This is slightly misleading because they're optimized for different use cases. Dalvik is optimized for startup time and memory use but it's almost always much, much slower for long running processes.
Its not misleading at all because I assumed those reading would have the intelligence to place it in proper context - in mobile computing.
The simple fact is, the people who make these models, with the exception of when its time to get grants, will tell you the models are only good for academic study. Period. I've been tell the dipshits here this FACT for YEARS. The fact is, the models have proved to be 100% wrong 100% of the time. Period. The fact is, the models are only accurate at modeling yesterday, and ONLY after updating the model with information from today.
Now then, there is other data to look up but even a lot of that data is FACTUALLY proven to be so noisy as to make massive chunks of it completely invalid. When your noise levels are above the signal you hope to find, its impossible to reliably find noise. Statisticians who review the data (large chunks thereof) consistently state the data is worthless for making the conclusions global warming scientists claim to be finding. Furthermore, the available data is FACTUALLY very limited and nowhere near enough to support the conclusions provided by global warming pundants.
Is global warming real? Probably. What is the cause. FACTUALLY speaking, no one knows. Do we have any clue as to what's actually going on? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Anyone who says otherwise is willfully lying. Period.
80+% of meteorologists, who are in fact fully qualified to review climatologist's work, state the data to support global warming conclusions are completely erroneous. In fact, the primary distinction between the two groups is that climatologists are obtaining grants by fear mongering. Hmmm.... So literally, the ONLY TWO things we can actually conclude from climatologist's global warming conclusions is that they make shitloads of money to fear monger, whereby its only ever in their best interest to forecast the absolutely worst. And secondly, the data to support the bulk of their conclusions is being completely misrepresented. Period. Anyone who says otherwise is lying or ignorant.
The underpinning problem with Dalvik is that its implementation follows many JVM specifications. For example:
No it doesn't. They specifically break away from JVM specifications because Java's formats are slower and hinder some of both speed and memory optimizations.
The binary format, not the actual instructions themselves, follows very closely to Java's binary class format (I think this one is a weak argument, but it is one that Oracle is throwing.)
With this definition, anything is everything. Furthermore, law specifically allows for interoperability. But beyond that, there isn't any similarities worth noting as they specifically did not care to retain any interoperability. That's the first I've heard such a claim. If in fact they are making such a claim, its like saying you and I are the exact same person because we happen to have the same hair cut.
The method used to pre-process the binary code and package the binary so that it can be pre-processed is very similar in both.
Of course its the same because its the exact same tools UNTIL the dalvik tools are used. After that, the only thing they have in common is the fact they are stored in zip files. With this logic, Oracle is in violation of every zip file format.
Besides, Google is a bit at fault here. They could have built on top of IcedTea and have a GPL Android platform sans the lawsuits.
That's a red herring Oracle propaganda position and is not true at all.
Actually I didn't fall into the trap. I'm normally the voice of reason of saying exactly what you're saying while being troll moderated to hell. I decided I'd try something different and try to see if he was joking or not and if not, to determine which, if any patents people believe actually have any merit. I mean, are you not a little curious to read about these so called few patents which, according to some, may actually have at least some debatable merit? I know I am.
Regardless, at this point I'm convinced the copyright claims are completely bogus and 236 patents in violation is completely out of Oracle's ass. Of the 236, the counter claim from the peanut gallery of three or so having at least some debatable merit seems plausible and I'd like to learn more about those. Wanting to learn is hardly the same thing as buy in or even outright validation. And even still, my gut says even three is iffy. But again, given the nature of a lot of patent disputes, three still seems very plausible.
will weave any [new] developments in this release into Dalvik as well
Can you tell us which valid patents (or at least likely valid; and no I don't mean granted patents) Dalvik is infringing which is part of the JVM?
Originally Oracle claimed copyright and patent violations. From what I read, all of the copyright crap has proven to be just that - crap. And of the supposed 236 patents which Dalvik violated, over 220 are patents which should have never been granted by the USPO. So on and so on; leaving only about three of any serious point of contention. So honestly, which actually valid patents is Dalvik in violation?
has nothing to do with physiology and is either terribly ignorant or terribly racist.
