Stop being such a cynical twat. Most U.S. politicians do care very much about the U.S. and its people. If memory serves correct, we've only invaded one mid-east country for no reason, and that was to remove a miserable tyrant. It is arguable whether the Arab Spring would ever have sprung were it not for an example in Iraq of people actually voting for their government. Worthless post-modern prole...
yes, and have it devolve into the bug-ridden compromised machines that unlocked down windows PCs inevitably become. Android is more open than iOS, and as a result it also has more malware running. Apple made a choice to attempt to build a device that is clean of malware. If that isn't the machine for you, please choose another and enjoy it.
I think Motorola threatening other Android developers was the big stick they beat Google over the head with. Motorola has been shopping their Mobility division around for at least 2 years. No one would touch them mainly because after Apple threw in the towel several years ago attempting to jointly develop phones with Moto, other companies decided Moto didn't have what it took to do modern phones. In particular, Apple canned Moto because Moto didn't get interfaces.
So Moto licks its wounds for awhile, gets a new CEO...and he realizes the Mobility division is too inbred to compete, so he starts shopping. No one bit, so he decided he'd force Google. Google was the perfect target, they have a lot of cash, they have their balls hanging out there with Android, and there's no other phone manufacturer Google could buy instead. Moto even went far enough to dangle working with MS a week or so ago, that was probably just to keep Google's feet to the fire since Google had to be negotiating this for months.
Best thing Google could do is clean house in Mobility and restructure it so it at least has a corporate style similar to Google's. But they've already declared they intend to run Mobility as a separate entity. That probably means they'll keep them at arm's length until they find some other sucker to pawn them off on, stripped of any IP Google wants and built-in No Patent War Against Android clauses on the agreement.
While I agree with what you said, I also think that necessity is the mother of invention. Most of the low hanging fruit has been picked, those inventions have been done. The necessities spawning them were small. Now our necessities are much larger. Take energy, how does one "solve" the energy problem? Not with a single silver bullet. There won't be a single grand idea that does it all. The situation is the same in medicine and just about every other area I can think of. Also, previous inventors didn't have the regulatory structure to get over or the insane patent system. The latter is hopeless, the former simply puts a price on the externalities previous inventors could take for granted.
Also, what appeared to be a big idea back in the day doesn't appear to big now simply because we've seen so much more already. And modern communication has a tendency to make big ideas look small because every whacko can now get airtime complaining about some new idea being a bad idea.
Just to tamp down the tin foil hat on your head a bit more firmly:
"why are there no photos of the body released?" Errrr...because it would have incensed Muslims even more now that the U.S. whacked their secret hero?
"And why was the body dumped at sea?" So as not to create a memorial for a martyr. On the other hand, with the right CIA front company, the U.S. could have cleaned up on the Muslim equivalent of votive lights, and statuettes...with that timeless Muslim fanatical Index Finger Raised seen in every photo-op of a would be Muslim terrorist wannabe Big Banana.
"Also, why didn't the "best of the best" simply subdue him since all accounts say his was unarmed and put him on trial like Saddam was put on trial." And let Dershowitz or some other slimeball lawyer realize the Deal of the Century and turn the trial into O.J. Simpson's trial but with nuclear powered steroids? Yep, Dershowitz is Jewish...and it wouldn't have prevented Osama from realizing how to use the dumbass for his own ends.
"Certainly that would be in the best interests of Afghanistan, being able to put him on trial." Why? What did he ever do to Afghanistan other than supply shock troups for the Taliban? The same Taliban that were widely admired by the Pashtuns who thought that stealing the rest of Afghanistan from the Tajiks, Uzbeks, Turkmen, Hazaras, and a host of smaller peoples was a fine thing...as long as the Taliban were winning. The fact that the Taliban were slaughtering thousands yearly was completely beside the point to the Pashtuns.
Get one thing straight. Osama always realized that publicity was the key to his megalomanical designs on absolute power. He played the world's press like a symphony. The U.S. military, to their credit, realized this and decided a low-key death and almost sublime burial in the lost wisps of time was the best they could do for the boy.
Yup. Apple more or less told Oracle if you want Java on MacOS, you'll being doing it yourselves. That isn't Jobs blowing sweet kisses Oracle's way.
For what it matters, Oracle understands interfaces much like a dog sniffs another's butt. That won't ever convince Jobs or Apples to climb into a business relationship with Oracle.
