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iPad is a huge success.

So is Lindsay Lohan (and has been for a long time).

If you want to argue about Federalist 10, I'll be happy to. But I would suggest you miss the point. I'm not trying to be coy -- but I'm well grounded on the history and material here. The sentence you cite is Madison essentially showing when a Democracy can work and isn't subject to problems of faction.

I'll focus here:

Well, know, that's wrong. If I say its a "liberal democracy", then "liberal" is obviously describing the kind of "democracy" it is. Just as if I say, more relevantly to this threat, that it is a "representative democracy", "representative" is telling what kind "democracy" it is.

Not really. You are getting bogged down with the language as if you were in an English class. Navigating political terminology is much like trying to navigate Microsoft terminology. "What do you mean that machine spiting out paper isn't a printer, but a "PRINTING DEVICE"? And whats the printer then? The DRIVER? WTF?"

A representative democracy *IS* a Republic. It's describing the TYPE of republic. You cannot have a representative democracy that is NOT a republic -- but a republic does NOT need to be any type of democracy. Much like you cannot have a Jack Russel that is not a dog. It's describing the TYPE of dog.

The problem we're having here is that Democracy is also a type of government in and of itself. And you're getting bogged down with the word Democracy -- when it's a noun and when it's an adjective -- and how these words and phrases are used when discussing politics.

Example: The US can be called a "Republican Democracy". It's true -- and I've seen it used, but it's linguistically clumsy to say so. A "Republican Democracy" defines a type of REPUBLIC which has democratic qualities. Not a type of Democracy which has Republican qualities. Look it up.

One might also call the US a "representative democracy". It's been used, but has usually been qualified and/or corrected. It's not a simple definition. Example:

"the United States relies on representative democracy, but [its] system of government is much more complex than that. [It is] not a simple representative democracy, but a constitutional republic in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law."

In my opinion, linguistically it's oxymoronic to define something as "representative democracy" or "republican democracy" -- but they defines a certain type of governance. And these phrases is where you are having your problems. You need to looke at phrases like "Republican Democracy" as a single word rather than "Democracy being modified by Republican" like you were in an English class. And see it as "Doberman Pincher" -- defining a type of dog, not "Dobermen being modified by pincher".

I seriously doubt that a single individual has the ability to make a change on production boxes

for ip in $((for url in `lynx -dump "http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=Bayesian+networks+and+decision+graphs+Finn+rapidshare&count=1000" | grep -Eo '[[:alnum:].]*\.cn$'`; do ping -c 1 $url; done) | grep -Po '\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}' | sort -u); do echo $ip : ; whois $ip | grep netname; done

Who gave these fucktards mod points? Not only is the parent modded "informative", so was this post, which I quote: "If I got hit with a metorite, I'd have a headache too"

Methinks some SCO stockholders somehow got mod points.

WOW! I found pictures of the people who modded this!!! And here's another of today's mods!

Oops, I think I know this mod (they call her a "bus down")

-mcgrew

PS- ok, I was right the first time... it is SCO stockholders!

They should have chosen a different name for this. Spime is the name of a cutting-edge mathematical theory by George Nayef Kayatta, the Foremost Renaissance Man of our age and a Megagenius in the Arts and In The Sciences. It's bad enough that his groundbreaking research has been suppressed for so long, but to give something else the same name is a slap in the face.

Is this any way to treat the megagenius who created the monumental work The Holy Bible in Verse?

Maybe gp i referring to fact that revolvers are too "loose" to be effectively silenced: "Revolvers, due to their 'loose' structure, cannot be made quiet, with few exceptions: The Nagant M1895 revolver used an unusual gas-sealed cylinder that made it suitable for use with a suppressor."

source: http://www.search.com/reference/Suppressor

NIS version 2002 8.0 Excellent

NIS version 2004 7.6 Very Good

NIS version 2005 7.0 Very Good

NIS version 2006 6.0 Good

http://reviews.search.com/search?q=Norton+Internet +Security&tag=srch&submit=Go!

hmmm... anybody see a trend here? But how could anyone in there right mind ever call NIS Exellent or even Very good?

Prediction

NIS version 2010 1.0 Holy Moly This Reeks!

