I'm thinking they just need to only authorize unlocked phones to use the frequencies that the phones use. This way they are not mandating the phones be unlocked. The carriers can sell all the locked phones they want. The FCC will simply stick to their authority of deciding what devices are authorized to use the radio spectrum.
Psst, and being white doesn't stop you from being a racist. It neither stops you from being self hating nor does it stop you from thinking you are "one of the good ones" and "a credit to your race". If you were not so much of a racist, you would realize that the reason we didn't bomb Russia directly was not because they were white, but because they could fight back. It is the same reason we will bomb Afghanistan but not China. You are simply to blinded by racism to see that.
Of course, I do not expect you to recognize your racism. Racists rarely do. If they did there wouldn't be so many of them.
Surveillance is like a lot of other things. When done once or twice, it isn't a huge deal. When done pervasively, it is a very big problem. Just like littering. If I throw a McDonald's bag out of the windows of my car, and I was the only one to ever do it, it wouldn't be worth anyone's time to even acknowledge it. If everyone is throwing all of their garbage out their car windows, we have a real problem.
We've used fighter jets to blow up brown people for decades
The racist rants of people like you get real old. We have killed plenty of 'white' people, and for 40+ years of the last 70, the big bad boogieman for the US has been Russia. White people. Our nuclear arsenal was built to kill white people.
Yes, it sucks that we (and the rest of the world) are so aggressive, but your 'whitie is evil because they are trying to kill the poor defenseless brown people just for being brown' is just racist posturing.
(Obviously, I am torn between the wrongness of having done this, and ultimately, the lack of any way to change the past.)
Easy. See people as individuals instead of racial groups. YOU didn't do this. Then recognize between 1864 and 1949 the 4 Geneva Conventions were established only slowly adding any kind of rules to war and conquering. Prior to that, it was considered acceptable by most nations of the world (including American Indian) to do anything necessary to kill or conquer your enemies.
So, there is nothing to be torn by. Accept that you belong to a species (not race, not nationality) that has committed horrific acts on others of it's own species. And take take pride in the fact that as a species we are working towards, and making progress at being better to our fellow man.
Anyone that would hold you responsible for the acts of other people just because you have the same color skin is exactly the kind of person we are trying to leave in our species past.
No. 8 year olds having only 8 year old friends is unnatural. It is a brand new situation that has been artificially created by our broken school system. Your 'natural' child is socially retarded because they have no idea how to deal with anyone that isn't their own age. No doubt you also recommend segregating siblings or at the very least actively developing animosity between them so that they don't end up with an 'unnatural' friendship.
You are a sad individual if you think using a communications device is a "please come rape me" sign. You are in essence saying that transmitting and receiving voice via Skype is totally different than a telephone because it is "On A Computer". You don't happen to work for the patent office do you?
You just described how people can pay to overcome crappy game design. Letting people pay to skip part of your game is openly acknowledging that your game is so crappy that people will literally pay to not play it. Even if that is just part of your game, that isn't a good thing.
It only takes a generation for a monopoly like that to disappear. I see that with traditional telephones vs. Skype. My son (8) and his circle of friends (6-16) all have smart phones. You would think that they would call each other a lot. They don't. They use Skype almost exclusively. They will sit on their cell phones talking to each other via Skype on the phones. For these kids, the "phone" part of the smart phones is for calling your parents and ordering pizza. For talking to peers you use Skype. My first instinct was to wince at their choice, but I very quickly realized that the problem was mine and that I was falling prey to being used to the traditional phone systems network effect. For these kids, the network effect is pushing Skype over the traditional 10 digit phone system. When new kids join the group, they are quickly pushed to install Skype if they want to be involved in the groups activities.
Will these kids switch to the traditional phone system when they hit 18? Maybe, but I wouldn't count on it. I have a feeling that they will use the 10 digit phones for what they have to, but that those of us that predate Skype and it's ilk will be dragged into the much better future of post Bell communication.
If these kids started trading text documents, I don't think it would take long for LibreOffice to topple MS Office in their demographic.
