What I'm trying to say is that looking like a console to PC port isn't always a bad thing.
One of the early Android apps (7+ at the very least) seem to be virtualization hosts for console games. Naw, nobody wants to run console games on their tablet, do they?
But do these waiting rooms have public Wi-Fi so that you can actually do something on a tablet, or is it locked and the key available to employees only? I have more than enough on my 10" laptop to survive a wait of at least a couple hours with no Internet.
You do know that tablets can have 3G (4G)? How about tethering? Even better, in my case since I loathe cellphones, a mobile hot-spot. Just from a security standpoint, I wouldn't use public Wi-Fi anyway, especially if I'm connecting into and operating my network!
So would you get onto the home server whenever you need to do a lot of typing or play games in genres not suited for touch input?
I can't speak for anyone else since cervical bone-spurs are doing a number on my typing, or anything else requiring a lot of motor-control so scratch most non-strategy games right off the bat. For almost everything, I use voice and the Nexus 7 does voice recognition very nicely indeed. Next GUI and yes even on my servers. If a keyboard is required for commands, or my master password, well as I said, typing ain't that good now. A dozen or so weird characters are fine, else use handlers. Frankly, aside from CLI wienies, typing is overrated, especially in the face of handhelds with superior voice-recognition. Do recall that the Unix syntax style was created for TeleTypes, the real deal. As in TTY's! I've used them and I can't see why anyone, save someone who considers cryptic interfaces a "good" thing to keep the unwashed (unanointed) masses away from their altar (OS), would like them. [Aside: The ONLY thing I have good to say about PowerShell is that voice works well there if you keep a finger over the hyphen key.]
I forgot to address your point about keyboards/mice/portability issue, well all told, my 7" tablet, bluetooth keyboard (in the same case), bluetooth mouse, and even bluetooth headset wrap into a small bundle that goes in one cargo pocket, although I usually toss it into my small backpack. I wouldn't want to use anything smaller than 7", but that's due to equally old eyes, and I have no use for 10" here which is pure Goldilock's here.
In the future I can eventually see that we'll go to something like a wrist-bracelet, glasses, headset rig with a roll-out display, all equally comfortable with Swype-type on-screen keyboards, Kinect-style user interaction, voice-recognition, etc. (multi-modal in-depth), as part of a personal network that ties in, and imports our environment, wherever we are and whatever we are doing (and that's context sensitive as well). We are still only in the fourth generation of these devices, at best, or more like second-generation by my count, so change will happen fast. Still, multi-modal, distributed, multi-networked devices seem to be the trend. [Until the Next Big Thing comes along, DNI. Direct-Nueral Interface, probably brought to you by Sony who is doing a lot of work in this area.]
Tablets have the potential to become a disabled (I don't mince words) individuals best friend, especially as Google and Android developers have been approaching things of late. 24/7 access to my medical team, anywhere, the 'net's millions of books, and my own personal (legal) collection of literally (pun intended) thousands more, and all through a device with enough compute power to be voice operated even without a 3G/4G connection. Under $500 even with all the widgets above. Wow! Being bed-ridden was my future before. What's next? [Or as MS used to put it, where do you want to go today?]
I have no idea of how the Microsoft tablet market will turn out and frankly, I don't think anyone really does either. What I do know is the potential is there, despite the crap said in these threads. Talk about FUD! Whatever. We need hands-on by the developer community not blarney. Once the NDA's clear, of course.
Blanket Fail statememt. I have a desktop but am looking at getting a tablet to replace a notebook due to changes in usage. Simply put, I'm spending more and more time in god damn waiting rooms w/o tables or desks and the laptop just isn't as useful anymore while a tablet offers enough functionality to be useable while being smaller. In fact, based on the damn changes in usage, I may even be able to use the tablet to replace most of my desktop functionality while converting it to a home server. It's still useful but...
That's the direction I'm going here. Seriously overpowered workstation to server with virtual machines (coin-flip which server OS/hyper-visor combo) and my Nexus 7 as my goes-everywhere machine. Now it becomes a question of tapping into all the data-streams coming into this place;-)
And that's the point that should be hammered at them, that if a voluntary scheme isn't followed, we resort to tools that allow us to pollute their data. I already have the code to 'weaponize' this, should I go that route, and it wouldn't exactly take a whole lot of people (percentage-wise) to pollute the databases. Question is: when/if we organize?
at the time when the Whitehouse was pushing for the utilities to have an open portal where people could go and read their smart meter's data for exactly this reason. Any reasonably astute burgler, or home invasion robber, would be an idiot not to try to get access to this information. True, there are a lot of stupid criminals out there, but there are stupid criminals with smart friends.
