Japan is a good example of harsh school penalties and often abusive environments for students... However due to cultural differences most abused students there tend to commit suicide. Oh and in both the US and Japan suicide rates among students have been rising year over year for several decades...
That said they have had many incidents of school violence with weapons (though not often guns) in the last decade or two. I recall one story from about a half decade ago where I boy took a baseball bat to another kid and shattered his skull, then went after a couple more before being wrestled to the ground....
The Current HP makes cheap crappy printers even in their business range of laser jets that always have problems. Their PC division makes cheap crappy PCs that are no better than anyone else. Is it just me or do these things sound like being similar enough that maybe they can be formed into one division that makes crappy Printers & PCs? I mean how much work is it to make crappy devices anyways? So cut the engineers in half again by making them work on both... They are already crappy so it's not like they can go much further down at this point...
Well even for you one of the advantages of the AMD Fusion platform is the ability to add in a discrete card and combine the power of the two (Figuring the discrete card is another AMD and your running under windows). Though from what I've seen the Fusion platform is capable enough for most 3D tasks unless your serious gamer who wants every bell and whistle @ 1600x1200+.
It's also a different story when it comes to laptops. Fusion is incredibly useful in the laptop market where the entire lower end of the market uses integrated video. So if you want good 3D performance in a laptop a Fusion based system or a expensive non-integrated gpu is the only real options.
What sort of cable is this that you expect it to be 100-150ms...? I have Roadrunner and to match your example in SW:TOR during beta I got 50-70 ms reliably. I get 60-80ms from my laptop over my wireless connection (802.11N). Personally I think 50-70ms is to high as I've had dialup before that could get 70ms latency.
Though I haven't worked in the (ISP) industry since broadband was new, so hard information on what they expect these days isn't something I have.
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I'm writing this from my tablet as we speak, but personally I don't get why 'distractions' are such an issue. I'm quite content to simply read an ebook and I have enough discipline to avoid distractions if I want. Usually however simple distractions like an IM from a friend are equally distracting on my tablet and for a real book. I may opt to answer a message or not on either, but those simple distractions are not really bothersome to me either way.
On the other hand a tablet makes a very nice computing device for other things I may want or need to do and not just for reading books. The fact that I don't need to own multiple computing devices that can only handle a single function is very important to me.
I gotta say... I'm a fairly big guy (hovering around 300lbs), I'm not as young as I used to be either now that I'm in my mid-30's, but I've never had any problems looking behind me while driving... So I'm not sure who these people are that are simply so big they cannot do so are. Heck my disabled mom has no issue in her 50's looking behind her while backing up. Maybe they just don't want to try...?
I know of at least a dozen times where someone has started to build a new nuclear reactor since 1978, but it never made it through the process. Unfortunately searching for references isn't something I'm willing to do on my tablet, but some searching should get you a few. So in fact there have proposals have been made, but a range of issues has stopped them.
Subsidies are not required, but frankly what business doesn't want free money? And while the NRC has some approval authority, so does local and state governments. Ignoring that those two government sections have a say in things is kind of ignorant.
Maybe you need to see what HR companies teach the companies around here (PA) about how to avoid hiring 'expensive' local tech workers and get 'cheap' foreign visa workers instead. A video of some of these tactics for how to weed out americans so they cannot qualify was posted all the way back in 2005 on the internet. There is a clear reason why most of the IT departments in Pittsburgh are filled with 90% Indian workers and it isn't a lack of people trained in those skills. We have plenty of people graduating with MIS/BIS/CS degrees in this state, who should be able to get these jobs, but they can't because they are specifically excluded and with the majority of employees working for a particular 'title' being foreign workers they set the 'average wage' for a job among themselves. This is how foreign visa workers can work cheaper then US labor in the same business.
While my utilities are bundled into my rent, my parents have the same sort of issues as SJHillman does. Power and gas are both handled in that manner by their respective utility companies and the utilities commissions have never cared since they started doing this 30 years ago. The latest ones use digital meters, but still estimate every other month. The guess from most consumers is that this is to continue milking overages.
