That is because you have sense. Most people however do not, and automotive engineering ( a few spectacular failures aside ) is so good people are spoiled. When they have to reboot their Android phone, or Windows crashes ( admittedly rarer than it once was ), or their chrome cast thingy glitches and they have to restart their video, they shurg it off and don't think about it. "That is just how computers work after all"
When the slightest little thing gets off on their car they freak-out and take to the dealer right away and its a major memorable event in their lives. Engine stumbles a bit in the pouring rain, its "hey I only have 70k miles on this thing $CARCOMPANYs are shit," it could not have anything to do with the fact they have never replaced those 10 year old plug wires.
The fact is modern automobiles are incredibly reliable given they conditions they have to operate in, but peoples expectations are very very high as a result; peoples expectations around tech are much lower, but the resulting perception is $TECHCOMPANY is better than $CARCOMPANY because for so many people their car has become something they don't even think about except when something is amiss, they think about $TECHTOY all the time though and remember the positive experiences more.
Microsoft has always done exactly the opposite of what I am suggesting. They created Windows CE, different OS same shell, first and it was fail. Now they are doing same OS same shell/UI and its still fail. I am suggesting same OS, multiple interfaces/shell; where the appropriate one is selected by the device to fit the situation. Docked -> start up the traditional windows desktop, handheld touch -> metro.
Well the direction I think it really ought to go is one OS multiple interfaces. I don't *need* a different filesystem on phone vs laptop, certainly don't want different calendar apps, mail apps, etc.
The CPUs are getting plenty powerful. When the device is mobile should down some cores to control power. Put into the laptop case; the other cores get powered up, the bus is connected and the OS sees the additional peripherals. Maybe a more powerful graphics processor, additional storage, keyboard, large display, etc.
Fire up the OSX Aqua interface and let me go to town. "Apps" can be written to support one interface or both, they query an API to determine which interface is being used "portable/touch" or "PC" and load their appropriate interface library on start up, same App sharing all logic that can be abstracted for the UI.
Many people don't need multiple computers, what they need is a device that moves easily between interfaces.
Another thing people tend to miss is few things are achieved with a single step.
If your grand vision is cars that can "valet" park themselves, some import first steps are getting a vehicle to successfully and safely navigate a parking lot ( something human drives often fail at ) recognize a designated and legal space ( like not marked handicapped only ), and put itself there.
Sometimes you have to cross the hurdles when you get to them.
Here is a computer analogy since we are talking about cars. Imagine you were building firmware for an embedded device and it needed a web-server. Would you insist the TCP/IP stack your co-worked just completed is useless because nobody on your team has yet to implement and http daemon?
Don't know about the UK but in the US you can generally have things delivered to a post office. Now to claim said package you will need to show ID, but fake IDs are not the hardest things to come by; I suspect it might not even need to be a very good one. I have never seen black light scanners or anything at the post.
So its entirely possible to have something shipped to you without giving up a real name / address. Not completely simple, but possibly not that hard.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR POST. My god its been driving me nuts that everyone keeps saying what the House is doing is somehow under handed or unfair.
The Constitution explicitly gives the House and the House alone the power to originate appropriations bills. Its the House's most effective policy tool. Its there to provide a powerful check on the Administration and the Senate. Anyone complaining about them actually using it, is a short sighted fool, that does not understand they are watering down the strong protections against tyranny our system was built to provide.
Its also nakedly hypocritical. The AFCA was passed using BUDGET RECONCILIATION, basically using the same "parliamentary tricks" in the first place. If the budget should not be used as a policy tool ( an insane proposition itself ) than Obama care never would have been passed in the first place.
That's the problem, the American way of doing business used to be laissez faire, and it was pretty fair, although it might have been sink or swim. Capitalists certainly did try to break each other but they did it through cut-throat competition in the market place.
Now its more like the old Soviet way of doing business. Argue about trivialities in court all day, and secure the outcome you want with political favors.