Is it? I honestly can not think of any significant culture which not only directly originated from Africa, but still exists today. I can think of some semi-modern, noteworthy African cultures, such as the Zulu, and a couple other footnotes from antiquity, but aside from that, I'm largely drawing a blank. Can you? If so, can you please provide some examples? Having said that, while I wouldn't have said that, perhaps out of my own ignorance (hopefully you'll validate that) I see it as nothing more than a provocative statement; not racism.
Hooooly shit, are you trolling or are you insanely racist?
Hate to tell you this, but your response is actually hyper, politically correct, racism. Just as scientific principals can be applied to observe differences between animal breeds, the same can be applied to humans.
Shocking that there literally are physiological difference between various races of humans. According to you, this FACT makes me and anyone knowledgeable, racists. Reality is, nothing is father from the truth. By extension, it is hardly unreasonable in the least that its possible those physiological differences could extend to brain function and/or brain chemistry. In fact, the suggestion that its not possible, when in fact science clearly shows it is, is literal racism.
So please, get over your white guilt or inverse racism, or whatever it is that's driving your politically correct, factually false, racism, and deal with the fact that different races absolutely are different and that discovering (and therefore discussing) the full extent of those differences absolutely is not, in any way, racist.
Factually speaking, in this thread, thus far, YOU are the only racist.
Psst. I know the above is probably blowing your mind but here's another non-politically correct, dirty little secret. There are physiological and even major hormone and brain chemistry differences between males and females of the human species. They even have different reproductive organs. Holy shit that shocking. I know. Wow! Believe it or not, such a factual statement, contrary to politically correct idiocy, does not make me sexist.
Whoosh. You making the assumption that just because MS walked away with the technically superior low level, everything was far more polished and complete on the surface. Nothing could be father from the truth. So factually, your implication is wrong and my somewhat dismissive response is spot on.
I'm not modifying history in the least - I'm simply putting it into proper context.
And bodegas carry convenience foods, because Twinkies stay edible a lot longer than fresh fruits and vegetables.
Wrong. Used to be true 20-40 years ago. These days they carry those foods because that's all they buy. In other words, its a problem which exists and sustains entirely of their own creation.
You make it sound like huge food stores need to be maintained. They don't. The majority of the world entirely invalidates that notion. Furthermore, study after study shows these places tend to not carry fresh produced because its rots on the fucking shelves because no one buys them.
They purchase twinkies because that's the fucking food they want to buy. Other food tends not to be carried because they refuse to buy other foods. Contrary to your propaganda, stores are not limiting supplies. Rather, stores provide limited supplies because that's catering to their clientele, exactly as is done all over the world.
Your argument is that people are dying because they can only buy bullets. In reality, they are dying because people only want to buy bullets to shoot themselves. If they start buying other goods, those other goods become readily available. Its basic supply and demand. The fact is, they are being supplied exactly what they are demanding. In other words, its entirely self imposed. For the majority of the US, "food deserts" simply don't exist. Period. End of discussion.
The poor in dense urban centers do not have access to healthy food... period.
Whoosh! Total lie and misinformation. The REALITY is (notice I have to constantly point this out to you), they absofuckinglutely do! You can go into a store and request items. Unless you're requesting zebra shank, you'll get your fucking food. Beyond that, items like beans, rice, lentils, so on and so on, are readily available in even the poorest of urban areas. The difference is, shitbags would rather purchase subsidized twinkies and soda rather than nutrition. They would rather purchase a subsidized TV dinner rather than tuna in a can. The reality is, in the vast, vast majority of cases in the USA, good deserts exist ONLY because they created them and refuse to put an end to them.
The fact that you've done nothing but puke red herrings and factually stupid shit, all while anonymous means this one sided discussion is over. You've contributed nothing but lies, misinformation, and complete bullshit to the entire exchange.
And here's a hint for you - according to you, everyone in the US died 100 years ago from malnutrition. And if its not obvious why this statement is not a troll, it validates you have no fucking clue what you are talking about. Seriously, figure it out.
Jesus CHRIST! Did you even look up the term "food desert"?
Jesus Christ, I knew what it was before you ever fucking mentioned it. And that's entirely the problem here. You wrongly assume you are the one that knows what you are talking about. The simple fact is, your posts are stupid and factually wrong. That's not to say "food deserts" don't exist, but we're not talking about the world. For the majority of poor Americans, its an idiot who even brings it up. Case in point...