I agree with most everything you said. Though I go a step further my own works I tend to release in CC share-alike license (and have for about five years) and I've long argued we need to take back out common cultural heritage from the corporate overlords. I know I'm driven to create stories, getting paid for it doesn't change the ideas flowing out of my head that want written down, performed, or otherwise release and money is only a nice bonus when it does happen.
Being rich is heavily about a 'right' to be an elitist... It's the 'right' to send your kids to a school that basically guarantees employment at any place they wish... It's the 'right' to go to restaurants and other service establishments that don't let just everyone in... It's the 'right' to live walled off from those who cannot afford to live where you do with guards to keep those people out... It's the 'right' to have people do the jobs you don't want to do...
If they didn't keep everyone else poor how would they manage to be the elite anymore? Anyone could eventually be 'rich enough' to have the same 'rights' as they do.
Granted above your post it was suggested they get a couple years of patent granted monopoly time... So theoretically this other 'investor' who steals the design must wait for those couple years to go by... But if their really is nothing 'special' about the thing 'invented' that this investor can just toss something together and roll it out, maybe it really wasn't worth a patent...?
Even so just demoing or even explaining a innovative process to someone isn't enough to just let them 'copy' it. So one way or another someone would have to try to make the same thing, spurring more development and providing more funds into the economy.
'Protecting' Israel comes down to many things, most relating back to it's creation at the end of WW2. At that point in time Allied (US/UK) forces held most of the middle east and their was considerable jewish migration due to the holocaust. No one nation really wanted alot of Jewish refugees to take care of and since we controlled the majority of what is now called the 'middle east' we decided to give them a 'homeland' there rather than support refugees internally. We also slowly returned most of our held territories there back into independent countries.
This worked for a time, but when we first wanted to pull out of Israel and let them go their own way their neighbors all decided to attack the created jewish nation in their midst. To add to that their was the Palestinian migration into Israel from what I want to say was Saudi Arabia and escalating smaller acts of war by Israel and their neighbors over the years. These things have forced us to keep our 'hands in the pot' or risk a much larger scale of combat. Israel is quite likely to have the must modern and strongest military in the region, but we'd rather not have them take over the middle east and such a thing would be an extremely bloody war. It's also likely to be a war involving 'WMD's' on the order of mustard gas missiles from the islamic nations (Iran certainly has some and have been trying to build nuclear weapons for ages).
So instead we continue to support Israel and so keep some control over a highly volatile region. If nations like Pakistan and Iran didn't seem to be run by nuts easily the match for any american wackos it would be far easier to just let them do what they want.
As of late the court system would not tend to agree with you. A story about a month ago included a set of 7 things to have one covered under 'freedom of the press' as a blogger. Two of which were basically 'work for a known news agency/corp'. I doubt anyone in charge these days cares about the rights of the average person in any way, whether the framers of our nation have more in common with us as opposed to them.
I do some writing from time to time and keep a blog with bits of stuff I've written and I had some interest from a 'magazine' (the digital kind) to 'print' some of my work. They would offer me a small payment for my contribution and I was supposed to keep my rights to my own work. I got a notice that it had been released and I decided to post portions of what would fall into the work on my blog as well as mention the full content could be found in this magazine form. Since I didn't sign anything to the effect of giving away my rights to it, I should be able to post as much of it as I wanted to my blog...
Well it seems that is not the case. The lawyers of the publishing company behind the magazine sent my provider a C&D over the content of the blog posting. When I found out, as my provider gave me time to remove the posting before simply doing it themselves, I contacted the company. You know what I was told? That I could be a good bitch and roll over for them or go get a lawyer and lose in the end as they would make sure I couldn't afford to keep the case going as they would do their absolute best to make my life hell and had millions of dollars to do it with. It doesn't matter that they don't actually own the copyright in question, the system is so skewed in their favor that I'd have to be independently wealthy on the same scale as them for my actual ownership to mean anything.
