This is exactly the question Microsoft is asking since they released Windows 8. The majority of computer users looking to upgrade are now faced with this dilemma (tri-lemma?).
Do they upgrade to Linux and learn a new interface?
Do they upgrade to OS/X and learn a new interface?
Or do they upgrade to Windows 8 and learn a new interface?
Whatever they choose the user will bear the cost of learning a new interface. How many will choose Linux and decide to, at least, save a few dollars as well? Microsoft still has name recognition, but that isn't worth as much if you keep jerking your customer's chains. Microsoft mistakenly believes they need one uniform interface from phone through tablet to desktop. The evidence shows that this is far from true. People have been more than happy using Windows on the desktop and iOS on phones for years. Looking at reality shows us that users seem to have no problem handling multiple interfaces across devices.
The theory that you must present one interface and only one interface is not supported by the evidence.
Why aren't these announcements made during non-trading hours?
I understand that there could be trading going on in Asia and Australia and such, but the impact will still be lower.
I think the option of investigating the FED for leaks is the best option to follow. Make sure they check who came up with the idea of making the announcement while futures markets wre in session.
The $600 Billion that you quote does not include all military spending. quite a bit of the $2.3T you list for social spending includes military pensions, the GI Bill, and the VA hospitals:
Government Pensions (including Military pensions) $1.0 trillion
Government Health Care (including VA Hospitals) + $1.2 trillion
Government Education (including GI Bill) + $0.9 trillion
National Defense + $0.9 trillion
Government Welfare + $0.6 trillion
All Other Spending + $1.6 trillion
Total Government Spending $6.2 trillion
That is about $1.1 trillion more than we took in in taxes. The way our 'National Defense' spending is skewed towards big contractors and away from the soldiers, I would probably guess that there are quite a few veterans in the 'Government Welfare' figure as well.
The 'All Other Spending' includes foreign 'Military Aid'. The majority of which goes to Israel, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Egypt to help pay for their military budgets. Total Foreign Aid comes to about less than 1% of budget. About $14 billion in foreign military aid, $23 billion in foreign humanitarian and developmental aid and $18 billion in 'other' foreign aid.
So there is military spending that is outside the pentagon's budget. A lot of it, for soldiers and veterans, gets included in the social spending.
I'm currently using my own Linux laptop at work, and connecting to the corporate infrastructure through citrix. Once agai, yhe help desk has my work issued XP laptop in for parts replacement. Last week it was software issues. This week the hard drive (my guess is the software issues were caused by the hard drive.
They have had my machine an average of 4 days a month fro the last 6 or 7 months. That is pretty par for the course with this old hardware and software.
Management is finally implementing the upgrade they have spent 2 years planning. The help desk is overjoyed. Windows 7, here we come.
Of course I will have my linux laptop ready for when I need it again.
If the government changes the laws away from what the entertainment industry wants, industry lobbyists will have to, once again, pump millions of dollars into campaign coffers, ughh I mean engage in free speech, to get the laws back the way that the industry wants them.
Lather, rinse repeat. Government is a shakedown. Remember how Microsoft, Apple and a lot of the early micro computer companies never used to spend much money lobbying? Well a few investigations by the justice department fixed that. Those companies are all regular contributors to our wonderful ruling parties nowdays. I wonder if one of the DOJ lawyers ever joked to a MS exec: "Nice Windows you got here, be a shame if something happened to them..."
Your comment doesn't sound like flamebait to me. You make some reasonable observations and ask some obvious questions. There is a reason ecnomic failures used to be referred to as 'panics'. The driving force behind the severity of economic downturns is often the tendency for people to overreact and, well, panic.
It is a normal human trait, and keeps people lining up for cabbage patch dolls, freaking out when a terrorist act takes place and running to the bank to remove their money when the stock market falls.
We're pretty silly creatures. Douglas Adams gave the best advice on the subject, just don't do it.
I wonder who all the scrap was sold to? It must have depressed the price of scrap metal for a period of time. Someone got a US taxpayer subsidized bargain.
I re-read the comment and couldn't find one thing that was trollish. Extremely sarcastic, but not troll-ish.
Of course Obama is being blamed for executive orders given in 2008 (he didn't take office until January 2009), just as he is blamed for the 2007 recession (the so called 'Obama' recession), and just as he is blamed for the 1984 phone give away program (expanded from land lines to wireless in 2008*) the so-called 'Obama'-phones. It doesn't matter who did it or when it happens, for some people it will always be Obama's fault, just as for others everything wrong with the world from 2001 through 2008 was always Dick Cheney's fault.
