You are full of shit. What you are referencing is called gerrymandering and it is not the same. Gerrymandering is redistricting such that you shove all of the other party's voting block into one area as much as possible to make their popular vote as least effective as possible, allowing you to get more of your own guys into the house of representatives. It has nothing to do with the straight up disenfranchising of voters i.e. putting laws in place to purposefully get less people to vote, such as requiring id, restricting means by which to register and purging valid voters from the registry.
We have had a wave of voter ID laws in swing states by Republicans that clearly disproportionately voting blocks that tend to vote Democrat. We had Republicans attempting to allow early voting for Republican counties in Ohio but not for urban counties that vote overwhelmingly Democrat. This is isn't typical gerrymandering and there is no whitewashing it. All of the Voter ID laws are to prevent a crime that is less frequent than the rate that people get struck by lightning in those same states. Republicans are doing it, Democrats aren't. If they were Fox News would be all over that shit.
As for your third line are you one of the members of the Republican party that thinks the Universe was created in January of 2008? Because you are completely fucking lost to reality and have the attention span of a goldfish if you think Republicans give two shits about the national debt for any reason other than a Democrat is in the White House.
Sounds about right. I imagine many many times that number get infected every year though. To remain infected and a functioning part of the botnet you need it to stay on the internet, not have it's antivirus updated, not have security updates for the OS, not fall into disuse, not taken in for service and still work without the owner's knowledge that it is infected.
What kind of person would allow those conditions to occur? Grandma probably does, somebody probably set up the computer for her, she doesn't know how fast it should be, doesn't update the OS or antivirus, probably doesn't know how to and since it will still connect to facebook and let her play bejeweled, she doesn't do anything about it.
So take the number of primary personal computing devices in the first world, take only the very tech incompetent but frequent users, from those take the ones with out of date operating systems, then keep only the ones that stay connected to the internet all the time and then only the ones that will not take those computers to be fixed. The low hanging fruit disappear very quickly. While there are way way more than 1.2 million people who will get a device infected each year, chances are they don't leave them infected for very long, so the retention rate for the botnet is probably only around 1% per year if not less.
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Stop quoting that god damn article. It's over-referenced and the article title isn't even a leading question, it's not even a question at all, it's a question in the body on the text. You are not clever.
Congratulations are the most inappropriate use of lmgtfy ever. It was neither an easily derivable search term the article poster could have used themselves without prior knowledge nor was it in fact, the use case that the poster was talking about.
http://www.ted.com/talks/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix.html
The problem with Apple, and many other company's patent wars is that they are trying to fight over ownership of ideas instead of implementation. Coming up with an idea that is simply one step further than every technology it is built upon and then saying "We made this all by ourselves its off limits to anyone else, it's ours now" is total bullshit and it completely disregards the fact that anyone working in a technology field is standing on the shoulders of everyone who came before them. Patent laws work to maintain the current monopolies and do nothing to promote innovation. Even the nature of the question is inherently biased as it frames it in the context of copying from Apply only, as if Apple never did the exact same fucking thing many times previously (like hell Apple invented multi-touch, they didn't even come up with the name).
If you think Ryan is some sort of deficit hawk looking out for the nation's debt and deficit, you haven't seen his voting record over the last ten years.
Every branch of government and every government funded project wastes money. Every. Single. One. Are we to conclude that we should just shutdown all government because it isn't 100% efficient with its cash flow? Given the potential for huge scientific advances, the interest such projects can invoke in our children, and the relatively paltry amount of spending in comparison to other government agencies and departments, like DARPA and the DoD, we can easily justify absorbing the budget overflow.
That and the fact that a lot of games that came out shortly after Vista required DirectX 10, which XP did not support, that's the only reason I even bothered using my free student copy.
Perhaps you should leave out the assumption that anyone mocking of someone selling the depiction of Jesus on a grilled cheese sandwich is an atheist and a liberal and purposefully bashing conservatives before you express the holier than thou brand of sarcasm.
Just because someone has a greater stake in an issue does not mean they are more qualified to make a decision. Religious cranks being at the top was a problem for a very long time and still is somewhat of an issue today (see: all of fucking history), that's why we have these thing called the constitution and the democratic process. They may not be perfect but over the last few centuries they've had a pretty good track record compared to the last few millenia.