If that is not the definition of a 'broken' system I'm not sure what else is.
This is for companies like Sony who just don't seem to want to hire competent security personnel. I really don't think it's any surprise this is coming out of Japan, the home country of Sony. While I pick on Sony lots of Japanese companies don't seem to care about security in any way except physical. The Japanese government has had some issues as well with seeming complete lack of network security concepts the last couple decades as well.
I think the bigger issue is even if they go ahead and make this it will only cause even more issues and not really solve the problem as the malware authors retool the virus or manipulate it so it can't do it's intended function.
My fanfiction a decade ago had over 52 chapters and when combined into a single file came to over 250 pages. That is easily in line with lots of novels and was done over the course of 6 months. Discounting one easy example on the basis of 'average length' is silly. Lots of writers do other stuff before becoming published authors and even more often still do something else after becoming published authors. Very few 'writers' can live on the income they make just from writing.
Not all authors expect to get paid for their work... Just look at the incredibly large and complex web of fan fiction that has existed for nearly 2 decades online. None of those people truly expect to get paid for their work (though ads may pay for their hosting fees..... maybe...). While you may say it's all rubbish and those writer aren't any good, plenty of people enjoy them. A decade ago I wrote some fan fiction for a fairly unknown piece of fiction and even ten years later I still get a couple of people a year that send me a note about how they found my work and loved it. Heck technically fan fiction is illegal, for or not for profit... Yet it still thrives because people enjoy it.
That's not the only thing I've written myself, but most of my works have been free (I did try on demand publishing, but I never made money from that). The classic publisher model only allows about a dozen new writers a year, which in the age of easy publishing is the key problem. We simply don't need the classic gatekeepers that publishing has been. We may still need editors and even advertising, but I doubt they will look much like today...
What...? Safari 'isn't usable on windows'...? Where do you get that? My machine at work has it so I can test browser issues and that PC is running windows... Oh and it works just fine...
Well the 24 fps playback of movies is dictated by a classic term called 'Critical Flicker Fusion' and is one reason movies used that rate for a very long time (the modern media uses different rates, such as blue rays output rate of 29.XX fps and many movies are now recorded in high digital fps). A lot of early research showed that an series of images only needs to reach this rate before the human perception is of motion and no longer catches the flicker (like one would see in a flip book).
That isn't to say people cannot see a difference between fps rates, it's just a note on the rate between 'frames' were the effect occurs.
As an FYI, the Tesla's use rather large battery casings that would will most of the space under the hood of my current car. These casings contain over 3000 cylindrical li-ion battery cells.
The problem is we have been told for at least a decade now that we need to be 'green', but doing so for the average person (where I live, not in LA or NYC, where our yearly income is typically below 30k) these 'green technologies' people say we have to buy aren't affordable! Claims that 'we' need to go green don't say "Anyone who isn't poor needs to go green!". So yes, lots of us will bitch that these things still aren't in our price range, because we'd like to go green as much as the richer ones.
If your google to google to find say.... 'photo editors' then listing their own product (Picasa) isn't that much of a stretch, your already there and could in fact be trying to find Picasa (but not remember the name only what it does). I don't think it's at all unreasonable that they list their own products in those categories fairly high as your already going to google to look for them. I've done this before when specifically looking for a google tool, but not knowing where to find it so searching was the easiest method.
I don't really think I need to. Plenty of wiki style sites have vast amounts of detailed information on quests, player details, equipment, etc. I could write about the process where they removed visual features over every new version for the past 6 months (color matching for clothes, anti-aliasing, etc), but that requires way to much effort when I'm not playing it now and I'm waiting a typical 3-6 months before playing so they can work out all the bugs they refused to fix in beta (you don't want to know how many times we heard "You are 3 or 4 builds behind internal testing, we've fixed these things trust us!").
