He said that it hasn't reached its potential. And indeed it has not. Yes, the classic case is the Japanese train system. But there's a million and one other places it could be used well, and hasn't. Yes, there's a handful of consumer devices you can buy that utilize some form of fuzzy logic. But it has not reached its potential. (I wonder why we [the US] love to throw out so much good tech. And then Japan takes it and runs a hundred miles an hour with it. And we wonder why they have all the cool toys and we don't..)
First of all, I think a 20% flat tax would be ridiculous. I think if we actually gave some thought to where we threw our money, 10% ought to be plenty. And second of all, your whole problem seems to be (correct me if I'm wrong, I probably am;) that the people making dirt-wages would end up screwed. Well people under the "poverty" level (or whatever) ought to be able to keep their money. (This does go against my "no exceptions" comment tho doesn't it? Hehe..) Anyway. Who cares. I'm always gonna get screwed, so deal with it, eh?;)
How can you justify all his tax plans and stuff though? I think Nader is a pretty cool guy, and I was all for him until I found out about all his tax ideas and things. Gotta go Libertarian now, I think. I just don't think the government ought to take more taxes when you have more money, or that my tax dollars should pay to put some crackhead through rehab half a dozen times. And I think taxes ought to be a flat rate for *everyone*, regardless of what they make. As it is now, the rich people don't even PAY their taxes, because they can afford to hire people to find the loopholes. It's silly. Flat rate for all, no exceptions.. (I will admit, though, that I don't give politics hardly any thought at all.. hehe.)
And to keep this on-topic.. um.. No, I don't think the world should end..;)
A useless comment: 3 karma points.
A redundant post like this one: -1 karma point.
A couple of hits from the old crack pipe: 0 karma points.
An AC that actually has a point: priceless.
Why do judges & lawmakers always thing they can decide what is good for our children? Isn't that for parent's to decide?
Exactly. Which is precisely why Indianapolis has apparently made it so that the child needs a parent or guardian to be there: because it is their right as a parent to raise their child how they want.
Amateur radio operators ("hams") will be familiar with this.. Basically, when there's more sunspots, the upper atmosphere is ionized more than usual. This makes sky-wave propagation (radio waves bouncing off the upper atmosphere, usually in the F2 region) much better because it defracts more. Makes it easier for the radio waves to bounce off of the upper atmosphere. So in times when there are lots of sunspots, DXing (talking long distance) is better. Of course this is basically only relevant during the day, because at night the ions created by the UV from the sun combine with the free electrons and neutralize (and are this no longer ions). Everyone feel free to rip this to pieces, I'm still studying for my ham radio exam..;)
I don't have Slashdot bookmarked, and I don't consider myself stupid.. I just type "s" in the URL box and let iCab's line completion fill in the rest. A simple, quick "s - return" is probably a lot faster than your bookmark.. (I've also noticed that I rarely use my bookmarks at all.. I have so many, and I can type out enough of the URL faster than it'd take to find and choose the bookmark with the mouse..)
Where I go to school (Indiana University, Bloomington) they banned Napster for a while.. then a while later they reinstated it, but set it up to only use local servers. I believe they were the first to do it.. (Or at least close. I don't know, I don't live on-campus..)
Stealing by means of Napster is comparable to robbing a bank by means of a car.
I don't think I could agree with you on that. I think something like the following would be a bit of a closer analogy:
Stealing by means of Napster is comparable to robbing a bank by means of an armored vehicle with a mounted machinegun on top.
A silly analogy? Yes. Any sillier than the one you put forth? Not by much. Are they talking about banning peer-to-peer networking? No. They're talking about a specific implementation of peer-to-peer networking, that just happens to be perfectly designed to exchange files for which all parties don't possess the rights. Whether I agree with them or not is one thing that I won't even go into, but let's at least stay a bit realistic..
Regardless. That's completely beside the point. The point is that this presumably uses much higher quality components than your Rio. So even if it can *play* them.. it (again, presumably) won't play them with as much clarity as the Springboard module.
