> To make the argument that driverless cars would be less safe than humans is a joke, Agreed. Great post btw!
> "More people die every year from car accidents than from firearms, fire, and poison combined." I just watched an excellent TED video this morning and I was kind of surprised that is the same thing. I didn't realize the severity of just how dangerous driving is. Counter intuitively even biking with an helmet increases your risk by 14%.
> Are they idiots, or do they think we are idiots?
Both. You do realize the answer is not mutually exclusive, right?:-(
Government is an _extension_ of the people. If the people are too smegging lazy to demand accountability from their elected officials because they are too busy watching (un)reality TV then the people are 50% to blame.
> PC gamers became fully clued in as to Microsoft's true agenda. Microsoft itself has formally PROMISED to prevent its own AAA Xbox One games from appearing as PC versions,
This doesn't make (financial) sense. Why wouldn't Microsoft want to sell to _more_ customers?
> I only got insults and mocking, and was based told to go fuck myself if I couldn't figure it out on my own. > So I wiped Linux from the system, sold the whole thing to a buddy who wanted a cheap box to slap Windows on for his kid to play games on, and I haven't touched Linux since. And never will.
So basically you let other people control you./sarcasm: That will learn them !
-- Ellen Page: noun; winy vanity attention-seeking cunt & drama queen.
a) have "Human Resources" (as if people are some resource to be exploited) instead of "Human Assets" where employees are viewed as an _investment_, b) can fire your ass at a moment's notice (i.e. At-Will-Employment) c) yet still expect the "common courtesy" of two weeks
Maybe companies should get over themselves and learn to treat their employees with equal respect instead of treating them like slaves and be dicks about not giving a reference.
> I still have, essentially, no understanding of what consciousness is, where it come from, or where it goes during these sorts of episodes. FTFY. Please stop assuming what others do and don't know.:-)
Aside, if you haven't seen it, this is I heartedly recommend this excellent presentation:
> Hopefully we'll figure it out one day, and have an even greater understanding of our universe. Only ignorant scientists try to ignore the problem that Science has hard boundaries (i.e. there are ZERO experiments you can do to determine what happened "before" the Big Bang) and refuse to learn a complementary system to acquire The Truth. As usual the male ego is in The Way. For them the first step of Wisdom is to acknowledge "I don't know" and then they might be willing to learn something.
> my thoughts in this arena tend to be less than popular... something I've always found ironic, and a bit sad. I mean, if we're supposed to be a community who believes in science, why would anyone dismiss a hypothesis or concept out-of-hand, without proper experimentation and research? Because: 1) Max Planck said it best: "Science advances one funeral at a time" 2) People are NOT meant to know what happens until they are ready to handle the truth. 3) Science worships Objective Truth but refuses to acknowledge it is _built_ upon Subjective Truth. 4) Scientists still don't understand that Truth is not based on "popularity". One man's falsehood doesn't negate another man's truth.
And you end up with the current clusterfuck of the dogma of Science. i.e. See how Edwin Land's "Retinex Theory" which is able to demonstrate conclusive proof that everything we know about Color Theory flies in the sense of conventional wisdom and yet he is almost never taught nor mentioned.
> Let fly with the down-mods, Philistines and Hypocrites, as I've broached topics you refuse to even consider, let alone debate intellectually. Sadly people don't have the balls to believe something different then the mass sheeple these days because of ridicule.;-(
Take heart, there will come a time when what we know will be common knowledge. i.e. In ~ 10 years everyone else will have an answer to "Are we alone" which will get the ball rolling.
The research is badly incomplete. I met a man who was DOA and dead for 30 mins. He was able to recall everything that happened to him. There are few cases where the EEG is flat yet the person has full memory.
> even if consciousness lasts for another 10 seconds instead of 30. Consciousness can't be killed as you will find out past your death. The ignorance of Scientists is to keep arguing over what can be conscious and what can't be. Peter Russel has a excellent presentation that goes over the fallacies of this argument.
> Can "out of body BS" be studied scientifically? Yes. Robert Monroe spent most of his life investigating it, wrote a few books on it, and the Monroe Institute sells Hemi-Sync audio to help take the plunge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Monroe
Determination and proper rest are the most important ingredients for success.
> "Hallucination covers it. No reason to suspect otherwise." is, well, as anti-science a statement as you could make. Agreed. Those who have never had an OBE (out-of-body experience) always ignorantly & loudly play the "Hallucination" card around when they don't know what the fuck they are talking about. The best part is that when these pseudo-skeptics die will have first hand experience of just how wrong they were.