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Japan is a good example of harsh school penalties and often abusive environments for students... However due to cultural differences most abused students there tend to commit suicide. Oh and in both the US and Japan suicide rates among students have been rising year over year for several decades...
That said they have had many incidents of school violence with weapons (though not often guns) in the last decade or two. I recall one story from about a half decade ago where I boy took a baseball bat to another kid and shattered his skull, then went after a couple more before being wrestled to the ground....
The Current HP makes cheap crappy printers even in their business range of laser jets that always have problems. Their PC division makes cheap crappy PCs that are no better than anyone else. Is it just me or do these things sound like being similar enough that maybe they can be formed into one division that makes crappy Printers & PCs? I mean how much work is it to make crappy devices anyways? So cut the engineers in half again by making them work on both... They are already crappy so it's not like they can go much further down at this point...
Well even for you one of the advantages of the AMD Fusion platform is the ability to add in a discrete card and combine the power of the two (Figuring the discrete card is another AMD and your running under windows). Though from what I've seen the Fusion platform is capable enough for most 3D tasks unless your serious gamer who wants every bell and whistle @ 1600x1200+.
It's also a different story when it comes to laptops. Fusion is incredibly useful in the laptop market where the entire lower end of the market uses integrated video. So if you want good 3D performance in a laptop a Fusion based system or a expensive non-integrated gpu is the only real options.
What sort of cable is this that you expect it to be 100-150ms...? I have Roadrunner and to match your example in SW:TOR during beta I got 50-70 ms reliably. I get 60-80ms from my laptop over my wireless connection (802.11N). Personally I think 50-70ms is to high as I've had dialup before that could get 70ms latency.
Though I haven't worked in the (ISP) industry since broadband was new, so hard information on what they expect these days isn't something I have.
I'm writing this from my tablet as we speak, but personally I don't get why 'distractions' are such an issue. I'm quite content to simply read an ebook and I have enough discipline to avoid distractions if I want. Usually however simple distractions like an IM from a friend are equally distracting on my tablet and for a real book. I may opt to answer a message or not on either, but those simple distractions are not really bothersome to me either way.
On the other hand a tablet makes a very nice computing device for other things I may want or need to do and not just for reading books. The fact that I don't need to own multiple computing devices that can only handle a single function is very important to me.
I gotta say... I'm a fairly big guy (hovering around 300lbs), I'm not as young as I used to be either now that I'm in my mid-30's, but I've never had any problems looking behind me while driving... So I'm not sure who these people are that are simply so big they cannot do so are. Heck my disabled mom has no issue in her 50's looking behind her while backing up. Maybe they just don't want to try...?
I know of at least a dozen times where someone has started to build a new nuclear reactor since 1978, but it never made it through the process. Unfortunately searching for references isn't something I'm willing to do on my tablet, but some searching should get you a few. So in fact there have proposals have been made, but a range of issues has stopped them.
Subsidies are not required, but frankly what business doesn't want free money? And while the NRC has some approval authority, so does local and state governments. Ignoring that those two government sections have a say in things is kind of ignorant.
Maybe you need to see what HR companies teach the companies around here (PA) about how to avoid hiring 'expensive' local tech workers and get 'cheap' foreign visa workers instead. A video of some of these tactics for how to weed out americans so they cannot qualify was posted all the way back in 2005 on the internet. There is a clear reason why most of the IT departments in Pittsburgh are filled with 90% Indian workers and it isn't a lack of people trained in those skills. We have plenty of people graduating with MIS/BIS/CS degrees in this state, who should be able to get these jobs, but they can't because they are specifically excluded and with the majority of employees working for a particular 'title' being foreign workers they set the 'average wage' for a job among themselves. This is how foreign visa workers can work cheaper then US labor in the same business.
While my utilities are bundled into my rent, my parents have the same sort of issues as SJHillman does. Power and gas are both handled in that manner by their respective utility companies and the utilities commissions have never cared since they started doing this 30 years ago. The latest ones use digital meters, but still estimate every other month. The guess from most consumers is that this is to continue milking overages.
