Interesting use of an example. Americans spend much less on clothing as compared to 30 years ago. The things that have increased the most over those decades are mortgages and health insurance, things that can't really be cut. That's the reason why the average American household is in debt. It's not because they're overconsuming.
Well maybe, but even if that wasn't the case, there still would be no big releases on Russia and Venezuela. After all, we already know Wikileaks has asked for help on occasion before to prepare their work. Their releases on the US government precludes all other work given their manpower.
When Ray says "Beyond the PC" what he's really saying is "beyond Windows OS".
This has been Microsoft's greatest nemesis, is their own myopia. They view everything with the tinged glasses of Windows. You can see this with Windows Mobile 7, even if it isn't "Windows" is trying to leverage "Windows 7" branding.
I don't think that's necessarily something unique to Microsoft. I remember when the iPhone was first released, Steve Jobs talked about how it had "the power of Mac OS" on a phone. It was only with iOS 4 where it was rebranded to be separate from Mac OS.
They held back 15 thousand pages to protect people's names while they tried to sort through them. Google it.
They asked the pentagon to tell them which name to remove, the pentagon told them to go to hell.
See this kind of statement doesn't make sense to me. Why is it reasonable to steal documents from the Pentagon and then go back to them and say "Hey, we stole so much that we care to look through ourselves so go redact this for us"? If Wikileaks wanted to take the high road it would withhold all the documents and then at the end do a final check. Not whine about how the Pentagon isn't doing their work for them. That just seems like a lame attempt at taking a jab at the Pentagon that has nothing to do with moralities of disclosing secret documents.
Fans you can't hear? Which Macbook is this? I have the unibody MBP for work and the fan kicks in like a lawn mower any time the CPU starts taking load.
And how is this mistranslation supposed to be better? I've heard plenty of apologists for Iran say this was a mistranslation and really it was "will vanish pages of time." How is that better at all? If the current Israeli regime (it's elected government) vanishes from the pages of time, that is a direct result of foreign military invasion. Israelis would never agree to letting their government disappear from the pages of time. And vanishing from the page of time means that it ceases to exist forever and its previous existence was never recognized which is foolish and wrong. It effectively means the same thing only it's more devious, so if anything it's worse.
That's where the standards war, or in this case, a variation on the theme comes up. In one camp, we see a several years old alliance called the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, or DECE, which includes five out of six of the major movie studies (Warner Brothers, Paramount, NBC Universal, Sony and Fox), together with an impressive array of players in almost all of the affected sectors: software and hardware companies (e.g., Microsoft, Intel and Cisco), consumer electronics vendors (Sony, also a content owner), mobile device vendors (like Motorola and Apple, cable companies (including Comcast, Cox Communications and Liberty Global) and video and player distributors (e.g., Netflix, and Best Buy)....
And in the other camp? Well, to start with, there is the remaining major studio: Disney. And then there's, well, maybe nobody. But everyone's expectation is that Disney's partner in combat is Apple, which has not joined the other group. Apple, incidentally, remains Disney's largest single shareholder, as a result of the sale of Pixar to Disney (Amazon is also notable by its absence from the DECE member roster). According to one report, the Disney plan may rely on an Apple approach called MobileMe. Disney also made an announcement last week at CES, saying that it would take KeyChest live before the end of the year, and would announce other participating companies shortly.
Could have used a better example in the first block...
This would be only if you consider the rest of the world as consisting of only of Western Europe and Canada. Once you REALLY take in the rest of the world with people who are generally more conservative (Middle East, East Asia, etc.) it becomes apparently that America really is pretty centered relative to "the rest of the world."
No, he's absolutely right, and you're absolutely wrong. I fly fairly regularly and last crossed the border two weeks ago. The only people asking me where I was going and when I planned on being back was the Canadian border control. Not that that's bad either, because nations do that at their border anyways. It's not a special trait of a police state. All I had to present on my way back was my passport, which again usually happens on international borders.
Believing in something that doesn't reflect reality is not 'opening your eyes.' It's being delusional.
Clearly, Microsoft is just pissed off that it had some rotten luck and landed on Park Place and then snake eyes where both had hotels. Google must've fixed the dice. Everyone knows you always land on luxury tax.
Japan never stopped expansion in China (or anywhere for that matter) until they were defeated. They would have had to due to lack of oil, this is true. And they would have either have had to source it from somewhere else, negotiate an end to their expansion, or seize resources for war by force. They chose the last option, and consequently attacked the US to make it feasible. That in no way is forcing Japan to attack the US. Any suggestion of that reeks of horrible revisionism.
No but you probably do.
I wasn't trying to do anything of the sort. I could care less about what petty kids such as yourself think of me on/. You almost went the distance but tripped in the final stretch. Yeah my observation doesn't contribute much to the larger point under discussion, mainly because what I was responding to contributes absolutely nothing at all (my point if you missed it). There is absolutely no way you can evaluate the statement made, which essentially makes discussion of it meaningless and pointless. Now if (s)he he was discussing how to prevent such a program from recurring or patterns that suggest such a program being underneath the radar, that would definitely be meaningful. Saying that they're likely to start another program we'll never know about is pointless. You can never argue this point, and it is truly a waste of time. So yeah, if you can't even wrap your head around that, then go think about it a bit more before you waste anyone's time.
Oh I know I'm going to be watched to some degree whether it be by government or private institutions. However, allow me to simply for you. Regardless of what "spin" you try to put on it, the comment was essentially meaningless, and as such, how can it be insightful? Its interesting how you add all that drivel about news I read and slip in that about the government besides me not having said anything about whether or not I actually believe that it will be replaced or not. But if you indeed really can't cope with someone saying something against a comment that you sympathize with, then you are an idiot.
