Charging you directly for that is precisely what they intend to do with a mileage-based tax, which is a much more fair and equitable way to apply road taxation so long as vehicle weight is taken into account. Road taxes should come in the form of dollars per pound-mile driven within the State, with exemptions fore mileage out of state that can be substantiated by the vehicle owner (this is exactly how income taxes are levied, btw).
You should pay a tax because your vehicle still causes wear and tear on the roads upon which you drive it, and the money that is used to keep them in good repair comes from a tax on gasoline.
It is fundamentally unfair for PEV owners to pay zero taxes yet get free services in the form of road maintenance.
It's funny that the same people who argue that government is arcane and behind the times when it comes to say, gun control, are the ones screaming at the top of their lungs when the government tries to adapt to changes in technology in culture.
Seriously, this is no way at all to lead a project. Being an asshole just for the sake of being an asshole does not earn you any respect from your peers.
The primary purpose of Google Fiber is to allow them to drill even deeper into your personal life and private information so they can "sell you" to advertisers.
Atom isn't here, but perhaps because it is too new, but it's clear from this graph that at least Tom's Hardware seems to agree that the Snapdragon eats Tegra's lunch.
I have a Nexus 4 (Snapdragon S4) and a Nexus 7 (Tegra 3), and the 4 is WAY, WAY faster than the 7 in almost every experience.
On the Nexus 4 I can leave a movie playing in the background and keep listening to it while I check an important email that just came in or make a move in a game of Words with my wife. Attempting the exact same thing on the Nexus 7 results in the movie skipping and the user experience slowing to a crawl.
Perhaps there are some significant architecture differences between the two, but at least from a real-world user experience standpoint, I would not characterize the OP's assertion as "random conjecture" at all.
The autopilot in an aircraft is there only to reduce pilot workload for those phases of flight where use of an AP is appropriate. It is not there so the pilot can go take a nap in the back.
If you're e developer, be a developer. If you're a manager, be a manager.
Don't attempt to be both, because that's not what your company wants of you. You may feel like they're "getting in the way," but I have news for you: it's not "your" project. It's your company's project, and management will decide what it is, where it is going, and what metrics will be measured.
The best thing for you to do is to deliver what is asked of you and in a timely and cost-effective manner. If you're afraid of voicing your opinion to your own management team, then perhaps you don't fit in as well as you think.
Seriously, the fact that we still acknowledge ANYTHING that came out of the psychology of two centuries ago is only a testament to the idiocracy we have become.
A planet twice the mass of Earth would be habitable to Earth humans who were in good physical condition and not obese. And, it is likely humans would evolve the musculature to live well there after just a few generations.
The gravity there would be about 125% that of Earth's, and seeing as how I used to have more than 125% of my current mass, I figure I would get by just fine.
A planet 3x the mass of Earth would have about 145% the gravity, so that would start to be an issue for even the strongest and most healthy of us.
I think the biggest issue we would have in any higher-gravity environment would be our cardiovascular systems. It would be more difficult for our hearts to pump blood up into our heads, as our hearts would be working harder.
The difference is that a court order need still comply with the 4th Amendment. A court order is not a warrant.
A warrant is a specific legal document with a specific legal purpose - to allow government to set aside your right to be secure in your person, papers, and effects, when there is probable cause to believe you have committed a crime; and with the express purpose of allowing that right to be set aside only for the express purposes outlined in the warrant - to search a specific place for a specific thing.
Even a warrant that says "law enforcement can search this house for any evidence of any crime" is non-compliant. A warrant must outline specifically the place to be searched and the things to be seized. Any evidence not specifically called out on the warrant may not be seized, and if it is, may not be admitted as evidence.
A court order is simply a mandate from a judge that a particular party do a particular thing. A judge cannot order a person or company to violate the rights of a third party, as a means to circumvent the protections in the bill of rights (although this is the latest modus operandi from our criminal government).
Actually, that is not a right. And, in fact, SCOTUS ruled as much earlier this year by upholding Obamacare, and saying that people can be coerced to purchase something by taxation - having to pay a tax for refusing to purchase something.
