A contract requires consent. Please show me where I consented to this contract.
I don't even understand what you want. Everyone is born into some circumstance they didn't ask for. Do you think zebras sign some sort of "contract" to be hunted by lions? You can't be born into a vacuum where you do whatever you like and nobody else's actions impact you, because it's a nonsensical fantasy. Not a good idea, not a bad idea, just illogical nonsense.
Yes, the U.S. Government is what makes tech companies successful. I'm sure that the $666.2 billion defense budget I mentioned earlier played such a huge role in the rise of Facebook.
I can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic? All intellectual property enterprises are worthless without governments to establish and enforce intellectual property rights/restrictions. The US govt. is all over the planet twisting arms to create and enforce IP treaties, and companies are constantly in court suing each other to decide who deserves what.
That and, as other stated, the US defense budget created the Internet.
CS5 was released only 24 months ago, whereas Win98 was EOL'd when it was a little over 8 years old. Say what you will about Microsoft, but they look pretty good in that particular comparison.
But running flash locally makes the client not so thin. My kids' computer is a Sempron 3200+ that is just barely adequate for general web browsing (despite a rather newer video card). Can a 15W PoE client really do this? Especially a nice cheap one:)
I am interested. Does a 15W PoE client have the juice to decrypt and decompress a fullscreen, full-resolution video display? What sort of server horsepower is necessary to transcode the youtube video from the flash compression to the client/server encoding in real time?
Immigrants are a self-selecting group. It's quite obvious that an entrepreneurial individual would be more likely to do something risky and ambitious like immigrating to another country.
Video replay (with sound) and flash apps have become such an integral part of the web that few people would be satisfied with a thin client running any of these protocols. The truism that Average Joes only run lightweight apps is no longer true.
Seems to me there are different kids of models - fashion runway models are living hangers who design their bodies to show off clothing and not the body itself, vs. curvy pinup types (such as Crawford) whose bodies are the main attraction and the clothes just preserve a little bit of mystery.
It's pretty useless if it requires effort such as casting a vote. Perhaps it models your preferences based on what you listen to the most, among the songs on your phone or streamed from the web etc. And like Pandora, it hopefully would not limit you to those specific songs, but would use that information to infer what other songs you might like.
I think it would be somewhat dangerous as an empty marketing ploy. There is enough sentiment against both Microsoft and environmentalism to ensure that in a couple years somebody will at least try to prove this effort was either futile or undertaken cynically in the first place.
Microsoft's pledge includes their use of the services you mentioned. If all the customers of all airlines, for example, were carbon neutral including their use of air transport, then the problem is solved. Whether that's possible I don't know, but since we are hardly even making an effort yet, large gains are relatively easy.
But the argument, "if an individual can't do it, the govt. shouldn't be able to" is pretty silly. Basically the whole point of government is to solve problems that aren't well solved by individuals or free markets. Imprisoning people is a good example. Note, I'm not arguing govt. should therefore be able to do anything and everything, only that your original argument (the title of this thread) has no bearing on anything one way or the other.
The sad thing is, you are describing exactly the program that F35 set out to be. In fact the original target price was $30-$45 million. For the first time, cost was fixed as a primary requirement, meaning, performance parameters were to be sacrificed to keep price in check if necessary. And yet it spun out of control.
Reagan may or may not have sped up the fall of the Soviet Union by a few months, it's hard to say. But the actual reason it fell is much simpler, Communism doesn't work.
Oh, brother. Do you honestly think there is an EPA SWAT team? Or do you think it's more likely they work in coordination with law enforcement when necessary? Even if the article implies there is an EPA SWAT team, they're just pulling your chain, to evoke the precise response you showed.
I agree, the cracker vs. hacker debate is pointless. In my book, a hacker is somebody who figures out how to do stuff, not based on what was intended, but rather what is possible. It may be for good or ill, which is a subjective matter in the eye of the beholder.
And for that matter, JavaFX 2 (a Java library) is apparently a huge break from JavaFX (a scripting language for the JRE).
This is all pretty confusing.
We picked up JavaFX for a while because, amazingly, there was no practical way to replay video in Java. (Please don't tell me about that crufty, abandoned joke from 2001 called JMF). Then JavaFX keeled over and died when Oracle bought Sun. If JavaFX 2 provides a video player widget, maybe it is useful.
