My dog barks, I shoot. Pretty simple setup. No electricity, phone lines, cell signals, wireless, or anything else to not work. Plus, if I miss, my dog is none too friendly to strangers (Chow/Shepard mix). The minute someone even gets close to the house, he makes a VERY scary noise.
Vista has already lost in the marketplace. More and more companies are skipping Vista to go from XP to Windows 7 because of all the performance and compatability issues with Vista. So comparing Ubuntu (or any OS actually) to Vista is fairly useless. If you want to make a case for business, do it against the OS's that business really uses - in this case Windows XP, or in the future, Windows 7.
Well, this ruling is not the end all of this fight. The ruling explicit states that this is a FEDERAL law, so there still exists a fight to determine if the 2nd amendment is incorporated into the 14th amendment. That is an interesting legal question because the justices who ruled in favor the the second amendment generally do not believe the incorporation doctrine of the 14th amendment is correct, but the dissenting justices do believe in incorporation.
SO when the eventual trials form Chicago get tot he courts, the next issue will be to decide if the 2nd amendment is applied to the states through incorporation in the 14th amendment. This put the justices in a weird spot - because those that are in favor of gun rights are against incorporation, which means the second amendment would only apply to individuals in federal territories and that states can limit guns however they want. However, the dissenting justices would rule otherwise that the second amendment would incorporated into the 14th, but this would enforce the 2nd amendment in states, which would be agianst their liking.
SO it really depends on the next battle. Will we see judicial activism, or more stick to their principles type rulings.
Either way, this is a big win against government domination.
Sorry, I know someone very well that teaches law, and it is not like the above post at all. When in law school, they are learning things like torts and professional responsibility. Would you rather have them reading Dilbert, or Slashdot, than learning about the law? It's not like these people are banned from using the internet - they just can't use it in class. When you were in college, and every kid sat in class with your Walkman and headphones on, do you think the teachers would let that happen?
These type of conspiracy-esque rants are useless. If you have a beef with the American legal system, just say it - don't try to wrap it in dog crap and call it reasoning.
I wish I could remember the program I saw this on, but the link between microbes and plant growth has been seen here on Earth as well. I high alpine environments, some scientists had noted that the conditions would seem to indicate there should be more plant life. When they investigated, they found that there were large increases in soil born microbes at the freeze line and the tree line. The soil at higher elevations (through exposure or UV radiation) was less favorable to microbes, and they has a theory that this related directly to the growth of plants.
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Me too. I don't understand the fanboi level of commitment to Apple. The whole Java 6 thing on the newest OS is just an embarrassment. Also, the purposeful dis allowance of Java on the iPhone. Apple only wants you to use their devices the way they want you to - as opposed to the way the consumer wants to. At least Google understands that. The minute that a company can produce devices with ergonomics like Apple, but give people more freedom, Apple will deflate.
That would work too, it would just need a politician with enough clout to pull it off. Even in a tight race, it could suck in two politicians, but unless the seat had an important position, most likely would only last the election.
Like most anything, it needs critical mass. And the LAST thing politicians want is to be tied to their promises.
This all depends not so much on what congressmen sign up as it does exposure to the general public. If you can get enough constituents to be aware of this, then you can force the members of congress into it. But unless this is somehow tied to American Idol, I seriously doubt the general American public will care. As long as they have their fast food and idiotic TV shows, they could care less about what happens in government.
What ever happened to personal responsibility? It's not like these things are laced with heroin.
All I have to say to the people who think this way is that you better push for the outlaw of TV. Look at how many lives that box of junk has ruined. People let their bodies rot away to giant piles of blubber sitting in front of that thing. They leave it to raise their kids. Kids know commercial jingles better than the US Pledge of Allegiance. The Blackberry has NOTHING on TV. It's just that the Blackberry is new - TV has been ruining lives for dozens of years (so I guess that makes it ok).
Talk about an overprotective society. We are abstracting all our individual responsibility away to a faceless mass called "society" or "government". All that does is make people care less about their decisions because it is someone else's problem.
Like others have said, Neverwinter Nights (1 or 2) can give you this. NWN2 has fairly steep hardware requirements for what it offers, but a easier to use toolset. BUT these use 3.0/3.5 rules.