Facts don't matter to some people if it disagrees with their opinions, they have their villians and must blame their villians for all wrongs. As others have pointed out above. This is exactly the kind of thinking that gets in the way of making informed choices for better government.
Its also probably why I was moderated 'troll'. I must have stepped on someone's precious opinions.
* By the way, Clinton increased the lifeline phone program in 1996 as well, so it isn't just the one party that gives us too much governement, sometimes the Democrats spend too much as well;)
Rumour has it that Snowden has requested asylum with the one place that the US government can take no punitive actions against whatsoever. A Place the US has no power or authority over...
Just scroll down a few slashdot stories to see some examples of government abuse of power and ways it over-reacts with police force against private citizens. Heck, My home state now has a moritorium on the death penalty because we kept sending innocent people to death row.
If the people of the State of Illinois killed innocent people, does that make them all murderers?
I live in Chicago, your assumption is not true here, and not true at the state level in Illinois.
For most larger cities, there are enough groups vying for power that too much corruption in any one group could be used by rivals to expose the more currupt and cause them to lose power. A kind of check and balance based on power grubbing and greed.
Here, people keep voting for whoever got them their patronage based job, so the checks and balances are almost non-existent.
Dan Rostenkowski used to tell a story about an old lady he once met who was from Hammond, Indiana. He recounted how the lady said that her will stipulated that she be buried in Cook County, Illinois when she died.
Rostenkowski asked why she wanted to be buried in Illinois when she was from Indiana?
She replied that she was a life long Democrat, from the days of FDR and she wanted to continue to support the party with her votes after she died.
Then I think they should be charged with 22 cases of murder. It might not be murder 1, but manslaughter.
If a car you owned hit someone, you would be charged.
If a building you owned fell on someone, you would be charged.
If a pit bull you owned killed someone, you would be charged.
If you want to 'own' this virus, you get to 'own' the consequences. Corporations are people. Some places have the death penalty for people who commit crimes.
Netflix should consider a bit torrent model. Serving pieces of movies from viewers who are already watching would reduce the strain on central servers.
Heck, if everyone put a netflix wifi box on their TV, we could have a netflix based alter-net to play with.
A Microsoft sponsored petition had 115,000 signatures! That's probably more people than are using Windows 8.
Of course, we should double check and make sure all of those signatures belong to actual living people, and not dead people. MS has a history of fake grass roots campaigns involving dead people. You should all listen to your international corporate overlords and be outraged at being scroogled, but ignore the fact that Microsoft reserves the right to examine all of the data on your sky drive.
It shouldn't suprise us that Microsoft products are so popular among the dead. After all, Balmer is one of the most brain-dead CEO's in the tech world. They used to be such a scrappy competitive company. Then the 1990's happened.
If Amazon is the first to file on this does it matter how many people have done it before or even if they didn't invent it. It's all about who gets first post at the USPTO now isn't it?
Please help me understand. The broken patent system never made sense to me and the things Congress does to 'fix' it, like first to file, make even less sense.
You are correct. Intellectual Property laws are civil laws, not criminal. Violating copyright should result in civil action. In this case, JSTOR could choose to sue Aaron Swartz.
The only involvement of law enforcement should be to possibly serve warrants and to act as bailiff in the Court.
The taxpayers should not be footing the bill for law enforcement action in non-criminal cases. However, we keep electing right wing socialists who believe the government's job is to ensure that corporations earn the profits they are 'entitled' to. This idea of corporate 'entitlement' leads to a redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the corporations, and we end up with Aaron Swartz facing more fines and jail time than if he had robbed a bank at gun point.
Not only are corporations people, they are more important than regular people!
Stating that the Mother is responsible for the safe keeping of her guns is not blaming her for the masacre. It is blaming her for being irresponsible with deadly weapons. I think we can take it as a fact that she did not fullfill her responsibilities as a gun owner and maintain her weapons in a secure manner in order to protect hersefl, her son and others.
Gun owners must be responsible with their guns. If you do not understand this, I hope you never own guns. I understand that you may have the right to own them, but if you are unwilling to accept that that right means that you also have a responsibility, then you are not really ready to own a gun.
I also hope you don't own a car because they are far more dangerous than guns and kill more people.
re-read the article. The people who attempted suicide had higher levels of glutamate:
The research indicated that the patients who had attempted suicide had quinolinic levels that were twice as high as the controls had. That indicated that their glutamate levels were far higher than that of healthy people. The patients who had reported having the strongest desire to kill themselves also had the highest levels of quinolinic acid.
So you should keep those burgers away from depressed people with easy access to knives. From the look of the article you linked to, It might do the Japanese some good to cut down as well.
Slashdot Mirror
How do you get people used to the change?
