Sounds like little more than a language exercise. If you're volunteering yourself to be unobscured fodder, I guess you might be both a volunteer and a victim.
Same could be said of belonging to the Catholic church then.
From what I remember, it was the exact opposite. He envisioned democratic forces as the people gained control of the government rather than royalty or other oligarchs pushing society towards socialism and then communism. Current European and Scandanavian countries are more what he envisioned as the "tryanny of the majority" provide for the greater good of all. I do think he thought it would happen a lot quicker than it is, but Marx is still pretty much marching along as he said that first you'd have to have a democracy, then it would turn into socialism, and then it would turn into communism. Lenin was the one who said that you could take the Russian monarchist society and skip all those other steps via armed conflict controlled by a single party, thus the term Marxist-Leninism.
That's also a very brief account of what he wrote many books on while modifying his theories over the years, so it is over simplified. He certainly got some things wrong, such as he thought that capitalist countries would always end up fighting with each other over the need for colonies and their resources. What he didn't envision was what happened after WW2 where capitalist theory decided that having one big market with everybody involved, ends up making more money for everybody than oppressing colonies for raw materials. This is why the USSR didn't press as hard as they could have for spreading communism, because by their old theories, the USA and Britain would eventually end up fighting each other and they figured they'd just have to pick up the pieces. (I think France also bought into that theory which is why they dropped out of NATO and pissed everybody else off over the years trying to re-establish colonies and individual military force, but that is a different discussion.)
Iceland and Greece are vastly different situations. Iceland has a working economy but loaned more money than they had out of the country. Greece does not have a working economy and has loaned more money than they can afford to pay into the country.
Well, a formally nationalized Icelandic bank that was privatized due to pressure loaned out more money than it had, and Iceland refused to save the bank by nationalizing it again and let it fail because it would have put the entire country in debt for decades. Greece on the other hand has had its government spend more money than they have and they are already in debt.
No, it's really hard to hide in space. Pretty much the only way to do it is hide behind something else. Anything that isn't at background radiation levels of heat (3 kelvin) will be visible to anybody looking. Anything with enough heat to keep a person alive, have active electronics will glow fairly brightly. Anything putting out enough energy to alter course will glow a thousand times more. Given a wide array of observational sattelites and other sensors that will be up and running for years before any combat, everybody is going to know where everybody else is and where they are going pretty much at all times.
I have not used Lynx in many years but have tried to use later browsers such as IE4 (as default install with old an OS) and simply put, most webpages were not readable. If I went to something that was pure basic html (and old website of mine), it was fine, but most web pages were broken to the point of not even displaying anything. I can imagine that this would be even worse with Lynx. You'd go to a web page and probably just not see anything as scripting, flash, etc has become so common that the web is near non-funcitonal without it.
All of my corporate clients have iPads, yet even the least informed immediately realize the limitations of not being able to run any real desktop or access the company files.. While consumers could care less, businesses will adapt anything that improves productivity while conforming to security's infrastructure.
Which is why every corporate client I've seen so far has everything on RDC or Citrix clients that they can access and do everything on their iPads while not actually putting any corporate (or Healthcare) data on the remote device. They all realize that the portability of the iPad wins over a laptop unless they need an actual portable workstation, in which case, no software is going to make a slate tablet function how they desire.
Lets face it- all major technology companies have turned into patent trolls in the last decade or two. Apple has categorically attempted to sue every one of its major rivals out of the markets. Microsoft's still tries to extort money out of companies selling products they don't even compete with. Samsung, Motorola, Google- they're all at it too.
Well, you can probably blame Apple Records for all that. Their early legal battles against Apple Computers over name and moving computers into the realm of doing digital sound and music pretty much got Apple used to dealing with lawsuits and settling. Now, twenty years later, Apple is a company that is comfortable engaging in lawsuits until they get a settlement they can live with.
There ain't much on TV I care about except sports, weather and the occasional movie. The rest is crap.
My guess is that is why TV is heading to a revolution. I doubt if you will so much as get a 'smart tv' as a 'dumb computer' (with a tv card). Imagine an iMac running iOS that essentially works like a TV unless you want to browse the web, stream movies, play games, etc.
Ah, there's the problem. Americans are hardly known for their patience. If anything, I think we pride ourselves on a 'pro-active, get it done now' attitude. This seems to be one of the driving motivations and source of problems and solutions from since we were still colonies.
I gotta think that Jobs saying he was going to destroy Android even if it took every last dollar of his stockholders money, kind of makes that obvious. You dont bankrupt a thriving company to fight something thats not a threat.
