to learn that when the republicans sweep back into power next month that the FBI won't be able to get that bill through congress. Republicans would never let it happen, right?
Like most rich people, he inherited his father's newspaper business. He really began to make his money when he realized he could extort money from politicians. Ever notice how nice republicans are to him and how he has democrats quaking in the shoes? The former, he owns like pets, the later are too afraid to say anything.
If they are good Nerds, then anything must be considered relevant to Slash Dot. After all, aren't the very things all humans depend on for survival not the same for Nerds? How can they insure the integrity of their data if they are deprived of water? It is not possible for long. Hence, the entire set of observations that pertain to water is germane to a properly functioning application and backup management cycle regime bounded by the the permutations of their run time parameters.
The real questions are not so much about prior are, but rather what are we going to do with the prior art and other more recent developments in the future and if we have enough water to sustain us.
"the human race will never get anywhere unless someone sets some goals"
First goal might be saving what is left of the biodiversity on this planet so that our ecosystems can sustain us long enough to support the time it will take us to develop a credible space program able to send humans in any kind of numbers to other parts of the solar system, much less other solar systems, or other galaxies. We need more space science focused on biology rather than simply technology.
The biggest challenges to space travel will be in 1) retaining a base planet earth that is still able to sustain life in about 100-300 years time given current trends, and 2) overcoming human frailty in the gravity free high energy environment of space. Propulsion systems and space vehicles are just ways to get political clout of contractors lined up, but they do nothing to resolve the real challenges to man living beyond the nurturing of earth's ecosystems for anything but brief moments in time.
Not after November, when all of Florida's problems will belong to republicans. You will have to feel sorry for Rubio. Right out of the box he will have to start bucking other republicans to get any federal spending at all in his state.
Hey. Lets face it. We are fighting two wars, and we are broke. Get used to stories like this one. America is about to get a lot smaller. So many want it that way. Now they will be getting their wish. Be careful what you wish for. You may get it.
Earlier there was a dust up because Apple claimed it own the iPhone brand name because although there were other phones, they weren't iPhones.
Now it claims rights over the marketing of iPod, claiming that it is the stem "pod" is attached. The defendant's lawyers are going to have a field day with Apple, probably with damages for being forced to hire lawyers to defend themselves against a frivolous lawsuit
This is what happens when you have lawyers on retainer and they haven't got anything useful to do to remind their employers of why they need to pay them more..
Perhaps you didn't see any products of interest to you, but I know of nowhere in the US or London that even comes close in terms of diversity of components for the do-it-yourselfer. Perhaps, things are picking up in Hong Kong.
If you actually go there, and you know what you are looking for and are willing to learn a little Nihongo, it is awesome.
For a quick non-professional filming effort, it more than served its purpose. My congratulations on developing a very interesting tour.
Anyway, I really appreciated the tour. We'll all be looking for SuperBananas awesome video of his local Akehabara on a future slahsdot post so we can make a fair comparison.
For someone only partially familiar with video and audio encoding, this was a particularly clear and informative video. It also serves as an excellent example of the direction more Open Source efforts need to take. Mini lectures that bring some human explanation.
Your comment about an ebooks and wikis, is well taken and follow-ups to "flesh out" the information would be an extremely helpful next step to break down the various issues under discussion, as well as provide further instruction on how specifically to address various issues needed to bring the user community "up to speed". This is excellent in that it makes clear that although challenging this kind of knowledge need not be inaccessible.
The organization would do well to provide more mini-lectures to expand on each of the topics in greater detail and follow it up with outlined summaries, tutorials and soft-ware coding and details about hardware choices that are available and supported on open-source systems. This would be helpful to everyone as it would give developers and a more general class of users more power in the marketplace, as new projects develop and bring with them new communities of enthusiasts and students. For example, those interested in higher resolution video or high speed video, or audio-video interfaces could each bring critical mass to more specialized areas that in turn could stimulate interest by hardware vendors in meeting the specific needs of such users.
Given that the closed source, proprietary society model is rapidly taking over everything else, those who want a modicum of freedom expression and fair markets, open software has the potential to do much to serve under-appreciated, under-served, and under-funded audiences the world over. Thats good for everyone, especially in a world where it grows easier and easier to be discouraged.
Really a great open source contribution. My congratulations to Monty and the rest of the crew at Xiph.org.
The slag shouldn't be a problem. CA doesn't want it but red states couldn't care less about their environment, so it can be shipped to Utah, Idaho and Arizona.
