That was along the lines of my first thought. Media has now gone from being static files to needing an executable "app" wrapper (pun not intended). I know it makes me sound like a crusty old bastard, but this whole "everything is an app" paradigm is one of the big reasons the whole smartphone/tablet space has little appeal to me.
Yeah, I got a DLink Boxee Box early on, and it's a shame how they botched the software updates. I can't complain about the hardware, it plays just about anything over wireless with no issues, video looks great, the remote is quite well designed, and the audio over S/PDIF is just incredible. But they pushed out frequent buggy updates for a while, breaking things left and right, and then pretty much stopped all updates once they hit a build that wasn't *too* broken. The software's audio player has been a steaming pile since day one, which is a shame since the audio quality is good enough that I'd be happy just to have it as an audio bridge.
This may seem to be odd, but Timothy McVeigh was also charged and found guilty of using a weapon of mass destruction back in the '95 bombing of the Murrah building. So this isn't necessarily just post-9/11 hysteria.
Considering how many orders of magnitude difference there is between the Boston pressure cooker bomb and the OKC truck bomb, what prinicple would prevent an M-80 from also being classified as a WMD?
The truth is autocomplete isn't manipulated, its crowd sourced in real time. No conspiracy, no secret room full of minions trained to push an agenda. Just statistical weighting of what hundreds of thousands of people are searching for. If you don't like the results blame the users, because, in fact, that is exactly the source.
I question that. For quite a while now, "Pirate Bay" will not autocomplete from either the Google main page or the Firefox search bar unless it is pulling it up from a previous search you did. It used to be the first result by "pir". Not sure how crowd sourcing would account for that.
Or people with certain types of diabetes that generate natural blood alcohol.
Actually, if 0 BAC is the standard, then diabetics probably shouldn't be allowed to drive at all, as they are at risk of hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, or diabetic ketoacidosis, all of which could cause unconsciousness or lesser impairment behind the wheel.
Note that I am diabetic and would not approve of this at all. But it does drive home how many things beyond Demon Rum can impair driving, and if you want to go by actual science and not moral panic, then most of us would probably be prohibited from driving most of the time by equivalent standards.
I read that and had the same thought, and came up with the same math. Even in midtown Manhattan, that pace doesn't seem possible.
The other thing that bugged me about the story is that the whole scheme seemed to me to be too global and highly coordinated an effort for $45 million. Further, he leader of the NYC crew skips the country and takes a bullet to the head, a risk he took for $100,000 in cash out of $2.4 million stolen? OK, he was only 23 so maybe that seemed like a good deal to him, but then that only raises the question of why would such a sophisticated operation put someone so green in charge of the NYC crew?
So yeah, a few things don't quite add up here, IMHO.
I can't for the of me figure out what exactly the fuck I'm supposed to do when it's not converted into CAD, and have just been writing down the USD amount.
My friend has a Canadian business that gets some USD income that gets deposited to a USD account in a Canadian bank. That income is converted at the average exchange rate for the quarter. For individuals, I believe you just use the annual average (I don't have USD income, but am a dual US/Canadian citizen and have to file to the IRS, and use CRA's average rate in reverse to report my CAD income in USD).
The difference between amblyopia and strabismus is pretty subtle...even after reading the wiki pages it is not very clear. My understanding is that amblyopia is when one eye is neurally impaired (i.e., in the brain, not a physical defect), where as strabismus is when the eyes are physically misaligned (cross-eyed or wall-eyed in lay terms). Both are called "lazy eye" and are closely related. I've had strabismus surgery, but according to the surgeon I did not have amblyopia because my problem was due to an actual eye defect, having extremely impaired right eye vision due to having a detached retina as a child.
And, sorry to say, the surgery did not seem to correct any of my myriad personality defects, though YMMV.;-)
Gotcha. So the end user wouldn't be able to just switch to Linux easily. A distro, or all of them, need to come up with a migration tool that makes it easy to (with detailed instructions for the end inexperienced user) either save off or migrate during an install. Then more techies could push Linux on those on the fence.