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Interesting use of an example. Americans spend much less on clothing as compared to 30 years ago. The things that have increased the most over those decades are mortgages and health insurance, things that can't really be cut. That's the reason why the average American household is in debt. It's not because they're overconsuming.
Well maybe, but even if that wasn't the case, there still would be no big releases on Russia and Venezuela. After all, we already know Wikileaks has asked for help on occasion before to prepare their work. Their releases on the US government precludes all other work given their manpower.
When Ray says "Beyond the PC" what he's really saying is "beyond Windows OS".
This has been Microsoft's greatest nemesis, is their own myopia. They view everything with the tinged glasses of Windows. You can see this with Windows Mobile 7, even if it isn't "Windows" is trying to leverage "Windows 7" branding.
I don't think that's necessarily something unique to Microsoft. I remember when the iPhone was first released, Steve Jobs talked about how it had "the power of Mac OS" on a phone. It was only with iOS 4 where it was rebranded to be separate from Mac OS.
They held back 15 thousand pages to protect people's names while they tried to sort through them. Google it. They asked the pentagon to tell them which name to remove, the pentagon told them to go to hell.
See this kind of statement doesn't make sense to me. Why is it reasonable to steal documents from the Pentagon and then go back to them and say "Hey, we stole so much that we care to look through ourselves so go redact this for us"? If Wikileaks wanted to take the high road it would withhold all the documents and then at the end do a final check. Not whine about how the Pentagon isn't doing their work for them. That just seems like a lame attempt at taking a jab at the Pentagon that has nothing to do with moralities of disclosing secret documents.
Kodachrome is by Paul Simon.
Maybe he intended to say defiantly and not definitely. It sounds odd, but it still makes sense.
Fans you can't hear? Which Macbook is this? I have the unibody MBP for work and the fan kicks in like a lawn mower any time the CPU starts taking load.
And how is this mistranslation supposed to be better? I've heard plenty of apologists for Iran say this was a mistranslation and really it was "will vanish pages of time." How is that better at all? If the current Israeli regime (it's elected government) vanishes from the pages of time, that is a direct result of foreign military invasion. Israelis would never agree to letting their government disappear from the pages of time. And vanishing from the page of time means that it ceases to exist forever and its previous existence was never recognized which is foolish and wrong. It effectively means the same thing only it's more devious, so if anything it's worse.
Could have used a better example in the first block...
I don't know where you get this idea that 8.5% of oil imports doesn't constitute "that much."
Since when did paying people more for a job to get them to come to your company become bribery?
What, Warner Bros. anti-piracy strategy? Suing people?
Received the wrong message...hah...
An xbox wouldn't even last until 2015...
This would be only if you consider the rest of the world as consisting of only of Western Europe and Canada. Once you REALLY take in the rest of the world with people who are generally more conservative (Middle East, East Asia, etc.) it becomes apparently that America really is pretty centered relative to "the rest of the world."
I expected that it wouldn't be long before someone blamed the inadequacies of their own government on the US.
I believe this would be relevant http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-health-privacy-and-hipaa.html
No, he's absolutely right, and you're absolutely wrong. I fly fairly regularly and last crossed the border two weeks ago. The only people asking me where I was going and when I planned on being back was the Canadian border control. Not that that's bad either, because nations do that at their border anyways. It's not a special trait of a police state. All I had to present on my way back was my passport, which again usually happens on international borders.
Believing in something that doesn't reflect reality is not 'opening your eyes.' It's being delusional.
Clearly, Microsoft is just pissed off that it had some rotten luck and landed on Park Place and then snake eyes where both had hotels. Google must've fixed the dice. Everyone knows you always land on luxury tax.
Only Verizon does that to its phones. The other carriers leave the manufacturer software on the phone.
Ah, so apparently the US became unpopular and resorted to exploiting foreigners and colonialism. So it was unpopular first for no reason.
Japan never stopped expansion in China (or anywhere for that matter) until they were defeated. They would have had to due to lack of oil, this is true. And they would have either have had to source it from somewhere else, negotiate an end to their expansion, or seize resources for war by force. They chose the last option, and consequently attacked the US to make it feasible. That in no way is forcing Japan to attack the US. Any suggestion of that reeks of horrible revisionism.
No but you probably do. I wasn't trying to do anything of the sort. I could care less about what petty kids such as yourself think of me on /. You almost went the distance but tripped in the final stretch. Yeah my observation doesn't contribute much to the larger point under discussion, mainly because what I was responding to contributes absolutely nothing at all (my point if you missed it). There is absolutely no way you can evaluate the statement made, which essentially makes discussion of it meaningless and pointless. Now if (s)he he was discussing how to prevent such a program from recurring or patterns that suggest such a program being underneath the radar, that would definitely be meaningful. Saying that they're likely to start another program we'll never know about is pointless. You can never argue this point, and it is truly a waste of time. So yeah, if you can't even wrap your head around that, then go think about it a bit more before you waste anyone's time.
Not exactly, I'd say experience suggests that it may be replaced by something that is supposed to be secretive but we find out about it anyways.
Oh I know I'm going to be watched to some degree whether it be by government or private institutions. However, allow me to simply for you. Regardless of what "spin" you try to put on it, the comment was essentially meaningless, and as such, how can it be insightful? Its interesting how you add all that drivel about news I read and slip in that about the government besides me not having said anything about whether or not I actually believe that it will be replaced or not. But if you indeed really can't cope with someone saying something against a comment that you sympathize with, then you are an idiot.