Actually it's being demonstrated all the time with authors having freely downloadable books online yet people pay for them anyway to support their favorite authors. Toss in KickStarter and the like, music groups similarly getting paid for limited performances, etc. It's been shown time and again that the gatekeepers are exactly that, people supposedly with the knowledge to select the annointed and we pay for the privilege of supporting them in that role. Well, it isn't the middle ages nor the industrial age. It's the information age and I demonstrate, as do many others, that I'm willing to pay to support my entertainers.
This sounds like Return Oriented Programming, used in some exploits to thwart countermeasures. But it is a long way from stitching together code to do trivial things all the way to making code which replicates, has a payload, AND can stitch together code to do all Of this. The Halting Problem makes me wonder if it is even theoretically possible.
WTF does the halting problem have to do with any of this?
Somebody didn't eat their Wheaties this morning and completely forgot the history of computing. Go look up Von Neumann machines and the halting problem.
[Wandering WTF Off-topic;-). ]
A couple of assumptions in there: (1) Humans, as a species, are sane? By whose definition? (2) Humans as a species, or individually for that matter, are rational? I've only met a rare few and given that I'm considered non-sane, if rationality is considered sane at all, I don't know if they, or myself, matter.
May be bloviating, but definitely interesting!
When VMWare Workstation was very, very young (2000) and had that beta new-software smell, the very first thing I did with it was create a dedicated browser appliance. Given that security has always been one aspect of what I do, it was extremely nice to have a machine that I could "nuke" after cruising the underground looking at existing (and sometimes upcoming) threats.
If that doesn't do anything for your situation (use-case, blech!), Sandboxie or another sandbox software package might do the trick. Now that it's a more mainstream feature, security suites are demonstrating the capability. Still, I'd much rather have the nuke-able machine with a Golden-image locked up elsewhere than necessarily rely on any one program or suite. Then again, I'm paranoid-in-depth here. Yes, they really are out to get me!;-).
If ya'd been smart, you would have put "Runaway Jury" in quotes and cite the author John Grisham. That was exactly my first reaction to the reports about the actual deliberation process. IANAL, but this isn't exactly the first time it's happened Won't be the last. Now, can we see how politics works it's wonderful magick on "The Appeal" ??
Unless someone amended the Constitution while I wasn't looking (more and more possible lately), my answer would be yes. There is nothing in the Second Amendment saying what class of weapons you are limited to. Private citizens can, and did, own cannon which ain't exactly something you could strap on your back and cart around at the time that was written.
Inserting imaginary restrictions on the rights of the citizens is an extremely popular activity, especially in the last hundred years.
You have to be an imminent threat to do physical harm to yourself or others before they can keep, err, detain you and there are restrictions on that. Whether you are legally sane or not doesn't even enter into it as a result of a Supreme Court decision back in the '80's, which is why you find a lot of people that had been committed in the past as homeless now.
I don't know the particulars for other states but here in California you can be detained by police and taken to be evaluated by psychiatrists who can place you on a 72 hour hold if you are perceived as an imminent threat to physically harm yourself or others. If they wish to hold you for a further period of time they can involve section 5250 and keep you for up to 14 days (might be 15), same particulars. After that it would have to go to court for a more extended stay.
Actually Veterans do have free access to Veteran Administration hospitals and clinics to receive free care to treat any conditions that result from their service. You can get pretty much any condition treated, except dental unless service connected, and they will happily bill your insurance, if you have any. If you don't then you will end up paying a copay, at the least. If you are indigent, and the standards are pretty loose on that, you don't have to even pay that, even for medications. Psychiatric conditions are a priority in my experience both as a patient and sometime employee.
Other than that, I am not comfortable with what I have seen so far, either in the media or looking at his Facebook page. I've seen far more disturbing scribbles on the 'net (even before we had the World-Wide Web) and no one has lifted a finger to detain those people. I'm not exactly restrained in my speech about what my government is doing either here in the US of A or elsewhere in the world. I've been talking about the need for a revolution for far longer and, yep, politicians and lawyers are really high on my services no longer required list. I know for a fact I'm far more dangerous and they know it. [I am not joking.] Be interesting if I get someone knocking on my door.
Agreed, although I'd put it in different terms. The power elite are maintaining control over our society by controlling the energy supply. They don't even have to 'conspire' to do it, just think in their little boxes about their interests rather than our, as a whole, collective interest.
