Nope I do know about the good that they did about 100 years ago. I even know who Samuel Gompers was. But that was a long time ago. Most of the evils that you have mentioned where fixed by laws a long time ago. But a union is a lot like a crutch. One the problem is fixed they are not needed anymore. As I said, If a company is abusing it's employees and there is no legal recourse then yes you need a Union. But once that is fixed then they need to go away. When Unions threatens people with violence if you vote to make company a Union shop then they are a blight society. When a Union takes away my freedom to not join them they are a blight on society.
An hundred years ago and even 60 or 70 years ago they where needed. Today they seem to be rarely of any benefit and more often harmful. That is my experience of unions. Maybe if you got rid of the curruption with them I would feel differently but from the looks of it I am not the only one with bad experiences with them.
The thing is that a lot of those people buying Cherokees are not fat-cats. A lot of them have just been dreaming of owning a plane their entire life. They worked and saved and that is what they buy instead of a sail-boat, RV, or cabin. Some where purchased by small business owners and sales people that need to over a good bit of territory. But yep your right. There went all those nice none offshored manufacturing jobs.
And now Cessna is going to build the new LSA Cessna 160 in China:( I just hope that the new PiperJet and HondaJet that Honda is thinking of having build for them will get made in my old hometown. And I hope a lot of "fat-cats" buy them so that those jobs stay there.
"Here are some of the "safety problems" I'm referring to - from personal experience.
- Working from large heights with no safety gear, because it's "just for a few minutes".
- Workers standing under equipment being lifted, because it's "just for a little bit".
- Untrained guys driving heavy equipment (forklifts, etc) with little or no training, in a crowded space.
- The owner of the company accidentally hitting workers with forklifts or things being moved by the forklift, several times a year. Broken bones included." Umm seems like more than a few laws have been broken in that case. OSHA should take be involved with that as well as your insurance company.
Both Piper and Cessna got hit by those. Piper got hit with one where a person landed an 1947 Piper Cub in some guys pasture illegally. The owner of the pasture got ticked off and called the cops. The pilot tried to take off and the owner of the pasture drove a mini can in front of the Cub so he couldn't take off and get away. The pilot tired to take off and hit the minivan. He sued an won because the 1947 Piper Cubs seat belts where not up to current standards.
Cessna got sued because a seat latch on a 30 year old plane failed and the seat slid back and the pilot lost control. They also lost that one. Of course that plane had to be inspected by law ever year by an A&P and he should have caught the wear on the latch but Cessna still lost. In the late seventies Piper probably made over 200 light planes a year. By the 1990s the entire light aircraft industry. Piper, Cessna, Beechcraft, Mooney, Bellanca, and Maul might have produced 60-70 light planes in a year.
The law suits really hurt but the Luxury tax also did a lot of damage. It also really hurt the Yacht business. The thing is that when most people think of Yachts and Private Planes they think of the Rich People that buy them. The real truth is extra tax on them end up hurting the people that build them more than the people that buy them. If you tax them too much then people just don't buy them. That puts the people that make them out of work. Probably close too three hundred people in my home town lost their jobs and a good number of people that I went to High School with couldn't finish college because their parents lost their jobs.
Too bad that Piper had to lay almost all of them off and go into bankruptcy. That wasn't Piper's or the workers fault. Piper and most other light Aircraft manufactures got nailed by a "luxuary tax" on light Aircraft and then by stupid law suits. They have about one twentieth of the employees they had but from what I hear it is still a good place to work.
"We are NOT like other unions." That is fine but as also pointed out your Union almost doesn't exist anymore.
I think that my statment was fair. Unions should be a last resort. If a company is abusing workers and they can not get legal protection then yes you may need a Union. Trying keep a Union out of you shop by treating your worker as a resource and not an expense. Great idea. No Union taking money from your workers and none of the problems that come from dealing with them. A good Union should be happy when they are not needed anymore.
My big problem was with your original post. You heard... No proof. Just because you don't want to deal with a union in you shop doesn't mean your evil. Frankly it just means your smart.
You heard? Well then why didn't they go to work for a union shop? I guess I have different opinion of "unions". When I was a kid a friend's father worked for Piper Aircraft. A Union tried to get in there. He said that the union people where threatening them to vote for the Union. At that time Piper paid really well, offer health benefits and even offered scholarships for the kids of employees. They didn't let the Union in. Oh he was a the guy that welded the motor mounts so yea he was just a worker.