Read the article. This will perform (audio quality-wise.. at least according to these guys) much better than any Rio piece of crap that stutters on high-quality MP3s.
In the context of the article, it makes it clear that "people will see MP3 in a new light" because of all the high-quality hardware they throw at it. 24 bit ADC, 96kHz sample rate.. (A 74 MHz ARM decoding MP3s, with a 16 MHz Dragonball running the actual Visor? Hehehe.) I totally agree tho, it's a bit (a BIT??) silly...;)
According to the headline, this MP3 player doubles as.. an MP3 player!;) ("Visor MP3 module doubles as portable player") Crapballs, what is this world coming to?
Tesla had an idea.. I believe it was something of a joke, but I laughed out loud when I read about it.. Basically imagine building a giant ring, with a greater circumference than that of the earth. So where does it go? Does it fall to earth on one side, and get pushed far away from the earth on the other? The idea was that it would fall as close to the earth as it could on all sides - thus staying in perfect orbit. The earth would revolve as it normally does, but the ring would remain relatively stationary. And people would basically hitch rides on the ring, lifting themselves up in the air as the earth revolved under them. Once it'd revolved to a place they wanted to be (along the equator of course) they'd hop off. Well I thought it was kinda cool...;)
Everybody seems to be talking about iCab's customizability, so I guess I'm gonna assume that you are too. This does *not* hinder its performance or ability to be a great browser. It's not necessary to spend even one second of time "under the hood" if you don't want. They give you the *ability*, tho, which I am always very happy about. There are some of the coolest features in iCab, and no other browser I've ever seen has them. Anyway, my point is that iCab isn't the least bit difficult to use. I use it almost exclusively, except when I need things it doesn't have. (Btw what were those reviewers smoking, talking about it being slow? It blows the pants off of any other browser for the Mac..)
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He said that it hasn't reached its potential. And indeed it has not. Yes, the classic case is the Japanese train system. But there's a million and one other places it could be used well, and hasn't. Yes, there's a handful of consumer devices you can buy that utilize some form of fuzzy logic. But it has not reached its potential. (I wonder why we [the US] love to throw out so much good tech. And then Japan takes it and runs a hundred miles an hour with it. And we wonder why they have all the cool toys and we don't..)
Thank you, good AC..
Wish I had mod points, I'd give that a +1 Funny... They haven't given me any in a while tho! Rrroar!
Hahaha... that's hilarious. Screw my karma, AC's rule! Hehe. (And yes, I'm American.)
Here, here! Some of those crackheads in action now! ;)
First of all, I think a 20% flat tax would be ridiculous. I think if we actually gave some thought to where we threw our money, 10% ought to be plenty. And second of all, your whole problem seems to be (correct me if I'm wrong, I probably am ;) that the people making dirt-wages would end up screwed. Well people under the "poverty" level (or whatever) ought to be able to keep their money. (This does go against my "no exceptions" comment tho doesn't it? Hehe..) Anyway. Who cares. I'm always gonna get screwed, so deal with it, eh? ;)
And to keep this on-topic.. um.. No, I don't think the world should end.. ;)
A redundant post like this one: -1 karma point.
A couple of hits from the old crack pipe: 0 karma points.
An AC that actually has a point: priceless.
Sorry, couldn't resist...
"Crack" is right... ;-)
It's an article about ZX81's. Of course it's old! ;)
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I don't think I could agree with you on that. I think something like the following would be a bit of a closer analogy:
Stealing by means of Napster is comparable to robbing a bank by means of an armored vehicle with a mounted machinegun on top.
A silly analogy? Yes. Any sillier than the one you put forth? Not by much. Are they talking about banning peer-to-peer networking? No. They're talking about a specific implementation of peer-to-peer networking, that just happens to be perfectly designed to exchange files for which all parties don't possess the rights. Whether I agree with them or not is one thing that I won't even go into, but let's at least stay a bit realistic..
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