Out of curiosity, did you order this card. It looks good but I can't tell from the MSI site if it support OTA high-def or just unencrypted cable high-def.
The point is to avoid the hassles of 802.1n (i.e. tying MACs to ports based on a facilities diagram) and still reap some of the benefits of same. Joe Contractor brings his Vista laptop in -- no A/V, no access. Jane Vendor brings her laptop in -- not up-to-date on patches, no access. All without requiring those laptops to have some third party service installed/configured.
The British "lost" because France was keeping them occupied in Europe and they decided it wasn't worth the time, effort, and money to keep the colonies, not because the Americans had superior tactics.
In the "installed on an aircraft" sense, a phased array radar is nothing more than a bunch of little antennas rather than on giant parabolic dish. It's dead simple to install on an aircraft and has been done since the 70s.
Because the rich have more stake in the state keeping the status quo intact (i.e. enforcing property rights, repelling foreigh takeover) than the poor. Not to mention many often receive indirect benefits in the form of subisidies, etc. from the government.
On an absolute scale, yes. But I would argue that on a meaningful scale it's the middle class that have the most at stake when it comes to ensuring the status quo.
Imagine that the bottom fell out of the dollar tomorrow -- that it was worth less than used toilet paper and that US society collapsed as a result. The people at the bottom who have nothing would still have, well, nothing. People like Bill Gates have real assets that would enable them to relocate to someplace where society has not collapsed. Meanwhile, the people who post here on Slashdot would be well and truly fucked. They'd own a worthless house, a bunch of electronic gee-gaws that don't do shit without the electricity they can't afford, and (possibly) a car or two that'd rust where it stands when they can't fill it up again at the local Qwik-E-Mart.
Or for a more realistic example: The current trend among ultrarich people is to own a private Jumbo jet. The resources that go into making one of those are not available to satisfy the needs of other people. The people who build the jet get paid, but they trade their productivity for money. That productivity serves only the needs of the ultrarich, not the needs of the masses.
Nit: A Jumbo jet is either a 747, 777, A340, or MD-11. Without any BFE* a 747-400 will set you back about $140 million. So I'm going to call bullshit on private Jumbo jets being a trend. Private jets, yes. Private jets that seat more 15 people, we're stretching it.
Typically what you see is people with insane amounts of money buying a 737 or A320 that's specifically tailored for private use. Those are about $20 million -- not much more than the "boutique" large corporate jets cranked out by Bombardier etc.
More atypical is someone like Paul Allen who has a pair of 757s. I don't recall list price on a 757 but off the top of my head I'd hazard a guess of around $30 million. Then again, Paul likely bought them second hand and had them fitted out appropriately.
Finally, I'd argue that you're playing a semantic game about productivity serving only the needs of the ultrarich. Commercial aviation is a cyclical business. When the airlines have a bad year projects like the BBJ (Boeing's private 737) stabilize the production schedule. Better that riveters in Renton are making a BBJ and spending money soaked out of some rich a-hole then collecting unemployment that comes from other riveters that didn't lose their jobs...
*Buyer Furnished Equipment: Seats, upholstery, etc.
You also left out Loretta Sanchez illegally using campaign money to have third parties drive voters to the polls. Later investigation turned up approximately 4000 votes by illegal aliens -- pretty tough luck for "B-1" Bob who lost by less than 1000 votes.
Despite what most people think, the death penalty does have a deterrant value. It might not prevent someone from taking up a knife and gutting an ex in the heat of passion, but it will sure as hell convince a serial killer to fess up and save society a million bucks in a series of pointless trials and appeals.
I don't suppose the Iraqi people had any say in it -- you know, maybe they felt they didn't have to be treated like children and could
dispense appropriate justice on their own without having to get some help from the all-knowing Westerners who run the ICC.
Secondly- the problem with decoding WMV and the like isn't noone willing to say fuck the patents. Its a lack of documentation, requiring it to be reverse engineered
*cough* Bullshit *cough*
The Windows Media team has always been ready, willing, and able to provide portable reference implementations to anyone with an open checkbook. No doubt Mr. Shuttleworth has the requisite amount in his couch cushions...
1) In 1861 "terrorists" opened fire on Fort Sumter 2) To begin war on terror, Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus 3) The Republican controlled congress rubber-stamped Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus (as well as turned a blind eye to his trampling of the Bill of Rights) 4) Lincoln used the explicit and implicit powers granted to him by the Congress to pursue an immoral* war.