Reddit has an very good sub-reddit reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming that is an excellent stepping stone to the full OBE.
> The indians in Manhattan sold the land for the meager price of $24 to [straightdope.com] US interests in 1626.
The Indians were too spiritual advanced for the dumb greedy whiteman; the Indians realized the ultimate truththat we are all stewards of the planet (& of nature by extension). Only a dumb white man is under the delusion that they can "own" land -- his greed has corrupted his perspective. The only reason the white man was able to hold onto it was due to superior technology: Guns.
You can't own something that existed for billions of years before you and that will continue to exist for billions afterwards all though that doesn't stop people from trying.
> Marketing this product as "Windows", which confused the market place.
Agreed.
Apple definitely did a better job marketing and building new brand recognition: iPod, iPhone, iPad. Consumers don't care that they all eventually run iOS. They are a separate market from OSX.
Microsoft doesn't have a cluestick that Windows means pain & suffering for the mere mortals. Microsoft wouldn't know the meaning of sexy marketing even if they did it themselves. *jab at: "Microsoft Re-Designs the Ipod Packaging" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
Neal Peart himself even says "She has so much there in terms of natural talent" -- Neil Peart Says Inspiring Things To Alexey Poblete About Drumming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4IuyTANf4c
As a drummer myself learning to play Rush's material I agree with one of the worlds best drummers when he says someone has natural talent instead of some no-name theorycrafting unable to understand a simple concept. This is a man who still takes drum lessons and isn't afraid to admit it./
Q. I think that a lot of people are surprised to learn that you still take drum lessons. You're seen as this drum master by most everybody. A. What is a master but a master student?
Long after you are dead you will realize that EVERYONE has talent -- an innate ability to learn significantly faster, an intuitive way of mastering a difficult subject. Talent is not a substitute for passion + learned skill -- it *augments* it. It is like being born with fast legs. If you never run a race you will never use your talent. But with determination and learning how to run you can run even *faster*.
It would behoove you to "Know Thyself" and discover where your hidden talent is (aside from trolling that is.)
A while back there also a link in a recent story about a lawyer who was charged but it was illegal to disclose the charge / gag order. They documented how they filed an affidavit in secret. Can't find the link...;-(
It's bullshit you can be charged but the charge can't be disclosed.
> I currently have a 2 TB WD Black system drive - what do I replace it with?
You don't. You _augment_ it with an SSD.
OS + Critical (most often used) apps on the SSD. Everything else on the spindles.
The elephant in the room is that SSDs are unreliable so of course everything is backup on a NAS (Network Attached Storage) which you should be doing anyways, right?! I suggest FreeNAS http://www.freenas.org/ which is based on BSD and supports ZFS. Even has a GUI if you don't want to mess around with the command line. Or if you use Linux you can use ZFSonLinux http://zfsonlinux.org/
> Why is that comment in a thread about mobile phone interfaces? Because if you don't understand the _context_ how do you expect to know what TO do AND what NOT to do??
> Is about as useful as someone saying "3x3 pixel font? FAIL Do you even understand the concept of "experiment" ?
Unless you know the _limitations_ of UI, hardware, and basic human physiology you will never understand UI's strengths and weakness.
> And "FAIL" is the mark of an ill-thought out comment.
Epic Fail. Your *opinion* in this context is worthless. Please go troll elsewhere.
The majority of UX (sic.) people don't understand BOTH the pros & cons to GUI compared to the Command Line. They both have DIFFERENT strengths and weaknesses that _complement_ one another.
Voice is a crappy UI because it has the same problem as the command line: It is an *invisible* interface. You don't know what your choices are until AFTER you are familiar with the system. On the command line we have tools like tab-completion and 'man' to help the beginner. The garbage OSes don't provide examples; the better ones like BSD *do* provide examples. Command line interfaces trade "easy-learning-curve" for "efficiency". We don't kvitch about their design because they were designed for *different* purposes.
The GUI is very good for beginners because they can literally see (all) of their choices but for the power user it is slow. Things like hot keys / shortcuts (which seem to be almost extinct these days in the _help_ file) empower the power user so they can actually focus on functionality.
iOS 7 is a HORRIBLE design because it fails THE fundamental goal of *good* UI.
Good UIs maximize the Signal-Noise ratio. Poor UIs minimize the signal and maximize the noise.
