Right on, the creed of the modern politician seems to be, "If reality contradicts our ideology, reality obviously must be wrong". This is why I miss Clinton, he was without a doubt the most pragmatic president in my lifetime*(technically I was alive when Carter was president, but only for a few months).
Unfortunately the situation is a lot more complicated. There are kids, if you have any, but even looking past the potential moral hazards, a huge problem we still have, at least in the US, is this whole idea of combining finances and property. It makes divorce a lot more complicated(and for divorce lawyers a lot more profitable) than it would otherwise be. Spouses need to get rid of this idea that they have a "right" to a portion of the other spouse's salary in perpetuity. Divorce would be a lot less caustic if everyone would sign a pre-nup and be civilized towards eachtother when it's clear that the relationship is going nowhere....but if that were to happen the lawyers would lose out big, so it's pretty much in their best interest to convince newly separated people that they have been done a great injustice and are thus entitled to great sums of money.
I wonder if competition from GPUs will influence Intel to beef up the vector processing capabilities of it's chips. Currently Intel' SSE is pretty weak, especially when you compare it to competitors like Altivec. Unfortunately outside of Cell there aren't a whole lot of CPUs nowadays that feature Altivec....
Which is why conservation is still key. What I never get in this whole alternative energy hype is why more people aren't calling for conservation and why people are obsessed with better cars when a much simpler solution is to use the current cars less. The government really should be exempt (almost) all 2 wheel vehicles from sales taxes. Considering most trips are at most a couple of miles, bicycles are the obvious choice over cars, but even motorcycles get at least 3x as much per gallon as SUVs do, sometimes up to 5x as much(and motorized scooters, which are great for residential zones, get even better mileage). Plus making an electric motorcycle would require a much smaller, and thus cheaper, battery.
Now I know there are times where a car is more convenient, and most people, at least in the US, should keep their cars, but just because something isn't an panacea doesn't mean it is totally worthless.
Actually all of Apple's "pro" products(ie Mac Pros and XServes) DO have ECC ram, a decision that actually caused quite an uproar in the mac community when it was first introduced(with the g5 powermac IIRC). However it has yet to trickle down into any of Apple's other products, which are all 100%* based on laptop components. Do laptops even have ECC ram? With RAM densities increasing bit errors like the one mentioned in the article are only going to increase.
*The quad core iMacs have Desktop CPUs in them, but every other component(including memory) is a part made for laptops.
China is CONSTANTLY accusing other nations of protectionism and yet are always pulling shit like this. I guess the lesson they are trying to communicate is that protectionism us bad, unless you are China, in which case it is good! I guess that is to be expected from them though, they constantly scold other governments on their fiscal policies yet refuse to open up their own books to public scrutiny.
But you have to take into account the mix of people that google hires, although they hire a decent number of people with bachelors for the most part it's PhDs and masters degree students. Most people who fall into those categories(esp. PhDs) really only tend to go looking for jobs once, right after graduation. There are of course exceptions, but that is the general rule.
You obviously have done about 0 research on this topic, in places like Japan and the UK, both of whom have government health insurance programs, have thriving private health insurance systems and even private hospitals as well, it's not illegal to operate these as you claim. Meanwhile healthcare in both of these countries is a hell of a lot cheaper than in the US. There are also no insurance execs with armadas of yachts and private jets, maybe there is a connection between those two facts.
While you ate correct in saying that when government gets involved in competitive industries the result is usually bad but the problem is that the health insurance execs in the us have colluded to make health insurance insanely uncompetitive They dint actually even have to render the service you paid them for. If some exec decides he wants a new yacht more than he wants to actually provide health care then he can just order more claims to be rejected. No other industry is allowed to do that. How long do you think an airline would stay in business if, after you had bought your ticket they told you that you didn't make a compelling enough case for why you need to fly today so they are not letting you on the plane and not giving you a refund or any other remuneration? And yet this is essentially what health insurance companies do on a daily basis and get away with it. Furthermore in pretty much every other industry changing providers is quite easy, didn't like the meal you had at the restaurant? Don't go there again. However changing health insurance providers is next to impossible(and the execs know that). Doubly so if you have a "pre existing" condition. Contrast this with places where there is a government option, if health insurance cos tried to pull the kind of stunts they do in the us they would be out of business in a flash because their customers actually have a choice. again you have failed to offer any sound empirical evidence that government run health insurance is more expensive or less effective than private insurance.
But I am not comparing the current version with the future version, I am comparing it with something they released less than 2 months(only a few weeks in some overseas markets). The devices should have very similar capabilities but they don't. That introduces market segmentation and was an uncharactaristically bad move by Apple. They are going down the whole "minimum requirements" hole. Something that really should have been avoided.
