I'm not sure where you get your information. The war on poverty was started in the 60's and the federal minimum wage was started in the 1930's. It was originally supposed to be a living wage, but it was only $4.19/hr in 2014 dollars. Apparently, living wage now includes a lot more amenities.

They don't have to invade us. They just have to start trading oil for something other than USD. Once that happens, overseas demand for USD drops, and the value of the money with it. With the petrodollar over, we won't be able to print endless money for government loans and export the inflation anymore.

Minimum wage is not supposed to be a living wage because there are supposed to be entry level jobs for people who are starting out, not living on their own. If someone is qualified to responsibly manage having their own apartment, etc., then they're quite overqualified to tear movie tickets.

My motherboard is limited to 140W CPU's. The FX-9590 would require me to buy both a new motherboard and power supply. For that much money, I could get both Core i3-4340 and Core i7-4770K CPU/motherboard combos to upgrade 2 computers or go with a i7-4820K (LGA-2011) in my workstation. Way to deliver AMD!

I didn't have money for a computer upgrade in 2001-2006 (thank you Clinton/Federal Govt. for the Dot-com bubble that burst when I was leaving college). I went from a dual Celeron system (ABIT BP6 motherboard) in mid-1999 to an Athlon-XP that someone gave me in 2004 to a Core 2 Quad Q6600 in 2007. When my motherboard died, I needed something cheap for keeping a lot of programs (including a virtual machine or two) running. I knew 6 slower cores would probably work better for me than 2 faster cores, even if they were hyperthreaded, and the motherboard had better features than Intel (more IO and a planned CPU upgrade).

I'm still waiting for an upgrade to my AMD FX-6300. I bought it on the promise that there would be an upgrade. I've liked AMD for a long time, but getting burned on the first processor I buy from them is no way to keep customers.

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Corporate income taxes are expected to account for 13% of federal revenue in 2015, and it has been growing under Obama. Aside from a spike (or arch) under Bush around 2005, this is the highest it has been since 1979. When FDR took office, the number was about 12%. http://nationalpriorities.org/...

Or just write laws to keep the government money from going to somebody else.

In the US, tax funds that go to political parties for elections are used to keep the established crooks in power. The media and state/local governments refuse to do enough to call the federal government on their wrongs, but with the rise of the Internet media, things seem to be slowly changing. Traditional news (CNN, FOX News, etc.) seems more concerned about pushing agendas that few want and pushing party lines to the point where Democrats and Republicans will fight each other on issues where they actually agree.

Google's report on drive failures said enterprise drives were no more reliable. I actually compared specs for a vendor's desktop and enterprise models of a disk. The only difference on paper was with the touted vibration handling circuitry, that I'm told is an extremely important feature you get with buying enterprise drives. It was optional in the enterprise drives and included in every desktop drive. Most shocking was when I tore apart a very expensive high-capacity Sun RAID array from 2005/2006. Sun built the array with Hitachi Deskstars instead of the enterprise Ultrastars. Aside from a Sun logo, it was the same drive model that a friend gave me out of his Dell desktop.

They don't hold it up like they used to. Thomas Edison was denied a patent on his light bulb and had to appeal the decision. Short answer to your questions is the Neonode N1m implemented swipe-to-unlock on a touchscreen phone in 2005, making Apple not first. Courts in the UK and Netherlands have already thrown out the patent claim.

My 1990's discman had a slide to unlock button. It was probably a novel and non-obvious feature when it was first introduced in handheld electronics. Taking real world objects and replicating a virtual version in a computer was also novel and non-obvious back in 1973 when Xerox invented the Alto (later commercialized as the Xerox Star). Now, with 34 years of virtualizing real world objects, it's suddenly non-obvious? Both PC's and Unix boxes had a swipe-to-unlock type feature in the late 80's or early 90's with their screen savers. Since the computers have multiple input devices (keyboard, mouse axes, mouse buttons) instead of just touch locations, the lock screens supported additional unlock methods (key presses, mouse clicks), but they could still be unlocked by swiping a pointing device.

Fast forward a few years to the first hand-held computers and answers to your questions. The early hand-held touch technology was generally resistive touchscreens, and difficult to operate compared to the now more common capacitive sensing. Consequently, swipe gestures did not translate well to the platform and consumers knew little of touchscreens outside of clunky interfaces that required a stylus or a hard press. For example I had a Pocket PC application that offered a swipe to scroll feature that I found too difficult to use, despite loving the idea in theory.

Apple has a history of bringing good technologies together in an attractive way, and wowed a lot of people with the iPhone. They beat everyone to market on a mobile multi touch device by buying Fingerworks, one of the leading developers of the technology, and even claimed they were the inventors of multi touch when the iPhone came out. However, there was a lot of research done in the area that most consumers never saw and multi touch devices predate both Fingerworks and the Apple Macintosh. For example, the University of Toronto built a multi touch device in 1982 and Andrew Sears (dean of computer science at RIT) described single and multi touch interactions that included a swipe-to-unlock in his research in the 90's.

I think pretty much all of Apple's claimed touchscreen inventions had already been discussed or implemented in this body of work that few consumers saw. Just making a computing device smaller and more portable is not in itself novel and given the last 70+ years of computing history is definitely obvious. Copying a feature that had been on the market for 2 years in competing devices is beyond obvious.

While Ireland is a British Isle, calling someone British specific means nationals or natives of, the United Kingdom, its territories, the Crown Dependencies; and their descendants.

you can use Google Docs offline with chrome

I'm guessing you somehow haven't heard of healthcare.gov. Why would the government reinvent LibreOffice anyway?

What I would like to see is a way for people to fund bounties on the bugs and feature requests in bug tracking sites, so there will be some incentive to get past annoying but useable. I like open source software, but I get aggravated at decade-old bugs that never gets fixed (e.g. LibreOffice won't snap tab stops to ruler remarks, Firefox doesn't support option labels inside select tags).