Indeed. I view the whole Syria situation in similar terms. For them it is very much a question of precedent. In Syria, I still get the feeling that even the US isn't all that interested in intervention. The Arab Spring has not exactly been a rousing geopolitical success thus far, and has in some cases encouraged the Islamists and like-minded groups out of the shadows and straight into positions of power and influence. Toppling the Syrian regime, as bad as it is, probably isn't going to cause a blossoming of Western style democracy, but rather Libya-on-steroids, plus bring direct conflict with Tehran closer and closer.
I sometimes feel the US and Russia are playing a game of good cop bad cop. The US will condemn the Syrian regime's heavy handedness, Russia will say "We must find a negotiated solution." The US can blame Russia for stalling and blocking intervention, and gets out of having to actually do anything.
Indeed. I sucked at math (though the hangup was more psychological than anything else, and a career in programming has proven I can actually do it when I need to), and one year in highschool got stuck in a "general maths" class, along side every misfit and borderline nutjob that the school had to offer. Yes, it was very easy, and I consistently got C+s and Bs, which ought to have indicated in and of itself that there were conceptual problems rather than any particular neurological inability.
What finally got me into better math understanding was taking night classes a few years later. I was fortunate enough to have a patient teacher who recognized my hangs up and found ways of explaining things sufficiently that I was able, with some hard work, to finish a grade 12 level algebra course with an overall 65% score. Not fantastic, but a passable, acceptable grade.
If we just let students off the hook, let them walk away from tough courses, they're never challenged, and never truly learn where there gifts lie. Essentially you're just putting them on the path of least resistance.
But if you're not presented with a wide range of options, how exactly do you know what you're aligned for? In the real world there's no talking hat that shouts out "Griffindore!" when placed on your head.
Exactly. The point of teaching sciences, and indeed even home economics, is to expose students to a wide range of knowledge. Obviously most people are not going to go on to be industrial chemists or biologists, but still, even passing knowledge of a subject allows at least some ability to evaluate, and more importantly encourages some ability to generalize.
What this guy is looking for is an excuse to remove his kids from hard courses, make their lives easier, and that's just about the biggest mistake at all. Basically the guy is saying "My kids are so fucked up, all I can expect is that they'll be able to blabber to a crowd or make web pages." I feel sorry for those kids.
And yet Iran and China are not all that willing to help Iran out of this particular tough spot. Have you ever pondered the possibility that while publicly Moscow and Beijing are friendly with Tehran, that, privately, they have no more desire to see the rise of another nuclear power in the region? If China and Russia were so keen to help Iran out of the sanctions, they could.
As to Israel, she's a pain in the ass, and probably overreacting (though it's clear the US still very much calls the shots), but still, Iran has gone out of its way to try to intimidate Israel, and now it's reaping what it has sowed. Perhaps, when the Ayotollahs, the Revolutionary Guard and the Basij finally collapse, a sensible new regime with a sensible foreign policy will rise up.
That would certainly be possible for an economy with modern infrastructure like the US or Europe, but Iran has spent so much time since the Revolution on various forms of navel gazing that it has a flimsy infrastructure that I think would be insufficient to the task of a fully electronic currency. It's just one of the many ways the politically savvy but ultimately economically idiotic Ayatollahs and Co. have fucked the country over.
Why does anyone give a flying fuck what Romney or Obama plan on doing. They're the executive. Better to ask all those busy little Congresscritters seeking (re)election what their plans are.
In theory everyone does, but like I said above, we should not just throw more money at organizations that are clearly incapable of change from within. We should freeze the education budgets until administrators quit blowing money on stupid shit like needless computer equipment, student tracking systems (like in texas), highly tangential extra-curricular programs (athletics, arts, multi language) until the core curriculum scores come back up. I have no problem with extra-curriculars, but they shouldn't be funded from the school budget. Schools are not day camps.
In other words, if everyone just follows your ideological leanings, as opposed to the ideological leanings of someone else, everything will be okay.
At some point Americans are going to have to face the fact that you cannot have your cake and eat it too. Higher taxes, one way or another, are going to be required. Surely by now there is no one out there that seriously believes continually cutting taxes is somehow going to produce this well stream of economic productivity.
One of the chief reasons this is such an idiotic idea in the current climate is that a good amount of the economic uncertainty has little to do with the US domestic economy, and a good deal to do with the still present risk of some sort of a Eurozone meltdown. This is having widespread economic effects just about everywhere, and yet you will find almost no mention of it in the US. It's as if Americans somehow magically believe that the US has a only thin economic connection to the rest of the planet, that global economic troubles cannot be blamed for domestic fiscal problems, and instead it must be the fault of the guy in the White House, or Congress.
You cut taxes and government services radically, you will not produce some new economic glory, you will basically blow a hole in the bottom of the US economic situation. You will create a deep recession where the country is managing to almost tread water.
The only democracy in the world where sociopaths have their own party is the United States. Even better, that party has groups within it that variously argue both Jesus and the Founding Fathers approved of sociopathic policies.