IANAL, but the quick Google based research I did I could find nothing to suggest there is much in the way of codified law out there that makes special consideration for SEPs vs other patents. It all comes down to FRAND licensing which is contractual agreement between members of the standards organization / patent pool. The Administration is not a party.
If a court adjudicates the dispute between Apple and Samsung and determines in Samsungs favor the Administration does not seem to be doing anything other than "making it up as they go along" by stepping in here. I'd love to see some documentation to the contrary if anyone can point something out, but it sure looks like just another case Obama abusively broad interpretation of presidential power.
Its not a new thing that people place "judgement" on certain types of attitudes. Its isn't as if the term "bad attitude" has not been around for a long time. When we start codifying and making education and opportunistic prescriptions based on "how enthusiastic" someone is; I think its of some concern. Its to easy for people to see adjectives like "passionate" as an explicitly desirable quality.
Sure sometime it might be; might always be though. An intelligent but dispassionate individual for instance might not make a great CEO but could be an excellent and objective finance VP a huge assent to an enterprise, or perhaps a great head of household as a home maker. That is unless somewhere early in their education someone decides "passion" == "good" and pidgin holes them into some tier two track because their did not demonstrate enough enthusiasm for arithmetic in the second grade, even after showing they understood the concepts and were capable of executing the exercises correctly.
Why would anyone attend such a thing when the other side is publicly stating they won't negotiate?
Face it the AFCA got passed by abusing the parliamentary rules, to keep it out of committee where the minority would certainly have killed it. That is how our system is supposed to work, minority rights are supposed to be protected. The Left thwarted those checks and balance to get the Act passed.
Now they are crying that the right is using the same sort of abuse to try an undermine it. Its a hollow complaint.
All that has to happen is the President and Senate agree to delay a small part of the Act, not even repeal or permanently modify it and the shutdown could be over immediately. They won't even talk about. The House is not the bad actor here; or if it is its no worse an actor than the Reid or Obama.
Ultimately trying to change policy as part of a continuing resolution is absolute insanity. These bills have have historically been limited to only technical changes in law.
My mouth drops every time I read this when Liberals post something like it. The naked hypocrisy is astounding. It was just three years ago for goodness sake, THEY PASSED THIS BILL USING BUDGET RECONCILIATION IN THE FIRST PLACE!
So some how its okay when you do it but its not okay when the other side does? Just face facts, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are all Assholes. Boehner is just treating them exactly how they treated him.
Except it ignores the fact the CONSTITUTIONALLY appropriations bills originate in the House. The House has the privilege of writing them not the SENATE, NOT THE PRESIDENT. What both of those entities have is effectively a veto power, where appropriations are concerned. If they choose to veto the House's bill then it is their responsibility for appropriations no occurring.
Anything else is just spin and DNC attempts to duck responsibility for the shutdown. They don't have the privilege of allocating monies; they can only accept or not accept what the House does. The House is executing its constitutionally designated function, the Senate and the President are trying to usurp power and force the House to give them the appropriations they want.
What's needed, (and here's where the Libertarians, capitalists, free-marketeers, and other rugged individualist types start howling), is a re-boot of the system. Our top-heavy corporatocracy needs to have its wealth re-distributed in a more equitable fashion.
No a reboot isn't needed Government needs to get out of the way and let the system works. Think of how much re-distributions would have happened without the Bank and auto bailouts!
The problem is we are so focused on moving people up the economic ladder we don't let the top people fall down! Had GM gone bankrupt it isnt as if all the capital would have been set of fire. Those plants and facilities would have been sold off, yes at firesale prices, the ownership would have gotten pennies on the dollar, but someone enterprising folks would have gotten useful assets with which to bring a product to market they could never have otherwise been able to afford to do.
The same is true for the Banks to save themselves they would have HAD to write down mortgages; the (real) middle class that actually has some cash on hand might have gotten the opportunity to retire some debt at cents on the dollar. They would have dramatically improved their net worth and become tomorrows investors. Yes the guys with $1000 in the bank account and the $300,000 interest only option ARM, with no job would still be pretty f**ked.
