It all comes down to historical facts. And fact is, Zuse was the first one to build a fully turing-compatible GP computer that was partially mechanical only because of the scarcity of parts on the civil market. German military had almost no interest in Zuse's work.
This is not about US vs Germany, or about who won the war, this argument is solely about historical accuracy. Look at the confirmed dates, the Z3 was first. No idea why that is even objectionable.
As far as Zuse's Z3 is concerned, it was not so much failure as in ineptitude as it was more unlucky circumstances. Zuse could just not get his hands on enough tubes and relais that could be diverted from the war industry and were still usable. That is the sole reason why he opted for mechanical memory made from flattened out coffee cans. Zuse was well capable of building a fully electronic GP computer and would have done so if he had the parts for it. Along with the Z3 came also the first GP programming language "Plankalkül".
Zuse was a computing genius, one of the best engineers the world has seen. It is always sad to see that his groundbreaking work still gets basically no credit. There is no hatred towards the US. The ENIAC was an engineering marvel in its own right and the people creating and running it geniuses as well. Same applies to the Colossus. As far as history goes, they were not the first. And as far as the contribution of a single person is concerned, Zuse did it all while ENIAC and Colossus had entire teams of engineers and scientists to draw from.
It does not require a monopoly, it only requires commanding market share. As far as Internet searches and mobile OS goes, Google clearly as a commanding market share.
And typically, the US media (including slashdot) focuses on this because Google is a US company. The EU commissions have similar proceedings against numerous companies from Europe and Asia going all the time. Yes, they are not all as big as Google or Microsoft, but this isn't only about singling out US companies with a lot of money. It applies to ALL companies who get caught not playing by the rules.
I got interested in these "new leasing models" and they are not good for homeowners. They often run over 20 years requiring leasing payments for 20 years, regardless of who owns the house. And after that? The panels will be EOL and the owner is stuck with replacing them. While there is still a level of satisfaction to be 'green' it is also a matter of economics. And these "new leasing models" clearly only favor the sleazy companies who rake in not only the money for any excess power sent to the grid, they also sack any tax incentives...and who knows which yahoos they hire to drill holes into the roof and muck around at the panel.
I rather buy panels and have the choice of hiring an expert installer. I am sure I can pay off the loan in way less than 20 years, keep my tax incentives, and keep the payments for the excess power.
As with anything, leasing is a great option for people who do not have any money or credit, or that have too much money. Like leasing a car, almost pay as much as you would for outright buying a car, but once done you don't own anything but are stuck with plenty of liability.
Moral and ethical behavior may not allow for the überaggressive push into established or new markets, it may be in the way of short term profits, but it is the base for long term success. People don't like it if they get screwed and they remember it for a very long time. Everyone who was done wrong by Über or read about it (by now quite many people) will not make this service their first choice.
I do not know what Über's business plan is, maybe they just want to be like a thief, grab the money and run. If they want to be around a few years from now then changing behavior is long overdue. As a company it is always better to voluntarily improve the own standing before others make you do it.
For millennia young people congregated in schools and were taught important life lessons and beyond, often without blackboards, books, or anything. Out of a sudden we cannot do this anymore unless every child has an overpriced iPad, fast Internet pipes, smartboards, and other school tech that is outdated before the bonds mature? Where is the fund that properly trains teachers on how to use the equipment? Where is the fund for core academic improvements? I gladly pay for any programs that actually teach the children something. I won't pay for buying a bunch of cool stuff that nobody knows how to use and that is yesterday's tech by the time it gets installed. Instead of going on a tech buying binge, how about fixing the horrible inaccurate science and history books and replacing educational crimes like "Everyday Math"!? Courses like "Everyday Math" are the reason why high school grads by now are inept to even keep hockey scores. No tech in the world fixes these academic flaws.
...would be to stop p*ssing that many people off. Congress hasn't done a thing for the past two years and the President isn't fairing much better. If government and Congress would start doing their jobs rather than having one side suggest something and the other side only saying "No" to everything much less people would be motivated to run past guards busy updating their FB status.
After all, positions like these are intentionally called "public office". We already have enough secrecy and walling in in DC.
