I just don't understand why they had to pass it in such a monolithic form as to make the bad get thrown out with the good.
They should have passed a collection of bills, much like the Bill of Rights, with the following included as individual bills: 1. Abolition of pre-existing conditions clauses 2. Abolition of payout maximums 3. Universal eligibility for coverage 4. Dependent age increase 5. Government subsidized coverage with health insurance exchanges
If you'll notice, #5 is the only one anyone disagrees with. I'd rip that crap out and exchange it with either of the following: A. Erase the "65 or older" phrase from the existing Medicare statute (single-payer - this is what Democrats really wanted, and what the rest of the industrialized world uses, but would have resulted in the immediate bankrupting of all private health insurance companies) or B. Remove this state-to-state bullshit and let there be a national free market for health insurance. Let's see some real competition out there driving down prices.
You assume that the single-payer systems in the "entire civilized world except the USA" are even remotely close to what the Affordable Care Act established.
They aren't. The Affordable Care Act (panned as Obamacare) requires individuals to purchase private health insurance or pay fines (Sorry, a "tax" according to the Supreme Court) to the Federal Government.
If we wanted to do what other countries had, we would have erased the language "65 or older" from the existing Medicare statute; but there's no way that the health insurance corporations would have allowed that to get through the House of Representatives.
Nvidia is very excited about the prospects of marrying Power processors and Nvidia GPUs for both HPC and general purpose systems.
Nvidia hasn't quite figured out how to get their thermal energy per square centimeter to the level of a nuclear reactor, so I'm sure opening up the POWER series of chips has them quite excited on that front.
Apple was forced to include the DRM, contractually. Do you think they wanted the increased support costs and licensing costs of pursuing a technology that their customers hate, remembering that we're not talking about Sony here? Just as soon as their renegotiated contracts allowed, they dropped FairPlay (on music) like a wet sack of dog shit.
Diamond Multimedia made the first commercially successful portable MP3 player (there was another company that imported one from Asia a month or two before Diamond started shipping their design), called the Rio PMP300. They were also the company that went to bat against the RIAA to keep the devices legal (and uphold format-shifting as fair use) through the RIAA v. Diamond decision.
Perhaps he was trying to cut a deal for carrying the WaPo on Kindle, and they were asking such an outrageous price that he decided it was a better deal just to buy the damn paper out. It's not exactly out of the realm of possibility - all these old school newspaper guys have a massively inflated sense of self importance.
The reality is that what Radio didn't eat in the 40's and 50's, broadcast TV mostly ate in the 70s and 80s, with the scraps being vacuumed up by the Internet in the 90s. Now the Internet is eating Radio's share, and starting to worry the TV guys.
The biggest opponent of this plan: the Fraternal Order of Police.
They've never seen a swell of union-dues paying officers since the War on Drugs started. Republicans are all about Law and Order, and cracking down on the criminals. Democrats are all about organized labor. Both of the parties can get behind these policies because they both get something back they want. Thus, the 40-year failure of policy continues on.
In the days of print media (but it works just as well with broadcast media, just change column-inches into minutes) it was well known that editors had a certain number of column-inches (we'll call it X) to fill before deadline. If there is two big stories to report, each one would get X / 2 column-inches, or a variation of that. However, if you throw out 20 stories, then each gets X / 20. It was referred to as "taking out the trash" - you save up all the stories you don't want people to write about for a Friday (nobody reads the paper or watches news on Saturday) and then dump them all at the same time. No story gets covered with enough depth, and nobody reads it anyway.
You want a story to go away? Start blasting out as many other stories as possible, because there is a finite amount of writers, reporters, and editors to cover them all. It's a bit harder in the Internet age, but still very possible.
The substances were prohibited long before. During his time, though is when we started to see the use of no-knock warrants, which has been the signature tool in drug enforcement.
American Law Enforcement: Putting the boot to your door (warranted or not, correct door or not) since the early '70s.
If they paid no taxes at all (completely false) then the IRS would have climbed so far up their ass that they'd need to cut in switchback trails to find their way back out. Just by having a single retail store that sells a single retail product, the would owe taxes on that revenue. To say otherwise is just being a fuckwad or a troll - you choose.
Windows 8.1 is an example that Microsoft is continuing as usual - being stubborn and releasing failure after failure expecting for the whole world to catch up to their brilliant ideas.
What they are missing out on, is that the world rejected their ideas and went in a different direction.
You had me until you said "On screen keyboard is great."
Microsoft's Windows8 on-screen keyboard is trash. Why can't they put a number row across the top, like every keyboard EVER? I'm not asking for a 10-key here (which they do if you push the number button) - I just want the numbers present so typing in a complex password (which, by the way, is required for a domain-joined machine if your domain uses even remotely sane password policies) to not have me changing the keyboard layout 3 times and taking 4x as long.
X230 isn't ultraportable, at least not these days. Compare to X1 Carbon if you must. Or ThinkPad Helix, which might as well be a Surface Pro, but with optional wireless WAN and an extra battery in the keyboard. Oh, and Windows 7 support, and the ability to turn off SecureBoot.
