But the difference is that you ignore the difference between fighting for jobs against other Americans and fighting for jobs against people with a MUCH LOWER standard of living, who get paid wages that aren't even LEGAL in most cases in the US. If your average worker in India makes less than minimum wage, that isn't competition. If someone can live on $5 and hour in India, and here they are struggling to survive on that money, that isn't competition. I'm tired of hearing all this pro-capitalism bullshit that ignores all the real issues. I hope you're happy with the state of things. I hope your happy that people are dying over shit like this. http://dev.nomoreh1b.com/BankOfAmericaSuici des.asp x In your pretty happy world, expect to see more of this, but maybe next time the victim will take some other people out with him. Hopefully someone RESPONSIBLE for moving the jobs out of America.
I honestly don't see AT ALL how this benefits america. A few people get rich, but eventually no one here except those super-rich are going to be able to AFFORD any services.
Think with your brain next time. This isn't as simple as minimizing it to competition. There are borders involved. There are different standards of living. Think of what this could do.
Living in a 3rd world country such as India isn't "innovating". We shouldn't have to "innovate" as you put it to survive. You are confusing growth and stocks with making a living. People can provide a service and make money doing it. Why should we have to fight to keep jobs in this country?
If this keeps increasing, jobs leaving america that is, you will see this country take a tremendous hit. Gradual increase in crime, poverty, and as noted earlier, gradual widening of the gap between the rich and poor.
And how exactly does this benefit the US at all? US workers? I can flame iBM all I want because I'm an american, and I know the damage this will do to americans. Screw India. i don't know how you can get off saying "everybody" benefits selling to that nation. CEO of IBM benefits. Some shareholders do because their stock doesn't immediately go down the toilet. No one else. It is decreasing the job market in America, and it's a Bad Thing (TM).
And what jobs are you talking about that will be created due to IBM's increased revenue? Who's to say those jobs will be created in America?
Whatever. Both sides are stupid. Snotty americans and french.
Americans: "Damn the french for being weasels and having deals with Iraq when we are trying to go to war! Lets, lets..... rename french fries in retaliation"
French: "Stupid amer-ee-cuns! We will not call email email because it sort of reminds us of america, even though email isn't so much an american phenomena as a global one! We thumb our noses at you! Kniggits!"
I don't care what some group "officially" determines is a recession, we are in a period of very low spending and low hiring. Sounds like a recession to me. I don't care if it's official or not. Call a spade a spade.
Not necessarily. I see problems #1 and #2 as going hand in hand. Linux isn't yet the biggest threat to microsoft. Spending is. Companies aren't willing to spend megabucks on big windows machines, thus Linux looks like a good deal. But, when the recession is over, I think Linux will move up to the #1 spot. More and more shops will have gone over to linux, and it's benefits will be even more well known and widespread than they are now. So many places are still stuck using old equipment, and companies tend to try to postpone upgrades if they can force their old stuff to continue working.
Only slightly more than half correctly identified the definition of megahertz - a measurement of frequency which can be used to measure how many times a part of the processor, called the clock, ticks every millionth of a second.
Even the author screwed up the definition. Megahertz, using the hertz suffix, is cycles per second, not millionths of a second. No one measures the speed of a PC in millionths of a second.
Oh, and I forgot to mention my other sport. Paintball. I'm still using a VM68 circa ~1994. It's a tank of a gun, and it will probably outlive me. It doesn't have any crappy LCD's or electronically controlled pressure valves. Everything is by hand, and it will continue working because it is built like a tank.
Much like my computer equipment, I bike with what I can afford, which is a 8 year old Trek 800. It is mounted 24/7 on a bike carrier on the back of my car, and I replace the parts that rust after a while. It works, and if I take care of it, it runs. Much like my computer equipment. I don't buy high end. I buy yesterday's high end because I can afford it and make it do what I want.
Um, what is the resolution on those cameras? It can't be very high. How much are you really going to be able to see? The article wasn't too clear, but if it was articles you were taking pics of, you'd have to be pretty close up to have it be readable. If it's just pictures, then who cares? It says the phone/camera "are rising very fast in quality" but seriously, how many megapixels is a cellphone camera? It better be greater than 640x480 for a picture. If your average page is 11.5 inches, that's about 70 dots per inch, vertically on a page. You can't read text from a magazine at 70 dpi. Or you can, but it looks shitty. The small amount of document scanning I have done revealed that the lower the resolution, the harder it is for OCR software to be able to discern letters.
