I'm curious as to what sort of sentence you would get for cutting off someone's power or whatever comm line they use (be it coaxial, fiber, telephone, etc.). If I cut your server's link to the web, would I get off easier than attempting to saturate that link?
It's not quite the same as severing a phone line verses saturating a link. It's more like hijacking thousands of other people's phones and programming them to constantly dial and redial someone's phone number so they can never pick up and get a dialtone....and it would really suck if they were having a heart attack and needed to call 911...
I stopped reading right there and concluded that you are a retard who should not be allowed to vote, as with no grounding in math, you cannot have a good grounding in logic. But I guess that you only need much math to turn the television to the Fox channel at the time that Glenn Beck is on, so you have all the skill you need.
Funny, I don't have a TV, and I don't listen to Fox on my Sirius radio. So that sorta shoots down your argument. I also find it funny that you are willing to make a snap decision that a dislike of math equals not understanding logic--and then you ignore the rest of my comments instead of using logic and reason to attempt to break my argument.
It sounds like you're the stupid self-righteous fuck.
Let me be blunt again: Fuck public education. It's not more important than educating my children. I care about my family. That's it. My wife, and my children.
This attitude is how we get No Child Left Behind producing legions of dipshits who are going to have no choice but to enlist in the military because no one else will hire them, and to serve as cannon fodder because any more desirable job requires the ability to use your brain. These useful idiots will continue to pad out our standing armies so that we have the power to project our might across the globe for economic gain for the same people who convinced you that public school is a bad idea. The bad idea is letting the government fuck it up...
I can see how my statement may have been confusing. Let me rephrase it.
I don't care about educating your children. I care about educating mine--and I will do it myself because I am a responsible adult. If you want your children to be educated, I suggest you do it yourself rather than getting the state to steal money from others.
Living in a society there are some social responsibilities.
Really? Where's that written? Where did I agree to that?
The future generation is going to lead this country, politically, socially and economically.
Right--so they should be indoctrinated in government schools by government employees so they can be taught how they should vote in government elections. Seems like a conflict of interest.
I for one would like every child to receive the best education possible. Look at Asian countries who send their children to school over 300 days a year.
It's not quantity, it's quality. We don't have either now.
They are outpacing us. Innovation is what drove this country and education needs to be fostered to continue to drive us.
Agreed. We aren't taught to be innovative in public schools anymore.
Sooner or later you will need a doctor, who is educated in some public system. Your coworkers are educated in a public system. Without public education, there would be no NASA or someone to build your 'field trip bus', much less design it.
I think you mean without education. You accidentally typed 'public' in there.
People should be educated, but I'll be damned if anyone can show me how government has some strange exclusive monopoly on doing it correctly.
These roads, bridges and buildings you enjoy were designed and built by people with a public education.
Funny, but this list of famous homeschoolers would seem to break your argument. One of the names on that list is Elizabeth Blackwell--the first woman in American to receive a medical degree.
I am going to assume you where not educated in public schools, I was. I did not have the chance to college right after High School, I am going to a public college now working on my degree.
I went to school in Washington State. I wouldn't say I was educated there. Every single opportunity I had for great education was provided by my parents. I was (and probably still am) the youngest volunteer ever at OMSI. My mom would take me almost every weekend to work an 8-hour shift. My dad bought an old Tandy TRS-80 with an included Bert and Ernie game. I liked the music as a kid, so he wrote out how to play it in BASIC. I took that, and in a week had it playing Mary Had a Little Lamb. He then purchased an Apple IIe and taught me file IO on 5 1/4 floppies. They paid for MCSE classes (of which I'm happy to say I ditched after the first class), but the first class was great. Everyone else in the group cancelled, so it was me and the teacher. She pretty much taught me TCP/IP routing over the 5 hours of the class. Unfortunately it was a bit Windows biased, so it included a bunch of crap about NetBIOS, but it was a great foundation. I paid for my emergency medical training and rope rescue.
I have a great job and for the record I pay a lot of taxes. I also have significantly more than $100 left over at the end of the month. I guess my public education must have let me down.
Look at that list of famous homeschoolers again. Who made more, you or Andrew Carnegie? Yeah--I think you're public education failed you.
