You can be sure that the present and the next German government will ruin the country's goal to go re-newable energy in the next four month. Furthermore, Germany is subsidizing re-newable energy at present by guaranteeing prices to producers of that energy. Of course thew public has to pay for that, but that is no different from that US program which is most likely sponsored by public or newly printed money.
Anyway, the two efforts are quite different. Germany is seeking for cheap electricity storage with a low rate on energy waste and a Pareto optimum on recycling effort and longevity.
So in short: The two projects have different goals and they are both funded somehow through public money. The main difference is that the German version gives an incentive to industry to support the effort. Also I might add, Germany is also subsidizing research in the area through direct and indirect government funding.
Well, it worked before. The British have this fabulous web-filters for content, which allow to control the delivered content. A clear censorship mechanism. They defended it with the child porn argument and the keep porn away from children argument. It worked. In Germany it did not, but they only used the child porn argument and were caught lying, about its effectiveness. and yes it was only a scheme to gain votes for the conservatives. However, Cameron that little anti-democrat tries to transform the UK in one of Orwell's fantasies to finally abolish any opposition to his classistic view of the world. Poor Britain.:-(
The European government are outraged on being spied on. The same government, however, cooperated with the US in spying on the whole world population. The outrage in Europe, for example in Germany, only appeared after it was found out that Merkel was spied on, the same person who decided that spying on the population is no big deal.
So there are two things: a) Spying on population: good -> done by every state, and they cooperated on that b) Spying on governments: bad -> done by the US (the other direction is very unlikely especially for small countries like Germany or France)
The statement is that the others are also spying on their population and that they are cooperation on that. However, this is different to spying on state personal, presidents or chancellors. That's why the German Chancellor had no problem when Snowden revealed that the world population is spied on by the US. We all assumed that she as any other government was in on it. Spying on herself and here government is a total different story for her. It is save to assume that Germany is not spying on the US government, as they do not have the capabilities.
It looks like many of the slashdotters have a problem with the federal state or states in general. They are seen as an unnecessary obstacle to freedom. They seek freedom as in anarchy where there is no government and of course no rules. You could state that people could still agree on rules, but in any case these rules deteriorate over time, as some people do not follow them. Furthermore, rules are not really part of an anarchy. Therefore, losing them is not a problem. But the end would be very unorganized.
We, therefore, invented the state. In history it was pushed on us buy kings and other sorts of dictators, but since the enlightenment, we developed democracy (which really needs more progress). In a real democracy the common rules are defined together and enforced by the state. Furthermore, the state is an organization formed by the people of that state to guarantee human rights. These common interests need funds, therefore the state must be able to collect taxes. A totally untraceable currency would hinder this resulting in a poor state. A poor state cannot protect people and cannot guarantee that common rules are followed, resulting in no rights for people with no money and all the rights for those who can pay for it.
However, I understand that there is a lot of mistrust towards the state. IMHO the solution is not to hide the money from this state, but change it. A good state is controlled by the public. Therefore, the state must guarantee free access to information and it has to ask the people on many key decisions. Switzerland is somewhat a good example for that. Also the Scandinavian countries and to some extend the rest of Western Europe. In reality not the state is the problem, but its corruption. Therefore you have to fight corruption.
User experience will degrade for XP in normal desktop environments. In other use cases nothing will change much, as these systems do not use browsers. They control some weird machinery and the day the hardware fails, they have to be replaced. As long as the new hardware is able to run the old setup, these system will remain in that state. At the very day, the user/company is unable to acquire a replacement unit able to run the old stuff, they either migrate to a new OS or they collapse trying. As a company you should get rid of un-maintained software stacks. As a desktop user, you will migrate when it hurts more to stay with XP then migrating to something else.
This is your way of stating your opinion? Looks, like your parents forgot to teach you something particular important to be considered an adult and able to participate in a discussion. You could say that you disagree with Canonicals decision towards Wayland/Weston. You could say that the way they handled the issue and announced Mir sucks and was not a cooperative mode. In addition they made some bad blood. And that all would sound like someone really discussing the issue, but really you just sound like someone either too young to remember the vi vs. emacs wars or like someone exhumed from that day, just to behave like a troll.
BTW: Get a life, normally that reduced these urges to hate someone just because you find his or her decision questionable.