"Ellison is just propping up his buddy Jobs and being his usual pr*ck self." Wow, so Apple has a public rift with Google and Ellison is propping up Jobs by going after Google? One thing we have learned about Oracle over the years is that they do no one any favors, they are only interested in the bottom line.
What's more likely is that Oracle's lawyers got stars in their eyes when talking to Sun about the buy out. My suspicion is that Oracle asked about IP and Java since Oracle depends heavily on Java. In the course of the discussion, Google's interest in Java comes up. Oracle asks about what sort of money was involved here. Sun's lawyers think for about 2 seconds and with wide smiles that resemble Jimmy Carter eating fish guts out of a wire brush (thank you P.J. O'Rourke), "Oh, big money, BIIGGGGG money....Beeeelllions and Beeeelllions of dollars. Yup, fer sure!! Errrr...could you please finishing signing the buy out right there on the dotted line?"
"The truly wise man knows that he don't know shit" Yer right, we need to stop engineers from building bridges because you have determined they do not know shit and shouldn't even try. Wow, what a theory!!! It works everywhere. We shouldn't be building no stinking airplanes because we're too dumb to know anything. New drugs? Please, we should stop all new drug development now in recognition we do understand enough for them to work. Surgery? No more of that shit, no more doctors, no more health care, we be too stupid to know it.
We should close down the internet and stop building computers, too. Sheesh, you'd think this theory of yours was so obvious we'd all be living in caves by now. Oh, we don't know enough to build cave/tunnel diggers so we'll have to rely on the natural ones. No food, that requires we know a fair amount about biology, genetics, farm machinery, fertilizers,....
Fascism? Look up your definition. And entirely free markets only exist in your head. They generally devolve into monopolies, see early U.S. economic history. There is a reason we have regulation, the lack of which allowed the Wall Street banks to make a bad bubble in housing expand to the point it threatens not only the U.S. economy but the entire world's.
The gp's thesis is rather untested; I'm willing to believe it has contributed. Another contribution is probably made by American hip-hop culture which seems to glorify anything which is anti-establishment...the same establishment that provides schools, health care, and all those other services of which young people generally have no appreciation. The philosophy that is promoted by that one does not get ahead by hard work and education. Rather, it promotes the idea that one gets ahead because of luck or by taking "it" from someone else, and that someone else or entity is more responsible for someone's lot in life rather than their own moxie. It is a self-defeating philosophy for any large group to believe.
Like the poster further above, the rioters I saw on TV looked mostly like chavs. And try telling the poor dark shopowners why they are now out of business because some unaccountable mob burned and/or looted their meager store. And insurance won't cover these sorts of events, if they even have insurance.
eh...by this time, all the iDrones have already bought theirs long ago. So who are Apple selling to? Might it be new customers impressed with iPad over other fondle slabs? Or is it the sheep simply aren't intelligent as yourself and are mindlessly buying because everyone else is? C'mon, enlighten us, which excuse do you have for Apple succeeding where others are failing (so far).
Not only that, China buys U.S. Treasuries to prop up the dollar. If the dollar drops, then the U.S. cannot afford as many Chinese goods. Also, they've pegged their currency to the dollar. They then have to distort their own economy by driving down their own currency if the dollar drops and suddenly the newly minted rich Chinese have one less reason to respect a corrupt and dysfunctional political system.
Like Wow, man! The 60's called and want you to come back home. The government itching to take over companies? How do you explain them giving back GM, Chrysler, etc. Or letting the large banks largely free? The only banks they take over are the ones scheduled for liquidation because they've screwed the pooch.
This just in, Congress has reconvened and decided to turn over the entire country's tax payments to some place in California, it might have Infinite in the address. Some are claiming that Congress is under the sway of a weird new kind of distortion field while others are claiming that Congress itself is a distortion field.
In totally unrelated news, a company in Redmond, Washington has just announced they intend to manufacture a Jobtanium mine here on earth. A large, sweaty monkey has been seen chanting "I'm going to f---ing kill Jobs." President Obama has released a statement declaring that anyone killing jobs will be considered a Republican. Republican leaders responded with the retort, "Jobtanium is new kind of tax and we're naturally against that".
President Assad of Syria declared he was for a multi-party system and Col. Q's son declared an alliance with Islamic terrorists. Dogs and cats have been seen moving in together. A twinkie the size of Manhattan composed of psycho-kinetic energy has also been spotted, but not by reliable witnesses.
