...(because you cost too much to maintain) or you'll adapt to their systems. And for Pete's sake, stop trotting out that overused ATM bit. It's called an EXAMPLE. It's how you illustrate a broad trend. ATMs are one of many, many ways that people are lost jobs to automation. There's lots more examples. My favorite is the sleeping bag factory that cranked out 1 million + bags/yr with just 300 employees. Then there's all the small craft businesses (like closet makers) that used to be highly specialized and now are being replaced by a few expert systems.
I don't know if you're old enough to remember, but back in the 80s were promised expert systems that would do these things and free us up for leisure time. Trouble is, instead of leisure time we're getting pink slips and a one way ticket to the gutter we're schedule to die in. Thing is, I've yet to hear a compelling solution to the problem of automation that doesn't just boil down to 1) Anyone w/o jobs dies of starvation or 2) Some form of socialism. What I do hear a lot of is attempts to ignore / downplay the problem. Remember Biotech? Where are the jobs? And even if we had them, how the hell would anyone get trained for them when we're cutting back on education budgets left and right?
or I think that's what it's called. It means every syllable is one beat. That makes it easy to create computer voices that sound convincing, especially if you're hard of hearing (like a lot of people in their 50s, who are the only ones that have money in our greying economy). Plus they're gradually solving this problem anyway. It comes down to processing power more than anything else, and they're not far off.
Sorry, I want to like Openoffice, but I just watched it eat my daughter's 20 page novella with a know bug in the auto-recovery that's existed since 2.0 and has an easy work around (disable auto-recovery). BTW, once the auto-recovery bug gets going just about anything you open gets wasted. It's a nasty, critical bug. On thing about commercial software, they can't tolerate these bugs because they get sued class action style.
Part of me wants to give them the benefit of the doubt on this, but the mean spirited part wants the devs at oo.org to pull their heads out of their posteriors on stuff like this. I can't help but wonder, if they knew it was a problem why the heck they didn't disable it in the first place. I understand it's hard to fix, but for Pete's sake, disable it.
State Agencies get eaten alive by something as big as AT&T/T-Mobile. Did a State agency break up Ma Bell? All I can say to these State's rightser Loons is Divide and Conqueror.
Basically their both being used as easy to write front ends to databases, which is why I compare them. VBs syntax is just plain clumsy. Using Regular Expressions and doing database access is just plain more trouble, for example. Maybe it's just because I come from a Java / C++ background instead of a Basic background though.
HTML5 can do anything flash and Silverlight do. I don't know if Silverlight performs better since I haven't had to write anything where performance was an issue (I can count on my end users having good spec hardware and running everything client side).
if you get a few good sized markets to require it then it'd be too expensive to maintain one net for the non-neutral and another for the neutral. The best part is since the Cable companies have chased off the FCC you can't even say it's their job. The only real trouble is the markets aren't usually big enough to stand up to Comcast et al, and it's just divide and conqueror. That's kinda why we have a federal gov't in the first place.
I just finished playing through Quackshot, and I'm working my way through World of Illusion. I also just beat Super Metroid. Sure, I'm not the same person I used to be, but I can appreciate things I didn't notice when I was a kid. Like level design, beautiful sprite work, little touches like Donald Duck closing his eyes when he fires or the water lapping against Samas' feet....
Google it. Especially if you like the Sims, try the 3.0 beta. Other than that I'd second HTML + Javascript. You can very quickly get up an running with something fun and interesting.
there was a great reason. MP3.com was getting people to listen to music they liked, instead of top 40 crap. It was splintering the music market by connecting artists directly with their fans. One of the first things the record labels did when they got the domain was shut down anyone that was making a good living without a record contract. There were several bands that got taken off the site with no notice or reason. In the end, it's all about control of our pop culture. The grandparent said it best: "he same warmed over top 100 artists".
but I'll say this: Zune is iTunes without the bloat. The hardware might be a joke (Brown? Sign me Up!) but the software is fast, stable as a rock, and doesn't get between me and my music. I really can't explain it. It's just a pity Microsoft flubbed the hardware so bad.
in the modern economy. Take the United States: Population growth since 1990 has been about 20%, but the size of the economy has doubled. Meanwhile wages are stagnant. The wealth has gone somewhere; specifically to the top 5%. It then becomes the job of society to figure out how to pry that wealth from the hands of that lucky 5% (or, alternatively, society degenerates into a handful of very wealthy and a mass of very, very poor; e.g. a rising tide sinks all but the biggest boats).