I think you missed the GP's point entirely. Is there an easy and foolproof migration tool for migrating data from say, an old Win XP machine to a new Win 7 install? Judging from my experience fielding questions about this whenever anyone I know migrates from Windows-to-WIndows...I'd say no. Migration to a new machine, regardless of the OSs involved, is still something that requires a "knowledgeable techie", and more often than not average users simply live with losing data in the absence of a knowledgeable helping hand. I won't deny that there are serious barriers for the average Windows user to migrate to Linux, but data migration is at best a minor one.
Tuition is typically less than 50% sometimes far less of the cash for an education institution budget. The rest is grants and state and local appropriations (tax money)
First of all, I'd question that figure...perhaps it's typical for an in-state student at a public university, but for anyone else including all foreign students, I'd be very surprised if today's bloated tuitions only covered a small fraction of costs. Also, even if that figure is remotely accurate, that doesn't mean the balance is taxpayer money....there is also alumni giving and investment returns on the school's endowment, which aren't tuition, but neither are they taxpayer money.
But even if I allow the point, how does that apply any differently to a foreign student on a visa than to a citizen? I don't hear anyone claiming "we" educate citizens who pay their own way for college, why is a foreign student who does the same any different?
Right, so while there are in the US, they are not using all of the infrastructure of your country for an extended period of time? Do you think all of the infrastructure on the university was paid for by student tuition alone?
And how is that different than when I paid for my own education as a citizen? Despite whatever taxes paid for the country's and university's infrastructure, I would certainly not entertain the idea from someone like Zuck that "we" educated me.
By the same logic, we could claim that "we" paid for the vacations of foreign tourists as they use our infrastructure and go to museums that are tax supported. And it would be just as absurd an assertion as Zuck's is here.
"Given all this, why do we kick out the more than 40% of math and science graduate students who are not US citizens after educating them?"
Wait a sec...*who* educated them? Does the US gov't typically pay a foreign student's tuition, or do they have to either pay their own way or manage a grant/scholarship? My guess would be the latter case would be the overwhelming majority, with the only role of gov't in most cases being to grant a student visa. It's one thing to suggest that maybe 'we' should have program to help convert student visas to work visas, but to say we are "kicking out" people who were granted visas solely for education because they finished their education, which it is dubiously implied that "we" paid for, is simply dishonest.
I don't even let my visitor plug into the same network my main computers are, and have both a separated WiFi network and a separated ethernet segment for them (1 port only in the guest room), that I treat as a DMZ. Ok, I'm paranoid, but still.
I shudder to think what booby traps you set up to keep your house guests away from your silverware and jewelry.
Of course it is. They are avoiding theft of their property.
Oh, please. You do realize that without the "theft" of taxes, the only property you could own is that which could personally defend, which in the case of civilization's truly wealthy means virtually all of it. I don't like taxation any more than the next guy, but the idea that the uber-wealthy are "avoiding theft" by evading the taxes that ultimately enable and protect their ability to accumulate disproportionate wealth is pure nonsense.
The article sounds convincing, unfortunately it is completely false.
linked PDF
I gave this a quick skim, and couldn't help but notice that it says "There is no convincing argument for using 24-bit data in a distribution format" and under the heading "Do we need more than 44.1KHZ?", he pretty much hedges both ways and does not present a convincing case that any actual human being can actually perceive a difference between 44.1 and higher sampling rates.
I won't say it doesn't present a valid alternative view to the Xiph article, but to say it renders the article I linked "completely false" is a fair stretch.
I wasn't talking about before currency was regulated by governments (no one is that old), I'm talking about before any transaction greater than $10,000 became subject to Federal scrutiny, like maybe 40 years ago, which I *do* remember, and yes it was a "primarily cash economy". How you took that mean "prior to gov'ts to controlling their currencies" is beyond me. My point was that the idea that we need these regulations "for our safety" is rather ludicrous when our society functioned just fine without them in recent memory.
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That was along the lines of my first thought. Media has now gone from being static files to needing an executable "app" wrapper (pun not intended). I know it makes me sound like a crusty old bastard, but this whole "everything is an app" paradigm is one of the big reasons the whole smartphone/tablet space has little appeal to me.
Yeah, I got a DLink Boxee Box early on, and it's a shame how they botched the software updates. I can't complain about the hardware, it plays just about anything over wireless with no issues, video looks great, the remote is quite well designed, and the audio over S/PDIF is just incredible. But they pushed out frequent buggy updates for a while, breaking things left and right, and then pretty much stopped all updates once they hit a build that wasn't *too* broken. The software's audio player has been a steaming pile since day one, which is a shame since the audio quality is good enough that I'd be happy just to have it as an audio bridge.
