All that does is create an even bigger divide people the people that do it and the people that don't. And people that download half of the malware (the junk apps versus at least legitimate looking apps) are probably too stupid to recognize it anyway, thus negating the purpose unless it's done across the board.
I agree that it is better than nothing, but creating a market where the big fish will probably get rubber stamped anyway, I feel uncomfortable with the idea of suggesting a system where the little fish has to pay even more to be on equal footing.
I'd bet that buying the cheaper, yet still powerful computers is probably more cost effective considering the rate that these machines burn out under their kinds of load. Why spend so much money on a machine that will be broken, when you can just buy multiple cheap ones instead? Then, when one burns out, you're still running at a higher capacity even with the negative of higher power draw.
There is a vast difference between requesting emails of a public official, while they are still in office, and uncovering three people who have questionable ethics.
Gary Hart was dumb enough to be having an affair while running for President.
Bill Clinton had an affair while President.
Anthony Weiner put himself into public view by taking pictures of his family name, and sending them to women.
Yet, I have still not seen requests for all of their emails (Gary Hart excluded, as that predated most email) even as Anthony Weiner refuses to resign. And considering that there is suspicion that he talked to as many people as Tiger Woods did--and one of them might be a minor--I just do not see the comparison.
Put under a spotlight, and speaking or writing away from a script, you are bound to be caught saying something stupid. Of course, that goes doubly if you are stupid.
I do know that, but I was referencing a recent bit of news. Note: I have never visited the above site, but it was the first in the Google News search results.
To me, this is the same approach that Alaska took with the newspapers.
This was the state playing goalie for her. I do agree that it's ridiculous that the government can do this, but when people do something similar (like pay a $25 fine with pennies) they get another fine.
I do not agree that just because it's printed that the chances of modification is any different. These are emails after all. Not exactly the creme de la creme of tamper resistant files.
This is just a slap to the face of the papers that are trying to embarrass Palin. Clearly, whether there's something there or not, being printed is not going to stop the papers from scavenging through it to find whatever they can.
The only possibility of subterfuge is if the state tries to leave out emails that should have been included, but it's not like digital copies prevents anyone from doing that either.
Then you have something wrong with your install. I use it regularly to watch movies on a MacBook Pro, and even more regularly on an older MacBook (2007-2008).
Yes it performs better - but only on the single officially supported platform.
This is absolutely false.
Silverlight is officially supported on Mac OS X. And Moonlight existed in a pseudo-official context for Linux support (now it's murky with Novell being gone).
While your low Slashdot number probably automatically afforded you the karma points, the entire basis of your rant is wrong. Not to mention, Flash is not only a CPU hog, but it is also a security hornet's nest. I wouldn't even have it installed if not for Chrome bringing it "for me." I have to use FlashBlock within Chrome to maintain some sort of decent battery life on a laptop. That is not so with Silverlight.
Not to mention, if you believe that Windows Phone will stay "such a smalltime player," then you really are fooling yourself. Once the most recent release kicks out, WP7 will have pretty much feature parity in terms of features that people actually use, and combined with Windows 8 looking awfully similar, as well as the new Xbox 360 theme, people will become familiar with the WP7 UI. Furthermore, Novell has a do-or-die requirement for WP7, as does Microsoft to some degree (they could always reboot it again, but at some point that's certainly a death spiral). That much money will not remain a "smalltime player" for too long.
Because they're idiots that simply want to hate on Microsoft.
There is no way that Microsoft is related to this decision because Microsoft would open itself wide to more government interventions. Until the merger/deal is completed, the two companies will not start working together. This is true for all businesses.
People are obviously free to hate Microsoft and suggest that they are not following regulations, but to suggest it over something so small is pretty sad.
It depends how forcefully it gets laughed out of court, if at all.
If it's not a very angrily thrown out, then there is definitely a reason to believe that it will simply come up again.
Sure, you asking for a billion dollars is ridiculous. But if you're not told so, then you're going to ask for it again in your next suit rather than a more appropriate amount.
In both cases, the plaintiff is well within their rights to request it, even repeatedly, but if the earlier courts did not strongly throw it out previously, then the current court may see it a bit more loosely. It's a scary and slippery slope, and while I imagine you are probably sitting on the same side of the fence as I am, I still think it's pretty scary that they even chose to ask for it even though I fully expect it will be shot down. I just fear it won't be shot down strongly or quickly enough.
