This will provide a nice morale boost for the nation but is not going to have lasting impact for Obama, who is now suffering through the effects of the policies he has put in place through his term in office.
Which one do you think is causing higher oil prices?
And it is a terrible memory span. We went from "drill baby drill", to "oh crap, the ocean's full of oil", to "gas is too expensive, isn't there some place where we can get more oil", to "Damn you Obama, why do the laws of supply and demand apply to the substance we absolutely refuse to do without!"
Actually, his plan was to destroy the economy by making us spend money we don't have on military operations that wouldn't solve the problem. So, yes, voting for W played right into his hands. I guess we are lucky a democrat got voted into office, so the GOP can now say "spending is bad". Of course, their plan is to cut spending by a fraction of 1%, while giving out tax breaks we can't afford, but we're at least looking in the right direction.
He should have waited until 3 months before the election. The American public have a short term memory for achievements.
But, on the bright side, the birthers are regrouping. They are trying to decide whether to claim that the long form is a fake, to demand Obama's school records so they can scrutinize every class he did and did not take and claim "OMG! He spoke to people with outrageous beliefs in college", or that he isn't eligible because one of his parents is not an American. By coming up with a solid accomplishment, right now, he just makes this circus look even more silly. Had they been given six months to get their story straight and start repeating any one of these lies, Obama would have had a real problem on his hands.
Chances are that you would be prosecuted for sexual harassment if you did such a thing.
Only in America could a sexual harassment complaint begin:
so i was feeling his sack when he started making unwanted sexual advances. I told him, "hey buddy, let's keep it strictly professional. I don't know what kind of crazy stuff you're into, but I just want to stick my finger up your ass and go home. It's been a long day"
Drugs are indeed big business. The only way to fight them is to legalise all drugs. Make them legal, registered, accountable, clean and let big pharma run the production side. Those big businesses will run the cartels to bankruptcy within a few short years.
Either that or they'll hire the cartels to handle the supply route. Either way, the problems we see here are more from the prohibition of drugs, than from the drugs themselves.
This is what 8 years of Bush bought us folks, a Supreme Court on the take (look it up, it's a fact that Clarance Thomas took bribes). Hopefully a few of 'em 'll retire while the Dems are in and Obama'll man up and put some liberals in.
No he won't. He'll compromise and put a moderate republican in. We'll be lucky if the compromise isn't "dig up Reagan, set him on Ron Paul's lap, and pretend you don't see Paul's lips moving when 'Reagan' talks"
I'm slightly torn on this. On the one side, this means that there won't be ridiculous class action settlements where the class members get a $5 coupon towards future purchases while the lawyers get millions of dollars. On the other side, it effectively removes the only real consumer protection from wide spread practices.
I'd have to say, I'm leaning more towards it being a bad thing.
Uh, yeah. Class action suits suck, but in some cases they're all you have. This decision says you don't even have that.
They can. And I would recommend you read fuzzyfuzzyfungus' link. Al Franken proposed a bill placing limits on what companies could arbitrate, which did pass, with GOP opposition. The bill stated that the Government cannot hire contractors that require arbitration in cases of rape, sexual harassment, discrimination, etc.
So, we don't want the government spending exorbitant amounts of money, but when they start to make changes we criticize them?
You must be new here.
If the U.S. Government suddenly announced it was eliminating 10,000 unnecessary bureaucratic jobs, Slashdotters would complain about how much of our tax money it was going to cost to do that.
Exactly. It would cost thousands to print the paperwork. We would have to train the remaining employees to do the jobs of those let go. Managers would have to spend time trying to determine who we need the least and how best to reorganize without him/her. And people would be reimbursed for accumulated vacation, sick time, sometimes offered early retirement, and possibly even given a severance package.
I would be surprised if this could be done for only $2,000 per person, but, I'm sure there would be a few politicians willing to say something like "we spent 20 million dollars trying to get rid of a few sysadmins in your state, and this is Obama's idea of cost savings"
I am not quite sure I got all that, but here is how I see it...
