I thought I had lost this argument on./ Good to know there are a few of us out there still retaining our sanity. HTML5/JavaScript isn't the WORA technology we should be pursuing. It works reasonably well for small, simple clients but trying to apply it to anything requiring a even modest sophistication causes them to get unreasonably expensive to develop, ensure quality, and maintain when compared to Java, C#, C++, etc. and their respective presentation technologies such as WPF and Swing. This really has less to do with "maturity" of the supporting technology and more to do with the fundamental nature of the languages.
Part of the appeal of HTML5/JavaScript I think are the low barriers to entry, and the "pioneering" or "frontier" romanticism brought out by the anything goes, blank slate, fiddle and tinker until it works approach that's required. In many ways it actually reminds me of the appeal that Minecraft has to so many people. The mature, safe, predictable, and structured/formal languages and technologies just don't carry the same appeal.
Once again someone takes a model and mines it well beyond the fidelity of its intention. It is dispiriting to witness so many people failing to develop analytical skills and/or pursue the profession of troll.
Is it not the desire of most every parent to provide a life to their children better than the one they had themselves? The travesty isn't in that ambitious, bold, hard working parents passed on the benefits to their children. The travesty is in children of parents belonging to every portion of the spectrum of wealth and privilege not leveraging the opportunities available to them. What would the average person from the western world of the 1700's say about the lifestyle of the average person of the western world today? Some of the most pitiful lives of the western world today would seem luxurious to those liven back then.
His choice is whether to squander or leverage the opportunities available to him. If you want to understand better what I am saying, it would be useful to look at the direction in which multi-million dollar lottery winners have chosen to go.
Of those within the set of the 1% whom are not first-generation wealthy and live principally off the "sweat" of their parents I would argue that they are largely irrelevant and certainly not pertinent to the environment in which the other 99% live. It is more unusual when children do not share the traits, personalities, and interests of their parents. Accordingly it would be strange for the children of highly motivated, bold, and ambitious parents to not learn the same traits and apply them eventually even if their maturity is stunted initially by a life of privilege.
On a side note, I'm not sure it would be fair to suggest Paris Hilton is a wealthy slacker. She appears to actually be quite active pursuing the game herself by leveraging the doors opened by her parents to the best of her abilities. In other words she doing what every parent would hope of their child, that they'd take full use of all the advantages they worked so hard to give them.
Don't kid yourself. They've always had that ability and have long used it. Taxation is one of many levers that governments have at their disposal for driving the direction of the principality for which they are charged be it municipal, county, state, federal, etc.. There is nothing inherently evil about it or the majority of other levers at their disposal. As citizens of the republic it is our responsibility to ensure those whom we elect are operating them for the common good. Tying hands and taking away tools not only hinders evil intent but good as well.
If you live in a society are you not responsible to and for that society? If you really do wish to live in selfish anarchy there are plenty of third world nations to choose from. I really doubt that you would prefer to shoulder the complete burden of ensuring your own well being and liberties. There is so much that is being overlooked and unappreciated from food and water quality, quality of healthcare, quality of the air you breath, roads you drive on, an education that was available to you even though you chose not to utilized it, emergency services, services that ensure the sanctity of your person and property, etc., etc.. There are so many things that you benefit from for the burden of you being an "eternal slave" to taxation that I would overflow the size restrictions of Slashdot posts by many orders of magnitude. I would strongly suggest that you step away from your Xbox and learn about the world you live in before you embarrass and shame yourself any further by how out of touch with reality you are.
Fortunately there is now a 10% rate hike limit unless they wish to open themselves up to review and public scrutiny that force them to justify the increase. Hopefully this number can be shrunk further in future legislation.
It is difficult to say whether the "savings" will be passed on to you or absorbed at the various levels. However, there are ingredients in the mix to reduce costs. Including no cost preventative care to those that would normally not be able to afford health insurance instead of the previous "no cost" emergency room visits after problems have spiraled out of hand. Further, by expanding the insurance pool risk is spread to more people allowing for smaller individual contributions.
What you may not be considering however, are all the benefits to those that would already subscribe to health insurance. Such as those items covered in the Patient's Bill of Rights which prevents denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions and eliminates annual and lifetime dollar amount coverage limits. There are also tax breaks for small businesses that purchase health insurance for employees.
Beyond that, now that a legislative foundation is laid, it will be substantially easier to modify the law to deal with unresolved or poorly resolved issues.
Including conservatives... This legislation is simply people taking care of people in the most equitable way that was politically possible. It is no different in principle to and certainly less onerous than mandated liability coverage for automobiles. Last time I checked, the government wasn't picking up the tab to ensure you were driving a safe and reliable vehicle.
I would hardly call the overwhelming majority of services our taxes pay for--either directly or indirectly by way of funding to the states for compliance--benefiting only the richest 1%. It might be fun to say, fun to funnel all your frustrations at the wealthy but for the most part it's unfair and far less productive than simple introspection. I find it absolutely amazing how much effort the younger generations (mine included) invest into the resilient pursuit of conquest in video games but when it comes to real life how far in the opposite direction they go. Nearly all first generation wealthy are basically gamers that chase conquest on the stage of the real world instead of their console. Fortune favors the bold, if you want to play it big in the real world you have to play it like you're the lone man fighting off the zombie apocalypse.