Without the constraint of making the bloated Windows OS run on their chips, Intel can dive into low power. Without the glacial software development lifecycle in Redmond Intel can bring out new stuff faster. That's good stuff.
Because Microsoft is moving to ARM, known for its high power draw. Clearly, Windows is the reason that Intel chips have been devouring power like that is the main focus of their chips.
Microsoft had one OS slip: Vista (note: this is not referring to flops, such as Windows ME). They corrected themselves. Say what you will about their software, but their OS release schedule has been anything but glacial as long as you ignore the out lier. Combined with regular Service Pack releases, and the only thing that's glacial is their turn-around time with patches.
The worst news about all of this is actually not related to Microsoft at all. It's related to Novell getting sold and Mono being in flux. Microsoft is almost certainly going to make a strong push for development using.NET to both ease the shift to ARM as well as to avoid the problem's faced by Apple with their huge "Universal" binaries that contained PPC instructions alongside x86 instructions to ease shifts (and avoid the user question: which do I need/want?). That would have been a huge opportunity to add a ton of Mono libraries and probably even a handful of applications at little cost (probably with just a GUI translation after the fact for those that wanted a native Windows experience in Windows, and Gtk# outside), which would only be a good thing.
Now with Mono in flux, it's questionable how many people will even bother "wasting" their time using it. Which is seriously a shame, because it is an impressive piece of technology. I doubt Microsoft will waste time suing people for using Mono, especially when it almost guarantees a Windows version of the product, but convincing a corporate lawyer (or anyone on this site for that matter) may be something else until Microsoft recommits to not suing with the new Mono overlords in charge and Novell out of the picture.
Ah yes, the infamous, "everyone else is doing it argument."
Suggesting that the only source of security with IE, the team that originated the idea of sandboxed browsers, which only Chrome matches, is a bad joke.
Turning the talk of a bug bounty program into a discussion on open versus closed source is just as bad.
People are not finding the major security vulnerabilities in these browsers by sifting through their source code; they are doing it by using fuzzing and similar debugging techniques designed to break the browser in question.
The best proof is certainly family members. Nothing like unbiased viewpoints. Even better is simply laughing off claims with a basis in fact, by countering them with... nothing.
I have teachers within my own family. A lot of people do. They complain too. Everyone complains about their job (some more than others).
They're also home before I am. And they are rarely grading. In many cases they actually are spending more time on vacations as well. Not luxurious ones (they're mostly not paid exuberantly, after all), but more.
Here's a few pro-tips on the matter:
1. Complaints don't make it true, in either direction. 2. Teachers are told that they are overworked, and that they have too many students. People tend to fall for hype surrounding them.
Hopefully your family and friends are some of the exceptions. You might have noticed that I brought them up in my last post. For instance, there are magnet/governor schools where the teachers do [mostly] work hard, and they push on a different level. I've found that they tend to work longer hours. However, considering your method of argument ("screw you for talking about this!"), I am inclined to think they're not.
The lack of respect that teachers received recently from the GOP was disgusting.
I am not a GOP member (although I am definitely conservative, I hate the Republican party because it is just as political and stupid as everything I can pin on the other party) but how much respect do teachers honestly deserve?
I respect people that earn my respect, and not people that crow about such a hard job that does not even span an entire work day, while working for a fraction of a year. There are absolutely some amazing teachers out there, but the reality is, the majority are garbage
Not only do most teachers not work an entire work day, but they generally are given a break ("planning period") during that day. Yet somehow they deserve our thanks when they retire at age 50 with a pension that a state cannot afford, and they don't even remotely deserve, except contractually?
That said, most young scientists make *less* than teachers.
People doing real, sometimes-sophisticated work are making less than teachers. That is why they did not get or deserve respect. Teachers that teach the exact same curriculum year-after-year. There are exceptions, and those exceptions are the ones that should be propped up and rewarded financially. The rest should stay quiet and be happy that they even have a job that they can almost never be fired from, which is a perk often always neglected.
Less time. More job security. Equal or higher pay. Yeah, they have it rough.
I actually agree with everything you said, except the very end. I am a big believer in government "control" being a bad thing, however I also see the point of government as a way to invest in projects that people and corporations are unwilling to do. In fact, I think that is the most justifiable expense of the government: researching the state of the art and beyond.
