The highly skilled people take jobs Americans want.
But aren't skilled enough to do. It's better to bring the skilled people to America, rather than forcing the job to another country. I heard a statistic once, that Silicon Valley has 1% of the Canadian population. One of Canada's problems is losing highly skilled, highly educated people to the US. The best tech minds in the world concentrate in Silicon Valley. It is no coincidence that Silicon Valley innovates like no other. Kick out all the highly-skilled, highly-educated immigrants from Silicon Valley, and you'll see that things come quickly to a halt. The US is in an envious position, where highly skilled/educated people WANT to move there, and do.
The uneducated immigrants, all media hyperbole aside, take jobs Americans don't.
Exactly my point. These are ILLEGAL immigrants. Why does the US have a system where illegal is the norm? It makes no sense! Naturalize them, bring them into the system, and have them pay their share of the taxes. Having so many people in this grey area is ridiculous.
The US has the most retarded immigration policy. They make it too hard for highly educated/skilled people to legitimately immigrate, but they turn a blind eye to the MILLIONS of uneducated illegal immigrants. The US should be welcoming the highly educated/skilled people into their country, not turning them away, because they will most likely make a positive contribution to society. Instead, by turning them away, they go somewhere else and compete against the Americans.
Unfortunately, the Chinese haven't grown up watching G.I. Joe. Otherwise, they would have known that knowledge is only half of the battle. Now only if G.I. Joe told us what the other half was...
I work at a company where the policy is, if you are granted Admin, you are responsible for your own IT. So if something goes wrong with your PC, all IT will do is provide you with a clean image. I'm happy with this policy because I get full control, and IT is happy because it's one less person to support. Of course for network, server, and account issues, they still provide support.
With the state of technology now, self-driving cars are possible. I can't wait until self-driving cars become the mainstream. It would be awesome if a car could drive me to work, while I read the news, or do some work. For a long drive, I could even take a nap... And I bet there would be a lot fewer accidents, and less road congestion. I really think this is the future of public transportation. A huge network of self-driving cars could make public transportation a lot more efficient than it is now.
From TFA: "By wearing tanooki, Mario is sending the message that it's OK to wear fur. "
I remember playing Mario games when I was younger, and I did not get any hints or ideas that wearing fur was OK. This is completely ridiculous. With this logic, I should get the idea that eating red mushrooms will turn me into a giant. Or eating a flower will give me the ability to shoot bouncing fireballs at people (I wish!). Or that I should pull out turnips from the ground and throw them at people.
I see, so what we need is a "copyright bit" for each byte in memory. For each MOV operation, the copyright bit needs to be checked, then authorized by a copyright server. Performance might take a hit, but it's a small price to pay for making sure our computers are following the law!
The UK has an official national debt of 62.6%, but if the bailouts to the banks are included, it's 148% of GDP. Why the UK taxpayers should pay so dearly for those criminal bankers is beyond me. But good thing the UK stayed out of the Euro zone... at least they can print their way out of trouble.
T-Com is German. How can you trust Germans, who have been on the other side of 2 world wars in the past century? China Telecom has no incentive to stifle free speech of Americans. Why would they? For shits and giggles? They just want to make money, like every other company, and since America's market is nearly monopolized, there's a good opportunity.
You are right, I'm venting a little bit because MS products have pissed me off a few times. I am talking from experience, not blindly bashing MS. I am a C# developer, so I do like.NET, but there are a few things surrounding.NET that really suck.
MSTest: a terrible copy of NUnit. From my experience NUnit is way better than MSTest.
Entity Framework: A copy of NHibernate. First version was barely usable.... Second version has LINQ support, which is very nice.
TFS Source Control: An SVN copy? With a twist though. You have to checkout files! How annoying!
ASP.NET2: So we're not supposed to use view states? And AJAX, UpdatePanel? AJAX Control ToolKit? MVC? MVC2? MVC3? Screw it, maybe I'll learn JQuery and Ruby on Rails.
