In this case it can theoretically operate on other platforms, but it cannot propogate to them. One could install it intentionally perhaps, but it won't make its way onto the Linux box against the system administrators will.
Thus it's called a Trojan - not a virus. It won't self-replicate and transmit to computers on other OSes as well...
Republicans want to have their cake and eat it too. They know, knew, and understand that you cannot fix a deficit or reduce the national debt without raising taxes. So all their talk about cutting and tax reduction is impossible on paper, basic math will tell you less revenue in means less to spend with. Less input = less output. The only question is who is going to pay the taxes when implemented.
Hey, let's double our tax collections - everybody pays TWICE the amount in income tax as they do right now. We still would have added $800 BILLION in debt this fiscal year.
Revenue isn't the big problem; it's down ~10% relative to historical levels. Spending, however - as a share of GDP - is up 30%. It IS the spending that's the problem right now, not revenue. Double the income tax and we're still nearly a trillion dollars in the hole.
A little perspective - our deficit this year is greater than the entire GDP of Canada. Seriously. So unless you want to raise taxes on the population BEYOND the entire GDP of Canada, we need to cut spending, and cut it dramatically.
You compared REVENUE to PROFIT. Not the same thing. Oil companies profit on the sale of gas. The government spends more money building roads than it gets in gas taxes, so it's operating at a LOSS.
Since the oil companies can't make any money on gas unless the government builds and maintains roads, the government should increase gas taxes until road spending is paid for. Alternatively, the government could also put a special tax on oil company profits so that the government is no longer subsidizing the oil company's business.
Apparently, the Federal Government makes more money on fuel and excise taxes than it spends on roads. It's only when you factor in the subsidies for trains, buses and (slightly) planes that the total spending increases more than revenues collected. On the whole, though, taxes on highway use - at least at the Federal level - are the net money-maker for the Government.
So this is a systemic problem, and one the Federal Government is encouraging since it's pushing heavily to fuel-efficient vehicles and reduced energy consumption. It's actually telling people to use less fuel, meaning fewer dollars into the Treasury. I guess someone in DC never put 2 and 2 together...
This little thing business people like to call "cost of goods sold". You actually have to PAY for raw crude oil, and surprisingly enough - shippers and truckers like to get paid to deliver the product, and refinery workers really like having wages...
Well clearly the solution is to give the poor new electric cars! I figure 20 million poor, each with a new Chevy Volt. That's only an $800 billion expense - heck, that's just half our annual deficit!
How about you fix the tax loopholes, get rid of oil subsidies, and force the oil companies that for every cent above 2 dollars they charge per gallon, the US government gets 2 cents of it. Bet you it will make more than this plan and oil will miraculously go down to 2 dollars again!
Government already does that - but it's actually ~6 cents for every penny of profit. For example, ExxonMobil made about $0.07 per gallon of gas sold, in profit. Governments across the US made between $0.40 and $0.66, depending upon what State you live in (the Federal Government is a flat $0.184 per gallon).
And when oil is $110 per barrel, and there are 42 gallons of oil per barrel, the raw cost of oil itself is $2.62 per gallon. Add transportation, refining, and delivery on top of that.
World is only running out of helium (one of the most common elements in the universe) because the USA holds half of all the reserves and is selling it off at an artificially low price. It may run out in 30 years time because this useful element primarily wasted in pointless things like balloons at carnivals.
Hey, don't forget the priceless fun of the way it makes your voice sound like a chipmunk...
The database is not of the nearest tower or hotspot. It is of many nearby ones, (e.g. within dozens of miles). By having this cache of local known positions, the GPS can resolve in seconds, rather than in minutes.
I can turn on my HTC Touch Pro 2 (a 2 year old device) when I touch down in Bangkok, Shanghai, Berlin, Los Angeles or Seattle (all places I've been to and used GPS/location services within in the last 5 weeks) and it locks on position in less than 10 seconds. Subsequent uses in the same region (within ~150 km radius) locks within 2-3 seconds. No cache needed - if you have a decent GPS chipset to start with.
The point of a cache is to have the data at hand before it's needed, so that when it is needed, it's right there.
Why worry about where I was last week or last month, when I'm looking for position right now... You can query the cell system for current position of the tower to which you are connected, and get the current data in a matter of a second or two. Why do you need to store all the places you've ever been, for something that has relevance right now?
