Content providers want rid of analog, so make the rule ending analog transmissions contingent on "them" getting us converters (or new TVs or whatever it takes). I'm happy to keep my NTSC junk, since there's nothing on broadcast TV I care about seeing in HD anyhow. Higher rez videos of people dying in Iraq? High def footage of tornado victims? More pixels of sitcoms??? Nahhh.
Agency directors generally serve at the pleasure of the executive, don't they? This reflects poorly on Illinois' governor, who ought not to be giving away money. Make it known that he will be losing support due to this guy's stance.
Yeah, I was just thinking that an MTBF is pretty meaningless without knowing the type of distribution and the variance, and even the skew. If a few would last a billion years, then a bunch would fail really soon.
I don't know that this is true, however, I do know a number of "righties" who are vehemently free/open software users/advocates. But the reason for it is "Libertarian" in nature. They want to avoid being under anyone else's control. They put more weight on this aspect than on the "pro-business." They use free software as a result of having the Libertarian-like point of view, whereas MS defenders make claims of socialistic tendencies as a result of defending proprietary software. The former places ideology ahead of all else; the latter rationalizes to defend their specific position on free/proprietary software. Ask them if we'd be less socialistic with facial tissues only available from Kleenex.
BTW, I'm also probably considered "left" (though I reject that to some degree), and I also (unsurprisingly) support free and/or open software AND hardware. Especially for voting!
People who teach usually do it for intangibles. The difference for math and science is that they could find jobs doing something else, receiving a LOT more pay. We all know this. We should also realize that in the foreseeable future in the U.S. math and science teachers will never be paid anything close to what they could earn doing something else. So don't bother to pretend to compete on pay. It won't happen, can't happen.
So what to do? Remove the negatives, of course! Raise all teachers' pay significantly so they won't have cost of living hardships and to help restore the respect due the vocation by society. Remove problem students from regular classes. "Mainstreaming" might be a good idea for children with some types of handicaps and problems, but it's a terrible idea for disruptive students. Remove any truly disruptive students from regular classrooms immediately. Reduce teachers' loads by having them teach classes no more than 2/3 of the day rather than 80-100%. Planning and grading takes a lot of time, or at least it should. Keep politics and religion as far away from schools, administration, and school boards as possible. Elected school boards, at least in my area, are a disaster. Appointed boards were much better when we had that. Obviously that depends on who's doing the appointing.
There's a movement to use "research-based" methods in the classroom. Good idea--use things that have been observed to work, don't experiment on all the kids all the time. Expand this to administration. Use "research-based" methods in education departments at local, state, and federal level. That would put a quick end to the ridiculous amount of testing of facts and figures. Then teachers could concentrate on teaching kids how to think rather than teaching them facts and algorithms.
Finally, remove the reasons for avoiding/quitting teaching, and good teachers will, over time, mostly crowd out the bad.
Let's just send a message back to the Framers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Mallett) and
ask them to write exactly how the Bill of Rights
should apply to corporations. Corporate Personhood
was invented later, and has been wreaking havoc ever
since. According to me, corporations have no
constitutionally-guaranteed right to free speech. Of
course I can only say that because I'm not a corporation.
So, for example, my local public library might not be allowed to lend music CDs, because that would be "making available" material for copying. Actually, I could xerox paper books, too, so those are obviously out as well.
Certainly a lot of factors are involved, but on salary alone, we can't expect a rush to get CS degrees when the money is artificially held low by bringing in H-1Bs. No H-1Bs, higher salaries, more CS graduates, eventually equilibrium without importing labor. Gates just wants more H-1Bs to keep salaries low so MS can rake in more billions. Simple. So ignore him.
What Admiral made the decision to bring stuff on board that can't be properly inspected? Sounds like a proud tradition of naval power is waning faster than ever.
Great. Look at the moon with binoculars and see an ad etched into the surface. Erase Armstrong's footprints and claim Apollo didn't happen. Vaporize those darn music pirates.
to point. So Shrub is the anti-Midas. What's new? The ISS, shuttle, and Bush's manned mission plans all suck resources from important stuff like interplanetary probes, future propulsion research, and the next space-based telescope. But of course we could have them all for a fraction of the cost of throwing hardware and soldiers into a black hole in the middle east. NASA maybe mostly a welfare program for contractors, but it can't compete with the Pentagon. Does anything make sense? Perhaps a scary asteroid on a collision course with Earth would be the kick we need to build cool stuff and undertake important high-risk missions.
