Obama claims he switched away from public campaign financing because the GOP simply slides around the financing rules anyway. He made a speech on it actually and it seemed reasonable to me.
The US should however be responsible for the regulation of their own companies, ensuring that those companies correctly follow the law of their own country, and ensuring that those same companies do not attempt to deceive the general public.
Ok, I absolutely agree that Friedman and his inhuman shock therapy would be better off never having existed, but the quote you have there is talking about free trade. Not shock therapy and not "hands off" government.
If you feel inclined to rail against free trade then I'd suggest you cite Klein's earlier book, as it's more relevant.
I'll leave the aesthetics side alone, as you're clearly a MAC user and I've never understood how on earth you guys can think that overbearing cluttered crap looks good.
In terms of desktop market share, you're right, Windows is the biggest. But a significant factor when trying to get people to switch is to first convince those peoples tech friends to tell them to switch. A large amount of programmers will look at Chrome and instantly say "maintainability nightmare, not worth it".
I know I've dismissed chrome to 4 people who've asked about it: "Use firefox, they're not forcing you into a specific OS."
What is it with google and their inability to write cross-platform GUI's? If nearly every OSS app can do it, why can't google?
It's a really confusing situation that in my eyes loses them serious geek points. Hell, use.NET if you must, but this seemingly raw win32 nonsense is just silly.
As for the old argument that nothing cross-platform can look good: eclipse.
It's amazing how many people go off on a rant about social networking sites like facebook without bothering to do a tiny bit of research into what privacy settings they have first.
Here's one for ya, without a facebook account your friends posting pictures with you in them and tagging them with your name can be searched for by everyone, whereas if you had an account you could make your name un-searchable by anyone you haven't previously approved.
Not to rain on your whole "I'm a privacy maverick" parade, but if the reason you don't use social networking sites is because you just don't like them then damn well say THAT, instead of making up nonsense.
Well, I mean yeah, they could, but they could also just post it to any site on the internet with your name next to it and google will index it in a couple of days.
Personally I'm very grateful for the fact that my circle of friends have settled on a social networking site that allows me to lock nearly everything down. Even if it is buggy as all hell:-)
Speaking of IETab, that's about the only good reason I've come across for threading tabs in ff. The dodgy activex apps I have to open in IETab make the whole browser unresponsive all the damn time. To the point where I've just gone back to having them open in their own IE instance.
Not to mention, how the hell are you going to follow through if they don't listen to you? And why when if you can follow through that mere fact proves you wrong.
My head hurts at the general logic failures people can manage to come up with:-)
No modpoints so I'll just agree, my mobile phone carrier charges for checking voicemail but doesn't charge you for email downloads from their server, and helpfully forwards all voicemail to that email address.
Fly something over the top that emits EM or echoes EM you send to it, look for the gap. Or just rely on the fact that there's a lot of already existing background EM coming at us from space.
I think I remember a story about using this kind of technique to identify very well cloaked spy drones a few years ago actually.
It's a solid object. As it stands that assures that it will either absorb, reflect or diffract all electromagnetic radiation that hits it with a wavelength less than its size. All three of those things are detectable.
At the moment it's more of a drm(hiders) vs hackers(finders) situation.
Unfortunately at the moment the "name tags" that the facial recognition helps you with don't get synced to the local application.
Which makes them imho a bit of a waste of time.
It's a killer feature though and seems to work well. Once they get round to bringing the local app (which I love) back up to date with the site I'll have another look.
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Obama claims he switched away from public campaign financing because the GOP simply slides around the financing rules anyway. He made a speech on it actually and it seemed reasonable to me.
People can make up their own minds however.
It may be vague, but the pdf plan linked to AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GODDAMN PAGE is not.
Newsflash: The people whose votes are yet to be swung require soundbites, one-liners and bullet points.
Shenanigans!
So this blatantly partisan throw away line, has anyone got something to back it up?
The US should however be responsible for the regulation of their own companies, ensuring that those companies correctly follow the law of their own country, and ensuring that those same companies do not attempt to deceive the general public.