That leaves less healthy food alternatives like convenience stores or fast food chains.
The red herrings and ignorance are rampant here today. So according to you, they can only carry "convenience foods", but not nutritional foods. And ignoring that, the majority of the poor live near grocery stores. The majority of the poor live in dense urban centers.
To make your red herring even worse, you're purposely conflating the majority with all. That's either willful ignorance or purposeful stupidity.
OS/2 was the first real OS I used. Later I "upgraded" to windows, as forced by my employer. What a major step backwards, especially in usability and reliability.
I still remember when our OS/2 server was forcefully migrated to NT. Some bonehead left the CDROM drive open and had shared the drive. Later, when someone attempted to access the shared CDROM drive, the entire server hung waiting for someone physically in front of the computer to acknowledge the drive was inaccessible. Once someone clicked OKAY, the file server magically started serving files again.
There is literally nothing positive I can associate with Microsoft. The managed to damage an entire industry by making it acceptable to release known buggy and broken software.
Literally, anyone who considers MS to be a good technology company is an idiot. MS first and foremost has ALWAYS been one of the world's leading marketing companies. From a technology perspective, I doubt they'd rank in the top 100. Of course, reality and perception are two entirely different things.
Most people thing MS is a tech giant. They are not. They are a marketing giant specializing in the tech industry. Most people think Bill Gates is a business genius. He's not. He's a criminal thug who leveraged his subpar technology via marketing brilliance, sheer luck, and IBM's massive ego and ineptitude, to setback an entire industry almost two decades worth of advancements. That's not to say Gates is dumb. Its just that his prowess is constantly misunderstood by the general public.
Nice red herring. You might as well said unobtanium can't be eaten therefore reality doesn't exist. Meanwhile, back in the real world, its easily accomplished by shopping at most any local grocery story.
The fact you have no clue how to do it only underscores your ignorance and the general lack of education of the public.
And do note, I didn't even mention living off the land which was considered common even 100 years ago. Its so easy, it was expected someone as young as 10 or so to pull their own weight. Of course these days, you're lucky to find an American who can pull 1/3 their weight. Let alone be expected to actually contribute any work to put food on their table. These days actually cooking a meal is considered too much work for a large cross section of society - thus the rise of the fast food debates.
The reality is, first and foremost, the biggest problem the majority of poor people have is themselves.
Because I'm sure he wouldn't see his own career as a failure
Very likely, you're wrong. Look at how many of his movies he goes back to fuck up. That's typically a sign he does in fact see his previous accomplishments as a failure; either directly or indirectly.
I could have eaten a bowl of alphabet soup and shat a better plot than that.
Actually, 1-3 literally have no plot. They are just a combination of random, usually conflicting and confusing words, and images.
Don't believe me? Checktheseout. The narrative voice is annoying as all hell, and the reviews are very long, but he does an absolutely wonderful job of analyzing those "movies." Literally, they have no plot. If a film student were to produce that shit, they would be ejected from school.
And what about people who DO already work full time but still are struggling?
The fact of the matter is, MOST people who fall into this category struggle because they poorly manage their money and expect (actually demand) everyone else to make up for their everyday bad decisions.
Its amazing the number of people who live below the poverty line who have money for cable, alcohol, tobacco, name brand and nutritionally sparse foods, soda, occasional fast food (typically more frequently than I had as a child), so on and so on. The simple fact is, a large number of today's poor have a surprisingly high number of luxury items while still receiving federal and state assistance.
Its actually surprisingly easy to affordably feed a family a nutritionally dense meal. The simple fact is, the majority of the second and third world does so every day. It seems, largely only Americans, are too stupid to do so in spite of the fact America's poor are considered wealthy in comparison to the majority of the world's poor.
The reality is, the vast majority of those who are struggling to get by can do so without assistance. The reality is, the vast majority of those who are struggling to get by can do so by simply taking responsibility for themselves for once in their life.
The reality is, birth control is cheap and plentiful. There is absolutely no excuse in America to have children you can't afford. Paying extra benefits beyond two child is stupid, wasteful, and absolutely undeserved. The sad fact is, there are literal, multi-generation, profession benefit scumbags alive and well who have luxury goods I could afford until I was mid twenties, working 60-90+ hours per week. The reality is, the vast, vast majority of people receiving benefits absolutely do not deserve them nor need them.
