Depth of field isn't a question of better or worse, you know, it's just different. If you want to poke at that story, you might just point out that a the limited image size makes the comparison pointless. These days, cheap digital cameras make incredibly expensive pro cameras more useful for either flexibility or niche markets (like >13" prints). That doesn't mean professional cameras aren't worth it, just that they're not worth it for everything.
It seems like half of the stories here are posted for us to go through the same gratuitous cycle. A halfway baseless article criticizes or praises a company that for some reason a lot of us like and a lot of us dislike. A lot of people post about the article proving that the company is evil. Other people respond and defend the company. A few posts on either side are reasonable and balanced. A few are reasonable and unbalanced. Most are just a big pile of poorly concealed flame. Then we repeat in 90 minutes with a new target.
I'm getting tired of criticizing Google, myself. I am not a fan of the company by any means, but what's the point of posting roughly the same hate cycle 3 times a week? Half of the more unique stories are even beginning to feel pointless to me now, since most of the discussions end up heading toward creationists, atheists, or a general left vs right (or libertarians vs. everyone) brawl.
He feels unwelcome because he's not considered a citizen yet. He's here on a visa. What rights does he not have that I do? Honestly, not many.
He can't collect Social Security, though he's paying into it. Neither can I right now. Eventually, I'll be able to; so will he.
Medicare is not available to him, nor is it available to me. Eventually, I'll be old enough to make use of it; so will he.
I can rely on the police, firemen and ambulances when I need them. So can he.
I can speak my mind freely, so can he.
I can bear arms. I'm not sure where the law stands as far as him and, honestly, I'd hope we're not allowing people who are here on visa to carry weapons. Again, something he'll be able to do once he becomes a citizen.
Possibly no right to bear arms for a few years seems a small price to pay for a free MD PhD. Hell, I'd give up my right to own a firearm for 10 years if the US Government was going to put my through premed, med school and postmed courses for that period of time. I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Other than that, he really has every right I do.
If you don't like the terms, you shouldn't have signed up. Quit taking more than you're paying in, bitching about it the whole while, pack up and go home.
You're more than welcome here if you're willing to abide by the terms you agreed to when you came here. If you have a problem with that, why are you here in the first place?
Do a 180 and appreciate that you actually have more of an advantage in this country right now than many, if not most, who were BORN here. Then, I'll welcome you to my country. Hell, do that and I'll do whatever I can to make your new life here the best it can be.
You'll probably never collect social security money. Nor will I. The money's just not going to be there when we're old enough.
Since the C2D arrived, I've been going with Intel. I usually don't overclock, but the C2D handles it so well with such little effort that I based my purchase of a $200 ~2.2 GHz chip on that alone. With the addition of a $30 heatsink I had it at 3.4 GHz with temperatures under 60 C at load (below the temperature seen at stock speed with the stock cooler, implying good longevity), back when there were no 3.4 GHz Duos and the closest thing cost about $1000. I have several friends who had never OCed before who did the same thing, all ending up with 2.8-3.6 GHz chips that all are still working perfectly and speedily ~1.5 years later.
Why not fix the issues with windows and the cheap commodity hardware that team up to cause the most OS's including linux and windows to get unstable and crash after more than a few cycles of suspending and resuming.
My Macbooks and Powerbooks have had flawless suspend restore activity allowing me to only boot the OS when I need to install an update. Teamed up with VMware Fusion I can run any of the x86 OS's in full screen mode in spaces and toggle through OS's effortlessly.
Why does it matter how fast a system boots anyway other than some geek masturbation contest? Real geeks don't boot their hardware at all. Its all about the uptime.
Real geeks in the 90s cared about uptime. Now they're called geezers and eating the geekdust of those who are smart enough to shut down personal systems when not in use.
Me either. I rarely have to reboot my Mac, so I don't really care how long it takes.
Try turning it off and saving power. Except in the winter months if you live in a cold climate, when you can use it completely for free, cutting the cost of heating your house/room.
This is still cheating - it's first of all not actually booting but suspending/resuming (albeit smartly).
Most importantly the system is not actually shut down, so it still draws power to refresh the memory. This will likely suck on high-performance laptops where the large amounts of ram with high voltages will suck the battery dry in a substantially short time.
And worse, this technology will take a _long_ time to shutdown. It's sacrificing a lot. We can (really) boot+shutdown a linux box in +- 10 seconds. Would you want a 3 second boot if your shutdown time becomes one minute?
