Can anyone comment on why the Supreme Court has historically allowed the Commerce clause to apply to absolutely anything that could be remotely, however ridiculously, be considered related to interstate commerce, and thus trample states' rights?
Because it's the only way for a power-crazed Federal government to impose their laws across the country.
Yeah, and? Doesn't matter how many other people might have signed it, this is the person who did sign it.
If they'd said no and then resigned on principle, they might have created enough media buzz to stop it. Now they realise it's unpopular they're saying 'hey, don't blame me'.
It will become highly useful where one can replace a (filthy) keyboard and mouse e.g. sterile environments where surgeons need to enter info while performing surgery or where electronics are manufactured.
So doctors are going to enter notes by randomly waving their arms around in the middle of surgery?
I read the comic and found it boring too. Sure, it may have been a step above most comics of its era, but that doesn't make it good when compared to other forms of fiction.
I'd agree that the movie was only going to appeal to fans of the comic, which is why it was a silly idea in the first place.
"The movie lost money, mainly because special effects are expensive and R cuts the audience."
And because it was stupid and intensely boring.
One of the few regrets in my life is that I actually sat through the entire sixteen hours of the movie to see whether it would improve, whereas my girlfriend was smart enough to give up after half an hour.
"To be fair though, all of this is the result of google taking shortcuts in developing android instead of building their own product. "
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the current situation:
1. Microsoft refused to tell anyone what patents they claimed Android was infringing? 2. When B&N finally got a list of the patents, they appeared to be trivial with plenty of prior art?
Wow. Sounds like you're still running a Linux distro from 1993.
I liked the Windows update thingumy recently when I booted into Windows for the first time in ages. Even though I waited over ten minutes, Windows wouldn't connect to my Wireless LAN that Linux connects to in a few seconds, but it was bugging me to install upgrades, so I said yes because I assumed it must have previously downloaded them and I might as well do something useful while I was waiting... but once I told it to install them it tried to download them and then told me it couldn't download them, which should have been obvious because there was no network connection.
What a horrible excuse for an operating system Windows is...
Incompetent companies tend to go bust unless the government bails them out. In this case the company could be required to buy insurance to cover the cost of a written-off aircraft, which would mean they'd have to convince an insurance company to put up quarter of a billion dollars... not so easy unless you can provide some kind of proof of competence.
The problem is that government is rarely competent enough to set the rules in such a way that they'll end up hiring a competent contractor rather than Joe Senator's cousin.
"This action will destroy the cloud storage/computing industry before it gets off the ground."
You say that as though it's a bad thing.
If you give your data to someone else, it's no longer your data and there's no guarantee you'll get it back. Either deal with that, or keep your data locally.
Indeed. Planets are a dumb place to live and trying to terraform them is insane... well before you can do that you can create a free-flying habitat which will suit you much better.
Do you realize how much CPU is required to decode h.264 1080p pr0n? What's the use of a laptop without it?
We used to that on a 200MHz dual-core ARM with some hardware decoding assist. If I remember correctly the whole system used less than 1.5W and much of that was the video encoder for the TV (we were using analogue component at the time, not HDMI).
And with GPU assist an Atom with a low-end GPU can happily play 1080P H.264.
What really has me excited about Windows 8 is Kinect. I think we're going to see a big transformation in the landscape of user interface in the next several years pushing us towards device-less interfaces.
Yeah, we're all going to create Excel spreadsheets by randomly waving our hands in front of the screen.
The big difference is that now, the guys can find the girls on-line and they can talk, get to know each other on-line, bond over how different they feel, and start dating.
And it's at that point where the teenage girl discovers that her boyfriend is actually forty-five, weighs three hundred pounds and lives in his mother's basement (and his mother is the mummified corpse sitting in the armchair).
It is easy to imagine a stable, sustainable, happy human population on earth.
If you're a dumb hippy listening to old John Lennon records, yes. In the real world, 'sustainable' is impossible in the long term and in the short term means an authoritarian state that would make 1984 look like utopia with an end to all innovation.
Either we get off this planet soon or we die. 'Sustainable' is just more hippy BS.
"You cannot compete with cheap labor unlesse you become one yourself."
If someone else can do your job for a fraction of the cost... you're probably in the wrong job.
And yes, you can compete with cheap labour without becoming cheap: you compete on productivity and/or quality. Otherwise almost all software jobs would have moved abroad over the last few years.
You seem to have missed the part where the Senate has to vote to accept any treaty. Clinton signed Kyoto, but the Senate unanimously rejected it anyway.
Hopefully next election we'll boot out the Harper Party and get a government interested in bulk purchases and economies of scale.:)
Harper had a minority government until the left committed suicide by forcing an election. That has to be one of the biggest own goals in political history, and I don't see why you'd expect him to do worse in the next election after that debacle.
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Can anyone comment on why the Supreme Court has historically allowed the Commerce clause to apply to absolutely anything that could be remotely, however ridiculously, be considered related to interstate commerce, and thus trample states' rights?
Because it's the only way for a power-crazed Federal government to impose their laws across the country.
Yeah, and? Doesn't matter how many other people might have signed it, this is the person who did sign it.
If they'd said no and then resigned on principle, they might have created enough media buzz to stop it. Now they realise it's unpopular they're saying 'hey, don't blame me'.
