Yeah, thats my point, it's a really misguided trust. Unless they are so foolish as to believe that the same coders they do not trust to find potential hacks in Linux can code a secure operating system.
Their model essentially is "Security through obscurity". Just because nobody else can see the source to your OS doesn't mean it won't be hacked. Indeed experience has shown us the exact opposite is true.
That would solve exactly nothing(well, it would alienate and piss off a lot of Apple's customers). Since Apple would still be required to take returns and refund the purchase price having an auction would still mean that buying up tons of iPhones would be an almost 0 risk proposition to the scalpers whilst simultaneously allowing the scalpers to become even more efficient because they can create snipe bots etc that can always make sure they are the top bidder(and then turn around and try to sell it for more.
Read the parent a little more closely. He was wondering how many people turned 42 today. Unless there was some gigantic world-wide orgy in January of 1968 that nobody bothered to record in the history books I sincerely doubt that about.3% of the population turned 42 today.:P And if there was an intercontinental orgy let me be the first to say, "Fuck was I born too late"
Current account deficits is a pretty well defined term, it's basically the deficit the government is running THIS fiscal year. And if you don't think Europe has a massive amount of unfunded liabilities I have some bonds I would like to sell you. Top quality!
First and foremost the technology used in China's manned space program was overwhelmingly Russian, the US would gain very little by cooperating with them over continuing our cooperation with Russia.
But if NASA really wants to cooperate with another space agency they should up their links with JAXA. Even though the Japanese have yet to put a man into space they have shown that it is possible to really turn around a flagging space program quickly. Before the launch of the Hayabusa in 2003 you could describe JAXA in one word: failure. As late as 2002 they were having troubles even putting a relatively basic satellite into orbit. However in recent years they have had two overwhelming successes, Hayabusa and IKAROS. They obviously know how to turn a stagnant space program around. Furthermore their interests and NASAs interests are much more in line than the interests of the US and China.
Actually in terms of debt-to-GDP ratio of the US is about the same as most European countries(and well below Japan which investors seem to think is an incredibly "safe" place to park money for whatever reason). Current account deficits are another story though.....
Hah! Investor greed. Do you REALLY believe those executives when they say they are going to give the money back to the stockholders? Hint: CEO pay is growing 2x as fast as the S&P 500 and that ratio is only going to increase. Since Bush absolutely gutted the SEC and basically told CEOs that they can give themselves as much as they want without nary a concern for investors executive pay has skyrocketed without any increase in performance. When Obama suggested that *gasp* shareholders should have a say on CEO pay the Republicans screamed bloody murder. The modern American corporation exists solely for the benefit of the CEO and the board. Any money paid out to investors or employees is considered collateral damage that must be abided until the CEO can completely bankrupt the company then somehow make sure they get first in line to receive their severance from the liquidation. After the SEC announced that shareholders no longer have a say in CEO salary I sold all my US stocks and bought stocks in countries where they don't worship executives and it has paid off in droves!
Actually no, the reason that the UK gave Canada it's independence is because it didn't want to be embroiled in yet another conflict with the United States. The US tried to invade Canada twice, during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 and even though they got their asses kicked both times, so it was obvious that they wanted it. And in 1867 they finally had an excuse to take it again, the US was fresh out of the civil war and the Union government was very pissed at the UK for giving large amounts of military aid to the Confederates(the UK really wanted the cheap agricultural and mineral products that the south had been providing them with). So the Brits felt that they had essentially 2 options: Get involved in another battle in North America which at the time they really couldn't afford or let Canada go and if the US invades Canada it's no longer a British problem. They chose the latter and the rest is history.
You are neglecting to include the part where GDP falls 10x as much as well and all the ramifications of that. Also, 300 years ago China was NOT the top economy in the world, the British Empire most likely was.
You are also neglecting HUGE parts of China's history as well. China has a habit of forming incredibly large empires that crumble apart within the span of less than a decade. It has had very long periods of self-imposed isolation and stagnation.
