I've also been to New Mexico, and been "astounded" at their "New Mexican-ness", been to Texas, and been "astounded" at their "Texan-ness", and been to Kansas, and been "astounded" at their "Kansan-ness". However, they all still identify themselves as Americans. Europeans never did this before the EU, and they definitely do now.
Whoever modded your comment informative can't get beyond American notions of nations. (Not that I ever claimed Europe was one.)
As another reply to your "Huh?" comment said, the EU had nothing to do with economics, and everything to do with preventing another war. If you've been to Europe recently and noticed how citizens see themselves as European first and nationals second, you will see they've done very well on their goals.
The European Commission (EC) set the May deadline for them to come forward with a single company structure to run Galileo, a chief executive and common negotiating position.
But with little sign of the target being met to the Commission's satisfaction, the EC is now expected to present new proposals to overhaul the project on 16 May.
I know this is Slashdot, but could you please read the BBC article? This is clearly not a bureaucratic problem or a financial problem. The problem is the companies concerned couldn't decide in a reasonable amount of time how to share the very big pie, and the EU is stepping in to prevent delay.
Blaming "The Bureaucracy" is fashionable, but not always correct.
1. "Love it or leave it" nowhere suggests he should try to change it before giving up. You're missing an important step.
2. He may not be free to leave it. Some countries do not allow you to leave without authorization, and most do not let you enter and settle down without authorization.
3. Leaving nation by nation for the corporatocracy to overrun will result in a domino effect. "When they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me..." and all that stuff.
Why does Slashdot only report only bad legislative news? Why don't they report all the good news? It's just like Iraq: the liberal media only focuses on the few (dozen) bombs that go off every day, while ignoring all the good news that is overflowing from there.
Why doesn't Slashdot report all the good news? Like the PATRIOT Act, and the USA Act (I am no lawyer so I haven't read them, but the names really tell me all I need to know). I am sick of people acting as if politicians don't always look after my best interests.
If you commies don't like our system, why don't you all go live in Afghanistan?!
...just more profitable. In case you failed to notice, it is now government's job to make sure corporations can make as much money as possible. Thanks for playing.
So, it seems to be competing in the iPhone space.
Except it isn't a phone. And in the "entertainment" category, it can't connect to the most popular music site.
It's got "web-based office applications", but consumers don't care about that.
Which consumer is supposed to want this device?
Personal music devices are hardly junior leagues. There are at least as many of them worldwide as computers. And there is no reason their margins can't be as high as OSes.
For that matter, an OS or office suite is hardly big leagues, certainly not in the future. There are plently good, free versions of both to threaten the future viability of commercial in those areas. OTOH, it would take the invention of that thingie that makes Capt Picard's Earl Grey, complete with glass, to threaten physical music players, and people would probably still prefer to pay the premium for Apple's devices.
Creating the desire to pay premium for your products? Priceless.
Or, we could try a free-market approach: We charge ranchers market-rates for grazing lands and water, we stop propping up corn-states with subsidies so that dirt-cheap corn isn't available for feedlot use as clearance prices, and we treat feedlots as the industrial polluters they are, and regulate them accordingly. While we're at it, label beef openly.
You seem confused about what a free market is. Also, after Econ 101, no one believes in perfect information. Corporations spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually to get their version of the truth out, and that is the free market way.
I just read your New York Times opinion. Congratulations on the article!
The first paragraph, though, seemed to twist and end unnaturally. The line:
After spending our space budget building things of questionable utility...
seems to cry out for a completion of:...NASA will now spend our space budget repeating a previous endeavor of questionable utility.
Your next claim is that propulsion is the great challenge in exploring space. I think ground telescope crews who consistently produce good science, and those scientists for whose instruments current propulsion systems have more than adequate lift and range, would disagree.
For those missions which would benefit from greater lift, must the cost of manned spaceflight back to the Moon be the price tag? Would this not repeat the wastes you see in the shuttle program?
I am interested in the science you see from continuous (read: expensive) habitation of the moon "where sunlight is persistent and water ice may be present", apparently at the expense of other space science.
I am also curious as to why you think the competitive endeavours of several countries will share costs, when explicit cooperation on the ISS did not.
Perhaps this essay was a teaser, and answers for most scientists are coming in the next installment of your essays?
Free download of IDE and simulator. Example app code, great documentation. No NDAs.
There is no need to limit development for the iPhone, and with the business smarts it took Apple to create this thing, it is unlikely they will criple it by trying to limit development.
Why would they? They are not Sony trying to milk a marketshare, they are the iPod company coming to a market they want to dominate. The amount of engineering resources it took to create this thing shows they will do what a takes for a piece of the pie.
