Depends how interested the DoJ is in actually doing its job. Google ought to have been broken up years ago, or more to the point been prevented in buying some of the firms its bought.
And they've yet to get version numbers right. Granted the same is the case with everybody else, but I'd probably go back if they'd make searching for software with a particular version number a reasonable proposition.
Granted there are ways to restrict the version number to appearing near the other term, but that's not a default. Granted historically that's how they got to be so fast, but if you're not doing a deeper investigation of the results you're going to force the user to look through results that they shouldn't have to look through.
I think you're misreading the post. They're not winding down the skunkworks, they've just hit the point where they're in as many areas as they can comfortably manage right now and they'll be restricting most of the experimentation to those areas. That is until they've strengthened their positions.
One of the reasons I don't own any Google stock is that the strategy they were using didn't seem to have any predictability nor did they seem to be worrying about future profits. It is good to experiment and keep oneself from being pigeonholed, but by the same token, you do need some sort of over arching strategy other wise you'll spend so much time trying not to be outflanked, that you run yourself out of business.
You might want to do some actual research. Ford was an exceedingly cheap man insisting that all parts manufacturers deliver parts in containers to his specifications so that he could reuse the packing crates as floor boards in his vehicles. Any wood that was spare afterwards was used to create charcoal under the Kingsford label.
Now as far as the wages go, your estimate is way off. There's no way that we could afford for our workers to be making $104k a year. The only reason why Ford could afford to pay that money was that he needed to keep employees from moving to other jobs. Ford was the originator of the basic principle of Kaizen and required the workers to stick around for the long haul to take advantage of that. Additionally, that was back before the 5 day work week. Which didn't occur until nearly the 40s.
As far as Ford goes, he hated unions and paid like that in an effort to keep the unions out as long as possible. You might want to do some research if you're going to post this sort of neoconservative bullshit here.
I've got a Thinkpad and my only complaint is that it came bundled with Windows. Other than that, it's great hardware and beats the crap out of my mother's Atom based netbook. Personally, I was shocked to find out how much more the school paid for it than what I paid for my much more responsive Thinkpad.
That's ridiculous, you don't measure yourself with regard to 5 year old technology and call it good when you're comparing present price. You measure it with regards to current technology when dividing these things into various tiers.
And no, a genuine netbook is not going to be faster than even a 5 year old laptop. My last netbook isn't going to outclass anything made since about a decade ago. Back before netbooks were run out of the market by MS, they were typically sporting processors that were cutting edge many years ago, but you'd have to have an impossibly long upgrade cycle before it would be an upgrade over their present full sized laptop.
Depends where you live. Netbooks have almost completely disappeared from the US market. They were hot then MS decided that they were entitled to profit from every non-Mac computer that was sold.
Netbooks would still be popular if they existed, it's hard to beat a sub $200 laptop that does just the things that most people need and little more.
As far as your numbers, you do realize that the top 25% of earners in the US make far more than 60% of the money, right. The top 1% makes more than the bottom 90% does, but they don't pay 90% of the taxes.
The top quintile makes on average roughly 3x as much as the second highest quintile does, but doesn't pay 3x as much tax as the second highest quintile.
You've got that backwards. Written tests are of absolutely no value in Journalism or art. You might do a quiz covering something like ethics, but in terms of the actual practices you're not going to test that in any sort of useful way using a written test.
It's a tough problem to solve. Ideally the instructor would be giving out rubrics when assigning the paper and sticking to it. At least that way folks have some meaningful idea as to what they need to do to get the grade they want. And can ask questions if they follow it and aren't given an appropriate grade.
The times that I get freaked out are when I've got an assignment due that's worth half my grade and the teacher hasn't bothered to spend any time explaining what exactly one needs to do to get a good grade.
It's still not appropriate to have applications that look like documents. It doesn't matter how popular it is, it's a bullshit practice that just leads to malware infection. If it's genuinely a document then I shouldn't have to worry about opening it in my editor because some asshole is embedding things that don't belong in a document.
What Apply fanbois tend to forget is that you shouldn't have to jail break your devices in order to install what you want. Unfortunately the consequence of that is that you have to be mindful of what you install.