Oh, and I'm sorry about your bad service with pacbell. I'd like to take this opportunity to give a public service announcement:
If you are on the phone with a shitty tech, ask them NICELY to speak to a supervisor. Tell the supervisor the problem and make sure you don't make insane demands and act like a moron, or insult the lowly tech support agent.
I get people all the time that are pissed off, and only every once in a while do they ask for a supervisor. Supervisors hate taking calls, and they get mad at you if you even MENTION to a customer that there is such a thing as a supervisor. 98% of the time a supervisor isn't nevessary, they just make the customer feel important. Every once in a while they can effect change for the better, and they can assist the tech in helping YOU the customer better.
I happen to work for pacbell. (Well, SBC anyways, I take calls for pacbell among others). You will never see that level of integration on a national carrier, being able to IM 2nd level techs. I'm a first level tech for SBC, and I have to get permission to escalate cases to the second tier. It's a pain in the ass. Couple that with the fact that we also do the Ameritech region, which is in some odd-kind of death grip with a company called ASI who does SBC's equipement (buzzword for today is OUTSOURCING), and you have a mess. I can do ATM pings to like 7 states, but nothing in the ameritech region because they control it. (obligatory matrix quote: "They are holding all the keys and guarding all the doors, and sooner or later...."). Anyways. Also build on the fact that we have I-don't-know-how many centers in I don't know how many states (and even some in other countries, including India and some Carribean country for the spanish tech line) and you just have a nightmare of complexity. If Speakeasy was that big, they wouldn't be so nice to deal with, I promise you. I'm not defending pacbell. All I hear all day is people who have stuff broken or want to know how to do things, so I can't speak for the good things about the service. But I do know that only 10% of the customers ever even MAKE a call to tech support. I guess a good thing is that we offer 24/7 support.
My point is that you are a geek, and so am I. We are in the minority. SO MANY of my calls every day are from people who can't setup outlook for their mail, or don't know simple browsing skills. Speakeasy sounds like a great company to be doing all those things, but frankly I doubt they will ever have the legal muscle necessary to compete with the baby bells. It's a shitty fact of the capitalist society we live in. It's not enough to be good, you have to be mediocre and have a team of lawyers and lobbyists.
Gee, I wish I had a huge site on the internet so I could get discounts on my network setup by posting interviews with the contractor. Whatever. That is such utter bullshit. Every corner they went by they were going with high end this and that. 48 fucking port switch in a HOUSE? 6 foot modified rack in the basement?! Unrealistic as all hell. Who can afford shit like that without getting kickbacks from the companies you are pimping on the website?
Real geeks scrounge equipment from wherever they can get it, and make it do what they want it to. They don't throw as much money as possible at a problem. My cat5 cabling running across the baseboards is a badge of pride. The salvaged DEC 5000 Alpha Server is another source of geek-drool in my house. I got it for free, and I put it to use. It is now my firewall, file server, mp3 streamer, and whatever else I can figure out how to make it do (too bad openmosix is for x86 only).
If you're so anally retentive that you can't stand to see 6 feet of cat5 running across a baseboard (neatly stapled so you don't trip over it), then your priorities in life are whacked out. We live in a shitty world, and you whine about color schemes. "If we don't want to use them for phone lines in the future, we COULD use the cat5 as 100tx network lines, but then it WOULDN'T MATCH THE FREAKING COLOR SCHEMES!" Wow. They were worried about not having the pretty white wires matching the pretty blue wires.
In practice, pointer motion is typically not linear with respect to mouse motion, but that is a convenience for the user, not a limitation of the hardware.
So, in point of fact, by only knowing the velocity history, you COULD know your position history with respect to some origin (IE where you put the mouse down on your pad, or more to the point where you put the printer).
But that's what I said, only slightly more complicated. The mouse doesn't know it's position, because it doesn't keep a velocity history. The computer is CAPABLE of doing this, but normally it doesn't (except a very small history to determine the pointer movement, hence the integrating). But the printer in question, as a self contained unit, would need to know this; thus necessitating the orientation sensor you mentioned.