Corporations will never get fusion working, unless through luck, due to cost. However, government(s) probably will. Space exploration would have never started without government intervention. Quantum communication? I am honestly not sure who is funding it, but I imagine that at least the early grants were from governments.
Anyway, I agree that you successfully described a real problem. I just disagree that that's necessarily the reason we have it. Our politicians just tend to have other priorities, such as being self-serving waste's of space.
The company that has spent so much time taking from Linux and then leaving it dry? Google is too busy to commit changes back from Android, and they're all-to comfortable keeping Honeycomb (Android 3.0) closed source.
I thought the exact same thing. Mozilla has been a bit petty recently and their PR has been nothing except bad.
Mozilla needs to tout their innovations. I am tired of them claiming betas are somehow the real deal. Firefox 4 was no different.
Firefox is a good browser, but compared to IE9 and Chrome especially, it is not a great browser. It's slower. It crashes. And when it does, it takes down the whole browser.
Calculating US Inflation from 2000 to 2010, one would be left with a 26.6% increase. Since I am feeling friendly, going from 1999 to 2011 brings it to 32.8%.
Congress appropriated $14.7 billion over 12 years for this year’s headcount. Preparations for the 2010 count began in 1999 with early planning meetings, but more than half of the money was spent this year.
The 2010 Census was still the most expensive in American history, but census budgets have climbed every decade since 1950 as the American population and number of households increases. The Census Bureau managed to return $305 million from a $7 billion total budget in 2000.
I would say the soaring costs came from doubling the cost to do the exact same operation with 10 years worth of newer technology to assist them.
$6.7 billion versus $13.1 billion screams soaring costs.
When C# first came out, it already had minimal enhancements compared to Java. Now, in version 4, it has numerous enhancements compared to Java. Here are some.
If the.NET Platform were multiplatform, then I would jump ship in a second. As it is not, then I am relegated to working with Java day-to-day. That is the only snag with C#, and that's only until Mono really picks up, or likely until Apple grows its OS X market share.
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All that does is create an even bigger divide people the people that do it and the people that don't. And people that download half of the malware (the junk apps versus at least legitimate looking apps) are probably too stupid to recognize it anyway, thus negating the purpose unless it's done across the board.
I agree that it is better than nothing, but creating a market where the big fish will probably get rubber stamped anyway, I feel uncomfortable with the idea of suggesting a system where the little fish has to pay even more to be on equal footing.
I'd bet that buying the cheaper, yet still powerful computers is probably more cost effective considering the rate that these machines burn out under their kinds of load. Why spend so much money on a machine that will be broken, when you can just buy multiple cheap ones instead? Then, when one burns out, you're still running at a higher capacity even with the negative of higher power draw.
There is a vast difference between requesting emails of a public official, while they are still in office, and uncovering three people who have questionable ethics.
Gary Hart was dumb enough to be having an affair while running for President.
Bill Clinton had an affair while President.
Anthony Weiner put himself into public view by taking pictures of his family name, and sending them to women.
Yet, I have still not seen requests for all of their emails (Gary Hart excluded, as that predated most email) even as Anthony Weiner refuses to resign. And considering that there is suspicion that he talked to as many people as Tiger Woods did--and one of them might be a minor--I just do not see the comparison.
Like saying she needs to visit all 60 states ("one left to go," plus Alaska and Hawaii)? Or maybe signing her signature and dating it three years in the past?
Put under a spotlight, and speaking or writing away from a script, you are bound to be caught saying something stupid. Of course, that goes doubly if you are stupid.
I do know that, but I was referencing a recent bit of news. Note: I have never visited the above site, but it was the first in the Google News search results.
To me, this is the same approach that Alaska took with the newspapers.
This was the state playing goalie for her. I do agree that it's ridiculous that the government can do this, but when people do something similar (like pay a $25 fine with pennies) they get another fine.
I do not agree that just because it's printed that the chances of modification is any different. These are emails after all. Not exactly the creme de la creme of tamper resistant files.
This is just a slap to the face of the papers that are trying to embarrass Palin. Clearly, whether there's something there or not, being printed is not going to stop the papers from scavenging through it to find whatever they can.