Cameron is presently converting the UK into a totalitarian state. He already has a central spy infrastructure, cameras at every corner, and a content control infrastructure (for pron of course, other stuff is allowed). He fights free press together with his friends in the conservative press (including Murdoch). Most likely, he will perform a referendum on UK-exit from the EU, which if it succeeds will help the EU and harm the UK in many ways. For Cameron it has the advantage that it is easier to dump the European human rights declaration, which he already blamed to be bad for the UK, because they have to treat foreigners/immigrants like humans.
But, yes he is right. The real problem are Facebook videos, photos, or posts. (Well FB sucks, but everyone is still free to not use it)
People are not able to describe their problems and requirements in a conflict free way. You may reduce the amount of technical experience, like how to use J2EE or network communication etc., however, the complexity of software solutions cannot be hidden by a non creative system. Research has tried this, they even tried to use AI, it all cannot help you with the first step. Understand what you want. The second step, transforming requirements to architecture is also a creative task and cannot be mechanized. And the general population is not able to conceptualize problems properly. Look at BPNM models drawn by business people. They mostly do not what the customer wants.
They most likely mean the high rise buildings in Karlsruhe, like the library. Most German skyscrapers are located in Bankfurt (alias Frankfurt). They are used as phalli for the finance industry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Germany).
Tools are made by engineers. They shape the options to manipulate our environment. Our elite overlords determine how they are used. Sometimes they miss something and we get printing or the Internet out in the public;-)
The correct terms are throughput vs. response time. Throughput matters for many applications including video streaming. Only interactive applications, such as tele- or videophone require low ping rates, meaning low response time.
The US would not survive that. Especially because China already tries to improve its relationships with India. Therefore, it could easily be the other way round.
It is not important what the average US citizen thinks, as he has no influence on foreign policy. I wonder why the Us elites are not able to see that their power is declining. I guess they think this is like the thing with the Russians. Forgetting that the Russians lost, because of bad management and limited resources. Also the US had a head start in the area of industrialization. Furthermore, Russia only has 150 mio inhabitants. In contrast China has almost 10 times as much inhabitants. They have a capitalistic economy even though the state is governed by a Communist Party. However, this is more like strawberry yogurt, which often does not include any strawberries. In addition, China belongs to an area with many other economic upstarts and there is also India, which is growing constantly.
But I guess the main problem is that cooperation was always thought in the US as something controlled by the US. While true cooperation includes collaborative work.
My personal prediction for the near future is. The Republicans win the next election. Then there will be no dept ceiling crisis anymore, as Democrats will always vote in favor of the ability of the state to function. The new government will eradicate any European-like stuff, e.g., Obama-Care, and most likely ruin all efforts in the Middle-East to come to a piece full solution. Then we will run in the next economic burp somewhat in the next five years, which will have interesting effects on the US and on the EU. At the end the "West" will no longer be able to keep up its hegemony. Maybe the British will leave the EU (at the present state that would not be a big tragedy) . But maybe the elites are able to fix the problems, closing the income gap, controlling the financial sector, and stop their political radicals.
It is a great idea to have a "world currency" as global interchange currency. Therefore, no country would be able to just print money to buy new resources. However, this is only going to work when the average of countries join such system. However, the USA is not going to commit themselves to it, as they are primarily the profiteer of the present model, where everyone else must buy resources in a foreign currency, but the USA (not totally true, as some trade are made in Euro and Yuan).
Most of our data are totally uninteresting pieces of garbage. Think of it, a future species recovers an archive of present tweets and facebook comments. They will think that we died out because we were egocentric egoistic maniacs who do not care about their future and legacy. Furthermore, they will see it as direct evidence that we preserved nonsense about our pity lives in a super material, while other knowledge was not stored at all. But maybe, they just come up with the idea that the data must be somewhat scrambled, as it makes no sense at all.
What do you mean? Do you want to invade China or the EU? Because we are very pissed about you spying on us (in cooperation with the British government of course). Honestly, the US runs around like a bully and wonders when it is disliked everywhere. Maybe, just maybe, try to cooperate with the rest of us, meaning 6 billion people.
BTW: Empires, who only base their strength on their military always have fallen. Cooperation is a much better solution.