I wasn't aware he was Greek, but he's the only one on there (that I've seen) with the wind tunnel effect going on. The best part of his job is he doesn't have to think, just blurt out whatever ephemeral New Age Fizziness happens to occur to him at the time...hmmm...maybe he's onto something here...he is getting paid...for airy puffs of nonsense...I'm in the wrong business...
"how do you pass a pointer to the "12345" to a function which converts strings to integers?" Easy, pass a pointer to the string and the function is smart enough to start after the count.
You'd know that if you'd written some real programs instead of just sitting through an algorithms class.
Whatever it is, it isn't real unless the fellow with the hair sticking out like the book version of Harry Potter comes on (the *cough* History Channel) claiming something outrageous. I think it would be neat if they could get his eyes to glow when he gets excited. 10pts if he links it to the Mayan Calendar and how we all get experience an ginormous moronic convergence on Dec. 22, 2012. One has the vague hope he'll slink off the tube in shame after that date but I'm sure he'll be back, there's a clause in his History Channel contract that says any weirdo program making vague supernatural claims must "interview" him as an expert in the field...any field...he's not particular.
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Easy, DoD costs about $700 a year. The deficit in this last year was about $1.4 trillion. So you won't be balancing squat by merely cutting defense.
And the real issue isn't past debt, it is future debt. The Me Generation of Baby Boomers is retiring to the tune of about 10,000 per day. They are all going to demand their SS and Medicare (or whatever that morphs into). They will suck down more than they ever paid in, but they will never admit it and will demand more. So either those two programs get re-defined or we're screwed.
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Nope, Reagan had a deal with Congress, Reagan would cut taxes while Congress would cut spending. Congress reneged. The rest is history.
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The banks paid it back. TARP hardly lost anything. The Bush tax cuts cut taxes for everyone, not only the rich. You seem to have this idea that one gets rich by stealing from the poor. What should happen, now that the assumptions underlying the Bush tax cuts are no longer applicable (i.e., surpluses as far as the eye can see), is that all the Bush tax cuts expire in 2012, sooner if possible. Let the TBags suck it up like everyone else.
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Stop being such a cynical twat. Most U.S. politicians do care very much about the U.S. and its people. If memory serves correct, we've only invaded one mid-east country for no reason, and that was to remove a miserable tyrant. It is arguable whether the Arab Spring would ever have sprung were it not for an example in Iraq of people actually voting for their government. Worthless post-modern prole...
yes, and have it devolve into the bug-ridden compromised machines that unlocked down windows PCs inevitably become. Android is more open than iOS, and as a result it also has more malware running. Apple made a choice to attempt to build a device that is clean of malware. If that isn't the machine for you, please choose another and enjoy it.
I think Motorola threatening other Android developers was the big stick they beat Google over the head with. Motorola has been shopping their Mobility division around for at least 2 years. No one would touch them mainly because after Apple threw in the towel several years ago attempting to jointly develop phones with Moto, other companies decided Moto didn't have what it took to do modern phones. In particular, Apple canned Moto because Moto didn't get interfaces.
So Moto licks its wounds for awhile, gets a new CEO...and he realizes the Mobility division is too inbred to compete, so he starts shopping. No one bit, so he decided he'd force Google. Google was the perfect target, they have a lot of cash, they have their balls hanging out there with Android, and there's no other phone manufacturer Google could buy instead. Moto even went far enough to dangle working with MS a week or so ago, that was probably just to keep Google's feet to the fire since Google had to be negotiating this for months.
Best thing Google could do is clean house in Mobility and restructure it so it at least has a corporate style similar to Google's. But they've already declared they intend to run Mobility as a separate entity. That probably means they'll keep them at arm's length until they find some other sucker to pawn them off on, stripped of any IP Google wants and built-in No Patent War Against Android clauses on the agreement.
Please, NSS Labs is just another Microsoft shill organization. Check out what they did for Explorer 8.
While I agree with what you said, I also think that necessity is the mother of invention. Most of the low hanging fruit has been picked, those inventions have been done. The necessities spawning them were small. Now our necessities are much larger. Take energy, how does one "solve" the energy problem? Not with a single silver bullet. There won't be a single grand idea that does it all. The situation is the same in medicine and just about every other area I can think of. Also, previous inventors didn't have the regulatory structure to get over or the insane patent system. The latter is hopeless, the former simply puts a price on the externalities previous inventors could take for granted.