Anyway, my whole point was that the mouse isn't really "aware" of it's position. The "why yes, I AM a rocket scientist" made me jump on the reply key when it said "velocity and position" 3 messages up.
Well, technically, velocity is a vector, so it kind of implies position change. The mouse doesn't actually know WHERE it is, just how it changed relative to where it was.
shooting the gun isn't illegal, killing another person is. Bad metaphor again. You can print up as much money as you like, but USING counterfeit bills is illegal. By using I mean anything like passing them off as real.
If you had *read* the article, you'd realize that if MS releases an official bootloader, this will *avoid* piracy. The group says they will release the exploit if MS refuses, and the exploit, which allows Linux to boot, ALSO allows for piracy, while an official boot loader wouldn't.
He could have done a little more testing. I mean, aside from the image manipulation, office apps are pretty light on the CPU. He put all this work into flow rate equations and graphs, and then at the end he doesn't even play any games to show a system under REAL load. No idle temps either. What gives?
How does the article only talk about devices? It talks about the USB Standard, which includes devices and the host USB adapters. My point is that this obscures the difference between the old and new product.
You can't refuse to comment unless someone asks you to comment.
There is no such thing as a 1.1 device anymore, and there hasn't been since the USB 2.0 spec was released. If a device or host is USB compliant, then it is compliant with the USB 2.0 spec. That is the beauty of backwards compatibility.
That is all well and good for DEVICES. I'm sorry I wasn't clearer earlier. I'm speaking of USB HOSTS, ie, the chipset on the motherboard/card. Under this new renamed system, a motherboard manufacturer can sell a board that only runs at the OLD speed of 12Mbps and call it USB 2. No one is going to specifically ASK for USB 1.1, because 2.0 is backwards compatible. But now board manufacturers can sell the OLD product and masquerade it as the NEW one. It's misrepresentation through obscurity. From the article:
"The USB Implementation Forum refuses to comment in any way on this contentious matter. But someone has plainly pointed out to them that these actions are possibly illegal and they could be charged with misrepresentation. This is certainly true under the laws of the European Union."
Why have they refused comment? That doesn't seem a little odd to you? If their intentions were honorable, don't you think they could justify this decision?
Um, *sigh* you're an idiot. You're missing the obvious thing here. They renamed 1.1 devices to 2.0. That means that a machine with USB 1.1 controller won't be able to work at the speed introduced in 2.0. This isn't about USB DEVICES being backward compatible, but USB HOSTS masquerading as devices more capable than they are. It certainly IS a conspiracy. I'm not the one hiding behind AC, don't act so fucking high and mighty. Who was dumb enough to mod you informative?
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But the difference is that you ignore the difference between fighting for jobs against other Americans and fighting for jobs against people with a MUCH LOWER standard of living, who get paid wages that aren't even LEGAL in most cases in the US. If your average worker in India makes less than minimum wage, that isn't competition. If someone can live on $5 and hour in India, and here they are struggling to survive on that money, that isn't competition. I'm tired of hearing all this pro-capitalism bullshit that ignores all the real issues. I hope you're happy with the state of things. I hope your happy that people are dying over shit like this.i des.asp x
http://dev.nomoreh1b.com/BankOfAmericaSuic
In your pretty happy world, expect to see more of this, but maybe next time the victim will take some other people out with him. Hopefully someone RESPONSIBLE for moving the jobs out of America.
I honestly don't see AT ALL how this benefits america. A few people get rich, but eventually no one here except those super-rich are going to be able to AFFORD any services.
Think with your brain next time. This isn't as simple as minimizing it to competition. There are borders involved. There are different standards of living. Think of what this could do.
Living in a 3rd world country such as India isn't "innovating". We shouldn't have to "innovate" as you put it to survive. You are confusing growth and stocks with making a living. People can provide a service and make money doing it. Why should we have to fight to keep jobs in this country?
If this keeps increasing, jobs leaving america that is, you will see this country take a tremendous hit. Gradual increase in crime, poverty, and as noted earlier, gradual widening of the gap between the rich and poor.
And how exactly does this benefit the US at all? US workers? I can flame iBM all I want because I'm an american, and I know the damage this will do to americans. Screw India. i don't know how you can get off saying "everybody" benefits selling to that nation. CEO of IBM benefits. Some shareholders do because their stock doesn't immediately go down the toilet. No one else. It is decreasing the job market in America, and it's a Bad Thing (TM).