So, people are going to buy a tablet that's 8.7mm deep, but when somebody sees an 8.9mm deep table, it's suddenly not buyable? I've got a Nook which is 13.1mm deep and it's hardly a ridiculously huge device. A large part of why it's that deep is because it has a user replaceable battery and microSD slot.
I realize that there's a lot of Apple cultists that believe that smaller is better and that you can't get too small, but at some point reality has to overpower the famous Steve Jobs distortion field.
That happens fairly often actually. The problem is that Apple has a really amazing marketing department. Which is why most folks bought iPods even though they were inferior on all three of those points to something at pretty much every point in their development.
But, they became a status symbol and after that folks were willing to pay too much for too little. I mean for god's sake for the longest time you couldn't even replace your own battery even though the battery life was terrible.
Doesn't matter, there's a number of things where you really do need to have an internet connection to do. An increasing number of government agencies don't do anything via the phone anymore and have cut back or eliminated any way of getting in touch in person. I know that around here the Employment Security Department only does things via the internet, and the only accommodations they make for disability is for people that can't use the internet.
That's because we can't take care of it ourselves. We've got precisely two reasonable options around here Century Link and Comcast. Century link gets a bit of a free ride as they just completed their purchase of Qwest, but there is no competition nor is there any way in which people can get around the duopoly that's in place. Satellite, WiMax and cellular are just not adequate substitutions.
We like to act like that because it hasn't changed much in the last decade. I'm paying roughly the same amount of money now for the same connection that I was getting over a decade ago when I first got a cable modem. There has been a bit of a decrease in price, but that's been pretty minimal, I was paying $50 or so for a 4mbps connection and now I'm paying $55 a month for a 5mbps connection.
There's a lot of folks around here that aren't able to get more than 1.5mbps even though they live closer to the CO than I do because Qwest doesn't feel like upgrading their area.
It's nice that you have better options, but you look like an arrogant asshole when you make such pronouncements about what's available elsewhere. I'm lucky not to be stuck at 1.5mbps.
In the long term yes, but tax receipts are way down due to the recession. We're not going to get out of the recession by cutting spending. Ultimately, we're going to need to make the rich start paying their fair share. And when the economy turns the corner then we can think about what we need to cut.
But, cutting education and programs for the poor during a recession isn't something that's going to help consumer confidence or boost worker productivity. Two things that we're going to need to get out of the recession.
If we trim the fat, we still have to come up with an additional $14tn in revenue to pay off our debts. We don't have $14tn in spending that we can cut, and ultimately it's even more when you consider the cost of servicing our debt.
As far as your tax rate goes, you might not want to whine so loudly about that. I can pretty much guarantee you that there are plenty of folks out there that work harder than you do for a fraction of what you make. I'm willing to bet that any one of them would be more than happy to change places with you.
We got into this mess by cutting taxes to give to the rich, we're not going to get out of this by cutting a bunch of social programs that the poor need to make ends meet. And raising rates on folks that are as unappreciative of what you've been given is going to have to be a part of the solution. You can't balance the budget on the backs of the poor indefinitely, eventually things change.
Yes, but it doesn't really solve the problems that come from having a macro language built into a document format. Until you remove that, there's not a whole lot you can do that's going to improve things.
No it doesn't. Javascript definitely does not belong in an HTML file. It belongs as a separate file so that you can actually make sure that it's updated rather than hoping that it doesn't get screwed up when you want to change the HTML.
Programming in documents is a serious security problem that ought to have been fixed years ago. If you need interactivity, then use an external program, otherwise let's keep the bugs to things that are actually unavoidable.
And precisely when are teens supposed to learn how to make their own decisions? I don't think that there's any good reason for 14 year olds to be out that late by themselves, but at some point, kids do need the chance to start growing up before they turn 18.
Sort of reminds me a bit about a kid I knew in high school. His parents were extremely protective and while typically a very responsible person, he'd more or less go nuts on the weekends that they weren't around. I'd be surprised if he'd do that if he had the opportunity to work on moderation instead of being stifled most days.
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Depends how interested the DoJ is in actually doing its job. Google ought to have been broken up years ago, or more to the point been prevented in buying some of the firms its bought.
