I think employers get better results when they care less about what employees are doing minute-to-minute but have some metric for tracking success at a job function. And I want the government to be an employer that gets results.
I want government to not work, period. The less government does the less it will mess things up.
If I was in charge of the most economically powerful, and previously untouchable country in the world, and all of a sudden 9/11 happened how would I react? I have no idea. I might start implementing ultra paranoid and reactionary national security policies too...
The thing is is the US helped create and motivate the terrorists. The US aided and supported the terrorists who got their training in Afghanistan. More recently, shortly after taking office Pres Bush gave the Taliban, who were supporting and shielding al Qaeda, millions of US taxpayer dollars. In Israel, one of the Palestinian groups that's classified as terrorist, though I'm not sure I think it's hezbollah, was originally an Israeli registered charity in the 1980s. Israel wanted a religious charity to counteract the secular PLO. Now there are different Palestinian factions fighting each other along with the Israelis. Blowback can happen when you're not careful about your actions.
If it worked, the "war on poverty" in the United States would have ended long ago
While I support a war on poverty, the US isn't fighting one. The way the welfare system is set up in the US, it's designed to keep people dependent. If a person on welfare is able to get a job that pays a wage they then can loose what aid they're getting. I recall years ago I was working full tyme while attending college part tyme. My employer didn't offer health insurance so I looked into getting some for myself. The cheapest I found would have cost me 1/3 of my income, and I was barely able to pay for college. Someone I knew suggested I check with the county for coverage, so I went to the county health department. There they told me I made too much to be eligible for assistance.
In the USA, personal freedoms trump collective freedoms every time.
As TFA and others point out many Americans want to feel safe and don't care about privacy.
So even though paying more for inner-city schools helps society as a whole, it doesn't happen in the USA because it goes against their individualist grain.
Ah, I bet inner city school don't get more money per student than suburban schools, except maybe for charter or magnet schools.
Ditto spending money on programs instead of prisons.
To cut the prison population of the nation with the world's largest prison population in half just takes one step, get rid of all of the victimless crime laws such as drug laws. Instead of using taxpayer money to lock people up set them free where they will work and improve the economy. Then with less spent on prisons and more earning money and paying taxes, revenue can then be used where it's needed.
Ohio has quite an eclectic population. They so readily sell themselves out like this
Exactly what did Ohio sellout? About all I can see is they sold out monopolies. Now a bunch of potential service providers can apply to be authorized to sell services. Actually other than AT&T and Time Warner 8 other companies have applied. I wish I could chuse from a pool of 10 providers for broadband.
I have Time Warner at two different residences and for some reason they charge me two different rates for Road Runner. Also, having decided I want to save money, I canceled cable at one residence so I would just be paying for Road Runner. Unfortunately, Road Runner was cheaper since I was getting some sort of package deal, which was then no longer in effect. So, my rate on Road Runner went up, thus saving me no money.
At my other residence, Road Runner quits working for several days every now and again. I keep calling tech support, they keep saying it's my fault. Other people with Road Runner in the same apartment complex have the same issue at the same time. So, no, it's not my fault. My cable modem did not just spontaneously decide to quit working.
If Verizon were any better at either location, I would switch. Until some good competition forms, I'm stuck with one of two evils.
How is it worse now? Instead of only having 1 or 3 choices more companies can compeat to provide you services.
I will bet you that AT&T was praying for exclusivity after buying the legislation in Ohio
Can you show me anywhere where it says it's exclusive? Or did you just make it up?
I have DirecTV. Will not use U-Verse or Time/Wasted. I have had zero transport problems with DirecTV since I have been with them. The only issue that I have had was when a new HD box shot craps. It was replaced in no time at all
My service is delivered through TWC, well ComCast now, and the only problem I had was trouble with my connection twice. The first tyme less than 10 minutes on the phone the phone and Time Warner scheduled a tech to drop off a new cable modem the next day. Ten minutes after he arrived he left, after setting it up and replacing some cable and a splitter. The new modem was even faster than the old one. The second tyme again less than 10 minutes later a tech was scheduled to come by the next day. This tyme it turned out the cable from the pole to the house had to be replaced. Because he had to wait for another tech to help him string a new cable it took maybe an hour. I've only had good service from Time Warner!
I am of course being sarcastic, but it could it worse...Comcast could have won the state wide agreement. I take dial up over those fuckers!
If ComCast gets authorization, they are one of the 8 companies that applied other than ATT and TWC, there's more competition so there should be lower prices and or better service. I which I had 10 choices as to who I got my service from.
Because it appears you RTFA and understood it instead of just scanned the title. I bet most of those who have post about this being bad did not read the article.
