Right, except for the part where it already exists in parts of this country, and is rampant in foreign countries. If your excuse is really that you think you shouldn't pay taxes on anything you don't personally benefit from you should probably look into finding citizenship elsewhere.
Good god I hope that's a bad attempt at trolling. People having even shittier service is an excuse to find 768k DSL acceptable? Again, richest nation in the world. If we spent 2% of our annual defense budget on building out a broadband network, it would be done in two years. Who pays for it? We do, with taxpayer dollars. Run back to a central aggregation point and give the US actual competition at the POP instead of granting monopolies on last-mile.
I'm whining about the fact that downloading an ISO is an overnight event. This is 2013 and we live in the richest nation in the world. There's absolutely no reason we shouldn't have had this entire country wired with fiber a decade ago. Wait, there is - we spend tens of billions of dollars dropping bombs on innocent people in the middle east only to spend billions more rebuilding their countries instead of spending it on infrastructure to improve our own country.
I don't really care if you use a scanner with windows XP, just don't fucking complain about problems with a decade old OS and expect the mfg to give you free support/code fixes as the OP apparently thinks should happen.
And that's Microsoft's problem, why? If you're dumb enough to have a core part of your business based on a product that you didn't either:
A. get guaranteed updates to new OS versions for your life of the product or
B. a promise of source code access should the vendor either go under or no longer wish to provide you binary updates
Why was there "no prior art" if Rambus simply took the JEDEC committee's ideas and created patenst? There should be VOLUMES of prior art from the JEDEC meeting minutes to people's scribbles in their notepads. You're seriously telling me that Rambus was the only company attending the meetings to take notes? And they managed to get their patents ramrodded through before anyone on the JEDEC committee decided to take their first note? Ya, no.
What Rambus did (and lost in court on) was create additional patents beyond the technology they already had to try to stonewall the JEDEC members. THAT is what they lost in court on. The JEDEC members STILL licensed technology from Rambus because they had legitimate patents. They were simply hoping that when Rambus joined the committee, they would donate those patents to the group. As for DDR being patented, if it's so obvious why wasn't there prior art again?
The private sector isn't known for cutting costs in the short-term at the expense of the long-term to make numbers look good? BWAHAHAHAH! I guess I'll just assume that you're slow trolling at this point and stop. That is literally the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard stated. Private sector isn't more guilty than government of making bad decisions for short-term gains. Now I've seen it all.
As for unfunded pensions and healthcare benefits: remind me again exactly which private company that provided pensions 20 years ago hasn't reneged on that promise? Answer: none.
First off, it wasn't bogus - which is why micron lost. I'm no lover of RAMBUS but they absolutely had valid patents, and they did sell product. They lost the battle because their product was ultimately inferior and more expensive, but that doesn't change the fact the core technology behind DDR memory infringed on their ideas. As for how it's still valid - it doesn't matter. If you infringe a patent, get sued, and the patent runs out before the court case finishes, you aren't magically exonerated from all the years you infringed on the patent while in court. Doesn't work that way champ.
They absolutely had both an original idea and a working product. Just because they didn't have manufacturing facilities doesn't mean they didn't produce a product. Does AMD not have a working product because they spun-out and sold-off Global Foundries? Does Sony not have a product because they use AMD CPUs? RDRAM was absolutely rambus's product, that was never up for debate. What was up for debate was whether DDR memory infringed on their patents - it did, and they won just about all of their lawsuits.
I'm seriously claiming that. Everything you've listed above exists in the private sector, only it's worse - because they've made it abundantly clear their end-goal is to do the absolute barest minimum to maximize profit. I've lived in places with municipal broadband and it shitstomps local incumbents in every, way, shape, and form. From faster response to service requests to better overall service. That's why they fight so hard to keep it from coming to fruition.
Sure there is - government owns the wire, and ISP's provide access at an aggregate point. There is absolutely *NO REASON* every home in this country shouldn't be wired with a single-mode fiber line installed and maintained by the government. THEN we could have *REAL* free market competition at an aggregation point instead of this bullshit monopoly/duopoly that screws the consumer and allows ISP's to pull this shit.
While it will take more work, posting EVERY change is completely unnecessary, and oftentimes unhelpful. The publicly released changelog should include human-readable summary's of bugfixes and new features. If a customer asks for more details about a bugfix, feel free to give them the unedited version as you see fit. A changelog should NOT be a git history. Information overload is oftentimes less helpful than nothing at all because someone may spend hours to days sifting through it all only to figure out what they were looking for isn't even there.
