Above said it most... I looked for something that would not dry out (need no cap), was permanent (ink doesn't run), dries instantly, and is smooth (no friction) to write with on most surfaces.
I didn't like their needle tip -- as it digs into a notebook too much -- causing too much friction. About a 5% leakage rate... They are inexpensive enough, that last time I just bought a box of them -- keep them seal in airtight containers to preserve them, but they come sealed.
They are like a ball-point pen and the point clicks and retracts up into the pen. Haven't found any that are better at any price -- and given these are "office supply pens", they are cheap enough for me to buy tons and not worry if I lose one.
FWIW, my model is the BL77-V (I think the V is the color (violet).. Pentel "EnerGel" Liquid Gel Ink (made in japan).7mm Metal Ball tip.
They DO make other types and sizes of tips -- like I mentioned, the.7mm needle has a finer line, but more drag.
I wanted one that was low drag to create less tiring when I write..
It's not slashdot, "per se", but the readership is generally composed of computer nerds/geeks who like to get into the internals of SW + HW -- both things apple tries to prevent. I.e. Apple is closed source, closed platform, and tries to keep most of the curious readership here, out of their stuff. They shut us out -- and try to control those who develop for their platform in odious fashion.
Why *wouldn't* your average slashdot reader dislike Apple? They are worse than MS -- and things have never been real positive about MS -- but Apple is by far worse -- as it's also trendy and into image over substance -- something something nerds/geeks usually aren't.
Apple tends to sue people who try to develop compatible solutions -- not open source or open platform -- again.. anathema to slashdot's roots.
Why wouldn't any SW / HW / computer person being against Apple -- they are against user's being able to "own" their devices... and tinker with them.. They are against the soul of most computer developers/geeks/nerds.
Printing standards long ago said that for books and most papers, 300dpi was reasonable. Now 600dpi and higher isn't uncommon. So for an 11inch laptop, that'd be 3300 dpi to get print quality -- That seems like a reasonable minimum for something you are expected to read daily.
I'd say Torvalds 2560x1600 should be the new *low end*... not a high end... as long as you are other consumers continue to be satisfied by less for more, you will get it.
As for movies at 1080p... screens are being released in the US @ 3840x2160 for 8 foot screens.
This compares with european and japanese releases 6-12 months ago of 4K-wide screens w/up to 4096x3072 sizing.
The highest DPI I could find was released in June 2001 by IBM for a 22.2" 3840x2400 @ 18K$, everything since then has been downhill as our technology standards have declined...
"the desktop" -- you mean the thing that MS got rid of and put a push-button smart-phone interface in place of? That thing that MS made impossible to boot into?
Yeah, MS was forced to leave Win8 booting up in "unlocked mode" as an option for Win8-ready computers, *this time*... but win9?... Windows will be about as viable of a gaming platform as an iphone or a closed console.
While game manufacturers are currently ripping off Win customers by subsidizing console licensing fees, don't think that MS isn't going to notice this and -- well, since the fee is already being charged, it makes sense that MS will start charging a PC-licensing fee in order to run a program on the PC -- Win9, win10? Everything is setup to turn the PC into the same closed model as a verizon phone. The new UEFI bios checks the serial numbers of each part and checks whether or not you bought a license to upgrade that part -- and rejects parts you didn't buy a license to upgrade! This feature is ALREADY in the current UEFI bios's it's just not activated -- I know this due to a fault bios in one of my machines that randomly fails to boot due to my having upgraded the memory in my machine from the 4G it came with to 48G. Now it complains half the time when I boot about one of those chips having a serial number that has changed (they've ALL changed -- I said it was a faulty bios) and refuses to enable the memory chip preventing the machine from booting. The computer and bios are under warrantee, and the license check code, I've been told is being run due to a fault BIOS -- it's not suppose to be active "yet".... But all the pieces are being put in place so that you won't be able to upgrade your PC, let alone boot a non-approved OS, in the future.
Of course this all is kept with encrypted keys in the 'paladium' TCM chip that will ensure no HW/SW tampering has been done in a machine before allowing it to boot in secure mode (if it allows it to boot at all).
All the pieces are being put in place to take complete control of our PC remotely by multiple players who buy into the corporate control structure.
BTW -- the memory chip error comes up from the BIOS -- and disallows any boot -- (the machine currently runs linux, NOT windows).
When I say current jobs, I mean the workers replace jobs that Americans lost.
This IS what is happening.
Look at US worker employment in the field. It has dropped since H1-B visa's were raised. As a consequence, look at new US citizens entering the field -- you will see this figure has dropped because the number of positions for US citizens has dropped). These are current effects -- not about lost future opportunities.