Capitalism would work just fine, its the socialism of loss that remains the problem. Its like the whole healthcare debate. ITS A GOOD THING PEOPLE ARE BANKRUPTED sometimes because it creates opportunities for others. It makes that house in the better school district suddenly affordable for a different family etc. Real social mobility requires destruction.
Actually Climate change will raise ocean temperatures and make it EASIER for ocean life to thrive
Some types of Ocean life perhaps, but not necessarily the stuff that feeds or even the stuff that isn't unpleasant to share a swim. The stuff we don't care for so much Jellyfish and tiny creatures that we mostly experiences as mats of nasty scum will probably take over.
If the temperatures of sea water rise much it gets more acidic. Other complex life hostile chemical events around surfer and phosphorus might also turn it into a toxic soup.
If some of the marine biology people are right the rise in sea level is going to be the least of what we humans experience as problems. I am not at all convinced by the AGW science, I don't support carbon emissions regulation and might not even if we had conclusive evidence climate change was a man made event, because I think we should be making the investment in adaptation at this point. We are already near 400ppm its likely positive feed back at this point with our without us. We need to be looking geoengineering and finding solutions to actively control the climate.
This is a very good point for very little investment most companies could dramatically improve their security posture without much if any new technology. Simply teaching HR and Helpdesk staff to use good procedures are identity management / verification and making sure HR communicates effective with operations either manually or thru automation to disable or delete accounts when employes leave the company for any reason.
No fancy firewalls or multifactor whatevers will protect you if valid authenticators are running around in possession of people who should not have them.
Frankly given all the revelations about NSA spying the biggest threat to security is clearly the government itself, but what will inevitably come out of public figures saying stuff like this is an attempt to regulate PRIVATE IT infrustrucute, which we know the NSA will use to Blackdoor us all.
This is why we need to not give the FEDs the microphone. We should continue to disinvite them from conferences and trade shows. We all need to stop going to infra guard and stop taking NIST seriously. Write you congress person tell them these guys are untrust worthly and rather than listen to the. Please please defund them.
The playground is where we are socialized. It's basically an exact analog for Washington.
Lets face facts, we have a government designed to protect the rights of the minority. If the GOP succeeds here it will have done exactly that. It will have stopped the minority of productive useful members of society from having the property appropriated to use as give always to the undeserving masses.
This ACA is about forced redistribution and people who support it are scum.
They also re-elected a GOP majority in the House where funding bills start. Apparently those same voters want the GOP deciding how money is raised and spent. The argument about which side got elected is stupid both sides did.
As to the claim but electing Obama was a referendum on the ACA that is equally stupid. Polls show half the country thought the law was already fully in effect until last week or so and the majority don't understand their obligations or the most perfunctory effects the law will have on them. The public voted on personalities and faith; they absolutely did not cast their ballots with any specifics about the law in mind.
Does anyone who has really thought about this want the budget to become a political nuclear weapon?
Yes it absolutely should be. That is why our government was designed to operate with Checks and Balances. The budget ( and requiring it to start in a specific body at that ) is a clearly intended to put a hard limit on how far away the other two entities President and Senate are allowed to deviate from the will of the House. If the House ( the peoples body ) really hates something they absolutely should be able to kill it using this method.
It does solve the problem. Atoms are not create or destroyed thru normal chemical means, biology as we know it is pretty much all chemical. All the carbon in the gasoline has to come from somehwere; if you make the somewhere the same atmosphere you dump it into when the gasoline is burned than you don't net out any new carbon in the atmosphere. This is what people mean when they say "carbon neutral" not that carbon isn't part of the process, just that the overall process takes out as much as it puts in.
