I've got a question for all the Obama Campaign/Democratic Party astroturfers here today spreading the outright lie about Palin using her personal Yahoo email account for official State business despite all the evidence and indications to the contrary.
Just because something bad actually happened to Palin does not discount the proof. By the way, there are plenty of US citizens that do not want to pay for another personal jet for Ms H1-B Fiorina.
You're probably looking for Kia, Daewoo, Fiat, and the many other econoboxes that seem to make it either extremely small or extremely expensive.
If it was designed as a car with at least 6 cylinders and >170hp as a base model(for what Ford/GM/Chrysler have made), making and sustaining 80 isn't a problem. It's the 4 cylinder "econoboxes" like the Focus, and many Far Eastern makes that have an issue with sustaining higher speeds (even a modified GM Quad-4 has had a ton of issues with that). That is a problem best solved by allowing something similar to a 90's Impala SS or Crown Victoria in hybrid form (without it being deep in >$20k+ territory) to be built and sold.
If they're worried about the Focus having it, it's only just to get enough acceptance to run it through the whole model set - no thank you sir. I'll just buy used, Detroit built, and with at least 6cyl/200HP, tyvm.
Now that the MDY/Glider issue has been dealt with, can you get strict enough to laying down the law on regions known for botting/farming and keeping them quarantined in their own area? I still see too many advertisements for RMT outside of game to think there has been much enforcement (as opposed to a certain new competitor's focus on immediate enforcement).
Is there likely to be a cultural problem in the USA with electric cars being smaller than most internal combustion engine cars?
Yes. If it looks like Detroit had no hand in its design(by its cheapness/smallness being a non-Detroit element), has less than 5-6 cylinders(GM tried with the Quad-4 resulting in worse performance for higher-rated versions), and only drops below $20000 used, there is a cultural problem.
You still have a sizable and non-ignorable audience that wants to see the return of affordable land yachts. They would rather have a revamped version of the 1990's Impala SS/Classic or even try to get an Police Interceptor at an auction over something that seems a bit too undersized for US roads. These people will not be impressed with much less.
They will not give up their *block engine unless they see *block performance under the hood, for something that isn't in the stratosphere in price, and looks like it did come out of Detroit (and not some far-off part of the world).
Unless businesses send unionbusting (aka "Labor Relations") firms packing, or are unable to stuff the elections with guaranteed no-voters, then it is one thing that must happen.
It's one thing to do it cheap, but I'd rather wait for the fine folks at IBM/Lenovo make a shot at making one with quality. Asus and such seem to just cut corners wherever and hope you don't notice.
As for the ratings: Hopefully they do the right thing and separate them into their own category. Netbooks have done enough damage to kill off S-IPS and reduce quality.
Quality that will be driven out in 5+ years.
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Because the $300 LCD panels won't have much quality to them - you will not see S-IPS or even PVA quality, just TN. Failing that, just use it as a monitor if it's not too big, and is 1080p.
The result has been the same wherever caps have been implemented. There will always be someone who will buy enough influence to get their content exempted while the rest of the data gets put under the cap.
Nice attempt for some to demonize high usage to defend metering. Unfortunately it just smacks of jealousy.
If you have capped infrastructure, do not peddle it on us or encourage our ISPs to fall in line. Do something about it on your end, for that is where the problem exists.
Well, NCR did screw with a lot of people after AT&T bought them in the 80's. They are not the humanely profitable(nor innovative) employer they once were. Now they make do with clone machines and Dell/Gateway/3rd World Country rebrands.
That, and they've allowed a certain university roll over the town's history (Building 26). There is no good blood that exists that hasn't been forcibly removed from NCR.
Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner, and AT&T aren't? They're not bad as Telstra right now, but Comcast is heading dangerously close(with enough ability to get the others in line).
(despite there being signs of a crafted complaint, posting anyway)
Why on earth the US ISPs have tried telling you that you can just use as much bandwidth as you want, for so long, I'll never understand.
Because the demand is for a bulk pipe, not Compuserve, nor an overpriced Leased Line. They get away with it by being the only choice in many regions.
56k lines require the same limitations. That blows away your argument in that area completely.
