Well, that or the fact that Congress passed an *actual* Bill Of Attainder to defund ACORN?
Somehow, I think that he was less worked up about that, an actual clear-cut and dry Constitutional violation than the health care bill, so I respectfully doubt his Defender Of The Constitution credentials.
I've been enjoying it quite a bit since they opened up the beta. No crashes on my Droid 1. Quite a nice piece of software actually. I'd fully use it in place of about 2-3 other apps if they had a full screen widget:)
lol, look at this guy, he doesn't think that the same thing happens at corporations. Man has he never worked for a big company.
Let me tell you what, any company of the size that would come to approach the size of a typical government agency is way bigger than any CEO can slash and burn effectively. It has its own set of fiefdoms and territories, and the CEO often times is very stymied in what they can do. In the federal government, running roughshod over someone just kind of sucks, and you get reduced efficiencies; in a big business it can cost that business billions, if not more if everyone with talent jumps ship and starts a competing company.
Sure, in a small to medium sized company, a CEO can slash, burn and make things happen, but at a company large enough to compare it to a branch of the government? Nope. They'll be fighting wars and people whom will ride them out just the same. Sure, a CEO can fire 30,000 employees, but replacing them with 30,000 more? Nope. Those 30,000 fired get picked up in India, not re-hired in the US. I don't think that we should be looking to do that with the US government...
This is electricity. Moving it around creates magnetic fields. To protect against radiating magnetic fields, you'd either have to bury every single power line in a steel pipe, or start stringing up steel pipe between power poles. Those power lines carry lots of electricity, which means lots of magnetic field. You're not going to shield that with a little extra shielding on the cable, you need some big shielding.
Given how expensive buried power lines are for just a neighborhood, pray tell, how in the world would ANYONE pay for that, even a large government? The expense boggles the mind.
How about if you don't want stray EM radiation on your property, you just don't hook up or use the power? Seems fair to me. Everyone else is fine with having electricity.
One would have thought that the case would be such a slam-dunk that you wouldn't need to pay out 2/3 of the value of it to get it argued successfully. You should only need to give someone that kind of a cut if they're taking on something that is very unlikely to pay out, privacy win for the children or not.
No, but low volume is. They haven't been able to support more than a trickle of devices currently, and have been trying to ramp it up for years. Not even enough to support the ultra-high end car production rate.
So, does this mean that Microvision finally solved the green laser issue? From what I remember, their display is absolute badass packed into a box, but the green lasers on the market now are low volume, are expensive and require some fancy tricks to get them to work, making the overall design more expensive among other things.
If they ever get a green laser on par with their red or blues, then man this display will take off and you'll see it EVERYWHERE because it will be low power, small enough and cheap enough to put just about anywhere.
Once I broke into a custom ROM on my droid, I was able to download from Google, compile, and install my own kernel, and other modules to enable Wifi tethering, etc. I got to use officially sanctioned production code to get extra features.
Apple jail on the other hand requires all types of dll injection and other, non-official code to get it to do cool things.
Seems pretty different to me. I root an Android phone and get access to all the official Android code, all production versions, or I root an iphone and get a whole bunch of other weird code and unstable hacks that is not official or production.
Original droid was unlocked, only required a simple root and is absolutely hackable. I love mine to death.
Samsung's Galaxy S line is "hack" friendly, as is they don't go out of their way to prevent custom ROMs. I'm really hoping that everyone decides to just put up fences to keep most people out, but allows tinkerers to play, rather than this Fort Knox crap.
Textual information (like code, most webpages, etc) are vertical in nature. It does kind of piss me off that when I go shopping for a new laptop and look at slashdot comments or something similar that either it's wide enough that there's like 5 sentences on a line which is hard to read, or they used new lines and you can see one maybe two comments on the screen at once with a ton of wasted space on the side.
New monitors are great for pictures, movies, and tiling applications, but really can suck horribly for trying to read documents. Word or pdf's on an ultra-wide screen are pretty horrible because it's either very tiny, or blown up so much that you have to scroll every half second.
