If you are a US resident, that right is pretty much enshrined in the constitution. You do not have to agree with the speech but you should defend the right to utter it because when you force others to shut up you will soon be forced to do so as well.
Even HDMI is not guaranteed at 10m, there is actually no length requirement for HDMI. To maintain the minimum spec for HDMI over 15m, you need very high quality cabling or fiber. DisplayPort is by spec 15m (50ft). Additionally DisplayPort runs over both Thunderbolt and USB-C without any conversions.
HTTPS is also used for (somewhat) authenticating the content. The problem is that any router in between you and eg Google can just remove/replace the ads (which is what they don't want) or even replace the ads with malware (which is what you don't want).
Using HTTPS by default just makes sense. There are plenty of instances where static pages on a cheap site suddenly become dynamic and later need actual user authentication and I've gone through a number of instances where SSL just started breaking shit in the ancient systems and cheaper people may decide to just cut their losses at that point.
Any large company with large amounts of your average sales/tech/support does this. I've seen it in Radio Shack (manager retreats), shoe chains, Microsoft (parties with oysters and champagne). It's part training and part is retention, making sure they don't have to expend too much on training their monkeys due to turnover while maintaining the smallest edge on their competitions hourly rates.
There is an entire market for corporate shit like this with motivational speakers on one end and party planners at the cost of an expensive wedding at the other side. Apple gives even their cheapest "geniuses" all the newest Apple gear with regular permanent giveaways - it's a great way of getting them used to the product without taking them out for retraining and it helps with loyalty and word of mouth marketing and they just write it off as a tax break.
The people that actually matter in those organizations don't have that. The core engineers I have interacted with at Apple, Microsoft etc are all relatively level headed. They also don't get retained with a free iPad every so often.
You know the reason many corporations are turning to Apple over Dell is both cost and support. At my corporate buy-everything-from-Microsoft-partner-vendors overlords I see lots of Apple machines running Windows. Dell only has cheap stuff on the personal low end and those are 3 year old machines. Business-Dell is a lot more expensive.
Cheap? Borrowing in the US has a negative rate. Once you figure in the taxes you pay on getting that money here and the tax breaks you get for loans you are way better off "borrowing" against your own money.
But it's a lot more fun to learn with it. I grew up poor as well and without the convenience of Arduinos or RPis, back then it was a $5 PIC16F84 kit or programming a parallel port on an old 80286. Motors were scavenged from tape recorders or fans, stepper motors from printers that we couldn't repair and later on from CD drives. Power transistors and transformers came mostly from audio amplifiers. I don't think I spent more than $200 between age 10 and 15 most of that was on a good multimeter.
Apple has already put OS X on ARM with iPad and iPhone, and well written programs can compile to it as well (the only difference between an "app" and an application is the UI)
The problem is that there are no ARM processors that hold a candle to AMD/Intel offerings.
Someone may be working on it but ARM (the company) doesn't manufacture processors and has an entirely different market namely the making and selling of customized processor blueprints.
Not just that but the cost as well. A bump up the models (latest gen) CPU easily increases it's price by $500-1500 for what is often only a faster clock (same speed interconnect, cache etc) or 2 more cores. That and the yields for those are so low, you can't guarantee an order of more than a few 1000 at any given time.
Apple makes computers that are price competitive with feature-matched HP/Dell machines and has superior service and quality. Sure you can get cheaper 2-4 gen old systems but then you can also get refurb or second hand Macs for a discount. Doing it yourself may also be cheaper until you bend a pin on that $1500 top-line CPU or the power supply fried your $2500 FirePro because its 1500W rating is a 5s peak performance rating.
The biggest thing in US vs Europe is tax rate. The effective federal tax rate in the US is 25% for those that can't (really) afford either ObamaCare or private insurance. In the UK it's 45%. If you sink 20% of your income into private insurance, you can pay for very good private insurance in the US.
I'm not sure whether this is true or not, but running an MRI is Expensive. The rate you quote (Medicare cost) wouldn't cover the real expense of running an MRI office. And that is the problem: Medicare doesn't cover the real cost and the cost is thus shifted to private insurances.
The US government NEVER covers the real cost of anything: research has to be subsidized by student tuition, medical has to be subsidized by private insurance, public utilities are subsidized by private companies levying bills.
