What was implicit in his statement is that Apple's energy policies are extremely important to the company and are overwhelmingly supported by Apple's shareholders. i.e. if you're among the tiny minority of shareholders who disagrees then your only options are to deal with it or sell your shares. Implied is that a campaign to force management to abandon the policies is doomed to failure given their broad support.
So the issue isn't that U.S. companies are uniquely greedy, but that they're uniquely short-sighted. Why might that be? What makes the U.S. special in that regard?
Here's a list of the countries w/ faster internet than the U.S. (according to some Forbes article I googled up just now): Czech Republic, Netherlands, Switzerland, Latvia, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea. Of those, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Japan rank above the U.S. in terms of corruption (per Transparency International's index). Hong Kong and Japan are pretty much adjacent to the U.S. in TI's ranking. The Czech Republic, Latvia and South Korea are allegedly significantly more corrupt.
This doesn't work as an explanation because corporations in countries other than the U.S. (with faster speeds) are also greedy. So corporate greed isn't the cause per se. It may be necessary, but its not sufficient.
Comcast does everything it can to charge more for less service.
I'm no fan of Comcast, but, really, this is exactly what every for-profit business does. If you can get people to pay you $10 for a widget instead of $5 then you charge them $10.
I don't grant that the CIA wants to do me harm. And, yes, the constitution is still the law of the land. But I'm discussing the pragmatic benefits of the NSA's pursuits not their legality.
Instead of working to deliberately weaken security for everyone, the NSA should work to improve security for everyone.
The common (arguably flawed) rebuttal to this is that "everyone" includes "people who want to do us harm". That is to say if the NSA were to succeed in making security stronger for "everyone" it would have made security stronger for the bad guys too, potentially allowing the existence of secure communication channels that would empower the "bad guys" to do more harm than they would be able to otherwise.
The Ars article says it affects the stock Android browser. The "dead && end" blog post they reference, however, discusses apps that load untrusted content in Javascript-enabled WebViews and inject Java objects via addJavascriptInterface(). That's very specific, and much less of a big deal than an exploit affecting the stock Android browser. So which is it?
...is the thousands of slashdot readers being torn between their unwavering support for anything related to space exploration and their distaste for Republicans.
I find people who are that "passionate" about code to be annoying. I mean...wow...have some perspective. Be passionate about your family. Be passionate about justice. Be passionate about music. Be passionate about doing quality work (including when your "work" is coding). But I don't get the infatuation with programming per se.
I'd be fine with this bill if it were more general purpose and forbade other types of subsidies as well. For instance, no incentives to attract movie production companies. No property tax breaks to attract large corporations. And, the big one, no municipal bonds to cover the construction of sporting venues.
To add to this, Carlsen's peak rating (per wiki) is 2872. Fritz 11 running on a Core 2 Quad Core earned a rating of 3085 (per the Swedish Chess Computer Association's rankings). According to some sites I found that analyze results based on ELO ratings, Fritz would have a 77% chance of beating Carlsen in a given game.
The wrench in this narrative is that Carlsen + Fritz would probably beat Fritz by itself. So there's still some "value add" for a computer player from having a human "on your team".
As much as I prefer OS X to Windows (and Mac hardware, generally speaking, to WinTel hardware), I would not be jazzed about a job that required me to run a Linux laptop. Too many headaches.
Presumably the "app" divisions of major corporations are all Apple. Hard to make an iOS app without a Mac. And it's no harder to make an Android app on a Mac than it is on Windows, so there's no reason to run a hybrid department just for Android. Windows OS, obviously, is going to require Windows. But...yeah. Lots of shops don't even bother.
But the corporate buyer is never going to be a strong point for Apple.
Pure anecdote, but my current job in software development and the previous two were at small companies that were 100% Apple shops. At this point the latest Windows version with which I have any real experience is XP. I spend 95% of my time either in a cross-platform browser, a cross-platform IDE or at a bash prompt. So the only real advantage to Windows (ignoring gaming) is to make the last one of those (bash prompt) more annoying.
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Gcc front-end. Which is all I need for the occasional project.
Since I switched to Macs, its basically Excel, Eclipse and Firefox. And gcc, which I get by installing the Xcode command line tools.
