The x64 versions of Windows Vista and 7 have beat the pants off of any Linux desktop that I've used. I want to try x64 Linux, but the driver support isn't there yet. For all the doubters out there, get four gigs of RAM and install x64 Windows Vista or 7 RC1. You'd be very surprised at how quick, stable, and snappy the experience is.
Your entire post is misleading. President Bush was the first President who had to make a decision regarding stem cells. He limited federal funds to existing adult stem cells because of misplaced moral considerations. The embryos would have been destroyed by the fertility labs anyway, but when signing the bill, Bush was flanked by children conceived from embryos. There was no scientific reason to limit the federal funding. It's not even clear the moral justification was that great, either.
After Bush crippled competing research, it's no wonder that adult stem cells are ahead in the race. Imagine what would have happened if stem cell research was not limited out of political considerations.
Google Mail and Calendar are great for small businesses. I expect Google Voice to be a game changer as well. Most small businesses have businessname@yahoo.com but Google Mail allows you to have person@businessname.com with the ease of Gmail.
The most important part to keeping fit is to eat healthily. The less you eat, the less fat you have to burn off later. Stick with whole grains, fresh fruit, and eat a lot of vegetables. Stick with water instead of juices and sodas. Don't smoke or drink too often.
Try to do exercises that do not require a gym membership. During downtime, do push ups and sit ups at work. Buy a bench and some weights for home. Do lunges, squats, and bench presses. Buy a jump rope. You'd be surprised how exhausting ten minutes of jumping rope can be. If you can't spare 45 minutes twice a week to work out, then you're not prioritizing your health enough.
I think this is the best reason to explain Microsoft's actions. The EU decided to levy huge fines against Microsoft and forced it to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 7. Microsoft risks getting fined again by the EU just by selling Windows 7 there. It's not unfair for Microsoft to charge more for Windows 7 to compensate for that risk.
If you read the article, the 3.4 magnitude earthquake was closer to the surface than normal earthquakes. The effect was correspondingly higher. For Pete's sake, there was a sonic-boom-like burst of wind that accompanied the earthquake.
You're projecting yourself onto others. I would have been freaking ecstatic if the Republicans believed in climate change enough to actually do something about it. But you have to understand that McCain/Palin did not believe in climate change.
I am sure you know that all modern consumer CPUs consist of a RISC processor core with an x86 instruction set translator that provides a CISC x86 interface to the software. There are no more pure CISC consumer CPUs. In that way, RISC was the ultimate success story in terms of technology.
Again, you're looking at it from the Linux fan boy's position and not that of the end user. The average end user has no idea what the entire "proprietary driver" problem is. They just want it to work right out of the box without any bizarre configurations past user accounts, and time and date. A pop up that says "use the proprietary driver" is confusing to the end user. Even with the proprietary driver, OP was complaining that the GUI was off. You ignored it, of course, but businesses cannot do that.
You may find installing "ubuntu-restricted-extras" easy but the average user would have no idea to even install that. He'd just notice that the fonts on his web browser were off. He might just think Linux sucks and not even bother looking for a solution. Even if he installed "ubuntu-restricted-extras," how would he do it? From a command prompt? What about the long freaking EULA you have to sign to get the package? Is he breaking laws to get the fonts he needs? Do you even know the answer to that question? If it's legal to ship with Ubuntu, why isn't it in the box?
It's cool to dismiss users but that's not a good business scheme. The attitude that you display furthers the alienation that most users feel with Linux and its community.
The big secret is that Vista x64 is already what Linux wants to be: a fast, stable, and secure operating system. Last month, I bought a Dell XPS 13 with a 2.4 GHz processor, 4 GB DDR 3 RAM, a 320 GB hard drive for $700 shipped and including taxes. It came with Vista Home Premium 64 with stable drivers for all the components. I installed Vista SP2 along with Office 2007 SP2 and Norton Internet Security 2009. The computer is snappy, stable, and compatible with all the Windows apps that I customarily use. I have third party apps that sync Outlook's contacts and calendar with Google.
Why would I use Linux, to save a few dollars? For geek cred?