The iPhone was introduced 3 years ago. For 20 years there wasn't anything like an iPhone, now every phone out there is an iPhone look alike. It is so pervasive that people can't even remember what phones were like before the iphone.
Can you identify of this "invention" that the iPhone brought that didn't pre-date it with something as mundane as Windows Mobile running SPB Mobile Shell, or HTC TouchFLO? I see Apple is VERY good at marketing, but actual innovation? What is new and novel in their iPhone?
I guess most people missed the point - Google was quite vocal and public about it's "pullout" from China a year ago... As far as firearms go, they're banned but available for the right price or for the right reasons.
Railways Ministry announced that to enhance safety, the top speed of all trains was being decreased from about 218 mph to 186.
Just rode the CRH today from Shanghai to Jianshan Nan and back - cracked 340 kph each way, and spent at least half the trip above 310 kph. Both of those are above the new "top speed" limit...
Handango has been around since ~1999, and was THE app store back in the day, as it had WinMo, Symbian, Palm, and BlackBerry apps for you to purchase and download. Still is the best place to get apps for those platforms, too!
I've known that F1 is for help, but many programs use +F1 for things other than help. Like AutoCAD (where it launches the LISP interface). Linux uses ++F1 to switch to the first terminal session. Windows - since XP - has used +F1 to select the popup menu for the currently selected control (Gnome uses +F1 for the same feature) And on and on. I've never heard of this age-old "standard", and it looks like Linux and Windows have ignored the "standard' for at least the last 10 years...
When you have to go to the grocery store, get gas in the car, and drop off some bills at the Post Office, do you drive back home each time, in between errands? That's basically what you're doing by insisting on going back to the "home" tab each time. Leave the tab as-is until the next time you need to use the ribbon. Maybe you'll need a function on the same tab, or a different (non-home) tab...
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In this case it can theoretically operate on other platforms, but it cannot propogate to them. One could install it intentionally perhaps, but it won't make its way onto the Linux box against the system administrators will.
Thus it's called a Trojan - not a virus. It won't self-replicate and transmit to computers on other OSes as well...
Republicans want to have their cake and eat it too. They know, knew, and understand that you cannot fix a deficit or reduce the national debt without raising taxes. So all their talk about cutting and tax reduction is impossible on paper, basic math will tell you less revenue in means less to spend with. Less input = less output. The only question is who is going to pay the taxes when implemented.
Hey, let's double our tax collections - everybody pays TWICE the amount in income tax as they do right now. We still would have added $800 BILLION in debt this fiscal year.
Revenue isn't the big problem; it's down ~10% relative to historical levels. Spending, however - as a share of GDP - is up 30%. It IS the spending that's the problem right now, not revenue. Double the income tax and we're still nearly a trillion dollars in the hole.
A little perspective - our deficit this year is greater than the entire GDP of Canada. Seriously. So unless you want to raise taxes on the population BEYOND the entire GDP of Canada, we need to cut spending, and cut it dramatically.
You compared REVENUE to PROFIT. Not the same thing. Oil companies profit on the sale of gas. The government spends more money building roads than it gets in gas taxes, so it's operating at a LOSS.
Since the oil companies can't make any money on gas unless the government builds and maintains roads, the government should increase gas taxes until road spending is paid for. Alternatively, the government could also put a special tax on oil company profits so that the government is no longer subsidizing the oil company's business.
Apparently, the Federal Government makes more money on fuel and excise taxes than it spends on roads. It's only when you factor in the subsidies for trains, buses and (slightly) planes that the total spending increases more than revenues collected. On the whole, though, taxes on highway use - at least at the Federal level - are the net money-maker for the Government.
So this is a systemic problem, and one the Federal Government is encouraging since it's pushing heavily to fuel-efficient vehicles and reduced energy consumption. It's actually telling people to use less fuel, meaning fewer dollars into the Treasury. I guess someone in DC never put 2 and 2 together...
This little thing business people like to call "cost of goods sold". You actually have to PAY for raw crude oil, and surprisingly enough - shippers and truckers like to get paid to deliver the product, and refinery workers really like having wages...
Well clearly the solution is to give the poor new electric cars! I figure 20 million poor, each with a new Chevy Volt. That's only an $800 billion expense - heck, that's just half our annual deficit!
How about you fix the tax loopholes, get rid of oil subsidies, and force the oil companies that for every cent above 2 dollars they charge per gallon, the US government gets 2 cents of it. Bet you it will make more than this plan and oil will miraculously go down to 2 dollars again!
