Haha, very funny. The truth is, contrary to popular perception (especially from protestants), that indulgences aren't sold; in fact, they are acts of penance done to reduce the required stay in purgatory, not a money-making scheme. In fact, if they were a money-making scheme, they're one of the least effective ones in existence. Indulgences were given for reading your bible, for reciting prayers regularly, and many other things.
Newsflash: catholic.com provides literature supporting the catholic church.:P
The truth is that in the past the Catholic church was a very corrupt and power hungry organization. Notice I'm giving the benefit of doubt to the present church.
Indulgences were sold, AND the church purposely kept the bible away from the masses by keeping it in latin and in limited distribution. Johannes Gutenberg got in trouble with the church by publishing a readable translation of the Bible, and later Martin Luther inadvertently initiated the protestant reformation by publishing his "95 Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences" protesting the actions of the Archbishop's selling of indulgences to finance the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica.
Just because the church spent centuries trying to justify indulgences doesn't negate the suspicions that protestants still hold against catholicism.
I suspect that this is a money losing venture which is why nobody is stepping up and starting their own service....you wouldn't have the interstate system.
The problems with your counter example are that the following:
1. The drivers pay for interstate's upkeep and construction via road taxes collected when we purchase gasoline.
2. Moves a much greater portion of the population and the nation's freight than high speed rail could ever hope for. This by the way is my main argument against high speed rail. It will take money from everybody but only benefit a few, will likely operate at a loss and continue to take money from everybody else.
3. Unlike the interstate system, the rail system in the US is privately owned. Amtrak has to lease time on the private tracks. Rail freight was built by private industry, and if there were truly a cost benefit from high speed rail you would see private regional services investing in it.
That might be true for China, I don't know. I do know that Japan, Germany and France all have airports and seemed to go the high speed rail route. Either they are all stupid, or we are. As for more efficient, air travel for people and freight is one of the least efficient means of travel. It may be the fastest, but it's not very efficient and that's not including the cost of the infrastructure like airports and planes.
Japan is only 377,944 km2, Germany is only 357,021 km2 and France is only 674,843 km2 in size. The US is 9,826,675 km2 in size. So those three countries have the luxury of being significantly smaller and therefore needed to spend less money to provide high speed rail service to their citizens.
The US has a very efficient freight system. Since freight companies like to turn a profit, they develop a system to keep expenses down. We have an inter-modal freight system that involves a truck picking up the cargo at a plant, delivering to the local rail freight yard, train delivers the cargo to a freight yard across the country where a truck picks it up and delivers it to its final destination.
Despite your assertions, the grand parent is correct. This is a ridiculous idea. Obama is going to borrow $53B that the federal government doesn't have to build a rail system that *may* benefit a small portion of the population.
If high speed rail is so great then let the private sector build it. They should be able to recoup their investment from the fares. I suspect that this is a money losing venture which is why nobody is stepping up and starting their own service.
Oh yea, $53B is an initial "investment". We all know how well government projects stay on budget.
I wonder how much Obama is getting in campaign contributions in return for this pet project?
Don't worry you'll glide safely to the ground when the fuel runs out... oh wait, you are in a car.
Snide remark aside, my former boss had a Jeep Grand Cherokee which had a fuel gauge that would stick at half a tank. He ran out of gas on the big bridge in Tampa. I believe there was a recall, but I don't think the problem resulted in any deaths.
There is a difference between setting the pace, and playing catch up.
Apple created a marketable low powered tablet based personal data appliance, and Android is in the catch up phase (or quite literally the me too phase). Manufacturers are introducing Android based tablets NOW, even though there are a numerous rough edges, because the longer they stay on the side lines the more market share they cede to Apple. Eventually Android will reach parity with iOS in features AND end user experience.
I experienced this before in the early 80's. Apple, DRI, Atari, and Commodore were selling home computers with a graphical user interface. Another software manufacture need to quickly jump on the GUI bandwagon, and came up with 2 premature versions of their new flagship operating system before they finally got it close to usable in version 3. They sacrificed any perception the general public had about the quality of their software, in a desperate effort to stay relevant. It worked out well for them. They survived to live another day, the public still questions the quality of their products, yet they remained the 800 Lbs gorilla of software.
I experienced this again in the 90's when Mosaic, and then Netscape came out with a web browser. This same software company was slow to recognize the marketing potential of the early internet. Again new technology threaten their well being and they rushed their version of a web browser out the door to stay relevant. Again the quality was poor, but since everybody had a copy already on their computer they used it.
