1. USB sticks. These things are a serious nightmare.
Not true for at least half a decade.
2. Machine vision libraries. Our vendor is awesome and was willing to port their libraries to anything we wanted. However, the warning was that we would be the only users (or one of only a handful) on a non-Windows system. We were not willing to take that risk.
If you use off-the-shelf, general-purpose yet proprietary single-vendor machine vision library for industrial control, you are doing it seriously wrong.
As in, sending military abroad to take over foreign countries, killing countless thousands of people in the process and throwing most of survivors into poverty?
Freedom of speech must remain one of the foundations of this country.
You mean, spamming all forms of media with political ads.
Considering the length of a typical soundbite spewed by political propaganda, I would rather see it all done using public money, making sure that all messages are _heard_.
Of course, "freedom of speech" only applies to speech to the public in the first place. Paying for privileged access to the public officials (what supports lobbyists in the first place) is clearly a form of corruption.
When exactly North Korea or Libya were involved in wars abroad, leave alone committed war crimes while doing so?
If you compared fuckheadedness of leaders, I guess, all those three would indeed stand out (but then Iran, Saudi Arabia and US-installed current governments of Iraq and Afghanistan, and a large chunk of Africa would have to join them), but this has nothing to do with indiscriminate killing of foreigners, aggressive wars, or other war crimes.
Actually I am pretty content with Microsoft shills being so obvious. It's ones that write long seemingly pro-Linux comments then squirt some idiotic crap at the end, that I consider dangerous.
I don't understand what your argument is. US space program suffered from poor choice of direction in 80's, and USSR/Russian one suffered greater damage in 90's due to massive damage to the economy and neglect from politicians. Plenty of things that would be useful otherwise, were placed on hold until ISS, and plenty are still not being developed or not being used to their potential. This does not mean that it was a bad idea to work on them in 70's, it means that value of that work was at large extent destroyed by different people making different decisions at a different, much later, time.
At this point Skype's primary product is not service being sold to users (it is barely profitable or, more likely, unprofitable and would remain so until some serious monopolization), it's users being sold to Microsoft. Not unlike Myspace's primary product being in their users being sold to News Corp.(who mismanaged it horribly), Facebook's primary product being marketing data, and Google primary product being advertisement service.
So is Bob Metcalfe (formally, ever more so because with a very small exception every IP packet transmitted over any kind of a network had passed through at least one Ethernet segment, yet plenty of Ethernet frames are used for protocols other than IP). And he wrote plenty of things that are wrong or stupid.
Oh wow! If there was ever a Microsoft shill more obvious than this one -- he doesn't even pretend to write anything relevant to the issue being discussed, and just copy-pastes marketing drivel.
Of course in typical NIH fashion, since APAS was mostly a Soviet/Russian invention, NASA went and developed Yet-another-dock, they called Low-impact-docking-system (or LIDS) for the now-cancelled Orion project, which is a simplified APAS, but of course totally incompatible.
As a result of this mess the international space community finally recently (last year) created the InternationalDockingStandard which is basically a hybrid between APAS-95 and LIDS and of course not implemented by anyone yet...
Of course if your mission doesn't fly with the right APAS, there's theoretically no way to dock which means in practice, there's no way to rescue a crew w/o using an airlock (which you would have to do anyhow if the pressurization was different between the two ships).
Well, this is what you get when you suddenly have an end of a project, attack of patriotism, NIH, movie-prop-driven engineering and your military insists on some seriously impractical requirements for the new generation of spacecraft. My point is, however little immediate effect the project had, it involved co-operation between politicians much further apart on then-current political spectrum than modern US and China, and if US chosen more rational approach to spaceships development, it would allow more immediately practical uses.
There was a joint Soyuz-Apollo project. Mostly symbolic, but it had some practical value -- it standardized docking equipment and procedures, made it possible at least in theory, for USSR and US spaceships to be used to rescuing crew from each other in case of emergency... Too bad, US ended Apollo soon after that, and placed all its effort into that fat Concorde-shaped thing.
You fail at logic. If companies indeed "exist at the leisure of the federal government", they can not be "stronger" than the government because if government would decide that they no longer exist (following whatever process is appropriate), they would instantly disappear. The problem is, US government is corrupt, and subverts most of its own functions in case when it can harm corporations, thus effectively acting as their servant. This is the weakness of the kind that should be fixed, and it will not be fixed until government will regain the ability to destroy companies when they no longer serve public good and refuse to act in a responsible manner.
It would be very difficult for them to declare Silverlight the preferred technology for cross-platform applications considering that Silverlight is not cross-platform in the first place.
I'm over 40 years old and haven't met one person ever that wants a super-powerful central government that can give them anything they want and neither have you.
Maybe he met me.
I really don't care what government can "give" me, however if a government can not crush like a bug the most powerful company in the country that it supposedly governs, then it really governs nothing.
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1. USB sticks. These things are a serious nightmare.
Not true for at least half a decade.
2. Machine vision libraries. Our vendor is awesome and was willing to port their libraries to anything we wanted. However, the warning was that we would be the only users (or one of only a handful) on a non-Windows system. We were not willing to take that risk.
If you use off-the-shelf, general-purpose yet proprietary single-vendor machine vision library for industrial control, you are doing it seriously wrong.
"Fueling"?
As in, sending military abroad to take over foreign countries, killing countless thousands of people in the process and throwing most of survivors into poverty?
