And they have been able to twist the "healthcare" debate into a discussion about government taking away "freedoms"... while this is going on under their noses.
We've got a lot of people here in the US right now that are running after not only RED herrings, but blue, pink, orange and red pokadotted herrings as well.
But maybe not more music than you can afford to download for music games. At least that has been my experience. And, furthermore, the drivers are part of the games themselves, so the old ones will never be able to access more than the 2Gb for the old type SD cards (though some 4gb non HD type cards work).
Of course, the hard drive isn't going to help the old games. So you have me there.
It looks like no one has even mentioned the biggest problem I have with the Wii (a console a otherwise love): no hard drive.
Of course, I don't think this would be a massive hardware change for it. Homebrewers are already putting hard drives on it. Maybe they release a Wii 2.0 with hard drive?
Based on the media I have seen, Haiti's cell and land line phone infrastructure went down as well as all their other media with the exception of many Internet Protocol connections. Almost all the communications we are seeing in the media are internet media.
It reminds me of the old joke that the whole airplane should be made of the same material as the black box recorder. What is the difference between their Internet infrastructure and all their other communications? Maybe they ought to rebuild their new communications in the same way?
I think the only MST3K episodes that were broadcast in the UK (depending on how you mean that term) were on the Sci Fi Channel's international channels.
As for the Starlost, I am not sure what you mean by "annoying kids." There weren't any kids in that series that remember. Harlan Ellison wrote the book for the series and he disowned it early on because his ideas were basically ripped apart during development. It still has good concepts.
The only show I could really get behind a reboot (even after the successful reboots lately) would be the Starlost. And the reason for that is that it didn't have a proper chance the first go round.
Get Ellison behind it for real and it would be a great show.
I don't agree that kids in the suburbs aren't exposed to an "anti-education" culture. It might not be a pervasive there (not to mention as pervasive in the adults there; inner city parents have a horrible anti-education attitude), but they are exposed to it through their peers. It's a society-wide problem in the U.S. It's easy to see when you compare it to Japan. If you read some translated Manga, you can see that the girls actually are interested in boys with good grades there, not just the big dumb jock.
Anyway, people have to want to learn. The drive isn't there any more for a good number of people in the U.S.
During the summer I work around many education majors, and I can tell you that teachers are not being taught anything about technology in teaching programs. Most times they have less technical skills than your average college students. They can't work their ipods or simple digital cameras and they often have trouble using basic web sites to fill in web forms. It's all anecdotal, but I see the same thing year after year and I've seen it even going back to my own teachers in the 1980s.
Anyway, I am apt to agree with other comments in this thread. I am for tech in the classroom, but it's not going to do any good with the teachers we are putting out in the field. The best and brightest don't go into elementary education, and right now the jobs aren't there. We need tech education for our kids to succeed, but there will have to be some other fundamental fixes made before that curriculum is even possible.
I know I am going to get blasted for this around here, but the Wii is MUCH more important that either the XBox360 or the PS3. It didn't do everything "right" (no hard drive was a bad decision), but it finally a console that isn't for the hardcore gamer. Not everyone feels the need to play a state of the art first person shooter, but there are quite a lot of people who like to sit down for the occasional party game or session of Guitar Hero. I think a lot of the long time, hard core gamers hate it that the plebeians are starting to walk on their turf.
In Indiana, Most of our Arrow lights are in this configuration or they are part of their own turn lane. Again, if you mistake what the light means you aren't paying attention because the placement of the light itself means something.
At any rate, most of the comments are spot on. If a driver is paying attention the the situation then they should be okay unless they are a total newby to the area or they are in a state of panic.
I agree there are those slashdotters who believe so much in Free software they want the for profits to fail. Not everyone, though.
There are many for profits I hope succeed. I want the bad ones (and there are MANY types of bad companies) to fail. I also want companies to play fairly and not use sticks like "intellectual property" to shut other (usually smaller) businesses and individuals down.
I believe that for applications that many, many people use (OS, Office, web technologies, etc) Free software is the way to go because it is OPEN and it allows everyone to interact. There are many pieces of software that are more limited (like for a small specific industry) that wouldn't get built if it wasn't for For Profit companies because it takes a lot of interest to get an Open Source product off the ground and a big pool of potential users and developers. There has to be motivation somewhere. I think Linux works because of a huge amount of interest and people that need it. I think if you are one of 5 businesses in the world that make a certain type of widget, however, then you are not going to get Open Source to help you on your very specific software need and that's a good fit for a for profit company.
One of my many angers when it comes to others and their lack of knowledge about traffic laws is this.
Luckily, where I live now they seem to understand the four-way stop law. However, in Indianapolis if a traffic light goes out everyone seems to think that the "larger road" has the right of way. Try to follow the law and you get flipped off almost instantly.