Second -- look at salary & wage benefits -- as the number of H1-B visa's increased, increases in salary and wages flattened, and as demand increased in the field, salary and wage benefits didn't increases proportionately -- whereas H1-B visa's increased. That's lost $$ and lower standard of living for current workers ON TOP of those who were "let go" because there was no longer a position for them (and their job was given to a foreigner).
I'm not sure why you are trying to conflate the two issues... they are very different.
Software, music, -- are about making copies at zero cost and making profit on them and the artificially created right (by corporate lobbying) for those rights to be extended. The "right" (not an inherent right at all, but one explicitly -- **conditionally** **allowed** to be granted by congress for the purpose of benefiting the citizens, "the public good".
Jobs cannot be reproduced at zero cost. They are physical objects that have a 1:1 cost to reproduce. Some employer has to pay 1 "employee-cost-unit" to "buy" (rent?) an employee. It cannot be reproduced for zero cost.
The two issues are extremely different and any attempts to compare them have no objective basis.
OTOH, jobs, in the US -- while not a 'right', are a *pre-condition* in this society for the assumed human right to pursue happiness. We don't have a society that allows people to live happily without some sort of money to live on. Most people are in the working class -- they must work in order to have money to be part of of our mainstream society. Therefore, for most people, a job is a necessity. It is in the public interest and for the good of the people that the government provide the basic support so that people can HAVE jobs... it can't guarantee them -- as that is left to the 'free market', however, if it doesn't provide the basis for them, the public good will go belly up and the government will be failing in it's mission to promote the public good and protect its people (its citizens).
If it implements policies that hinder or hurt this goal, then it can arguably be said to be not representing the best interests of those who it is not serving -- as that group -- say those who unwillfully unemployed, increases (unemployment has been (don't know about "today's" figures) at the highest levels since the great depression -- when clearly, most historians and economists agree that the government failed to properly regulate the capitalist robber barons.
Today the capitalist robber barons have stronger representation in the government -- and rather than being forced to allow bad ones go belly up, the people, as a whole had 1/3-1/2 of the entire years output in 2008, go to make up losses of over-greedy robber barons (finance industry in this case). The interest on that and previous bailouts makes up about 40-45% of our annual economic output, now.
Sins started in the Reagan era who offered "easy money" gave an unreasonable high growth rate to everyone -- and high expectations -- that are only satisfied by continuing to sacrifice Americans and our freedoms -- we have to wage wars to guarantee us cheap oil, we have to support a war-time military budget during times when we should be at peace -- and to maintain the illusion of a thriving economy, we have to displace American workers with foreign workers via job export and importing workers under various programs like the H1-B visa program.
IP piracy is a result of Americans not having sufficient income to afford the high prices corporations must charge to maintain the il
The choice isn't about future jobs. the choice is about CURRENT jobs. The jobs are stolen from current workers, who leave the field. Future people don't enter it because the opportunity is already gone.
Stealing is not about "future possession", it's whether you possess something or not. Do you possess the work? Yes? it's not stolen, no? someone stole it. Do you possess the job? Yes? It's not stolen, no? It's not stolen.
That is consistent Stealing means the other person no longer has it.
Other wise it's called "making a copy", or "looking at something", or something else... but to steal, you have to take another person "object" so that they no longer have *it* *NOW* -- so stealing doesn't apply to something that can be reproduced "at will" with virtually no cost, as there is nothing to steal. When something costs nothing to produce, then you can't say someone has stolen something from you... Show the loss!
Did you not see my previous posting? foreign workers taking jobs hurts CURRENT workers and steals their jobs from them. It's not about taking away jobs from future people -- though it does that too. It takes away jobs from current workers -- that's a tangible loss that cannot be "freely reproduced"....
If you remove the fact that SW piracy doesn't remove the right of the original owner to have and gain use from the object, then there is no difference -- as the job is only 1 object that can only be held by 1 person. It is a lost opportunity -- though it is not the same as taking away the job someone might already have -- but how can you measure that such is not done?
The H1B workers place a cap on wages and appreciation for domestic workers. This cap affects CURRENT workers who are shuffled out of the field as well as taking the place as those who have not yet entered the field. Since employment at high levels is still below the levels it was during the peaks, I would say that the H1B workers have proportionately affected the existing workers by displacing them and lowering their wages and standard of living NOW, than by any actions that would affect those in future generations that might have come -- many of whom, will no longer come, because the field has become too aversive due to negative work conditions, and falling wages.
The harm to the domestic economy as production jobs (vs. service jobs), is much greater than the displacement of 1 worker, as it will affect generations to come. So actually each H1B worker allowed in may be doing some multiplier X "a job" worth of damage -- their being here isn't something that is only measured in the cost of 1 job not taken by a US worker -- its much more than that.