For people who are on the go a lot and tend to open/close their laptops a lot, this may actually reduce their effective work time a lot.
1) It only draws current in "Fast Mode." The "Regular Mode" still allows for 22 second booting with no power draw.
2) Most people won't mind the slow shut down, even in a scenario where the computer is being turned on and off frequently. Why? You shut down because you want to do something else, so the computer can painlessly finish the process in the background where you don't need to notice it. Yes, it will hurt battery life by extending the powered up state for a little longer than your actual usage time, but it then shaves most or all of that off of boot time, which is subjectively more critical.
3) How do you boot a Linux box in negative 10 seconds? "+- 10" looks like a statement of error bounds to me. I think you meant "~10."
The Lego plastic is actually superior, and the quality of the molds must be better, too.
So why is it a mixed blessing? If Lego's products are better, they'll win on quality and be worth the price. Or perhaps the general public doesn't value the difference, in which case the public gets what it wants. This is capitalism working well: competition, with competitors competing on quality and price and consumers having options.
Quality doesn't win in this market. You can win on marketing, but not on quality. This ruling means there will soon be lead-tainted Lego-compatible pieces made in a certain Asian country and sold mostly through Walmart. Yeah, they'll break, discolor, and not fit together all that well, but they'll be significantly cheaper than genuine Legos, because Lego can't get away with paying its employees $2500 a year. And these new parts will soon outsell Lego. Now Lego does have a good marketing position, given their great brand recognition, and they'll make a lot more money per part. This will slowly erode, however, until Lego branded parts are a either niche market for elitist liberals who buy their groceries at farmers markets, or it will go away entirely.
you could also bake on the range, but that's not as easy as just figuring out which part is the stove.
I guess you meant figuring out which part is the OVEN.:-) BOTH parts are the stove. But actually thanks for clarifying -- I always thought the range was the stove and the oven was not. And can you really bake on a range? My cooking world is being turned upside down this morning!
Put a lid on a pot. Bake inside. Use a thicker pot for more temperature uniformity. Use a rack to keep your baked goods off the very hot bottom surface.
Regarding the pager-feature request, WinMo phones also have free apps that should handle all his paging needs.
And returning to your list of cool, Symbian features: I don't have a ton of fancy stuff on my WinMo phone right now, but one feature that I find pretty cool is a free (of course) app that allows me to 1) find my phone if it's lost or stolen by someone who doesn't turn it off and 2) track my enemies (as long as I'm willing to sacrifice my phone). If I send it a text message with my security key, it receives the message silently and suppresses the message notification window. Then it deletes the message, activates the GPS, and sends me text messages with lat and long position updates. Also it can be set up to take and send periodic photos.
Yeah, and France's rather recent history of illegal underwater testing of nuclear weapons, the reason for the huge zone of floating dead animals in the South Pacific, also doesn't speak well of them here.
They only tested with up to 256, 512, and 1024 MB of RAM available for the OS and apps. Yes, Vista is much much slower than XP if you have 256, 512, or 1024 MB of RAM. If you look at results with 2 or 4 gigs of RAM, using identical systems for XP and Vista, things look a lot different. App speed is roughly on par (app loading is much faster in Vista), and system responsiveness is certainly higher under Vista for a system with 4 gigs of RAM.
If you can get into Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc etc, and you're not wealthy, they'll be cheap for you. In fact, all of those schools have already replaced all loans with grants in their financial aid packages. I got $0 from parents and was in one of those schools back when student loans still happened. I racked up the maximum debt they allowed before giving grant money for all the remaining cash - about $21500. I then got payments deferred for a few years through grad school. Now my first payment is due in January, and with no financial help from anyone but my employer, check #1 will be for $21500, settling the account.
I know friends who went to state schools, had poorer parents, and have about $30,000 in loans. I know friends who went to private schools that weren't the self-styled elite and have $100,000 in loans. I think the real comparison is between going to a mid-tier private school and a state school. The quality of education is likely very similar, but the private tends to have much higher debt-potential. Meanwhile, go to Harvard and you'll have $0 in debt, and they'll also charge you less for tuition, assuming your family isn't rich enough to have to pay it all.
