Politics aside By going with the OS codec subsystem offers other benefits. Suppose the Vorbis folks produce an updated version you can just download the codec and install it and not have to wait for Mozilla to update Firefox. Same for security updates. Or let's say some website decides to use Dirac? Add the Codec and your good to go. Using a codec system is more flexible and can be more secure. At this point the decision is purely political statement at the cost of flexibility and usability which I feel is ALWAYS a bad way to make design choices.
Even that is questionable. No reason why the browsers can not just use the OS's installed codec system. In Windows DirectShow/X/Video or what ever they call it. Gstreamer in Linux, and Quicktime on the Mac. The browser will not have to pay diddley
Depends on the faith. And there you are looking at a service not an employee. But an example is in the Jewish faith gentiles are not allowed to handle certain food in certain stages of preparation for it to remain Kosher. From what I have heard in that tradition even stepping over a pipe caring wine can result in all of it having to be thrown out. "I am no expert on kosher law and do not claim to be". So even in that instance a carpenter or plumber could be an issue. In other instances you have things like teachers where they may have to abide by the teaching of the church that runs the school.
Except this person is in a military/terrorist compound. Also just how do you suggest we arrest someone that is in a rebel area of a foreign nation? Extradition is a bit tricky wouldn't you say. Guess what if a sniper is in a combat area and he sees a US citizen in the service of an enemy he becomes a legitimate target. Heck he becomes a high value target. We are not talking about Michigan or anyplace where our police can function. This is in a combat zone so yes you can toss civil law right out the window.
In theory yes. But if they are actively involved in combat operation with the US as the target then it is bit difficult to arrest them. It is odd that people find these hit lists strange. They are a target list. A general or command is a military asset no different than a radar site, ship, aircraft hanger, or tank. They are high value soft targets. In the old days you would use a sniper when possible or you would bomb a base or town into rubble if not to take out command and control assets.
This is nothing new except now the sniper is a drone and we don't have to bomb an entire town to take out one person.
"The second their currency becomes unpegged from ours, we'll start getting jobs as our services will become cheaper overseas" But it is not. And as such we are getting poorer. AS you said "if all countries with free markets, fair labor, and equal environmental standards do trade, we all come out ahead, and the farmer in Barbados is no less a human being than the iron smelter in Pennsylvania." But that isn't so. So people need to start deciding to not ship jobs outside of the US. Yes it is fine if you want to buy a car from a EU country or beef from Canada but the number of nations that fit your description are few and far between and they are also not exporting much.
So in a perfect world I agree but we both know that it is an imperfect world and we are getting poorer in the long run.
Bankrupt? Really? So it is impossible to manufacture in the US and not go Bankrupt? Funny but Boeing, Harley Davidson, Honda, Toyota and several other companies are doing it. Plus even if Google tried it and failed they wouldn't go bankrupt unless they where mind numbing stupid about it. They have 24.5 BILLION in cash right now. And have a net profit of 6 Billion a year! And have NO debt. So no they will not go bankrupt unless they decide to. Or another company does search better than them.
But would shifting jobs to the US be a good thing? Keeping money in country? Restoring our manufacturing base? I didn't call on Google to not be evil. I called on them to be good. Chinese labor is cheap for many reasons one of them is because China will not allow their currency to gain in value. That is one of the way import and exports are moderated. The more you export the more you currency increases in value. The more it increases in value the more expensive you exports so it reaches a sustainable level. China isn't allowing that. Plus the majority of the money isn't going to the workers it is going to the Government. Also China doesn't have the same environmental laws as western nations. So when you buy a product you are supporting a totalitarian government that is destroying the environment.