But also, I think our goals are different. For every CEO, there are hundreds and thousands og 'cogs'. Due to my public school education, I have no delusions that I will suddenly and magically 'climb the corporate ladder'. Rather than spending most of my life fighting for a $100,000/year job, I would rather stick with my modest IT job that gives me ample opportunity to start my children out on better footing than I had. I can focus on what really matters to me--my family. That, and arguing on Slashdot apparently;)
But but but.... I have the god given, constitution granted inalienable right to play Farmville, have my desktop covered with widgets and surf the web while at work! By god, I'm an 'merican!! What the hell do you expect me to do while I'm at work, WORK?!? I don't get paid to stare at those blinking pixels and dial thingamabobs all damn day.
I think you're confusing us "'mericans" (people residing on the American landmass) with a uniquely retarded subset of those people called 'Government Employees'.
A corporation is required to maximize the profits for its share holders. Ballmer is a major share holder. Of course Ballmer's profits matter more than public education.
Let me be blunt: Fuck you. I am not a billionaire, millionaire, or even a thousandaire. After all my bills are paid, I'm lucky to have $100 in the bank when my next paycheck comes around.
Let me be blunt again: Fuck public education. It's not more important than educating my children. I care about my family. That's it. My wife, and my children. I will make sure my children are educated because that is my responsibility as a parent. If that means I have to pay out of my own pocket to send them to private schools and/or pay private tutors for certain things, I will do so. (For example, I absolutely suck at anything above basic algebra because I have no interest in math). And I'm not speaking from a position of "poor me, I'm being taxed for public education", I'm speaking from the standpoint that it is wrong for one group of people to pay for another group. People who don't have children shouldn't be taxed to pay for my children to go to school. Taking money from someone to give to someone else is theft. Even if government does it.
I don't want this tax in my state. It's wrong. If you want other people to pay for your kids to go to school, move somewhere else.
For FY 2010, we paid 27.4 billion dollars to schools to cover an estimated 2.5 million children (2008 numbers)
That's just under $11,000 per child per year. I pay a few thousand per year in state and federal taxes--so how do my children get $11,000 per year in schooling? Other people. You poor saps without children are being robbed to pay for my children.
Even worse--a significant amount of that $11,000 goes towards teacher salaries, nice new school buildings, new vehicles for administrators, and gold-plated retirement plans...so in reality when they are bitching about not enough money for kids, they are really bitching that they are spending too much on administrivia and retirement. If I had $11,000 every year for each of my children, they would be getting one hell of an education. If my child was interested in space, I could easily send him to space camp, visit NASA and see a shuttle launch, travel to the Air and Space Museum, and get flight-time with a pilot to do the weightless dive thing....and I would still have about $7,000 left over for the rest of the year. In two years, I could pay off a real nice 'field trip bus' (aka minivan), and I could very quickly pay down the mortgage on my house^H^H^H^H^Hbuilding in which I instruct my students.
Taxes are supposed to be laid across the people equally, no sales tax for me also means no sales tax for Ballmer. The government can't start playing 'favorites' by taxing Ballmer and not taxing me.
Why don't socialist retards get this stuff? Is it because you were educated in government-run public schools?
So you are saying that if it was genetic the trait would have died out because it dose not promote it's own propagation?
And what's even better is that the "I'm born that way" argument comes from the same side of the aisle that supports abortion...so now women can start exercising their 'right' to abort gays and liberals? So won't liberalism soon die out? (Unless there's an outbreak of the Liberal Disease.)
Obviouosly your not ready to the phase-in if it's unknown how the "4,000 departmental desktop applications" will fare under windows 7.
That is what a lab and pre-prod environment is for.
We're note ready because our primary application vendor says they still don't support Vista or 7. It just doesn't work yet.
And the next version they will release in about 2 months will skip Vista and only support 7.
So in two months we'll be ready to start testing Windows 7 in our environment.
But if Windows 8 is just around the corner, maybe we'll skip the hardware and software upgrades and focus in replacing older PCs during the next two years with top-of-the-line models and then switch to 8 when it comes out. Microsoft is losing a lot of cash from us because there is still no compelling reason to upgrade yet.
> flying delorean... something unrealistic about the plot of that movie?
Yes, flying cars are unrealistic. We've been waiting for years and all attempts from Taylor Aerocar to Moller have all failed. But there is the roadable airplane.
We were supposed to get a flying Camry recently, but Toyota ended up recalling them...
