I hate Microsoft like Satan hates his mother-in-law, but there's very little chance what you said is true. Some high profile cases have gone down the toilet hole, but a company the size of MS must work with hundreds of companies none of which would bother with MS if what you said was true.
"US has a bad tendency to attack those it percieves as largely defenseless"...look, I don't think the U.S. is going to attack Europe anytime soon. But seriously, continue to drink the Kool-Aid, the U.S. regularly goes around the world knocking off defenseless Mid-East countries, giving the country back and agreeing to buy their oil, and pushing democratic values in the hopes it will replace their usual sport of killing each other off.
The U.S. was mainly financially weakened by the housing crisis and the outlandish economic promises made by administrations and congresses as far back as the eye can recall. China is doesn't give a rat's ass about decadent western ideals, this is the country whose government gets collywobbles over Falung Gong doing calisthenics on their front lawn and goes into apoplectic fits over a blind guy. And if the U.S. defaults on China's debt holdings, it will take down China as well, unless you figure all those factories employing what would be jobless proles will somehow miraculously find new markets...not to mention all the jobless proles getting upset enough to go all Falung Gong on the government's front lawn.
I also tend to think that this is really Putin trying to claim to the Russian people that Russia still matters as a military force, i.e., he still wields a big dick. Being an economic force isn't something he knows how to produce and he knows it. All he has to do is show Russia can influence America's strategic behavior to claim he can not only hold his dick, he can wave it as well.
You do realize that is a temporary measure, eh? What do you get out of making a mountain out of mole hill?
And if the U.S. hadn't stepped in tided GM over a rough spot, how many thousands of people would now be on the unemployment line? Last we heard, the U.S. auto industry is coming back and GM has been paying down their debt.
The problem Open Access journals need to solve is the vetting problem. Anyone can post their brain-damaged research if there are no gate keepers. Currently, the journals do that through the servitude of the rest of the researchers. And gatekeeping is against the spirit of open. Also, who is going to fund all these open access journals. Staff to support the journals, admins to run the servers, web site people, power for the servers, retirement accounts for people working on the journals, etc.
So if government wants open access, they must put their money where their mouths tend to wander. Let's see the government program all costed out so we know what we will get when the system is up and running. Some bureaucrat will no doubt tell us that it should be let out to the private sector to run. Guess who will be first in line to bid those contracts.
I hear you. I switched to SeaMonkey long ago just because Firefox couldn't leave well enough alone. Yep, it is big, fat slow browser, but the interface rarely changes. And NoScript works with it. There is a candified interface skin I could use but I prefer the more traditional skin.
I rather think it will be along the lines of Galactic Moronic Convergence. The poles will flip and what you saw on your phone will appear on your desktop and what appeared on your desktop will appear on your phone, all on Dec. 21. At that point, marketdroids will become engineers and engineers will become marketdroids. China and India will outsource to the U.S. Republicans will become Democrats and Democrats will become Republicans.
The U.S. Patent Office will finally admit it has no idea what it's doing and will shut down for 5 years to become one with itself and study Zen Buddhism. Lawyers will slit their throats, but no one will notice except to wash off the sidewalks. Larry Ellison will reveal he's an alien and attempt medical procedures to become human, but he will fail miserably. Jesus will return, stay awhile, and then leave with the excuse that he's a busy guy.
I'm looking for one gonzo-whopper of a Moronic Convergence.
Whether copyright should extend to APIs is an matter of law, it is not an issue of facts in the case. Hence, the judge is proper is telling the jury as a matter of law, it is his decision to make on copyrights. Honestly, did you learn nothing in grade school?
Nice spin, but complete bullshit. If that were the case, the only sane course for the Russians would have been to proceed ahead at speed since showing any weakness would result in Reagan launching a war.
Reagan's actually policy was to convince the Russians they could never win an arms race.
Stop talking out of your ass, there would be no grounds to sue and any judge would throw the case out.
Plaintiff: Judge, this company that I've invested in has been paying 100% of their fair share of taxes, other companies don't, I am suing to recover the taxes they should spend on me instead.
Judge: Bailiff, please duck tape the plaintiff's mouth shut so he stops saying stupid things.
Also, people forget the Bush tax cut was in response to the government bringing a lot more than it spent. And the prognosis was for surpluses as far as the eye could see...which was about 10 years, and that's why they were scheduled to disappear then...but Obama and Republicans conspired to extend them for 2 years.
What should have happened was they should have disappeared the first year a deficit reappeared.
Uh, the current Republican plans are for a flat tax system (well, two tiers) and no exemptions, which...errr...is pretty much what you are advocating.
