It's the Digitial Signal Processors which control the Segway. They can provide the computing power that is well-suited for missile guidance systems and other nefarious military devices.
The problem is that the concept of "fair" is vague. MS probably thinks it's unfair if they can't use all of the tools available to them to turn the tables against their competition. If they have a bigger gun, why shouldn't they be able to use it?
The EU's, or mine or your, idea of "fair" may mean that MS should compete on the merits of each individual product, not the leverage they can gain from abusing standards and their monopoly power. Unfortunately, I don't think it's people like us that the current US administration agrees with...
The word "love" is code for a filthy conspiracy between the male-hating female gender and the oppressive lap-dogs that run the world government and economy.
Just kidding. Hang on, I've got to take out the trash...
-derfel
Unfortunately, BYU doesn't have exclusive rights. This was developed jointly with Vanderbilt University and Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals has been given exclusive license. Even though the research was done at these universities, Ceragenix probably provided the funding and thus got exclusive rights. Maybe some Mormons, Baptists, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Atheists, Agnostics, and anyone else sense of compassion could get some money together to get a whole lot of this stuff over to Africa and Asia.
Yeah, this is off topic, but oh well... Hanmun is the word for "characters" and "hanja" for when you're referring to an individual character. Yes, the hanmoon in the papers is the same as that used in Chinese and Japanese papers. Are you chatting with folks on the internet using romanized phonetic words? I don't think I could do that. I looked at my previous post and it was kind of harsh sounding - sorry...
Hangul is not the language, but the Korean alphabet. When you say "korean characters" maybe you mean "hanmoon", the korean version of Chinese characters. These have only one meaning and are used interchangably with their hangul'ized counterparts in writing. Hanmoon are very, very similar, to chinese characters, and also generally have only one meaning each. The hangul'ized versions are produced phonetically from the pronunciation of the hanmoon, and thus are just as understandable if you're speaking. Since so many characters with the same pronunciation have different meanings, you have to understand from context, just as we do in English with words like "too" and "two".
Maybe you're trying to chat with Korean students in Chinese over the internet, which would explain your poor understanding of the Korean language...
I don't think there's much of a chance of this kind of thing ever getting implemented. The financial industry would kill any legislator who tried to introduce legislation like this. If anything got through, they'd convince the executive branch not to enforce it. I'm sorry to say this, but the banks hold our money and they're very cavalier about to whom they give access and they like it that way.
Racism does need a specific remedy - no preferential treatment for anyone. Racism is a real problem, but racism can't be solved with racism. We'll never get where we need to be unless we recognize one thing, that people should be judged by a finite number of criteria, and those criteria can't include gender, race, religion, etc. When an earnest, hard-working, intelligent person wants to go to college, he/she needs to be able to go. The most qualified person who applies for a job should get the job. A person accused of a crime should be judged by facts, not skin color. If society becomes color-blind, we can better address poverty and injustice. If we focus on race, someone will always gets left behind.
I grew up as a white kid in a poor, predominately minority neighborhood. I hold no bitterness, but I was singled out and beaten because of my race. I was ridiculed because of my skin and hair color. I missed out on scholarship opportunities because of race. My job opportunities in the area were diminished because I was not bilingual.
My ancestors had no part in slavery, and in fact, were persecuted, killed, and driven from place to place because of their religion. My great grandfather and two of his brothers died broke and in debt from black lung developed from working in coal mines. My grandparents were the white poor who would not have been able to feed their families had they not farmed their small plot of land in their time away from work.
We can not undo the past, but we can insure that the present is as fair and equitable as possible. I will not ask for reparations for the land and property lost by my ancestors. I will not ask for recompense for the early death of my grand dad. I will not insist on punishing those who beat me in my youth. What I can do is everything in my power to insure that I treat noone unfairly. I can stand up for the weak, no matter what gender or race. You can too, and should.
This idea of making up for mistakes of the past by taking from one "race" and giving to another is as unfair as it is wrong. The government should make sure that noone today is discriminated against because of race. It should help the poor and protect the weak, regardless of their skin color or genetic tone. Because it did not do so in the past doesn't mean that it shouldn't, or can't, do so now. Look to the future, not the past.
This reminds me of "Mosquito Coast" with Harrison Ford. He went down into the Amazon and made a big ice maker to help out the natives. He ended up going nuts and polluting the place. It's a good movie.
More cold storage could be very useful in the 3rd world - food storage, etc. It'd be great if this worked out. Better healthcare would be nice too...
I work for a company that designs and builds devices used in the medical industry. If we use a third party for hardware or software, we have to verify and vouch for that software. If a patient gets hurt because some 3rd party app did something wrong, the 3rd party doesn't get sued, we do. It should be the same for personal data. Ameritrade should have made sure the data was secure, whether it was in their hands or not. If anyone's identity gets stolen, or they get ripped off in any other way, Ameritrade should be liable for the loss plus damages! As should all of the other companies that are losing personal data.