Instead of alienating everybody you could start to be cooperative. Listen to other cultures, be trustworthy, compromise, don't try to be the bully in the schoolyard. Use your military only to defend you home country and eventually the territory of allies.
In summary: Don't be the imperialist you have been in the decades since 1945. Your president Eisenhower already saw that coming. Now you have a world (6 billion people) who find you untrustworthy, bully and a pain in the ass. The robots will not solve this issue.
While you are true in the essence of your conclusion, you are wrong in using the term "war on building any sustainable relationships". First, war is not a very well chosen term in context of relationship or sustainable. For sustainable relationships the US must learn to compromise and cooperate with other. But the whole political system in the US is based on competition of two parties, and the "winner takes it all"-mentality. It has become worse in recent years including the previous Bush administration.
You cannot simulate care and love through a phone. Especially not when you take into account that you are talking about a four year old. Reflect on his capabilities to understand the world. And then think if a phone is doing any good. But for a video chat most present Android models are capable of such gimmick and it should be a robust waterproof device.
You really never have been to Germany, have you. Germany is full of over complicated regulations to solve simple problems. And they do not work perfectly. However, they have, many mechanisms to support consensus or at least compromise construction. This has many positive effects. For example, smaller income spread which helps to increase a commitment to society resulting in less violence. Unions are part of that system. However, to make it work in the US, unions must be made more transparent and they should rearrange themselves to industry-"aligned" unions. In Germany (or France), unions are big and cover for example all metal-processing companies and all employees in these companies from the cleaning staff to the engineer and manager.
Maybe you should try to learn from other countries. We have unions and they are quite helpful in many aspects to protect employees. For example, have a look at German unions. It could open your eyes. Furthermore, Germany's corporations have a board of directors which include 50% representatives from the labor force of the company and a workers committee. All these elements help companies to perform better and to level power between the owners, employers, and employees. It is not perfect, but when I think about the things I get in my job all guaranteed by laws and union-industry contracts where I do not have to fight for individually, it is truly a positive thing.
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You can be sure that the present and the next German government will ruin the country's goal to go re-newable energy in the next four month. Furthermore, Germany is subsidizing re-newable energy at present by guaranteeing prices to producers of that energy. Of course thew public has to pay for that, but that is no different from that US program which is most likely sponsored by public or newly printed money.
Anyway, the two efforts are quite different. Germany is seeking for cheap electricity storage with a low rate on energy waste and a Pareto optimum on recycling effort and longevity.
So in short: The two projects have different goals and they are both funded somehow through public money. The main difference is that the German version gives an incentive to industry to support the effort. Also I might add, Germany is also subsidizing research in the area through direct and indirect government funding.
Well, it worked before. The British have this fabulous web-filters for content, which allow to control the delivered content. A clear censorship mechanism. They defended it with the child porn argument and the keep porn away from children argument. It worked. In Germany it did not, but they only used the child porn argument and were caught lying, about its effectiveness. and yes it was only a scheme to gain votes for the conservatives. However, Cameron that little anti-democrat tries to transform the UK in one of Orwell's fantasies to finally abolish any opposition to his classistic view of the world. Poor Britain. :-(
They already do that by not maintaining the roads, resulting in slower velocities reducing accidents or at least the severity of accidents.
I guess Iceland is not spying on its population. As it is not really necessary on that small island.
The European government are outraged on being spied on. The same government, however, cooperated with the US in spying on the whole world population. The outrage in Europe, for example in Germany, only appeared after it was found out that Merkel was spied on, the same person who decided that spying on the population is no big deal.
So there are two things:
a) Spying on population: good -> done by every state, and they cooperated on that
b) Spying on governments: bad -> done by the US (the other direction is very unlikely especially for small countries like Germany or France)
The statement is that the others are also spying on their population and that they are cooperation on that. However, this is different to spying on state personal, presidents or chancellors. That's why the German Chancellor had no problem when Snowden revealed that the world population is spied on by the US. We all assumed that she as any other government was in on it. Spying on herself and here government is a total different story for her. It is save to assume that Germany is not spying on the US government, as they do not have the capabilities.