And the countless sheeple cheered on**.
Do you see how easy this is?
* Immoral in the sense that Lincoln directed his generals to ignore the rules of war that were well understood at that time. ** The "sheeple" cheered because Lincoln was throwing peoples' asses into military prisons for writing critical editorials. In fact, if your neighbor informed on you, the.gov could seize your property and said neighbor would get a cut. Who wouldn't cheer in an environment like that.
You do realize that the name "Ethan Allen" is (or should be) more famous for something other than furniture -- Ethan Allen was the leader of the Green Mountain Boys.
He and his militia were pretty tough guys and used "dirty pool" to force out the Vermont settlers that were living on New York land grants.
If exit polls are so terrible, how is it that everyone is happy with the way they were used to expose a corrupt election in the Ukraine?
That's funny --
And thus we come to an oft-repeated legend: Exit polls "exposed" fraud in Ukraine and elsewhere, so why not here? The biggest problem with that story is that the election monitors in those counties did not depend on exit polls to provide evidence of fraud. In Ukraine, at least, the solid evidence came from eye-witnesses, taped phone conversations, and physical evidence of vote tampering. Review the reports of the most authoritative monitor on the elections in Georgia and Ukraine -- the Office of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) --, and you will find plenty of evidence cited but not a single mention of the phrase "exit poll."
(Emphasis mine)
This was a popular explanation proposed for the 2004 exit-poll discrepancies, the "reluctant bush responder" hypothesis... it is, for example, what the polling companies Edison & Mitofsky claimed probably explained the discrepancies: Freeman and Bleifuss analyze their own data very carefully and throughly show that this just doesn't work. They demonstrate that if anything the bias went in the other direction, Democrats were a little reluctant to talk to the exit-pollsters.
There is reason for a sense of embarrassment and it involves one of the most blatant omissions from the Kennedy article: U.S. exit polls have been wrong before. In fact, according to the Edison-Mitofsky report, they have shown a consistent discrepancy favoring the Democrats in every presidential election since 1988.... Go back and watch the classic political documentary, The War Room -- or easier, go back and read my post from January 2005 -- and you will see that that leaked exit polls on Election Day 1992 provided as distorted a view as those leaked in 2004. The difference was that the leaked exit polls in 1992 were known mostly to insiders and served to exaggerate the size of Bill Clinton's eventual victory. Clinton won by less than those early exit polls suggested, but he still won the election, so there was little lingering outrage.
There was a state of rebellion during the US Civil War, which is why Lincoln could get away with it.
Even assuming that he would have done it through congress instead of dictatorially like he did, it should have only applied in the rebelling states and possibly the border states. Instead, Lincoln did away with habeas corpus nationwide.
But then, mindless Bush-bashing is one of my pet peeves.
Lincoln imprisoned thousands of civilians in military prisons to avoid dealing with habeas corpus. He shut down entire newspapers when they printed editorials that criticized him. He used the military and the police to rig voting during his reelection. He used the military to arrest his political rivals. He started a war to benefit his corporate backers. He directed his generals to ignore the rules of war and directly target civilians. How do we as a nation deal with that? We make his birthday a holiday, we put him on our currency, we build a giant monument to him and we lionize him as one of the greatest presidents ever.
The same actions are attributed to Bush (on a smaller scale) and ~ 50% of the voting public would describe Bush as the worst president ever. WTF?!
...but Oracle is almost never installed on a server along with other things, you buy a server to run Oracle on.
That depends on what you're using Oracle for. If your company has an Oracle enterprise license, a reasonable number of Oracle DBAs on staff, and a non-bargain basement hardware budget they'll probably have more than a few Oracle installs that resemble an "embedded" database that most people would use MySQL/Postgres for.
As an example, we're running a custom built application on three servers where each server hosts a webserver, an app server and an Oracle instance. The amount of data that Oracle holds could be backed up onto a sub $100 USB thumb drive. But it makes more sense to use Oracle than it does to have to hassle with different RDBMS systems.
Better get that bulk order for Guy Fawkes masks in before the rush. Amazon have them for $5.99.
It's a Guy Fawkes mask? I thought it was a Jack White mask. Now that movie makes more sense.
That game sounds like it would be fun to play while listening to Please Don't Cut My Testicles (http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id= 18217)
The key here is the "executive" part. Producers are extremely involved but executive producers just lend their name and (usually) write a big ol' check.
