Ok, So 1 Trillion over 10 years. 100 Billion per year. That is 20 billion per state per year.
In comparison, the average gross funding per state for education in 2011 was 16.17 billion dollars. Our number one curable cause of poverty and crime is lack of a good education. That money doubles the budget of every state's educational funds and has 25% unspent. Small change? Insignificant? I think not.
Z80 is what I cut my teeth on for serious binary programming. I really like the index instructions and the relative simplicity of the overall instruction set compared to others I worked with.
Extremists (liberal and conservative) are all intolerant individuals when it comes to whatever they are being *extreme* about. The very nature of extremism does not allow for any kind of rational discourse. But, in the US, our society at large is becoming more and more polarized be opposing extremist viewpoints. Both sides would rather hold the country hostage to their demands than work together. Just ask yourself, who benefits from a sharply divided country full of strife the most?
Absolutely correct. But, the impetus is that government involvement, no matter how unsavory must be used to counter the mega power of large corporations and the greed that drives them to maximize the cash they take. And that involves an educated, honestly informed and intelligent public. I wish everyone lots of luck,
Try 130. That is not even the nice package. With a long term contract (5 yrs), I can get it down to 90 per month. And the bandwidth is almost never what is advertised (they guarantee a whole lot less, and aim to achieve it). Yep, a wonderful deal. I am in a city, so its not a rural thing, and there is plenty of dark fiber in town. The network is on fiber to the last mile, then coax. There are many times I get less than 100kbit out of the damn thing that is supposed to be 32Mbyte (yes Mbyte) on a cross town connection. That rules out up link, portal and internet in general. That is just the local loop.
There is no real competition. I want to know what congress is going to do about the huge money grant to the telecomm industry that was never used as guaranteed. Start with the hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks, loans, grants, tech incentives, etc. Get the telecomm to use it as it was intended and the network might be something to write home about. Or take the lying corpies over, and force them to do the correct thing, then part and parcel them out as small entities that are not allowed to be swallowed up again (like newspapers were at one time). Minimum of two providers in each area, or mandated sensible rates and service. Real open accounting and books, and public oversight (not political) of there operations.
We could also simply fire the FCC and start from scratch, but I am not sure that would work with the unholy union of big business and political parties in the US.
How about users sue advertisers for gumming up their internet bandwidth, raising the cost of service and slowing down their performance. Many ad burdened pages have loading issues, and eat up extra bandwidth. Many sites I have never returned to due to the ads on the site. Here is another hint for marketers.. It is a smart medium where most of the people not on a few of the service (facebook, mypage, etc.) are intelligent users who are not going to fall for the ad game as normal. Many left TV for the same reason your ads do not work on us the way you expect. Yes, many of us remember the names we are bombarded with. Many of us refuse to buy those products as well. Call it counter culture, or just being fed up with corporatism and consumerism's worst aspects. Whatever it is, it is. Your lies and deceit has been planted and this is your harvest.
And this is the reason I block all ad server contents to my network. Almost every virus I have ever found on one of our systems has come from an ad impression.
If the advertising servers want to get picky about me blocking the content provided by or through them, then they better be ready for a class action lawsuit for for the malware and inappropriate content they facilitate through their services
If they offered up accurate, honest and safe advertising, I would have little issue with that. The problem is most ads fail on two of three. I will not let the kids be bombarded with lies, lies, lies. I will not leave the network open to malware via advertisements. I will not allow cross site scripts/content to run from anything but highly trusted sites. None of the ad sites qualify in those cases.
To the advertisers. When I want something, I look for it. I read the content I can find on the Internet. If it is too *advertisy*, I typically close that page and go on. Stop making trash ads and start making truly informative, reviewable honest ads. Maybe I would be inclined to read it if it was not the utter nonsense that is normally spouted out.
BTW - I do subscribe to email notices of things I am interested in. I do bookmark and watch sites of products that I am interested in. I do communicate with my friends and family about sites that are full of poppycock to avoid them and their products. I am a modern customer, and I demand intelligent honest marketing that is neither blatant nor unwanted.