Also, what appeared to be a big idea back in the day doesn't appear to big now simply because we've seen so much more already. And modern communication has a tendency to make big ideas look small because every whacko can now get airtime complaining about some new idea being a bad idea.
Just to tamp down the tin foil hat on your head a bit more firmly:
"why are there no photos of the body released?" Errrr...because it would have incensed Muslims even more now that the U.S. whacked their secret hero?
"And why was the body dumped at sea?" So as not to create a memorial for a martyr. On the other hand, with the right CIA front company, the U.S. could have cleaned up on the Muslim equivalent of votive lights, and statuettes...with that timeless Muslim fanatical Index Finger Raised seen in every photo-op of a would be Muslim terrorist wannabe Big Banana.
"Also, why didn't the "best of the best" simply subdue him since all accounts say his was unarmed and put him on trial like Saddam was put on trial." And let Dershowitz or some other slimeball lawyer realize the Deal of the Century and turn the trial into O.J. Simpson's trial but with nuclear powered steroids? Yep, Dershowitz is Jewish...and it wouldn't have prevented Osama from realizing how to use the dumbass for his own ends.
"Certainly that would be in the best interests of Afghanistan, being able to put him on trial." Why? What did he ever do to Afghanistan other than supply shock troups for the Taliban? The same Taliban that were widely admired by the Pashtuns who thought that stealing the rest of Afghanistan from the Tajiks, Uzbeks, Turkmen, Hazaras, and a host of smaller peoples was a fine thing...as long as the Taliban were winning. The fact that the Taliban were slaughtering thousands yearly was completely beside the point to the Pashtuns.
Get one thing straight. Osama always realized that publicity was the key to his megalomanical designs on absolute power. He played the world's press like a symphony. The U.S. military, to their credit, realized this and decided a low-key death and almost sublime burial in the lost wisps of time was the best they could do for the boy.
Yup. Apple more or less told Oracle if you want Java on MacOS, you'll being doing it yourselves. That isn't Jobs blowing sweet kisses Oracle's way.
For what it matters, Oracle understands interfaces much like a dog sniffs another's butt. That won't ever convince Jobs or Apples to climb into a business relationship with Oracle.
"Ellison is just propping up his buddy Jobs and being his usual pr*ck self." Wow, so Apple has a public rift with Google and Ellison is propping up Jobs by going after Google? One thing we have learned about Oracle over the years is that they do no one any favors, they are only interested in the bottom line.
What's more likely is that Oracle's lawyers got stars in their eyes when talking to Sun about the buy out. My suspicion is that Oracle asked about IP and Java since Oracle depends heavily on Java. In the course of the discussion, Google's interest in Java comes up. Oracle asks about what sort of money was involved here. Sun's lawyers think for about 2 seconds and with wide smiles that resemble Jimmy Carter eating fish guts out of a wire brush (thank you P.J. O'Rourke), "Oh, big money, BIIGGGGG money....Beeeelllions and Beeeelllions of dollars. Yup, fer sure!! Errrr...could you please finishing signing the buy out right there on the dotted line?"
"The truly wise man knows that he don't know shit" Yer right, we need to stop engineers from building bridges because you have determined they do not know shit and shouldn't even try. Wow, what a theory!!! It works everywhere. We shouldn't be building no stinking airplanes because we're too dumb to know anything. New drugs? Please, we should stop all new drug development now in recognition we do understand enough for them to work. Surgery? No more of that shit, no more doctors, no more health care, we be too stupid to know it.
We should close down the internet and stop building computers, too. Sheesh, you'd think this theory of yours was so obvious we'd all be living in caves by now. Oh, we don't know enough to build cave/tunnel diggers so we'll have to rely on the natural ones. No food, that requires we know a fair amount about biology, genetics, farm machinery, fertilizers, ....
I feel so liberated now. Maybe I am wise, no?
Fascism? Look up your definition. And entirely free markets only exist in your head. They generally devolve into monopolies, see early U.S. economic history. There is a reason we have regulation, the lack of which allowed the Wall Street banks to make a bad bubble in housing expand to the point it threatens not only the U.S. economy but the entire world's.
The gp's thesis is rather untested; I'm willing to believe it has contributed. Another contribution is probably made by American hip-hop culture which seems to glorify anything which is anti-establishment...the same establishment that provides schools, health care, and all those other services of which young people generally have no appreciation. The philosophy that is promoted by that one does not get ahead by hard work and education. Rather, it promotes the idea that one gets ahead because of luck or by taking "it" from someone else, and that someone else or entity is more responsible for someone's lot in life rather than their own moxie. It is a self-defeating philosophy for any large group to believe.