The first positive point of this is that AT&T didn't get any sort of exclusivity rule. If you think TW Cable is bad, try dealing with Ameritech^H SBC^H AT&T. Secondly, many of us are already stuck with TW Cable, so it won't get any worse. Although it's too bad for those areas that were previously covered by Cox Cable, which has a much better consumer reputation.
If Cox Cable provides good service and all the others offer horrible service why would any Cox customers switch? Or are you saying that because of competition Cox will turn bad? Why would they do that? All their customers would have to do is switch to a better service provider.
No kidding. This reminds me of why I don't miss living in Ohio; the politics of that place suck. How anyone thinks instituting a monopoloy is a good idea is beyond me. It flies in this face of economic and common sense, hence, the Ohio government thinks it's A Good Thing.... idiots.
As it says nothing about granting an exclusive license it say nothing about being monopoly.
I cannot understand for the life of me why this is allowed, much less encouraged by the government. It's a state-sanctioned monopoly, pure and simple, and it's killing competition and forcing people to go with TW, which sucks shit.
Did you RTFA? I know many/.ers don't read articles, so they miss out on what TFAs actually say. In this case it says that not only has TWC has applied for authorization, as has ATT, but that 8 other companies have too. Maybe it's not as many choices as some would like but it's nowhere near being a monopoly, neither is it a duopoly.
But this is not a socialist breakdown of the free market, it's exactly what happens in free markets with no regulation - the move towards monopolies.
Many regulations create monopolies. When a regulation makes it hard if not impossible to enter a market then you have monopolies, duopolises, or otherwise are restricting competition and the market. One way to solve this is by having locals, whether they be a coop, city or county government, or nonprofit organization own the physical infrastructure and mandate they allow anyone to use it. A good example of this is in northeastern Utah where a group of communities got together to create a Broadband Utopia. Businesses can use the infrastructure to offer net access, phone service, and or cable tv to customers. It allows 30M bps net connections now but is capable of 100M bps.
No, not really. Serbia was actually conducting an ethnic cleansing program.
So were Croats and Albanians. That doesn't mean all of those mass graves were real. All sides in the former Yugoslavia participated in ethnic cleansing, Albanian and Bosnian Muslims, Croatian Catholics, and Serbian Orthodox Christians. That doesn't mean Serbia was guilt of all that was bad, no matter what you or anyone else thinks. The only tyme people of all 3 faiths got along was under Josip Broz Tito's rule, though those who supported the NAZIs did face prosecution. He worked at uniting all of the people otherwise.
For broadband, you bought (or rented from them) your cablemodem, so you had a choice to buy something decent and not get stuck with some used/broken POS. Good luck getting T/W to acknowledge you have a problem that isn't somehow your fault.
I had my ISP service through Time Warner, now ComCast, and once I started having trouble with my connection so I called TWC. I didn't have to wait more than 5 minutes to talk to a tech. He took me through some tests, which took a few more minutes, then he said the modem needed to be replaced. He arranged a new one to be dropped off the following day. When the tech delivering the modem came by he set it up and tested the setup. He noticed some problems with the cable and splitter being used so he replaced those. Ten minutes after arrival he was done, and I had a faster cable modem.
Bizarrely, everyone will find that they receive FoxNews with the clearest, best reception, and that all other channels seem to have more snow...
It's disturbing that Time Warner would block it's own news services while making sure everyone will get it's competitor FoxNew clear. Perhaps I should file a shareholder resolution to stop this and if that doesn't work file a lawsuit against the board of directors for not exercising fiducial responsibility.
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Wrong. The W3C restructured the original HTML working group. Here is [mit.edu] Tim Berners-Lee's initial message about the refocusing of the efforts for evolving HTML, and here are the details [w3.org] for the two new working groups - the HMTL working group and the XHTML2 working group.
The IBM document is wrong then. Here's what it says:
" Some prominent HTML specialists outside the W3C--browser vendors, Web developers, authors, and other stakeholders--disagreed with the direction of XHTML V2. In 2004, they started an independent work group to propose an alternative direction for the next version of HTML. Under the flag of WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group), the group put together proposals for HTML V5 and Web Forms V2."
It goes on to say the W3C later, in April 2007, voted to adopt html 5.
I haven't looked at it for quite a while, but at least for many years, the "CSE HTML Validator" wasn't actually a validator
Thanks for that. I wonder why I didn't hear this earlier. See, several years ago for classes in college we had to write, and validate, xhtml and the professors had us use CSE's HTML Validator. They arranged a deal with CSE for students to buy an unlimited version, there was a free 50 use version but students could easily use it more than 50 tymes, at a reduced cost.
