Comment is it time yet? (Score -1, Troll) 118
at some point we are going to have rework some protocols to deal with stupid shit like this.
at some point we are going to have rework some protocols to deal with stupid shit like this.
They made a movie about one of these homes called The Cube. When I get a Cube of my own, I would love to have my in-laws come to the housewarming party.
There are many reasons why TSA will not be reformed. High incumbancy rate is one of them. But your citation of gerrymandering as a major problem for TSA reform is ridiculous here.
my reply was to "We hold the purse strings AND the votes" which is then tied to officials doing nothing because they have job security in the extremely high incumbancy rate. you will never see two democrats or two republicans on the ballot.
In other words, "Congress sucks, but my guy's an okay dude!"
That's why there's a high incumbency rate.
you dont get it, they reason they are saying they like the guy is BECAUSE of gerrymandering. the whole point is to get people who like you.
You need to get people to realize that their own representatives are PART of Congress, and they need to vote them out when Congress isn't working well.
no, you need political diversity so that you dont have an overwhelming amount of democrats only voting for democrats and republicans voting for republican. when there is no risk of not getting reelected, there is no motivation to do anything that could be considered controversial to some. some may not like the rep doing nothing but too many people are just going to vote for their party.
you have no idea the damage that gerrymandering is doing.
The TSA exists because Americans tolerate it.
It's that simple.
We hold the purse strings AND the votes. Either one alone is enough to eliminate the TSA. But we have said, en-mass, that the TSA is acceptable in our society. So it will continue.
wrong, WRONG, WRONG!. there are good reasons that there is a 91% incumbency rate. one reason is unfettered gerrymandering which completely subverts democracy.
Senator Tom Coburn described the situation well when he said, "In several election cycles in recent history, more incumbents died in office than lost reelection bids."
well if that jerk would just keep his dog off my yard...
mod parent up because there is a HUGE difference between a small group and a state doing this.
The washing machine-sized spacecraft that weighs 121 kilograms is being readied by a not-for-profit venture called SpaceIL which operates out of a small non-descript office donated to it by Tel Aviv University.
the purpose of the car horn was not to express anger at other drivers but to warn of an emergency. there will still be people dangerously stepping into the street and the cars will honk to warn them that they may get hit. that's not to say it will warn them only when they will be hit but rather when the probability of being hit drastically increases. pedestrians are highly unpredictable and the cars have been programmed to act accordingly. also, if someone in a manually driven car might be in the process of causing an collision (e.g. turning into an occupied lane) the car will honk.
the real question is if people will give other people the finger in traffic.
all the chairs at microsoft are taking a sigh of relief.
> "This could have great applications in sound insulation of motorways"
Last I checked, the screams of children within neighborhoods protected by motorway sound barriers were not a major nuisance or safety hazard for motorists.
but the children can barely hear the loud roaring traffic as it goes by. think of the children!
Have we learned nothing from science fiction?
Of course we've learned. How do you think we keep coming up with these ideas?
Client-side is a mess. Everything needs to be built (at least) three times, once for the web, Android, and iOS. In the browser you have to content with JavaScript, browser API’s,CSS, and rendering differences.
if your application looks the same on a webpage as it does on a smartphone then YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. Hell, if your application is on a webpage then almost assuredly, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.
If you are writing a desktop, tablet, mobile or server-side application, you can use Qt to do it all.
- desktop: OS integration, sound, graphics (transparently software or hardware based), multi-touchscreen support (for tablets)
- mobile: Android/iPhone ports, multi-touchscreen support, direct display buffer access and more.
- server: execute as a daemon, handling TCP/UDP directly, talking over D-Bus
On a side note: someone wrote black magic code and ported Qt to javascript. If it's run locally, it's ok but otherwise it's a huge download. Here are some demos like Tetrix
Their hardware is woefully underpowered,
this is nothing new. from the very beginning, nintendo has always gone with slower and inexpensive hardware. how were they so successful? they are marketing geniuses, they have always focused on graphics versus cpu speed and sell their systems for less.
- They made a ton of money selling Gameboys because they came out with a zillion flavors of it. Gameboy was released later in several different colors.
Then they came out with Gameboy Pocket. Then Gameboy Color which was a small hardware/software tweak (4 shades of gray turned into 4 different colors).
- NES/SNES/GB/GBA/NDS/GC/WII were all slower than their competitors but they focus on graphics abilities
- The rest of their consoles were cheap-o crap parts and so they could sell their systems for less. They got burned with the N64 because put in much better
hardware which made it more expensive. the playstation was cheaper and the games too because CDs are much cheaper to make than carts.
hardware capabilities have less to do with selling units than good marketing strategies.
They have been convicted or are in court in multiple places for deliberatily going around users' privacy settings in Safari and Internet Explorer.
if you read up on why it happened, it was to "to ensure things like the Google+ '+1' buttons that appear on third-party sites still work" which isn't some sinister plot to grab every bit of information from you. read about the when/how/why and you make understand it better: http://mashable.com/2013/01/25...
it's easy to hype things to make them sound like they were trying to steal your first born child (sensationalism) but seriously, it was harmless. they fixed it up so that stuff still works without bypassing anything.
So because they are large makes them evil?
No. That just makes them powerful. There are concerns that need to be addressed when benign institutions gain power. Like that bank, that used to take care of your money until they became too big to fail. Remember that one? It was funny. I still can't stop laughing while I fill in my taxes.
if google when down in flames, the fallout would be minimal. people would take their data leave and then use different services and programs, it's that simple. google is competing in many markets but they dont have a monopoly on any of them because they are rarely the first to the market. they succeed in some and fail in others.
search: google/yahoo/bing/duckduckgo
browser: chrome/internet explorer/mozilla/firefox/Safari
social: google+/facebook/myspace/twitter/etc
email: gmail/hotmail/yahoo mail/a zillion others
online storage: google drive/dropbox/etc
mobile os: android/iOS/Windows Phone/symbian/blackberry/etc
video: youtube/vimeo/many others
they were not the first to any of these and they haven't cornered the market on any of them. what they have done is integrate these together in a very nice way which some people seem to think means they have total control over all of them.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