The only possibility of subterfuge is if the state tries to leave out emails that should have been included, but it's not like digital copies prevents anyone from doing that either.
I guess we should all be patenting the obvious use cases of all standards.
Same story, different day. What a joke. i4i should go around suing every company using XML with predefined tags.
Then you have something wrong with your install. I use it regularly to watch movies on a MacBook Pro, and even more regularly on an older MacBook (2007-2008).
Fix what's wrong with your install.
This is absolutely false.
Silverlight is officially supported on Mac OS X. And Moonlight existed in a pseudo-official context for Linux support (now it's murky with Novell being gone).
While your low Slashdot number probably automatically afforded you the karma points, the entire basis of your rant is wrong. Not to mention, Flash is not only a CPU hog, but it is also a security hornet's nest. I wouldn't even have it installed if not for Chrome bringing it "for me." I have to use FlashBlock within Chrome to maintain some sort of decent battery life on a laptop. That is not so with Silverlight.
Not to mention, if you believe that Windows Phone will stay "such a smalltime player," then you really are fooling yourself. Once the most recent release kicks out, WP7 will have pretty much feature parity in terms of features that people actually use, and combined with Windows 8 looking awfully similar, as well as the new Xbox 360 theme, people will become familiar with the WP7 UI. Furthermore, Novell has a do-or-die requirement for WP7, as does Microsoft to some degree (they could always reboot it again, but at some point that's certainly a death spiral). That much money will not remain a "smalltime player" for too long.
Because they're idiots that simply want to hate on Microsoft.
There is no way that Microsoft is related to this decision because Microsoft would open itself wide to more government interventions. Until the merger/deal is completed, the two companies will not start working together. This is true for all businesses.
People are obviously free to hate Microsoft and suggest that they are not following regulations, but to suggest it over something so small is pretty sad.
It depends how forcefully it gets laughed out of court, if at all.
If it's not a very angrily thrown out, then there is definitely a reason to believe that it will simply come up again.
Sure, you asking for a billion dollars is ridiculous. But if you're not told so, then you're going to ask for it again in your next suit rather than a more appropriate amount.
In both cases, the plaintiff is well within their rights to request it, even repeatedly, but if the earlier courts did not strongly throw it out previously, then the current court may see it a bit more loosely. It's a scary and slippery slope, and while I imagine you are probably sitting on the same side of the fence as I am, I still think it's pretty scary that they even chose to ask for it even though I fully expect it will be shot down. I just fear it won't be shot down strongly or quickly enough.
Because Microsoft is moving to ARM, known for its high power draw. Clearly, Windows is the reason that Intel chips have been devouring power like that is the main focus of their chips.
Microsoft had one OS slip: Vista (note: this is not referring to flops, such as Windows ME). They corrected themselves. Say what you will about their software, but their OS release schedule has been anything but glacial as long as you ignore the out lier. Combined with regular Service Pack releases, and the only thing that's glacial is their turn-around time with patches.
The worst news about all of this is actually not related to Microsoft at all. It's related to Novell getting sold and Mono being in flux. Microsoft is almost certainly going to make a strong push for development using .NET to both ease the shift to ARM as well as to avoid the problem's faced by Apple with their huge "Universal" binaries that contained PPC instructions alongside x86 instructions to ease shifts (and avoid the user question: which do I need/want?). That would have been a huge opportunity to add a ton of Mono libraries and probably even a handful of applications at little cost (probably with just a GUI translation after the fact for those that wanted a native Windows experience in Windows, and Gtk# outside), which would only be a good thing.
Now with Mono in flux, it's questionable how many people will even bother "wasting" their time using it. Which is seriously a shame, because it is an impressive piece of technology. I doubt Microsoft will waste time suing people for using Mono, especially when it almost guarantees a Windows version of the product, but convincing a corporate lawyer (or anyone on this site for that matter) may be something else until Microsoft recommits to not suing with the new Mono overlords in charge and Novell out of the picture.
Now you just need to make sure you never lose your connection to the internet, otherwise you're screwed.
Ah yes, the infamous, "everyone else is doing it argument."
Suggesting that the only source of security with IE, the team that originated the idea of sandboxed browsers, which only Chrome matches, is a bad joke.
Turning the talk of a bug bounty program into a discussion on open versus closed source is just as bad.
