But what does rule that out is the actual facts themselves which are that VxWorks is the most widely deployed embedded OS.
Counting the number of deployments is misleading. That's not dominating the embedded market, that's just riding the coattails of an actual end-user product. A better metric would be number of developers working with the environment. Wind River saw the writing on the wall themselves when they stopped talking smack about the GPL and went whole-hog for linux a couple of years before the buyout.
It doesn't dominate the embedded world, as Linux doesn't run on the Z80 which is the most widely used embedded controller.
That does not necessarily follow. If, say the Z80 has 10% of the embedded market and no other controller has more than 5% then it still would be the most widely used controller, but that doesn't rule out linux from running on all the other devices that make up the remaining 90%.
I can't believe you are the ONLY person to point out that the guy took an obvious MS joke waaaay too seriously and then some dumbass mod came along and gave you a redundant - what the hell?
The problem comes with interpreting it as a threat - he clearly had no intention of threatening anyone. When the decision as to what is and is not a threat is left up to the person or entity who decides if they feel threatened, then the law has lost all pretense of being reasonable.
I don't think it would be so obvious. For example - lots of complaints about malpractice say that the costs are not just in the price of the insurance but in the price of performing a bunch of extra tests in order to provide legal cover. Nobody is tagging those extra tests as "defensive medicine" - on paper they look just the same as all the other tests.
No, feigning ignorance to argue strawmen points is being a dick -- which is what you were doing all long with your attempts to redirect my point about the business side of running a newspaper into the news-gathering side of running a newspaper.
Your list of things that don't have to be in Manhattan is absurd.
As the other responder has already pointed out, your rebuttal is absurd, pretty much nothing more than making up strawmen, which should be no surprise given your constant use of that tactic in this thread so far.
Gee, I always thought gathering news was the main business of a newspaper.
The "sarcarm war" is really just you making dick moves like s/running/main/.
Tell me exactly which functions of the New York Times could be moved to Kentucky.
Payroll Accounting IT Fact Checking Proof Reading Archives Advertising Sales Paste Up Subscription Sales Online Publishing Syndication Buys and Sales
And that's just 30 seconds worth off the top of my head. You'd be a really dumbass to think the NY Times needs 31 floors worth of people just to gather the news local to NYC. And FYI - the DMN ain't global hence comparisons are weak.
The cost of malpractice insurance is a bogus metric. What really matters is cost and availability of healthcare. Cost of malpractice insurance is just one factor, and given the results in Texas, apparently an insignificant one.
They don't actually have an entire building in midtown Manhattan anymore.
So they did a lease-back of 40% of the floors. That's still 30 floors - which, by the way, they apparently bought in 2006 when they moved from their previous building. Pretty sure that's wasn't really the best time to buy real-estate.
But as far as being a "global newspaper of record," being based in what some have called the "capital city of the world" isn't a bad idea.
You say it, but you don't support it. What about being in NYC is necessary for the business operations of a global newspaper? You know, the MBA type stuff? The logistical type stuff? Pretty much everything but the gathering of news that occurs in NYC?
I honestly don't know what they are doing to cut costs - but if they believe they are becoming a "global newspaper of record" - then maybe they ought to cut ties with New York. I'm sure doing business in NYC ain't cheap - do they really need an entire building in midtown Manhattan? I could see an office - something like what they presumably have in DC - as a place for reporters who are literally on the local beat to do officey type things. But I'm willing to bet that the business of running the paper could be done just as well from the booneys as in the middle of the big apple for a whole lot less. Sure. you'd lose some die-hard manhattanite employees, but nobody's irreplaceable - especially when the world is changing as fast as the publishing world is...
Medical malpractice lawsuits are tort cases... and we know how much testing is only done because of fear of the lawsuits. Limit the liability, and there would be much less wasted medicine being practiced.
Hasn't seemed to make much difference in Texas - the state with so much tort reform that the Governor likes to brag that malpractice insurance rates have come down - but no metric that measure the quality of healthcare has improved, for example:
The percentage of uninsured people in Texas has increased, remaining the highest in the country with a quarter of Texans now uninsured;
The cost of health insurance in the state has more than doubled;
The cost of health care in Texas (measured by per patient Medicare reimbursements) has increased at nearly double the national average; and
Spending increases for diagnostic testing (measured by per patient Medicare reimbursements) have far exceeded the national average.