I doubt that the fire department would have a leg to stand on legally to bill him. They had a legal setup on how to provide fire protection to the people, and it is voluntary. He chose not to participate. If they put out the fire while knowing that he chose not to pay for the services, even if he authorized for them at the time, he could always claim that he didn't know how much it cost, or that they're sticking it to him, or that he agreed to the contract under duress (his house was burning after all), and it's pretty easy to void things contractually that happened under duress.
If the fire department puts this out for him, and he decides to screw them, they'd be screwed.
There's obviously not a market for a competing department, otherwise the free market would have sprung one up. There's nothing keeping them from making their own for-fee fire department.
There are volunteer FD's all over the nation....some that act pretty much as a business, so there's nothing "socialist" about it -- they *could* set up another fire department, but they didn't.
Being a techie means knowing what's "inside" everything technical, and since we're driven by our hearts and desire to know, someone who isn't can never have the insight as we have.
And that precludes someone from joining the military? Huh. Never knew. Must have missed that on the forms.
Instead of having our captain for the team manage an ungodly email list for game times, updates, notifications, etc, he just has a twitter feed.
That way, it's hey you're new to the team, subscribe to @MySoccerTeamName and get all the info on when/where our games are, planning for team BBQ's, etc.
Because someone always changes an email, or someone gets all spam-infected and spews to the whole list or whatever and you have bounces, etc.
A twitter feed is just dead simple. It's also nice for quick updates; I couldn't make the game, but the captain tweeted a 5-2 win immediately after, so I got to see it.
It's incredibly nice; no need to visit a webpage or check your email or whatever, it's in a little app that everyone has on their phone or computer or whatever.
Do like what they've done on very secure military installations since the 50's: You have a 9-pin keypad and the numbers are in different locations every time you go to enter the PIN. That way the places you press are completely random. I mean, we're talking about 9 buttons, it woudn't break to bank to have a little numeric display below them, right? Especially if you just use touchscreen input for everything it's no added cost, right?
Currently, the carriers have almost no chance of surpassing stock, vanilla, latest and greatest Android released by Google in feature set. They're just not that good at software, and not nimble enough to beat the big G right now.
Essentially, I think that the carriers ARE trying the "embrace and extend" business model to fragment and force lock into them for certain features. But the problem is that they're having problems with the "extend" part, because everytime they try to extend, they see that Google has moved the signposts a couple miles down the road! Your "extend" has to be better than the stock offering, and that means they have to be better than Google at Google's game. Best of luck to 'em.
With a private school, they have to make every dollar count. A private school can't just ask voters for an extra million, they can't take money from people who don't use the service like public schools can. Yet they have a higher quality.
You've obviously never sent a kid through private school? Tuition/rate increase nearly every year or semester. Not to mention I received 5 bottles of garlic olive oil from my friend's this year that send their child to private school; the kid has to "fund raise" an extra ~$1k on top of the tuition, and the parents ended up "fund raising" about $500 of it buying their kid's olive oil because the whole community was drowning in thousands of kids trying to sell 50 bottles of olive oil. It became everyone's Christmas gift for that year.
private schools are in general better because they don't get the money thrown at them every which way.
It also helps that you can just not accept the worst students. Every private school I know of has academic requirements for *entry* which weed out lots of problems. they can also just kick trouble kids out and let them fend for themselves; public schools are required to keep kids enrolled because everyone deserves an education.
There are lots that I like about private schools, and lots of it should be applied to public schools, but to assume that a private school that doesn't need to service everyone in the community would b a workable model for a school that does is just burying your head in the sand.
No kidding, I was trying to go to Bed Bath & Beyond today, and google maps kept putting it in a Google building here in Mountain View.....I kept thinking about walking up and knocking on the door, and giving them a WTF.
It was really on the other side of the highway, and Google didn't handle the road-discontinuity correctly...you'd figure that they'd have the area around their campus pretty well mapped out.
What makes you think that they didn't in the last round of START talks? Are you privy to the classified talks, or just assuming that they don't talk about it?
