Do you really think that policies only have immediate effects? Do you seriously believe that there are no long-term consequences to any far-reaching, wide-sweeping pieces of legislation like those that deal with workers rights?
The economic trends you speak of in GGP happens in a generational timeframe, which is 20-40 years. The short term gains happen in the 5-10, but those are not the lasting effects. A lot of the things that came out of the "worker's rights" movement of the 60's and 70's resulted in the stagnation that began in the 90's and that you are still seeing today. This is especially true of government. And as a result, people today think that the government is incompetent (and it allows hard liners to take that stance without looking ridiculous) which in turn leads to a lower standard of living for all but the upper class.
The income disparity that you see is a direct product of deregulation, in particular repeals of things like the Glassâ"Steagall Act which had been in place since the 20's. The reason why such a thing could even happen was because people felt government was incompetent, and thus by extension government regulation was incompetently done.
I'm not saying everything that came out of the workers' movement was bad. But most of it was overboard, and the backlash as a result of the pendulum swinging back, also overboard, has resulted in the conditions you see today.
This is why direct democracies fail. It is the same reason why crowd sourcing for a task that requires actual experience and skill will never succeed.
The difference between Firewire speeds and USB speeds is that Firewire speeds are sustained, while USB speeds are burst.
That having been said, I believe you're correct, the latest popular version of Firewire goes up to 800Mbps. There are newer versions in development that go up to 3.2Gbps, matching USB 3.0, but to my knowledge, there's no ubiquitous hardware support for that standard yet.
GP may be thinking of Thunderbolt, which goes up to 10Gbps. Whether that's sustained or bust, I'm not sure. I suspect it's sustained though.
Same. If anyone retires, I want him nominated. Shame it's not actually going to happen, now that he's taken on the Obama administration.
Obama's really something. At the least, if he had defended DOMA, he had the excuse of his duty to defend the law. But given his stance there, it's obvious that any law his people defends is by choice.
The government under his watch is so transparent now we can almost see into it. Oh wait. That's just our reflection.
It works both ways. One of the big reasons Vista failed (to the general public, not to the informed user like those among us here) was because Intel pushed them to certify their low-end processor for Vista.
And no matter what your TV says to you, desktop and laptop Macs are still PC's, along with other personal computers that are running Linux and BSD. Those are largely unaffected by the fate of Windows, at least not negatively.
Some day MS is going to have to cope without Steve B
They coped well enough without Bill Gates.
MS has (had?) real bright folks, real talents who are more than capable of putting out decent products that the consumer will continue to lap up. They even have geniuses who have the drive and vision that would take them to the next level.
But even if they don't go with the genius visionaries, all they need to do to make another solid quarter is put out a decent makeover to an existing product. Do you realize that? While other companies need to struggle and fight to gain marketshare and market dominance, all MS needs to do is not fuck up too badly. And yet, they somehow still managed to do it.
No, they spelled it wrong. It's actually Kraft International, and they were there to provide carb load services. They're labeled a "security contractor" because runners cannot be secure in their possessions while hungry.
There is plenty of room for improvement from a back end standpoint for both their mature products. For example, they are still grossly inefficient. There are still security holes, even if the holes aren't as deep for Windows because of the new security infrastructure. In fact, the back ends for both products probably could do with a complete overhaul.
The problem is that any back end improvements have to be coupled with fancy front-ends that nobody wants or can figure out on their own. Otherwise, nobody's going to buy the newest version of the product. Oh wait.
I think your standard of the police force is a bit too high, especially the grunts. The specialized units like SWAT and the bomb squad, the higher ups, they're probably incredibly intelligent and expertly trained. The ones standing around at the street corners doing guard duty, not so much.
I think Schmidt was the perfect type of person to talk to him. Schmidt is on the edge of being technical, because he runs technology companies, but not so technical that he's fixated on just the technical aspects. And so this allows Assange to both explain the technical details in layman's terms, and to talk about non-technical things, which is his philosophy and his insights into the way the world works. Those stories that he drops here and there are great food for thought too.
