yet you won't see the government razing those neighborhoods and starting anew, would you?
Actually, that happens all the time, and has since the rise of the city.
Take a look at the history of 'Urban Renewal' and the era when the government would come in and raze entire business districts. For a specific example, look at the 'cleanup' Gateway District in Minneapolis in about 1959. (yes! sweet nice liberal Minneapolis!) Hell, just look at how Barbara Carlson successfully campaigned to eliminate the Hennepin Avenue strip in the early 80's.
And those are instances in a nice cushy 'free' country.
A 'harden the borders' approach can solve many problems. Problem with Illegal aliens working in your country and siphoning the money home to their families? Catch the wire transfers going across the border!
Unfortuntely, that is also known as protectionism, and it wrecks havoc on the ability of companies to globalize.
Oh noes! How will we remain buzzword compliant?
And for me? How will I sell vintage microcontrollers to geeks in Japan??
(the answer, of course, for me personally is PayPal)
Actually, Tetris is a very 'Soviet' type of game. You struggle to keep up, until you fail. How long you can last before you fail is how you are scored.
In this dude's honor, I just brought up Gnu Emacs and played a game of tetris.
That sounds like what Intel did earlier with the 486SX chips. If the math unit didn't work, shovel it out as a crippled chip. In that era many people just used the 486 as a super-fast-8088 to run DOS on anyway.
The thing I like is these 2, 3, 4, 6 combinations make it clear that symmetry has nothing at all to do with the metric system. Now, if Intel subscribed to SI standards, they'd have to release a single core, then release nothing more until they were ready to release a 10 core part.
That depends a lot on how you define 'not as good.'
There is so little being produced on television that I would want to watch that it's irrelevant to me. Maybe in a decade or so there will be enough _good_ HD content to make it worth the investment. For now, I'll let the 'early adopters' subsidize development.
Well, ideally this can be used as 'the camel's nose in the tent' to force Microsoft to open up the Silverfish, er.. Silverlight protocols. It seems like a perfect instance where interoperability should be required. With that as a requirement, it seems like an excellent idea for the LOC to accept free kiosks with, er... Vista on them. (They can always be upgraded to a better OS once they're in place.)
A virtue of the U.S. government is that that one person only sits atop one section of a three-part government.
A lot of the action takes place in other spheres of government, and there are MANY different types of people elected to seats in those spheres of government.
The vast majority of Americans are neither Democratic nor Republicans.
The real problem is that there isn't a 'none of the above' choice to make, that takes a proportionate amount of political power away from whomever wins. If people who chose not to vote were empowered enough, maybe almost NOBODY would vote. Washington D.C. could have a lot more park land and museums then.
the American public is far to ignorant, self absorbed and lazy to elect any meaningful leaders.
Or: (and here is an alternative that grates political junkies of all stripes and colors to hear)
The American public is far too enamored with the idea, as espoused by our country's founders, that a weak and less-than dominating governmental structure is the ideal.
Granted, the government clearly isn't weak enough, because they wreck all kinds of havoc within and outside our borders. But the very notion that the government should exist as a powerful body to 'fix' all sorts of things (issues of the economy, etc.) is foreign to 'the American Experiment' as envisioned by those who set things up.
Possibly there shouldn't BE any meaningful leaders.
The only jury I almost sat on, the prosecution drummed me out because it was a black defendent in a gang killing, and I had been a political activist about a half decade before. They didn't want me when the truth came out about anti-klan demos I had attended, etc. The defendent smiled and gave me a 'thumbs up' as I was dismissed. A little unnerving.
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Two police agent decoys have entrapped each other.
(and the handcuff party a few days later gets kinky)
yet you won't see the government razing those neighborhoods and starting anew, would you?
Actually, that happens all the time, and has since the rise of the city.
Take a look at the history of 'Urban Renewal' and the era when the government would come in and raze entire business districts. For a specific example, look at the 'cleanup' Gateway District in Minneapolis in about 1959. (yes! sweet nice liberal Minneapolis!) Hell, just look at how Barbara Carlson successfully campaigned to eliminate the Hennepin Avenue strip in the early 80's.
And those are instances in a nice cushy 'free' country.
A 'harden the borders' approach can solve many problems. Problem with Illegal aliens working in your country and siphoning the money home to their families? Catch the wire transfers going across the border!
Unfortuntely, that is also known as protectionism, and it wrecks havoc on the ability of companies to globalize.
Oh noes! How will we remain buzzword compliant?