Isn't tobacco a food and a drug? You injest it, and it contains chemical stimulants, along with other nice substances.
FDA's Mission Statement
The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. The FDA is also responsible for advancing the public health by helping to speed innovations that make medicines and foods more effective, safer, and more affordable; and helping the public get the accurate, science-based information they need to use medicines and foods to improve their health.
If there's a product which clearly falls under a government agency's mandate, but doesn't because of political machinations (bribes, intimidation, and lies), it's tobacco.
I lived in Korea for a couple of years, and I'm a little confused. The majority of the inventory of the retailers that I came across were bootlegs. I don't know why the RIAA would have a problem with these guys going out of business because of internet file sharing.
I think part of the problem here is that we call them "gifted". Frequently I've found that the difference between the person who excels in certain subjects and those who don't isn't really some innate "gift" that they're born with, but an odd obsession with that subject. In fact, in many cases I'd consider these "gifted" people to frequently be quite unbalanced. Is the person that chooses to spend 2-3 hours a day thinking about physics really more gifted than a person who spends those hours participating in sports and/or socializing?
I agree with you completely, except for your hope that these folks "just might be shocked that enough people will pay for content." I'm not sure these folks will ever be satisfied.
There's at least one problem with manual counts. When people with biases count, their biases will affect the outcome. Even if you have some agent keeping an eye on them, they can't catch every error that is made, intentional or not.
Machine based counting _could_ be more accurate, even though the people building and programming those machines may have biases. If two receipts were given to the voter, which he verified, then put one into another machine. If this 2nd machine then retallied the votes, the first machine's results could be verified. There could even be a third manual count. There should also be requirements on the voting systems such as that they be from different vendors, including serious firewalls between the developers. This is much better than having a few people of average intelligence looking at a fairly large number of ballots to determine if a chad is hanging, a mark is dark enough, or if there is a depression somewhere.
In a sales meeting with the WindRiver folks, we were discussing our options for a Realtime OS on an upcoming project. We laid out some of the problems we'd had with them in the past and their response was "we suck, but we suck less than the other guys." We got a kick out of this after they left.
I remember receiving a response to a message I sent about the DMCA. It basically said "this is a very complicated issue, but copyrights are very important to this economy and they must be protected." I read that as "I don't really understand what's going on here, but big contributors stand to lose money if I don't do what they say."
Talk to everyone you know about this. Write down a simple explanation of what's going on spread pamphlets around your neighborhood. If we all did this, things might turn around.
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Only suckers do science right now.
And people that actually love it.
It'd be nice to reward that category before rewarding people that just want to make money and don't care about the field.
If they do it just for the money, but do it well, I think they deserve just as much money as the lover...
It's the Digitial Signal Processors which control the Segway. They can provide the computing power that is well-suited for missile guidance systems and other nefarious military devices.
The problem is that the concept of "fair" is vague. MS probably thinks it's unfair if they can't use all of the tools available to them to turn the tables against their competition. If they have a bigger gun, why shouldn't they be able to use it?
The EU's, or mine or your, idea of "fair" may mean that MS should compete on the merits of each individual product, not the leverage they can gain from abusing standards and their monopoly power. Unfortunately, I don't think it's people like us that the current US administration agrees with...
Mormons don't believe in Purgatory - they believe in Idaho.
The word "love" is code for a filthy conspiracy between the male-hating female gender and the oppressive lap-dogs that run the world government and economy. Just kidding. Hang on, I've got to take out the trash... -derfel
Unfortunately, BYU doesn't have exclusive rights. This was developed jointly with Vanderbilt University and Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals has been given exclusive license. Even though the research was done at these universities, Ceragenix probably provided the funding and thus got exclusive rights. Maybe some Mormons, Baptists, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Atheists, Agnostics, and anyone else sense of compassion could get some money together to get a whole lot of this stuff over to Africa and Asia.
You'd think they would have shot for more "even" dollar amounts...
derfel
Maybe you're trying to chat with Korean students in Chinese over the internet, which would explain your poor understanding of the Korean language...
I don't think there's much of a chance of this kind of thing ever getting implemented. The financial industry would kill any legislator who tried to introduce legislation like this. If anything got through, they'd convince the executive branch not to enforce it. I'm sorry to say this, but the banks hold our money and they're very cavalier about to whom they give access and they like it that way.
Racism does need a specific remedy - no preferential treatment for anyone. Racism is a real problem, but racism can't be solved with racism. We'll never get where we need to be unless we recognize one thing, that people should be judged by a finite number of criteria, and those criteria can't include gender, race, religion, etc. When an earnest, hard-working, intelligent person wants to go to college, he/she needs to be able to go. The most qualified person who applies for a job should get the job. A person accused of a crime should be judged by facts, not skin color. If society becomes color-blind, we can better address poverty and injustice. If we focus on race, someone will always gets left behind.