I guess you don't need calendaring functionality that works with your Blackberry. Business users need that capability, especially to interoperate with our business systems.
I can see how OpenOffice is useful for the average college student, though.
I doubt that the Democrats could top the Republicans in starting an unneeded war, cutting taxes for the rich by $1 trillion, embarking on a $50 billion (unfunded) Medicare prescription drug program, illegal wiretapping, torture, outing a CIA agent for political gain, allowing North Korea to gets tehs nukes, ban stem cell research, make political affiliation a criteria for selection of Department of Justice employees, or unrestricted instances of extraordinary rendition.
Perhaps you're a super-genius. If there were three other ways to do this industrially, and no one has been able to do it before, you should patent your ideas. I'm betting, though, that there are significant difficulties or expenses with the other methods tha render them economically infeasible.
At issue here are the NIH's proposed guidelines regarding a woman's consent to stem cell research when her donated eggs and embryos are used to create a cell line. The NIH wants to stiffen them to make sure that a woman has to specifically agree to let her eggs be used for stem cell research. I can understand that because I sure as hell wouldn't want cell lines made from my genetic material without my consent.
The problem is that these standards, if applied retroactively, would invalidate many of the currently-available stem cell lines. Scientists are more than happy to apply these new standards going forward, but obviously want current stem cell lines to be grandfathered in. I hope that the NIH clarifies the guidelines to allow already-existing stem cell lines to be used. After all, these are the draft standards, not the final ones.
I am happy that the NIH concerns do not seem to be motivated by a political agenda. Informed consent is the keystone of all medical treatment and medical research. This is a welcome change compared to the Bush Administration, which made scientific decisions based on religious and political grounds. Snow flake babies? Really? Come on.
The source code was a miserable mess. But I didn't see anywhere that the source code caused the machine to give spurious or inaccurate results. Much ado about nothing?
Should Microsoft still be supporting DOS 6.22 or Windows 95? Or, cough, Windows ME? Linux can keep going without deprecating old versions because no one's responsible for its upkeep. I mean, there are developers who maintain packages, but if shit hits the fan, no one is liable for it. If Microsoft maintains support for Windows 2000, that means it has to provide security updates and field service calls for that OS. The fixes may take forever or may never come at all, but MS has to take care of that operating system. Linux has no such obligations.
That's not to say that MS has an inherent interest in getting its customers to upgrade but there's a valid reason for them to discontinue support of old operating systems.
It's more complicated than that. The Fourth Amendment's bar against unreasonable search and seizures do not extend to things for which you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. For instance, cops can go through your trash without a warrant because you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in debris you threw away. You also don't have an expectation of privacy in your whereabouts in public locations, so cops can follow you around public areas without a warrant.
The consequence of this is that some jurisdictions have held that cops can use electronic means to follow you around without a warrant because you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in your location when you're in a public. Wisconsin was one such jurisdiction. This New York case differs, but the problem here is that the cops followed the guy around for 61 days. Perhaps he went into private locations during that time. If the cops followed him around for a few hours, that might lead to a different result.
You cannot just rebuild the Hubble because many of the original contractors are out of business. You would have to rebuild the space telescope from scratch, which involves validating all of the changes you made. Putting it all together along with logistical support costs a few billion dollars. For a frame of reference, Hubble cost $2.5 by 1992.
You're mixing things up. The analysis regarding tailing only applies when you're considering whether or not an action is an unreasonable search or seizure in the Constitutional context. There might be criminal statutes that apply if you're following a cop. You would be violating those laws, not violating the officer's Fourth Amendment rights. (Which you can't, unless you're an agent or employee of the state.)
Search and seizure law is all about expectations of privacy. You do not have a constitutional protection against search and seizure if you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. For instance, the police can search your trash without a warrant because you have no privacy interest in debris you tossed onto the street for disposal. A GPS unit only enhances what police could do with old fashioned elbow grease. A thermal imager that can see through walls to detect marijuana plants being grown indoors adds superpowers that cops would not normally have. Therefore, the imager is an unreasonable search because you have an expectation of privacy on your actions in your house.
