Errmm...like the ones in Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. Them? The ones that cannot stop fighting each other over Allah? Now, let's all be Multi-Culti and praise their tribal culture.
I find I give a better presentation with just a chalkboard. It forces me to think through the presentation rather than reduce everything to bullet points. I'm no artist and don't give a flying rat's ass about graphics.
One time on CSPAN I saw David Patraeus give a PP presentation. He got to one slide and there were arrows here and there, pointlessly pointing at nothing in particular. He made some comment about having to rearrange the slide for some reason and then glanced off camera and said "If the Microsoft people would help us." Well, that explained the pointlessly pointing arrows. It also horrified me that Microsoft people were helping Generals design PP slides.
And guess who Carly Fiorina advises these days....the Republican Party. Saw her on some talking heads pundit show recently, she's just as clueless now as back then. The dumbest bit is that she thinks she's somehow understands how the private sector works well. And Hurd is now working for Oracle. HP has got to stop inflicting their failures on the rest of the country.
Islam was only forward looking in the first half of its existence if you ignore the Muslim armies that conquered from N. Africa to India and threatened to do the same for Europe. You had the choice to live and pay taxes or convert or die. They weren't too particular about which you picked.
If you are referring to the Muslim Brotherhood, think again. Mostly it was every day folk getting fed up by comparing what they can see from the intertubes and satellite TV vs. what they experience at home. The only organized resistance in most of those countries does tend to be the Muslim Brotherhood but they have been mostly going with the flow hoping to gain political power when the dust settles. And the jury is still out as to whether allowing the MB to run the show means true freedom (freedom of religion, freedom of women, freedom for minorities, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom from the MB, etc.).
Islam believes power comes from Allah and Democracy holds power comes from the People.
Now for my own bias is that this conflict (Allah and Democracy) is unreconciliable. And pointing to Turkey doesn't cut it for me, the Islamists in that country are slowing taking control of everything. Given them another 10 years and their control will be complete and irrevocable.
I also believe that MB will only shield the people from their true dictatorial nature long enough to put a new straight-jacket on the Muslims dumb enough to believe them. After that, there will be no true freedom for the people to choose a different political party. Minorities will be abused, un-Sunni sects will be discriminated against or forced out of the home countries. The economics MB seem to profess is a brand of state control of anything big enough that to control it means to keep a chunk of power. The Arabs will rue the day they let MB's nose under the tent.
What I'd like to see is an hour of debate. And during that hour, fact checkers are working behind the scenes to corroborate the statements touted as fact by both sides. The next hour they get to defend what they said against the corroborators...who then get to rate the debaters after their responses to each "fact" and its corroboration by holding up scores like they do in the Olympics. At the end of the hour, we get a final score: basically truthful or lying sack of shit.
What's worse with CNN is that something that sounds like a news story on the headline page is actually Zakaria's or some other hack's editorial running off at the mouth again.
". I don't want Google, Amazon, HTC, Apple or anyone else telling me what my computer should be." They already have told you what your computer should be, that's why you think it should be way it is. Now that they are thinking of changing the formula, you are objecting. Those companies were never set up to please you, and golly, now you resent it.
Congratulations!!! You have won the Internet Prize for gratuitous use of the word "fuck" in on an internet response site. Loosen the tin foil hat, we're not ALL out to get you.
yeah, the Taliban and their fellow cronies have given up on airplanes long ago. We have no reason not to give them first class tickets just as show we don't fear them taking down a plane for the sheer pleasure of it.
Company sponsored health insurance was actually an outgrowth of WWII in the U.S. Taxes were structured such that if you had it, they took it. So in order to help keep labor peace, companies gave workers health insurance. After the war, there was no turning back.
So in the nice libertarian utopia that was the 20s, if you wanted health insurance, most had to buy it themselves...great for the rich, the poor always get the short end of the stick.
Libertarian principles generally fail at anything that one cannot easily put a price on. Fish stocks in the world's oceans being depleted, the Libertarian principles would have the oceans fished dry before any effort was made to save the fish species from extinction. Libertarianism is morally and ethically bankrupt, that includes Ron Paul and his fellow travelers.