You have to understand, the average person has no desire to think, let alone think hard. That is why the political system is so broken. It too was based upon the idea of people being passionate about their society, being willing to think hard. Today's average citizen gets about as far as pop tv and stops.
Another way to see this is that unlike "any other corrupt right-wing stooge that appears on Fox News", she showed integrity and reported what she found without falsifying the data or running multiple studies looking for the one that backed her beliefs. Who knows?
Or, maybe what you are really seeing is that Fox News picks their own stories and thus draws upon stories of a certain bent (market share/shill) without regards to the source. That I find very plausible.
Hmm. You said it yourself, they (the board) hire the CEO (they select he person) and they set the priorities. Then the CEO has to execute those priorities and meet the board's goals. Think about that. Then think about derivatives, mortgages, and the economy in general. Then connect those dots with the fact that most boards look like HP's board. Any wonder why we have the issues we do today? It is all the same. Short term profits and stock prices outweigh long term investments and sound business policy. Quick dollars for the funds and the share holders, who bail when those end. Seems like the "functions of the board" is the issue anyway.
Yes and no. True, it will still take decades to centuries to get anywhere. Robots don't have to worry about biological functions though, so those waits are mere seconds to a robot. And, machines can handle much higher accelerations than people. So, they can get to a higher speed faster than a manned flight could.
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I prefer electric cattle prods to words. I find the reward/punishment ratio to be much more conducive to the desired behavior.
Ok, So 1 Trillion over 10 years. 100 Billion per year. That is 20 billion per state per year.
In comparison, the average gross funding per state for education in 2011 was 16.17 billion dollars. Our number one curable cause of poverty and crime is lack of a good education. That money doubles the budget of every state's educational funds and has 25% unspent. Small change? Insignificant? I think not.
Are you kidding? I routinely run excel into the ground on an i7 with 16 gig of ram.
In other words, I will not be spending any money on these either.
Z80 is what I cut my teeth on for serious binary programming. I really like the index instructions and the relative simplicity of the overall instruction set compared to others I worked with.
Bad timing while drinking soda. Friggin hilarious.
The US of Soviet Russia?
Hmm. I simply don't buy anything EA anymore.
By my understanding, the current generation is not falling under the better off trend for the vast majority of its members.
I run my centrifuges on AmigaOS. No problems ever.
Extremists (liberal and conservative) are all intolerant individuals when it comes to whatever they are being *extreme* about. The very nature of extremism does not allow for any kind of rational discourse. But, in the US, our society at large is becoming more and more polarized be opposing extremist viewpoints. Both sides would rather hold the country hostage to their demands than work together. Just ask yourself, who benefits from a sharply divided country full of strife the most?
Absolutely correct. But, the impetus is that government involvement, no matter how unsavory must be used to counter the mega power of large corporations and the greed that drives them to maximize the cash they take. And that involves an educated, honestly informed and intelligent public. I wish everyone lots of luck,
Try 130. That is not even the nice package. With a long term contract (5 yrs), I can get it down to 90 per month. And the bandwidth is almost never what is advertised (they guarantee a whole lot less, and aim to achieve it). Yep, a wonderful deal. I am in a city, so its not a rural thing, and there is plenty of dark fiber in town. The network is on fiber to the last mile, then coax. There are many times I get less than 100kbit out of the damn thing that is supposed to be 32Mbyte (yes Mbyte) on a cross town connection. That rules out up link, portal and internet in general. That is just the local loop.
There is no real competition. I want to know what congress is going to do about the huge money grant to the telecomm industry that was never used as guaranteed. Start with the hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks, loans, grants, tech incentives, etc. Get the telecomm to use it as it was intended and the network might be something to write home about. Or take the lying corpies over, and force them to do the correct thing, then part and parcel them out as small entities that are not allowed to be swallowed up again (like newspapers were at one time). Minimum of two providers in each area, or mandated sensible rates and service. Real open accounting and books, and public oversight (not political) of there operations.