It probably works exactly like a line lock - locks up the front brakes without applying any pressure to the rears. It can be found in pretty much every car built for drag racing in the last 60 years (aftermarket). The only thing that would be innovative is the fact it's done from the factory in a car intended for the street.
So where are these studies of these 100 million people who eat a balanced diet and get plenty of exercise (REAL exercise, not swiping their cards at the gym then sitting on a weight machine watching TV), but still can't lose weight or be in shape? I've yet to meet someone overweight who wasn't entirely responsible for their state. And yes, it is pure laziness to eat shit food and never set foot on a treadmill.
The outside of your house is open for the whole world to spray paint. There's absolutely nothing preventing me from walking up to 90% of the houses in the US and doing so. If the owners give me permission, there's absolutely nothing wrong with me doing so either. If you tell me you're not OK with it though, that's a problem. Regardless of whether you told everyone on your block it's OK, if you tell me no, I'm breaking the law. Should you have to put up a 20 foot razor wire fence to keep me out? Or should the fact it's private property be enough?
So you don't have a problem with me repeatedly spray painting racial slurs on your house then, right? No need to get "government thugs" involved. You can just re-paint your house if you don't like it.
Ya, no. Everyone said blackberry had a failing business model and that they'd need to adapt or die. Their insistence on remaining a handset manufacturer rather than license their software was a clear failure from the start. The only people saying they weren't sinking were the captains of the ship.
Facebook's business model is completely sound. It's unlikely ANY company is going to decide they're no longer interested in marketing their products. As long as there is advertising, there will be a place for facebook. And that's ignoring the fact that the US government has a very real interest in keeping them viable.
Has Bill really thought out his quest to it's logical conclusion? It's great if we can save lives and cure malaria, but then what? Who's going to feed these millions/billions of mouths? Aren't we just going to save them from disease only to have them die from starvation?
So why bother with right of way? The city should run a strand of fiber to every home, and home-run them to a central location. Allow independent ISP's to plug-in there and provide service to the customer. There's no reason the ISPs should ever own last mile. It's a waste of time and resources, and it stifles competition.
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Right, except for the part where it already exists in parts of this country, and is rampant in foreign countries. If your excuse is really that you think you shouldn't pay taxes on anything you don't personally benefit from you should probably look into finding citizenship elsewhere.
Good god I hope that's a bad attempt at trolling. People having even shittier service is an excuse to find 768k DSL acceptable? Again, richest nation in the world. If we spent 2% of our annual defense budget on building out a broadband network, it would be done in two years. Who pays for it? We do, with taxpayer dollars. Run back to a central aggregation point and give the US actual competition at the POP instead of granting monopolies on last-mile.
I'm whining about the fact that downloading an ISO is an overnight event. This is 2013 and we live in the richest nation in the world. There's absolutely no reason we shouldn't have had this entire country wired with fiber a decade ago. Wait, there is - we spend tens of billions of dollars dropping bombs on innocent people in the middle east only to spend billions more rebuilding their countries instead of spending it on infrastructure to improve our own country.
I don't really care if you use a scanner with windows XP, just don't fucking complain about problems with a decade old OS and expect the mfg to give you free support/code fixes as the OP apparently thinks should happen.
And that's Microsoft's problem, why? If you're dumb enough to have a core part of your business based on a product that you didn't either:
A. get guaranteed updates to new OS versions for your life of the product or
B. a promise of source code access should the vendor either go under or no longer wish to provide you binary updates
your business deserves to fail.
None of those reasons explain why the product can't run on Windows 7.
Why was there "no prior art" if Rambus simply took the JEDEC committee's ideas and created patenst? There should be VOLUMES of prior art from the JEDEC meeting minutes to people's scribbles in their notepads. You're seriously telling me that Rambus was the only company attending the meetings to take notes? And they managed to get their patents ramrodded through before anyone on the JEDEC committee decided to take their first note? Ya, no.
What Rambus did (and lost in court on) was create additional patents beyond the technology they already had to try to stonewall the JEDEC members. THAT is what they lost in court on. The JEDEC members STILL licensed technology from Rambus because they had legitimate patents. They were simply hoping that when Rambus joined the committee, they would donate those patents to the group. As for DDR being patented, if it's so obvious why wasn't there prior art again?
The private sector isn't known for cutting costs in the short-term at the expense of the long-term to make numbers look good? BWAHAHAHAH! I guess I'll just assume that you're slow trolling at this point and stop. That is literally the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard stated. Private sector isn't more guilty than government of making bad decisions for short-term gains. Now I've seen it all.