Kind of the dark side of having a defined benefit plan which few people talk about.
That's the entire point of a defined benefit plan. That's what "defined" means. It means the company is taking on the risk of unpredictable future returns, giving the employee a predictable standard of living in retirement.
But it turns out this was theoretical for those of us beneath a certain age. 10 years ago I was told there was so much money in my company's pension fund they didn't know what to do with it. So they gave existing retirees a raise in their pensions. Then once the market tanked, the pension fund went broke so they cancelled it for new hires and curtailed future accruals for current employees, shifting us to 401k's. What might those be worth when we need them? It is unknowable. Meanwhile existing retirees are sitting pretty in expensive neighborhoods drawing their bloated benefits. Oh yeah, they got pre-medicare health coverage too. Now cancelled.
I really think Social Security is a good idea, since there is no predictability at the level of individuals. However, Social Security needs to be tied to the long-term median income (say, 10 years) of current workers instead of inflation. Today's retirees seem to be oblivious to what is going on to current workers and our poor prospects for financial security in old age.
Framerates on games are about 50% higher than on Sandy Bridge. I know, hardcore gamers don't care. But now that the bulk of the market is laptops, being able to play most current games acceptably without discrete graphics is a very good thing.
Religion is a fine example of Mencken being wrong. I grew up in a fundamentalist community. If you spend your time looking around for some supreme leader who cynically sits around with his inner circle spinning stories he knows to be lies in service of an overt desire to control people, you will never find it. That's not what it is. What it is, is a bunch of people reinforcing each other in their mutual pursuit of a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
First of all this doesn't belong in a summary since it's purely opinion.
But second, it's a silly opinion. People don't wake up in the morning and think, "I'm going to menace the population with hobgoblins!" What people do think is things like, "we need to write a good ad for this anti-virus software (so I can get a good bonus)," or, "my ass is on the line if we get hacked. There's no sure defense so I'd at least better look like I'm doing everything I can."
What Mencken is claiming is, at best, an emergent property. In this case it doesn't even apply, since computer security threats are perfectly real.
The US has been broadcasting sunshine/propaganda into Cuba for decades without too much apparent effect, and it does have risks for diplomacy and the agents who conduct it.
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I don't even understand what you want. Everyone is born into some circumstance they didn't ask for. Do you think zebras sign some sort of "contract" to be hunted by lions? You can't be born into a vacuum where you do whatever you like and nobody else's actions impact you, because it's a nonsensical fantasy. Not a good idea, not a bad idea, just illogical nonsense.
I can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic? All intellectual property enterprises are worthless without governments to establish and enforce intellectual property rights/restrictions. The US govt. is all over the planet twisting arms to create and enforce IP treaties, and companies are constantly in court suing each other to decide who deserves what.
That and, as other stated, the US defense budget created the Internet.
CS5 was released only 24 months ago, whereas Win98 was EOL'd when it was a little over 8 years old. Say what you will about Microsoft, but they look pretty good in that particular comparison.
But running flash locally makes the client not so thin. My kids' computer is a Sempron 3200+ that is just barely adequate for general web browsing (despite a rather newer video card). Can a 15W PoE client really do this? Especially a nice cheap one :)
I am interested. Does a 15W PoE client have the juice to decrypt and decompress a fullscreen, full-resolution video display? What sort of server horsepower is necessary to transcode the youtube video from the flash compression to the client/server encoding in real time?
Immigrants are a self-selecting group. It's quite obvious that an entrepreneurial individual would be more likely to do something risky and ambitious like immigrating to another country.
Video replay (with sound) and flash apps have become such an integral part of the web that few people would be satisfied with a thin client running any of these protocols. The truism that Average Joes only run lightweight apps is no longer true.
Actually multi-LED units are dirt cheap, so I'm still curious what's wrong with them.
Seems to me there are different kids of models - fashion runway models are living hangers who design their bodies to show off clothing and not the body itself, vs. curvy pinup types (such as Crawford) whose bodies are the main attraction and the clothes just preserve a little bit of mystery.
It's pretty useless if it requires effort such as casting a vote. Perhaps it models your preferences based on what you listen to the most, among the songs on your phone or streamed from the web etc. And like Pandora, it hopefully would not limit you to those specific songs, but would use that information to infer what other songs you might like.
