And to those saying fork chrome - better to fork Firefox I think. It's already pretty much feature-complete and just needs to be yanked out of the hands of Mozilla before they figure out how to screw it up like chrome.
Nah, they've been trying and failing for years to fix the memory leaks, which should tell you something. I once read here that firefox contains four different implementations of malloc(). If you want to build a new browser, better to use the far cleaner KHTML codebase (which is why safari and then chrome have done that). If you want a cleaner, faster version of firefox, try using Seamonkey (yes, really).
If so, my HTC wildfire has that, bought it from the carphone warehouse here in England and didn't ask for anything special, I imagine it's likely to be similar in Ireland. The magic word you want is "tethering"; stupid name, but it's what people call it.
They are at least compatible with each other, but they're using DRM and their books can't be viewed on the Kindle (IIRC). It's strikingly similar to the early days of the ipod, which gives me hope that they'll eventually come around to DRM-free, but until then I'll stick with amazon.
No, but where else can I buy a book in 10 seconds while I'm on the train? (This is in the UK, so no B&N here). I'd like amazon to have some competition, but other booksellers will have to raise their game, I'm not going to stoop for them. It's exactly the same for them acting as a publisher.
It's bad for you when it's bad for you, what other people do is beside the point. The post I was replying to claimed that getting rid of the union had been in the teachers' interests, which it wasn't.
Think the IRS might have some deeper motivations to find illegal tax dodges?
You'd hope so. But if it's anything like the SEC, the lead investigator will "let them away with it" and then coincidentally be hired for a high-paying position there shortly after.
Standford's AI course, currently ongoing, says otherwise.
That course is explicitly an experiment. It's a bit premature to say that anyone has really understood the subject as a result of it.
I do believe that online learning should be possible. But I've yet to see a demonstration of an online course that was up to the standards of my (highly face-to-face driven) university education.
Looks like a whole lot of doubt to me. The one concrete, verifiable change I see in that article is that teachers are paying more for their health insurance than they were before - which, guess what, is a) bad for the teachers b) exactly as we could have predicted.
Just what are the fishermen thinking if they're setting to sea without the ability to navigate without electronic devices.
Probably "I'd like to eat something this month".
And even for an excellent navigator, doing it without GPS is harder, and in what's already the third most dangerous profession that's going to cost lives.
Sure, but it won't be supported; it'll be hard to find help on the fora for your problems. (Of course, if that's your concern sticking on an old version isn't going to help either, it's time to switch distros).
Would the kernel devs accept it into the tree? You can't have it both ways - you've gotta give people some way to extend the kernel without letting them break it.
"I want to get some hot girl-on-girl anal action with a 12" dildo, followed by a some nice anime of many-tentacled beasts using and abusing young virgins"
That might be actually illegal, the way current UK law is worded.
High speed, low latency interconnect. The biggest gap that USB doesn't cover is docking stations, Thunderbolt makes it easy to connect a NIC, a USB controller, a graphics card, and a firewire controller all over one cable... USB does not.
Ok, I can see that's useful. If we ever get to the stage where I can take my laptop around to a friend's and plug it into their docking station, that's brilliant. Can't see it ever happening, particularly with apple involved (every day I see guys with apple laptops running around trying to find the right fancy apple cable to connect to a projector, it's not like VGA has been the standard for over 20 years or anything...), but it's a worthy goal.
But until the connections become ubiquitous, USB is going to be a far better choice for hard drives - if you're buying an external hard drive at all it's because you want portability over performance, and USB gives you the best odds of being able to read your hard drive at your friend's house.
Do you know who makes that profit? Shareholders. Jobs paid himself $1 a year.
Yeah, and guess how many Apple shares he owned. Hint: lots.
Apple is widely-held stock, and its owners include pension funds and individual stockholders like myself.
Nice weasley phrasing there. Yes, "normal" people do hold some stock. But guess what proportion of the value of stocks is concentrated in what proportion of society.
I don't understand people who bitch about their jobs and being "wage slaves," then hate on those who find a way to make money outside of a paycheck
That is quite literally the most stupid argument I've ever heard. I guess you can't understand people who criticize bank robbers, either?
How much more would it cost to implement that functionality if the accessory required a USB host controller?