Software "piracy" [sic] is about copying "virtual", "created", imaginary, "intellectual" property that was artificially created by law. It is not a physical taking of something from the other person. It's creating an identical copy that creates no harm to their original, other than their monopoly on mass reproduction.
Stealing jobs is about stealing a physical opportunity that can only be taken by one -- the job can't be mass produced and sold. Once the foreigner has taken the job, it is no longer available to the resident. The same is not true in SW reproduction, as the original recipient or intended recipient of the SW still has their full usage and benefit of it. The same is not true for someone who has 'no job', in place of what was once a job.
Your are comparing comparing virtual or created items with physical items (an opportunity or job, in this case). They are substantially different.
Ever since they sent their update change to force FF to go to the plugin site to update to plugins I can't use, FF hangs at 100% cpu usage on exit... I have to use Process Hacker to kill it...
Yep... same here... and it won't go away... (course I haven't looked into about:config yet...
But having the source for most of their automated stuff in javascript in C:\program files\mozilla firefox\chrome\... is handy..
especially if you unpack it first and keep it unpacked... First thing you can take out their "hidden settings" hider --
#!/bin/bash -ue set -x for i in *.jar; do
d=${i%.jar}
(cd "$d"; unzip -o "../$i" >/dev/null )& done
for i in *.manifest;do
perl -pi'.orig' -e 's/jar:(.*)\.jar!/$1/;' "$i" done wait fn=toolkit/content/global/config.js if [[ ! -e $fn ]]; then
echo "Error - config.js is not in expected location\n"
readarray -at cfglogs < <(find . -name config.js)
str='^\s+if.*^capability.*prefName.*'
declare -i cnt=0
if [[ ${#cfglogs[*]} -lt 1 ]] ; then
echo "and have no good guess as to where it might be\n"
else
for fn in "${cfglogs[@]}"; do
if grep "$str" $fn ; then
echo "looks like it is in $fn"
cnt++
fi
done
fi
if ((cnt!=1)) ; then
echo "File has been split or renamed, halting;"
exit 1
fi fi declare -i count=0 echo "Proceeding to act on file \"$fn\"" perl -pi'.orig' -we ' my $count=0; while (<>) {
if (m{^\s+if[^c]+capability[^p]+prefName.*$}) {
my $x=<>;
if ($x =~ m{.*(?:return|continue);\s*$}) {
++$count;
next;
}
}
print; } exit $count;' "$fn"|| count=$?
if (($count!=2)); then echo "Warning, count was $count, not 2 as expected" else echo "Made 2, expected substitutions" fi
# vim: ts=2 sw=2
The whole thing is far more tractable when you unpack it...
You didn't read the paragraph -- it's AMD's chips that drop by 43% in the first year -- not Intel's. AMD's chips drop because they can't compete in terms of performance, so their prices fall. Intel's prices -- especially on their over $200 cpu's, ***DON'T*** fall -- (stagnate). The fact that both companies CPU's don't fall over time is what is bad for consumers -- they are left with no choices other than what they can afford... It's not like a choice of 1 model car for another in the same price range -- there is no choice.
You want a high perf chip, you have 1 choice (which isn't a choice), you want a low-price chip, you are likely to have 1 choice -- which also isn't a choice.
Choices dictated by necessity are not *choices*. They are taking the only path available.
When seeing words on the screen, humans have not had millennia to develop 'virtual' feelings based upon reading words on the screen.
To a smaller extent with audio, but to a large extent with visual feedback, our own emotion centers -- while seeing expressions of others tries to 'imagine' what the expression means -- in doing so, there is a brief time when most people feel a little be of what the other person is feeling based on seeing their expressions.
You don't get that emphatic response with words other than on an intellectual level -- you don't *feel* it.
The study was about whether or not unrelated noise would cause distraction and hinder focus -- NOT about multitasking.
Then the author of the study uses that to make general statements about multitasking.
Multi tasking isn't about "distractions", and how they hurt performance on a primary task, it's about having more than 1 primary task and being able to do it with some degree of facility while you do another.
Yes -- it's obvious, you devote 50% cpu to 1 task, another task will only have 50%... there's no free lunch.. AND just like with computers, there's an overhead with mutlitasking.
BUT, do we design computers to only do 1 thing at a time?
Why would you think humans would be incapable of doing the same thing (albeit at a vastly reduced pace)?
I thought I was having a flashback -- at least 4-5 years ago... same exact article. Except then, it was still call Hillbilly Heroin" because most of the abusers were in Appalachia with the drug taking the place of more toxic and more dangerous heroin.