You also mention demographics in terms of population size but ignore the age structure of Chinese society and the impending societal crisis brought on by the gender imbalance in China. This is already starting to manifest itself, SEVERAL of the kindergarten stabbers wrote about how they could not find a wife and that is what really pushed them over the edge. This is only going to get worse.
You also have 0 idea how China will react when the economy isn't looking so bright, my guess is that it will be a cultural revolution part 2, but who knows. You cannot be an economic superpower that only grows by exporting, eventually there will be blowback and you WILL have to deal with an ecnomy that isn't constantly. China seems prepared for neither.
Face it, China will not be the next economic superpower. India may be(it lacks most of the problems China has, though gender imbalance will be an issue there too) though that remains to be seen but China seems content ignoring the problems its going to inevitably run into and continue on like they don't exist.
It wasn't intended to be funny, Windows is a virus on humanity and you won't have to worry about viruses if you get rid of the Worlds Worst Operating System. I manage 100 mac workstations, 10 mac servers, and about 50 Linux servers and 4 windows boxes(plus a couple of virtual machines) and Windows causes more issues, despite being used less, than all the other machines combined. It's a virus on the ass of humanity and the sooner it's eliminated the better.
I never thought I'd say this but mod parent up. If you can ping it you can ARP it if you can ARP it your switch should tell you what port it's plugged into. If your cabling is so bad that such information doesn't help you time to fire your cabling guys.
If you compare the salary of anyone who works for the government to someone with the same educational level you will easily see they get the shaft in terms of equal pay. In order to give people incentive to work for good old Uncle Sam, you have to make up for the shit pay, this is done though things like pensions and some of the other fringe benefits. If you take that away, you will drive away whatever talent is actually working at the federal, state, or local level.
Yup, I always find it funny when conservatives trot out the "look how much federal pay has increased compared to private sector pay in the past 30 years!" argument without fully considering the reasons for that. They want to insinuate that government pay is skyrocketing but the truth is much different. Ratios rise in magnitude whenever the numerator increases OR the denominator falls. The real reason for the increase in the ratio is that private sector wages have been demolished over the past 30 years(esp. if you look at the median and not the mean).
Windows! It pretty much acts like a virus and is crazy easy to remove by hand. Torrent your favorite distro, burn it to disk or just put it on a USB stick and boom! virus gone.
Lets go back 30 years, you could say the same thing except for %s/China/Japan/g . But Japan never became the supreme economic giant. Why? Because their economy was built on the EXACT same unsustainable economic model that the Chinese economy is built on. Not to mention that I don't really think China's growth is anywhere near what they claim it to be(I don't doubt that they are growing, but probably only half the "official" rate, a rate whose data and calculations are NOT open to outside scrutiny). Within 5 years or so the Chinese economy is going to suffer a major crash due in part to it's belligerence towards its trading partners which it needs a lot more than the CCP likes to admit(though they accidentally admitted it last week when their finance minister said that a 20% increase in the yuan would lead to massive riots, a comment that was quickly rescinded though here in the free world we can still read about it. Good luck reading about it in China)
How is this different from any other aspect of Chinese economic policy? Ever listen to Hu Jintao rail against protectionism? Then ever look at Chinese economic policy to see that it is, by FAR, the most protectionist large economy on the planet? Thats pretty par for the course for China.
See the thing about China is that they don't know when to quit. When they were a tiny economy they could get away with a lot of this bullshit but now they are acting like a big kid whose parents never disciplined him. Sure it's cute when he is 7, but now that he is 20 if he keeps this shit up he is going to get into a lot of trouble but he seems blissfully unaware of that fact......
With a CEO as bad as ballmer do you really expect anything less? Here is a man who is a poster boy for the modern American CEO, he consumes massive amounts of resources while em offering essentially nothing in return. It's quite obvious the man has no passion for technology and no real idea where he wants to actually take Microsoft in the future. Just look at their latest os release, their ads basically show that it's claim to fame is that it doesn't suck as bad as our previous release and we finally got around to including features our competitors had 5 years ago.
