I missed the one line at the end of the article about stopping foreign wars. He still wants to keep defence spending though. If you spent a population-proportional amount (or even twice or three times that) on defence you'd probably have a pretty hefty surplus.
He's extreme in everything hey? You guys don't need to become isolationists, just scale things back. You don't really need to be able to take on the entire rest of the world.
Now THERE's a step in the right direction. Don't throw away the things that make your country great (which are only 1% anyway), toss the big line item that doesn't really do you any good anyway.
Private industry has had sixty years to get into space and they're just now taking the first steps. Why is that? Also, anyone aiming higher than suborbital flights is doing it for... government contracts.
Unfortunately a little trimming isn't going to get you guys out of this. You're going to have to look at cutting more than a few tenths of one percent.
Now, there IS a major money sink you guys fund up the wazoo that you could probably cut VERY deeply. This budget item apparently loses (as in, has no idea where it went) more money than the entire savings suggested by Ron Paul, and nobody knows how much funding it actually gets because a good portion of it is secret.
Maybe if the list was full of arbitrary stuff that had nothing to do with the function of the product and was only used to brand it, but that isn't the case. Making the front of it black is fashionable; people like it. It isn't because people think it's an iPad, it's because black is the new black. Having symmetrical borders is completely functional: The thing has got a touch screen and you have got to be able to pick it up without inadvertently pressing anything, and the width necessary to do that is the same on each side. Arranging icons in a grid is a standard technique used so often that it's part of the library [mytelcoit.com]. The navigation buttons are likewise completely standard.
Copying the box exactly? Using several icons that are almost exactly the same as Apple's? I'd agree with you if Apple were suing EVERYONE who makes black rectangles, but they're not. They're suing Samsung, who many have noted have copied Apple much more blatantly than anyone else. Even Samsung seems to realize it - they've managed to change the Nexus Galaxy and I don't think they believe the function was compromised.
No, you pay for insurance in order to spread the risk of having to pay out large sums of restitution if you're in an accident. If you ARE in an (at fault) accident, then your personal risk goes up. The insurance company figures out your risk based on what they know about you. If you're in an accident, they now know more about you (and your risk is higher).
Insurance is still a good idea though, because it covers you against catastrophe. I figured out once that my first at fault accident would cost me $6000 if I claimed it ($1000 increase on premiums for six years). So an accident that cost less than $6000 wasn't worth claiming. But suppose I hit someone and put them in a wheel chair? That might result in a million dollar claim, but I'd still only have to actually pay out $6000.
"Anyone who goes into a store wanting an iPhone and ends up confused enough to accidentally buy a Samsung phone doesn't deserve any protection from confusion."
The law in most nations disagrees with you.
"But they didn't. They're clearly selling a Samsung phone. They aren't trying to pass themselves off as Apple."
The courts in a couple of nations (and probably more coming) also disagree with you.
It's my understanding that the voice processing is already open - you can use it in your app already (and probably already do since it's built into text boxes). But as you point out, the natural language processing is something that really has to be done in the context of the app itself.
I hope you're a better cyclist than the ones around here. In the previous city I lived in cyclists realized they were vehicles and obeyed traffic laws. Here they do whatever they want. I signalled (well in advance) to parallel park the other day and this girl on a bike comes sliding up beside me, had to straddle her bike to squeeze through the space between me and the car next to me, and then was off, all while I watched incredulously. If I hadn't happened to take one last look beside me before reversing she would have gotten squished.
If there's someone behind you close enough that their life is in danger because you're braking then they are following too close and are endangering their OWN life.
No wonder Americans have so many massive multi-car pileups. Are you all trying to gain extra fuel economy from following in the next guy's slipstream or something?
What? You needed a better teacher. If some idiot semi is following you that close then you a) should already be aware of it and b) should have done something to try and remedy the situation.
Hitting a deer at speed in a small car may well kill you, and stopping to look behind you might well be the difference between dying and not. And if you're stopping to check and make that same decision when you're bearing down on a kid in the road you shouldn't be driving.
And they come in white boxes with the exact same shade of gray lettering Apple uses, with a picture of the device taking up most of the front of the box. Inside the box is a white cardboard insert holding the device.
Oopsie. And it doesn't matter what "anyone familiar with both devices would instantly notice," trade redress suits are about complaints that a product is designed so that someone NOT familiar with the product might confuse them.
The only thing Samsung did that's different than a cheap knockoff manufacturer is that that put "Samsung" on the device instead of "Adple."
You're a school age child, particularly a girl. Your family is better off than some, and you have a chance to go to school. Someone in your family gets sick. Now you either have to stay home and care for him or her, or you have to stay home and do his job. Perhaps he recovers, perhaps he doesn't. Either way, you're probably not going back to school.
Maybe it's you that's sick. Same effect. Malaria doesn't just kill instantly, it makes you sick for an extended period of time. If you recover you often suffer periodic recurrences.
The conclusions about standards of living and education going up (and population growth going down) when disease is eliminated are based on hundreds of years of observation. The other problems you mentioned, poverty, instability, repression and tribalism also tend to be alleviated with a healthier population.
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I didn't call it a little trimming, the GP did.
I missed the one line at the end of the article about stopping foreign wars. He still wants to keep defence spending though. If you spent a population-proportional amount (or even twice or three times that) on defence you'd probably have a pretty hefty surplus.
He's extreme in everything hey? You guys don't need to become isolationists, just scale things back. You don't really need to be able to take on the entire rest of the world.
