The amount of govenment funding NPR recieves is a tiny percent of their overall budget.
The average commercial station probably receives more government money from running military recruiting ads than a NPR station receives in government grants.
Most of the so-called "leftist views" I hear on my local NPR station are programs that are run at the descresion of the local station and are not national NPR programming.
Programs like "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" are pretty middle of the road and ballanced. I suppose to some people that might be too far to the left for their taste.
The irony of this is most of my lefty friends think NPR is too far to the right and is nothing more than a government and corprate mouthpiece.
I suppose the best way to tell if a news source is fair and ballanced these days is if they are hated by people on both sides of an issue and are accused of supporting the other side.
Oh, come on. We have plenty of money earmarked for mass transit in the Seattle area (well over $6 billion between the Monorail and Sound Transit). The problem is the lack of political will to spend it on anything other than endless studies and consultants. Hopefully at least one of these projects can actually start moving some dirt and pouring some concrete. On the other hand it took 20 years to finish I-90 through Seattle.
Hawking is brilliant. He has the rather rare ablity to be able to explain modern astrophysics to a layman. Such people usually are able to operate as scientific generallists. He probably knows enough to be able to keep up with the cutting edge in biology. And lets just say he has somewhat of a vested intrest in the matter.
Some combination of #4 and #5 is probably what will end up happening in industrialized countries.
At first only wealthier people will be able to afford things like gene therapy and screening or fixing obvious defects in their children. As these techniques develop they will become more affordable.
For an example of this look at fertility treatment. In-vitro fertilization used to be hugely expensive, it is now in reach of most with medical insurance.
I don't see it as a big problem that those with so-called genetic defects aren't getting "weeded out". For whatever reason there seem to be a large number of fairly brilliant people who happen to have some condition that would have killed them in childhood 10,000 or even 100 years ago.
There is plenty of Science Fiction in real life. Just take a look around you.
Genetic engineering, laptop computers, handheld computers, speech recognition, MRI, flatscreen TVs, MP3 players, human genome project, digital cameras, CNC machines, 3D "printers", cloning, the internet, and countless other items of everyday technology all would seem like something out of science fiction 20 or 30 years ago.
The future truly is now! It is only going to get more so, if anything the rate of change is accelerating. Some say we may see the singularity as postulated by Vernor Vinge by 2035. After that? Well, things are going to get weird.
This reminds me of the administration hiring people from the accounting, banking, and stock trading industrys to as regulators. Don't believe me check the resumes of some of the appointments to the SEC, FDIC, and the new accounting regulatory board.
I know the new privacy czar comes reccomended by many in the privacy community but this is a tad too "Fox guarding the henhouse" for my taste.
What the hell are they offering that I can't get from RedHat, SuSE, or Debian?
I know others such as RedHat sell Linux distros with similar price tags, however the vendor makes it pretty clear in these cases that most of it is for support.
It's like asking a mountain climer, bodybuilder, or football fan why they bother.
Geeks like to mess with stuff. If we didn't we'd just plop down in front of the telly and watch "Survivor".
Some are probably doing it for the challenge. Some are probably doing it because they actually have an application in mind. Some are probably doing it just because they can.
Try rephrasing your question and you'll see my point: "What's the point of running linux on your PC? Windows runs just fine on a PC. Is it just the "because we can" factor, or are there any really useful things you can do with Linux on a PC that you can't do with Windows?"
At my former employer we had a similar experience.
One of our customers was having trouble accessing some of our servers, in particular one/24 couldn't talk to most of the internet. Unfortunately this included the main corprate outbound mail servers.
This apparently caused quite the fire drill at our upstream provider, a couple of their upstream providers, and our customer's upstream.
Turned out the problem was caused by Verio leaking bogus BGP advertisements that included our block. Unfortunately it took over a week for Verio to acknolwedge the problem and get around to fixing it.
This would be a deal only for the console versions of the game.
Even if Microsoft was to try to pay ID not to release a PC (or linux or mac) version I suspect Intel and NVIDIA would make a counter-offer. The round of upgrades that happens every time ID releases a new game are far too valuable to the hardware makers for them to allow this.
On the other hand everyone has their price. I'm sure if Microsoft threw enough money their way ID would even sell out entirely to MS.
You are assuming Universal or any other record company will use Microsoft's DRM format.
There are many competing DRM schemes at the moment. None of them including Microsoft's has emerged as the clear winner.