Now today we see that the iPad consuming a large share of the personal computing device market. Now two software companies were caught off guard and rushing premature versions of their products to market in order to stay relevant. This is just how things are done...
Now that I have your attention, let me explain that Apple (or any other retailer for that matter) can't be held responsible for unknowingly selling pirated software. With all the Apps that is in their inventory, you can't expect Apple to know intimate details for each and every one (eg. Didn't I see a similar game somewhere else?). Anyway now that the original authors have notified Apple, it's Apple responsibility to pull the questionable works off of their market until the matter is resolved.
(and yeah, what Powell did was much worse than what here was done by some random TV crew... not to mention how the US media licked from his hand)
Okay, I'll bite. How so?
Everyone seems to have forgotten that the days leading up to the Iraq war were filled with Saddam Hussein making grandiose claims of being close to producing nuclear weapons. They also seem to have forgotten that Hussein used chemical weapons against the Kurds (google "yellow rain iraq'). Unfortunately the US intelligence community was so incapable of gathering any credible evidence to the contrary that we had little choice but to act accordingly. You can also come up with your favorite conspiracy theory about this period. Unfortunately for Hussein, his erratic behavior and his continued and increasingly aggressive stunts against the UN inspectors made the old adage "the devil you know is better than the devil you don't" less applicable. This is why a lot of politicians that are now against the war voted for it originally.
People who are opposed to the war like to revise the history leading up to the event to further vilify the Bush administration. I didn't like the idea of the iraq invasion, but let's face it a lot of the blame falls on Saddam Hussein.
I would like to point out that unlike CCTV, the American news do follow up on their news stories. The American media did questioned the Bush administration about lapses in intelligence within Iraq leading up to the war. The fact that "yellow cake uranium" was never found. No weapons of mass destruction was found (or made public). I could also mention the Valerie Plame scandal...
Again, Just from the fact that the American media eventually questioned the validity of Powell's UN presentation makes your point moot. You'd never see CCTV questioning the actions of the Chinese government.
You reminded me about an old joke that Yakov Smirnoff told, it went something like this "The Soviet Union and US enjoy the same freedom of speech. In Washington D.C. you are allowed to assemble a protest against your American government. In the Soviet Union we are allowed to assemble in Moscow to protest against your American government."
You post appears to be propaganda masquerading as sarcasm. So just in case, I'd like to make the following points:
CCTV stands for China Central Television which is a state run television network. It is communist.
CCTV is the main outlet of propaganda for the government. Western broadcasters may at times use film scenes or in-house produced animations to illustrate a story, but they disclose it as a animation or for illustration purposes only. They are a third-party entity reporting an event, not part of the government trying to fabricate the event.
Your example of Powell's UN presentation doesn't seem applicable, since Powell wasn't the media and that the slide was produced by analysts and not a scene from a movie.
Paid services, especially utilities, are a different matter. If you experience an unintentional disruption of service like a car hits a power pole, then your electric company usually isn't liable. However, if the electric company disconnects your service without going through the proper procedure then they can be liable.
Many years back, the southern company (The extra-large regional power company in the southeast US) actually reimbursed me for food spoilage from a power disruption that they caused. I've since forgotten the details. Screw ups do happen, and my utility company made claim forms available and made things right.
Comcast, my cable provider, credited my account for the duration of the outage when a tree knocked down the cable connecting the utility pole and my house because they couldn't get a repair crew in my house right away (it was a major storm and outages were wide spread).
My point being that my personal experience with my utility companies seems vastly different from what you are trying to sell.
While you are correct, you are grossly undervaluing the work of pioneers at each milestone. No one worked in a vacuum back then.
You would have really earned some "geek points" if you mentioned that Douglas Engelbart was inspired by Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad program from 1963 when he created NLS (what your video link was about). NLS had several modes of operations, but none of them resemble what we have today.
The modern desktop evolved from many years of work and research by pioneers in their field.
1952 - The trackball was invented by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor working on the Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR project.
1963 - The computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart and Bill English.
1963 - Ivan Sitherland's Sketch program was created.
1969 - Douglas Engelbart demonstrated NLS (oNLine System)
1970 - David A. Evans created a primitive hypertext-based groupware program that ran on NLS
1972 - Xerox Alto was conceptionalized
1979 - Apple's McIntosh project began.