I thought it was Steve Jobs being on a vendetta because he felt Eric Schmidt had been spying for Google for years before resigning? Likewise their attack on Samsung who Apple feels has been stealing their designs while they're supposed to be acting as their manufacturer and thus betrayed their trust.
You say that though
I was re-watching the film recently and it was the scene at the end where the mob marches on the armed police and the police use their own judgement and decide not to fire. Maybe I've been spending too much time on/. but I can't believe that in the current climate in that situation in the real world the police wouldn't fire and then chase them down.
Well, I offer the fall of the Berlin Wall. Due to a press release flub, the guy on TV said that the borders checkpoints would be open immediatly while the actual plan was for later, and thus no guards had been told anything about opening the checkpoints. When mobs of East Germans massed at the checkpoints demanding to be let through, the soldiers called in and never received a reply or orders. Finally, when things looked like it would have to turn violent, a pair of guards said "fuck it" and opened the gates, thus ending the Berlin Wall. It's just one anecdote, but it's pretty close to the one we're talking about.
I lived through this. Apple got rejected from the enterprise market because (a) they had no interest in competing with cheap commodity hardware...
I lived through this also as desktop support, and from my experience that simply is not true. Enterprise has no interest in cheap commodity hardware. We tried, and it was more trouble than it was worth (between performance, keeping track of hardware and drivers, and getting replacement of failed parts) and we just defaulted to Dell and Compaq which were pretty much the same cost for the same specs. Besides, the users who had the budgets were more than willing to pay for Macs. The main issues I encountered were that IT departments didn't have certs or knowledge that had anything to do with Macs, therefore they refused to deal with them and did not support them, and vendors made Windows only applications which forced enterprise to go all Windows.
As for networking, Macs had built in ethernet with the AAUI ports back when no PCs had ethernet, and Windows 3 had to use 3rd party software and edits to the autoconfig.bat (IIRC) files to use it. Win95 was much better than Win3 for networking, but there were still issues.
Keep in mind that Cracked is a humor site and strives for being funny over being accurate.
That said, what's the deal with the letter "ç"? It's basically an S every time I've heard it - why the heck don't you guys just use an "S"? d:
Because the S in english is a voiceless alveolar fricative and the ç is a voiceless palatal fricative, a sound english doesn't even have. You can substitute the S for the ç but you'll sound like some guy with an accent to a native speaker.
Wrong, "toqué" is an adjective. It is never used, anywhere, to refer to the hat, which is a noun. You'll never find a Frenchman who says "toqué".
I believe we are talking about Québécois here and not Frenchmen, and it would not be the first time I've heard a Frenchman say that the Québécois are not speaking French.
If this guy was sincere, he'd be proposing a 1% tax on sports equipment, sales of licensed sports franchise clothing, etc, and using the money to fund children's hospitals which treat the many crippling (and sometimes fatal) injuries that occur from childhood sports. (Check out the average number of high school students killed in school shootings each year, and the average number of high school students killed in school sports.)
It would be political suicide. OK is another state where football is king (even though about every football team in OK sucks). The typical 'never wins a game' high school football team will constantly get more money and more perks than a nationally recognized academic group. More than once while growing up there, I've seen money other groups (band, debate, etc) that they had raised through fundraisers for trips and put into the school account, be taken out by the principle and used to buy the football team a pizza party.
OK is not a "Southern" state, dick, it's mid-west. Neither the people there claim to be southerners, nor do southerners claim OK.
As an Okie, I can tell you that no mid-westerner claims OK either. It's in a weird spot on the map. It did fight on the side of the South in the civil war (or at least the indians did) and is considered South for lots of lists. It's in the Mid-West section of the US census. While living there, I remember thinking of the Great Plains States (between the Rockies and Mississippi) as mid-west certainly not Ohio or Indiana, but they claim to be mid-west and are so on the US census. Culturally, OK is more the bastard step son of Texas than anything to do with Kansas or other states around it. It's all oil and cattle and pretty much is a Texas where nothing is large or proud.
The only thing they at had at first had was white headphones and a bunch of monocrome dancing ads, but, as history has shown, marketing beat out the technically superior product. It wasn't till about 2005 that the iPod actually became the superior product.
I think what they had was iTunes which did everything. Now I didn't need to use one program to rip CDs, another to play them, and manage all the files myself. I just put in a CD and clicked a button and it was in my library, could be played on my computer, and would be copied to my iPod once I connected it. I certainly don't remember it being a nightmare on OSX, but exactly the opposite. However, I didn't actually get an iPod till the 3rd gen. One thing that really helped the iPod, was that it never stood still. Every year a new generation came out with new features, by the 3rd gen, I knew that it would eventually replace my trusty PDA by eventually having all the features my PDA had. (My phone took that spot before the iPod Touch came out however.) This also gives people a reason to upgrade even if their old one is still working. Not because they just want the newest and shiniest, but because they actually have new features that can be used.