And they've yet to get version numbers right. Granted the same is the case with everybody else, but I'd probably go back if they'd make searching for software with a particular version number a reasonable proposition.
Granted there are ways to restrict the version number to appearing near the other term, but that's not a default. Granted historically that's how they got to be so fast, but if you're not doing a deeper investigation of the results you're going to force the user to look through results that they shouldn't have to look through.
I think you're misreading the post. They're not winding down the skunkworks, they've just hit the point where they're in as many areas as they can comfortably manage right now and they'll be restricting most of the experimentation to those areas. That is until they've strengthened their positions.
One of the reasons I don't own any Google stock is that the strategy they were using didn't seem to have any predictability nor did they seem to be worrying about future profits. It is good to experiment and keep oneself from being pigeonholed, but by the same token, you do need some sort of over arching strategy other wise you'll spend so much time trying not to be outflanked, that you run yourself out of business.
Probably the same people that are paying for the pro-Apple stories.
You might want to do some actual research. Ford was an exceedingly cheap man insisting that all parts manufacturers deliver parts in containers to his specifications so that he could reuse the packing crates as floor boards in his vehicles. Any wood that was spare afterwards was used to create charcoal under the Kingsford label.
Now as far as the wages go, your estimate is way off. There's no way that we could afford for our workers to be making $104k a year. The only reason why Ford could afford to pay that money was that he needed to keep employees from moving to other jobs. Ford was the originator of the basic principle of Kaizen and required the workers to stick around for the long haul to take advantage of that. Additionally, that was back before the 5 day work week. Which didn't occur until nearly the 40s.
As far as Ford goes, he hated unions and paid like that in an effort to keep the unions out as long as possible. You might want to do some research if you're going to post this sort of neoconservative bullshit here.
I've got a Thinkpad and my only complaint is that it came bundled with Windows. Other than that, it's great hardware and beats the crap out of my mother's Atom based netbook. Personally, I was shocked to find out how much more the school paid for it than what I paid for my much more responsive Thinkpad.
That's ridiculous, you don't measure yourself with regard to 5 year old technology and call it good when you're comparing present price. You measure it with regards to current technology when dividing these things into various tiers.
And no, a genuine netbook is not going to be faster than even a 5 year old laptop. My last netbook isn't going to outclass anything made since about a decade ago. Back before netbooks were run out of the market by MS, they were typically sporting processors that were cutting edge many years ago, but you'd have to have an impossibly long upgrade cycle before it would be an upgrade over their present full sized laptop.
Depends where you live. Netbooks have almost completely disappeared from the US market. They were hot then MS decided that they were entitled to profit from every non-Mac computer that was sold.
Netbooks would still be popular if they existed, it's hard to beat a sub $200 laptop that does just the things that most people need and little more.
Weren't those the same zones that turned out to be hosted in the same facility? Or am I misremembering that.
You mean other than the Great Depression?
As far as your numbers, you do realize that the top 25% of earners in the US make far more than 60% of the money, right. The top 1% makes more than the bottom 90% does, but they don't pay 90% of the taxes.
The top quintile makes on average roughly 3x as much as the second highest quintile does, but doesn't pay 3x as much tax as the second highest quintile.
Data on the Distribution of Federal Taxes and Household Income
Hmm, you do realize that most of the folks that spread that particular myth are typically not Jewish, right.
You've got that backwards. Written tests are of absolutely no value in Journalism or art. You might do a quiz covering something like ethics, but in terms of the actual practices you're not going to test that in any sort of useful way using a written test.
It's a tough problem to solve. Ideally the instructor would be giving out rubrics when assigning the paper and sticking to it. At least that way folks have some meaningful idea as to what they need to do to get the grade they want. And can ask questions if they follow it and aren't given an appropriate grade.
The times that I get freaked out are when I've got an assignment due that's worth half my grade and the teacher hasn't bothered to spend any time explaining what exactly one needs to do to get a good grade.
It's still not appropriate to have applications that look like documents. It doesn't matter how popular it is, it's a bullshit practice that just leads to malware infection. If it's genuinely a document then I shouldn't have to worry about opening it in my editor because some asshole is embedding things that don't belong in a document.
So, walled garden good, consumer freedom bad?
