You guys really have some learning to do. Obama promises very vague things, fundamental change or fix the XXX, and you read into it what YOU want rather than asking him for specifics. As long as you let your leaders get away with this sort of shenanigan you're going to be disappointed much or most of the time. "Patent reform" is another vague declaration. Patent reform to limit or eliminate patent trolling is specific. Patent reform to make it easier to obtain frivolous patents and use then for trolling is specific. Which one do you read into the statement, "I intend to see that the patent system is reformed?" Which one do you think will happen in reality?
Demand the specifics of your owners er legislators and POTUS. Then hold them to the specifics. Until you do you are going to be owned by the government rather than you being the government's owner. You should face any government officials with some strong well earned cynicism.
It would be nice if "fundamental reform" was defined, wouldn't it? I basically do not trust vague platitudes such as "fundamental reform". They must tell me specifically what they plan. Is it more government to "protect me" or is it "get the friggin' government out of my face?"
I've rather had it up to here with oppressively huge government. Let's try small government for a change. It worked when we did it that way. It's better than "more of the same old same old" we've been doing of late, R and D both.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
This sounds SO good, clean, and to the point. But there are holes in this picture.
But, what could possibly go wrong?
For example, what does the world do if China turns around and hurriedly constructs a hundred Chernobyl style reactors for power?
I'm surprised nobody (moderated high enough to matter) here has asked that obvious question. This is simply an application of the general rule that no good deed goes unpunished or the old cliche about the road to Hell being paved with good intentions.
So, yes, I really am wondering, "What could possibly go wrong?" I wonder because as a pessimist I figure the worst possible thing will go wrong if you apply a nuclear weapon to digging a hole in the ground.
Communism leads to dead retirees if not babies, dear. They are on a fixed income. Seattle has just doubled what it will cost them to go out for a dinner or a coffee. If all they get is social security you've just constrained them to their homes. Oh wait, they can't even live there because the prices of the food they eat are going to go up. The prices of the gasoline they use to get out of the city to saner purchasing climes goes up. All prices go up. How about making sure those on a Social Security income have their income go up accordingly?
If the current minimum wage is not worth working to receive why do people work? They have welfare to fall back upon? It sets a very effective and practical minimum wage? Oh, you say these are young people of school age trying to build up work resumes of any kind possible so they can move on to better paying jobs? Hm, will they be able to get the resume job (hey, he actually is willing to work) with the higher cost for their unproven (or proven barely adequate) labor?
Minimum wage has a lot of "feel good" associated with it. Now sit down and build the logic tree for what happens next, with real people involved not fantasy idealized people.
It would be far better to capture the leaders and use the information we can get from them to unwind the organization from the top. But that means soldiers might get killed doing something constructive rather than for trivia as we've been doing in Afghanistan. With drone attacks there is no danger some terrorist might get a bent pinkie fingernail and scream about it. There is also no danger we'd actually be able to stop the threats.
Um, the CEO of a corporation is employed by the board of directors and ultimately the shareholders. That said the CEO is in charge of everything else related to the day to day operation of the company. So the hiring (and firing) is his responsibility usually delegated to various high level employees in Human Resources.
In this specific case there is no evidence he ever acted against the inclusive culture of the Mozilla projects. Yet he is being hounded into losing his job by a collection of ravening hyenas. Shame.
My wee little DSL account received some 5000 probes from well over 100 Chinese domains and a small sprinkling (tens) of domains in other nations just a few days ago. Are they going to tell me that this was the US government probing my machine? It's far easier to believe it is their government getting a burr under the saddle over one small single Internet address in Southern California that houses a small business in a small niche market. Scroom.
I programmed this into a news room video application for a customer of mine. It is quite hackable. I've been waiting for something like this to happen. It's only real security was its, then, relative obscurity. It has other quaint problems, too. I presume they will get discovered the hard way with time.
I remember the Grid Compass computer complete with its HPIB connected hard drive all too well. It had tremendous potential and crashed more often than AmigaDOS 1.0. On top of that of the 6 computers our group of 4 developers had we barely managed to keep one working machine per person on the floor at any given time. But hooboy our military customer loved their sexy look.
This destroys an important feature of a somewhat humorous observation relating two dates celebrating more or less opposite things, at least for Christians. You'd no longer be able to declare that Halloween and Christmas were the same thing, 031 == 25, after all.
{^_^}
I'd like to meet the guy who can use this as pocket change. The Jolly Green Giant comes to mind, though. So the meet should be at a safe distance, I suspect.
{^_-}
Take any and all bets that the world will end at whatever odds the bettor wishes to make.
If the world does not win, you keep the money.
If the world ends, who's going to be there to pay?
{^_-}
Let me see here. If we had adopted this philosophy for whale oil lanterns and buggy whips we'd still be supporting those two moribund and obsolete industries.
This should stifle progress and prove the big government capability to tax "because we can and you have no choice."
I was presented a picture of an ancient (65 million years of evolution ago) bird. So I selected bird, of course. That IS what a tyrannosaur is. It's protein makeup for its bone marrow is closest to chicken of all animals tested. Hence, it's a bird.