Well at least it'd be pretty simple to CC those... "oooh,... yes! yes! oh god yes! harder baby, harder..." Could probably use the same generic one for them all.
As of January 1, 2008, 75 percent of “pre-rule” English language programming, defined as analog programming first shown before January 1, 1998, and digital programming first shown before July 1, 2002, must be captioned, with some exceptions.
Including captioning on netflix really isn't a big deal..... it's encoded in the video steams of VHS tapes, DVDs, and Blurays so netflix just needs to dump that CC to the internet stream.
It is a big deal if it's not being provided by the digital content providers they purchase their videos from. Netflix doesn't rip DVDs for their streaming service. The MPAA would go ape sh*t if they did that. They have to purchase content specifically for their streaming service.
They're not ripping DVDs. They're purchasing content from digital distribution houses such as Funimation, Weinstein, Dreamworks, Starz (well at least used to), etc.. The content provider would have to make the subtitles available to Netflix to push onto the stream. If they don't/won't then Netflix would be on the hook if they are legally recognized as a "multi-channel video programming distributor".
You are expecting them to possess a line which if no one crosses that they'll be satisfied and back off? You are misunderstanding what is going on here.
You've never evaluated the various pads from Asus have you? The Eee Transformer Prime and Transformer Pad are quite capable of eating iPads for lunch from a technology perspective. As for MS, they've had a rather poor track record in the mobile space. Not so much for lack within the OS but more with respect to their marketing department and their entry timing. That isn't changing anytime soon and it is sure to spell certain doom for their position in the consumer market.
That's true, however, it's carrier the White Knight2 is quite likely to continue to be used for more than just the SS2, such as it was for the X-37 tests. It is more than probable that it will be used for or evolved into a first stage of an orbital vehicle as a cost savings measure over traditional pad launched vehicles. It's also common for people to erroneously speak of the White Knight 2 and/or WK2, Space Ship 2 pair as just Space Ship 2.
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I thought I had lost this argument on ./ Good to know there are a few of us out there still retaining our sanity. HTML5/JavaScript isn't the WORA technology we should be pursuing. It works reasonably well for small, simple clients but trying to apply it to anything requiring a even modest sophistication causes them to get unreasonably expensive to develop, ensure quality, and maintain when compared to Java, C#, C++, etc. and their respective presentation technologies such as WPF and Swing. This really has less to do with "maturity" of the supporting technology and more to do with the fundamental nature of the languages.
Part of the appeal of HTML5/JavaScript I think are the low barriers to entry, and the "pioneering" or "frontier" romanticism brought out by the anything goes, blank slate, fiddle and tinker until it works approach that's required. In many ways it actually reminds me of the appeal that Minecraft has to so many people. The mature, safe, predictable, and structured/formal languages and technologies just don't carry the same appeal.
Once again someone takes a model and mines it well beyond the fidelity of its intention. It is dispiriting to witness so many people failing to develop analytical skills and/or pursue the profession of troll.
Is it not the desire of most every parent to provide a life to their children better than the one they had themselves? The travesty isn't in that ambitious, bold, hard working parents passed on the benefits to their children. The travesty is in children of parents belonging to every portion of the spectrum of wealth and privilege not leveraging the opportunities available to them. What would the average person from the western world of the 1700's say about the lifestyle of the average person of the western world today? Some of the most pitiful lives of the western world today would seem luxurious to those liven back then.
His choice is whether to squander or leverage the opportunities available to him. If you want to understand better what I am saying, it would be useful to look at the direction in which multi-million dollar lottery winners have chosen to go.
Of those within the set of the 1% whom are not first-generation wealthy and live principally off the "sweat" of their parents I would argue that they are largely irrelevant and certainly not pertinent to the environment in which the other 99% live. It is more unusual when children do not share the traits, personalities, and interests of their parents. Accordingly it would be strange for the children of highly motivated, bold, and ambitious parents to not learn the same traits and apply them eventually even if their maturity is stunted initially by a life of privilege.
On a side note, I'm not sure it would be fair to suggest Paris Hilton is a wealthy slacker. She appears to actually be quite active pursuing the game herself by leveraging the doors opened by her parents to the best of her abilities. In other words she doing what every parent would hope of their child, that they'd take full use of all the advantages they worked so hard to give them.
Regardless, the 18 year old that chose to invest would be said to have "played the game" which is a far sight more than most.
Don't kid yourself. They've always had that ability and have long used it. Taxation is one of many levers that governments have at their disposal for driving the direction of the principality for which they are charged be it municipal, county, state, federal, etc.. There is nothing inherently evil about it or the majority of other levers at their disposal. As citizens of the republic it is our responsibility to ensure those whom we elect are operating them for the common good. Tying hands and taking away tools not only hinders evil intent but good as well.