I think the problem is that you want to believe the problems with the tax system are a function of the Republicans. Both parties are to blame. What to see fees, go to New York State...been run by Democrats for years, high taxes, high fees, high property taxes, and yet still the state manages to only implode in slow motion. I will grant you a lot of that started under Rockefeller, yet the Democrats picked up the mantle and have been running with it ever since.
You can get chips with little neon signs on the top. So "Hello World" becomes a marquee marching across the top of the chip. In more sophisticated chips, it also synthesizes the words into speech.
SoCs these days include a fair amount of FPGAs. So it is more likely they are just producing FPGA code. Xilinix has FPGAs with ARM chips on them, or you can use soft PPC processors, not sure if they have soft ARM processors yet but they are likely not far in the future if they do not have them already.
Right now, you could produce FPGAs using soft processors to implement C code using Xilinix tools. However, like the gp says, that ain't all there is to it.
Yes, other sciences were against the SSC mainly because they only needed smaller dollops of public funds per project. However, what really irked Congress was Phil Gramm. When it was clear that Fermi Lab outside of Chicago made the most sense because the equipment there could be utilized for the SSC, Brother Phil ramrodded the language to choose Texas instead. As soon as that happened, other Congress Critters decided that they'd had enough and killed it.
Not putting a hefty blob of research funding in one basket like the SSC made sense, something of that scale should be international. However, Congress then proceeded to cut total research funding. This was made worse by the Republican Conservative Right who seem to think research is a conspiracy to overturn the truths they see in the Bible. And it was the beginning of Conservatives thinking that research was merely another political institution that could be made to say whatever they wanted said.
The Conservatives arguments are varied and specious. They would argue that any research worthy of funding will get it in the private sector...from Business School Product whose idea of research is the secretary's bra size. The controversy over global warming was merely the researchers telling them that while G-d told them humans inherit the Earth, the humans could still screw it up and G-d wouldn't be there to save them. The controversy over evolution was the researchers telling them that the Bible could not be read literally, that somehow G-d was screwing with them by burying fake dinosaurs bones, etc.
And worst of all, research was also giving women choices over their own reproductive systems, in direct contravention of G-d telling them that Man wore the pants in the family and hence they could order Women around as they see fit.
Yeah, which company would want well-educated individuals who can do more than the thing currently in front of them. All a job will ever require is just a bit of training for the life time of that job...which would be about what, 4 years in this day and age. Then the employee can be let go or retrained for a job they'd have no trouble doing without re-training if they only had a real education.
Totally correct. Why should companies get well-rounded individuals who know more than a few tech tricks and can think for themselves. Companies should be happy with narrow-minded people who are only good for one or two things while they are in style; when the style changes, companies can get rid of those people get some new hires who are narrowly focused on the new whiz-bang stuff. IT changes much too quickly for people with a depth of knowledge. People just need to get over the fact that they are to be nothing more than fodder for the next mini-trend in IT. They'll be happier being only employed for a bit before they are let go to pursue...well...maybe they can find work as garbage collectors.
Bingo!!! You, sir, have hit upon THE way for the U.S. to cloak our really secret drones. We'll label some female and some male. No one is allowed to look under the female drone's skirts lest Satan grab them by their hind parts (check out Martin Luther). Now, I know what you are thinking, they'll have female agents looking under those skirts. That's where American ingenuity comes in, we'll make them androgynous with BOTH parts.
My friend told me that Gaddafi was a space alien who was going to use the water to desalinate the Med. Sea and thus end all European fishing in what he considered his own private lake. Maybe my friend and your friend could get together and compare conspiracy theories. With enough care and feeding, we could get lots of new theories, enough to keep all of us happy for years to come.
A bigger question is why western religions are so interested in sex. Could it be because they are run by a group of horny old men? No, that surely couldn't have anything to do with it.
Western religions should announce they no longer give a two-headed rat's ass about sex, from now on they'll be more involved with the eternal verities of life, i.e., what does it all mean, why are we here, where shall we have lunch. If they would concentrate on those, there'd be much less strife caused by the religions. Well, getting rid of their voyeuristic pre-occupation with sex is one thing they can give up. They also need to give up their fear of women. I'd like to hear them proclaim to heavens they no long care what a woman wears as long as it is stylish and the colors don't clash.
It isn't that less of their kids dying that leads to lower family counts, it is that they no longer need a large family to support them when they get old if there are enough government resources to help with the job. A large family is an expense, so in effect they are paying into an old age insurance system. Lower the expected expense for their later years and they'll forgo the current expense of a large family. Also, it helps if they can keep producing an income longer which is what education tends to do for them.