Katz and its progeny are limited to instances where the target is being followed in public areas through electronic means. Defendants claim that this doesn't apply because they parked in a private parking lot but any cop on a stakeout who trailed the suspect there would know that the car was parked in there. You don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in your location when you walk around and let the public at large see where you are. If your neighbors can see you, so can the cops. And if the cops could have just followed you around, they can lawfully stick a GPS unit on you to do the same thing.
No, you can't. There are probably laws out there that prevent you from tampering with police cars. Police officers, in the course of an investigation, are allowed to do things that citizens cannot, such as pulling someone over or patting them down.
The entire problem here is that the state hasn't passed any laws regulating the conduct. The court only ruled that there was no violation of the Fourth Amendment here, which restricts SEARCH and SEIZURE. It would be hard to argue that putting a GPS unit on a car is either a search (you don't see anything in the car, etc.) or a seizure (such as impounding the car). In fact, the decision starts off by inviting the legislature to address the issue. States are allowed to regulate even if there isn't a constitutional bar to an action.
Trademarks are meant to protect the origin of a commercial good. This allows consumers to recognize a product and remember its quality or lack thereof. It's necessary to have trademarks in open source software. Imagine if anyone could create a browser and call it Firefox. Mozilla Firefox is going to get stomped down by "forks" that introduce all sorts of spyware in the source code. Without the protection of trademarks, Mozilla would have to sit idly by as its market share gets split up.
Alienware feels like they're trying to do business in a new age of credit card fraud but can't quite figure it out yet. Almost all vendors require your shipping address to be on your credit card as a billing address, but they can tell you about it almost instantly. Customer service tells you that you can add a secondary address on your credit card really easily. Not Alienware. Many vendors require you to have a proof of ownership for certain service. Dell lets you change the ownership online. Not Alienware.
Alienware needs to invest some of its hard-tricked money into providing decent customer service.
Whenever someone says "I make $40 an hour so I [X] because it saves my time" I want to smack them. You cannot work an unlimited amount at that rate. Your boss won't let you. And if you could, that means sleeping and fucking costs $40. Are you going to outsource that, too?
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The x64 versions of Windows Vista and 7 have beat the pants off of any Linux desktop that I've used. I want to try x64 Linux, but the driver support isn't there yet. For all the doubters out there, get four gigs of RAM and install x64 Windows Vista or 7 RC1. You'd be very surprised at how quick, stable, and snappy the experience is.
Your entire post is misleading. President Bush was the first President who had to make a decision regarding stem cells. He limited federal funds to existing adult stem cells because of misplaced moral considerations. The embryos would have been destroyed by the fertility labs anyway, but when signing the bill, Bush was flanked by children conceived from embryos. There was no scientific reason to limit the federal funding. It's not even clear the moral justification was that great, either.
After Bush crippled competing research, it's no wonder that adult stem cells are ahead in the race. Imagine what would have happened if stem cell research was not limited out of political considerations.
Google Mail and Calendar are great for small businesses. I expect Google Voice to be a game changer as well. Most small businesses have businessname@yahoo.com but Google Mail allows you to have person@businessname.com with the ease of Gmail.
The most important part to keeping fit is to eat healthily. The less you eat, the less fat you have to burn off later. Stick with whole grains, fresh fruit, and eat a lot of vegetables. Stick with water instead of juices and sodas. Don't smoke or drink too often.
Try to do exercises that do not require a gym membership. During downtime, do push ups and sit ups at work. Buy a bench and some weights for home. Do lunges, squats, and bench presses. Buy a jump rope. You'd be surprised how exhausting ten minutes of jumping rope can be. If you can't spare 45 minutes twice a week to work out, then you're not prioritizing your health enough.
I think this is the best reason to explain Microsoft's actions. The EU decided to levy huge fines against Microsoft and forced it to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 7. Microsoft risks getting fined again by the EU just by selling Windows 7 there. It's not unfair for Microsoft to charge more for Windows 7 to compensate for that risk.
If you read the article, the 3.4 magnitude earthquake was closer to the surface than normal earthquakes. The effect was correspondingly higher. For Pete's sake, there was a sonic-boom-like burst of wind that accompanied the earthquake.