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That is because you have sense. Most people however do not, and automotive engineering ( a few spectacular failures aside ) is so good people are spoiled. When they have to reboot their Android phone, or Windows crashes ( admittedly rarer than it once was ), or their chrome cast thingy glitches and they have to restart their video, they shurg it off and don't think about it. "That is just how computers work after all"
When the slightest little thing gets off on their car they freak-out and take to the dealer right away and its a major memorable event in their lives. Engine stumbles a bit in the pouring rain, its "hey I only have 70k miles on this thing $CARCOMPANYs are shit," it could not have anything to do with the fact they have never replaced those 10 year old plug wires.
The fact is modern automobiles are incredibly reliable given they conditions they have to operate in, but peoples expectations are very very high as a result; peoples expectations around tech are much lower, but the resulting perception is $TECHCOMPANY is better than $CARCOMPANY because for so many people their car has become something they don't even think about except when something is amiss, they think about $TECHTOY all the time though and remember the positive experiences more.
Call me when there's a universal ordering/wallet app instead of poor wrappers on their existing websites.
Call you...? I see what you did there.
Microsoft has always done exactly the opposite of what I am suggesting. They created Windows CE, different OS same shell, first and it was fail. Now they are doing same OS same shell/UI and its still fail. I am suggesting same OS, multiple interfaces/shell; where the appropriate one is selected by the device to fit the situation. Docked -> start up the traditional windows desktop, handheld touch -> metro.
Well the direction I think it really ought to go is one OS multiple interfaces. I don't *need* a different filesystem on phone vs laptop, certainly don't want different calendar apps, mail apps, etc.
The CPUs are getting plenty powerful. When the device is mobile should down some cores to control power. Put into the laptop case; the other cores get powered up, the bus is connected and the OS sees the additional peripherals. Maybe a more powerful graphics processor, additional storage, keyboard, large display, etc.
Fire up the OSX Aqua interface and let me go to town. "Apps" can be written to support one interface or both, they query an API to determine which interface is being used "portable/touch" or "PC" and load their appropriate interface library on start up, same App sharing all logic that can be abstracted for the UI.
Many people don't need multiple computers, what they need is a device that moves easily between interfaces.
Another thing people tend to miss is few things are achieved with a single step.
If your grand vision is cars that can "valet" park themselves, some import first steps are getting a vehicle to successfully and safely navigate a parking lot ( something human drives often fail at ) recognize a designated and legal space ( like not marked handicapped only ), and put itself there.
Sometimes you have to cross the hurdles when you get to them.
Here is a computer analogy since we are talking about cars. Imagine you were building firmware for an embedded device and it needed a web-server. Would you insist the TCP/IP stack your co-worked just completed is useless because nobody on your team has yet to implement and http daemon?
Don't know about the UK but in the US you can generally have things delivered to a post office. Now to claim said package you will need to show ID, but fake IDs are not the hardest things to come by; I suspect it might not even need to be a very good one. I have never seen black light scanners or anything at the post.
So its entirely possible to have something shipped to you without giving up a real name / address. Not completely simple, but possibly not that hard.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR POST. My god its been driving me nuts that everyone keeps saying what the House is doing is somehow under handed or unfair.
The Constitution explicitly gives the House and the House alone the power to originate appropriations bills. Its the House's most effective policy tool. Its there to provide a powerful check on the Administration and the Senate. Anyone complaining about them actually using it, is a short sighted fool, that does not understand they are watering down the strong protections against tyranny our system was built to provide.
Its also nakedly hypocritical. The AFCA was passed using BUDGET RECONCILIATION, basically using the same "parliamentary tricks" in the first place. If the budget should not be used as a policy tool ( an insane proposition itself ) than Obama care never would have been passed in the first place.
That's the problem, the American way of doing business used to be laissez faire, and it was pretty fair, although it might have been sink or swim. Capitalists certainly did try to break each other but they did it through cut-throat competition in the market place.
Now its more like the old Soviet way of doing business. Argue about trivialities in court all day, and secure the outcome you want with political favors.
IANAL, but the quick Google based research I did I could find nothing to suggest there is much in the way of codified law out there that makes special consideration for SEPs vs other patents. It all comes down to FRAND licensing which is contractual agreement between members of the standards organization / patent pool. The Administration is not a party.