1982 - Xerox Star was introduced to the market. ($75,000 base + $16,000 for each additional workstation).
1982 - Commodore begins development on the Amiga which was originally intended to be a next-generation game computer. (Jay Miner was originally with Atari).
1983 - Apple markets the Lisa the first GUI based personal computer ($9,995).
1983 - Chase Bishop starts "Interface Manager" and is announced by Microsoft as Windows (after Lisa was released)
1984 - Apple introduced the Macintosh a much more affordable GUI based personal computer ($1,995).
1985 - The Commodore Amiga was released ($1,295)
1985 - The Atari ST was released ($999).
1985 - DRI releases GEM/1
1985 - Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released.
1987 - Microsoft Windows 2.0 was released.
1990 - Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released and Microsoft finally begins its transition from CLI to GUI products.
I know I left some milestones out, but I just wanted to illustrate that the modern desktop was an evolutionary process with many innovations taking place between 1952 and 1984. Of course, Microsoft catches up when all the hard work is finished:P. I'm joking of course. In fact I'll clarify 1990 for them.
1990 - Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released which becomes a significant milestone for GUI on the x86. It may have not been the first, or the best, but it did bring the GUI desktop to the masses. After all with Apple, Xerox, DRI, Commodore, and Atari using GUI, Microsoft had no choice and would have ceased to exist if they hadn't caught up with questionable tactics that led to a settlement with the DOJ in 2001.
What do you mean sound like an uninformed jackass?
I'm tired of people trying to start a generational fight. It's almost as bad as playing the "race card".
He acts like the Baby Boomer's created social security. They didn't, their parents did. He acts like those of us that are not in our twenties anymore haven't paid a significant amount of money to social security already and don't mind losing all that money. We do.
The reason social security is killing us is because the politicians used it as a piggy bank to borrow against to fund their pet projects. Not to mention, social security was expanded to fund people who are disabled regardless of age or work history (even children). Don't blame the retirees that are using social security as it was originally intended. On the other side of the equation, we are allowing our tax base to shrink. Politicians signed free-trade agreements that exported our jobs overseas. We are having a brain drain because of our broken immigration system that doesn't provide incentives for foreign students that graduate with a professional degree to stay. That same broken immigration system prevents migrant workers that are already in the country from getting work visas so they could not only work for a legal wage but to pay taxes (including FICA). This is insane. We expanded the outflow of money WHILE limiting the inflow of money into social security. While we all stand around and pretend we don't know why and just place blame on someone else. Newsflash! It is all of our faults.
Then he starts his rant, which makes him sound more like a moron. For instance, the overwhelming majority of people old enough to draw a social security check are also old enough to have the original mortgage on their home already paid off. The seniors that I've seen foreclosed on were the ones who placed a second mortgage on their home because they were either conned into some financial scheme, or used it to pay off their or most likely their kid's credit card debt. Also these second mortgages don't even come close to the $500K that he throws around. Not to mention, banks usually love these types of foreclosure since the amount being foreclosed is almost always significantly less then the market value of the home. This is why senior citizens are the primary targets of predatory lenders.
The people who are defaulting on their $500K mortgages are the 20-40 year olds who insist in purchasing a home that they can not afford. As for your student loans, you got an education from them (or you should have) and you should be required to pay them back. If you need someone to blame, then blame all the people that were your age that defaulted and created the requirement for this exception from bankruptcy protection to keep the student loan program around. Better yet, blame yourself. You agreed to the loan and maybe you should have considered community college.
My only worry is handset makers like Motorola that are placing lock-in features in the phone hardware. It would be only a matter of time before a phone carrier has a special version of Android that is missing that little checkbox in the setup menu and force you to use their marketplace of choice. This could explain Google's decision with this app.
I'm pretty sure I have nothing to worry about, since I have an HTC phone and multiple manufactures make it hard to lock down an entire Android ecosystem. However, the potential for a very limited lockdown is there. It's definitely open today. I'm just saying we shouldn't get too complacent with these hardware locks.
Sometimes I think Oracle won't be happy until they've completely destroyed Java.
I believe Java has matured enough under Sun to not be as vulnerable as some of the much younger languages. To be honest, I haven't seen any instance where Oracle is mortally screwing up the language.