I will bet you a dollar that a large amount of HTCs production work is done in china as is Foxconns. I do know the history of Taiwan and I also know how most companies in Taiwan work. They do the majority of the fabrication work in China proper and bring the parts to Taiwan for for packaging and check out. For Foxconn "The company opened its first manufacturing plant in China in 1988, a factory in Shenzhen that is now the company's largest, with more than 270,000 employees.[3] Beginning in 1994, " from your post. Their biggest factory is in China
Very little manufacturing is done in Taiwan anymore. Most of it is now done on the mainland with Taiwan acting as a go between. Actually it has a lot less to do with patriotism than with common sense.
If I buy a product made in another country my money goes to that country. Some of it may more may not come back to the US and back into my pocket. Some of it will like when China buys jets from Boeing but most of it will not. When I buy a product made in the US that money stays closer to my community. It is simple logic that you get rich exporting and poor importing. Anybody can see that.
I am not fan of Unions at all as they stand today. Most of what they where needed for is now taken care of by government regulation. Also I feel the idea that I am REQUIRED to join a union and that I am REQUIRED to pay dues to the Union to work a certain job to be unconstitutional. The fact that Unions want to remove the secret ballot when workplaces decided to unionize or not to me shows that they want to use intimidation to get into the workplace. That is why Unions back when they served a purpose fought so hard for secret ballots.
Toyota, Honda, and several other companies manufacture in the US and are not unionized and their workers seem to be happy in those jobs.
Also I have had to deal with Unions in my job. Yea it will cost you $100 for the union electrician to stand their while you plug in that extension cord.
"Nothing says you can't be discriminated against based on a lack of religion though. Make no law respecting an establishment of religion, my ass." What does one have to do with the other? And actually you are not even quoiting it correctly. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.":
So yes if someones religion says they can only hire someone else of the same religion that is actually protected. It would be highly illogical to force a church to hire a clergy person that was an atheist. And actually this amendment as written is totally legal for any state to have a state religion. It only limits the Congress from the laws they make. And since at the time this was written Virgina had the Church of Virgina of which Jefferson was a member that statment even passes the "intent" line of logic.
If you are going to bet all bent over the constitution it would be wise if you actually knew what it said.
Will Google stop buying stuff from China. The Nexus 1 is made by HTC probably in China. The iPhone and most of Apples products are made in China so no Google isn't alone. We as a nation need to stop sending our money to China. How about it Google. Take that big monster pile of cash and build some factories in the US. Start making phones and motherboards in the US again. Would you pay $10 more for a Google Motherboard built in Iowa or Idaho over an Asus built in China if it was the same quality? Think of it Google you could pay workers in the US that would then spend that money in the US and buy stuff made in the US "hopefully" How about not just trying to not be evil but trying to be good?
On a more cynical note. Google isn't making a lot of money in China, odds are the Chinese search engine is benefiting from stolen Google tech will get government support, and they could leverage that tech to start going head to head with Google in world markets. So they have nothing really to loose by bailing out of China.
As I said we are being sold the same dream as before. Maybe SpaceX will work out well. The have done a lot of work and should be proud of what they have done. The problem is that I don't feel the are advancing the state of the art which is what we really need. I think the Ares 1 is the totally wrong way to go. I would have liked to see what I call a Saturn 1NT be built. It would only kinda be like the old Saturn 1b in size and purpose but would with out a doubt a part of the Saturn family. Replace the old massive cluster and combination of Thor and Redstone tanks that made up the first stage of the Saturn 1b with a new first stage power by a single updated F-1A The F-1A was an improved and uprated F-1 that was tested but never flown. Base the tank on the Shuttle ET using LiAl alloy and user horizontal integration like the Delta 4 and Atlas V to cut down the cost of launching. The second stage would use the same tank tech and the improved J-2 that they where going to use with the Ares. Not a great leap but it would get the US back into building F-1 class engines. From there we could go to a new tech Saturn V class rocket or the Ares V which does seem to make some sense as a design. From their NASA could move to maybe Aerospike based stages and start progressing again. Maybe even build a space shuttle that works. I agree that NASA lost it's way. It lost sight of the missions and got trapped in politics. After 1969 the people lost sight of the future as well. I don't know how many times I heard. "We can put a man on the moon but we can not..." Well we can not put a man on the moon many more are things any better? Yes I am ranting but I have seen this all before. My prediction is that this grand plan will result in the US pulling even farther back in Space. After we off load access to space to private companies we will kill them off. Congress will decide that we are providing corporate welfare to SpaceX by giving them contracts. Good by space program all for sake of "fixing our problems here first". I may just by cynical but I have seen this all before.