Now THERE's a step in the right direction. Don't throw away the things that make your country great (which are only 1% anyway), toss the big line item that doesn't really do you any good anyway.
Private industry has had sixty years to get into space and they're just now taking the first steps. Why is that? Also, anyone aiming higher than suborbital flights is doing it for... government contracts.
Unfortunately a little trimming isn't going to get you guys out of this. You're going to have to look at cutting more than a few tenths of one percent.
Now, there IS a major money sink you guys fund up the wazoo that you could probably cut VERY deeply. This budget item apparently loses (as in, has no idea where it went) more money than the entire savings suggested by Ron Paul, and nobody knows how much funding it actually gets because a good portion of it is secret.
"are still built and maintained with city, county and State funds."
I'm not an American, but it was my impression that cities, counties and states (not sure what a State is) all have governments?
Copying the box exactly? Using several icons that are almost exactly the same as Apple's? I'd agree with you if Apple were suing EVERYONE who makes black rectangles, but they're not. They're suing Samsung, who many have noted have copied Apple much more blatantly than anyone else. Even Samsung seems to realize it - they've managed to change the Nexus Galaxy and I don't think they believe the function was compromised.
No, you pay for insurance in order to spread the risk of having to pay out large sums of restitution if you're in an accident. If you ARE in an (at fault) accident, then your personal risk goes up. The insurance company figures out your risk based on what they know about you. If you're in an accident, they now know more about you (and your risk is higher).
Insurance is still a good idea though, because it covers you against catastrophe. I figured out once that my first at fault accident would cost me $6000 if I claimed it ($1000 increase on premiums for six years). So an accident that cost less than $6000 wasn't worth claiming. But suppose I hit someone and put them in a wheel chair? That might result in a million dollar claim, but I'd still only have to actually pay out $6000.
"Anyone who goes into a store wanting an iPhone and ends up confused enough to accidentally buy a Samsung phone doesn't deserve any protection from confusion."
The law in most nations disagrees with you.
"But they didn't. They're clearly selling a Samsung phone. They aren't trying to pass themselves off as Apple."
The courts in a couple of nations (and probably more coming) also disagree with you.
Oh look, another Slashdotter making random, unsubstantiated and unjustified statements. Such an intellectual giant.
Sure. It's not Dell's original statement I'm criticizing, but his need to "put it in context" today.
You're wrong.
http://thisismynext.com/2011/04/19/apple-sues-samsung-analysis/
Siri on the Apple TV is the obvious next place to go with it.
It's my understanding that the voice processing is already open - you can use it in your app already (and probably already do since it's built into text boxes). But as you point out, the natural language processing is something that really has to be done in the context of the app itself.
A lot of the fancy Android APIs are Google proprietary too. And it's not like Nokia (formerly) or RIM share everything either.
I hope you're a better cyclist than the ones around here. In the previous city I lived in cyclists realized they were vehicles and obeyed traffic laws. Here they do whatever they want. I signalled (well in advance) to parallel park the other day and this girl on a bike comes sliding up beside me, had to straddle her bike to squeeze through the space between me and the car next to me, and then was off, all while I watched incredulously. If I hadn't happened to take one last look beside me before reversing she would have gotten squished.
No, but they tend to be just the right height to go slamming through the windshield and crush you to death. Which then leaves your car out of control.
Might not be the guys behind you that have the problem, but you're still dangerous.
If there's someone behind you close enough that their life is in danger because you're braking then they are following too close and are endangering their OWN life.
No wonder Americans have so many massive multi-car pileups. Are you all trying to gain extra fuel economy from following in the next guy's slipstream or something?
What? You needed a better teacher. If some idiot semi is following you that close then you a) should already be aware of it and b) should have done something to try and remedy the situation.
Hitting a deer at speed in a small car may well kill you, and stopping to look behind you might well be the difference between dying and not. And if you're stopping to check and make that same decision when you're bearing down on a kid in the road you shouldn't be driving.
Which legality was that? Pedestrians not wanting to have to dodge idiots of Segways?
So basically he kept the insurance because of some weird loophole in the insurance company's rules.
If you total a car you should pay more for insurance (when you get it again) whether or not you cancel it right afterward.
That's why Apple's not suing them for patent infringement. Well, okay, they are, but that's over a whole other set of complaints.
And they come in white boxes with the exact same shade of gray lettering Apple uses, with a picture of the device taking up most of the front of the box. Inside the box is a white cardboard insert holding the device.
Oopsie. And it doesn't matter what "anyone familiar with both devices would instantly notice," trade redress suits are about complaints that a product is designed so that someone NOT familiar with the product might confuse them.
The only thing Samsung did that's different than a cheap knockoff manufacturer is that that put "Samsung" on the device instead of "Adple."
Maybe they should get into selling Rolaxes.
There has been some work on vaccinating mosquitos. It was posted on Slashdot a few years ago.
You're a school age child, particularly a girl. Your family is better off than some, and you have a chance to go to school. Someone in your family gets sick. Now you either have to stay home and care for him or her, or you have to stay home and do his job. Perhaps he recovers, perhaps he doesn't. Either way, you're probably not going back to school.
Maybe it's you that's sick. Same effect. Malaria doesn't just kill instantly, it makes you sick for an extended period of time. If you recover you often suffer periodic recurrences.
The conclusions about standards of living and education going up (and population growth going down) when disease is eliminated are based on hundreds of years of observation. The other problems you mentioned, poverty, instability, repression and tribalism also tend to be alleviated with a healthier population.