People are not finding the major security vulnerabilities in these browsers by sifting through their source code; they are doing it by using fuzzing and similar debugging techniques designed to break the browser in question.
The best proof is certainly family members. Nothing like unbiased viewpoints. Even better is simply laughing off claims with a basis in fact, by countering them with... nothing.
I have teachers within my own family. A lot of people do. They complain too. Everyone complains about their job (some more than others).
They're also home before I am. And they are rarely grading. In many cases they actually are spending more time on vacations as well. Not luxurious ones (they're mostly not paid exuberantly, after all), but more.
Here's a few pro-tips on the matter:
1. Complaints don't make it true, in either direction.
2. Teachers are told that they are overworked, and that they have too many students. People tend to fall for hype surrounding them.
Hopefully your family and friends are some of the exceptions. You might have noticed that I brought them up in my last post. For instance, there are magnet/governor schools where the teachers do [mostly] work hard, and they push on a different level. I've found that they tend to work longer hours. However, considering your method of argument ("screw you for talking about this!"), I am inclined to think they're not.
I am not a GOP member (although I am definitely conservative, I hate the Republican party because it is just as political and stupid as everything I can pin on the other party) but how much respect do teachers honestly deserve?
I respect people that earn my respect, and not people that crow about such a hard job that does not even span an entire work day, while working for a fraction of a year. There are absolutely some amazing teachers out there, but the reality is, the majority are garbage
Not only do most teachers not work an entire work day, but they generally are given a break ("planning period") during that day. Yet somehow they deserve our thanks when they retire at age 50 with a pension that a state cannot afford, and they don't even remotely deserve, except contractually?
People doing real, sometimes-sophisticated work are making less than teachers. That is why they did not get or deserve respect. Teachers that teach the exact same curriculum year-after-year. There are exceptions, and those exceptions are the ones that should be propped up and rewarded financially. The rest should stay quiet and be happy that they even have a job that they can almost never be fired from, which is a perk often always neglected.
Less time. More job security. Equal or higher pay. Yeah, they have it rough.
I actually agree with everything you said, except the very end. I am a big believer in government "control" being a bad thing, however I also see the point of government as a way to invest in projects that people and corporations are unwilling to do. In fact, I think that is the most justifiable expense of the government: researching the state of the art and beyond.
Corporations will never get fusion working, unless through luck, due to cost. However, government(s) probably will. Space exploration would have never started without government intervention. Quantum communication? I am honestly not sure who is funding it, but I imagine that at least the early grants were from governments.
Anyway, I agree that you successfully described a real problem. I just disagree that that's necessarily the reason we have it. Our politicians just tend to have other priorities, such as being self-serving waste's of space.
That was certainly the experience I witnessed in both undergraduate and graduate school.
RHEL... RedHat.
The company that has spent so much time taking from Linux and then leaving it dry? Google is too busy to commit changes back from Android, and they're all-to comfortable keeping Honeycomb (Android 3.0) closed source.
I thought the exact same thing. Mozilla has been a bit petty recently and their PR has been nothing except bad.
Mozilla needs to tout their innovations. I am tired of them claiming betas are somehow the real deal. Firefox 4 was no different.
Firefox is a good browser, but compared to IE9 and Chrome especially, it is not a great browser. It's slower. It crashes. And when it does, it takes down the whole browser.
Calculating US Inflation from 2000 to 2010, one would be left with a 26.6% increase. Since I am feeling friendly, going from 1999 to 2011 brings it to 32.8%.
$6.7 billion * 1.328 = $8.9 billion
The population changed from 281,421,906 to 308,745,538 (a 9.7% increase).
$8.9 billion * 1.097 = $9.76 billion
We're still left with ~$4 billion (~30%) looming around to qualify as soaring costs.
From the article:
I would say the soaring costs came from doubling the cost to do the exact same operation with 10 years worth of newer technology to assist them.
$6.7 billion versus $13.1 billion screams soaring costs.
When C# first came out, it already had minimal enhancements compared to Java. Now, in version 4, it has numerous enhancements compared to Java. Here are some.
If the .NET Platform were multiplatform, then I would jump ship in a second. As it is not, then I am relegated to working with Java day-to-day. That is the only snag with C#, and that's only until Mono really picks up, or likely until Apple grows its OS X market share.