he reformats it again.
This is hell when doing diff's and figuring out what changes from version to version. Coding standards help to prevent that.
Another reason for coding standards is to set a level playing field for everyone.
Windows 8 is designed to have a user account for every person. This is important, because key privacy information is tied to the user account. If you let someone use your computer account, they can buy things in the store using your credit card. They can read your email. They can do a lot of things you may not want them to do.
The recommended approach is to create a new account for any new user of the computer.
Except of course, when you first log in to Windows 8, it plays a 2 minute animation in which it TELLS YOU TO GO TO THE CORNERS FOR FUNCTIONALITY.
In both cases, Windows tells you what to do, but for some unknown reason, people that have never used it want to complain about something that the OS itself tells how to do.
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Hell. My sister-in-law is playing the latest SIMS version, and it's plenty fast on an AMD X2 from about 8 years ago. We've upgraded the memory and the video card, and that's it.. still plays all her stuff just fine.
I know. That's the stupidest part. Just because YOU (not you, who i'm responding to.. but you know.. YOU) don't like WIndows 8 doesn't mean nobody likes it. There are a lot of people that like it a great deal.
Fact is, People just aren't buying desktop PC's much these days. That's the real problem.
You always believe what you're told? That's completely wrong, and it takes 10 seconds of googling to find out.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=MSFT+Major+Holders
All MS insiders combined only own 10% of the stock, while 65% of the stock is owned by Hedge Funds and other institutions.
That's complete bull. I've worked for a public union in the past (I'm not a fan of them, as I feel I can negotiate my salary a lot better than a union can. In fact, in the private sector I make 3x more money).
Pensions are about 40% funded by the employee, 30-50% funded from interest and investment gains, and only a small amount is matched by the employer (ie, the government, ie the taxpayers).
I *WISH* my retirement had had more than 10-20% match from my employer. That would have made things a lot more palatable. As it was, I was making less than half what the private sector was paying for the job.
The only reason I even took the job was because of the crappy economy, back in the early 2000's.
I'm sorry, how else can you interpret "Then within a few days the Public Employee unions moved in and that's the bulk of the movement that persisted"?
How can one NOT read that to mean "took over" or "commandeered"?
Do you NOT get how when you say shit like that, you are being inflammatory?
So because someone's salary is paid by tax dollars, that means that tax payers have a right to say what they can do with the money they have earned?
That's BS. Once that money goes into their paychecks, it's no longer "tax money". Whether or not they are a member of the union, they get their money and they can spend it however they choose. They choose to contribute to union dues with THEIR money.
This is crux of the issue, greedy assholes that think they can dictate what people do with their money just because they happen to work for the government.
No, it's *NOT* built into windows that gestures work from a touch pad.
The touch pad is emulating the touch screen gestures, and you enable it in the touch pad driver configuration utility.
Did you actually read that? It says the unions supported OWS, and were in agreement with it. It didn't say that OWS was commandeered by PEU's.
If you're going to cite something, make sure it actually supports your argument.
You're dreaming if you think the POTUS micro-manages the FBI.
Sure, you can find extremists on either side. The problem was that the tea party had far more extremists per capita.
Yeah, you could probably find a few bigoted OWS people, but everywhere you looked you could find bigoted TPers. Seriously, I got caught in one of those TP rallies and the number of people wearing T-Shirts of Obama with a bone through his nose was oppressive. What was worse, is they were like "What? That's not offensive..."
Why is it that a large percentage of self-proclaimed Tea Party members believe Obama was born in Kenya? Or that he's a muslim? I mean, come on.. You can't tell me you don't see this everywhere in your party.
The reason we think you're racists is because *ALL THE PRO TEA PARTY REPUBLICAN NEWS OUTLETS ARE FILLED WITH RACIST AND MYSOGENISTIC PROPOGANDA". The Bill O'reilly's and the Glen Becks and for sure the Rush Limbaughs. Come on, calling a woman a slut for 4 hours a day, day after day, hour after hour?
If you want people to take you seriously, as an objective and non-hate inducing organization, then get your god damned media mouth pieces to tow your party line...
Sadly, it's hard to clean something up when you're blocked by the house of representatives and a filibuster happy senate.
This has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Seriously. Stupid. Moronic. This "information" had to have come from Fox.
First, understand that Unions are self-funded. They're funded from dues paid by the members. They don't take anyones taxes.
Likewise, pensions are largely funded by contributions from the employees. I know, I was a member of government union. Yes, the government chips in a portion as well, but only to a certain point.
While people that are high up in the ranks may get a 6-figure pension (I doubt it though), 99% of the rest of the union employees don't. And what money the do get comes largely from their own contributions, interest and investment gains.