The population of the U.S. is not growing unsustainably, were it not for immigrants, we'd have a net loss in population. The U.S. stopped producing more than replacement about 1999.
Medicare and Medicaid are running out of money because the population is getting older and poorer, the latter mainly due to the current recession. The former due to the Me Generation finally getting read to pop their clogs.
What the U.S. will be forced to do is reduce benefits either by raising the age limit for Medicare and/or taxing to spend on Medicaid. The new health bill contains quite a few new taxes to pay for the increases they want the States to make in Medicaid. There's no fixing Medicare with increased taxes mainly because the younger generation is too small for the Baby Boom Blob.
Other nations haven't necessarily avoided the problems either. Usually they use some form of rationing. In the U.S., we use the insurance companies and their "death panels" (someone has to determine what gets covered, they just aren't government death panels, the former apparently do not distress Conservative Republicans whereas the latter are presumably the spawn of Satan). Also, the U.S. as allowed the growth of "specialty" medicine to provide extraordinary life styles for the specialists. And the U.S. allows the Court system to rape the doctors in malpractice thus requiring those nice insurance companies to get another paycheck.
TheRegister has a story about a recent interview with Bill Gates. He believes the PC is going away to be replaced everywhere with Surface-like devices...claims will totally revolutionize...errr....something...blah, blah, blah....
I think what MS fears is that there are plenty of PCs in industry that are not doing work that can only be done on a PC, that iPad like devices will do just fine for. If that be the case, then the total amount of dough MS gets to rake in goes down. And what probably has them frightened worse is that no one can predict what iPad like devices will morph into and what kind of new work flows it will spawn. Hence, Gates' belief that the PC is impersonating the dodo.
If companies like Dell and HP can no long ship volumes of PC where their profit is already marginal, and those companies leave the market, then industry may be forced to develop new workflows around iStuff like devices.
You really have no idea what it takes to run a company, even a small one. Your day is constantly filled with making decisions. With no game plan other than "don't screw up", you will run into the problem that one decision you made last year screwed up a decision you made this year. There are competitors to think about, cash-flow, investor relations, employee compensation, accounting rules, government regulation, community relations, employee relations, the direction of your industry, understanding what makes your company unique such that it deserves a niche, etc.
The West? You mean like the U.S., Spain, and Portugal. Portugal shouldn't count since they haven't had a serious colony in S. America for a long time. To suggest the U.S. somehow held back a United S. America is ludicrous. S. American countries have had territorial disputes for a long time after the last colonies ended. Castro and his ilk merely used the Big Bad Boogie Man of the U.S. to claim they were somehow the vanguards of S. America when in fact they were only the latest crop of dictators to rule over the proles. Hell, the U.S. was busy and still signing free trade agreements with S. American countries, that's not the mark of a country trying to keep them down.
So, ya got any other straw men you'd like to stick pin into?
Apple is not dumbed down, they merely made efficient what was a blob of unconnected crap. If by locked down you mean it won't turn into the cesspool of malware that swirls around MS products and starting to be so for Android, then yes it is locked down. The alternative is to have a phone no one wants because its too easily rooted. Hell, even MS realizes this with their new tablet thingy. Apple is only overpriced to people who only evaluate hardware. MS and Linux have taught you to disrespect software and the investment it takes to write it well and have it work properly with a hardware box.
I don't know about the rest, but I do not think MS didn't attempt to branch out. They may have no class to their software or devices, which doomed their attempts, but they were and still are trying.
Well, we do appreciate the work you do up there. As for Al Awlaki, the man declared war on the U.S., renounced his citizenship, distributed new and interesting ways to kill Americans, and was your basic Islamic nutjob. Killing was too good for him.
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Errmm...like the ones in Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. Them? The ones that cannot stop fighting each other over Allah? Now, let's all be Multi-Culti and praise their tribal culture.
