Not reporters. Not marketing people. Not politicians. Not bloggers...
They are always messing the language up to the masses; while the experts end up with their own jargon even if they are attempting to not create a dialect of their own.
Point is understood; but this is a "discovery" (ok more like enhancement) of a data link layer technology and that level of tech is usually just 1 direction. It can be used within a network; duplicate it for going the other direction and then either figure out how to do full duplex or just do half.
It could be a network if one brushes over the bidirectional details; but likely you are right in that the author is misunderstanding what a computer network actually is. The return path can be limited bandwidth and use a whole different style connection (like sat internet with phone upload.) I often do not think about such things and just take it for granted on such details because its trivial to think of any kind of return path makes it network capable.
The mistake would have been pascal style strings putting the length byte onto the array therefore making strings into a complex datatype. It would have been 1 length byte (like Pascal, of similar age.) This would have limited the length of strings and quickly led people to using Byte arrays for their string work or ugly hacks to handle and mixed string sizes. Remember, they weren't running 8 bit words back then so they'd have to make this new complex string structure AND a byte datatype since text was a byte and we need byte sized units;-p This wasn't just a design decision but also created more work; when terminators would allow you to combine bytes and strings.
255 length strings are long enough for everybody... biggest reason I went to C over Pascal-- I hated length byte string limitations! The limitation would have made a LOT of people use byte arrays instead. We can handle huge length integers on everything today so terminators are less useful. 64bits are long enough for most people; 128bit being unlikely to be an issue. This would have been insane to do on systems around 16bit on something used so frequently.
I agree with the assembly perspective but it merely would add a bias to making decisions it does not make it the deciding factor. There are plenty of macro like things C did but it does make a few abstractions in how it tackled problems which could have gone in other directions -- nothing fancy because the compilers back then were more like automated assembler macro tools. What I could see them geeking out over is making the perfect macro sets where you could combine them into clever ways-- I can see the strong appeal of just how clever some of these "bad" C programming techniques are when a simple direct translation is involved. When designing the language the mindset would be to make the smallest set of powerful assembly macros so again it makes the length byte seem like the lesser solution (from that perspective.)
Now with hindsight and existence of software engineering practices, the bias is towards avoiding bugs etc and we just ignore speed and figure someday the compiler will figure it out or the runtime system will dynamically tweak it. This kind of thinking probably would get you fired back then while now their thinking gets you fired (goto was not EVIL back then.)
Their assembly background and love of goto is why goto still exists. Goto allows for things otherwise impossible in the language to be done, like a backdoor to the constraints of the high level abstractions -- if they thought more like today, goto would be dead and we'd have some smarter language features; such as:
a break/continue that can go up multiple blocks (and not just loops... think about how many if else trees could be pruned!) I really wish somebody would fix this already!
A primitive precursor to exceptions (named goto? limited scope goto? a fancier switch? dispatch tables? multiple return values? nested function definitions or shared function frames?)
Who cares if it is a broadcast only system; think of the possibilities of this being applied in areas outside of sending video in an airplane (what a waste- just run the wires.) Its not new but it is faster than before.
IR light wouldn't be seen. add another LED and receiver and increase bandwidth (or lower it and just use IR.. in which case this isn't that new.)
Think how cheap it would be to embed additional information into displays! the closed captioning could be embedded along with other information; like URLs or products etc. an LED based display would be able to send such information and it would not impact image quality (although the data rate would be down since you'd not be able to control the colors without giving it away) Aim your smart phone or other device at a display and get additional information transmitted! without networking crap! Similar to the 2D barcodes but with more information and possibly hidden. an IR transmitter on a TV could do something similar cheaply on existing TVs which lack the LEDs in their displays.
Street lamps could contain location information... well just an idea; maybe it gives somebody else another better idea.
It could provide a cheap way to communicate to devices within a house; I've been hoping IR would do this for a long time... and we'd have some standards in place (like for TV remotes) but industry has continued to ignore IR technology except for laptops which have toyed with an alternative use.
Store lights and displays could send signals to devices; disneyland will probably figure out something for this...
Mostly its a cost and power issue; then it might find some niches-- wifi is embedded into so much stuff now...
I for one am glad Obama is taking horrible legal positions along the lines Bush did -- in some cases better because he is moving legally where Bush would delay treading. Its more likely for Obama to lose these cases and establish the law against this stuff than for some conservative judge to rubber stamp it. I do believe the liberal judges are less likely to distort their rulings in Obama's favor while I think they were more likely to do so for Bush.... however, since the corporations are at the heart of nearly everything it may not matter which party is doing what. I just hope Obama's people do a poor job; like how Bush purposely did a bad prosecution of that crook senator from Alaska. (known here for being "the internet is a bunch of pipes" senator.) One reason the case was so pathetic is they chucked most the "evidence" because they wanted to admit it as secret evidence only and that wasn't allowed -- something which Bush tried as well; what would have been better is if they could have had strong rulings AGAINST secret evidence that the legal system can't properly access (perhaps we have those already?)
Not using your brain probably lowers your IQ or at least makes thinking seem like more work. People have way too much time to turn off their brain; watching TV turns off more of their brains than sleeping does! Given how much stupid shit goes on these days people need to wake up and START thinking not take a break (a break which they've not earned.)
Our lives have become like our food-- cheap junk we buy to falsely fill needs leaving us unfulfilled... so we consume endlessly as long as we go down the wrong path. Many people don't know the difference between wants and needs and fewer understand the difference between fact and opinion than before. We are not just getting FAT from this new cultural pattern but its also harming all other aspects of life (as we become fat headed too.)
China was beating out robot and hi tech tool assisted manufacturing because they were using humans as much like robots as they could. Undercutting places with high startup costs, high costs in adapting to change, and expensive maintenance -- which cut the number of well paid workers but could not beat the exploited low cost human workers.... until NOW....
