Europeans telling the US how to live, what works best and what is foolish is just as conceited as when Americans do it to Europeans. The US is a big spread out place that killed off most of it's native population only a couple of centuries ago. This is far different than land that was settled and filled close to capacity before the beginning of written history. For better or worse the inhabitants have already spread out. Now what would a smug city dwelling Eurpoean suggest to an American family that owes 5-10 times it's annual income on a mortgage for a house in the suburbs. Maybe it was a foolish choice but the choice was made en masse 50 years ago. It's too late now. Should they give up their belongings and go live in a homeless shelter in the city next to a bus stop? If everybody's moving from the suburbs to the city then nobody is going to buy those houses. How many can afford to rent an apartment while paying on an old home that sits to rot? Will they all declare bankruptcy? Then the banks will fail again. Boy, that sounds like fun. My grandpa always told me how much he missed the great depression. Them where the good old days!
Ok, that may be an extreme example of what could happen but the fact is that you can't just encourage people to migrate. As soon as you do you decrease the value of the homes they are supposed to be migrating from. If they can't sell the houses for what they owe then they can't leave. Even if someone does own their home outright they aren't going to want to just give up the home they already paid for to go pay rent somewhere. And that is what they would have to do because the value is depressed since everyone now wants to leave. You go from happy people that want to be where they are to unhappy people that can't leave. Nobody wins.
A much better solution is to encourage companies to offer work from home solutions to it's employees and to encourage non-city dwellers to start their own businesses in their own neighborhoods. Carpool lanes are nice. High speed rail linking cities would be great too!
True, but other fault lines which in fact did cause the tsunami which did cause the damage weren't exactly far away. Again, I'm not faulting Japan for that,I'm just stating that in the US, due to geography we have the opportunity to do better. As you seem to agree.
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What good is the wayback archive when browsers won't even display that stuff any more? Are future generations going to whip out a 486 with win95 and NS3 just to play with that? If they do will they be able to navigate the internet archive site on those browsers to even get to the old stuff? Will they navigate the wayback machine in a new browser just to save the old page on their local disk to view that in an old browser running in a virtual machine running win9x?
Actually though, my real purpose to comment is "How about a little devil's advocate for the 'bad old days' of web design?".
Sure blink tags, sites made entirely of graphics in tables, awful colors, etc... were horrible. But that style of design was accessible. What I mean is anybody can come up with that crap. These days if you have content you want to put online you either have to be a really good web designer with both artistic skills and extensive knowledge of css or you have to make a cookie cutter site. A typical site today is usually just yet another iteration of some Wordpress theme, or worse yet just a Facebook or Twitter page. How boring is that?
Did I mention that much of css is evil, counter-intuitive and crippling? For example, please tell me how to make a two columned page where at least one of the columns is dynamic content of varying length. You can't just specify hardcoded sizes due to that dynamic content! Perhaps one column is your menu/sidebar and the other is the main content. Make the two columns always be the same height regardless of content size. If one column just suddenly stops half way down the page because the other one happens to have more content that is just butt ugly and seems sloppy.
Now do it in css without abusing the table tag. If there is a way will it handle 3 columns? No, javascript is cheating! At best it causes the text on the page to jump when it runs which may annoy a quick reader who has already started reading. At worst it may not run at all if some other javascript on the page happens to cause an error in that particular user's browser or if the browser has javascript turned off. This is just one example... css / current web standards suck.
Of course my premise that site designers then or now commonly have actual content worth bothering to post in the first place is highly debatable...
I actually liked Netscape, at least until it turned into adware around version 5 or so. Did Netscape 4 make a computer crash? Maybe. How would I tell, given the state of Windows back then? If you didn't have the latest bleeding edge hardware of the time IE slowed your machine to a crawl once it started merging into the Windows Operating System. And then there was Netscape for Linux. I don't remember any crashes there, not in the browser or the OS.