Even worse - most of the malpractice savings have gone to the insurance companies, because malpractice payments have gone 67% but malpractice insurance premiums have only gone down 27%.
I am actually glad to see that lawsuits over software patents aren't being used for silly purposes to remove competition. Cyber sitter could have put together this lawsuit long ago, but they go in on the heels of the google hacking fiasco they got caught in.
What do software patents have to do with anything? This is a copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation lawsuit and it was filed BEFORE Google went public with their issues.
I am an HTPC user, and ATI has always been a non-factor in that realm.
Not in Windows. MPC-HC's hardware acceleration has worked better with ATI chips than with Nvidia until just recently. The biggest sticking point was that VC1 bitstreaming (where you hand the entire bitstream to the gpu for decoding and display, rather than accelerating just parts of it like iDCT) didn't work on any nvidia gpus except the embedded ones - that did change with their most recent hardware release a couple of months ago, but ATI's had support for bitstreaming VC1 in their regular cards for at least a year.
The odds of a trained professional accidentally discharging a weapon are plainly less than the odds of a single student bringing a weapon to school in a school of 1400 students.
Who said anything about a trained professional? Security guards, school or otherwise, are far from it. Hell, even most cops are not particularly well trained - ok, maybe they were trained at the academy but so few ever bother to maintain their training afterwards - a security guard is going to have the barest minimum training necessary because they don't get paid squat.
Do you know how many times Disney has claimed Snow White, Cinderella, etc. is being put in the vault forever?
Yes. Exactly zero times. Their current policy is to "vault" titles for 5 years.
A play is by definition a live performance.
A video of the play is not equivalent, or else the play would be a movie.
False 1) No movies existed when shakesepeare was writing his plays 2) Plenty of plays have been performed as movies 3) You are all over the map to the point of incoherence in your arguments
However, some people do think that the script of a play is a better representation of a play that a video of it.
And some people think otherwise. Probably a majority.
Now do you understand my point?
Yeah, you reaching for straws trying to cast your subjective beliefs as objective and failing quite spectacularly. I noticed you neglected to answer my question based on your own pontification that scripts are not the best substitute for watching a movie - if they are not, what is?
As for your copyright alternative, you still refuse to actually say what it is. By the way, generally speaking, calling someone an ignoramus for disagreeing with something you haven't even brought up yet is a great way to conduct an argument.
More subjective beliefs - you just don't like being called an ignoramus - it violates your sense of self-determinism. I've been down this road SO many times before with people on slashdot just like you -- you fit the stereotype of the person who won't see what's right in front of him, even when it is spelled out for him. Your totally subjective argument about scripts is standard fare for someone more interested in backing up their ego than seeing truth. So, rather than let it play out the way it usually does with people like you, I'm preloading everything. Call it my own personal "Groundhog Day" - repeating the same actions and expecting them to arrive at different results is a common definition of insanity, so I'm playing the game differently for my own entertainment.
I posted about this on another forum, where someone mentioned that Qwest offers FIOS service in Sandy. He didn't know the speed, though.
As FIOS is a trademark of verizon, its extremely unlikely that qwest is providing that service and last I heard, verizon has never deployed fios in Utah, anywhere.
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Or you could google "principle of charity."
No need, I already googled "quacks like a duck" round about your third strawman.
[note: unless my definition of free market is off, which is quite possible]
Some people define it as free of artificial barriers to entry.
Otherwise
Sorry, I don't see how having or not having a figure determines what would or would not be an accurate metric.
But what does rule that out is the actual facts themselves which are that VxWorks is the most widely deployed embedded OS.
Counting the number of deployments is misleading. That's not dominating the embedded market, that's just riding the coattails of an actual end-user product. A better metric would be number of developers working with the environment. Wind River saw the writing on the wall themselves when they stopped talking smack about the GPL and went whole-hog for linux a couple of years before the buyout.