Desaturating the icons it makes it harder for someone to focus on the signal -- everything is one big noise. FAIL. Good UI designers use silhouette, color, contrast to ALL AUGMENT one another.
Microsoft has *never* understand good UI -- especially with the idiotic "one Tablet size fits all" -- uh, NO. When the finally (re)move the stupid Close button away from the Minimize / Maximize buttons then _maybe_ they will start to understand. One of the few things Microsoft hasn't fucked up is Office on OS X. I get *both* the Menu bar AND the ribbon bar. As a user it empowers me as I can chose which form of interaction works efficiently for me.
A *great* UI focuses on BOTH beginners AND power users. Sadly UX don't have a clue. They focus on Form over Function instead when it should be Form Augments Function.
Don't get me started on how the majority of UX completely fail to understand the importance of 60 Hz vs 30 Hz.
> having 7.1 billion human mouths to feed. Earth has a finite maximum capacity load, and it sounds like we have reached it.
As long as Home Sapiens act like Home Stupidus then yes, you are correct, however we are nowhere even close to the 24+ billion that the planet can support if we had better Planning and Execution. Greed corrupts and eventually destroys all things.
In October 2001, Birkenfeld began working at UBS in Geneva, Switzerland, handling private banking, primarily for clients located in the United States. In 2005, he learned that UBS's secret dealings with American customers violated an agreement the bank had reached with the IRS.
He resigned from UBS in October 2005 and provided written whistleblower complaints to Peter Kurer, Head Counsel for UBS, and other UBS senior executives regarding the illegal practices of U.S. cross-border business.
He is the first person to expose what has become a multi-billion dollar international tax fraud scandal over Swiss private banking.[2] Despite his unprecedented, extensive and voluntary cooperation, and registering as an IRS whistleblower, Birkenfeld is the only U.S. citizen to be sentenced to jail as a result of the scandal.
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The fundamental problem is that the majority of people just don't give a crap about Accountability and Transparency and would rather watch their (un)reality TV so they don't have to think or do about how the government -- which is an extension of themselves -- is screwing up one of the greatest nations.
> Somewhere in the neighborhood of 150dpi would be fine on the desktop - around twice what most desktop LCDs have today.
I disagree. Windows originally was hard-coded ~ 96 dpi which is WAY too low. 150 dpi is still too low.
Around 330 dpi is more than enough. The question is "how high is good enough?" 220? 280? 300? 330? I don't know (yet).
> as a 300 dpi screen at 1.5'.
I actually _do_ sit 1.5' away from my 27" so 300 dpi IS around the target.
> I have a friend who keeps harping about how much sharper things are on his 1080p phone but when I ask him to actually read that "so much sharper" text, he can't because it is much too small for him to actually read comfortably so he has to scale it up to a size
Ha, yup I'm familiar with that problem too. The problem is shitty web browsers and web sites that don't properly re-scale the page for larger font sizes and/or assume a fixed low-density dpi.:-(
Unfortunately the problem is going to get worse before people start paying attention to the problem and start working on the solution.
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> To make the argument that driverless cars would be less safe than humans is a joke,
Agreed. Great post btw!
> "More people die every year from car accidents than from firearms, fire, and poison combined."
I just watched an excellent TED video this morning and I was kind of surprised that is the same thing. I didn't realize the severity of just how dangerous driving is. Counter intuitively even biking with an helmet increases your risk by 14%.
TEDxCopenhagen - Mikael Colville-Andersen - Why We Shouldn't Bike with a Helmet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07o-TASvIxY
> Are they idiots, or do they think we are idiots?
Both. You do realize the answer is not mutually exclusive, right? :-(
Government is an _extension_ of the people. If the people are too smegging lazy to demand accountability from their elected officials because they are too busy watching (un)reality TV then the people are 50% to blame.
How does knowing the truth about 9/11 help you live a better life, be a better person, and treat people better?
> PC gamers became fully clued in as to Microsoft's true agenda. Microsoft itself has formally PROMISED to prevent its own AAA Xbox One games from appearing as PC versions,
This doesn't make (financial) sense. Why wouldn't Microsoft want to sell to _more_ customers?
> I only got insults and mocking, and was based told to go fuck myself if I couldn't figure it out on my own.
> So I wiped Linux from the system, sold the whole thing to a buddy who wanted a cheap box to slap Windows on for his kid to play games on, and I haven't touched Linux since. And never will.
