If it was all about openness, then why no micro sd slot
What has openness got to do with a micro sd slot!?
Yet again "open" is overloaded with multiple related meanings that seem identical to most of the people using the term.
In this case, the OP is referring to the idea that without viable removable storage a phone like this has the effect of pushing users towards "the cloud."
I don't think any of the major US wireless carriers offer discounted monthly rates for buying your phone outright. You might as well reap the price of discounted phones if your bill is the same rate.
Prepaid. Prepaid is almost always significantly cheaper than contract.
For example, with an iphone prepaid can save you $500-$1000 over a 2 year contract including all up-front costs like the full purchase price of the phone. And that doesn't include all the misc "surprise" fees that frequently show up on contract phone bills but never on prepaid.
If the H1B program was really just about skills we would simply give the people temporary green cards and make them conditional to paying enough taxes or something like that. Then the employees would be able to switch jobs easily and would not be forced to stay with an employer they don't like just because the employer is sponsoring them for a green card (which can take 5 years I believe).
Absolutely! it is amazing how few of the commenters here realize that very basic fact of H1B - despite it being a problem with the program since its inception. I remember making the exact same point in the 90s -- we have seen an improvement in that it used to be that simply changing jobs caused the H1B itself to get cancelled. That went away about a decade ago. But the tethering to the green card process, which takes nearly as long as the maximum H1B stay, has not gone away even though it has no business existing in a suppossedly free market.
if you already get a green card, you are pretty much free to find other employment. Please don't bash what you don't know.
Ditto!
Green cards take a long time to be awarded. H1-B is only good for 3 years plus a possible renewal for another 3 years. The typical case for an H1-B visa holder getting a green card is to take 5+ years. During those years they are not able to switch employers without resetting the green card process, which means for all pratical purposes they are indentured to the employer sponsoring their green card application.
I think he is counting on the kid wanting the phone more than he wants to track his kid.
That's the point - counting on that won't work with a kid who is even moderately smart. For example, lots of parents do the "Don't leave your room until it is clean" thing -- but that backfires as soon as the kid decides he doesn't mind staying in his room for long periods of time.
But with GNU you have the right to modify and redistribute and I kinda doubt Netflix allows that to occur so if it were licensed under GNU they would be in violation.
Do these services have live sports or political talk shows? In my survey sample, one head of household, would rather go back to dial-up than drop ESPN and NBCSN (formerly Versus), and the other would be lost without MSNBC.
I'm pretty sure all of the news channels like MSNBC have 24-hour streaming video, but I haven't watched them so I don't know if they are identical to their catv feeds or different.
As for sports, I've heard rumblings about streaming subscriptions in limited cases. I haven't paid attention beyond headlines because I personally think professional sports are a circus, as in bread and circuses. I kind of like the idea of them not being available streaming or ala carte, it's like a tax on stupid.
If she videotaped it.. wouldn't it be pornography and be legal?
My layman's understanding (insert beavis innuendo laugh) is that it's just porn and not prostitution when both people are paid by a third party to have sex but the third party does not engage in any sexual contact (e.g. they just run the camera).
I simply said that instead of comparing religion to oppression, we should understand that religion leads to oppression.
As am atheiest I have to disagree. There are plenty of religious people who believe exactly the same thing about atheism. I say both groups are missing the forest for the trees -- the most obvious common factor between groups like the Khmer Rouge, which outlawed religion, and groups like the Taliban, which mandate a severe form of religion, is extremism.
Whenever the people running the show value principles more than human lives you get oppression.
And investment income is taxed as capital gains, not as income.
Ok, so it was a word game. When most people say "income tax" they don't differentiate between labor and capital. I'm pretty sure that Romney himself wasn't including people who only pay capital gains taxes in that 47% who do not pay any federal income tax.
My grandfather was also big in municipal bonds, which are free of Federal (and State) income tax.
I did forget about muni bonds. I suppose it is possible that he invested 100% in munis and when they matured he only kept enough cash in interest bearing bank accounts to generate less than the various deductions would cover.
I agree with your response. People who tell you what you would do in direct contradiction to what you said you would do so they can build a bogus argument are assholes and calling out their intellecutal dishonesty with straight-foward vulgarity is entirely appropriate.
