That is ignoring the basic problem though. There are many video formats. Does it make any sense that the browser only supports a single one as firefox 3.5 is doing?
The video tag should be run by plugins, they would need to conform to a single standard interface. PLay/Stop/Pause/etc. The key would be having two mechanisms for display, a method which returns a pixmap (so that it would work with X Forwarding) and a version that was accelerated.
the PLay/Stop/Pause interface would be entirely part of the DOM.
This is economic warfare. The question is which is worth more economically to the US, a connection to China which opens Chinese citizens to the world's press or severing the connection and avoiding any potential complications.
So the question is which one is worth more? Personally im willing to bet that being connected to them is worth more to the US than it is to China.
A big part of the problem is backwards compatibility at the ABI level. Most of the stuff that is going to need virtualization probably cannot be recompiled.
Most people will tell you that you only really need enough ram so you don't swap with the vm's, otherwise it's overkill.
And they would be wrong. Disk caching in memory has a significant impact on performance. If you are utilizing a significant percentage of your memory then there will be little caching.
I have experienced this myself on a system with 2GB of ram. While running a single VM utilizing 1.1 GB of memory the system was responsive and snappy. Running two VMs using 1.8 GB of memory the system would crawl to a stop waiting for disk operations to complete.
I'm sure that there were many brave people fighting for all parties involved, but that is not where the American memory of WW2 comes from.
On D-Day all of Europe was under Nazi control, Britain was all but flattened, and the entire Nazi war machine was pointed straight at Russia.
If you're going to be honest here Russia would never have been able to make the push into Nazi Germany if the western front hadn't been opened up on D-Day.
Without the intervention of the United States in Europe during WW2 Europe would be a very different place today. (Also nuclear bombs).
1) Rich people need cash and cash equivalent/liquid accounts, too. Besides, there are other federal protections on capital assets, e.g. SIPC.
SIPC is designed for instances of outright fraud by brokerages it does not in any way cover normal loses. Of course rich people need liquid accounts but I doubt very many have 100K in their checking accounts. That's just a waste of potentially profitable capital, you dont get rich by just letting capital sit around.
5) How many minimum wage jobs don't require literacy? Seriously, you are delusional if you think public education doesn't provide a more capable work force. You didn't ask me to argue that our current public education is the most _efficient_ way to educate the masses, I am not sure it is. I just know that this country would not experience the productivity it does without education that is currently funded by taxes, and productivity benefits the wealthy IN PROPORTION to their capital deployed.
Honestly the vast majority of the education system in the US is nothing more than baby sitting until you're 18. The students who are learning in public school would be learning outside of school just as well. Access to information is so trivial now that you can teach yourself anything you could want to learn from freely available materials. The public education system provides nothing more than a means of protecting society from a few million teenagers.
More adults being driven to minimum wage jobs has more to do with the diminishing middle-class, which in turn is the result of regressive tax policies.
Really? The reason for the shift in the middle class is because of tax polciy? It couldnt possibly have to do with the huge shift in wealth to outside of the united states caused mostly by the outsourcing of labor? nah
Are they fucking serious? If injecting yourself with testosterone in any amount was safe every gym rat on the planet would already be doing it, AND SO WOULD EVERYBODY ELSE.
There is no way that the long term effects are acceptable.
1) FDIC insurance on the first $100,000 of their money held at a particular bank. In my experience, few poor people have $100,000 bank accounts.
FDIC insurance requires that the bank keeps a certain percentage of their total enrolled funds in cash on hand. The FDIC was designed to stop runs on the banks, which by and large hurt poor people. Very few rich people have 100K in their bank account either simply because 100K in cash is a waste of capital. The only people who would ever have 100K in cash would be people who do not understand how to invest and have saved it over a very large period of time. So no FDIC insurance is not for the super rich, the rich, or even the upper middle class.
2) Police & Fire department protection for their McMansions. Once again, not a benefit the non-homeowning poor receive. (yes this is primarily state tax funded, but state taxes are also progressive, and there are federal funds for police & fire in many cases).
Police and Fire departments are mostly paid from property taxes. People without property do not pay property taxes. Not to mention that the police and fire departments main objective is always protection or life and then only after that the protection of property.