It will become highly useful where one can replace a (filthy) keyboard and mouse e.g. sterile environments where surgeons need to enter info while performing surgery or where electronics are manufactured.
So doctors are going to enter notes by randomly waving their arms around in the middle of surgery?
I read the comic and found it boring too. Sure, it may have been a step above most comics of its era, but that doesn't make it good when compared to other forms of fiction.
I'd agree that the movie was only going to appeal to fans of the comic, which is why it was a silly idea in the first place.
"Release early, release often" is intended for testers and bleeding-edge users, not end users who just want a stable product.
It's not as though there have been any user-noticeable changes between 3.6 and 9 other than them buggering up the GUI.
"The movie lost money, mainly because special effects are expensive and R cuts the audience."
And because it was stupid and intensely boring.
One of the few regrets in my life is that I actually sat through the entire sixteen hours of the movie to see whether it would improve, whereas my girlfriend was smart enough to give up after half an hour.
"To be fair though, all of this is the result of google taking shortcuts in developing android instead of building their own product. "
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the current situation:
1. Microsoft refused to tell anyone what patents they claimed Android was infringing?
2. When B&N finally got a list of the patents, they appeared to be trivial with plenty of prior art?
Wow. Sounds like you're still running a Linux distro from 1993.
I liked the Windows update thingumy recently when I booted into Windows for the first time in ages. Even though I waited over ten minutes, Windows wouldn't connect to my Wireless LAN that Linux connects to in a few seconds, but it was bugging me to install upgrades, so I said yes because I assumed it must have previously downloaded them and I might as well do something useful while I was waiting... but once I told it to install them it tried to download them and then told me it couldn't download them, which should have been obvious because there was no network connection.
What a horrible excuse for an operating system Windows is...
Incompetent companies tend to go bust unless the government bails them out. In this case the company could be required to buy insurance to cover the cost of a written-off aircraft, which would mean they'd have to convince an insurance company to put up quarter of a billion dollars... not so easy unless you can provide some kind of proof of competence.
The problem is that government is rarely competent enough to set the rules in such a way that they'll end up hiring a competent contractor rather than Joe Senator's cousin.
Salesmen sell things that people want to buy. Full story at 11.
"This action will destroy the cloud storage/computing industry before it gets off the ground."
You say that as though it's a bad thing.
If you give your data to someone else, it's no longer your data and there's no guarantee you'll get it back. Either deal with that, or keep your data locally.
Indeed. Planets are a dumb place to live and trying to terraform them is insane... well before you can do that you can create a free-flying habitat which will suit you much better.
What is the purpose of comunism if the working conditions are worse than in capitalist countries?
To give all the wealth and power to Glorious Leader Steve Jobs.
In other words, you were outputting 480i. And your source was probably not better than 480p.
Uh, no. Amongst other things I was writing the drivers to control the video output, so I think I know what we were displaying.
Do you realize how much CPU is required to decode h.264 1080p pr0n? What's the use of a laptop without it?
We used to that on a 200MHz dual-core ARM with some hardware decoding assist. If I remember correctly the whole system used less than 1.5W and much of that was the video encoder for the TV (we were using analogue component at the time, not HDMI).
And with GPU assist an Atom with a low-end GPU can happily play 1080P H.264.
The Republican Party.
Yeah, it's a sad day when the Republicans seem determined to put up a candidate who will make Obama look like the least worst choice.
What really has me excited about Windows 8 is Kinect. I think we're going to see a big transformation in the landscape of user interface in the next several years pushing us towards device-less interfaces.
Yeah, we're all going to create Excel spreadsheets by randomly waving our hands in front of the screen.
Just to name a few... Some people get them all, and live in their parents basement for the rest of their life.
You just summed up 90% of the teenage girls I've known since the 1980s. So what's new?
The big difference is that now, the guys can find the girls on-line and they can talk, get to know each other on-line, bond over how different they feel, and start dating.
And it's at that point where the teenage girl discovers that her boyfriend is actually forty-five, weighs three hundred pounds and lives in his mother's basement (and his mother is the mummified corpse sitting in the armchair).
It is easy to imagine a stable, sustainable, happy human population on earth.
If you're a dumb hippy listening to old John Lennon records, yes. In the real world, 'sustainable' is impossible in the long term and in the short term means an authoritarian state that would make 1984 look like utopia with an end to all innovation.
Either we get off this planet soon or we die. 'Sustainable' is just more hippy BS.
"Then what gives them the right to tell us we can't resell it?"
The government does.
"You cannot compete with cheap labor unlesse you become one yourself."
If someone else can do your job for a fraction of the cost... you're probably in the wrong job.
And yes, you can compete with cheap labour without becoming cheap: you compete on productivity and/or quality. Otherwise almost all software jobs would have moved abroad over the last few years.
You seem to have missed the part where the Senate has to vote to accept any treaty. Clinton signed Kyoto, but the Senate unanimously rejected it anyway.
Hopefully next election we'll boot out the Harper Party and get a government interested in bulk purchases and economies of scale. :)
Harper had a minority government until the left committed suicide by forcing an election. That has to be one of the biggest own goals in political history, and I don't see why you'd expect him to do worse in the next election after that debacle.
How about we instead turn our rightful indignation against Big Pharma and ask why the fuck is it not legal to buy the same drugs from Canada for less?
If it's not legal, then the US government must have pased a law banning it. So how about you instead turn your rightful indignation against them?