I find I give a better presentation with just a chalkboard. It forces me to think through the presentation rather than reduce everything to bullet points. I'm no artist and don't give a flying rat's ass about graphics.
One time on CSPAN I saw David Patraeus give a PP presentation. He got to one slide and there were arrows here and there, pointlessly pointing at nothing in particular. He made some comment about having to rearrange the slide for some reason and then glanced off camera and said "If the Microsoft people would help us." Well, that explained the pointlessly pointing arrows. It also horrified me that Microsoft people were helping Generals design PP slides.
And guess who Carly Fiorina advises these days....the Republican Party. Saw her on some talking heads pundit show recently, she's just as clueless now as back then. The dumbest bit is that she thinks she's somehow understands how the private sector works well. And Hurd is now working for Oracle. HP has got to stop inflicting their failures on the rest of the country.
Islam was only forward looking in the first half of its existence if you ignore the Muslim armies that conquered from N. Africa to India and threatened to do the same for Europe. You had the choice to live and pay taxes or convert or die. They weren't too particular about which you picked.
If you are referring to the Muslim Brotherhood, think again. Mostly it was every day folk getting fed up by comparing what they can see from the intertubes and satellite TV vs. what they experience at home. The only organized resistance in most of those countries does tend to be the Muslim Brotherhood but they have been mostly going with the flow hoping to gain political power when the dust settles. And the jury is still out as to whether allowing the MB to run the show means true freedom (freedom of religion, freedom of women, freedom for minorities, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom from the MB, etc.).
Islam believes power comes from Allah and Democracy holds power comes from the People.
Now for my own bias is that this conflict (Allah and Democracy) is unreconciliable. And pointing to Turkey doesn't cut it for me, the Islamists in that country are slowing taking control of everything. Given them another 10 years and their control will be complete and irrevocable.
I also believe that MB will only shield the people from their true dictatorial nature long enough to put a new straight-jacket on the Muslims dumb enough to believe them. After that, there will be no true freedom for the people to choose a different political party. Minorities will be abused, un-Sunni sects will be discriminated against or forced out of the home countries. The economics MB seem to profess is a brand of state control of anything big enough that to control it means to keep a chunk of power. The Arabs will rue the day they let MB's nose under the tent.
What I'd like to see is an hour of debate. And during that hour, fact checkers are working behind the scenes to corroborate the statements touted as fact by both sides. The next hour they get to defend what they said against the corroborators...who then get to rate the debaters after their responses to each "fact" and its corroboration by holding up scores like they do in the Olympics. At the end of the hour, we get a final score: basically truthful or lying sack of shit.
What's worse with CNN is that something that sounds like a news story on the headline page is actually Zakaria's or some other hack's editorial running off at the mouth again.
The day I'm forced to talk to my computer is the day I take it out back and shoot it.
". I don't want Google, Amazon, HTC, Apple or anyone else telling me what my computer should be." They already have told you what your computer should be, that's why you think it should be way it is. Now that they are thinking of changing the formula, you are objecting. Those companies were never set up to please you, and golly, now you resent it.
Congratulations!!! You have won the Internet Prize for gratuitous use of the word "fuck" in on an internet response site. Loosen the tin foil hat, we're not ALL out to get you.
yeah, the Taliban and their fellow cronies have given up on airplanes long ago. We have no reason not to give them first class tickets just as show we don't fear them taking down a plane for the sheer pleasure of it.
Stalling? Wow, he led Russia during WWII? I'm constantly amazed at the things I learn on Slashdot.
So, you're saying corporations are going on vendettas against the people? Those bastards!
Even apropos as well, eh? Being a techi
Company sponsored health insurance was actually an outgrowth of WWII in the U.S. Taxes were structured such that if you had it, they took it. So in order to help keep labor peace, companies gave workers health insurance. After the war, there was no turning back.
So in the nice libertarian utopia that was the 20s, if you wanted health insurance, most had to buy it themselves...great for the rich, the poor always get the short end of the stick.