Also, another key was to not have any money saved for college. In negotiating my financial aid package, initially my school thought I had $20,000 saved for college. When I revealed that I had nothing saved, they reduced by tuition by exactly $20,000. Of course, a lot of other schools may not do this, and it's not a gamble I'd recommend without a lot more evidence than my anecdote. I think of it like shooting the moon in Hearts.
I really havn't visited Circuit City since they stopped paying the employees commissions. When I used to enter a Circuit City, an employee would FIND ME, and try to sell me something.
Which is exactly why I don't shop at commissioned stores when I can help it. I prefer to educate myself from an impartial source rather than have propaganda thrown at me. Those sellers were motivated enough to negotiate ridiculous deals on things like TVs, but that's only relevant to me once every ten years.
4 gigs of RAM + turning off all animations (which should be done in any OS) make Vista a lot swifter than XP in terms of UI responsiveness. A particularly big deal is that commonly used apps load much faster. Firefox used to take 1-2 seconds for me in XP, and under Vista it's nearly instantaneous, at most 0.25 seconds. Game framerates with current drivers are 0-1% slower in Vista. File copying was the real complaint about Vista for those with enough RAM, and over the network it's still slower than XP, but locally the difference seems to be that XP says it's done writing before it actually is (once everything is read to RAM) while Vista says you're done when the write is complete.
The real problem with Vista is battery life on laptops. Check out anandtech's comparison of battery life under Vista vs. OSX in their recent MBP review. I think they have a a newer comparison showing Vista failing at battery life compared to XP, too. I wonder whether it's all of the superfetch/etc tasks that can be tweaked or whether it's something more fundamentally tied to the OS.
I dunno about most of you, but I do consider a nippier interface to be an improvement in productivity. For the vast majority of Windows users, the thing they want to see improved is those moments lost "when they click a button and nothing seems to happen", as the article author puts it. That is time that has been taken from me. If I get those moments back, and the performance of the trivial CPU tasks involved in actually reading and writing files are kept the same, then yes, my productivity has improved.
Yeah, obviously. The benchmarked tasks in TFA are going to be the same speed in Vista/7/XP/anything else running the same applications, because none of these operating systems get in the way of these applications in a significant manner. To use my first/. car analogy, this comparison is like asking which car will get you to work faster: the one with the rubber bumper or the one with the steel bumper.
It's a rather outrageous case, and we all know it. Still, there's a certain satisfaction in seeing Google execs suffer for any reason. I imagine I'd feel the same way if W went to Singapore, gave his secret service buddy a stick of gum that was later spit onto the sidewalk, and got caned.
Why would Obama or McCain have secret foreign policy plans in their campaign planning computers? The sensitive data here was most likely canvassing, financing, and advertising plans. They'd be very useful to the other campaign, or to a party supporting either campaign and planning to influence the election. Maybe unaffiliated but supportive organizations like those of T Boone Pickens and his democratic equivalent had this done.
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Sorry, I fail for not RTFA. They are misusing "rooted", which confused me. "rooted" in the popular [geek] vernacular means that a remote non-admin user can gain root access, such as through a buffer overflow exploit. It has nothing to do with the practice of gaining root access on your own devices.
I think they're using it to imply that you're renting access to Google's OS instead of gaining ownership of it, so you're gaining root access against the owner's intent.
McCain would tax the Poor?? really? If you really believe that then McCain's campaign has failed even worse than I'd imagined. Not once has he said he'd raise taxes on the Poor. Good Grief!
But he has a long and proud record of voting for it.
To the GGP, Barack Obama is the first presidential candidate in my lifetime (extending back to the beginning of Reagan's first term) who is a decent, thoughtful human being. If you opposed Obama, at least be happy that he's uniquely concerned with hearing your voice as well as that of his supporters.
This was easily the best election I ever participated in. Mostly because of Ron Paul. He opened my eyes to real liberty and true freedoms, and I've been a changed person man ever since. I'm not going to take crap from the two parties sitting down anymore, and I have real hope for this country, that someday we all might really be free from the federal government. I was also exposed to Ayn Rand and read her fiction, and really enjoyed it.
I wrote Ron Paul in, and I was beyond happy the rest of the day. It honestly felt awesome to vote for someone that I honestly believe in, an opportunity I've never taken before.
The head of the KKK in my state seems more bitter about Ron Paul's loss than happy to have been a leader in his campaign. I congratulate you on not having the same response he did.
As for Rand, I urge you to keep reading and not to be afraid to keep reading serious literature and thinking of the world in nuanced terms. When the world stops being black and white, I think you'll find that Rand loses a little luster. This also applies to some extent to Ron Paul.
