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major league base ball umpires union does not like systems like this and systems like that are not 100% also there stuff that is hard to make calls that can be 100% done by a bot.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406E6DE1F39F933A15754C0A9649C8B63

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E1D61130F933A1575AC0A9649C8B63

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1208/is_24_227/ai_103378465

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuesTec

OK! I was hoping someone with high speed internet access would do this for me, but I did it. NASA says that much of Mars' atmosphere was lost to pressure from the solar wind, but "[...] solar wind erosion was likely much more effective in the past than it is today." Some believe that Mars' atmosphere was lost mostly due to collisions from a variety of potential impactors. Apparently you can or once could take a class at uoregon which would teach you that there was insufficient temperature for [Martian] water to remain as a liquid, so it froze out leaving CO2 as the primary component in the atmosphere. Which is OK, that's an atmosphere! We want it for warming (CO2 is great) and for providing pressure so that we can survive with an air mask (for which purpose it would be fine.) I mean, an oxygen atmosphere would be dandy, but any atmosphere would be an upgrade. However, it might also have been 7.5 bar of CO2 when Mars was young, which would be a bit excessive for our purposes. Actually, .5 bar would probably do the job, although it would certainly limit the value of suction-based pumps in a non-pressurized environment...

So, the court upholds the constitutional guarantee of free speech. But... only if the speech is against people.

This is not a joke: In 13 states, you do not have the right of free speech if you talk about food.

Read about food libel laws. Say anything you like about people, but don't libel food!

Don't read this, if you live in these states: Citizens of Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, you may not read the next paragraph:

Large amounts of caffeine have an effect on the human central nervous system that many people consider to be unhealthy. In my opinion, it is better to avoid caffeine. That means avoiding soft drinks with caffeine, and avoiding coffee unless it is de-caffeinated.

Citizens of those states, resume reading. If you care for yourself, you will care for your government. Read the many, many books about government corruption in the United States. Take some action against abusiveness.

More stories about your loss of the right to free speech:

Talk Show Host Gets First Taste of Food Disparagement Laws

Food disparagement laws: A threat to us all.

Food Fights

Food Fight - food disparagement laws fought by Center for Science in the Public Interest's FoodSpeak Coalition project

Actually what you are wearing is the much more expensive alternative. Since 2002, Raytheon seems to be working on a cheaper "version" called Aluminum Oxynitride. You can also read about it on Wikipedia.

Too bad that I can see no price tag. ;-) The only mention of a price I was able to find is here, it is about the previous model, Mini X2. $1050 would not qualify as an alternative, I hope this has changed since then.

Nevertheless, as far as technical parameters are concerned, this looks quite close, thanks. (Now how to buy something like that in Central Europe - I even have an Apple Store twenty minutes away from my house, but Nexlink does not seem to be sold anywhere *even on the Internet* - no shops, no prices... But logistics is an entirely different topic, I jus wanted an (at least almost) exact equivalent to Mac Mini under $500.)

BTW, isn't it interesting? One reponds to a reference to "bloated prices" (which I do not believe to be valid) with asking for a proof only to get modded "offtopic". How nice.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3601/is_n31_v39/ai_13651221

"Last week, the Clinton administration presented its broad outline for a relaxation of banking rules designed to increase commercial lending to small businesses."

It was Clinton who started the process. He was faced with a so-called credit crunch and bowed to the pressure.

Once he lowered the bar, money became easier to get, and real-estate prices started shooting up.

Btw, don't think I'm absolving GWB. But it started with BC.

-Jeff

It already does.

I don't know how much they cost, but it can't be too bad. I've worked for two huge companies that have handed them out to employees for logging in.

OK, here is a study.

HERE is another.

Of course, with those two, all I can read is the abstract, since I'm not paying for the whole shebang.

The ObscenityCrimes story is full of references if you care to look them up. However, many of them are books and others are print media that you may or may not have free access to over the web, (New York Times, 16 May 2000, F7) for example.

Finally, HERE is another one that looked full of data and IS a real world study. It also, has an order form. However, there are several links of the bottom that link back to this article. Just about all the sagepub articles include them.

So they are there. I'm sorry that the one you researched got you nowhere. There are others that you may consider to be more reputable if you look hard enough.

Oh, here is another, but it's 43 pages long. I found it by googling the article title from another sources sited list. Here is the google search I used.

Anyway, the founder wrote a book.

Hopefully those farmers will be smart enough to invest in a new food.

However by the tyme a farmer knows a crop is going to fail it may be too late for them.

Those that can't or won't have the option to sell their land.

If they can find a buyer, a big "if", selling their land may put them in a worse position.

Not to mention people going hungry.

We got hungry people in the United States, too. Let's fix our own house before we start crying about our neighbor.