Hardly anything, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was cheaper; an ARM capable of acting as a USB host controller costs less than a 555 timer. Economics of scale can do funny things.
The reality for Java is much better, it's controlled by a community standards body (the JCP). Oracle can provide direction but they are NOT in control the way Microsoft and Google are.
Nope, see what happened with Apache Harmony. Oracle are the only ones who can make a JVM.
They were not wishy-washy, and didn't mass-suspend new accounts like G+ did.
Don't those two statements contradict each other? I remember a couple of friends of mine with obviously-fake accounts getting suspended in the early days of the facebook (and since you had to use your university email address, there was no way back).
That's the fundamental problem with any attempt to shape society through taxation; the poor (in aggregate, statistical scale yada yada) make worse choices (which isn't really that surprising; we'd expect people who do that to become poor), so you end up with a very regressive tax. We see that already with e.g. taxes on alcohol and tobacco, which are quite possibly the most regressive form of taxation currently in place. Of course on one level their actions are perfectly reasonable - someone with a worse life than you has more need to escape it.
In any case, you can blame the poor themselves for it all you like, but my point stands: it's very hard, if not impossible, to make a sales tax that isn't socially regressive.
An income tax costs us many millions to support, police,etc- and it ends up that the very rich can find ways to pay very little tax through loopholes while the middle rich and the lower incomes pay higher percentages.
We added those loopholes ourselves. What needs to be done to solve this is very simple: treat increases in the value of things you own (whether stocks or houses) as income, and tax them as such.
Most sales tax suggestions are not progressive- but they could be made so. (non-restaurant) Food untaxed. clothing items under x$ at a lower rate.
And the poor will continue to spend their money on big-screen TVs and pay more sales tax. It's really hard to put a progressive tax on spending that doesn't create perverse incentives.
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And to those saying fork chrome - better to fork Firefox I think. It's already pretty much feature-complete and just needs to be yanked out of the hands of Mozilla before they figure out how to screw it up like chrome.
Nah, they've been trying and failing for years to fix the memory leaks, which should tell you something. I once read here that firefox contains four different implementations of malloc(). If you want to build a new browser, better to use the far cleaner KHTML codebase (which is why safari and then chrome have done that). If you want a cleaner, faster version of firefox, try using Seamonkey (yes, really).
If so, my HTC wildfire has that, bought it from the carphone warehouse here in England and didn't ask for anything special, I imagine it's likely to be similar in Ireland. The magic word you want is "tethering"; stupid name, but it's what people call it.
They are at least compatible with each other, but they're using DRM and their books can't be viewed on the Kindle (IIRC). It's strikingly similar to the early days of the ipod, which gives me hope that they'll eventually come around to DRM-free, but until then I'll stick with amazon.
No, but where else can I buy a book in 10 seconds while I'm on the train? (This is in the UK, so no B&N here). I'd like amazon to have some competition, but other booksellers will have to raise their game, I'm not going to stoop for them. It's exactly the same for them acting as a publisher.
Unless the thieves were being violent, that's neither self-defense nor the defense of others.
IIRC pi has not been proven to be normal yet, so there's some value in gathering statistical evidence on that.
It's bad for you when it's bad for you, what other people do is beside the point. The post I was replying to claimed that getting rid of the union had been in the teachers' interests, which it wasn't.
Think the IRS might have some deeper motivations to find illegal tax dodges?
You'd hope so. But if it's anything like the SEC, the lead investigator will "let them away with it" and then coincidentally be hired for a high-paying position there shortly after.
Standford's AI course, currently ongoing, says otherwise.
That course is explicitly an experiment. It's a bit premature to say that anyone has really understood the subject as a result of it.
I do believe that online learning should be possible. But I've yet to see a demonstration of an online course that was up to the standards of my (highly face-to-face driven) university education.
Looks like a whole lot of doubt to me. The one concrete, verifiable change I see in that article is that teachers are paying more for their health insurance than they were before - which, guess what, is a) bad for the teachers b) exactly as we could have predicted.
Just what are the fishermen thinking if they're setting to sea without the ability to navigate without electronic devices.
Probably "I'd like to eat something this month".
And even for an excellent navigator, doing it without GPS is harder, and in what's already the third most dangerous profession that's going to cost lives.