I hate when people are anti-capitalist/anti-free-market because the blame is placed completely in the wrong direction. The problem is not the idea of the free market and capitalism. The problem is the implementation of the system. In a real free market system, the banks would not have been bailed out and thousands of bankers would be in jail for fraud. Fraud has been committed at every step of the way to the mortgage crisis of 2008, and the SEC did nothing to prevent it. It is the job of the government to setup and enforce the rules of the system, not turn a blind eye to the ones paying campaign contributions.
The problem with developing on a Microsoft platform is that there's always the danger that they randomly decide to drop the framework/component you're using and you're screwed. The worst part is, since it's closed source, you don't even have the opportunity to fork it and keep improving it. What's worse is, they come out with something new, and it barely works, and sucks compared to the open source project they're trying to imitate. AND they might drop it next year.
Just because it hasn't been cracked, it doesn't mean it's not crackable. At some point, the video must be decrypted and displayed to the user. Therefore, 100% bullet proof copy protection is impossible. The only way they can make DRM 100% full proof, is to encrypt it and throw away the key. At which point, you'll be watching random noise and listening to static.
I don't understand why everyone hasn't moved their accounts to credit unions already. B of A is essentially bankrupt (propped up by cheap money from the Fed), so it's riskier to leave your money in B of A, plus all their fees and BS you have to put up with. It's a no brainer.
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default
So basically, if you buy US bonds, they will print money to pay you back. So there's a decent chance that what you get back will be worth less than what you put bought. This does not sound like a safe place to put money.
Oh, I forgot about the power and volume buttons, those are also moving parts. I heard the Nexus One has a problem with power buttons breaking after a year.
The great thing about my smartphone now is that there are no moving parts (except for the vibration motor). How many bends until the phone breaks in half?
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So you would give up safer, quicker, more efficient, more convenient travel, just so you could drive yourself through traffic?
Microsoft has already setup software development in Vancouver. Probably to take advantages of the easier immigration laws Canada has.
The highly skilled people take jobs Americans want.
But aren't skilled enough to do. It's better to bring the skilled people to America, rather than forcing the job to another country. I heard a statistic once, that Silicon Valley has 1% of the Canadian population. One of Canada's problems is losing highly skilled, highly educated people to the US. The best tech minds in the world concentrate in Silicon Valley. It is no coincidence that Silicon Valley innovates like no other. Kick out all the highly-skilled, highly-educated immigrants from Silicon Valley, and you'll see that things come quickly to a halt. The US is in an envious position, where highly skilled/educated people WANT to move there, and do.
The uneducated immigrants, all media hyperbole aside, take jobs Americans don't.
Exactly my point. These are ILLEGAL immigrants. Why does the US have a system where illegal is the norm? It makes no sense! Naturalize them, bring them into the system, and have them pay their share of the taxes. Having so many people in this grey area is ridiculous.
What would be even worse is if someone hacked a printer to print hundreds of pages of pictures from goatse.cx... yikes!
The US has the most retarded immigration policy. They make it too hard for highly educated/skilled people to legitimately immigrate, but they turn a blind eye to the MILLIONS of uneducated illegal immigrants. The US should be welcoming the highly educated/skilled people into their country, not turning them away, because they will most likely make a positive contribution to society. Instead, by turning them away, they go somewhere else and compete against the Americans.
I know! And those damn shovels, only if we stuck to spoons, we could employ so much more people.
Unfortunately, the Chinese haven't grown up watching G.I. Joe. Otherwise, they would have known that knowledge is only half of the battle. Now only if G.I. Joe told us what the other half was...
I work at a company where the policy is, if you are granted Admin, you are responsible for your own IT. So if something goes wrong with your PC, all IT will do is provide you with a clean image. I'm happy with this policy because I get full control, and IT is happy because it's one less person to support. Of course for network, server, and account issues, they still provide support.