But this article does bring the update of "yesterdays" crackdown on pain meds. From the base article:
None of the men and women I spoke with used street heroin before taking OxyContin. All of them used it after using OxyContin. In fact, since Purdue Pharma introduced a reformulated OxyContin in 2010 containing chemical safety-nets meant to render it less easily abused â" the pills no longer dissolve in water, making them more difficult to cook and shoot intravenously â" the number of addicts switching to heroin has skyrocketed.
It's a good thing the FDA has done their job and gotten people off the legally addictive drugs -- so now they can have to scrounge and take their chances of dying from O.D. just like every other addict.
Meanwhile, those who really needed OC for pain find that since it doesn't dissolve in water -- it doesn't dissolve in your body as well either (we are over 60% water, w/the brain being over 70% water -- which is, of course, where the drug "acts" -- so the fact that it no longer dissolves in water significantly reduces its effectiveness requiring doubling or more the pain dosage. At the same time, Purdue was able to get the FDC to block out competitors in the market unless they could prove their 'generic' was as hard to abuse as Purdue's -- which Purdue had another 20-30 year patent on. The price for single doses tripled with the new formulation and now many health plans charge extra for that drug because it is 'brand' (despite there being no generic substitute on the market) -- and users need more of it.
So AGAIN, the FDA, who was *paid* to do this (they call it a fine -- what Purdue paid to the FDA), so now Purdue's profits on the drug have skyrocketed even as usage has declined. Triple the price and reduce the effectiveness of the drug by 40%... That's. 4.8 x profit / pill. They expected a smaller market -- but made sure they have a 20-year patent to lock the market into them as the sole providers.
So Purdue makes big money, the FDA look like 'tough guys', abusers move to heroin and everyone is happy! Except maybe those for whom the drug was designed in the first place who find they have their severe or chronic pain made all the worse with the higher prices, needing a higher dose, which doctors, not knowing about the formulation's effects (they don't take it, well not usually), always interpret as the patient developing 'tolerance' and and that "addiction is becoming a problem" -- to which they then try to divert the patient to less effective or more dangerous alternatives (like injectible morphine).
Yeah... another big win by BIG Pharma and a way to spin the story so that Big Pharma looks like they got punished, and the FDA protected us. And then you can read a bunch of red-neck commentaries on slashdot about the moral superiority of those aren't in regular pain...lording it over those who are:
what a load of self-inflating, self-gratifying, crap.
That's the main reason why DeBeerRacketeers now put serial numbers on each diamond. "Real"[sic] diamonds will have serial numbers on them to allow tracing and guarantees of being "real"...
Wouldn't it be cool if diamond fell to the price level of any other earth mineral, like iron, or whatever..... I wonder if they could make diamond glasses that would never scratch (for example), or faces for some devices portable devices so scratching doesn't render a screen useless over time.
Likely anyone who can add 2 numbers and learn to program with some degree of success.
The question is how much success and how easily it will come... for some, math seems easier, for others logical thinking comes more naturally, for others seeing interactions and concepts and how they work together come more naturally.
Each type of thinking pertains to different types of programming -- making some people more effective at coding and some more effective at design, BUT -- assuming one doesn't have some pathology that would force only one type of thinking, all humans are capable of the various types of thought -- and types of thought not natural for a person can be learned -- to the point that they might be better than some other arbitrary person who had those modes of thinking as their 'primary' modes, but didn't use them in programming, for example.
So.. from a mental level.. anything is possible, but not all things are equally easy or probable.
Second thing is based on knowledge.. Anyone can add 2+2, but not everyone can do calculus... or anyone can write a sentence, but not everyone can write 'Shakespeare'. Training can help, as well as generally skill improvement and theory learning as taught in a school. Some do very well with no schooling, but schooling on the whole in the field you want to be a professional in, is going to help. You wouldn't expect to be a lawyer having gone to medschool would you? (or vice versa)... the same for programming. Most likely any lay person can be trained in first aid -- and how to deliver a baby -- BUT, if they specialize in it in school -- most people would do better than if they specialized in something else.
You can't become a lawyer unless you go to law school in most states. Same with being a doctor. Sorta wish it was the same for professional software engineer, but then they'd have to pay them too much -- but the quality of software might not be in the state it is today, if that were the case... with the downside that it might not be as cheap and plentiful.
So it all depends on how much you want it and how much you are willing to self train -- how self-motivated are you to make up and exceed in any area you might lack in?
"Anti-Christian"? What does that mean? Any of the tons of films supporting faiths other than Christianity are anti-Christian. As for Anti-American? What's that? Anti-Republican or anti-Democrat -- cuz usually it's republicans decrying anti-GOP rhetoric.
Most americans realize they suck except for the small GOP and christian right who live in fantasy land. How can you insult us?
If you believe in privacy, and believe you have "nothing to hide" at the same time, you're a goddammed idiot ---- If you believe you can hide in this online world and that the "powers that be" aren't capable of reading off everything you download and that you are really hiding anything, then you are a complete fool.