And for me? How will I sell vintage microcontrollers to geeks in Japan??
(the answer, of course, for me personally is PayPal)
Guy who wrote a trilogy of computer science algorithm standards.
See, you already blew it. Knuth is an IBM 650 hacker.
However, sometimes you just need good hype.
I was wondering when somebody was going to bring that up, re: "Programming Superstars."
There aren't any. Just people who work hard at something that they're good at.
All the rest is hype.
I am not saying this as an apologist for Microsoft, but software is not established in FACT as successful by court edict.
I am one of the only people I know who purchased and tried BeOS.
Wasn't that OS produced by a failed hardware company, BTW?
I agree that it was really neat, and in some artificial universe where there was no already-established software line, it might have succeeded.
What I remember is bringing it up, thinking it was really cool, then going online and trying to find software to run on it. . . . . .
Actually, Tetris is a very 'Soviet' type of game. You struggle to keep up, until you fail. How long you can last before you fail is how you are scored.
In this dude's honor, I just brought up Gnu Emacs and played a game of tetris.
It works well enough for the Grandes Écoles in France, why wouldn't it work in the US?
You can't snapshot. You have to look at the total picture of a National Economy.
Is France doing well?
Yes, but can it dim the lights in the room when you turn it on, like my SparcServer 1000 with only half it's possible number of CPUs (4) installed?
Also, nobody needs more than 640K.
That sounds like what Intel did earlier with the 486SX chips. If the math unit didn't work, shovel it out as a crippled chip. In that era many people just used the 486 as a super-fast-8088 to run DOS on anyway.
The thing I like is these 2, 3, 4, 6 combinations make it clear that symmetry has nothing at all to do with the metric system. Now, if Intel subscribed to SI standards, they'd have to release a single core, then release nothing more until they were ready to release a 10 core part.
That depends a lot on how you define 'not as good.'
There is so little being produced on television that I would want to watch that it's irrelevant to me. Maybe in a decade or so there will be enough _good_ HD content to make it worth the investment. For now, I'll let the 'early adopters' subsidize development.
I call bullshit. I just went to that link and this machine I use for web viewing is a flash unsupported platform. The page looks perfectly good.
Okay, okay. So there's a vapourware release for non-Windows platforms.
That should suffice.
Err...
Silverlight and Flash are both in the 'bad' column. It was good of you to remind us.
Well, ideally this can be used as 'the camel's nose in the tent' to force Microsoft to open up the Silverfish, er.. Silverlight protocols. It seems like a perfect instance where interoperability should be required. With that as a requirement, it seems like an excellent idea for the LOC to accept free kiosks with, er... Vista on them. (They can always be upgraded to a better OS once they're in place.)
I can't afford the hardware dongle.
I have NeXTStep for PA-RISC, but don't have a monitor or keyboard for my PA-RISC box... oh well.
Open Source is a process where the source is open, and people can join projects, contribute to them, etc.
Not a process where companies issue forth 'snapshot' source tarballs that nobody ever does anything with.
A virtue of the U.S. government is that that one person only sits atop one section of a three-part government.
A lot of the action takes place in other spheres of government, and there are MANY different types of people elected to seats in those spheres of government.
You spelled McChimpyBushaliburton wrong, moron.
The vast majority of Americans are neither Democratic nor Republicans.
The real problem is that there isn't a 'none of the above' choice to make, that takes a proportionate amount of political power away from whomever wins. If people who chose not to vote were empowered enough, maybe almost NOBODY would vote. Washington D.C. could have a lot more park land and museums then.
the American public is far to ignorant, self absorbed and lazy to elect any meaningful leaders.
Or: (and here is an alternative that grates political junkies of all stripes and colors to hear)
The American public is far too enamored with the idea, as espoused by our country's founders, that a weak and less-than dominating governmental structure is the ideal.
Granted, the government clearly isn't weak enough, because they wreck all kinds of havoc within and outside our borders. But the very notion that the government should exist as a powerful body to 'fix' all sorts of things (issues of the economy, etc.) is foreign to 'the American Experiment' as envisioned by those who set things up.
Possibly there shouldn't BE any meaningful leaders.
At the Apple Store the term is used to describe employees who are smarter about computers than the rest of the employees.
I know, I know....
The only jury I almost sat on, the prosecution drummed me out because it was a black defendent in a gang killing, and I had been a political activist about a half decade before. They didn't want me when the truth came out about anti-klan demos I had attended, etc. The defendent smiled and gave me a 'thumbs up' as I was dismissed. A little unnerving.