We hold the purse strings AND the votes. Either one alone is enough to eliminate the TSA. But we have said, en-mass, that the TSA is acceptable in our society. So it will continue.
wrong, WRONG, WRONG!. there are good reasons that there is a 91% incumbency rate. one reason is unfettered gerrymandering which completely subverts democracy.
Senator Tom Coburn described the situation well when he said, "In several election cycles in recent history, more incumbents died in office than lost reelection bids."
mod parent up because there is a HUGE difference between a small group and a state doing this.
The washing machine-sized spacecraft that weighs 121 kilograms is being readied by a not-for-profit venture called SpaceIL which operates out of a small non-descript office donated to it by Tel Aviv University.
the purpose of the car horn was not to express anger at other drivers but to warn of an emergency. there will still be people dangerously stepping into the street and the cars will honk to warn them that they may get hit. that's not to say it will warn them only when they will be hit but rather when the probability of being hit drastically increases. pedestrians are highly unpredictable and the cars have been programmed to act accordingly. also, if someone in a manually driven car might be in the process of causing an collision (e.g. turning into an occupied lane) the car will honk.
the real question is if people will give other people the finger in traffic.
> "This could have great applications in sound insulation of motorways"
Last I checked, the screams of children within neighborhoods protected by motorway sound barriers were not a major nuisance or safety hazard for motorists.
but the children can barely hear the loud roaring traffic as it goes by. think of the children!
Client-side is a mess. Everything needs to be built (at least) three times, once for the web, Android, and iOS. In the browser you have to content with JavaScript, browser API’s,CSS, and rendering differences.
if your application looks the same on a webpage as it does on a smartphone then YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. Hell, if your application is on a webpage then almost assuredly, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.
If you are writing a desktop, tablet, mobile or server-side application, you can use Qt to do it all.
- desktop: OS integration, sound, graphics (transparently software or hardware based), multi-touchscreen support (for tablets) - mobile: Android/iPhone ports, multi-touchscreen support, direct display buffer access and more. - server: execute as a daemon, handling TCP/UDP directly, talking over D-Bus
Their hardware is woefully underpowered,... They could easily have afforded to release a new console around last Christmas with similar specs to the XBone PS4.
this is nothing new. from the very beginning, nintendo has always gone with slower and inexpensive hardware. how were they so successful? they are marketing geniuses, they have always focused on graphics versus cpu speed and sell their systems for less.
- They made a ton of money selling Gameboys because they came out with a zillion flavors of it. Gameboy was released later in several different colors.
Then they came out with Gameboy Pocket. Then Gameboy Color which was a small hardware/software tweak (4 shades of gray turned into 4 different colors).
- NES/SNES/GB/GBA/NDS/GC/WII were all slower than their competitors but they focus on graphics abilities
- The rest of their consoles were cheap-o crap parts and so they could sell their systems for less. They got burned with the N64 because put in much better
hardware which made it more expensive. the playstation was cheaper and the games too because CDs are much cheaper to make than carts.
hardware capabilities have less to do with selling units than good marketing strategies.
They have been convicted or are in court in multiple places for deliberatily going around users' privacy settings in Safari and Internet Explorer.
if you read up on why it happened, it was to "to ensure things like the Google+ '+1' buttons that appear on third-party sites still work" which isn't some sinister plot to grab every bit of information from you. read about the when/how/why and you make understand it better: http://mashable.com/2013/01/25...
it's easy to hype things to make them sound like they were trying to steal your first born child (sensationalism) but seriously, it was harmless. they fixed it up so that stuff still works without bypassing anything.
No. That just makes them powerful. There are concerns that need to be addressed when benign institutions gain power. Like that bank, that used to take care of your money until they became too big to fail. Remember that one? It was funny. I still can't stop laughing while I fill in my taxes.
if google when down in flames, the fallout would be minimal. people would take their data leave and then use different services and programs, it's that simple. google is competing in many markets but they dont have a monopoly on any of them because they are rarely the first to the market. they succeed in some and fail in others.
they were not the first to any of these and they haven't cornered the market on any of them. what they have done is integrate these together in a very nice way which some people seem to think means they have total control over all of them.
I'm not a shill, I just think your logic is flawed.
Google has joined them in my list of evil-companies-to-avoid-at-all-cost. Only with Google, it's getting really, really tough because they're f*ing everywhere...
