The land under question is not rising or falling, and certainly not in time to rising or falling sea levels. That's ridiculous and so is the Yale article. Of course you can try to explain away the facts with imaginary problems, which is why you have gridded temperature data, weather stations under air conditioning hot air exhaust vents, and all the other blatantly unreliable science coming out from the so-called "climatologists" out there.
What matters is the US decision that may come out about this, if Google tries to push Apple. Pinch to zoom's exact "method" is different in terms of the source code, but the effect is the same and that is what will matter. By your reasoning you could totally clone everything about everything, as long as you did it in a different language, and this is clearly not the case.
Why is this sad? Certainly everybody who does business in China knew 25 years ago that they steal technology. If Boeing is dumb enough to subsidize the development of a Chinese competitor, that's their loss.
The tragedy here is the inability to even learn, not just the lack of long term thinking.
PCs are not going anywhere even when Microsoft craters. They may change shape a bit, but the general purpose PC is here to stay.
Look, for example, at the iPad. It's a general purpose computer. Sure, you load applications in a different way than you might on Windows, but this doesn't make it less of a computer. Look also at the desktop and laptops - sales might be slowing but this is not because people don't use them, it's because for 90% or more users any one built in the last decade is good enough for their uses.
Additionally, the cloud will not replace anything. If anything, other than as a way to load balance and reduce IT infrastructure within large organizations, the cloud has gone pretty much nowhere. It will stay as it is, but it will not slowly creep in and replace personal data and computing.
Wait 5 years, nothing really will have changed. This is still basically the 1990s, but everything is smaller. NOT necessarily better.
No, because since the economy failed companies are getting by on 2-3+ year old servers. Consumer computer purchases are still going strong, though.
When you have a datacenter full of mostly idle servers, it makes no sense to upgrade them all. Especially because virtualization now allows one to consolidate 20+ mostly idle machines into a single physical computer.
Google will not sue, because Apple owns the multitouch UI patents. Too much at risk there - if Google were to lose, it'd be back to Android 1.0 style joystick / trackball navigation. That'd be fun for Google's partners.
You are missing one of the greatest upsides of cash - you can keep a healthy percentage of your income totally off the books. Using cash means taking money out of Uncle Sam's wallet, which I think many can agree is a good thing.
I am finished with dual-booting just to slurp up the latest and greatest games. The last console I purchased was a Playstation 2, and that was about a decade ago. I have the tablet that supports the most games (guess what one!) and a computer that runs a non-Windows OS.
It is a pretty simple thing to use one of the many multi-platform game development engines that are kicking about these days. If a game producer decides not to release a game on my OS, they will not see a sale. It's as simple as that.
The problem with using Wine for games, and dual-booting, is that you are basically telling manufacturers that you don't really care if they actually release their product for anything but Windows, and this sends a signal to Microsoft - that they should try to make Wine less and less useful on the newest games.
If you don't release a game on the OS that I already have and use, then I will just keep playing Dwarf Fortress instead. DF is surely better anyway.
Who said anything about superiority? The Russians are simply more economically efficient, but I don't know if that translates into overarching superiority.
"A tech should use a company-owned device for that"
Hahahahaha. Hooooooo./wipes tears away
OK, here's my experience from when I was a tech. I went to a local company known internationally for their tea products (it has a z in the name) and they had a number of viruses on every machine. These were immune to the standard AV removal tools, so I advised that the only realistic course of action was to reinstall every workstation from scratch. They seemed keen on this idea, so I asked them where their original media was, for Office and Windows. They didn't have it! The one fella comes up and says, well, he could make copies and get serial numbers, but this would kinda be illegal and I said, I wasn't comfortable pirating everything.
Have you actually read about Tibet under Lamaism? There were two classes of people - the Buddhist monks, and slaves.
If you left your home village without permission, the punishment was that your legs were broken and you were left in the wilderness.
Sexual slavery of acolytes was not just common, but the rule. I could go on, AC, but I think you were just here for a drive-by or else you would have posted under your real account.