If you live in a society are you not responsible to and for that society? If you really do wish to live in selfish anarchy there are plenty of third world nations to choose from. I really doubt that you would prefer to shoulder the complete burden of ensuring your own well being and liberties. There is so much that is being overlooked and unappreciated from food and water quality, quality of healthcare, quality of the air you breath, roads you drive on, an education that was available to you even though you chose not to utilized it, emergency services, services that ensure the sanctity of your person and property, etc., etc.. There are so many things that you benefit from for the burden of you being an "eternal slave" to taxation that I would overflow the size restrictions of Slashdot posts by many orders of magnitude. I would strongly suggest that you step away from your Xbox and learn about the world you live in before you embarrass and shame yourself any further by how out of touch with reality you are.
Fortunately there is now a 10% rate hike limit unless they wish to open themselves up to review and public scrutiny that force them to justify the increase. Hopefully this number can be shrunk further in future legislation.
It is difficult to say whether the "savings" will be passed on to you or absorbed at the various levels. However, there are ingredients in the mix to reduce costs. Including no cost preventative care to those that would normally not be able to afford health insurance instead of the previous "no cost" emergency room visits after problems have spiraled out of hand. Further, by expanding the insurance pool risk is spread to more people allowing for smaller individual contributions.
What you may not be considering however, are all the benefits to those that would already subscribe to health insurance. Such as those items covered in the Patient's Bill of Rights which prevents denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions and eliminates annual and lifetime dollar amount coverage limits. There are also tax breaks for small businesses that purchase health insurance for employees.
Beyond that, now that a legislative foundation is laid, it will be substantially easier to modify the law to deal with unresolved or poorly resolved issues.
Conservatives were the ones--by way of the Heritage Foundation--to introduce the individual mandate back in 1989.
Including conservatives... This legislation is simply people taking care of people in the most equitable way that was politically possible. It is no different in principle to and certainly less onerous than mandated liability coverage for automobiles. Last time I checked, the government wasn't picking up the tab to ensure you were driving a safe and reliable vehicle.
I would hardly call the overwhelming majority of services our taxes pay for--either directly or indirectly by way of funding to the states for compliance--benefiting only the richest 1%. It might be fun to say, fun to funnel all your frustrations at the wealthy but for the most part it's unfair and far less productive than simple introspection. I find it absolutely amazing how much effort the younger generations (mine included) invest into the resilient pursuit of conquest in video games but when it comes to real life how far in the opposite direction they go. Nearly all first generation wealthy are basically gamers that chase conquest on the stage of the real world instead of their console. Fortune favors the bold, if you want to play it big in the real world you have to play it like you're the lone man fighting off the zombie apocalypse.
Well at least it'd be pretty simple to CC those... "oooh,... yes! yes! oh god yes! harder baby, harder..." Could probably use the same generic one for them all.
If it includes Netflix under the definition of "multi-channel video programming distributors"...
Actually that's not quite accurate...
As of January 1, 2008, 75 percent of “pre-rule” English language programming, defined as analog programming first shown before January 1, 1998, and digital programming first shown before July 1, 2002, must be captioned, with some exceptions.
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The power comes from the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Including captioning on netflix really isn't a big deal..... it's encoded in the video steams of VHS tapes, DVDs, and Blurays so netflix just needs to dump that CC to the internet stream.
It is a big deal if it's not being provided by the digital content providers they purchase their videos from. Netflix doesn't rip DVDs for their streaming service. The MPAA would go ape sh*t if they did that. They have to purchase content specifically for their streaming service.
They're not ripping DVDs. They're purchasing content from digital distribution houses such as Funimation, Weinstein, Dreamworks, Starz (well at least used to), etc.. The content provider would have to make the subtitles available to Netflix to push onto the stream. If they don't/won't then Netflix would be on the hook if they are legally recognized as a "multi-channel video programming distributor".
You are expecting them to possess a line which if no one crosses that they'll be satisfied and back off? You are misunderstanding what is going on here.
Well if you switch that to MPAA they have. It's called DisplayPort.
"FBI Surveillance Van" would probably be a better choice.
I seem to remember something about an antenna problem... just saying.
You've never evaluated the various pads from Asus have you? The Eee Transformer Prime and Transformer Pad are quite capable of eating iPads for lunch from a technology perspective. As for MS, they've had a rather poor track record in the mobile space. Not so much for lack within the OS but more with respect to their marketing department and their entry timing. That isn't changing anytime soon and it is sure to spell certain doom for their position in the consumer market.
That's true, however, it's carrier the White Knight2 is quite likely to continue to be used for more than just the SS2, such as it was for the X-37 tests. It is more than probable that it will be used for or evolved into a first stage of an orbital vehicle as a cost savings measure over traditional pad launched vehicles. It's also common for people to erroneously speak of the White Knight 2 and/or WK2, Space Ship 2 pair as just Space Ship 2.
Oh sort of like the enemy of my enemy is my friend? Oh wait, does that mean Comcast is my friend or the MPAA? I'm so confused!