Look, I bought a 15" MacBook Pro back in august. Im pretty thrilled with the machine. It does everything I need and then some, plenty of power, its great. But I have a trip overseas comming up and im not sure I want to lug that thing around for 2 weeks. in this case I would much rather have one of these. The thing is, I want a more full featured laptop because it is my primary computer (I prefer not to be desk bound). For me the Mac Book Pro is still the right computer but if I were a heavy traveler that could easily change the calculus.
I only travel seriously once in a while but this computer is designed for road warriors and for someone like that the.4kg makes a BIG difference because they are probably carrying the computer more often than they are using it.
For some people, sub notebooks make sense... if I were someone who had a desktop as a primary computer then I would almost certainly look at one of these for a portable.
I will admit though, the lack of firewire is disappointing. No Target disk mode makes this laptop a bit less cool than it could be.
Steve Jobs was the "Father of USB" because before the iMac came out there were not very many USB devices. When the iMac hit there was a big spike in USB devices like keyboards and mice and even *shudder* floppy drives.
I suppose on desktops there really isn't much of a reason to include firewire. Most people don't need it. Heck, most people dont have external hard drives at all, but if you do need firewire its trival to add a PCI card to get it. On a laptop its more valuable built in.
I agree with you on target disk mode, that has been so good to me over the years. Its not the sort of thing you use often but when you need it its fantastic.
See, the hand recount (actually, just a count since nobody has gone through them by hand yet) should really be mandatory, otherwise why bother at all? Sure you can announce the results based on the machine tabulation, but the count should be verified by hand... or at least by some spot checks. Don't want to do every ballot, choose a few places/boxes at random and make sure that the electronic tallies match up with the paper ballots. Sure the system could still be gamed from the inside, but at least it would be a challenge.
I agree that there really isn't evidence of tampering here (except those lost votes, which could just be incompetence).
What this really drives home for me though is that I'm never going to be able to trust these systems, even when there isn't strong evidence of tampering.
when you choose to provide your photograph to people under the CC license, you are explicitly saying that you consider it to have no monetary value.
This is the part I have trouble understanding (im certainly no expert, so maybe you can explain this to me). Lets say I take a picture and release it under a CC license that lets people use it for free for non commercial purposes Then SlimeCo come along and starts using my picture on the cover of their new product. Clearly this is a commercial use and would be in violation of the copyright.
What you are saying here though, is that, since I am giving the picture away to people for non-commercial use that it has no monetary value when licensed for commercial use. I don't understand how this follows. There is software that is available under more than one license where one costs money and another is free (with stipulations)... why is there an assumption that something that is free for non commercial use would be licensed for free for commercial use?
Trivially easy to get around though. If you wanted to smuggle a laptop bomb onto a plane you would simply take a big ass Dell Desktop replacement laptop and gut it. then you put in some very simple, small electronics that would give you enough of an illusion of being a fully functional laptop. The smallest mother board you can find (speed and advanced functionality not required. The hard drive could be replaced with a bit of flash memory, just enough to boot a small OS and put something pretty on the screen. No need for a big battery either. The rest of the case you just pack full of explosives.
It never seemed like a very good test to me... especially since everyone knows about it.
arguing about which version of D&D is less broken is like arguing over which method of suicide is best. Sure, you might reach a conclusion but, whatever you choose, its probably not a very good idea.
Maybe there is some new GURPS edition that breaks the rules up, but the last time I played, everything you needed was in one book. Character creation, combat rules, magic, psionics, gear even a mini adventure. The only reason you needed another book was if you wanted to play in someone else's campaign world or if you wanted to use special rules (like running a super heroes game or something) and even then you could build your own rules instead of using a source book if you wanted too.
the big difference is the judging and the commentary. I think Alton Brown would benefit from having a decent "play by play" guy to work with him... leaving him to just do the commentary on the dishes rather than a constant stream of talking. It tends to flow better, thats why sports broadcasts do it.
Also, I think the whole guests talking and commenting the whole time is superior to what we see in the America show, but a lot of that has to do with Japanese TV and how they tend to do things.
Everything you have said here is true, you cant stop drugs at the border, it would be hard for polititions to vote against a bill requiring this vaccine. But their are a few things that might stop this from coming to pass
For one, if your a drug warrior, this puts you out of a job.