As for unfunded pensions and healthcare benefits: remind me again exactly which private company that provided pensions 20 years ago hasn't reneged on that promise? Answer: none.
First off, it wasn't bogus - which is why micron lost. I'm no lover of RAMBUS but they absolutely had valid patents, and they did sell product. They lost the battle because their product was ultimately inferior and more expensive, but that doesn't change the fact the core technology behind DDR memory infringed on their ideas. As for how it's still valid - it doesn't matter. If you infringe a patent, get sued, and the patent runs out before the court case finishes, you aren't magically exonerated from all the years you infringed on the patent while in court. Doesn't work that way champ.
They absolutely had both an original idea and a working product. Just because they didn't have manufacturing facilities doesn't mean they didn't produce a product. Does AMD not have a working product because they spun-out and sold-off Global Foundries? Does Sony not have a product because they use AMD CPUs? RDRAM was absolutely rambus's product, that was never up for debate. What was up for debate was whether DDR memory infringed on their patents - it did, and they won just about all of their lawsuits.
I'm seriously claiming that. Everything you've listed above exists in the private sector, only it's worse - because they've made it abundantly clear their end-goal is to do the absolute barest minimum to maximize profit. I've lived in places with municipal broadband and it shitstomps local incumbents in every, way, shape, and form. From faster response to service requests to better overall service. That's why they fight so hard to keep it from coming to fruition.
Sure there is - government owns the wire, and ISP's provide access at an aggregate point. There is absolutely *NO REASON* every home in this country shouldn't be wired with a single-mode fiber line installed and maintained by the government. THEN we could have *REAL* free market competition at an aggregation point instead of this bullshit monopoly/duopoly that screws the consumer and allows ISP's to pull this shit.
While it will take more work, posting EVERY change is completely unnecessary, and oftentimes unhelpful. The publicly released changelog should include human-readable summary's of bugfixes and new features. If a customer asks for more details about a bugfix, feel free to give them the unedited version as you see fit. A changelog should NOT be a git history. Information overload is oftentimes less helpful than nothing at all because someone may spend hours to days sifting through it all only to figure out what they were looking for isn't even there.
The same way the debt can increase from $300 million to $3 billion overnight. They think they can get it, and they're corrupt as hell.
It probably works exactly like a line lock - locks up the front brakes without applying any pressure to the rears. It can be found in pretty much every car built for drag racing in the last 60 years (aftermarket). The only thing that would be innovative is the fact it's done from the factory in a car intended for the street.
So where are these studies of these 100 million people who eat a balanced diet and get plenty of exercise (REAL exercise, not swiping their cards at the gym then sitting on a weight machine watching TV), but still can't lose weight or be in shape? I've yet to meet someone overweight who wasn't entirely responsible for their state. And yes, it is pure laziness to eat shit food and never set foot on a treadmill.
Given that their competition is 15k RPM drives, you'll be waiting a LONGGG time. They aren't meant to replace large capacity low IOPS drives.
The outside of your house is open for the whole world to spray paint. There's absolutely nothing preventing me from walking up to 90% of the houses in the US and doing so. If the owners give me permission, there's absolutely nothing wrong with me doing so either. If you tell me you're not OK with it though, that's a problem. Regardless of whether you told everyone on your block it's OK, if you tell me no, I'm breaking the law. Should you have to put up a 20 foot razor wire fence to keep me out? Or should the fact it's private property be enough?
Private property is private property.
So you don't have a problem with me repeatedly spray painting racial slurs on your house then, right? No need to get "government thugs" involved. You can just re-paint your house if you don't like it.
Ya, no. Everyone said blackberry had a failing business model and that they'd need to adapt or die. Their insistence on remaining a handset manufacturer rather than license their software was a clear failure from the start. The only people saying they weren't sinking were the captains of the ship.
Facebook's business model is completely sound. It's unlikely ANY company is going to decide they're no longer interested in marketing their products. As long as there is advertising, there will be a place for facebook. And that's ignoring the fact that the US government has a very real interest in keeping them viable.
Facebook made $425 million last quarter. I don't think they're going to die anytime soon.
Tell that to intel:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/android
Has Bill really thought out his quest to it's logical conclusion? It's great if we can save lives and cure malaria, but then what? Who's going to feed these millions/billions of mouths? Aren't we just going to save them from disease only to have them die from starvation?
The exact same thing was said in regards to power and telecom. We figured out how to make it work.
So why bother with right of way? The city should run a strand of fiber to every home, and home-run them to a central location. Allow independent ISP's to plug-in there and provide service to the customer. There's no reason the ISPs should ever own last mile. It's a waste of time and resources, and it stifles competition.