• Google recommends: Altavista
• MSN recommends: Search.com
• Yahoo recommends: Yahoo
• Ask.com recommends: Ask.com
• Altavista recommends: Search.com
• Search.com recommends: Dogpile
• Dogpile recommends: Lycos
• Lycos recommends: Ask.com

Nobody at all recommends Google. More proof that Google search is not as good.

Apparently, the reason you havne't heard much about it is because it http://dw.com.com/redir?edId=3&oid=6070-5_1-0&site id=1&ontId=5&tag=ksrch_tp_rev_1_2&subj=virtual%2Bk eyboard&destcat=6460_1-31293682&desturl=http%253A% 252F%252Fwww%252Ecnet%252Ecom%252FVKB_Bluetooth_Vi rtual_Keyboard%252F4505%252D6460_7%252D31293682%25 2Ehtml">sucked

Maybe because Google doesn't actually have a monopoly in any of the product areas they compete in? Are you really going to argue that Google is the sole provider of email, online advertising, or desktop searching? The only area in which you may have a point is search engines (even though there are plenty of alternatives there, too). But guess what? It's not illegal to have a monopoly unless you use anti-competitive practices to acquire or maintain it. Since Google by all accounts has done nothing wrong, nobody is complaining.

Good question- he seemed to have earlier in the summer. You can find this article and more that he's written since May at This search page I created on SP2 articles at ZDNet

My primary job function is slowly going away and being replaced with SP2 testing so right now I need to keep VERY informed on this subject. It seems to me most of the ZD Net staff were swept up in TCI hoopla- and wanted to test SP2 to see if it lived up to the hoopla.

This tripe reads like a press release. Leading in with "According to CNET" is particularly deceptive when used here. I say that g0_p, the submitter, works for Ketchum, the public relations firm that represents Liberty Alliance. I also say that Robert Lemos the "CNET Staff Writer" responsible for the article, just took a press release and changed a few words. This is not his writing, nor are the other ten articles he "wrote" for CNET this week..

Have you beeen hiding on a cave? Sun is flirting with AMD, and looks like they have serious plans to port Solaris on 64 bits to AMD-64. Check out this story. It looks like the open letter from that Merryl Linch analyst is working. I also think that Sun should focus on software and complete solutions, and stop messing with processors too much.

What Steve Jobs, if he had any sense, needs to do is to add ECC (error correction code) memory to the G5 to create a variant of the G5 and call it "G5-W". The G5-W would essentially be a workstation. Then Jobs should work with IBM and RedHat Linux to certify that RedHat Linux runs on the G5-W. Apple can be the de facto workstation division of IBM. Apple retains the original G5 for consumers but enters the more lucrative market for workstations. Margins for workstations are significantly higher than they are for mere personal computers.

Moreover IBM has been wanting to do a tour-de-force in the workstation market, but there are all these pesky Pentium 4 boxes in that market. With the G5, IBM can sell at machine that is competitive with the very best Pentium boxes. The floating-point unit of the PPC970 should make those engineering calculations really fly.

Selling a significant number of processors in the workstation market helps to amortize the cost (on the order of billions of dollars) of processor development. The success of the G5 actually helps IBM's processor division.

Of course, the implicit observation here is that Sun Microsystems is dead meat. Sun is expected to lose about $300 million for the 1st quarter of FY2004, according to "Sun warns of hefty loss". The Power4 and variants (Power4+, PowerPC970, etc.) are killing Sun at the market's high end (for both workstations and servers), where Sun has traditionally obtained most of its profits.

... from the desk of the reporter

Retail prices fluctuate all the time, but Intel gives plenty of advance notice about price cuts in wholesale quantities. Search news.com for Intel price cuts, and you'll find plenty of stories.

I wonder what McBride thinks of all this.

Videos of interesting interviews about SCO's lawsuit,Sun &Oracle

Reportedly, enterprise Linux customers and proponents like HP and Sun pulled out of a scheduled conference to debate the future of Linux desktops. In general, how would you rate the importance of Lindows and its CEO, Michael Robertson, to the viability of Linux on the desktop?

For the love of God, please vote for her!

Vote for her because her ideas rock.

But also vote for her because she is running against Howard Coble, who is in the back pocket of the RIAA.

If you love the First Amendment and hate the DMCA, send Grubb to Congress!