I am - which is exactly my point. Seems you're not familiar with intelligence. As I originally stated, his statement doesn't mean shit unless you're a complete fucking idiot. It can ONLY have legal implications IF they can prove he made those statements with full technical knowledge of patent and technical implications.
Considering no such assertions have been made, its complete safe to say you're talking out of your ass. Thanks for once again verifying this is slashdot.
I find people who consider flying privately too expensive to be not so intelligent. For example, statistically, a degree will net you an extra $5k/yr. To earn that, you typically need to spend an extra $80k-$100k. Meaning, you're looking at a 16-20 year return. And yet people don't think twice about such an "investment." Worse, about half way through that return, for most people the experience gap will have already made up the difference. So pragmatically, the return is far worse. The flip side is, they could have been a private pilot, a plane owner, and still come out ahead.
Yes, the shuttle was such a civilian space craft that it received much of its re-design mandates directly from the US Air Force.
The shuttle was a military craft, re-designed to satisfy military objectives. The fact that it was administrated by a combination of civilian and DoD authorities, hardly qualifies it as a civilian craft.
Even if that side of things pans out, though, it certainly makes it a bit harder to make the argument that Google was willfully infringing
It doesn't mean that at all. Unless his statement is something like, "After a careful technical review to find Dalvik does not infringe any of our patents, I find Google's adoption of Java as their development language to wonderful for the Java and Android communities.", this is a complete fanboy story. It absolutely zero to do with anything.
Bluntly, unless they can prove such a statement was backed by some type of patent review or technical analysis, it means absolutely nothing. Nada. Zero. Now that doesn't mean some lawyer won't be able to manipulate some dumb, unintelligent juror, but aside from that, this story is absolutely meaningless fluff.
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This is slightly misleading because they're optimized for different use cases. Dalvik is optimized for startup time and memory use but it's almost always much, much slower for long running processes.
Its not misleading at all because I assumed those reading would have the intelligence to place it in proper context - in mobile computing.
we have nearly 50% above 1750's concentration
And about 50% below 1850's concentrations.
The simple fact is, the people who make these models, with the exception of when its time to get grants, will tell you the models are only good for academic study. Period. I've been tell the dipshits here this FACT for YEARS. The fact is, the models have proved to be 100% wrong 100% of the time. Period. The fact is, the models are only accurate at modeling yesterday, and ONLY after updating the model with information from today.
Now then, there is other data to look up but even a lot of that data is FACTUALLY proven to be so noisy as to make massive chunks of it completely invalid. When your noise levels are above the signal you hope to find, its impossible to reliably find noise. Statisticians who review the data (large chunks thereof) consistently state the data is worthless for making the conclusions global warming scientists claim to be finding. Furthermore, the available data is FACTUALLY very limited and nowhere near enough to support the conclusions provided by global warming pundants.
Is global warming real? Probably. What is the cause. FACTUALLY speaking, no one knows. Do we have any clue as to what's actually going on? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Anyone who says otherwise is willfully lying. Period.
80+% of meteorologists, who are in fact fully qualified to review climatologist's work, state the data to support global warming conclusions are completely erroneous. In fact, the primary distinction between the two groups is that climatologists are obtaining grants by fear mongering. Hmmm.... So literally, the ONLY TWO things we can actually conclude from climatologist's global warming conclusions is that they make shitloads of money to fear monger, whereby its only ever in their best interest to forecast the absolutely worst. And secondly, the data to support the bulk of their conclusions is being completely misrepresented. Period. Anyone who says otherwise is lying or ignorant.
Thank you. With Oracle's claims, its probably best to start saying, "patents", and/or, "valid". Making sure they are always wrapped with quotes.
The underpinning problem with Dalvik is that its implementation follows many JVM specifications. For example:
No it doesn't. They specifically break away from JVM specifications because Java's formats are slower and hinder some of both speed and memory optimizations.
The binary format, not the actual instructions themselves, follows very closely to Java's binary class format (I think this one is a weak argument, but it is one that Oracle is throwing.)