You don't have to be a communist, or any other kind of 'ist, to really take notice of the patterns of power. The example you cited, the Cape Wind project, would result in 'blighting' the view from the cape. Teddy Kennedy, was famous for stopping any wind power project that might result in seeing the turbines from the Kennedy compound and that started decades ago. Sad, but true. And so it goes.
Essentially riding the BYOD wave right into IT's back door. No matter which way the enterprise jumps (steadfast with Win'7 or jump to Win'8 everywhere), they are screwed on training costs. Even if they should jump to F/OSS or OSX/iOS they are screwed.
As for the whole Metro UI non-Start Menu? I could care less. The first thing I do to any machine is slap the NeXT interface on it. I very briefly met it when I returned to the university and it's just fine, thank ye. When/if I make the jump, it will be when I can do the same to Metro;-).
In the US, the state exists to serve the corporations and the corps express their control by whom they have paid in campaign donations, hiring of relatives, lining their pockets with de facto bribes in the form of perks, and sometimes outright bribery although in a form not directly detectable (usually). Remember Hilary Clinton and the cattle futures? Most recently, Nationwide providing very sub-prime mortgages? All that and more. Occasionally the government slaves are busted, usually only after completely pissing off someone in the corp world or in a war of the pawns. 'Duke' Cunningham is the most recent I recall but there were many others. When you see the FBI going after state and local reps, they've really pissed someone 'important' off.
In Europe and points farther east and south, it's the other way around. The French (Mercantilism) and the Russians are (have always been) the primary case-studies in political-economy. Corps exist to serve the state, just as in the royalist era, therefore even with the trappings of 'democracy', you'll find the best and brightest somewhere around the halls of power. In France they all go to school together. Don't get me started on what they do in Russia or China.
Now taken as a collective, you can trace who belongs to particular factions which is also pretty interesting. Clash of the billionaires is almost a sport.
I caught a piece (didn't save the link) that mentioned that personnel costs, for both serving members and retired/disabled veterans, will consume the entire defense budget in the future, let alone paying for new procurement and operational expenses. The Navy literally spent millions on my ass, pilots are just as expensive, so losing a bunch in cheaper planes doesn't necessarily make sense. Lose a carrier, well you are immediately out billions before accounting for replacement costs for just the hardware. Everything in warfare involves trade-offs since it's generally a come-as-you-are affair. This requires some serious skill sweat so I think I'll wait to hear what the Naval War College (who may be the generator of this testimony for all I know) says.
This didn't deserve an off-topic. The primary mission of the United States Navy is to preserve freedom on the seas. That was the number one item on the back of my Liberty Card (for the short period of time I actually had one). We are dependent on that free trade for our national survival especially in time of war and this is true of many of our alliance and trading partners. Anything that threatens that mission threatens the nation, and in actuality the Constitution if you trace it back.
I would be negligent not to also point out that warfare in the modern era (1800+) has been characterized by conflicts that start between major trading partners so preserving our strength for this mission may be helpful in preventing future conflicts. Frankly, those of us in uniform really do not want to see combat despite what those not in uniform may think. Getting shot at, and possibly killed, isn't on our list of high-points of a career in the military. I come from a long line of naval service on both sides of the family. Mom and Dad served in the Navy as well. I think I can speak for all of us on point about how we would like our careers to end. My career was hazardous enough without help from outside actors.
So if spending a few billion here and there to prevent a war is possible,....
Almost certain to be true if this goes on and for precisely the same reason that this is occurring in the motion picture field. Anything new, or even just mildly different, involves risk and this is just as true when we are changing business models. Entrenched players are, justifiably, terrified of change so they oppose it with every fiber of their being and using any convenient weapon to beat back the threat. This is true of most of humanity as a rule, otherwise most of us would not be social beings, and we are very social. [aside: Well, maybe not this crowd but hell, we are socializing here.] We've already seen this play out in Hollywood. As the monetary investment significantly increased, the amount of acceptable risk allowed in most any project has decreased significantly. I'm surprised that no one else has noticed the trend. Then again, if a few thousand musicologists make this point, non-experts don't pay attention. If a computer says this, it might actually mean something.
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What I'm trying to say is that looking like a console to PC port isn't always a bad thing.
One of the early Android apps (7+ at the very least) seem to be virtualization hosts for console games. Naw, nobody wants to run console games on their tablet, do they?