I know what the "dream" is but it is the same dream that everybody had for the Shuttle. Did you know that NASA was moving to have PanAm manage the shuttle project before Challenger blew up. I know because I worked for a contractor back then. The problem with the Shuttle was that Congress kept pushing to get NASA to cut development costs at the expense of operating costs. Everything from the external tank, scraping the space tug, and tiles where all development costs cutting moves. The Constellation is also full of development costs cutting moves like the use of the SRB.
You don't have to make it be a ROM. Just use the filesystem to control access to things like system files and what gets run on startup. If you could just protect those you would make removing malware a lot easier. Of course nothing will totaly prevent a user from trashing themselves. Maybe Microsoft could require anything that overwrites a system file to be signed. Might give Microsoft too much control over your PC but their has to be a way to secure OS files from being overwritten by a stinking app!
Well I have no idea what you where taught as a child but the Shuttle was never supposed to take off like an airplane. Even the first drawings from back in 72 didn't show it taking off from a runway and by 1976 everybody knew what it was going to look like. So no I doubt that you had much idea of what was expected out of the Shuttle program at 10 years old.
I am sure Opera is great. But is isn't so much better than Firefox that I am willing to give up all my plug ins. In a way Opera reminds me of an Apple product. They believe that it does exactly what it should do and how it should do it. The user can not change that and it is for their own good. I am not even saying that they are wrong but it just doesn't fit me as well as Firefox with my few plugins do.
This plug in also give you an option to see it in HTML and some other nice functions. hacked Firefox so that i opened PDFs in the viewer and not in a browser window which also helped a lot but this plug in is just too handy.
Is why didn't Microsoft make the OS files read only way back when? Make the user give explicit permission to over right system files? It wouldn't make it impossible to get malware but it sure a shooting could make getting ride of it easier.
A terrible story with a terrible summary on the font page of Slashdot. So what else is new? Really I tend to give the slashdot some slack but this is just terrible. I mean really what are they thinking. And yes I know CW posted this trash but Slashdot doesn't have to repeat it.
"Is that necessarily a bad thing to have 30 companies the size of SpaceX who productively each perform roughly the same amount of work that the one bloated agency milking government largess to do the same thing?"
"Yes, I do realize that even comparing Constellation to the Falcon 9 isn't quite comparing the same thing," But you did it anyway.
I am all for Space X but they have not even flown the Falcon 9 yet. The PR for the Shuttle before and frankly even after it went into service was great as well. It was only when Challenger blew up did people start looking at it and seeing that it had not really delivered. But this shut down will throw many thousands of people directly out of work and many tens of thousands more will also end up trying to find new jobs in the communities it effects. The worse thing that this nation ever did is when it stopped "wasting" money with the Apollo program and moved to the cheaper, more effect, and more commercial Shuttle program. I fear this will yet another step on the road to no real space program.
I have had Opera for a long time and the thng is I just can not get comfortable with it. I have been trying to move to Chrome for the extra speed and now that it has plugins I can get it working the way I want it to. Truth is that I just can not kick the Firefox habit. I have the plugins I want and I don't have crash issues with it so it is in the Just works category.
The best plugin as far as making your browsing more stable? PDF download. Acrobat reader used to crash my system all the time. PDF download combined with FOXIT seems to have fixed that little problem. Opera is a good browser but so far it just hasn't been good enough to make me want to move.
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Politics aside By going with the OS codec subsystem offers other benefits.
Suppose the Vorbis folks produce an updated version you can just download the codec and install it and not have to wait for Mozilla to update Firefox. Same for security updates.
