In WWI, the US really had no business getting involved or picking sides, and its involvement was a part of Woodrow Wilson's interventionist policies, which was the ancestor of yesterday's neocon policies of Clinton/Bush/Obama. WWI was really the activation of alliances in Europe drawn up along a combination of ethnic and political lines - Serbia + Russia + France + Belgium + UK + myriad other countries along its fringes vs Austria-Hungary + Germany + Bulgaria + Turkey. The US had the lend-lease policy w/ UK and Wilson was busy selling armaments to one of the parties in the war - the Allies, so if you were Germany, that was obviously an act of war. The trigger that had the US join in was the German sinking of US ships carrying weapons to the allies, but it takes a completely subjective view of that to state that the US was provoked into joining the war. The US joined a war it had no business being involved in: there were no national interests involved, nor for that matter, even humanitarian interests: Kaiser Wilhelm II was not remotely similar to Hitler!
What you are describing is more WWII - the US was in no mood to join the war, and didn't. There was an anti-war movement within the US that saw to it. However, once Pearl Harbor happened, and both Germany & Japan declared war on the US, it wasn't up to FDR at all.
If it weren't for Russia we'd be Germans.
And it would had been great!
Where are you from - America or Europe? If the latter, you are right. If the former, then no: it would have been impossible for the Wehrmacht to invade the mainland US, particularly w/ them being under constant pressure to keep Europe reined in.
Not so much a 'revenge' thing as much as a 'minding one's own business' thing. In other words, if you seek out details of my salary, then I should automatically get similar details on yours, w/o having to even ask. As long as the requester follows the golden rule, everything is fine!
Is it that low if you consider only the habitable parts, such as the south of the country? Most of the north is just mountains or snow. I'm assuming not much of the country's population lives north of Trondheim, which would be what - some 60% of that country's area?
Not exactly. If I bought an Office 2013 standard, I didn't automatically get an Office 2016 unless I separately purchased it. Granted, w/ the 365, I keep paying, but I do have the choice of upgrading or not w/ that one
I followed his text editor recommendation link, and it had a blog post somewhere w/ a link to a Dilbert strip that has Wally face to face w/ a Dennis Ritchie look-alike who's a Unix user
Which begs the question - which editor does he recommend? vim? evil? Which?
You've obviously missed the stories of some 40 people in the country who happen to be named not just Donald, or not just Trump, but Donald Trump. Not including his son & grandson.
THIS!!! I'm more often than not happy to treat the salaries of others as none of my own business. Likewise, what I make or spend is nobody else's either. I just need to be making enough to be prosperous myself.
People who bitch about how much CEOs make overlook the fact that looting those guys is not gonna increase their net pay.
Population densities have a lot to do w/ a sense of community. Countries like Japan & Norway have that b'cos there are more people per square mile, and the entire country (aside from the mountains) are populated. In the US, due to things being much more spread out, there is more rugged individualism out there.
It has nothing to do w/ your SJW narrative of how the evil US came about!
I.e. if I think my neighbors are spending too much money and want to check what they have declared, they will immediately be told that I did so.
Terje
How about doing it this way - the moment you checked up on anybody's salary, not only would they be notified that you looked it up, they would also as a bonus be told what you earn! And let them do whatever they like w/ that information
As oil prices keep declining, I doubt that those pension funds can be sustained. Speaking of which, why can't Norway be the energy supplier to the Three Seas countries from Poland to Ukraine to Bulgaria - countries that want to stop being blackmailed by Moscow?
On your third point, killing off the RISC chips w/ Itanium was not Intel's 'fault', but that of the various lemmings that blindly followed it. HP I can understand, since it started off as their project to do a one-up on RISC by mainstreaming VLIW, so I don't blame them for putting PA-RISC to pasture.
I do however blame Compaq, which killed off the Alpha in favor of Itanic, even to the extent of migrating VAX to this, which made no sense. HP could not be expected to support the Alpha once they acquired Compaq, since they already had PA-RISC which was going over to Intel. But the other guys - SGI - had to be smoking something to abandon MIPS for Itanium. Same for Cray. Sun didn't jump ship, but once they became Oracle, they allowed the SPARC to go into obscurity. And IBM still lives in a fantasy land where they think Power will have a niche, given how they allowed PowerPC to wither on the vine vis a vis Apple: Intel 64 has already made deep inroads into the supercomputing realm.