With this definition, anything is everything. Furthermore, law specifically allows for interoperability. But beyond that, there isn't any similarities worth noting as they specifically did not care to retain any interoperability. That's the first I've heard such a claim. If in fact they are making such a claim, its like saying you and I are the exact same person because we happen to have the same hair cut.
The method used to pre-process the binary code and package the binary so that it can be pre-processed is very similar in both.
Of course its the same because its the exact same tools UNTIL the dalvik tools are used. After that, the only thing they have in common is the fact they are stored in zip files. With this logic, Oracle is in violation of every zip file format.
Besides, Google is a bit at fault here. They could have built on top of IcedTea and have a GPL Android platform sans the lawsuits.
That's a red herring Oracle propaganda position and is not true at all.
Actually I didn't fall into the trap. I'm normally the voice of reason of saying exactly what you're saying while being troll moderated to hell. I decided I'd try something different and try to see if he was joking or not and if not, to determine which, if any patents people believe actually have any merit. I mean, are you not a little curious to read about these so called few patents which, according to some, may actually have at least some debatable merit? I know I am.
Regardless, at this point I'm convinced the copyright claims are completely bogus and 236 patents in violation is completely out of Oracle's ass. Of the 236, the counter claim from the peanut gallery of three or so having at least some debatable merit seems plausible and I'd like to learn more about those. Wanting to learn is hardly the same thing as buy in or even outright validation. And even still, my gut says even three is iffy. But again, given the nature of a lot of patent disputes, three still seems very plausible.
will weave any [new] developments in this release into Dalvik as well
Can you tell us which valid patents (or at least likely valid; and no I don't mean granted patents) Dalvik is infringing which is part of the JVM?
Originally Oracle claimed copyright and patent violations. From what I read, all of the copyright crap has proven to be just that - crap. And of the supposed 236 patents which Dalvik violated, over 220 are patents which should have never been granted by the USPO. So on and so on; leaving only about three of any serious point of contention. So honestly, which actually valid patents is Dalvik in violation?
has nothing to do with physiology and is either terribly ignorant or terribly racist.
Is it? I honestly can not think of any significant culture which not only directly originated from Africa, but still exists today. I can think of some semi-modern, noteworthy African cultures, such as the Zulu, and a couple other footnotes from antiquity, but aside from that, I'm largely drawing a blank. Can you? If so, can you please provide some examples? Having said that, while I wouldn't have said that, perhaps out of my own ignorance (hopefully you'll validate that) I see it as nothing more than a provocative statement; not racism.
Hooooly shit, are you trolling or are you insanely racist?
Hate to tell you this, but your response is actually hyper, politically correct, racism. Just as scientific principals can be applied to observe differences between animal breeds, the same can be applied to humans.
Shocking that there literally are physiological difference between various races of humans. According to you, this FACT makes me and anyone knowledgeable, racists. Reality is, nothing is father from the truth. By extension, it is hardly unreasonable in the least that its possible those physiological differences could extend to brain function and/or brain chemistry. In fact, the suggestion that its not possible, when in fact science clearly shows it is, is literal racism.
So please, get over your white guilt or inverse racism, or whatever it is that's driving your politically correct, factually false, racism, and deal with the fact that different races absolutely are different and that discovering (and therefore discussing) the full extent of those differences absolutely is not, in any way, racist.
Factually speaking, in this thread, thus far, YOU are the only racist.
Psst. I know the above is probably blowing your mind but here's another non-politically correct, dirty little secret. There are physiological and even major hormone and brain chemistry differences between males and females of the human species. They even have different reproductive organs. Holy shit that shocking. I know. Wow! Believe it or not, such a factual statement, contrary to politically correct idiocy, does not make me sexist.
Whoosh. You making the assumption that just because MS walked away with the technically superior low level, everything was far more polished and complete on the surface. Nothing could be father from the truth. So factually, your implication is wrong and my somewhat dismissive response is spot on.
I'm not modifying history in the least - I'm simply putting it into proper context.
I know the history - but its not exactly what you say.
And bodegas carry convenience foods, because Twinkies stay edible a lot longer than fresh fruits and vegetables.
Wrong. Used to be true 20-40 years ago. These days they carry those foods because that's all they buy. In other words, its a problem which exists and sustains entirely of their own creation.