I've been playing D&D since the old "red box" days. 3.0/3.5, while better in defining the mechanics that 1 or 2 ever did, can be a real bear to run encounters at of higher levels, or large encounters. I'm awaiting the arrival of the 4th edition with some trepidation, but also eagerness. there are a lot of things that are jsut very cumbersome in the current version. If they can streamline D&D while keeping the feel, I'm all for it. If I want super exacting rules I will play a game of Star Fleet Battles http://www.starfleetgames.com/ . But when playing an RPG, I really want more easy to use rules that allow a story to be told more readily.
One of the biggest things I see when hiring college grads is that while they understand how a computer works, why languages behave the way they do, and what a certain language syntax is, they have very little knowledge of how to actually build applications from initial concept to full delivery.
This type of knowledge generally falls into the "Software Engineering" category.
Learn how to write and read requirements. Learn how to do formal estimates from requirements. Learn about different software development life cycles. Learn about requirements traceability and testing. Learn about software patterns.
A lot of these topics are covered in Masters degrees in Software Engineering, so those are good places to look at for books on it. Here is an example, you can look at the classes to find the books used http://www.cti.depaul.edu/academics/Pages/MSinSoftwareEngineering.aspx
The one area I see this as a benefit is for technical books. I have a pretty good library of reference books and carrying them around is not feasible. These are not the books that are freely available via Google's book search. The ability to scan through a library of tech books would be very nice, as well as being able to buy them directly. I also see this as much easier for textbooks - no longer would you need to carry a giant bag of books.
The iPhone/iPod is also MUCH harder to read than e-paper. The screen size is a big difference, as well as the surface. I really don't see these as competing with a proper e-reader.
Given all the above, it is still hard for e-books to prosper, given how incredibly well adapted the book is for it's purpose. So while at work or school I may look to a Kindle or other e-book reader to look through various tomes, at home at the end of the day when I read for pleasure it will always be a real book.
Anyone else remember this from SpiderMan? The serum that is used on Norman Oswald was first used on mice to turn them into super mice, but had the side effect of making them incredibly aggressive....
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What kid is retrieving his ball inside my house at night????
My dog barks, I shoot. Pretty simple setup. No electricity, phone lines, cell signals, wireless, or anything else to not work. Plus, if I miss, my dog is none too friendly to strangers (Chow/Shepard mix). The minute someone even gets close to the house, he makes a VERY scary noise.
Vista has already lost in the marketplace. More and more companies are skipping Vista to go from XP to Windows 7 because of all the performance and compatability issues with Vista. So comparing Ubuntu (or any OS actually) to Vista is fairly useless. If you want to make a case for business, do it against the OS's that business really uses - in this case Windows XP, or in the future, Windows 7.
You have to hand it to whomever made that fabric. It has surely stretched far beyond it's design limits.
VIA is quitting MB biz - maybe that was the confusion in the original post: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/11/1226221 I think maybe X bit Laboratories got the story wrong and it should have be VIA instad of NVIDIA.
I patented the ability to talk about patent news stories in a threaded manner. Pay up suckers.
Link about Windows for Warships being used in the UK http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/26/windows_boxes_at_sea/
Well, this ruling is not the end all of this fight. The ruling explicit states that this is a FEDERAL law, so there still exists a fight to determine if the 2nd amendment is incorporated into the 14th amendment. That is an interesting legal question because the justices who ruled in favor the the second amendment generally do not believe the incorporation doctrine of the 14th amendment is correct, but the dissenting justices do believe in incorporation. SO when the eventual trials form Chicago get tot he courts, the next issue will be to decide if the 2nd amendment is applied to the states through incorporation in the 14th amendment. This put the justices in a weird spot - because those that are in favor of gun rights are against incorporation, which means the second amendment would only apply to individuals in federal territories and that states can limit guns however they want. However, the dissenting justices would rule otherwise that the second amendment would incorporated into the 14th, but this would enforce the 2nd amendment in states, which would be agianst their liking. SO it really depends on the next battle. Will we see judicial activism, or more stick to their principles type rulings. Either way, this is a big win against government domination.
Sorry, I know someone very well that teaches law, and it is not like the above post at all. When in law school, they are learning things like torts and professional responsibility. Would you rather have them reading Dilbert, or Slashdot, than learning about the law? It's not like these people are banned from using the internet - they just can't use it in class. When you were in college, and every kid sat in class with your Walkman and headphones on, do you think the teachers would let that happen? These type of conspiracy-esque rants are useless. If you have a beef with the American legal system, just say it - don't try to wrap it in dog crap and call it reasoning.