Honestly, I'm not sure how people can look at this track record and honestly consider him a hero or saint.
Because people are tribal, and as Assange said early on in the transcript (I'm only halfway through it), people today are not any more intellectually evolved than people from several thousand years ago.
It also means that people still seek perfection (that pesky thing that gave birth to modern religions), and try to attribute it to others that they admire.
Assange is brilliant. He's also human, just like everyone else.
Amnesty International calls out human rights violation and government corruption as a transparent charity that operates within the law.
Within the law? Within what law? Within who's laws? To remain lawful, you have to trust the system creating and enforcing the laws. That implies trusting the people running the system. It's also antithetical to Wikileaks' purpose.
He was their CEO, not a programmer or engineer. His job was to secure funding, set goals and directions, manage his fellow executives, and shield his underlings who are programmers and engineers from boardroom politics.
That having been said, he should know on a high level some of the key issues pertinent to his company, including and especially matters of privacy.
If only Metro was so elegant in its simplicity. All Win2K needed was multiple desktops (which Windows 8 still doesn't have despite the paradigm shift in that direction) and it would've been perfect.
Not sure about that. Google tried, and largely failed due to wary users and forced "synergy". Dispora is trying and not gaining traction because there aren't enough users already on it.
Facebook users just aren't fed up with it enough to leave.
Though, if anyone's going to take that throne from Facebook, I suspect it'll be Yahoo. They have Flickr, which is a great launchpad for more social services. People are fairly wary of Yahoo though, so their success would hinge on their privacy policies.
The unified UI concept is interesting, but it takes a lot more effort than just a quick skin on top of the existing UI and then removing the old elements to force people to use that skin.
Anyone who wants to do a unified UI needs to have functionality to automatically translate existing disparate UI elements into the unified form. Without it, the "unified" UI will just turn into a half-baked amalgamation of the new "unified" style and the old legcy style. I don't know about you, but that doesn't appear unified in the slightest to me. And that is what you are seeing with Windows 8.
Windows in fact, would be the last OS to implement such a thing, because of the ridiculous amount of poorly-written third party software that would need to be manually converted. That is, assuming there is even a comprehensive standard UI widget kit for Windows for Windows 7 and prior.
KDE (QT) might in fact be able to pull it off. Not sure about anyone else though.
You wouldn't believe the things some of these news shows were saying just to have something at all to say. And then they find some Tom, Dick, or Harry, with marginal relevance to the affair, and have that person speak gibberish for half an hour.
These days, people want their information here, now, and in its entirety all at once. It is, quite frankly, an impossibility, especially for events that are so fresh, or incredibly complex. Yet, people want it, and so the news stations have to deliver to maintain their viewership, and always to the detriment of everyone and everything else.
It is sad that the bombings are happening around the world with such frequency. Human lives are still human lives, no matter they be U.S. citizens, Iraqis, Russians, or Koreans. Why should it be sad in some places and not so much in others?
Why do you think there are so many "civilian" casualties whenever there's a drone strike? It's because the targets largely are civilians. In fact, terrorists are by definition civilians. If the perpetrators were part of a military, it wouldn't be called terrorism, it'd be called military action, and acts or a declaration of war.
It's no different than drone strikes against high-ranking members of the mob. I'm sure people wouldn't mind, but to call them military targets is to revise reality just to make it fit your apologetic justifications.
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Do you really think that policies only have immediate effects? Do you seriously believe that there are no long-term consequences to any far-reaching, wide-sweeping pieces of legislation like those that deal with workers rights?
The economic trends you speak of in GGP happens in a generational timeframe, which is 20-40 years. The short term gains happen in the 5-10, but those are not the lasting effects. A lot of the things that came out of the "worker's rights" movement of the 60's and 70's resulted in the stagnation that began in the 90's and that you are still seeing today. This is especially true of government. And as a result, people today think that the government is incompetent (and it allows hard liners to take that stance without looking ridiculous) which in turn leads to a lower standard of living for all but the upper class.