You make it sound like huge food stores need to be maintained. They don't. The majority of the world entirely invalidates that notion. Furthermore, study after study shows these places tend to not carry fresh produced because its rots on the fucking shelves because no one buys them.
They purchase twinkies because that's the fucking food they want to buy. Other food tends not to be carried because they refuse to buy other foods. Contrary to your propaganda, stores are not limiting supplies. Rather, stores provide limited supplies because that's catering to their clientele, exactly as is done all over the world.
Your argument is that people are dying because they can only buy bullets. In reality, they are dying because people only want to buy bullets to shoot themselves. If they start buying other goods, those other goods become readily available. Its basic supply and demand. The fact is, they are being supplied exactly what they are demanding. In other words, its entirely self imposed. For the majority of the US, "food deserts" simply don't exist. Period. End of discussion.
The poor in dense urban centers do not have access to healthy food... period.
Whoosh! Total lie and misinformation. The REALITY is (notice I have to constantly point this out to you), they absofuckinglutely do! You can go into a store and request items. Unless you're requesting zebra shank, you'll get your fucking food. Beyond that, items like beans, rice, lentils, so on and so on, are readily available in even the poorest of urban areas. The difference is, shitbags would rather purchase subsidized twinkies and soda rather than nutrition. They would rather purchase a subsidized TV dinner rather than tuna in a can. The reality is, in the vast, vast majority of cases in the USA, good deserts exist ONLY because they created them and refuse to put an end to them.
The fact that you've done nothing but puke red herrings and factually stupid shit, all while anonymous means this one sided discussion is over. You've contributed nothing but lies, misinformation, and complete bullshit to the entire exchange.
And here's a hint for you - according to you, everyone in the US died 100 years ago from malnutrition. And if its not obvious why this statement is not a troll, it validates you have no fucking clue what you are talking about. Seriously, figure it out.
Jesus CHRIST! Did you even look up the term "food desert"?
Jesus Christ, I knew what it was before you ever fucking mentioned it. And that's entirely the problem here. You wrongly assume you are the one that knows what you are talking about. The simple fact is, your posts are stupid and factually wrong. That's not to say "food deserts" don't exist, but we're not talking about the world. For the majority of poor Americans, its an idiot who even brings it up. Case in point...
That leaves less healthy food alternatives like convenience stores or fast food chains.
The red herrings and ignorance are rampant here today. So according to you, they can only carry "convenience foods", but not nutritional foods. And ignoring that, the majority of the poor live near grocery stores. The majority of the poor live in dense urban centers.
To make your red herring even worse, you're purposely conflating the majority with all. That's either willful ignorance or purposeful stupidity.
Subsistence farming sucks.
I agree, which is why I didn't initially address - for exactly your ignorance. The reality is, you can have a combination - easily.
OS/2 was the first real OS I used. Later I "upgraded" to windows, as forced by my employer. What a major step backwards, especially in usability and reliability.
I still remember when our OS/2 server was forcefully migrated to NT. Some bonehead left the CDROM drive open and had shared the drive. Later, when someone attempted to access the shared CDROM drive, the entire server hung waiting for someone physically in front of the computer to acknowledge the drive was inaccessible. Once someone clicked OKAY, the file server magically started serving files again.
There is literally nothing positive I can associate with Microsoft. The managed to damage an entire industry by making it acceptable to release known buggy and broken software.
Literally, anyone who considers MS to be a good technology company is an idiot. MS first and foremost has ALWAYS been one of the world's leading marketing companies. From a technology perspective, I doubt they'd rank in the top 100. Of course, reality and perception are two entirely different things.
Most people thing MS is a tech giant. They are not. They are a marketing giant specializing in the tech industry. Most people think Bill Gates is a business genius. He's not. He's a criminal thug who leveraged his subpar technology via marketing brilliance, sheer luck, and IBM's massive ego and ineptitude, to setback an entire industry almost two decades worth of advancements. That's not to say Gates is dumb. Its just that his prowess is constantly misunderstood by the general public.
Nice red herring. You might as well said unobtanium can't be eaten therefore reality doesn't exist. Meanwhile, back in the real world, its easily accomplished by shopping at most any local grocery story.
The fact you have no clue how to do it only underscores your ignorance and the general lack of education of the public.