Are you kidding? The whole internet is based on linking. If every link had to secure written permission and licensing from any target before linking to it -- it would cripple the web.
I really didn't think the Dutch were stupid...was he bought out?
Linking to something is the verbal equivalent of visually pointing at something. You can't visually point at something in a verbal media, but hotlinking to it is the closest human analog. To claim that such is illegal is attempting to deny the basic human right to communicate.
Only under a despotic regime could such a ruling stand (meaning more that I believe the ruling will be overruled than anything else).
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Above said it most... I looked for something that would not dry out (need no cap), was permanent (ink doesn't run), dries instantly, and is smooth (no friction) to write with on most surfaces.
I didn't like their needle tip -- as it digs into a notebook too much -- causing too much friction. About a 5% leakage rate... They are inexpensive enough, that last time I just bought a box of them -- keep them seal in airtight containers to preserve them, but they come sealed.
They are like a ball-point pen and the point clicks and retracts up into the pen. Haven't found any that are better at any price -- and given these are "office supply pens", they are cheap enough for me to buy tons and not worry if I lose one.
FWIW, my model is the BL77-V (I think the V is the color (violet).. .7mm Metal Ball tip.
Pentel "EnerGel" Liquid Gel Ink (made in japan)
They DO make other types and sizes of tips -- like I mentioned, the .7mm needle has a finer line, but more drag.
I wanted one that was low drag to create less tiring when I write..
It's not slashdot, "per se", but the readership is generally composed of computer nerds/geeks who like to get into the internals of SW + HW -- both things apple tries to prevent. I.e. Apple is closed source, closed platform, and tries to keep most of the curious readership here, out of their stuff. They shut us out -- and try to control those who develop for their platform in odious fashion.
Why *wouldn't* your average slashdot reader dislike Apple? They are worse than MS -- and things have never been real positive about MS -- but Apple is by far worse -- as it's also trendy and into image over substance -- something something nerds/geeks usually aren't.
Apple tends to sue people who try to develop compatible solutions -- not open source or open platform -- again.. anathema to slashdot's roots.
Why wouldn't any SW / HW / computer person being against Apple -- they are against user's being able to "own" their devices... and tinker with them.. They are against the soul of most computer developers/geeks/nerds.
Printing standards long ago said that for books and most papers, 300dpi was reasonable. Now 600dpi and higher isn't uncommon. So for an 11inch laptop, that'd be 3300 dpi to get print quality -- That seems like a reasonable minimum for something you are expected to read daily.
I'd say Torvalds 2560x1600 should be the new *low end*... not a high end ... as long as you are other consumers continue to be satisfied by less for more, you will get it.
As for movies at 1080p... screens are being released in the US @ 3840x2160 for 8 foot screens.
This compares with european and japanese releases 6-12 months ago of 4K-wide screens w/up to 4096x3072 sizing.
The highest DPI I could find was released in June 2001 by IBM for a 22.2" 3840x2400 @ 18K$, everything since then has been downhill as our technology standards have declined...
"the desktop" -- you mean the thing that MS got rid of and put
a push-button smart-phone interface in place of? That thing that MS made impossible to boot into?
Yeah, MS was forced to leave Win8 booting up in "unlocked mode" as an option for Win8-ready computers, *this time*... but win9?... Windows will be about as viable of a gaming platform as an iphone or a closed console.
While game manufacturers are currently ripping off Win customers by subsidizing console licensing fees, don't think that MS isn't going to notice this and -- well, since the fee is already being charged, it makes sense that MS will start charging a PC-licensing fee in order to run a program on the PC -- Win9, win10? Everything is setup to turn the PC into the same closed model as a verizon phone. The new UEFI bios checks the serial numbers of each part and checks whether or not you bought a license to upgrade that part -- and rejects parts you didn't buy a license to upgrade! This feature is ALREADY in the current UEFI bios's it's just not activated -- I know this due to a fault bios in one of my machines that randomly fails to boot due to my having upgraded the memory in my machine from the 4G it came with to 48G. Now it complains half the time when I boot about one of those chips having a serial number that has changed (they've ALL changed -- I said it was a faulty bios) and refuses to enable the memory chip preventing the machine from booting. The computer and bios are under warrantee, and the license check code, I've been told is being run due to a fault BIOS -- it's not suppose to be active "yet".... But all the pieces are being put in place so that you won't be able to upgrade your PC, let alone boot a non-approved OS, in the future.
Of course this all is kept with encrypted keys in the 'paladium' TCM chip that will ensure no HW/SW tampering has been done in a machine before allowing it to boot in secure mode (if it allows it to boot at all).