Furthermore his management is a joke. It's quite clear he is either unable or unwilling to disabuse other managers of the notion that it's still 1998 and Microsofts biggest competitor is itself. You can see the result if this attitude in the fact that Microsoft often releases several competing incompatible versions of the same type of product at the same time. For example the kin vs win mobile 6 vs win mobile 7 or the two types of incompatible drm Microsoft released at almost the exact same time. You can even see it in products like windows, windows has the most inconsistent ui of any of the big 3 oses. No subsytem of windows feels like any other, not to mention none of it looks like the office ui.
The only thing ballmer is renowned for is his juvenile antics, but he'll if I wanted a CEO who acted like that I could go down to any frat house in the country and find an army of 21 year olds willing to do that for 1% of what ballmer makes. If Microsoft wants to survive the next decade they need to fire him NOW.
How many KDE packages are over 100 mb? All the KDE packages combined are probably a couple hundred megs but the individual packages aren't nearly as big(the base is around 25 megs or so, about the same size as the kernel). Also the OP specifically mentioned software updates, most full distros are already distributed via torrent.
The file sizes of most Linux packages are simply not big enough to warrant the use of bittorrent. The 32 bit x86 kernel(usually one of the biggest packages in a distro) is only about 32 megs or so. By the time you downloaded the tracker, found your peers and actually started downloading something you could have had the whole package d/led already. Most big universities and research institutions have to host the files anyway(for internal updates), its not all that difficult to extend the download service to the general public. Not to mention the fact that in order for the torrent to be effective you would actually have to retain the packages after installation which can quickly become a huge pain in the ass.....
Man were in fact released "before their time", namely they were released with technology that wasn't really mature enough to actually work correctly(such as the power glove which essentially uses the same motion tracking technology as the wii but said technology simply wasn't ready until recently)
Yes but don't conflate technical issues with legal ones, part of the reason the TGV has a slower average speed is because laws and operational concerns force it to less than it is capable of. The reason China is focusing on average speed is because it knows it has an advantage there, the government is more than happy to shit all over its citizens in order to try to win an international pissing contest.
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Yeah, thats my point, it's a really misguided trust. Unless they are so foolish as to believe that the same coders they do not trust to find potential hacks in Linux can code a secure operating system.
Their model essentially is "Security through obscurity". Just because nobody else can see the source to your OS doesn't mean it won't be hacked. Indeed experience has shown us the exact opposite is true.
That would solve exactly nothing(well, it would alienate and piss off a lot of Apple's customers). Since Apple would still be required to take returns and refund the purchase price having an auction would still mean that buying up tons of iPhones would be an almost 0 risk proposition to the scalpers whilst simultaneously allowing the scalpers to become even more efficient because they can create snipe bots etc that can always make sure they are the top bidder(and then turn around and try to sell it for more.
Read the parent a little more closely. He was wondering how many people turned 42 today. Unless there was some gigantic world-wide orgy in January of 1968 that nobody bothered to record in the history books I sincerely doubt that about .3% of the population turned 42 today. :P And if there was an intercontinental orgy let me be the first to say, "Fuck was I born too late"
Current account deficits is a pretty well defined term, it's basically the deficit the government is running THIS fiscal year. And if you don't think Europe has a massive amount of unfunded liabilities I have some bonds I would like to sell you. Top quality!
First and foremost the technology used in China's manned space program was overwhelmingly Russian, the US would gain very little by cooperating with them over continuing our cooperation with Russia.
But if NASA really wants to cooperate with another space agency they should up their links with JAXA. Even though the Japanese have yet to put a man into space they have shown that it is possible to really turn around a flagging space program quickly. Before the launch of the Hayabusa in 2003 you could describe JAXA in one word: failure. As late as 2002 they were having troubles even putting a relatively basic satellite into orbit. However in recent years they have had two overwhelming successes, Hayabusa and IKAROS. They obviously know how to turn a stagnant space program around. Furthermore their interests and NASAs interests are much more in line than the interests of the US and China.
Actually in terms of debt-to-GDP ratio of the US is about the same as most European countries(and well below Japan which investors seem to think is an incredibly "safe" place to park money for whatever reason). Current account deficits are another story though.....