By the way, I'm a loyal American, and I really have no love for the ChiCom or the brutal Lamas. It's a bit easier for you, though, as I'm sure you get all your information about Tibet from Alec Baldwin.
I think the plan was to actually create wealthy Chinese through factory partnerships, then help these people get into power, where they would gradually weaken the Communist government. Thing is, it was a terrible plan from the get-go and it hasn't really worked.
The Wang Lijun incident has showed anybody with eyes to see that we are still operating power-brokering scandals in China, but they have been effectively squashed and Bo Xilai who I suspect was our man on the inside is now disgraced, and I'm sure the hardliners over there are watching out for other Manchurians of ours, which undoubtedly exist.
If you think Tibet is seized territory than you are totally unaware of the history of the interactions between China and Tibet.
Tibet was a warlike kingdom for a very long time, which attacked China and extracted tribute for a long time, until China invaded and took it over. It was an official protectorate of Imperial China for hundreds of years.
Anyway, the Tibetans are much better off under the ChiCom than they were under Lamaism. At least they can ride a bike over the next hill without receiving the death penalty.
The plan of killing China by moving a bunch of companies over there to manufacture low- and high-tech goods has failed miserably.
No, China isn't splitting apart because they have different languages. This plan has been tried and it has failed miserably. Just look at all the success that the Hollywood-driven "Free Tibet" nonsense has had! We tried through a 55+ year CIA infiltration program, with the media softening up the USA to favor the brutal Dalai Lama, and threatening to exert some kind of theoretical (and it turns out, totally fake) international pressure, and that failed. This, in the most culturally, geographically, and linguistically distant part of the actual PRC.
If we really want to split China, we will have to do it in another way, not by continuing to enrich their economy, give them endless free high-tech manufacturing facilities, etc.
Talk to a Chinese person some day. Most haven't even heard of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
How could you say such a thing? Pretty much every major US company manufactures everything they sell in China. If they just said, hey, sorry, we are not shipping any more consumer goods to your country, our economy would totally collapse overnight.
China also has another weapon that nobody ever likes to talk about - their government treasury prints all the Chinese money. They do not have to borrow money from the international financial cartel. This insulates them to a large degree from world financial problems. That, and the fact that most Chinese are still effectively peasants, beating at the soil with a rock tied to the end of a stick.
No, we will not confront China. At least, not until our manufacturing base is relocated.
Nobody knew the Russians would actually fight back. Hell, in the Western defense press, there was article after article of defense "analysts" scratching their heads and saying such stupid things as: "We didn't even think Russia had working tanks any more!" and "They spend such a small amount of money on their military that we thought they wouldn't be able to fight even a minor conflict!"
Of course, none of those analysts want to mention that with state-owned defense firms, Russia can do the same work with $1 that the US does with $1000.
Not really. The oceans are all linked, and a rise in one part would imply a rise in another part. Sure it might take a few days or weeks for the rise to show up in different parts of the world, but this is not something that is very hard to measure either.
It's only complex if you are a climate "science" fan, and wish to attempt to confuse the issue using the usual bag of tricks. One single, known good seal level monitoring station is much more useful than a large number of unknown stations run by unknown people with a clear politico-social agenda, who then take their raw data, adjust it in any number of secret ways, and then throw out the original data.
Or are you somehow asserting that the sea level (remember the seas and oceans are all linked) can rise in one place and not another? That would be funny to see - a section of ocean that is a giant, permanent bulge or bump on the face of the planet.
Can you find evidence that something like this can last for more than a few hours, if that?
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They have the right to be anti-white and people have the right to point it out. People are waking up to the game here.
The land under question is not rising or falling, and certainly not in time to rising or falling sea levels. That's ridiculous and so is the Yale article. Of course you can try to explain away the facts with imaginary problems, which is why you have gridded temperature data, weather stations under air conditioning hot air exhaust vents, and all the other blatantly unreliable science coming out from the so-called "climatologists" out there.
The jig is up.
