This is primarily because "independents" tend to be former Democrats and Republicans that have critically thought about the party that they were raised in, which is a group that skews above average in intelligence, making the complementary set (Democrats and Republicans) skew dumb.
I was thinking of marrying my ROTH IRA (which is possibly close enough to a corporation to count as one.) and then getting divorced with my ROTH IRA keeping half my assets. Instant 50% of assets shielded from capital gains taxes.
Maybe I'd have to pair up with someone else of similar economic status for it to work, but still...
IIRC the last president that presided over job growth greater than population growth was Carter. (If I am wrong, then it was Ford)
Romney vs Obama is sort of should we be screwed in 6 years (Romney) or 10 years (Obama). Sorry, I can't get excited about either one of them. The Clinton Reagan economic policies of the middle class subsidizing the very rich will continue under either of them, and the fight is about the less than important details.
The US is more or less a single party country just like the Soviet Union was, and China is.
If I understand the situation correctly, the situation is that tiny url returns a redirect to a data URI.
IE and Chrome do not forward from an external URI to a data URI, which considering that the point of data URI's is to reduce http requests, this seems somewhat reasonable.
It seems to me that the core problem is cross domain 30x redirects being transparent in browsers.
... the Linux community lacks UI design expertise.
Let's see, the apple finder was designed by Andy Hertzfeld and Nautilus (the file manager for gnome) was designed by Andy Hertzfeld after he left Apple.
I would think that having designed the Classic Mac UI would count as UI design experience, but what do I know.
Although the trackpad is probably interacted with an awful lot and for most people it is worth a couple hundred or more to have a user input system they like.
Strangely, on the httpd server logs I have access to, the only Desktop OS I have seen increase in market share in the last six months is Linux.
OSX is down by about 20% and windows about 15%. iOS has gained to about 60% of OSX, and android is at about 45% of OSX, with Desktop Linux at about 10% of OSX. These are non-tech, non-popculture news sites primarily so which OS is in first, second, third etc, is probably meaningless, but the general trend of up and down seems to be pretty consistent with the broader usage patterns on the internet.
If my trends are at all indicative of the internet at large, I would guess that the year of the Linux Desktop could be as soon as 2016. (which I would define as overtaking OSX or going above 5%.
Personally going to OSX is like going back to FreeBSD 4.x with it's two versions of perl, one in the base for the core system and a current one for everything from ports. Personally, I don't understand why they don't just dump all the GNU tools instead of shipping dated ones, It can't be that hard to port everything from bash to tcsh.
Apples and oranges. Carmack was talking about the financial viablity of targeting games to run on desktop Linux. Valve is talking about the two platforms from a developers perspective.
Carmack as said that Valve entering the desktop Linux market changes thinks somewhat.
I tried solving this by sending the designer grid psd template files to start from.
The designer than said that it using a 960 grid, despite the only two grid lines that were hit were the far left and far right. Not a single element in the middle of the page hit a grid line.
I think I need to find a pair of tutorials:
Grid design in theory and practice: what you need to know;
and Responsive web design, why you need to make multiple mockups of the same page, and how to recycle elements from different sizes and media.
Not that they would result in any changes, but at least it would give me hope (however misguided) when starting a new project.
The press seems to be following corporate PR as far as messaging.
Microsoft would want this to be seen as Motorola v. Apple as they would still be able to claim that Google isn't backing Android, even though it seems that Google may have picked up Samsung's legal tab in Apple v. Samsung in California.
As far as Google v. Apple, the strongest defence that apple seems to have is that the patents are not really infringed upon by the products in question. Which may well be the case, as there seems to be a lot of the patent cases being tossed on those grounds.
The quick overview of the Motorola Mobility v. Apple and the results of the Samsung v. Apple case in South Korea lead me to believe that at some point all smart phones are going to be A) banned or B) there will be a massive cross licensing agreement.
You do see Motorola Mobility with a motion for an injunction against all ipads, iphones, and most apple laptops from being sold in the US for patent violation.
Apples iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, iPad, and iPad 2 are already banned from sale in South Korea due to patent infringement, and Google (the owner of Motorola Mobility) has picked only patents that seem to at first glance fit the following criteria:
Not easily overturnable.