So basically you let other people control you. /sarcasm: That will learn them !
--
Ellen Page: noun; winy vanity attention-seeking cunt & drama queen.
Respect: It goes both ways.
Considering most companies:
a) have "Human Resources" (as if people are some resource to be exploited) instead of "Human Assets" where employees are viewed as an _investment_,
b) can fire your ass at a moment's notice (i.e. At-Will-Employment)
c) yet still expect the "common courtesy" of two weeks
Maybe companies should get over themselves and learn to treat their employees with equal respect instead of treating them like slaves and be dicks about not giving a reference.
Can we shoot the shitty font designers .. please? :-)
Almost as bad as the retards who make ONE and lowercase L look the same, or ZERO and uppercase O.
> I still have, essentially, no understanding of what consciousness is, where it come from, or where it goes during these sorts of episodes. :-)
FTFY. Please stop assuming what others do and don't know.
Aside, if you haven't seen it, this is I heartedly recommend this excellent presentation:
* The Primacy of Consciousness - Peter Russell - Full Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d4ugppcRUE
> Hopefully we'll figure it out one day, and have an even greater understanding of our universe.
Only ignorant scientists try to ignore the problem that Science has hard boundaries (i.e. there are ZERO experiments you can do to determine what happened "before" the Big Bang) and refuse to learn a complementary system to acquire The Truth. As usual the male ego is in The Way. For them the first step of Wisdom is to acknowledge "I don't know" and then they might be willing to learn something.
> my thoughts in this arena tend to be less than popular... something I've always found ironic, and a bit sad. I mean, if we're supposed to be a community who believes in science, why would anyone dismiss a hypothesis or concept out-of-hand, without proper experimentation and research?
Because:
1) Max Planck said it best: "Science advances one funeral at a time"
2) People are NOT meant to know what happens until they are ready to handle the truth.
3) Science worships Objective Truth but refuses to acknowledge it is _built_ upon Subjective Truth.
4) Scientists still don't understand that Truth is not based on "popularity". One man's falsehood doesn't negate another man's truth.
And you end up with the current clusterfuck of the dogma of Science. i.e. See how Edwin Land's "Retinex Theory" which is able to demonstrate conclusive proof that everything we know about Color Theory flies in the sense of conventional wisdom and yet he is almost never taught nor mentioned.
> Let fly with the down-mods, Philistines and Hypocrites, as I've broached topics you refuse to even consider, let alone debate intellectually. ;-(
Sadly people don't have the balls to believe something different then the mass sheeple these days because of ridicule.
Take heart, there will come a time when what we know will be common knowledge.
i.e. In ~ 10 years everyone else will have an answer to "Are we alone" which will get the ball rolling.
The research is badly incomplete. I met a man who was DOA and dead for 30 mins. He was able to recall everything that happened to him. There are few cases where the EEG is flat yet the person has full memory.
> even if consciousness lasts for another 10 seconds instead of 30.
Consciousness can't be killed as you will find out past your death. The ignorance of Scientists is to keep arguing over what can be conscious and what can't be. Peter Russel has a excellent presentation that goes over the fallacies of this argument.
* The Primacy of Consciousness - Peter Russell - Full Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d4ugppcRUE
--
"Only ignorant Scientists try to pretend the boundaries of Science don't exist by saying What Is and What Isn't possible."
> Can "out of body BS" be studied scientifically?
Yes. Robert Monroe spent most of his life investigating it, wrote a few books on it, and the Monroe Institute sells Hemi-Sync audio to help take the plunge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Monroe
Determination and proper rest are the most important ingredients for success.
> "Hallucination covers it. No reason to suspect otherwise." is, well, as anti-science a statement as you could make.
Agreed. Those who have never had an OBE (out-of-body experience) always ignorantly & loudly play the "Hallucination" card around when they don't know what the fuck they are talking about. The best part is that when these pseudo-skeptics die will have first hand experience of just how wrong they were.
Reddit has an very good sub-reddit reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming that is an excellent stepping stone to the full OBE.
> The indians in Manhattan sold the land for the meager price of $24 to [straightdope.com] US interests in 1626.
The Indians were too spiritual advanced for the dumb greedy whiteman; the Indians realized the ultimate truth that we are all stewards of the planet (& of nature by extension). Only a dumb white man is under the delusion that they can "own" land -- his greed has corrupted his perspective. The only reason the white man was able to hold onto it was due to superior technology: Guns.