Which market? There is no market. Google Glass is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist...and a freakishly expensive solution that is tethered to a freakishly expensive smart phone that requires a freakishly expensive data plan...all in all too expensive for even the most freakish creeps.
"AMD and Ubisoft are continuing to work together closely to resolve the issue" - Well, Ubisoft, that is something quality assurance should have done BEFORE launching the product! AMD equipped systems are not that uncommon these days and a well organized beta test should have pointed to this problem if it didn't come up before.
Then again, 100 fps?? Really? Why? The human eye cannot resolve more than 15 to 16 frames per second. If under heaviest load the frame rate clocks in at around 50 fps and normally does around 70 fps it ought to be plenty because anything higher will have no real impact on the viewer.
In any case, it is always bad practice to first blame everyone else when there is trouble.
....if police forces across the globe would not be known for constantly abusing their powers and sniffing around in people's lives without having any reason to do so.
A driver's license is a certification stating that the holder received sufficient training (ehem, yes, in an ideal world) to operate heavy machinery in public. That is for the same reason why we want licensed electricians, licensed architects, and licenses car mechanics.
I never understood the need for a marriage license. I could see a point if that was the certificate that the other person is either unmarried or legally married to one or more other persons (yes, bigamy is widely frowned upon, but it is commonplace). When I got the marriage license I even had to get my blood tested for who know what, but not HIV or other diseases that would make the other think twice.
...are to be spent on updating the nuclear weapons arsenal until 2025. Really? Are you f***ing kidding me? Are they serious??? What the *bleep* do we even need nuclear weapons for and especially that many? Yes, I understand that it is supposedly a deterrent, but with the trillions of Dollars that it will take to modernize the quadruple destruction power of earth we better fix the issues for other people so that they don't have to sit in mud huts and get bored leading to ideas like attacking the US.
Just junk the nukes and do something that has a true and long lasting impact on mankind.
Eugene Kaspersky is Putin's sauna buddy and their AV product is engaging in funky behavior. Unfortunately, my company's IT decided to ditch our old AV and go with Kaspersky instead. Not because it is better, less a performance drag, more compatible, or anything - quite contrary. The decision was made because we need some AV to check off a box on a list for management and do so by spending the least amount of money. Leaves us cubicle dwellers wondering who ships GB of data every night to a data center in Canada...it is Kaspersky AV! We asked why and got no response. Since that database server may hold customer data at times we cut the cord for Kaspersky and since then the nights are quiet.
Since then I disregard anything Kaspersky or its mouthholes claim even more than before. Might as well install some Chinese AV or any other malware that downloads gobs of data for 'our protection'.
I think football is more likely to trigger violence than anything else. I'm all in favor of shutting down the NFL and all the other football leagues....and the 'wrestling' stuff as well. I mean the fake stuff, not the real sport.
Yes, but I am still convinced that this is closely tied to maturity level, an aspect apparently ignored in this study. The study also only covers correlations. There is one set of data than can be made fit with another set of data. Correlation is not the same as cause and effect. As many studies before, it does not provide more than guesses and assumptions.
Lower gas prices are great, I like to pay less, but we already accustomed ourselves to higher prices. So the right thing to do is increase taxes on gasoline and have that funding go exclusively to infrastructure projects, such as fixing the gazillion potholes, crumbling bridges, and especially expanding rail and other public transit. If the idea is to raise taxes and throw it all in the big pot called general fund then forget it. If we pay more it should have meaning, not feed pet projects of powerful Congress people.
Don't use Facebook. If an email comes in asking for anything in regards to your Facebook account you know it is a scam. There really is no compelling reason to use Facebook or any other social networking site....other than wasting your time and getting p0wned.
The reason is that counting paper ballots takes time and effort. If a candidate got 80% of a million votes then a few thousand paper ballots will not make any difference as far as the result is concerned. The only way to overcome this is make the submission of a vote IDENTICAL for everyone: means pen and paper. Paper ballots go into a sealed envelope that gets dropped into a sealed and uniquely identified ballot box that is brought to the counting place. The opening of the ballot boxes as well as the counting has to be open to the public, same as it should be to allow the public to observe voting at polling places as long as that does not interfere with the voting process (5 witnesses is OK, 500 probably not). That is the only way for the public to organize voting control by tallying the votes cast and comparing them to the votes counted. It would eliminate stuffing the ballot boxes or exchanging them during transport or having special interests rig the final tallies.