If you are using wireless, it's roughly the equivalent of standing in the public square with a megaphone and shouting your data to someone else on the other side of the public square. If you happen to speak a password, an e-mail, or transmit an image of a naked woman--everyone else in the public square can hear it--including Google if they happen to be driving by the public square.
But somehow everyone is freaking out. Google is teh evil because they happened to capture what someone was screaming at the top of their lungs in the public square.
I have captured wireless data from my neighbors while troubleshooting problems at my home and work. Granted, I only save my capture files if I need to send them off to someone else for assistance or I need to analyze them later, but still...
Hey guess what, nobody's forced to shop anywhere here if they don't want to either, and you can't get paid just to sit around on your ass all day drinking beer. Nice try though. I guess your "solution" does look like it's the best when you just make shit up about the rest of the world though, huh. It speaks volumes about how great it must be if that's the only way you can justify it.
I think you don't understand communism and socialism. They abolish private ownership of pretty much everything. You may have socialism-lite over there--like China does now. But true socialism does exactly what I said above. Socialism forces people to work for the government and in return they get exactly what the government allows them to get. Capitalism allows people to work freely and negotiate their pay with their employer. If I want to earn $20/hr, I'm probably not going to be able to get that as a janitor. But I'm free to try. I am also able to pay someone to educate me to become a geek so I have a skill that sets me apart from a majority of the population so I can demand higher wages. Not in socialism.
Socialism doesn't suck at all. What you're talking about is abuse and mismanagement that comes from not being allowed to do it properly because anti-social people like you complain too much. I can see why you'd confuse the two; it is convenient to after all.
So what you're saying is that Socialism rocks when you completely stomp out the basic human nature to compete and succeed. Right. So you're one of those intellectuals who is smart because they think they know how a system should work instead of seeing how a system actually works.
While capitalism has it's faults, it is designed around the understanding that humans are greedy by nature and for the most part they only think of themselves.
In the capitalist system, you aren't forced to buy your food, clothes, etc... from WalMart if you don't like the way they treat their employers.
In your system, you are forced to get everything from the government or whomever the government forces to give up their production regardless of how corrupt they may be.
Socialism and communism fail everywhere. Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, China (until they recently semi-adopted capitalism), Jonestown, etc...
The funny difference between your ideal and mine is that your ideal requires the use of force. You want to force me into producing food or working for the 'greater good' whereas my system says "do what you want, including donating to charity or the greater good".
Your system would force me to work to provide food for my neighbor who sits on his porch drinking beer all day instead of telling my neighbor 'get a job'. And if he were truly 'disabled' instead of just an 'alcoholic', there would be charities lined up to give him a hand up.
Dental work here in the UK used to look like that, except it was more that the government refused to be ripped off for dental work and charged five times more than it reasonably should cost, so dentists did just have two prices for things, one which they charged the government, and one which they charged private which was many times higher.
Funny. It's the opposite here. I refuse to get insurance. When I pay cash to a private doctor, my price is usually cut by 25-35%.
I also use to work on an ambulance--a government ambulance. We regularly billed everyone about 30% more than it cost us because the government cut about 30% off whatever we billed them. The people with private insurance simply paid the inflated prices. That helped to cover the cost of the welfare rats that had no insurance and refused to pay when we would transport them for a hangnail, stubbed toe, or other ridiculous complaint.
Socialism sucks. I'm a man. I'll pay my own damn way thank you.
Ok, judging by your use of dollars, and the language you use, you seem to be mistaking the UK situation for the US, which is rather silly since the situation for both medical and dental care in both countries is wildly different.
While American doctors are still mostly private--the moment our government takes over the insurance industry, they pretty much have control over the doctors incomes.
You do realize in the youtube clip you link to that Medicare (government run) paid for most of her treatment, including getting a pacemaker so I'm not sure it really backs up your point.
Yeah--if I'm in heart failure, I want most of a pacemaker.
Not really. Unlike the UK, almost all doctors in America are private practice doctors and not on government salary. The same with hospitals, a mix of private and local/state public hospitals. The health care reform legislation passed is mainly for insurance; the government won't change its control of doctors or which private plans people choose. So the government really isn't in charge of health care, although they've taken a more regulatory role in insurance.
...and from where do doctors receive their pay? (From the hospitals that employ then which are paid by) Insurance companies.