More importantly, the drug warriors dont get to decide if everyone has to take this vaccine. They can set that policy but ultimately it will be decided in the courts and seeing as how most conservatives (who are currently setting up said courts) are opposed to mandatory HPV vaccinations in kids I think this might end up being a hard sell.
The mere idea of a vaccine elicits thoughts of universal mandatory use. You already have to show proof of vaccinations before you're admitted to any school, what's one more shot?
I believe this is exactly what started this thread. The idea that this vaccine would be mandatory. Ill freely admit that the idea of mandatory anti drug vaccines scare me. That said, there is no reason for this vaccine to be mandatory. With an anti-pathogen vaccine you want the population to be vaccinated so that the pathogen doesn't have any hosts to survive in, but drug use doesn't work that way and there would be no justification for it.
That said, it doest worry me a bit that kids will be given this without choice or that such things might be used as punitive measures against non violent drug offenders. But I do see some good that could come out of the development of such vaccines so I will save my ire for the first time anyone suggests giving this to someone involuntarily.
you know, I was thinking about traveling with my tool kit this summer (well, part of it, just the saw and drill and extra batteries). I'm fairly sure its not lithium since they now sell the same tools with lithium batteries... but will a TSA agent know this?
I can understand the "no ckecked batteries" part of this but the restrictions on carry on batteries could be a real issue for some people. Im going to japan in a few months and I would like to bring at least one extra laptop battery just for the flight. Im not even a battery heavy traveler like a photographer might be.
But you eventually run out of space to put the trees and you cant cut down old trees without letting out the CO2 (either by burning or by decay over time) though people have talked about sequestering carbon in trees which are cut down and shipped to the poles where it is too cold for them to decay, but I imagine the carbon foot print of the shipping would make that impractical.
I'm not sure trees are a good example here though because they take a long time to grow, but the same argument is made for bio diesel, that every years crop is turned into CO2 that is consumed by the next years crop.
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Look, I bought a 15" MacBook Pro back in august. Im pretty thrilled with the machine. It does everything I need and then some, plenty of power, its great. But I have a trip overseas comming up and im not sure I want to lug that thing around for 2 weeks. in this case I would much rather have one of these. The thing is, I want a more full featured laptop because it is my primary computer (I prefer not to be desk bound). For me the Mac Book Pro is still the right computer but if I were a heavy traveler that could easily change the calculus.
I only travel seriously once in a while but this computer is designed for road warriors and for someone like that the
For some people, sub notebooks make sense... if I were someone who had a desktop as a primary computer then I would almost certainly look at one of these for a portable.
I will admit though, the lack of firewire is disappointing. No Target disk mode makes this laptop a bit less cool than it could be.
Steve Jobs was the "Father of USB" because before the iMac came out there were not very many USB devices. When the iMac hit there was a big spike in USB devices like keyboards and mice and even *shudder* floppy drives.
I suppose on desktops there really isn't much of a reason to include firewire. Most people don't need it. Heck, most people dont have external hard drives at all, but if you do need firewire its trival to add a PCI card to get it. On a laptop its more valuable built in.
I agree with you on target disk mode, that has been so good to me over the years. Its not the sort of thing you use often but when you need it its fantastic.
Sure, like your "anti-matter credits" are going to do anything to help.
See, the hand recount (actually, just a count since nobody has gone through them by hand yet) should really be mandatory, otherwise why bother at all? Sure you can announce the results based on the machine tabulation, but the count should be verified by hand... or at least by some spot checks. Don't want to do every ballot, choose a few places/boxes at random and make sure that the electronic tallies match up with the paper ballots. Sure the system could still be gamed from the inside, but at least it would be a challenge.
I agree that there really isn't evidence of tampering here (except those lost votes, which could just be incompetence).
What this really drives home for me though is that I'm never going to be able to trust these systems, even when there isn't strong evidence of tampering.
when you choose to provide your photograph to people under the CC license, you are explicitly saying that you consider it to have no monetary value.
This is the part I have trouble understanding (im certainly no expert, so maybe you can explain this to me). Lets say I take a picture and release it under a CC license that lets people use it for free for non commercial purposes Then SlimeCo come along and starts using my picture on the cover of their new product. Clearly this is a commercial use and would be in violation of the copyright.
What you are saying here though, is that, since I am giving the picture away to people for non-commercial use that it has no monetary value when licensed for commercial use. I don't understand how this follows. There is software that is available under more than one license where one costs money and another is free (with stipulations)... why is there an assumption that something that is free for non commercial use would be licensed for free for commercial use?