Having it at 19.95 is one thing. Having the only choices be metered at $20-$70+ versus upwards of hundreds for a leased line is not a real choice at all. It is a sign of abuse of government by business.
... The idea that the entire population can subsidize a minority with an extremely high download quantity actually isn't necessarily the only way to live.' Of course, this also explains why we Australians do not have truly unlimited plans."
It is quite a popular one if you describe the US model as such. Enough distaste with that model is what got rid of it, and what drives many to keep it that way.
It offers too much ability to abuse, with a long record of it in the US - Comcast being the prominent example.
But only as a tool to fill jobs that cannot be filled with local resources.
That is a loophole that makes the Grand Canyon look small.
It is used to bypass citizens by:
* Policy that disqualifies every citizen by impossibility or hunting for a disqualification that will stick * Policy that includes attributes that pass EEOC but are H1B/L1 targeted such as the use of languages not typically spoken by citizen applicants
It takes away the ability to vote with one's feet save for cleaning The Inevitable Mess after they come in.
Perhaps you should wonder why your citizens/subjects(or however it is called) are given second class status outside of finance, courtesy of Ms. Thatcher the Butcher.
Such quality can be had from IBM/Lenovo's older X series Thinkpads. They last longer than the cheaply built machines out there, and don't have the speed/capacity limitations.
I think hotels *should* charge by the bit if they want to -- I just think that they'll have to get by without my patronage -- just like a hotel that wanted to charge extra for towels, by the liter for hot water and toilet flushing, and by the joule for electricity (including elevator rides!) would find me checking out quickly, or more likely, never staying there.
It would attract environmentalists.
If you don't want this sort of regime, use your wallet to try to stop it -- hunt around, find hotels and service providers who say things like "No, we used to charge by the bit, but it turned out to be a source of bad feeling, and not worth the money".
It is useless when a large enough portion does it. Then you have no choice at all save for regulation against it.
Killed off platforms(and making it a Cardinal Sin to suggest anything regarding opening them up), developed ZFS and Dtrace, and evangelized those two features. Of course, they also make shiny clones and servers.
Sun was intelligent enough to "open" a major part of the solaris code base as OpenSolaris and with that its too has a cult following.
Explains why they vigorously defend the parts that remain.
And because of its code base going open, it now supports a larger range of hardware and utilities.
Except for parts like the sun4m/sbus codebase which they want to keep closed (save for an activist shareholder).
A few years ago installing Solaris on a 512MB x86 was impossible.
Now, getting them to do the same feat on some of their own "preferred" machines(read sun4m's, even with ROSS's) is practically impossible.
Of course, there are some that will beg to differ, and say that it was good to kill that platform. Of course, they forget the lack of documentation (SunPC/PCI, and such)
Perhaps Sun seems to think that issues like Dtrace can kill platforms and most add-on documentation as well.
If Sun's competitors did as Sun did:
IBM: Anything less than a 7044-170(POWER3-II) would be stuck in AIX 4.3 and have no documentation for its addons. They'd stonewall you despite the 7043-150 being CHRP and having the ability to take similar hardware. They'd discourage people from using 7043-260's due to some "unresolvable to IBM" bug, but you could still use them. You'd have kernel devs telling you that an upgrade to smit was why they dropped it. (yes, they dropped POWER3-II after 5.3, but at least they gave microchannel some use with AIX/L and POWER3/-II boxes have good support under Linux.)
HP: They'd drop the entire architecture and not tell you. You only find out when the next model up has an HP logo but a Dell body. (Given the heritage of HP's Hurd, I would not be surprised if they go that route)
Unions help when there's a surplus of workers in the market, so that the workers have to use extraordinary means to force the company to improve their condition
Note the perpetually created surplus, courtesy of allowing unelected individuals write trade policy.
The reason they don't do this is the same reason that car factory workers outside of Michigan think twice about unionizing: when you force the pay and benefits to an artificially high level, then it's easier for competition from areas that aren't unionized to take over for you.
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I've got a question for all the Obama Campaign/Democratic Party astroturfers here today spreading the outright lie about Palin using her personal Yahoo email account for official State business despite all the evidence and indications to the contrary.
