If you don't live there... well... how are you a citizen?
You traveling around the world, not in touch with who or what you are voting for? Sorry... go vote in that other countrie's election if they will let you.
And yes... I mean that for the soldiers "fighting for democracy" somewhere out there too.
So our soldiers lose their citizenship if, THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN, they are deployed abroad?
You are correct that citizenship is the requirement for a voter, and the only acceptable one at that, but citizenship should not be so easy to lose. It could stand to be harder to gain, however.
I don't know about IQ, I think that measure is too flawed to be a useful metric. I also wouldn't deny anyone who maintains their citizenship the right to vote. I would, however, love to see us give the citizenship test to American born people during their 17th year. Make it mandatory.
From Massachusetts, I have found little hate for Clinton. The strongest Clinton hater I have known, (a man who said that Clinton was only impeached for what he was because it was felt that getting him convicted of high treason would have been too bad for national morale) has mellowed his opinion of Clinton, in response to more information gleaned after the fact. On the other hand, I don't personally know anyone who has suggested that Bush doesn't deserve to be hanged for treason, along with a handful of his cronies.
I hear those Vietnamese were pretty bowled over by the US army. Just like the Iraqis. I also hear that Afghanistan is part of Russia. Further back, you may recall how the English retained their control over the US, the French crown was eventually overthrown by German invasion, and the French were never kicked out of Vietnam. Even further back, if you're interested, you might be interested in the methods of warfare used by the Scots to great effect against Edward I of England, and how Charles I of England crushed Oliver Cromwell.
And good is?
But seriously, differentiate between religion and philosophy. If you want to suggest that Utilitarian values MUST apply or we must be religious, there a large number of atheist philosophers who would like to argue with you. They go back centuries.
And you should have to?
Fine, but no more insuring people who have sex as teenagers, cause they are much more likely to have failed at using protection at least once, and thus far more likely to have the evil AIDS.
And no more insuring people who drive sports cars when they could drive much safer tanks, thus protecting their valuable organs in the event of a crash. Hell, no more insuring people who drive when taking the train is an option, because driving increases your risk of serious injury.
And why not create surcharges for people who wear shoes that are bad for their backs, or sit in chairs that aren't good for their posture, or choose to move furniture and climb ladders themselves, instead of hiring trained professionals?
You say "good genes". I say: "bad math". Body fat is subject to the universal laws of thermodynamics. If you decrease your calorie consumption, you will have less energy left over to store as fat....
Which has no bearing on all those other genetic potential failings. Does have a genetic pre-disposition to heart disease, or cancer, or vision problems, or anything else that might cost money to take care of, make you a drain on the system, and does it give me, with my good genes, the right to demand a lower premium than you, since I am less of a risk? Or the right to refuse to subsidize your clearly substandard life with my tax dollars?
This idea is, to me, too unpleasant to contemplate further.
You know, probably 90% of all work done on computers is done in one either in a basic office app, (like Word, Excel, or Powerpoint), a browser (like Firefox, IE), an email and scheduling program (like Outlook/Notes), or a frontend for a server side app. That goes double for the in-browser apps. Not that there's anything wrong with the heavy desktop publishing stuff, but netbooks have nothing to do with playing, and if anything, I think it more likely that workplaces like mine will graduate to them then that users will graduate from them. After all, the hardware required to do Photoshop and heavy desktop publishing is mostly wasted on office apps, and is very expensive.
Oh, and please don't talk about professional quality software. Professional quality software means nothing to me. I'm a professional, is the software I use "Professional Quality"? Some of it is downright crap, but I use it because changing now would be very difficult. Some of it is awesome. There is no correlation between profitability of the producer and quality of the software.
That is the one part of the MSI Wind that bothers me, actually: the Windows model is the one with more RAM and Bluetooth, and since integrated Bluetooth is important to me, I'm going to buy that one. OTOH, I will probably leave WinXP on there, for Diablo II related purposes, so it isn't that bad.
If my hand's were a bit smaller, and it were more available and less expensive, I would be getting a EEE 901 Linux. We'll just have to see what the launch price is.
Which, to my mind, is kind of annoying. I would dearly like to see ISOs for the MSI Wind that I plan on buying, or the eeePC that my wife might wind up getting.
For the same reason people care about the 1st, 4th, etc. In fact, it has been argued that the Amendments are listed in order of importance. The people who defend the 2nd so vehemently do so because they perceive it to be most under attack, or least understood by the populace. I would suggest that there is still a great deal of regional variation on that one however.