Actually a lot of Asian countries use (yy)yy/mm/dd which actually makes the most sense IMO because it makes comparison of dates really simple.
Hah! Investor greed. Do you REALLY believe those executives when they say they are going to give the money back to the stockholders? Hint: CEO pay is growing 2x as fast as the S&P 500 and that ratio is only going to increase. Since Bush absolutely gutted the SEC and basically told CEOs that they can give themselves as much as they want without nary a concern for investors executive pay has skyrocketed without any increase in performance. When Obama suggested that *gasp* shareholders should have a say on CEO pay the Republicans screamed bloody murder. The modern American corporation exists solely for the benefit of the CEO and the board. Any money paid out to investors or employees is considered collateral damage that must be abided until the CEO can completely bankrupt the company then somehow make sure they get first in line to receive their severance from the liquidation. After the SEC announced that shareholders no longer have a say in CEO salary I sold all my US stocks and bought stocks in countries where they don't worship executives and it has paid off in droves!
Actually no, the reason that the UK gave Canada it's independence is because it didn't want to be embroiled in yet another conflict with the United States. The US tried to invade Canada twice, during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 and even though they got their asses kicked both times, so it was obvious that they wanted it. And in 1867 they finally had an excuse to take it again, the US was fresh out of the civil war and the Union government was very pissed at the UK for giving large amounts of military aid to the Confederates(the UK really wanted the cheap agricultural and mineral products that the south had been providing them with). So the Brits felt that they had essentially 2 options: Get involved in another battle in North America which at the time they really couldn't afford or let Canada go and if the US invades Canada it's no longer a British problem. They chose the latter and the rest is history.
You are neglecting to include the part where GDP falls 10x as much as well and all the ramifications of that. Also, 300 years ago China was NOT the top economy in the world, the British Empire most likely was.
You are also neglecting HUGE parts of China's history as well. China has a habit of forming incredibly large empires that crumble apart within the span of less than a decade. It has had very long periods of self-imposed isolation and stagnation.
You also mention demographics in terms of population size but ignore the age structure of Chinese society and the impending societal crisis brought on by the gender imbalance in China. This is already starting to manifest itself, SEVERAL of the kindergarten stabbers wrote about how they could not find a wife and that is what really pushed them over the edge. This is only going to get worse.
You also have 0 idea how China will react when the economy isn't looking so bright, my guess is that it will be a cultural revolution part 2, but who knows. You cannot be an economic superpower that only grows by exporting, eventually there will be blowback and you WILL have to deal with an ecnomy that isn't constantly. China seems prepared for neither.
Face it, China will not be the next economic superpower. India may be(it lacks most of the problems China has, though gender imbalance will be an issue there too) though that remains to be seen but China seems content ignoring the problems its going to inevitably run into and continue on like they don't exist.
It wasn't intended to be funny, Windows is a virus on humanity and you won't have to worry about viruses if you get rid of the Worlds Worst Operating System. I manage 100 mac workstations, 10 mac servers, and about 50 Linux servers and 4 windows boxes(plus a couple of virtual machines) and Windows causes more issues, despite being used less, than all the other machines combined. It's a virus on the ass of humanity and the sooner it's eliminated the better.
I never thought I'd say this but mod parent up. If you can ping it you can ARP it if you can ARP it your switch should tell you what port it's plugged into. If your cabling is so bad that such information doesn't help you time to fire your cabling guys.
If you compare the salary of anyone who works for the government to someone with the same educational level you will easily see they get the shaft in terms of equal pay. In order to give people incentive to work for good old Uncle Sam, you have to make up for the shit pay, this is done though things like pensions and some of the other fringe benefits. If you take that away, you will drive away whatever talent is actually working at the federal, state, or local level.
Yup, I always find it funny when conservatives trot out the "look how much federal pay has increased compared to private sector pay in the past 30 years!" argument without fully considering the reasons for that. They want to insinuate that government pay is skyrocketing but the truth is much different. Ratios rise in magnitude whenever the numerator increases OR the denominator falls. The real reason for the increase in the ratio is that private sector wages have been demolished over the past 30 years(esp. if you look at the median and not the mean).