You're right, most Americans haven't a clue what is going to happen when Obama cuts out US foreign aide and allows China to pick up the slack. Prices here are going to start to climb mercilessly as other nations will get creative on access to their raw materials and labor markets to the Chinese, who have our debt to pay for it with. They will just jack up interest rates and we will never recover. It won't be just home mortgages going under but entire swaths of our economy that is lagging in manufacturing.
Pseudo-capitalism is just another name for socialism republican style. The rich and their corporations use the government to subsidize their businesses through tax write-offs and no-bid contracts, and absorb any losses, while the poor and middle-class consumers can work harder to pay for it.
In China its pretty much the same thing, only the rich capitalists are high ranking party officials and the military. The only real difference is that the Chinese have cut out the middlemen, politicians that are bought by the rich to foster the pretense of a truly capitalist system, where markets operate fairly. Without the middlemen, the Chinese are able to invest heavily in infrastructure, education, and health-care that it propelling their economy on 4-8% growth for the past 30 years.
Don't forget to consider that China owns about 35% of the US debt. If they go belly up, they will be calling in their IOU's. You might need to find a second and third job just to pay them back, particularly since US billionaires will never give up their tax breaks that the US is borrowing from the Chinese to pay for.
Not so sure. The Chinese have deployed extensive highly maneuverable killer satellites capable of taking out US spy and geopositioning systems worldwide. If our Air Force would attack they almost certainly will be doing it without GPS or electronic guidance. The Chinese air defenses are propositioned on a strong EMP defense, which will fry most electronic components in modern military hardware. Given they have the rare-earth metals need to make new ones, its not at all clear that we have the upper hand in any kind of protracted conflict.
"They should be footing the bill for this, not us."
They already are footing the bill. They pay virtually all the expenses for the US military presence in Japan. Why do you think the Japanese public is so upset about it? They also pay most of the expense for the fuel oil used by our Navy in its fleet in the Western Indian Ocean. There was quite a stir in US military circles, when a former government briefly said they weren't going to do it any more.
Japanese are probably not going to re-militarize. They recognize they simply couldn't afford it nor do they have the raw materials necessary to do it (the last time they did this they used iron ore from Manchuria, and oil from Indonesia no longer available to them). They would just fall into the Chinese orbit of influence, with Korea probably soon to follow after that.
This is not a dispute over a fisherman. It is a territorial dispute over a very large chunk of water around a disputed island. It is also an opportunity for China to put pressure on Japan and indirectly on the US (which relies on Japanese to manufacture many critical industrial components, many military in nature that can no longer be manufactured in the US because the US is no longer economically competitive in many high-tech industrial technologies. China sees this as an opportunity to exert its growing economic influence at a time that the West is not economically or politically able to respond because it is bogged down in two land wars in Central Asia. They are sending a signal that they are now the dominant power in Asia and the rest of the world can expect them to be the dominant economy in the world in just 10-15 years time at current rates of growth. This will almost certainly happen sooner as the republicans who look as if they are about to come into power are determined to shrink the US government, which will almost certainly speed up the difference in infrastructure and military preparedness. If we get into it with Iran, expect the Chinese who rely heavily on Iranian oil to come into more direct conflict with the US, probably by igniting inflation in the US by pulling their underwriting of US debt instruments that are all that is propping up the US financial system presently.
If the China Japan situation escalates our treaty obligations will draw us into it. Its unclear how the US will fare being so dependent on middle eastern oil, which can be easily shut off at the Straits of Hormuz by the Iranians and its military highly dependent on satellites for its battlefield and tactical awareness. The strategic petroleum reserve won't last long in an all out draw down. To make matters worse, just a few well coordinated EMP generating blasts in space and the US military will be largely blind. No wonder DARPA is scrambling to counter the new maneuverable Chinese killer satellites with high altitude solar aircraft. My guess is the republicans will let Japan fall to the Chinese and go into a more conciliatory mode to keep the Chinese money needed for tax breaks for billionaires safe.
and if you believe that I have a bridge I want to sell you.
The notion that Washington can continue to protect its wealthy from shouldering a greater and fairer share of its tax burden is an idea whose time has come to die. I for one will be more than happy to pay a small amount more in tax to ensure that the rich finally begin to pay the rates that the lower 98% pay.