That said, while there are problems with voting on a recurring basis do these problems impact the final results? If all those bad or denied votes would be counted for one or the other candidate, would that impact the results? With millions of votes cast having a few hundred tossed still needs to be investigated, but really does not matter.
Throw all these machines into the recycling bucket and go back to what works: pen and paper! Yes, counting might take a bit longer, but I rather wait an hour or more on results than have these effen machines eff things up. C'mon, the US boasts itself as the largest democracy and we can't even get the most fundamental thing right? Then again, the de facto two party system is only marginally better than the one party systems in China or North Korea.
A while back I switched to TWC because Verizon DSL was not worth a penny because it never worked right and was slow. TWC worked OK in the first place I lived. I then moved just two houses over and TWC...well....sucked. Internet was slow, TV didn't work right on most channels, on demand never worked. No matter how many times I called and no matter how many times they came they always blamed it on the wiring in the house....until I hooked up a small TV straight to the line coming in. There was severe snow on most of the analog channels and if there is noise on the analog signal there is noise on the digital signal. They tweaked it a bit on their end, but never really fixed it.
One fine day I got mail from TWC announcing that the monthly rate will increase by 40$. What for? By sheer coincidence the Verizon FiOS guy knocked at the door the same day and it was an easy sale for him. With FiOS Internet access is faster, I get more TV channels, and phone works fine as well....for about 50$ LESS than what I used to pay for TWC. Verizon isn't heaven on earth, but their stuff at least works. Nobody at TWC should be surprised that they shed subscribers.
....most favor them. That includes conservative Republican voters. Only when asked if folks like Obamacare they claim they loathe it despite agreeing with most of what it contains.
Still, as one of the richest countries on the world it is disgusting that there are so many arguing against universal healthcare and instead make health as well as life and death a matter of income.
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It all comes down to historical facts. And fact is, Zuse was the first one to build a fully turing-compatible GP computer that was partially mechanical only because of the scarcity of parts on the civil market. German military had almost no interest in Zuse's work. This is not about US vs Germany, or about who won the war, this argument is solely about historical accuracy. Look at the confirmed dates, the Z3 was first. No idea why that is even objectionable.
As far as Zuse's Z3 is concerned, it was not so much failure as in ineptitude as it was more unlucky circumstances. Zuse could just not get his hands on enough tubes and relais that could be diverted from the war industry and were still usable. That is the sole reason why he opted for mechanical memory made from flattened out coffee cans. Zuse was well capable of building a fully electronic GP computer and would have done so if he had the parts for it. Along with the Z3 came also the first GP programming language "Plankalkül". Zuse was a computing genius, one of the best engineers the world has seen. It is always sad to see that his groundbreaking work still gets basically no credit. There is no hatred towards the US. The ENIAC was an engineering marvel in its own right and the people creating and running it geniuses as well. Same applies to the Colossus. As far as history goes, they were not the first. And as far as the contribution of a single person is concerned, Zuse did it all while ENIAC and Colossus had entire teams of engineers and scientists to draw from.
In Germany a mobile phone is called "Handy".
There are still some judges left that use common sense and reject to become tools for orvellian spy programs.
Now that the Republicans have a majority in Congress climate change will be abolished. It will not longer exist, Ted Cruz said so.
It does not require a monopoly, it only requires commanding market share. As far as Internet searches and mobile OS goes, Google clearly as a commanding market share. And typically, the US media (including slashdot) focuses on this because Google is a US company. The EU commissions have similar proceedings against numerous companies from Europe and Asia going all the time. Yes, they are not all as big as Google or Microsoft, but this isn't only about singling out US companies with a lot of money. It applies to ALL companies who get caught not playing by the rules.
