What difference does it make? Instead of pontificating without reading the press summary slashdotters would pontificate without reading the original article. The difference is like that joke about the $unfairly_maligned_ethnic berating his son, "You ran behind the bus all the way home to save the bus fare? Idiot! you could have run behind the taxi and saved taxi fare!"
Most pathologists, surgeons, medical students, anatomists, all of them never find the real amygdala. They find a conveniently and conspicuously presented fake amygdala and stop the search prematurely. All the while the real amygdala is hiding in the background, communicating with the fake amygdala using undetectable chemical signals.
There is only one recorded case of a human being playing possum, tricking a carrion bird into picking him up and then tickled the bird with its own feather when it was near a high way, thus making drop him. Then he hitch hiked back to civilization. I am proud to say he is an alumnus of my alma mater.
That is why you are posting anonymously to slash dot? Can't you at least use your three decade old dorm addresses as your handle so that you could claim, "they can find me if they dig deep enough:.
I am sure there are many bigger companies that do it. Sometimes using contractors of contractors to create deniability and to create sacrificial scape goats. I would be greatly surprised if this Uber honcho is the first one to think of smearing and trashing journalists who are critical of them. The bigger companies are older, wiser and they realize the liability involved if got caught. So they must be doing it lot more discreetly, spending way more money than necessary to insulate themselves from the actual actions.
There is a third option: The boy is a "paper" MCP. He knows the right answer to the questions, but doesn't understand the reasoning behind it.
What part of Microsoft in MCP you did not understand? There is no reasoning behind it. Other than, it looked like a great way to screw some competition way back when we could do it. The only other reasoning other than that is, "the newbie code monkey hacked it this way and his/her manager was too stupid to catch it code review. Now it is carved in stone".
In other words, the reasons are either malice or incompetence.
We have all gone through our freshman chemistry, where they first talk about ideal gas, and then say nah, it does not that work that way but there is a slightly better approximation called Perfect gas, and then finally let the cat out of the bag with the Real gas. Most people just muddle their way through that and never worry about it. Except for the aerospace majors who end up memorizing one plus gamma minus one by gamma times mach numbered squared whole raised to gamma minus one by gamma, something seared into memory so hard it would not go away even after twenty five years. Damn you Zucrow !
Same way the ideal gas situation of FCC doing its stuff and the invisible hand of the free market doing its stuff and presto you got fantastic internet speed at the low low price of 9.99$ a month. The real gas situation is, all these companies raking money hand over fist lobby the politicians, the FCC, create misinformation campaign and they continue to exploit their customer base. Pressure builds till some disruptive technology comes in, cherry picks the customers and they leave in droves.
One possibility: It could be cell phone companies stringing up fiber up to street corner pillar boxes, and do the last 100 yards over the air with WiFi or a femto-cell network or something. The only true advantage the cable/phone ISPs have is the actual wire to different parts of the home via cat5 cable. But most homes use a router and use WiFi anyway. Someone could run fiber up to street corner pillar boxes, install a WiFi router per customer and cherry pick lots of customers who don't need more than a few WiFi devices. Wireless in the loop is quite well known and is actually deployed in many parts of India and Africa. My old prof Ashok has been talking about it for a long time.
But there could be other such technologies that peel of some serious segments of the captive market of the cable giants. Cable giants too would not sit idle. They would be the first to spot the threat and possibly buy these companies, or adjust their prices in different markets to keep these dogs chomping at their heels just out of reach. Somehow or the other, where such technologies are viable prices would come down. Where it is not viable, the customers would be at the mercy of these corporations
FedEx and UPS are not serving 80% of the country (by area, probably 10% by population). But at least they get US Postal Service. But the current generation of ISPs are suing to make sure government does not provide an alternative even to the market they don't want to serve.
They could put some sensors to detect electrical activity in the brain and record it during normal activity. If the temporal resolution of the recording is good, they might be able to sense the difference between processing of incoming stimuli and sending out response. Then when the alleged anesthetic is added, they could check to see if only the incoming signals are blocked, or the outgoing response is also blocked.
On the other hand these animals do not have long term memory, and they might never remember the terror like we do.
The experiment shows that these octopi lost their ability to respond to touch. It does not mean they lost the ability to feel the touch. It is very much possible their brains felt the touch, sent frantic signals for the muscles and cells to respond, and it would not respond.