There are many restrictions that can be reasonably placed on guns. There are many restrictions that can be reasonably placed on ANY item which, under normal operation, comes with some risk of harm to others. See automobiles, aircraft, transmitters (over all portions of the spectrum), explosives, and bladed implements for some examples. In theory, we restrict to increase the utility/risk ratio, trying to reduce risk without overly hampering utility. Gun defenders (of whom I am one) are arguing that guns are being overly restricted relative to other things, for psychological reasons. The degree to which they are correct is a matter of personal opinion. I would suggest that any device which by it's nature presents increased harm/risk of harm to innocent people merits at least some amount of regulation and restriction.
Ah, the glorious projector strikes again. My screen is over the fireplace, but it disappears into the ceiling when not in use, and costs far less than the image source, which is safely across the room. Plus, the screen is less sensitive to things like heat, lighter (weight, not lumens), and more than six feet in the diagonal.
Price / Performance is always king, but performance is measured by many different metrics, and there are cutoff points.
My car costs 25k and has 250hp
Your car costs 25k and has 150hp
You feel you got a better deal on your car than I did. How?
Because your car handles better, or gets better gas mileage, or carries more people, or can drive through rivers, or the top folds down, or it's just more comfortable inside, and you care more about whatever those features are. I clearly cared more about horsepower. Different metrics of performance.
Beyond that, there are cutoff points:
A car that costs 1$, but has 5hp clearly has a better performance/dollar than a car that costs 25 thousand times as many dollars, and only has 50 times as much horsepower. Thing is, if 5hp isn't enough for what I want, I don't care. At all.
In laptops, and other machines where battery life and weight are concerns, SSDs are becoming popular relatively rapidly. In desktops, where more gigs for less dollars is usually the cry, SSDs are useless. In servers requiring extremely high random access and transfer rates, RAM drives are popular, despite being hideously expensive per gig and requiring constant electricity. SSDs don't even come close to what those machines need in terms of drive performance. It's always about choosing between the options that meet your needs, and that choice is always made in terms of best performance in relevant areas for least dollars.
(One final thought: Consumer expectation is still a metric of performance. Some people have good or bad expectations of a brand, and that dives the price they are willing to pay up or down.)
I hate to say this, but that's horse dung. There are tons of places where SSD flash drives are in fact the norm. It's just that in all of those places things like Watts, BTUs, and Ounces are more important that Gigs. Thing is, the faster networks get, and the easier having a home fileserver becomes, the more that laptops become one of those places. Seagate can prognosticate that far in the future. They just want the changeover to come as slowly as possible, so that they can get every last dollar out of their existing investments in platter-based magnetic storage devices. Are you shocked? I for one, am not shocked.
Have you considered increasing the font size? I find the extra resolution to be essential for things like preferences windows and dialog boxes, which are rarely scrollable/resizable and often taller than even 600 pixels, much less 480.
The three biggest complaints leveled at the EEEPC were undersized screen, inadequate storage, and undersized keyboard. The first two of those things can only be fixed by adding $. Go figure.
Personally, the MSI Wind is likely to be what my wife gets in a week. She really needs something that can fit in a large purse or small backpack, isn't that fragile, and doesn't weigh much. She doesn't need (or even really want) an optical drive, or a big hard drive, or a good video card, or a ton of storage. If it can run linux, will let her get on the intarwebz to do browsing and email, and some document creation, and maybe play some Diablo, she's all set.
But copyrighted works that don't bring in revenue, like abandonware, are some of the works it would be best to have in the public domain. And if the cost is a mere.0001% of the total revenue of the entity holding the copyright, then a newspaper, which might have individual copyrights on hundreds of millions of articles, would end up paying several hundred times it's annual revenue to maintain a copyright for long enough to publish an anthology every decade. Why not charge 1 dollar to copyright for, say, a year, 10 dollars for five years, 100 dollars for ten years, and a thousand dollars a year for the next ten. That way, works that are worth a significant amount to their creators can be copyrighted for long enough for the creator to take them as far as they like, and anyone can copyright something for long enough to determine if the work is profitable. Plus, if no entity bothers to pay the fee, anything that's abandoned automatically falls back into the public domain. Better yet, make the first year free and automatic, the way it is now, so the average citizen doesn't have to think about it until he's had some time to start making money off it. Add in the requirement that in order to make a copyright violation claim, a copy must be deposited at the Library of Congress, with no limiting conditions or technology. That keeps things from sinking into a black hole.
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If you don't live there... well... how are you a citizen?
You traveling around the world, not in touch with who or what you are voting for? Sorry... go vote in that other countrie's election if they will let you.
And yes... I mean that for the soldiers "fighting for democracy" somewhere out there too.