I liked it, and didn't find it awkward to install on either of the two PCs I installed it on. Back then though I had Windows now I have a Mac. I also liked XMLSpy.
You know, it might be useful for Slashdot to simply turn off the HTML capability and use Wiki style entries. The amount of bad HTML here is scary, perhaps a "run weblint on this" sanitizer would be better?
Actually I'd prefer to see more html. For instance being able to use a table is sometimes helpful. Or maybe add graphics. I could see too many people abusing graphics though and overloading storage. Maybe require a validator, say either the W3C's online validator or software validators like CSE's HTML Validator.
Wonder if heads rolled at PM after publishing the 'New Million- Dollar crop'? I didn't even realize that PM was owned by Hearst
After posting I started wondering if maybe the MP article brought it home to Hearst just how much a threat hemp was, in which case I could see him giving the writers a bonus for raising a warning flag. Hearst also publishes a bunch of other magazines, they even publish Oprah's magazine.
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There is an HTML WG at the W3C chartered [w3.org] to create a new version of HTML. A basis for review means, in W3C language, a starting document that will then be reviewed and changed as needed.
However html 5 was started outside of the W3C by an independent group.
The prices are competitive except for memory and HD upgrades, which are vastly overpriced. It's not difficult to do them yourself, but still, it's worth noting.
Yeah, I got my MBP with 2GB RAM instead of 4GB because Apple wanted another $600 whereas at the tyme the street price of 2GB was less than half that. At least I can add 2GB later though, Apple even included instructions on how to add RAM. I was disappointed in the choses for hard disks though.
I don't think Slashdot breaking every time an AC forgets to close his i tag is a good thing.:-)
That's one reason I always try to preview before I post, no actually I preview so I can edit before posting. However I still let some mistake slip by.
While one could write a tidy program (and people have) that tries to clean up badly formatted code, they are no more perfect than the "guess what you mean" algorithms in the browser itself. It just moves the "guess what the user means" algorithm to the server instead of the browser. That's not much of an improvement.
Though using one adds work, a validater helps here.
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I think employers get better results when they care less about what employees are doing minute-to-minute but have some metric for tracking success at a job function. And I want the government to be an employer that gets results.
I want government to not work, period. The less government does the less it will mess things up.
FalconIf I was in charge of the most economically powerful, and previously untouchable country in the world, and all of a sudden 9/11 happened how would I react? I have no idea. I might start implementing ultra paranoid and reactionary national security policies too...
The thing is is the US helped create and motivate the terrorists. The US aided and supported the terrorists who got their training in Afghanistan. More recently, shortly after taking office Pres Bush gave the Taliban, who were supporting and shielding al Qaeda, millions of US taxpayer dollars. In Israel, one of the Palestinian groups that's classified as terrorist, though I'm not sure I think it's hezbollah, was originally an Israeli registered charity in the 1980s. Israel wanted a religious charity to counteract the secular PLO. Now there are different Palestinian factions fighting each other along with the Israelis. Blowback can happen when you're not careful about your actions.
FalconIf it worked, the "war on poverty" in the United States would have ended long ago
While I support a war on poverty, the US isn't fighting one. The way the welfare system is set up in the US, it's designed to keep people dependent. If a person on welfare is able to get a job that pays a wage they then can loose what aid they're getting. I recall years ago I was working full tyme while attending college part tyme. My employer didn't offer health insurance so I looked into getting some for myself. The cheapest I found would have cost me 1/3 of my income, and I was barely able to pay for college. Someone I knew suggested I check with the county for coverage, so I went to the county health department. There they told me I made too much to be eligible for assistance.
FalconIn the USA, personal freedoms trump collective freedoms every time.
As TFA and others point out many Americans want to feel safe and don't care about privacy.
So even though paying more for inner-city schools helps society as a whole, it doesn't happen in the USA because it goes against their individualist grain.
Ah, I bet inner city school don't get more money per student than suburban schools, except maybe for charter or magnet schools.
Ditto spending money on programs instead of prisons.
To cut the prison population of the nation with the world's largest prison population in half just takes one step, get rid of all of the victimless crime laws such as drug laws. Instead of using taxpayer money to lock people up set them free where they will work and improve the economy. Then with less spent on prisons and more earning money and paying taxes, revenue can then be used where it's needed.
FalconOhio has quite an eclectic population. They so readily sell themselves out like this
Exactly what did Ohio sellout? About all I can see is they sold out monopolies. Now a bunch of potential service providers can apply to be authorized to sell services. Actually other than AT&T and Time Warner 8 other companies have applied. I wish I could chuse from a pool of 10 providers for broadband.