I agree with most everything you said. Though I go a step further my own works I tend to release in CC share-alike license (and have for about five years) and I've long argued we need to take back out common cultural heritage from the corporate overlords. I know I'm driven to create stories, getting paid for it doesn't change the ideas flowing out of my head that want written down, performed, or otherwise release and money is only a nice bonus when it does happen.
Being rich is heavily about a 'right' to be an elitist... It's the 'right' to send your kids to a school that basically guarantees employment at any place they wish... It's the 'right' to go to restaurants and other service establishments that don't let just everyone in... It's the 'right' to live walled off from those who cannot afford to live where you do with guards to keep those people out... It's the 'right' to have people do the jobs you don't want to do...
If they didn't keep everyone else poor how would they manage to be the elite anymore? Anyone could eventually be 'rich enough' to have the same 'rights' as they do.
Then let them build such a thing?
Granted above your post it was suggested they get a couple years of patent granted monopoly time... So theoretically this other 'investor' who steals the design must wait for those couple years to go by... But if their really is nothing 'special' about the thing 'invented' that this investor can just toss something together and roll it out, maybe it really wasn't worth a patent...?
Even so just demoing or even explaining a innovative process to someone isn't enough to just let them 'copy' it. So one way or another someone would have to try to make the same thing, spurring more development and providing more funds into the economy.
'Protecting' Israel comes down to many things, most relating back to it's creation at the end of WW2. At that point in time Allied (US/UK) forces held most of the middle east and their was considerable jewish migration due to the holocaust. No one nation really wanted alot of Jewish refugees to take care of and since we controlled the majority of what is now called the 'middle east' we decided to give them a 'homeland' there rather than support refugees internally. We also slowly returned most of our held territories there back into independent countries.
This worked for a time, but when we first wanted to pull out of Israel and let them go their own way their neighbors all decided to attack the created jewish nation in their midst. To add to that their was the Palestinian migration into Israel from what I want to say was Saudi Arabia and escalating smaller acts of war by Israel and their neighbors over the years. These things have forced us to keep our 'hands in the pot' or risk a much larger scale of combat. Israel is quite likely to have the must modern and strongest military in the region, but we'd rather not have them take over the middle east and such a thing would be an extremely bloody war. It's also likely to be a war involving 'WMD's' on the order of mustard gas missiles from the islamic nations (Iran certainly has some and have been trying to build nuclear weapons for ages).
So instead we continue to support Israel and so keep some control over a highly volatile region. If nations like Pakistan and Iran didn't seem to be run by nuts easily the match for any american wackos it would be far easier to just let them do what they want.
As of late the court system would not tend to agree with you. A story about a month ago included a set of 7 things to have one covered under 'freedom of the press' as a blogger. Two of which were basically 'work for a known news agency/corp'. I doubt anyone in charge these days cares about the rights of the average person in any way, whether the framers of our nation have more in common with us as opposed to them.
I do some writing from time to time and keep a blog with bits of stuff I've written and I had some interest from a 'magazine' (the digital kind) to 'print' some of my work. They would offer me a small payment for my contribution and I was supposed to keep my rights to my own work. I got a notice that it had been released and I decided to post portions of what would fall into the work on my blog as well as mention the full content could be found in this magazine form. Since I didn't sign anything to the effect of giving away my rights to it, I should be able to post as much of it as I wanted to my blog...
Well it seems that is not the case. The lawyers of the publishing company behind the magazine sent my provider a C&D over the content of the blog posting. When I found out, as my provider gave me time to remove the posting before simply doing it themselves, I contacted the company. You know what I was told? That I could be a good bitch and roll over for them or go get a lawyer and lose in the end as they would make sure I couldn't afford to keep the case going as they would do their absolute best to make my life hell and had millions of dollars to do it with. It doesn't matter that they don't actually own the copyright in question, the system is so skewed in their favor that I'd have to be independently wealthy on the same scale as them for my actual ownership to mean anything.