This may seem to be odd, but Timothy McVeigh was also charged and found guilty of using a weapon of mass destruction back in the '95 bombing of the Murrah building. So this isn't necessarily just post-9/11 hysteria.
Considering how many orders of magnitude difference there is between the Boston pressure cooker bomb and the OKC truck bomb, what prinicple would prevent an M-80 from also being classified as a WMD?
You can remake, regurgitate and repackage Leisure Suit Larry as many times as you want but it'll still be a pile of shit.
Wow, I didn't realize how much kinkier the LSL sequels must be compared to the original.
The truth is autocomplete isn't manipulated, its crowd sourced in real time. No conspiracy, no secret room full of minions trained to push an agenda. Just statistical weighting of what hundreds of thousands of people are searching for. If you don't like the results blame the users, because, in fact, that is exactly the source.
I question that. For quite a while now, "Pirate Bay" will not autocomplete from either the Google main page or the Firefox search bar unless it is pulling it up from a previous search you did. It used to be the first result by "pir". Not sure how crowd sourcing would account for that.
I'm imagining that they must have hired strategic consultants from Reynholm Industries. "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
...counting the drones on the New Jersey Turnpike
we've all come to mourn for America...we've all come to mourn for America.
Or people with certain types of diabetes that generate natural blood alcohol.
Actually, if 0 BAC is the standard, then diabetics probably shouldn't be allowed to drive at all, as they are at risk of hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, or diabetic ketoacidosis, all of which could cause unconsciousness or lesser impairment behind the wheel.
Note that I am diabetic and would not approve of this at all. But it does drive home how many things beyond Demon Rum can impair driving, and if you want to go by actual science and not moral panic, then most of us would probably be prohibited from driving most of the time by equivalent standards.
Here lies Windows. It blew...chunks...I mean, serious chunks.
I read that and had the same thought, and came up with the same math. Even in midtown Manhattan, that pace doesn't seem possible.
The other thing that bugged me about the story is that the whole scheme seemed to me to be too global and highly coordinated an effort for $45 million. Further, he leader of the NYC crew skips the country and takes a bullet to the head, a risk he took for $100,000 in cash out of $2.4 million stolen? OK, he was only 23 so maybe that seemed like a good deal to him, but then that only raises the question of why would such a sophisticated operation put someone so green in charge of the NYC crew?
So yeah, a few things don't quite add up here, IMHO.
answer: dumb bastards who have the sense of a paper clip.
tink...tink...tink...
It looks like you're writing a diatribe. Would you like help, you insensitive clod?
Sorry...that kind of just wrote itself. ;-)
I can't for the of me figure out what exactly the fuck I'm supposed to do when it's not converted into CAD, and have just been writing down the USD amount .
My friend has a Canadian business that gets some USD income that gets deposited to a USD account in a Canadian bank. That income is converted at the average exchange rate for the quarter. For individuals, I believe you just use the annual average (I don't have USD income, but am a dual US/Canadian citizen and have to file to the IRS, and use CRA's average rate in reverse to report my CAD income in USD).
See the CRA's web page for more details.
The difference between amblyopia and strabismus is pretty subtle...even after reading the wiki pages it is not very clear. My understanding is that amblyopia is when one eye is neurally impaired (i.e., in the brain, not a physical defect), where as strabismus is when the eyes are physically misaligned (cross-eyed or wall-eyed in lay terms). Both are called "lazy eye" and are closely related. I've had strabismus surgery, but according to the surgeon I did not have amblyopia because my problem was due to an actual eye defect, having extremely impaired right eye vision due to having a detached retina as a child.
And, sorry to say, the surgery did not seem to correct any of my myriad personality defects, though YMMV. ;-)
Gotcha. So the end user wouldn't be able to just switch to Linux easily. A distro, or all of them, need to come up with a migration tool that makes it easy to (with detailed instructions for the end inexperienced user) either save off or migrate during an install. Then more techies could push Linux on those on the fence.