Whatever wins the support of a majority of consumer electronics manufacturers and media companies will be the standard if any. At this point it is not even clear there will be any sort of widespread DRM.
Microsoft can no more force everyone to use it's DRM scheme than it can force someone to buy an Xbox instead of a PS2 or Game Cube.
Sorry, according to the Constitution he is the President of the United States of America.
He received more than the required number of votes from the Electoral College. He was sworn in on the Constitutionally specified day in the Constitutionally specified manner.
While people may dispute how some of the electors were selected it doesn't change the fact that George W. Bush is President until impeachment, death, or the Electoral College chooses someone else.
1) Buy a big name brand such as Sony, NEC, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Iiyama, Samsung, etc. (note Viewsonic and MAG don't count) In my personal experience monitors with Sony tubes hold up really well.
2) Buy the most expensive from the brand you select in the size you want. These tend to be the monitors intended for professional graphics arts or CAD use so they will hold up well.
While this will cost more than getting the cheapest 22" monitor WalMart has you will end up with something you can still stand to look at after 7 years of daily use.
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... up to 23% of the U.S. population struggles enough with literacy that they have difficulty completing everyday tasks.
That accounts for at least half of the internet "non-users".
That means if I meet 20 people, 5 of them will not be able to read or write correctly.
Not exactly. For the most part your friends, co-workers, and family will share a similar educational level.
What taxpayer funding?
The amount of govenment funding NPR recieves is a tiny percent of their overall budget.
The average commercial station probably receives more government money from running military recruiting ads than a NPR station receives in government grants.
You mean "fair and balanced" like FOX.
Oh please, you kill me.
Most of the so-called "leftist views" I hear on my local NPR station are programs that are run at the descresion of the local station and are not national NPR programming.
Programs like "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" are pretty middle of the road and ballanced. I suppose to some people that might be too far to the left for their taste.
The irony of this is most of my lefty friends think NPR is too far to the right and is nothing more than a government and corprate mouthpiece.
I suppose the best way to tell if a news source is fair and ballanced these days is if they are hated by people on both sides of an issue and are accused of supporting the other side.
The picture is better and very much younger. It looks to be about from the time M$ sold software on paper tape.
The picture isn't that much newer. Up until the last few years in every picture of Allen I saw he had a beard.
Oh, come on. We have plenty of money earmarked for mass transit in the Seattle area (well over $6 billion between the Monorail and Sound Transit). The problem is the lack of political will to spend it on anything other than endless studies and consultants. Hopefully at least one of these projects can actually start moving some dirt and pouring some concrete. On the other hand it took 20 years to finish I-90 through Seattle.
Hawking is brilliant. He has the rather rare ablity to be able to explain modern astrophysics to a layman. Such people usually are able to operate as scientific generallists. He probably knows enough to be able to keep up with the cutting edge in biology. And lets just say he has somewhat of a vested intrest in the matter.
Some combination of #4 and #5 is probably what will end up happening in industrialized countries.
At first only wealthier people will be able to afford things like gene therapy and screening or fixing obvious defects in their children. As these techniques develop they will become more affordable.
For an example of this look at fertility treatment. In-vitro fertilization used to be hugely expensive, it is now in reach of most with medical insurance.
I don't see it as a big problem that those with so-called genetic defects aren't getting "weeded out". For whatever reason there seem to be a large number of fairly brilliant people who happen to have some condition that would have killed them in childhood 10,000 or even 100 years ago.
At least he's not trying to outdo L. Ron Hubbard.
There is plenty of Science Fiction in real life. Just take a look around you.
Genetic engineering, laptop computers, handheld computers, speech recognition, MRI, flatscreen TVs, MP3 players, human genome project, digital cameras, CNC machines, 3D "printers", cloning, the internet, and countless other items of everyday technology all would seem like something out of science fiction 20 or 30 years ago.
The future truly is now! It is only going to get more so, if anything the rate of change is accelerating. Some say we may see the singularity as postulated by Vernor Vinge by 2035. After that? Well, things are going to get weird.
Hey, don't blame Allen he left Microsoft years ago. His new company is called "Seattle" I think.
According to the article it will initially open in 13,000 sf of exibit space in the EMP building.
While the EMP building is supposed to represent a smashed guitar it is pretty Sci-Fi looking too. (esp with the monorail running through it.)
Hey it's April 16th isn't it?