Yeah, I am being obnoxious. Dinosaur was on the list. Bird probably should not have been on the list.
{^_-}
Just in case you doubted he was lying there quite a few blog sites doing take downs on Moore's assertions that the Cuban hospitals are great models for America. In reality they are filthy, vermin infected, under staffed, and under equipped.
One example has pictures. I don't think I'd want to go NEAR that kind of a "health" facility.
For that matter nobody has put it all together yet.
Converting MPEG to decent video is not opressively difficult. There are video cards that purport to be able to do this. There are expensive video cards that need expensive software to control them which I do know work. I do the software for one such item that is used in several interesting places like ABC Washington DC with on the air talent controlling it.
What I do not see is anything other than a handwave description of what he wants. Does he want a bare naked replacement for a small bank of tape recorders? Or does he want something that can do a little more with some effects over live video? Does he simply play back movies and that's the end of it? Does he have a news room? Does he want to automate the whole mess or does he want manual control at the "tape recorder level"? Does he want something inbetween? What level of broadcast standards does he want to meet?
There are enough variables present that he did not define very clearly. And if he wants to go for broadcast standards I suggest he is not going to do it with a raw PC even with a good video card. The kinds of cards I work with go through quite a few interesting steps to maintain audio and video timing, for example. If he is working in a real studio environment and wants more than a simple substitute for a TiVo then, yes, he can do the playback with almost anything.
But he will not be replacing the timebase correctors or anything else in the station. And it may not be amenable to remote controlling with any station automation software he might have.
If he needs to run a full up small TV station and tries to do it "for free" with Linux I'd dearly love to see what he turns up. I suspect it will be amusing. The real equipment for this job is into rather high dollar figures by the time the ability to switch without glitching video, perform even some minimal special
effect (Boxes, fades, keys, squeezes) are considered. If he wants an audomated station the Harris controller, the various key combiners, time base correctors, switches, and other ancilliary equipment is likely to make the price of a $25000 commercial clip store unit look depressingly cheap.
I am rather bemused at the apparent lack of expertise of this person asking the question. Is he, perhaps, a young person trying to setup a little pirate video station? His wording did not imply any real broadcast experience.
One might note that the young man is spending a whole 420 milliseconds in prison for each email address stolen. I am not sure what this sends as a message to other would be thieves. Is stealing a thousand names good for only 420 seconds in jail? Are there enough names in the world to put the fellow away for a serious length of time?
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I rather expected this.
You guys really have some learning to do. Obama promises very vague things, fundamental change or fix the XXX, and you read into it what YOU want rather than asking him for specifics. As long as you let your leaders get away with this sort of shenanigan you're going to be disappointed much or most of the time. "Patent reform" is another vague declaration. Patent reform to limit or eliminate patent trolling is specific. Patent reform to make it easier to obtain frivolous patents and use then for trolling is specific. Which one do you read into the statement, "I intend to see that the patent system is reformed?" Which one do you think will happen in reality?
Demand the specifics of your owners er legislators and POTUS. Then hold them to the specifics. Until you do you are going to be owned by the government rather than you being the government's owner. You should face any government officials with some strong well earned cynicism.
{^_^}
It would be nice if "fundamental reform" was defined, wouldn't it? I basically do not trust vague platitudes such as "fundamental reform". They must tell me specifically what they plan. Is it more government to "protect me" or is it "get the friggin' government out of my face?"
I've rather had it up to here with oppressively huge government. Let's try small government for a change. It worked when we did it that way. It's better than "more of the same old same old" we've been doing of late, R and D both.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
{^_^}
This sounds SO good, clean, and to the point. But there are holes in this picture.
But, what could possibly go wrong?
For example, what does the world do if China turns around and hurriedly constructs a hundred Chernobyl style reactors for power?
I'm surprised nobody (moderated high enough to matter) here has asked that obvious question. This is simply an application of the general rule that no good deed goes unpunished or the old cliche about the road to Hell being paved with good intentions.
So, yes, I really am wondering, "What could possibly go wrong?" I wonder because as a pessimist I figure the worst possible thing will go wrong if you apply a nuclear weapon to digging a hole in the ground.
{^_^}
Communism leads to dead retirees if not babies, dear. They are on a fixed income. Seattle has just doubled what it will cost them to go out for a dinner or a coffee. If all they get is social security you've just constrained them to their homes. Oh wait, they can't even live there because the prices of the food they eat are going to go up. The prices of the gasoline they use to get out of the city to saner purchasing climes goes up. All prices go up. How about making sure those on a Social Security income have their income go up accordingly?
If the current minimum wage is not worth working to receive why do people work? They have welfare to fall back upon? It sets a very effective and practical minimum wage? Oh, you say these are young people of school age trying to build up work resumes of any kind possible so they can move on to better paying jobs? Hm, will they be able to get the resume job (hey, he actually is willing to work) with the higher cost for their unproven (or proven barely adequate) labor?
Minimum wage has a lot of "feel good" associated with it. Now sit down and build the logic tree for what happens next, with real people involved not fantasy idealized people.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
{^_^}
More significantly, when did Asians become Whites? Ponder that one for awhile. Then ask where it is leading.