But do these waiting rooms have public Wi-Fi so that you can actually do something on a tablet, or is it locked and the key available to employees only? I have more than enough on my 10" laptop to survive a wait of at least a couple hours with no Internet.
You do know that tablets can have 3G (4G)? How about tethering? Even better, in my case since I loathe cellphones, a mobile hot-spot. Just from a security standpoint, I wouldn't use public Wi-Fi anyway, especially if I'm connecting into and operating my network!
So would you get onto the home server whenever you need to do a lot of typing or play games in genres not suited for touch input?
I can't speak for anyone else since cervical bone-spurs are doing a number on my typing, or anything else requiring a lot of motor-control so scratch most non-strategy games right off the bat. For almost everything, I use voice and the Nexus 7 does voice recognition very nicely indeed. Next GUI and yes even on my servers. If a keyboard is required for commands, or my master password, well as I said, typing ain't that good now. A dozen or so weird characters are fine, else use handlers. Frankly, aside from CLI wienies, typing is overrated, especially in the face of handhelds with superior voice-recognition. Do recall that the Unix syntax style was created for TeleTypes, the real deal. As in TTY's! I've used them and I can't see why anyone, save someone who considers cryptic interfaces a "good" thing to keep the unwashed (unanointed) masses away from their altar (OS), would like them. [Aside: The ONLY thing I have good to say about PowerShell is that voice works well there if you keep a finger over the hyphen key.]
I forgot to address your point about keyboards/mice/portability issue, well all told, my 7" tablet, bluetooth keyboard (in the same case), bluetooth mouse, and even bluetooth headset wrap into a small bundle that goes in one cargo pocket, although I usually toss it into my small backpack. I wouldn't want to use anything smaller than 7", but that's due to equally old eyes, and I have no use for 10" here which is pure Goldilock's here.
In the future I can eventually see that we'll go to something like a wrist-bracelet, glasses, headset rig with a roll-out display, all equally comfortable with Swype-type on-screen keyboards, Kinect-style user interaction, voice-recognition, etc. (multi-modal in-depth), as part of a personal network that ties in, and imports our environment, wherever we are and whatever we are doing (and that's context sensitive as well). We are still only in the fourth generation of these devices, at best, or more like second-generation by my count, so change will happen fast. Still, multi-modal, distributed, multi-networked devices seem to be the trend. [Until the Next Big Thing comes along, DNI. Direct-Nueral Interface, probably brought to you by Sony who is doing a lot of work in this area.]
Tablets have the potential to become a disabled (I don't mince words) individuals best friend, especially as Google and Android developers have been approaching things of late. 24/7 access to my medical team, anywhere, the 'net's millions of books, and my own personal (legal) collection of literally (pun intended) thousands more, and all through a device with enough compute power to be voice operated even without a 3G/4G connection. Under $500 even with all the widgets above. Wow! Being bed-ridden was my future before. What's next? [Or as MS used to put it, where do you want to go today?]
I have no idea of how the Microsoft tablet market will turn out and frankly, I don't think anyone really does either. What I do know is the potential is there, despite the crap said in these threads. Talk about FUD! Whatever. We need hands-on by the developer community not blarney. Once the NDA's clear, of course.
Blanket Fail statememt. I have a desktop but am looking at getting a tablet to replace a notebook due to changes in usage. Simply put, I'm spending more and more time in god damn waiting rooms w/o tables or desks and the laptop just isn't as useful anymore while a tablet offers enough functionality to be useable while being smaller. In fact, based on the damn changes in usage, I may even be able to use the tablet to replace most of my desktop functionality while converting it to a home server. It's still useful but...
That's the direction I'm going here. Seriously overpowered workstation to server with virtual machines (coin-flip which server OS/hyper-visor combo) and my Nexus 7 as my goes-everywhere machine. Now it becomes a question of tapping into all the data-streams coming into this place ;-)
And that's the point that should be hammered at them, that if a voluntary scheme isn't followed, we resort to tools that allow us to pollute their data. I already have the code to 'weaponize' this, should I go that route, and it wouldn't exactly take a whole lot of people (percentage-wise) to pollute the databases. Question is: when/if we organize?
at the time when the Whitehouse was pushing for the utilities to have an open portal where people could go and read their smart meter's data for exactly this reason. Any reasonably astute burgler, or home invasion robber, would be an idiot not to try to get access to this information. True, there are a lot of stupid criminals out there, but there are stupid criminals with smart friends.