I find that Android quite aggressively re-computes battery drain values, or has a bug somewhere in it's battery routines.
For a while there, I was getting home in the evenings with 40% battery life, so I started charging it at work for a bit everyday, and my battery life went to absolute crap! What's wrong with it I said?!?!
So, the next couple of days I left it run all the way down until Android decided to turn the phone off to protect the battery.
Exact same usage patterns now and I end the day with 70% or more battery life. The OS just needed to remember what a fully drained battery looked like. It took probably 4 full drains before the OS re-calculated what a fully drained battery looked like, and now it's like butter. Tons of battery life.
FWIW, Sapphire 1.0, 250-1000MHz low voltage kernel w/ Incognito theme, no live wallpaper. Weather, twitter and facebook widgets updating every 10 minutes. A gmail and an exchange account and calendars for syncing also.
Well, do you or do you not want to prioritize VOIP, and 911 calls? Or would you like to have bad-quality calls due to a torrenter on the same tower? If so, then you need a deal like this one that was cut. I'm hoping that as specifics leak out, it's essentially Net Neutrality + Provisions to ensure cell network still operates well for calls.
Is it beyond the realm of possibility that these highly paid co-workers are actually adding some value?
RTFA, they really weren't adding a lot of extra value. He cut them out, and is still making lots of money, but now is about to start making their share also.
Apparently they didn't really add all that much value, and now he's removed their redundancy.
Mod this up. Why the hate? He realized that if he grew a pair and risked some that he could start his own company and make money.
So he did, and everyone in the industry is realizing that they were underpaid.
Net result: Programmers make more money.
Or, if I was some silly financial geek I could wax on and on about removing inefficiencies from the market, providing more liquidity via proper evaluation of resource potential and application of those resources, etc, etc. But in the end, he realized that the upper level guys weren't really adding all that extra value, so he cut them out.
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Well, that or the fact that Congress passed an *actual* Bill Of Attainder to defund ACORN?
Somehow, I think that he was less worked up about that, an actual clear-cut and dry Constitutional violation than the health care bill, so I respectfully doubt his Defender Of The Constitution credentials.
I've been enjoying it quite a bit since they opened up the beta. No crashes on my Droid 1. Quite a nice piece of software actually. I'd fully use it in place of about 2-3 other apps if they had a full screen widget :)
lol, look at this guy, he doesn't think that the same thing happens at corporations. Man has he never worked for a big company.
Let me tell you what, any company of the size that would come to approach the size of a typical government agency is way bigger than any CEO can slash and burn effectively. It has its own set of fiefdoms and territories, and the CEO often times is very stymied in what they can do. In the federal government, running roughshod over someone just kind of sucks, and you get reduced efficiencies; in a big business it can cost that business billions, if not more if everyone with talent jumps ship and starts a competing company.
Sure, in a small to medium sized company, a CEO can slash, burn and make things happen, but at a company large enough to compare it to a branch of the government? Nope. They'll be fighting wars and people whom will ride them out just the same. Sure, a CEO can fire 30,000 employees, but replacing them with 30,000 more? Nope. Those 30,000 fired get picked up in India, not re-hired in the US. I don't think that we should be looking to do that with the US government...
lol, interesting?
This is electricity. Moving it around creates magnetic fields. To protect against radiating magnetic fields, you'd either have to bury every single power line in a steel pipe, or start stringing up steel pipe between power poles. Those power lines carry lots of electricity, which means lots of magnetic field. You're not going to shield that with a little extra shielding on the cable, you need some big shielding.
Given how expensive buried power lines are for just a neighborhood, pray tell, how in the world would ANYONE pay for that, even a large government? The expense boggles the mind.
How about if you don't want stray EM radiation on your property, you just don't hook up or use the power? Seems fair to me. Everyone else is fine with having electricity.
One would have thought that the case would be such a slam-dunk that you wouldn't need to pay out 2/3 of the value of it to get it argued successfully. You should only need to give someone that kind of a cut if they're taking on something that is very unlikely to pay out, privacy win for the children or not.