Deep down inside they are suing because they don't like Gingrich. Just my guess though.
My guess is that they want to be paid. From what I understand talking to my musician friends, making records and playing music is not where the money is in the music business. The real money is in licensing. The amount of money that the Republican party would pay for use of a song (or a company for use in an ad, tv show, or a game) is more than they would ever make off of record sales or doing concerts.
True I meant nothing against the Chinese. It't that those assembly jobs are minimum wage type jobs that we already have plenty of and are being unfilled. (If minimum wage is enough would be a separate discussion.) My main point is why we are worrying about those jobs, and not more on what I understand to be the more highly paid jobs manufacturing the components that are being done in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea? Of course, for that to happen, we'd need a skilled and educated work force and the technological R&D to become competitive.
No, the Chinese assembly jobs aren't coming back, and if they do, they'd be done by machine. Even if they did come back for actual people, the only people who would want them would be immigrants. They aren't coming back and we don't want them. They're low paying crap jobs for unskilled workers. What we should be looking at are the more highly skilled jobs making the components that go to the assembling plant. Why are we focused on jobs going to China when Taiwan makes as much as they do and South Korea makes three and a half times what China does off the iPad according to The Economist?
So, 9 or 10 carriers means six to eight available at any given moment. One in the Med, one in the Indian Ocean, a couple in the Pacific, one in the Atlantic is about minimum.
Minimum for what? To keep the hordes of invasion fleets from reaching our shores? I don't seem to remember these battles. To help protect our allies and friends? Perhaps they should help foot the bill for their protection. To protect our interests across the world? Well, perhaps we should just stop protecting our interests as it evidently isn't cost effective. I'm all for having a strong military, the best military in the world even. However, ours looks to be way too large for what we need to be the biggest and best in the world. Either cut it down to what we can actually pay, or tell us why we are really out there.
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Sounds like little more than a language exercise. If you're volunteering yourself to be unobscured fodder, I guess you might be both a volunteer and a victim.
Same could be said of belonging to the Catholic church then.
From what I remember, it was the exact opposite. He envisioned democratic forces as the people gained control of the government rather than royalty or other oligarchs pushing society towards socialism and then communism. Current European and Scandanavian countries are more what he envisioned as the "tryanny of the majority" provide for the greater good of all. I do think he thought it would happen a lot quicker than it is, but Marx is still pretty much marching along as he said that first you'd have to have a democracy, then it would turn into socialism, and then it would turn into communism. Lenin was the one who said that you could take the Russian monarchist society and skip all those other steps via armed conflict controlled by a single party, thus the term Marxist-Leninism.
That's also a very brief account of what he wrote many books on while modifying his theories over the years, so it is over simplified. He certainly got some things wrong, such as he thought that capitalist countries would always end up fighting with each other over the need for colonies and their resources. What he didn't envision was what happened after WW2 where capitalist theory decided that having one big market with everybody involved, ends up making more money for everybody than oppressing colonies for raw materials. This is why the USSR didn't press as hard as they could have for spreading communism, because by their old theories, the USA and Britain would eventually end up fighting each other and they figured they'd just have to pick up the pieces. (I think France also bought into that theory which is why they dropped out of NATO and pissed everybody else off over the years trying to re-establish colonies and individual military force, but that is a different discussion.)
Iceland and Greece are vastly different situations. Iceland has a working economy but loaned more money than they had out of the country. Greece does not have a working economy and has loaned more money than they can afford to pay into the country.
Well, a formally nationalized Icelandic bank that was privatized due to pressure loaned out more money than it had, and Iceland refused to save the bank by nationalizing it again and let it fail because it would have put the entire country in debt for decades. Greece on the other hand has had its government spend more money than they have and they are already in debt.
No, it's really hard to hide in space. Pretty much the only way to do it is hide behind something else. Anything that isn't at background radiation levels of heat (3 kelvin) will be visible to anybody looking. Anything with enough heat to keep a person alive, have active electronics will glow fairly brightly. Anything putting out enough energy to alter course will glow a thousand times more. Given a wide array of observational sattelites and other sensors that will be up and running for years before any combat, everybody is going to know where everybody else is and where they are going pretty much at all times.