And what jobs are you talking about that will be created due to IBM's increased revenue? Who's to say those jobs will be created in America?
This is nothing BUT a greed maneuver.
Whatever. Both sides are stupid. Snotty americans and french.
Americans: "Damn the french for being weasels and having deals with Iraq when we are trying to go to war! Lets, lets..... rename french fries in retaliation"
French: "Stupid amer-ee-cuns! We will not call email email because it sort of reminds us of america, even though email isn't so much an american phenomena as a global one! We thumb our noses at you! Kniggits!"
I don't care what some group "officially" determines is a recession, we are in a period of very low spending and low hiring. Sounds like a recession to me. I don't care if it's official or not. Call a spade a spade.
Not necessarily. I see problems #1 and #2 as going hand in hand. Linux isn't yet the biggest threat to microsoft. Spending is. Companies aren't willing to spend megabucks on big windows machines, thus Linux looks like a good deal. But, when the recession is over, I think Linux will move up to the #1 spot. More and more shops will have gone over to linux, and it's benefits will be even more well known and widespread than they are now. So many places are still stuck using old equipment, and companies tend to try to postpone upgrades if they can force their old stuff to continue working.
Oh, and I forgot to mention my other sport. Paintball. I'm still using a VM68 circa ~1994. It's a tank of a gun, and it will probably outlive me. It doesn't have any crappy LCD's or electronically controlled pressure valves. Everything is by hand, and it will continue working because it is built like a tank.
Much like my computer equipment, I bike with what I can afford, which is a 8 year old Trek 800. It is mounted 24/7 on a bike carrier on the back of my car, and I replace the parts that rust after a while. It works, and if I take care of it, it runs. Much like my computer equipment. I don't buy high end. I buy yesterday's high end because I can afford it and make it do what I want.
Um, what is the resolution on those cameras? It can't be very high. How much are you really going to be able to see? The article wasn't too clear, but if it was articles you were taking pics of, you'd have to be pretty close up to have it be readable. If it's just pictures, then who cares? It says the phone/camera "are rising very fast in quality" but seriously, how many megapixels is a cellphone camera? It better be greater than 640x480 for a picture. If your average page is 11.5 inches, that's about 70 dots per inch, vertically on a page. You can't read text from a magazine at 70 dpi. Or you can, but it looks shitty. The small amount of document scanning I have done revealed that the lower the resolution, the harder it is for OCR software to be able to discern letters.
Oh, and I'm sorry about your bad service with pacbell. I'd like to take this opportunity to give a public service announcement:
If you are on the phone with a shitty tech, ask them NICELY to speak to a supervisor. Tell the supervisor the problem and make sure you don't make insane demands and act like a moron, or insult the lowly tech support agent.
I get people all the time that are pissed off, and only every once in a while do they ask for a supervisor. Supervisors hate taking calls, and they get mad at you if you even MENTION to a customer that there is such a thing as a supervisor. 98% of the time a supervisor isn't nevessary, they just make the customer feel important. Every once in a while they can effect change for the better, and they can assist the tech in helping YOU the customer better.
I happen to work for pacbell. (Well, SBC anyways, I take calls for pacbell among others). You will never see that level of integration on a national carrier, being able to IM 2nd level techs. I'm a first level tech for SBC, and I have to get permission to escalate cases to the second tier. It's a pain in the ass. Couple that with the fact that we also do the Ameritech region, which is in some odd-kind of death grip with a company called ASI who does SBC's equipement (buzzword for today is OUTSOURCING), and you have a mess. I can do ATM pings to like 7 states, but nothing in the ameritech region because they control it. (obligatory matrix quote: "They are holding all the keys and guarding all the doors, and sooner or later...."). Anyways. Also build on the fact that we have I-don't-know-how many centers in I don't know how many states (and even some in other countries, including India and some Carribean country for the spanish tech line) and you just have a nightmare of complexity. If Speakeasy was that big, they wouldn't be so nice to deal with, I promise you. I'm not defending pacbell. All I hear all day is people who have stuff broken or want to know how to do things, so I can't speak for the good things about the service. But I do know that only 10% of the customers ever even MAKE a call to tech support. I guess a good thing is that we offer 24/7 support.