And yet, Microsoft's own marketing is throwing it against an iPad. It's just as ridiculous as Samsung showing a Galaxy S4 competing against a Nokia 105 (which they don't do).
The other salient point would be that an iPad doesn't need a Core i5 or 4GB of RAM because it isn't running Windows 8. Consumers don't care about tech specs - they care about if it does the shit they want to do, and does it without locking up or taking forever. And for most people, iPad accomplishes that, which explains the orders of magnitude more sales.
The difference with Lisa is that Apple was able to make minor modifications to the hardware and replace the software with Macintosh System Software and sell it as the Mac XL, and they couldn't keep them on hand. It was a Mac that had a hard disk and 4x the memory of the other model - exactly what everyone wanted at the time.
They are incorporated in the State of California. They pay US federal and state taxes. They have a headquarters in California, and tens of thousands of employees in the US. They are a publicly traded company on a US stock exchange, and regulated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. They file quarterly reports to the US government, in accordance with US laws.
Why, exactly, do you think they aren't a US based company, outside of the standard slashdot smugness?
Technology marches on. Bootstrapping a PC by pounding a signal up hardware interrupt lines used in ISA just isn't a good way to start up hardware that doesn't even have ISA, and hasn't for years. UEFI finally does away with that, so that the OS doesn't have to waste time remapping every single thing BIOS does on boot anymore. It also allows you to read from the disk using transfer rates that rent a throwback to the 1980s until you load mass storage drivers.
It might come as a shock that most gains in boot time in the last 3 years are directly attributable to UEFI, and customers want faster booting computers.
Because of one module, forced on the world by Microsoft, UEFI is getting a bad rap. Never mid that it has been successfully used on systems long before Secure Boot was even a concept, and is still implemented on systems without anything approaching the crapware known as Secure Boot.
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I just don't understand why they had to pass it in such a monolithic form as to make the bad get thrown out with the good.
They should have passed a collection of bills, much like the Bill of Rights, with the following included as individual bills:
1. Abolition of pre-existing conditions clauses
2. Abolition of payout maximums
3. Universal eligibility for coverage
4. Dependent age increase
5. Government subsidized coverage with health insurance exchanges
If you'll notice, #5 is the only one anyone disagrees with. I'd rip that crap out and exchange it with either of the following:
A. Erase the "65 or older" phrase from the existing Medicare statute (single-payer - this is what Democrats really wanted, and what the rest of the industrialized world uses, but would have resulted in the immediate bankrupting of all private health insurance companies)
or
B. Remove this state-to-state bullshit and let there be a national free market for health insurance. Let's see some real competition out there driving down prices.
You assume that the single-payer systems in the "entire civilized world except the USA" are even remotely close to what the Affordable Care Act established.
They aren't. The Affordable Care Act (panned as Obamacare) requires individuals to purchase private health insurance or pay fines (Sorry, a "tax" according to the Supreme Court) to the Federal Government.
If we wanted to do what other countries had, we would have erased the language "65 or older" from the existing Medicare statute; but there's no way that the health insurance corporations would have allowed that to get through the House of Representatives.
Nvidia is very excited about the prospects of marrying Power processors and Nvidia GPUs for both HPC and general purpose systems.
Nvidia hasn't quite figured out how to get their thermal energy per square centimeter to the level of a nuclear reactor, so I'm sure opening up the POWER series of chips has them quite excited on that front.
Ionizing radiating is a complex subject, thus it has a complex set of measurements that mean specific things.
Dumbing it down doesn't do anyone any good.
Yeah, because DRAM producers like Samsung have never been convicted of price fixing before. Oh wait, they have. Multiple times.
Instant wrong is never better than delayed factual.
See: All major news networks miscalling which candidate won Florida in the 2000 Presidential Election. Twice.
Forced?
Apple was forced to include the DRM, contractually. Do you think they wanted the increased support costs and licensing costs of pursuing a technology that their customers hate, remembering that we're not talking about Sony here? Just as soon as their renegotiated contracts allowed, they dropped FairPlay (on music) like a wet sack of dog shit.
Now we just need the same to happen with video.
It wasn't even Creative Labs.
Diamond Multimedia made the first commercially successful portable MP3 player (there was another company that imported one from Asia a month or two before Diamond started shipping their design), called the Rio PMP300. They were also the company that went to bat against the RIAA to keep the devices legal (and uphold format-shifting as fair use) through the RIAA v. Diamond decision.
Now we can all be frustration-free.
Perhaps he was trying to cut a deal for carrying the WaPo on Kindle, and they were asking such an outrageous price that he decided it was a better deal just to buy the damn paper out. It's not exactly out of the realm of possibility - all these old school newspaper guys have a massively inflated sense of self importance.
The reality is that what Radio didn't eat in the 40's and 50's, broadcast TV mostly ate in the 70s and 80s, with the scraps being vacuumed up by the Internet in the 90s. Now the Internet is eating Radio's share, and starting to worry the TV guys.