FalconI have Time Warner at two different residences and for some reason they charge me two different rates for Road Runner. Also, having decided I want to save money, I canceled cable at one residence so I would just be paying for Road Runner. Unfortunately, Road Runner was cheaper since I was getting some sort of package deal, which was then no longer in effect. So, my rate on Road Runner went up, thus saving me no money.
At my other residence, Road Runner quits working for several days every now and again. I keep calling tech support, they keep saying it's my fault. Other people with Road Runner in the same apartment complex have the same issue at the same time. So, no, it's not my fault. My cable modem did not just spontaneously decide to quit working. If Verizon were any better at either location, I would switch. Until some good competition forms, I'm stuck with one of two evils.
How is it worse now? Instead of only having 1 or 3 choices more companies can compeat to provide you services.
FalconI will bet you that AT&T was praying for exclusivity after buying the legislation in Ohio
Can you show me anywhere where it says it's exclusive? Or did you just make it up?
I have DirecTV. Will not use U-Verse or Time/Wasted. I have had zero transport problems with DirecTV since I have been with them. The only issue that I have had was when a new HD box shot craps. It was replaced in no time at all
My service is delivered through TWC, well ComCast now, and the only problem I had was trouble with my connection twice. The first tyme less than 10 minutes on the phone the phone and Time Warner scheduled a tech to drop off a new cable modem the next day. Ten minutes after he arrived he left, after setting it up and replacing some cable and a splitter. The new modem was even faster than the old one. The second tyme again less than 10 minutes later a tech was scheduled to come by the next day. This tyme it turned out the cable from the pole to the house had to be replaced. Because he had to wait for another tech to help him string a new cable it took maybe an hour. I've only had good service from Time Warner!
FalconI am of course being sarcastic, but it could it worse...Comcast could have won the state wide agreement. I take dial up over those fuckers!
If ComCast gets authorization, they are one of the 8 companies that applied other than ATT and TWC, there's more competition so there should be lower prices and or better service. I which I had 10 choices as to who I got my service from.
FalconI personally fail to see the monopoly.
Because it appears you RTFA and understood it instead of just scanned the title. I bet most of those who have post about this being bad did not read the article.
FalconIt's still not exclusive therefore it's not a monopoly.
FalconThe first positive point of this is that AT&T didn't get any sort of exclusivity rule. If you think TW Cable is bad, try dealing with Ameritech^H SBC^H AT&T. Secondly, many of us are already stuck with TW Cable, so it won't get any worse. Although it's too bad for those areas that were previously covered by Cox Cable, which has a much better consumer reputation.
If Cox Cable provides good service and all the others offer horrible service why would any Cox customers switch? Or are you saying that because of competition Cox will turn bad? Why would they do that? All their customers would have to do is switch to a better service provider.
FalconNo kidding. This reminds me of why I don't miss living in Ohio; the politics of that place suck. How anyone thinks instituting a monopoloy is a good idea is beyond me. It flies in this face of economic and common sense, hence, the Ohio government thinks it's A Good Thing.... idiots.
As it says nothing about granting an exclusive license it say nothing about being monopoly.
FalconI cannot understand for the life of me why this is allowed, much less encouraged by the government. It's a state-sanctioned monopoly, pure and simple, and it's killing competition and forcing people to go with TW, which sucks shit.
Did you RTFA? I know many /.ers don't read articles, so they miss out on what TFAs actually say. In this case it says that not only has TWC has applied for authorization, as has ATT, but that 8 other companies have too. Maybe it's not as many choices as some would like but it's nowhere near being a monopoly, neither is it a duopoly.
FalconBut this is not a socialist breakdown of the free market, it's exactly what happens in free markets with no regulation - the move towards monopolies.
Many regulations create monopolies. When a regulation makes it hard if not impossible to enter a market then you have monopolies, duopolises, or otherwise are restricting competition and the market. One way to solve this is by having locals, whether they be a coop, city or county government, or nonprofit organization own the physical infrastructure and mandate they allow anyone to use it. A good example of this is in northeastern Utah where a group of communities got together to create a Broadband Utopia. Businesses can use the infrastructure to offer net access, phone service, and or cable tv to customers. It allows 30M bps net connections now but is capable of 100M bps.
FalconNo, not really. Serbia was actually conducting an ethnic cleansing program.