3) Military protection for their land/property/business interests. How much would it cost the typical Texas oil baron to hire a private paramilitary force to protect his oil fields from Mexico, if the federal government did not maintain a military.
This is your only point that is legitimate. The standing military of the United States tends to provide protection for American businesses acting abroad, which almost certainly means that some rich company owned by some rich guy is making tons of money in a region that would otherwise be unstable.
4) Healthcare benefits of last resort (medicare & medicaid) to all the low-paid peons in your rich person's employ, so your rich person can pay a minimal wage and yet still have employees that aren't so disease-ridden they are non-productive.
Basically you're talking about Walmart. If people did not insist on buying the cheapest goods from the store which treats it's employees the worst then Walmart would be out of business, but as it stands most people are willing to sacrifice their moral objection to minimum wage jobs without benefits for 5% off a years supply of dish soap.
5) Public education that educates those same low-paid peons in your rich persons employ.
Now this one is just absurd. low-paid peons do not require education. seriously you could probably hire 12 year olds to do the vast majority of minimum wage jobs if it wasnt illegal. in fact most of the minimum wage jobs used to be held by teenagers until they were kicked out by adults who had managed to fail so hard at life they were competing with 15 year olds. public education benefits nobody but the poor and the teachers unions, although mostly just the teachers unions.
one and a half out of 5 isn't bad but frankly the public education one was a doozy. I'll give you an F+, you tried but you just could not do it.
At present, companies create one set of financial statements for shareholders (showing big profits) and one statement for the IRS (showing little or no profits). A simple law that forbids this two-faced scheme would do a great deal to bring companies in line.
Ah yes the oldest accounting trick in the book.
The numbers generated for the stock holders are done before the numbers for the IRS because they are generated before invoices are paid out. Often a companies earnings will not reflect invoices received but not yet paid.
The numbers that are reported to the IRS are after the invoices have been paid. Incidentally the numbers given to the IRS are a significantly more accurate depiction of the actual value of the company. Any investor worth their salt isn't going to trust the earnings report at face value;).
Then surely paying them to not produce food is in itself a national security issue?
Why not pay them to maintain a food supply and then pay them 5% on top of market price for all of that food sold in the US plus buy 5% of the food supply every year for surplus? At least then the deal would be clear instead of the way it is now which is basically, give them money, hope they do the right thing.
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there are patents and royalty requirements on most of the video formats
who the hell modded this as troll?
Firefox extensions are basically javascript in a zip file.
That is ignoring the basic problem though. There are many video formats. Does it make any sense that the browser only supports a single one as firefox 3.5 is doing?
It's not like firefox extensions are compiled.
The video tag should be run by plugins, they would need to conform to a single standard interface. PLay/Stop/Pause/etc. The key would be having two mechanisms for display, a method which returns a pixmap (so that it would work with X Forwarding) and a version that was accelerated.
the PLay/Stop/Pause interface would be entirely part of the DOM.
The same way we usually do. Instruct some "fishermen" to drop their "anchor" in the wrong place.
This is economic warfare. The question is which is worth more economically to the US, a connection to China which opens Chinese citizens to the world's press or severing the connection and avoiding any potential complications.
So the question is which one is worth more? Personally im willing to bet that being connected to them is worth more to the US than it is to China.
Seriously do they really expect this information to remain secret?
Macs simply do not have enough market penetration to be profitable. That is the only reason that they have less malware.
So they designed and wrote a neural network for the sole purpose of identifying a limited set of icons? Seriously?
They could have done this using conventional methods that would be significantly faster. Me thinks someone was just doing this for entertainment.
From the looks of it DECT is hilariously vulnerable to a simple replay attack.
This is really cool and it's only $180.00, nice find PHS300
A big part of the problem is backwards compatibility at the ABI level. Most of the stuff that is going to need virtualization probably cannot be recompiled.
And they would be wrong. Disk caching in memory has a significant impact on performance. If you are utilizing a significant percentage of your memory then there will be little caching.
I have experienced this myself on a system with 2GB of ram. While running a single VM utilizing 1.1 GB of memory the system was responsive and snappy. Running two VMs using 1.8 GB of memory the system would crawl to a stop waiting for disk operations to complete.