Beyond that, the market is already prime for an app store. Both Apple and Google have them, and this is going to be the expectation of most consumers. The market share of those who want greater control to put applications on their devices is probably a very small portion of the total smart device market, so it's not as if make a more open device is somehow going to make Microsoft oodles of extra money, and beyond that, control of the ecosystem has been proven very successful, and incurs certain advantages.
Perhaps this post was post-dated from 2008 or 2009. iOS (and Android) devices are all over the place in the enterprise market. We do a lot of government contract work, and we had a big two day seminar that was about half bureaucrats and half contractors like myself. I'd say about 2/3s of the contractors had iPhones and Androids, and about half the government workers were on iPhones, which also tells me that Blackberry's penetration is slowly winding down. Plenty of Windows notebooks, but also many Macbooks, and the only tablets I saw were iPads.
The only chance Microsoft has is trying to grab on to the fading Blackberry market, but so far as I can tell iOS and Android are both making pretty deep inroads in the enterprise market. What's more, it's not as if Windows 8 RT actually offers any substantial benefits so far as enterprise integration. iOS's email and calendaring works pretty well integrating with Exchange, and Androids is almost as good. Since enterprise is not going to have any particularly ability to integrate Windows 8 smart devices into AD networks, where exactly is the enterprise advantage here?
I'm sure all those people in my business running around with Androids and iOS devices will be dumping them in favor of a Windows product that apparently does nothing particularly special, and will have a much much smaller app ecosystem.
1. Come late to the party. 2. Release device with few if any real advantages over entrenched competition. 3. ??? 4. Profit
But everything we've seen from Windows 8 mobile variant says that there is not going to be much in the way of integration beyond what one finds in iOS and Android. I had thought when all this talk of Windows smart devices began that we would be seeing that level of integration, which would indeed have made me rather interested. But instead, it will still be ActiveSync for email, just like a few generations of iOS and Android devices have had for a long time.
Too true. Years ago we bought batches of Seagate Atlas drives, and all of them pretty much started dying within weeks of each other. They were still under warranty, so we got a bunch more of the same drives, and lo and behold within nine months they were crapping out again. It absolutely amazed me how closely together the drives crapped out.
It looks to me like the whole thing is in maintenance mode now anyways. Updates so newer kernels can access the file system are just enough so that legacy systems can be updated.
Scholars, you know, are able to recognize interpolations in texts. It is by no means 100% reliable, but neither are they utterly incapable of determining where it has happened.
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Sorry to blow your theory away, but Pangea formed 300 million years ago, the moon was formed somewhere around 4 *billion* years before that.
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
Albert Einstein
I may agree with Bezos, but I still feel a little like it's Satan complaining about forest fires in Hell.
Indeed. I view the whole Syria situation in similar terms. For them it is very much a question of precedent. In Syria, I still get the feeling that even the US isn't all that interested in intervention. The Arab Spring has not exactly been a rousing geopolitical success thus far, and has in some cases encouraged the Islamists and like-minded groups out of the shadows and straight into positions of power and influence. Toppling the Syrian regime, as bad as it is, probably isn't going to cause a blossoming of Western style democracy, but rather Libya-on-steroids, plus bring direct conflict with Tehran closer and closer.
I sometimes feel the US and Russia are playing a game of good cop bad cop. The US will condemn the Syrian regime's heavy handedness, Russia will say "We must find a negotiated solution." The US can blame Russia for stalling and blocking intervention, and gets out of having to actually do anything.
Indeed. I sucked at math (though the hangup was more psychological than anything else, and a career in programming has proven I can actually do it when I need to), and one year in highschool got stuck in a "general maths" class, along side every misfit and borderline nutjob that the school had to offer. Yes, it was very easy, and I consistently got C+s and Bs, which ought to have indicated in and of itself that there were conceptual problems rather than any particular neurological inability.
What finally got me into better math understanding was taking night classes a few years later. I was fortunate enough to have a patient teacher who recognized my hangs up and found ways of explaining things sufficiently that I was able, with some hard work, to finish a grade 12 level algebra course with an overall 65% score. Not fantastic, but a passable, acceptable grade.
If we just let students off the hook, let them walk away from tough courses, they're never challenged, and never truly learn where there gifts lie. Essentially you're just putting them on the path of least resistance.
But if you're not presented with a wide range of options, how exactly do you know what you're aligned for? In the real world there's no talking hat that shouts out "Griffindore!" when placed on your head.
Exactly. The point of teaching sciences, and indeed even home economics, is to expose students to a wide range of knowledge. Obviously most people are not going to go on to be industrial chemists or biologists, but still, even passing knowledge of a subject allows at least some ability to evaluate, and more importantly encourages some ability to generalize.
What this guy is looking for is an excuse to remove his kids from hard courses, make their lives easier, and that's just about the biggest mistake at all. Basically the guy is saying "My kids are so fucked up, all I can expect is that they'll be able to blabber to a crowd or make web pages." I feel sorry for those kids.
And then the Libertarians come out to play.
In other words, the economy would tank, the currency crisis would be complete and Iran would have been shoved back to a Middle Age economic system.