Seems a terribly problematic way of doing things. T'would be much more efficient and effective to tax bulbs, etc. based on their efficiencies. Incandescents would carry a hefty tax as light-producing devices due to poor efficiency of converting electricity to light, and would also fair poorly as heat-producing devices, relative to heat pumps, etc.
Hiring H1-Bs at the same pay as US citizens lessens upward pressure on salaries for the entire US industry, so that native USers stand to make less money. There's no way to get around it.
The H1-B program is indefensible from any point of view other than top management and stockholders. Of course, Bill is responsible to stockholders, so Government must end the program if they're going to respond to constitents.
Oh, OK, never mind.
Outdoor signage, natch. Stuff large enough to read from Earth with binoculars or less, but that can be altered in an Earth day or less.
Mobile MIRVed missiles on the opposite side, so that China could not know where they are except for when their spacecraft orbit 'round, and they'd already be moved by the time the spacecraft could relay back the positions. Or we could hide most anything else on the opposite side, for that matter. How about a replacement for the detainment facilities at Gitmo?
Sounds like Google played the same game as all the others. For every significant new facility, there's a game of secrecy and of squeezing the most free land, tax abatements, etc. from each state/locality by playing them off of each other. This is neither new nor unusual; it's the way "economic development" works and has worked for decades.
What can be done? Nothing short of federal intervention. There is no way that any effective systematic state or local legislation can be passed because the incentive to individual states to cheat on interstate agreements is too high. Unfortunately, Congress and the Executive branch are even more owned by corporations, so federal laws limiting greenmail are unlikely to be passed.
The worst problem is not with Googles, auto factories, or even retail or call centers, but with warehouses -- "distribution centers." They employ very few at low wages, don't raise (actually lower) educational levels, eat huge quantities of real estate that could be used for production or housing or left "undeveloped," and add to the congestion and pollution problems at their location. Why do these things ever get any "incentives"? I sure don't know, but they do.
MS obviously worshipped the porcelain goddess, er, I mean Big Media, and inserted all that DRM that Linux, et al doesn't have, so Big Media's products will be available on Vista and no other, thinking that consumers will stick with Vista because of that (many will, regardless of the lack of quality of the products).
I think many game producers will support *nix if/when the numbers are high enough, but MPAA/RIAA will resist regardless because of DRM/lack of vision/imagination.
I know of a retured mid-level employee of a US intelligence agency whose house has been erased from the sat photo on Google Maps. Not pixellated, jut "grassed over." So when looking at his street, one sees a vacant lot with trees surrounding a house-sized grass/dirt area. I really can't think of any reason for this. Could the thinking be that a potential adversary might look him up on Google and then give up attacking because his house is missing?
Or maybe he had installed a very large anti-government or anti-Google message on his roof...
Delay openings in Canada? That's a nice thanks to Canadians for providing a cheaper place to make movies. I have a hunch that there'll be more Canadian piracy if such tactics are introduced.
I find this an absurd estimate. Examine how the survey was concocted, conducted, sample was generated, etc. for ridiculous, if unintentional, bias. No way has 18% of the population downloaded full-length movies.
This statistic is useless, anyhow. A useful ratio might be the number of "pirated" movies _watched_ compared to all movies _watched_. SSDD... just like claiming copied software is lost revenue at face value times number of copies, regardless of whether the copier ever uses or even installs it. A downloaded movie is not necessarily lost revenue.
I suspect the sum of passes and failures is still less than the number of copies MS has received payment for. It would be ridiculous of them to imply losses from piracy in that case.
Finally, someone understands the real reason for the backpedaling!
Someone at the foundation suddenly realized that many would consider Microsoft to have been engaged in socially irresponsible actions. Sorting out the socially responsible organizations would highlight that MS might be missing from many peoples' version of the list. Logically, pretty simple.
It does, however, have the appearance of being incredibly lazy for an organization with such stated goals to give up on avoiding funding those who work against them.
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You might think. Shouldn't Viacom ask for this? But that would imply something other than stupidity on their part.