So because they are large makes them evil? Yes, they have a lot of products some of which are bought and they make them easy to use together with optional integration which honestly makes them easier to use. Yes, they do scrap together information about you is to send you relevant adverts because that is their ENTIRE business model!
Everything I've seen indicates that Google has a very different MO from your typical business.
- Their business is advertisement but they dont assault you with intrusive ads and they dont try to stop programs like AdBlock which completely undermines their business model. Hell, they even make it easy to install in Chrome's app store. - Everything they make is free and you aren't forced to use or even have them. They support Mozilla even though they have a competing browser. You can uninstall all Google related apps on Android if you want, straight up replace Android or even use a fork of Android (see Cyanogen). - Whenever they screw up, they fess up and try to make it right instead of burying it and denying it. Remember the wifi stuff? They could have easily denied it, buried and deleted all information related to it but instead they fessed up, helped governments determine the harm they had done and took the fines doled out. - You also don't see Google suing people to death, they have only launched countersuits against those suing them (a MAD tactic). Everyone in the mobile market seems to be suing everyone else but Google isn't playing that game. Remember when they caught MS copying results and putting them in Bing? Google didn't take legal action against MS, they just outed MS for doing it. Furthermore, MS denied that they did at all and then said they used "different vectors" of obtaining data. If it were the other way around, MS would have sued their pants off of Google.
So tell me, what have they done that is so evil, collect information to serve you relevant and easily blocked advertisments?
I like Google (and some of their products) because they are the most ethical (for profit) company I know and they honestly seem to be trying to improve the world rather than just bleed it dry for money.
are you sure this is true about ARMv8? i saw they made significant strides in power consumption which i'm betting relates mostly to the higher frequencies.
if it's so seldom accessed that it has to be moved to an optical disc, email the person and ask if they want to keep it and if they dont respond or say no, just delete it. if you have forgotten all about using your facebook account, it's unlikely that you want it to be on record for all time.
To be fair, it's probably one of the most popular sites on the Internet (100 million messages each day). Some of these sites are good to know about -- like Baidu, QQ, Taobao, Sina Weibo, Weixin, etc. While you and your friends may not use them, they practically define the Internet for hundreds of millions of people.
The same can be said for processors, programming languages, pop culture icons/events or video games. there are billions of ARM based devices and yet few have even heard of an ARM processor. people all around the world use magnetrons on a daily basis and yet few people even know the very name of them or even where they are. there is no reason anyone should have to know about the existence of any of these because they will never need to.
why is it that i've only heard of "internet addiction" being a problem in china and it only being a problem in minors? there seems to be a large piece of the puzzle missing and possibly being swept under the rug.
Weibo is the Chinese word for "microblog". It refers to mini-blogging services in China... Weibo uses a format similar to its American counterpart Twitter
i'm so glad it's clearly defined in the summary so that i dont have to look it up.
it has its own object model, networking stack, container library, threading library, graphics primitive library (i.e. not Cairo).
the toolkit is split into modules that can be used completely independently of each other. If you only want the GUI stuff, you can use just the GUI module.
This object model also leaks into its language bindings if you don't want to write your software in C++.
binding are completely third party software to Qt. you might as well complain about gtkmm while you're at it.
It's the same problem that Java and C# also suffer from: they're not cross-platform, nothing is. What they actually are is their own platform built alongside a perfectly good already-existing one, and you can see the seams. There's more to each platform's UI than what bitmap you skin buttons and checkboxes with.
obviously you have not used Qt in the last five years.
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The TSA exists because Americans tolerate it.
It's that simple.
We hold the purse strings AND the votes. Either one alone is enough to eliminate the TSA. But we have said, en-mass, that the TSA is acceptable in our society. So it will continue.
wrong, WRONG, WRONG!. there are good reasons that there is a 91% incumbency rate. one reason is unfettered gerrymandering which completely subverts democracy.
democracy is dead
Senator Tom Coburn described the situation well when he said, "In several election cycles in recent history, more incumbents died in office than lost reelection bids."
well if that jerk would just keep his dog off my yard...
mod parent up because there is a HUGE difference between a small group and a state doing this.