We could also simply fire the FCC and start from scratch, but I am not sure that would work with the unholy union of big business and political parties in the US.
How about users sue advertisers for gumming up their internet bandwidth, raising the cost of service and slowing down their performance. Many ad burdened pages have loading issues, and eat up extra bandwidth. Many sites I have never returned to due to the ads on the site. Here is another hint for marketers.. It is a smart medium where most of the people not on a few of the service (facebook, mypage, etc.) are intelligent users who are not going to fall for the ad game as normal. Many left TV for the same reason your ads do not work on us the way you expect. Yes, many of us remember the names we are bombarded with. Many of us refuse to buy those products as well. Call it counter culture, or just being fed up with corporatism and consumerism's worst aspects. Whatever it is, it is. Your lies and deceit has been planted and this is your harvest.
And this is the reason I block all ad server contents to my network. Almost every virus I have ever found on one of our systems has come from an ad impression.
If the advertising servers want to get picky about me blocking the content provided by or through them, then they better be ready for a class action lawsuit for for the malware and inappropriate content they facilitate through their services
If they offered up accurate, honest and safe advertising, I would have little issue with that. The problem is most ads fail on two of three. I will not let the kids be bombarded with lies, lies, lies. I will not leave the network open to malware via advertisements. I will not allow cross site scripts/content to run from anything but highly trusted sites. None of the ad sites qualify in those cases.
To the advertisers. When I want something, I look for it. I read the content I can find on the Internet. If it is too *advertisy*, I typically close that page and go on. Stop making trash ads and start making truly informative, reviewable honest ads. Maybe I would be inclined to read it if it was not the utter nonsense that is normally spouted out.
BTW - I do subscribe to email notices of things I am interested in. I do bookmark and watch sites of products that I am interested in. I do communicate with my friends and family about sites that are full of poppycock to avoid them and their products. I am a modern customer, and I demand intelligent honest marketing that is neither blatant nor unwanted.
LMAO!!! Microsoft following the law because here are potentially serious fines. Where have you been for the past 30 years?
Let Texas leave the union. That solves that as well.
I think you should amend that to read Reagan or Cheney. 8)
Right... No such thing as taking someone else's idea then suing them to prevent them from using it. Must be the toon land reruns.
I wonder if that would be related to the amount of lumber cut down in the past few hundred years?
You have to understand, the average person has no desire to think, let alone think hard. That is why the political system is so broken. It too was based upon the idea of people being passionate about their society, being willing to think hard. Today's average citizen gets about as far as pop tv and stops.
The general public's misuse of that term is just one more example of why the general public fails at so much.
Technically, the internet itself was developed by DARPA. But the WWW was "invented" by Tim Berners-Lee.
I will just throw these links out for some light reading on some of the stuff that the *WWW* is based upon.
Another way to see this is that unlike "any other corrupt right-wing stooge that appears on Fox News", she showed integrity and reported what she found without falsifying the data or running multiple studies looking for the one that backed her beliefs. Who knows?
Or, maybe what you are really seeing is that Fox News picks their own stories and thus draws upon stories of a certain bent (market share/shill) without regards to the source. That I find very plausible.
Hmm. You said it yourself, they (the board) hire the CEO (they select he person) and they set the priorities. Then the CEO has to execute those priorities and meet the board's goals. Think about that. Then think about derivatives, mortgages, and the economy in general. Then connect those dots with the fact that most boards look like HP's board. Any wonder why we have the issues we do today? It is all the same. Short term profits and stock prices outweigh long term investments and sound business policy. Quick dollars for the funds and the share holders, who bail when those end. Seems like the "functions of the board" is the issue anyway.
Yes and no. True, it will still take decades to centuries to get anywhere. Robots don't have to worry about biological functions though, so those waits are mere seconds to a robot. And, machines can handle much higher accelerations than people. So, they can get to a higher speed faster than a manned flight could.