The biggest opponent of this plan: the Fraternal Order of Police.
They've never seen a swell of union-dues paying officers since the War on Drugs started. Republicans are all about Law and Order, and cracking down on the criminals. Democrats are all about organized labor. Both of the parties can get behind these policies because they both get something back they want. Thus, the 40-year failure of policy continues on.
That's simple math.
In the days of print media (but it works just as well with broadcast media, just change column-inches into minutes) it was well known that editors had a certain number of column-inches (we'll call it X) to fill before deadline. If there is two big stories to report, each one would get X / 2 column-inches, or a variation of that. However, if you throw out 20 stories, then each gets X / 20. It was referred to as "taking out the trash" - you save up all the stories you don't want people to write about for a Friday (nobody reads the paper or watches news on Saturday) and then dump them all at the same time. No story gets covered with enough depth, and nobody reads it anyway.
You want a story to go away? Start blasting out as many other stories as possible, because there is a finite amount of writers, reporters, and editors to cover them all. It's a bit harder in the Internet age, but still very possible.
Nixon coined the phrase "War on Drugs."
The substances were prohibited long before. During his time, though is when we started to see the use of no-knock warrants, which has been the signature tool in drug enforcement.
American Law Enforcement: Putting the boot to your door (warranted or not, correct door or not) since the early '70s.
I'm wondering if they replicated the fractional horse meat content in their vat meat.
I like that you anonymously post completely false accusations.
Get the hell off my slashdot.
Which, unless they seceded in the last 17 minutes, is still a State belonging to the United States of America.
Wrong.
If they paid no taxes at all (completely false) then the IRS would have climbed so far up their ass that they'd need to cut in switchback trails to find their way back out. Just by having a single retail store that sells a single retail product, the would owe taxes on that revenue. To say otherwise is just being a fuckwad or a troll - you choose.
Stop being willfully ignorant, and read.
Apple pays US tax on all revenue gained in the US, Canada, Central America, and South America.
Windows 8.1 is an example that Microsoft is continuing as usual - being stubborn and releasing failure after failure expecting for the whole world to catch up to their brilliant ideas.
What they are missing out on, is that the world rejected their ideas and went in a different direction.
You had me until you said "On screen keyboard is great."
Microsoft's Windows8 on-screen keyboard is trash. Why can't they put a number row across the top, like every keyboard EVER? I'm not asking for a 10-key here (which they do if you push the number button) - I just want the numbers present so typing in a complex password (which, by the way, is required for a domain-joined machine if your domain uses even remotely sane password policies) to not have me changing the keyboard layout 3 times and taking 4x as long.
X230 isn't ultraportable, at least not these days. Compare to X1 Carbon if you must. Or ThinkPad Helix, which might as well be a Surface Pro, but with optional wireless WAN and an extra battery in the keyboard. Oh, and Windows 7 support, and the ability to turn off SecureBoot.
And yet, Microsoft's own marketing is throwing it against an iPad. It's just as ridiculous as Samsung showing a Galaxy S4 competing against a Nokia 105 (which they don't do).
The other salient point would be that an iPad doesn't need a Core i5 or 4GB of RAM because it isn't running Windows 8. Consumers don't care about tech specs - they care about if it does the shit they want to do, and does it without locking up or taking forever. And for most people, iPad accomplishes that, which explains the orders of magnitude more sales.
The difference with Lisa is that Apple was able to make minor modifications to the hardware and replace the software with Macintosh System Software and sell it as the Mac XL, and they couldn't keep them on hand. It was a Mac that had a hard disk and 4x the memory of the other model - exactly what everyone wanted at the time.
They are incorporated in the State of California. They pay US federal and state taxes. They have a headquarters in California, and tens of thousands of employees in the US. They are a publicly traded company on a US stock exchange, and regulated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. They file quarterly reports to the US government, in accordance with US laws.
Why, exactly, do you think they aren't a US based company, outside of the standard slashdot smugness?
Technology marches on. Bootstrapping a PC by pounding a signal up hardware interrupt lines used in ISA just isn't a good way to start up hardware that doesn't even have ISA, and hasn't for years. UEFI finally does away with that, so that the OS doesn't have to waste time remapping every single thing BIOS does on boot anymore. It also allows you to read from the disk using transfer rates that rent a throwback to the 1980s until you load mass storage drivers.
It might come as a shock that most gains in boot time in the last 3 years are directly attributable to UEFI, and customers want faster booting computers.
Because of one module, forced on the world by Microsoft, UEFI is getting a bad rap. Never mid that it has been successfully used on systems long before Secure Boot was even a concept, and is still implemented on systems without anything approaching the crapware known as Secure Boot.
Strangely, design patents are not standard-essential, so the two incidents are not directly comparable.
Nice try though.
Please explain to me how the MacBook Pro is a walled garden.
iOS is a walled garden.
Mac OS X, in no way, is.