I think feeding the hungry in the US, as well as in the Third World, is economically easy, the problem is political. Multi billion dollar US multinational corporations get billions of US taxpayer dollars in subsidies, Archer Daniels Midland has been called the Corporate Welfare Queen. Instead of the corporate paid politicians giving all that money to large corporations, if the money was given to charities like soup kitchens if not directly to those who need the help, then there's no reason they should go hungry. And by corporations not getting those hugh subsidies, they would have to compeat with Third World farmers. As it has been since NAFTA was ratified, Mexican farmers have been driven off their farms because they can't grow corn for what ADM and Cargill can export and sell corn for in Mexico. The Doha rounds of the WTO failed because First World Nations, specifically the EU and Japan refused to budge on subsiding their farmers, though Bush did agree to cut some US subsidies.

I know that action is taken quite often; here's a few examples of such violations. Contrary to conventional wisdom, boards tend to draw the line at violating the articles of incorporation, as their own stakes - their own interests - live and die with the corporation. You'll usually see those guilty of such actions readily served up by the company - witness Ken Lay, the Rigas', and many others. The board will look for their own interests, and those usually align with the majority of the stockholders (since they're elected by the stockholders).

I guess he didn't have time to run it past the proof readers before posting.

yup, had a 32bit UNIX running on the 386 in the 80s. As another poster pointed out, there was circuitry in the Pentiums for optimizing 16bit code via caching. Intel, probably to reduce die size, removed the 16bit cache circuit in the PPro and optimized it for 32bits. Also pointed out was that Intel had to back fit the 16bit cache circuits in the "new" Pentium II chips so systems sold with "new" CPUs actually ran faster than the old CPUs.

I could not find the article which showed how poorly Windows 95 did on the Pentium Pro but did find one IBM did on OS/2 and it states 30%-121% performance improvements:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1995_Nov_1/ai_17545272

In any regard, unless you were unaware of other systems, Windows 95 was a technical flop. There were better user interfaces, better backwards compatibility( both DOS and Windows 3.x ), and better kernel/OS but at a cost of a couple of megs of RAM.

And believe me, I knew the 386 and 486 were 32bit because it pissed me off that Microsofts desktop OS was such a poor product. NT had potential but it required over 2X the hardware of OS/2 or UNIX and provided such a poor user interface. Remember, Windows NT v3.1 shipped in 92 along with OS/2. It was almost 4 years later that Windows 95 shipped with a moderately better GUI and another year more before NT v4.0 got that "updated" GUI.

But as usual, if people don't know what they are missing, they'll think what they have is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Technically, Windows 95 was a piece of shit but a few hundred million dollars in marketing suckered the public into accepting it. Monopolistic protectionist threats also helped deny other OS's their day in the sun. IMO.

LoB

It wasn't sarcastic, because that would imply you had a point outside the flamebait. It wasn't a joke because it wasn't funny...at all. You are completely wrong, it is not "minorities" but single, white women, and here are my sources:

US, 1996: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n21_v90/ai_18744024
UK, 1999: http://bjsw.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/29/2/269
US, 1999: http://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/myths.html

Hate to feed the flame... but I seem to recall a statistic that indicated mortality rates for heart disease were significantly higher in Afrcian American males than in any other ethic group. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_4_100/ai_76513087 Now that speaks nothing toward how insurance companies actually calculate rates, and doesn't address the issue that the mortality rate may be higher because African American males tend to be uninsured at a higher rate, or other factors and statistical loopholes like that. You can make a case for anything using statistics.

So, the Westboro types never kill?

Never?

Never ever?

I think you need to re-examine the definition of bigot. My point is, was, and will be that you're making claims out of the entire religion of Islam because of a relatively small number of extremists.

Don't forget about the Compaq Concerto, introduced in 1992, noted here in Rune's PC-Museum (scroll down to it) http://pc-museum.com/officewing.htm
and an old 1994 review of the same http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1563/is_n2_v12/ai_15035428
That is, if you're looking for one of the oldest subs.

That's partly true.

I have a Compaq Concerto, one of the first touch-screen notebooks. I bought mine in 1994, but they were available for a couple of years before that.

The touch-sensing hardware is good enough, but the cpu (486/25) struggles under the load and the computer feels unresponsive.

The big problem though is software. MS introduced Windows for Pen Computing for this computer, and it sucks badly. It was never really updated either. Unfortunately, that was also when the Windows monopoly started to bite, so there was no other player to pick up the touch computing slack, and the concept withered until now.

I'd say the monopoly was the biggest problem.

The US is a net importer of agricultural produce.

Softwar e is booming as an economic phenomenon. I'm not as confident as you though that it's a ball which will stay in US hands in the long term.

Devil's advocate here...