All the pieces are being put in place to take complete control of our PC remotely by multiple players who buy into the corporate control structure.
BTW -- the memory chip error comes up from the BIOS -- and disallows any boot -- (the machine currently runs linux, NOT windows).
When I say current jobs, I mean the workers replace jobs that Americans lost.
This IS what is happening.
Look at US worker employment in the field. It has dropped since H1-B visa's were raised. As a consequence, look at new US citizens entering the field -- you will see this figure has dropped because the number of positions for US citizens has dropped). These are current effects -- not about lost future opportunities.
Second -- look at salary & wage benefits -- as the number of H1-B visa's increased, increases in salary and wages flattened, and as demand increased in the field, salary and wage benefits didn't increases proportionately -- whereas H1-B visa's increased. That's lost $$ and lower standard of living for current workers ON TOP of those who were "let go" because there was no longer a position for them (and their job was given to a foreigner).
I'm not sure why you are trying to conflate the two issues ... they are very different.
Software, music, -- are about making copies at zero cost and making profit on them and the artificially created right (by corporate lobbying) for those rights to be extended. The "right" (not an inherent right at all, but one explicitly -- **conditionally** **allowed** to be granted by congress for the purpose of benefiting the citizens, "the public good".
Jobs cannot be reproduced at zero cost. They are physical objects that have a 1:1 cost to reproduce. Some employer has to pay 1 "employee-cost-unit" to "buy" (rent?) an employee. It cannot be reproduced for zero cost.
The two issues are extremely different and any attempts to compare them have no objective basis.
OTOH, jobs, in the US -- while not a 'right', are a *pre-condition* in this society for the assumed human right to pursue happiness. We don't have a society that allows people to live happily without some sort of money to live on. Most people are in the working class -- they must work in order to have money to be part of of our mainstream society. Therefore, for most people, a job is a necessity. It is in the public interest and for the good of the people that the government provide the basic support so that people can HAVE jobs... it can't guarantee them -- as that is left to the 'free market', however, if it doesn't provide the basis for them, the public good will go belly up and the government will be failing in it's mission to promote the public good and protect its people (its citizens).
If it implements policies that hinder or hurt this goal, then it can arguably be said to be not representing the best interests of those who it is not serving -- as that group -- say those who unwillfully unemployed, increases (unemployment has been (don't know about "today's" figures) at the highest levels since the great depression -- when clearly, most historians and economists agree that the government failed to properly regulate the capitalist robber barons.
Today the capitalist robber barons have stronger representation in the government -- and rather than being forced to allow bad ones go belly up, the people, as a whole had 1/3-1/2 of the entire years output in 2008, go to make up losses of over-greedy robber barons (finance industry in this case). The interest on that and previous bailouts makes up about 40-45% of our annual economic output, now.
Sins started in the Reagan era who offered "easy money" gave an unreasonable high growth rate to everyone -- and high expectations -- that are only satisfied by continuing to sacrifice Americans and our freedoms -- we have to wage wars to guarantee us cheap oil, we have to support a war-time military budget during times when we should be at peace -- and to maintain the illusion of a thriving economy, we have to displace American workers with foreign workers via job export and importing workers under various programs like the H1-B visa program.
IP piracy is a result of Americans not having sufficient income to afford the high prices corporations must charge to maintain the il
You are offering a false choice.
The choice isn't about future jobs. the choice is about CURRENT jobs. The jobs are stolen from current workers, who leave the field. Future people don't enter it because the opportunity is already gone.
There is no having it "both" ways.
Stealing is not about "future possession", it's whether you possess something or not. Do you possess the work? Yes? it's not stolen, no? someone stole it. Do you possess the job? Yes? It's not stolen, no? It's not stolen.
That is consistent Stealing means the other person no longer has it.
Other wise it's called "making a copy", or "looking at something", or something else... but to steal, you have to take another person "object" so that they no longer have *it* *NOW* -- so stealing doesn't apply to something that can be reproduced "at will" with virtually no cost, as there is nothing to steal. When something costs nothing to produce, then you can't say someone has stolen something from you... Show the loss!
Did you not see my previous posting? foreign workers taking jobs hurts CURRENT workers and steals their jobs from them. It's not about taking away jobs from future people -- though it does that too. It takes away jobs from current workers -- that's a tangible loss that cannot be "freely reproduced"....
If you remove the fact that SW piracy doesn't remove the right of the original owner to have and gain use from the object, then there is no difference -- as the job is only 1 object that can only be held by 1 person. It is a lost opportunity -- though it is not the same as taking away the job someone might already have -- but how can you measure that such is not done?