It is the purpose of the government to use portions of the country's wealth pooled for the good of the community. A country is not a corporation.
Err..
Ok, I absolutely agree that Friedman and his inhuman shock therapy would be better off never having existed, but the quote you have there is talking about free trade. Not shock therapy and not "hands off" government.
If you feel inclined to rail against free trade then I'd suggest you cite Klein's earlier book, as it's more relevant.
So THAT's what's wrong! :-P
Grr, where the hell are my mod points
I'll leave the aesthetics side alone, as you're clearly a MAC user and I've never understood how on earth you guys can think that overbearing cluttered crap looks good.
In terms of desktop market share, you're right, Windows is the biggest. But a significant factor when trying to get people to switch is to first convince those peoples tech friends to tell them to switch. A large amount of programmers will look at Chrome and instantly say "maintainability nightmare, not worth it".
I know I've dismissed chrome to 4 people who've asked about it: "Use firefox, they're not forcing you into a specific OS."
What is it with google and their inability to write cross-platform GUI's? If nearly every OSS app can do it, why can't google?
.NET if you must, but this seemingly raw win32 nonsense is just silly.
It's a really confusing situation that in my eyes loses them serious geek points. Hell, use
As for the old argument that nothing cross-platform can look good: eclipse.
It's amazing how many people go off on a rant about social networking sites like facebook without bothering to do a tiny bit of research into what privacy settings they have first.
Here's one for ya, without a facebook account your friends posting pictures with you in them and tagging them with your name can be searched for by everyone, whereas if you had an account you could make your name un-searchable by anyone you haven't previously approved.
Not to rain on your whole "I'm a privacy maverick" parade, but if the reason you don't use social networking sites is because you just don't like them then damn well say THAT, instead of making up nonsense.
Well, I mean yeah, they could, but they could also just post it to any site on the internet with your name next to it and google will index it in a couple of days.
:-)
Personally I'm very grateful for the fact that my circle of friends have settled on a social networking site that allows me to lock nearly everything down. Even if it is buggy as all hell
No he didn't...
As much as I despise the rest of the outlook client, the way it does alerts that show the subject and the sender is good.
As in, quick glance down, that's from my boss, should have a look. Or, that's from the HR department, it's as good as spam, I'll ignore.
Speaking of IETab, that's about the only good reason I've come across for threading tabs in ff. The dodgy activex apps I have to open in IETab make the whole browser unresponsive all the damn time. To the point where I've just gone back to having them open in their own IE instance.
You don't seriously think FF3's running on anything remotely similar to Netscape 1.0's rendering engine, do you?
If your website renders exactly the same on my 2.5" mobile phone screen as on my 22" widescreen desktop monitor we have a serious problem.
Submitted a bug report?
Not to mention, how the hell are you going to follow through if they don't listen to you? And why when if you can follow through that mere fact proves you wrong.
:-)
My head hurts at the general logic failures people can manage to come up with
No modpoints so I'll just agree, my mobile phone carrier charges for checking voicemail but doesn't charge you for email downloads from their server, and helpfully forwards all voicemail to that email address.
Fly something over the top that emits EM or echoes EM you send to it, look for the gap. Or just rely on the fact that there's a lot of already existing background EM coming at us from space.
I think I remember a story about using this kind of technique to identify very well cloaked spy drones a few years ago actually.
It's a solid object. As it stands that assures that it will either absorb, reflect or diffract all electromagnetic radiation that hits it with a wavelength less than its size. All three of those things are detectable.
At the moment it's more of a drm(hiders) vs hackers(finders) situation.
Unfortunately at the moment the "name tags" that the facial recognition helps you with don't get synced to the local application.
Which makes them imho a bit of a waste of time.
It's a killer feature though and seems to work well. Once they get round to bringing the local app (which I love) back up to date with the site I'll have another look.
Who knows? Maybe he should spend 80% of his life doing nothing but working hard so that he can be comfortable for a remaining 10%.