OK, point taken. What's really shocking is that a minority voted in a demagogue. We can only hope the checks and balances in the Constitution work in the people's favor over the next 4 years, and hope like hell we get a candidate that's actually someone we can vote for next time vs the crap choices over at least the last 5 elections.
So selling out to Russia is bad, but selling out to Goldman Sachs is tolerable.
Got it. Thanks.
Yeah, who was Bush's Secretary of Treasury again? Oh yeah, that former CEO of G&S, that also, just coincidentally, sent billions to G&S profits during his tenure.
You have to account for voting age population and then only count the legal voters, which is about 207M, which jibes with roughly 74M being under 18 and ineligible potential voters.
Actually, as a western liberal, I have been on record wishing Texas the best of luck in showing themselves the door, and may possibly have offered them Oklahoma
You realize as far as Texans are concerned, they still consider portions of OK, NM, NE, and CO theirs, right? I forget exactly how big Texas was, but it's miniscule now.
I think you'd have to make a case for Jackson over W. Jackson caused a 5 year recession and was directly responsible for the suffering of several peoples, it was all restricted to what's currently the US. W did it on a much grander scale causing the world to enter a major depression, and 8 years later we've still got multiple wars he started ongoing.
That, and the fact that Hillary comes across so generally unlikable.
I think that and the FBI statements 12 days ago might have had something to do with it. There should be some head-rolling going on in the FBI. No reason for a lame-duck president or congress. Obvious Hatch Act violations occurred. At the very least take down the assholes that illegally influenced the election. They should be able to accomplish that in the next 60 days, but I doubt that will happen.
Meg Whitman actually was successful, whatever else you want to say about them. But Carly and Marissa have both been as bad as a long list of male CEOs, so I'm not sure what you're saying there. If you really wanted to make a positive point, you'd have to list at least a few "great" male CEOs as your counter. IMNSHO, most CEOs, male or female, will fail to even make your good list.
Really? How many women are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies? How many women have been president? Vice president? How is it that over half the population is women and yet they account for only 20% of congress? If you honestly think it is a level playing field then you are either delusional or sexist.
Perhaps it's time to ask that question of the 42+% of women that voted for Trump?
This is exactly the kind of thing the institution was created to protect us from -- ill-considered actions by the voters; one of the critical flaws of democratic action by the masses. The wolves deciding what's for dinner.
The system allows for the EC to act on this by not voting him into the presidency. There are numerous strong reasons to do so.
The EC as it stands now is the problem. Trump, like W, lost the popular vote but on paper has won the EC. As it stood last night, at least 7 EC members need to not follow their guidance to deny Trump the presidency.
Remember how long it took under the Obama administration to recover from Bush's bumbling economic moves?
We're still recovering, and still cleaning up W's messes. I don't think Trump will make anything better, but there's always the ability to shock me.
Republicans couldn't stand it that W was the worst president ever. So they voted in Dump. In 2 years, the Republican party, barring some absolutely astounding miracles or accidents, will likely be voted out en masse. Worse things could happen. Hopefully we'll have a new sensible party or three forming.
Seems like they're talking it up as they're preparing the final bits. However, after re-reading everything in TFS, I see that they haven't even demo'd a prototype. That's a red flag considering they're talking ramping up production lines.
HDCP is a broken technology. A simple cheap splitter
...is likely to be stopped at the border by customs.
Can be bought just about anywhere, under so many brands and names it's just about impossible to keep them out. It is even odds that any cheap splitter you buy, in B&M or online, will fail to properly utilize HDCP when splitting the signal. In this case, hooray for cheap knock-offs.
The vast majority of cable DVR users are unwilling to tear apart a monitor and tap the buses.
Yep, true. That's why the statement "If you really want to go DIY". It's simple enough, there's even how tos out there, but it does require some semi-destruction of a monitor or TV. However, you don't have to break open a monitor. You can open any compliant HDMI/HDCP enabled splitter and accomplish the same thing.