The H1B workers place a cap on wages and appreciation for domestic workers. This cap affects CURRENT workers who are shuffled out of the field as well as taking the place as those who have not yet entered the field. Since employment at high levels is still below the levels it was during the peaks, I would say that the H1B workers have proportionately affected the existing workers by displacing them and lowering their wages and standard of living NOW, than by any actions that would affect those in future generations that might have come -- many of whom, will no longer come, because the field has become too aversive due to negative work conditions, and falling wages.
The harm to the domestic economy as production jobs (vs. service jobs), is much greater than the displacement of 1 worker, as it will affect generations to come. So actually each H1B worker allowed in may be doing some multiplier X "a job" worth of damage -- their being here isn't something that is only measured in the cost of 1 job not taken by a US worker -- its much more than that.
To answer your strawman argument...
Software "piracy" [sic] is about copying "virtual", "created", imaginary, "intellectual" property that was artificially created by law. It is not a physical taking of something from the other person. It's creating an identical copy that creates no harm to their original, other than their monopoly on mass reproduction.
Stealing jobs is about stealing a physical opportunity that can only be taken by one -- the job can't be mass produced and sold. Once the foreigner has taken the job, it is no longer available to the resident. The same is not true in SW reproduction, as the original recipient or intended recipient of the SW still has their full usage and benefit of it. The same is not true for someone who has 'no job', in place of what was once a job.
Your are comparing comparing virtual or created items with physical items (an opportunity or job, in this case). They are substantially different.
Ever since they sent their update change to force FF to go to the plugin site to update to plugins I can't use,
FF hangs at 100% cpu usage on exit... I have to use Process Hacker to kill it...
What a piece of Excrement.
Nah.... I think it's because Intel is overpricing their xenon processors, that the supply is drying up.... :-|
(*str8face*)
The question will be -- how well do brains that have been connected for a prolonged period, deal with lack of connection?
I.e. if a large amount or most of my brain capacity is in the cloud -- how well do I function when cut off?
Is that "real" brain capacity, or is that a brain specialized for using a tool?
about:config
->plugins.update.url => about:blank
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Problem solved.
Yep... same here...
and it won't go away...
(course I haven't looked into about:config yet...
But having the source for most of their automated stuff in javascript
in C:\program files\mozilla firefox\chrome\... is handy..
especially if you unpack it first and keep it unpacked...
First thing you can take out their "hidden settings" hider --
The whole thing is far more tractable when you unpack it...
You didn't read the paragraph -- it's AMD's chips that drop by 43% in the first year -- not Intel's. AMD's chips drop because they can't compete in terms of performance, so their prices fall. Intel's prices -- especially on their over $200 cpu's, ***DON'T*** fall -- (stagnate). The fact that both companies CPU's don't fall over time is what is bad for consumers -- they are left with no choices other than what they can afford... It's not like a choice of 1 model car for another in the same price range -- there is no choice.
You want a high perf chip, you have 1 choice (which isn't a choice), you want a low-price chip, you are likely to have 1 choice -- which also isn't a choice.
Choices dictated by necessity are not *choices*. They are taking the only
path available.
When seeing words on the screen, humans have not had millennia to develop 'virtual' feelings based upon reading words on the screen.
To a smaller extent with audio, but to a large extent with visual feedback, our own emotion centers -- while seeing expressions of others tries to 'imagine' what the expression means -- in doing so, there is a brief time when most people feel a little be of what the other person is feeling based on seeing their expressions.
You don't get that emphatic response with words other than on an intellectual level -- you don't *feel* it.
The study was about whether or not unrelated noise would cause distraction and hinder focus -- NOT about multitasking.
Then the author of the study uses that to make general statements
about multitasking.
Multi tasking isn't about "distractions", and how they hurt performance
on a primary task, it's about having more than 1 primary task and being
able to do it with some degree of facility while you do another.
Yes -- it's obvious, you devote 50% cpu to 1 task, another task will only have 50%... there's no free lunch.. AND just like with computers, there's
an overhead with mutlitasking.
BUT, do we design computers to only do 1 thing at a time?
Why would you think humans would be incapable of doing the same
thing (albeit at a vastly reduced pace)?
I thought I was having a flashback -- at least 4-5 years ago... same exact article. Except then, it was still call Hillbilly Heroin" because most of the abusers were in Appalachia with the drug taking the place of more toxic and more dangerous heroin.
But this article does bring the update of "yesterdays" crackdown on pain meds. From the base article:
It's a good thing the FDA has done their job and gotten people off the legally addictive drugs -- so now they can have to scrounge and take their chances of dying from O.D. just like every other addict.