Robotics will eventually win the global RACE TO THE BOTTOM. Meanwhile, our economic system depends upon constant growth when we have limited resources and limited consumption. We will eventually not be able to buy enough CRAP we don't need to keep all the meaningless jobs related to producing and selling that CRAP. Productivity increases will make sure that happens... Sure everything could be disposable and that would prolong everything until you run out of resources... then you have to create affordable recycling to prolong it a bit longer...
Of course we just have to progress even faster and further into our war against the natural order of things so we can understand enough to avoid all the downsides our advancement creates. Its quite possibly a catch-22 situation where we never get to the point of 'utopia' because each step forward pushes the goal further off by creating more problems to solve. (or it may be possible, but take millennium and the surviving the journey may be improbable.)
Don't forget the super hi-def after they make all of us buy new TVs over again in 10-20 years (because they dropped the ball on digital tv... the FCC that is, industry loves being short sighted.)
They don't even need to wait 20 years to reboot them. If they can make enough money from running them all into the ground LONG ENOUGH they can simply reboot the whole process over again.
CG is making it all into realistic styled cartoons and getting cheaper (I still can spot the CG ) -- to the point where now it costs too much to put in the real actors so we have whole scenes that are 100% CG. If they can remove the expensive live action and get past the actor name brands then they can crank out profitable films for LESS.... meaning that everybody will have to be extremely sick of it before they stop.
Fantasy, horror and musicals do better during bad times. expect more.
FINALLY somebody points it out! Its no different a strategy than creating multiple brands for your megacorporation -- they hire plenty of P.R. experts... one should expect them to use the same tricks. "Those GM losers.. I'll never buy one of their cars! I'll buy a Cadillac instead."
Palin was a purely marketing based decision. McCain likely didn't even choose her (other than to simply take the marketing advise... funny that she couldn't ever listen her handlers... the marketing people didn't think that far ahead.)
Why does all this seem to remind me of a typical science fiction movie?
All the pricks are ignoring the nerd's warnings and disaster is around the corner... Unfortunately, only in the movies do the "anti-science" people suffer and/or DIE by the end.... Then the hero uses some factual discovery to win the day within 30 minutes; usually with the help of the expert or by using inductive reasoning. We can only hope the life reflects art and we find a solution before too many people die from the character flaws of the deniers.
The information is BROADCASTED publicly -- if you don't want them to see you then Wifi has the option of hiding the network name; which is clearly indicating that you don't want others seeing you - without doing that you are willfully going naked from view of a PUBLIC SPACE -- so its 100% fair game they snap your photo and there is nothing you can do about it (or should expect to.)
One could argue that merely broadcasting things into the public space is enough; however, due to the nature of the technology this is unavoidable so the hidden network flag should provide a legal means for something that is technically impractical so the hidden network flag is a virtual fence.
Encryption is another matter; but if you broadcast your MAC, or other data unencrypted then its fair game-- the encrypted data is fair game; the issue there is whether somebody has a right to break your encryption-- not whether they are allowed to receive the signals you are projecting directly at them (again, in a public space.) This is like pushing nude photos of yourself onto people going past your house. You could put the photo in an envelope and still do it-- but you are an idiot if you get upset somebody bothers to open that envelope you gave them!
So why can't we avoid the torque converters on the automatics? The manuals in these small cars eat up a lot of gas-- must be some reason why they don't put some time into that instead of just playing with the other stuff.
My only experience is helping with an early 80s automatic transmission which was a mess of crazy hydraulics and was losing a few hundred hp between engine and wheels (it ended up replaced.)
Nigger is a word with a movement behind it to attempt to totally destroy the word; its been highly effective to some degree but also has failed by making it the most emotionally loaded word of these times. Use of the word allows thoughtless condemnation and rage against anybody who uses it. Its almost like saying "I am a racist" and having everybody take it literally - even when merely quoted. Its an excuse for zero tolerance-- and it can do you more harm than using just about any other word in this culture. Its worse than a curse word ever was-- those lowered your apparent social status/class. No need to think at all, its perfectly ok to have no brain (zero tolerance.)
This movement has backfired; sure it gives some people an ability to play childish immature word games on an adult level -- "I can say this but you can't" -- giving a false feeling empowerment. It discourages thought so it is BAD solely for that reason. It goes too far beyond shame turning it into persecution instead; not something to convert people and do good but instead something to provide some people justified victims. (Ever notice how victims often love to be on the other side?) The human irony to all this is that I've seen a lot of minor racism all my life and many of the worst are the ones who overcompensate and LOVE outlets like this nigger phenomenon. You can disarm movements by redefining their terminology -- its being done to you everyday -- you do not empower their terms. Note to the queer gay fags: keep diffusing terms; stop this move to re-stigmatize them.
Behind the brain dead behavior it is justified by the racism mess; where in the recent past you could get beaten for openly supporting equality and it was acceptable and justified -- for some it was the same zero tolerance level. Today it is the reverse (well, beatings are less likely today solely due to the sue crazy society we have.) Few things have 110% certainty and this has become one of them; allowing you to vent for all those less certain positions where you just can't have that level of confidence that you are right-- to the point of being blinded by it. It is at that point where unethical behaviors become ok. It leads in the same direction as the racists did and other extreme positions (like Nazis;) no religion required; however, religion has often provided the means to raise righteousness up to this level -- this is why so many examples are found there; sorry atheists, religion doesn't cause it but it can easily contribute to the process. A binary perspective is highly appealing because of its simplicity and coupled with the elation of righteousness --- even to people who are not simpletons. This should become more clear as the level of personalization increases so people become isolated and ignorant, more like the FOXtards of today.
The race myth: just as nigger as a word has become empowered foolishly by its opposition; racism itself is continued to be promoted by the way in which we deal with and think about the issue. You'd think better science education would eradicate it already... except science education has been regressing... There is no such thing as race. The way we define race is political; not genetic. There is so little difference genetically it doesn't deserve any time. I can have more DNA in common with some Asian guy than my white neighbor but in appearance the Asian looks further away (plus I'm completely ignoring the individual personalities; "soul".) The only real obvious outward sign of HUGE DNA differences is GENDER, so sexism is a far more difficult issue - one we are not ready to handle if we can't dismiss this race BS.