If your thinking about the Oracle v. Google lawsuit, I'm siding with Oracle on that one. As much as I like to side with Google, the fact that they did the equivalent of ROT13 to the bytecode generated by the javac makes it hard to ignore what Google was doing. It would have been different if Google attempted to get a license to make there own mobile JVM or used the code from the OpenJDK base and challenged Oracle in court on the definition of a phone during 90's versus the much powerful mini-tablets of today. That didn't happen. Instead Google got caught doing what everybody thought was a poor attempt to hide the fact that Java is the basis for the Android OS.
You should be ashamed of yourself. Or at least offer to live on the equivalent salary in your own country, a living so close to starvation that if the price of onions goes up you might die.
Been there, done that, couldn't even afford a stupid T-shirt.
Don't hurt yourself when you get off of that high horse of yours. You make it sound like all the streets are paved with gold in the US. I have news for you.. it's not.
I'm not ashamed, in fact very far from it. I have done nothing wrong and finally, after a couple of decades, I can afford to provide for my family just in time to see my child go to college. My parents did a great job raising me with so little money, and I never felt "poor". I just didn't feel the same as the other kids. I didn't fully understand the situation until I became an adult, and they didn't have to pretend anymore.
As for the rioting... This is what happens when you have a form of government that makes it difficult for the poor to be fairly represented.
A standards organization that allows competing standards to battle it out is completely worthless in that respect. They're supposed to pick winners and losers otherwise you don't get an interoperable standard.
Really? I thought the point was to be able to say that this program uses XYZ standard, then any program using XYZ standard should be compatible with that program. A standards body does not dictate what you can and can't use. Truth is nobody can.... It's called freedom.
So you assume that executives can't be duped into installing PhoneSnoop onto a blackberry. Also, what special phone protocol does these blackberries use? I'd assume that the ones on T-Mobile and ATT are GSM.
Not to mention there is a PDF exploit in the blackberry, it was announced last week on US CERT.
Who are we trying to kid? Corporations hire "fresh outs" (newly graduated from college) not because they possess knowledge unavailable to the more experienced programmers, but because they are cheap.
As for the article, I call BS.
No it's not fair, especially when everybody knows that the more experienced employee will be the one babysitting the new hire.
The other reason I find this article dubious is because it doesn't reflect reality. A company that's willing to piss off its current employees by hiring new blood for more than the current staff during this economic period is stupid. I could get someone just as talented people for less. It's an employers market.
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Newsflash: catholic.com provides literature supporting the catholic church. :P
The truth is that in the past the Catholic church was a very corrupt and power hungry organization. Notice I'm giving the benefit of doubt to the present church.
Indulgences were sold, AND the church purposely kept the bible away from the masses by keeping it in latin and in limited distribution. Johannes Gutenberg got in trouble with the church by publishing a readable translation of the Bible, and later Martin Luther inadvertently initiated the protestant reformation by publishing his "95 Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences" protesting the actions of the Archbishop's selling of indulgences to finance the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica.
Just because the church spent centuries trying to justify indulgences doesn't negate the suspicions that protestants still hold against catholicism.
The problems with your counter example are that the following:
1. The drivers pay for interstate's upkeep and construction via road taxes collected when we purchase gasoline.
2. Moves a much greater portion of the population and the nation's freight than high speed rail could ever hope for. This by the way is my main argument against high speed rail. It will take money from everybody but only benefit a few, will likely operate at a loss and continue to take money from everybody else.
3. Unlike the interstate system, the rail system in the US is privately owned. Amtrak has to lease time on the private tracks. Rail freight was built by private industry, and if there were truly a cost benefit from high speed rail you would see private regional services investing in it.
Japan is only 377,944 km2, Germany is only 357,021 km2 and France is only 674,843 km2 in size. The US is 9,826,675 km2 in size. So those three countries have the luxury of being significantly smaller and therefore needed to spend less money to provide high speed rail service to their citizens.
The US has a very efficient freight system. Since freight companies like to turn a profit, they develop a system to keep expenses down. We have an inter-modal freight system that involves a truck picking up the cargo at a plant, delivering to the local rail freight yard, train delivers the cargo to a freight yard across the country where a truck picks it up and delivers it to its final destination.
Despite your assertions, the grand parent is correct. This is a ridiculous idea. Obama is going to borrow $53B that the federal government doesn't have to build a rail system that *may* benefit a small portion of the population.