The other experience has to do with going to trade shows in Union towns. Yea it is so helpful for me to have to pay $100 for some union hack to bring me an orange extension cord.
So you are willing to make a statement of fact based on what you heard... As far as I I can see a Union is the last thing that employees should want. If you are getting abused in by your employer and the law alone will not protect you then yes you may need a Union. Otherwise they are a blight on society from my experience.
"The US opposes freedom of speech in the US you can get sued if someone dosent like what you post." Actually the right to sue is part of free speech. You can sue anyone for pretty much any reason. You will not win but you can sue.
"or if the government don't like it your busted by the CIA I recall a story of a 14yr old girl being interrogated by the CIA over her livejournal account." Not exactly it was the Secret Service. She was questioned because she committed a felony. She posted that someone should kill the President. It is a felony to threaten the President with death. Has been for as long as I can remember. You may say that he should be arrested, kicked out, impeached, not be elected, or just about anything else you want but the threaten harm is a felony. That young woman was questioned and let go. Or exactly what should happen if you threated anyone publicly with death I would think.
I suggest a simple search on the Wikipedia for Hate Speech for an education about the laws in other nations. I think you might find it educational.
I think it is a great thing that people in the US keep questioning if our right to free speech is still in full force. But to think that it is more limited than many other nations is ignorant.
"And apart from not being able to form a coherent sentence you seem to have absolutely no idea what you are talking about when it comes to European countries." A good example of what is just silly in the US and out lawed in a EU country is Hogan's Heroes. In the German version they had to edit the Hitler Salute out and replace it. Here is a list of some of the EU hate speech laws from the Wikipedia so they may ore not be accurate.
* In the United Kingdom, incitement to racial hatred is an offence under the Public Order Act 1986 with a maximum sentence of up to seven years imprisonment.
* In Germany, Volksverhetzung (incitement of hatred against a minority under certain conditions) is a punishable offense under Section 130 of the Strafgesetzbuch (Germany's criminal code) and can lead to up to five years imprisonment. Volksverhetzung is punishable in Germany even if committed abroad and even if committed by non-German citizens, if only the incitement of hatred takes effect within German territory, e.g. the seditious sentiment was expressed in German writ or speech and made accessible in Germany (German criminal code's Principle of Ubiquity, Section 9 1 Alt. 3 and 4 of the Strafgesetzbuch).
* In Ireland, the right to free speech is guaranteed under the Constitution (Article 40.6.1.i). However, the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act, proscribes words or behaviours which are "threatening, abusive or insulting and are intended or, having regard to all the circumstances, are likely to stir up hatred" against "a group of persons in the State or elsewhere on account of their race, colour, nationality, religion, ethnic or national origins, membership of the travelling community or sexual orientation."[1]
* In Iceland, the hate speech law is not confined to inciting hatred, as one can see from Article 233 a. in the Icelandic Criminal Code, but includes simply expressing such hatred publicly:
"Anyone who in a ridiculing, slanderous, insulting, threatening or any other manner publicly assaults a person or a group of people on the basis of their nationality, skin colour, race, religion or sexual orientation, shall be fined or jailed for up to 2 years." (The word "assault" in this context does not refer to physical violence, only to expressions of hatred.)
* France has made hate speech laws restricting the open expression of anti-Semitism, and ethnic bias in public, but it implies to guidelines in news journalism (i.e. newspapers and state-owned Television) in how to report (or be told not to discuss) those matters without creating social tension.[citation needed]
* Sweden prohibits hate speech, hets mot folkgrupp, and defines it as publicly making statements that threaten or express disrespect for an ethnic group or similar group regarding their race, skin colour, national or ethnic origin, faith or sexual orientation.[3]
* Finland prohibits hate speech, kiihotus kansanryhmää vastaan/hets mot folkgrupp, and defines it as publicly making statements that threaten or insult a national, racial, ethnic or religious group or a similar group.[4]
* Denmark prohibits hate speech, and defines it as publicly making statements that threaten, ridicule or hold in contempt a group due to race, skin colour, national or ethnic origin, faith or sexual orientation.[5]
* Norway prohibits hate speech, and defines it as publicly making statements that threaten or ridicule someone or that incite hatred, persecution or contempt for someone due to their skin colour, ethnic origin, homosexual life style or orientation or, religion or philosophy of life.[6]
So yes in the EU are often not allowed speak your mind under threat of law. Frankly in some of the countries of the EU your post is illegal.