Don't forget the added "benefit" that now people are extra scared of vaccines because of all of this.
Trivially easy to get around though. If you wanted to smuggle a laptop bomb onto a plane you would simply take a big ass Dell Desktop replacement laptop and gut it. then you put in some very simple, small electronics that would give you enough of an illusion of being a fully functional laptop. The smallest mother board you can find (speed and advanced functionality not required. The hard drive could be replaced with a bit of flash memory, just enough to boot a small OS and put something pretty on the screen. No need for a big battery either. The rest of the case you just pack full of explosives.
It never seemed like a very good test to me... especially since everyone knows about it.
arguing about which version of D&D is less broken is like arguing over which method of suicide is best. Sure, you might reach a conclusion but, whatever you choose, its probably not a very good idea.
Maybe there is some new GURPS edition that breaks the rules up, but the last time I played, everything you needed was in one book. Character creation, combat rules, magic, psionics, gear even a mini adventure. The only reason you needed another book was if you wanted to play in someone else's campaign world or if you wanted to use special rules (like running a super heroes game or something) and even then you could build your own rules instead of using a source book if you wanted too.
the big difference is the judging and the commentary. I think Alton Brown would benefit from having a decent "play by play" guy to work with him... leaving him to just do the commentary on the dishes rather than a constant stream of talking. It tends to flow better, thats why sports broadcasts do it.
Also, I think the whole guests talking and commenting the whole time is superior to what we see in the America show, but a lot of that has to do with Japanese TV and how they tend to do things.
but, what if this is a simulation of a simulation.
This is just like playing virtual ski ball!
Everything you have said here is true, you cant stop drugs at the border, it would be hard for polititions to vote against a bill requiring this vaccine. But their are a few things that might stop this from coming to pass
For one, if your a drug warrior, this puts you out of a job.
More importantly, the drug warriors dont get to decide if everyone has to take this vaccine. They can set that policy but ultimately it will be decided in the courts and seeing as how most conservatives (who are currently setting up said courts) are opposed to mandatory HPV vaccinations in kids I think this might end up being a hard sell.
is playing WMA files considered a desirable feature in a portable music player?
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The mere idea of a vaccine elicits thoughts of universal mandatory use. You already have to show proof of vaccinations before you're admitted to any school, what's one more shot?
I believe this is exactly what started this thread. The idea that this vaccine would be mandatory. Ill freely admit that the idea of mandatory anti drug vaccines scare me. That said, there is no reason for this vaccine to be mandatory. With an anti-pathogen vaccine you want the population to be vaccinated so that the pathogen doesn't have any hosts to survive in, but drug use doesn't work that way and there would be no justification for it.
That said, it doest worry me a bit that kids will be given this without choice or that such things might be used as punitive measures against non violent drug offenders. But I do see some good that could come out of the development of such vaccines so I will save my ire for the first time anyone suggests giving this to someone involuntarily.
you know, I was thinking about traveling with my tool kit this summer (well, part of it, just the saw and drill and extra batteries). I'm fairly sure its not lithium since they now sell the same tools with lithium batteries... but will a TSA agent know this?
I can understand the "no ckecked batteries" part of this but the restrictions on carry on batteries could be a real issue for some people. Im going to japan in a few months and I would like to bring at least one extra laptop battery just for the flight. Im not even a battery heavy traveler like a photographer might be.
If your going that slow you, and everyone around you, is already fucked.
But damn that gridlock sure is a bitch on the legs.
your right, that joke is funnier.
Whats the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?
Ones a flaming Nazi gasbag and the other is a dirigible.
But you eventually run out of space to put the trees and you cant cut down old trees without letting out the CO2 (either by burning or by decay over time) though people have talked about sequestering carbon in trees which are cut down and shipped to the poles where it is too cold for them to decay, but I imagine the carbon foot print of the shipping would make that impractical.
I'm not sure trees are a good example here though because they take a long time to grow, but the same argument is made for bio diesel, that every years crop is turned into CO2 that is consumed by the next years crop.
What kind of half-baked value system do you employ when you decide who is cool by what OS they use?
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Yea man, everyone knows you decide who is cool by what kind of car they drive.
OS... please, thats not cool at all
was he deaf, dumb, and blind?