If high speed rail is so great then let the private sector build it. They should be able to recoup their investment from the fares. I suspect that this is a money losing venture which is why nobody is stepping up and starting their own service.
Oh yea, $53B is an initial "investment". We all know how well government projects stay on budget.
I wonder how much Obama is getting in campaign contributions in return for this pet project?
Don't worry you'll glide safely to the ground when the fuel runs out... oh wait, you are in a car.
Snide remark aside, my former boss had a Jeep Grand Cherokee which had a fuel gauge that would stick at half a tank. He ran out of gas on the big bridge in Tampa. I believe there was a recall, but I don't think the problem resulted in any deaths.
There is a difference between setting the pace, and playing catch up.
Apple created a marketable low powered tablet based personal data appliance, and Android is in the catch up phase (or quite literally the me too phase). Manufacturers are introducing Android based tablets NOW, even though there are a numerous rough edges, because the longer they stay on the side lines the more market share they cede to Apple. Eventually Android will reach parity with iOS in features AND end user experience.
I experienced this before in the early 80's. Apple, DRI, Atari, and Commodore were selling home computers with a graphical user interface. Another software manufacture need to quickly jump on the GUI bandwagon, and came up with 2 premature versions of their new flagship operating system before they finally got it close to usable in version 3. They sacrificed any perception the general public had about the quality of their software, in a desperate effort to stay relevant. It worked out well for them. They survived to live another day, the public still questions the quality of their products, yet they remained the 800 Lbs gorilla of software.
I experienced this again in the 90's when Mosaic, and then Netscape came out with a web browser. This same software company was slow to recognize the marketing potential of the early internet. Again new technology threaten their well being and they rushed their version of a web browser out the door to stay relevant. Again the quality was poor, but since everybody had a copy already on their computer they used it.
Now today we see that the iPad consuming a large share of the personal computing device market. Now two software companies were caught off guard and rushing premature versions of their products to market in order to stay relevant. This is just how things are done...
Now that I have your attention, let me explain that Apple (or any other retailer for that matter) can't be held responsible for unknowingly selling pirated software. With all the Apps that is in their inventory, you can't expect Apple to know intimate details for each and every one (eg. Didn't I see a similar game somewhere else?). Anyway now that the original authors have notified Apple, it's Apple responsibility to pull the questionable works off of their market until the matter is resolved.
I'm tired of being the only cool cybergeek ;P
Van Halen is so over rated... or was that heaven?
The parent comment was marked insightful with very little research.
Exhibit A: http://science.slashdot.org/story/08/11/10/0641226/Drive-From-Sydney-Museum-Could-Unlock-NASA-Moon-Data
Some helpful Australians are using the drives found in Perth in attempt to recover the data on moon dust.
Exhibit B: http://lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov/articles/la-times-article-features-newest-lunar-images
Nancy Evans recovering lunar images from the FR-900 Ampex tapes.
Myth Busted.
Apparently those tools still exist, just had to be found and restored.
Okay, I'll bite. How so?
Everyone seems to have forgotten that the days leading up to the Iraq war were filled with Saddam Hussein making grandiose claims of being close to producing nuclear weapons. They also seem to have forgotten that Hussein used chemical weapons against the Kurds (google "yellow rain iraq'). Unfortunately the US intelligence community was so incapable of gathering any credible evidence to the contrary that we had little choice but to act accordingly. You can also come up with your favorite conspiracy theory about this period. Unfortunately for Hussein, his erratic behavior and his continued and increasingly aggressive stunts against the UN inspectors made the old adage "the devil you know is better than the devil you don't" less applicable. This is why a lot of politicians that are now against the war voted for it originally.
People who are opposed to the war like to revise the history leading up to the event to further vilify the Bush administration. I didn't like the idea of the iraq invasion, but let's face it a lot of the blame falls on Saddam Hussein.
I would like to point out that unlike CCTV, the American news do follow up on their news stories. The American media did questioned the Bush administration about lapses in intelligence within Iraq leading up to the war. The fact that "yellow cake uranium" was never found. No weapons of mass destruction was found (or made public). I could also mention the Valerie Plame scandal...
Again, Just from the fact that the American media eventually questioned the validity of Powell's UN presentation makes your point moot. You'd never see CCTV questioning the actions of the Chinese government.
You reminded me about an old joke that Yakov Smirnoff told, it went something like this "The Soviet Union and US enjoy the same freedom of speech. In Washington D.C. you are allowed to assemble a protest against your American government. In the Soviet Union we are allowed to assemble in Moscow to protest against your American government."