Fox news pretends that pensions are entirely funded by taxpayers, and that's simply not the case. Most Public employees pensions end up less than $30k per year.
http://www.seiu.org/a/publicservices/fact-check-on-public-sector-pensions.php
Finally, Public Employee Unions taking over OWS? Seriously? Where do you get this shit? Oh yeah, Fox. If you had spent any time there, you would know that this to be flat out wrong. What is the motivation exactly for a PEU to do this? There was absolutely nothing there in the interest of a PEU, either for or against.
This Is just ridiculous. and you're a fucking moron for believing it and worthy of ridicule.
Second,
I can find no such "status" on the UEFI web site. Where did you get this "information"?
Anyone can promote something.
Members vote on the specifications as to whether or not they're accepted. Members participate in the development of these standards in working groups.
So yes, they do have input, which is what the original post was claiming didn't exist.
A quick perusal of the UEFI members shows several Linux companies, and a number of hardware vendors that contribute to the Linux kernel, including Red Hat, IBM, Canonical, Cray, etc...
Why do you think the rich stepped up during the great depression? Why did the rockafellers and Getty's donate tons of money to the poor, and help out?
Because it was in their self interest to do so. Helping the poor meant improving a society that had all but collapsed. You can't make more money if nobody has any to give you.
Wow. Wow. Wow.
That article appears to be a textbook example of the old adage "Correlation does not imply causaility". It cherry picks data, then tries to imply a correlation and causation without examining the other factors that affect such data points.
And it's funny, but I work with a lot of people from India, all of them say they are better off her than at home and they all want to bring their families here (many have). If they're so happy, why are they in such a hurry to get out of India?
Crime rates in india are also hard to determine, because reporting policies are different, classification policies are different, etc.. many crimes are simply not reported in public statistics and many crimes are mis-classified.
For instance, Rape in india is almost never reported. It's widely under-reported world-wide, including in the USA, but in countries like India where it is a huge societal stigma (the woman is considered to be at fault in a rape), and where women are considered property (and thus rape is not considered possible in many situations that would otherwise be).
Then, let's not even get into the huge levels of corruption within the police and other law enforcement organizations.
Now, having said all that, India is still probably below the US for crime, but part of that is historical. People have always been poor, for centuries. There is also a relatively peaceful religion in place in much of the country, which helps, as well as the fact that most people grow up in large families that are self-policing, with people living in the same household.. that means that people have a place to live and a large number of people to pool resources.
None of that is true in the US. Plus, weapons are hard to find in India, while in the US there are more guns than people.
Yes, but part of the reform included spending money on programs to train and educate people. That part is missing from todays calls for "reform".
Yes. The solution is helping people to be gainful members of society. We all know that.
The problem is that the current right wing philosophy is cut cut cut, with no money to spend "Teaching a man to fish". He just wants to take the fish away and say "Go get a job" when there are few jobs to be had, even for those that are motivated and educated.
I'm not arguing Welfare is good, but it's a far sight better than simply throwing people to the wolves.
I get it. You don't like paying for lazy people. Fair point, neither do I.
But what happens if you stop welfare? Crime rates go through the roof. People that can't eat get desperate and start doing things they'd never do otherwise. Poor people won't just starve and go away, they WILL rise up and take a lot more from you.
People are only complacent when they have something to lose. If you give them a little something to lose, then you can control them better. Create a society of have's and have not's and eventually the have's are all destroyed by the have not's.. It's happened throughout history, and apparently people don't learn from it.
And you're an idiot.
Do you not understand the meaning of "strict"?
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Strictly-OOXML-for-Office-2013-says-Microsoft-1669264.html
Coding standards were largely developed to prevent developers from reformatting each others code in a format war.
Joe works on code, checks it in. Bill gets a task to work on that code, doesn't like Joe's formatting, so he reformats, checks that in.. Joe works on the code again, finds it's been reformatted, then he reformats it again.
This is hell when doing diff's and figuring out what changes from version to version. Coding standards help to prevent that.
Another reason for coding standards is to set a level playing field for everyone.
Windows 8 is designed to have a user account for every person. This is important, because key privacy information is tied to the user account. If you let someone use your computer account, they can buy things in the store using your credit card. They can read your email. They can do a lot of things you may not want them to do.
The recommended approach is to create a new account for any new user of the computer.
Except of course, when you first log in to Windows 8, it plays a 2 minute animation in which it TELLS YOU TO GO TO THE CORNERS FOR FUNCTIONALITY.
In both cases, Windows tells you what to do, but for some unknown reason, people that have never used it want to complain about something that the OS itself tells how to do.