And do note, I didn't even mention living off the land which was considered common even 100 years ago. Its so easy, it was expected someone as young as 10 or so to pull their own weight. Of course these days, you're lucky to find an American who can pull 1/3 their weight. Let alone be expected to actually contribute any work to put food on their table. These days actually cooking a meal is considered too much work for a large cross section of society - thus the rise of the fast food debates.
The reality is, first and foremost, the biggest problem the majority of poor people have is themselves.
Because I'm sure he wouldn't see his own career as a failure
Very likely, you're wrong. Look at how many of his movies he goes back to fuck up. That's typically a sign he does in fact see his previous accomplishments as a failure; either directly or indirectly.
I could have eaten a bowl of alphabet soup and shat a better plot than that.
Actually, 1-3 literally have no plot. They are just a combination of random, usually conflicting and confusing words, and images.
Don't believe me? Check these out. The narrative voice is annoying as all hell, and the reviews are very long, but he does an absolutely wonderful job of analyzing those "movies." Literally, they have no plot. If a film student were to produce that shit, they would be ejected from school.
Most intelligent people saw the writing on the wall when he sued Battlestar Galactica way back when. He's been on a steady decline ever since.
And what about people who DO already work full time but still are struggling?
The fact of the matter is, MOST people who fall into this category struggle because they poorly manage their money and expect (actually demand) everyone else to make up for their everyday bad decisions.
Its amazing the number of people who live below the poverty line who have money for cable, alcohol, tobacco, name brand and nutritionally sparse foods, soda, occasional fast food (typically more frequently than I had as a child), so on and so on. The simple fact is, a large number of today's poor have a surprisingly high number of luxury items while still receiving federal and state assistance.
Its actually surprisingly easy to affordably feed a family a nutritionally dense meal. The simple fact is, the majority of the second and third world does so every day. It seems, largely only Americans, are too stupid to do so in spite of the fact America's poor are considered wealthy in comparison to the majority of the world's poor.
The reality is, the vast majority of those who are struggling to get by can do so without assistance. The reality is, the vast majority of those who are struggling to get by can do so by simply taking responsibility for themselves for once in their life.
The reality is, birth control is cheap and plentiful. There is absolutely no excuse in America to have children you can't afford. Paying extra benefits beyond two child is stupid, wasteful, and absolutely undeserved. The sad fact is, there are literal, multi-generation, profession benefit scumbags alive and well who have luxury goods I could afford until I was mid twenties, working 60-90+ hours per week. The reality is, the vast, vast majority of people receiving benefits absolutely do not deserve them nor need them.
I take it you're not familiar with estoppel.
I am - which is exactly my point. Seems you're not familiar with intelligence. As I originally stated, his statement doesn't mean shit unless you're a complete fucking idiot. It can ONLY have legal implications IF they can prove he made those statements with full technical knowledge of patent and technical implications.
Considering no such assertions have been made, its complete safe to say you're talking out of your ass. Thanks for once again verifying this is slashdot.
I find people who consider flying privately too expensive to be not so intelligent. For example, statistically, a degree will net you an extra $5k/yr. To earn that, you typically need to spend an extra $80k-$100k. Meaning, you're looking at a 16-20 year return. And yet people don't think twice about such an "investment." Worse, about half way through that return, for most people the experience gap will have already made up the difference. So pragmatically, the return is far worse. The flip side is, they could have been a private pilot, a plane owner, and still come out ahead.
Yes, the shuttle was such a civilian space craft that it received much of its re-design mandates directly from the US Air Force.
The shuttle was a military craft, re-designed to satisfy military objectives. The fact that it was administrated by a combination of civilian and DoD authorities, hardly qualifies it as a civilian craft.
Even if that side of things pans out, though, it certainly makes it a bit harder to make the argument that Google was willfully infringing
It doesn't mean that at all. Unless his statement is something like, "After a careful technical review to find Dalvik does not infringe any of our patents, I find Google's adoption of Java as their development language to wonderful for the Java and Android communities.", this is a complete fanboy story. It absolutely zero to do with anything.
Bluntly, unless they can prove such a statement was backed by some type of patent review or technical analysis, it means absolutely nothing. Nada. Zero. Now that doesn't mean some lawyer won't be able to manipulate some dumb, unintelligent juror, but aside from that, this story is absolutely meaningless fluff.