You post appears to be propaganda masquerading as sarcasm. So just in case, I'd like to make the following points:
CCTV stands for China Central Television which is a state run television network. It is communist.
CCTV is the main outlet of propaganda for the government. Western broadcasters may at times use film scenes or in-house produced animations to illustrate a story, but they disclose it as a animation or for illustration purposes only. They are a third-party entity reporting an event, not part of the government trying to fabricate the event.
Your example of Powell's UN presentation doesn't seem applicable, since Powell wasn't the media and that the slide was produced by analysts and not a scene from a movie.
IANAL
Paid services, especially utilities, are a different matter. If you experience an unintentional disruption of service like a car hits a power pole, then your electric company usually isn't liable. However, if the electric company disconnects your service without going through the proper procedure then they can be liable.
Many years back, the southern company (The extra-large regional power company in the southeast US) actually reimbursed me for food spoilage from a power disruption that they caused. I've since forgotten the details. Screw ups do happen, and my utility company made claim forms available and made things right.
Comcast, my cable provider, credited my account for the duration of the outage when a tree knocked down the cable connecting the utility pole and my house because they couldn't get a repair crew in my house right away (it was a major storm and outages were wide spread).
My point being that my personal experience with my utility companies seems vastly different from what you are trying to sell.
NPR
While you are correct, you are grossly undervaluing the work of pioneers at each milestone. No one worked in a vacuum back then.
You would have really earned some "geek points" if you mentioned that Douglas Engelbart was inspired by Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad program from 1963 when he created NLS (what your video link was about). NLS had several modes of operations, but none of them resemble what we have today.
The modern desktop evolved from many years of work and research by pioneers in their field.
1952 - The trackball was invented by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor working on the Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR project.
1963 - The computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart and Bill English.
1963 - Ivan Sitherland's Sketch program was created.
1969 - Douglas Engelbart demonstrated NLS (oNLine System)
1970 - David A. Evans created a primitive hypertext-based groupware program that ran on NLS
1972 - Xerox Alto was conceptionalized
1979 - Apple's McIntosh project began.
1982 - Xerox Star was introduced to the market. ($75,000 base + $16,000 for each additional workstation).
1982 - Commodore begins development on the Amiga which was originally intended to be a next-generation game computer. (Jay Miner was originally with Atari).
1983 - Apple markets the Lisa the first GUI based personal computer ($9,995).
1983 - Chase Bishop starts "Interface Manager" and is announced by Microsoft as Windows (after Lisa was released)
1984 - Apple introduced the Macintosh a much more affordable GUI based personal computer ($1,995).
1985 - The Commodore Amiga was released ($1,295)
1985 - The Atari ST was released ($999).
1985 - DRI releases GEM/1
1985 - Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released.
1987 - Microsoft Windows 2.0 was released.
1990 - Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released and Microsoft finally begins its transition from CLI to GUI products.
I know I left some milestones out, but I just wanted to illustrate that the modern desktop was an evolutionary process with many innovations taking place between 1952 and 1984. Of course, Microsoft catches up when all the hard work is finished :P. I'm joking of course. In fact I'll clarify 1990 for them.
1990 - Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released which becomes a significant milestone for GUI on the x86. It may have not been the first, or the best, but it did bring the GUI desktop to the masses. After all with Apple, Xerox, DRI, Commodore, and Atari using GUI, Microsoft had no choice and would have ceased to exist if they hadn't caught up with questionable tactics that led to a settlement with the DOJ in 2001.
What do you mean sound like an uninformed jackass?
I'm tired of people trying to start a generational fight. It's almost as bad as playing the "race card".
He acts like the Baby Boomer's created social security. They didn't, their parents did. He acts like those of us that are not in our twenties anymore haven't paid a significant amount of money to social security already and don't mind losing all that money. We do.
The reason social security is killing us is because the politicians used it as a piggy bank to borrow against to fund their pet projects. Not to mention, social security was expanded to fund people who are disabled regardless of age or work history (even children). Don't blame the retirees that are using social security as it was originally intended. On the other side of the equation, we are allowing our tax base to shrink. Politicians signed free-trade agreements that exported our jobs overseas. We are having a brain drain because of our broken immigration system that doesn't provide incentives for foreign students that graduate with a professional degree to stay. That same broken immigration system prevents migrant workers that are already in the country from getting work visas so they could not only work for a legal wage but to pay taxes (including FICA). This is insane. We expanded the outflow of money WHILE limiting the inflow of money into social security. While we all stand around and pretend we don't know why and just place blame on someone else. Newsflash! It is all of our faults.
