As opposed to the spending that would have been done had the money not been looted from the workers to begin with. If we're serious about getting out of the recession, perhaps we ought to do something radical like beef up worker protections and protections for small businesses.
As for FB, my bet is still that it goes the way of MySpace before too long.
And that's the rub, the hosting companies probably won't provide it until they absolutely have to as the ISPs are generally not providing access. And the ISPs won't be providing it until after the customers demand it. The customers mostly think that the internet is Youtube and probably Facebook and probably won't ever request it unless those sites go unavailable.
I hate to break it to you, but Ribbon gets progressively worse the more obscure the options you're using are. It's definitely worse than the older system as they can't use the entire height and width of the screen for the menus. Meaning they'll pick and choose the options that they think are important. And yes, they're widely used, but I rarely use any of the things I've seen in the Ribbon more than once or twice editing a document. Most of the time I'm cursing because they've moved an option or function to a buried menu and trying to remember where that submenu went is infuriating.
Hiding functionality can lead to a more usable interface. However it has to be done in a logical way and needs to be extremely carefully considered. Vuescan does it and it's quite well implemented. Basically the options that don't apply aren't just greyed out, they're removed in modes for which they don't apply. It can be a wee bit confusing at first trying to find an option that's disappeared, but one doesn't typically have to scroll through hundreds of options that don't apply.
As for Ribbon, it's so bad that I won't be using a copy of MS Office ever again, and not even if I'm given a copy either. Office has been getting worse over the past decade. I don't use it often, but it used to take me a half hour or so to find the option to turn off autocorrect through the horribly organized interface. Ribbon might be an improvement over the older interface, but that's purely because it was poorly organized and hard to locate things. Unfortunately by the time they released Ribbon many people had already memorized where things were.
Ribbon just sucks. It's completely inexcusable to change the interface of a mature product by that much. I've found that I can effectively no longer use Excel without completely relearning it as they've moved absolutely everything around. I used to use Excel fairly often when I was in college, but lately when I load it up I find that the things I need or want to use are almost always buried in a hard to find sub menu.
Sure ribbon is fine if you don't actually want to accomplish any meaningful work, but let's face it it's designed for people that never want to use the functionality they've paid for. Better would be to just release a version of Excel that removes most of those extra features.
He's under investigation. The SEC opens many investigations that doesn't automatically result in charges being brought. Wake me up when there's actual charges.
Recalls are not generally mandatory even if the defect is potentially extremely dangerous. Plus, you don't give them back the car typically you drive it to a dealership and they provide the service. Good dealers will often even loan you a car while you're waiting for yours to get out of the shop.
Additionally, they're not obligated to take the car back except under very specific cases and the terms will indicate that they won't buy it back for the same price they sold it for and even then it's treated as a new sale subject to haggling.
That's a completely different situation. You're talking about somebody that's guilty of receiving stolen merchandise and having to look the other way over the issue of the title. Versus buying from a generally reputable place of business that's selling a digital copy.
Yeah, that's totally the same thing. The latter could be remedied simply by Amazon paying the owner for the rights and the former is a felony.
Actually, the problem with that theory is that the health care reform package limits overhead to 15% for group packages and 20% for individual packages. The question is how that's going to be defined and the DHHS is making them include sales charges as overhead. Ultimately, they might be still around as private insurers, but the profit is going to be absolute crap as they'll have to rebate any money they take in on premiums above that back to the subscribers.
Ultimately everybody enrolls in health insurance at some point. There are a small number of Christian Scientists and similar that do opt out, but essentially nobody truly opts out. The question is whether you make them a part of the system early enough to do the preventative care necessary to stave off major health problems or if you wait until they hit Medicare enrollment age and try to fix what you can.
Yes, but until the health care reform package runs most of the for profit insurance companies out of business that's going to remain to be the case.
Sprained ankles though I wouldn't lump as a minor ailment. You don't necessarily always know if it's a sprain or a minor factor or torn ligament. Delaying care can end up costing a lot more money and result in inferior recovery.