But, if you take that personal shit out of his response and assume the general case, he does have a good point. It sure seems like that vast majority of BSD code re-users just drop it into their proprietary system and leave it at that. Even those like Apple who do contribute back to BSD projects do it explicitly so that they can picka and choose how much or how little they give back. The questions of what is "fair" or what is best in the long run are complex and pretty much unanswerable which is why BSD/GPL debates tend towards never-ending repetitions of the same talking points.
The reason they won't go open source is that it exposes them to patent lawsuits, frivolous or otherwise.
I've been hearing that for probably a decade. I used to believe it, I don't any more. The reason for my change is that AMD/ATI and Intel don't seem to have had any significant problems in that regard with their open source gpu drivers.
So, either Nvidia explicitly knows they are violating some patents (and haven't don't anything about it for ~10 years) in which case they are deliberately sitting on a ticking time bomb anyway, or it is just misdirection.
My grandmother and grandfather invested post-tax for decades. They did this so they could draw their investment income in retirement and not have to pay federal tax on it. In their retirement years they collected Social Security -- for which they paid into earlier, and drew from their retirement funds -- which had been taxed years before. They paid no income tax during their retirement years and rightfully so.
Huh? How can that be? Investment income is just as taxable as any other income. Or are you saying that as soon as they retired they converted all their investments to some sort of zero-interest checking account?
60GHz signals don't exactly work like that. At part 15 output limits, this stuff has a hard time penetrating anything, let alone neighboring homes. In practice, it acts much more like light than the more conventional RF spectrums that we're all familiar with.
I can confirm this with personal experience. I have a 60GHz wireless hdmi set-up in my insanely large living room (it would have cost more for a decent quality cable run). I can make the picture "de-rez" simply by standing in front of the transmitter. I doubt that any useful signal escapes the room.
You can get a lot done in this world if you don't care about people and give yourself free reign to push, abuse, over-praise, or cajole them to get where you want them to go. Its too bad you have to be horrible person to bring out the best in people.
Who says you have to? There is definitely more than one way to skin a cat here.
Is there something in particular about Google's API that makes this more likely, or might your cynicism apply to any sort of voter precinct information source, interface, or service?
Nothing technically unique. Just the ability for such an app to appear more legit than an average voting info app by prominently advertising the fact that they use google's own services.
I don't see where it says "put your name in" or "tell us who you're going to vote for"
While the OP originally sounded crazy, I think you've ended up showing us how google is likely to use it.
It isn't like they need to ask you for that information, there is a good chance they've already got enough information to cross-reference into their identity records. If you aren't already logged into a google service at the same time your browser hits this api, chances are you've still left a trail of previous accesses to things like doubliclick.com and googleapis.com embedded in other websites that they've correlated with cookies or at least ip address and browser-fingerprint. Enough so that if they can't directly divine your identity, they'll still add your usage of these apis to the "phantom" profile that they have been keeping, just waiting to have your real identity linked in at some point in the future.
The better strategy would be to hope your opponent did something as nefarious as uou suggest so you could write a program that checks their misinformation against the correct known data. Instant proof of their desperation and disenfranchisement.
As long as the disinformation only happens during a small window, like just on election day, then it wouldn't matter. The damage would be done long before any blowback could happen. Couple that with enough deniability - like having a Super PAC do it which are legally required to not be in coordination with the candidate - and even the blowback wouldn't hurt that much.
I would not be surprised to see nominally politically neutral third party apps built on top of this interface that try to figure out what party you are likely to vote for via cross-referencing with various Big Data providers like BlueKai or Axciom and then, depending on which party commissioned the app, lying about polling place info (location, times, etc) or some other sort of dirty trick to discourage you from voting.
A smart "political hack" would only show the bad information a couple of times, so as to make it harder to prove that anything nefarious had gone on.
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If it was all about openness, then why no micro sd slot
What has openness got to do with a micro sd slot!?
Yet again "open" is overloaded with multiple related meanings that seem identical to most of the people using the term.
In this case, the OP is referring to the idea that without viable removable storage a phone like this has the effect of pushing users towards "the cloud."
I don't think any of the major US wireless carriers offer discounted monthly rates for buying your phone outright. You might as well reap the price of discounted phones if your bill is the same rate.
Prepaid. Prepaid is almost always significantly cheaper than contract.
For example, with an iphone prepaid can save you $500-$1000 over a 2 year contract including all up-front costs like the full purchase price of the phone. And that doesn't include all the misc "surprise" fees that frequently show up on contract phone bills but never on prepaid.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57449345-94/why-a-prepaid-iphone-is-an-amazing-deal-for-bargain-hunters/
effectively cropping it at the subject's shoulders.