Frankly I doubt that you will find anyplace more liberal than the US. A lot of countries in the EU will bust you for anything that they consider "hate speech" not that I wouldn't mind never having to see it myself it is still political speech. Considering Europe's history I can understand why they are more than a little sensitive over hate speech. Canada also has hate speech laws last time I checked. I am not sure about all the countries in Latin America but most get a little bent over criticism of their governments and or the Catholic Church. The middle east? Well just don't make fun of Islam and you will be just fine. Africa? Well that probably depends on the nation. Not a great history of Human rights in most of those Nations. Asia? Well China is a big no. Japan, and Taiwan I have no idea. Austriala and New Zealand maybe a as liberal as the US but I think they are closer to most EU nations according the Wikipedia they are. Switzerland maybe?
The US does tend to be more strict on sexual content but is probably still one of the most free when it comes to Political speech. Of course an anti-war protester being asked to go to a free speech zone or get a permit really doesn't care about an neo-nazi in France being put into jail for wearing a patch.
When somebody makes outlandish claims involving huge breakthroughs in what is a pretty mature technology and offers no documentation then one should instantly got into hogwash mode. Your also a little off. It wouldn't take either a huge breakthrough in memory or a lot of progress in CPU manufacturing. It would take both. I doubt that it is possible to store more than a single bit with a single transistor or mythical memory cell. To do it and have it work at CPU speed would be a huge leap. To have it work at CPU speed and be be static "not loose information when powered down which he also mentioned" would be a quantum leap in memory technology. To have it be work at CPU speed, be static, and cheap enough to put on the cpu die is into the realm of Santa Claus. To put well over eight billion of them and a CPU on a single die? That would also be a huge leap. Even if we cut it back to 512 MB you have a well over four billion and a CPU on a die. So without documentation of some kind that even the memory technology is right around the corner this is into Yeti, UFO, and Black Helicopter territory.
Will we see a gigabyte of super fast ram on the die? I am sure we will someday but it will probably be a cache for the 512 gigabytes of DDR-X that we are using with our 64 core CPUs. Of course when Windows IX is released you will have to get and extra 512 gigabytes to keep it running. Of course if you are using Linux you will brag about how Linux with KDE-7 works just great with only 128 gigabytes.
So yes while some may see "Get back to me when it happens" it is actually just healthy skepticism. Not impossible by any stretch of the imagination heck if you told me I would have a one gigabyte storage device that cost under $20 ten years ago I would have said yea right. However I don't see on die memory ever replacing main memory. Huge cache's that rival to days main memory spaces but replacing main memory? Only in embedded devices where systems like that are already in existence. But then we could have some really cool embedded devices by then as well.
"First off, being a smartass in response to a cogent point doesn't make me listen to you. It makes you look like you care more about appearing smart than being smart." You have a point but that mystery memory break through is right up with the 100 mpg carburetor or any other mystery tech. Until it is in production it doesn't exist. The math is pretty ugly no matter how you look at it. If you developed a memory tech that is as fast as SRAM and managed to get it down to one transistor per bit well do the math. 1 GB of ram would add 8 billion tranistors to the die. Four GB pushes that to 32 billion transistors... Even then in a few years four GBs will be standard on PC at least those that are 64 bit.
I would say it isn't piracy at all. There are more and more HD DVD camcorders coming on the market. A lot of people don't want to watch them on a computer. Actually HD-DVD needs only one thing to beat BlueRay. An HD-DVD player for under $100. I don't know anybody that has a BlueRay player that isn't in a PS3. I only know one person that has a PS3. I am the only person I know that has an HD-DVD player.
Well the real way that HD-DVD can win would be to get Nintendo to put one in the Wii and keep the cost at where it is:)
Well if would work with kudzu it would be wonderful. The funny thing is that kudzu really is about a perfect plant. It is editable. The leaves can be eaten is a salad and the roots can be eaten as a starch like a potato. The Flowers can be made in to a jelly. It can also be used for animal feed. It is also a legume so it actually puts nitrogen back into the soil. Even more if you plow the waist back in. And it grows with no fertizer and needs no chemicals. The problem is that well it grows like a weed.
"1) This would be a new memory technology." Okay well get back to me when you finish with that little detail.
"2) What's sufficient? Well, that depends on the application. Just as you have chips geared at different applications today, you'd have chips geared at even more different applications. In case you haven't noticed, we're moving away from the general purpose computing device anyhow and increasingly into more specialized devices to meet specialized needs."