Freedom of speech must remain one of the foundations of this country.
You mean, spamming all forms of media with political ads.
Considering the length of a typical soundbite spewed by political propaganda, I would rather see it all done using public money, making sure that all messages are _heard_.
Of course, "freedom of speech" only applies to speech to the public in the first place. Paying for privileged access to the public officials (what supports lobbyists in the first place) is clearly a form of corruption.
But what are you going to do when it will show that ALL your government officials and top corporate executives are sociopaths?
You mean, representing huge, powerful businesses that operate in their states, against interests of everyone else living in their states?
Actually 4chan, of all things, does have clearly defined rules about that. This is why the expression "underage b&" exists.
When exactly North Korea or Libya were involved in wars abroad, leave alone committed war crimes while doing so?
If you compared fuckheadedness of leaders, I guess, all those three would indeed stand out (but then Iran, Saudi Arabia and US-installed current governments of Iraq and Afghanistan, and a large chunk of Africa would have to join them), but this has nothing to do with indiscriminate killing of foreigners, aggressive wars, or other war crimes.
I am Jewish, and Assange disappoints me -- he posts about all conspiracies except ours!
(I am actually Jewish, so I am allowed to make Jewish jokes).
Actually I am pretty content with Microsoft shills being so obvious. It's ones that write long seemingly pro-Linux comments then squirt some idiotic crap at the end, that I consider dangerous.
I don't understand what your argument is. US space program suffered from poor choice of direction in 80's, and USSR/Russian one suffered greater damage in 90's due to massive damage to the economy and neglect from politicians. Plenty of things that would be useful otherwise, were placed on hold until ISS, and plenty are still not being developed or not being used to their potential. This does not mean that it was a bad idea to work on them in 70's, it means that value of that work was at large extent destroyed by different people making different decisions at a different, much later, time.
Non-Microsoft shills? In my Microsoft-shill-infested thread?
It's more likely than you think.
I am sure, they have sufficient supply of ill-tempered, incompetent fat people for all your executive hiring needs.
I can assure you, if that comment had anything to do with Communism, I would recognize it there -- and I don't.
Monopoly on users, not service.
At this point Skype's primary product is not service being sold to users (it is barely profitable or, more likely, unprofitable and would remain so until some serious monopolization), it's users being sold to Microsoft. Not unlike Myspace's primary product being in their users being sold to News Corp.(who mismanaged it horribly), Facebook's primary product being marketing data, and Google primary product being advertisement service.
Hey, look, Microsoft shills are pretending to argue with each other!
So is Bob Metcalfe (formally, ever more so because with a very small exception every IP packet transmitted over any kind of a network had passed through at least one Ethernet segment, yet plenty of Ethernet frames are used for protocols other than IP). And he wrote plenty of things that are wrong or stupid.
Oh wow! If there was ever a Microsoft shill more obvious than this one -- he doesn't even pretend to write anything relevant to the issue being discussed, and just copy-pastes marketing drivel.
Of course in typical NIH fashion, since APAS was mostly a Soviet/Russian invention, NASA went and developed Yet-another-dock, they called Low-impact-docking-system (or LIDS) for the now-cancelled Orion project, which is a simplified APAS, but of course totally incompatible.
As a result of this mess the international space community finally recently (last year) created the InternationalDockingStandard which is basically a hybrid between APAS-95 and LIDS and of course not implemented by anyone yet...
Of course if your mission doesn't fly with the right APAS, there's theoretically no way to dock which means in practice, there's no way to rescue a crew w/o using an airlock (which you would have to do anyhow if the pressurization was different between the two ships).
Well, this is what you get when you suddenly have an end of a project, attack of patriotism, NIH, movie-prop-driven engineering and your military insists on some seriously impractical requirements for the new generation of spacecraft. My point is, however little immediate effect the project had, it involved co-operation between politicians much further apart on then-current political spectrum than modern US and China, and if US chosen more rational approach to spaceships development, it would allow more immediately practical uses.
There was a joint Soyuz-Apollo project. Mostly symbolic, but it had some practical value -- it standardized docking equipment and procedures, made it possible at least in theory, for USSR and US spaceships to be used to rescuing crew from each other in case of emergency... Too bad, US ended Apollo soon after that, and placed all its effort into that fat Concorde-shaped thing.
First off, ideas have value. As in Dollar value.
Not even draconian US "intellectual property" law supports that kind of idiocy.
You fail at logic. If companies indeed "exist at the leisure of the federal government", they can not be "stronger" than the government because if government would decide that they no longer exist (following whatever process is appropriate), they would instantly disappear. The problem is, US government is corrupt, and subverts most of its own functions in case when it can harm corporations, thus effectively acting as their servant. This is the weakness of the kind that should be fixed, and it will not be fixed until government will regain the ability to destroy companies when they no longer serve public good and refuse to act in a responsible manner.
It costs pocket change to develop Skype.
FTFY.
It would be very difficult for them to declare Silverlight the preferred technology for cross-platform applications considering that Silverlight is not cross-platform in the first place.
This is bullshit -- there are plenty of fully supported laptops at any price level.
I'm over 40 years old and haven't met one person ever that wants a super-powerful central government that can give them anything they want and neither have you.
Maybe he met me.
I really don't care what government can "give" me, however if a government can not crush like a bug the most powerful company in the country that it supposedly governs, then it really governs nothing.