Not subject to FRAND licensing
Not licensed to apples suppliers
It will be interesting to watch that case, as the goal seems to be to cause maximum pain, as a loss by Apple in that case would probably force them to cross license all there patents to all android phones.
It will be interesting if the press reports it as Google v. Apple or Motorola v. Apple.
It will be ironic if the courts uphold the injunction against Samsung and cites that case in granting Motorola Mobilities injunction against Apple.
We don't have cell phone bans the same reason we don't ban drive through restaurants (which are far more dangerous than cell phones or DUI) There would be too much backlash.
Hands free talking on the cell phone is as dangerous as talking with the cell phone to your ear, and less dangerous than eating that burger just picked up at the drive through. The insurance industry would probably accept a swap of legalizing DUI if every drive through restaurant was closed, as the reduced accident rate would save them some money. Some dangerous behavior is easier to ban than others.
I saw a small study that I cannot find reference to at the moment that found that talking on a cellphone (hands free or not) had a small statistically significant increase in the accident rate, while talking to a passenger resulted in a small statistically significant decrease in the accident rate.
The hypothesis was that talking with someone is a distraction, but a second set of eyes more than compensates for the distraction. Personally, I would expect that hypothesis to be shown to be correct.
Wages that cause people to feel exploited seem to have a huge effect on employee behavior.
There was a fairly believable story from a Walmart store manager that she stole things like diapers from inventory to give to employees with babies to help compensate for the wages that were to low for them to support their families.
"What was immoral about the Walmart store managers actions?" is an essay question that would probably get you forty different answers from twenty people.
Costco pays their employees well and has negligible product shrinkage, Walmart skimps on pay and has one out of nine items damaged, destroyed, stolen, or is otherwise unaccounted for.
To quote Milton Friedman "People will do what they have to do to survive." Morality is a luxury of the middle class.
The current and very recent food shortages that led to the Arab spring have little, to nothing to do with the quantity of food and a lot to do with supply chain problems, (a political motive to have one's enemies starve is a not infrequent cause, that is more or less the goal of a trade embargo, like what the US has against Cuba, poor infrastructure is another supply chain issue, as is war.) and more generally biofuels have set a minimum floor for grains as the value of the grain as ethanol, so fuel price increases directly raise the commodity price of grains.
Putting this into context of current events. An attack on Iran by Israel would cause the price of corn to double, causing massive inflationary pressure on a struggling US economy.
The idea that GMO's help alleviate world hunger is more or less a myth in the twenty first century.
The grapes in almost every bottle of wine from France and California were grown from grapes that were grafted to different root stock (There are a few bottles around that were grown without the grapes being grafted, but they are few and far between).
This has almost nothing to do with what is and is not natural and almost everything to do with the mechanics of grafting, which you don't seem to know much about.
We're in the middle of one of the worst draughts in history, and as required by law 40% of the crop has to be squished and converted into a fuel additive while people starve. It's insanity...
That law was lobbied for by the corn growers to increase their income and sales. The same people that are trying to kill this proposed law.
The idea of labeling GMO foods was first proposed by Genentech and Monsanto when they were lobbying to get GMO food approved and were touting the possible benefits of GMO food (higher in vitamins was one that I remember). The mechanisms for generating the product and produce codes already exist, they just are not being used.
The opposition to this just shows the short memory of most people with regards to political promises.
If you get approval for something that you promise people will want because it will be better, what is the harm in being required to label it?
We get used to the idea that most people are ignorant about most things, but you know what most people do? They find the most geeky scientist type person they know and ask them, "Hey should I buy this?" This works remarkably well, and people have used it for millennia , without really understanding how or why it works, just that they get by just fine relying on it.
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While you are correct, Democrats also skew dumb.
This is primarily because "independents" tend to be former Democrats and Republicans that have critically thought about the party that they were raised in, which is a group that skews above average in intelligence, making the complementary set (Democrats and Republicans) skew dumb.
I was thinking of marrying my ROTH IRA (which is possibly close enough to a corporation to count as one.) and then getting divorced with my ROTH IRA keeping half my assets. Instant 50% of assets shielded from capital gains taxes.
Maybe I'd have to pair up with someone else of similar economic status for it to work, but still...