Race is like discussing how flat the earth is. Put into proper context it will be shamed and dismissed away down to the level of HAIR COLOR or EYE COLOR (both which are now switched -- hey, white people get suntans...) I'm ignoring the big issue of culture/subculture racial stereotypes - those will fade as you integrate but the "dumb blond" type th
Automatic transmissions need an upgrade. There is no good reason we shouldn't all have manual gearboxes with optional automatic computer shifted gearboxes... I'm not talking about the Smart which has a really poor one (even for a manual the computer just makes it even worse.) Race cars have computer controlled manual transmissions and why can't we? Have you seen the nightmare that makes up an automatic transmission? I have. Its really smart but it is a Rube Goldberg Machine compared to computer controlled system.
A computer can out shift a human already; this tech should be put into cars and it likely is cheaper to implement. Higher end cars could continue with their silly simulated manual stick shifters...
It amazes me we have not seen sleeker designs, smooth undersides, "hi tech" transmissions, more diesel, flywheels (volvo maybe,) removable seats (4 door cars to save weight; now minivans are folding them away not sure they remove anymore.) When I had a minivan, it ran without seats most the time and it made a difference; my tiny car would likely see more of a gain...
Not true. Most the debt consists of PAST debt compounding over decades. I believe it was in the 70-90% range so Bush's idiocy didn't create the majority of the debt. Deficits can go over 100% of GDP for sort periods of time as they did for WW2-- the deficit is less of a problem than the debt is-- because the debt will grow on its own and provides large owners a great deal of power over your nation; during WW2 much of the debt was internal to the nation; now it is foreign or bankers (who have no loyalty.) Foreign debt was one of the ways the USA built its empire - its the best means of empire building where you can also be "the good guy."
No I did not! Bush left the wars OUTSIDE the budget and just stuck them directly onto our debt. In fact, he wasn't the only one to hide military spending in that way. Obama is actually being HONEST at his own political expense by making the cost of war far more open.
I know parents who wouldn't allow their children to ride bicycles or do pretty much anything fun because HEALTHCARE IS BROKEN. One child cost you your month's paycheck or a mortgage payment and the less savings you have the more of a problem this becomes. Then there are major injuries that could cost you your house and all your savings. It also becomes a BIG reason to involve lawyers to help find funds for such costs-- and if you think insurance is a bunch of leeches the lawyers are vampires.
Sure, free healthcare means more people take risks; however, this is hardly a problem in nations who have it. I only mention it for those who jump to extremes instead of focusing on the point that we are at the other extreme -- where a normal childhood is being impacted by the way things have become. Fear of harm and lawsuits terrorize realistic people far more.
Pedophiles - your friends and family are the major risk not a guy on the park bench (unless he's your uncle.) Label them the mental cases they are; no time limits for locking up nutcases.
Sanders does know better. The power was relegated legally by a corrupt congress a century ago to create an agency run by the banks. Its effectively theirs and not the people's but technically it was created by the government; only a tad from the corporation which is defined by government under even weaker rules. Its the splitting of the details which makes a corporation private and a similar institution run by private interests an agency. Some people think the fed belongs on the corporation side and others think it is an agency; how one thinks of it can greatly impact their attitudes towards it.
I have a laptop they dropped support on this OS that is older than the tower which is supported.
Its a hardware dump-- apple often drops old systems based upon some hardware feature in this case they picked 32bit. Not sure as to why they picked this one-- sometimes it is a bit soon to do it and they have technical cost issues where somebody complained or asked to kill off something -- other times its probably marketing that prompts it. This one seems less like a marketing one and more like some manager bitching to me.
People are MISSING even the summary-- India was pressing Clinton to give them the exception she wasn't offering it to them -- foreign contacts involve tons of requests and attempts to get such deals; I do not think Clinton doesn't have the power to do this all on her own; it likely is going to have to get past a few others.
If you've been reading wikileaks you should know by now the diplomats lie for a living-- she probably gave them a positive non-committal on most things they asked (or said she would and then somebody else stops it later.)
I live in MN. I would like to apologize for the parent post; he does not represent all of us. Some of us are just fine with lighter colored roofs (gray.) Eventually, white roofs will be the norm and people will object to black ones. Just as solar panels add to house values but in MN are not allowed to add to tax assessed value.
MN luckily does not have fracking for a couple good reasons: 1) we countered the supreme court's ruling allowing imminent domain for gas corporations (unlike some southern states...) so it can't be forced onto land owners.
2) we have very little area where fracking for natural gas is even useful; by the time they find any in the few places we do have some they'll realize its unprofitable (as analysts are now saying about the process.)
Incandescent Bulbs waste so much electricity they put more mercury out from the power companies than what is usually recycled in the 'green' bulbs. We have seen our share of damage from coal---and we burn plenty of it-- in fact, I got a tour of the biggest "cleanest" plant in the midwest (yup in MN..but over a decade ago) and you were covered in coal dust by the end of the tour-- funny, but they kept saying it was the cleanest plant... You can't eat too much of the fish in our 15,000+ lakes (btw those are a tourism draw) because of the mercury build up AND its gotten worse over 15 years despite increased regulation (that's right, the regulation didn't stop it but it would be worse now if it never happened.)
Sure the bulbs help heat our houses most the year. But only stupid people in MN use electric heat. Its far cheaper to burn everything else than go electric heat. The real problem here with bulbs is the cold winters only work well with Incandescent or LED lighting; otherwise, I don't think there are any legitimate objections. (other than some of the cheap CF bulbs die young-- we need to regulate quality on the things...by the time you learn to hate a brand the Chinese have re-branded it.)
The great depression started with a crash in 1929. The banks primarily at fault. Tariff games all around compounded problems making them worse; it still would have been "great depression" bad - the international reactions spread trouble all over and tariffs were part of it. Just as recovery was harmed by states cutting funding as they are doing today... except the feds are not picking up the slack like they did last time and we for some reason are not allowed to reach past 40% of the debt they had at the end of WW2...