Success by Viacom in getting commercial stuff removed but no major fees rewarded would be perfect... less commercial stuff on YouTube.
Content providers want rid of analog, so make the rule ending analog transmissions contingent on "them" getting us converters (or new TVs or whatever it takes). I'm happy to keep my NTSC junk, since there's nothing on broadcast TV I care about seeing in HD anyhow. Higher rez videos of people dying in Iraq? High def footage of tornado victims? More pixels of sitcoms??? Nahhh.
Agency directors generally serve at the pleasure of the executive, don't they? This reflects poorly on Illinois' governor, who ought not to be giving away money. Make it known that he will be losing support due to this guy's stance.
Yeah, I was just thinking that an MTBF is pretty meaningless without knowing the type of distribution and the variance, and even the skew. If a few would last a billion years, then a bunch would fail really soon.
I don't know that this is true, however, I do know a number of "righties" who are vehemently free/open software users/advocates. But the reason for it is "Libertarian" in nature. They want to avoid being under anyone else's control. They put more weight on this aspect than on the "pro-business." They use free software as a result of having the Libertarian-like point of view, whereas MS defenders make claims of socialistic tendencies as a result of defending proprietary software. The former places ideology ahead of all else; the latter rationalizes to defend their specific position on free/proprietary software. Ask them if we'd be less socialistic with facial tissues only available from Kleenex. BTW, I'm also probably considered "left" (though I reject that to some degree), and I also (unsurprisingly) support free and/or open software AND hardware. Especially for voting!
People who teach usually do it for intangibles. The difference for math and science is that they could find jobs doing something else, receiving a LOT more pay. We all know this. We should also realize that in the foreseeable future in the U.S. math and science teachers will never be paid anything close to what they could earn doing something else. So don't bother to pretend to compete on pay. It won't happen, can't happen. So what to do? Remove the negatives, of course! Raise all teachers' pay significantly so they won't have cost of living hardships and to help restore the respect due the vocation by society. Remove problem students from regular classes. "Mainstreaming" might be a good idea for children with some types of handicaps and problems, but it's a terrible idea for disruptive students. Remove any truly disruptive students from regular classrooms immediately. Reduce teachers' loads by having them teach classes no more than 2/3 of the day rather than 80-100%. Planning and grading takes a lot of time, or at least it should. Keep politics and religion as far away from schools, administration, and school boards as possible. Elected school boards, at least in my area, are a disaster. Appointed boards were much better when we had that. Obviously that depends on who's doing the appointing. There's a movement to use "research-based" methods in the classroom. Good idea--use things that have been observed to work, don't experiment on all the kids all the time. Expand this to administration. Use "research-based" methods in education departments at local, state, and federal level. That would put a quick end to the ridiculous amount of testing of facts and figures. Then teachers could concentrate on teaching kids how to think rather than teaching them facts and algorithms. Finally, remove the reasons for avoiding/quitting teaching, and good teachers will, over time, mostly crowd out the bad.
Dudas's past might have suggested he would come up with such an obviously ridiculous claim (looks like he was involved in DMCA, for example).
Let's just send a message back to the Framers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Mallett) and ask them to write exactly how the Bill of Rights should apply to corporations. Corporate Personhood was invented later, and has been wreaking havoc ever since. According to me, corporations have no constitutionally-guaranteed right to free speech. Of course I can only say that because I'm not a corporation.
So, for example, my local public library might not be allowed to lend music CDs, because that would be "making available" material for copying. Actually, I could xerox paper books, too, so those are obviously out as well.
Certainly a lot of factors are involved, but on salary alone, we can't expect a rush to get CS degrees when the money is artificially held low by bringing in H-1Bs. No H-1Bs, higher salaries, more CS graduates, eventually equilibrium without importing labor. Gates just wants more H-1Bs to keep salaries low so MS can rake in more billions. Simple. So ignore him.
What Admiral made the decision to bring stuff on board that can't be properly inspected? Sounds like a proud tradition of naval power is waning faster than ever.