Gas was once the best available stove technology. Today, it is only the best technology if you do not know induction or like to cling to old technology.
Or like being able to use whatever pots and pans you want, or like cost-efficiency (amonst other things).
There is no comparison between US college education and the middle-tier Indian colleges being discussed.
Have you walked into a state school? The lecturer lectures, the students learn to take notes, and there is little discussion or debate. Hard to do those things in large classes taught by TAs.
For some reason, you forgot option 3, the most widespread one:
3. Peaceful crowds show up to protest the administration's policies, but the authorities claim they are getting violent, and the crowd is beaten and dispersed.
If you think this doesn't happen in the US, you need to get out more instead of theorizing that there are only two options, and they are both evil.
I see lots of crowd control weapons being developed recently. There is something wrong when democracies need to spend so much to protect them from their people.
Saying prison is full of the low IQ does not mean you can predict anyone with a "low mental state" has a high propensity to commit crime. The difference may be very small, visible in millions but inconseqential in an individual. Or a bias of law enforcement. Or the statistic a figment of your imagination.
Your assertion of race is even more ridiculous. What are these races like in rich segments of society? What are these races like outside the US? Do you understand now that this has nothing to do with race?
As for your prediction, let me tell you about the wonderful predictions I made about Apple stock. Everyone can point to a few times they were right. The question is what percentage of times are you right. The Iowa Prediction Markets won't help you here either: they are just a poll, so if you'd used them at the time of Gallileo, they would have told you the Earth is flat; if you use them on the stock market, they will simply give you the current price, and are thus not much of a prediction at all.
There is also free medical for low income and freeloader types. Most places will not turn you away either.
Tell that to the well-funded hospital that wheeled me out in the rain in the middle of the night with a shattered leg. I had been rushed to ER from an auto accident and was delirious from concussion and pain, and probably misspoke my social security number. Before I had even been given painkiller, the billing dept had incorrectly decided I did not have insurance and was to be sent home.
When I asked how they could just put me out, they replied that legally they had to "stabilize" me, which they had done by stopping bleeding and giving me a painkiller. They wouldn't even give me an extra tablet for when the pain would return in 6 hours. I guess I should be grateful, they gave me a pair of crutches to hobble out on.
Of course, when my ex called the next morning, screamed at them and gave them my SSN, they suddenly called back, concerned about my health, and reprimanding me for leaving the hospital. Apparently, they were now worried that I could lose my leg (besides internal bleeding and clotting dangers). I keep hearing about how no one is turned away from hospitals in America (usually by the American right-wing claiming it's the "freeloader Mexicans" ruining the invisible hand of their perfect healthcare system) but I will tell you when your life is on the line, you better have a really good health insurance plan and a really good lawyer, or else.
And from his sig, he's got the double-whammy that he probably thinks open source is evil, and so would never get involved in OSS to show what he can do.
Without development experience or OSS participation, he wants a high paying job. Just because he has high house payments and a wife who doesn't work. From those who have to those who need?
...most places are asking for ridiculous things like MASTERS in CS and 5+ years experience willing to take $35,000.00US a year. These places want $100+K quality for newbie salaries...
What the hell are you people talking about? Where exactly are you all, in the deep south? I could become a millionaire just acting as your recruiter. If any of you are actually programmers (not that helpdesk guy, his "I'm learning advanced skills like Linux and JSP" gave him away) please contact me so that I can make $3K to $5K a head getting you $90K+ jobs (but I suspect the real programmers amongst you already get dozens of offers like that).
We can't find any real programmers. It is so desperate I was forced to recommend an interviewee who had never heard of design patterns. For god's sake, if any of you have ever used, say, the factory pattern professionally and live in the North East, please contact me. I could walk into any dev shop here with you* and walk out with a huge wad of cash that their HR dept couldn't wait to give me.
*Sigh* Yes, we had to give them our dead hand system. We had to give them computers and nukes and jets and rockets, too.
Thanks to us the Soviets got to space and the Japanese make reliable gear.
Soon we will be finished with teaching the Middle East how to live, and the world will be perfect.
Google for "American early warning system" and "false nuke alarm due to the rising moon" for one of a thousand hilarious systems we must have imported from the Soviets for some inexplicable reason.
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I've been to all those countries of course.
I've also been to New Mexico, and been "astounded" at their "New Mexican-ness", been to Texas, and been "astounded" at their "Texan-ness", and been to Kansas, and been "astounded" at their "Kansan-ness". However, they all still identify themselves as Americans. Europeans never did this before the EU, and they definitely do now.
Whoever modded your comment informative can't get beyond American notions of nations. (Not that I ever claimed Europe was one.)