Tariff is a bad word today in our free market idealism gone mad. China puts them on us but we hardly put them on China; every new product that touches them ends up with cheap knock offs the next year despite patents.
Tech companies usually have a cold war in their harmful I.P. and mostly use it to screw over small players. Smart phones have entered into a world war; with all sides having stupid "properties" -- everybody sues everybody else. All we can hope for is that it gets really nasty to the point where the public can't use their phones. Maybe if the clueless sheep "suffer" a bit we may get some reform of the broken system?
5th ONLY applies if you can't be harmed by what you disclose; they can force you but only if you get immunity from being incriminated. 4th applies to the laptop; however, to get to her documents she must give the password which could INDIRECTLY incriminate her.
The sticky point is the INDIRECTION. It really shouldn't be but somehow just adding a few intermediate steps people get confused.
If allowed, other forms of indirection could be justified to undo the 5th as well. We have already been seeing this with the 4th for years as the government tries to get around its limitations by indirectly violating rights -- they can't search your email without a warrant but they can ask ATnT to search your email (and all your internet) without a warrant and the fact ATnT just handed it over without any resistance....(not the best example but its all that came to mind.) Like letting a cop into your home when they ask--- once inside, you lose; you waved your right.
They've been arguing that 3rd or 4th parties make it ok for them to do things which are prohibited and they have been doing it in multiple areas. Each time requires a bunch of court battles and I bet you that they are working on 4th, 5th, 6th party indirections knowing it will be a long time before they are stopped-- and defendants will be in a DoS attack situation-- unable to dig 3+ levels deep of 3rd parties.) I read about a case where the gov was claiming they didn't need warrants for emails; they lost-- but not that long ago I read about them doing it AGAIN but with cell phones.
If gmail, which says in the agreement they will comply with local law enforcement decides that means voluntarily handing over your emails and searches when asked without warrant... how can you claim the 4th?? you agreed in the ToS agreement that it was up to google to decide... maybe they've fixed their thing since I first read it back when it was invite only beta... Does the "expectation" of privacy work when you click agreements you don't read that state you can't expect that level of privacy? Its all even more messy when you try to read some of the court cases on these matters as I have. It should be simple but it is not.
-Obama added the wars to the budget so all that military spending that was 'off the books' is now on the books making the budget look much larger when it was there before but was outside the budget!
-When we have a surplus, state or federal there is a big push from our fools to give tax rebates and tax cuts INSTEAD of paying off the debt. This is what we do each time so the debt grows.
-The deficit and debt are two different things people confuse too often. Fixing the deficit does not fix the debt and the interest on the debt only compounds creating more deficit problems.
-Cutting the budget in half will not stop the situation from getting worse. Breaking even will not stop it-- the only way for things to not get worse is if we pay back the interest on the debt and actually break even.
-Trickle down economics do not work; it has a bad reputation... Well, the terms are considered bad-- we've simply shifted the terms while still supporting supply side economics with Democrats slowly warming up to it as well. What is clever is the use of cover terminology that can be swapped out after it takes too much damage. Today its all veiled in terms of jobs-- the rich provide jobs etc. Its just another way of selling the same old failed economics which made huge gains around the Nixon era when the powerful started think tanks to legitimize their positions (the beginning of the modern corporate info war.)
There are other issues leading to a collapse around 2020 besides OUR money mismanagement. Its all interconnected to a point where repair is impossibly difficult.
You can increase revenue and that will help fix the budget issues. Sure we spend too much; not arguing that. We can afford to fund this budget without the end of the world happening -- don't listen to the propaganda. It will not kill you if your taxes match your spending-- and if they did, then you might spend more wisely...
A big chunk of the current budget issue is the economy tanked and the revenue is based upon the economy-- so if you CREATE JOBS even at the cost of increasing debt it will pay back quickly. If you raise taxes... Taxes haven't been enforced or as high as they need to be for a generation - bridges falling down etc..
The Millions of US deaths point is fact. millions haven't died protecting the USA - its not whining; these heavily nationalistic misconceptions have bad implications and need to be stopped from contributing to our problems.
The American Empire exists. fact. Amazingly, Americans as ignorant as they are do not realize this and it takes too much effort to prove it to them 1 at a time-- they won't ever educate themselves; its too upsetting to their false beliefs. Its like each diluted one of them needs an intervention! I would argue that the "Just World Fallacy" is more common among Americans and it comes into play on this topic.
Deaths caused by the USA for its empire is difficult to document as I mentioned with Iraq. The policy for Iraq as stated on TV and I remember seeing it, was not to invest any effort into body counts. Actually, we don't even count our own body count as honestly as in the past; lawyer games are played with the ones we do have to count so we can wrongly classify them. anyhow getting off the point. I mentioned its hard to figure the Iraq ones because of the mess involved. I've heard ok sources quoted saying we hit the million mark in the middle eastern wars years ago. Officially documented its still in the 100,000s. Indirect killings are often not counted but the civil war/unrest we unleashed is our fault. Some blame the victims... Unsurprisingly, a few people I know who do that also blame the Americans in New Orleans who died and not the government for screwing it up.
The scope of death caused by the USA relevant in this discussion is over its whole empire building years which therefore includes all related battles and appointed dictators... such as our CIA asset Saddam to wage war with Iran... Native American deaths would count. Hawaiians would count. Philippineâ"American War counts; that one almost reaches a million alone. These are some direct cases. Sure in some cases its merely support and not direct controlling... they may have done the same number of killings anyway-- but shouldn't we get partial responsibility?? More likely they killed more because of our help or they never would have gotten to power without our support.
One reality needs to be known-- America prospered off the backs of others around the world and if they want to continue that level of prosperity, they need to realize that we need another world war or more overt military action to continue-- you can't fix the problems by smaller factors like education. Humans can only be educated at certain rates and the world is catching up; the big advantage has faded-- you can't improve the relative advantage without knocking down the other guy. Perhaps Americans should be ignorant of these matters because probably at least 1/3 would want to attack the world.