HDCP is a broken technology. A simple cheap splitter combined with a capture device is all it takes to side step it. If you really want to go DIY, intercepting the output to the processor in a monitor also works. Like all digital DRM technologies for things that are meant to be consumed, they are fundamentally broken since you have to allow people to see/hear your content at which point it can always be reproduced, and they can always be captured electronically at those points by anyone with a little electrical know how, totally side stepping the DMCA entirely as you're not circumventing DRM in any way at those points as there is no DRM.
That's some opinionated statements lacking facts on the current hillary email scandal.
Of course Bush was in the know, he was director of the CIA before he was VP. There's no way he didn't know. But that and the DUI (if true, I know W had one) were completely irrelevant to Clinton winning the 92 election. You can lay the cause of the win directly at the feet of Perot with 19% of the popular vote.
Do we know that? Colin Powell said he deleted all of his thousands of emails, with none recoverable. How do we know what's on something that no longer exists?
On desktops and laptops, Microsoft Windows has something over a 90% market share, and it has massive network advantages.... What iOS and Android devices have done is reduce the number of people who need desktops and laptops, making Microsoft's monopoly less lucrative, but it's still there.
Yes, MS still has a 90+% desktop share. What iOS and Android have done is break the app monopoly MS was leveraging to stifle competition to its service suite. Now that a large majority of people access web mail via something other than IE, web mail has to be standards compliant to interoperate between the clients. Same for Calendaring (which I will readily admit MS got right from the client side in 97 and since screwed it up to the point its almost as bad as all the other calendaring solutions) The same can be said for all web and internet service based systems, because of iOS and Android they all pay attention somewhat to standards to work across all platforms, instead of just coding for the MS browser of the day and letting everyone else deal with it.
Absolutely. My choices aren't even the same for me under all circumstances. I'll buy a linux box when needed, although I'd be hard-pressed to figure out when I'd need anything from MS given all the trouble with that software not to mention lack of standard support. Even then I'm not against you purchasing anything from MS, just don't ask for access to my networks.
What I was getting at is that at 4K or 5K, a really decent monitor size would be at least 35", and likely 40", giving you lots of visual real estate while still having double the "standard" screen 72 dpi. At roughly 150 dpi, it's going to look pretty darn good, going to 220dpi on a 27" monitor is likely to not be very noticeable and reduces available screen real estate significantly since you're not going to be able to comfortably read 2pt fonts. I'm strongly considering swapping out my dual monitor config for a single larger monitor.
I like macOS too but to be fair I can use any OS, I'm not religious, I dropped religion after the great OS/2 flame wars.
Oh yeah, the great OS/2 flame wars, on USENET no less, most waged before AOL even got connected to the internet and even many currently here are going: "What's USENET? Wait, what's OS/2?":)
I still have my 2006 Macbook Pro and apart from the battery it's almost like new, after all these years even moving parts like the fans are in perfectly good condition..
Mine's had the fan replaced, a whole $17 and about 20 minutes, and that was after 2 rounds of re-greasing it. The replacement's still running fine years later. The battery was replaced for free around 2010 because of a recall. It still works ok, although it runs 10.6, but it could be moved to 10.7. It's use as a browsing laptop is likely to end sometime soon. I guess I should get my "I'm outraged" post ready, because it's a 10+ year old laptop that's increasingly unsupported, by everyone.
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OK, point taken. What's really shocking is that a minority voted in a demagogue. We can only hope the checks and balances in the Constitution work in the people's favor over the next 4 years, and hope like hell we get a candidate that's actually someone we can vote for next time vs the crap choices over at least the last 5 elections.
So selling out to Russia is bad, but selling out to Goldman Sachs is tolerable.
Got it. Thanks.
Yeah, who was Bush's Secretary of Treasury again? Oh yeah, that former CEO of G&S, that also, just coincidentally, sent billions to G&S profits during his tenure.