Something similar happened to me a couple of times. When one falls asleep the brain to muscle control parts shut down. When it does not shut down properly people sleep walk and actually do things during REM. The order in which you this part shuts down, and the part that gets stimuli-response module shuts down seems to be a little muddled for me, it looks like. Long story short, just as I was drifting to sleep, the phone would ring or something, and I would try to reach over to pick the phone, but my arms and legs would not respond. The sheer terror I felt when I could not move my arms and legs was just incredible. But terror would immediately jolt the adrenal glands and adrenaline would flood the body, wake me up fully with racing heart and profuse sweat. Eventually I went through sleep studies and was diagnosed with very mild apnea and got a CPAP machine that kept my airways inflated with above atmospheric pressure (just 6mm of water, 1 atm= 10.24 meters of water). Then those episodes stopped.
But I will never ever forget the terror I felt when I my muscles would not respond to the commands I was giving them.
It is all right and great for Microsoft to support all these additional devices. But does it have a "strict compliance" mode where it supports the features exactly to spec, and no "new, exciting and enhanced features" in it.
In Windows world, they could add non standard features to the software and support it in the OS making a mockery of standard compliance, lock the developers into their platforms, and force the cost of working with/around the "de factor" standard. It would not be as easy to do in Android and Linux, since they are not under Microsoft's control. But since Android and Linux are open source, they might try to pull a fast one and come up with "extended" linux/android, and probably try to pay other vendors to use it. But I don't think it would as easy to kill the standards as it used to be.
Of course you need to undergo gate rape by the blue gloved angels to get the privilege of flying to Atlanta from Chicago in two hours.
Anyway Salad Express delivers fresh produce from California to New York in under 48 hours. In the hey days, Chicago to Miami was 33 hours. Chicago - Atlanta would have been some 18 hours. Instead of hating and decrying America's love for automobiles, if only the trains take advantage of them they could once again compete with the airlines.
Everyone knows by now, trains move a ton of freight 450 miles on a gallon of fuel. If they deliver you and your car from Chicago to Atlanta in 18 hours for a comparable price to airline, they would be very attractive. Don't use the old downtown terminals. Build a terminal where people drive their cars onto flatbed railcars at the I95-I80-I84 interchange south of Chicago and drop off people at a similar interchange near Atlanta. People drive their cars on to the flatbed railcars, and walk over to the passenger cars. Then drive off in the end. The weight of passengers is so small compared to the weight of the train, and the trains so damned fuel efficient, they should be able to do this efficiently. But the only auto-train from Washington DC to Florida is so damned expensive. It is a chicken-egg problem. It can become cheaper only with a good market and a good market will happen only when it is cheap.
Of course, the issue isn't providing the technology, training people how to use it, paying for it or getting value from it. The problem is the corrupt officials that demand kickbacks for letting any of that happen, the religious fuckwits demanding medieval education and the racist cunts outraged that someone in another village may be trying to better themselves.
But that's Amerika for you.
FTFY!
America is no longer one nation indivisible any more. Red states have been trying to secede for quite some time now. Only thing stopping it is, some of them realize that it is the taxes paid by the blue states and the large urban pockets that are keeping the red states afloat. So they are threading the needle of "yeah, yeah, it would be great if we could secede" and at the same time sabotaging the secession behind the scenes.
One of the biggest scams and the worst type of leeches are the companies that make these medically necessary equipment and sell to the government. Heard annoying commercials about scooters "no paperwork, we bill medicare directly, no cost to you" ads? They are the ones. They are still selling hearing aids at 2000$ apop. Granted, these are not run of the beats head phone or bose noise cancelling ear phones. But do they have to be three times the cost of a iPhone 6? Scooters at 6000$. A sonar for visually impaired people would be a gold mine to these companies. They would easily bilk us the taxpayers out of thousands of dollars for these devices.
Making them non patentable by releasing it, and making them for 60$? Surely they will find a way to add something or patent some critical part and back in the business. Some of the heart devices run into half a million dollars. If they make the money in the free market competing with other companies it is one thing. It is an entirely different thing to lobby AMA and the congress and get a competition free ride.
