Even if you accept the fact that a 700mhz G4 can keep pace with a 1.4ghz Athlon ... the iMac is STILL overpriced.
That doesn't make the iMac a bad computer, but it's ridiculous to call it competitive when a machine that is faster and more powerful can be purchased for several hundred dollars less.
...and even the robotic probe missions are using what most geeks (and/. readers) would consider archaic. I mean, 16 bit processors are finally being used for many missions and 8 bit processors are still common.
You don't want 256 bit, billion gate gamma-ray lithographied GaAs processors in space.
You'd rather have something reliable whose traces will not be overwhelmed by particle bombardment in Space.
That's why NASA uses prehistoric microprocessors (when it uses any).
And commercial Clarke-Orbit communication satellite are even more "primitive": no microprocessors at all. Just discrete wired logic.
Because it's a fucking long way to press the "reset" button if the processor hangs...
(pay for the disc with the movie, pay for the decoder, pay for the displayer, pay for a chair to park your ass in while you watch it)?
Actually, until about 25-35 years ago in France, whenever you went in a park and sat on a loose chair (loose chairs were provided in the parks and squares), a lady would come and collect a minimal fee from you... At least, you had a comfortable chair your could put wherever it suited you (shade/sun). Just as whenever you went in a public loo, you'd have to pay a pittance to the dame pipi that kept the premises spotless...
To extend your analogy, you've been arrested because nose-picking is obscene, but AOL-Time Warner helped put that law into place and they can spend $15 million on lawyers and lobbying to make sure the law is proved right.
Back in 1985, in Outremont, Québec, hassidic jews (the jewish equivalent of the taliban) were offended that people would sunbathe in public parks, since the display of human flesh is prohibited by their stupid religion. So, those first-class bigoted assholes pressured the mayor, Jérôme Choquette (whose fantastic human-rights track record includes a suspension of basic human-rights in 1970, when he was minister of justice, and invoked martial law, just to scare some political opponents). He obliginly passed a bylaw prohibiting bathing-suits within the municipality, since the jews have so much money and corrupt laywers (as Choquette is) really love money. (After stunts like that, the jews wonder why everybone hate them to guts...) Anyway, the happy ending is that the bylaw did not last 6 months, it was stuck down by the provincial court as inconstitutional, as only the federal government has the power to regulate, through the criminal code, how people should dress...
To celebrate, the local newspaper had a picture of Santa-Claus in the park in question, wearing a red bathing suit with white fur edges...
In MO (and probably most states) you can opt out of having your SSN (Social Secutiry Number) from being your DL number. What if these states overlap (ie I have 666 as my ID from MO and you have 666 from IL)? Wonder who will have to pay to correct this little oversite? This is just one thing off the top of my head...
No problem. Just prepend the state postal code to the number. Voilà, problem solved!
There will simply be a blank driver's license space under your social security number.
Not really necessary. Massachussets will issue you a "non-driver's" driving license. It looks like a drivers's licence, it walks like a driver's license but doesn't quite quack like one: you can't drive with it...
I dunno, but I've been using keyboards for the most part of my waking hours for the last 23 years or so, yet I never had the slightest smidgeon of any kind of repetitive injury whatsoever.
I suppose that, ultimately, it burns down as something that psychosomatically induced????
Broadband is a tool to further our national identity.
National identity? Like there is one nation in Canada... The english are virtually undistinguishable from the yankees, they watch the same stupid TV shows, listen to the same stupid RIAA crap, except that they distrust goverment a little bit less than the yanks.
The Indians and Inuit are unfortunately left to rot and wither in their own corner* (except in Québec, where their culture and language is not only actively protected by the government, but they benefit from huge paybacks from hydroelectric power generated from their territory), and finally, the french who, at least have their own distinctive popular culture, not very compatible with the Yankee pap. Not only that, but they've been resisting for almost a quarter of a millenium all attempts the english made to turn them into english.
So, with that, how can you talk of "canadian national identity"????
* A pundit summarized canada thusly:
- Keeping the yankees out
- Keeping the french in
- Hoping that the indians will quietly vanish
I have this weird feeling that a lot of sales/CSR tactics are designed with "older" people in mind; ... I, [...] want things to be automated and efficient. (I go nuts when people in front of me at the store write checks, especially for smaller purchases. Have you heard of the ATM and debit cards yet, people?;-) )
Perhaps you need to mature somewhat and correspondingly wisen up a bit; you certaintly won't be a young punk all your life, won't you?
I really feal people need to wake up already and stop researching faster connections and research how to get more distaince for their existing speeds. I would gladly pay $50/mo for a 256k connection and a ping under 75ms. But alas, that's not available in my area.
Well, if you chose to live in the boondocks, and drive your climate-warming SUV to go get a quart of milk, you certainly can't expect to have the convenience of a high-speed connection that would be available to you if you chose instead to live in the city.
Just because you're an anglo-saxon with their typical cultural bias against city-living doesn't mean you can have your cake and eat it, too.
It's either living in the City with a high-speed connection or up the sticks without.
People who are trumpeting this victory as a "win for free speech" need to think twice and consider that there are parents out there who feel otherwise.
Perhaps those parents don't realize that free speechALSO applies to them in the form of telling their offspring NOT to play those games????
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For extra-effect, sprinkle white powder inside the enveloppe...
You'd rather have something reliable whose traces will not be overwhelmed by particle bombardment in Space.
That's why NASA uses prehistoric microprocessors (when it uses any).
And commercial Clarke-Orbit communication satellite are even more "primitive": no microprocessors at all. Just discrete wired logic.
Because it's a fucking long way to press the "reset" button if the processor hangs...
Seriously, how can be suits so brain-dead to actually believe that the people will merrily fork-over $230 per month for cable????
How can you criminalize something that can happen accidentally?
To celebrate, the local newspaper had a picture of Santa-Claus in the park in question, wearing a red bathing suit with white fur edges...
I suppose that, ultimately, it burns down as something that psychosomatically induced????
... stupid.
Who's wearing the fucking pants in your house, wimp????
The Indians and Inuit are unfortunately left to rot and wither in their own corner* (except in Québec, where their culture and language is not only actively protected by the government, but they benefit from huge paybacks from hydroelectric power generated from their territory), and finally, the french who, at least have their own distinctive popular culture, not very compatible with the Yankee pap. Not only that, but they've been resisting for almost a quarter of a millenium all attempts the english made to turn them into english.
So, with that, how can you talk of "canadian national identity"????
* A pundit summarized canada thusly:
- Keeping the yankees out
- Keeping the french in
- Hoping that the indians will quietly vanish
Like there is nothing smart about rushing.
Just because you're an anglo-saxon with their typical cultural bias against city-living doesn't mean you can have your cake and eat it, too.
It's either living in the City with a high-speed connection or up the sticks without.
When you'll master the concept of paragraphs, I'll bother reading your prose. But not tonight, dear, I have a headache.