Yes except for the fact that the iPad has a much larger screen but still no dedicated GPU memory, so for all intents and purposes it has LESS ram than the 3GS. Not to mention Steve made a big deal over the fact that the Retina display in the iphone 4 has about 75% of the pixels that an iPad has, it would be nice for developers if they could just target their application for the iphone 4 and pretty much have it work unmodified on the iPad(maybe not the prettiest but it probably would still work pretty well), but alas they cannot because Apple myopically only put 256 mb of ram in the iPad.
The 256mb was probably the only really bad decision they made with the iPad and I have a feeling that unless they start to really standardize the basic hardware of their various mobile devices it is going to come back and bite them in the ass.
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Apple's own iMovie won't run on the iPad(or 3gs for that matter) due to RAM constraints. If Apple is already making iPhone 4 only apps, you can bet there is a horde of devs out there chomping at the bit for more RAM. Not to mention the front facing camera etc.
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So the iPad won't be running iOS 4 right away.... Apple is really running the risk of having a very segmented market a la Android, but they are doing it without any of Androids advantages. For instance even though it was only released two months ago the iPad only has half the amount of RAM that the iPhone 4 has and a lot fewer sensors. This means that there will be a large group of applications that will run on the iPhone 4 but will not run on the iPad which will wind up frustrating users to no end. While I realize that technology advances with time, there was no rational reason for Apple to upgrade hardware, but when you release devices within 2 months of each other that vary so wildly, you are doing something wrong.
And while this problem is unlikely to affect them in the near term, in the long term users are going to become as frustrated with the segmentation of the iOS market as they were/are with the segmentation in other cell phone environments. The EXACT same segmentation that Steve decried when first announcing the iPhone/iPod touch SDK.
Thank you for essentially proving my point, instead of combatting my argument with empirical evidence on the efficacy of privately run healthcare you just responded with a lot of ideology with no statistics to back you up. Guess what, the problems in Greece is NOT the fault of healthcare, it stems from the government giving lavish gifts to it's own employees with 0 oversight all while trying to hide what they were doing. That happens elsewhere, including the US, all the time(both Repubs and democrats do it).
To add further empirical fuel to my argument, look at which economies in the G7 are recovering the fastest, Japan, Canada, and Australia. What do those three have in common that other countries do not? They all have public healthcare systems WITHOUT a lot of the other bullshit that comes attached with hiring and firing workers that the Europeans have. Despite their surging currencies(the loonie, ozzie dollar and yen are all really strong right now) it is STILL cheaper to hire workers(esp. for small businesses) in these countries than it is in the US. The healthcare system in the US is hurting international competitiveness and thus costing a massive # of jobs.
If you want to refute me please actually use real, verifiable evidence and don't repeat your last rebuttal where you think you win an argument just by using the word "socialism".
Um...hate to burst your bubble there but fact is that all the other G7 countries(which all have public health care btw) spend about HALF(in terms of % of GDP) of what the US does in healthcare and yet people in those countries live longer(there are lifestyle factors involved, but they aren't the only ones).
I have yet to hear a single empirically sound argument against public health care. No amount of ideology can contradict two very basic, and very important, statistics: percentage of GDP spent on health care and life expectancy. If the government was really driving up the cost of health care then you would expect to see the former be much higher than the US, but in fact it is the opposite. Also, if the health care was really as bad as a lot of people on the right make it out to be, you would see average life expectancy to be lower than that of the United States but it is in fact higher.
I always found the whole "you cannot put a price on life" argument to be total bullshit, like it or not we put a price on our own lives almost every day. You ever go to work? Then essentially you have agreed that there is, for all intents and purposes, a price on your life. Barring some incredibly unlikely and unforeseen advance in medical science we all essentially have a finite number of hours to live, so unless work is 100% pleasure(and lets face it, despite what your high school guidance counselor says, very few people fall into that category) you are essentially putting a price on a certain percentage of your life.
Like you said, resources are unfortunately finite no matter how much we want to believe they are not, "rationing" really is the only way to distribute limited resources in a collective system. And despite what Republicans may have you believe, health insurance really is a collectivization scheme, it makes no difference whether or not the government runs it.
And as an added bonus you will pretty much guarantee yourself plenty of workspace, I doubt there are a lot of people who will want to get anywhere near someone who has been drinking room temperature dairy all day.
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Shhhh...you'll disrupt their feelings of self-righteousness!
Wait, you mean Apple's newest product ISNT "iGoatse"? Damn, and here I had my credit card out ready to go.
Right on, the creed of the modern politician seems to be, "If reality contradicts our ideology, reality obviously must be wrong". This is why I miss Clinton, he was without a doubt the most pragmatic president in my lifetime*(technically I was alive when Carter was president, but only for a few months).