I have not used Lynx in many years but have tried to use later browsers such as IE4 (as default install with old an OS) and simply put, most webpages were not readable. If I went to something that was pure basic html (and old website of mine), it was fine, but most web pages were broken to the point of not even displaying anything. I can imagine that this would be even worse with Lynx. You'd go to a web page and probably just not see anything as scripting, flash, etc has become so common that the web is near non-funcitonal without it.
All of my corporate clients have iPads, yet even the least informed immediately realize the limitations of not being able to run any real desktop or access the company files.. While consumers could care less, businesses will adapt anything that improves productivity while conforming to security's infrastructure.
Which is why every corporate client I've seen so far has everything on RDC or Citrix clients that they can access and do everything on their iPads while not actually putting any corporate (or Healthcare) data on the remote device. They all realize that the portability of the iPad wins over a laptop unless they need an actual portable workstation, in which case, no software is going to make a slate tablet function how they desire.
Lets face it- all major technology companies have turned into patent trolls in the last decade or two. Apple has categorically attempted to sue every one of its major rivals out of the markets. Microsoft's still tries to extort money out of companies selling products they don't even compete with. Samsung, Motorola, Google- they're all at it too.
Well, you can probably blame Apple Records for all that. Their early legal battles against Apple Computers over name and moving computers into the realm of doing digital sound and music pretty much got Apple used to dealing with lawsuits and settling. Now, twenty years later, Apple is a company that is comfortable engaging in lawsuits until they get a settlement they can live with.
There ain't much on TV I care about except sports, weather and the occasional movie. The rest is crap.
My guess is that is why TV is heading to a revolution. I doubt if you will so much as get a 'smart tv' as a 'dumb computer' (with a tv card). Imagine an iMac running iOS that essentially works like a TV unless you want to browse the web, stream movies, play games, etc.
But, it needs to be done in a patient manner.
Ah, there's the problem. Americans are hardly known for their patience. If anything, I think we pride ourselves on a 'pro-active, get it done now' attitude. This seems to be one of the driving motivations and source of problems and solutions from since we were still colonies.
Let's see. Chances that a tablet running one app are less expensive than a PC running one app with a touch panel monitor?
I gotta think that Jobs saying he was going to destroy Android even if it took every last dollar of his stockholders money, kind of makes that obvious. You dont bankrupt a thriving company to fight something thats not a threat.
I thought it was Steve Jobs being on a vendetta because he felt Eric Schmidt had been spying for Google for years before resigning? Likewise their attack on Samsung who Apple feels has been stealing their designs while they're supposed to be acting as their manufacturer and thus betrayed their trust.
I've never seen a Catholic wearing a tinfoil hat. Can you provide evidence for this claim?
Whoa! Really? Never seen the pope? Why do you think that friggin' hat is so big, anyway? Yep, totally lined with tin-foil.
Nope, that's gold.
You say that though I was re-watching the film recently and it was the scene at the end where the mob marches on the armed police and the police use their own judgement and decide not to fire. Maybe I've been spending too much time on /. but I can't believe that in the current climate in that situation in the real world the police wouldn't fire and then chase them down.
Well, I offer the fall of the Berlin Wall. Due to a press release flub, the guy on TV said that the borders checkpoints would be open immediatly while the actual plan was for later, and thus no guards had been told anything about opening the checkpoints. When mobs of East Germans massed at the checkpoints demanding to be let through, the soldiers called in and never received a reply or orders. Finally, when things looked like it would have to turn violent, a pair of guards said "fuck it" and opened the gates, thus ending the Berlin Wall. It's just one anecdote, but it's pretty close to the one we're talking about.
I lived through this. Apple got rejected from the enterprise market because (a) they had no interest in competing with cheap commodity hardware...
I lived through this also as desktop support, and from my experience that simply is not true. Enterprise has no interest in cheap commodity hardware. We tried, and it was more trouble than it was worth (between performance, keeping track of hardware and drivers, and getting replacement of failed parts) and we just defaulted to Dell and Compaq which were pretty much the same cost for the same specs. Besides, the users who had the budgets were more than willing to pay for Macs. The main issues I encountered were that IT departments didn't have certs or knowledge that had anything to do with Macs, therefore they refused to deal with them and did not support them, and vendors made Windows only applications which forced enterprise to go all Windows.
As for networking, Macs had built in ethernet with the AAUI ports back when no PCs had ethernet, and Windows 3 had to use 3rd party software and edits to the autoconfig.bat (IIRC) files to use it. Win95 was much better than Win3 for networking, but there were still issues.
Keep in mind that Cracked is a humor site and strives for being funny over being accurate.