That would work out to less than 34000$ a year of full time work. Even with a 10 hr/week overtime, double time for over time it will be around 50K a year. With words like "could" and "as much as" thrown in, it is probably the maximum pay. This is not high pay by NYC standards. It just shows lots of poor people are willing to risk their life and limb for a relatively low salary.
Any pay increase to these low end workers will almost immediately be spent creating economic activity in this country, boosting GDP. Pay increases and/or tax cuts to the top end will add to the two or trillion dollars sitting in the corporate coffers uninvested because there is no good investing opportunities.
When lack of capital was limiting the economic growth it probably made sense to cut cap gains taxes and encourage investing. Now what limits economic growth is the lack of demand. Both capital and labor are abundant.
It is time to treat all income the same way, earned income, interest/dividend income, capital gains, rents... all should be treated the same to reduce the loop holes. One concession to be given to the really long term (more than 5 years) capital gains is to allow for inflation adjustment for their cost basis.
I thought Wikipedia was spreading just misinformation and biased information. Now they are spreading actual biological diseases using Wikipedia? I'm not surprised. Internet is a lawless frontier and anything goes there.
I don't think Microsoft can help interoperability even if it wanted it, even its existence depended on it.
Microsoft is not able to ensure interoperability with its own product. Despite all that claims about backward compatibility, OpenOffice opens older microsoft files better than microsoft itself can. Microsoft had better backward compatibility when it still had the old 16 bit subsystem, and it was able to feed the incoming file stream into the old binaries through some hacked up emulator. Microsoft office files are not simple files. They are entire filesystems, its driver undocumented, unplanned, written by newbies hacking their way through. So they would just treat the old binary as a black box. Another huge wrinkle they have is munging the printer driver into their renderer. What you see is what you get, in the printer. The old file rendering will change if you change the printer. All those cruft is all encased deep inside the inscrutable binaries. But when they lost the 16 bit subsystem, they lost the ability to use old binaries as black boxes. They must have had a project to support the 16 bit subsystem itself in a hacked up emulator just for Ms-Office. Wonder what happened to it.
File formats being obscure was considered a feature and a protection against reverse engineering. So they never discouraged it and never realized it had gone so bad even they can't understand their own file formats.
So even its very existence depended on it, and they really really sincerely wanted to, still they won't be able to deliver interoperability.
I am very good at this. So good, someone is actually paying me real good money, actual money with which you could buy other stuff, for this obscure skill. This is a great country, or what!
So you would not use your second amendment rights to stand up and protect my right to free speech? However vile and detestable it is, if you believe in the Constitution you should stand up for my rights. You know who talk the talk and walk the walk?
ACLU! They defend the right of Aryan Nation to hold marches, they file suites allowing KKK to hold rallies, they file suit to protect the privacy rights of Rush Limbaugh.
What I can't stand are punks, of any stripe... white or black, doesn't matter to me...
Punks are American citizens too, and they too have full second amendment rights. You don't get to decide who has who does not have the right to be armed. This is the situation all these gun rights people are taking this country to. As long as you imagine white people when you talk about gun rights, you will never see the other side. Imagine all the people *you* are scared of. Blacks, punks, criminals, insane wakcos, hispanics, South Indian Tamil Brahmin IT professionals... They all get guns. That is the natural end point for all that gun activism about second amendment.
You might live under the illusion that even when the punks are armed your superior marksmanship will save your tail. But I am sane and I would rather reduce the gun access to ALL to give the cops a fighting chance.
Even if he *was* attacking the cop, why would you think the cop was right and Michael Brown was wrong? He *could* be legitimately rebelling against what he saw as government tyranny. If he seriously and sincerely believed the cop represented government and tyranny, would he be justified in attacking the cop? With guns if necessary? Do you believe black people should exercise their second amendment rights against government tyranny?
You mean to say when those white thugs banded together around that tax cheat Cliven Bundy, they thoughtfully read all available information and THEN made their move? First report about Michael Brown, what was your gut reaction? Second amendment needed here against police brutality? Or he probably deserved it? That gut reaction defines who you are. Does not change any facts, just reveals to you who you really are.
When my father went to school, you could still bring your.22 rifle to school, they had a shooting club and people had gun racks in the pack of their pickup trucks. No one would have dreamed of shooting up that school, 20 or 30 kids had guns there.