Wonder why most dentists refuse to take 'state' patients? They get paid roughly half of a privately insured patient. The government simply says "Yeah--I know the procedure costs $1,000 in parts and labor, but we're only going to pay you $550. Good luck with that."
Then the doctors have to bill the patient for the rest...and there's a reason for the patients being on state insurance--they have no money in the first place because they need the latest iPhone.
Lots of comments chiming in on overselling bandwidth, but as you've noted, this has nothing to do with bandwidth. Its an infrastructure problem, and one that is slightly out of their control. They noted with this one app alone, network utilization increased 1200% per device. Its a signaling issue they didn't anticipate.
In other words, wait 15 minutes for everyone's battery to die and the situation will correct itself. Then you just need to worry about people with car chargers.
I don't know, this big round thing keeps getting in the way of my view...
They removed it, precisely because people complained about it.
Really? It's still present in my copy of Office 2007--oh...you mean I have to pay to remove it. Classy.
And if you think the ribbon takes 1/3 of your screen realestate, you either have a very small screen or a very large tendancy to exagerate.
Nope--no exageration. At 1024x768 it's just under 1/3rd of the screen real estate.
It's tough to get management to approve 100 new 24-inch LCD widescreen monitors when OpenOffice and our current monitors save tens of thousands.
Even so, there is an up arrow in the upper right corner that hides the ribbon, or ctrl-f1. Again, problem solved, and that's been there since the beginning.
OpenOffice installed. It wasn't exactly as easy as CTRL+F1, but it was pretty easy. Problem solved permanently.
I have yet to meet someone IRL who *really* likes it.
Because we all know that your subjective anecdotes comprise the entire userbase of MS Office, right? It's funny that you claim that so many people hate it yet the entire foundation behind the ribbon was based on feedback from users during usability and UI tests.
It's funny that your subjective user tests comprise the entire userbase of MS Office, right?
Let a = 0.999... then we can multiply both sides by ten yielding 10a = 9.999... then subtracting a (which is 0.999...) from both sides we get 10a — a = 9.999... — 0.999... which reduces to 9a = 9 and thus a = 1. Mathematicians as far back as Euler have used various means to prove 0.999... = 1.
This is exactly the kind of irresponsible use of the 'universal language' that if it were put on the side of a space probe would doom humanity to annihilation.
what do they have to draw people away from Apple, Android, or Blackberry?
XBox Live integration
Windows Live integration
Office integration
Free "sync to cloud" and "find my phone"
ZunePass
Zune software is much better on Windows than iTunes
Works better with Windows (which is what most people use... iPhone works better with OS X, so I don't think those people are the target)
I use iPhone on Windows, and I'm very much looking forward to being able to uninstall iTunes and never have to fire up that piece of crap again. And the ZunePass rocks (it's a great deal), and that too is enticing for me.
For business types (not me), the Office integration might be a draw. I can see that.
Wow--sign me up.
I can't wait to drop my Nexus One for your solution
I can't wait to replace my non-DRM'd mp3 collection with whatever-the-hell-zune-has
I can't wait to give up my free gmail account and my other free hosted gmail/apps for domains account
I can't wait to ditch the free Google Docs for whatever-paid-office-feature Microsoft comes up with
I can't wait to ditch my free remote sync to my workstation at home so I can sync all my data to Microsoft's cloud. Maybe they'll call it the Sidekick Cloud
I can't wait to ditch my Nexus One that I can plug in to any Windows, Mac, or Linux machine to charge and transfer files with a Microsoft phone. I remember fondly the last 3 Microsoft phones that needed drivers in order to show up as a storage device under Windows. Hell--they even required drivers to charge. That'll be fun. Maybe I can carry around a CD or an extra thumb drive now so I can use my phone on Windows computers.
Actually, the main selling point for me would be if they included a copy of Clippy to help me make phone calls, Microsoft Bob to organize my workspaces and make me more productive, and a copy of edlin so I can take notes.
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I'm curious as to what sort of sentence you would get for cutting off someone's power or whatever comm line they use (be it coaxial, fiber, telephone, etc.). If I cut your server's link to the web, would I get off easier than attempting to saturate that link?
It's not quite the same as severing a phone line verses saturating a link. It's more like hijacking thousands of other people's phones and programming them to constantly dial and redial someone's phone number so they can never pick up and get a dialtone. ...and it would really suck if they were having a heart attack and needed to call 911...