And yes, there are plenty of companies (utility companies and insurances alike) exploiting this and skimming off the top (forcing HIPAA, eRecords compliance) by asking more public resources (right of ways, enforcement) and then any losses are paid for by the ever diminishing middle class.
My suggestion is either for the government to get completely out of the game (because they suck at providing hybrids - You aren't covered by Obamacare if you make more than minimum wage but unless you make >120k private insurance is unaffordable) or go all in and provide full coverage - this would require reduction in military expense and higher taxes though.
Not necessarily, there have been attacks through Google Ads and a number of high profile other ones as well (CNN and other news sites have had repeat issues).
The problem is that nobody is vetting these ads, anyone with a (stolen) credit card can buy unlimited amounts of ads and host whatever they want for quite a while until they get "caught" because of (manual) intervention. Malware scanner still rely on signatures and thus won't detect anything too customized.
Ad companies should simply refuse anything but pure, valid HTML that fits in 1k or less. No scripting or plugins or anything so big it overflows a buffer.
Most sites actually do have gigabit links. I have a gigabit symmetric link at work and yes, it is noticeably faster. Everything comes in instantly, most small sites come in at ~25Mbps before the transfer is done but it's nice to download an Ubuntu DVD in less than 3m. You're also using a lot less resources on web servers as you're clearing out much quicker using larger packets instead of having to keep a connection open and have routers buffer your packets everywhere along the line.
I live in a fairly agricultural area. The problem is that it's not economically feasible for farmers.
Farmers going to the farmers market have to transport a small amount of goods (typically 1 covered truck or even just 1 pickup truck), pay their employees to stand there (or their kids), trash a good percentage of it when it's been sitting out all day and do that 2-3 days in the week. They DO it, but it's a fair amount of work for them and the prices aren't much different than the local grocery store. You can get a good deal on large amounts (crates) but the quality is typically lower than the grocery although it's better than WalMart.
We have one "local" grocery store chain (I think they've expanded to 5 states now) that source from local markets and then we have Wal-Mart. The local grocery store goes to the local farmers (one of their marketing points) and they pay for an entire crop and the farmer doesn't have to do anything or even employ someone to sell it. It's slightly more expensive in price than Wal-Mart which sources from even bigger farms in California and Florida (so there are the transport costs driving the price up) but then the quality suffers significantly.
I don't know about large cities, I think there the 'location cost' of a grocer may cause the prices to be higher than a subsidized city market (the space etc, typically a public park of sorts is subsidized by your taxes).
The problem is $1M doesn't pay for shit in these cases. It may pay for the lawyers and if you've got an idiot willing to settle for a few 100k. But medical bills in the US for big accidents and long term care easily go a few 100k per year for the rest of your life. In the US, 1M is enough if you kill someone in an accident but if you maim someone severely you should have an insurance willing to pay out ~$20M. But are you willing to pay the premiums on this, no, but the few hundred people that get into such accidents on a yearly basis are still fucked.
They're still independent contractors which means it is the contractors' responsibility to register whatever they need to register. I am an independent contractor for some companies, I collect sales tax and have to report/pay income taxes, social security etc, I am responsible for my insurance and the locality's business licenses.
I could easily go ahead and collect a number of pay checks without ever reporting them as business income, ask people to pay cash or whatever but I would be responsible if the tax man or insurance man cometh.
Not everyone can afford a 50% increase in their food budget and smaller choice though by going to farmers markets and local grocery stores. Automation is necessary to offset rising costs elsewhere in the business and the stores that do it don't necessarily increase their profit margins. Eventually it will be cheaper to get home delivery ala Amazon, fully automated warehouses to automated delivery vehicles.
At some point people will have to adjust to the fact that there will be technicians and programmers to fix everything and no more banal labor like cashiers or farmers.
I think this is just open source RPi support. There has been closed source RPi graphics stuff for ages however this doesn't change the fact that the GPU is just shite and the RPi2 didn't change that. More ARM cores is nice but it would also be nice to be able to put something 1080p on the screen without stuttering. I use the lower level libraries for my project and I get some decent results but I'm now moving on to the Intel Compute Stick which is a quad core Atom with Intel HD graphics that costs the same as an outfitted RPi (case, wifi, power etc)
The thing is that many Chinese tools from a stable brand also have trade in. Husky/Kobalt have a no questions asked trade in at their respective big box stores. I use it frequently as do professionals. I've tried trading in expensive tools from supposedly "good" brands and pay more in shipping than a new cheap tool will cost.