Sure, but it won't be supported; it'll be hard to find help on the fora for your problems. (Of course, if that's your concern sticking on an old version isn't going to help either, it's time to switch distros).
Dropping some manifesto promises in the interests of the coalition: OK. Violating one's personal pledge never to vote for a given policy: not OK.
Would the kernel devs accept it into the tree? You can't have it both ways - you've gotta give people some way to extend the kernel without letting them break it.
The problem is that there's no incentive for any other browser to innovate when they can just wait and copy Opera. And they don't.
"I want to get some hot girl-on-girl anal action with a 12" dildo, followed by a some nice anime of many-tentacled beasts using and abusing young virgins"
That might be actually illegal, the way current UK law is worded.
Do you really need your whole life on your phone? Isn't a contact list and a calendar/alarm (as well as the ability to talk/text) more than enough?
No, I don't need to. But I want to, and it's supposed to be a free country.
High speed, low latency interconnect. The biggest gap that USB doesn't cover is docking stations, Thunderbolt makes it easy to connect a NIC, a USB controller, a graphics card, and a firewire controller all over one cable... USB does not.
Ok, I can see that's useful. If we ever get to the stage where I can take my laptop around to a friend's and plug it into their docking station, that's brilliant. Can't see it ever happening, particularly with apple involved (every day I see guys with apple laptops running around trying to find the right fancy apple cable to connect to a projector, it's not like VGA has been the standard for over 20 years or anything...), but it's a worthy goal.
But until the connections become ubiquitous, USB is going to be a far better choice for hard drives - if you're buying an external hard drive at all it's because you want portability over performance, and USB gives you the best odds of being able to read your hard drive at your friend's house.
Yup. These days programmers are cheaper than people who can do analog electronics.
Do you know who makes that profit? Shareholders. Jobs paid himself $1 a year.
Yeah, and guess how many Apple shares he owned. Hint: lots.
Apple is widely-held stock, and its owners include pension funds and individual stockholders like myself.
Nice weasley phrasing there. Yes, "normal" people do hold some stock. But guess what proportion of the value of stocks is concentrated in what proportion of society.
I don't understand people who bitch about their jobs and being "wage slaves," then hate on those who find a way to make money outside of a paycheck
That is quite literally the most stupid argument I've ever heard. I guess you can't understand people who criticize bank robbers, either?
How much more would it cost to implement that functionality if the accessory required a USB host controller?
Hardly anything, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was cheaper; an ARM capable of acting as a USB host controller costs less than a 555 timer. Economics of scale can do funny things.
The reality for Java is much better, it's controlled by a community standards body (the JCP). Oracle can provide direction but they are NOT in control the way Microsoft and Google are.
Nope, see what happened with Apache Harmony. Oracle are the only ones who can make a JVM.
They were not wishy-washy, and didn't mass-suspend new accounts like G+ did.
Don't those two statements contradict each other? I remember a couple of friends of mine with obviously-fake accounts getting suspended in the early days of the facebook (and since you had to use your university email address, there was no way back).
If they don't - it's their own darn fault.
That's the fundamental problem with any attempt to shape society through taxation; the poor (in aggregate, statistical scale yada yada) make worse choices (which isn't really that surprising; we'd expect people who do that to become poor), so you end up with a very regressive tax. We see that already with e.g. taxes on alcohol and tobacco, which are quite possibly the most regressive form of taxation currently in place. Of course on one level their actions are perfectly reasonable - someone with a worse life than you has more need to escape it.
In any case, you can blame the poor themselves for it all you like, but my point stands: it's very hard, if not impossible, to make a sales tax that isn't socially regressive.
An income tax costs us many millions to support, police,etc- and it ends up that the very rich can find ways to pay very little tax through loopholes while the middle rich and the lower incomes pay higher percentages.
We added those loopholes ourselves. What needs to be done to solve this is very simple: treat increases in the value of things you own (whether stocks or houses) as income, and tax them as such.
Most sales tax suggestions are not progressive- but they could be made so. (non-restaurant) Food untaxed. clothing items under x$ at a lower rate.
And the poor will continue to spend their money on big-screen TVs and pay more sales tax. It's really hard to put a progressive tax on spending that doesn't create perverse incentives.