See also Republicans, and Teabaggers responses to their own being raging assholes.
Ok Nancy, we get it. You're upset you lost the house. Now quit calling people teabaggers and assholes.
I stopped reading right there and concluded that you are a retard who should not be allowed to vote, as with no grounding in math, you cannot have a good grounding in logic. But I guess that you only need much math to turn the television to the Fox channel at the time that Glenn Beck is on, so you have all the skill you need.
Funny, I don't have a TV, and I don't listen to Fox on my Sirius radio. So that sorta shoots down your argument. I also find it funny that you are willing to make a snap decision that a dislike of math equals not understanding logic--and then you ignore the rest of my comments instead of using logic and reason to attempt to break my argument.
It sounds like you're the stupid self-righteous fuck.
Let me be blunt again: Fuck public education. It's not more important than educating my children. I care about my family. That's it. My wife, and my children.
This attitude is how we get No Child Left Behind producing legions of dipshits who are going to have no choice but to enlist in the military because no one else will hire them, and to serve as cannon fodder because any more desirable job requires the ability to use your brain. These useful idiots will continue to pad out our standing armies so that we have the power to project our might across the globe for economic gain for the same people who convinced you that public school is a bad idea. The bad idea is letting the government fuck it up...
I can see how my statement may have been confusing. Let me rephrase it.
I don't care about educating your children. I care about educating mine--and I will do it myself because I am a responsible adult. If you want your children to be educated, I suggest you do it yourself rather than getting the state to steal money from others.
Living in a society there are some social responsibilities.
Really? Where's that written? Where did I agree to that?
The future generation is going to lead this country, politically, socially and economically.
Right--so they should be indoctrinated in government schools by government employees so they can be taught how they should vote in government elections. Seems like a conflict of interest.
I for one would like every child to receive the best education possible. Look at Asian countries who send their children to school over 300 days a year.
It's not quantity, it's quality. We don't have either now.
They are outpacing us. Innovation is what drove this country and education needs to be fostered to continue to drive us.
Agreed. We aren't taught to be innovative in public schools anymore.
Sooner or later you will need a doctor, who is educated in some public system. Your coworkers are educated in a public system. Without public education, there would be no NASA or someone to build your 'field trip bus', much less design it.
I think you mean without education. You accidentally typed 'public' in there.
People should be educated, but I'll be damned if anyone can show me how government has some strange exclusive monopoly on doing it correctly.
These roads, bridges and buildings you enjoy were designed and built by people with a public education.
Funny, but this list of famous homeschoolers would seem to break your argument. One of the names on that list is Elizabeth Blackwell--the first woman in American to receive a medical degree.
I am going to assume you where not educated in public schools, I was. I did not have the chance to college right after High School, I am going to a public college now working on my degree.
I went to school in Washington State. I wouldn't say I was educated there. Every single opportunity I had for great education was provided by my parents. I was (and probably still am) the youngest volunteer ever at OMSI. My mom would take me almost every weekend to work an 8-hour shift. My dad bought an old Tandy TRS-80 with an included Bert and Ernie game. I liked the music as a kid, so he wrote out how to play it in BASIC. I took that, and in a week had it playing Mary Had a Little Lamb. He then purchased an Apple IIe and taught me file IO on 5 1/4 floppies. They paid for MCSE classes (of which I'm happy to say I ditched after the first class), but the first class was great. Everyone else in the group cancelled, so it was me and the teacher. She pretty much taught me TCP/IP routing over the 5 hours of the class. Unfortunately it was a bit Windows biased, so it included a bunch of crap about NetBIOS, but it was a great foundation. I paid for my emergency medical training and rope rescue.
I have a great job and for the record I pay a lot of taxes. I also have significantly more than $100 left over at the end of the month. I guess my public education must have let me down.
Look at that list of famous homeschoolers again. Who made more, you or Andrew Carnegie? Yeah--I think you're public education failed you.