You have to account for voting age population and then only count the legal voters, which is about 207M, which jibes with roughly 74M being under 18 and ineligible potential voters.
Actually, as a western liberal, I have been on record wishing Texas the best of luck in showing themselves the door, and may possibly have offered them Oklahoma
You realize as far as Texans are concerned, they still consider portions of OK, NM, NE, and CO theirs, right? I forget exactly how big Texas was, but it's miniscule now.
I think you'd have to make a case for Jackson over W. Jackson caused a 5 year recession and was directly responsible for the suffering of several peoples, it was all restricted to what's currently the US. W did it on a much grander scale causing the world to enter a major depression, and 8 years later we've still got multiple wars he started ongoing.
That, and the fact that Hillary comes across so generally unlikable.
I think that and the FBI statements 12 days ago might have had something to do with it. There should be some head-rolling going on in the FBI. No reason for a lame-duck president or congress. Obvious Hatch Act violations occurred. At the very least take down the assholes that illegally influenced the election. They should be able to accomplish that in the next 60 days, but I doubt that will happen.
Meg Whitman actually was successful, whatever else you want to say about them. But Carly and Marissa have both been as bad as a long list of male CEOs, so I'm not sure what you're saying there. If you really wanted to make a positive point, you'd have to list at least a few "great" male CEOs as your counter. IMNSHO, most CEOs, male or female, will fail to even make your good list.
Really? How many women are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies? How many women have been president? Vice president? How is it that over half the population is women and yet they account for only 20% of congress? If you honestly think it is a level playing field then you are either delusional or sexist.
Perhaps it's time to ask that question of the 42+% of women that voted for Trump?
The electoral college has yet to vote.
This is exactly the kind of thing the institution was created to protect us from -- ill-considered actions by the voters; one of the critical flaws of democratic action by the masses. The wolves deciding what's for dinner.
The system allows for the EC to act on this by not voting him into the presidency. There are numerous strong reasons to do so.
The EC as it stands now is the problem. Trump, like W, lost the popular vote but on paper has won the EC. As it stood last night, at least 7 EC members need to not follow their guidance to deny Trump the presidency.
Remember how long it took under the Obama administration to recover from Bush's bumbling economic moves?
We're still recovering, and still cleaning up W's messes. I don't think Trump will make anything better, but there's always the ability to shock me.
Republicans couldn't stand it that W was the worst president ever. So they voted in Dump. In 2 years, the Republican party, barring some absolutely astounding miracles or accidents, will likely be voted out en masse. Worse things could happen. Hopefully we'll have a new sensible party or three forming.
Seems like they're talking it up as they're preparing the final bits. However, after re-reading everything in TFS, I see that they haven't even demo'd a prototype. That's a red flag considering they're talking ramping up production lines.
HDCP is a broken technology. A simple cheap splitter
...is likely to be stopped at the border by customs.
Can be bought just about anywhere, under so many brands and names it's just about impossible to keep them out. It is even odds that any cheap splitter you buy, in B&M or online, will fail to properly utilize HDCP when splitting the signal. In this case, hooray for cheap knock-offs.
The vast majority of cable DVR users are unwilling to tear apart a monitor and tap the buses.
Yep, true. That's why the statement "If you really want to go DIY". It's simple enough, there's even how tos out there, but it does require some semi-destruction of a monitor or TV. However, you don't have to break open a monitor. You can open any compliant HDMI/HDCP enabled splitter and accomplish the same thing.
HDCP is a broken technology. A simple cheap splitter combined with a capture device is all it takes to side step it. If you really want to go DIY, intercepting the output to the processor in a monitor also works. Like all digital DRM technologies for things that are meant to be consumed, they are fundamentally broken since you have to allow people to see/hear your content at which point it can always be reproduced, and they can always be captured electronically at those points by anyone with a little electrical know how, totally side stepping the DMCA entirely as you're not circumventing DRM in any way at those points as there is no DRM.