These days the quality from China is the same as the quality from the US in a lot of cases. There are outliers but they are no longer the norm. And stuff is so cheap these days it makes no sense to buy the expensive crap. I bought an electric staple gun from harbor freight for $15 - 4000 staples later the spring came out of it's chamber - HB replaced it on the spot. But it's better than doing 20000 staples with the $100 gun and then having to bring it in 3 days for a $75 "consumable part" repair.
Perhaps under Dutch copyright law but EU copyright law (which didn't exist yet by then) which applies in this dispute trumps any Dutch laws (most laws have to be harmonized). Perhaps they might have a claim under French law but then they needed to have operated some sort of business in France at the time being (if I remember the old French laws correctly)
- The original is public domain, someone is making it available which is entirely legal. - Someone else has copyright on the adaptation, the adaptation isn't being published as public domain.
Why would the adapters claim copyright on the original by virtue of its adaptions? If that were the case, numerous people would be able to claim copyright on all biblical manuscripts or someone claiming copyright on papyrus artifacts or stone tablets at museums.
That's one example and it's not surprising that some in the community are smart enough to use encryption. In all the actual recent 'attacks' the alleged perpetrators communicated over plain text, in all major cases (9/11, Paris) the governments knew everything about the attack well in advance. Then when Snowden comes out, a bunch of terror plots get foiled, highly publicized, right in lockstep when people start asking about personal encryption.
But then EVERYTHING gets done in Excel macros and people that don't understand any better think it's the only way to do things.
I've seen some of these horrid pieces of work, an entire CRM cobbled together in Excel; these people don't think about the fine details of eg birthday collisions on "random" ids and only when you import them in a real database do you start to understand the problems people have been working around and accepted as the status quo.
A good programmer does not do a lot of labor, it cannot be simply outsourced. Most of my time is spent thinking and trying things out and researching libraries.
The real skill in programming is how to get things done with a maximal amount of reuse and think about every piece abstractly so you can put it together and then optimize the design.
Putting thousands of line of code mindlessly in a file to replicate a (human and/or inefficient) process does not mean you have understood the requirements to go from the input state to the output state.
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If you are a US resident, that right is pretty much enshrined in the constitution. You do not have to agree with the speech but you should defend the right to utter it because when you force others to shut up you will soon be forced to do so as well.
Even HDMI is not guaranteed at 10m, there is actually no length requirement for HDMI. To maintain the minimum spec for HDMI over 15m, you need very high quality cabling or fiber. DisplayPort is by spec 15m (50ft). Additionally DisplayPort runs over both Thunderbolt and USB-C without any conversions.
HTTPS is also used for (somewhat) authenticating the content. The problem is that any router in between you and eg Google can just remove/replace the ads (which is what they don't want) or even replace the ads with malware (which is what you don't want).
Using HTTPS by default just makes sense. There are plenty of instances where static pages on a cheap site suddenly become dynamic and later need actual user authentication and I've gone through a number of instances where SSL just started breaking shit in the ancient systems and cheaper people may decide to just cut their losses at that point.
Any large company with large amounts of your average sales/tech/support does this. I've seen it in Radio Shack (manager retreats), shoe chains, Microsoft (parties with oysters and champagne). It's part training and part is retention, making sure they don't have to expend too much on training their monkeys due to turnover while maintaining the smallest edge on their competitions hourly rates.
There is an entire market for corporate shit like this with motivational speakers on one end and party planners at the cost of an expensive wedding at the other side. Apple gives even their cheapest "geniuses" all the newest Apple gear with regular permanent giveaways - it's a great way of getting them used to the product without taking them out for retraining and it helps with loyalty and word of mouth marketing and they just write it off as a tax break.
The people that actually matter in those organizations don't have that. The core engineers I have interacted with at Apple, Microsoft etc are all relatively level headed. They also don't get retained with a free iPad every so often.
You know the reason many corporations are turning to Apple over Dell is both cost and support. At my corporate buy-everything-from-Microsoft-partner-vendors overlords I see lots of Apple machines running Windows. Dell only has cheap stuff on the personal low end and those are 3 year old machines. Business-Dell is a lot more expensive.
Cheap? Borrowing in the US has a negative rate. Once you figure in the taxes you pay on getting that money here and the tax breaks you get for loans you are way better off "borrowing" against your own money.