Or let's say some website decides to use Dirac? Add the Codec and your good to go.
Using a codec system is more flexible and can be more secure.
At this point the decision is purely political statement at the cost of flexibility and usability which I feel is ALWAYS a bad way to make design choices.
Even that is questionable. No reason why the browsers can not just use the OS's installed codec system. In Windows DirectShow/X/Video or what ever they call it. Gstreamer in Linux, and Quicktime on the Mac.
The browser will not have to pay diddley
Depends on the faith. And there you are looking at a service not an employee. But an example is in the Jewish faith gentiles are not allowed to handle certain food in certain stages of preparation for it to remain Kosher. From what I have heard in that tradition even stepping over a pipe caring wine can result in all of it having to be thrown out. "I am no expert on kosher law and do not claim to be".
So even in that instance a carpenter or plumber could be an issue.
In other instances you have things like teachers where they may have to abide by the teaching of the church that runs the school.
Except this person is in a military/terrorist compound.
Also just how do you suggest we arrest someone that is in a rebel area of a foreign nation? Extradition is a bit tricky wouldn't you say.
Guess what if a sniper is in a combat area and he sees a US citizen in the service of an enemy he becomes a legitimate target. Heck he becomes a high value target.
We are not talking about Michigan or anyplace where our police can function. This is in a combat zone so yes you can toss civil law right out the window.
In theory yes. But if they are actively involved in combat operation with the US as the target then it is bit difficult to arrest them.
It is odd that people find these hit lists strange. They are a target list. A general or command is a military asset no different than a radar site, ship, aircraft hanger, or tank. They are high value soft targets. In the old days you would use a sniper when possible or you would bomb a base or town into rubble if not to take out command and control assets.
This is nothing new except now the sniper is a drone and we don't have to bomb an entire town to take out one person.
This will help with health care. No one will ever need to by sleeping pills again.
"The second their currency becomes unpegged from ours, we'll start getting jobs as our services will become cheaper overseas"
But it is not.
And as such we are getting poorer.
AS you said "if all countries with free markets, fair labor, and equal environmental standards do trade, we all come out ahead, and the farmer in Barbados is no less a human being than the iron smelter in Pennsylvania."
But that isn't so. So people need to start deciding to not ship jobs outside of the US. Yes it is fine if you want to buy a car from a EU country or beef from Canada but the number of nations that fit your description are few and far between and they are also not exporting much.
So in a perfect world I agree but we both know that it is an imperfect world and we are getting poorer in the long run.
Bankrupt?
Really?
So it is impossible to manufacture in the US and not go Bankrupt?
Funny but Boeing, Harley Davidson, Honda, Toyota and several other companies are doing it.
Plus even if Google tried it and failed they wouldn't go bankrupt unless they where mind numbing stupid about it.
They have 24.5 BILLION in cash right now.
And have a net profit of 6 Billion a year!
And have NO debt.
So no they will not go bankrupt unless they decide to.
Or another company does search better than them.
But would shifting jobs to the US be a good thing? Keeping money in country? Restoring our manufacturing base?
I didn't call on Google to not be evil. I called on them to be good. Chinese labor is cheap for many reasons one of them is because China will not allow their currency to gain in value. That is one of the way import and exports are moderated. The more you export the more you currency increases in value. The more it increases in value the more expensive you exports so it reaches a sustainable level. China isn't allowing that. Plus the majority of the money isn't going to the workers it is going to the Government. Also China doesn't have the same environmental laws as western nations.
So when you buy a product you are supporting a totalitarian government that is destroying the environment.
I will bet you a dollar that a large amount of HTCs production work is done in china as is Foxconns.
I do know the history of Taiwan and I also know how most companies in Taiwan work. They do the majority of the fabrication work in China proper and bring the parts to Taiwan for for packaging and check out.
