Comment Re:If you cant tell the difference.... (Score 2, Funny) 650
Oh, the Lincoln Memorial? It's on J St.
Oh, the Lincoln Memorial? It's on J St.
Right now, there aren't any HTML5 methods of embedding live video. Apple's got HTTP Live Streaming, but it isn't a standard or universally supported.
HTML5 is great, but we need to be very, very, very careful of fragmentation and non-standard features.
"It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "one for the road". Whisky, the spirit that powers the Scottish economy, is being used to develop a new biofuel which could be available at petrol pumps in a few years.
Whisky accounts for approximately £2bn of Scotland's £86.3bn GDP.
Nice try though. Check your references before making absurd generalizations like this one. (I'll bet you also didn't know that there are also large swaths of the country that neither produce nor consume Whisky in meaningful quantities. )
People with an Audi A8 are most likely to be driven around by a driver, while sitting in the back with their laptop
It's a very expensive car, but not necessarily I-can-afford-a-chauffeur-expensive.
Seriously, guys. A clerk somewhere screwed up, and probably needs to be fired. However, it's a pretty far cry from martial law.
'The HP board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago,'
I'm surprised Ellision is surprised. The HP board is no stranger to godawful personnel decisions.
You also you can't tax regular citizens because they might vote you out!
But by taxing work visas it looks like you are creating more jobs for Americans, while funding the borders, while reducing the deficit! Killing three birds with one stone!
You say "looks like." How is this not the case? IMHO, this reinforces the stated goals of the H1-B program, which is to attract exceptional talent to the US that can't be sourced domestically. If you're looking to hire a "rockstar,*" $2k is not a lot of money to drop. On the other hand, it might make a company think twice about hiring a foreign worker as a "grunt."
*Forgive me, I hate the term too, but it works here.
Microsoft has 90,000 employees. Intel has 83,000 at least. Considering that there are around 100,000 H1B recipients, you could place nearly all of them at just these two companies and they wouldn't have to pay a dime for any applications, since it would be less than 50% of their employment.
In other words, this is little more than a tempest in a teapot. Yeah, Microsoft and Intel are big companies who employ lots of people. However, as a fraction of the overall economy, they only make up a small portion. Immediately revoking all of the H1-B visas and deporting those workers would barely have a perceptible impact on unemployment figures.
According to the latest report, in July there were 6.6 million people who had been unemployed for more than 27 weeks, 8.5 million underemployed part-time workers, 1.2 million discouraged workers, and countless more underemployed full-timers. Cutting 100,000 from that figure would be little more than a drop in the barrel.
People were pissed because she was giving textbook answers to make it through the job interview with the Senate while everyone knows she's going to be an activist judge ruling off of her opinion because she has no practical experience.
[citation-needed]
"Everyone knows" is a shitty argument, and the "no practical experience" argument has been thoroughly debunked. True, she's never been a judge, but she's more than qualified, and if "everybody knew," she wouldn't have been confirmed -- 5 Republicans broke ranks and voted for her, whilst the current crop of Senate Dems are fairly moderate, and wouldn't vote to confirm a far-left activist in considerable numbers, particularly with an election cycle coming up.
Saying something doesn't make it true.
The complaints were based on her record. Also, some of her terrible answers--she couldn't answer the question of whether or not the government has the power to tell you what to eat.
I'd say that it's a good thing for a supreme court nominee to not give off-the-cuff, kneejerk answers to a question that could have considerable legal repercussions.
The two sound similar, but they're nothing close to each other in terms of technical difficulty.
Or cost.
I'd imagine that this also has to do with carbon monoxide, considering that a balcony BBQ could easily vent into the apartment adjacent to the balcony or into the AC vent of the unit above.
Meh for the average user, true. Nice to see RiM focusing back on business users without trying to introduce an "iPhone killer".
And how are they focusing on businesses moreso than they already do? It looks like they're missing the forest for the trees by rushing to include every new buzzword-laden technology (Social Feeds! Instant messaging! Facebook!) without actually understanding the underlying themes and trends. To me, that seems like the antithesis of "focusing on business users."
Also, why is it that businesses cannot benefit from the (considerably superior) graphical, processing, and multitouch capabilities of the current crop of Android and iOS devices?
The Torch feels and looks very much like a BlackBerry
Wait. Is that supposed to be a compliment? The only nice things to say about Blackberry relate to their keyboards and enterprise software.
No kidding. Have you ever tried developing for the BlackBerry browser, or the Widget API, which uses the same rendering engine? Netscape 4 is literally more capable and standards-compliant by comparison. It's virtually unusable to do anything beyond bare basics with JavaScript or CSS (and even then, behavior is often inconsistent and unreliable).
The Widget API is also perplexing in its own right. Although it supposedly uses the same rendering engine, its implementation of the DOM is slightly different from the Browser's. In short: a nightmare.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