Not coming out means staying home and not bothering to vote.
Record low turnout would not be shocking.
IIRC the last president that presided over job growth greater than population growth was Carter. (If I am wrong, then it was Ford)
Romney vs Obama is sort of should we be screwed in 6 years (Romney) or 10 years (Obama). Sorry, I can't get excited about either one of them. The Clinton Reagan economic policies of the middle class subsidizing the very rich will continue under either of them, and the fight is about the less than important details.
The US is more or less a single party country just like the Soviet Union was, and China is.
Or investors see this as the last chance to sell any quantity of stock before Nokia files the Finnish equivalent of chapter 11.
Struggling companies tend to fall on good news as people holding the stock view it as their best chance to dump it.
Nobody said. iPhones are dead this is really great. It does "X' (where "X" is something like telepathic user interface)
Depending on if you are using algebraic addition or not. 2 + 2 = 0 could also work.
You are allowed to change the rules if it makes solving the problem easier. It is one of the cool features of an artificial language like mathematics.
If I understand the situation correctly, the situation is that tiny url returns a redirect to a data URI.
IE and Chrome do not forward from an external URI to a data URI, which considering that the point of data URI's is to reduce http requests, this seems somewhat reasonable.
It seems to me that the core problem is cross domain 30x redirects being transparent in browsers.
... the Linux community lacks UI design expertise.
Let's see, the apple finder was designed by Andy Hertzfeld and Nautilus (the file manager for gnome) was designed by Andy Hertzfeld after he left Apple.
I would think that having designed the Classic Mac UI would count as UI design experience, but what do I know.
Although the trackpad is probably interacted with an awful lot and for most people it is worth a couple hundred or more to have a user input system they like.
Although IOS and Android may push osX down to number four by the end of next year.
Linus would just send in the wife.
Strangely, on the httpd server logs I have access to, the only Desktop OS I have seen increase in market share in the last six months is Linux.
OSX is down by about 20% and windows about 15%. iOS has gained to about 60% of OSX, and android is at about 45% of OSX, with Desktop Linux at about 10% of OSX. These are non-tech, non-popculture news sites primarily so which OS is in first, second, third etc, is probably meaningless, but the general trend of up and down seems to be pretty consistent with the broader usage patterns on the internet.
If my trends are at all indicative of the internet at large, I would guess that the year of the Linux Desktop could be as soon as 2016. (which I would define as overtaking OSX or going above 5%.
Personally going to OSX is like going back to FreeBSD 4.x with it's two versions of perl, one in the base for the core system and a current one for everything from ports. Personally, I don't understand why they don't just dump all the GNU tools instead of shipping dated ones, It can't be that hard to port everything from bash to tcsh.
Apples and oranges. Carmack was talking about the financial viablity of targeting games to run on desktop Linux. Valve is talking about the two platforms from a developers perspective.
Carmack as said that Valve entering the desktop Linux market changes thinks somewhat.
I tried solving this by sending the designer grid psd template files to start from.
The designer than said that it using a 960 grid, despite the only two grid lines that were hit were the far left and far right. Not a single element in the middle of the page hit a grid line.
I think I need to find a pair of tutorials:
Not that they would result in any changes, but at least it would give me hope (however misguided) when starting a new project.
The press seems to be following corporate PR as far as messaging.
Microsoft would want this to be seen as Motorola v. Apple as they would still be able to claim that Google isn't backing Android, even though it seems that Google may have picked up Samsung's legal tab in Apple v. Samsung in California.
As far as Google v. Apple, the strongest defence that apple seems to have is that the patents are not really infringed upon by the products in question. Which may well be the case, as there seems to be a lot of the patent cases being tossed on those grounds.
The quick overview of the Motorola Mobility v. Apple and the results of the Samsung v. Apple case in South Korea lead me to believe that at some point all smart phones are going to be A) banned or B) there will be a massive cross licensing agreement.
You do see Motorola Mobility with a motion for an injunction against all ipads, iphones, and most apple laptops from being sold in the US for patent violation.