Not really. PC, Laptops, and even smart phones are staying or becoming more general purpose devices. But if you are right then the statement stands. They already have it. They are called microcontrollers. Right now they are 8-bit or 16-bit devices that often have flash and ram on board. And yes they are growing bigger all the time. A single chip version of the original IBM PC is very possible today.
"I don't claim to know a whole lot about processor tech, but I know that it wouldn't be hard to add this sort of optimization." It is hard and it has been done. That is exactly what the cache does. The tasks that need the memory the most stay in the cache longest.
Imagine that. You upload pictures to someone server and have little to no control who downloads them. Top it off with the fact that MySpace really seem to be pretty poorly written to start with and it is no big shock. What I don't get is how they didn't notice this one IP address sucking down this much data. I guess they don't look at logs.
"What he means is: forget on-chip cache -- on-chip main memory. IOW, instead of having main memory on the motherboard, it would be embedded into your processor, running, presumable, at the same speed as the CPU."
Memory on the die has been done in micro controlers for years. It isn't going to happen on PCs for a long time.
"A CPU like this new VIA CPU might be slow, but if you had sufficient memory integrated right on the CPU die, it would blow the pants off your latest 4+GHz Core 2 Duo."
What is sufficient memory? 4 GB or Maybe 512 MB? There is a reason that they use Static ram for cache. It needs to be fast. So lets say that you get 512 MB on the die are you not going to allow the user to add more memory? Or how about this. You put 512 MB on the die and then let them add memory on the buss if they need more. And then you could have it swap memory from the slower buss memory in to the fast on die memory to speed everything up... Yea and we could call it a cache!
Until you can put the full address space on the die it will not work for anything but microcontrollers.
That is dumb. If it is a one time throw away script to fix a one time problem then yes the programmer can use what ever he wants. But if it is a tool then you may need to have other people maintain and work on it. You can write any program in any language. Yes some are better than others but how well you know the language is also important. Also having multiple vendors for a language is also really useful. If only one vendor supports the language then they have a lot of control over your company. Take Foxpro and Visual Basic as examples.
"imagine anyone with any actual knowledge of IP law would have the same regard for us." Probably worse. Let's face it calling the Internet "tubes" really wasn't all that stupid. I have often heard knowledgeable people talk about Internet connections as "pipes". On Slashdot people speak with so much arrogance about IP law and at the same time are so clueless that it is like a bad Holiday Inn Express commercial.
Shipping out five or ten is simple. 80,000 is hard. You have to hire and train the people to do it. They have to get paid, taxes collected, schelde, deliveries must be timed shipping bills must be paid, boxes bought. Then you must make sure that the people do the work correctly and that they don't steal the notebooks. It really isn't as simple as you think it is. Let's face it these people are note stupid but they are having problems with this. It only seems simple from the view point of arrogance and ignorance. Just shipping out 10,000 CDs for a software update is a big job.
They say that it can do 10mbits at 70km so I think it would be fast enough for YouTube. What it will not be fast enough for is streaming HD-Video to your home. The other problem with this spectrum is that the antenna has to be a lot larger than for a 2.4ghz. You can trade off efficiency for a smaller antenna but that also isn't great for a mobile device.
One thing I would love to see is a terrestrial positioning system using that spectrum. It should work in places where you can not get a GPS signal like in buildings and with three visible stations it should have no problem with locating you. With only three stations there will be two possible locations for you but since one will be under ground most of the time it should be good enough.
I am all for not being rude. Being polite is a good thing but. "I am really not interested and I have to go, thank you for your time." Then you get up and go. Polite and simple. If they keep on after that they are being rude. I had the same thing happen when I was canceling an ISP I got as a back up. They kept telling me how valued I was and kept offering me stuff. I finally said, "I want to end my relationship with your company. I do not want anymore services from your company. Good bye."
"Why wasnt this patent written so that in X number of years in became extinct and the contents of it went out under the GPL? " All I can say Wow... 1 A patent is not a software license or a copyright. A patent does have a limited life span. 2. When a patent expires then it becomes totally free. Not free as beer, speech, or the GPL. Free as in public domain free. You can do anything you want with it after it expires. So all I can say is WOW.....
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Nope I do know about the good that they did about 100 years ago. I even know who Samuel Gompers was. But that was a long time ago. Most of the evils that you have mentioned where fixed by laws a long time ago. But a union is a lot like a crutch. One the problem is fixed they are not needed anymore.