I assume your father was white. You are talking about the time when he could have killed any black guy he did not like and nothing bad would have happened to him.
Today you see white guys with machine guns refusing identify themselves or provide identity to police officers, standing on their constitutional grounds. And black boys get shot for wearing a hoodie or playing loud music.
White men gather toghter with weapons and point them at federal agents to protect a tax cheat. Nothing happens to them. Black boy walks on the street and gets shot. I will believe you truly believe in gun rights on constitutional grounds, when I see a bunch of white gun rights activists gather their weapon and stand with a bunch of black folks complaining of the heavy handed police actions. Imagine what would happen if the black folks started actually exercising their second amendment rights to fight what they see as government tyranny.
Look at yourself in the mirror and answer it truthfully to yourself: "Did I feel the urge to stand with the people of Ferguson to fight government tyranny using their second amendment rights?".
What would happen if the government of USA declares, "look guys, we are broke. You are not paying taxes to us anyway. So when it comes to patent law enforcement, you contact the people who collect taxes from you to enforce your IP rights. We are not going to spend our resources to enforce your rights, when you are not paying taxes to us..."
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What difference does it make? Instead of pontificating without reading the press summary slashdotters would pontificate without reading the original article. The difference is like that joke about the $unfairly_maligned_ethnic berating his son, "You ran behind the bus all the way home to save the bus fare? Idiot! you could have run behind the taxi and saved taxi fare!"
Most pathologists, surgeons, medical students, anatomists, all of them never find the real amygdala. They find a conveniently and conspicuously presented fake amygdala and stop the search prematurely. All the while the real amygdala is hiding in the background, communicating with the fake amygdala using undetectable chemical signals.
There is only one recorded case of a human being playing possum, tricking a carrion bird into picking him up and then tickled the bird with its own feather when it was near a high way, thus making drop him. Then he hitch hiked back to civilization. I am proud to say he is an alumnus of my alma mater.
That is why you are posting anonymously to slash dot? Can't you at least use your three decade old dorm addresses as your handle so that you could claim, "they can find me if they dig deep enough:.
I am sure there are many bigger companies that do it. Sometimes using contractors of contractors to create deniability and to create sacrificial scape goats. I would be greatly surprised if this Uber honcho is the first one to think of smearing and trashing journalists who are critical of them. The bigger companies are older, wiser and they realize the liability involved if got caught. So they must be doing it lot more discreetly, spending way more money than necessary to insulate themselves from the actual actions.
There is a third option: The boy is a "paper" MCP. He knows the right answer to the questions, but doesn't understand the reasoning behind it.
What part of Microsoft in MCP you did not understand? There is no reasoning behind it. Other than, it looked like a great way to screw some competition way back when we could do it. The only other reasoning other than that is, "the newbie code monkey hacked it this way and his/her manager was too stupid to catch it code review. Now it is carved in stone".
In other words, the reasons are either malice or incompetence.
Same way the ideal gas situation of FCC doing its stuff and the invisible hand of the free market doing its stuff and presto you got fantastic internet speed at the low low price of 9.99$ a month. The real gas situation is, all these companies raking money hand over fist lobby the politicians, the FCC, create misinformation campaign and they continue to exploit their customer base. Pressure builds till some disruptive technology comes in, cherry picks the customers and they leave in droves.
One possibility: It could be cell phone companies stringing up fiber up to street corner pillar boxes, and do the last 100 yards over the air with WiFi or a femto-cell network or something. The only true advantage the cable/phone ISPs have is the actual wire to different parts of the home via cat5 cable. But most homes use a router and use WiFi anyway. Someone could run fiber up to street corner pillar boxes, install a WiFi router per customer and cherry pick lots of customers who don't need more than a few WiFi devices. Wireless in the loop is quite well known and is actually deployed in many parts of India and Africa. My old prof Ashok has been talking about it for a long time.
But there could be other such technologies that peel of some serious segments of the captive market of the cable giants. Cable giants too would not sit idle. They would be the first to spot the threat and possibly buy these companies, or adjust their prices in different markets to keep these dogs chomping at their heels just out of reach. Somehow or the other, where such technologies are viable prices would come down. Where it is not viable, the customers would be at the mercy of these corporations
FedEx and UPS are not serving 80% of the country (by area, probably 10% by population). But at least they get US Postal Service. But the current generation of ISPs are suing to make sure government does not provide an alternative even to the market they don't want to serve.