You're projecting yourself onto others. I would have been freaking ecstatic if the Republicans believed in climate change enough to actually do something about it. But you have to understand that McCain/Palin did not believe in climate change.
I am sure you know that all modern consumer CPUs consist of a RISC processor core with an x86 instruction set translator that provides a CISC x86 interface to the software. There are no more pure CISC consumer CPUs. In that way, RISC was the ultimate success story in terms of technology.
Again, you're looking at it from the Linux fan boy's position and not that of the end user. The average end user has no idea what the entire "proprietary driver" problem is. They just want it to work right out of the box without any bizarre configurations past user accounts, and time and date. A pop up that says "use the proprietary driver" is confusing to the end user. Even with the proprietary driver, OP was complaining that the GUI was off. You ignored it, of course, but businesses cannot do that.
You may find installing "ubuntu-restricted-extras" easy but the average user would have no idea to even install that. He'd just notice that the fonts on his web browser were off. He might just think Linux sucks and not even bother looking for a solution. Even if he installed "ubuntu-restricted-extras," how would he do it? From a command prompt? What about the long freaking EULA you have to sign to get the package? Is he breaking laws to get the fonts he needs? Do you even know the answer to that question? If it's legal to ship with Ubuntu, why isn't it in the box?
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It's cool to dismiss users but that's not a good business scheme. The attitude that you display furthers the alienation that most users feel with Linux and its community.
The big secret is that Vista x64 is already what Linux wants to be: a fast, stable, and secure operating system. Last month, I bought a Dell XPS 13 with a 2.4 GHz processor, 4 GB DDR 3 RAM, a 320 GB hard drive for $700 shipped and including taxes. It came with Vista Home Premium 64 with stable drivers for all the components. I installed Vista SP2 along with Office 2007 SP2 and Norton Internet Security 2009. The computer is snappy, stable, and compatible with all the Windows apps that I customarily use. I have third party apps that sync Outlook's contacts and calendar with Google.
Why would I use Linux, to save a few dollars? For geek cred?
I guess you don't need calendaring functionality that works with your Blackberry. Business users need that capability, especially to interoperate with our business systems.
I can see how OpenOffice is useful for the average college student, though.
I doubt that the Democrats could top the Republicans in starting an unneeded war, cutting taxes for the rich by $1 trillion, embarking on a $50 billion (unfunded) Medicare prescription drug program, illegal wiretapping, torture, outing a CIA agent for political gain, allowing North Korea to gets tehs nukes, ban stem cell research, make political affiliation a criteria for selection of Department of Justice employees, or unrestricted instances of extraordinary rendition.
Perhaps you're a super-genius. If there were three other ways to do this industrially, and no one has been able to do it before, you should patent your ideas. I'm betting, though, that there are significant difficulties or expenses with the other methods tha render them economically infeasible.
At issue here are the NIH's proposed guidelines regarding a woman's consent to stem cell research when her donated eggs and embryos are used to create a cell line. The NIH wants to stiffen them to make sure that a woman has to specifically agree to let her eggs be used for stem cell research. I can understand that because I sure as hell wouldn't want cell lines made from my genetic material without my consent.
The problem is that these standards, if applied retroactively, would invalidate many of the currently-available stem cell lines. Scientists are more than happy to apply these new standards going forward, but obviously want current stem cell lines to be grandfathered in. I hope that the NIH clarifies the guidelines to allow already-existing stem cell lines to be used. After all, these are the draft standards, not the final ones.
I am happy that the NIH concerns do not seem to be motivated by a political agenda. Informed consent is the keystone of all medical treatment and medical research. This is a welcome change compared to the Bush Administration, which made scientific decisions based on religious and political grounds. Snow flake babies? Really? Come on.
The source code was a miserable mess. But I didn't see anywhere that the source code caused the machine to give spurious or inaccurate results. Much ado about nothing?
Should Microsoft still be supporting DOS 6.22 or Windows 95? Or, cough, Windows ME? Linux can keep going without deprecating old versions because no one's responsible for its upkeep. I mean, there are developers who maintain packages, but if shit hits the fan, no one is liable for it. If Microsoft maintains support for Windows 2000, that means it has to provide security updates and field service calls for that OS. The fixes may take forever or may never come at all, but MS has to take care of that operating system. Linux has no such obligations.