Unfortunately the situation is a lot more complicated. There are kids, if you have any, but even looking past the potential moral hazards, a huge problem we still have, at least in the US, is this whole idea of combining finances and property. It makes divorce a lot more complicated(and for divorce lawyers a lot more profitable) than it would otherwise be. Spouses need to get rid of this idea that they have a "right" to a portion of the other spouse's salary in perpetuity. Divorce would be a lot less caustic if everyone would sign a pre-nup and be civilized towards eachtother when it's clear that the relationship is going nowhere....but if that were to happen the lawyers would lose out big, so it's pretty much in their best interest to convince newly separated people that they have been done a great injustice and are thus entitled to great sums of money.
Actually nowadays you CAN run Skype(and other VOIP software) in the background.
I wonder if competition from GPUs will influence Intel to beef up the vector processing capabilities of it's chips. Currently Intel' SSE is pretty weak, especially when you compare it to competitors like Altivec. Unfortunately outside of Cell there aren't a whole lot of CPUs nowadays that feature Altivec....
Which is why conservation is still key. What I never get in this whole alternative energy hype is why more people aren't calling for conservation and why people are obsessed with better cars when a much simpler solution is to use the current cars less. The government really should be exempt (almost) all 2 wheel vehicles from sales taxes. Considering most trips are at most a couple of miles, bicycles are the obvious choice over cars, but even motorcycles get at least 3x as much per gallon as SUVs do, sometimes up to 5x as much(and motorized scooters, which are great for residential zones, get even better mileage). Plus making an electric motorcycle would require a much smaller, and thus cheaper, battery.
Now I know there are times where a car is more convenient, and most people, at least in the US, should keep their cars, but just because something isn't an panacea doesn't mean it is totally worthless.
It obviously hadn't been drinking enough booze.
Actually all of Apple's "pro" products(ie Mac Pros and XServes) DO have ECC ram, a decision that actually caused quite an uproar in the mac community when it was first introduced(with the g5 powermac IIRC). However it has yet to trickle down into any of Apple's other products, which are all 100%* based on laptop components. Do laptops even have ECC ram? With RAM densities increasing bit errors like the one mentioned in the article are only going to increase.
*The quad core iMacs have Desktop CPUs in them, but every other component(including memory) is a part made for laptops.
China is CONSTANTLY accusing other nations of protectionism and yet are always pulling shit like this. I guess the lesson they are trying to communicate is that protectionism us bad, unless you are China, in which case it is good! I guess that is to be expected from them though, they constantly scold other governments on their fiscal policies yet refuse to open up their own books to public scrutiny.
Does she have some sort of pouch in which to store her young?
But you have to take into account the mix of people that google hires, although they hire a decent number of people with bachelors for the most part it's PhDs and masters degree students. Most people who fall into those categories(esp. PhDs) really only tend to go looking for jobs once, right after graduation. There are of course exceptions, but that is the general rule.
You obviously have done about 0 research on this topic, in places like Japan and the UK, both of whom have government health insurance programs, have thriving private health insurance systems and even private hospitals as well, it's not illegal to operate these as you claim. Meanwhile healthcare in both of these countries is a hell of a lot cheaper than in the US. There are also no insurance execs with armadas of yachts and private jets, maybe there is a connection between those two facts.
While you ate correct in saying that when government gets involved in competitive industries the result is usually bad but the problem is that the health insurance execs in the us have colluded to make health insurance insanely uncompetitive They dint actually even have to render the service you paid them for. If some exec decides he wants a new yacht more than he wants to actually provide health care then he can just order more claims to be rejected. No other industry is allowed to do that. How long do you think an airline would stay in business if, after you had bought your ticket they told you that you didn't make a compelling enough case for why you need to fly today so they are not letting you on the plane and not giving you a refund or any other remuneration? And yet this is essentially what health insurance companies do on a daily basis and get away with it. Furthermore in pretty much every other industry changing providers is quite easy, didn't like the meal you had at the restaurant? Don't go there again. However changing health insurance providers is next to impossible(and the execs know that). Doubly so if you have a "pre existing" condition. Contrast this with places where there is a government option, if health insurance cos tried to pull the kind of stunts they do in the us they would be out of business in a flash because their customers actually have a choice.
again you have failed to offer any sound empirical evidence that government run health insurance is more expensive or less effective than private insurance.
But I am not comparing the current version with the future version, I am comparing it with something they released less than 2 months(only a few weeks in some overseas markets). The devices should have very similar capabilities but they don't. That introduces market segmentation and was an uncharactaristically bad move by Apple. They are going down the whole "minimum requirements" hole. Something that really should have been avoided.