Thanks for explaining this. Qualcomm does appear to be overreaching. Why would a contract manufacturer like Foxconn have to pay licenses for something they're making for someone else who holds a license? At a chip level, I would understand - any fabs that Qualcomm uses to manufacture their cellular modems would have to be a licensee to make it in the first place, but Foxconn assembles those PCBs & makes phones. In what way does Foxconn use those patents that are already built into the parts that it's assembling?
And my observations on Intel remain - they should be one of the fabs Qualcomm uses, rather than make their own modem chips that break compatibility w/ previous gen CDMAs
...is Qualcomm trying to get Apple or anybody to buy? Apple uses its own CPUs in iPhones & iPads, but uses either Intel's or Qualcomm's cellular modem chips. If they use the latter, they have one advantage: they can use it for Verizon, Sprint or other legacy CDMA carriers whose legacy 2G networks in areas lacking 4G or even 3G are CDMA. If they use Intel's cellular modems, then they can sell it to the rest of the world's GSM markets, whose legacy networks are GSM and where Qualcomm patents are not involved. So what exactly is the Qualcomm-Apple spat about? Is Qualcomm trying to get Apple to use Dragonball CPUs instead of the latter's own A line of CPUs?
As for Intel, why don't they simply license Qualcomm's technology, or have an agreement w/ Qualcomm where Intel would be at liberty to make chips using Qualcomm patents, and in return, they fab chips for Qualcomm? Right now, from what I understand, Qualcomm uses TSMC & Samsung, but they could use Intel too as a fab, and get some of the most advanced processes, and the advantages that come w/ it. It's not like the 2 compete head to head, the way Intel & AMD do.
I agree. However, the only reason to use Outlook is if one happens to have a Microsoft Exchange based messaging server, along w/ a need to integrate w/ an Office's e-mail setup. Otherwise, Thunderbird/Fossamail works just fine. For RSS, I just use FireFox and stage the feeds from the bookmarks toolbar
I happen to prefer Calligra to LibreOffice, but one thing I'd like to know: how is LibreOffice's spreadsheet, presentation & database (Access-like) software? From everything I've heard, only Word is up to par, but the other things in the package are sadly wanting
Because they practically force MS-Cloud down your throat. They know you need MS-Office to be compatible with all your existing MS documents, yet you can't go to another vendor if you want reasonable desktop pricing.
No, they don't. One still has the option of using their normal Office software.
Two advantages of the subscription model, the way they've designed it:
- Everytime there is a change to the software version, like say Office 2013 to 2016, under a subscription model, one will automatically get the newer version, w/o having to buy a new license of the software. Upgrade rights are built in. If one doesn't want that, yeah, go w/ the traditional box.
- Office 365 comes w/ up to 5 OneDrive accounts of 1TB each, each associated w/ an Outlook.com affiliated account (outlook.com, live.com, hotmail.com) which makes backups handy
However, one is still at liberty to not buy the subscription version
No, you only have to pay for leaving if it's within the 2 year window. My payment is for the discounted amount that is spread out over 2 years. The phone has 128GB of storage, not 32GB. I don't need upgrades when the phone has everything I need
Nice that adblockers knock that garbage out. Drudge, Google and others...(I keep/. white listed though).
That's the point. I actually hate all 3 - Google, Apple & Microsoft - forcefeeding us news from their favorite sources - be it the Guardian (why is that relevant to the US? And if them, why not RT or JPost?) or NYT or WPost! Let me pick what I wanna read - be it someone's WordPress feed or someone's website, do an RSS on that, and let me take over.
These guys trying to be media companies - we already see that w/ Comcast and NBC, and Amazon and Washington Post. I'm not interested in what these companies have, so let me choose!
Why not let any entity secede, be it UK from EU (Brexit), Scotland or Wales from UK, Catalonia from Spain, Flanders & Waloonia from Belgium, and so on? In the case of Catalonia, would they be leaving just Spain, or the EU as well?
Do people actually need the 3 hrs to eat, or to get other work done, like post office, bank, et al? My typical lunch break is half an hour, but on occasions that I need to do home chores, such as going to the post office or bank or so on, I occasionally take 2 hrs.
My experience is mixed. On my iPod Touch, it topped off at iOS 4.3, and then I couldn't even get app store apps. Although in its defense, it was limited in its storage, so it would probably not have been a good idea to upgrade it beyond that.
OTOH, my iPhone 5s was upgradable all the way up to 11, while my iPad Mini 1 up to 10.something. Again, more to do w/ storage. Right now, both my iToys have 128GB of storage, so I should be good for the foreseeable future on those.