The income disparity that you see is a direct product of deregulation, in particular repeals of things like the Glassâ"Steagall Act which had been in place since the 20's. The reason why such a thing could even happen was because people felt government was incompetent, and thus by extension government regulation was incompetently done.
I'm not saying everything that came out of the workers' movement was bad. But most of it was overboard, and the backlash as a result of the pendulum swinging back, also overboard, has resulted in the conditions you see today.
This is why direct democracies fail. It is the same reason why crowd sourcing for a task that requires actual experience and skill will never succeed.
Uh, both Souter and Stevens are not pro-life according to their record. Not sure where you're getting your information from.
Great. Thanks for making the joke unfunny.
The difference between Firewire speeds and USB speeds is that Firewire speeds are sustained, while USB speeds are burst.
That having been said, I believe you're correct, the latest popular version of Firewire goes up to 800Mbps. There are newer versions in development that go up to 3.2Gbps, matching USB 3.0, but to my knowledge, there's no ubiquitous hardware support for that standard yet.
GP may be thinking of Thunderbolt, which goes up to 10Gbps. Whether that's sustained or bust, I'm not sure. I suspect it's sustained though.
1) explain how it relates to existing approaches, and why it's superior
This. This is why we go to school and study for 20-something years before being accepted as an expert in a field.
If you don't know what's already out there, you'll likely be reinventing it.
Humanity is in a place where we're just smart enough to be able to cause things to happen, but not quite smart enough to know what the effects are.
Is that a mark of intelligence? I would argue it is not, until humanity as a whole realizes this.
Same. If anyone retires, I want him nominated. Shame it's not actually going to happen, now that he's taken on the Obama administration.
Obama's really something. At the least, if he had defended DOMA, he had the excuse of his duty to defend the law. But given his stance there, it's obvious that any law his people defends is by choice.
The government under his watch is so transparent now we can almost see into it. Oh wait. That's just our reflection.
It works both ways. One of the big reasons Vista failed (to the general public, not to the informed user like those among us here) was because Intel pushed them to certify their low-end processor for Vista.
And no matter what your TV says to you, desktop and laptop Macs are still PC's, along with other personal computers that are running Linux and BSD. Those are largely unaffected by the fate of Windows, at least not negatively.
Some day MS is going to have to cope without Steve B
They coped well enough without Bill Gates.
MS has (had?) real bright folks, real talents who are more than capable of putting out decent products that the consumer will continue to lap up. They even have geniuses who have the drive and vision that would take them to the next level.
But even if they don't go with the genius visionaries, all they need to do to make another solid quarter is put out a decent makeover to an existing product. Do you realize that? While other companies need to struggle and fight to gain marketshare and market dominance, all MS needs to do is not fuck up too badly. And yet, they somehow still managed to do it.
Arm and educate. Somolia lacks one of the two that the U.S. as a first world country really should not.
No, they spelled it wrong. It's actually Kraft International, and they were there to provide carb load services. They're labeled a "security contractor" because runners cannot be secure in their possessions while hungry.
There is plenty of room for improvement from a back end standpoint for both their mature products. For example, they are still grossly inefficient. There are still security holes, even if the holes aren't as deep for Windows because of the new security infrastructure. In fact, the back ends for both products probably could do with a complete overhaul.
The problem is that any back end improvements have to be coupled with fancy front-ends that nobody wants or can figure out on their own. Otherwise, nobody's going to buy the newest version of the product. Oh wait.
A provider of three-strikes* services.
* bowling, not baseball.
Or in some cases: Go straight to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
I think your standard of the police force is a bit too high, especially the grunts. The specialized units like SWAT and the bomb squad, the higher ups, they're probably incredibly intelligent and expertly trained. The ones standing around at the street corners doing guard duty, not so much.