Actually it's being demonstrated all the time with authors having freely downloadable books online yet people pay for them anyway to support their favorite authors. Toss in KickStarter and the like, music groups similarly getting paid for limited performances, etc. It's been shown time and again that the gatekeepers are exactly that, people supposedly with the knowledge to select the annointed and we pay for the privilege of supporting them in that role. Well, it isn't the middle ages nor the industrial age. It's the information age and I demonstrate, as do many others, that I'm willing to pay to support my entertainers.
First of all, apologies to all the Slashdotters who still consider themselves as "sane"
The years that I've been on Slashdot tell me one thing, and that is,
No sane person will ever be attracted to this site
I resemble that remark! Taking the duties of moderating these topics seriously will drive anyone over the edge if they ain't already there.
WTF does the halting problem have to do with any of this?
Somebody didn't eat their Wheaties this morning and completely forgot the history of computing. Go look up Von Neumann machines and the halting problem.
[Wandering WTF Off-topic ;-). ]
A couple of assumptions in there: (1) Humans, as a species, are sane? By whose definition? (2) Humans as a species, or individually for that matter, are rational? I've only met a rare few and given that I'm considered non-sane, if rationality is considered sane at all, I don't know if they, or myself, matter.
May be bloviating, but definitely interesting!
When VMWare Workstation was very, very young (2000) and had that beta new-software smell, the very first thing I did with it was create a dedicated browser appliance. Given that security has always been one aspect of what I do, it was extremely nice to have a machine that I could "nuke" after cruising the underground looking at existing (and sometimes upcoming) threats. If that doesn't do anything for your situation (use-case, blech!), Sandboxie or another sandbox software package might do the trick. Now that it's a more mainstream feature, security suites are demonstrating the capability. Still, I'd much rather have the nuke-able machine with a Golden-image locked up elsewhere than necessarily rely on any one program or suite. Then again, I'm paranoid-in-depth here. Yes, they really are out to get me! ;-).
Hmmm... the nice thing about benchmarks is that there are so many to choose from!
If ya'd been smart, you would have put "Runaway Jury" in quotes and cite the author John Grisham. That was exactly my first reaction to the reports about the actual deliberation process. IANAL, but this isn't exactly the first time it's happened Won't be the last. Now, can we see how politics works it's wonderful magick on "The Appeal" ??
Unless someone amended the Constitution while I wasn't looking (more and more possible lately), my answer would be yes. There is nothing in the Second Amendment saying what class of weapons you are limited to. Private citizens can, and did, own cannon which ain't exactly something you could strap on your back and cart around at the time that was written.
Inserting imaginary restrictions on the rights of the citizens is an extremely popular activity, especially in the last hundred years.
You have to be an imminent threat to do physical harm to yourself or others before they can keep, err, detain you and there are restrictions on that. Whether you are legally sane or not doesn't even enter into it as a result of a Supreme Court decision back in the '80's, which is why you find a lot of people that had been committed in the past as homeless now.
I don't know the particulars for other states but here in California you can be detained by police and taken to be evaluated by psychiatrists who can place you on a 72 hour hold if you are perceived as an imminent threat to physically harm yourself or others. If they wish to hold you for a further period of time they can involve section 5250 and keep you for up to 14 days (might be 15), same particulars. After that it would have to go to court for a more extended stay.
Same here. I like that sig I've seen around: Cthulhu 2012: Why vote for the lesser of two evils.
Actually Veterans do have free access to Veteran Administration hospitals and clinics to receive free care to treat any conditions that result from their service. You can get pretty much any condition treated, except dental unless service connected, and they will happily bill your insurance, if you have any. If you don't then you will end up paying a copay, at the least. If you are indigent, and the standards are pretty loose on that, you don't have to even pay that, even for medications. Psychiatric conditions are a priority in my experience both as a patient and sometime employee.
Other than that, I am not comfortable with what I have seen so far, either in the media or looking at his Facebook page. I've seen far more disturbing scribbles on the 'net (even before we had the World-Wide Web) and no one has lifted a finger to detain those people. I'm not exactly restrained in my speech about what my government is doing either here in the US of A or elsewhere in the world. I've been talking about the need for a revolution for far longer and, yep, politicians and lawyers are really high on my services no longer required list. I know for a fact I'm far more dangerous and they know it. [I am not joking.] Be interesting if I get someone knocking on my door.