What Apply fanbois tend to forget is that you shouldn't have to jail break your devices in order to install what you want. Unfortunately the consequence of that is that you have to be mindful of what you install.
So, people are going to buy a tablet that's 8.7mm deep, but when somebody sees an 8.9mm deep table, it's suddenly not buyable? I've got a Nook which is 13.1mm deep and it's hardly a ridiculously huge device. A large part of why it's that deep is because it has a user replaceable battery and microSD slot.
I realize that there's a lot of Apple cultists that believe that smaller is better and that you can't get too small, but at some point reality has to overpower the famous Steve Jobs distortion field.
That happens fairly often actually. The problem is that Apple has a really amazing marketing department. Which is why most folks bought iPods even though they were inferior on all three of those points to something at pretty much every point in their development.
But, they became a status symbol and after that folks were willing to pay too much for too little. I mean for god's sake for the longest time you couldn't even replace your own battery even though the battery life was terrible.
Doesn't matter, there's a number of things where you really do need to have an internet connection to do. An increasing number of government agencies don't do anything via the phone anymore and have cut back or eliminated any way of getting in touch in person. I know that around here the Employment Security Department only does things via the internet, and the only accommodations they make for disability is for people that can't use the internet.
That's because we can't take care of it ourselves. We've got precisely two reasonable options around here Century Link and Comcast. Century link gets a bit of a free ride as they just completed their purchase of Qwest, but there is no competition nor is there any way in which people can get around the duopoly that's in place. Satellite, WiMax and cellular are just not adequate substitutions.
We like to act like that because it hasn't changed much in the last decade. I'm paying roughly the same amount of money now for the same connection that I was getting over a decade ago when I first got a cable modem. There has been a bit of a decrease in price, but that's been pretty minimal, I was paying $50 or so for a 4mbps connection and now I'm paying $55 a month for a 5mbps connection.
There's a lot of folks around here that aren't able to get more than 1.5mbps even though they live closer to the CO than I do because Qwest doesn't feel like upgrading their area.
It's nice that you have better options, but you look like an arrogant asshole when you make such pronouncements about what's available elsewhere. I'm lucky not to be stuck at 1.5mbps.
In the long term yes, but tax receipts are way down due to the recession. We're not going to get out of the recession by cutting spending. Ultimately, we're going to need to make the rich start paying their fair share. And when the economy turns the corner then we can think about what we need to cut.
But, cutting education and programs for the poor during a recession isn't something that's going to help consumer confidence or boost worker productivity. Two things that we're going to need to get out of the recession.
If we trim the fat, we still have to come up with an additional $14tn in revenue to pay off our debts. We don't have $14tn in spending that we can cut, and ultimately it's even more when you consider the cost of servicing our debt.
As far as your tax rate goes, you might not want to whine so loudly about that. I can pretty much guarantee you that there are plenty of folks out there that work harder than you do for a fraction of what you make. I'm willing to bet that any one of them would be more than happy to change places with you.
We got into this mess by cutting taxes to give to the rich, we're not going to get out of this by cutting a bunch of social programs that the poor need to make ends meet. And raising rates on folks that are as unappreciative of what you've been given is going to have to be a part of the solution. You can't balance the budget on the backs of the poor indefinitely, eventually things change.
Yes, but it doesn't really solve the problems that come from having a macro language built into a document format. Until you remove that, there's not a whole lot you can do that's going to improve things.
No it doesn't. Javascript definitely does not belong in an HTML file. It belongs as a separate file so that you can actually make sure that it's updated rather than hoping that it doesn't get screwed up when you want to change the HTML.
Programming in documents is a serious security problem that ought to have been fixed years ago. If you need interactivity, then use an external program, otherwise let's keep the bugs to things that are actually unavoidable.
And precisely when are teens supposed to learn how to make their own decisions? I don't think that there's any good reason for 14 year olds to be out that late by themselves, but at some point, kids do need the chance to start growing up before they turn 18.
Sort of reminds me a bit about a kid I knew in high school. His parents were extremely protective and while typically a very responsible person, he'd more or less go nuts on the weekends that they weren't around. I'd be surprised if he'd do that if he had the opportunity to work on moderation instead of being stifled most days.