I sense a flaw in your reasoning. Just because there is more genetic diversity in one population than another does not mean that there will be a greater prevalence of a certain trait in the more heterogeneous population. Indeed, by definition, the homogeneous population will posses certain traits in greater abundance. It is just a question of what. As an example, chimps have more genetic diversity than humans, yet you wouldn't expect them to harbor a higher proportion of geniuses.

3. Mark Steyn's thesis is that muslims are taking over the west, "breeding like mosquitoes," and that they plan to replace our western legal system with Sharia law. And he is pretty offensive in the way he argues it.

You do know the mosquitoes phrase is a quote from Norwegian imam Mullah Krekar, right?

"We're the ones who will change you," the Norwegian imam Mullah Krekar told the Oslo newspaper Dagbladet in 2006. "Just look at the development within Europe, where the number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes. Every Western woman in the EU is producing an average of 1.4 children. Every Muslim woman in the same countries is producing 3.5 children." As he summed it up: "Our way of thinking will prove more powerful than yours."

So is it hate speech against Muslims to quote a Muslim? (By the way, the above link is the original "hate speech" article in question.)

But the REAL issue of why he's on trial is because McLean's [sic] magazine (Canada's largest circulated magazine) has him as a regular contributer while refusing to let anyone offer a rebuttal. So, people complained.

Except the complainers were demanding the magazine publish an unedited five page rebuttal in the magazine. No magazine allows that.

This is actually not true. Every service pack ever released before XP-SP2 did not have major new features. It has always been the MS policy to use Service Packs as patches-only.

Not true. People have been complaining that MS was adding features in services packs since NT 4.0. Unless you're limiting MS OS' to XP, which only had one SP prior to SP2.

So, technically they may have always had the policy, but they hadn't been following it prior to Xp / 2000.

Microsoft was REALLY not going to release those features as a service pack. There were going to release it as a NEW OS VERSION! (Imgine what people on /. would be saying here if they had done that?)

Which is where many would argue that new features belong; in a new OS. /.ers that complain the loudest seem to be the most ignorant; it's hard to justify new features in an SP for enterprise customers, because they admins have to learn them, learn what problems the features may cause, etc. That was just the problem with NT 4 SPs, as the article I linked shows.

Jim Allchin insisted that Microsoft needed to improve it's security image and that the features should be released as a free service pack.

Regardless, that doesn't change the fact that MS WAS putting new features into SPs prior to SP2 for XP.

You are right though, you will likely never see another service pack like SP2.

I dunno; the major security problems in XP, Vista, Server 2003+ seem to be addressed, so there's likely no need. I tend to think that the adding the new features in XPSP2 was a good idea, because security in XP was pretty broken, and something needed to be done.

They're tackling the problem from another point of view

Creative MP3 players ship with virus
Apple Ships iPods with Windows Virus
Seagate Storage Units Ship with Virus
Sega Dreamcast console game spreads virus
Maxtor USB Hard Drives Ship Virus Infected
Digital photo frames ship with computer virus
Sony Ships Rootkit

He might be doing it for money, but I doubt it, he has been a billionaire since well before he took over:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3715/is_199909/ai_n8870193

His fortune is probably closer to $10 billion now than the $20 billion in that article, but that's still enough money that 99.9999999% of people are only going to do things that they truly enjoy or think are important. Perhaps he's the exception, but probably not.

It's interesting to consider whether power beamed down from orbit even has much of a future.

I'm not sure solar power from orbit is going to be that good an idea as a primary world power source, at least until global warming is already largely solved. I may well be over simplifying things, but isn't the basic problem of global warming a matter of too much energy in the biosphere? How is adding more energy to the equation going to do anything but make it worse? I know that ideally it would replace hydrocarbon fuels and greenhouse gas levels would plummet, but during the transition time where we would still have the greenhouse gases but adding additional power (heat) to the biosphere it would seem to be pushing us all too close or over a tipping point, like the release of undersea methane.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_2_19/ai_96238185

... and then ther'es the shortage of earth-moving tires (up to $65,000 per tire) that has been going on for the past 2 years,, and won't end for another 3.

"Bolivian Oil Fields". Right.

I suspect they are there to assist with anti-terrorism activities in the the remote tri-border area in southern Brazil.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/TerrOrgCrime_TBA.pdf
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PBZ/is_5_84/ai_n7069238

If you, as some researchers do, believe that space is finite and only appears infinite because of a repeating "wrap-around" effect, then you would realize that could be seeing ourselves.

In fact, if this "wrap-around" effect is true, then we should be able to find ourselves an infinite number of times!

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_19_164/ai_110737294

Yeah, the current administration is guilty of that crap.

What about the last administration and it's wagging the dog wars in Somalia and Kosovo - where there was NO US interest at all let alone oil interests? When groups opposed to the administration suddenly found themselves audited by the IRS? Where hundreds of FBI files on political opponents turned up in the White House (can you say Nixon?)