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Not reporters. Not marketing people. Not politicians. Not bloggers...
They are always messing the language up to the masses; while the experts end up with their own jargon even if they are attempting to not create a dialect of their own.
Point is understood; but this is a "discovery" (ok more like enhancement) of a data link layer technology and that level of tech is usually just 1 direction. It can be used within a network; duplicate it for going the other direction and then either figure out how to do full duplex or just do half.
It could be a network if one brushes over the bidirectional details; but likely you are right in that the author is misunderstanding what a computer network actually is. The return path can be limited bandwidth and use a whole different style connection (like sat internet with phone upload.) I often do not think about such things and just take it for granted on such details because its trivial to think of any kind of return path makes it network capable.
The mistake would have been pascal style strings putting the length byte onto the array therefore making strings into a complex datatype. It would have been 1 length byte (like Pascal, of similar age.) This would have limited the length of strings and quickly led people to using Byte arrays for their string work or ugly hacks to handle and mixed string sizes. Remember, they weren't running 8 bit words back then so they'd have to make this new complex string structure AND a byte datatype since text was a byte and we need byte sized units ;-p
This wasn't just a design decision but also created more work; when terminators would allow you to combine bytes and strings.
255 length strings are long enough for everybody... biggest reason I went to C over Pascal-- I hated length byte string limitations! The limitation would have made a LOT of people use byte arrays instead. We can handle huge length integers on everything today so terminators are less useful. 64bits are long enough for most people; 128bit being unlikely to be an issue. This would have been insane to do on systems around 16bit on something used so frequently.
I agree with the assembly perspective but it merely would add a bias to making decisions it does not make it the deciding factor. There are plenty of macro like things C did but it does make a few abstractions in how it tackled problems which could have gone in other directions -- nothing fancy because the compilers back then were more like automated assembler macro tools. What I could see them geeking out over is making the perfect macro sets where you could combine them into clever ways-- I can see the strong appeal of just how clever some of these "bad" C programming techniques are when a simple direct translation is involved. When designing the language the mindset would be to make the smallest set of powerful assembly macros so again it makes the length byte seem like the lesser solution (from that perspective.)
Now with hindsight and existence of software engineering practices, the bias is towards avoiding bugs etc and we just ignore speed and figure someday the compiler will figure it out or the runtime system will dynamically tweak it. This kind of thinking probably would get you fired back then while now their thinking gets you fired (goto was not EVIL back then.)
Their assembly background and love of goto is why goto still exists. Goto allows for things otherwise impossible in the language to be done, like a backdoor to the constraints of the high level abstractions -- if they thought more like today, goto would be dead and we'd have some smarter language features; such as:
a break/continue that can go up multiple blocks (and not just loops... think about how many if else trees could be pruned!) I really wish somebody would fix this already!
A primitive precursor to exceptions (named goto? limited scope goto? a fancier switch? dispatch tables? multiple return values? nested function definitions or shared function frames?)
Who cares if it is a broadcast only system; think of the possibilities of this being applied in areas outside of sending video in an airplane (what a waste- just run the wires.) Its not new but it is faster than before.
IR light wouldn't be seen. add another LED and receiver and increase bandwidth (or lower it and just use IR.. in which case this isn't that new.)
Think how cheap it would be to embed additional information into displays! the closed captioning could be embedded along with other information; like URLs or products etc. an LED based display would be able to send such information and it would not impact image quality (although the data rate would be down since you'd not be able to control the colors without giving it away) Aim your smart phone or other device at a display and get additional information transmitted! without networking crap! Similar to the 2D barcodes but with more information and possibly hidden. an IR transmitter on a TV could do something similar cheaply on existing TVs which lack the LEDs in their displays.
Street lamps could contain location information... well just an idea; maybe it gives somebody else another better idea.
It could provide a cheap way to communicate to devices within a house; I've been hoping IR would do this for a long time... and we'd have some standards in place (like for TV remotes) but industry has continued to ignore IR technology except for laptops which have toyed with an alternative use.
Store lights and displays could send signals to devices; disneyland will probably figure out something for this...
Mostly its a cost and power issue; then it might find some niches-- wifi is embedded into so much stuff now...
I for one am glad Obama is taking horrible legal positions along the lines Bush did -- in some cases better because he is moving legally where Bush would delay treading. Its more likely for Obama to lose these cases and establish the law against this stuff than for some conservative judge to rubber stamp it. I do believe the liberal judges are less likely to distort their rulings in Obama's favor while I think they were more likely to do so for Bush.... however, since the corporations are at the heart of nearly everything it may not matter which party is doing what. I just hope Obama's people do a poor job; like how Bush purposely did a bad prosecution of that crook senator from Alaska. (known here for being "the internet is a bunch of pipes" senator.) One reason the case was so pathetic is they chucked most the "evidence" because they wanted to admit it as secret evidence only and that wasn't allowed -- something which Bush tried as well; what would have been better is if they could have had strong rulings AGAINST secret evidence that the legal system can't properly access (perhaps we have those already?)
Not using your brain probably lowers your IQ or at least makes thinking seem like more work. People have way too much time to turn off their brain; watching TV turns off more of their brains than sleeping does! Given how much stupid shit goes on these days people need to wake up and START thinking not take a break (a break which they've not earned.)
Our lives have become like our food-- cheap junk we buy to falsely fill needs leaving us unfulfilled... so we consume endlessly as long as we go down the wrong path. Many people don't know the difference between wants and needs and fewer understand the difference between fact and opinion than before. We are not just getting FAT from this new cultural pattern but its also harming all other aspects of life (as we become fat headed too.)
China was beating out robot and hi tech tool assisted manufacturing because they were using humans as much like robots as they could. Undercutting places with high startup costs, high costs in adapting to change, and expensive maintenance -- which cut the number of well paid workers but could not beat the exploited low cost human workers.... until NOW....
