Instead of brokering a better deal for the working class, the "revolution" wrecked the economy and substituted oil-funded handouts, effectively blowing their chances for prosperity and ensuring that they are scared of losing these “benefits”. A hamfisted control on currency exchange and caps on retail prices made so many businesses unprofitable that large swaths of the industrial zones look like ghost towns. The unemployment rate is being managed by excluding street peddlers, and underemmployment is not even acknowledged.
Health care is the same or worse than it was 15 years ago, the homicide rate tripled to reach 2nd place worldwide, major roads fell behind in capacity and are ridden with potholes, coruption is at an all-time high, and a large part of what's on the shelves is imported. Many kidnappings and carjackings are done by police officers in plainsclothes.
As for "sovereignity", Chávez travelled periodically to Havanna admittedly to visit and hear advice from his friend Fidel Castro, and now Maduro does the same (since everything hanged on the personaliity cult around Chávez, all he can do is ape what he did and drop his name every five sentences).
Your description of Venezuela is accurate, but mapkinase was talking about the US, for sheltering Posada Carriles. I doubt that the CIA ordered him to blow up that plane, but that scumbag shouldn't be walking free around Miami, and it only helps the Castros.
After exposing massive metadata-based surveillance by his government, he might have to take asylum in a repressive country that routinely has conversations between opposition politicians recorded, edited, manipulated and shown on state-owned TV. That is, excluding the ones that had to flee or were jailed on bogus charges. The bitter irony cannot be missed.
A geometric mean has that effect (unit-independent figures of merit) only if its constituents "poijt in the same direction". If you multiply opposing figures, a browser can put out 25% less work over a fixed time (as in fps) and take 33% more time for a fixed-workload test, and both changes would cancel out..
It's been a sad joke since Yahoo ripped out the search engine with the operators and wildcards and parentheses, and made it a front end for Yahoo's. That was maybe a year after the acquisition (2003).
It would've been phrased better as "purely commercial search results", but you surely have done a search for facts that about (say) a health supplement; they offer to remove the scores of peddlers that'll plague your quest.
STANDARDS vs SERVICES. I can plan my life with Summer Glau from courtship to the kids to be had and retirement, and refine it until my fingertips bleed, but it's not getting me any closer to a material reality. Or rewrite the English language into perfect consistency. Hmm... a Dr. Esperanto came to mind.
You can have the best-thought-out, most efficient, open and extensible gem of a protocol, but how many people are going to download a (likely clunky) client and nag their relatives, friends and coworkers into installing it too?
That's why you try to educate people on why they should use that "open" service instead of the increasingly-closed crap, offer to set it up for them (bonus: to register an XMPP account, typically no e-mail address or additional "personal" information is needed), install a good client, and just go on from there. If they like it and want to use it, great--if not, they can go back to whatever increasingly-closed service they were on to begin with. But from now on, they'll most likely only be able to find me on XMPP.
This is precisely what WON'T work, except to alienate your acquaintances. They don't want to be lectured on the importance of openness - at most they'll acknowledge it's a neat idea but in the end what they care about is: Does it work (reliably)? Does it have nice features (voice, video, and possibly file transfers and emoticons)? Can I use it across my devices? For example, Skype mostly fits the bill here.
I once had a guy ("we all know one" in GPP) pull that hard-sell on me and some other friends, in the early days of Google Talk; he'd keep his Messenger account logged in only to tell us that any further chats would be over XMPP or not at all. Guess what happened.
Unfortunately, the chances of people actually choosing to use it (or even wiling to try it) is relatively slim. Not because of anything inherently wrong with XMPP itself, but primarily the extreme foothold shitty text messaging and Facebook has these days.
I'll give you one downside: *nobody* outside of us techies has heard of XMPP. So *their* acquaintances are not on XMPP either and they would let you install that client only to chat with you.
People for whatever reason these days love bending over with their pants down, paying ridiculous amounts for text messages (bragging "unlimited" this, "unlimited" that), and anything better (cheaper, not tied to one phone/system, security with TLS and OTR, etc.) is automatically shunned when the word "registration" pops up. Not to mention most people I talk to end up with a blank stare and do not care one bit when I bring up "security" and "privacy" in the conversation.
For a lot of people it really is an already-determined lost cause.
Not everybody has shitty SMS plans (mine is unlimited for all purposes). Not all people care about secure communications, especially when they're about dinner plans and random chit-chat. They also don't perceive eavesdropping as a significant risk (they trust Google and Microsoft, especially the latter since they made his O/S), much less their gov't snooping in ("Pfft... my emails would bore them sick"). No cause of theirs is lost.
Those people, I just won't "chat" with.
