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The reason why rural america isn't like rural china? Acts like the electrification act, and now, proposals like the broadband act. Straight up, 100%. There were people without running water or indoor toiletry in the rural US in the 1950s, when that bill passed!
Actually, the first Rural Electrification Act was passed in the 1930's (1936).
If you have the time to read a ~70-page report, here's the report mentioned at the end of the op-ed.
Sorry; this was written by another slashdotter; not sure who
fullback, in this comment. He also commented on this story, noting that we lead the world in cognitive dissonance....
Just the opposite. The policies are doing exactly what the lobbyists intended, feed the corporate coiffures at the expense of the people. Remember, the government no longer represents the voters, only those who buy pay their way to get elected.
I agree with your intended point, but you presumably meant "coffers"; feeding corporate coiffures would be amusing to watch....
Perhaps he intended for "lead" to be in the past tense? It's that silly English language...
If so, he should have left the "a" out - it should have been "America's Broadband Networks Led the World". At least in that case, English is not so silly as to have the past and present tenses spelled the same.
Sorry; this was written by another slashdotter; not sure who, but I clipped and saved for re-use someday and now here it is.
We may not be the "best" at network speed and access; but here's what we are truly "number one" at:
To be fair, some of those items appear to be absolute counts rather than percentages; for example, number of $CRIMEs is less interesting than number of $CRIMEs per 1,000 people.
Others, however, are rates/percentages, and, yes, a higher rate/percentage of $BAD_THING does make you interestingly #1 in $BAD_THING.
I'm guessing you live In Sweden, which has lovely network access but apparently doesn't teach geography for shit. Call me when you can find Bulgaria on the map and tell me what continent it's on.
Call me when you can find Bulgaria on this chart and tell me where it is relative to the US on that chart.
(Or indicate why the chart is unrealistic. If it is realistic, perhaps Italy, for example, would have been a better choice.)
(And, no, that chart isn't a chart of fiber deployment, but if the countries below the US have more fiber deployed, one is tempted to ask what good it's doing.)
I believe that most asteroids are just a huge dust ball held together by gravity, no big rocks, just lots and lots of small particles gathering around a small core. With that view of an asteroid, an explosion in the atmosphere would be expected, and almost no solids would reach the ground.
And the evidence that supports this belief, and doesn't also support other beliefs, is?
And you think a CAD package (which really needs GPU acceleration) is not one of those?
I think no such thing.
Sometimes it's really convenient to just reboot and get to work, instead of launching an extra environment. Yes, virtualisation works, but unless one has to multitask between os-dependant applications,
And some do. (I do development on cross-platform software, and it's Way Cool to be able to try stuff on various non-OS X OSes without having to reboot and not have my regular development/Web access/e-mail/etc. environment handy and without having to have other machine on which to do it. The downside is that, given that I want multiple versions of those OSes, about 1/3 of my "disk" is filled up with VMs....)
I'm running Lion. The performance is terrible.
A network trace and the output of "sudo fs_usage -w -f {pid of Finder}" while it's trying to show the contents of the directory might be interesting. Is the performance terrible for ls, or just for the Finder?
It has less space than a Nomad.
Most computers have less space than a Nomad.
(And, yes, I recognized the reference immediately, but, then again, I can't even remember what year I first signed up here any more, but it was definitely in the 1990's.)
My wife is an architect and she likes the mac desktop, but she needs to run windows only cad software.
And, presumably, can't do so in VMware Fusion or Parallels Workstation (which avoid the reboot and the "can't run your OS X apps and your Windows apps at the same time") or doesn't want to spend the money for them. (Yes, I can imagine that there are apps that don't work well enough in a simulated Windows box, for whatever reason.)
and who knows what sort of pressure the government was leveraging on these companies to get them on board.
"Nice business you have there selling to defense/intelligence/etc. government customers. Shame if something happened to it...."
Even bytes get lonely for a little bit.