In a way, it makes sense to base some decisions on who the producers are. For example, if I liked the movies "Attack of the $FOO" and "Revenge of the $BAR" (note, these aren't sequels) and they share an executive producer with "Night of the living $BAZ" then I'll probably like "Night of the living $BAZ".
It's kind of like buying mutual funds -- "past performance is no guarantee of future returns" but big names who win more than they lose wind up with more customers.
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Out of curiosity, did you order this card.
It looks good but I can't tell from the MSI site if it support OTA high-def or just unencrypted cable high-def.
The point is to avoid the hassles of 802.1n (i.e. tying MACs to ports based on a facilities diagram) and still reap some of the benefits of same.
Joe Contractor brings his Vista laptop in -- no A/V, no access. Jane Vendor brings her laptop in -- not up-to-date on patches, no access. All without
requiring those laptops to have some third party service installed/configured.
No, the real question is whether or not it runs NetBSD...
The British "lost" because France was keeping them occupied in Europe and they decided it wasn't worth the time, effort, and money to keep the colonies, not because the Americans had superior tactics.
Following Tet, the VC weren't able to do that stuff any more -- they were eliminated as a fighting force, leaving the NVA to continue the fight.
In the "installed on an aircraft" sense, a phased array radar is nothing more than a bunch of little antennas rather than on giant parabolic dish. It's dead simple to install on an aircraft and has been done since the 70s.
Helicopters don't fly, they beat the air into submission
Because the rich have more stake in the state keeping the status quo intact (i.e. enforcing property rights, repelling foreigh takeover) than the poor. Not to mention many often receive indirect benefits in the form of subisidies, etc. from the government. On an absolute scale, yes. But I would argue that on a meaningful scale it's the middle class that have the most at stake when it comes to ensuring the status quo. Imagine that the bottom fell out of the dollar tomorrow -- that it was worth less than used toilet paper and that US society collapsed as a result. The people at the bottom who have nothing would still have, well, nothing. People like Bill Gates have real assets that would enable them to relocate to someplace where society has not collapsed. Meanwhile, the people who post here on Slashdot would be well and truly fucked. They'd own a worthless house, a bunch of electronic gee-gaws that don't do shit without the electricity they can't afford, and (possibly) a car or two that'd rust where it stands when they can't fill it up again at the local Qwik-E-Mart.
Or for a more realistic example: The current trend among ultrarich people is to own a private Jumbo jet. The resources that go into making one of those are not available to satisfy the needs of other people. The people who build the jet get paid, but they trade their productivity for money. That productivity serves only the needs of the ultrarich, not the needs of the masses.
Nit: A Jumbo jet is either a 747, 777, A340, or MD-11. Without any BFE* a 747-400 will set you back about $140 million. So I'm going to call bullshit on private Jumbo jets being a trend. Private jets, yes. Private jets that seat more 15 people, we're stretching it.
Typically what you see is people with insane amounts of money buying a 737 or A320 that's specifically tailored for private use. Those are about $20 million -- not much more than the "boutique" large corporate jets cranked out by Bombardier etc.
More atypical is someone like Paul Allen who has a pair of 757s. I don't recall list price on a 757 but off the top of my head I'd hazard a guess of around $30 million. Then again, Paul likely bought them second hand and had them fitted out appropriately.
Finally, I'd argue that you're playing a semantic game about productivity serving only the needs of the ultrarich. Commercial aviation is a cyclical business. When the airlines have a bad year projects like the BBJ (Boeing's private 737) stabilize the production schedule. Better that riveters in Renton are making a BBJ and spending money soaked out of some rich a-hole then collecting unemployment that comes from other riveters that didn't lose their jobs...
*Buyer Furnished Equipment: Seats, upholstery, etc.
No doubt he gets great "uptime".
You also left out Loretta Sanchez illegally using campaign money to have third parties drive voters to the polls.
Later investigation turned up approximately 4000 votes by illegal aliens -- pretty tough luck for "B-1" Bob who lost
by less than 1000 votes.
Despite what most people think, the death penalty does have a deterrant value. It might not prevent someone from
taking up a knife and gutting an ex in the heat of passion, but it will sure as hell convince a serial killer to fess up and save society a million bucks in a series of pointless trials and appeals.
I don't suppose the Iraqi people had any say in it -- you know, maybe they felt they didn't have to be treated like children and could dispense appropriate justice on their own without having to get some help from the all-knowing Westerners who run the ICC.
I haven't written a program longer than about 2,000 lines from scratch in more than ten years.