If a court adjudicates the dispute between Apple and Samsung and determines in Samsungs favor the Administration does not seem to be doing anything other than "making it up as they go along" by stepping in here. I'd love to see some documentation to the contrary if anyone can point something out, but it sure looks like just another case Obama abusively broad interpretation of presidential power.
Which is the typical way this president handles everything: He cares a great deal about the rule of law, except when its inconvenient.
This is North Carolina, when you say things like they don't you're kidding.
Its not a new thing that people place "judgement" on certain types of attitudes. Its isn't as if the term "bad attitude" has not been around for a long time. When we start codifying and making education and opportunistic prescriptions based on "how enthusiastic" someone is; I think its of some concern. Its to easy for people to see adjectives like "passionate" as an explicitly desirable quality.
Sure sometime it might be; might always be though. An intelligent but dispassionate individual for instance might not make a great CEO but could be an excellent and objective finance VP a huge assent to an enterprise, or perhaps a great head of household as a home maker. That is unless somewhere early in their education someone decides "passion" == "good" and pidgin holes them into some tier two track because their did not demonstrate enough enthusiasm for arithmetic in the second grade, even after showing they understood the concepts and were capable of executing the exercises correctly.
Why would anyone attend such a thing when the other side is publicly stating they won't negotiate?
Face it the AFCA got passed by abusing the parliamentary rules, to keep it out of committee where the minority would certainly have killed it. That is how our system is supposed to work, minority rights are supposed to be protected. The Left thwarted those checks and balance to get the Act passed.
Now they are crying that the right is using the same sort of abuse to try an undermine it. Its a hollow complaint.
All that has to happen is the President and Senate agree to delay a small part of the Act, not even repeal or permanently modify it and the shutdown could be over immediately. They won't even talk about. The House is not the bad actor here; or if it is its no worse an actor than the Reid or Obama.
Ultimately trying to change policy as part of a continuing resolution is absolute insanity. These bills have have historically been limited to only technical changes in law.
My mouth drops every time I read this when Liberals post something like it. The naked hypocrisy is astounding. It was just three years ago for goodness sake, THEY PASSED THIS BILL USING BUDGET RECONCILIATION IN THE FIRST PLACE!
So some how its okay when you do it but its not okay when the other side does? Just face facts, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are all Assholes. Boehner is just treating them exactly how they treated him.
Except it ignores the fact the CONSTITUTIONALLY appropriations bills originate in the House. The House has the privilege of writing them not the SENATE, NOT THE PRESIDENT. What both of those entities have is effectively a veto power, where appropriations are concerned. If they choose to veto the House's bill then it is their responsibility for appropriations no occurring.
Anything else is just spin and DNC attempts to duck responsibility for the shutdown. They don't have the privilege of allocating monies; they can only accept or not accept what the House does. The House is executing its constitutionally designated function, the Senate and the President are trying to usurp power and force the House to give them the appropriations they want.
What's needed, (and here's where the Libertarians, capitalists, free-marketeers, and other rugged individualist types start howling), is a re-boot of the system. Our top-heavy corporatocracy needs to have its wealth re-distributed in a more equitable fashion.
No a reboot isn't needed Government needs to get out of the way and let the system works. Think of how much re-distributions would have happened without the Bank and auto bailouts!
The problem is we are so focused on moving people up the economic ladder we don't let the top people fall down! Had GM gone bankrupt it isnt as if all the capital would have been set of fire. Those plants and facilities would have been sold off, yes at firesale prices, the ownership would have gotten pennies on the dollar, but someone enterprising folks would have gotten useful assets with which to bring a product to market they could never have otherwise been able to afford to do.
The same is true for the Banks to save themselves they would have HAD to write down mortgages; the (real) middle class that actually has some cash on hand might have gotten the opportunity to retire some debt at cents on the dollar. They would have dramatically improved their net worth and become tomorrows investors. Yes the guys with $1000 in the bank account and the $300,000 interest only option ARM, with no job would still be pretty f**ked.