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In WWI, the US really had no business getting involved or picking sides, and its involvement was a part of Woodrow Wilson's interventionist policies, which was the ancestor of yesterday's neocon policies of Clinton/Bush/Obama. WWI was really the activation of alliances in Europe drawn up along a combination of ethnic and political lines - Serbia + Russia + France + Belgium + UK + myriad other countries along its fringes vs Austria-Hungary + Germany + Bulgaria + Turkey. The US had the lend-lease policy w/ UK and Wilson was busy selling armaments to one of the parties in the war - the Allies, so if you were Germany, that was obviously an act of war. The trigger that had the US join in was the German sinking of US ships carrying weapons to the allies, but it takes a completely subjective view of that to state that the US was provoked into joining the war. The US joined a war it had no business being involved in: there were no national interests involved, nor for that matter, even humanitarian interests: Kaiser Wilhelm II was not remotely similar to Hitler!
What you are describing is more WWII - the US was in no mood to join the war, and didn't. There was an anti-war movement within the US that saw to it. However, once Pearl Harbor happened, and both Germany & Japan declared war on the US, it wasn't up to FDR at all.
If it weren't for Russia we'd be Germans. And it would had been great!
Where are you from - America or Europe? If the latter, you are right. If the former, then no: it would have been impossible for the Wehrmacht to invade the mainland US, particularly w/ them being under constant pressure to keep Europe reined in.
Not so much a 'revenge' thing as much as a 'minding one's own business' thing. In other words, if you seek out details of my salary, then I should automatically get similar details on yours, w/o having to even ask. As long as the requester follows the golden rule, everything is fine!
Is it that low if you consider only the habitable parts, such as the south of the country? Most of the north is just mountains or snow. I'm assuming not much of the country's population lives north of Trondheim, which would be what - some 60% of that country's area?
Translation: they are not as happy to help those bent on not just leeching off their generosity, but raping them as well
Not exactly. If I bought an Office 2013 standard, I didn't automatically get an Office 2016 unless I separately purchased it. Granted, w/ the 365, I keep paying, but I do have the choice of upgrading or not w/ that one
I followed his text editor recommendation link, and it had a blog post somewhere w/ a link to a Dilbert strip that has Wally face to face w/ a Dennis Ritchie look-alike who's a Unix user
Which begs the question - which editor does he recommend? vim? evil? Which?
You've obviously missed the stories of some 40 people in the country who happen to be named not just Donald, or not just Trump, but Donald Trump. Not including his son & grandson.
THIS!!! I'm more often than not happy to treat the salaries of others as none of my own business. Likewise, what I make or spend is nobody else's either. I just need to be making enough to be prosperous myself.
People who bitch about how much CEOs make overlook the fact that looting those guys is not gonna increase their net pay.
Population densities have a lot to do w/ a sense of community. Countries like Japan & Norway have that b'cos there are more people per square mile, and the entire country (aside from the mountains) are populated. In the US, due to things being much more spread out, there is more rugged individualism out there.
It has nothing to do w/ your SJW narrative of how the evil US came about!
I.e. if I think my neighbors are spending too much money and want to check what they have declared, they will immediately be told that I did so.
Terje
How about doing it this way - the moment you checked up on anybody's salary, not only would they be notified that you looked it up, they would also as a bonus be told what you earn! And let them do whatever they like w/ that information
As oil prices keep declining, I doubt that those pension funds can be sustained. Speaking of which, why can't Norway be the energy supplier to the Three Seas countries from Poland to Ukraine to Bulgaria - countries that want to stop being blackmailed by Moscow?
On your third point, killing off the RISC chips w/ Itanium was not Intel's 'fault', but that of the various lemmings that blindly followed it. HP I can understand, since it started off as their project to do a one-up on RISC by mainstreaming VLIW, so I don't blame them for putting PA-RISC to pasture.
I do however blame Compaq, which killed off the Alpha in favor of Itanic, even to the extent of migrating VAX to this, which made no sense. HP could not be expected to support the Alpha once they acquired Compaq, since they already had PA-RISC which was going over to Intel. But the other guys - SGI - had to be smoking something to abandon MIPS for Itanium. Same for Cray. Sun didn't jump ship, but once they became Oracle, they allowed the SPARC to go into obscurity. And IBM still lives in a fantasy land where they think Power will have a niche, given how they allowed PowerPC to wither on the vine vis a vis Apple: Intel 64 has already made deep inroads into the supercomputing realm.