What matters is the US decision that may come out about this, if Google tries to push Apple. Pinch to zoom's exact "method" is different in terms of the source code, but the effect is the same and that is what will matter. By your reasoning you could totally clone everything about everything, as long as you did it in a different language, and this is clearly not the case.
Enjoy your trackball dawg.
Why is this sad? Certainly everybody who does business in China knew 25 years ago that they steal technology. If Boeing is dumb enough to subsidize the development of a Chinese competitor, that's their loss.
The tragedy here is the inability to even learn, not just the lack of long term thinking.
Forget StatCounter. It's shit. The only statistics you can trust are from Wikipedia. Everybody uses Wikipedia and it has no fucking pony in the race.
Wikipedia's stats still show XP at roughly 1/3rd of Windows installs.
PCs are not going anywhere even when Microsoft craters. They may change shape a bit, but the general purpose PC is here to stay.
Look, for example, at the iPad. It's a general purpose computer. Sure, you load applications in a different way than you might on Windows, but this doesn't make it less of a computer. Look also at the desktop and laptops - sales might be slowing but this is not because people don't use them, it's because for 90% or more users any one built in the last decade is good enough for their uses.
Additionally, the cloud will not replace anything. If anything, other than as a way to load balance and reduce IT infrastructure within large organizations, the cloud has gone pretty much nowhere. It will stay as it is, but it will not slowly creep in and replace personal data and computing.
Wait 5 years, nothing really will have changed. This is still basically the 1990s, but everything is smaller. NOT necessarily better.
The kids like MeeGo? How would they know? It's not like it is really in any serious or widespread use of any kind whatsoever.
No, because since the economy failed companies are getting by on 2-3+ year old servers. Consumer computer purchases are still going strong, though.
When you have a datacenter full of mostly idle servers, it makes no sense to upgrade them all. Especially because virtualization now allows one to consolidate 20+ mostly idle machines into a single physical computer.
NIH syndrom inside the GCC project will ensure that this will never happen. Never, ever happen.
The method is identical. Please tell me what methodological differences there are between pinch-to-zoom on the iPad or iPhone, and on Android.
Again, enjoy your fuckin' joystick or trackball dawg.
Stealing people's money through income tax is criminal and antisocial.
People get by, and some get by better than others. The social contract has been broken - long live the individual!
Google will not sue, because Apple owns the multitouch UI patents. Too much at risk there - if Google were to lose, it'd be back to Android 1.0 style joystick / trackball navigation. That'd be fun for Google's partners.
Yeah, I would argue that taking 35% of the income off the backs of the middle class is thievery. Good point.
You are missing one of the greatest upsides of cash - you can keep a healthy percentage of your income totally off the books. Using cash means taking money out of Uncle Sam's wallet, which I think many can agree is a good thing.
I am finished with dual-booting just to slurp up the latest and greatest games. The last console I purchased was a Playstation 2, and that was about a decade ago. I have the tablet that supports the most games (guess what one!) and a computer that runs a non-Windows OS.
It is a pretty simple thing to use one of the many multi-platform game development engines that are kicking about these days. If a game producer decides not to release a game on my OS, they will not see a sale. It's as simple as that.
The problem with using Wine for games, and dual-booting, is that you are basically telling manufacturers that you don't really care if they actually release their product for anything but Windows, and this sends a signal to Microsoft - that they should try to make Wine less and less useful on the newest games.
If you don't release a game on the OS that I already have and use, then I will just keep playing Dwarf Fortress instead. DF is surely better anyway.
Who said anything about superiority? The Russians are simply more economically efficient, but I don't know if that translates into overarching superiority.
"A tech should use a company-owned device for that"
Hahahahaha. Hooooooo. /wipes tears away
OK, here's my experience from when I was a tech. I went to a local company known internationally for their tea products (it has a z in the name) and they had a number of viruses on every machine. These were immune to the standard AV removal tools, so I advised that the only realistic course of action was to reinstall every workstation from scratch. They seemed keen on this idea, so I asked them where their original media was, for Office and Windows. They didn't have it! The one fella comes up and says, well, he could make copies and get serial numbers, but this would kinda be illegal and I said, I wasn't comfortable pirating everything.