I suppose broken windows is one way to force the uber rich to part with some of their horde.
doesn't it prove that TLDs are no longer a limitation? If the tech exists for arbitrary TLDs why do we even need TLDs (aside from the large cash pile ICANN has).
you're just replacing one Dept. with another. I think it has to do more with cost. Cloud means the cheapest labor protected by the weakest laws. Plus Cloud means the blame can be placed outside the company.
"Why, oh why, would "the rich" want to keep people from bettering themselves"
You're misunderstanding their intentions. They don't want money (they've got that in spades), they want Power. The power to control humanity for whatever ends they see fit.
"You're either making the very old, very silly mistake that there is a fixed amount of wealth,"
You're right, wealth is not finite, but neither is human greed & lust for power.
Whatever you have, I can make myself rich by taking it away from you, no matter how small. That's because if I can take away just a small amount of wealth from a million people, I'm rich. There's an unlimited supply of asshats willing to do that. Keeping them in check is your 'price of freedom'.
To put it more succinctly: "What good is being rich if nobody's poor?"
On the subject of conspiracies, all I can say is God Damn the JFK'ers. There are real conspiracies against the working man. Lots of them. Their not even hiding the fact. You can go to the web sites of any right wing think tank and they talk openly about them. A conspiracy is just bunch of people working towards a specific goal. Stop confusing the right wing conspiracy to lower the standard of living of most Americans with nut jobs going off about JFK and space aliens. Until you can get past that they'll just divide and conqueror us.
except an entire economy that's being engineered by a greedy ruling class to create a massive disenfranchised poor for their own benefit. The world's more complicated than either Adam Smith or Ayn Rand believed, and the super wealthy really are out to get you. It's what they do all day.
they're also about organizing people into voting blocks. Think of what the AARP does. You can't touch Social Security & Medicare because old people are organized, they vote, and they've got the AARP telling them HOW to vote so they don't have to spend their time figuring out if candidate A can be trusted to leave SS & Medicare alone. The idea is works organize, form voting blocks, and if all else fails put laws in place (tariffs, min wages, socialized medicine) to protect themselves.
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...(because you cost too much to maintain) or you'll adapt to their systems. And for Pete's sake, stop trotting out that overused ATM bit. It's called an EXAMPLE. It's how you illustrate a broad trend. ATMs are one of many, many ways that people are lost jobs to automation. There's lots more examples. My favorite is the sleeping bag factory that cranked out 1 million + bags/yr with just 300 employees. Then there's all the small craft businesses (like closet makers) that used to be highly specialized and now are being replaced by a few expert systems.
I don't know if you're old enough to remember, but back in the 80s were promised expert systems that would do these things and free us up for leisure time. Trouble is, instead of leisure time we're getting pink slips and a one way ticket to the gutter we're schedule to die in. Thing is, I've yet to hear a compelling solution to the problem of automation that doesn't just boil down to 1) Anyone w/o jobs dies of starvation or 2) Some form of socialism. What I do hear a lot of is attempts to ignore / downplay the problem. Remember Biotech? Where are the jobs? And even if we had them, how the hell would anyone get trained for them when we're cutting back on education budgets left and right?
or I think that's what it's called. It means every syllable is one beat. That makes it easy to create computer voices that sound convincing, especially if you're hard of hearing (like a lot of people in their 50s, who are the only ones that have money in our greying economy). Plus they're gradually solving this problem anyway. It comes down to processing power more than anything else, and they're not far off.
Sorry, I want to like Openoffice, but I just watched it eat my daughter's 20 page novella with a know bug in the auto-recovery that's existed since 2.0 and has an easy work around (disable auto-recovery). BTW, once the auto-recovery bug gets going just about anything you open gets wasted. It's a nasty, critical bug. On thing about commercial software, they can't tolerate these bugs because they get sued class action style.
Part of me wants to give them the benefit of the doubt on this, but the mean spirited part wants the devs at oo.org to pull their heads out of their posteriors on stuff like this. I can't help but wonder, if they knew it was a problem why the heck they didn't disable it in the first place. I understand it's hard to fix, but for Pete's sake, disable it.
State Agencies get eaten alive by something as big as AT&T/T-Mobile. Did a State agency break up Ma Bell? All I can say to these State's rightser Loons is Divide and Conqueror.
Basically their both being used as easy to write front ends to databases, which is why I compare them. VBs syntax is just plain clumsy. Using Regular Expressions and doing database access is just plain more trouble, for example. Maybe it's just because I come from a Java / C++ background instead of a Basic background though.
HTML5 can do anything flash and Silverlight do. I don't know if Silverlight performs better since I haven't had to write anything where performance was an issue (I can count on my end users having good spec hardware and running everything client side).
$10 for 400 mhz CPU and a 320 x 240 screen seems a little too cheap, but if so I want one. At $10 I could sell my game and the console at a profit.