Of all the things America or Washington state needs to subsidize, rich people have no reason to be on the list. Advocating more tax breaks for the rich at a time when income disparity is at an all time high, is just advocating more disparity of income and more unfairness in our economic and governmental systems. Its gotten to the point that the poor and what is left of the middle class are but pawns to be used in battles between egos of the ultra-wealthy as they attempt to lay claim to being the one to own everything. Of what use is a society like that.
It just goes to show why Balmer leadership at Microsoft has become uninspiring and failing. He has time and energy to worry about his personal taxes, but not enough time to focus on increasing the value of the company to its shareholders. No doubt, most at Microsfot and especially their shareholders would love to pay more taxes, as it would be indicative of the fact that they are making a lot more money. Balmer and others who think like him are just looking for a way to get a little more out personally out of the system, while chipping in a little bit less to the overall improvement of society.
The class war needs to continue until fairness is brought back into our economic system. If the wealthy want to continue getting richer than every one else disproportionately, they will simply have to get used to it.
Rich people don't create jobs any more than the people who are willing to do the work do. This is a myth. The creation of jobs is a two way street with many in society forfiet a lot of potential income so a few others can have or offer a job.
To argue that the rich are the only one's responsible for jobs fails to explain how so many in communist/socialist countries had or have jobs. Likewise, it doesn't explain how our countries largest employer, the government produces jobs. There is more to job creation than having a few billionaires who want to "create" them.
our country got taken over by corporate interests who drained its finances to build cushy lifestyles for themselves and reducing their taxes and then went broke in the process
Rich people have to pay more taxes now, because, if you haven't noticed, they are the only one's left with any money to pay anything.
If employers can get the operating system to monitor IT users, it will be a great boon. Not enough lines of code, too much sitting back in the chairs, not enough eye contact with the screen, not enough keystrokes, use of non-sanctioned websites, then modify the user's environment say to provide random electric shocks of sufficient voltage to "encourage" productivity, perform personality scans, initiate increased video surveillance, monitor "independent" contractors, initiate urine tests, etc..
Clearly, this may propel Ubuntu to the top in commercial settings. Microsoft look out!
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to learn that when the republicans sweep back into power next month that the FBI won't be able to get that bill through congress. Republicans would never let it happen, right?
Like most rich people, he inherited his father's newspaper business. He really began to make his money when he realized he could extort money from politicians. Ever notice how nice republicans are to him and how he has democrats quaking in the shoes? The former, he owns like pets, the later are too afraid to say anything.
If they are good Nerds, then anything must be considered relevant to Slash Dot. After all, aren't the very things all humans depend on for survival not the same for Nerds? How can they insure the integrity of their data if they are deprived of water? It is not possible for long. Hence, the entire set of observations that pertain to water is germane to a properly functioning application and backup management cycle regime bounded by the the permutations of their run time parameters.
The real questions are not so much about prior are, but rather what are we going to do with the prior art and other more recent developments in the future and if we have enough water to sustain us.
"the human race will never get anywhere unless someone sets some goals"
First goal might be saving what is left of the biodiversity on this planet so that our ecosystems can sustain us long enough to support the time it will take us to develop a credible space program able to send humans in any kind of numbers to other parts of the solar system, much less other solar systems, or other galaxies. We need more space science focused on biology rather than simply technology.
The biggest challenges to space travel will be in 1) retaining a base planet earth that is still able to sustain life in about 100-300 years time given current trends, and 2) overcoming human frailty in the gravity free high energy environment of space. Propulsion systems and space vehicles are just ways to get political clout of contractors lined up, but they do nothing to resolve the real challenges to man living beyond the nurturing of earth's ecosystems for anything but brief moments in time.
Not after November, when all of Florida's problems will belong to republicans. You will have to feel sorry for Rubio. Right out of the box he will have to start bucking other republicans to get any federal spending at all in his state.
Hey. Lets face it. We are fighting two wars, and we are broke. Get used to stories like this one. America is about to get a lot smaller. So many want it that way. Now they will be getting their wish. Be careful what you wish for. You may get it.
Earlier there was a dust up because Apple claimed it own the iPhone brand name because although there were other phones, they weren't iPhones.
Now it claims rights over the marketing of iPod, claiming that it is the stem "pod" is attached. The defendant's lawyers are going to have a field day with Apple, probably with damages for being forced to hire lawyers to defend themselves against a frivolous lawsuit
This is what happens when you have lawyers on retainer and they haven't got anything useful to do to remind their employers of why they need to pay them more..
Without their tripods?
This suit has about as much merit as McDonald's suing a scottish business some time back for use of the name "McDonnalds".