On the other hand these animals do not have long term memory, and they might never remember the terror like we do.
Something similar happened to me a couple of times. When one falls asleep the brain to muscle control parts shut down. When it does not shut down properly people sleep walk and actually do things during REM. The order in which you this part shuts down, and the part that gets stimuli-response module shuts down seems to be a little muddled for me, it looks like. Long story short, just as I was drifting to sleep, the phone would ring or something, and I would try to reach over to pick the phone, but my arms and legs would not respond. The sheer terror I felt when I could not move my arms and legs was just incredible. But terror would immediately jolt the adrenal glands and adrenaline would flood the body, wake me up fully with racing heart and profuse sweat. Eventually I went through sleep studies and was diagnosed with very mild apnea and got a CPAP machine that kept my airways inflated with above atmospheric pressure (just 6mm of water, 1 atm= 10.24 meters of water). Then those episodes stopped.
But I will never ever forget the terror I felt when I my muscles would not respond to the commands I was giving them.
In Windows world, they could add non standard features to the software and support it in the OS making a mockery of standard compliance, lock the developers into their platforms, and force the cost of working with/around the "de factor" standard. It would not be as easy to do in Android and Linux, since they are not under Microsoft's control. But since Android and Linux are open source, they might try to pull a fast one and come up with "extended" linux/android, and probably try to pay other vendors to use it. But I don't think it would as easy to kill the standards as it used to be.
Anyway Salad Express delivers fresh produce from California to New York in under 48 hours. In the hey days, Chicago to Miami was 33 hours. Chicago - Atlanta would have been some 18 hours. Instead of hating and decrying America's love for automobiles, if only the trains take advantage of them they could once again compete with the airlines.
Everyone knows by now, trains move a ton of freight 450 miles on a gallon of fuel. If they deliver you and your car from Chicago to Atlanta in 18 hours for a comparable price to airline, they would be very attractive. Don't use the old downtown terminals. Build a terminal where people drive their cars onto flatbed railcars at the I95-I80-I84 interchange south of Chicago and drop off people at a similar interchange near Atlanta. People drive their cars on to the flatbed railcars, and walk over to the passenger cars. Then drive off in the end. The weight of passengers is so small compared to the weight of the train, and the trains so damned fuel efficient, they should be able to do this efficiently. But the only auto-train from Washington DC to Florida is so damned expensive. It is a chicken-egg problem. It can become cheaper only with a good market and a good market will happen only when it is cheap.
Of course, the issue isn't providing the technology, training people how to use it, paying for it or getting value from it. The problem is the corrupt officials that demand kickbacks for letting any of that happen, the religious fuckwits demanding medieval education and the racist cunts outraged that someone in another village may be trying to better themselves.
But that's Amerika for you.
FTFY!
America is no longer one nation indivisible any more. Red states have been trying to secede for quite some time now. Only thing stopping it is, some of them realize that it is the taxes paid by the blue states and the large urban pockets that are keeping the red states afloat. So they are threading the needle of "yeah, yeah, it would be great if we could secede" and at the same time sabotaging the secession behind the scenes.
For not predicting when and where the lightning is going to strike. 10 year jail sentence if no one dies. Manslaughter otherwise.
Making them non patentable by releasing it, and making them for 60$? Surely they will find a way to add something or patent some critical part and back in the business. Some of the heart devices run into half a million dollars. If they make the money in the free market competing with other companies it is one thing. It is an entirely different thing to lobby AMA and the congress and get a competition free ride.
You are right. i am wrong. I misread the wage.
Any pay increase to these low end workers will almost immediately be spent creating economic activity in this country, boosting GDP. Pay increases and/or tax cuts to the top end will add to the two or trillion dollars sitting in the corporate coffers uninvested because there is no good investing opportunities.
When lack of capital was limiting the economic growth it probably made sense to cut cap gains taxes and encourage investing. Now what limits economic growth is the lack of demand. Both capital and labor are abundant.