It doesn't dominate the embedded world, as Linux doesn't run on the Z80 which is the most widely used embedded controller.
That does not necessarily follow. If, say the Z80 has 10% of the embedded market and no other controller has more than 5% then it still would be the most widely used controller, but that doesn't rule out linux from running on all the other devices that make up the remaining 90%.
I can't believe you are the ONLY person to point out that the guy took an obvious MS joke waaaay too seriously and then some dumbass mod came along and gave you a redundant - what the hell?
The problem comes with interpreting it as a threat - he clearly had no intention of threatening anyone. When the decision as to what is and is not a threat is left up to the person or entity who decides if they feel threatened, then the law has lost all pretense of being reasonable.
Once you make the decision to do that, moving key staff out of town comets as "dispersal."
Snort.
Lets just redefine the terms rather than provide a cogent argument.
How about you try this tagline on for size "Don't argue, just make shit up."
I don't think it would be so obvious. For example - lots of complaints about malpractice say that the costs are not just in the price of the insurance but in the price of performing a bunch of extra tests in order to provide legal cover. Nobody is tagging those extra tests as "defensive medicine" - on paper they look just the same as all the other tests.
Ignorance is not dickheaded.
No, feigning ignorance to argue strawmen points is being a dick -- which is what you were doing all long with your attempts to redirect my point about the business side of running a newspaper into the news-gathering side of running a newspaper.
Your list of things that don't have to be in Manhattan is absurd.
As the other responder has already pointed out, your rebuttal is absurd, pretty much nothing more than making up strawmen, which should be no surprise given your constant use of that tactic in this thread so far.
Gee, I always thought gathering news was the main business of a newspaper.
The "sarcarm war" is really just you making dick moves like s/running/main/.
Tell me exactly which functions of the New York Times could be moved to Kentucky.
Payroll
Accounting
IT
Fact Checking
Proof Reading
Archives
Advertising Sales
Paste Up
Subscription Sales
Online Publishing
Syndication Buys and Sales
And that's just 30 seconds worth off the top of my head.
You'd be a really dumbass to think the NY Times needs 31 floors worth of people just to gather the news local to NYC.
And FYI - the DMN ain't global hence comparisons are weak.
Chrome is on the bumper of the car. Sheesh, haven't you ever seen an older model car?
Its the wheels of my car. Probably a better analogy too.
The cost of malpractice insurance is a bogus metric. What really matters is cost and availability of healthcare. Cost of malpractice insurance is just one factor, and given the results in Texas, apparently an insignificant one.
Gee I dunno. Maybe it has something to do with reporters actually needing to go out and report.
You fail at vocabulary. Compare and contrast gathering, not even reporting, of news with the business of running a newspaper.
They don't actually have an entire building in midtown Manhattan anymore.
So they did a lease-back of 40% of the floors. That's still 30 floors - which, by the way, they apparently bought in 2006 when they moved from their previous building. Pretty sure that's wasn't really the best time to buy real-estate.
But as far as being a "global newspaper of record," being based in what some have called the "capital city of the world" isn't a bad idea.
You say it, but you don't support it. What about being in NYC is necessary for the business operations of a global newspaper? You know, the MBA type stuff? The logistical type stuff? Pretty much everything but the gathering of news that occurs in NYC?
Uh, small detail: a good chunk of their content is about New York.
What does that have to do with the business of running the paper?
I honestly don't know what they are doing to cut costs - but if they believe they are becoming a "global newspaper of record" - then maybe they ought to cut ties with New York. I'm sure doing business in NYC ain't cheap - do they really need an entire building in midtown Manhattan? I could see an office - something like what they presumably have in DC - as a place for reporters who are literally on the local beat to do officey type things. But I'm willing to bet that the business of running the paper could be done just as well from the booneys as in the middle of the big apple for a whole lot less. Sure. you'd lose some die-hard manhattanite employees, but nobody's irreplaceable - especially when the world is changing as fast as the publishing world is...