This is exactly the question Microsoft is asking since they released Windows 8. The majority of computer users looking to upgrade are now faced with this dilemma (tri-lemma?).
Whatever they choose the user will bear the cost of learning a new interface. How many will choose Linux and decide to, at least, save a few dollars as well? Microsoft still has name recognition, but that isn't worth as much if you keep jerking your customer's chains. Microsoft mistakenly believes they need one uniform interface from phone through tablet to desktop. The evidence shows that this is far from true. People have been more than happy using Windows on the desktop and iOS on phones for years. Looking at reality shows us that users seem to have no problem handling multiple interfaces across devices.
The theory that you must present one interface and only one interface is not supported by the evidence.
Why aren't these announcements made during non-trading hours?
I understand that there could be trading going on in Asia and Australia and such, but the impact will still be lower.
I think the option of investigating the FED for leaks is the best option to follow. Make sure they check who came up with the idea of making the announcement while futures markets wre in session.
The $600 Billion that you quote does not include all military spending. quite a bit of the $2.3T you list for social spending includes military pensions, the GI Bill, and the VA hospitals:
That is about $1.1 trillion more than we took in in taxes. The way our 'National Defense' spending is skewed towards big contractors and away from the soldiers, I would probably guess that there are quite a few veterans in the 'Government Welfare' figure as well.
The 'All Other Spending' includes foreign 'Military Aid'. The majority of which goes to Israel, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Egypt to help pay for their military budgets. Total Foreign Aid comes to about less than 1% of budget. About $14 billion in foreign military aid, $23 billion in foreign humanitarian and developmental aid and $18 billion in 'other' foreign aid.
So there is military spending that is outside the pentagon's budget. A lot of it, for soldiers and veterans, gets included in the social spending.
They'll probably arrest Martha Stewart again.
I'm currently using my own Linux laptop at work, and connecting to the corporate infrastructure through citrix. Once agai, yhe help desk has my work issued XP laptop in for parts replacement. Last week it was software issues. This week the hard drive (my guess is the software issues were caused by the hard drive.
They have had my machine an average of 4 days a month fro the last 6 or 7 months. That is pretty par for the course with this old hardware and software.
Management is finally implementing the upgrade they have spent 2 years planning. The help desk is overjoyed. Windows 7, here we come.
Of course I will have my linux laptop ready for when I need it again.
If the government changes the laws away from what the entertainment industry wants, industry lobbyists will have to, once again, pump millions of dollars into campaign coffers, ughh I mean engage in free speech, to get the laws back the way that the industry wants them.
Lather, rinse repeat. Government is a shakedown. Remember how Microsoft, Apple and a lot of the early micro computer companies never used to spend much money lobbying? Well a few investigations by the justice department fixed that. Those companies are all regular contributors to our wonderful ruling parties nowdays. I wonder if one of the DOJ lawyers ever joked to a MS exec: "Nice Windows you got here, be a shame if something happened to them..."
Its the Chicago way
Your comment doesn't sound like flamebait to me. You make some reasonable observations and ask some obvious questions. There is a reason ecnomic failures used to be referred to as 'panics'. The driving force behind the severity of economic downturns is often the tendency for people to overreact and, well, panic.
It is a normal human trait, and keeps people lining up for cabbage patch dolls, freaking out when a terrorist act takes place and running to the bank to remove their money when the stock market falls.
We're pretty silly creatures. Douglas Adams gave the best advice on the subject, just don't do it.
I wonder who all the scrap was sold to? It must have depressed the price of scrap metal for a period of time. Someone got a US taxpayer subsidized bargain.
I wish I had mod points for you Grim!
Wow!
Moderated as a troll.
I re-read the comment and couldn't find one thing that was trollish. Extremely sarcastic, but not troll-ish.
Of course Obama is being blamed for executive orders given in 2008 (he didn't take office until January 2009), just as he is blamed for the 2007 recession (the so called 'Obama' recession), and just as he is blamed for the 1984 phone give away program (expanded from land lines to wireless in 2008*) the so-called 'Obama'-phones. It doesn't matter who did it or when it happens, for some people it will always be Obama's fault, just as for others everything wrong with the world from 2001 through 2008 was always Dick Cheney's fault.
Facts don't matter to some people if it disagrees with their opinions, they have their villians and must blame their villians for all wrongs. As others have pointed out above. This is exactly the kind of thinking that gets in the way of making informed choices for better government.
Its also probably why I was moderated 'troll'. I must have stepped on someone's precious opinions.
* By the way, Clinton increased the lifeline phone program in 1996 as well, so it isn't just the one party that gives us too much governement, sometimes the Democrats spend too much as well;)
2008? I didn't know Obama POTUS then.