The parent poster was right. The democrats will violate your rights just as quick as the Republicans. They will just feed you a story you can swallow, instead of one the Republicans can swallow.

Yeah, the current administration is guilty of that crap.

What about the last administration and it's wagging the dog wars in Somalia and Kosovo - where there was NO US interest at all let alone oil interests? When groups opposed to the administration suddenly found themselves audited by the IRS? Where hundreds of FBI files on political opponents turned up in the White House (can you say Nixon?)

The parent poster was right. The democrats will violate your rights just as quick as the Republicans. They will just feed you a story you can swallow, instead of one the Republicans can swallow.

Since humans are one of the few species that conceal ovulation I am wondering if this has a more genetic basis.

and the scientific basis for prediction is what, exactly?

Actually that's an oversimplification. Chapter 11 can be used by individuals in certain circumstances. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3601/is_n51_v37/ai_11085790

Ok. CDs cost money to produce, but the article is dated, and I think a more interesting question with respect to the cost of music is "how do the costs translate to online sales?" I am clearly guessing here, but if anyone else has real numbers, please reply. Given that everyone likes to talk about Radiohead's "In Rainbows", I'll base my estimates on that. The album has 10 songs, so...

Online Distribution (10 songs / CD)

$0.17 - Musicians' unions - no change
$0.22 - Packaging/manufacturing - 2% of revenue to license mp3 format for content distribution, AAC is free for distribution, don't know about Fairplay DRM.
$0.82 - Publishing royalties - no change
$1.00 - Retail profit - 12 @ $.10/song
$0.10 - Distribution - Bandwidth ~5MB/song (downloaded from Radiohead) = 50 MB * 0.0005/MB=$.025 (the estimate is for Video on Demand, but that's all I could find). I bumped it up a little to cover hardware maintenance.
$1.60 - Artists' royalties - no change
$1.70 - Label profit - no change
$2.40 - Marketing/promotion - no change
$2.91 - Label overhead - no change
$0.00 - Retail overhead - not sure

Total: $10.92

Apple sells "In Rainbows" for $9.99. Amazon sells it for $7.99 as a download. I don't believe Apple loses money on downloads. I'm not sure about Amazon. While this is strictly hypothetical, it would seem the difference between a $15 CD and a $10 downloaded album is more than just the cost of production and distribution of the CD. Assuming I'm not totally off on my numbers, and the numbers that aren't related to production and distribution do not change, it should not be possible for Apple to sell the record for $10 or Amazon for $8. I believe the pricing model must allow for online retailers to make a profit, so what makes up the difference? Are the labels giving up profits? Are they operating more efficiently than they used to?

Nope, actually this: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DIZ/is_11_13/ai_72270397 Which may be seen as an early extremely limited trial of this (depending on how you look at it).

What? You want to use ALL of your installed 8 GB or RAM, not only 2 GB? Sure! The "improved memory accessibility module" subscription goes for just $1.50/GB/month!

It was a bit before my time, but the story goes that IBM used to operate in pretty much exactly this way back in the mainframe days. They would sell the customer a mainframe at a certain performance level, but actually ship them a much more powerful machine with some of its resources disabled/limited/throttled via software, so that it performed at the (lower) level the customer had been sold. Then when the customer needed an upgrade, they would bill them a ginormous amount, then send out a service tech to "install the upgrade" -- but all he really did was remove the limiters. This was called a "golden screwdriver" upgrade because the tech could earn IBM hundreds of thousands of dollars just with the proverbial turn of a screw.

This sounds like PrizePoint.com or Uproar.com (the original version, which lived between 1998 and 2006, not the new version, which sux even more). The idea was you earned points that could be redeemed for prizes by playing cheesy Java-based games. Of course the quid pro quo was being barraged by ads.

Ultimately, the games and prizes weren't worth putting-up with all the ads. Ad-blocking caused revenues to plummet and those who didn't block ads just stopped visiting. Uproar and Prizepoint merged and then eventually died after burning through millions of VC dollars.

I don't see anything better happening this time around.

Regardless of what the source publishes regularly, the stated author in the article, Gordon Thomas, is an award-winning Welsh author who wrote books exposing CIA abuses that became very famous. Here is the review of a book by Thomas about Mossad http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1606_275/ai_58055879.

Exposing this sort of propaganda is right up Thomas's alley.

Come off it. The Chinese army certainly raped Tibetan civilians in '59. Just like every other occupying force in the history of warfare. That is what happens when a government dehumanizes the enemy so their soldiers don't realize that they are killing their fellow man and go stark raving mad during combat.

It happened with the U.S. in Viet Nam and in Iraq.

It happened with the British in Dol Dol.

It happened with the Japaneses in China

I could keep going but it's just more of the same. If you still don't believe the Chinese army is capable of blatant human rights violations because these articles are just words, how about a video? WARNING THE PRECEDING LINK IS HARD TO WATCH!