As I said, If a company is abusing it's employees and there is no legal recourse then yes you need a Union. But once that is fixed then they need to go away.
When Unions threatens people with violence if you vote to make company a Union shop then they are a blight society.
When a Union takes away my freedom to not join them they are a blight on society.
An hundred years ago and even 60 or 70 years ago they where needed. Today they seem to be rarely of any benefit and more often harmful. That is my experience of unions. Maybe if you got rid of the curruption with them I would feel differently but from the looks of it I am not the only one with bad experiences with them.
The thing is that a lot of those people buying Cherokees are not fat-cats. A lot of them have just been dreaming of owning a plane their entire life. They worked and saved and that is what they buy instead of a sail-boat, RV, or cabin.
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Some where purchased by small business owners and sales people that need to over a good bit of territory.
But yep your right. There went all those nice none offshored manufacturing jobs.
And now Cessna is going to build the new LSA Cessna 160 in China
I just hope that the new PiperJet and HondaJet that Honda is thinking of having build for them will get made in my old hometown. And I hope a lot of "fat-cats" buy them so that those jobs stay there.
"Here are some of the "safety problems" I'm referring to - from personal experience.
- Working from large heights with no safety gear, because it's "just for a few minutes".
- Workers standing under equipment being lifted, because it's "just for a little bit".
- Untrained guys driving heavy equipment (forklifts, etc) with little or no training, in a crowded space.
- The owner of the company accidentally hitting workers with forklifts or things being moved by the forklift, several times a year. Broken bones included."
Umm seems like more than a few laws have been broken in that case.
OSHA should take be involved with that as well as your insurance company.
Both Piper and Cessna got hit by those.
Piper got hit with one where a person landed an 1947 Piper Cub in some guys pasture illegally. The owner of the pasture got ticked off and called the cops. The pilot tried to take off and the owner of the pasture drove a mini can in front of the Cub so he couldn't take off and get away. The pilot tired to take off and hit the minivan.
He sued an won because the 1947 Piper Cubs seat belts where not up to current standards.
Cessna got sued because a seat latch on a 30 year old plane failed and the seat slid back and the pilot lost control.
They also lost that one. Of course that plane had to be inspected by law ever year by an A&P and he should have caught the wear on the latch but Cessna still lost.
In the late seventies Piper probably made over 200 light planes a year. By the 1990s the entire light aircraft industry. Piper, Cessna, Beechcraft, Mooney, Bellanca, and Maul might have produced 60-70 light planes in a year.
The law suits really hurt but the Luxury tax also did a lot of damage. It also really hurt the Yacht business. The thing is that when most people think of Yachts and Private Planes they think of the Rich People that buy them. The real truth is extra tax on them end up hurting the people that build them more than the people that buy them. If you tax them too much then people just don't buy them. That puts the people that make them out of work.
Probably close too three hundred people in my home town lost their jobs and a good number of people that I went to High School with couldn't finish college because their parents lost their jobs.
Too bad that Piper had to lay almost all of them off and go into bankruptcy. That wasn't Piper's or the workers fault. Piper and most other light Aircraft manufactures got nailed by a "luxuary tax" on light Aircraft and then by stupid law suits. They have about one twentieth of the employees they had but from what I hear it is still a good place to work.
"We are NOT like other unions."
That is fine but as also pointed out your Union almost doesn't exist anymore.
I think that my statment was fair. Unions should be a last resort. If a company is abusing workers and they can not get legal protection then yes you may need a Union.
Trying keep a Union out of you shop by treating your worker as a resource and not an expense. Great idea. No Union taking money from your workers and none of the problems that come from dealing with them.
A good Union should be happy when they are not needed anymore.
My big problem was with your original post. You heard... No proof.
Just because you don't want to deal with a union in you shop doesn't mean your evil. Frankly it just means your smart.
You heard?
Well then why didn't they go to work for a union shop?
I guess I have different opinion of "unions". When I was a kid a friend's father worked for Piper Aircraft. A Union tried to get in there. He said that the union people where threatening them to vote for the Union. At that time Piper paid really well, offer health benefits and even offered scholarships for the kids of employees. They didn't let the Union in. Oh he was a the guy that welded the motor mounts so yea he was just a worker.
The other experience has to do with going to trade shows in Union towns. Yea it is so helpful for me to have to pay $100 for some union hack to bring me an orange extension cord.