Agreed, although I'd put it in different terms. The power elite are maintaining control over our society by controlling the energy supply. They don't even have to 'conspire' to do it, just think in their little boxes about their interests rather than our, as a whole, collective interest. You don't have to be a communist, or any other kind of 'ist, to really take notice of the patterns of power. The example you cited, the Cape Wind project, would result in 'blighting' the view from the cape. Teddy Kennedy, was famous for stopping any wind power project that might result in seeing the turbines from the Kennedy compound and that started decades ago. Sad, but true. And so it goes.
Yes, that was a useful example. Especially since I'm seeing mod points every other day. Sheesh!
Essentially riding the BYOD wave right into IT's back door. No matter which way the enterprise jumps (steadfast with Win'7 or jump to Win'8 everywhere), they are screwed on training costs. Even if they should jump to F/OSS or OSX/iOS they are screwed. As for the whole Metro UI non-Start Menu? I could care less. The first thing I do to any machine is slap the NeXT interface on it. I very briefly met it when I returned to the university and it's just fine, thank ye. When/if I make the jump, it will be when I can do the same to Metro ;-).
In the US, the state exists to serve the corporations and the corps express their control by whom they have paid in campaign donations, hiring of relatives, lining their pockets with de facto bribes in the form of perks, and sometimes outright bribery although in a form not directly detectable (usually). Remember Hilary Clinton and the cattle futures? Most recently, Nationwide providing very sub-prime mortgages? All that and more. Occasionally the government slaves are busted, usually only after completely pissing off someone in the corp world or in a war of the pawns. 'Duke' Cunningham is the most recent I recall but there were many others. When you see the FBI going after state and local reps, they've really pissed someone 'important' off.
In Europe and points farther east and south, it's the other way around. The French (Mercantilism) and the Russians are (have always been) the primary case-studies in political-economy. Corps exist to serve the state, just as in the royalist era, therefore even with the trappings of 'democracy', you'll find the best and brightest somewhere around the halls of power. In France they all go to school together. Don't get me started on what they do in Russia or China.
Now taken as a collective, you can trace who belongs to particular factions which is also pretty interesting. Clash of the billionaires is almost a sport.
I caught a piece (didn't save the link) that mentioned that personnel costs, for both serving members and retired/disabled veterans, will consume the entire defense budget in the future, let alone paying for new procurement and operational expenses. The Navy literally spent millions on my ass, pilots are just as expensive, so losing a bunch in cheaper planes doesn't necessarily make sense. Lose a carrier, well you are immediately out billions before accounting for replacement costs for just the hardware. Everything in warfare involves trade-offs since it's generally a come-as-you-are affair. This requires some serious skill sweat so I think I'll wait to hear what the Naval War College (who may be the generator of this testimony for all I know) says.
This didn't deserve an off-topic. The primary mission of the United States Navy is to preserve freedom on the seas. That was the number one item on the back of my Liberty Card (for the short period of time I actually had one). We are dependent on that free trade for our national survival especially in time of war and this is true of many of our alliance and trading partners. Anything that threatens that mission threatens the nation, and in actuality the Constitution if you trace it back.
I would be negligent not to also point out that warfare in the modern era (1800+) has been characterized by conflicts that start between major trading partners so preserving our strength for this mission may be helpful in preventing future conflicts. Frankly, those of us in uniform really do not want to see combat despite what those not in uniform may think. Getting shot at, and possibly killed, isn't on our list of high-points of a career in the military. I come from a long line of naval service on both sides of the family. Mom and Dad served in the Navy as well. I think I can speak for all of us on point about how we would like our careers to end. My career was hazardous enough without help from outside actors.
So if spending a few billion here and there to prevent a war is possible, ....
You'd be surprised....
Actually, I wouldn't. I've lost count of the new friends I am supposed to approve that are just days into this world.
I bet it'll be even worse a decade from now.
Yes, and no thanks to MAFIAA
Almost certain to be true if this goes on and for precisely the same reason that this is occurring in the motion picture field. Anything new, or even just mildly different, involves risk and this is just as true when we are changing business models. Entrenched players are, justifiably, terrified of change so they oppose it with every fiber of their being and using any convenient weapon to beat back the threat. This is true of most of humanity as a rule, otherwise most of us would not be social beings, and we are very social. [aside: Well, maybe not this crowd but hell, we are socializing here.] We've already seen this play out in Hollywood. As the monetary investment significantly increased, the amount of acceptable risk allowed in most any project has decreased significantly. I'm surprised that no one else has noticed the trend. Then again, if a few thousand musicologists make this point, non-experts don't pay attention. If a computer says this, it might actually mean something.