I think you missed the GP's point entirely. Is there an easy and foolproof migration tool for migrating data from say, an old Win XP machine to a new Win 7 install? Judging from my experience fielding questions about this whenever anyone I know migrates from Windows-to-WIndows...I'd say no. Migration to a new machine, regardless of the OSs involved, is still something that requires a "knowledgeable techie", and more often than not average users simply live with losing data in the absence of a knowledgeable helping hand. I won't deny that there are serious barriers for the average Windows user to migrate to Linux, but data migration is at best a minor one.
Tuition is typically less than 50% sometimes far less of the cash for an education institution budget. The rest is grants and state and local appropriations (tax money)
First of all, I'd question that figure...perhaps it's typical for an in-state student at a public university, but for anyone else including all foreign students, I'd be very surprised if today's bloated tuitions only covered a small fraction of costs. Also, even if that figure is remotely accurate, that doesn't mean the balance is taxpayer money....there is also alumni giving and investment returns on the school's endowment, which aren't tuition, but neither are they taxpayer money.
But even if I allow the point, how does that apply any differently to a foreign student on a visa than to a citizen? I don't hear anyone claiming "we" educate citizens who pay their own way for college, why is a foreign student who does the same any different?
Right, so while there are in the US, they are not using all of the infrastructure of your country for an extended period of time? Do you think all of the infrastructure on the university was paid for by student tuition alone?
And how is that different than when I paid for my own education as a citizen? Despite whatever taxes paid for the country's and university's infrastructure, I would certainly not entertain the idea from someone like Zuck that "we" educated me.
By the same logic, we could claim that "we" paid for the vacations of foreign tourists as they use our infrastructure and go to museums that are tax supported. And it would be just as absurd an assertion as Zuck's is here.
I also thought this was particularly galling:
"Given all this, why do we kick out the more than 40% of math and science graduate students who are not US citizens after educating them?"
Wait a sec...*who* educated them? Does the US gov't typically pay a foreign student's tuition, or do they have to either pay their own way or manage a grant/scholarship? My guess would be the latter case would be the overwhelming majority, with the only role of gov't in most cases being to grant a student visa. It's one thing to suggest that maybe 'we' should have program to help convert student visas to work visas, but to say we are "kicking out" people who were granted visas solely for education because they finished their education, which it is dubiously implied that "we" paid for, is simply dishonest.
Facebook's Wealth Demands unlimited slaves?
Actually, I was assuming that you need to cultivate a better class of house guest. ;-)
I don't even let my visitor plug into the same network my main computers are, and have both a separated WiFi network and a separated ethernet segment for them (1 port only in the guest room), that I treat as a DMZ. Ok, I'm paranoid, but still.
I shudder to think what booby traps you set up to keep your house guests away from your silverware and jewelry.
Of course it is. They are avoiding theft of their property.
Oh, please. You do realize that without the "theft" of taxes, the only property you could own is that which could personally defend, which in the case of civilization's truly wealthy means virtually all of it. I don't like taxation any more than the next guy, but the idea that the uber-wealthy are "avoiding theft" by evading the taxes that ultimately enable and protect their ability to accumulate disproportionate wealth is pure nonsense.
also known as a G-Tard. Spread the mime, share the love.
If there's a contest for best derogatory term for a GG user, I submit...Glass-hat.
The article sounds convincing, unfortunately it is completely false.
linked PDF
I gave this a quick skim, and couldn't help but notice that it says "There is no convincing argument for using 24-bit data in a distribution format" and under the heading "Do we need more than 44.1KHZ?", he pretty much hedges both ways and does not present a convincing case that any actual human being can actually perceive a difference between 44.1 and higher sampling rates.
I won't say it doesn't present a valid alternative view to the Xiph article, but to say it renders the article I linked "completely false" is a fair stretch.
I wasn't talking about before currency was regulated by governments (no one is that old), I'm talking about before any transaction greater than $10,000 became subject to Federal scrutiny, like maybe 40 years ago, which I *do* remember, and yes it was a "primarily cash economy". How you took that mean "prior to gov'ts to controlling their currencies" is beyond me. My point was that the idea that we need these regulations "for our safety" is rather ludicrous when our society functioned just fine without them in recent memory.
kinda like 640K?
Unless you want to argue that human hearing is improving similarly to Moore's law, then no.