While the outrage is a little over the top, the issue is that Microsoft can't implement their own cloud storage solution as an explorer add on. When I install the Dropbox application to my Linux machine, my Dropbox folders show up as folders in my user directory even though Dropbox didn't create my desktop environment because the Filesystem implementation for Linux is exposed to them. Microsoft on the other hand can't implement the same integration for Windows, their own operating system and desktop environment, for SkyDrive, their own cloud storage solution.
Because one can use the illusion of popularity to spark interest from actual twitter users. From there spread the same information you do through campaign ads and hopefully it has a not insignificant impact. Given how much Republicans are spending per voter in these elections it's probably as cost efficient for them once other ad markets are saturated.
The raspberry pi is an actual low cost computing device. Most phones are way more expensive but the cost is hidden because it is subsidized by the price of your multi-year contract. There is no way an android phone of comparable computing power and with the same out of the box compatibility with peripherals. Sure if you have an old phone lying around that can be powered, output HDMI and accept a keyboard and mouse all at once you can do that. The raspberry pi was designed as a low cost educational computer, something needed in bulk by schools. Also handy for those of us who want low power network devices and don't have old phones to recycle.
Consumer hardware sales do not equate to the hardware that gamers use. People who aren't gamers buy laptops and tablets too. Fact. The number of gamers has only grown over the last decade, especially enthusiasts as the hardware became much cheaper and accessible shortly after the turn of the century. Just because accessibility of devices has exploded and people who originally did not need a smart phone or a tablet or a low end graphics card now have one doesn't mean that people are moving away from AAA gaming on the PC just because the relative market size has shrunk by your arbitrary measurements. Nothing has changed.
This reminds me of all the douche bag prophets telling us that free to play games like farmville and angry birds were the future and that AAA gaming would be dead in 5 years. It's not the same market at all. It is only growing so quickly in comparison because AAA desktop gaming is a saturated market and social networking gaming, phone and table gaming are still emerging markets.
If you think mobile gaming is going to displace high performance desktop gaming you're a moron. That's like saying mini golf is going to put country clubs in administration.
Trolling or genuinely ignorant? It's a benchmark, no one is celebrating that you can buy a 5 figure gaming rig and play a 2 year old game at 315fps. The significance is that in a like for like comparison where only variable is open source drivers and the operating system, there was a 20% performance boost. That means if you play a demanding game at 50 fps on a windows directx machine, you could be playing it at 60fps on a linux opengl machine, all other things being equal. The human eye can see a lot more than 30fps, although it depends heavily on a lot of different factors. With most video games 30 is considered playable, 60 is great and over 80-90 is superficial improvement.This also means that as a developer at the high end, you can add more triangles to your game in the form of more or higher detail models, larger environments, better particle effects etc.
In the current example where they are comparing the same game on the same hardware with a different operating system and driver set, framerate comparisons are valid. If they were just touting a high framerate on a new release without any context yeah it means nothing, but when you are doing a side by side comparison with all variables the same except the ones you want to benchmark, it's a useful measurement.
Where I work if we don't have customers in the office it's jeans and polo shirts, sometimes t-shirts shorts and flip flops on hot days. If we get a customer coming into the office it's business casual. You should probably dress at least as well as your best dressed underlings on a regular basis, but lead the way on a casual friday.
If you're talking about a ley windows user, that means not installing the OS themselves and not setting up accounts themselves. Kubuntu is aesthetically very close to windows with a similar file manager and start menu. Nearly everything can be done via the gui while exposing the terminal to anyone who wants to learn more and become more of a power user.
The only problems I had with Kubuntu was 10.10 not working with an old broadcom wireless card out of the block and having to install ndiswrapper from source to get it working, but I've had similar issues installing vista and win7 on certain laptops.
This is blatantly false. Anyone who can use iOS or Android could easily use Ubuntu 12.04. Maybe not a distro like Archlinux, but for the kind of things that most ley computer people do on their PC's there are plenty of distros that do it all intuitively.