I got interested in these "new leasing models" and they are not good for homeowners. They often run over 20 years requiring leasing payments for 20 years, regardless of who owns the house. And after that? The panels will be EOL and the owner is stuck with replacing them. While there is still a level of satisfaction to be 'green' it is also a matter of economics. And these "new leasing models" clearly only favor the sleazy companies who rake in not only the money for any excess power sent to the grid, they also sack any tax incentives...and who knows which yahoos they hire to drill holes into the roof and muck around at the panel. I rather buy panels and have the choice of hiring an expert installer. I am sure I can pay off the loan in way less than 20 years, keep my tax incentives, and keep the payments for the excess power. As with anything, leasing is a great option for people who do not have any money or credit, or that have too much money. Like leasing a car, almost pay as much as you would for outright buying a car, but once done you don't own anything but are stuck with plenty of liability.
Moral and ethical behavior may not allow for the überaggressive push into established or new markets, it may be in the way of short term profits, but it is the base for long term success. People don't like it if they get screwed and they remember it for a very long time. Everyone who was done wrong by Über or read about it (by now quite many people) will not make this service their first choice. I do not know what Über's business plan is, maybe they just want to be like a thief, grab the money and run. If they want to be around a few years from now then changing behavior is long overdue. As a company it is always better to voluntarily improve the own standing before others make you do it.
For millennia young people congregated in schools and were taught important life lessons and beyond, often without blackboards, books, or anything. Out of a sudden we cannot do this anymore unless every child has an overpriced iPad, fast Internet pipes, smartboards, and other school tech that is outdated before the bonds mature? Where is the fund that properly trains teachers on how to use the equipment? Where is the fund for core academic improvements? I gladly pay for any programs that actually teach the children something. I won't pay for buying a bunch of cool stuff that nobody knows how to use and that is yesterday's tech by the time it gets installed. Instead of going on a tech buying binge, how about fixing the horrible inaccurate science and history books and replacing educational crimes like "Everyday Math"!? Courses like "Everyday Math" are the reason why high school grads by now are inept to even keep hockey scores. No tech in the world fixes these academic flaws.
...would be to stop p*ssing that many people off. Congress hasn't done a thing for the past two years and the President isn't fairing much better. If government and Congress would start doing their jobs rather than having one side suggest something and the other side only saying "No" to everything much less people would be motivated to run past guards busy updating their FB status. After all, positions like these are intentionally called "public office". We already have enough secrecy and walling in in DC.
Which market? There is no market. Google Glass is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist...and a freakishly expensive solution that is tethered to a freakishly expensive smart phone that requires a freakishly expensive data plan...all in all too expensive for even the most freakish creeps.
"AMD and Ubisoft are continuing to work together closely to resolve the issue" - Well, Ubisoft, that is something quality assurance should have done BEFORE launching the product! AMD equipped systems are not that uncommon these days and a well organized beta test should have pointed to this problem if it didn't come up before. Then again, 100 fps?? Really? Why? The human eye cannot resolve more than 15 to 16 frames per second. If under heaviest load the frame rate clocks in at around 50 fps and normally does around 70 fps it ought to be plenty because anything higher will have no real impact on the viewer. In any case, it is always bad practice to first blame everyone else when there is trouble.
....if police forces across the globe would not be known for constantly abusing their powers and sniffing around in people's lives without having any reason to do so. A driver's license is a certification stating that the holder received sufficient training (ehem, yes, in an ideal world) to operate heavy machinery in public. That is for the same reason why we want licensed electricians, licensed architects, and licenses car mechanics. I never understood the need for a marriage license. I could see a point if that was the certificate that the other person is either unmarried or legally married to one or more other persons (yes, bigamy is widely frowned upon, but it is commonplace). When I got the marriage license I even had to get my blood tested for who know what, but not HIV or other diseases that would make the other think twice.
...are to be spent on updating the nuclear weapons arsenal until 2025. Really? Are you f***ing kidding me? Are they serious??? What the *bleep* do we even need nuclear weapons for and especially that many? Yes, I understand that it is supposedly a deterrent, but with the trillions of Dollars that it will take to modernize the quadruple destruction power of earth we better fix the issues for other people so that they don't have to sit in mud huts and get bored leading to ideas like attacking the US. Just junk the nukes and do something that has a true and long lasting impact on mankind.