For Foxconn "The company opened its first manufacturing plant in China in 1988, a factory in Shenzhen that is now the company's largest, with more than 270,000 employees.[3] Beginning in 1994, " from your post. Their biggest factory is in China
Very little manufacturing is done in Taiwan anymore. Most of it is now done on the mainland with Taiwan acting as a go between.
Actually it has a lot less to do with patriotism than with common sense.
If I buy a product made in another country my money goes to that country. Some of it may more may not come back to the US and back into my pocket. Some of it will like when China buys jets from Boeing but most of it will not.
When I buy a product made in the US that money stays closer to my community. It is simple logic that you get rich exporting and poor importing.
Anybody can see that.
I am not fan of Unions at all as they stand today. Most of what they where needed for is now taken care of by government regulation. Also I feel the idea that I am REQUIRED to join a union and that I am REQUIRED to pay dues to the Union to work a certain job to be unconstitutional.
The fact that Unions want to remove the secret ballot when workplaces decided to unionize or not to me shows that they want to use intimidation to get into the workplace.
That is why Unions back when they served a purpose fought so hard for secret ballots.
Toyota, Honda, and several other companies manufacture in the US and are not unionized and their workers seem to be happy in those jobs.
Also I have had to deal with Unions in my job. Yea it will cost you $100 for the union electrician to stand their while you plug in that extension cord.
Actually Sam Walton used to take pride in selling stuff made in the USA. Blame the current folks running Walmart and not the founder.
"Nothing says you can't be discriminated against based on a lack of religion though. Make no law respecting an establishment of religion, my ass."
What does one have to do with the other?
And actually you are not even quoiting it correctly.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.":
So yes if someones religion says they can only hire someone else of the same religion that is actually protected. It would be highly illogical to force a church to hire a clergy person that was an atheist.
And actually this amendment as written is totally legal for any state to have a state religion. It only limits the Congress from the laws they make.
And since at the time this was written Virgina had the Church of Virgina of which Jefferson was a member that statment even passes the "intent" line of logic.
If you are going to bet all bent over the constitution it would be wise if you actually knew what it said.
Will Google stop buying stuff from China.
The Nexus 1 is made by HTC probably in China.
The iPhone and most of Apples products are made in China so no Google isn't alone.
We as a nation need to stop sending our money to China. How about it Google. Take that big monster pile of cash and build some factories in the US.
Start making phones and motherboards in the US again. Would you pay $10 more for a Google Motherboard built in Iowa or Idaho over an Asus built in China if it was the same quality?
Think of it Google you could pay workers in the US that would then spend that money in the US and buy stuff made in the US "hopefully"
How about not just trying to not be evil but trying to be good?
On a more cynical note. Google isn't making a lot of money in China, odds are the Chinese search engine is benefiting from stolen Google tech will get government support, and they could leverage that tech to start going head to head with Google in world markets.
So they have nothing really to loose by bailing out of China.
As I said we are being sold the same dream as before.
Maybe SpaceX will work out well. The have done a lot of work and should be proud of what they have done. The problem is that I don't feel the are advancing the state of the art which is what we really need.
I think the Ares 1 is the totally wrong way to go. I would have liked to see what I call a Saturn 1NT be built.
It would only kinda be like the old Saturn 1b in size and purpose but would with out a doubt a part of the Saturn family.
Replace the old massive cluster and combination of Thor and Redstone tanks that made up the first stage of the Saturn 1b with a new first stage power by a single updated F-1A The F-1A was an improved and uprated F-1 that was tested but never flown.
Base the tank on the Shuttle ET using LiAl alloy and user horizontal integration like the Delta 4 and Atlas V to cut down the cost of launching.
The second stage would use the same tank tech and the improved J-2 that they where going to use with the Ares. Not a great leap but it would get the US back into building F-1 class engines. From there we could go to a new tech Saturn V class rocket or the Ares V which does seem to make some sense as a design.
From their NASA could move to maybe Aerospike based stages and start progressing again.
Maybe even build a space shuttle that works.