Apples iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, iPad, and iPad 2 are already banned from sale in South Korea due to patent infringement, and Google (the owner of Motorola Mobility) has picked only patents that seem to at first glance fit the following criteria:
It will be interesting to watch that case, as the goal seems to be to cause maximum pain, as a loss by Apple in that case would probably force them to cross license all there patents to all android phones.
It will be interesting if the press reports it as Google v. Apple or Motorola v. Apple.
It will be ironic if the courts uphold the injunction against Samsung and cites that case in granting Motorola Mobilities injunction against Apple.
No state bans all cell phone use for all drivers, but many prohibit use by certain subsets: We don't have cell phone bans, we have you have to talk with wireless headset laws in 10 states.
We don't have cell phone bans the same reason we don't ban drive through restaurants (which are far more dangerous than cell phones or DUI) There would be too much backlash.
"No state bans all cell phone use for all drivers, but many prohibit use by certain subsets" With the subsets being school bus drivers and novice drivers.
Hands free talking on the cell phone is as dangerous as talking with the cell phone to your ear, and less dangerous than eating that burger just picked up at the drive through. The insurance industry would probably accept a swap of legalizing DUI if every drive through restaurant was closed, as the reduced accident rate would save them some money. Some dangerous behavior is easier to ban than others.
I saw a small study that I cannot find reference to at the moment that found that talking on a cellphone (hands free or not) had a small statistically significant increase in the accident rate, while talking to a passenger resulted in a small statistically significant decrease in the accident rate.
The hypothesis was that talking with someone is a distraction, but a second set of eyes more than compensates for the distraction. Personally, I would expect that hypothesis to be shown to be correct.
Wages that cause people to feel exploited seem to have a huge effect on employee behavior.
There was a fairly believable story from a Walmart store manager that she stole things like diapers from inventory to give to employees with babies to help compensate for the wages that were to low for them to support their families.
"What was immoral about the Walmart store managers actions?" is an essay question that would probably get you forty different answers from twenty people.
Costco pays their employees well and has negligible product shrinkage, Walmart skimps on pay and has one out of nine items damaged, destroyed, stolen, or is otherwise unaccounted for.
To quote Milton Friedman "People will do what they have to do to survive." Morality is a luxury of the middle class.
The current and very recent food shortages that led to the Arab spring have little, to nothing to do with the quantity of food and a lot to do with supply chain problems, (a political motive to have one's enemies starve is a not infrequent cause, that is more or less the goal of a trade embargo, like what the US has against Cuba, poor infrastructure is another supply chain issue, as is war.) and more generally biofuels have set a minimum floor for grains as the value of the grain as ethanol, so fuel price increases directly raise the commodity price of grains.
Putting this into context of current events. An attack on Iran by Israel would cause the price of corn to double, causing massive inflationary pressure on a struggling US economy.
The idea that GMO's help alleviate world hunger is more or less a myth in the twenty first century.
The grapes in almost every bottle of wine from France and California were grown from grapes that were grafted to different root stock (There are a few bottles around that were grown without the grapes being grafted, but they are few and far between).
This has almost nothing to do with what is and is not natural and almost everything to do with the mechanics of grafting, which you don't seem to know much about.
And someone is working on it as we speak, just so that they can win the patent lawsuits. (unfortunately I am probably right about this one)
We're in the middle of one of the worst draughts in history, and as required by law 40% of the crop has to be squished and converted into a fuel additive while people starve. It's insanity...
That law was lobbied for by the corn growers to increase their income and sales. The same people that are trying to kill this proposed law.
The idea of labeling GMO foods was first proposed by Genentech and Monsanto when they were lobbying to get GMO food approved and were touting the possible benefits of GMO food (higher in vitamins was one that I remember). The mechanisms for generating the product and produce codes already exist, they just are not being used.
The opposition to this just shows the short memory of most people with regards to political promises.
If you get approval for something that you promise people will want because it will be better, what is the harm in being required to label it?
We get used to the idea that most people are ignorant about most things, but you know what most people do? They find the most geeky scientist type person they know and ask them, "Hey should I buy this?" This works remarkably well, and people have used it for millennia , without really understanding how or why it works, just that they get by just fine relying on it.
Actually, horizontal gene transfer is extremely common.
Not in multicellular organisms. Unless you are defining extremely common to mean once every million years or so. (Which I can see a geologist doing.)