That was the old way of doing things. Now that our calculators and typewriters have been replaced by computers, everything is different and we need to rethink every principal that ever hindered business.
(Of course, it helps that the gilded age was so long ago that we now see it as a utopia that has never been tried.)
People would laugh at the idea of mandatory age-ratings on books
Usually true, but not for pornographic novels and magazines.
'Self-regulation' of this kind is bad precisely because it does work and can't be eliminated overnight through the courts.
But it only worked for this industry. It isn't working as well for the RIAA or the MPAA. Of course, it also isn't working for illegal drugs, alcohol or tobacco, either.
I think it would be interesting to see why it is working here, and here only. I suspect that constant pressure to regulate, and the fact that most games are often sold at box stores that have no problem with censorship is one thing making this system work.
Let's be honest...this story isn't about Microsoft retiring XP. It's about Microsoft retiring IE6. It's about Microsoft creating a programming platform that was deliberately incompatible with other browsers to encourage the development of code that locked people into using Microsoft. Only it worked so well that people are still locked into that specific Microsoft platform and newer versions or Microsoft's own product have been similarly locked out. And every time Microsoft tries to force them into upgrading, there's a near revolt from some of Microsoft's largest customers.
The lesson here isn't in using software that belongs to someone else. As you've mentioned, companies stop supporting versions of software, but there's almost always a fairly simple upgrade path. The lesson is to avoid coding to proprietary interfaces as much as possible. Standards aren't just about documentation and widespread adoption...they're also about the ability to switch vendors and versions when necessary. This whole mess is a result of so many primarily in-house developers forgetting that and creating applications that only work with IE6.
Around 1 G seems to be the limit for skilled braking with performance tires and a great road surface.
So when a parachute pops out of a drag racer, what is the Gs on that? (I'm half joking, but I would like to know if there is a ridiculous scenario this is comparable to)
Sorry if I'm dumbing it down too much, but are you arguing that Grid computing is a specific implementation to a technical problem, while cloud computing is a marketing solution to a business problem?
No, he's currently busy filing a patent on Slashdot's new SpeedDupe(TM) technology. Then he'll sue Twitter for millions, because their users have memories just as short as his.
Then he can sue them again. If someone does complain, he can say "this isn't double jeopardy, I'm just retweeting the last suit".
I can speak for WinMo 7, but the problem with WinMo 6 was that it was basically windows 95, shrunk down to a sub-VGA resolution. You couldn't do jack without a stylus on my Omnia. In fact, you couldn't even find a WMP skins* that would give the media player decently sized buttons (decently sized meaning that you could do simple things, like pause podcasts without accidentally pressing the fast forward or rewind buttons, turn the volume up or down, etc, without using a stylus). You can't just shrink the windows desktop down to 1/5th it's normal size, and expect it to be competitive with iOS and android...
Then there's the app support. WinMo is technically more open than Apple, but finding apps for it was a pain. Google is your marketplace, nothing is free (yes, I am cheap. I want to try an app, and see if it will work on my phone before deciding whether to buy), and you never know what will work on your phone. Android has a bit of that last problem going on, but I have never seen it on my Droid 2. I would say that about half the apps I tried on my Omnia didn't work.
As for bloat, I don't know if there were any performance issues, because the phone pretty supported an email client, an office suite, and two years of disappointment. I am surprised Android performs so well, considering that it is java apps on a 1Ghz processor.
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This will provide a nice morale boost for the nation but is not going to have lasting impact for Obama, who is now suffering through the effects of the policies he has put in place through his term in office.
Which one do you think is causing higher oil prices?
And it is a terrible memory span. We went from "drill baby drill", to "oh crap, the ocean's full of oil", to "gas is too expensive, isn't there some place where we can get more oil", to "Damn you Obama, why do the laws of supply and demand apply to the substance we absolutely refuse to do without!"