Do you have non-techy relatives and friends, who can't be arsed to install Pidgin in their Macs? And you make it harder for them to contact you because you can't be arsed to register a perfunctory email account (with a silly fake name and behind a proxy if you're so keen on protecting UltraZelda64's identity) and use the client (inside a virtual machine if you fear malware/rootkits) it to say "Hi, grab a coffee?" ? People before causes, bro.
We have XMPP+Jingle, SIP+SIMPLE, OMA IMPS, and now this IMPP joins the club. Guess why people stick to Live Messenger, Skype, Google Talk, Facebook and (gasp) ICQ? These have providers and a pre-existing audience, and people don't care about the inner workings. You can have the best-thought-out, most efficient, open and extensible gem of a protocol, but how many people are going to download a (likely clunky) client and nag their relatives, friends and coworkers into installing it too? Yes, there are a few and we all know one; just wait until said project goes belly-up.
It's hard enough to keep those damn mind control waves away from my skull, and they want me to trust some device made by a megacorp hooked up to my *brain*? Riiight. Listen: you keep your military-industrial-complex-approved reptilian gizmo and I'll "do" my own noggin' with the open-sauce tech from cousin Moe whom I trust. For now.
Maybe he's not aiming for funny, but highlighting the harshness of such places. Even if he is, humor is one way to deal with tragedy. Another post refers to solitary confinement as "the loney bin" - you may want to express your outrage at that too.
So police should limit themselves to argumentation and diplomacy, resorting to harsh language and guilt as a last measure ? Or not force compliance at all?
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Sadder yet, the comments in opposition forums here lambast him as a traitor to his country. Enemy of my enemy's enemy and all that.
Instead of brokering a better deal for the working class, the "revolution" wrecked the economy and substituted oil-funded handouts, effectively blowing their chances for prosperity and ensuring that they are scared of losing these “benefits”. A hamfisted control on currency exchange and caps on retail prices made so many businesses unprofitable that large swaths of the industrial zones look like ghost towns. The unemployment rate is being managed by excluding street peddlers, and underemmployment is not even acknowledged.
Health care is the same or worse than it was 15 years ago, the homicide rate tripled to reach 2nd place worldwide, major roads fell behind in capacity and are ridden with potholes, coruption is at an all-time high, and a large part of what's on the shelves is imported. Many kidnappings and carjackings are done by police officers in plainsclothes.
As for "sovereignity", Chávez travelled periodically to Havanna admittedly to visit and hear advice from his friend Fidel Castro, and now Maduro does the same (since everything hanged on the personaliity cult around Chávez, all he can do is ape what he did and drop his name every five sentences).
More recently, "Comandante Presidente" and currently "Comandante Eterno", by those coasting on his personality cult.
Your description of Venezuela is accurate, but mapkinase was talking about the US, for sheltering Posada Carriles. I doubt that the CIA ordered him to blow up that plane, but that scumbag shouldn't be walking free around Miami, and it only helps the Castros.
After exposing massive metadata-based surveillance by his government, he might have to take asylum in a repressive country that routinely has conversations between opposition politicians recorded, edited, manipulated and shown on state-owned TV. That is, excluding the ones that had to flee or were jailed on bogus charges. The bitter irony cannot be missed.
A geometric mean has that effect (unit-independent figures of merit) only if its constituents "poijt in the same direction". If you multiply opposing figures, a browser can put out 25% less work over a fixed time (as in fps) and take 33% more time for a fixed-workload test, and both changes would cancel out..
Umm, you're aware this is about Chrome OS the operating system, not the web browser, right? TFT.
Except this is an operating system, (Chrome OS), we're talking about. Or at least its application bundle.
They did precisely that in 2003 or 2004, after the acquisition. If you didn't notice the loss of functionality, you were using it wrong.
It's been a sad joke since Yahoo ripped out the search engine with the operators and wildcards and parentheses, and made it a front end for Yahoo's. That was maybe a year after the acquisition (2003).
Unintended but fitting. I just couldn't be arsed to google the whole Lorem ipsum filler (:
I think they mean purely commercial results and web spam. From TFS:
remove advertisementsfrom search results
Against which an ad blocker is useless. Try searching for info on a health supplement and see how much crap you get.
From TFS:
remove advertisementsfrom search results
It would've been phrased better as "purely commercial search results", but you surely have done a search for facts that about (say) a health supplement; they offer to remove the scores of peddlers that'll plague your quest.
I fear that ten more will sprout in their place. They need to be prevented from breathing (i.e. suing without producing).
Wow, these guys sure are famous here:
Intellectual Ventures Tied To 1,300 Shell Companies
Intellectual Ventures' Patent Protection Racket
Intellectual Ventures Settles Lawsuits With Asian Memory Companies
Does Recent Goodwill Undo Years of Patent Trolling For Intellectual Ventures?
Nathan Myhrvold Live Q&A
Nathan Myhrvold, Do-Gooder
When Patents Attack — the NPR Version
You can probably ask Nathan Mhyrvold (2876713) directly.