Windows! It pretty much acts like a virus and is crazy easy to remove by hand. Torrent your favorite distro, burn it to disk or just put it on a USB stick and boom! virus gone.
Lets go back 30 years, you could say the same thing except for %s/China/Japan/g . But Japan never became the supreme economic giant. Why? Because their economy was built on the EXACT same unsustainable economic model that the Chinese economy is built on. Not to mention that I don't really think China's growth is anywhere near what they claim it to be(I don't doubt that they are growing, but probably only half the "official" rate, a rate whose data and calculations are NOT open to outside scrutiny). Within 5 years or so the Chinese economy is going to suffer a major crash due in part to it's belligerence towards its trading partners which it needs a lot more than the CCP likes to admit(though they accidentally admitted it last week when their finance minister said that a 20% increase in the yuan would lead to massive riots, a comment that was quickly rescinded though here in the free world we can still read about it. Good luck reading about it in China)
How is this different from any other aspect of Chinese economic policy? Ever listen to Hu Jintao rail against protectionism? Then ever look at Chinese economic policy to see that it is, by FAR, the most protectionist large economy on the planet? Thats pretty par for the course for China.
See the thing about China is that they don't know when to quit. When they were a tiny economy they could get away with a lot of this bullshit but now they are acting like a big kid whose parents never disciplined him. Sure it's cute when he is 7, but now that he is 20 if he keeps this shit up he is going to get into a lot of trouble but he seems blissfully unaware of that fact......
With a CEO as bad as ballmer do you really expect anything less? Here is a man who is a poster boy for the modern American CEO, he consumes massive amounts of resources while em offering essentially nothing in return. It's quite obvious the man has no passion for technology and no real idea where he wants to actually take Microsoft in the future. Just look at their latest os release, their ads basically show that it's claim to fame is that it doesn't suck as bad as our previous release and we finally got around to including features our competitors had 5 years ago.
Furthermore his management is a joke. It's quite clear he is either unable or unwilling to disabuse other managers of the notion that it's still 1998 and Microsofts biggest competitor is itself. You can see the result if this attitude in the fact that Microsoft often releases several competing incompatible versions of the same type of product at the same time. For example the kin vs win mobile 6 vs win mobile 7 or the two types of incompatible drm Microsoft released at almost the exact same time. You can even see it in products like windows, windows has the most inconsistent ui of any of the big 3 oses. No subsytem of windows feels like any other, not to mention none of it looks like the office ui.
The only thing ballmer is renowned for is his juvenile antics, but he'll if I wanted a CEO who acted like that I could go down to any frat house in the country and find an army of 21 year olds willing to do that for 1% of what ballmer makes. If Microsoft wants to survive the next decade they need to fire him NOW.
It's meaning is "I bet I can get a bunch of geeks to waste a lot of time trying to decipher this meaningless message!"
How many KDE packages are over 100 mb? All the KDE packages combined are probably a couple hundred megs but the individual packages aren't nearly as big(the base is around 25 megs or so, about the same size as the kernel). Also the OP specifically mentioned software updates, most full distros are already distributed via torrent.
The file sizes of most Linux packages are simply not big enough to warrant the use of bittorrent. The 32 bit x86 kernel(usually one of the biggest packages in a distro) is only about 32 megs or so. By the time you downloaded the tracker, found your peers and actually started downloading something you could have had the whole package d/led already. Most big universities and research institutions have to host the files anyway(for internal updates), its not all that difficult to extend the download service to the general public. Not to mention the fact that in order for the torrent to be effective you would actually have to retain the packages after installation which can quickly become a huge pain in the ass.....
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Man were in fact released "before their time", namely they were released with technology that wasn't really mature enough to actually work correctly(such as the power glove which essentially uses the same motion tracking technology as the wii but said technology simply wasn't ready until recently)
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Yes but don't conflate technical issues with legal ones, part of the reason the TGV has a slower average speed is because laws and operational concerns force it to less than it is capable of. The reason China is focusing on average speed is because it knows it has an advantage there, the government is more than happy to shit all over its citizens in order to try to win an international pissing contest.