I grew up as a white kid in a poor, predominately minority neighborhood. I hold no bitterness, but I was singled out and beaten because of my race. I was ridiculed because of my skin and hair color. I missed out on scholarship opportunities because of race. My job opportunities in the area were diminished because I was not bilingual.
My ancestors had no part in slavery, and in fact, were persecuted, killed, and driven from place to place because of their religion. My great grandfather and two of his brothers died broke and in debt from black lung developed from working in coal mines. My grandparents were the white poor who would not have been able to feed their families had they not farmed their small plot of land in their time away from work.
We can not undo the past, but we can insure that the present is as fair and equitable as possible. I will not ask for reparations for the land and property lost by my ancestors. I will not ask for recompense for the early death of my grand dad. I will not insist on punishing those who beat me in my youth. What I can do is everything in my power to insure that I treat noone unfairly. I can stand up for the weak, no matter what gender or race. You can too, and should.
This idea of making up for mistakes of the past by taking from one "race" and giving to another is as unfair as it is wrong. The government should make sure that noone today is discriminated against because of race. It should help the poor and protect the weak, regardless of their skin color or genetic tone. Because it did not do so in the past doesn't mean that it shouldn't, or can't, do so now. Look to the future, not the past.
This reminds me of "Mosquito Coast" with Harrison Ford. He went down into the Amazon and made a big ice maker to help out the natives. He ended up going nuts and polluting the place. It's a good movie. More cold storage could be very useful in the 3rd world - food storage, etc. It'd be great if this worked out. Better healthcare would be nice too...
Do the lawyers get their share in batteries and credits from Apple?
Prices are too high. Must be fixed. I love that stuff.
Switch to OOo and watch to see which teachers, administrators, and other staff have problems. Put "dumbass" on yearly evaluation.
I work for a company that designs and builds devices used in the medical industry. If we use a third party for hardware or software, we have to verify and vouch for that software. If a patient gets hurt because some 3rd party app did something wrong, the 3rd party doesn't get sued, we do. It should be the same for personal data. Ameritrade should have made sure the data was secure, whether it was in their hands or not. If anyone's identity gets stolen, or they get ripped off in any other way, Ameritrade should be liable for the loss plus damages! As should all of the other companies that are losing personal data.
Autoclave? WTH does a sterilized keyboard have to do with choosing a pope?
Isn't tobacco a food and a drug? You injest it, and it contains chemical stimulants, along with other nice substances.
FDA's Mission Statement
The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. The FDA is also responsible for advancing the public health by helping to speed innovations that make medicines and foods more effective, safer, and more affordable; and helping the public get the accurate, science-based information they need to use medicines and foods to improve their health.
If there's a product which clearly falls under a government agency's mandate, but doesn't because of political machinations (bribes, intimidation, and lies), it's tobacco.
I lived in Korea for a couple of years, and I'm a little confused. The majority of the inventory of the retailers that I came across were bootlegs. I don't know why the RIAA would have a problem with these guys going out of business because of internet file sharing.
I think part of the problem here is that we call them "gifted". Frequently I've found that the difference between the person who excels in certain subjects and those who don't isn't really some innate "gift" that they're born with, but an odd obsession with that subject. In fact, in many cases I'd consider these "gifted" people to frequently be quite unbalanced. Is the person that chooses to spend 2-3 hours a day thinking about physics really more gifted than a person who spends those hours participating in sports and/or socializing?
I agree with you completely, except for your hope that these folks "just might be shocked that enough people will pay for content." I'm not sure these folks will ever be satisfied.
Machine based counting _could_ be more accurate, even though the people building and programming those machines may have biases. If two receipts were given to the voter, which he verified, then put one into another machine. If this 2nd machine then retallied the votes, the first machine's results could be verified. There could even be a third manual count. There should also be requirements on the voting systems such as that they be from different vendors, including serious firewalls between the developers. This is much better than having a few people of average intelligence looking at a fairly large number of ballots to determine if a chad is hanging, a mark is dark enough, or if there is a depression somewhere.
In a sales meeting with the WindRiver folks, we were discussing our options for a Realtime OS on an upcoming project. We laid out some of the problems we'd had with them in the past and their response was "we suck, but we suck less than the other guys." We got a kick out of this after they left.
I remember receiving a response to a message I sent about the DMCA. It basically said "this is a very complicated issue, but copyrights are very important to this economy and they must be protected." I read that as "I don't really understand what's going on here, but big contributors stand to lose money if I don't do what they say." Talk to everyone you know about this. Write down a simple explanation of what's going on spread pamphlets around your neighborhood. If we all did this, things might turn around.