McCain might help the economy if he is true to his word about reducing government spending. The value of the dollar might improve dramatically. If we have another credit crunch like we did under Bush Sr. it would be bad news for the economy as banks will ignore loans from anyone but the federal government when money became tight. firstly, you cannot reduce government spending or improve the economy by supporting the war in general- it is a huge $ suck and has driven up the price of oil, which has driven up the price of manufacturing and transportation which is adding to inflation and reducing the price of the dollar.
secondly, it has been proven time and time again that the way to improve an economy is to support innovation and fund education in order to increase the gdp and make the general economy competitive- that is how you raise the bar for the workers vs. the employers and allow for personal spending which pushes more $ in the economy and allows it to flow. I am not saying that the dems are perfect, but the republican policy which favors corporations and the rich does the opposite, driving down salaries in order to put more $ in the pockets of those who already have $ which leads to pooling of dollars- that means that the majority of the population has less to spend, less money is spent and more money is being pressed- leading to a devaluation of the $ on hand- leading to a devaluation of the dollar.
The thing is that the government should be spending a lot of money, but should be able to retrive that money that it is spending from where it is pooling and have some sort of return value on that money, because when the government is spending it is helping either the local or national economy by putting $ back in the system, either by putting it in the pockets of those who are employed by the gov't or local economies or gov't contracts. That means that the $ gets respent, retaxed and respent again.
1. If you have no data retention/deletion policy, opposing council in a lawsuit has a reasonable expectation that you will be able to produce documents requested. They could ask for something from ten years ago and demand you produce said evidence.
2. If you have a deletion policy in place, say everything after 18 months, you only have to provide documents up to that point. Not being able to produce something from two years ago does not mean you are playing coy.
3. Without a deletion policy in place and properly enforced, opposing council could argue that you are withholding evidence. TFA isn't about the retention policy, it is about the fact that they were trying to retrieve the data from workstations after the white house had a poor retention policy (or they just wiped it all immediatley afterwards, who knows since there wasn't a request till the dems got control of congress). When it comes to electronic discovery rules it specifically says that you must have a retention policy for your e-mails, but not that you must have a retention policy for every document that someone produces while at work, the policy has to do with retaining communications transmitted via the server. The administration broke the rules before this article- not as it pertains to this article.
That's just for Firewire 400, and we already have faster versions. I find it really unfortunate that USB is being pushed so much while FW is in decline. The USB 3.0 with its fiberoptic links looks like a particularly desperate move to extend the standard, not the least when you consider the fragility of fiberoptics in the hands of end users. the problem with firewire can be blamed 100% on apple, when it came out rather than embracing pc firewire, it fought for years to try to keep it out of the hands of pc users- as a result you have the obcurely serial named firewire port on pc's that took years to be added to mainboard support and during those yearss people were already replacing their serial connections with usb, so they were used to just plugging something into a usb port.
USB 3.0 or *something faster* will be required for devices this large in portable storage capacity.. It is not that bad- 500 gigs takes about 8-12 hours (depending on # of files, large files are at full speed based on the single handshake that the data has to do wheras if there are 1000 files taking the same space as that 1 it takes a whole lot longer)- I do this all of the time as I take in terabytes of raw data for cases all of the time and have to copy the data to our local network for us to process in my job for litigation where we are bound not to crack the cases on factory sealed drives- our average drive to intake, files are in the millions and come on 500 gig drives with usually 300-450 gigs of data. you can figure that it takes about twice that, about a day to copy a terabyte over usb (this is done with DOS with verification on, so if it was a straight file copy it would be a lot faster). don't forget though that there is always esata, if you wanted to copy large volumes you could just directly image the folders over esata and it would be a lot faster.
it is great to make a more efficient synthetic muscle, but our muscles actually take a ton of energy to run- otherwise we would eat like, once a month and sleep at about the same rate. As it is we are constantly feeding energy to our bodies to make them run.
I agree. When I can buy a LED light that will put off as much light as my current 60 watt bulbs (with good color), I'll replace every light in my house with them! wasn't that the news with GE recently, not with LED but OLED- that was the whole announcement that they are inexpensively mass producing rolls of OLED for lighting purposes, which are actually far more energy efficient than LED in addition to the ability to be flat or flexible and super customizable
How Starbuck became Darth Vader. there are a couple of star wars tv series in production- maybe it will be covered there.....- I mean hell, if yoda and vader can fight voldo and sofitia and sigfried, who's to say....