Yes except for the fact that the iPad has a much larger screen but still no dedicated GPU memory, so for all intents and purposes it has LESS ram than the 3GS. Not to mention Steve made a big deal over the fact that the Retina display in the iphone 4 has about 75% of the pixels that an iPad has, it would be nice for developers if they could just target their application for the iphone 4 and pretty much have it work unmodified on the iPad(maybe not the prettiest but it probably would still work pretty well), but alas they cannot because Apple myopically only put 256 mb of ram in the iPad.
The 256mb was probably the only really bad decision they made with the iPad and I have a feeling that unless they start to really standardize the basic hardware of their various mobile devices it is going to come back and bite them in the ass.
Apple's own iMovie won't run on the iPad(or 3gs for that matter) due to RAM constraints. If Apple is already making iPhone 4 only apps, you can bet there is a horde of devs out there chomping at the bit for more RAM. Not to mention the front facing camera etc.
So the iPad won't be running iOS 4 right away.... Apple is really running the risk of having a very segmented market a la Android, but they are doing it without any of Androids advantages. For instance even though it was only released two months ago the iPad only has half the amount of RAM that the iPhone 4 has and a lot fewer sensors. This means that there will be a large group of applications that will run on the iPhone 4 but will not run on the iPad which will wind up frustrating users to no end. While I realize that technology advances with time, there was no rational reason for Apple to upgrade hardware, but when you release devices within 2 months of each other that vary so wildly, you are doing something wrong.
And while this problem is unlikely to affect them in the near term, in the long term users are going to become as frustrated with the segmentation of the iOS market as they were/are with the segmentation in other cell phone environments. The EXACT same segmentation that Steve decried when first announcing the iPhone/iPod touch SDK.
wrong answer, try again!
Infant mortality rates: the US ranks an embarassing 33rd according to the UN, 46th according to the CIA
US also ranks pretty shittily in heart attack rates too
Do I really need to go on pointing out what a farce the supposed "superior" US healthcare system is?
and they were right, just look at how many times he was wrong!
I don't think the researchers anticipated tha eventuality that somone would open up one of thier units and drink the liquid inside.
So if they don't do stuff like that, then whats the point of having grad students?
Thank you for essentially proving my point, instead of combatting my argument with empirical evidence on the efficacy of privately run healthcare you just responded with a lot of ideology with no statistics to back you up. Guess what, the problems in Greece is NOT the fault of healthcare, it stems from the government giving lavish gifts to it's own employees with 0 oversight all while trying to hide what they were doing. That happens elsewhere, including the US, all the time(both Repubs and democrats do it).
To add further empirical fuel to my argument, look at which economies in the G7 are recovering the fastest, Japan, Canada, and Australia. What do those three have in common that other countries do not? They all have public healthcare systems WITHOUT a lot of the other bullshit that comes attached with hiring and firing workers that the Europeans have. Despite their surging currencies(the loonie, ozzie dollar and yen are all really strong right now) it is STILL cheaper to hire workers(esp. for small businesses) in these countries than it is in the US. The healthcare system in the US is hurting international competitiveness and thus costing a massive # of jobs.
If you want to refute me please actually use real, verifiable evidence and don't repeat your last rebuttal where you think you win an argument just by using the word "socialism".
Um...hate to burst your bubble there but fact is that all the other G7 countries(which all have public health care btw) spend about HALF(in terms of % of GDP) of what the US does in healthcare and yet people in those countries live longer(there are lifestyle factors involved, but they aren't the only ones).
I have yet to hear a single empirically sound argument against public health care. No amount of ideology can contradict two very basic, and very important, statistics: percentage of GDP spent on health care and life expectancy. If the government was really driving up the cost of health care then you would expect to see the former be much higher than the US, but in fact it is the opposite. Also, if the health care was really as bad as a lot of people on the right make it out to be, you would see average life expectancy to be lower than that of the United States but it is in fact higher.
I always found the whole "you cannot put a price on life" argument to be total bullshit, like it or not we put a price on our own lives almost every day. You ever go to work? Then essentially you have agreed that there is, for all intents and purposes, a price on your life. Barring some incredibly unlikely and unforeseen advance in medical science we all essentially have a finite number of hours to live, so unless work is 100% pleasure(and lets face it, despite what your high school guidance counselor says, very few people fall into that category) you are essentially putting a price on a certain percentage of your life.
Like you said, resources are unfortunately finite no matter how much we want to believe they are not, "rationing" really is the only way to distribute limited resources in a collective system. And despite what Republicans may have you believe, health insurance really is a collectivization scheme, it makes no difference whether or not the government runs it.
I just have this to say to you Mr. Picard, "make it so!"
And as an added bonus you will pretty much guarantee yourself plenty of workspace, I doubt there are a lot of people who will want to get anywhere near someone who has been drinking room temperature dairy all day.