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You are full of shit. What you are referencing is called gerrymandering and it is not the same. Gerrymandering is redistricting such that you shove all of the other party's voting block into one area as much as possible to make their popular vote as least effective as possible, allowing you to get more of your own guys into the house of representatives. It has nothing to do with the straight up disenfranchising of voters i.e. putting laws in place to purposefully get less people to vote, such as requiring id, restricting means by which to register and purging valid voters from the registry.
We have had a wave of voter ID laws in swing states by Republicans that clearly disproportionately voting blocks that tend to vote Democrat. We had Republicans attempting to allow early voting for Republican counties in Ohio but not for urban counties that vote overwhelmingly Democrat. This is isn't typical gerrymandering and there is no whitewashing it. All of the Voter ID laws are to prevent a crime that is less frequent than the rate that people get struck by lightning in those same states. Republicans are doing it, Democrats aren't. If they were Fox News would be all over that shit.
As for your third line are you one of the members of the Republican party that thinks the Universe was created in January of 2008? Because you are completely fucking lost to reality and have the attention span of a goldfish if you think Republicans give two shits about the national debt for any reason other than a Democrat is in the White House.
True, but I don't think they wanted to risk litigation.
Sounds about right. I imagine many many times that number get infected every year though. To remain infected and a functioning part of the botnet you need it to stay on the internet, not have it's antivirus updated, not have security updates for the OS, not fall into disuse, not taken in for service and still work without the owner's knowledge that it is infected.
What kind of person would allow those conditions to occur? Grandma probably does, somebody probably set up the computer for her, she doesn't know how fast it should be, doesn't update the OS or antivirus, probably doesn't know how to and since it will still connect to facebook and let her play bejeweled, she doesn't do anything about it.
So take the number of primary personal computing devices in the first world, take only the very tech incompetent but frequent users, from those take the ones with out of date operating systems, then keep only the ones that stay connected to the internet all the time and then only the ones that will not take those computers to be fixed. The low hanging fruit disappear very quickly. While there are way way more than 1.2 million people who will get a device infected each year, chances are they don't leave them infected for very long, so the retention rate for the botnet is probably only around 1% per year if not less.
Stop quoting that god damn article. It's over-referenced and the article title isn't even a leading question, it's not even a question at all, it's a question in the body on the text. You are not clever.
Congratulations are the most inappropriate use of lmgtfy ever. It was neither an easily derivable search term the article poster could have used themselves without prior knowledge nor was it in fact, the use case that the poster was talking about.
http://www.ted.com/talks/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix.html The problem with Apple, and many other company's patent wars is that they are trying to fight over ownership of ideas instead of implementation. Coming up with an idea that is simply one step further than every technology it is built upon and then saying "We made this all by ourselves its off limits to anyone else, it's ours now" is total bullshit and it completely disregards the fact that anyone working in a technology field is standing on the shoulders of everyone who came before them. Patent laws work to maintain the current monopolies and do nothing to promote innovation. Even the nature of the question is inherently biased as it frames it in the context of copying from Apply only, as if Apple never did the exact same fucking thing many times previously (like hell Apple invented multi-touch, they didn't even come up with the name).
If you think Ryan is some sort of deficit hawk looking out for the nation's debt and deficit, you haven't seen his voting record over the last ten years.
In practice US corporations pay very little more in taxes than European corporations do. Your first line is a non starter.
Every branch of government and every government funded project wastes money. Every. Single. One. Are we to conclude that we should just shutdown all government because it isn't 100% efficient with its cash flow? Given the potential for huge scientific advances, the interest such projects can invoke in our children, and the relatively paltry amount of spending in comparison to other government agencies and departments, like DARPA and the DoD, we can easily justify absorbing the budget overflow.
That and the fact that a lot of games that came out shortly after Vista required DirectX 10, which XP did not support, that's the only reason I even bothered using my free student copy.
It's (I'm hoping) a joke.
Perhaps you should leave out the assumption that anyone mocking of someone selling the depiction of Jesus on a grilled cheese sandwich is an atheist and a liberal and purposefully bashing conservatives before you express the holier than thou brand of sarcasm.
Just because someone has a greater stake in an issue does not mean they are more qualified to make a decision. Religious cranks being at the top was a problem for a very long time and still is somewhat of an issue today (see: all of fucking history), that's why we have these thing called the constitution and the democratic process. They may not be perfect but over the last few centuries they've had a pretty good track record compared to the last few millenia.