If that is not the definition of a 'broken' system I'm not sure what else is.
This is for companies like Sony who just don't seem to want to hire competent security personnel. I really don't think it's any surprise this is coming out of Japan, the home country of Sony. While I pick on Sony lots of Japanese companies don't seem to care about security in any way except physical. The Japanese government has had some issues as well with seeming complete lack of network security concepts the last couple decades as well.
I think the bigger issue is even if they go ahead and make this it will only cause even more issues and not really solve the problem as the malware authors retool the virus or manipulate it so it can't do it's intended function.
My fanfiction a decade ago had over 52 chapters and when combined into a single file came to over 250 pages. That is easily in line with lots of novels and was done over the course of 6 months. Discounting one easy example on the basis of 'average length' is silly. Lots of writers do other stuff before becoming published authors and even more often still do something else after becoming published authors. Very few 'writers' can live on the income they make just from writing.
Not all authors expect to get paid for their work... Just look at the incredibly large and complex web of fan fiction that has existed for nearly 2 decades online. None of those people truly expect to get paid for their work (though ads may pay for their hosting fees..... maybe...). While you may say it's all rubbish and those writer aren't any good, plenty of people enjoy them. A decade ago I wrote some fan fiction for a fairly unknown piece of fiction and even ten years later I still get a couple of people a year that send me a note about how they found my work and loved it. Heck technically fan fiction is illegal, for or not for profit... Yet it still thrives because people enjoy it.
That's not the only thing I've written myself, but most of my works have been free (I did try on demand publishing, but I never made money from that). The classic publisher model only allows about a dozen new writers a year, which in the age of easy publishing is the key problem. We simply don't need the classic gatekeepers that publishing has been. We may still need editors and even advertising, but I doubt they will look much like today...
What...? Safari 'isn't usable on windows'...? Where do you get that? My machine at work has it so I can test browser issues and that PC is running windows... Oh and it works just fine...
Well the 24 fps playback of movies is dictated by a classic term called 'Critical Flicker Fusion' and is one reason movies used that rate for a very long time (the modern media uses different rates, such as blue rays output rate of 29.XX fps and many movies are now recorded in high digital fps). A lot of early research showed that an series of images only needs to reach this rate before the human perception is of motion and no longer catches the flicker (like one would see in a flip book).
That isn't to say people cannot see a difference between fps rates, it's just a note on the rate between 'frames' were the effect occurs.
As an FYI, the Tesla's use rather large battery casings that would will most of the space under the hood of my current car. These casings contain over 3000 cylindrical li-ion battery cells.
The problem is we have been told for at least a decade now that we need to be 'green', but doing so for the average person (where I live, not in LA or NYC, where our yearly income is typically below 30k) these 'green technologies' people say we have to buy aren't affordable! Claims that 'we' need to go green don't say "Anyone who isn't poor needs to go green!". So yes, lots of us will bitch that these things still aren't in our price range, because we'd like to go green as much as the richer ones.
Here in the US I'd kill for 25 Mbps @ $75/month... I pay for 8 Mbps @ $75/month... x.X
If your google to google to find say.... 'photo editors' then listing their own product (Picasa) isn't that much of a stretch, your already there and could in fact be trying to find Picasa (but not remember the name only what it does). I don't think it's at all unreasonable that they list their own products in those categories fairly high as your already going to google to look for them. I've done this before when specifically looking for a google tool, but not knowing where to find it so searching was the easiest method.
I don't really think I need to. Plenty of wiki style sites have vast amounts of detailed information on quests, player details, equipment, etc. I could write about the process where they removed visual features over every new version for the past 6 months (color matching for clothes, anti-aliasing, etc), but that requires way to much effort when I'm not playing it now and I'm waiting a typical 3-6 months before playing so they can work out all the bugs they refused to fix in beta (you don't want to know how many times we heard "You are 3 or 4 builds behind internal testing, we've fixed these things trust us!").