Could you screw with the voltage and thermal thresholds to cause a system to literally self destruct?
Are you serious?
Population density
Gee I wonder why paris has public transportation and Sacramento doesnt?
Really now?
I'm sure that there were many brave people fighting for all parties involved, but that is not where the American memory of WW2 comes from.
On D-Day all of Europe was under Nazi control, Britain was all but flattened, and the entire Nazi war machine was pointed straight at Russia.
If you're going to be honest here Russia would never have been able to make the push into Nazi Germany if the western front hadn't been opened up on D-Day.
Without the intervention of the United States in Europe during WW2 Europe would be a very different place today. (Also nuclear bombs).
Seriously does anybody expect this to happen? No? Yeah I didn't think so.
SIPC is designed for instances of outright fraud by brokerages it does not in any way cover normal loses. Of course rich people need liquid accounts but I doubt very many have 100K in their checking accounts. That's just a waste of potentially profitable capital, you dont get rich by just letting capital sit around.
Honestly the vast majority of the education system in the US is nothing more than baby sitting until you're 18. The students who are learning in public school would be learning outside of school just as well. Access to information is so trivial now that you can teach yourself anything you could want to learn from freely available materials. The public education system provides nothing more than a means of protecting society from a few million teenagers.
Really? The reason for the shift in the middle class is because of tax polciy? It couldnt possibly have to do with the huge shift in wealth to outside of the united states caused mostly by the outsourcing of labor? nah
Are they fucking serious? If injecting yourself with testosterone in any amount was safe every gym rat on the planet would already be doing it, AND SO WOULD EVERYBODY ELSE.
There is no way that the long term effects are acceptable.
FDIC insurance requires that the bank keeps a certain percentage of their total enrolled funds in cash on hand. The FDIC was designed to stop runs on the banks, which by and large hurt poor people. Very few rich people have 100K in their bank account either simply because 100K in cash is a waste of capital. The only people who would ever have 100K in cash would be people who do not understand how to invest and have saved it over a very large period of time. So no FDIC insurance is not for the super rich, the rich, or even the upper middle class.
Police and Fire departments are mostly paid from property taxes. People without property do not pay property taxes. Not to mention that the police and fire departments main objective is always protection or life and then only after that the protection of property.
This is your only point that is legitimate. The standing military of the United States tends to provide protection for American businesses acting abroad, which almost certainly means that some rich company owned by some rich guy is making tons of money in a region that would otherwise be unstable.
Basically you're talking about Walmart. If people did not insist on buying the cheapest goods from the store which treats it's employees the worst then Walmart would be out of business, but as it stands most people are willing to sacrifice their moral objection to minimum wage jobs without benefits for 5% off a years supply of dish soap.
Now this one is just absurd. low-paid peons do not require education. seriously you could probably hire 12 year olds to do the vast majority of minimum wage jobs if it wasnt illegal. in fact most of the minimum wage jobs used to be held by teenagers until they were kicked out by adults who had managed to fail so hard at life they were competing with 15 year olds. public education benefits nobody but the poor and the teachers unions, although mostly just the teachers unions.
one and a half out of 5 isn't bad but frankly the public education one was a doozy. I'll give you an F+, you tried but you just could not do it.
We also happened to be fighting WW2 at the time though ;)
Ah yes the oldest accounting trick in the book.
The numbers generated for the stock holders are done before the numbers for the IRS because they are generated before invoices are paid out. Often a companies earnings will not reflect invoices received but not yet paid.
The numbers that are reported to the IRS are after the invoices have been paid. Incidentally the numbers given to the IRS are a significantly more accurate depiction of the actual value of the company. Any investor worth their salt isn't going to trust the earnings report at face value ;).
Seriously?
Name me one thing that the rich receive from their taxes which the poor do not receive. Just one.
Then surely paying them to not produce food is in itself a national security issue?
Why not pay them to maintain a food supply and then pay them 5% on top of market price for all of that food sold in the US plus buy 5% of the food supply every year for surplus? At least then the deal would be clear instead of the way it is now which is basically, give them money, hope they do the right thing.