No, they didn't have legally good grounds for doing it. They sold copies they weren't authorized to sell then took them back to avoid paying a big fine. It doesn't matter whether they returned the money or not, sales are an inherently no backsies situation.
I'm not sure this is fundamentally any different from them coming over and demanding that I give back any other item I got from them in exchange for my money back.
All sites aren't equal in terms of their risk factors. Yes every once in a while a major site will get hit, but in general there's a substantial difference between frequenting a random warez site and a random hobby related forum.
It cuts both ways, if we allow the jury to do anything more than measure the evidence we introduce all sorts of bias into the system. Folks these days forget that back in the early party of the 20th century there was little point in charging white defendants with killing black people as it was unlikely that they would get a conviction even with ample evidence.
In most jurisdictions they already consider that when deciding whether or not to charge. They will take into account whether or not it serves the public good as well as whether they have sufficient evidence to go to trial.
Jury nullification just represents an end run around justice and is banned around here with good reason.
No, they did it because the trial was compromised and they couldn't be sure that the defendant had received a fair trial. If they wanted to let a white man off the hook they could have ordered him freed without a new trial.
Because it gives the parties involved a way of gauging the status of various jurors. But mostly because it's easier to order a jury not to discuss, investigate, avoid hearing about or speaking about the case at all than it is to set up a set of rules that govern where exactly the line is.
Ultimately it was presumably in the judges instructions and orders from the beginning that they were not to engage in that activity and report any accidental exposure to the bailiff. Or at least that's how it was when I was on jury duty.
That's every bit as much an abuse of the system as the DA that includes questionable evidence or testimony.
When something goes to trial the plaintiff or prosecutor and the defense agree to a set of ground rules which include the jury only acting within their power and on the basis of the evidence given. Jury nullification is something which breaks the deal and makes it even harder to obtain justice as the prosecutor/plaintiff has to then worry about the opinions of the jury as to whether or not the defendant should be guilty, not whether or not they did it.
It's still racist to imply that people who use those ticks are less educated than those that don't. Linguistic profiling is one of the last forms of racism that's generally accepted by main stream society and I'm not surprised that some idiot decided to mod me down for pointing it out.
There are situations in which there is a very particular register required, but the GGP's post goes way beyond that to the point of denigrating legitimate dialects out of prejudice without supporting the notion in any reasonable way. Appeals to tradition are really not appropriate when it comes to such discussions.
The study itself appears to be bunk. They assume that the browser is going to be exploited which doesn't give any credit to how difficult that might be. It is valid to look at that, but it's incredibly misleading for them to suggest that all browsers are equally likely to be broken. Ultimately, by the time those technologies come into play you're more or less screwed. They can somewhat limit the damage, but if somebody's broken into the browser they probably know where one of the exploits is to get out of the browser.
It also doesn't take into account common security extensions that people are likely to have or the types of people that use the browsers. Ultimately, it doesn't matter how secure your browser is if you just go around clicking random links and downloading questionable software.
I see, so are you racist or just ignorant? Those are features of particular dialects which serve a useful function, just because you were brought up speaking a different dialect doesn't make them any less correct.
While we're at it why don't we dispose of eye contact, superficial questions about ones well being as those don't help communication much either.
MPEG has been around for a long time, they're the ones responsible for creating the actual IP. MPEG-LA is the patent trolls that have managed to cobble together a number of questionable patents to make people pay for h.264.
It's relevant because a lot of us think that TSA employees are pedo creeps and other types of perverts and something like that just reinforces the notion that perhaps we shouldn't let non LEOs engage in those sorts of screenings.
It's not the TSA so much as it is the DHS. It's inherently problematic to give an agency responsible for both defining the problem and solving it. It's not surprising that the scope has been ever increasing when decreasing the scope would result in layoffs and budget cuts for itself.
Don't worry, by lowering the standards for screening aircraft personnel, the military and now families of military personnel we're assured to get the most sexual assaults and humiliations without the risk of actually having an effective security screening process.
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As opposed to the spending that would have been done had the money not been looted from the workers to begin with. If we're serious about getting out of the recession, perhaps we ought to do something radical like beef up worker protections and protections for small businesses.