It looks like many of the slashdotters have a problem with the federal state or states in general. They are seen as an unnecessary obstacle to freedom. They seek freedom as in anarchy where there is no government and of course no rules. You could state that people could still agree on rules, but in any case these rules deteriorate over time, as some people do not follow them. Furthermore, rules are not really part of an anarchy. Therefore, losing them is not a problem. But the end would be very unorganized.
We, therefore, invented the state. In history it was pushed on us buy kings and other sorts of dictators, but since the enlightenment, we developed democracy (which really needs more progress). In a real democracy the common rules are defined together and enforced by the state. Furthermore, the state is an organization formed by the people of that state to guarantee human rights. These common interests need funds, therefore the state must be able to collect taxes. A totally untraceable currency would hinder this resulting in a poor state. A poor state cannot protect people and cannot guarantee that common rules are followed, resulting in no rights for people with no money and all the rights for those who can pay for it.
However, I understand that there is a lot of mistrust towards the state. IMHO the solution is not to hide the money from this state, but change it. A good state is controlled by the public. Therefore, the state must guarantee free access to information and it has to ask the people on many key decisions. Switzerland is somewhat a good example for that. Also the Scandinavian countries and to some extend the rest of Western Europe. In reality not the state is the problem, but its corruption. Therefore you have to fight corruption.
User experience will degrade for XP in normal desktop environments. In other use cases nothing will change much, as these systems do not use browsers. They control some weird machinery and the day the hardware fails, they have to be replaced. As long as the new hardware is able to run the old setup, these system will remain in that state. At the very day, the user/company is unable to acquire a replacement unit able to run the old stuff, they either migrate to a new OS or they collapse trying. As a company you should get rid of un-maintained software stacks. As a desktop user, you will migrate when it hurts more to stay with XP then migrating to something else.
This is your way of stating your opinion? Looks, like your parents forgot to teach you something particular important to be considered an adult and able to participate in a discussion. You could say that you disagree with Canonicals decision towards Wayland/Weston. You could say that the way they handled the issue and announced Mir sucks and was not a cooperative mode. In addition they made some bad blood. And that all would sound like someone really discussing the issue, but really you just sound like someone either too young to remember the vi vs. emacs wars or like someone exhumed from that day, just to behave like a troll.
BTW: Get a life, normally that reduced these urges to hate someone just because you find his or her decision questionable.
Cameron is presently converting the UK into a totalitarian state. He already has a central spy infrastructure, cameras at every corner, and a content control infrastructure (for pron of course, other stuff is allowed). He fights free press together with his friends in the conservative press (including Murdoch). Most likely, he will perform a referendum on UK-exit from the EU, which if it succeeds will help the EU and harm the UK in many ways. For Cameron it has the advantage that it is easier to dump the European human rights declaration, which he already blamed to be bad for the UK, because they have to treat foreigners/immigrants like humans.
But, yes he is right. The real problem are Facebook videos, photos, or posts. (Well FB sucks, but everyone is still free to not use it)
People are not able to describe their problems and requirements in a conflict free way. You may reduce the amount of technical experience, like how to use J2EE or network communication etc., however, the complexity of software solutions cannot be hidden by a non creative system. Research has tried this, they even tried to use AI, it all cannot help you with the first step. Understand what you want. The second step, transforming requirements to architecture is also a creative task and cannot be mechanized. And the general population is not able to conceptualize problems properly. Look at BPNM models drawn by business people. They mostly do not what the customer wants.
They most likely mean the high rise buildings in Karlsruhe, like the library. Most German skyscrapers are located in Bankfurt (alias Frankfurt). They are used as phalli for the finance industry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Germany).
Tools are made by engineers. They shape the options to manipulate our environment. Our elite overlords determine how they are used. Sometimes they miss something and we get printing or the Internet out in the public ;-)
The correct terms are throughput vs. response time. Throughput matters for many applications including video streaming. Only interactive applications, such as tele- or videophone require low ping rates, meaning low response time.
The US would not survive that. Especially because China already tries to improve its relationships with India. Therefore, it could easily be the other way round.
It is not important what the average US citizen thinks, as he has no influence on foreign policy. I wonder why the Us elites are not able to see that their power is declining. I guess they think this is like the thing with the Russians. Forgetting that the Russians lost, because of bad management and limited resources. Also the US had a head start in the area of industrialization. Furthermore, Russia only has 150 mio inhabitants. In contrast China has almost 10 times as much inhabitants. They have a capitalistic economy even though the state is governed by a Communist Party. However, this is more like strawberry yogurt, which often does not include any strawberries. In addition, China belongs to an area with many other economic upstarts and there is also India, which is growing constantly.