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But also, I think our goals are different. For every CEO, there are hundreds and thousands og 'cogs'. Due to my public school education, I have no delusions that I will suddenly and magically 'climb the corporate ladder'. Rather than spending most of my life fighting for a $100,000/year job, I would rather stick with my modest IT job that gives me ample opportunity to start my children out on better footing than I had. I can focus on what really matters to me--my family. That, and arguing on Slashdot apparently
But but but.... I have the god given, constitution granted inalienable right to play Farmville, have my desktop covered with widgets and surf the web while at work! By god, I'm an 'merican!! What the hell do you expect me to do while I'm at work, WORK?!? I don't get paid to stare at those blinking pixels and dial thingamabobs all damn day.
I think you're confusing us "'mericans" (people residing on the American landmass) with a uniquely retarded subset of those people called 'Government Employees'.
A corporation is required to maximize the profits for its share holders. Ballmer is a major share holder. Of course Ballmer's profits matter more than public education.
Let me be blunt: Fuck you. I am not a billionaire, millionaire, or even a thousandaire. After all my bills are paid, I'm lucky to have $100 in the bank when my next paycheck comes around.
...and I would still have about $7,000 left over for the rest of the year. In two years, I could pay off a real nice 'field trip bus' (aka minivan), and I could very quickly pay down the mortgage on my house^H^H^H^H^Hbuilding in which I instruct my students.
Let me be blunt again: Fuck public education. It's not more important than educating my children. I care about my family. That's it. My wife, and my children. I will make sure my children are educated because that is my responsibility as a parent. If that means I have to pay out of my own pocket to send them to private schools and/or pay private tutors for certain things, I will do so. (For example, I absolutely suck at anything above basic algebra because I have no interest in math). And I'm not speaking from a position of "poor me, I'm being taxed for public education", I'm speaking from the standpoint that it is wrong for one group of people to pay for another group. People who don't have children shouldn't be taxed to pay for my children to go to school. Taking money from someone to give to someone else is theft. Even if government does it.
I don't want this tax in my state. It's wrong. If you want other people to pay for your kids to go to school, move somewhere else.
For FY 2010, we paid 27.4 billion dollars to schools to cover an estimated 2.5 million children (2008 numbers)
That's just under $11,000 per child per year. I pay a few thousand per year in state and federal taxes--so how do my children get $11,000 per year in schooling? Other people. You poor saps without children are being robbed to pay for my children.
Even worse--a significant amount of that $11,000 goes towards teacher salaries, nice new school buildings, new vehicles for administrators, and gold-plated retirement plans...so in reality when they are bitching about not enough money for kids, they are really bitching that they are spending too much on administrivia and retirement. If I had $11,000 every year for each of my children, they would be getting one hell of an education. If my child was interested in space, I could easily send him to space camp, visit NASA and see a shuttle launch, travel to the Air and Space Museum, and get flight-time with a pilot to do the weightless dive thing.
Taxes are supposed to be laid across the people equally, no sales tax for me also means no sales tax for Ballmer. The government can't start playing 'favorites' by taxing Ballmer and not taxing me.
Why don't socialist retards get this stuff? Is it because you were educated in government-run public schools?
Voting is important, we can afford to slow down a little and do it carefully.
It'd be awesome--like Futurama. "The robot polls are opening.....aaaand the votes are in. Mom wins."
So you are saying that if it was genetic the trait would have died out because it dose not promote it's own propagation?
And what's even better is that the "I'm born that way" argument comes from the same side of the aisle that supports abortion...so now women can start exercising their 'right' to abort gays and liberals? So won't liberalism soon die out? (Unless there's an outbreak of the Liberal Disease.)
Obviouosly your not ready to the phase-in if it's unknown how the "4,000 departmental desktop applications" will fare under windows 7. That is what a lab and pre-prod environment is for.
We're note ready because our primary application vendor says they still don't support Vista or 7. It just doesn't work yet.
And the next version they will release in about 2 months will skip Vista and only support 7.
So in two months we'll be ready to start testing Windows 7 in our environment.
But if Windows 8 is just around the corner, maybe we'll skip the hardware and software upgrades and focus in replacing older PCs during the next two years with top-of-the-line models and then switch to 8 when it comes out. Microsoft is losing a lot of cash from us because there is still no compelling reason to upgrade yet.
> flying delorean ... something unrealistic about the plot of that movie?
Yes, flying cars are unrealistic. We've been waiting for years and all attempts from Taylor Aerocar to Moller have all failed. But there is the roadable airplane.
We were supposed to get a flying Camry recently, but Toyota ended up recalling them...