As for FB, my bet is still that it goes the way of MySpace before too long.
You mean 256, noob.
And that's the rub, the hosting companies probably won't provide it until they absolutely have to as the ISPs are generally not providing access. And the ISPs won't be providing it until after the customers demand it. The customers mostly think that the internet is Youtube and probably Facebook and probably won't ever request it unless those sites go unavailable.
I hate to break it to you, but Ribbon gets progressively worse the more obscure the options you're using are. It's definitely worse than the older system as they can't use the entire height and width of the screen for the menus. Meaning they'll pick and choose the options that they think are important. And yes, they're widely used, but I rarely use any of the things I've seen in the Ribbon more than once or twice editing a document. Most of the time I'm cursing because they've moved an option or function to a buried menu and trying to remember where that submenu went is infuriating.
Hiding functionality can lead to a more usable interface. However it has to be done in a logical way and needs to be extremely carefully considered. Vuescan does it and it's quite well implemented. Basically the options that don't apply aren't just greyed out, they're removed in modes for which they don't apply. It can be a wee bit confusing at first trying to find an option that's disappeared, but one doesn't typically have to scroll through hundreds of options that don't apply.
As for Ribbon, it's so bad that I won't be using a copy of MS Office ever again, and not even if I'm given a copy either. Office has been getting worse over the past decade. I don't use it often, but it used to take me a half hour or so to find the option to turn off autocorrect through the horribly organized interface. Ribbon might be an improvement over the older interface, but that's purely because it was poorly organized and hard to locate things. Unfortunately by the time they released Ribbon many people had already memorized where things were.
Ribbon just sucks. It's completely inexcusable to change the interface of a mature product by that much. I've found that I can effectively no longer use Excel without completely relearning it as they've moved absolutely everything around. I used to use Excel fairly often when I was in college, but lately when I load it up I find that the things I need or want to use are almost always buried in a hard to find sub menu.
Sure ribbon is fine if you don't actually want to accomplish any meaningful work, but let's face it it's designed for people that never want to use the functionality they've paid for. Better would be to just release a version of Excel that removes most of those extra features.
He's under investigation. The SEC opens many investigations that doesn't automatically result in charges being brought. Wake me up when there's actual charges.
Recalls are not generally mandatory even if the defect is potentially extremely dangerous. Plus, you don't give them back the car typically you drive it to a dealership and they provide the service. Good dealers will often even loan you a car while you're waiting for yours to get out of the shop.
Additionally, they're not obligated to take the car back except under very specific cases and the terms will indicate that they won't buy it back for the same price they sold it for and even then it's treated as a new sale subject to haggling.
That's a completely different situation. You're talking about somebody that's guilty of receiving stolen merchandise and having to look the other way over the issue of the title. Versus buying from a generally reputable place of business that's selling a digital copy.
Yeah, that's totally the same thing. The latter could be remedied simply by Amazon paying the owner for the rights and the former is a felony.
Actually, the problem with that theory is that the health care reform package limits overhead to 15% for group packages and 20% for individual packages. The question is how that's going to be defined and the DHHS is making them include sales charges as overhead. Ultimately, they might be still around as private insurers, but the profit is going to be absolute crap as they'll have to rebate any money they take in on premiums above that back to the subscribers.
Ultimately everybody enrolls in health insurance at some point. There are a small number of Christian Scientists and similar that do opt out, but essentially nobody truly opts out. The question is whether you make them a part of the system early enough to do the preventative care necessary to stave off major health problems or if you wait until they hit Medicare enrollment age and try to fix what you can.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2011/12/02/the-bomb-buried-in-obamacare-explodes-today-halleluja/
Yes, but until the health care reform package runs most of the for profit insurance companies out of business that's going to remain to be the case.
Sprained ankles though I wouldn't lump as a minor ailment. You don't necessarily always know if it's a sprain or a minor factor or torn ligament. Delaying care can end up costing a lot more money and result in inferior recovery.