{^_^}
Nope, you are not alone.
{^_^}
It would be far better to capture the leaders and use the information we can get from them to unwind the organization from the top. But that means soldiers might get killed doing something constructive rather than for trivia as we've been doing in Afghanistan. With drone attacks there is no danger some terrorist might get a bent pinkie fingernail and scream about it. There is also no danger we'd actually be able to stop the threats.
Color me cynical about the twits in DC.
{^_^}
Not just barking up the wrong tree but also just plain barking mad, absurd, off the wall, and possibly . . . . . a troll.
{O.O}
Um, the CEO of a corporation is employed by the board of directors and ultimately the shareholders. That said the CEO is in charge of everything else related to the day to day operation of the company. So the hiring (and firing) is his responsibility usually delegated to various high level employees in Human Resources.
In this specific case there is no evidence he ever acted against the inclusive culture of the Mozilla projects. Yet he is being hounded into losing his job by a collection of ravening hyenas. Shame.
{^_^}
We could simply purchase it from Iran or North Korea, I suppose.
{O.O}
{^_^}
{O,o}
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I remember the Grid Compass computer complete with its HPIB connected hard drive all too well. It had tremendous potential and crashed more often than AmigaDOS 1.0. On top of that of the 6 computers our group of 4 developers had we barely managed to keep one working machine per person on the floor at any given time. But hooboy our military customer loved their sexy look.
{^_^}
This destroys an important feature of a somewhat humorous observation relating two dates celebrating more or less opposite things, at least for Christians. You'd no longer be able to declare that Halloween and Christmas were the same thing, 031 == 25, after all. {^_^}
I'd like to meet the guy who can use this as pocket change. The Jolly Green Giant comes to mind, though. So the meet should be at a safe distance, I suspect. {^_-}
Take any and all bets that the world will end at whatever odds the bettor wishes to make. If the world does not win, you keep the money. If the world ends, who's going to be there to pay? {^_-}
This should stifle progress and prove the big government capability to tax "because we can and you have no choice."
{^_^}
Or simply run "sa-update" as root to fetch down the updated rule. {^_^}
That is to say, we'll to it to ourselves by simple mistakes.
{^_^}
I was presented a picture of an ancient (65 million years of evolution ago) bird. So I selected bird, of course. That IS what a tyrannosaur is. It's protein makeup for its bone marrow is closest to chicken of all animals tested. Hence, it's a bird. Yeah, I am being obnoxious. Dinosaur was on the list. Bird probably should not have been on the list. {^_-}
Just in case you doubted he was lying there quite a few blog sites doing take downs on Moore's assertions that the Cuban hospitals are great models for America. In reality they are filthy, vermin infected, under staffed, and under equipped.
- moores-wish-for-america-cuban.html
One example has pictures. I don't think I'd want to go NEAR that kind of a "health" facility.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/06/michael
Michael Moore is clearly an intellectual, one who is educated beyond his capacity. And his capacity is very low.
{^_^}
For that matter nobody has put it all together yet. Converting MPEG to decent video is not opressively difficult. There are video cards that purport to be able to do this. There are expensive video cards that need expensive software to control them which I do know work. I do the software for one such item that is used in several interesting places like ABC Washington DC with on the air talent controlling it. What I do not see is anything other than a handwave description of what he wants. Does he want a bare naked replacement for a small bank of tape recorders? Or does he want something that can do a little more with some effects over live video? Does he simply play back movies and that's the end of it? Does he have a news room? Does he want to automate the whole mess or does he want manual control at the "tape recorder level"? Does he want something inbetween? What level of broadcast standards does he want to meet? There are enough variables present that he did not define very clearly. And if he wants to go for broadcast standards I suggest he is not going to do it with a raw PC even with a good video card. The kinds of cards I work with go through quite a few interesting steps to maintain audio and video timing, for example. If he is working in a real studio environment and wants more than a simple substitute for a TiVo then, yes, he can do the playback with almost anything. But he will not be replacing the timebase correctors or anything else in the station. And it may not be amenable to remote controlling with any station automation software he might have. If he needs to run a full up small TV station and tries to do it "for free" with Linux I'd dearly love to see what he turns up. I suspect it will be amusing. The real equipment for this job is into rather high dollar figures by the time the ability to switch without glitching video, perform even some minimal special effect (Boxes, fades, keys, squeezes) are considered. If he wants an audomated station the Harris controller, the various key combiners, time base correctors, switches, and other ancilliary equipment is likely to make the price of a $25000 commercial clip store unit look depressingly cheap. I am rather bemused at the apparent lack of expertise of this person asking the question. Is he, perhaps, a young person trying to setup a little pirate video station? His wording did not imply any real broadcast experience.
Don't know. But with two of these you could handle a memory (ram memory) dump on one of the larger UniSys machines. {^_-}
One might note that the young man is spending a whole 420 milliseconds in prison for each email address stolen. I am not sure what this sends as a message to other would be thieves. Is stealing a thousand names good for only 420 seconds in jail? Are there enough names in the world to put the fellow away for a serious length of time?
{^_-}