;)
Then you must not be writing Java code
I've already done this twice in the last two years and will probably do it again next year.
Secondly- the problem with decoding WMV and the like isn't noone willing to say fuck the patents. Its a lack of documentation, requiring it to be reverse engineered
*cough* Bullshit *cough*
The Windows Media team has always been ready, willing, and able to provide portable reference implementations to anyone with an open checkbook. No doubt Mr. Shuttleworth has the requisite amount in his couch cushions...
1) In 1861 "terrorists" opened fire on Fort Sumter
.gov could seize your property and said neighbor would get a cut. Who wouldn't cheer in an environment like that.
2) To begin war on terror, Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus
3) The Republican controlled congress rubber-stamped Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus
(as well as turned a blind eye to his trampling of the Bill of Rights)
4) Lincoln used the explicit and implicit powers granted to him by the Congress to pursue an
immoral* war.
And the countless sheeple cheered on**.
Do you see how easy this is?
* Immoral in the sense that Lincoln directed his generals to ignore the rules of war that were well understood at that time.
** The "sheeple" cheered because Lincoln was throwing peoples' asses into military prisons for writing critical editorials. In fact, if your neighbor informed on you, the
You do realize that the name "Ethan Allen" is (or should be) more famous for something other
than furniture -- Ethan Allen was the leader of the Green Mountain Boys.
He and his militia were pretty tough guys and used "dirty pool" to force out the Vermont settlers that were living on New York land grants.
That's funny --
(Emphasis mine)
This was a popular explanation proposed for the 2004 exit-poll discrepancies, the "reluctant bush responder" hypothesis... it is, for example, what the polling companies Edison & Mitofsky claimed probably explained the discrepancies: Freeman and Bleifuss analyze their own data very carefully and throughly show that this just doesn't work. They demonstrate that if anything the bias went in the other direction, Democrats were a little reluctant to talk to the exit-pollsters.
In fact, just go read this article (the source for the quotes above):
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2006/06/is_rf
There was a state of rebellion during the US Civil War, which is why Lincoln could get away with it.
Even assuming that he would have done it through congress instead of dictatorially like he did, it should have only applied
in the rebelling states and possibly the border states. Instead, Lincoln did away with habeas corpus nationwide.
But then, mindless Bush-bashing is one of my pet peeves.
Lincoln imprisoned thousands of civilians in military prisons to avoid dealing with habeas corpus. He shut down entire newspapers when they printed editorials that criticized him. He used the military and the police to rig voting during his reelection. He used the military to arrest his political rivals. He started a war to benefit his corporate backers. He directed his generals to ignore the rules of war and directly target civilians. How do we as a nation deal with that? We make his birthday a holiday, we put him on our currency, we build a giant monument to him and we lionize him as one of the greatest presidents ever.
The same actions are attributed to Bush (on a smaller scale) and ~ 50% of the voting public would describe Bush as the worst president ever. WTF?!
It's for towing your brand new Sun "BlackBox" home.
...but Oracle is almost never installed on a server along with other things, you buy a server to run Oracle on.
That depends on what you're using Oracle for. If your company has an Oracle enterprise license, a reasonable number of Oracle DBAs on staff, and a non-bargain basement hardware budget they'll probably have more than a few Oracle installs that resemble an "embedded" database that most people would use MySQL/Postgres for.
As an example, we're running a custom built application on three servers where each server hosts a webserver, an app server and an Oracle instance. The amount of data that Oracle holds could be backed up onto a sub $100 USB thumb drive. But it makes more sense to
use Oracle than it does to have to hassle with different RDBMS systems.
Better get that bulk order for Guy Fawkes masks in before the rush. Amazon have them for $5.99. It's a Guy Fawkes mask? I thought it was a Jack White mask. Now that movie makes more sense.
That game sounds like it would be fun to play while listening to Please Don't Cut My Testicles (http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id= 18217)
To quote the prophet Jer-a-matic, one zero zero zero one zero one zero one zero one zero one...
The key here is the "executive" part. Producers are extremely involved but executive producers just lend their name and (usually) write a big ol' check.
In a way, it makes sense to base some decisions on who the producers are. For example, if I liked the movies "Attack of the $FOO" and "Revenge of the $BAR" (note, these aren't sequels) and they share an executive producer with "Night of the living $BAZ" then I'll probably like "Night of the living $BAZ".
It's kind of like buying mutual funds -- "past performance is no guarantee of future returns" but big names who win more than they lose wind up with more customers.