Eugene Kaspersky is Putin's sauna buddy and their AV product is engaging in funky behavior. Unfortunately, my company's IT decided to ditch our old AV and go with Kaspersky instead. Not because it is better, less a performance drag, more compatible, or anything - quite contrary. The decision was made because we need some AV to check off a box on a list for management and do so by spending the least amount of money. Leaves us cubicle dwellers wondering who ships GB of data every night to a data center in Canada...it is Kaspersky AV! We asked why and got no response. Since that database server may hold customer data at times we cut the cord for Kaspersky and since then the nights are quiet. Since then I disregard anything Kaspersky or its mouthholes claim even more than before. Might as well install some Chinese AV or any other malware that downloads gobs of data for 'our protection'.
...football and baseball???
I think football is more likely to trigger violence than anything else. I'm all in favor of shutting down the NFL and all the other football leagues....and the 'wrestling' stuff as well. I mean the fake stuff, not the real sport.
Yes, but I am still convinced that this is closely tied to maturity level, an aspect apparently ignored in this study. The study also only covers correlations. There is one set of data than can be made fit with another set of data. Correlation is not the same as cause and effect. As many studies before, it does not provide more than guesses and assumptions.
Lower gas prices are great, I like to pay less, but we already accustomed ourselves to higher prices. So the right thing to do is increase taxes on gasoline and have that funding go exclusively to infrastructure projects, such as fixing the gazillion potholes, crumbling bridges, and especially expanding rail and other public transit. If the idea is to raise taxes and throw it all in the big pot called general fund then forget it. If we pay more it should have meaning, not feed pet projects of powerful Congress people.
Don't use Facebook. If an email comes in asking for anything in regards to your Facebook account you know it is a scam. There really is no compelling reason to use Facebook or any other social networking site....other than wasting your time and getting p0wned.
The reason is that counting paper ballots takes time and effort. If a candidate got 80% of a million votes then a few thousand paper ballots will not make any difference as far as the result is concerned. The only way to overcome this is make the submission of a vote IDENTICAL for everyone: means pen and paper. Paper ballots go into a sealed envelope that gets dropped into a sealed and uniquely identified ballot box that is brought to the counting place. The opening of the ballot boxes as well as the counting has to be open to the public, same as it should be to allow the public to observe voting at polling places as long as that does not interfere with the voting process (5 witnesses is OK, 500 probably not). That is the only way for the public to organize voting control by tallying the votes cast and comparing them to the votes counted. It would eliminate stuffing the ballot boxes or exchanging them during transport or having special interests rig the final tallies. That said, while there are problems with voting on a recurring basis do these problems impact the final results? If all those bad or denied votes would be counted for one or the other candidate, would that impact the results? With millions of votes cast having a few hundred tossed still needs to be investigated, but really does not matter.
Throw all these machines into the recycling bucket and go back to what works: pen and paper! Yes, counting might take a bit longer, but I rather wait an hour or more on results than have these effen machines eff things up. C'mon, the US boasts itself as the largest democracy and we can't even get the most fundamental thing right? Then again, the de facto two party system is only marginally better than the one party systems in China or North Korea.
All year DST is preferred from my end, but it would at least help to switch DST at the same dates like the rest of the world.
A while back I switched to TWC because Verizon DSL was not worth a penny because it never worked right and was slow. TWC worked OK in the first place I lived. I then moved just two houses over and TWC...well....sucked. Internet was slow, TV didn't work right on most channels, on demand never worked. No matter how many times I called and no matter how many times they came they always blamed it on the wiring in the house....until I hooked up a small TV straight to the line coming in. There was severe snow on most of the analog channels and if there is noise on the analog signal there is noise on the digital signal. They tweaked it a bit on their end, but never really fixed it. One fine day I got mail from TWC announcing that the monthly rate will increase by 40$. What for? By sheer coincidence the Verizon FiOS guy knocked at the door the same day and it was an easy sale for him. With FiOS Internet access is faster, I get more TV channels, and phone works fine as well....for about 50$ LESS than what I used to pay for TWC. Verizon isn't heaven on earth, but their stuff at least works. Nobody at TWC should be surprised that they shed subscribers.
....most favor them. That includes conservative Republican voters. Only when asked if folks like Obamacare they claim they loathe it despite agreeing with most of what it contains. Still, as one of the richest countries on the world it is disgusting that there are so many arguing against universal healthcare and instead make health as well as life and death a matter of income.