You can't own something that existed for billions of years before you and that will continue to exist for billions afterwards all though that doesn't stop people from trying.
You really need to be modded up.
Microsoft can't pay people enough to overcome their shoddy (software) engineering and bad UI decisions.
> Marketing this product as "Windows", which confused the market place.
Agreed.
Apple definitely did a better job marketing and building new brand recognition: iPod, iPhone, iPad. Consumers don't care that they all eventually run iOS. They are a separate market from OSX.
Microsoft doesn't have a cluestick that Windows means pain & suffering for the mere mortals. Microsoft wouldn't know the meaning of sexy marketing even if they did it themselves. *jab at: "Microsoft Re-Designs the Ipod Packaging" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
Also see: Microsoft iPhone (parody of advert Never Been an iPhone)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDryiGn7j5I
--
"When are teachers going to get paid as much as entertainers??"
You don't know what the hell you are talking about.
8 yr old girl Alexey Poblete plays Rush's YYZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ2wXoqAhI4
Plays with KISS cover/tribute band Mr. Speed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdBL5P0Adt8
Has only been playing for *two* years - Interview with ALEXEY - PowerTalk 1420AM Radio (Delray Beach,FL)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vv6pB5xc4g&list=PL7E242434C8E377C7
Neal Peart himself even says "She has so much there in terms of natural talent" -- Neil Peart Says Inspiring Things To Alexey Poblete About Drumming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4IuyTANf4c
As a drummer myself learning to play Rush's material I agree with one of the worlds best drummers when he says someone has natural talent instead of some no-name theorycrafting unable to understand a simple concept. This is a man who still takes drum lessons and isn't afraid to admit it./
* http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-neil-peart-on-rushs-new-lp-and-being-a-bleeding-heart-libertarian-20120612
Long after you are dead you will realize that EVERYONE has talent -- an innate ability to learn significantly faster, an intuitive way of mastering a difficult subject. Talent is not a substitute for passion + learned skill -- it *augments* it. It is like being born with fast legs. If you never run a race you will never use your talent. But with determination and learning how to run you can run even *faster*.
It would behoove you to "Know Thyself" and discover where your hidden talent is (aside from trolling that is.)
QED.
> The nasty bit about FISA orders is you can't talk about them
Weren't we just talking about this?
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/07/21/1853212/when-the-nsa-shows-up-at-your-internet-company
A while back there also a link in a recent story about a lawyer who was charged but it was illegal to disclose the charge / gag order. They documented how they filed an affidavit in secret. Can't find the link ... ;-(
It's bullshit you can be charged but the charge can't be disclosed.
> CLI is not part of the the context of phone UIs.
I _already_ explained why it is relevant. Please learn to read.
Sorry, bad Drobo link. Use this one instead:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=drobo%20nas
> I currently have a 2 TB WD Black system drive - what do I replace it with?
You don't. You _augment_ it with an SSD.
OS + Critical (most often used) apps on the SSD. Everything else on the spindles.
The elephant in the room is that SSDs are unreliable so of course everything is backup on a NAS (Network Attached Storage) which you should be doing anyways, right?! I suggest FreeNAS http://www.freenas.org/ which is based on BSD and supports ZFS. Even has a GUI if you don't want to mess around with the command line. Or if you use Linux you can use ZFSonLinux http://zfsonlinux.org/
If you just want to a buy an off the shelf solution that just works Drobo is OK.
http://www.amazon.com/Drobo-Storage-Gigabit-Ethernet-DRDS4A21/
For SSD can personally recommend
* Samsung 840 PRO Series http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147193
* Intel 320 or 520 Series http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&Description=intel+ssd
Cheapest SSD prices are < $0.75 / GB. Just wait for them to go on sale (Black Friday, etc.)
> Why is that comment in a thread about mobile phone interfaces?
Because if you don't understand the _context_ how do you expect to know what TO do AND what NOT to do??
> Is about as useful as someone saying "3x3 pixel font? FAIL
Do you even understand the concept of "experiment" ?
Unless you know the _limitations_ of UI, hardware, and basic human physiology you will never understand UI's strengths and weakness.
> And "FAIL" is the mark of an ill-thought out comment.
Epic Fail. Your *opinion* in this context is worthless. Please go troll elsewhere.
As a 3D Graphics, UI, and UX expert I 100% agree!
The majority of UX (sic.) people don't understand BOTH the pros & cons to GUI compared to the Command Line. They both have DIFFERENT strengths and weaknesses that _complement_ one another.