So were Croats and Albanians. That doesn't mean all of those mass graves were real. All sides in the former Yugoslavia participated in ethnic cleansing, Albanian and Bosnian Muslims, Croatian Catholics, and Serbian Orthodox Christians. That doesn't mean Serbia was guilt of all that was bad, no matter what you or anyone else thinks. The only tyme people of all 3 faiths got along was under Josip Broz Tito's rule, though those who supported the NAZIs did face prosecution. He worked at uniting all of the people otherwise.
FalconFor broadband, you bought (or rented from them) your cablemodem, so you had a choice to buy something decent and not get stuck with some used/broken POS. Good luck getting T/W to acknowledge you have a problem that isn't somehow your fault.
I had my ISP service through Time Warner, now ComCast, and once I started having trouble with my connection so I called TWC. I didn't have to wait more than 5 minutes to talk to a tech. He took me through some tests, which took a few more minutes, then he said the modem needed to be replaced. He arranged a new one to be dropped off the following day. When the tech delivering the modem came by he set it up and tested the setup. He noticed some problems with the cable and splitter being used so he replaced those. Ten minutes after arrival he was done, and I had a faster cable modem.
FalconBizarrely, everyone will find that they receive FoxNews with the clearest, best reception, and that all other channels seem to have more snow...
It's disturbing that Time Warner would block it's own news services while making sure everyone will get it's competitor FoxNew clear. Perhaps I should file a shareholder resolution to stop this and if that doesn't work file a lawsuit against the board of directors for not exercising fiducial responsibility.
FalconWrong. The W3C restructured the original HTML working group. Here is [mit.edu] Tim Berners-Lee's initial message about the refocusing of the efforts for evolving HTML, and here are the details [w3.org] for the two new working groups - the HMTL working group and the XHTML2 working group.
The IBM document is wrong then. Here's what it says:
" Some prominent HTML specialists outside the W3C--browser vendors, Web developers, authors, and other stakeholders--disagreed with the direction of XHTML V2. In 2004, they started an independent work group to propose an alternative direction for the next version of HTML. Under the flag of WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group), the group put together proposals for HTML V5 and Web Forms V2."
It goes on to say the W3C later, in April 2007, voted to adopt html 5.
FalconI haven't looked at it for quite a while, but at least for many years, the "CSE HTML Validator" wasn't actually a validator
Thanks for that. I wonder why I didn't hear this earlier. See, several years ago for classes in college we had to write, and validate, xhtml and the professors had us use CSE's HTML Validator. They arranged a deal with CSE for students to buy an unlimited version, there was a free 50 use version but students could easily use it more than 50 tymes, at a reduced cost.
Falconif awkward to install in some systems.
I liked it, and didn't find it awkward to install on either of the two PCs I installed it on. Back then though I had Windows now I have a Mac. I also liked XMLSpy.
FalconYou know, it might be useful for Slashdot to simply turn off the HTML capability and use Wiki style entries. The amount of bad HTML here is scary, perhaps a "run weblint on this" sanitizer would be better?
Actually I'd prefer to see more html. For instance being able to use a table is sometimes helpful. Or maybe add graphics. I could see too many people abusing graphics though and overloading storage. Maybe require a validator, say either the W3C's online validator or software validators like CSE's HTML Validator.
FalconWonder if heads rolled at PM after publishing the 'New Million- Dollar crop'? I didn't even realize that PM was owned by Hearst
After posting I started wondering if maybe the MP article brought it home to Hearst just how much a threat hemp was, in which case I could see him giving the writers a bonus for raising a warning flag. Hearst also publishes a bunch of other magazines, they even publish Oprah's magazine.
FalconThere is an HTML WG at the W3C chartered [w3.org] to create a new version of HTML. A basis for review means, in W3C language, a starting document that will then be reviewed and changed as needed.
However html 5 was started outside of the W3C by an independent group.
FalconThe prices are competitive except for memory and HD upgrades, which are vastly overpriced. It's not difficult to do them yourself, but still, it's worth noting.
Yeah, I got my MBP with 2GB RAM instead of 4GB because Apple wanted another $600 whereas at the tyme the street price of 2GB was less than half that. At least I can add 2GB later though, Apple even included instructions on how to add RAM. I was disappointed in the choses for hard disks though.
FalconI don't think Slashdot breaking every time an AC forgets to close his i tag is a good thing. :-)
That's one reason I always try to preview before I post, no actually I preview so I can edit before posting. However I still let some mistake slip by.
While one could write a tidy program (and people have) that tries to clean up badly formatted code, they are no more perfect than the "guess what you mean" algorithms in the browser itself. It just moves the "guess what the user means" algorithm to the server instead of the browser. That's not much of an improvement.
Though using one adds work, a validater helps here.
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