Actually, his plan was to destroy the economy by making us spend money we don't have on military operations that wouldn't solve the problem. So, yes, voting for W played right into his hands. I guess we are lucky a democrat got voted into office, so the GOP can now say "spending is bad". Of course, their plan is to cut spending by a fraction of 1%, while giving out tax breaks we can't afford, but we're at least looking in the right direction.
He should have waited until 3 months before the election. The American public have a short term memory for achievements.
But, on the bright side, the birthers are regrouping. They are trying to decide whether to claim that the long form is a fake, to demand Obama's school records so they can scrutinize every class he did and did not take and claim "OMG! He spoke to people with outrageous beliefs in college", or that he isn't eligible because one of his parents is not an American. By coming up with a solid accomplishment, right now, he just makes this circus look even more silly. Had they been given six months to get their story straight and start repeating any one of these lies, Obama would have had a real problem on his hands.
Are you a deather now?
Crap! Obama does have death panels...They just take the whole "denying coverage" thing a little too far.
Chances are that you would be prosecuted for sexual harassment if you did such a thing.
Only in America could a sexual harassment complaint begin:
so i was feeling his sack when he started making unwanted sexual advances. I told him, "hey buddy, let's keep it strictly professional. I don't know what kind of crazy stuff you're into, but I just want to stick my finger up your ass and go home. It's been a long day"
You just like getting your balls grabbed, don't you?
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Slashdot is strange at times.
Drugs are indeed big business. The only way to fight them is to legalise all drugs. Make them legal, registered, accountable, clean and let big pharma run the production side. Those big businesses will run the cartels to bankruptcy within a few short years.
Either that or they'll hire the cartels to handle the supply route. Either way, the problems we see here are more from the prohibition of drugs, than from the drugs themselves.
Do you think that just by killing bin laden Al Queda will just magically vanish?
That's how it works in video games. I'm pretty sure that the terrorists just disappeared, leaving magical coins on their monkey bars.
...because Congress will step in and provide rigorous consumer protection laws to fill in any unfairness in these kinds of agreements.
Good one! Right after they balance the budget, cut taxes, and give free medicare to all citizens!
This is what 8 years of Bush bought us folks, a Supreme Court on the take (look it up, it's a fact that Clarance Thomas took bribes). Hopefully a few of 'em 'll retire while the Dems are in and Obama'll man up and put some liberals in.
No he won't. He'll compromise and put a moderate republican in. We'll be lucky if the compromise isn't "dig up Reagan, set him on Ron Paul's lap, and pretend you don't see Paul's lips moving when 'Reagan' talks"
I'm slightly torn on this. On the one side, this means that there won't be ridiculous class action settlements where the class members get a $5 coupon towards future purchases while the lawyers get millions of dollars. On the other side, it effectively removes the only real consumer protection from wide spread practices.
I'd have to say, I'm leaning more towards it being a bad thing.
Uh, yeah. Class action suits suck, but in some cases they're all you have. This decision says you don't even have that.
They can. And I would recommend you read fuzzyfuzzyfungus' link. Al Franken proposed a bill placing limits on what companies could arbitrate, which did pass, with GOP opposition. The bill stated that the Government cannot hire contractors that require arbitration in cases of rape, sexual harassment, discrimination, etc.
So, we don't want the government spending exorbitant amounts of money, but when they start to make changes we criticize them?
You must be new here.
If the U.S. Government suddenly announced it was eliminating 10,000 unnecessary bureaucratic jobs, Slashdotters would complain about how much of our tax money it was going to cost to do that.
Exactly. It would cost thousands to print the paperwork. We would have to train the remaining employees to do the jobs of those let go. Managers would have to spend time trying to determine who we need the least and how best to reorganize without him/her. And people would be reimbursed for accumulated vacation, sick time, sometimes offered early retirement, and possibly even given a severance package.
I would be surprised if this could be done for only $2,000 per person, but, I'm sure there would be a few politicians willing to say something like "we spent 20 million dollars trying to get rid of a few sysadmins in your state, and this is Obama's idea of cost savings"
http://www.dailykos.com/ . It is a liberal blog. I don't know much more than that. (I have never read it. I've only seen the founder on talk shows).