I don't know. I keep seeing LibreOffice showing up in more and more households. I started using it because it is just more convenient to download it and use it than it is deal with buying MS Office. Yes, the price difference matters, but the convenience of not having to deal with a transaction and any kind of DRM is the real reason. MS Office is just more hassle than it is worth.
That being said, I don't do a lot of writing. For 90% of my word processing, (like this) a text box in the browser is more than enough. I am not writing huge novels. I am not doing enterprise level accounting. But, I do believe that I am in the majority in my needs. I tend to use 4 word processors:
Notepad: When I specifically want to strip special characters and formatting.
Wordpad: When I want a scratch pad that supports simple formatting
Google Docs: When I want to collaborate on a document
LibreOffice: When a want a complex (relatively speaking) document
I have simply never created a document that LibreOffice wasn't more than adequate for. Word processing reached maturity some time between 1997 and 2000. Word was the best word processor around that time, and thus reached maturity first. I can't pin the specific time that LibreOffice/OpenOffice reached maturity, but it was more than a version ago. We are now in an attrition phase. Word is still prettier than LibreOffice, but for the vast majority of users it is only prettiness and momentum that holds people to Word. Every time a kid just downloads LibreOffice because he doesn't know yet that he is suppose to be tied to MS, the MS juggernaut gets a little weaker.
As much as I think learning to program is valuable, it isn't because people need to be shown it isn't magic. We are way past the point of expecting people to understand the world around them. Most people don't understand how a light switch makes a room light up. The don't understand why the walls of their house stay up. Worrying about them understanding their computer isn't even in the top one hundred most basic things they should understand but don't. The biggest benefits most people would get from learning to code is how to break big complex problems into small simple ones, and how to go from A to B to C to D without skipping important steps that tell them what D really is.
It is because Linus is a dictator. Just as Gates & Jobs were and Ballmer & Cook are now. The thing about dictators is that they are not all bad. Dictators have greater power for good or ill and since most people are greedy and self serving, most dictators use their greater power for ill. Linus has been a benevolent dictator. He has used his power for good. He frequently does it in a crass way, but the end result is that his goal is generally not to throw us all under the bus for his own profit or convenience.
Not only that, Statistically, nobody asks "how do I change the screen resolution" at all. Linux, Windows and OSX all automatically probe the monitor for it's native resolution and set it without user intervention.
If you are going to talk about odd man out, Windows 8 is easily the worst offender.
We homeschool our child, so he has the proper social skills to know that during the workday, you make noise in places other than where a person is working. For those who have been "socialized" by going to public school, they are not at home during the day anyway, so either way, having kids doesn't really come into the equation.
Working long hours is well known to massively decrease productivity due to significant increases in mistakes and wrong decisions.
This generally get compounded by the fact that "Working hours is ill defined." From the company point of view and the legally, the number of hours worked is from the time you get to work, to the time you leave work. The companies point of view nor the law change the fact that from the employees point of view and from a biological point of view, work begins when you start getting ready for work at home until you get back home in the evening. That and a lunch hour is not enough time to convert the time into non-work time. Thus, the standard work day for an employee with an hour commute is ~12 hours to start.
I myself like extreme quiet so I can focus, which I could not get being in the office.
Well put. As a counter point to a detail that supports you main point. I myself like the white noise of human chatter as background noise. No doubt if on a team, one of use would be put in a less productive environment by being in the same office.
Yep. The difference between a "paper mill" and a "real school" is that the "real school" will make sure that they offer a few degrees that are legitimate. That way when people out that the "Business Degree" the school offers is no better than Heald, they can point to their madical program and say "See! We are not a paper mill!"
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I'm thinking they just need to only authorize unlocked phones to use the frequencies that the phones use. This way they are not mandating the phones be unlocked. The carriers can sell all the locked phones they want. The FCC will simply stick to their authority of deciding what devices are authorized to use the radio spectrum.
No, I 88% are not Hackintoshes. (I assume you are not you were trying to say something as stupid as a claim that Widows is a clone of OSX.)