It's simply amazing that this got them in trouble.

Google Search Engine

Yahoo has blocked the search of DeCSS

Lycos

Altavista

MetaCrawler

Go. Now Overture. Owned By Disney/ABC

CNet (Search.com)

Add Any I left out :-)

Sega found that out the hard way. It's all about staying power and the games that will come out.

Remember, the PS2 is already starting it's third generation of games, whereas both the X-Box and GC are starting to hit the second wave. Comparing first generation waves of both systems, I'd say the PS2 had NO killer apps (Grand Turismo is arguably the first real killer app for the PS2) whereas the Xbox came out of the door with one (Halo, which is arguably the best console game released to this day) and Nintendo had Rebel Assault.)

The second XBox wave promises tons of games on my "to-buy list" including exclusives like Spiderman, World Series Baseball 2K2, Crazy Taxi 3, Morrowind (coming to the PC too), the Matrix, MGSX, and ToeJam & Earl.

So the second xbox wave looks very good. The second GC wave also looks very good (a new mario, a new zelda, a new metroid and the resident evil remakes.)

Finally, everyone expected the X-Box to bomb in Japan. It's the first time a non-japanese company is actually making a console, and the Japanese hvae a strong tendency to be loyal to products produced in their country by their mega-corps. Look at car penetration stats for the country and it'll prove my point right away.

Besides, as ALWAYS has been the case (why don't analysts EVER remember?) it's not over till it's over. Remember how dominant the Genesis was even AFTER the SNES was out for a year? Remember who won that one?

According to this link:

The kits will cost $188.30 in Japan, $299 in the United States and $215 in Europe.

This article is highlighting the possible future or your "higher CS" job.

Already programming jobs are heading offshore.

With all the H1-B visa's around (and I have heard nothing of reducing the head count) - the pool of talent is increasing, which means the value of that talent is decreasing (not scarce.)

Already "support" jobs are going to China and Taiwan, where English is spoken well.

The economic divied won't be between "manual workers and knowledge workers" - it will be between "those who own companies and those who do not."

Care to share any of those reviews? On CNet
there is nothing useful save 3 user opinions (far too small an n). Forbes reads like nothing more than a press release. Techtv
is also not terribly in depth nor quite so fawning as you suggest.

5 Hours to charge? That seems like a bit of a pain to me. Isn't an iPod somewhere around an hour? 10:1 vs 2:1 play to charge ratio is significant.

-Ted

here is the press release about the last season: season 7?

but here is basically an article that is the exact opposite... Rio Riot a Riot? heh!

Speech recognition isn't perfect. It's not technology you can use casually, but it is usable with practice and training (for the software and the user). John Ousterhout, the creator of Tcl/Tk, has been using it for years after he developed problems with his wrist.

Until a year ago, there were four leading speech recognition firms out there: Lernout & Hauspie, Dragon Systems, IBM, and Philips (barely). Dragon was near bankrupcy, and L&H bought them last year. Now L&H is being rocked by financial scandals (see this list of articles on them in CNET), and may go under as well.

IBM, on the other hand, has supported their ViaVoice SDK for Linux for a long time. They also sell their ViaVoice dication software for Linux.

Without IBM, speech recognition might die. I'm glad to see they're pushing it futher, especially on Linux.

P.S.: "Voice recogintion" identifies people; "speech recognition" turns what they say into text.

P.P.S. It's possible to bind sneezes, sniffles, coughs, etc., into "null text."

More coverage.

Genomeweb article
http://www.genomeweb.com/articles/view-article.asp ?Article=2001119102156

CNET News.com
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-4534657.html

Yahoo
http://news.search.com/click?sl,news.43.232.940.0. 4.compaq+sandia+celera.0,http%3A%2F%2Fc%2Emoreover %2Ecom%2Fclick%2Fhere%2Epl%3Fk14425460

ABCNews.com
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/g enome_compaq010119.html

Maybe somebody needs to start a defamation search engine, which links defamation to defenses against same, and lets people compare to see which is more plausible.
-russ

Dilbert_ writes "Since most dot com domains of the form www.[common english word].com are taken today, you could theoretically surf around using just a dictionary. Now you can search the web from a page that will will automatically generate a fresh load of links, based on a dictionnary. " For some reason this amuses me greatly.