Government already does that - but it's actually ~6 cents for every penny of profit. For example, ExxonMobil made about $0.07 per gallon of gas sold, in profit. Governments across the US made between $0.40 and $0.66, depending upon what State you live in (the Federal Government is a flat $0.184 per gallon). And when oil is $110 per barrel, and there are 42 gallons of oil per barrel, the raw cost of oil itself is $2.62 per gallon. Add transportation, refining, and delivery on top of that.
Step 5: profit?
World is only running out of helium (one of the most common elements in the universe) because the USA holds half of all the reserves and is selling it off at an artificially low price. It may run out in 30 years time because this useful element primarily wasted in pointless things like balloons at carnivals.
Hey, don't forget the priceless fun of the way it makes your voice sound like a chipmunk...
So... No?
Most likely hide and then "disclose" by burying disclosure of the file somewhere deep in the bowels of a EULA.
The database is not of the nearest tower or hotspot. It is of many nearby ones, (e.g. within dozens of miles). By having this cache of local known positions, the GPS can resolve in seconds, rather than in minutes.
I can turn on my HTC Touch Pro 2 (a 2 year old device) when I touch down in Bangkok, Shanghai, Berlin, Los Angeles or Seattle (all places I've been to and used GPS/location services within in the last 5 weeks) and it locks on position in less than 10 seconds. Subsequent uses in the same region (within ~150 km radius) locks within 2-3 seconds. No cache needed - if you have a decent GPS chipset to start with.
The point of a cache is to have the data at hand before it's needed, so that when it is needed, it's right there.
Why worry about where I was last week or last month, when I'm looking for position right now... You can query the cell system for current position of the tower to which you are connected, and get the current data in a matter of a second or two. Why do you need to store all the places you've ever been, for something that has relevance right now?
Apple has been getting meaningless patents left and right
Can you provide a link to Apple-initiated frivolous patent troll lawsuits?
No, because Apple's patents are meaningless, as the text you quoted so eloquently stated.
The iPhone was introduced 3 years ago. For 20 years there wasn't anything like an iPhone, now every phone out there is an iPhone look alike. It is so pervasive that people can't even remember what phones were like before the iphone.
Can you identify of this "invention" that the iPhone brought that didn't pre-date it with something as mundane as Windows Mobile running SPB Mobile Shell, or HTC TouchFLO? I see Apple is VERY good at marketing, but actual innovation? What is new and novel in their iPhone?
I guess most people missed the point - Google was quite vocal and public about it's "pullout" from China a year ago... As far as firearms go, they're banned but available for the right price or for the right reasons.
Considering I'm in China right now...
Man, every geek should know that a Feat of Accomplishment raises your Charisma score at least by 2 points...
Don't worry, Dvorak's column later this week will tell us why Netcraft is wrong...
Railways Ministry announced that to enhance safety, the top speed of all trains was being decreased from about 218 mph to 186.
Just rode the CRH today from Shanghai to Jianshan Nan and back - cracked 340 kph each way, and spent at least half the trip above 310 kph. Both of those are above the new "top speed" limit...
Handango has been around since ~1999, and was THE app store back in the day, as it had WinMo, Symbian, Palm, and BlackBerry apps for you to purchase and download. Still is the best place to get apps for those platforms, too!
Don't forget the Sage Networks and Salesforce.com earlier applications for the phrase "appstore"...
I've known that F1 is for help, but many programs use +F1 for things other than help. Like AutoCAD (where it launches the LISP interface). Linux uses ++F1 to switch to the first terminal session. Windows - since XP - has used +F1 to select the popup menu for the currently selected control (Gnome uses +F1 for the same feature) And on and on. I've never heard of this age-old "standard", and it looks like Linux and Windows have ignored the "standard' for at least the last 10 years...
Because, as god himself, Steve Jobs has already trademarked the terms "alpha" and "omega" in relation to computers...
Then re-organize them. You can edit the ribbon tabs and function groupings...
When you have to go to the grocery store, get gas in the car, and drop off some bills at the Post Office, do you drive back home each time, in between errands? That's basically what you're doing by insisting on going back to the "home" tab each time. Leave the tab as-is until the next time you need to use the ribbon. Maybe you'll need a function on the same tab, or a different (non-home) tab...