Long story short, I left them with their viruses.
Have you actually read about Tibet under Lamaism? There were two classes of people - the Buddhist monks, and slaves.
If you left your home village without permission, the punishment was that your legs were broken and you were left in the wilderness.
Sexual slavery of acolytes was not just common, but the rule. I could go on, AC, but I think you were just here for a drive-by or else you would have posted under your real account.
By the way, I'm a loyal American, and I really have no love for the ChiCom or the brutal Lamas. It's a bit easier for you, though, as I'm sure you get all your information about Tibet from Alec Baldwin.
Are you denying the fact that the Western intelligence analysts were totally floored by Russia's blitzkrieg into Georgia?
You can deny it but it's true.
I think the plan was to actually create wealthy Chinese through factory partnerships, then help these people get into power, where they would gradually weaken the Communist government. Thing is, it was a terrible plan from the get-go and it hasn't really worked.
The Wang Lijun incident has showed anybody with eyes to see that we are still operating power-brokering scandals in China, but they have been effectively squashed and Bo Xilai who I suspect was our man on the inside is now disgraced, and I'm sure the hardliners over there are watching out for other Manchurians of ours, which undoubtedly exist.
If you think Tibet is seized territory than you are totally unaware of the history of the interactions between China and Tibet.
Tibet was a warlike kingdom for a very long time, which attacked China and extracted tribute for a long time, until China invaded and took it over. It was an official protectorate of Imperial China for hundreds of years.
Anyway, the Tibetans are much better off under the ChiCom than they were under Lamaism. At least they can ride a bike over the next hill without receiving the death penalty.
The plan of killing China by moving a bunch of companies over there to manufacture low- and high-tech goods has failed miserably.
No, China isn't splitting apart because they have different languages. This plan has been tried and it has failed miserably. Just look at all the success that the Hollywood-driven "Free Tibet" nonsense has had! We tried through a 55+ year CIA infiltration program, with the media softening up the USA to favor the brutal Dalai Lama, and threatening to exert some kind of theoretical (and it turns out, totally fake) international pressure, and that failed. This, in the most culturally, geographically, and linguistically distant part of the actual PRC.
If we really want to split China, we will have to do it in another way, not by continuing to enrich their economy, give them endless free high-tech manufacturing facilities, etc.
Talk to a Chinese person some day. Most haven't even heard of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
How could you say such a thing? Pretty much every major US company manufactures everything they sell in China. If they just said, hey, sorry, we are not shipping any more consumer goods to your country, our economy would totally collapse overnight.
China also has another weapon that nobody ever likes to talk about - their government treasury prints all the Chinese money. They do not have to borrow money from the international financial cartel. This insulates them to a large degree from world financial problems. That, and the fact that most Chinese are still effectively peasants, beating at the soil with a rock tied to the end of a stick.
No, we will not confront China. At least, not until our manufacturing base is relocated.
Nobody knew the Russians would actually fight back. Hell, in the Western defense press, there was article after article of defense "analysts" scratching their heads and saying such stupid things as: "We didn't even think Russia had working tanks any more!" and "They spend such a small amount of money on their military that we thought they wouldn't be able to fight even a minor conflict!"
Of course, none of those analysts want to mention that with state-owned defense firms, Russia can do the same work with $1 that the US does with $1000.
Not really. The oceans are all linked, and a rise in one part would imply a rise in another part. Sure it might take a few days or weeks for the rise to show up in different parts of the world, but this is not something that is very hard to measure either.
It's only complex if you are a climate "science" fan, and wish to attempt to confuse the issue using the usual bag of tricks. One single, known good seal level monitoring station is much more useful than a large number of unknown stations run by unknown people with a clear politico-social agenda, who then take their raw data, adjust it in any number of secret ways, and then throw out the original data.
Or are you somehow asserting that the sea level (remember the seas and oceans are all linked) can rise in one place and not another? That would be funny to see - a section of ocean that is a giant, permanent bulge or bump on the face of the planet.
Can you find evidence that something like this can last for more than a few hours, if that?