Correct me if I'm wrong but could this work? 1)Start new ISP that does not filter 2)Get help from the FCC because they are a bit pissed at Comcast for their "nah nah nah You cant get us!" crap 3)When Comcast tries to buy you out/stomp you in to oblivion use antitrust laws to stay alive. 4)Grow to a reasonable size because you have some idea of how the internet works and will not be a dick to your customers. 5)???? 6)profit nope- here in san francisco you have 1 cable provider- comcast, if you want cable that is the end of the line, so you have to use their lines- you could petition to start a company using their lines, but if they don't like you they can just split the fiber and filter at their end and then you will need to bring a costly suit on your own to fight it. Sadly the same thing happens w/ at&t on the DSL side- I actually was out drinking one night with a technician from at&t and not only did he mention how this is possible and how everyone there knew it was illegal (since they are a public utility) but that they actually do it now as we speak in covert test pilot projects within the company- if the ISP's had knowledge and proof of it the shit would hit the fan in a big way.
not for me- for me it as all about format support and functionality- let me know when the ipod can stream divx/xvid over my home network or do video capture and I may move away from archos
They have no offerings for that market. If I was the weirdo for wanting that, I'd be ok with it, but that is the major market out there. there is a market out there and it has nothing to do with power (macs really aren't any faster (and last I checked they are still catching up on support of last years hardware) than pc's- except for hogging vista machines) and much slower than linux boxes. The market caters to one thing only- looks. I think it says it all when a coworker of mine got a macbook air the other day and I asked her why she got it since the specs on it suck- and her answer was that "it was pretty". I think that it kind of says it all- as well as the fact that it speaks for the ipod boom (I have always been a fan of and had zens and archos')- it is all in the style and not in the substance, it is the same reason ppl pay $300 for a pair of jeans or pay $400 a plate for a fancy dinner- all for show and not for function.
now I can go upgrade all of my vista machines in the house- let me see- 3 computers in here 2 in the living room, 2 in the bedroom and my laptop and umpc.. that makes 0 copies of vista in the house....
wow that certainly was the easiest upgrade I have ever done.
I'll give it a try- but I recently switched to opera because firefox has been incredibly unstable and slow for me lately- and for some reason keeps dropping the connection- I would be browsing in firefox and suddenly it just couldn't open anything anymore- if I open IE (and now opera) I could continue to browse while firefox just idles trying to load pages- so for now I am sticking w/opera
Funny thing is I've been using Yahoo! much more since this all started but it's just the beginning of the end for old Yahoo!. I don't know- as a search utility yahoo has been second rate for a long time, but yahoo mail, yahoo/sbc/at&t braoadband is a publuc utility and flickr which was purchased a little while back is certainly alive- as well yahoo news is still a pretty big news source
Remember, the have more money to have better attorneys. no, from what I have seen most of their attorneys are pretty big flunkies- even though they have the $ to spend it doen't mean that they get the best personell- the thing is that in this case they will be defending- so upon request the burden of producing the discovery in the trial will be on them, which upon request will open the floodgates to a ton of data on tactics, media sentry, coersion and other things to the public that were not previously under public scrutiny except in requests to produce by the defense, mainly for credibility and chain of custody. When this comes up there is going to be one hell of a fight to retain a ton of data as priviliged and I just hope that the judge is smart enough to strike the requests for it. personally I would love to work on this case for the class, but I don't see it ever happening since my company handles corporate litigation, meaning if we were contracted in this case it would be for the evil side:(
I would love it if linux "did the job" for me, but at home (I use linux and unix at work), when I am doing music production (electronic music) which in windows has a slight edge over mac (mac has been getting better, but is still limited) for what I do, but linux is not anywhere near functional in any way shape or form. no decent live performance apps- no compositional tools with the precision or flexibility of anything m$ or apple can do, and no hosting support for either vst, rtas or dx plugins which means no external softsynths, no effects- nothing.
I mean it is bad enough that vista doen't support a lot of this functionality out of the box, so one bad on m$ and I won't switch at any time in the forseeable future until it is waaaaay patched, but at least they said "we need to do some support for musicians" wheras whenever I talk to linux heads about it their response to ppl like me is always down their nose and some off color comment.