Medical malpractice lawsuits are tort cases... and we know how much testing is only done because of fear of the lawsuits. Limit the liability, and there would be much less wasted medicine being practiced.
Hasn't seemed to make much difference in Texas - the state with so much tort reform that the Governor likes to brag that malpractice insurance rates have come down - but no metric that measure the quality of healthcare has improved, for example:
Even worse - most of the malpractice savings have gone to the insurance companies, because malpractice payments have gone 67% but malpractice insurance premiums have only gone down 27%.
Public Citizen, Dec 17th, 2009
I am actually glad to see that lawsuits over software patents aren't being used for silly purposes to remove competition. Cyber sitter could have put together this lawsuit long ago, but they go in on the heels of the google hacking fiasco they got caught in.
What do software patents have to do with anything? This is a copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation lawsuit and it was filed BEFORE Google went public with their issues.
Haven't been following the news much in the last 40 years, have we?
Apparently not. Just what news have I been missing for the last 40 years?
Or are you of a mind that simply because a child brings a weapon to school the appropriate response is to shoot them?
Or perhaps you are yet another innumerate who believes that we get a Columbine every other week?
I am an HTPC user, and ATI has always been a non-factor in that realm.
Not in Windows. MPC-HC's hardware acceleration has worked better with ATI chips than with Nvidia until just recently. The biggest sticking point was that VC1 bitstreaming (where you hand the entire bitstream to the gpu for decoding and display, rather than accelerating just parts of it like iDCT) didn't work on any nvidia gpus except the embedded ones - that did change with their most recent hardware release a couple of months ago, but ATI's had support for bitstreaming VC1 in their regular cards for at least a year.
The odds of a trained professional accidentally discharging a weapon are plainly less than the odds of a single student bringing a weapon to school in a school of 1400 students.
Who said anything about a trained professional? Security guards, school or otherwise, are far from it. Hell, even most cops are not particularly well trained - ok, maybe they were trained at the academy but so few ever bother to maintain their training afterwards - a security guard is going to have the barest minimum training necessary because they don't get paid squat.
Do you know how many times Disney has claimed Snow White, Cinderella, etc. is being put in the vault forever?
Yes. Exactly zero times. Their current policy is to "vault" titles for 5 years.
A play is by definition a live performance.
A video of the play is not equivalent, or else the play would be a movie.
False
1) No movies existed when shakesepeare was writing his plays
2) Plenty of plays have been performed as movies
3) You are all over the map to the point of incoherence in your arguments
However, some people do think that the script of a play is a better representation of a play that a video of it.
And some people think otherwise. Probably a majority.
Now do you understand my point?
Yeah, you reaching for straws trying to cast your subjective beliefs as objective and failing quite spectacularly. I noticed you neglected to answer my question based on your own pontification that scripts are not the best substitute for watching a movie - if they are not, what is?
As for your copyright alternative, you still refuse to actually say what it is. By the way, generally speaking, calling someone an ignoramus for disagreeing with something you haven't even brought up yet is a great way to conduct an argument.
More subjective beliefs - you just don't like being called an ignoramus - it violates your sense of self-determinism. I've been down this road SO many times before with people on slashdot just like you -- you fit the stereotype of the person who won't see what's right in front of him, even when it is spelled out for him. Your totally subjective argument about scripts is standard fare for someone more interested in backing up their ego than seeing truth. So, rather than let it play out the way it usually does with people like you, I'm preloading everything. Call it my own personal "Groundhog Day" - repeating the same actions and expecting them to arrive at different results is a common definition of insanity, so I'm playing the game differently for my own entertainment.
Comcast offers 30 and 50 Mbit connections in my parents' neighborhood, but nobody I know actually subscribes to anything higher than 12Mbps or so.
With their 256GB/month cap, it would be stupid to pay for the higher bandwidth.
50Mbps would let you hit the cap in about 12 hours. Yippee!
I posted about this on another forum, where someone mentioned that Qwest offers FIOS service in Sandy. He didn't know the speed, though.
As FIOS is a trademark of verizon, its extremely unlikely that qwest is providing that service and last I heard, verizon has never deployed fios in Utah, anywhere.