And yet Iran and China are not all that willing to help Iran out of this particular tough spot. Have you ever pondered the possibility that while publicly Moscow and Beijing are friendly with Tehran, that, privately, they have no more desire to see the rise of another nuclear power in the region? If China and Russia were so keen to help Iran out of the sanctions, they could.
As to Israel, she's a pain in the ass, and probably overreacting (though it's clear the US still very much calls the shots), but still, Iran has gone out of its way to try to intimidate Israel, and now it's reaping what it has sowed. Perhaps, when the Ayotollahs, the Revolutionary Guard and the Basij finally collapse, a sensible new regime with a sensible foreign policy will rise up.
With a currency crisis, the last thing the Iranian government is going to do is start dipping into precious metal reserves.
That would certainly be possible for an economy with modern infrastructure like the US or Europe, but Iran has spent so much time since the Revolution on various forms of navel gazing that it has a flimsy infrastructure that I think would be insufficient to the task of a fully electronic currency. It's just one of the many ways the politically savvy but ultimately economically idiotic Ayatollahs and Co. have fucked the country over.
Why does anyone give a flying fuck what Romney or Obama plan on doing. They're the executive. Better to ask all those busy little Congresscritters seeking (re)election what their plans are.
In other words, if everyone just follows your ideological leanings, as opposed to the ideological leanings of someone else, everything will be okay.
At some point Americans are going to have to face the fact that you cannot have your cake and eat it too. Higher taxes, one way or another, are going to be required. Surely by now there is no one out there that seriously believes continually cutting taxes is somehow going to produce this well stream of economic productivity.
One of the chief reasons this is such an idiotic idea in the current climate is that a good amount of the economic uncertainty has little to do with the US domestic economy, and a good deal to do with the still present risk of some sort of a Eurozone meltdown. This is having widespread economic effects just about everywhere, and yet you will find almost no mention of it in the US. It's as if Americans somehow magically believe that the US has a only thin economic connection to the rest of the planet, that global economic troubles cannot be blamed for domestic fiscal problems, and instead it must be the fault of the guy in the White House, or Congress.
You cut taxes and government services radically, you will not produce some new economic glory, you will basically blow a hole in the bottom of the US economic situation. You will create a deep recession where the country is managing to almost tread water.
The only democracy in the world where sociopaths have their own party is the United States. Even better, that party has groups within it that variously argue both Jesus and the Founding Fathers approved of sociopathic policies.
Beyond that, the market is already prime for an app store. Both Apple and Google have them, and this is going to be the expectation of most consumers. The market share of those who want greater control to put applications on their devices is probably a very small portion of the total smart device market, so it's not as if make a more open device is somehow going to make Microsoft oodles of extra money, and beyond that, control of the ecosystem has been proven very successful, and incurs certain advantages.
Perhaps this post was post-dated from 2008 or 2009. iOS (and Android) devices are all over the place in the enterprise market. We do a lot of government contract work, and we had a big two day seminar that was about half bureaucrats and half contractors like myself. I'd say about 2/3s of the contractors had iPhones and Androids, and about half the government workers were on iPhones, which also tells me that Blackberry's penetration is slowly winding down. Plenty of Windows notebooks, but also many Macbooks, and the only tablets I saw were iPads.
The only chance Microsoft has is trying to grab on to the fading Blackberry market, but so far as I can tell iOS and Android are both making pretty deep inroads in the enterprise market. What's more, it's not as if Windows 8 RT actually offers any substantial benefits so far as enterprise integration. iOS's email and calendaring works pretty well integrating with Exchange, and Androids is almost as good. Since enterprise is not going to have any particularly ability to integrate Windows 8 smart devices into AD networks, where exactly is the enterprise advantage here?
I'm sure all those people in my business running around with Androids and iOS devices will be dumping them in favor of a Windows product that apparently does nothing particularly special, and will have a much much smaller app ecosystem.
1. Come late to the party.
2. Release device with few if any real advantages over entrenched competition.
3. ???
4. Profit
But everything we've seen from Windows 8 mobile variant says that there is not going to be much in the way of integration beyond what one finds in iOS and Android. I had thought when all this talk of Windows smart devices began that we would be seeing that level of integration, which would indeed have made me rather interested. But instead, it will still be ActiveSync for email, just like a few generations of iOS and Android devices have had for a long time.
Needless to say neither did we. And I learned my lesson. Heterogeneous drive arrangements in RAID arrays.
Too true. Years ago we bought batches of Seagate Atlas drives, and all of them pretty much started dying within weeks of each other. They were still under warranty, so we got a bunch more of the same drives, and lo and behold within nine months they were crapping out again. It absolutely amazed me how closely together the drives crapped out.
It looks to me like the whole thing is in maintenance mode now anyways. Updates so newer kernels can access the file system are just enough so that legacy systems can be updated.
I see Google has finally figured out how Washington works. The whole thing reminds me of the Senate hearings scenes from The Godfather Part 2.
Scholars, you know, are able to recognize interpolations in texts. It is by no means 100% reliable, but neither are they utterly incapable of determining where it has happened.