Thanks for explaining this. Qualcomm does appear to be overreaching. Why would a contract manufacturer like Foxconn have to pay licenses for something they're making for someone else who holds a license? At a chip level, I would understand - any fabs that Qualcomm uses to manufacture their cellular modems would have to be a licensee to make it in the first place, but Foxconn assembles those PCBs & makes phones. In what way does Foxconn use those patents that are already built into the parts that it's assembling?
And my observations on Intel remain - they should be one of the fabs Qualcomm uses, rather than make their own modem chips that break compatibility w/ previous gen CDMAs
...is Qualcomm trying to get Apple or anybody to buy? Apple uses its own CPUs in iPhones & iPads, but uses either Intel's or Qualcomm's cellular modem chips. If they use the latter, they have one advantage: they can use it for Verizon, Sprint or other legacy CDMA carriers whose legacy 2G networks in areas lacking 4G or even 3G are CDMA. If they use Intel's cellular modems, then they can sell it to the rest of the world's GSM markets, whose legacy networks are GSM and where Qualcomm patents are not involved. So what exactly is the Qualcomm-Apple spat about? Is Qualcomm trying to get Apple to use Dragonball CPUs instead of the latter's own A line of CPUs?
As for Intel, why don't they simply license Qualcomm's technology, or have an agreement w/ Qualcomm where Intel would be at liberty to make chips using Qualcomm patents, and in return, they fab chips for Qualcomm? Right now, from what I understand, Qualcomm uses TSMC & Samsung, but they could use Intel too as a fab, and get some of the most advanced processes, and the advantages that come w/ it. It's not like the 2 compete head to head, the way Intel & AMD do.
I agree. However, the only reason to use Outlook is if one happens to have a Microsoft Exchange based messaging server, along w/ a need to integrate w/ an Office's e-mail setup. Otherwise, Thunderbird/Fossamail works just fine. For RSS, I just use FireFox and stage the feeds from the bookmarks toolbar
I happen to prefer Calligra to LibreOffice, but one thing I'd like to know: how is LibreOffice's spreadsheet, presentation & database (Access-like) software? From everything I've heard, only Word is up to par, but the other things in the package are sadly wanting
Because they practically force MS-Cloud down your throat. They know you need MS-Office to be compatible with all your existing MS documents, yet you can't go to another vendor if you want reasonable desktop pricing.
No, they don't. One still has the option of using their normal Office software.
Two advantages of the subscription model, the way they've designed it:
- Everytime there is a change to the software version, like say Office 2013 to 2016, under a subscription model, one will automatically get the newer version, w/o having to buy a new license of the software. Upgrade rights are built in. If one doesn't want that, yeah, go w/ the traditional box.
- Office 365 comes w/ up to 5 OneDrive accounts of 1TB each, each associated w/ an Outlook.com affiliated account (outlook.com, live.com, hotmail.com) which makes backups handy
However, one is still at liberty to not buy the subscription version
No, you only have to pay for leaving if it's within the 2 year window. My payment is for the discounted amount that is spread out over 2 years. The phone has 128GB of storage, not 32GB. I don't need upgrades when the phone has everything I need
Nice that adblockers knock that garbage out. Drudge, Google and others...(I keep /. white listed though).
That's the point. I actually hate all 3 - Google, Apple & Microsoft - forcefeeding us news from their favorite sources - be it the Guardian (why is that relevant to the US? And if them, why not RT or JPost?) or NYT or WPost! Let me pick what I wanna read - be it someone's WordPress feed or someone's website, do an RSS on that, and let me take over.
These guys trying to be media companies - we already see that w/ Comcast and NBC, and Amazon and Washington Post. I'm not interested in what these companies have, so let me choose!
Why not let any entity secede, be it UK from EU (Brexit), Scotland or Wales from UK, Catalonia from Spain, Flanders & Waloonia from Belgium, and so on? In the case of Catalonia, would they be leaving just Spain, or the EU as well?
Do people actually need the 3 hrs to eat, or to get other work done, like post office, bank, et al? My typical lunch break is half an hour, but on occasions that I need to do home chores, such as going to the post office or bank or so on, I occasionally take 2 hrs.
Pretty good point. I know I've had the last of my Windows laptops
For older CPUs, or older architectures, like PowerPC?
My experience is mixed. On my iPod Touch, it topped off at iOS 4.3, and then I couldn't even get app store apps. Although in its defense, it was limited in its storage, so it would probably not have been a good idea to upgrade it beyond that.
OTOH, my iPhone 5s was upgradable all the way up to 11, while my iPad Mini 1 up to 10.something. Again, more to do w/ storage. Right now, both my iToys have 128GB of storage, so I should be good for the foreseeable future on those.