Psst, and being white doesn't stop you from being a racist. It neither stops you from being self hating nor does it stop you from thinking you are "one of the good ones" and "a credit to your race". If you were not so much of a racist, you would realize that the reason we didn't bomb Russia directly was not because they were white, but because they could fight back. It is the same reason we will bomb Afghanistan but not China. You are simply to blinded by racism to see that.
Of course, I do not expect you to recognize your racism. Racists rarely do. If they did there wouldn't be so many of them.
Yes, it is a stretch. Only a nut believes what you have typed.
Surveillance is like a lot of other things. When done once or twice, it isn't a huge deal. When done pervasively, it is a very big problem. Just like littering. If I throw a McDonald's bag out of the windows of my car, and I was the only one to ever do it, it wouldn't be worth anyone's time to even acknowledge it. If everyone is throwing all of their garbage out their car windows, we have a real problem.
We've used fighter jets to blow up brown people for decades
The racist rants of people like you get real old. We have killed plenty of 'white' people, and for 40+ years of the last 70, the big bad boogieman for the US has been Russia. White people. Our nuclear arsenal was built to kill white people.
Yes, it sucks that we (and the rest of the world) are so aggressive, but your 'whitie is evil because they are trying to kill the poor defenseless brown people just for being brown' is just racist posturing.
(Obviously, I am torn between the wrongness of having done this, and ultimately, the lack of any way to change the past.)
Easy. See people as individuals instead of racial groups. YOU didn't do this. Then recognize between 1864 and 1949 the 4 Geneva Conventions were established only slowly adding any kind of rules to war and conquering. Prior to that, it was considered acceptable by most nations of the world (including American Indian) to do anything necessary to kill or conquer your enemies.
So, there is nothing to be torn by. Accept that you belong to a species (not race, not nationality) that has committed horrific acts on others of it's own species. And take take pride in the fact that as a species we are working towards, and making progress at being better to our fellow man.
Anyone that would hold you responsible for the acts of other people just because you have the same color skin is exactly the kind of person we are trying to leave in our species past.
No. 8 year olds having only 8 year old friends is unnatural. It is a brand new situation that has been artificially created by our broken school system. Your 'natural' child is socially retarded because they have no idea how to deal with anyone that isn't their own age. No doubt you also recommend segregating siblings or at the very least actively developing animosity between them so that they don't end up with an 'unnatural' friendship.
You are a sad individual if you think using a communications device is a "please come rape me" sign. You are in essence saying that transmitting and receiving voice via Skype is totally different than a telephone because it is "On A Computer". You don't happen to work for the patent office do you?
The claim is that he know what people wanted. A 12% market share shows that he clearly did not.
That is some pretty hard core rationalization there.
Maybe if he did, he could have gotten more than 12% market share for his desktop systems.
He knew how to "think" like the common man and figure out what the common man wanted before he knew that he wanted it.
A common trait of a con. Make the mark think it was their idea.
They are telling you that their game is so crappy that you will pay them cash to not play it.
You just described how people can pay to overcome crappy game design. Letting people pay to skip part of your game is openly acknowledging that your game is so crappy that people will literally pay to not play it. Even if that is just part of your game, that isn't a good thing.
It only takes a generation for a monopoly like that to disappear. I see that with traditional telephones vs. Skype. My son (8) and his circle of friends (6-16) all have smart phones. You would think that they would call each other a lot. They don't. They use Skype almost exclusively. They will sit on their cell phones talking to each other via Skype on the phones. For these kids, the "phone" part of the smart phones is for calling your parents and ordering pizza. For talking to peers you use Skype. My first instinct was to wince at their choice, but I very quickly realized that the problem was mine and that I was falling prey to being used to the traditional phone systems network effect. For these kids, the network effect is pushing Skype over the traditional 10 digit phone system. When new kids join the group, they are quickly pushed to install Skype if they want to be involved in the groups activities.