It's because the fans of the team would get really pissed off and vote against the city management that allowed the team to leave, of course. (Well, that and the money flowing behind the scenes). no, it is because large sporting events bring in a ton of cash- I know that here in the bay area they were saying that when san jose started the sharks (hockey) it brought in something like $500,000,000 to business revenue for everything from parking to restaurants and such for a $165,000,000 investment to build the facilities- and since a lot of that money comes from people in surrounding cities, that is not local currency changing hands it is an influx of income- and taxes on that business transaction ends up more than paying for the cost of building and maintainence within a couple of years. to any city the math makes sense to increase the solvency of their local economy- personally I am not a sports fan and I don't care if I have a sports team (though I live in san francisco, so we have baseball and football teams) but I do care about having revenue into the local economy.
That would be like insurance companies wanting auto insurance to be mandatory this actually protects drivers since it makes it easier to recover your losses if somene hit you and you are not at fault
Or hospitals being in favor of mandatory medical insurance. yep that one is lame
Or Microsoft insisting on Windows installed on every PC ummm, microsoft produces operating systems, if their business model were to try not to get windows installed on every pc it would be a really shitty business model.
Or sports teams wanting every citizen to subsidize their business I am not a sports fan, but there are a lot that are and in real world economics, that adds to more revenue for local businesses- if cities were just randomly dumping $ to have sports in their town I would wager to say that not many cities would compete to have pro sports teams in their cites.
Let p2p run rampant. Don't sue anybody. Then watch and see if the music/movie industries up and die. If they do, then consider whether or not legislation is needed to revivify them. If they do not die, then admit that the legislation was never needed in the first place, and just don't bother with it. it already is rampant and the industry hasn't gone away- seriously though I would love to see how much $ the industry spent on lawsuits vs. sales losses (that arent accurate anyways since it doesn't account for crap music, boycotting and poor judgement and marketing) since there has been nearly zero $ ever recovered from p2p lawsuits since... well people that don't have the $ to buy a britney cd in the first place won't have the $ to pay judgements or settlements.
Personally, I am tired of this zero-evidence notion that file sharing will kill the industry. Every time we have heard this line in the past (for video cassettes, cassette tapes, CD-R, etc.), it has been proven false. Let's try it and find out. Once the real evidence is in, then I will be interested in discussing responses. the funny thing is that this will never happen since "piracy" is such a catch all claim for the industry- all of the propaganda can be directly funneled into it. People are boycotting> piracy, slow sales> piracy, poor marketing> piracy, bad economy> piracy - most average consumers do not have the economic knowledg to understand the ebb and flow of consumables to understand that there are other factors that go into PNL reporting and will just buy into it....
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Oh lordy bullshit. It's just Adobe trying to find ways to keep people from stealing photoshop. and FTA about offline web apps:
But cloud computing has drawbacks: users give up the ability to save data to their own hard drives, to drag and drop items between applications, and to receive notifications, such as appointment reminders, when the browser window is closed. awesome you can't crack photoshop anymore, but who would want to if you can't save anything or open anything in it-
Was talking to a guy the other day who said he was once going to write an xml/css/javascript rendering engine for wxWidgets. So the same app could run on your desktop or through a web browser and you never have to deal with web 2.0 crap. couldn't you just write a plain old app to do the same thing? why do you need to run a widget that does a dumbed down version of something an os is designed to do already (good example... clocks are some of the more popular widgets)? personally it seems to me that the only advantage of running any web app is on an intranet (mainly in a school or business) where you want to distribute the functionality of an application in a shared environment with a closed set of data or database functionality- otherwise the whole web app thing though kitchy isn't really an "emerging technology".
Well, I didn't see a price. I saw that it was 'green' as it was making organic LEDs but how was it any greener than the old procedure for making OLEDs? I think that when you refer to the 'green' aspect it is more to the fact that mass production and replacement of conventional lighting devices would reduce power consumption, not that the manufacturing process is more 'green'.
island flora and fauna undergo size changes to either gigantic sizes not seen on the continent (for example, the komodo dragon), or to diminuitive sizes (the pygmy rhino, for example). it's called the island rule from what I understand this could be the case considering that in the region that the bones were found there are also remains of the pygmy elephant and the the komodo dragon at the same time
however, this whole notion of separate species is rather doubtful. they probably were entirely homo sapiens. if one understands that smallness in size is not a very hard trick to pull off genetically for any creature to evolve quite quickly and comprise very little genetic change, then one can see tiny island people in man's recent past is not very strange at all that is something yet to be seen, the difference isn't just "shorter people" the remains of adults found were around 3 feet tall which means that there would have to be very significant change in order for people to adapt to that size- and don't forget that until recently it was thought that the neanderthal were not a seperate species, but a human evolutionary step- it is very possible that this could be along that branch of evolution or a completely new one- the fact is that the brnch of intelligent primate evolution does not start and stop with homosapiens.