What was implicit in his statement is that Apple's energy policies are extremely important to the company and are overwhelmingly supported by Apple's shareholders. i.e. if you're among the tiny minority of shareholders who disagrees then your only options are to deal with it or sell your shares. Implied is that a campaign to force management to abandon the policies is doomed to failure given their broad support.
So the issue isn't that U.S. companies are uniquely greedy, but that they're uniquely short-sighted. Why might that be? What makes the U.S. special in that regard?
Here's a list of the countries w/ faster internet than the U.S. (according to some Forbes article I googled up just now): Czech Republic, Netherlands, Switzerland, Latvia, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea. Of those, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Japan rank above the U.S. in terms of corruption (per Transparency International's index). Hong Kong and Japan are pretty much adjacent to the U.S. in TI's ranking. The Czech Republic, Latvia and South Korea are allegedly significantly more corrupt.
Subsidized by $7.50 (or more) per widget in additional tax revenue?
This doesn't work as an explanation because corporations in countries other than the U.S. (with faster speeds) are also greedy. So corporate greed isn't the cause per se. It may be necessary, but its not sufficient.
I'm no fan of Comcast, but, really, this is exactly what every for-profit business does. If you can get people to pay you $10 for a widget instead of $5 then you charge them $10.
Just to be clear, they're proposing building a facility on the moon to shoot lasers and/or microwaves at the earth. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG. :)
I don't grant that the CIA wants to do me harm. And, yes, the constitution is still the law of the land. But I'm discussing the pragmatic benefits of the NSA's pursuits not their legality.
The common (arguably flawed) rebuttal to this is that "everyone" includes "people who want to do us harm". That is to say if the NSA were to succeed in making security stronger for "everyone" it would have made security stronger for the bad guys too, potentially allowing the existence of secure communication channels that would empower the "bad guys" to do more harm than they would be able to otherwise.
The Ars article says it affects the stock Android browser. The "dead && end" blog post they reference, however, discusses apps that load untrusted content in Javascript-enabled WebViews and inject Java objects via addJavascriptInterface(). That's very specific, and much less of a big deal than an exploit affecting the stock Android browser. So which is it?
Core Worlds. Not on a console.
Damn. Is that the Bay Area premium? Maybe I'll consider relocating after all.
Over-the-air broadcast?
True. I was led to believe 3.8 was just "3.7 plus all available updates". But, yeah, I could. I notice that the Android ADT is based on 3.8.
...I'm still running 3.7 because the 4.x releases are (by all accounts) still not "fixed". Sigh.
Human waste is chock full of pharmaceuticals. Link.
...is the thousands of slashdot readers being torn between their unwavering support for anything related to space exploration and their distaste for Republicans.
I find people who are that "passionate" about code to be annoying. I mean...wow...have some perspective. Be passionate about your family. Be passionate about justice. Be passionate about music. Be passionate about doing quality work (including when your "work" is coding). But I don't get the infatuation with programming per se.
I'd be fine with this bill if it were more general purpose and forbade other types of subsidies as well. For instance, no incentives to attract movie production companies. No property tax breaks to attract large corporations. And, the big one, no municipal bonds to cover the construction of sporting venues.
To add to this, Carlsen's peak rating (per wiki) is 2872. Fritz 11 running on a Core 2 Quad Core earned a rating of 3085 (per the Swedish Chess Computer Association's rankings). According to some sites I found that analyze results based on ELO ratings, Fritz would have a 77% chance of beating Carlsen in a given game.
The wrench in this narrative is that Carlsen + Fritz would probably beat Fritz by itself. So there's still some "value add" for a computer player from having a human "on your team".
As much as I prefer OS X to Windows (and Mac hardware, generally speaking, to WinTel hardware), I would not be jazzed about a job that required me to run a Linux laptop. Too many headaches.
Presumably the "app" divisions of major corporations are all Apple. Hard to make an iOS app without a Mac. And it's no harder to make an Android app on a Mac than it is on Windows, so there's no reason to run a hybrid department just for Android. Windows OS, obviously, is going to require Windows. But...yeah. Lots of shops don't even bother.
Pure anecdote, but my current job in software development and the previous two were at small companies that were 100% Apple shops. At this point the latest Windows version with which I have any real experience is XP. I spend 95% of my time either in a cross-platform browser, a cross-platform IDE or at a bash prompt. So the only real advantage to Windows (ignoring gaming) is to make the last one of those (bash prompt) more annoying.