So our soldiers lose their citizenship if, THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN, they are deployed abroad?
You are correct that citizenship is the requirement for a voter, and the only acceptable one at that, but citizenship should not be so easy to lose. It could stand to be harder to gain, however.
Makes a fair point. Why are minors paying taxes anyway?
I don't know about IQ, I think that measure is too flawed to be a useful metric. I also wouldn't deny anyone who maintains their citizenship the right to vote. I would, however, love to see us give the citizenship test to American born people during their 17th year. Make it mandatory.
Does that include children, lunatics, and people who aren't our sort of people?
From Massachusetts, I have found little hate for Clinton. The strongest Clinton hater I have known, (a man who said that Clinton was only impeached for what he was because it was felt that getting him convicted of high treason would have been too bad for national morale) has mellowed his opinion of Clinton, in response to more information gleaned after the fact. On the other hand, I don't personally know anyone who has suggested that Bush doesn't deserve to be hanged for treason, along with a handful of his cronies.
I hear those Vietnamese were pretty bowled over by the US army. Just like the Iraqis. I also hear that Afghanistan is part of Russia. Further back, you may recall how the English retained their control over the US, the French crown was eventually overthrown by German invasion, and the French were never kicked out of Vietnam. Even further back, if you're interested, you might be interested in the methods of warfare used by the Scots to great effect against Edward I of England, and how Charles I of England crushed Oliver Cromwell.
And good is? But seriously, differentiate between religion and philosophy. If you want to suggest that Utilitarian values MUST apply or we must be religious, there a large number of atheist philosophers who would like to argue with you. They go back centuries.
And you should have to? Fine, but no more insuring people who have sex as teenagers, cause they are much more likely to have failed at using protection at least once, and thus far more likely to have the evil AIDS. And no more insuring people who drive sports cars when they could drive much safer tanks, thus protecting their valuable organs in the event of a crash. Hell, no more insuring people who drive when taking the train is an option, because driving increases your risk of serious injury. And why not create surcharges for people who wear shoes that are bad for their backs, or sit in chairs that aren't good for their posture, or choose to move furniture and climb ladders themselves, instead of hiring trained professionals?
You say "good genes". I say: "bad math". Body fat is subject to the universal laws of thermodynamics. If you decrease your calorie consumption, you will have less energy left over to store as fat. ...
Which has no bearing on all those other genetic potential failings. Does have a genetic pre-disposition to heart disease, or cancer, or vision problems, or anything else that might cost money to take care of, make you a drain on the system, and does it give me, with my good genes, the right to demand a lower premium than you, since I am less of a risk? Or the right to refuse to subsidize your clearly substandard life with my tax dollars? This idea is, to me, too unpleasant to contemplate further.You know, probably 90% of all work done on computers is done in one either in a basic office app, (like Word, Excel, or Powerpoint), a browser (like Firefox, IE), an email and scheduling program (like Outlook/Notes), or a frontend for a server side app. That goes double for the in-browser apps. Not that there's anything wrong with the heavy desktop publishing stuff, but netbooks have nothing to do with playing, and if anything, I think it more likely that workplaces like mine will graduate to them then that users will graduate from them. After all, the hardware required to do Photoshop and heavy desktop publishing is mostly wasted on office apps, and is very expensive. Oh, and please don't talk about professional quality software. Professional quality software means nothing to me. I'm a professional, is the software I use "Professional Quality"? Some of it is downright crap, but I use it because changing now would be very difficult. Some of it is awesome. There is no correlation between profitability of the producer and quality of the software.
Put ISO on USB Drive Use Daemon Tools to mount ISO Run LiveCD ??? Ubuntu
I wonder if I can install that version of Ubuntu on my old, full size laptop... 5-10 second boot would be awesome on my T42.
That is the one part of the MSI Wind that bothers me, actually: the Windows model is the one with more RAM and Bluetooth, and since integrated Bluetooth is important to me, I'm going to buy that one. OTOH, I will probably leave WinXP on there, for Diablo II related purposes, so it isn't that bad. If my hand's were a bit smaller, and it were more available and less expensive, I would be getting a EEE 901 Linux. We'll just have to see what the launch price is.
Which, to my mind, is kind of annoying. I would dearly like to see ISOs for the MSI Wind that I plan on buying, or the eeePC that my wife might wind up getting.