But I guess the main problem is that cooperation was always thought in the US as something controlled by the US. While true cooperation includes collaborative work.
My personal prediction for the near future is. The Republicans win the next election. Then there will be no dept ceiling crisis anymore, as Democrats will always vote in favor of the ability of the state to function. The new government will eradicate any European-like stuff, e.g., Obama-Care, and most likely ruin all efforts in the Middle-East to come to a piece full solution. Then we will run in the next economic burp somewhat in the next five years, which will have interesting effects on the US and on the EU. At the end the "West" will no longer be able to keep up its hegemony. Maybe the British will leave the EU (at the present state that would not be a big tragedy) . But maybe the elites are able to fix the problems, closing the income gap, controlling the financial sector, and stop their political radicals.
It is a great idea to have a "world currency" as global interchange currency. Therefore, no country would be able to just print money to buy new resources. However, this is only going to work when the average of countries join such system. However, the USA is not going to commit themselves to it, as they are primarily the profiteer of the present model, where everyone else must buy resources in a foreign currency, but the USA (not totally true, as some trade are made in Euro and Yuan).
Most of our data are totally uninteresting pieces of garbage. Think of it, a future species recovers an archive of present tweets and facebook comments. They will think that we died out because we were egocentric egoistic maniacs who do not care about their future and legacy. Furthermore, they will see it as direct evidence that we preserved nonsense about our pity lives in a super material, while other knowledge was not stored at all. But maybe, they just come up with the idea that the data must be somewhat scrambled, as it makes no sense at all.
What do you mean? Do you want to invade China or the EU? Because we are very pissed about you spying on us (in cooperation with the British government of course). Honestly, the US runs around like a bully and wonders when it is disliked everywhere. Maybe, just maybe, try to cooperate with the rest of us, meaning 6 billion people.
BTW: Empires, who only base their strength on their military always have fallen. Cooperation is a much better solution.
Instead of alienating everybody you could start to be cooperative. Listen to other cultures, be trustworthy, compromise, don't try to be the bully in the schoolyard. Use your military only to defend you home country and eventually the territory of allies.
In summary: Don't be the imperialist you have been in the decades since 1945. Your president Eisenhower already saw that coming. Now you have a world (6 billion people) who find you untrustworthy, bully and a pain in the ass. The robots will not solve this issue.
While you are true in the essence of your conclusion, you are wrong in using the term "war on building any sustainable relationships". First, war is not a very well chosen term in context of relationship or sustainable. For sustainable relationships the US must learn to compromise and cooperate with other. But the whole political system in the US is based on competition of two parties, and the "winner takes it all"-mentality. It has become worse in recent years including the previous Bush administration.
True the compositor stack must be replaced, but most QT or GTK application require just other libraries.
You cannot simulate care and love through a phone. Especially not when you take into account that you are talking about a four year old. Reflect on his capabilities to understand the world. And then think if a phone is doing any good. But for a video chat most present Android models are capable of such gimmick and it should be a robust waterproof device.
You really never have been to Germany, have you. Germany is full of over complicated regulations to solve simple problems. And they do not work perfectly. However, they have, many mechanisms to support consensus or at least compromise construction. This has many positive effects. For example, smaller income spread which helps to increase a commitment to society resulting in less violence. Unions are part of that system. However, to make it work in the US, unions must be made more transparent and they should rearrange themselves to industry-"aligned" unions. In Germany (or France), unions are big and cover for example all metal-processing companies and all employees in these companies from the cleaning staff to the engineer and manager.
Maybe you should try to learn from other countries. We have unions and they are quite helpful in many aspects to protect employees. For example, have a look at German unions. It could open your eyes. Furthermore, Germany's corporations have a board of directors which include 50% representatives from the labor force of the company and a workers committee. All these elements help companies to perform better and to level power between the owners, employers, and employees. It is not perfect, but when I think about the things I get in my job all guaranteed by laws and union-industry contracts where I do not have to fight for individually, it is truly a positive thing.