So you are willing to make a statement of fact based on what you heard...
As far as I I can see a Union is the last thing that employees should want. If you are getting abused in by your employer and the law alone will not protect you then yes you may need a Union.
Otherwise they are a blight on society from my experience.
"The US opposes freedom of speech in the US you can get sued if someone dosent like what you post."
Actually the right to sue is part of free speech. You can sue anyone for pretty much any reason. You will not win but you can sue.
"or if the government don't like it your busted by the CIA I recall a story of a 14yr old girl being interrogated by the CIA over her livejournal account."
Not exactly it was the Secret Service. She was questioned because she committed a felony. She posted that someone should kill the President. It is a felony to threaten the President with death. Has been for as long as I can remember.
You may say that he should be arrested, kicked out, impeached, not be elected, or just about anything else you want but the threaten harm is a felony. That young woman was questioned and let go. Or exactly what should happen if you threated anyone publicly with death I would think.
I suggest a simple search on the Wikipedia for Hate Speech for an education about the laws in other nations. I think you might find it educational.
I think it is a great thing that people in the US keep questioning if our right to free speech is still in full force. But to think that it is more limited than many other nations is ignorant.
"And apart from not being able to form a coherent sentence you seem to have absolutely no idea what you are talking about when it comes to European countries."
A good example of what is just silly in the US and out lawed in a EU country is Hogan's Heroes. In the German version they had to edit the Hitler Salute out and replace it.
Here is a list of some of the EU hate speech laws from the Wikipedia so they may ore not be accurate.
* In the United Kingdom, incitement to racial hatred is an offence under the Public Order Act 1986 with a maximum sentence of up to seven years imprisonment.
* In Germany, Volksverhetzung (incitement of hatred against a minority under certain conditions) is a punishable offense under Section 130 of the Strafgesetzbuch (Germany's criminal code) and can lead to up to five years imprisonment. Volksverhetzung is punishable in Germany even if committed abroad and even if committed by non-German citizens, if only the incitement of hatred takes effect within German territory, e.g. the seditious sentiment was expressed in German writ or speech and made accessible in Germany (German criminal code's Principle of Ubiquity, Section 9 1 Alt. 3 and 4 of the Strafgesetzbuch).
* In Ireland, the right to free speech is guaranteed under the Constitution (Article 40.6.1.i). However, the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act, proscribes words or behaviours which are "threatening, abusive or insulting and are intended or, having regard to all the circumstances, are likely to stir up hatred" against "a group of persons in the State or elsewhere on account of their race, colour, nationality, religion, ethnic or national origins, membership of the travelling community or sexual orientation."[1]
* In Iceland, the hate speech law is not confined to inciting hatred, as one can see from Article 233 a. in the Icelandic Criminal Code, but includes simply expressing such hatred publicly:
"Anyone who in a ridiculing, slanderous, insulting, threatening or any other manner publicly assaults a person or a group of people on the basis of their nationality, skin colour, race, religion or sexual orientation, shall be fined or jailed for up to 2 years." (The word "assault" in this context does not refer to physical violence, only to expressions of hatred.)
* France has made hate speech laws restricting the open expression of anti-Semitism, and ethnic bias in public, but it implies to guidelines in news journalism (i.e. newspapers and state-owned Television) in how to report (or be told not to discuss) those matters without creating social tension.[citation needed]
* Sweden prohibits hate speech, hets mot folkgrupp, and defines it as publicly making statements that threaten or express disrespect for an ethnic group or similar group regarding their race, skin colour, national or ethnic origin, faith or sexual orientation.[3]
* Finland prohibits hate speech, kiihotus kansanryhmää vastaan/hets mot folkgrupp, and defines it as publicly making statements that threaten or insult a national, racial, ethnic or religious group or a similar group.[4]
* Denmark prohibits hate speech, and defines it as publicly making statements that threaten, ridicule or hold in contempt a group due to race, skin colour, national or ethnic origin, faith or sexual orientation.[5]
* Norway prohibits hate speech, and defines it as publicly making statements that threaten or ridicule someone or that incite hatred, persecution or contempt for someone due to their skin colour, ethnic origin, homosexual life style or orientation or, religion or philosophy of life.[6]
So yes in the EU are often not allowed speak your mind under threat of law.
Frankly in some of the countries of the EU your post is illegal.
Frankly I doubt that you will find anyplace more liberal than the US.