I think more important than what's allowed on the robots is what kind of surface will they be playing on. When they're played on very smooth, very flat surfaces, it becomes all about wedges and flippers. that is wwhy I always liked the british 'robot wars' more (though battlebots was still fun to watch) because there were fire and spike and pit obstales in the arena- it made it a lot more interesting - besides lister hosted it
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secondly, it has been proven time and time again that the way to improve an economy is to support innovation and fund education in order to increase the gdp and make the general economy competitive- that is how you raise the bar for the workers vs. the employers and allow for personal spending which pushes more $ in the economy and allows it to flow. I am not saying that the dems are perfect, but the republican policy which favors corporations and the rich does the opposite, driving down salaries in order to put more $ in the pockets of those who already have $ which leads to pooling of dollars- that means that the majority of the population has less to spend, less money is spent and more money is being pressed- leading to a devaluation of the $ on hand- leading to a devaluation of the dollar.
The thing is that the government should be spending a lot of money, but should be able to retrive that money that it is spending from where it is pooling and have some sort of return value on that money, because when the government is spending it is helping either the local or national economy by putting $ back in the system, either by putting it in the pockets of those who are employed by the gov't or local economies or gov't contracts. That means that the $ gets respent, retaxed and respent again.
when will the giand death weilding robot hit shelves that I can control with it?
don't forget though that there is always esata, if you wanted to copy large volumes you could just directly image the folders over esata and it would be a lot faster.
it is great to make a more efficient synthetic muscle, but our muscles actually take a ton of energy to run- otherwise we would eat like, once a month and sleep at about the same rate. As it is we are constantly feeding energy to our bodies to make them run.
not for me- for me it as all about format support and functionality- let me know when the ipod can stream divx/xvid over my home network or do video capture and I may move away from archos
now I can go upgrade all of my vista machines in the house- let me see- 3 computers in here 2 in the living room, 2 in the bedroom and my laptop and umpc.. that makes 0 copies of vista in the house....
wow that certainly was the easiest upgrade I have ever done.
I'll give it a try- but I recently switched to opera because firefox has been incredibly unstable and slow for me lately- and for some reason keeps dropping the connection- I would be browsing in firefox and suddenly it just couldn't open anything anymore- if I open IE (and now opera) I could continue to browse while firefox just idles trying to load pages- so for now I am sticking w/opera
I would love it if linux "did the job" for me, but at home (I use linux and unix at work), when I am doing music production (electronic music) which in windows has a slight edge over mac (mac has been getting better, but is still limited) for what I do, but linux is not anywhere near functional in any way shape or form. no decent live performance apps- no compositional tools with the precision or flexibility of anything m$ or apple can do, and no hosting support for either vst, rtas or dx plugins which means no external softsynths, no effects- nothing.
I mean it is bad enough that vista doen't support a lot of this functionality out of the box, so one bad on m$ and I won't switch at any time in the forseeable future until it is waaaaay patched, but at least they said "we need to do some support for musicians" wheras whenever I talk to linux heads about it their response to ppl like me is always down their nose and some off color comment.
seriously though I would love to see how much $ the industry spent on lawsuits vs. sales losses (that arent accurate anyways since it doesn't account for crap music, boycotting and poor judgement and marketing) since there has been nearly zero $ ever recovered from p2p lawsuits since... well people that don't have the $ to buy a britney cd in the first place won't have the $ to pay judgements or settlements. Personally, I am tired of this zero-evidence notion that file sharing will kill the industry. Every time we have heard this line in the past (for video cassettes, cassette tapes, CD-R, etc.), it has been proven false. Let's try it and find out. Once the real evidence is in, then I will be interested in discussing responses. the funny thing is that this will never happen since "piracy" is such a catch all claim for the industry- all of the propaganda can be directly funneled into it. People are boycotting> piracy, slow sales> piracy, poor marketing> piracy, bad economy> piracy - most average consumers do not have the economic knowledg to understand the ebb and flow of consumables to understand that there are other factors that go into PNL reporting and will just buy into it....
install software is more seure for the manufacurer but less secure for the user- we ceratainly couldn't use it in my line of work