The washing machine-sized spacecraft that weighs 121 kilograms is being readied by a not-for-profit venture called SpaceIL which operates out of a small non-descript office donated to it by Tel Aviv University.
the purpose of the car horn was not to express anger at other drivers but to warn of an emergency. there will still be people dangerously stepping into the street and the cars will honk to warn them that they may get hit. that's not to say it will warn them only when they will be hit but rather when the probability of being hit drastically increases. pedestrians are highly unpredictable and the cars have been programmed to act accordingly. also, if someone in a manually driven car might be in the process of causing an collision (e.g. turning into an occupied lane) the car will honk.
the real question is if people will give other people the finger in traffic.
all the chairs at microsoft are taking a sigh of relief.
> "This could have great applications in sound insulation of motorways"
Last I checked, the screams of children within neighborhoods protected by motorway sound barriers were not a major nuisance or safety hazard for motorists.
but the children can barely hear the loud roaring traffic as it goes by. think of the children!
Have we learned nothing from science fiction?
Of course we've learned. How do you think we keep coming up with these ideas?
Client-side is a mess. Everything needs to be built (at least) three times, once for the web, Android, and iOS. In the browser you have to content with JavaScript, browser API’s,CSS, and rendering differences.
if your application looks the same on a webpage as it does on a smartphone then YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. Hell, if your application is on a webpage then almost assuredly, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.
If you are writing a desktop, tablet, mobile or server-side application, you can use Qt to do it all.
- desktop: OS integration, sound, graphics (transparently software or hardware based), multi-touchscreen support (for tablets)
- mobile: Android/iPhone ports, multi-touchscreen support, direct display buffer access and more.
- server: execute as a daemon, handling TCP/UDP directly, talking over D-Bus
On a side note: someone wrote black magic code and ported Qt to javascript. If it's run locally, it's ok but otherwise it's a huge download. Here are some demos like Tetrix
Their hardware is woefully underpowered, ... They could easily have afforded to release a new console around last Christmas with similar specs to the XBone PS4.
this is nothing new. from the very beginning, nintendo has always gone with slower and inexpensive hardware. how were they so successful? they are marketing geniuses, they have always focused on graphics versus cpu speed and sell their systems for less.
- They made a ton of money selling Gameboys because they came out with a zillion flavors of it. Gameboy was released later in several different colors.
Then they came out with Gameboy Pocket. Then Gameboy Color which was a small hardware/software tweak (4 shades of gray turned into 4 different colors).
- NES/SNES/GB/GBA/NDS/GC/WII were all slower than their competitors but they focus on graphics abilities
- The rest of their consoles were cheap-o crap parts and so they could sell their systems for less. They got burned with the N64 because put in much better
hardware which made it more expensive. the playstation was cheaper and the games too because CDs are much cheaper to make than carts.
hardware capabilities have less to do with selling units than good marketing strategies.
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They have been convicted or are in court in multiple places for deliberatily going around users' privacy settings in Safari and Internet Explorer.
if you read up on why it happened, it was to "to ensure things like the Google+ '+1' buttons that appear on third-party sites still work" which isn't some sinister plot to grab every bit of information from you. read about the when/how/why and you make understand it better: http://mashable.com/2013/01/25...
it's easy to hype things to make them sound like they were trying to steal your first born child (sensationalism) but seriously, it was harmless. they fixed it up so that stuff still works without bypassing anything.
So because they are large makes them evil?
No. That just makes them powerful. There are concerns that need to be addressed when benign institutions gain power. Like that bank, that used to take care of your money until they became too big to fail. Remember that one? It was funny. I still can't stop laughing while I fill in my taxes.
if google when down in flames, the fallout would be minimal. people would take their data leave and then use different services and programs, it's that simple. google is competing in many markets but they dont have a monopoly on any of them because they are rarely the first to the market. they succeed in some and fail in others.
search: google/yahoo/bing/duckduckgo
browser: chrome/internet explorer/mozilla/firefox/Safari
social: google+/facebook/myspace/twitter/etc
email: gmail/hotmail/yahoo mail/a zillion others
online storage: google drive/dropbox/etc
mobile os: android/iOS/Windows Phone/symbian/blackberry/etc
video: youtube/vimeo/many others
they were not the first to any of these and they haven't cornered the market on any of them. what they have done is integrate these together in a very nice way which some people seem to think means they have total control over all of them.