Meanwhile, those who really needed OC for pain find that since it doesn't dissolve in water -- it doesn't dissolve in your body as well either (we are over 60% water, w/the brain being over 70% water -- which is, of course, where the drug "acts" -- so the fact that it no longer dissolves in water significantly reduces its effectiveness requiring doubling or more the pain dosage. At the same time, Purdue was able to get the FDC to block out competitors in the market unless they could prove their 'generic' was as hard to abuse as Purdue's -- which Purdue had another 20-30 year patent on. The price for single doses tripled with the new formulation and now many health plans charge extra for that drug because it is 'brand' (despite there being no generic substitute on the market) -- and users need more of it.
So AGAIN, the FDA, who was *paid* to do this (they call it a fine -- what Purdue paid to the FDA), so now Purdue's profits on the drug have skyrocketed even as usage has declined. Triple the price and reduce the effectiveness of the drug by 40%... That's. 4.8 x profit / pill. They expected a smaller market -- but made sure they have a 20-year patent to lock the market into them as the sole providers.
So Purdue makes big money, the FDA look like 'tough guys', abusers move to heroin and everyone is happy! Except maybe those for whom the drug was designed in the first place who find they have their severe or chronic pain made all the worse with the higher prices, needing a higher dose, which doctors, not knowing about the formulation's effects (they don't take it, well not usually), always interpret as the patient developing 'tolerance' and and that "addiction is becoming a problem" --
to which they then try to divert the patient to less effective or more dangerous alternatives (like injectible morphine).
Yeah... another big win by BIG Pharma and a way to spin the story so that Big Pharma looks like they got punished, and the FDA protected us.
And then you can read a bunch of red-neck commentaries on slashdot about the moral superiority of those aren't in regular pain...lording it over those who are:
what a load of self-inflating, self-gratifying, crap.
That's the main reason why DeBeerRacketeers now put serial numbers on each diamond. "Real"[sic] diamonds will have serial numbers on them to allow tracing and guarantees of being "real"...
Wouldn't it be cool if diamond fell to the price level of any other earth mineral, like iron, or whatever..... I wonder if they could make diamond glasses that would never scratch (for example), or faces for some devices portable devices so scratching doesn't render a screen useless over time.
Likely anyone who can add 2 numbers and learn to program with some degree of success.
The question is how much success and how easily it will come... for some, math seems easier, for others logical thinking comes more naturally, for others seeing interactions and concepts and how they work together come more naturally.
Each type of thinking pertains to different types of programming -- making some people more effective at coding and some more effective at design, BUT -- assuming one doesn't have some pathology that would force only one type of thinking, all humans are capable of the various types of thought -- and types of thought not natural for a person can be learned -- to the point that they might be better than some other arbitrary person who had
those modes of thinking as their 'primary' modes, but didn't use them in programming, for example.
So .. from a mental level.. anything is possible, but not all things are equally easy or probable.
Second thing is based on knowledge .. Anyone can add 2+2, but not everyone can do calculus... or anyone can write a sentence, but not everyone can write 'Shakespeare'. Training can help, as well as generally skill improvement and theory learning as taught in a school. Some do very well with no schooling, but schooling on the whole in the field you want to be a professional in, is going to help. You wouldn't expect to be a lawyer having gone to medschool would you? (or vice versa)... the same for
programming. Most likely any lay person can be trained in first aid -- and how to deliver a baby -- BUT, if they specialize in it in school -- most people would do better than if they specialized in something else.
You can't become a lawyer unless you go to law school in most states. Same with being a doctor. Sorta wish it was the same for professional software engineer, but then they'd have to pay them too much -- but
the quality of software might not be in the state it is today, if that were the case... with the downside that it might not be as cheap and plentiful.
So it all depends on how much you want it and how much you are willing to self train -- how self-motivated are you to make up and exceed in any area you might lack in?
Ah... i see the alternate reading.
foolish me.
"Anti-Christian"? What does that mean? Any of the tons of films supporting faiths other than Christianity are anti-Christian. As for Anti-American? What's that? Anti-Republican or anti-Democrat -- cuz usually it's republicans decrying anti-GOP rhetoric.
Most americans realize they suck except for the small GOP and christian right who live in fantasy land. How can you insult us?
Why not just install Adblock?
It's Firefox compatible...
If you believe in privacy, and believe you have "nothing to hide" at the same time, you're a goddammed idiot
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If you believe you can hide in this online world and that the "powers that be" aren't capable of reading off everything you download and that you are really hiding anything, then you are a complete fool.
Are you kidding? The whole internet is based on linking.
If every link had to secure written permission and licensing from any target before linking to it -- it would cripple the web.
I really didn't think the Dutch were stupid...was he bought out?
Linking to something is the verbal equivalent of visually pointing at something. You can't visually point at something in a verbal media, but hotlinking to it is the closest human analog. To claim that such is illegal is attempting to deny the basic human right to communicate.
Only under a despotic regime could such a ruling stand (meaning more that I believe the ruling will be overruled than anything else).