Here's an option for the US. Don't build nuclear reactors on top of fault lines! I'm not sure the Japanese had that option given the geography of their nation but we certainly do. It's great that people want to learn a lesson from what happened in Japan but I don't see why they can't just take the obvious lesson instead of pushing for more coal smog!
So the government would be getting into the timeshare business then?
Also, how do you keep crime down as you increase population density? The most populated places near me are also the scariest.
Would you offer people money to move? I'm not just talking moving costs, I'm talking mortgage buyouts. A mass migration from the suburbs to the cities would break any family that still owed a significant amount on their mortgage. Who would buy their houses? They can't all become government owned timeshares can they?
I read a while ago that researches were making neurons communicate with light. When the neuron fires it glows. Then the sensor doesn't HAVE to touch the brain directly.
I don't know about complex tasks like dressing and feeding but I would think this interface alone should be used to allow some movement. If it can be wired into a computer to act as a mouse surely there is enough control there that it could be used to raise/lower a recliner. Maybe it could even be used to drive an electric wheelchair? It seems almost cruel to me that they have this wonderful implant in her but they only chose to use it as a mouse.
Of course... it can probably only be used for one kind of task. I'm sure the brain learns to use it as a mouse and plugging it into something else would require huge amounts of retraining the brain each time it is done. Maybe it is a choice of either mobility (hooking it to a chair) or communication (the computer). So what? Be creative! Hook the computer to the chair and let her control it with "mouse clicks".
Given what I have seen of software developed by Motorola I expect this new product will suck. Sorry, they just aren't good at software over there. I understand that some will read that as just prejudice and discount it but that is based on experience with both Motorola and it's programmers. Meanwhile, loss of Motorola hardware and backing could hurt Android pretty hard. This could end up meaning that "All our device belong to Apple".
But it doesn't. $25,000 might severely damage a new startup while the big players won't even care. They can just write a check and move on. I'm not saying that there should be huge RIAA type $s or anything, actually there are many more things wrong with this bill. I'm just saying that your argument is incorrect.
First, how is it fair to Cannonical, RedHat or any of the other companies which make money off of open source? RTFA and see how open source companies are deliberately excluded from being able to sue.
How is not having this law unfair to a company which chooses to pay the Microsoft tax? Any company can chose free and legal software instead of pirated software. If a company is passing on software costs to it's customers it's because it chooses to and should lose business to those who don't regardless of whether they are pirates or not.
Also, any company of a decent size and most small ones too have some pirated software. It's not that these companies executives necessarily encourage or even allow software piracy. It's a hard thing to prevent each and every user from ever doing on each and every machine.
How is this fair to small companies? Notice the $25,000 limit? To a small startup who accidentally buys something from a bad supplier that could be the end of the business. To a large corporation it isn't even a speed bump. They can just write a check and keep on with business as usual.
This is just a tool that large stagnant corporations can use to keep new people with new ideas from entering their markets.
NE OH? Here in Toledo if we didn't have the light pollution the smoke from the refineries would probably cause the same effect anyway unfortunately. I agree though, I wish there was a sky to show my daughter in her young, impressionable days.
It's not all about work. Anything they built that would work without the api would likely require some sort of inelligant hack no matter how much work they put into it. Most likely it would stop working every time Amazon saw what they were doing and made a change. It would become a constant game where they would find a way to make it work. It would work for a few days and Amazon would break it again. Few people would use it because it would be so unreliable.
Yes, spectrum could be used much more efficiently. It is not however unlimited. Frequencies can't be split into smaller slices indefinitely. Lookup "nyquist rate".
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I sure hope so. I like devices with keyboards.