One of the most basic emergency rules and no one there can seem to remember it.
I work at a medium size non-profit, and a couple of years ago I tried to get all of us to change to oo.org. I still use it for all my own use instead of ms office but everyone else rebelled and I had to drop it as an idea.
Like I said, it's been a couple of years now, and when we tried it what basically killed the whole thing is its problem doing mail merges. Arguably it had a BETTER interface to databases than any office product, but the problem is that everyone here has no technical inclination except for me and it requires thought. Plus back in version 2 it was buggy and it wouldn't match up formatting correctly. At lot of the research I did at the time pretty much seemed to indicate that the oo.org staff didn't care much about getting mail merges to work and it wasn't much a priority.
Maybe someone here can bring me up to date on any progress in this area. I hope that at some point oo.org can provide a really simple mail merge "wizard" (I hate that term) that works with spreadsheets that the plebeians can understand along with a database interface that can give programs like Crystal Reports a run for its money...
> If your name is on a no-fly list, you send a different guy who's name is not on the list.
Same thing goes for profiling. Not checking grannies at the airport gate because they aren't a threat? Guess what... find a granny to radicalize and send HER! We're in a never ending race to oneup each other now.
But 1) they *are* dumb and 2) we *are* foolish. At least in some sense of the word. The people performing these acts are suicidal cultists and by definition *are* deranged and the people trying to get more power by making them out to be Ian Flemming-like masterminds are foolish.
My thinking went this way about 3-4 years ago. After hearing a poor single mom on CNN upset and claiming her biggest fear in life was terrorism, I started to believe that any time a regular citizen has to even THINK about terrorism it is a tiny failure in government. It's like like worrying about other murders or your car being stolen is a failure in government. They are supposed to be there to protect your person. The fact that government has to harp on it's constantly to gain power is BIG failure of government, and our gullibility when it comes to terrorism is a failure in ourselves as a nation.
Believe it. There is no other way for a moron like John Bolton can gain power. Only by making people afraid of some boogieman or some sort.
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And they have been able to twist the "healthcare" debate into a discussion about government taking away "freedoms"... while this is going on under their noses.
We've got a lot of people here in the US right now that are running after not only RED herrings, but blue, pink, orange and red pokadotted herrings as well.
But maybe not more music than you can afford to download for music games. At least that has been my experience. And, furthermore, the drivers are part of the games themselves, so the old ones will never be able to access more than the 2Gb for the old type SD cards (though some 4gb non HD type cards work).
Of course, the hard drive isn't going to help the old games. So you have me there.
It looks like no one has even mentioned the biggest problem I have with the Wii (a console a otherwise love): no hard drive.
Of course, I don't think this would be a massive hardware change for it. Homebrewers are already putting hard drives on it. Maybe they release a Wii 2.0 with hard drive?
Based on the media I have seen, Haiti's cell and land line phone infrastructure went down as well as all their other media with the exception of many Internet Protocol connections. Almost all the communications we are seeing in the media are internet media.
It reminds me of the old joke that the whole airplane should be made of the same material as the black box recorder. What is the difference between their Internet infrastructure and all their other communications? Maybe they ought to rebuild their new communications in the same way?
One of the main goals of corporations is to make sure owners, stockholders, and employees don't have personal liability. Who do you put in jail?
We're still in the age of no personal accountability due to the last administration. I don't see Obama doing all that much to untie that knot.
Sing "If I only had a brain," strawman.
I think the only MST3K episodes that were broadcast in the UK (depending on how you mean that term) were on the Sci Fi Channel's international channels.
As for the Starlost, I am not sure what you mean by "annoying kids." There weren't any kids in that series that remember. Harlan Ellison wrote the book for the series and he disowned it early on because his ideas were basically ripped apart during development. It still has good concepts.
the MIDDLE one.
The only show I could really get behind a reboot (even after the successful reboots lately) would be the Starlost. And the reason for that is that it didn't have a proper chance the first go round.
Get Ellison behind it for real and it would be a great show.
> You should specify "windows server 2011R4".
Make sure they have 4 years experience in "windows server 2011R4" too.
I don't agree that kids in the suburbs aren't exposed to an "anti-education" culture. It might not be a pervasive there (not to mention as pervasive in the adults there; inner city parents have a horrible anti-education attitude), but they are exposed to it through their peers. It's a society-wide problem in the U.S. It's easy to see when you compare it to Japan. If you read some translated Manga, you can see that the girls actually are interested in boys with good grades there, not just the big dumb jock.
Anyway, people have to want to learn. The drive isn't there any more for a good number of people in the U.S.
During the summer I work around many education majors, and I can tell you that teachers are not being taught anything about technology in teaching programs. Most times they have less technical skills than your average college students. They can't work their ipods or simple digital cameras and they often have trouble using basic web sites to fill in web forms. It's all anecdotal, but I see the same thing year after year and I've seen it even going back to my own teachers in the 1980s.