Does it run Linux?
My Firefox plugin uses a mix of native app & web to create mp3s. There's no reason not to when it's convenient. Even Microsoft is moving to html5 + javascript. It beats the heck out of VB.
if you get a few good sized markets to require it then it'd be too expensive to maintain one net for the non-neutral and another for the neutral. The best part is since the Cable companies have chased off the FCC you can't even say it's their job. The only real trouble is the markets aren't usually big enough to stand up to Comcast et al, and it's just divide and conqueror. That's kinda why we have a federal gov't in the first place.
I just finished playing through Quackshot, and I'm working my way through World of Illusion. I also just beat Super Metroid. Sure, I'm not the same person I used to be, but I can appreciate things I didn't notice when I was a kid. Like level design, beautiful sprite work, little touches like Donald Duck closing his eyes when he fires or the water lapping against Samas' feet....
with your friends and everyone at the same equipment levels?
Google it. Especially if you like the Sims, try the 3.0 beta. Other than that I'd second HTML + Javascript. You can very quickly get up an running with something fun and interesting.
there was a great reason. MP3.com was getting people to listen to music they liked, instead of top 40 crap. It was splintering the music market by connecting artists directly with their fans. One of the first things the record labels did when they got the domain was shut down anyone that was making a good living without a record contract. There were several bands that got taken off the site with no notice or reason. In the end, it's all about control of our pop culture. The grandparent said it best: "he same warmed over top 100 artists".
just askin'. I don't see how this'll work. Plus I'm bitter. I really, really miss MP3.com :(.
but I'll say this: Zune is iTunes without the bloat. The hardware might be a joke (Brown? Sign me Up!) but the software is fast, stable as a rock, and doesn't get between me and my music. I really can't explain it. It's just a pity Microsoft flubbed the hardware so bad.
in the modern economy. Take the United States: Population growth since 1990 has been about 20%, but the size of the economy has doubled. Meanwhile wages are stagnant. The wealth has gone somewhere; specifically to the top 5%. It then becomes the job of society to figure out how to pry that wealth from the hands of that lucky 5% (or, alternatively, society degenerates into a handful of very wealthy and a mass of very, very poor; e.g. a rising tide sinks all but the biggest boats).
I suppose broken windows is one way to force the uber rich to part with some of their horde.
But do they really think they can get a member of the US congress to cooperate with their space progra...
Oh, wait, you meant the OTHER kind of monkey. Oh, right. Go on then.
doesn't it prove that TLDs are no longer a limitation? If the tech exists for arbitrary TLDs why do we even need TLDs (aside from the large cash pile ICANN has).
you're just replacing one Dept. with another. I think it has to do more with cost. Cloud means the cheapest labor protected by the weakest laws. Plus Cloud means the blame can be placed outside the company.
"Why, oh why, would "the rich" want to keep people from bettering themselves"
You're misunderstanding their intentions. They don't want money (they've got that in spades), they want Power. The power to control humanity for whatever ends they see fit.
"You're either making the very old, very silly mistake that there is a fixed amount of wealth,"
You're right, wealth is not finite, but neither is human greed & lust for power.
Whatever you have, I can make myself rich by taking it away from you, no matter how small. That's because if I can take away just a small amount of wealth from a million people, I'm rich. There's an unlimited supply of asshats willing to do that. Keeping them in check is your 'price of freedom'.
To put it more succinctly: "What good is being rich if nobody's poor?"
On the subject of conspiracies, all I can say is God Damn the JFK'ers. There are real conspiracies against the working man. Lots of them. Their not even hiding the fact. You can go to the web sites of any right wing think tank and they talk openly about them. A conspiracy is just bunch of people working towards a specific goal. Stop confusing the right wing conspiracy to lower the standard of living of most Americans with nut jobs going off about JFK and space aliens. Until you can get past that they'll just divide and conqueror us.
except an entire economy that's being engineered by a greedy ruling class to create a massive disenfranchised poor for their own benefit. The world's more complicated than either Adam Smith or Ayn Rand believed, and the super wealthy really are out to get you. It's what they do all day.
you can't remove the battery yourself!
if they weren't dragging me down to the pits of hell with them.
they're also about organizing people into voting blocks. Think of what the AARP does. You can't touch Social Security & Medicare because old people are organized, they vote, and they've got the AARP telling them HOW to vote so they don't have to spend their time figuring out if candidate A can be trusted to leave SS & Medicare alone. The idea is works organize, form voting blocks, and if all else fails put laws in place (tariffs, min wages, socialized medicine) to protect themselves.
Seriously, never heard anything like this. Most union reps I know belong to the very same.