That's what DVRs are for. If you're really DIY, your own DVR with comskip or myth tv or other automatic commercial skipping options.
Well...don't you want the capability to stream 4K off Amazon prime (free), or Netflix (extra fee)?
Sure, just as soon as they actually stream some real 4K content, or, heck, HD content for that matter.
There are only two reasons to keep a product secret while still talking about it:
1 can't be true since they explained what to expect from the product in this very article. Thus, it must be 2.
You left out number 3:
You are about to go live, and need to hype up the potential customer base.
It seems they have all the cash they need, are starting up production lines, and probably determined it was time to start generating general interest.
So I guess it was "necessary" for the FBI to leak, four days before the election that George (H. W.) Bush was himself in-the-know on Iran-Contra?
That's some opinionated statements lacking facts on the current hillary email scandal.
Of course Bush was in the know, he was director of the CIA before he was VP. There's no way he didn't know. But that and the DUI (if true, I know W had one) were completely irrelevant to Clinton winning the 92 election. You can lay the cause of the win directly at the feet of Perot with 19% of the popular vote.
Do we know that? Colin Powell said he deleted all of his thousands of emails, with none recoverable. How do we know what's on something that no longer exists?
It should also be noted that your Angry Birds game crashing isn't the same as, say, Schiaparelli.
I've yet to see where the use of PTO benefited any employee, anywhere.
On desktops and laptops, Microsoft Windows has something over a 90% market share, and it has massive network advantages. ... What iOS and Android devices have done is reduce the number of people who need desktops and laptops, making Microsoft's monopoly less lucrative, but it's still there.
Yes, MS still has a 90+% desktop share. What iOS and Android have done is break the app monopoly MS was leveraging to stifle competition to its service suite. Now that a large majority of people access web mail via something other than IE, web mail has to be standards compliant to interoperate between the clients. Same for Calendaring (which I will readily admit MS got right from the client side in 97 and since screwed it up to the point its almost as bad as all the other calendaring solutions) The same can be said for all web and internet service based systems, because of iOS and Android they all pay attention somewhat to standards to work across all platforms, instead of just coding for the MS browser of the day and letting everyone else deal with it.
She responded, "I'm not a witch, I'm your wife!"
And the difference is?
Absolutely. My choices aren't even the same for me under all circumstances. I'll buy a linux box when needed, although I'd be hard-pressed to figure out when I'd need anything from MS given all the trouble with that software not to mention lack of standard support. Even then I'm not against you purchasing anything from MS, just don't ask for access to my networks.
What I was getting at is that at 4K or 5K, a really decent monitor size would be at least 35", and likely 40", giving you lots of visual real estate while still having double the "standard" screen 72 dpi. At roughly 150 dpi, it's going to look pretty darn good, going to 220dpi on a 27" monitor is likely to not be very noticeable and reduces available screen real estate significantly since you're not going to be able to comfortably read 2pt fonts. I'm strongly considering swapping out my dual monitor config for a single larger monitor.
I like macOS too but to be fair I can use any OS, I'm not religious, I dropped religion after the great OS/2 flame wars.
Oh yeah, the great OS/2 flame wars, on USENET no less, most waged before AOL even got connected to the internet and even many currently here are going: "What's USENET? Wait, what's OS/2?" :)
I still have my 2006 Macbook Pro and apart from the battery it's almost like new, after all these years even moving parts like the fans are in perfectly good condition..
Mine's had the fan replaced, a whole $17 and about 20 minutes, and that was after 2 rounds of re-greasing it. The replacement's still running fine years later. The battery was replaced for free around 2010 because of a recall. It still works ok, although it runs 10.6, but it could be moved to 10.7. It's use as a browsing laptop is likely to end sometime soon. I guess I should get my "I'm outraged" post ready, because it's a 10+ year old laptop that's increasingly unsupported, by everyone.