"browser if their using IE6" in the original post is incorrect. It should be 'they are'.
It should be firefox!
I am not quite sure I got all that, but here is how I see it...
That was the old way of doing things. Now that our calculators and typewriters have been replaced by computers, everything is different and we need to rethink every principal that ever hindered business.
(Of course, it helps that the gilded age was so long ago that we now see it as a utopia that has never been tried.)
People would laugh at the idea of mandatory age-ratings on books
Usually true, but not for pornographic novels and magazines.
'Self-regulation' of this kind is bad precisely because it does work and can't be eliminated overnight through the courts.
But it only worked for this industry. It isn't working as well for the RIAA or the MPAA. Of course, it also isn't working for illegal drugs, alcohol or tobacco, either.
I think it would be interesting to see why it is working here, and here only. I suspect that constant pressure to regulate, and the fact that most games are often sold at box stores that have no problem with censorship is one thing making this system work.
Let's be honest...this story isn't about Microsoft retiring XP. It's about Microsoft retiring IE6. It's about Microsoft creating a programming platform that was deliberately incompatible with other browsers to encourage the development of code that locked people into using Microsoft. Only it worked so well that people are still locked into that specific Microsoft platform and newer versions or Microsoft's own product have been similarly locked out. And every time Microsoft tries to force them into upgrading, there's a near revolt from some of Microsoft's largest customers.
The lesson here isn't in using software that belongs to someone else. As you've mentioned, companies stop supporting versions of software, but there's almost always a fairly simple upgrade path. The lesson is to avoid coding to proprietary interfaces as much as possible. Standards aren't just about documentation and widespread adoption...they're also about the ability to switch vendors and versions when necessary. This whole mess is a result of so many primarily in-house developers forgetting that and creating applications that only work with IE6.
Mod Parent up.
Obviously no developers at Microsoft are still running XP to test it...
I don't know if that was a joke, but they still support XP, so someone obviously must still have an XP test system.
Just to add some points of comparison:
Normal hard braking is about 0.4 Gs.
Skilled hard braking is around 0.7 Gs.
Around 1 G seems to be the limit for skilled braking with performance tires and a great road surface.
So when a parachute pops out of a drag racer, what is the Gs on that? (I'm half joking, but I would like to know if there is a ridiculous scenario this is comparable to)
Sorry if I'm dumbing it down too much, but are you arguing that Grid computing is a specific implementation to a technical problem, while cloud computing is a marketing solution to a business problem?
The US don't like anything French it seems (except the Status of Liberty), so SI units get refused a VISA ?
The status of liberty is "endangered", by the way...
No, he's currently busy filing a patent on Slashdot's new SpeedDupe(TM) technology. Then he'll sue Twitter for millions, because their users have memories just as short as his.
Then he can sue them again. If someone does complain, he can say "this isn't double jeopardy, I'm just retweeting the last suit".
I can speak for WinMo 7, but the problem with WinMo 6 was that it was basically windows 95, shrunk down to a sub-VGA resolution. You couldn't do jack without a stylus on my Omnia. In fact, you couldn't even find a WMP skins* that would give the media player decently sized buttons (decently sized meaning that you could do simple things, like pause podcasts without accidentally pressing the fast forward or rewind buttons, turn the volume up or down, etc, without using a stylus). You can't just shrink the windows desktop down to 1/5th it's normal size, and expect it to be competitive with iOS and android...
Then there's the app support. WinMo is technically more open than Apple, but finding apps for it was a pain. Google is your marketplace, nothing is free (yes, I am cheap. I want to try an app, and see if it will work on my phone before deciding whether to buy), and you never know what will work on your phone. Android has a bit of that last problem going on, but I have never seen it on my Droid 2. I would say that about half the apps I tried on my Omnia didn't work.
As for bloat, I don't know if there were any performance issues, because the phone pretty supported an email client, an office suite, and two years of disappointment. I am surprised Android performs so well, considering that it is java apps on a 1Ghz processor.