With the state of technology now, self-driving cars are possible. I can't wait until self-driving cars become the mainstream. It would be awesome if a car could drive me to work, while I read the news, or do some work. For a long drive, I could even take a nap... And I bet there would be a lot fewer accidents, and less road congestion. I really think this is the future of public transportation. A huge network of self-driving cars could make public transportation a lot more efficient than it is now.
From TFA: "By wearing tanooki, Mario is sending the message that it's OK to wear fur. "
I remember playing Mario games when I was younger, and I did not get any hints or ideas that wearing fur was OK. This is completely ridiculous. With this logic, I should get the idea that eating red mushrooms will turn me into a giant. Or eating a flower will give me the ability to shoot bouncing fireballs at people (I wish!). Or that I should pull out turnips from the ground and throw them at people.
I see, so what we need is a "copyright bit" for each byte in memory. For each MOV operation, the copyright bit needs to be checked, then authorized by a copyright server. Performance might take a hit, but it's a small price to pay for making sure our computers are following the law!
The UK has an official national debt of 62.6%, but if the bailouts to the banks are included, it's 148% of GDP. Why the UK taxpayers should pay so dearly for those criminal bankers is beyond me. But good thing the UK stayed out of the Euro zone... at least they can print their way out of trouble.
T-Com is German. How can you trust Germans, who have been on the other side of 2 world wars in the past century? China Telecom has no incentive to stifle free speech of Americans. Why would they? For shits and giggles? They just want to make money, like every other company, and since America's market is nearly monopolized, there's a good opportunity.
You are right, I'm venting a little bit because MS products have pissed me off a few times. I am talking from experience, not blindly bashing MS. I am a C# developer, so I do like .NET, but there are a few things surrounding .NET that really suck.
I hate when people are anti-capitalist/anti-free-market because the blame is placed completely in the wrong direction. The problem is not the idea of the free market and capitalism. The problem is the implementation of the system. In a real free market system, the banks would not have been bailed out and thousands of bankers would be in jail for fraud. Fraud has been committed at every step of the way to the mortgage crisis of 2008, and the SEC did nothing to prevent it. It is the job of the government to setup and enforce the rules of the system, not turn a blind eye to the ones paying campaign contributions.
The problem is, the elite gather so much wealth, they're able to bribe the politicians into bailing them out with tax payer's money.
The problem with developing on a Microsoft platform is that there's always the danger that they randomly decide to drop the framework/component you're using and you're screwed. The worst part is, since it's closed source, you don't even have the opportunity to fork it and keep improving it. What's worse is, they come out with something new, and it barely works, and sucks compared to the open source project they're trying to imitate. AND they might drop it next year.
Just because it hasn't been cracked, it doesn't mean it's not crackable. At some point, the video must be decrypted and displayed to the user. Therefore, 100% bullet proof copy protection is impossible. The only way they can make DRM 100% full proof, is to encrypt it and throw away the key. At which point, you'll be watching random noise and listening to static.
I don't understand why everyone hasn't moved their accounts to credit unions already. B of A is essentially bankrupt (propped up by cheap money from the Fed), so it's riskier to leave your money in B of A, plus all their fees and BS you have to put up with. It's a no brainer.
What's the fun in that? I would love to stick my usb stick into a strange usb port, if I could find one that would let me :(
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default
So basically, if you buy US bonds, they will print money to pay you back. So there's a decent chance that what you get back will be worth less than what you put bought. This does not sound like a safe place to put money.
Oh, I forgot about the power and volume buttons, those are also moving parts. I heard the Nexus One has a problem with power buttons breaking after a year.
The great thing about my smartphone now is that there are no moving parts (except for the vibration motor). How many bends until the phone breaks in half?
You're so focused on this tiny little insignificant semantic, you missed the whole point of his post.
Do you really think that Ron Paul is a nutjob? Or is it the media telling you he is?