If you are using wireless, it's roughly the equivalent of standing in the public square with a megaphone and shouting your data to someone else on the other side of the public square. If you happen to speak a password, an e-mail, or transmit an image of a naked woman--everyone else in the public square can hear it--including Google if they happen to be driving by the public square.
But somehow everyone is freaking out. Google is teh evil because they happened to capture what someone was screaming at the top of their lungs in the public square.
I have captured wireless data from my neighbors while troubleshooting problems at my home and work. Granted, I only save my capture files if I need to send them off to someone else for assistance or I need to analyze them later, but still...
Hey guess what, nobody's forced to shop anywhere here if they don't want to either, and you can't get paid just to sit around on your ass all day drinking beer. Nice try though. I guess your "solution" does look like it's the best when you just make shit up about the rest of the world though, huh. It speaks volumes about how great it must be if that's the only way you can justify it.
I think you don't understand communism and socialism. They abolish private ownership of pretty much everything. You may have socialism-lite over there--like China does now. But true socialism does exactly what I said above. Socialism forces people to work for the government and in return they get exactly what the government allows them to get. Capitalism allows people to work freely and negotiate their pay with their employer. If I want to earn $20/hr, I'm probably not going to be able to get that as a janitor. But I'm free to try. I am also able to pay someone to educate me to become a geek so I have a skill that sets me apart from a majority of the population so I can demand higher wages. Not in socialism.
Socialism doesn't suck at all. What you're talking about is abuse and mismanagement that comes from not being allowed to do it properly because anti-social people like you complain too much. I can see why you'd confuse the two; it is convenient to after all.
So what you're saying is that Socialism rocks when you completely stomp out the basic human nature to compete and succeed. Right. So you're one of those intellectuals who is smart because they think they know how a system should work instead of seeing how a system actually works.
While capitalism has it's faults, it is designed around the understanding that humans are greedy by nature and for the most part they only think of themselves.
In the capitalist system, you aren't forced to buy your food, clothes, etc... from WalMart if you don't like the way they treat their employers.
In your system, you are forced to get everything from the government or whomever the government forces to give up their production regardless of how corrupt they may be.
Socialism and communism fail everywhere. Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, China (until they recently semi-adopted capitalism), Jonestown, etc...
The funny difference between your ideal and mine is that your ideal requires the use of force. You want to force me into producing food or working for the 'greater good' whereas my system says "do what you want, including donating to charity or the greater good".
Your system would force me to work to provide food for my neighbor who sits on his porch drinking beer all day instead of telling my neighbor 'get a job'. And if he were truly 'disabled' instead of just an 'alcoholic', there would be charities lined up to give him a hand up.
Dental work here in the UK used to look like that, except it was more that the government refused to be ripped off for dental work and charged five times more than it reasonably should cost, so dentists did just have two prices for things, one which they charged the government, and one which they charged private which was many times higher.
Funny. It's the opposite here. I refuse to get insurance. When I pay cash to a private doctor, my price is usually cut by 25-35%.
I also use to work on an ambulance--a government ambulance. We regularly billed everyone about 30% more than it cost us because the government cut about 30% off whatever we billed them. The people with private insurance simply paid the inflated prices. That helped to cover the cost of the welfare rats that had no insurance and refused to pay when we would transport them for a hangnail, stubbed toe, or other ridiculous complaint.
Socialism sucks. I'm a man. I'll pay my own damn way thank you.
Ok, judging by your use of dollars, and the language you use, you seem to be mistaking the UK situation for the US, which is rather silly since the situation for both medical and dental care in both countries is wildly different.
While American doctors are still mostly private--the moment our government takes over the insurance industry, they pretty much have control over the doctors incomes.
You do realize in the youtube clip you link to that Medicare (government run) paid for most of her treatment, including getting a pacemaker so I'm not sure it really backs up your point.
Yeah--if I'm in heart failure, I want most of a pacemaker.
Not really. Unlike the UK, almost all doctors in America are private practice doctors and not on government salary. The same with hospitals, a mix of private and local/state public hospitals. The health care reform legislation passed is mainly for insurance; the government won't change its control of doctors or which private plans people choose. So the government really isn't in charge of health care, although they've taken a more regulatory role in insurance.