It is time to treat all income the same way, earned income, interest/dividend income, capital gains, rents ... all should be treated the same to reduce the loop holes. One concession to be given to the really long term (more than 5 years) capital gains is to allow for inflation adjustment for their cost basis.
I thought Wikipedia was spreading just misinformation and biased information. Now they are spreading actual biological diseases using Wikipedia? I'm not surprised. Internet is a lawless frontier and anything goes there.
Microsoft is not able to ensure interoperability with its own product. Despite all that claims about backward compatibility, OpenOffice opens older microsoft files better than microsoft itself can. Microsoft had better backward compatibility when it still had the old 16 bit subsystem, and it was able to feed the incoming file stream into the old binaries through some hacked up emulator. Microsoft office files are not simple files. They are entire filesystems, its driver undocumented, unplanned, written by newbies hacking their way through. So they would just treat the old binary as a black box. Another huge wrinkle they have is munging the printer driver into their renderer. What you see is what you get, in the printer. The old file rendering will change if you change the printer. All those cruft is all encased deep inside the inscrutable binaries. But when they lost the 16 bit subsystem, they lost the ability to use old binaries as black boxes. They must have had a project to support the 16 bit subsystem itself in a hacked up emulator just for Ms-Office. Wonder what happened to it.
File formats being obscure was considered a feature and a protection against reverse engineering. So they never discouraged it and never realized it had gone so bad even they can't understand their own file formats.
So even its very existence depended on it, and they really really sincerely wanted to, still they won't be able to deliver interoperability.
I am very good at this. So good, someone is actually paying me real good money, actual money with which you could buy other stuff, for this obscure skill. This is a great country, or what!
But seriously, stop the racebaiting.
So you would not use your second amendment rights to stand up and protect my right to free speech? However vile and detestable it is, if you believe in the Constitution you should stand up for my rights. You know who talk the talk and walk the walk?
ACLU! They defend the right of Aryan Nation to hold marches, they file suites allowing KKK to hold rallies, they file suit to protect the privacy rights of Rush Limbaugh.
What I can't stand are punks, of any stripe... white or black, doesn't matter to me...
Punks are American citizens too, and they too have full second amendment rights. You don't get to decide who has who does not have the right to be armed. This is the situation all these gun rights people are taking this country to. As long as you imagine white people when you talk about gun rights, you will never see the other side. Imagine all the people *you* are scared of. Blacks, punks, criminals, insane wakcos, hispanics, South Indian Tamil Brahmin IT professionals... They all get guns. That is the natural end point for all that gun activism about second amendment.
You might live under the illusion that even when the punks are armed your superior marksmanship will save your tail. But I am sane and I would rather reduce the gun access to ALL to give the cops a fighting chance.
You mean to say when those white thugs banded together around that tax cheat Cliven Bundy, they thoughtfully read all available information and THEN made their move? First report about Michael Brown, what was your gut reaction? Second amendment needed here against police brutality? Or he probably deserved it? That gut reaction defines who you are. Does not change any facts, just reveals to you who you really are.
When my father went to school, you could still bring your .22 rifle to school, they had a shooting club and people had gun racks in the pack of their pickup trucks. No one would have dreamed of shooting up that school, 20 or 30 kids had guns there.
I assume your father was white. You are talking about the time when he could have killed any black guy he did not like and nothing bad would have happened to him. Today you see white guys with machine guns refusing identify themselves or provide identity to police officers, standing on their constitutional grounds. And black boys get shot for wearing a hoodie or playing loud music.
White men gather toghter with weapons and point them at federal agents to protect a tax cheat. Nothing happens to them. Black boy walks on the street and gets shot. I will believe you truly believe in gun rights on constitutional grounds, when I see a bunch of white gun rights activists gather their weapon and stand with a bunch of black folks complaining of the heavy handed police actions. Imagine what would happen if the black folks started actually exercising their second amendment rights to fight what they see as government tyranny.
Look at yourself in the mirror and answer it truthfully to yourself: "Did I feel the urge to stand with the people of Ferguson to fight government tyranny using their second amendment rights?".
What would happen if the government of USA declares, "look guys, we are broke. You are not paying taxes to us anyway. So when it comes to patent law enforcement, you contact the people who collect taxes from you to enforce your IP rights. We are not going to spend our resources to enforce your rights, when you are not paying taxes to us ..."