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I hate Microsoft like Satan hates his mother-in-law, but there's very little chance what you said is true. Some high profile cases have gone down the toilet hole, but a company the size of MS must work with hundreds of companies none of which would bother with MS if what you said was true.
"US has a bad tendency to attack those it percieves as largely defenseless"...look, I don't think the U.S. is going to attack Europe anytime soon. But seriously, continue to drink the Kool-Aid, the U.S. regularly goes around the world knocking off defenseless Mid-East countries, giving the country back and agreeing to buy their oil, and pushing democratic values in the hopes it will replace their usual sport of killing each other off.
The U.S. was mainly financially weakened by the housing crisis and the outlandish economic promises made by administrations and congresses as far back as the eye can recall. China is doesn't give a rat's ass about decadent western ideals, this is the country whose government gets collywobbles over Falung Gong doing calisthenics on their front lawn and goes into apoplectic fits over a blind guy. And if the U.S. defaults on China's debt holdings, it will take down China as well, unless you figure all those factories employing what would be jobless proles will somehow miraculously find new markets...not to mention all the jobless proles getting upset enough to go all Falung Gong on the government's front lawn.
I also tend to think that this is really Putin trying to claim to the Russian people that Russia still matters as a military force, i.e., he still wields a big dick. Being an economic force isn't something he knows how to produce and he knows it. All he has to do is show Russia can influence America's strategic behavior to claim he can not only hold his dick, he can wave it as well.
You do realize that is a temporary measure, eh? What do you get out of making a mountain out of mole hill?
And if the U.S. hadn't stepped in tided GM over a rough spot, how many thousands of people would now be on the unemployment line? Last we heard, the U.S. auto industry is coming back and GM has been paying down their debt.
The problem Open Access journals need to solve is the vetting problem. Anyone can post their brain-damaged research if there are no gate keepers. Currently, the journals do that through the servitude of the rest of the researchers. And gatekeeping is against the spirit of open. Also, who is going to fund all these open access journals. Staff to support the journals, admins to run the servers, web site people, power for the servers, retirement accounts for people working on the journals, etc.
So if government wants open access, they must put their money where their mouths tend to wander. Let's see the government program all costed out so we know what we will get when the system is up and running. Some bureaucrat will no doubt tell us that it should be let out to the private sector to run. Guess who will be first in line to bid those contracts.
I hear you. I switched to SeaMonkey long ago just because Firefox couldn't leave well enough alone. Yep, it is big, fat slow browser, but the interface rarely changes. And NoScript works with it. There is a candified interface skin I could use but I prefer the more traditional skin.
I rather think it will be along the lines of Galactic Moronic Convergence. The poles will flip and what you saw on your phone will appear on your desktop and what appeared on your desktop will appear on your phone, all on Dec. 21. At that point, marketdroids will become engineers and engineers will become marketdroids. China and India will outsource to the U.S. Republicans will become Democrats and Democrats will become Republicans.
The U.S. Patent Office will finally admit it has no idea what it's doing and will shut down for 5 years to become one with itself and study Zen Buddhism. Lawyers will slit their throats, but no one will notice except to wash off the sidewalks. Larry Ellison will reveal he's an alien and attempt medical procedures to become human, but he will fail miserably. Jesus will return, stay awhile, and then leave with the excuse that he's a busy guy.
I'm looking for one gonzo-whopper of a Moronic Convergence.
Whether copyright should extend to APIs is an matter of law, it is not an issue of facts in the case. Hence, the judge is proper is telling the jury as a matter of law, it is his decision to make on copyrights. Honestly, did you learn nothing in grade school?
Nice spin, but complete bullshit. If that were the case, the only sane course for the Russians would have been to proceed ahead at speed since showing any weakness would result in Reagan launching a war.
Reagan's actually policy was to convince the Russians they could never win an arms race.
You just wait until the toilet goes on line and mobile.
Who wrote that headline and how can we make him stop writing new ones.
Stop talking out of your ass, there would be no grounds to sue and any judge would throw the case out.
Plaintiff: Judge, this company that I've invested in has been paying 100% of their fair share of taxes, other companies don't, I am suing to recover the taxes they should spend on me instead.
Judge: Bailiff, please duck tape the plaintiff's mouth shut so he stops saying stupid things.
Also, people forget the Bush tax cut was in response to the government bringing a lot more than it spent. And the prognosis was for surpluses as far as the eye could see...which was about 10 years, and that's why they were scheduled to disappear then...but Obama and Republicans conspired to extend them for 2 years.
What should have happened was they should have disappeared the first year a deficit reappeared.
Uh, the current Republican plans are for a flat tax system (well, two tiers) and no exemptions, which...errr...is pretty much what you are advocating.