I think Schmidt was the perfect type of person to talk to him. Schmidt is on the edge of being technical, because he runs technology companies, but not so technical that he's fixated on just the technical aspects. And so this allows Assange to both explain the technical details in layman's terms, and to talk about non-technical things, which is his philosophy and his insights into the way the world works. Those stories that he drops here and there are great food for thought too.
Honestly, I'm not sure how people can look at this track record and honestly consider him a hero or saint.
Because people are tribal, and as Assange said early on in the transcript (I'm only halfway through it), people today are not any more intellectually evolved than people from several thousand years ago.
It also means that people still seek perfection (that pesky thing that gave birth to modern religions), and try to attribute it to others that they admire.
Assange is brilliant. He's also human, just like everyone else.
Amnesty International calls out human rights violation and government corruption as a transparent charity that operates within the law.
Within the law? Within what law? Within who's laws? To remain lawful, you have to trust the system creating and enforcing the laws. That implies trusting the people running the system. It's also antithetical to Wikileaks' purpose.
He was their CEO, not a programmer or engineer. His job was to secure funding, set goals and directions, manage his fellow executives, and shield his underlings who are programmers and engineers from boardroom politics.
That having been said, he should know on a high level some of the key issues pertinent to his company, including and especially matters of privacy.
It reminds me orf the simplifed UI from win2k.
If only Metro was so elegant in its simplicity. All Win2K needed was multiple desktops (which Windows 8 still doesn't have despite the paradigm shift in that direction) and it would've been perfect.
Not sure about that. Google tried, and largely failed due to wary users and forced "synergy". Dispora is trying and not gaining traction because there aren't enough users already on it.
Facebook users just aren't fed up with it enough to leave.
Though, if anyone's going to take that throne from Facebook, I suspect it'll be Yahoo. They have Flickr, which is a great launchpad for more social services. People are fairly wary of Yahoo though, so their success would hinge on their privacy policies.
The unified UI concept is interesting, but it takes a lot more effort than just a quick skin on top of the existing UI and then removing the old elements to force people to use that skin.
Anyone who wants to do a unified UI needs to have functionality to automatically translate existing disparate UI elements into the unified form. Without it, the "unified" UI will just turn into a half-baked amalgamation of the new "unified" style and the old legcy style. I don't know about you, but that doesn't appear unified in the slightest to me. And that is what you are seeing with Windows 8.
Windows in fact, would be the last OS to implement such a thing, because of the ridiculous amount of poorly-written third party software that would need to be manually converted. That is, assuming there is even a comprehensive standard UI widget kit for Windows for Windows 7 and prior.
KDE (QT) might in fact be able to pull it off. Not sure about anyone else though.
And it's all rosy inside.
You wouldn't believe the things some of these news shows were saying just to have something at all to say. And then they find some Tom, Dick, or Harry, with marginal relevance to the affair, and have that person speak gibberish for half an hour.
These days, people want their information here, now, and in its entirety all at once. It is, quite frankly, an impossibility, especially for events that are so fresh, or incredibly complex. Yet, people want it, and so the news stations have to deliver to maintain their viewership, and always to the detriment of everyone and everything else.
Investigative journalism is dead.
It is sad that the bombings are happening around the world with such frequency. Human lives are still human lives, no matter they be U.S. citizens, Iraqis, Russians, or Koreans. Why should it be sad in some places and not so much in others?
Why do you think there are so many "civilian" casualties whenever there's a drone strike? It's because the targets largely are civilians. In fact, terrorists are by definition civilians. If the perpetrators were part of a military, it wouldn't be called terrorism, it'd be called military action, and acts or a declaration of war.
It's no different than drone strikes against high-ranking members of the mob. I'm sure people wouldn't mind, but to call them military targets is to revise reality just to make it fit your apologetic justifications.