Anyone managing a Windows machine has used DOS, unlike Linux you pretty much cannot manage the damn system without. (I wish I was kidding)
But it's a lot more fun to learn with it. I grew up poor as well and without the convenience of Arduinos or RPis, back then it was a $5 PIC16F84 kit or programming a parallel port on an old 80286. Motors were scavenged from tape recorders or fans, stepper motors from printers that we couldn't repair and later on from CD drives. Power transistors and transformers came mostly from audio amplifiers. I don't think I spent more than $200 between age 10 and 15 most of that was on a good multimeter.
Apple has already put OS X on ARM with iPad and iPhone, and well written programs can compile to it as well (the only difference between an "app" and an application is the UI)
The problem is that there are no ARM processors that hold a candle to AMD/Intel offerings.
Someone may be working on it but ARM (the company) doesn't manufacture processors and has an entirely different market namely the making and selling of customized processor blueprints.
Not just that but the cost as well. A bump up the models (latest gen) CPU easily increases it's price by $500-1500 for what is often only a faster clock (same speed interconnect, cache etc) or 2 more cores. That and the yields for those are so low, you can't guarantee an order of more than a few 1000 at any given time.
Apple makes computers that are price competitive with feature-matched HP/Dell machines and has superior service and quality. Sure you can get cheaper 2-4 gen old systems but then you can also get refurb or second hand Macs for a discount. Doing it yourself may also be cheaper until you bend a pin on that $1500 top-line CPU or the power supply fried your $2500 FirePro because its 1500W rating is a 5s peak performance rating.
The biggest thing in US vs Europe is tax rate. The effective federal tax rate in the US is 25% for those that can't (really) afford either ObamaCare or private insurance. In the UK it's 45%. If you sink 20% of your income into private insurance, you can pay for very good private insurance in the US.
I'm not sure whether this is true or not, but running an MRI is Expensive. The rate you quote (Medicare cost) wouldn't cover the real expense of running an MRI office. And that is the problem: Medicare doesn't cover the real cost and the cost is thus shifted to private insurances.
The US government NEVER covers the real cost of anything: research has to be subsidized by student tuition, medical has to be subsidized by private insurance, public utilities are subsidized by private companies levying bills.
And yes, there are plenty of companies (utility companies and insurances alike) exploiting this and skimming off the top (forcing HIPAA, eRecords compliance) by asking more public resources (right of ways, enforcement) and then any losses are paid for by the ever diminishing middle class.
My suggestion is either for the government to get completely out of the game (because they suck at providing hybrids - You aren't covered by Obamacare if you make more than minimum wage but unless you make >120k private insurance is unaffordable) or go all in and provide full coverage - this would require reduction in military expense and higher taxes though.
Not necessarily, there have been attacks through Google Ads and a number of high profile other ones as well (CNN and other news sites have had repeat issues).
The problem is that nobody is vetting these ads, anyone with a (stolen) credit card can buy unlimited amounts of ads and host whatever they want for quite a while until they get "caught" because of (manual) intervention. Malware scanner still rely on signatures and thus won't detect anything too customized.
Ad companies should simply refuse anything but pure, valid HTML that fits in 1k or less. No scripting or plugins or anything so big it overflows a buffer.
Most sites actually do have gigabit links. I have a gigabit symmetric link at work and yes, it is noticeably faster. Everything comes in instantly, most small sites come in at ~25Mbps before the transfer is done but it's nice to download an Ubuntu DVD in less than 3m. You're also using a lot less resources on web servers as you're clearing out much quicker using larger packets instead of having to keep a connection open and have routers buffer your packets everywhere along the line.
I live in a fairly agricultural area. The problem is that it's not economically feasible for farmers.
Farmers going to the farmers market have to transport a small amount of goods (typically 1 covered truck or even just 1 pickup truck), pay their employees to stand there (or their kids), trash a good percentage of it when it's been sitting out all day and do that 2-3 days in the week. They DO it, but it's a fair amount of work for them and the prices aren't much different than the local grocery store. You can get a good deal on large amounts (crates) but the quality is typically lower than the grocery although it's better than WalMart.
We have one "local" grocery store chain (I think they've expanded to 5 states now) that source from local markets and then we have Wal-Mart. The local grocery store goes to the local farmers (one of their marketing points) and they pay for an entire crop and the farmer doesn't have to do anything or even employ someone to sell it. It's slightly more expensive in price than Wal-Mart which sources from even bigger farms in California and Florida (so there are the transport costs driving the price up) but then the quality suffers significantly.