STANDARDS vs SERVICES. I can plan my life with Summer Glau from courtship to the kids to be had and retirement, and refine it until my fingertips bleed, but it's not getting me any closer to a material reality. Or rewrite the English language into perfect consistency. Hmm... a Dr. Esperanto came to mind.
You can have the best-thought-out, most efficient, open and extensible gem of a protocol, but how many people are going to download a (likely clunky) client and nag their relatives, friends and coworkers into installing it too?
That's why you try to educate people on why they should use that "open" service instead of the increasingly-closed crap, offer to set it up for them (bonus: to register an XMPP account, typically no e-mail address or additional "personal" information is needed), install a good client, and just go on from there. If they like it and want to use it, great--if not, they can go back to whatever increasingly-closed service they were on to begin with. But from now on, they'll most likely only be able to find me on XMPP.
This is precisely what WON'T work, except to alienate your acquaintances. They don't want to be lectured on the importance of openness - at most they'll acknowledge it's a neat idea but in the end what they care about is: Does it work (reliably)? Does it have nice features (voice, video, and possibly file transfers and emoticons)? Can I use it across my devices? For example, Skype mostly fits the bill here.
I once had a guy ("we all know one" in GPP) pull that hard-sell on me and some other friends, in the early days of Google Talk; he'd keep his Messenger account logged in only to tell us that any further chats would be over XMPP or not at all. Guess what happened.
Unfortunately, the chances of people actually choosing to use it (or even wiling to try it) is relatively slim. Not because of anything inherently wrong with XMPP itself, but primarily the extreme foothold shitty text messaging and Facebook has these days.
I'll give you one downside: *nobody* outside of us techies has heard of XMPP. So *their* acquaintances are not on XMPP either and they would let you install that client only to chat with you.
People for whatever reason these days love bending over with their pants down, paying ridiculous amounts for text messages (bragging "unlimited" this, "unlimited" that), and anything better (cheaper, not tied to one phone/system, security with TLS and OTR, etc.) is automatically shunned when the word "registration" pops up. Not to mention most people I talk to end up with a blank stare and do not care one bit when I bring up "security" and "privacy" in the conversation.
For a lot of people it really is an already-determined lost cause.
Not everybody has shitty SMS plans (mine is unlimited for all purposes). Not all people care about secure communications, especially when they're about dinner plans and random chit-chat. They also don't perceive eavesdropping as a significant risk (they trust Google and Microsoft, especially the latter since they made his O/S), much less their gov't snooping in ("Pfft... my emails would bore them sick"). No cause of theirs is lost.
Those people, I just won't "chat" with.
Do you have non-techy relatives and friends, who can't be arsed to install Pidgin in their Macs? And you make it harder for them to contact you because you can't be arsed to register a perfunctory email account (with a silly fake name and behind a proxy if you're so keen on protecting UltraZelda64's identity) and use the client (inside a virtual machine if you fear malware/rootkits) it to say "Hi, grab a coffee?" ? People before causes, bro.
We have XMPP+Jingle, SIP+SIMPLE, OMA IMPS, and now this IMPP joins the club. Guess why people stick to Live Messenger, Skype, Google Talk, Facebook and (gasp) ICQ? These have providers and a pre-existing audience, and people don't care about the inner workings. You can have the best-thought-out, most efficient, open and extensible gem of a protocol, but how many people are going to download a (likely clunky) client and nag their relatives, friends and coworkers into installing it too? Yes, there are a few and we all know one; just wait until said project goes belly-up.
Good - I knew that the character set was limited but not the name of the code. Now Anand can use punctuation for free. (:
TELEGRAPH SERVICE SHUTTING DOWN TELL MOTHER RAJESH MUST LEARN TWITTER FOLLOW ME AT ANAND UNDERSCORE BANDYOPADHYAY STOP
(Silly filter, telegrams *are* printed in all caps). Lorem ipsum something something dies irae dies illa solvet seclum in favilla.
It's hard enough to keep those damn mind control waves away from my skull, and they want me to trust some device made by a megacorp hooked up to my *brain*? Riiight. Listen: you keep your military-industrial-complex-approved reptilian gizmo and I'll "do" my own noggin' with the open-sauce tech from cousin Moe whom I trust. For now.
Allow me to explain with a graph: http://i.imgur.com/nSD3ofw.gif
Maybe he's not aiming for funny, but highlighting the harshness of such places. Even if he is, humor is one way to deal with tragedy. Another post refers to solitary confinement as "the loney bin" - you may want to express your outrage at that too.
Anfang des Nervenanschlusses, bestätigt. Strüdel ... bratwurst ...
So police should limit themselves to argumentation and diplomacy, resorting to harsh language and guilt as a last measure ? Or not force compliance at all?