No, they didn't have legally good grounds for doing it. They sold copies they weren't authorized to sell then took them back to avoid paying a big fine. It doesn't matter whether they returned the money or not, sales are an inherently no backsies situation.
I'm not sure this is fundamentally any different from them coming over and demanding that I give back any other item I got from them in exchange for my money back.
All sites aren't equal in terms of their risk factors. Yes every once in a while a major site will get hit, but in general there's a substantial difference between frequenting a random warez site and a random hobby related forum.
It cuts both ways, if we allow the jury to do anything more than measure the evidence we introduce all sorts of bias into the system. Folks these days forget that back in the early party of the 20th century there was little point in charging white defendants with killing black people as it was unlikely that they would get a conviction even with ample evidence.
In most jurisdictions they already consider that when deciding whether or not to charge. They will take into account whether or not it serves the public good as well as whether they have sufficient evidence to go to trial.
Jury nullification just represents an end run around justice and is banned around here with good reason.
No, they did it because the trial was compromised and they couldn't be sure that the defendant had received a fair trial. If they wanted to let a white man off the hook they could have ordered him freed without a new trial.
Because it gives the parties involved a way of gauging the status of various jurors. But mostly because it's easier to order a jury not to discuss, investigate, avoid hearing about or speaking about the case at all than it is to set up a set of rules that govern where exactly the line is.
Ultimately it was presumably in the judges instructions and orders from the beginning that they were not to engage in that activity and report any accidental exposure to the bailiff. Or at least that's how it was when I was on jury duty.
That's every bit as much an abuse of the system as the DA that includes questionable evidence or testimony.
When something goes to trial the plaintiff or prosecutor and the defense agree to a set of ground rules which include the jury only acting within their power and on the basis of the evidence given. Jury nullification is something which breaks the deal and makes it even harder to obtain justice as the prosecutor/plaintiff has to then worry about the opinions of the jury as to whether or not the defendant should be guilty, not whether or not they did it.
It's still racist to imply that people who use those ticks are less educated than those that don't. Linguistic profiling is one of the last forms of racism that's generally accepted by main stream society and I'm not surprised that some idiot decided to mod me down for pointing it out.
There are situations in which there is a very particular register required, but the GGP's post goes way beyond that to the point of denigrating legitimate dialects out of prejudice without supporting the notion in any reasonable way. Appeals to tradition are really not appropriate when it comes to such discussions.
The study itself appears to be bunk. They assume that the browser is going to be exploited which doesn't give any credit to how difficult that might be. It is valid to look at that, but it's incredibly misleading for them to suggest that all browsers are equally likely to be broken. Ultimately, by the time those technologies come into play you're more or less screwed. They can somewhat limit the damage, but if somebody's broken into the browser they probably know where one of the exploits is to get out of the browser.
It also doesn't take into account common security extensions that people are likely to have or the types of people that use the browsers. Ultimately, it doesn't matter how secure your browser is if you just go around clicking random links and downloading questionable software.
I see, so are you racist or just ignorant? Those are features of particular dialects which serve a useful function, just because you were brought up speaking a different dialect doesn't make them any less correct.
While we're at it why don't we dispose of eye contact, superficial questions about ones well being as those don't help communication much either.
MPEG has been around for a long time, they're the ones responsible for creating the actual IP. MPEG-LA is the patent trolls that have managed to cobble together a number of questionable patents to make people pay for h.264.
Unity is sort of like if Goatse man had a baby with tub girl, nothing but an elaborate effort to troll teh internetz.
It's relevant because a lot of us think that TSA employees are pedo creeps and other types of perverts and something like that just reinforces the notion that perhaps we shouldn't let non LEOs engage in those sorts of screenings.
It's not the TSA so much as it is the DHS. It's inherently problematic to give an agency responsible for both defining the problem and solving it. It's not surprising that the scope has been ever increasing when decreasing the scope would result in layoffs and budget cuts for itself.
Don't worry, by lowering the standards for screening aircraft personnel, the military and now families of military personnel we're assured to get the most sexual assaults and humiliations without the risk of actually having an effective security screening process.