I don't know about large cities, I think there the 'location cost' of a grocer may cause the prices to be higher than a subsidized city market (the space etc, typically a public park of sorts is subsidized by your taxes).
The problem is $1M doesn't pay for shit in these cases. It may pay for the lawyers and if you've got an idiot willing to settle for a few 100k. But medical bills in the US for big accidents and long term care easily go a few 100k per year for the rest of your life. In the US, 1M is enough if you kill someone in an accident but if you maim someone severely you should have an insurance willing to pay out ~$20M. But are you willing to pay the premiums on this, no, but the few hundred people that get into such accidents on a yearly basis are still fucked.
They're still independent contractors which means it is the contractors' responsibility to register whatever they need to register. I am an independent contractor for some companies, I collect sales tax and have to report/pay income taxes, social security etc, I am responsible for my insurance and the locality's business licenses.
I could easily go ahead and collect a number of pay checks without ever reporting them as business income, ask people to pay cash or whatever but I would be responsible if the tax man or insurance man cometh.
Not everyone can afford a 50% increase in their food budget and smaller choice though by going to farmers markets and local grocery stores. Automation is necessary to offset rising costs elsewhere in the business and the stores that do it don't necessarily increase their profit margins. Eventually it will be cheaper to get home delivery ala Amazon, fully automated warehouses to automated delivery vehicles.
At some point people will have to adjust to the fact that there will be technicians and programmers to fix everything and no more banal labor like cashiers or farmers.
I think this is just open source RPi support. There has been closed source RPi graphics stuff for ages however this doesn't change the fact that the GPU is just shite and the RPi2 didn't change that. More ARM cores is nice but it would also be nice to be able to put something 1080p on the screen without stuttering. I use the lower level libraries for my project and I get some decent results but I'm now moving on to the Intel Compute Stick which is a quad core Atom with Intel HD graphics that costs the same as an outfitted RPi (case, wifi, power etc)
The thing is that many Chinese tools from a stable brand also have trade in. Husky/Kobalt have a no questions asked trade in at their respective big box stores. I use it frequently as do professionals. I've tried trading in expensive tools from supposedly "good" brands and pay more in shipping than a new cheap tool will cost.
These days the quality from China is the same as the quality from the US in a lot of cases. There are outliers but they are no longer the norm. And stuff is so cheap these days it makes no sense to buy the expensive crap. I bought an electric staple gun from harbor freight for $15 - 4000 staples later the spring came out of it's chamber - HB replaced it on the spot. But it's better than doing 20000 staples with the $100 gun and then having to bring it in 3 days for a $75 "consumable part" repair.
Perhaps under Dutch copyright law but EU copyright law (which didn't exist yet by then) which applies in this dispute trumps any Dutch laws (most laws have to be harmonized). Perhaps they might have a claim under French law but then they needed to have operated some sort of business in France at the time being (if I remember the old French laws correctly)
- The original is public domain, someone is making it available which is entirely legal.
- Someone else has copyright on the adaptation, the adaptation isn't being published as public domain.
Why would the adapters claim copyright on the original by virtue of its adaptions? If that were the case, numerous people would be able to claim copyright on all biblical manuscripts or someone claiming copyright on papyrus artifacts or stone tablets at museums.
That's one example and it's not surprising that some in the community are smart enough to use encryption. In all the actual recent 'attacks' the alleged perpetrators communicated over plain text, in all major cases (9/11, Paris) the governments knew everything about the attack well in advance. Then when Snowden comes out, a bunch of terror plots get foiled, highly publicized, right in lockstep when people start asking about personal encryption.
But then EVERYTHING gets done in Excel macros and people that don't understand any better think it's the only way to do things.
I've seen some of these horrid pieces of work, an entire CRM cobbled together in Excel; these people don't think about the fine details of eg birthday collisions on "random" ids and only when you import them in a real database do you start to understand the problems people have been working around and accepted as the status quo.
I think parent was being sarcastic so *whoosh*
A good programmer does not do a lot of labor, it cannot be simply outsourced. Most of my time is spent thinking and trying things out and researching libraries.
The real skill in programming is how to get things done with a maximal amount of reuse and think about every piece abstractly so you can put it together and then optimize the design.
Putting thousands of line of code mindlessly in a file to replicate a (human and/or inefficient) process does not mean you have understood the requirements to go from the input state to the output state.