Voice is a crappy UI because it has the same problem as the command line: It is an *invisible* interface. You don't know what your choices are until AFTER you are familiar with the system. On the command line we have tools like tab-completion and 'man' to help the beginner. The garbage OSes don't provide examples; the better ones like BSD *do* provide examples. Command line interfaces trade "easy-learning-curve" for "efficiency". We don't kvitch about their design because they were designed for *different* purposes.
The GUI is very good for beginners because they can literally see (all) of their choices but for the power user it is slow. Things like hot keys / shortcuts (which seem to be almost extinct these days in the _help_ file) empower the power user so they can actually focus on functionality.
iOS 7 is a HORRIBLE design because it fails THE fundamental goal of *good* UI.
Good UIs maximize the Signal-Noise ratio.
Poor UIs minimize the signal and maximize the noise.
Desaturating the icons it makes it harder for someone to focus on the signal -- everything is one big noise. FAIL. Good UI designers use silhouette, color, contrast to ALL AUGMENT one another.
Microsoft has *never* understand good UI -- especially with the idiotic "one Tablet size fits all" -- uh, NO. When the finally (re)move the stupid Close button away from the Minimize / Maximize buttons then _maybe_ they will start to understand. One of the few things Microsoft hasn't fucked up is Office on OS X. I get *both* the Menu bar AND the ribbon bar. As a user it empowers me as I can chose which form of interaction works efficiently for me.
A *great* UI focuses on BOTH beginners AND power users. Sadly UX don't have a clue. They focus on Form over Function instead when it should be Form Augments Function.
Don't get me started on how the majority of UX completely fail to understand the importance of 60 Hz vs 30 Hz.
Quit trolling.
*I* pay for the bandwidth. Ads are stealing from *me* both in time and money.
> having 7.1 billion human mouths to feed. Earth has a finite maximum capacity load, and it sounds like we have reached it.
As long as Home Sapiens act like Home Stupidus then yes, you are correct, however we are nowhere even close to the 24+ billion that the planet can support if we had better Planning and Execution. Greed corrupts and eventually destroys all things.
You're surprised that banks almost get away with murder and have a fall guy take the blame? This stuff has been going on at _least_ since 2001.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Birkenfeld
In October 2001, Birkenfeld began working at UBS in Geneva, Switzerland, handling private banking, primarily for clients located in the United States. In 2005, he learned that UBS's secret dealings with American customers violated an agreement the bank had reached with the IRS.
He resigned from UBS in October 2005 and provided written whistleblower complaints to Peter Kurer, Head Counsel for UBS, and other UBS senior executives regarding the illegal practices of U.S. cross-border business.
He is the first person to expose what has become a multi-billion dollar international tax fraud scandal over Swiss private banking.[2] Despite his unprecedented, extensive and voluntary cooperation, and registering as an IRS whistleblower, Birkenfeld is the only U.S. citizen to be sentenced to jail as a result of the scandal.
- - -
The fundamental problem is that the majority of people just don't give a crap about Accountability and Transparency and would rather watch their (un)reality TV so they don't have to think or do about how the government -- which is an extension of themselves -- is screwing up one of the greatest nations.
> I think currently, the difference in performance between Java and C++ is so close that...
Additionally the problem is this blowhard is talking out of their ass (SWAG / opinion) instead of showing us cold, hard, facts.
Open Source + Open Data = let the results speak for themselves instead of some opinion that no one gives a fuck about.
Mod Article: -1 Troll
> Somewhere in the neighborhood of 150dpi would be fine on the desktop - around twice what most desktop LCDs have today.
I disagree. Windows originally was hard-coded ~ 96 dpi which is WAY too low. 150 dpi is still too low.
Around 330 dpi is more than enough. The question is "how high is good enough?" 220? 280? 300? 330? I don't know (yet).
> as a 300 dpi screen at 1.5'.
I actually _do_ sit 1.5' away from my 27" so 300 dpi IS around the target.
> I have a friend who keeps harping about how much sharper things are on his 1080p phone but when I ask him to actually read that "so much sharper" text, he can't because it is much too small for him to actually read comfortably so he has to scale it up to a size
Ha, yup I'm familiar with that problem too. The problem is shitty web browsers and web sites that don't properly re-scale the page for larger font sizes and/or assume a fixed low-density dpi. :-(
Unfortunately the problem is going to get worse before people start paying attention to the problem and start working on the solution.