Everybody's got their kinks, but who ever heard of "shoulder porn?"
If the H1B program was really just about skills we would simply give the people temporary green cards and make them conditional to paying enough taxes or something like that. Then the employees would be able to switch jobs easily and would not be forced to stay with an employer they don't like just because the employer is sponsoring them for a green card (which can take 5 years I believe).
Absolutely! it is amazing how few of the commenters here realize that very basic fact of H1B - despite it being a problem with the program since its inception. I remember making the exact same point in the 90s -- we have seen an improvement in that it used to be that simply changing jobs caused the H1B itself to get cancelled. That went away about a decade ago. But the tethering to the green card process, which takes nearly as long as the maximum H1B stay, has not gone away even though it has no business existing in a suppossedly free market.
if you already get a green card, you are pretty much free to find other employment. Please don't bash what you don't know.
Ditto!
Green cards take a long time to be awarded. H1-B is only good for 3 years plus a possible renewal for another 3 years. The typical case for an H1-B visa holder getting a green card is to take 5+ years. During those years they are not able to switch employers without resetting the green card process, which means for all pratical purposes they are indentured to the employer sponsoring their green card application.
[quote]Years ago, they noticed the death toll of "terrorists" was above the sum of all "terrorists" on the planet.[/quote]
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Or at least a basic citation.
I think he is counting on the kid wanting the phone more than he wants to track his kid.
That's the point - counting on that won't work with a kid who is even moderately smart. For example, lots of parents do the "Don't leave your room until it is clean" thing -- but that backfires as soon as the kid decides he doesn't mind staying in his room for long periods of time.
But with GNU you have the right to modify and redistribute and I kinda doubt Netflix allows that to occur so if it were licensed under GNU they would be in violation.
Not only does netflix require that all shows they distributed be tried down with DRM, they even forbid the author from including a blurb at the start of the movie telling viewers were to get a DRM-free version.
Do these services have live sports or political talk shows? In my survey sample, one head of household, would rather go back to dial-up than drop ESPN and NBCSN (formerly Versus), and the other would be lost without MSNBC.
I'm pretty sure all of the news channels like MSNBC have 24-hour streaming video, but I haven't watched them so I don't know if they are identical to their catv feeds or different.
As for sports, I've heard rumblings about streaming subscriptions in limited cases. I haven't paid attention beyond headlines because I personally think professional sports are a circus, as in bread and circuses. I kind of like the idea of them not being available streaming or ala carte, it's like a tax on stupid.
If she videotaped it..
wouldn't it be pornography and be legal?
My layman's understanding (insert beavis innuendo laugh) is that it's just porn and not prostitution when both people are paid by a third party to have sex but the third party does not engage in any sexual contact (e.g. they just run the camera).
I simply said that instead of comparing religion to oppression, we should understand that religion leads to oppression.
As am atheiest I have to disagree. There are plenty of religious people who believe exactly the same thing about atheism. I say both groups are missing the forest for the trees -- the most obvious common factor between groups like the Khmer Rouge, which outlawed religion, and groups like the Taliban, which mandate a severe form of religion, is extremism.
Whenever the people running the show value principles more than human lives you get oppression.
They teach this in every management course studies... Have an exit strategy.
"Hey, I've got my golden parachute right here, just like you said."
"Oh, I see, you meant an exist strategy that saves the company.
Best freudian slip I've seen in months. CEOs have an exit strategy for themselves, but no strategy for the company to continue existing.
Is that even considered a freudian slip? Is there a better name for "meta" typo or word substituition like that?
Name a BSD-licensed project which Apple modifies and has chosen to "pick and choose" what they give back.
I seem to recall their OpenCL on LLVM implementation as being only partially released at best.
But I'd like to argue a somewhat different point: that you're missing how things work in the real world.
I'm not really interested in yet another BSD/GPL fight. Sorry if my original post about never-ending talking points didn't make that clear.
And investment income is taxed as capital gains, not as income.
Ok, so it was a word game. When most people say "income tax" they don't differentiate between labor and capital. I'm pretty sure that Romney himself wasn't including people who only pay capital gains taxes in that 47% who do not pay any federal income tax.
My grandfather was also big in municipal bonds, which are free of Federal (and State) income tax.