Well...
If the 'Obama'-recession started in 2007, and the 'Obama'-phone program started in 1984, he must have been president in 2008!
2008, 2007, 1984 What party were those presidents from? Oh yeah, that 'less government' party that keeps giving us more government.
Don't listen to what politicians say to you, look at what they actually do. Democrats spend too much money and Republicans spend even more.
Rumour has it that Snowden has requested asylum with the one place that the US government can take no punitive actions against whatsoever. A Place the US has no power or authority over...
Wall Street
Just scroll down a few slashdot stories to see some examples of government abuse of power and ways it over-reacts with police force against private citizens. Heck, My home state now has a moritorium on the death penalty because we kept sending innocent people to death row.
If the people of the State of Illinois killed innocent people, does that make them all murderers?
For the most part you are probably correct.
I live in Chicago, your assumption is not true here, and not true at the state level in Illinois.
For most larger cities, there are enough groups vying for power that too much corruption in any one group could be used by rivals to expose the more currupt and cause them to lose power. A kind of check and balance based on power grubbing and greed.
Here, people keep voting for whoever got them their patronage based job, so the checks and balances are almost non-existent.
Dan Rostenkowski used to tell a story about an old lady he once met who was from Hammond, Indiana. He recounted how the lady said that her will stipulated that she be buried in Cook County, Illinois when she died.
Rostenkowski asked why she wanted to be buried in Illinois when she was from Indiana?
She replied that she was a life long Democrat, from the days of FDR and she wanted to continue to support the party with her votes after she died.
Then I think they should be charged with 22 cases of murder. It might not be murder 1, but manslaughter.
If you want to 'own' this virus, you get to 'own' the consequences. Corporations are people. Some places have the death penalty for people who commit crimes.
Use ghostery and ad block plus. They'll do it automagically for you.
Netflix should consider a bit torrent model. Serving pieces of movies from viewers who are already watching would reduce the strain on central servers.
Heck, if everyone put a netflix wifi box on their TV, we could have a netflix based alter-net to play with.
A Microsoft sponsored petition had 115,000 signatures! That's probably more people than are using Windows 8.
Of course, we should double check and make sure all of those signatures belong to actual living people, and not dead people. MS has a history of fake grass roots campaigns involving dead people. You should all listen to your international corporate overlords and be outraged at being scroogled, but ignore the fact that Microsoft reserves the right to examine all of the data on your sky drive.
It shouldn't suprise us that Microsoft products are so popular among the dead. After all, Balmer is one of the most brain-dead CEO's in the tech world. They used to be such a scrappy competitive company. Then the 1990's happened.
Has first to file started yet?
If Amazon is the first to file on this does it matter how many people have done it before or even if they didn't invent it. It's all about who gets first post at the USPTO now isn't it?
Please help me understand. The broken patent system never made sense to me and the things Congress does to 'fix' it, like first to file, make even less sense.
How soon before MS opens an Antigua office?
Copy Linux, rename it Windows 9, publish and copyright it, ship it back to the US.
Profit!
You are correct. Intellectual Property laws are civil laws, not criminal. Violating copyright should result in civil action. In this case, JSTOR could choose to sue Aaron Swartz.
The only involvement of law enforcement should be to possibly serve warrants and to act as bailiff in the Court.
The taxpayers should not be footing the bill for law enforcement action in non-criminal cases. However, we keep electing right wing socialists who believe the government's job is to ensure that corporations earn the profits they are 'entitled' to. This idea of corporate 'entitlement' leads to a redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the corporations, and we end up with Aaron Swartz facing more fines and jail time than if he had robbed a bank at gun point.
Not only are corporations people, they are more important than regular people!
Stating that the Mother is responsible for the safe keeping of her guns is not blaming her for the masacre. It is blaming her for being irresponsible with deadly weapons. I think we can take it as a fact that she did not fullfill her responsibilities as a gun owner and maintain her weapons in a secure manner in order to protect hersefl, her son and others.
Gun owners must be responsible with their guns. If you do not understand this, I hope you never own guns. I understand that you may have the right to own them, but if you are unwilling to accept that that right means that you also have a responsibility, then you are not really ready to own a gun.
I also hope you don't own a car because they are far more dangerous than guns and kill more people.
To be a computer genius you have to be able to 'program' HTML or 'write' Excel Macros. Nobody would use the term Machine Language.
re-read the article. The people who attempted suicide had higher levels of glutamate:
So you should keep those burgers away from depressed people with easy access to knives. From the look of the article you linked to, It might do the Japanese some good to cut down as well.