Perhaps you didn't see any products of interest to you, but I know of nowhere in the US or London that even comes close in terms of diversity of components for the do-it-yourselfer. Perhaps, things are picking up in Hong Kong.
If you actually go there, and you know what you are looking for and are willing to learn a little Nihongo, it is awesome.
For a quick non-professional filming effort, it more than served its purpose. My congratulations on developing a very interesting tour.
Anyway, I really appreciated the tour. We'll all be looking for SuperBananas awesome video of his local Akehabara on a future slahsdot post so we can make a fair comparison.
For someone only partially familiar with video and audio encoding, this was a particularly clear and informative video. It also serves as an excellent example of the direction more Open Source efforts need to take. Mini lectures that bring some human explanation.
Your comment about an ebooks and wikis, is well taken and follow-ups to "flesh out" the information would be an extremely helpful next step to break down the various issues under discussion, as well as provide further instruction on how specifically to address various issues needed to bring the user community "up to speed". This is excellent in that it makes clear that although challenging this kind of knowledge need not be inaccessible.
The organization would do well to provide more mini-lectures to expand on each of the topics in greater detail and follow it up with outlined summaries, tutorials and soft-ware coding and details about hardware choices that are available and supported on open-source systems. This would be helpful to everyone as it would give developers and a more general class of users more power in the marketplace, as new projects develop and bring with them new communities of enthusiasts and students. For example, those interested in higher resolution video or high speed video, or audio-video interfaces could each bring critical mass to more specialized areas that in turn could stimulate interest by hardware vendors in meeting the specific needs of such users.
Given that the closed source, proprietary society model is rapidly taking over everything else, those who want a modicum of freedom expression and fair markets, open software has the potential to do much to serve under-appreciated, under-served, and under-funded audiences the world over. Thats good for everyone, especially in a world where it grows easier and easier to be discouraged.
Really a great open source contribution. My congratulations to Monty and the rest of the crew at Xiph.org.
"over fishing rights"
Keep in mind those fishing rights keep millions of people fed.
The slag shouldn't be a problem. CA doesn't want it but red states couldn't care less about their environment, so it can be shipped to Utah, Idaho and Arizona.
You're right, most Americans haven't a clue what is going to happen when Obama cuts out US foreign aide and allows China to pick up the slack. Prices here are going to start to climb mercilessly as other nations will get creative on access to their raw materials and labor markets to the Chinese, who have our debt to pay for it with. They will just jack up interest rates and we will never recover. It won't be just home mortgages going under but entire swaths of our economy that is lagging in manufacturing.
Pseudo-capitalism is just another name for socialism republican style. The rich and their corporations use the government to subsidize their businesses through tax write-offs and no-bid contracts, and absorb any losses, while the poor and middle-class consumers can work harder to pay for it.
In China its pretty much the same thing, only the rich capitalists are high ranking party officials and the military. The only real difference is that the Chinese have cut out the middlemen, politicians that are bought by the rich to foster the pretense of a truly capitalist system, where markets operate fairly. Without the middlemen, the Chinese are able to invest heavily in infrastructure, education, and health-care that it propelling their economy on 4-8% growth for the past 30 years.
Don't forget to consider that China owns about 35% of the US debt. If they go belly up, they will be calling in their IOU's. You might need to find a second and third job just to pay them back, particularly since US billionaires will never give up their tax breaks that the US is borrowing from the Chinese to pay for.
Not so sure. The Chinese have deployed extensive highly maneuverable killer satellites capable of taking out US spy and geopositioning systems worldwide. If our Air Force would attack they almost certainly will be doing it without GPS or electronic guidance. The Chinese air defenses are propositioned on a strong EMP defense, which will fry most electronic components in modern military hardware. Given they have the rare-earth metals need to make new ones, its not at all clear that we have the upper hand in any kind of protracted conflict.
"They should be footing the bill for this, not us."
They already are footing the bill. They pay virtually all the expenses for the US military presence in Japan. Why do you think the Japanese public is so upset about it? They also pay most of the expense for the fuel oil used by our Navy in its fleet in the Western Indian Ocean. There was quite a stir in US military circles, when a former government briefly said they weren't going to do it any more.
Japanese are probably not going to re-militarize. They recognize they simply couldn't afford it nor do they have the raw materials necessary to do it (the last time they did this they used iron ore from Manchuria, and oil from Indonesia no longer available to them). They would just fall into the Chinese orbit of influence, with Korea probably soon to follow after that.