I wish I could remember the program I saw this on, but the link between microbes and plant growth has been seen here on Earth as well. I high alpine environments, some scientists had noted that the conditions would seem to indicate there should be more plant life. When they investigated, they found that there were large increases in soil born microbes at the freeze line and the tree line. The soil at higher elevations (through exposure or UV radiation) was less favorable to microbes, and they has a theory that this related directly to the growth of plants.
This is how they can sell CDs for $9.72 and make $90B in profit - by saving $400K in medical insurance costs http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/25/walmart.insurance.battle/index.html
Me too. I don't understand the fanboi level of commitment to Apple. The whole Java 6 thing on the newest OS is just an embarrassment. Also, the purposeful dis allowance of Java on the iPhone. Apple only wants you to use their devices the way they want you to - as opposed to the way the consumer wants to. At least Google understands that. The minute that a company can produce devices with ergonomics like Apple, but give people more freedom, Apple will deflate.
Yeah, tape was the first thing I thought of.
That would work too, it would just need a politician with enough clout to pull it off. Even in a tight race, it could suck in two politicians, but unless the seat had an important position, most likely would only last the election. Like most anything, it needs critical mass. And the LAST thing politicians want is to be tied to their promises.
This all depends not so much on what congressmen sign up as it does exposure to the general public. If you can get enough constituents to be aware of this, then you can force the members of congress into it. But unless this is somehow tied to American Idol, I seriously doubt the general American public will care. As long as they have their fast food and idiotic TV shows, they could care less about what happens in government.
What ever happened to personal responsibility? It's not like these things are laced with heroin. All I have to say to the people who think this way is that you better push for the outlaw of TV. Look at how many lives that box of junk has ruined. People let their bodies rot away to giant piles of blubber sitting in front of that thing. They leave it to raise their kids. Kids know commercial jingles better than the US Pledge of Allegiance. The Blackberry has NOTHING on TV. It's just that the Blackberry is new - TV has been ruining lives for dozens of years (so I guess that makes it ok). Talk about an overprotective society. We are abstracting all our individual responsibility away to a faceless mass called "society" or "government". All that does is make people care less about their decisions because it is someone else's problem.
Like others have said, Neverwinter Nights (1 or 2) can give you this. NWN2 has fairly steep hardware requirements for what it offers, but a easier to use toolset. BUT these use 3.0/3.5 rules. I've been playing D&D since the old "red box" days. 3.0/3.5, while better in defining the mechanics that 1 or 2 ever did, can be a real bear to run encounters at of higher levels, or large encounters. I'm awaiting the arrival of the 4th edition with some trepidation, but also eagerness. there are a lot of things that are jsut very cumbersome in the current version. If they can streamline D&D while keeping the feel, I'm all for it. If I want super exacting rules I will play a game of Star Fleet Battles http://www.starfleetgames.com/ . But when playing an RPG, I really want more easy to use rules that allow a story to be told more readily.
One of the biggest things I see when hiring college grads is that while they understand how a computer works, why languages behave the way they do, and what a certain language syntax is, they have very little knowledge of how to actually build applications from initial concept to full delivery. This type of knowledge generally falls into the "Software Engineering" category. Learn how to write and read requirements. Learn how to do formal estimates from requirements. Learn about different software development life cycles. Learn about requirements traceability and testing. Learn about software patterns. A lot of these topics are covered in Masters degrees in Software Engineering, so those are good places to look at for books on it. Here is an example, you can look at the classes to find the books used http://www.cti.depaul.edu/academics/Pages/MSinSoftwareEngineering.aspx
The one area I see this as a benefit is for technical books. I have a pretty good library of reference books and carrying them around is not feasible. These are not the books that are freely available via Google's book search. The ability to scan through a library of tech books would be very nice, as well as being able to buy them directly. I also see this as much easier for textbooks - no longer would you need to carry a giant bag of books. The iPhone/iPod is also MUCH harder to read than e-paper. The screen size is a big difference, as well as the surface. I really don't see these as competing with a proper e-reader. Given all the above, it is still hard for e-books to prosper, given how incredibly well adapted the book is for it's purpose. So while at work or school I may look to a Kindle or other e-book reader to look through various tomes, at home at the end of the day when I read for pleasure it will always be a real book.
Anyone else remember this from SpiderMan? The serum that is used on Norman Oswald was first used on mice to turn them into super mice, but had the side effect of making them incredibly aggressive....