Robotics will eventually win the global RACE TO THE BOTTOM. Meanwhile, our economic system depends upon constant growth when we have limited resources and limited consumption. We will eventually not be able to buy enough CRAP we don't need to keep all the meaningless jobs related to producing and selling that CRAP. Productivity increases will make sure that happens... Sure everything could be disposable and that would prolong everything until you run out of resources... then you have to create affordable recycling to prolong it a bit longer...
Of course we just have to progress even faster and further into our war against the natural order of things so we can understand enough to avoid all the downsides our advancement creates. Its quite possibly a catch-22 situation where we never get to the point of 'utopia' because each step forward pushes the goal further off by creating more problems to solve. (or it may be possible, but take millennium and the surviving the journey may be improbable.)
Don't forget the super hi-def after they make all of us buy new TVs over again in 10-20 years (because they dropped the ball on digital tv... the FCC that is, industry loves being short sighted.)
They don't even need to wait 20 years to reboot them. If they can make enough money from running them all into the ground LONG ENOUGH they can simply reboot the whole process over again.
CG is making it all into realistic styled cartoons and getting cheaper (I still can spot the CG ) -- to the point where now it costs too much to put in the real actors so we have whole scenes that are 100% CG. If they can remove the expensive live action and get past the actor name brands then they can crank out profitable films for LESS .... meaning that everybody will have to be extremely sick of it before they stop.
Fantasy, horror and musicals do better during bad times. expect more.
FINALLY somebody points it out! Its no different a strategy than creating multiple brands for your megacorporation -- they hire plenty of P.R. experts... one should expect them to use the same tricks. "Those GM losers.. I'll never buy one of their cars! I'll buy a Cadillac instead."
Palin was a purely marketing based decision. McCain likely didn't even choose her (other than to simply take the marketing advise... funny that she couldn't ever listen her handlers... the marketing people didn't think that far ahead.)
Why does all this seem to remind me of a typical science fiction movie?
All the pricks are ignoring the nerd's warnings and disaster is around the corner... Unfortunately, only in the movies do the "anti-science" people suffer and/or DIE by the end.... Then the hero uses some factual discovery to win the day within 30 minutes; usually with the help of the expert or by using inductive reasoning. We can only hope the life reflects art and we find a solution before too many people die from the character flaws of the deniers.
The information is BROADCASTED publicly -- if you don't want them to see you then Wifi has the option of hiding the network name; which is clearly indicating that you don't want others seeing you - without doing that you are willfully going naked from view of a PUBLIC SPACE -- so its 100% fair game they snap your photo and there is nothing you can do about it (or should expect to.)
One could argue that merely broadcasting things into the public space is enough; however, due to the nature of the technology this is unavoidable so the hidden network flag should provide a legal means for something that is technically impractical so the hidden network flag is a virtual fence.
Encryption is another matter; but if you broadcast your MAC, or other data unencrypted then its fair game-- the encrypted data is fair game; the issue there is whether somebody has a right to break your encryption-- not whether they are allowed to receive the signals you are projecting directly at them (again, in a public space.) This is like pushing nude photos of yourself onto people going past your house. You could put the photo in an envelope and still do it-- but you are an idiot if you get upset somebody bothers to open that envelope you gave them!
So why can't we avoid the torque converters on the automatics? The manuals in these small cars eat up a lot of gas-- must be some reason why they don't put some time into that instead of just playing with the other stuff.
My only experience is helping with an early 80s automatic transmission which was a mess of crazy hydraulics and was losing a few hundred hp between engine and wheels (it ended up replaced.)
This is more than idiotic P.C. going on:
Nigger is a word with a movement behind it to attempt to totally destroy the word; its been highly effective to some degree but also has failed by making it the most emotionally loaded word of these times. Use of the word allows thoughtless condemnation and rage against anybody who uses it. Its almost like saying "I am a racist" and having everybody take it literally - even when merely quoted. Its an excuse for zero tolerance-- and it can do you more harm than using just about any other word in this culture. Its worse than a curse word ever was-- those lowered your apparent social status/class. No need to think at all, its perfectly ok to have no brain (zero tolerance.)
This movement has backfired; sure it gives some people an ability to play childish immature word games on an adult level -- "I can say this but you can't" -- giving a false feeling empowerment. It discourages thought so it is BAD solely for that reason. It goes too far beyond shame turning it into persecution instead; not something to convert people and do good but instead something to provide some people justified victims. (Ever notice how victims often love to be on the other side?) The human irony to all this is that I've seen a lot of minor racism all my life and many of the worst are the ones who overcompensate and LOVE outlets like this nigger phenomenon. You can disarm movements by redefining their terminology -- its being done to you everyday -- you do not empower their terms. Note to the queer gay fags: keep diffusing terms; stop this move to re-stigmatize them.
Behind the brain dead behavior it is justified by the racism mess; where in the recent past you could get beaten for openly supporting equality and it was acceptable and justified -- for some it was the same zero tolerance level. Today it is the reverse (well, beatings are less likely today solely due to the sue crazy society we have.) Few things have 110% certainty and this has become one of them; allowing you to vent for all those less certain positions where you just can't have that level of confidence that you are right-- to the point of being blinded by it. It is at that point where unethical behaviors become ok. It leads in the same direction as the racists did and other extreme positions (like Nazis;) no religion required; however, religion has often provided the means to raise righteousness up to this level -- this is why so many examples are found there; sorry atheists, religion doesn't cause it but it can easily contribute to the process. A binary perspective is highly appealing because of its simplicity and coupled with the elation of righteousness --- even to people who are not simpletons. This should become more clear as the level of personalization increases so people become isolated and ignorant, more like the FOXtards of today.
The race myth: just as nigger as a word has become empowered foolishly by its opposition; racism itself is continued to be promoted by the way in which we deal with and think about the issue. You'd think better science education would eradicate it already... except science education has been regressing... There is no such thing as race. The way we define race is political; not genetic. There is so little difference genetically it doesn't deserve any time. I can have more DNA in common with some Asian guy than my white neighbor but in appearance the Asian looks further away (plus I'm completely ignoring the individual personalities; "soul".) The only real obvious outward sign of HUGE DNA differences is GENDER, so sexism is a far more difficult issue - one we are not ready to handle if we can't dismiss this race BS.