No, but low volume is. They haven't been able to support more than a trickle of devices currently, and have been trying to ramp it up for years. Not even enough to support the ultra-high end car production rate.
So, does this mean that Microvision finally solved the green laser issue? From what I remember, their display is absolute badass packed into a box, but the green lasers on the market now are low volume, are expensive and require some fancy tricks to get them to work, making the overall design more expensive among other things.
If they ever get a green laser on par with their red or blues, then man this display will take off and you'll see it EVERYWHERE because it will be low power, small enough and cheap enough to put just about anywhere.
Yea, it's more free. The OS is very free.
Once I broke into a custom ROM on my droid, I was able to download from Google, compile, and install my own kernel, and other modules to enable Wifi tethering, etc. I got to use officially sanctioned production code to get extra features.
Apple jail on the other hand requires all types of dll injection and other, non-official code to get it to do cool things.
Seems pretty different to me. I root an Android phone and get access to all the official Android code, all production versions, or I root an iphone and get a whole bunch of other weird code and unstable hacks that is not official or production.
Original droid was unlocked, only required a simple root and is absolutely hackable. I love mine to death.
Samsung's Galaxy S line is "hack" friendly, as is they don't go out of their way to prevent custom ROMs. I'm really hoping that everyone decides to just put up fences to keep most people out, but allows tinkerers to play, rather than this Fort Knox crap.
Textual information (like code, most webpages, etc) are vertical in nature. It does kind of piss me off that when I go shopping for a new laptop and look at slashdot comments or something similar that either it's wide enough that there's like 5 sentences on a line which is hard to read, or they used new lines and you can see one maybe two comments on the screen at once with a ton of wasted space on the side.
New monitors are great for pictures, movies, and tiling applications, but really can suck horribly for trying to read documents. Word or pdf's on an ultra-wide screen are pretty horrible because it's either very tiny, or blown up so much that you have to scroll every half second.
I doubt that the fire department would have a leg to stand on legally to bill him. They had a legal setup on how to provide fire protection to the people, and it is voluntary. He chose not to participate. If they put out the fire while knowing that he chose not to pay for the services, even if he authorized for them at the time, he could always claim that he didn't know how much it cost, or that they're sticking it to him, or that he agreed to the contract under duress (his house was burning after all), and it's pretty easy to void things contractually that happened under duress.
If the fire department puts this out for him, and he decides to screw them, they'd be screwed.
There's obviously not a market for a competing department, otherwise the free market would have sprung one up. There's nothing keeping them from making their own for-fee fire department.
There are volunteer FD's all over the nation....some that act pretty much as a business, so there's nothing "socialist" about it -- they *could* set up another fire department, but they didn't.
Being a techie means knowing what's "inside" everything technical, and since we're driven by our hearts and desire to know, someone who isn't can never have the insight as we have.
And that precludes someone from joining the military? Huh. Never knew. Must have missed that on the forms.
Instead of having our captain for the team manage an ungodly email list for game times, updates, notifications, etc, he just has a twitter feed.
That way, it's hey you're new to the team, subscribe to @MySoccerTeamName and get all the info on when/where our games are, planning for team BBQ's, etc.
Because someone always changes an email, or someone gets all spam-infected and spews to the whole list or whatever and you have bounces, etc.
A twitter feed is just dead simple. It's also nice for quick updates; I couldn't make the game, but the captain tweeted a 5-2 win immediately after, so I got to see it.
It's incredibly nice; no need to visit a webpage or check your email or whatever, it's in a little app that everyone has on their phone or computer or whatever.
This. A hundred times this! I would buy a new laptop with a webcam just to have this feature.
I am so tired of reading or watching a video and have the screen dim or lock up. Probably one of my bigger computer annoyances left.
Do like what they've done on very secure military installations since the 50's: You have a 9-pin keypad and the numbers are in different locations every time you go to enter the PIN. That way the places you press are completely random. I mean, we're talking about 9 buttons, it woudn't break to bank to have a little numeric display below them, right? Especially if you just use touchscreen input for everything it's no added cost, right?