The BBC has a great article with the EU founders about why it was created. A quick search instead brought this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6483585.stm
As another reply to your "Huh?" comment said, the EU had nothing to do with economics, and everything to do with preventing another war. If you've been to Europe recently and noticed how citizens see themselves as European first and nationals second, you will see they've done very well on their goals.
The European Commission (EC) set the May deadline for them to come forward with a single company structure to run Galileo, a chief executive and common negotiating position.
But with little sign of the target being met to the Commission's satisfaction, the EC is now expected to present new proposals to overhaul the project on 16 May.
I know this is Slashdot, but could you please read the BBC article? This is clearly not a bureaucratic problem or a financial problem. The problem is the companies concerned couldn't decide in a reasonable amount of time how to share the very big pie, and the EU is stepping in to prevent delay.
Blaming "The Bureaucracy" is fashionable, but not always correct.
1. "Love it or leave it" nowhere suggests he should try to change it before giving up. You're missing an important step.
2. He may not be free to leave it. Some countries do not allow you to leave without authorization, and most do not let you enter and settle down without authorization.
3. Leaving nation by nation for the corporatocracy to overrun will result in a domino effect. "When they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me..." and all that stuff.
Why does Slashdot only report only bad legislative news? Why don't they report all the good news? It's just like Iraq: the liberal media only focuses on the few (dozen) bombs that go off every day, while ignoring all the good news that is overflowing from there.
Why doesn't Slashdot report all the good news? Like the PATRIOT Act, and the USA Act (I am no lawyer so I haven't read them, but the names really tell me all I need to know). I am sick of people acting as if politicians don't always look after my best interests.
If you commies don't like our system, why don't you all go live in Afghanistan?!
...just more profitable. In case you failed to notice, it is now government's job to make sure corporations can make as much money as possible. Thanks for playing.
You must be quite a reseller... you appear to be pitching "crash-proof solutions" using Microsoft technology.
:)
Do you also work at children's parties in costume?
So, it seems to be competing in the iPhone space. Except it isn't a phone. And in the "entertainment" category, it can't connect to the most popular music site. It's got "web-based office applications", but consumers don't care about that. Which consumer is supposed to want this device?
As a software developer, I am amused by you all. "4" is quite obviously a string, and can not be compared with 4.0 without a set of business rules.
:)
Multiplying it in silly ways will not help you either.
Personal music devices are hardly junior leagues. There are at least as many of them worldwide as computers. And there is no reason their margins can't be as high as OSes.
For that matter, an OS or office suite is hardly big leagues, certainly not in the future. There are plently good, free versions of both to threaten the future viability of commercial in those areas. OTOH, it would take the invention of that thingie that makes Capt Picard's Earl Grey, complete with glass, to threaten physical music players, and people would probably still prefer to pay the premium for Apple's devices.
Creating the desire to pay premium for your products? Priceless.
Or, we could try a free-market approach: We charge ranchers market-rates for grazing lands and water, we stop propping up corn-states with subsidies so that dirt-cheap corn isn't available for feedlot use as clearance prices, and we treat feedlots as the industrial polluters they are, and regulate them accordingly. While we're at it, label beef openly.
You seem confused about what a free market is. Also, after Econ 101, no one believes in perfect information. Corporations spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually to get their version of the truth out, and that is the free market way.
My letter to Carolyn:
...NASA will now spend our space budget repeating a previous endeavor of questionable utility.
I just read your New York Times opinion. Congratulations on the article!
The first paragraph, though, seemed to twist and end unnaturally. The line:
After spending our space budget building things of questionable utility...
seems to cry out for a completion of:
Your next claim is that propulsion is the great challenge in exploring space. I think ground telescope crews who consistently produce good science, and those scientists for whose instruments current propulsion systems have more than adequate lift and range, would disagree.
For those missions which would benefit from greater lift, must the cost of manned spaceflight back to the Moon be the price tag? Would this not repeat the wastes you see in the shuttle program?
I am interested in the science you see from continuous (read: expensive) habitation of the moon "where sunlight is persistent and water ice may be present", apparently at the expense of other space science.
I am also curious as to why you think the competitive endeavours of several countries will share costs, when explicit cooperation on the ISS did not.
Perhaps this essay was a teaser, and answers for most scientists are coming in the next installment of your essays?
Bose crap doens't count
-1, Idiot.
Oh, wait... he misspelled "doesn't": -2, Idiot.
http://www.blackberry.com/developers/downloads/jde /index.shtml
Free download of IDE and simulator. Example app code, great documentation. No NDAs.
There is no need to limit development for the iPhone, and with the business smarts it took Apple to create this thing, it is unlikely they will criple it by trying to limit development.