This is not a dispute over a fisherman. It is a territorial dispute over a very large chunk of water around a disputed island. It is also an opportunity for China to put pressure on Japan and indirectly on the US (which relies on Japanese to manufacture many critical industrial components, many military in nature that can no longer be manufactured in the US because the US is no longer economically competitive in many high-tech industrial technologies. China sees this as an opportunity to exert its growing economic influence at a time that the West is not economically or politically able to respond because it is bogged down in two land wars in Central Asia. They are sending a signal that they are now the dominant power in Asia and the rest of the world can expect them to be the dominant economy in the world in just 10-15 years time at current rates of growth. This will almost certainly happen sooner as the republicans who look as if they are about to come into power are determined to shrink the US government, which will almost certainly speed up the difference in infrastructure and military preparedness. If we get into it with Iran, expect the Chinese who rely heavily on Iranian oil to come into more direct conflict with the US, probably by igniting inflation in the US by pulling their underwriting of US debt instruments that are all that is propping up the US financial system presently.
If the China Japan situation escalates our treaty obligations will draw us into it. Its unclear how the US will fare being so dependent on middle eastern oil, which can be easily shut off at the Straits of Hormuz by the Iranians and its military highly dependent on satellites for its battlefield and tactical awareness. The strategic petroleum reserve won't last long in an all out draw down. To make matters worse, just a few well coordinated EMP generating blasts in space and the US military will be largely blind. No wonder DARPA is scrambling to counter the new maneuverable Chinese killer satellites with high altitude solar aircraft. My guess is the republicans will let Japan fall to the Chinese and go into a more conciliatory mode to keep the Chinese money needed for tax breaks for billionaires safe.
and if you believe that I have a bridge I want to sell you.
The notion that Washington can continue to protect its wealthy from shouldering a greater and fairer share of its tax burden is an idea whose time has come to die. I for one will be more than happy to pay a small amount more in tax to ensure that the rich finally begin to pay the rates that the lower 98% pay.
Of all the things America or Washington state needs to subsidize, rich people have no reason to be on the list. Advocating more tax breaks for the rich at a time when income disparity is at an all time high, is just advocating more disparity of income and more unfairness in our economic and governmental systems. Its gotten to the point that the poor and what is left of the middle class are but pawns to be used in battles between egos of the ultra-wealthy as they attempt to lay claim to being the one to own everything. Of what use is a society like that.
It just goes to show why Balmer leadership at Microsoft has become uninspiring and failing. He has time and energy to worry about his personal taxes, but not enough time to focus on increasing the value of the company to its shareholders. No doubt, most at Microsfot and especially their shareholders would love to pay more taxes, as it would be indicative of the fact that they are making a lot more money. Balmer and others who think like him are just looking for a way to get a little more out personally out of the system, while chipping in a little bit less to the overall improvement of society.
The class war needs to continue until fairness is brought back into our economic system. If the wealthy want to continue getting richer than every one else disproportionately, they will simply have to get used to it.
Rich people don't create jobs any more than the people who are willing to do the work do. This is a myth. The creation of jobs is a two way street with many in society forfiet a lot of potential income so a few others can have or offer a job.
To argue that the rich are the only one's responsible for jobs fails to explain how so many in communist/socialist countries had or have jobs. Likewise, it doesn't explain how our countries largest employer, the government produces jobs. There is more to job creation than having a few billionaires who want to "create" them.
our country got taken over by corporate interests who drained its finances to build cushy lifestyles for themselves and reducing their taxes and then went broke in the process
Rich people have to pay more taxes now, because, if you haven't noticed, they are the only one's left with any money to pay anything.
Tell that to Meg Whitman. She hates taxes so much she is buying the California governorship just so she can be in a position to avoid them.
I guess she figures if she has to pay, she might as well do it on herself rather than on her fellow citizens.
Didn't know I could support such a tax, but thanks to Steve Ballmer and Jeff Bezos I now know that I can and will be voting for prop 1098.
Thank you Slashdot for your political activism. Maybe geeks can make the world a better place after all.
If employers can get the operating system to monitor IT users, it will be a great boon. Not enough lines of code, too much sitting back in the chairs, not enough eye contact with the screen, not enough keystrokes, use of non-sanctioned websites, then modify the user's environment say to provide random electric shocks of sufficient voltage to "encourage" productivity, perform personality scans, initiate increased video surveillance, monitor "independent" contractors, initiate urine tests, etc..
Clearly, this may propel Ubuntu to the top in commercial settings. Microsoft look out!