Race is like discussing how flat the earth is. Put into proper context it will be shamed and dismissed away down to the level of HAIR COLOR or EYE COLOR (both which are now switched -- hey, white people get suntans...) I'm ignoring the big issue of culture/subculture racial stereotypes - those will fade as you integrate but the "dumb blond" type th
Automatic transmissions need an upgrade. There is no good reason we shouldn't all have manual gearboxes with optional automatic computer shifted gearboxes... I'm not talking about the Smart which has a really poor one (even for a manual the computer just makes it even worse.) Race cars have computer controlled manual transmissions and why can't we? Have you seen the nightmare that makes up an automatic transmission? I have. Its really smart but it is a Rube Goldberg Machine compared to computer controlled system.
A computer can out shift a human already; this tech should be put into cars and it likely is cheaper to implement. Higher end cars could continue with their silly simulated manual stick shifters...
It amazes me we have not seen sleeker designs, smooth undersides, "hi tech" transmissions, more diesel, flywheels (volvo maybe,) removable seats (4 door cars to save weight; now minivans are folding them away not sure they remove anymore.) When I had a minivan, it ran without seats most the time and it made a difference; my tiny car would likely see more of a gain...
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Not true. Most the debt consists of PAST debt compounding over decades. I believe it was in the 70-90% range so Bush's idiocy didn't create the majority of the debt.
Deficits can go over 100% of GDP for sort periods of time as they did for WW2-- the deficit is less of a problem than the debt is-- because the debt will grow on its own and provides large owners a great deal of power over your nation; during WW2 much of the debt was internal to the nation; now it is foreign or bankers (who have no loyalty.) Foreign debt was one of the ways the USA built its empire - its the best means of empire building where you can also be "the good guy."
No I did not! Bush left the wars OUTSIDE the budget and just stuck them directly onto our debt. In fact, he wasn't the only one to hide military spending in that way. Obama is actually being HONEST at his own political expense by making the cost of war far more open.
I know parents who wouldn't allow their children to ride bicycles or do pretty much anything fun because HEALTHCARE IS BROKEN. One child cost you your month's paycheck or a mortgage payment and the less savings you have the more of a problem this becomes. Then there are major injuries that could cost you your house and all your savings. It also becomes a BIG reason to involve lawyers to help find funds for such costs-- and if you think insurance is a bunch of leeches the lawyers are vampires.
Sure, free healthcare means more people take risks; however, this is hardly a problem in nations who have it. I only mention it for those who jump to extremes instead of focusing on the point that we are at the other extreme -- where a normal childhood is being impacted by the way things have become. Fear of harm and lawsuits terrorize realistic people far more.
Pedophiles - your friends and family are the major risk not a guy on the park bench (unless he's your uncle.) Label them the mental cases they are; no time limits for locking up nutcases.
Sanders does know better. The power was relegated legally by a corrupt congress a century ago to create an agency run by the banks. Its effectively theirs and not the people's but technically it was created by the government; only a tad from the corporation which is defined by government under even weaker rules. Its the splitting of the details which makes a corporation private and a similar institution run by private interests an agency. Some people think the fed belongs on the corporation side and others think it is an agency; how one thinks of it can greatly impact their attitudes towards it.
I have a laptop they dropped support on this OS that is older than the tower which is supported.
Its a hardware dump-- apple often drops old systems based upon some hardware feature in this case they picked 32bit. Not sure as to why they picked this one-- sometimes it is a bit soon to do it and they have technical cost issues where somebody complained or asked to kill off something -- other times its probably marketing that prompts it. This one seems less like a marketing one and more like some manager bitching to me.
People are MISSING even the summary-- India was pressing Clinton to give them the exception she wasn't offering it to them -- foreign contacts involve tons of requests and attempts to get such deals; I do not think Clinton doesn't have the power to do this all on her own; it likely is going to have to get past a few others.
If you've been reading wikileaks you should know by now the diplomats lie for a living-- she probably gave them a positive non-committal on most things they asked (or said she would and then somebody else stops it later.)
I live in MN. I would like to apologize for the parent post; he does not represent all of us. Some of us are just fine with lighter colored roofs (gray.) Eventually, white roofs will be the norm and people will object to black ones. Just as solar panels add to house values but in MN are not allowed to add to tax assessed value.
MN luckily does not have fracking for a couple good reasons:
1) we countered the supreme court's ruling allowing imminent domain for gas corporations (unlike some southern states...) so it can't be forced onto land owners.
2) we have very little area where fracking for natural gas is even useful; by the time they find any in the few places we do have some they'll realize its unprofitable (as analysts are now saying about the process.)
Incandescent Bulbs waste so much electricity they put more mercury out from the power companies than what is usually recycled in the 'green' bulbs. We have seen our share of damage from coal---and we burn plenty of it-- in fact, I got a tour of the biggest "cleanest" plant in the midwest (yup in MN..but over a decade ago) and you were covered in coal dust by the end of the tour-- funny, but they kept saying it was the cleanest plant... You can't eat too much of the fish in our 15,000+ lakes (btw those are a tourism draw) because of the mercury build up AND its gotten worse over 15 years despite increased regulation (that's right, the regulation didn't stop it but it would be worse now if it never happened.)
Sure the bulbs help heat our houses most the year. But only stupid people in MN use electric heat. Its far cheaper to burn everything else than go electric heat. The real problem here with bulbs is the cold winters only work well with Incandescent or LED lighting; otherwise, I don't think there are any legitimate objections. (other than some of the cheap CF bulbs die young-- we need to regulate quality on the things...by the time you learn to hate a brand the Chinese have re-branded it.)
The great depression started with a crash in 1929. The banks primarily at fault. Tariff games all around compounded problems making them worse; it still would have been "great depression" bad - the international reactions spread trouble all over and tariffs were part of it. Just as recovery was harmed by states cutting funding as they are doing today... except the feds are not picking up the slack like they did last time and we for some reason are not allowed to reach past 40% of the debt they had at the end of WW2...