Currently, the carriers have almost no chance of surpassing stock, vanilla, latest and greatest Android released by Google in feature set. They're just not that good at software, and not nimble enough to beat the big G right now.
Essentially, I think that the carriers ARE trying the "embrace and extend" business model to fragment and force lock into them for certain features. But the problem is that they're having problems with the "extend" part, because everytime they try to extend, they see that Google has moved the signposts a couple miles down the road! Your "extend" has to be better than the stock offering, and that means they have to be better than Google at Google's game. Best of luck to 'em.
With a private school, they have to make every dollar count. A private school can't just ask voters for an extra million, they can't take money from people who don't use the service like public schools can. Yet they have a higher quality.
You've obviously never sent a kid through private school? Tuition/rate increase nearly every year or semester. Not to mention I received 5 bottles of garlic olive oil from my friend's this year that send their child to private school; the kid has to "fund raise" an extra ~$1k on top of the tuition, and the parents ended up "fund raising" about $500 of it buying their kid's olive oil because the whole community was drowning in thousands of kids trying to sell 50 bottles of olive oil. It became everyone's Christmas gift for that year.
private schools are in general better because they don't get the money thrown at them every which way.
It also helps that you can just not accept the worst students. Every private school I know of has academic requirements for *entry* which weed out lots of problems. they can also just kick trouble kids out and let them fend for themselves; public schools are required to keep kids enrolled because everyone deserves an education.
There are lots that I like about private schools, and lots of it should be applied to public schools, but to assume that a private school that doesn't need to service everyone in the community would b a workable model for a school that does is just burying your head in the sand.
No kidding, I was trying to go to Bed Bath & Beyond today, and google maps kept putting it in a Google building here in Mountain View.....I kept thinking about walking up and knocking on the door, and giving them a WTF.
It was really on the other side of the highway, and Google didn't handle the road-discontinuity correctly...you'd figure that they'd have the area around their campus pretty well mapped out.
What makes you think that they didn't in the last round of START talks? Are you privy to the classified talks, or just assuming that they don't talk about it?
Define productive.
I find that Android quite aggressively re-computes battery drain values, or has a bug somewhere in it's battery routines.
For a while there, I was getting home in the evenings with 40% battery life, so I started charging it at work for a bit everyday, and my battery life went to absolute crap! What's wrong with it I said?!?!
So, the next couple of days I left it run all the way down until Android decided to turn the phone off to protect the battery.
Exact same usage patterns now and I end the day with 70% or more battery life. The OS just needed to remember what a fully drained battery looked like. It took probably 4 full drains before the OS re-calculated what a fully drained battery looked like, and now it's like butter. Tons of battery life.
FWIW, Sapphire 1.0, 250-1000MHz low voltage kernel w/ Incognito theme, no live wallpaper. Weather, twitter and facebook widgets updating every 10 minutes. A gmail and an exchange account and calendars for syncing also.
Well, do you or do you not want to prioritize VOIP, and 911 calls? Or would you like to have bad-quality calls due to a torrenter on the same tower? If so, then you need a deal like this one that was cut. I'm hoping that as specifics leak out, it's essentially Net Neutrality + Provisions to ensure cell network still operates well for calls.
Anything else is worth getting worked up over.
Is it beyond the realm of possibility that these highly paid co-workers are actually adding some value?
RTFA, they really weren't adding a lot of extra value. He cut them out, and is still making lots of money, but now is about to start making their share also.
Apparently they didn't really add all that much value, and now he's removed their redundancy.
Mod this up. Why the hate? He realized that if he grew a pair and risked some that he could start his own company and make money.
So he did, and everyone in the industry is realizing that they were underpaid.
Net result: Programmers make more money.
Or, if I was some silly financial geek I could wax on and on about removing inefficiencies from the market, providing more liquidity via proper evaluation of resource potential and application of those resources, etc, etc. But in the end, he realized that the upper level guys weren't really adding all that extra value, so he cut them out.