Will these kids switch to the traditional phone system when they hit 18? Maybe, but I wouldn't count on it. I have a feeling that they will use the 10 digit phones for what they have to, but that those of us that predate Skype and it's ilk will be dragged into the much better future of post Bell communication.
If these kids started trading text documents, I don't think it would take long for LibreOffice to topple MS Office in their demographic.
I don't know. I keep seeing LibreOffice showing up in more and more households. I started using it because it is just more convenient to download it and use it than it is deal with buying MS Office. Yes, the price difference matters, but the convenience of not having to deal with a transaction and any kind of DRM is the real reason. MS Office is just more hassle than it is worth.
That being said, I don't do a lot of writing. For 90% of my word processing, (like this) a text box in the browser is more than enough. I am not writing huge novels. I am not doing enterprise level accounting. But, I do believe that I am in the majority in my needs. I tend to use 4 word processors:
Notepad: When I specifically want to strip special characters and formatting.
Wordpad: When I want a scratch pad that supports simple formatting
Google Docs: When I want to collaborate on a document
LibreOffice: When a want a complex (relatively speaking) document
I have simply never created a document that LibreOffice wasn't more than adequate for. Word processing reached maturity some time between 1997 and 2000. Word was the best word processor around that time, and thus reached maturity first. I can't pin the specific time that LibreOffice/OpenOffice reached maturity, but it was more than a version ago. We are now in an attrition phase. Word is still prettier than LibreOffice, but for the vast majority of users it is only prettiness and momentum that holds people to Word. Every time a kid just downloads LibreOffice because he doesn't know yet that he is suppose to be tied to MS, the MS juggernaut gets a little weaker.
As much as I think learning to program is valuable, it isn't because people need to be shown it isn't magic. We are way past the point of expecting people to understand the world around them. Most people don't understand how a light switch makes a room light up. The don't understand why the walls of their house stay up. Worrying about them understanding their computer isn't even in the top one hundred most basic things they should understand but don't. The biggest benefits most people would get from learning to code is how to break big complex problems into small simple ones, and how to go from A to B to C to D without skipping important steps that tell them what D really is.
It is because Linus is a dictator. Just as Gates & Jobs were and Ballmer & Cook are now. The thing about dictators is that they are not all bad. Dictators have greater power for good or ill and since most people are greedy and self serving, most dictators use their greater power for ill. Linus has been a benevolent dictator. He has used his power for good. He frequently does it in a crass way, but the end result is that his goal is generally not to throw us all under the bus for his own profit or convenience.
Not only that, Statistically, nobody asks "how do I change the screen resolution" at all. Linux, Windows and OSX all automatically probe the monitor for it's native resolution and set it without user intervention.
If you are going to talk about odd man out, Windows 8 is easily the worst offender.
And the offices there are cheaper to staff.
We homeschool our child, so he has the proper social skills to know that during the workday, you make noise in places other than where a person is working. For those who have been "socialized" by going to public school, they are not at home during the day anyway, so either way, having kids doesn't really come into the equation.
As well as the productivity drain.
Working long hours is well known to massively decrease productivity due to significant increases in mistakes and wrong decisions.
This generally get compounded by the fact that "Working hours is ill defined." From the company point of view and the legally, the number of hours worked is from the time you get to work, to the time you leave work. The companies point of view nor the law change the fact that from the employees point of view and from a biological point of view, work begins when you start getting ready for work at home until you get back home in the evening. That and a lunch hour is not enough time to convert the time into non-work time. Thus, the standard work day for an employee with an hour commute is ~12 hours to start.
I myself like extreme quiet so I can focus, which I could not get being in the office.
Well put. As a counter point to a detail that supports you main point. I myself like the white noise of human chatter as background noise. No doubt if on a team, one of use would be put in a less productive environment by being in the same office.
Yep. The difference between a "paper mill" and a "real school" is that the "real school" will make sure that they offer a few degrees that are legitimate. That way when people out that the "Business Degree" the school offers is no better than Heald, they can point to their madical program and say "See! We are not a paper mill!"