Great. Look at the moon with binoculars and see an ad etched into the surface. Erase Armstrong's footprints and claim Apollo didn't happen. Vaporize those darn music pirates.
to point. So Shrub is the anti-Midas. What's new? The ISS, shuttle, and Bush's manned mission plans all suck resources from important stuff like interplanetary probes, future propulsion research, and the next space-based telescope. But of course we could have them all for a fraction of the cost of throwing hardware and soldiers into a black hole in the middle east. NASA maybe mostly a welfare program for contractors, but it can't compete with the Pentagon. Does anything make sense? Perhaps a scary asteroid on a collision course with Earth would be the kick we need to build cool stuff and undertake important high-risk missions.
Seems a terribly problematic way of doing things. T'would be much more efficient and effective to tax bulbs, etc. based on their efficiencies. Incandescents would carry a hefty tax as light-producing devices due to poor efficiency of converting electricity to light, and would also fair poorly as heat-producing devices, relative to heat pumps, etc.
Hiring H1-Bs at the same pay as US citizens lessens upward pressure on salaries for the entire US industry, so that native USers stand to make less money. There's no way to get around it. The H1-B program is indefensible from any point of view other than top management and stockholders. Of course, Bill is responsible to stockholders, so Government must end the program if they're going to respond to constitents. Oh, OK, never mind.
Outdoor signage, natch. Stuff large enough to read from Earth with binoculars or less, but that can be altered in an Earth day or less. Mobile MIRVed missiles on the opposite side, so that China could not know where they are except for when their spacecraft orbit 'round, and they'd already be moved by the time the spacecraft could relay back the positions. Or we could hide most anything else on the opposite side, for that matter. How about a replacement for the detainment facilities at Gitmo?
Sounds like Google played the same game as all the others. For every significant new facility, there's a game of secrecy and of squeezing the most free land, tax abatements, etc. from each state/locality by playing them off of each other. This is neither new nor unusual; it's the way "economic development" works and has worked for decades. What can be done? Nothing short of federal intervention. There is no way that any effective systematic state or local legislation can be passed because the incentive to individual states to cheat on interstate agreements is too high. Unfortunately, Congress and the Executive branch are even more owned by corporations, so federal laws limiting greenmail are unlikely to be passed. The worst problem is not with Googles, auto factories, or even retail or call centers, but with warehouses -- "distribution centers." They employ very few at low wages, don't raise (actually lower) educational levels, eat huge quantities of real estate that could be used for production or housing or left "undeveloped," and add to the congestion and pollution problems at their location. Why do these things ever get any "incentives"? I sure don't know, but they do.
MS obviously worshipped the porcelain goddess, er, I mean Big Media, and inserted all that DRM that Linux, et al doesn't have, so Big Media's products will be available on Vista and no other, thinking that consumers will stick with Vista because of that (many will, regardless of the lack of quality of the products). I think many game producers will support *nix if/when the numbers are high enough, but MPAA/RIAA will resist regardless because of DRM/lack of vision/imagination.
I know of a retured mid-level employee of a US intelligence agency whose house has been erased from the sat photo on Google Maps. Not pixellated, jut "grassed over." So when looking at his street, one sees a vacant lot with trees surrounding a house-sized grass/dirt area. I really can't think of any reason for this. Could the thinking be that a potential adversary might look him up on Google and then give up attacking because his house is missing? Or maybe he had installed a very large anti-government or anti-Google message on his roof...
Delay openings in Canada? That's a nice thanks to Canadians for providing a cheaper place to make movies. I have a hunch that there'll be more Canadian piracy if such tactics are introduced.
I find this an absurd estimate. Examine how the survey was concocted, conducted, sample was generated, etc. for ridiculous, if unintentional, bias. No way has 18% of the population downloaded full-length movies. This statistic is useless, anyhow. A useful ratio might be the number of "pirated" movies _watched_ compared to all movies _watched_. SSDD... just like claiming copied software is lost revenue at face value times number of copies, regardless of whether the copier ever uses or even installs it. A downloaded movie is not necessarily lost revenue.
I suspect the sum of passes and failures is still less than the number of copies MS has received payment for. It would be ridiculous of them to imply losses from piracy in that case.
Finally, someone understands the real reason for the backpedaling! Someone at the foundation suddenly realized that many would consider Microsoft to have been engaged in socially irresponsible actions. Sorting out the socially responsible organizations would highlight that MS might be missing from many peoples' version of the list. Logically, pretty simple. It does, however, have the appearance of being incredibly lazy for an organization with such stated goals to give up on avoiding funding those who work against them.