While the outrage is a little over the top, the issue is that Microsoft can't implement their own cloud storage solution as an explorer add on. When I install the Dropbox application to my Linux machine, my Dropbox folders show up as folders in my user directory even though Dropbox didn't create my desktop environment because the Filesystem implementation for Linux is exposed to them. Microsoft on the other hand can't implement the same integration for Windows, their own operating system and desktop environment, for SkyDrive, their own cloud storage solution.
Troll or moron?
Because one can use the illusion of popularity to spark interest from actual twitter users. From there spread the same information you do through campaign ads and hopefully it has a not insignificant impact. Given how much Republicans are spending per voter in these elections it's probably as cost efficient for them once other ad markets are saturated.
Fret not, you'll probably be able to get 3g call only phones by then and you have 5 years to come to terms with it.
The raspberry pi is an actual low cost computing device. Most phones are way more expensive but the cost is hidden because it is subsidized by the price of your multi-year contract. There is no way an android phone of comparable computing power and with the same out of the box compatibility with peripherals. Sure if you have an old phone lying around that can be powered, output HDMI and accept a keyboard and mouse all at once you can do that. The raspberry pi was designed as a low cost educational computer, something needed in bulk by schools. Also handy for those of us who want low power network devices and don't have old phones to recycle.
Consumer hardware sales do not equate to the hardware that gamers use. People who aren't gamers buy laptops and tablets too. Fact. The number of gamers has only grown over the last decade, especially enthusiasts as the hardware became much cheaper and accessible shortly after the turn of the century. Just because accessibility of devices has exploded and people who originally did not need a smart phone or a tablet or a low end graphics card now have one doesn't mean that people are moving away from AAA gaming on the PC just because the relative market size has shrunk by your arbitrary measurements. Nothing has changed.
This reminds me of all the douche bag prophets telling us that free to play games like farmville and angry birds were the future and that AAA gaming would be dead in 5 years. It's not the same market at all. It is only growing so quickly in comparison because AAA desktop gaming is a saturated market and social networking gaming, phone and table gaming are still emerging markets. If you think mobile gaming is going to displace high performance desktop gaming you're a moron. That's like saying mini golf is going to put country clubs in administration.
Trolling or genuinely ignorant? It's a benchmark, no one is celebrating that you can buy a 5 figure gaming rig and play a 2 year old game at 315fps. The significance is that in a like for like comparison where only variable is open source drivers and the operating system, there was a 20% performance boost. That means if you play a demanding game at 50 fps on a windows directx machine, you could be playing it at 60fps on a linux opengl machine, all other things being equal. The human eye can see a lot more than 30fps, although it depends heavily on a lot of different factors. With most video games 30 is considered playable, 60 is great and over 80-90 is superficial improvement.This also means that as a developer at the high end, you can add more triangles to your game in the form of more or higher detail models, larger environments, better particle effects etc.
In the current example where they are comparing the same game on the same hardware with a different operating system and driver set, framerate comparisons are valid. If they were just touting a high framerate on a new release without any context yeah it means nothing, but when you are doing a side by side comparison with all variables the same except the ones you want to benchmark, it's a useful measurement.
Where I work if we don't have customers in the office it's jeans and polo shirts, sometimes t-shirts shorts and flip flops on hot days. If we get a customer coming into the office it's business casual. You should probably dress at least as well as your best dressed underlings on a regular basis, but lead the way on a casual friday.
If you're talking about a ley windows user, that means not installing the OS themselves and not setting up accounts themselves. Kubuntu is aesthetically very close to windows with a similar file manager and start menu. Nearly everything can be done via the gui while exposing the terminal to anyone who wants to learn more and become more of a power user.
The only problems I had with Kubuntu was 10.10 not working with an old broadcom wireless card out of the block and having to install ndiswrapper from source to get it working, but I've had similar issues installing vista and win7 on certain laptops.
This is blatantly false. Anyone who can use iOS or Android could easily use Ubuntu 12.04. Maybe not a distro like Archlinux, but for the kind of things that most ley computer people do on their PC's there are plenty of distros that do it all intuitively.