Libertarian principles generally fail at anything that one cannot easily put a price on. Fish stocks in the world's oceans being depleted, the Libertarian principles would have the oceans fished dry before any effort was made to save the fish species from extinction. Libertarianism is morally and ethically bankrupt, that includes Ron Paul and his fellow travelers.
The population of the U.S. is not growing unsustainably, were it not for immigrants, we'd have a net loss in population. The U.S. stopped producing more than replacement about 1999.
Medicare and Medicaid are running out of money because the population is getting older and poorer, the latter mainly due to the current recession. The former due to the Me Generation finally getting read to pop their clogs.
What the U.S. will be forced to do is reduce benefits either by raising the age limit for Medicare and/or taxing to spend on Medicaid. The new health bill contains quite a few new taxes to pay for the increases they want the States to make in Medicaid. There's no fixing Medicare with increased taxes mainly because the younger generation is too small for the Baby Boom Blob.
Other nations haven't necessarily avoided the problems either. Usually they use some form of rationing. In the U.S., we use the insurance companies and their "death panels" (someone has to determine what gets covered, they just aren't government death panels, the former apparently do not distress Conservative Republicans whereas the latter are presumably the spawn of Satan). Also, the U.S. as allowed the growth of "specialty" medicine to provide extraordinary life styles for the specialists. And the U.S. allows the Court system to rape the doctors in malpractice thus requiring those nice insurance companies to get another paycheck.
TheRegister has a story about a recent interview with Bill Gates. He believes the PC is going away to be replaced everywhere with Surface-like devices...claims will totally revolutionize...errr....something...blah, blah, blah....
I think what MS fears is that there are plenty of PCs in industry that are not doing work that can only be done on a PC, that iPad like devices will do just fine for. If that be the case, then the total amount of dough MS gets to rake in goes down. And what probably has them frightened worse is that no one can predict what iPad like devices will morph into and what kind of new work flows it will spawn. Hence, Gates' belief that the PC is impersonating the dodo.
If companies like Dell and HP can no long ship volumes of PC where their profit is already marginal, and those companies leave the market, then industry may be forced to develop new workflows around iStuff like devices.
New hats for UFO believers?
You really have no idea what it takes to run a company, even a small one. Your day is constantly filled with making decisions. With no game plan other than "don't screw up", you will run into the problem that one decision you made last year screwed up a decision you made this year. There are competitors to think about, cash-flow, investor relations, employee compensation, accounting rules, government regulation, community relations, employee relations, the direction of your industry, understanding what makes your company unique such that it deserves a niche, etc.
The West? You mean like the U.S., Spain, and Portugal. Portugal shouldn't count since they haven't had a serious colony in S. America for a long time. To suggest the U.S. somehow held back a United S. America is ludicrous. S. American countries have had territorial disputes for a long time after the last colonies ended. Castro and his ilk merely used the Big Bad Boogie Man of the U.S. to claim they were somehow the vanguards of S. America when in fact they were only the latest crop of dictators to rule over the proles. Hell, the U.S. was busy and still signing free trade agreements with S. American countries, that's not the mark of a country trying to keep them down.
So, ya got any other straw men you'd like to stick pin into?
Think putting your balls in a microwave.
Apple is not dumbed down, they merely made efficient what was a blob of unconnected crap. If by locked down you mean it won't turn into the cesspool of malware that swirls around MS products and starting to be so for Android, then yes it is locked down. The alternative is to have a phone no one wants because its too easily rooted. Hell, even MS realizes this with their new tablet thingy. Apple is only overpriced to people who only evaluate hardware. MS and Linux have taught you to disrespect software and the investment it takes to write it well and have it work properly with a hardware box.
I don't know about the rest, but I do not think MS didn't attempt to branch out. They may have no class to their software or devices, which doomed their attempts, but they were and still are trying.
Well, we do appreciate the work you do up there. As for Al Awlaki, the man declared war on the U.S., renounced his citizenship, distributed new and interesting ways to kill Americans, and was your basic Islamic nutjob. Killing was too good for him.
So you are saying our secret weapons will be based on Boston baked beans? Isn't that against the Geneva Convention?