Comment Re:It's 2013 (Score 5, Funny) 125
You left out the roaming charges.
You left out the roaming charges.
BIOS updates won't come from an OS distributor, but from the laptop manufacturer.
There are multiple ways of installing them, depending on your OS. Linux can use the distribution's software update system, but that is rare. Dell did this for the first 2 years after I bought a 1420n from them with Linux installed. There haven't been any updates since 2009. There are instructions from Dell here.
For the most part, you have to download a windows
The NSA probably commissioned some vendor to write a key-logger that would install in a computer's BIOS. They probably paid billions of dollars for development and research.
Then they tested it on a few computers and the NSA malware bricked them all.
So the NSA canceled the project, saving America from a malware threat that would have tanked the economy. See how diligently they work to save Americans from cyber threats?
Next week they'll stimulate the economy by breaking everyone's windows (pun intended).
No vaccines when I was a kid. Didn't go deaf from measles, but I can tell you first hand, Meniere's is not a nice condition.
Vaccinate your children.
How many times have Microsoft, EMC, Oracle and Netapp implemented api's from other company's copyrighted software in their own code. Reversing this ruling will make their own code illegal.
In a perverse way, I hope they succeed in overturning the ruling and then proceed to loose all profits for the next few years. The stockholders of these companies should be swinging a very large axe in the 'C' level offices of this band of companies for even thinking of overturning this ruling. A win for Microsoft, EMC, Oracle and Netapp would pretty much destroy the viability of the software industry in the USA.
That is strange.
The author could have said 'Chuck Norris like' just as easily.
How do you get people used to the change?
This is exactly the question Microsoft is asking since they released Windows 8. The majority of computer users looking to upgrade are now faced with this dilemma (tri-lemma?).
Whatever they choose the user will bear the cost of learning a new interface. How many will choose Linux and decide to, at least, save a few dollars as well? Microsoft still has name recognition, but that isn't worth as much if you keep jerking your customer's chains. Microsoft mistakenly believes they need one uniform interface from phone through tablet to desktop. The evidence shows that this is far from true. People have been more than happy using Windows on the desktop and iOS on phones for years. Looking at reality shows us that users seem to have no problem handling multiple interfaces across devices.
The theory that you must present one interface and only one interface is not supported by the evidence.
So if you see a gold nugget on the ground you will walk right past it, right?
The OP is saying nothing of the kind, your decision to pick it up is based solely on your perception of gold's value and not on any intrinsic value it may have.
Consider that there is a small nuget of raw gold on the ground and a piece of paper. You are allowed to pick up one and not the other.
Which do you choose?. That is going to probably be based on the value that society, as a whole, has imparted to these objects and the value you percieve in them.
If you want to think about the actual intrinsic value of a piece of gold vs a piece of paper, remove humanity from the example. If humanity disappeared overnight, all the gold in the world would be worth just as much as all the paper in the world.
Actually, paper would be worth more. Insects and worms can eat it, and birds and rodents can make nests of it. Gold would be completely useless. Intrinsically, after the demise of humanity, paper is worth more than gold. Only humans use gold in any valuable way (electronics and decoration).
The value of gold is completely imaginary and made up just like unicorn poo. It should not be called the 'gold standard', but instead 'the gold variable'.
Why aren't these announcements made during non-trading hours?
I understand that there could be trading going on in Asia and Australia and such, but the impact will still be lower.
I think the option of investigating the FED for leaks is the best option to follow. Make sure they check who came up with the idea of making the announcement while futures markets wre in session.
The $600 Billion that you quote does not include all military spending. quite a bit of the $2.3T you list for social spending includes military pensions, the GI Bill, and the VA hospitals:
That is about $1.1 trillion more than we took in in taxes. The way our 'National Defense' spending is skewed towards big contractors and away from the soldiers, I would probably guess that there are quite a few veterans in the 'Government Welfare' figure as well.
The 'All Other Spending' includes foreign 'Military Aid'. The majority of which goes to Israel, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Egypt to help pay for their military budgets. Total Foreign Aid comes to about less than 1% of budget. About $14 billion in foreign military aid, $23 billion in foreign humanitarian and developmental aid and $18 billion in 'other' foreign aid.
So there is military spending that is outside the pentagon's budget. A lot of it, for soldiers and veterans, gets included in the social spending.
They'll probably arrest Martha Stewart again.
I'm currently using my own Linux laptop at work, and connecting to the corporate infrastructure through citrix. Once agai, yhe help desk has my work issued XP laptop in for parts replacement. Last week it was software issues. This week the hard drive (my guess is the software issues were caused by the hard drive.
They have had my machine an average of 4 days a month fro the last 6 or 7 months. That is pretty par for the course with this old hardware and software.
Management is finally implementing the upgrade they have spent 2 years planning. The help desk is overjoyed. Windows 7, here we come.
Of course I will have my linux laptop ready for when I need it again.
If the government changes the laws away from what the entertainment industry wants, industry lobbyists will have to, once again, pump millions of dollars into campaign coffers, ughh I mean engage in free speech, to get the laws back the way that the industry wants them.
Lather, rinse repeat. Government is a shakedown. Remember how Microsoft, Apple and a lot of the early micro computer companies never used to spend much money lobbying? Well a few investigations by the justice department fixed that. Those companies are all regular contributors to our wonderful ruling parties nowdays. I wonder if one of the DOJ lawyers ever joked to a MS exec: "Nice Windows you got here, be a shame if something happened to them..."
Its the Chicago way
Your comment doesn't sound like flamebait to me. You make some reasonable observations and ask some obvious questions. There is a reason ecnomic failures used to be referred to as 'panics'. The driving force behind the severity of economic downturns is often the tendency for people to overreact and, well, panic.
It is a normal human trait, and keeps people lining up for cabbage patch dolls, freaking out when a terrorist act takes place and running to the bank to remove their money when the stock market falls.
We're pretty silly creatures. Douglas Adams gave the best advice on the subject, just don't do it.
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