A lot of countries in the EU will bust you for anything that they consider "hate speech" not that I wouldn't mind never having to see it myself it is still political speech. Considering Europe's history I can understand why they are more than a little sensitive over hate speech. Canada also has hate speech laws last time I checked. I am not sure about all the countries in Latin America but most get a little bent over criticism of their governments and or the Catholic Church.
The middle east? Well just don't make fun of Islam and you will be just fine. Africa? Well that probably depends on the nation. Not a great history of Human rights in most of those Nations.
Asia? Well China is a big no. Japan, and Taiwan I have no idea. Austriala and New Zealand maybe a as liberal as the US but I think they are closer to most EU nations according the Wikipedia they are.
Switzerland maybe?
The US does tend to be more strict on sexual content but is probably still one of the most free when it comes to Political speech. Of course an anti-war protester being asked to go to a free speech zone or get a permit really doesn't care about an neo-nazi in France being put into jail for wearing a patch.
When somebody makes outlandish claims involving huge breakthroughs in what is a pretty mature technology and offers no documentation then one should instantly got into hogwash mode.
Your also a little off. It wouldn't take either a huge breakthrough in memory or a lot of progress in CPU manufacturing.
It would take both.
I doubt that it is possible to store more than a single bit with a single transistor or mythical memory cell. To do it and have it work at CPU speed would be a huge leap. To have it work at CPU speed and be be static "not loose information when powered down which he also mentioned" would be a quantum leap in memory technology. To have it be work at CPU speed, be static, and cheap enough to put on the cpu die is into the realm of Santa Claus.
To put well over eight billion of them and a CPU on a single die? That would also be a huge leap. Even if we cut it back to 512 MB you have a well over four billion and a CPU on a die.
So without documentation of some kind that even the memory technology is right around the corner this is into Yeti, UFO, and Black Helicopter territory.
Will we see a gigabyte of super fast ram on the die? I am sure we will someday but it will probably be a cache for the 512 gigabytes of DDR-X that we are using with our 64 core CPUs.
Of course when Windows IX is released you will have to get and extra 512 gigabytes to keep it running. Of course if you are using Linux you will brag about how Linux with KDE-7 works just great with only 128 gigabytes.
So yes while some may see "Get back to me when it happens" it is actually just healthy skepticism. Not impossible by any stretch of the imagination heck if you told me I would have a one gigabyte storage device that cost under $20 ten years ago I would have said yea right. However I don't see on die memory ever replacing main memory. Huge cache's that rival to days main memory spaces but replacing main memory? Only in embedded devices where systems like that are already in existence. But then we could have some really cool embedded devices by then as well.
"First off, being a smartass in response to a cogent point doesn't make me listen to you. It makes you look like you care more about appearing smart than being smart."
You have a point but that mystery memory break through is right up with the 100 mpg carburetor or any other mystery tech. Until it is in production it doesn't exist. The math is pretty ugly no matter how you look at it. If you developed a memory tech that is as fast as SRAM and managed to get it down to one transistor per bit well do the math.
1 GB of ram would add 8 billion tranistors to the die.
Four GB pushes that to 32 billion transistors...
Even then in a few years four GBs will be standard on PC at least those that are 64 bit.
I would say it isn't piracy at all.
There are more and more HD DVD camcorders coming on the market.
A lot of people don't want to watch them on a computer.
Actually HD-DVD needs only one thing to beat BlueRay.
An HD-DVD player for under $100.
I don't know anybody that has a BlueRay player that isn't in a PS3. I only know one person that has a PS3. I am the only person I know that has an HD-DVD player.
Well the real way that HD-DVD can win would be to get Nintendo to put one in the Wii and keep the cost at where it is
Well if would work with kudzu it would be wonderful.
The funny thing is that kudzu really is about a perfect plant. It is editable. The leaves can be eaten is a salad and the roots can be eaten as a starch like a potato. The Flowers can be made in to a jelly. It can also be used for animal feed. It is also a legume so it actually puts nitrogen back into the soil. Even more if you plow the waist back in. And it grows with no fertizer and needs no chemicals. The problem is that well it grows like a weed.
"1) This would be a new memory technology."
Okay well get back to me when you finish with that little detail.
"2) What's sufficient? Well, that depends on the application. Just as you have chips geared at different applications today, you'd have chips geared at even more different applications. In case you haven't noticed, we're moving away from the general purpose computing device anyhow and increasingly into more specialized devices to meet specialized needs."