So, in essence, you don't have a right to vote with your wallet.
For that to happen, one of two things would have to happen.
Either they completely rebuild PoE from the ground up to provide the ~25-30W that some of these home entertainment devices need, or they invent the fantasy cheeseburger-shitting unicorn that is a 13W bluray player with full networking and streaming functionality, HDMI, and all the other bells and whistles.
PoE was never designed to be a power source for anything other than low-power telecom equipment. It certainly was not designed for consumer equipment.
That's Cisco's own damn fault. The hardware in the Linksys is perfectly capable of doing all of those things, except Cisco simply chooses to disable that functionality in firmware to coerce you into buying the EXACT SAME HARDWARE with different, much more expensive, non-crippled firmware.
Even the cheaper Micrel or Realtek switch fabrics support things like individual port enable and PoE allocation, and feature-rich diagnostics via a serial register interface.
They're falling into the same trap that automakers are. "If you want a $400 sunroof, you have to buy the $4500 leather and NAV package."
If you want to be able to turn of an individual port, you have to buy the $5000 switch with eleventy features you don't want, rather than the $100 switch.
What an awesome idea! Why don't we use the same method to prevent gas prices going up - just declare all oil companies property of the Federal Government!
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And just how many people have died from flying in their own bathtub?
Zero.
I had gloves that did that back in the 1970's.
Glad to finally see a more practical use for this 50 year old technology.
Charging you directly for that is precisely what they intend to do with a mileage-based tax, which is a much more fair and equitable way to apply road taxation so long as vehicle weight is taken into account. Road taxes should come in the form of dollars per pound-mile driven within the State, with exemptions fore mileage out of state that can be substantiated by the vehicle owner (this is exactly how income taxes are levied, btw).
It won't be long before there is a TSA agent posted at every home, to interview its occupants before they are allowed to leave.
You should pay a tax because your vehicle still causes wear and tear on the roads upon which you drive it, and the money that is used to keep them in good repair comes from a tax on gasoline.
It is fundamentally unfair for PEV owners to pay zero taxes yet get free services in the form of road maintenance.
It's funny that the same people who argue that government is arcane and behind the times when it comes to say, gun control, are the ones screaming at the top of their lungs when the government tries to adapt to changes in technology in culture.
Seriously, this is no way at all to lead a project. Being an asshole just for the sake of being an asshole does not earn you any respect from your peers.
Linus needs to work on his people skills.
The primary purpose of Google Fiber is to allow them to drill even deeper into your personal life and private information so they can "sell you" to advertisers.
Anyone know if the inventions underpinning the patents were developed using taxpayer money? If so, that issue should be raised.
The taxpayer should NOT be funding patents that are turned around and used against the private sector.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/snapdragon-s4-pro-apq8064-msm8960t,3291-4.html
Atom isn't here, but perhaps because it is too new, but it's clear from this graph that at least Tom's Hardware seems to agree that the Snapdragon eats Tegra's lunch.
I have a Nexus 4 (Snapdragon S4) and a Nexus 7 (Tegra 3), and the 4 is WAY, WAY faster than the 7 in almost every experience.
On the Nexus 4 I can leave a movie playing in the background and keep listening to it while I check an important email that just came in or make a move in a game of Words with my wife. Attempting the exact same thing on the Nexus 7 results in the movie skipping and the user experience slowing to a crawl.
Perhaps there are some significant architecture differences between the two, but at least from a real-world user experience standpoint, I would not characterize the OP's assertion as "random conjecture" at all.
Neither is a computer in a car.
The autopilot in an aircraft is there only to reduce pilot workload for those phases of flight where use of an AP is appropriate. It is not there so the pilot can go take a nap in the back.
Then our SSDs will survive a whole SEVEN program/erase cycles.
It's pretty awesome.
Hah, but this is the US Government. Since when does "what the charter actually says" have anything to do with what the TLA actually does?