I think it would be somewhat dangerous as an empty marketing ploy. There is enough sentiment against both Microsoft and environmentalism to ensure that in a couple years somebody will at least try to prove this effort was either futile or undertaken cynically in the first place.
Microsoft's pledge includes their use of the services you mentioned. If all the customers of all airlines, for example, were carbon neutral including their use of air transport, then the problem is solved. Whether that's possible I don't know, but since we are hardly even making an effort yet, large gains are relatively easy.
Deception and creative accounting would be more of an issue if somebody were compelling them to do it, but that's not the case.
But the argument, "if an individual can't do it, the govt. shouldn't be able to" is pretty silly. Basically the whole point of government is to solve problems that aren't well solved by individuals or free markets. Imprisoning people is a good example. Note, I'm not arguing govt. should therefore be able to do anything and everything, only that your original argument (the title of this thread) has no bearing on anything one way or the other.
The sad thing is, you are describing exactly the program that F35 set out to be. In fact the original target price was $30-$45 million. For the first time, cost was fixed as a primary requirement, meaning, performance parameters were to be sacrificed to keep price in check if necessary. And yet it spun out of control.
Reagan may or may not have sped up the fall of the Soviet Union by a few months, it's hard to say. But the actual reason it fell is much simpler, Communism doesn't work.
Oh, brother. Do you honestly think there is an EPA SWAT team? Or do you think it's more likely they work in coordination with law enforcement when necessary? Even if the article implies there is an EPA SWAT team, they're just pulling your chain, to evoke the precise response you showed.
I agree, the cracker vs. hacker debate is pointless. In my book, a hacker is somebody who figures out how to do stuff, not based on what was intended, but rather what is possible. It may be for good or ill, which is a subjective matter in the eye of the beholder.
This is all pretty confusing.
We picked up JavaFX for a while because, amazingly, there was no practical way to replay video in Java. (Please don't tell me about that crufty, abandoned joke from 2001 called JMF). Then JavaFX keeled over and died when Oracle bought Sun. If JavaFX 2 provides a video player widget, maybe it is useful.
That's the entire point of a defined benefit plan. That's what "defined" means. It means the company is taking on the risk of unpredictable future returns, giving the employee a predictable standard of living in retirement.
But it turns out this was theoretical for those of us beneath a certain age. 10 years ago I was told there was so much money in my company's pension fund they didn't know what to do with it. So they gave existing retirees a raise in their pensions. Then once the market tanked, the pension fund went broke so they cancelled it for new hires and curtailed future accruals for current employees, shifting us to 401k's. What might those be worth when we need them? It is unknowable. Meanwhile existing retirees are sitting pretty in expensive neighborhoods drawing their bloated benefits. Oh yeah, they got pre-medicare health coverage too. Now cancelled.
I really think Social Security is a good idea, since there is no predictability at the level of individuals. However, Social Security needs to be tied to the long-term median income (say, 10 years) of current workers instead of inflation. Today's retirees seem to be oblivious to what is going on to current workers and our poor prospects for financial security in old age.
Framerates on games are about 50% higher than on Sandy Bridge. I know, hardcore gamers don't care. But now that the bulk of the market is laptops, being able to play most current games acceptably without discrete graphics is a very good thing.
I had to chuck a pretty good laptop (IBM T60) because ATI stopped making drivers for the video card entirely - windows or linux.
Religion is a fine example of Mencken being wrong. I grew up in a fundamentalist community. If you spend your time looking around for some supreme leader who cynically sits around with his inner circle spinning stories he knows to be lies in service of an overt desire to control people, you will never find it. That's not what it is. What it is, is a bunch of people reinforcing each other in their mutual pursuit of a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
First of all this doesn't belong in a summary since it's purely opinion.
But second, it's a silly opinion. People don't wake up in the morning and think, "I'm going to menace the population with hobgoblins!" What people do think is things like, "we need to write a good ad for this anti-virus software (so I can get a good bonus)," or, "my ass is on the line if we get hacked. There's no sure defense so I'd at least better look like I'm doing everything I can."
What Mencken is claiming is, at best, an emergent property. In this case it doesn't even apply, since computer security threats are perfectly real.
The US has been broadcasting sunshine/propaganda into Cuba for decades without too much apparent effect, and it does have risks for diplomacy and the agents who conduct it.