My point is that you are a geek, and so am I. We are in the minority. SO MANY of my calls every day are from people who can't setup outlook for their mail, or don't know simple browsing skills. Speakeasy sounds like a great company to be doing all those things, but frankly I doubt they will ever have the legal muscle necessary to compete with the baby bells. It's a shitty fact of the capitalist society we live in. It's not enough to be good, you have to be mediocre and have a team of lawyers and lobbyists.
Gee, I wish I had a huge site on the internet so I could get discounts on my network setup by posting interviews with the contractor. Whatever. That is such utter bullshit. Every corner they went by they were going with high end this and that. 48 fucking port switch in a HOUSE? 6 foot modified rack in the basement?! Unrealistic as all hell. Who can afford shit like that without getting kickbacks from the companies you are pimping on the website?
Real geeks scrounge equipment from wherever they can get it, and make it do what they want it to. They don't throw as much money as possible at a problem. My cat5 cabling running across the baseboards is a badge of pride. The salvaged DEC 5000 Alpha Server is another source of geek-drool in my house. I got it for free, and I put it to use. It is now my firewall, file server, mp3 streamer, and whatever else I can figure out how to make it do (too bad openmosix is for x86 only).
If you're so anally retentive that you can't stand to see 6 feet of cat5 running across a baseboard (neatly stapled so you don't trip over it), then your priorities in life are whacked out. We live in a shitty world, and you whine about color schemes. "If we don't want to use them for phone lines in the future, we COULD use the cat5 as 100tx network lines, but then it WOULDN'T MATCH THE FREAKING COLOR SCHEMES!" Wow. They were worried about not having the pretty white wires matching the pretty blue wires.
Certainly.
But that's what I said, only slightly more complicated. The mouse doesn't know it's position, because it doesn't keep a velocity history. The computer is CAPABLE of doing this, but normally it doesn't (except a very small history to determine the pointer movement, hence the integrating). But the printer in question, as a self contained unit, would need to know this; thus necessitating the orientation sensor you mentioned.
Anyway, my whole point was that the mouse isn't really "aware" of it's position. The "why yes, I AM a rocket scientist" made me jump on the reply key when it said "velocity and position" 3 messages up.
"Won't be picked up anywhere else"
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Then why did I read it on msnbc.com last night?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/932117.asp?0dm=
"The misguided global crackdown on Potter Rip-offs"
Granted, it does say slate.com under the header, but it is still what I would call someplace else.
Well, technically, velocity is a vector, so it kind of implies position change. The mouse doesn't actually know WHERE it is, just how it changed relative to where it was.
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Some rocket scientist you are!
shooting the gun isn't illegal, killing another person is. Bad metaphor again. You can print up as much money as you like, but USING counterfeit bills is illegal. By using I mean anything like passing them off as real.
If you had *read* the article, you'd realize that if MS releases an official bootloader, this will *avoid* piracy. The group says they will release the exploit if MS refuses, and the exploit, which allows Linux to boot, ALSO allows for piracy, while an official boot loader wouldn't.
RTFA.
Because there isn't ENOUGH out there for the FBI to worry about.
He could have done a little more testing. I mean, aside from the image manipulation, office apps are pretty light on the CPU. He put all this work into flow rate equations and graphs, and then at the end he doesn't even play any games to show a system under REAL load. No idle temps either. What gives?
How does the article only talk about devices? It talks about the USB Standard, which includes devices and the host USB adapters. My point is that this obscures the difference between the old and new product.
You can't refuse to comment unless someone asks you to comment.
"The USB Implementation Forum refuses to comment in any way on this contentious matter. But someone has plainly pointed out to them that these actions are possibly illegal and they could be charged with misrepresentation. This is certainly true under the laws of the European Union."
Why have they refused comment? That doesn't seem a little odd to you? If their intentions were honorable, don't you think they could justify this decision?
Um, *sigh* you're an idiot. You're missing the obvious thing here. They renamed 1.1 devices to 2.0. That means that a machine with USB 1.1 controller won't be able to work at the speed introduced in 2.0. This isn't about USB DEVICES being backward compatible, but USB HOSTS masquerading as devices more capable than they are. It certainly IS a conspiracy. I'm not the one hiding behind AC, don't act so fucking high and mighty. Who was dumb enough to mod you informative?
I mean works as in their product. It is still owned by them, errr, the record co.