If you're e developer, be a developer. If you're a manager, be a manager.
Don't attempt to be both, because that's not what your company wants of you. You may feel like they're "getting in the way," but I have news for you: it's not "your" project. It's your company's project, and management will decide what it is, where it is going, and what metrics will be measured.
The best thing for you to do is to deliver what is asked of you and in a timely and cost-effective manner. If you're afraid of voicing your opinion to your own management team, then perhaps you don't fit in as well as you think.
"but I'd expect better than that from you."
Come on. Your user number is pretty low. You're not exactly new here.
Seriously, the fact that we still acknowledge ANYTHING that came out of the psychology of two centuries ago is only a testament to the idiocracy we have become.
... working harder to overcome the pgh of the fluid over that distance.
A planet twice the mass of Earth would be habitable to Earth humans who were in good physical condition and not obese. And, it is likely humans would evolve the musculature to live well there after just a few generations.
The gravity there would be about 125% that of Earth's, and seeing as how I used to have more than 125% of my current mass, I figure I would get by just fine.
A planet 3x the mass of Earth would have about 145% the gravity, so that would start to be an issue for even the strongest and most healthy of us.
I think the biggest issue we would have in any higher-gravity environment would be our cardiovascular systems. It would be more difficult for our hearts to pump blood up into our heads, as our hearts would be working harder.
The difference is that a court order need still comply with the 4th Amendment. A court order is not a warrant.
A warrant is a specific legal document with a specific legal purpose - to allow government to set aside your right to be secure in your person, papers, and effects, when there is probable cause to believe you have committed a crime; and with the express purpose of allowing that right to be set aside only for the express purposes outlined in the warrant - to search a specific place for a specific thing.
Even a warrant that says "law enforcement can search this house for any evidence of any crime" is non-compliant. A warrant must outline specifically the place to be searched and the things to be seized. Any evidence not specifically called out on the warrant may not be seized, and if it is, may not be admitted as evidence.
A court order is simply a mandate from a judge that a particular party do a particular thing. A judge cannot order a person or company to violate the rights of a third party, as a means to circumvent the protections in the bill of rights (although this is the latest modus operandi from our criminal government).
They can issue all the press releases they want saying they don't intend to sell your photos.
But, if the language of the policy says they can, they can, and they likely will.
It doesn't matter what the press release says. It matters what the legal document says.
Actually, that is not a right. And, in fact, SCOTUS ruled as much earlier this year by upholding Obamacare, and saying that people can be coerced to purchase something by taxation - having to pay a tax for refusing to purchase something.
So, in essence, you don't have a right to vote with your wallet.
For that to happen, one of two things would have to happen.
Either they completely rebuild PoE from the ground up to provide the ~25-30W that some of these home entertainment devices need, or they invent the fantasy cheeseburger-shitting unicorn that is a 13W bluray player with full networking and streaming functionality, HDMI, and all the other bells and whistles.
PoE was never designed to be a power source for anything other than low-power telecom equipment. It certainly was not designed for consumer equipment.
That's Cisco's own damn fault. The hardware in the Linksys is perfectly capable of doing all of those things, except Cisco simply chooses to disable that functionality in firmware to coerce you into buying the EXACT SAME HARDWARE with different, much more expensive, non-crippled firmware.
Even the cheaper Micrel or Realtek switch fabrics support things like individual port enable and PoE allocation, and feature-rich diagnostics via a serial register interface.
They're falling into the same trap that automakers are. "If you want a $400 sunroof, you have to buy the $4500 leather and NAV package."
If you want to be able to turn of an individual port, you have to buy the $5000 switch with eleventy features you don't want, rather than the $100 switch.
What an awesome idea! Why don't we use the same method to prevent gas prices going up - just declare all oil companies property of the Federal Government!
We can do this with EVERYTHING! Shit!
Free pot for everyone!
No, it doesn't.
If your trial is in a state court, the defendant would be not guilty.
If your trial is in a federal court, the defendant would be guilty.
Is it really that difficult for you to understand?