Then he starts his rant, which makes him sound more like a moron. For instance, the overwhelming majority of people old enough to draw a social security check are also old enough to have the original mortgage on their home already paid off. The seniors that I've seen foreclosed on were the ones who placed a second mortgage on their home because they were either conned into some financial scheme, or used it to pay off their or most likely their kid's credit card debt. Also these second mortgages don't even come close to the $500K that he throws around. Not to mention, banks usually love these types of foreclosure since the amount being foreclosed is almost always significantly less then the market value of the home. This is why senior citizens are the primary targets of predatory lenders.
The people who are defaulting on their $500K mortgages are the 20-40 year olds who insist in purchasing a home that they can not afford. As for your student loans, you got an education from them (or you should have) and you should be required to pay them back. If you need someone to blame, then blame all the people that were your age that defaulted and created the requirement for this exception from bankruptcy protection to keep the student loan program around. Better yet, blame yourself. You agreed to the loan and maybe you should have considered community college.
My only worry is handset makers like Motorola that are placing lock-in features in the phone hardware. It would be only a matter of time before a phone carrier has a special version of Android that is missing that little checkbox in the setup menu and force you to use their marketplace of choice. This could explain Google's decision with this app.
I'm pretty sure I have nothing to worry about, since I have an HTC phone and multiple manufactures make it hard to lock down an entire Android ecosystem. However, the potential for a very limited lockdown is there. It's definitely open today. I'm just saying we shouldn't get too complacent with these hardware locks.
I believe Java has matured enough under Sun to not be as vulnerable as some of the much younger languages. To be honest, I haven't seen any instance where Oracle is mortally screwing up the language.
If your thinking about the Oracle v. Google lawsuit, I'm siding with Oracle on that one. As much as I like to side with Google, the fact that they did the equivalent of ROT13 to the bytecode generated by the javac makes it hard to ignore what Google was doing. It would have been different if Google attempted to get a license to make there own mobile JVM or used the code from the OpenJDK base and challenged Oracle in court on the definition of a phone during 90's versus the much powerful mini-tablets of today. That didn't happen. Instead Google got caught doing what everybody thought was a poor attempt to hide the fact that Java is the basis for the Android OS.
Been there, done that, couldn't even afford a stupid T-shirt.
Don't hurt yourself when you get off of that high horse of yours. You make it sound like all the streets are paved with gold in the US. I have news for you.. it's not.
I'm not ashamed, in fact very far from it. I have done nothing wrong and finally, after a couple of decades, I can afford to provide for my family just in time to see my child go to college. My parents did a great job raising me with so little money, and I never felt "poor". I just didn't feel the same as the other kids. I didn't fully understand the situation until I became an adult, and they didn't have to pretend anymore.
As for the rioting... This is what happens when you have a form of government that makes it difficult for the poor to be fairly represented.
Really? I thought the point was to be able to say that this program uses XYZ standard, then any program using XYZ standard should be compatible with that program. A standards body does not dictate what you can and can't use. Truth is nobody can.... It's called freedom.
You're still out of date. I have the latest bleeding edge version of chrome. I'm running Chrome: living standard edition.
Yes whoosh to me...
You appeared to be serious.
So you assume that executives can't be duped into installing PhoneSnoop onto a blackberry. Also, what special phone protocol does these blackberries use? I'd assume that the ones on T-Mobile and ATT are GSM.
Not to mention there is a PDF exploit in the blackberry, it was announced last week on US CERT.
I think you've been blinded by your fanboism...
It should read: I could get someone, just as talented, for less. Funny how you don't see the gross errors until after you hit "submit".
Who are we trying to kid? Corporations hire "fresh outs" (newly graduated from college) not because they possess knowledge unavailable to the more experienced programmers, but because they are cheap.
As for the article, I call BS.
No it's not fair, especially when everybody knows that the more experienced employee will be the one babysitting the new hire.
The other reason I find this article dubious is because it doesn't reflect reality. A company that's willing to piss off its current employees by hiring new blood for more than the current staff during this economic period is stupid. I could get someone just as talented people for less. It's an employers market.