Europeans telling the US how to live, what works best and what is foolish is just as conceited as when Americans do it to Europeans. The US is a big spread out place that killed off most of it's native population only a couple of centuries ago. This is far different than land that was settled and filled close to capacity before the beginning of written history. For better or worse the inhabitants have already spread out. Now what would a smug city dwelling Eurpoean suggest to an American family that owes 5-10 times it's annual income on a mortgage for a house in the suburbs. Maybe it was a foolish choice but the choice was made en masse 50 years ago. It's too late now. Should they give up their belongings and go live in a homeless shelter in the city next to a bus stop? If everybody's moving from the suburbs to the city then nobody is going to buy those houses. How many can afford to rent an apartment while paying on an old home that sits to rot? Will they all declare bankruptcy? Then the banks will fail again. Boy, that sounds like fun. My grandpa always told me how much he missed the great depression. Them where the good old days!
Ok, that may be an extreme example of what could happen but the fact is that you can't just encourage people to migrate. As soon as you do you decrease the value of the homes they are supposed to be migrating from. If they can't sell the houses for what they owe then they can't leave. Even if someone does own their home outright they aren't going to want to just give up the home they already paid for to go pay rent somewhere. And that is what they would have to do because the value is depressed since everyone now wants to leave. You go from happy people that want to be where they are to unhappy people that can't leave. Nobody wins.
A much better solution is to encourage companies to offer work from home solutions to it's employees and to encourage non-city dwellers to start their own businesses in their own neighborhoods. Carpool lanes are nice. High speed rail linking cities would be great too!
I suspect those high rises of yours are some of the most crime-dense places on the planet. The crime just get's a whiter collar is all.
True, but other fault lines which in fact did cause the tsunami which did cause the damage weren't exactly far away. Again, I'm not faulting Japan for that,I'm just stating that in the US, due to geography we have the opportunity to do better. As you seem to agree.
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What good is the wayback archive when browsers won't even display that stuff any more? Are future generations going to whip out a 486 with win95 and NS3 just to play with that? If they do will they be able to navigate the internet archive site on those browsers to even get to the old stuff? Will they navigate the wayback machine in a new browser just to save the old page on their local disk to view that in an old browser running in a virtual machine running win9x?
Actually though, my real purpose to comment is "How about a little devil's advocate for the 'bad old days' of web design?".
Sure blink tags, sites made entirely of graphics in tables, awful colors, etc... were horrible. But that style of design was accessible. What I mean is anybody can come up with that crap. These days if you have content you want to put online you either have to be a really good web designer with both artistic skills and extensive knowledge of css or you have to make a cookie cutter site. A typical site today is usually just yet another iteration of some Wordpress theme, or worse yet just a Facebook or Twitter page. How boring is that?
Did I mention that much of css is evil, counter-intuitive and crippling? For example, please tell me how to make a two columned page where at least one of the columns is dynamic content of varying length. You can't just specify hardcoded sizes due to that dynamic content! Perhaps one column is your menu/sidebar and the other is the main content. Make the two columns always be the same height regardless of content size. If one column just suddenly stops half way down the page because the other one happens to have more content that is just butt ugly and seems sloppy.
Now do it in css without abusing the table tag. If there is a way will it handle 3 columns? No, javascript is cheating! At best it causes the text on the page to jump when it runs which may annoy a quick reader who has already started reading. At worst it may not run at all if some other javascript on the page happens to cause an error in that particular user's browser or if the browser has javascript turned off. This is just one example... css / current web standards suck.
Of course my premise that site designers then or now commonly have actual content worth bothering to post in the first place is highly debatable...
I actually liked Netscape, at least until it turned into adware around version 5 or so. Did Netscape 4 make a computer crash? Maybe. How would I tell, given the state of Windows back then? If you didn't have the latest bleeding edge hardware of the time IE slowed your machine to a crawl once it started merging into the Windows Operating System. And then there was Netscape for Linux. I don't remember any crashes there, not in the browser or the OS.
It's already happened in the US.
I know you are joking but reactors will just about always be next to major bodies of water. It's needed for cooling.