For the same reason people care about the 1st, 4th, etc. In fact, it has been argued that the Amendments are listed in order of importance. The people who defend the 2nd so vehemently do so because they perceive it to be most under attack, or least understood by the populace. I would suggest that there is still a great deal of regional variation on that one however. There are many restrictions that can be reasonably placed on guns. There are many restrictions that can be reasonably placed on ANY item which, under normal operation, comes with some risk of harm to others. See automobiles, aircraft, transmitters (over all portions of the spectrum), explosives, and bladed implements for some examples. In theory, we restrict to increase the utility/risk ratio, trying to reduce risk without overly hampering utility. Gun defenders (of whom I am one) are arguing that guns are being overly restricted relative to other things, for psychological reasons. The degree to which they are correct is a matter of personal opinion. I would suggest that any device which by it's nature presents increased harm/risk of harm to innocent people merits at least some amount of regulation and restriction.
Ah, the glorious projector strikes again. My screen is over the fireplace, but it disappears into the ceiling when not in use, and costs far less than the image source, which is safely across the room. Plus, the screen is less sensitive to things like heat, lighter (weight, not lumens), and more than six feet in the diagonal.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Digital Cameras aren't mainstream?
Price / Performance is always king, but performance is measured by many different metrics, and there are cutoff points. My car costs 25k and has 250hp Your car costs 25k and has 150hp You feel you got a better deal on your car than I did. How? Because your car handles better, or gets better gas mileage, or carries more people, or can drive through rivers, or the top folds down, or it's just more comfortable inside, and you care more about whatever those features are. I clearly cared more about horsepower. Different metrics of performance. Beyond that, there are cutoff points: A car that costs 1$, but has 5hp clearly has a better performance/dollar than a car that costs 25 thousand times as many dollars, and only has 50 times as much horsepower. Thing is, if 5hp isn't enough for what I want, I don't care. At all. In laptops, and other machines where battery life and weight are concerns, SSDs are becoming popular relatively rapidly. In desktops, where more gigs for less dollars is usually the cry, SSDs are useless. In servers requiring extremely high random access and transfer rates, RAM drives are popular, despite being hideously expensive per gig and requiring constant electricity. SSDs don't even come close to what those machines need in terms of drive performance. It's always about choosing between the options that meet your needs, and that choice is always made in terms of best performance in relevant areas for least dollars. (One final thought: Consumer expectation is still a metric of performance. Some people have good or bad expectations of a brand, and that dives the price they are willing to pay up or down.)
I hate to say this, but that's horse dung. There are tons of places where SSD flash drives are in fact the norm. It's just that in all of those places things like Watts, BTUs, and Ounces are more important that Gigs. Thing is, the faster networks get, and the easier having a home fileserver becomes, the more that laptops become one of those places. Seagate can prognosticate that far in the future. They just want the changeover to come as slowly as possible, so that they can get every last dollar out of their existing investments in platter-based magnetic storage devices. Are you shocked? I for one, am not shocked.
The ASUS is also sold through Best Buy and Amazon... two of the kings of the retail channel.
Have you considered increasing the font size? I find the extra resolution to be essential for things like preferences windows and dialog boxes, which are rarely scrollable/resizable and often taller than even 600 pixels, much less 480.
The three biggest complaints leveled at the EEEPC were undersized screen, inadequate storage, and undersized keyboard. The first two of those things can only be fixed by adding $. Go figure. Personally, the MSI Wind is likely to be what my wife gets in a week. She really needs something that can fit in a large purse or small backpack, isn't that fragile, and doesn't weigh much. She doesn't need (or even really want) an optical drive, or a big hard drive, or a good video card, or a ton of storage. If it can run linux, will let her get on the intarwebz to do browsing and email, and some document creation, and maybe play some Diablo, she's all set.
I would expect at least some laid off workers to do some open source work just to keep their skillset current.
But copyrighted works that don't bring in revenue, like abandonware, are some of the works it would be best to have in the public domain. And if the cost is a mere .0001% of the total revenue of the entity holding the copyright, then a newspaper, which might have individual copyrights on hundreds of millions of articles, would end up paying several hundred times it's annual revenue to maintain a copyright for long enough to publish an anthology every decade. Why not charge 1 dollar to copyright for, say, a year, 10 dollars for five years, 100 dollars for ten years, and a thousand dollars a year for the next ten. That way, works that are worth a significant amount to their creators can be copyrighted for long enough for the creator to take them as far as they like, and anyone can copyright something for long enough to determine if the work is profitable. Plus, if no entity bothers to pay the fee, anything that's abandoned automatically falls back into the public domain. Better yet, make the first year free and automatic, the way it is now, so the average citizen doesn't have to think about it until he's had some time to start making money off it. Add in the requirement that in order to make a copyright violation claim, a copy must be deposited at the Library of Congress, with no limiting conditions or technology. That keeps things from sinking into a black hole.