I agree that NASA lost it's way. It lost sight of the missions and got trapped in politics. After 1969 the people lost sight of the future as well. I don't know how many times I heard. "We can put a man on the moon but we can not..."
Well we can not put a man on the moon many more are things any better?
Yes I am ranting but I have seen this all before. My prediction is that this grand plan will result in the US pulling even farther back in Space. After we off load access to space to private companies we will kill them off. Congress will decide that we are providing corporate welfare to SpaceX by giving them contracts. Good by space program all for sake of "fixing our problems here first".
I may just by cynical but I have seen this all before.
I know what the "dream" is but it is the same dream that everybody had for the Shuttle. Did you know that NASA was moving to have PanAm manage the shuttle project before Challenger blew up. I know because I worked for a contractor back then.
The problem with the Shuttle was that Congress kept pushing to get NASA to cut development costs at the expense of operating costs. Everything from the external tank, scraping the space tug, and tiles where all development costs cutting moves. The Constellation is also full of development costs cutting moves like the use of the SRB.
You don't have to make it be a ROM. Just use the filesystem to control access to things like system files and what gets run on startup.
If you could just protect those you would make removing malware a lot easier.
Of course nothing will totaly prevent a user from trashing themselves.
Maybe Microsoft could require anything that overwrites a system file to be signed.
Might give Microsoft too much control over your PC but their has to be a way to secure OS files from being overwritten by a stinking app!
Well I have no idea what you where taught as a child but the Shuttle was never supposed to take off like an airplane. Even the first drawings from back in 72 didn't show it taking off from a runway and by 1976 everybody knew what it was going to look like.
So no I doubt that you had much idea of what was expected out of the Shuttle program at 10 years old.
I am sure Opera is great. But is isn't so much better than Firefox that I am willing to give up all my plug ins. In a way Opera reminds me of an Apple product. They believe that it does exactly what it should do and how it should do it. The user can not change that and it is for their own good.
I am not even saying that they are wrong but it just doesn't fit me as well as Firefox with my few plugins do.
This plug in also give you an option to see it in HTML and some other nice functions. hacked Firefox so that i opened PDFs in the viewer and not in a browser window which also helped a lot but this plug in is just too handy.
Is why didn't Microsoft make the OS files read only way back when?
Make the user give explicit permission to over right system files?
It wouldn't make it impossible to get malware but it sure a shooting could make getting ride of it easier.
A terrible story with a terrible summary on the font page of Slashdot.
So what else is new?
Really I tend to give the slashdot some slack but this is just terrible. I mean really what are they thinking. And yes I know CW posted this trash but Slashdot doesn't have to repeat it.
"Is that necessarily a bad thing to have 30 companies the size of SpaceX who productively each perform roughly the same amount of work that the one bloated agency milking government largess to do the same thing?"
"Yes, I do realize that even comparing Constellation to the Falcon 9 isn't quite comparing the same thing,"
But you did it anyway.
I am all for Space X but they have not even flown the Falcon 9 yet. The PR for the Shuttle before and frankly even after it went into service was great as well. It was only when Challenger blew up did people start looking at it and seeing that it had not really delivered.
But this shut down will throw many thousands of people directly out of work and many tens of thousands more will also end up trying to find new jobs in the communities it effects.
The worse thing that this nation ever did is when it stopped "wasting" money with the Apollo program and moved to the cheaper, more effect, and more commercial Shuttle program.
I fear this will yet another step on the road to no real space program.
I have had Opera for a long time and the thng is I just can not get comfortable with it.
I have been trying to move to Chrome for the extra speed and now that it has plugins I can get it working the way I want it to.
Truth is that I just can not kick the Firefox habit. I have the plugins I want and I don't have crash issues with it so it is in the Just works category.
The best plugin as far as making your browsing more stable? PDF download. Acrobat reader used to crash my system all the time.
PDF download combined with FOXIT seems to have fixed that little problem.
Opera is a good browser but so far it just hasn't been good enough to make me want to move.