Tariff is a bad word today in our free market idealism gone mad. China puts them on us but we hardly put them on China; every new product that touches them ends up with cheap knock offs the next year despite patents.
Tech companies usually have a cold war in their harmful I.P. and mostly use it to screw over small players. Smart phones have entered into a world war; with all sides having stupid "properties" -- everybody sues everybody else. All we can hope for is that it gets really nasty to the point where the public can't use their phones. Maybe if the clueless sheep "suffer" a bit we may get some reform of the broken system?
5th ONLY applies if you can't be harmed by what you disclose; they can force you but only if you get immunity from being incriminated. 4th applies to the laptop; however, to get to her documents she must give the password which could INDIRECTLY incriminate her.
The sticky point is the INDIRECTION. It really shouldn't be but somehow just adding a few intermediate steps people get confused.
If allowed, other forms of indirection could be justified to undo the 5th as well. We have already been seeing this with the 4th for years as the government tries to get around its limitations by indirectly violating rights -- they can't search your email without a warrant but they can ask ATnT to search your email (and all your internet) without a warrant and the fact ATnT just handed it over without any resistance....(not the best example but its all that came to mind.) Like letting a cop into your home when they ask--- once inside, you lose; you waved your right.
They've been arguing that 3rd or 4th parties make it ok for them to do things which are prohibited and they have been doing it in multiple areas. Each time requires a bunch of court battles and I bet you that they are working on 4th, 5th, 6th party indirections knowing it will be a long time before they are stopped-- and defendants will be in a DoS attack situation-- unable to dig 3+ levels deep of 3rd parties.) I read about a case where the gov was claiming they didn't need warrants for emails; they lost-- but not that long ago I read about them doing it AGAIN but with cell phones.
If gmail, which says in the agreement they will comply with local law enforcement decides that means voluntarily handing over your emails and searches when asked without warrant... how can you claim the 4th?? you agreed in the ToS agreement that it was up to google to decide... maybe they've fixed their thing since I first read it back when it was invite only beta... Does the "expectation" of privacy work when you click agreements you don't read that state you can't expect that level of privacy? Its all even more messy when you try to read some of the court cases on these matters as I have. It should be simple but it is not.
-Obama added the wars to the budget so all that military spending that was 'off the books' is now on the books making the budget look much larger when it was there before but was outside the budget!
-When we have a surplus, state or federal there is a big push from our fools to give tax rebates and tax cuts INSTEAD of paying off the debt. This is what we do each time so the debt grows.
-The deficit and debt are two different things people confuse too often. Fixing the deficit does not fix the debt and the interest on the debt only compounds creating more deficit problems.
-Cutting the budget in half will not stop the situation from getting worse. Breaking even will not stop it-- the only way for things to not get worse is if we pay back the interest on the debt and actually break even.
-Trickle down economics do not work; it has a bad reputation... Well, the terms are considered bad-- we've simply shifted the terms while still supporting supply side economics with Democrats slowly warming up to it as well. What is clever is the use of cover terminology that can be swapped out after it takes too much damage. Today its all veiled in terms of jobs-- the rich provide jobs etc. Its just another way of selling the same old failed economics which made huge gains around the Nixon era when the powerful started think tanks to legitimize their positions (the beginning of the modern corporate info war.)
There are other issues leading to a collapse around 2020 besides OUR money mismanagement. Its all interconnected to a point where repair is impossibly difficult.
You can increase revenue and that will help fix the budget issues. Sure we spend too much; not arguing that. We can afford to fund this budget without the end of the world happening -- don't listen to the propaganda. It will not kill you if your taxes match your spending-- and if they did, then you might spend more wisely...
A big chunk of the current budget issue is the economy tanked and the revenue is based upon the economy-- so if you CREATE JOBS even at the cost of increasing debt it will pay back quickly. If you raise taxes... Taxes haven't been enforced or as high as they need to be for a generation - bridges falling down etc..
The Millions of US deaths point is fact. millions haven't died protecting the USA - its not whining; these heavily nationalistic misconceptions have bad implications and need to be stopped from contributing to our problems.
The American Empire exists. fact. Amazingly, Americans as ignorant as they are do not realize this and it takes too much effort to prove it to them 1 at a time-- they won't ever educate themselves; its too upsetting to their false beliefs. Its like each diluted one of them needs an intervention! I would argue that the "Just World Fallacy" is more common among Americans and it comes into play on this topic.
Deaths caused by the USA for its empire is difficult to document as I mentioned with Iraq. The policy for Iraq as stated on TV and I remember seeing it, was not to invest any effort into body counts. Actually, we don't even count our own body count as honestly as in the past; lawyer games are played with the ones we do have to count so we can wrongly classify them. anyhow getting off the point. I mentioned its hard to figure the Iraq ones because of the mess involved. I've heard ok sources quoted saying we hit the million mark in the middle eastern wars years ago. Officially documented its still in the 100,000s. Indirect killings are often not counted but the civil war/unrest we unleashed is our fault. Some blame the victims... Unsurprisingly, a few people I know who do that also blame the Americans in New Orleans who died and not the government for screwing it up.
The scope of death caused by the USA relevant in this discussion is over its whole empire building years which therefore includes all related battles and appointed dictators... such as our CIA asset Saddam to wage war with Iran...
Native American deaths would count. Hawaiians would count. Philippineâ"American War counts; that one almost reaches a million alone. These are some direct cases.
Sure in some cases its merely support and not direct controlling... they may have done the same number of killings anyway-- but shouldn't we get partial responsibility?? More likely they killed more because of our help or they never would have gotten to power without our support.
One reality needs to be known-- America prospered off the backs of others around the world and if they want to continue that level of prosperity, they need to realize that we need another world war or more overt military action to continue-- you can't fix the problems by smaller factors like education. Humans can only be educated at certain rates and the world is catching up; the big advantage has faded-- you can't improve the relative advantage without knocking down the other guy. Perhaps Americans should be ignorant of these matters because probably at least 1/3 would want to attack the world.