Not really. PC, Laptops, and even smart phones are staying or becoming more general purpose devices. But if you are right then the statement stands. They already have it. They are called microcontrollers. Right now they are 8-bit or 16-bit devices that often have flash and ram on board. And yes they are growing bigger all the time. A single chip version of the original IBM PC is very possible today.
"I don't claim to know a whole lot about processor tech, but I know that it wouldn't be hard to add this sort of optimization."
It is hard and it has been done. That is exactly what the cache does.
The tasks that need the memory the most stay in the cache longest.
Imagine that. You upload pictures to someone server and have little to no control who downloads them.
Top it off with the fact that MySpace really seem to be pretty poorly written to start with and it is no big shock.
What I don't get is how they didn't notice this one IP address sucking down this much data.
I guess they don't look at logs.
"What he means is: forget on-chip cache -- on-chip main memory. IOW, instead of having main memory on the motherboard, it would be embedded into your processor, running, presumable, at the same speed as the CPU."
Memory on the die has been done in micro controlers for years. It isn't going to happen on PCs for a long time.
"A CPU like this new VIA CPU might be slow, but if you had sufficient memory integrated right on the CPU die, it would blow the pants off your latest 4+GHz Core 2 Duo."
What is sufficient memory? 4 GB or Maybe 512 MB? There is a reason that they use Static ram for cache. It needs to be fast. So lets say that you get 512 MB on the die are you not going to allow the user to add more memory? Or how about this. You put 512 MB on the die and then let them add memory on the buss if they need more. And then you could have it swap memory from the slower buss memory in to the fast on die memory to speed everything up... Yea and we could call it a cache!
Until you can put the full address space on the die it will not work for anything but microcontrollers.
That is dumb.
If it is a one time throw away script to fix a one time problem then yes the programmer can use what ever he wants.
But if it is a tool then you may need to have other people maintain and work on it.
You can write any program in any language. Yes some are better than others but how well you know the language is also important. Also having multiple vendors for a language is also really useful. If only one vendor supports the language then they have a lot of control over your company. Take Foxpro and Visual Basic as examples.
"imagine anyone with any actual knowledge of IP law would have the same regard for us."
Probably worse. Let's face it calling the Internet "tubes" really wasn't all that stupid. I have often heard knowledgeable people talk about Internet connections as "pipes". On Slashdot people speak with so much arrogance about IP law and at the same time are so clueless that it is like a bad Holiday Inn Express commercial.
Shipping out five or ten is simple. 80,000 is hard.
You have to hire and train the people to do it. They have to get paid, taxes collected, schelde, deliveries must be timed shipping bills must be paid, boxes bought. Then you must make sure that the people do the work correctly and that they don't steal the notebooks.
It really isn't as simple as you think it is. Let's face it these people are note stupid but they are having problems with this. It only seems simple from the view point of arrogance and ignorance. Just shipping out 10,000 CDs for a software update is a big job.
'A /. post displays an ignorance of property law and/or confuses patents, copyright, and trademarks, and you're surprised?
You must be new here."
I was just in one of my optimistic moods. Don't worry it is long gone now.
They say that it can do 10mbits at 70km so I think it would be fast enough for YouTube.
What it will not be fast enough for is streaming HD-Video to your home.
The other problem with this spectrum is that the antenna has to be a lot larger than for a 2.4ghz. You can trade off efficiency for a smaller antenna but that also isn't great for a mobile device.
One thing I would love to see is a terrestrial positioning system using that spectrum. It should work in places where you can not get a GPS signal like in buildings and with three visible stations it should have no problem with locating you. With only three stations there will be two possible locations for you but since one will be under ground most of the time it should be good enough.
I am all for not being rude. Being polite is a good thing but.
"I am really not interested and I have to go, thank you for your time." Then you get up and go. Polite and simple. If they keep on after that they are being rude.
I had the same thing happen when I was canceling an ISP I got as a back up. They kept telling me how valued I was and kept offering me stuff. I finally said, "I want to end my relationship with your company. I do not want anymore services from your company. Good bye."
"Why wasnt this patent written so that in X number of years in became extinct and the contents of it went out under the GPL? "
All I can say Wow...
1 A patent is not a software license or a copyright. A patent does have a limited life span.
2. When a patent expires then it becomes totally free. Not free as beer, speech, or the GPL. Free as in public domain free. You can do anything you want with it after it expires.
So all I can say is WOW.....