That said, what's the deal with the letter "ç"? It's basically an S every time I've heard it - why the heck don't you guys just use an "S"? d:
Because the S in english is a voiceless alveolar fricative and the ç is a voiceless palatal fricative, a sound english doesn't even have. You can substitute the S for the ç but you'll sound like some guy with an accent to a native speaker.
Wrong, "toqué" is an adjective. It is never used, anywhere, to refer to the hat, which is a noun. You'll never find a Frenchman who says "toqué".
I believe we are talking about Québécois here and not Frenchmen, and it would not be the first time I've heard a Frenchman say that the Québécois are not speaking French.
Well, we did say it was a "danger" did we not?
If this guy was sincere, he'd be proposing a 1% tax on sports equipment, sales of licensed sports franchise clothing, etc, and using the money to fund children's hospitals which treat the many crippling (and sometimes fatal) injuries that occur from childhood sports. (Check out the average number of high school students killed in school shootings each year, and the average number of high school students killed in school sports.)
It would be political suicide. OK is another state where football is king (even though about every football team in OK sucks). The typical 'never wins a game' high school football team will constantly get more money and more perks than a nationally recognized academic group. More than once while growing up there, I've seen money other groups (band, debate, etc) that they had raised through fundraisers for trips and put into the school account, be taken out by the principle and used to buy the football team a pizza party.
OK is not a "Southern" state, dick, it's mid-west. Neither the people there claim to be southerners, nor do southerners claim OK.
As an Okie, I can tell you that no mid-westerner claims OK either. It's in a weird spot on the map. It did fight on the side of the South in the civil war (or at least the indians did) and is considered South for lots of lists. It's in the Mid-West section of the US census. While living there, I remember thinking of the Great Plains States (between the Rockies and Mississippi) as mid-west certainly not Ohio or Indiana, but they claim to be mid-west and are so on the US census. Culturally, OK is more the bastard step son of Texas than anything to do with Kansas or other states around it. It's all oil and cattle and pretty much is a Texas where nothing is large or proud.
There's no danger of Linux gaining market ascendancy.
Except in the mobile market.
The only thing they at had at first had was white headphones and a bunch of monocrome dancing ads, but, as history has shown, marketing beat out the technically superior product. It wasn't till about 2005 that the iPod actually became the superior product.
I think what they had was iTunes which did everything. Now I didn't need to use one program to rip CDs, another to play them, and manage all the files myself. I just put in a CD and clicked a button and it was in my library, could be played on my computer, and would be copied to my iPod once I connected it. I certainly don't remember it being a nightmare on OSX, but exactly the opposite. However, I didn't actually get an iPod till the 3rd gen. One thing that really helped the iPod, was that it never stood still. Every year a new generation came out with new features, by the 3rd gen, I knew that it would eventually replace my trusty PDA by eventually having all the features my PDA had. (My phone took that spot before the iPod Touch came out however.) This also gives people a reason to upgrade even if their old one is still working. Not because they just want the newest and shiniest, but because they actually have new features that can be used.
Deep down inside they are suing because they don't like Gingrich. Just my guess though.
My guess is that they want to be paid. From what I understand talking to my musician friends, making records and playing music is not where the money is in the music business. The real money is in licensing. The amount of money that the Republican party would pay for use of a song (or a company for use in an ad, tv show, or a game) is more than they would ever make off of record sales or doing concerts.
True I meant nothing against the Chinese. It't that those assembly jobs are minimum wage type jobs that we already have plenty of and are being unfilled. (If minimum wage is enough would be a separate discussion.) My main point is why we are worrying about those jobs, and not more on what I understand to be the more highly paid jobs manufacturing the components that are being done in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea? Of course, for that to happen, we'd need a skilled and educated work force and the technological R&D to become competitive.
No, the Chinese assembly jobs aren't coming back, and if they do, they'd be done by machine. Even if they did come back for actual people, the only people who would want them would be immigrants. They aren't coming back and we don't want them. They're low paying crap jobs for unskilled workers. What we should be looking at are the more highly skilled jobs making the components that go to the assembling plant. Why are we focused on jobs going to China when Taiwan makes as much as they do and South Korea makes three and a half times what China does off the iPad according to The Economist?
Minimum for what? To keep the hordes of invasion fleets from reaching our shores? I don't seem to remember these battles. To help protect our allies and friends? Perhaps they should help foot the bill for their protection. To protect our interests across the world? Well, perhaps we should just stop protecting our interests as it evidently isn't cost effective. I'm all for having a strong military, the best military in the world even. However, ours looks to be way too large for what we need to be the biggest and best in the world. Either cut it down to what we can actually pay, or tell us why we are really out there.