Why would they? They are not Sony trying to milk a marketshare, they are the iPod company coming to a market they want to dominate. The amount of engineering resources it took to create this thing shows they will do what a takes for a piece of the pie.
Gas was once the best available stove technology. Today, it is only the best technology if you do not know induction or like to cling to old technology.
Or like being able to use whatever pots and pans you want, or like cost-efficiency (amonst other things).
There is no comparison between US college education and the middle-tier Indian colleges being discussed.
Have you walked into a state school? The lecturer lectures, the students learn to take notes, and there is little discussion or debate. Hard to do those things in large classes taught by TAs.
For some reason, you forgot option 3, the most widespread one:
3. Peaceful crowds show up to protest the administration's policies, but the authorities claim they are getting violent, and the crowd is beaten and dispersed.
If you think this doesn't happen in the US, you need to get out more instead of theorizing that there are only two options, and they are both evil.
I see lots of crowd control weapons being developed recently. There is something wrong when democracies need to spend so much to protect them from their people.
Saying prison is full of the low IQ does not mean you can predict anyone with a "low mental state" has a high propensity to commit crime. The difference may be very small, visible in millions but inconseqential in an individual. Or a bias of law enforcement. Or the statistic a figment of your imagination.
Your assertion of race is even more ridiculous. What are these races like in rich segments of society? What are these races like outside the US? Do you understand now that this has nothing to do with race?
As for your prediction, let me tell you about the wonderful predictions I made about Apple stock. Everyone can point to a few times they were right. The question is what percentage of times are you right. The Iowa Prediction Markets won't help you here either: they are just a poll, so if you'd used them at the time of Gallileo, they would have told you the Earth is flat; if you use them on the stock market, they will simply give you the current price, and are thus not much of a prediction at all.
There is also free medical for low income and freeloader types. Most places will not turn you away either.
Tell that to the well-funded hospital that wheeled me out in the rain in the middle of the night with a shattered leg. I had been rushed to ER from an auto accident and was delirious from concussion and pain, and probably misspoke my social security number. Before I had even been given painkiller, the billing dept had incorrectly decided I did not have insurance and was to be sent home.
When I asked how they could just put me out, they replied that legally they had to "stabilize" me, which they had done by stopping bleeding and giving me a painkiller. They wouldn't even give me an extra tablet for when the pain would return in 6 hours. I guess I should be grateful, they gave me a pair of crutches to hobble out on.
Of course, when my ex called the next morning, screamed at them and gave them my SSN, they suddenly called back, concerned about my health, and reprimanding me for leaving the hospital. Apparently, they were now worried that I could lose my leg (besides internal bleeding and clotting dangers). I keep hearing about how no one is turned away from hospitals in America (usually by the American right-wing claiming it's the "freeloader Mexicans" ruining the invisible hand of their perfect healthcare system) but I will tell you when your life is on the line, you better have a really good health insurance plan and a really good lawyer, or else.
Therein lies the reason most of Slashdot will never get laid.
All your logic counts for nothing.
And from his sig, he's got the double-whammy that he probably thinks open source is evil, and so would never get involved in OSS to show what he can do.
Without development experience or OSS participation, he wants a high paying job. Just because he has high house payments and a wife who doesn't work. From those who have to those who need?
Maybe he should get a smaller house.
What the hell are you people talking about? Where exactly are you all, in the deep south? I could become a millionaire just acting as your recruiter. If any of you are actually programmers (not that helpdesk guy, his "I'm learning advanced skills like Linux and JSP" gave him away) please contact me so that I can make $3K to $5K a head getting you $90K+ jobs (but I suspect the real programmers amongst you already get dozens of offers like that).
We can't find any real programmers. It is so desperate I was forced to recommend an interviewee who had never heard of design patterns. For god's sake, if any of you have ever used, say, the factory pattern professionally and live in the North East, please contact me. I could walk into any dev shop here with you* and walk out with a huge wad of cash that their HR dept couldn't wait to give me.
Yes, it's insane in India, but it's pretty crazy here, too.
*Not you, helpdesk guy.
Big Government Reagan? I think those glasses of yours are getting more rose-tinted as time goes by...
*Sigh* Yes, we had to give them our dead hand system. We had to give them computers and nukes and jets and rockets, too.
Thanks to us the Soviets got to space and the Japanese make reliable gear.
Soon we will be finished with teaching the Middle East how to live, and the world will be perfect.
Google for "American early warning system" and "false nuke alarm due to the rising moon" for one of a thousand hilarious systems we must have imported from the Soviets for some inexplicable reason.
Are those cooling fans on K10?!