Wonder why most dentists refuse to take 'state' patients? They get paid roughly half of a privately insured patient. The government simply says "Yeah--I know the procedure costs $1,000 in parts and labor, but we're only going to pay you $550. Good luck with that."
Then the doctors have to bill the patient for the rest...and there's a reason for the patients being on state insurance--they have no money in the first place because they need the latest iPhone.
Lots of comments chiming in on overselling bandwidth, but as you've noted, this has nothing to do with bandwidth. Its an infrastructure problem, and one that is slightly out of their control. They noted with this one app alone, network utilization increased 1200% per device. Its a signaling issue they didn't anticipate.
In other words, wait 15 minutes for everyone's battery to die and the situation will correct itself. Then you just need to worry about people with car chargers.
Where do you see an "orb" in this UI?
I don't know, this big round thing keeps getting in the way of my view...
They removed it, precisely because people complained about it.
Really? It's still present in my copy of Office 2007--oh...you mean I have to pay to remove it. Classy.
And if you think the ribbon takes 1/3 of your screen realestate, you either have a very small screen or a very large tendancy to exagerate.
Nope--no exageration. At 1024x768 it's just under 1/3rd of the screen real estate.
It's tough to get management to approve 100 new 24-inch LCD widescreen monitors when OpenOffice and our current monitors save tens of thousands.
Even so, there is an up arrow in the upper right corner that hides the ribbon, or ctrl-f1. Again, problem solved, and that's been there since the beginning.
OpenOffice installed. It wasn't exactly as easy as CTRL+F1, but it was pretty easy. Problem solved permanently.
I have yet to meet someone IRL who *really* likes it.
Because we all know that your subjective anecdotes comprise the entire userbase of MS Office, right? It's funny that you claim that so many people hate it yet the entire foundation behind the ribbon was based on feedback from users during usability and UI tests.
It's funny that your subjective user tests comprise the entire userbase of MS Office, right?
Let a = 0.999... then we can multiply both sides by ten yielding 10a = 9.999... then subtracting a (which is 0.999...) from both sides we get 10a — a = 9.999... — 0.999... which reduces to 9a = 9 and thus a = 1. Mathematicians as far back as Euler have used various means to prove 0.999... = 1.
This is exactly the kind of irresponsible use of the 'universal language' that if it were put on the side of a space probe would doom humanity to annihilation.
Well... that might be for your self aggravating ego; for the majority of users it means an interface that gets out of their way.
quoting from TFA:
Apparently 'gets out of their way' means 'put an orb as big as my nuts in the upper left and consume 1/3rd of my screen real estate'.
what do they have to draw people away from Apple, Android, or Blackberry?
XBox Live integration
Windows Live integration
Office integration
Free "sync to cloud" and "find my phone"
ZunePass
Zune software is much better on Windows than iTunes
Works better with Windows (which is what most people use ... iPhone works better with OS X, so I don't think those people are the target)
I use iPhone on Windows, and I'm very much looking forward to being able to uninstall iTunes and never have to fire up that piece of crap again. And the ZunePass rocks (it's a great deal), and that too is enticing for me.
For business types (not me), the Office integration might be a draw. I can see that.
Wow--sign me up.
I can't wait to drop my Nexus One for your solution
I can't wait to replace my non-DRM'd mp3 collection with whatever-the-hell-zune-has
I can't wait to give up my free gmail account and my other free hosted gmail/apps for domains account
I can't wait to ditch the free Google Docs for whatever-paid-office-feature Microsoft comes up with
I can't wait to ditch my free remote sync to my workstation at home so I can sync all my data to Microsoft's cloud. Maybe they'll call it the Sidekick Cloud
I can't wait to ditch my Nexus One that I can plug in to any Windows, Mac, or Linux machine to charge and transfer files with a Microsoft phone. I remember fondly the last 3 Microsoft phones that needed drivers in order to show up as a storage device under Windows. Hell--they even required drivers to charge. That'll be fun. Maybe I can carry around a CD or an extra thumb drive now so I can use my phone on Windows computers.
Actually, the main selling point for me would be if they included a copy of Clippy to help me make phone calls, Microsoft Bob to organize my workspaces and make me more productive, and a copy of edlin so I can take notes.
Aside from a total economic disaster, that is.
Don't you mean "Aside from an even totaler economic disaster"? Or did we shut down Youtube and The Pirate Bay in 2009?