Anyway, I am apt to agree with other comments in this thread. I am for tech in the classroom, but it's not going to do any good with the teachers we are putting out in the field. The best and brightest don't go into elementary education, and right now the jobs aren't there. We need tech education for our kids to succeed, but there will have to be some other fundamental fixes made before that curriculum is even possible.
I know I am going to get blasted for this around here, but the Wii is MUCH more important that either the XBox360 or the PS3. It didn't do everything "right" (no hard drive was a bad decision), but it finally a console that isn't for the hardcore gamer. Not everyone feels the need to play a state of the art first person shooter, but there are quite a lot of people who like to sit down for the occasional party game or session of Guitar Hero. I think a lot of the long time, hard core gamers hate it that the plebeians are starting to walk on their turf.
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we're not that good at creative problem solving in this country. It's got to be a high tech solution, you know...
Wrong. Their lives are important. They're trying to make sure they don't miss the start of "Lost" or "The Biggest Loser."
In Indiana, Most of our Arrow lights are in this configuration or they are part of their own turn lane. Again, if you mistake what the light means you aren't paying attention because the placement of the light itself means something.
At any rate, most of the comments are spot on. If a driver is paying attention the the situation then they should be okay unless they are a total newby to the area or they are in a state of panic.
Usually in the case of 4 cars, the hand signs involve the use of one finger.
I agree there are those slashdotters who believe so much in Free software they want the for profits to fail. Not everyone, though.
There are many for profits I hope succeed. I want the bad ones (and there are MANY types of bad companies) to fail. I also want companies to play fairly and not use sticks like "intellectual property" to shut other (usually smaller) businesses and individuals down.
I believe that for applications that many, many people use (OS, Office, web technologies, etc) Free software is the way to go because it is OPEN and it allows everyone to interact. There are many pieces of software that are more limited (like for a small specific industry) that wouldn't get built if it wasn't for For Profit companies because it takes a lot of interest to get an Open Source product off the ground and a big pool of potential users and developers. There has to be motivation somewhere. I think Linux works because of a huge amount of interest and people that need it. I think if you are one of 5 businesses in the world that make a certain type of widget, however, then you are not going to get Open Source to help you on your very specific software need and that's a good fit for a for profit company.
One of my many angers when it comes to others and their lack of knowledge about traffic laws is this.
Luckily, where I live now they seem to understand the four-way stop law. However, in Indianapolis if a traffic light goes out everyone seems to think that the "larger road" has the right of way. Try to follow the law and you get flipped off almost instantly.
One of the most basic emergency rules and no one there can seem to remember it.
I work at a medium size non-profit, and a couple of years ago I tried to get all of us to change to oo.org. I still use it for all my own use instead of ms office but everyone else rebelled and I had to drop it as an idea.
Like I said, it's been a couple of years now, and when we tried it what basically killed the whole thing is its problem doing mail merges. Arguably it had a BETTER interface to databases than any office product, but the problem is that everyone here has no technical inclination except for me and it requires thought. Plus back in version 2 it was buggy and it wouldn't match up formatting correctly. At lot of the research I did at the time pretty much seemed to indicate that the oo.org staff didn't care much about getting mail merges to work and it wasn't much a priority.
Maybe someone here can bring me up to date on any progress in this area. I hope that at some point oo.org can provide a really simple mail merge "wizard" (I hate that term) that works with spreadsheets that the plebeians can understand along with a database interface that can give programs like Crystal Reports a run for its money...
> If your name is on a no-fly list, you send a different guy who's name is not on the list.
Same thing goes for profiling. Not checking grannies at the airport gate because they aren't a threat? Guess what... find a granny to radicalize and send HER! We're in a never ending race to oneup each other now.
But 1) they *are* dumb and 2) we *are* foolish. At least in some sense of the word. The people performing these acts are suicidal cultists and by definition *are* deranged and the people trying to get more power by making them out to be Ian Flemming-like masterminds are foolish.
My thinking went this way about 3-4 years ago. After hearing a poor single mom on CNN upset and claiming her biggest fear in life was terrorism, I started to believe that any time a regular citizen has to even THINK about terrorism it is a tiny failure in government. It's like like worrying about other murders or your car being stolen is a failure in government. They are supposed to be there to protect your person. The fact that government has to harp on it's constantly to gain power is BIG failure of government, and our gullibility when it comes to terrorism is a failure in ourselves as a nation.
Believe it. There is no other way for a moron like John Bolton can gain power. Only by making people afraid of some boogieman or some sort.
I was going to complain about the CEO worship. But the parent pretty much explains it.
And sometimes bad programming can result in death as well!