Just because something bad actually happened to Palin does not discount the proof. By the way, there are plenty of US citizens that do not want to pay for another personal jet for Ms H1-B Fiorina.
Do Fords even go up to 80?
You're probably looking for Kia, Daewoo, Fiat, and the many other econoboxes that seem to make it either extremely small or extremely expensive.
If it was designed as a car with at least 6 cylinders and >170hp as a base model(for what Ford/GM/Chrysler have made), making and sustaining 80 isn't a problem. It's the 4 cylinder "econoboxes" like the Focus, and many Far Eastern makes that have an issue with sustaining higher speeds (even a modified GM Quad-4 has had a ton of issues with that). That is a problem best solved by allowing something similar to a 90's Impala SS or Crown Victoria in hybrid form (without it being deep in >$20k+ territory) to be built and sold.
If they're worried about the Focus having it, it's only just to get enough acceptance to run it through the whole model set - no thank you sir. I'll just buy used, Detroit built, and with at least 6cyl/200HP, tyvm.
Now that the MDY/Glider issue has been dealt with, can you get strict enough to laying down the law on regions known for botting/farming and keeping them quarantined in their own area? I still see too many advertisements for RMT outside of game to think there has been much enforcement (as opposed to a certain new competitor's focus on immediate enforcement).
Is there likely to be a cultural problem in the USA with electric cars being smaller than most internal combustion engine cars?
Yes. If it looks like Detroit had no hand in its design(by its cheapness/smallness being a non-Detroit element), has less than 5-6 cylinders(GM tried with the Quad-4 resulting in worse performance for higher-rated versions), and only drops below $20000 used, there is a cultural problem.
You still have a sizable and non-ignorable audience that wants to see the return of affordable land yachts. They would rather have a revamped version of the 1990's Impala SS/Classic or even try to get an Police Interceptor at an auction over something that seems a bit too undersized for US roads. These people will not be impressed with much less.
They will not give up their *block engine unless they see *block performance under the hood, for something that isn't in the stratosphere in price, and looks like it did come out of Detroit (and not some far-off part of the world).
Unless businesses send unionbusting (aka "Labor Relations") firms packing, or are unable to stuff the elections with guaranteed no-voters, then it is one thing that must happen.
Time to update regulations to account for the problem and start collecting.
It's one thing to do it cheap, but I'd rather wait for the fine folks at IBM/Lenovo make a shot at making one with quality. Asus and such seem to just cut corners wherever and hope you don't notice.
As for the ratings:
Hopefully they do the right thing and separate them into their own category. Netbooks have done enough damage to kill off S-IPS and reduce quality.
Because the $300 LCD panels won't have much quality to them - you will not see S-IPS or even PVA quality, just TN. Failing that, just use it as a monitor if it's not too big, and is 1080p.
The result has been the same wherever caps have been implemented. There will always be someone who will buy enough influence to get their content exempted while the rest of the data gets put under the cap.
Nice attempt for some to demonize high usage to defend metering. Unfortunately it just smacks of jealousy.
If you have capped infrastructure, do not peddle it on us or encourage our ISPs to fall in line. Do something about it on your end, for that is where the problem exists.
Well, NCR did screw with a lot of people after AT&T bought them in the 80's. They are not the humanely profitable(nor innovative) employer they once were. Now they make do with clone machines and Dell/Gateway/3rd World Country rebrands.
That, and they've allowed a certain university roll over the town's history (Building 26). There is no good blood that exists that hasn't been forcibly removed from NCR.
( or government blessed monopolies )
Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner, and AT&T aren't? They're not bad as Telstra right now, but Comcast is heading dangerously close(with enough ability to get the others in line).
Stop helping Comcast become what you are now.
(despite there being signs of a crafted complaint, posting anyway)
Why on earth the US ISPs have tried telling you that you can just use as much bandwidth as you want, for so long, I'll never understand.
Because the demand is for a bulk pipe, not Compuserve, nor an overpriced Leased Line. They get away with it by being the only choice in many regions.
56k lines require the same limitations. That blows away your argument in that area completely.
Having it at 19.95 is one thing. Having the only choices be metered at $20-$70+ versus upwards of hundreds for a leased line is not a real choice at all. It is a sign of abuse of government by business.