The problem is that they are building small almost monopolies
umm... and which monopolies would those be?
IP will be ignored and it will be impossible or impractical to enforce.
yeah, it's called China. IP/copyright means nothing to them and trying to enforce it is impossible.
Just sayin'
I'm not a shill, I just think your logic is flawed.
Google has joined them in my list of evil-companies-to-avoid-at-all-cost. Only with Google, it's getting really, really tough because they're f*ing everywhere...
So because they are large makes them evil? Yes, they have a lot of products some of which are bought and they make them easy to use together with optional integration which honestly makes them easier to use. Yes, they do scrap together information about you is to send you relevant adverts because that is their ENTIRE business model!
Everything I've seen indicates that Google has a very different MO from your typical business.
- Their business is advertisement but they dont assault you with intrusive ads and they dont try to stop programs like AdBlock which completely undermines their business model. Hell, they even make it easy to install in Chrome's app store.
- Everything they make is free and you aren't forced to use or even have them. They support Mozilla even though they have a competing browser. You can uninstall all Google related apps on Android if you want, straight up replace Android or even use a fork of Android (see Cyanogen).
- Whenever they screw up, they fess up and try to make it right instead of burying it and denying it. Remember the wifi stuff? They could have easily denied it, buried and deleted all information related to it but instead they fessed up, helped governments determine the harm they had done and took the fines doled out.
- You also don't see Google suing people to death, they have only launched countersuits against those suing them (a MAD tactic). Everyone in the mobile market seems to be suing everyone else but Google isn't playing that game. Remember when they caught MS copying results and putting them in Bing? Google didn't take legal action against MS, they just outed MS for doing it. Furthermore, MS denied that they did at all and then said they used "different vectors" of obtaining data. If it were the other way around, MS would have sued their pants off of Google.
So tell me, what have they done that is so evil, collect information to serve you relevant and easily blocked advertisments?
I like Google (and some of their products) because they are the most ethical (for profit) company I know and they honestly seem to be trying to improve the world rather than just bleed it dry for money.
are you sure this is true about ARMv8? i saw they made significant strides in power consumption which i'm betting relates mostly to the higher frequencies.
i get the feeling that this is high enough profile where the extortionist is going to get a beatdown by one of the tech companies involved.
if it's so seldom accessed that it has to be moved to an optical disc, email the person and ask if they want to keep it and if they dont respond or say no, just delete it. if you have forgotten all about using your facebook account, it's unlikely that you want it to be on record for all time.
power efficiency which is important in datacenters. electricity isnt free.
the first version always sucks. wait for TwoDrive.
To be fair, it's probably one of the most popular sites on the Internet (100 million messages each day). Some of these sites are good to know about -- like Baidu, QQ, Taobao, Sina Weibo, Weixin, etc. While you and your friends may not use them, they practically define the Internet for hundreds of millions of people.
The same can be said for processors, programming languages, pop culture icons/events or video games. there are billions of ARM based devices and yet few have even heard of an ARM processor. people all around the world use magnetrons on a daily basis and yet few people even know the very name of them or even where they are. there is no reason anyone should have to know about the existence of any of these because they will never need to.
it's all about relevance.
why is it that i've only heard of "internet addiction" being a problem in china and it only being a problem in minors? there seems to be a large piece of the puzzle missing and possibly being swept under the rug.
Weibo is the Chinese word for "microblog". It refers to mini-blogging services in China ... Weibo uses a format similar to its American counterpart Twitter
i'm so glad it's clearly defined in the summary so that i dont have to look it up.
this is why we cant have nice things.
it has its own object model, networking stack, container library, threading library, graphics primitive library (i.e. not Cairo).
the toolkit is split into modules that can be used completely independently of each other. If you only want the GUI stuff, you can use just the GUI module.
This object model also leaks into its language bindings if you don't want to write your software in C++.
binding are completely third party software to Qt. you might as well complain about gtkmm while you're at it.
It's the same problem that Java and C# also suffer from: they're not cross-platform, nothing is. What they actually are is their own platform built alongside a perfectly good already-existing one, and you can see the seams. There's more to each platform's UI than what bitmap you skin buttons and checkboxes with.
obviously you have not used Qt in the last five years.
where is the "-1 Ignorant" mod?
so... how many US journalists do you think have one of these monitoring devices?