Here's an option for the US. Don't build nuclear reactors on top of fault lines! I'm not sure the Japanese had that option given the geography of their nation but we certainly do. It's great that people want to learn a lesson from what happened in Japan but I don't see why they can't just take the obvious lesson instead of pushing for more coal smog!
So the government would be getting into the timeshare business then?
Also, how do you keep crime down as you increase population density? The most populated places near me are also the scariest.
Would you offer people money to move? I'm not just talking moving costs, I'm talking mortgage buyouts. A mass migration from the suburbs to the cities would break any family that still owed a significant amount on their mortgage. Who would buy their houses? They can't all become government owned timeshares can they?
I read a while ago that researches were making neurons communicate with light. When the neuron fires it glows. Then the sensor doesn't HAVE to touch the brain directly.
I don't know about complex tasks like dressing and feeding but I would think this interface alone should be used to allow some movement. If it can be wired into a computer to act as a mouse surely there is enough control there that it could be used to raise/lower a recliner. Maybe it could even be used to drive an electric wheelchair? It seems almost cruel to me that they have this wonderful implant in her but they only chose to use it as a mouse.
Of course... it can probably only be used for one kind of task. I'm sure the brain learns to use it as a mouse and plugging it into something else would require huge amounts of retraining the brain each time it is done. Maybe it is a choice of either mobility (hooking it to a chair) or communication (the computer). So what? Be creative! Hook the computer to the chair and let her control it with "mouse clicks".
Or will this end all competition?
Given what I have seen of software developed by Motorola I expect this new product will suck. Sorry, they just aren't good at software over there. I understand that some will read that as just prejudice and discount it but that is based on experience with both Motorola and it's programmers. Meanwhile, loss of Motorola hardware and backing could hurt Android pretty hard. This could end up meaning that "All our device belong to Apple".
But it doesn't. $25,000 might severely damage a new startup while the big players won't even care. They can just write a check and move on. I'm not saying that there should be huge RIAA type $s or anything, actually there are many more things wrong with this bill. I'm just saying that your argument is incorrect.
First, how is it fair to Cannonical, RedHat or any of the other companies which make money off of open source? RTFA and see how open source companies are deliberately excluded from being able to sue.
How is not having this law unfair to a company which chooses to pay the Microsoft tax? Any company can chose free and legal software instead of pirated software. If a company is passing on software costs to it's customers it's because it chooses to and should lose business to those who don't regardless of whether they are pirates or not.
Also, any company of a decent size and most small ones too have some pirated software. It's not that these companies executives necessarily encourage or even allow software piracy. It's a hard thing to prevent each and every user from ever doing on each and every machine.
How is this fair to small companies? Notice the $25,000 limit? To a small startup who accidentally buys something from a bad supplier that could be the end of the business. To a large corporation it isn't even a speed bump. They can just write a check and keep on with business as usual.
This is just a tool that large stagnant corporations can use to keep new people with new ideas from entering their markets.
It's too bad nobody seems to be reading that "limited time" part anymore
NE OH? Here in Toledo if we didn't have the light pollution the smoke from the refineries would probably cause the same effect anyway unfortunately. I agree though, I wish there was a sky to show my daughter in her young, impressionable days.
It's not all about work. Anything they built that would work without the api would likely require some sort of inelligant hack no matter how much work they put into it. Most likely it would stop working every time Amazon saw what they were doing and made a change. It would become a constant game where they would find a way to make it work. It would work for a few days and Amazon would break it again. Few people would use it because it would be so unreliable.
Probably not, he was speaking from experience and never learned to drive.
You've never watched a TV show with a baby in it? You've never seen advertising with babies?
Yes, spectrum could be used much more efficiently. It is not however unlimited. Frequencies can't be split into smaller slices indefinitely. Lookup "nyquist rate".
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That was true. "They" just conveniently forgot to say the same thing happens if you vote the other way!
Most people here on Slashdot, far removed from the ignorant masses realize.... There fixed that for you