... The idea that the entire population can subsidize a minority with an extremely high download quantity actually isn't necessarily the only way to live.' Of course, this also explains why we Australians do not have truly unlimited plans."
It is quite a popular one if you describe the US model as such.
Enough distaste with that model is what got rid of it, and what drives many to keep it that way.
It offers too much ability to abuse, with a long record of it in the US - Comcast being the prominent example.
But only as a tool to fill jobs that cannot be filled with local resources.
That is a loophole that makes the Grand Canyon look small.
It is used to bypass citizens by:
* Policy that disqualifies every citizen by impossibility or hunting for a disqualification that will stick
* Policy that includes attributes that pass EEOC but are H1B/L1 targeted such as the use of languages not typically spoken by citizen applicants
It takes away the ability to vote with one's feet save for cleaning The Inevitable Mess after they come in.
Perhaps you should wonder why your citizens/subjects(or however it is called) are given second class status outside of finance, courtesy of Ms. Thatcher the Butcher.
For the most part, you described the Thinkpad.
Such quality can be had from IBM/Lenovo's older X series Thinkpads. They last longer than the cheaply built machines out there, and don't have the speed/capacity limitations.
I think hotels *should* charge by the bit if they want to -- I just think that they'll have to get by without my patronage -- just like a hotel that wanted to charge extra for towels, by the liter for hot water and toilet flushing, and by the joule for
electricity (including elevator rides!) would find me checking out quickly, or more likely, never staying there.
It would attract environmentalists.
If you don't want this sort of regime, use your wallet to try to stop it -- hunt around, find hotels and service providers who say things like "No, we used to charge by the bit, but it turned out to be a source of bad feeling, and not worth the money".
It is useless when a large enough portion does it. Then you have no choice at all save for regulation against it.
One more reason not to use Yahoo for certain sensitive needs.
(incoming overrated's in 3...2...1...)
What Has Sun Done Lately?
Killed off platforms(and making it a Cardinal Sin to suggest anything regarding opening them up), developed ZFS and Dtrace, and evangelized those two features. Of course, they also make shiny clones and servers.
Sun was intelligent enough to "open" a major part of the solaris code base as OpenSolaris and with that its too has a cult following.
Explains why they vigorously defend the parts that remain.
And because of its code base going open, it now supports a larger range of hardware and utilities.
Except for parts like the sun4m/sbus codebase which they want to keep closed (save for an activist shareholder).
A few years ago installing Solaris on a 512MB x86 was impossible.
Now, getting them to do the same feat on some of their own "preferred" machines(read sun4m's, even with ROSS's) is practically impossible.
Of course, there are some that will beg to differ, and say that it was good to kill that platform. Of course, they forget the lack of documentation (SunPC/PCI, and such)
I didn't know Family Guy joined in on making fun of the current Alaskan Governor.
Perhaps Sun seems to think that issues like Dtrace can kill platforms and most add-on documentation as well.
If Sun's competitors did as Sun did:
IBM: Anything less than a 7044-170(POWER3-II) would be stuck in AIX 4.3 and have no documentation for its addons. They'd stonewall you despite the 7043-150 being CHRP and having the ability to take similar hardware. They'd discourage people from using 7043-260's due to some "unresolvable to IBM" bug, but you could still use them. You'd have kernel devs telling you that an upgrade to smit was why they dropped it.
(yes, they dropped POWER3-II after 5.3, but at least they gave microchannel some use with AIX/L and POWER3/-II boxes have good support under Linux.)
HP: They'd drop the entire architecture and not tell you. You only find out when the next model up has an HP logo but a Dell body.
(Given the heritage of HP's Hurd, I would not be surprised if they go that route)
Any questions?
Unions help when there's a surplus of workers in the market, so that the workers have to use extraordinary means to force the company to improve their condition
Note the perpetually created surplus, courtesy of allowing unelected individuals write trade policy.
The reason they don't do this is the same reason that car factory workers outside of Michigan think twice about unionizing: when you force the pay and benefits to an artificially high level, then it's easier for competition from areas that aren't unionized to take over for you.
Remove the Taft-Hartley/RTW laws.
Now they seem to do about everything else after helping Colorado completely remove a "union problem".