That's not to say that MS has an inherent interest in getting its customers to upgrade but there's a valid reason for them to discontinue support of old operating systems.
It's more complicated than that. The Fourth Amendment's bar against unreasonable search and seizures do not extend to things for which you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. For instance, cops can go through your trash without a warrant because you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in debris you threw away. You also don't have an expectation of privacy in your whereabouts in public locations, so cops can follow you around public areas without a warrant.
The consequence of this is that some jurisdictions have held that cops can use electronic means to follow you around without a warrant because you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in your location when you're in a public. Wisconsin was one such jurisdiction. This New York case differs, but the problem here is that the cops followed the guy around for 61 days. Perhaps he went into private locations during that time. If the cops followed him around for a few hours, that might lead to a different result.
You cannot just rebuild the Hubble because many of the original contractors are out of business. You would have to rebuild the space telescope from scratch, which involves validating all of the changes you made. Putting it all together along with logistical support costs a few billion dollars. For a frame of reference, Hubble cost $2.5 by 1992.
You're mixing things up. The analysis regarding tailing only applies when you're considering whether or not an action is an unreasonable search or seizure in the Constitutional context. There might be criminal statutes that apply if you're following a cop. You would be violating those laws, not violating the officer's Fourth Amendment rights. (Which you can't, unless you're an agent or employee of the state.)
Search and seizure law is all about expectations of privacy. You do not have a constitutional protection against search and seizure if you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. For instance, the police can search your trash without a warrant because you have no privacy interest in debris you tossed onto the street for disposal. A GPS unit only enhances what police could do with old fashioned elbow grease. A thermal imager that can see through walls to detect marijuana plants being grown indoors adds superpowers that cops would not normally have. Therefore, the imager is an unreasonable search because you have an expectation of privacy on your actions in your house.
Katz and its progeny are limited to instances where the target is being followed in public areas through electronic means. Defendants claim that this doesn't apply because they parked in a private parking lot but any cop on a stakeout who trailed the suspect there would know that the car was parked in there. You don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in your location when you walk around and let the public at large see where you are. If your neighbors can see you, so can the cops. And if the cops could have just followed you around, they can lawfully stick a GPS unit on you to do the same thing.
No, you can't. There are probably laws out there that prevent you from tampering with police cars. Police officers, in the course of an investigation, are allowed to do things that citizens cannot, such as pulling someone over or patting them down.
The entire problem here is that the state hasn't passed any laws regulating the conduct. The court only ruled that there was no violation of the Fourth Amendment here, which restricts SEARCH and SEIZURE. It would be hard to argue that putting a GPS unit on a car is either a search (you don't see anything in the car, etc.) or a seizure (such as impounding the car). In fact, the decision starts off by inviting the legislature to address the issue. States are allowed to regulate even if there isn't a constitutional bar to an action.
Trademarks are meant to protect the origin of a commercial good. This allows consumers to recognize a product and remember its quality or lack thereof. It's necessary to have trademarks in open source software. Imagine if anyone could create a browser and call it Firefox. Mozilla Firefox is going to get stomped down by "forks" that introduce all sorts of spyware in the source code. Without the protection of trademarks, Mozilla would have to sit idly by as its market share gets split up.
Alienware feels like they're trying to do business in a new age of credit card fraud but can't quite figure it out yet. Almost all vendors require your shipping address to be on your credit card as a billing address, but they can tell you about it almost instantly. Customer service tells you that you can add a secondary address on your credit card really easily. Not Alienware. Many vendors require you to have a proof of ownership for certain service. Dell lets you change the ownership online. Not Alienware.
Alienware needs to invest some of its hard-tricked money into providing decent customer service.
Whenever someone says "I make $40 an hour so I [X] because it saves my time" I want to smack them. You cannot work an unlimited amount at that rate. Your boss won't let you. And if you could, that means sleeping and fucking costs $40. Are you going to outsource that, too?