Capitalism would work just fine, its the socialism of loss that remains the problem. Its like the whole healthcare debate. ITS A GOOD THING PEOPLE ARE BANKRUPTED sometimes because it creates opportunities for others. It makes that house in the better school district suddenly affordable for a different family etc. Real social mobility requires destruction.
Actually Climate change will raise ocean temperatures and make it EASIER for ocean life to thrive
Some types of Ocean life perhaps, but not necessarily the stuff that feeds or even the stuff that isn't unpleasant to share a swim. The stuff we don't care for so much Jellyfish and tiny creatures that we mostly experiences as mats of nasty scum will probably take over.
If the temperatures of sea water rise much it gets more acidic. Other complex life hostile chemical events around surfer and phosphorus might also turn it into a toxic soup.
If some of the marine biology people are right the rise in sea level is going to be the least of what we humans experience as problems. I am not at all convinced by the AGW science, I don't support carbon emissions regulation and might not even if we had conclusive evidence climate change was a man made event, because I think we should be making the investment in adaptation at this point. We are already near 400ppm its likely positive feed back at this point with our without us. We need to be looking geoengineering and finding solutions to actively control the climate.
This is a very good point for very little investment most companies could dramatically improve their security posture without much if any new technology. Simply teaching HR and Helpdesk staff to use good procedures are identity management / verification and making sure HR communicates effective with operations either manually or thru automation to disable or delete accounts when employes leave the company for any reason.
No fancy firewalls or multifactor whatevers will protect you if valid authenticators are running around in possession of people who should not have them.
Frankly given all the revelations about NSA spying the biggest threat to security is clearly the government itself, but what will inevitably come out of public figures saying stuff like this is an attempt to regulate PRIVATE IT infrustrucute, which we know the NSA will use to Blackdoor us all.
This is why we need to not give the FEDs the microphone. We should continue to disinvite them from conferences and trade shows. We all need to stop going to infra guard and stop taking NIST seriously. Write you congress person tell them these guys are untrust worthly and rather than listen to the. Please please defund them.
The playground is where we are socialized. It's basically an exact analog for Washington.
Lets face facts, we have a government designed to protect the rights of the minority. If the GOP succeeds here it will have done exactly that. It will have stopped the minority of productive useful members of society from having the property appropriated to use as give always to the undeserving masses.
This ACA is about forced redistribution and people who support it are scum.
Except the thing was passed using the budget reconciliation act in the first place, by Democrats.
Turn about is always fair play.
The issue is they should not be able to serve the closed page; servers should be shut off.
They also re-elected a GOP majority in the House where funding bills start. Apparently those same voters want the GOP deciding how money is raised and spent. The argument about which side got elected is stupid both sides did.
As to the claim but electing Obama was a referendum on the ACA that is equally stupid. Polls show half the country thought the law was already fully in effect until last week or so and the majority don't understand their obligations or the most perfunctory effects the law will have on them. The public voted on personalities and faith; they absolutely did not cast their ballots with any specifics about the law in mind.
Does anyone who has really thought about this want the budget to become a political nuclear weapon?
Yes it absolutely should be. That is why our government was designed to operate with Checks and Balances. The budget ( and requiring it to start in a specific body at that ) is a clearly intended to put a hard limit on how far away the other two entities President and Senate are allowed to deviate from the will of the House. If the House ( the peoples body ) really hates something they absolutely should be able to kill it using this method.
If gasoline can be used in a carbon neutral way why get off it at all? It would be essentially rendered harmless.
What you want to use ecologically horrific batteries everywhere?
It does solve the problem. Atoms are not create or destroyed thru normal chemical means, biology as we know it is pretty much all chemical. All the carbon in the gasoline has to come from somehwere; if you make the somewhere the same atmosphere you dump it into when the gasoline is burned than you don't net out any new carbon in the atmosphere. This is what people mean when they say "carbon neutral" not that carbon isn't part of the process, just that the overall process takes out as much as it puts in.