I did forget about muni bonds. I suppose it is possible that he invested 100% in munis and when they matured he only kept enough cash in interest bearing bank accounts to generate less than the various deductions would cover.
I agree with your response. People who tell you what you would do in direct contradiction to what you said you would do so they can build a bogus argument are assholes and calling out their intellecutal dishonesty with straight-foward vulgarity is entirely appropriate.
But, if you take that personal shit out of his response and assume the general case, he does have a good point. It sure seems like that vast majority of BSD code re-users just drop it into their proprietary system and leave it at that. Even those like Apple who do contribute back to BSD projects do it explicitly so that they can picka and choose how much or how little they give back. The questions of what is "fair" or what is best in the long run are complex and pretty much unanswerable which is why BSD/GPL debates tend towards never-ending repetitions of the same talking points.
The reason they won't go open source is that it exposes them to patent lawsuits, frivolous or otherwise.
I've been hearing that for probably a decade. I used to believe it, I don't any more. The reason for my change is that AMD/ATI and Intel don't seem to have had any significant problems in that regard with their open source gpu drivers.
So, either Nvidia explicitly knows they are violating some patents (and haven't don't anything about it for ~10 years) in which case they are deliberately sitting on a ticking time bomb anyway, or it is just misdirection.
My grandmother and grandfather invested post-tax for decades. They did this so they could draw their investment income in retirement and not have to pay federal tax on it. In their retirement years they collected Social Security -- for which they paid into earlier, and drew from their retirement funds -- which had been taxed years before. They paid no income tax during their retirement years and rightfully so.
Huh? How can that be? Investment income is just as taxable as any other income. Or are you saying that as soon as they retired they converted all their investments to some sort of zero-interest checking account?
Probably not much different from the way Libya, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and China all got seats on the UN Human Rights Council. Politics.
60GHz signals don't exactly work like that. At part 15 output limits, this stuff has a hard time penetrating anything, let alone neighboring homes. In practice, it acts much more like light than the more conventional RF spectrums that we're all familiar with.
I can confirm this with personal experience. I have a 60GHz wireless hdmi set-up in my insanely large living room (it would have cost more for a decent quality cable run). I can make the picture "de-rez" simply by standing in front of the transmitter. I doubt that any useful signal escapes the room.
You can get a lot done in this world if you don't care about people and give yourself free reign to push, abuse, over-praise, or cajole them to get where you want them to go. Its too bad you have to be horrible person to bring out the best in people.
Who says you have to? There is definitely more than one way to skin a cat here.
After nearly seven years of living anal free
Seven years without an anus ... you must be seriously backed up.
Is there something in particular about Google's API that makes this more likely, or might your cynicism apply to any sort of voter precinct information source, interface, or service?
Nothing technically unique. Just the ability for such an app to appear more legit than an average voting info app by prominently advertising the fact that they use google's own services.
I don't see where it says "put your name in" or "tell us who you're going to vote for"
While the OP originally sounded crazy, I think you've ended up showing us how google is likely to use it.
It isn't like they need to ask you for that information, there is a good chance they've already got enough information to cross-reference into their identity records. If you aren't already logged into a google service at the same time your browser hits this api, chances are you've still left a trail of previous accesses to things like doubliclick.com and googleapis.com embedded in other websites that they've correlated with cookies or at least ip address and browser-fingerprint. Enough so that if they can't directly divine your identity, they'll still add your usage of these apis to the "phantom" profile that they have been keeping, just waiting to have your real identity linked in at some point in the future.
The better strategy would be to hope your opponent did something as nefarious as uou suggest so you could write a program that checks their misinformation against the correct known data. Instant proof of their desperation and disenfranchisement.
As long as the disinformation only happens during a small window, like just on election day, then it wouldn't matter. The damage would be done long before any blowback could happen. Couple that with enough deniability - like having a Super PAC do it which are legally required to not be in coordination with the candidate - and even the blowback wouldn't hurt that much.
I would not be surprised to see nominally politically neutral third party apps built on top of this interface that try to figure out what party you are likely to vote for via cross-referencing with various Big Data providers like BlueKai or Axciom and then, depending on which party commissioned the app, lying about polling place info (location, times, etc) or some other sort of dirty trick to discourage you from voting.
A smart "political hack" would only show the bad information a couple of times, so as to make it harder to prove that anything nefarious had gone on.