I think the problem is that you want to believe the problems with the tax system are a function of the Republicans. Both parties are to blame. What to see fees, go to New York State...been run by Democrats for years, high taxes, high fees, high property taxes, and yet still the state manages to only implode in slow motion. I will grant you a lot of that started under Rockefeller, yet the Democrats picked up the mantle and have been running with it ever since.
You can get chips with little neon signs on the top. So "Hello World" becomes a marquee marching across the top of the chip. In more sophisticated chips, it also synthesizes the words into speech.
SoCs these days include a fair amount of FPGAs. So it is more likely they are just producing FPGA code. Xilinix has FPGAs with ARM chips on them, or you can use soft PPC processors, not sure if they have soft ARM processors yet but they are likely not far in the future if they do not have them already.
Right now, you could produce FPGAs using soft processors to implement C code using Xilinix tools. However, like the gp says, that ain't all there is to it.
Yes, other sciences were against the SSC mainly because they only needed smaller dollops of public funds per project. However, what really irked Congress was Phil Gramm. When it was clear that Fermi Lab outside of Chicago made the most sense because the equipment there could be utilized for the SSC, Brother Phil ramrodded the language to choose Texas instead. As soon as that happened, other Congress Critters decided that they'd had enough and killed it.
Not putting a hefty blob of research funding in one basket like the SSC made sense, something of that scale should be international. However, Congress then proceeded to cut total research funding. This was made worse by the Republican Conservative Right who seem to think research is a conspiracy to overturn the truths they see in the Bible. And it was the beginning of Conservatives thinking that research was merely another political institution that could be made to say whatever they wanted said.
The Conservatives arguments are varied and specious. They would argue that any research worthy of funding will get it in the private sector...from Business School Product whose idea of research is the secretary's bra size. The controversy over global warming was merely the researchers telling them that while G-d told them humans inherit the Earth, the humans could still screw it up and G-d wouldn't be there to save them. The controversy over evolution was the researchers telling them that the Bible could not be read literally, that somehow G-d was screwing with them by burying fake dinosaurs bones, etc.
And worst of all, research was also giving women choices over their own reproductive systems, in direct contravention of G-d telling them that Man wore the pants in the family and hence they could order Women around as they see fit.
Yeah, which company would want well-educated individuals who can do more than the thing currently in front of them. All a job will ever require is just a bit of training for the life time of that job...which would be about what, 4 years in this day and age. Then the employee can be let go or retrained for a job they'd have no trouble doing without re-training if they only had a real education.
Totally correct. Why should companies get well-rounded individuals who know more than a few tech tricks and can think for themselves. Companies should be happy with narrow-minded people who are only good for one or two things while they are in style; when the style changes, companies can get rid of those people get some new hires who are narrowly focused on the new whiz-bang stuff. IT changes much too quickly for people with a depth of knowledge. People just need to get over the fact that they are to be nothing more than fodder for the next mini-trend in IT. They'll be happier being only employed for a bit before they are let go to pursue...well...maybe they can find work as garbage collectors.
Bingo!!! You, sir, have hit upon THE way for the U.S. to cloak our really secret drones. We'll label some female and some male. No one is allowed to look under the female drone's skirts lest Satan grab them by their hind parts (check out Martin Luther). Now, I know what you are thinking, they'll have female agents looking under those skirts. That's where American ingenuity comes in, we'll make them androgynous with BOTH parts.
And you know this how? References or you are wrong.
My friend told me that Gaddafi was a space alien who was going to use the water to desalinate the Med. Sea and thus end all European fishing in what he considered his own private lake. Maybe my friend and your friend could get together and compare conspiracy theories. With enough care and feeding, we could get lots of new theories, enough to keep all of us happy for years to come.
A bigger question is why western religions are so interested in sex. Could it be because they are run by a group of horny old men? No, that surely couldn't have anything to do with it.
Western religions should announce they no longer give a two-headed rat's ass about sex, from now on they'll be more involved with the eternal verities of life, i.e., what does it all mean, why are we here, where shall we have lunch. If they would concentrate on those, there'd be much less strife caused by the religions. Well, getting rid of their voyeuristic pre-occupation with sex is one thing they can give up. They also need to give up their fear of women. I'd like to hear them proclaim to heavens they no long care what a woman wears as long as it is stylish and the colors don't clash.
It isn't that less of their kids dying that leads to lower family counts, it is that they no longer need a large family to support them when they get old if there are enough government resources to help with the job. A large family is an expense, so in effect they are paying into an old age insurance system. Lower the expected expense for their later years and they'll forgo the current expense of a large family. Also, it helps if they can keep producing an income longer which is what education tends to do for them.