Like the poster further above, the rioters I saw on TV looked mostly like chavs. And try telling the poor dark shopowners why they are now out of business because some unaccountable mob burned and/or looted their meager store. And insurance won't cover these sorts of events, if they even have insurance.
eh...by this time, all the iDrones have already bought theirs long ago. So who are Apple selling to? Might it be new customers impressed with iPad over other fondle slabs? Or is it the sheep simply aren't intelligent as yourself and are mindlessly buying because everyone else is? C'mon, enlighten us, which excuse do you have for Apple succeeding where others are failing (so far).
Yes, but without proof you are just talking out of your ass. Stop it.
Not only that, China buys U.S. Treasuries to prop up the dollar. If the dollar drops, then the U.S. cannot afford as many Chinese goods. Also, they've pegged their currency to the dollar. They then have to distort their own economy by driving down their own currency if the dollar drops and suddenly the newly minted rich Chinese have one less reason to respect a corrupt and dysfunctional political system.
Like Wow, man! The 60's called and want you to come back home. The government itching to take over companies? How do you explain them giving back GM, Chrysler, etc. Or letting the large banks largely free? The only banks they take over are the ones scheduled for liquidation because they've screwed the pooch.
This just in, Congress has reconvened and decided to turn over the entire country's tax payments to some place in California, it might have Infinite in the address. Some are claiming that Congress is under the sway of a weird new kind of distortion field while others are claiming that Congress itself is a distortion field.
In totally unrelated news, a company in Redmond, Washington has just announced they intend to manufacture a Jobtanium mine here on earth. A large, sweaty monkey has been seen chanting "I'm going to f---ing kill Jobs." President Obama has released a statement declaring that anyone killing jobs will be considered a Republican. Republican leaders responded with the retort, "Jobtanium is new kind of tax and we're naturally against that".
President Assad of Syria declared he was for a multi-party system and Col. Q's son declared an alliance with Islamic terrorists. Dogs and cats have been seen moving in together. A twinkie the size of Manhattan composed of psycho-kinetic energy has also been spotted, but not by reliable witnesses.
So you are saying cows are involved in this?
Wow, did you swallow a MS Marketdroid? Spit it out man, save yourself.
I wasn't aware he was Greek, but he's the only one on there (that I've seen) with the wind tunnel effect going on. The best part of his job is he doesn't have to think, just blurt out whatever ephemeral New Age Fizziness happens to occur to him at the time...hmmm...maybe he's onto something here...he is getting paid...for airy puffs of nonsense...I'm in the wrong business...
"how do you pass a pointer to the "12345" to a function which converts strings to integers?" Easy, pass a pointer to the string and the function is smart enough to start after the count.
You'd know that if you'd written some real programs instead of just sitting through an algorithms class.
Whatever it is, it isn't real unless the fellow with the hair sticking out like the book version of Harry Potter comes on (the *cough* History Channel) claiming something outrageous. I think it would be neat if they could get his eyes to glow when he gets excited. 10pts if he links it to the Mayan Calendar and how we all get experience an ginormous moronic convergence on Dec. 22, 2012. One has the vague hope he'll slink off the tube in shame after that date but I'm sure he'll be back, there's a clause in his History Channel contract that says any weirdo program making vague supernatural claims must "interview" him as an expert in the field...any field...he's not particular.
Easy, DoD costs about $700 a year. The deficit in this last year was about $1.4 trillion. So you won't be balancing squat by merely cutting defense.
And the real issue isn't past debt, it is future debt. The Me Generation of Baby Boomers is retiring to the tune of about 10,000 per day. They are all going to demand their SS and Medicare (or whatever that morphs into). They will suck down more than they ever paid in, but they will never admit it and will demand more. So either those two programs get re-defined or we're screwed.
Nope, Reagan had a deal with Congress, Reagan would cut taxes while Congress would cut spending. Congress reneged. The rest is history.
The banks paid it back. TARP hardly lost anything. The Bush tax cuts cut taxes for everyone, not only the rich. You seem to have this idea that one gets rich by stealing from the poor. What should happen, now that the assumptions underlying the Bush tax cuts are no longer applicable (i.e., surpluses as far as the eye can see), is that all the Bush tax cuts expire in 2012, sooner if possible. Let the TBags suck it up like everyone else.