This reminds me of the administration hiring people from the accounting, banking, and stock trading industrys to as regulators. Don't believe me check the resumes of some of the appointments to the SEC, FDIC, and the new accounting regulatory board.
I know the new privacy czar comes reccomended by many in the privacy community but this is a tad too "Fox guarding the henhouse" for my taste.
What the hell are they offering that I can't get from RedHat, SuSE, or Debian?
I know others such as RedHat sell Linux distros with similar price tags, however the vendor makes it pretty clear in these cases that most of it is for support.
That bloke seems a tad delusional. Spying on him through the telly? Come on!
Me thinks he needs to loosen the tinfoil hat a bit.
If you have to ask you just don't understand.
Why does someone do anything?
It's like asking a mountain climer, bodybuilder, or football fan why they bother.
Geeks like to mess with stuff. If we didn't we'd just plop down in front of the telly and watch "Survivor".
Some are probably doing it for the challenge. Some are probably doing it because they actually have an application in mind. Some are probably doing it just because they can.
Try rephrasing your question and you'll see my point:
"What's the point of running linux on your PC? Windows runs just fine on a PC. Is it just the "because we can" factor, or are there any really useful things you can do with Linux on a PC that you can't do with Windows?"
At my former employer we had a similar experience.
/24 couldn't talk to most of the internet. Unfortunately this included the main corprate outbound mail servers.
One of our customers was having trouble accessing some of our servers, in particular one
This apparently caused quite the fire drill at our upstream provider, a couple of their upstream providers, and our customer's upstream.
Turned out the problem was caused by Verio leaking bogus BGP advertisements that included our block. Unfortunately it took over a week for Verio to acknolwedge the problem and get around to fixing it.
This would be a deal only for the console versions of the game.
Even if Microsoft was to try to pay ID not to release a PC (or linux or mac) version I suspect Intel and NVIDIA would make a counter-offer. The round of upgrades that happens every time ID releases a new game are far too valuable to the hardware makers for them to allow this.
On the other hand everyone has their price. I'm sure if Microsoft threw enough money their way ID would even sell out entirely to MS.
"Your license for has expired would you like to renew now for the low price of $20/year?"
or
"By clicking OK you agree to allow Microsoft Music to deduct a license fee of $2 from your account for playing this song."
You are assuming Universal or any other record company will use Microsoft's DRM format.
There are many competing DRM schemes at the moment. None of them including Microsoft's has emerged as the clear winner.
Whatever wins the support of a majority of consumer electronics manufacturers and media companies will be the standard if any. At this point it is not even clear there will be any sort of widespread DRM.
Microsoft can no more force everyone to use it's DRM scheme than it can force someone to buy an Xbox instead of a PS2 or Game Cube.
I don't know I thought Dogma was decent.
Of course the 2 best by Smith in my opinion are "Clerks" and "Chasing Amy". "Mallrats" is way underrated although not as good as the former 2 movies.
Is Smith the best filmmaker out there? Not by a longshot. Is he the worst? Unfortunately no.
Um, the cops would seize the backups, too.
This is why you leave a copy of your backups with your attorney.
A company I worked for sent one of the weekly offsite sets to our corprate law firm so we would have access in case of legal entanglements.
I don't think Kevin Smith was under any delusion that "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" was "Citizen Kane".
He admits it was supposed to be his version of a silly summer road movie.
At least it wasn't as bad as "Biodome" or "Dude Where's My Car?."
Folks, Bush ain't your president.
Sorry, according to the Constitution he is the President of the United States of America.
He received more than the required number of votes from the Electoral College. He was sworn in on the Constitutionally specified day in the Constitutionally specified manner.
While people may dispute how some of the electors were selected it doesn't change the fact that George W. Bush is President until impeachment, death, or the Electoral College chooses someone else.
Yes, but did VA have $4.4 Billion in cash and $1.5 Billion in annual revenue?
1) Buy a big name brand such as Sony, NEC, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Iiyama, Samsung, etc. (note Viewsonic and MAG don't count) In my personal experience monitors with Sony tubes hold up really well.
2) Buy the most expensive from the brand you select in the size you want. These tend to be the monitors intended for professional graphics arts or CAD use so they will hold up well.
While this will cost more than getting the cheapest 22" monitor WalMart has you will end up with something you can still stand to look at after 7 years of daily use.
Specific reccomendation? Sony GDM-F520