With all due respect to context, Obama's statement completely discounts the effort, innovation, hard work and, oftentimes, personal risk that goes into building a business. He, instead, places the sole focus and credit on the roll of the government in providing infrastructure and public education. Those of use who take issue with his statement see this great infrastructure as an enabler, but not an acting agent in building a successful company. If the opposite were true, we'd all be CEOs.
I'm quite comfortable with my interpretation of his words. It's consistent with his view of government as the great provider.
Ha! Wanting to keep money you've earned is greedy. YOUR MONEY. I suppose you don't believe in property ownership either.
In the last four years, the words "racist" and "extremist" have lost all meaning -- being thrown about carelessly by one side of the aisle in futile attempt to belittle the opposition. Now, "greed" is also taking on new meaning: Unwillingness to surrender personal wealth to the state for re-appropriation. But, it's ok, because hey... you didn't build that.
Who has promised "fiber-like" service to everyone's home?
And, who said $10?
Yeah, $5 per person per month for 5 muxed fiber uplinks, and no bandwidth cap, would be even better, as long as we're rubbing the lamp and making wishes.
I went to a state college (the University of Utah), and never took out a student loan. I worked part and full time during each semester, and two jobs during the summer to get my "4-year" Computer Engineering degree in 7.5 years. I'm not patting myself on the back -- I'm pointing out that there are alternatives to digging one's self into debt oblivion for the sake of a degree. I'd have a hard time believing this couldn't be done in other states around the US as well.
And, call me a snob, but I have little sympathy for the latte-sipping, indoor scarf wearing hipster who went $100k in the red at a private college to study art history.
I understand this. Student loans are shady -- granted. This does not change that fact that each person taking out the loan consciously and freely made the decision to sign on the dotted line. They knew how much debt they would be incurring, and under what interest rate they'd have to pay.
And again, the burden of student loans is not even in the same ballpark as the imposed British tyranny and taxation that sparked the Revolution.
Was New Coke risky?
Was Gnome 3 risky?
Was the American version of Iron Chef risky?
Was a sequel to The Matrix risky? (Actually, it shouldn't have been, but...)
Is building your own boat from scratch a wasted effort, simply because you can buy one at the boat store? Sometimes, you can look at these projects as labors of love (or hobbies), the fruits of which we can also enjoy... or not.
I don't see this as a wasted effort. Some people will find it useful. Other developers may see new features that they choose to also implement in other projects. The potential benefits are innumerable.
Runs on my GS2, but I have the T-Mobile variant (Qualcom micro, instead of Exynos). I get audio, but it's choppy -- like audio frames are sacrificially dropped to maintain smooth video performance.
We've given up far too much utility in exchange for the very few extras gained by "modern" capacitive touchscreens.
If you want to use a stylus, I suppose you're right. But most people probably, though I have no statistics to back this up, prefer using their finger. It all depends on the use case. If you want to use a stylus to do things like graffiti-style entry, resistive is the way to go. But, if you prefer the ruggedness of being able to have a solid Gorilla Glass touchscreen, the ease of tapping icons, scrolling with flicks and pinch/zoom with multi-touch, resistive can't handle the task.
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With all due respect to context, Obama's statement completely discounts the effort, innovation, hard work and, oftentimes, personal risk that goes into building a business. He, instead, places the sole focus and credit on the roll of the government in providing infrastructure and public education. Those of use who take issue with his statement see this great infrastructure as an enabler, but not an acting agent in building a successful company. If the opposite were true, we'd all be CEOs.
I'm quite comfortable with my interpretation of his words. It's consistent with his view of government as the great provider.
"If you've got a business, you didn't build that.".
Somebody who looks and sounds a hell of a lot like Obama said it on July 13, 2012.
Ha! Wanting to keep money you've earned is greedy. YOUR MONEY. I suppose you don't believe in property ownership either.
In the last four years, the words "racist" and "extremist" have lost all meaning -- being thrown about carelessly by one side of the aisle in futile attempt to belittle the opposition. Now, "greed" is also taking on new meaning: Unwillingness to surrender personal wealth to the state for re-appropriation. But, it's ok, because hey... you didn't build that.
Who has promised "fiber-like" service to everyone's home?
And, who said $10?
Yeah, $5 per person per month for 5 muxed fiber uplinks, and no bandwidth cap, would be even better, as long as we're rubbing the lamp and making wishes.
"If paying a small tax will guarantee completely free..."
This view of taxation and government provision never ceases to amuse.
"48% of the time, *finger snap* it works 100% of the time."
And Obama. Don't forget, he's a "Christian."
I went to a state college (the University of Utah), and never took out a student loan. I worked part and full time during each semester, and two jobs during the summer to get my "4-year" Computer Engineering degree in 7.5 years. I'm not patting myself on the back -- I'm pointing out that there are alternatives to digging one's self into debt oblivion for the sake of a degree. I'd have a hard time believing this couldn't be done in other states around the US as well.
And, call me a snob, but I have little sympathy for the latte-sipping, indoor scarf wearing hipster who went $100k in the red at a private college to study art history.
I understand this. Student loans are shady -- granted. This does not change that fact that each person taking out the loan consciously and freely made the decision to sign on the dotted line. They knew how much debt they would be incurring, and under what interest rate they'd have to pay.
And again, the burden of student loans is not even in the same ballpark as the imposed British tyranny and taxation that sparked the Revolution.
The student debt that they willingly incurred? That, versus the imposed British taxation... yeah, there's a difference.
Was New Coke risky?
Was Gnome 3 risky?
Was the American version of Iron Chef risky?
Was a sequel to The Matrix risky? (Actually, it shouldn't have been, but...)
We'll see how well this plays out.
Is building your own boat from scratch a wasted effort, simply because you can buy one at the boat store? Sometimes, you can look at these projects as labors of love (or hobbies), the fruits of which we can also enjoy... or not.
I don't see this as a wasted effort. Some people will find it useful. Other developers may see new features that they choose to also implement in other projects. The potential benefits are innumerable.
100% compatibility with MS Office is something that even MS office can't offer.
Yeah, this is why both Google Docs and Open/LiberOffice utilize and support ODF. Sure, it's just hand-waving.
Please.
Thanks for that, National Geographic. ...d' I mean... Slashdot? Hey, waitaminute.
So... it's only murder if they can feel pain. Gotcha.
You're right. Puncturing the skull and sucking the brain out is far less barbaric than the old coat hanger method.
Witness the staggering intellect exhibited by a typical libtard.
Neither of your idiotic analogies equate to murder.
"That's weird. How come Disneyland and every graveyard are covered with little, blue flags on this map?"
Religion has very little, if anything to do with it.
...actually, standard def stuff plays fine. Anything 720P and above is where it starts to choke. Very promising.
Runs on my GS2, but I have the T-Mobile variant (Qualcom micro, instead of Exynos). I get audio, but it's choppy -- like audio frames are sacrificially dropped to maintain smooth video performance.
If you want to use a stylus, I suppose you're right. But most people probably, though I have no statistics to back this up, prefer using their finger. It all depends on the use case. If you want to use a stylus to do things like graffiti-style entry, resistive is the way to go. But, if you prefer the ruggedness of being able to have a solid Gorilla Glass touchscreen, the ease of tapping icons, scrolling with flicks and pinch/zoom with multi-touch, resistive can't handle the task.
Odmae the arentpae up, eh.