> Actually, Adam Smith (the guy who basically invented Capitalism) was also in favor of the rich being taxed > at a higher rate than the poor, so that's not a good argument.
Progressive taxation is debatable but people of good intent can argue both sides and still be good Capitalists and traditional Americans. The government must have revenue, even if it were bound back to only doing the things it should be doing. The question of how to raise those funds with the least impact on the citizenry is valid.
What Obama is proposing is a different thing. He isn't talking about how best to fund the operations of the government, he is talking about redistribution of income by taxing people he decrees to be 'making too much' and handing out checks to people to don't pay any taxes at all. And that is Socialism/Communism. From Each according to their Abilities, to Each according to their Need. It doesn't get more clear cut.
This is called a straw man argument. Obama doesn't support this policy. McCain simply claims he does, ignoring that Obama's tax plan is the same as the one we had under Bill Clinton. McCain argued vehemently against Bush's tax cuts when they were enacted, and now that Obama's plan is to simply let the tax cuts for those making over $250k/year expire, he's labeling that socialism. The McCain that existed until 2008 and Obama agree on this.
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That isn't the conclusion that the author came to. If you compare http://www.luminous-landscape.com/images-85/h2.jpg and http://www.luminous-landscape.com/images-85/g10-comp.jpg there is definitely a different between the yellows and the depth of focus on the expensive camera is far better (compare the red leaves on the upper left).
Depth of field isn't a question of better or worse, you know, it's just different. If you want to poke at that story, you might just point out that a the limited image size makes the comparison pointless. These days, cheap digital cameras make incredibly expensive pro cameras more useful for either flexibility or niche markets (like >13" prints). That doesn't mean professional cameras aren't worth it, just that they're not worth it for everything.
It seems like half of the stories here are posted for us to go through the same gratuitous cycle. A halfway baseless article criticizes or praises a company that for some reason a lot of us like and a lot of us dislike. A lot of people post about the article proving that the company is evil. Other people respond and defend the company. A few posts on either side are reasonable and balanced. A few are reasonable and unbalanced. Most are just a big pile of poorly concealed flame. Then we repeat in 90 minutes with a new target.
I'm getting tired of criticizing Google, myself. I am not a fan of the company by any means, but what's the point of posting roughly the same hate cycle 3 times a week? Half of the more unique stories are even beginning to feel pointless to me now, since most of the discussions end up heading toward creationists, atheists, or a general left vs right (or libertarians vs. everyone) brawl.
He feels unwelcome because he's not considered a citizen yet. He's here on a visa. What rights does he not have that I do? Honestly, not many.
He can't collect Social Security, though he's paying into it. Neither can I right now. Eventually, I'll be able to; so will he.
Medicare is not available to him, nor is it available to me. Eventually, I'll be old enough to make use of it; so will he.
I can rely on the police, firemen and ambulances when I need them. So can he.
I can speak my mind freely, so can he.
I can bear arms. I'm not sure where the law stands as far as him and, honestly, I'd hope we're not allowing people who are here on visa to carry weapons. Again, something he'll be able to do once he becomes a citizen.
Possibly no right to bear arms for a few years seems a small price to pay for a free MD PhD. Hell, I'd give up my right to own a firearm for 10 years if the US Government was going to put my through premed, med school and postmed courses for that period of time. I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Other than that, he really has every right I do.
If you don't like the terms, you shouldn't have signed up. Quit taking more than you're paying in, bitching about it the whole while, pack up and go home.
You're more than welcome here if you're willing to abide by the terms you agreed to when you came here. If you have a problem with that, why are you here in the first place?
Do a 180 and appreciate that you actually have more of an advantage in this country right now than many, if not most, who were BORN here. Then, I'll welcome you to my country. Hell, do that and I'll do whatever I can to make your new life here the best it can be.
You'll probably never collect social security money. Nor will I. The money's just not going to be there when we're old enough.
Since the C2D arrived, I've been going with Intel. I usually don't overclock, but the C2D handles it so well with such little effort that I based my purchase of a $200 ~2.2 GHz chip on that alone. With the addition of a $30 heatsink I had it at 3.4 GHz with temperatures under 60 C at load (below the temperature seen at stock speed with the stock cooler, implying good longevity), back when there were no 3.4 GHz Duos and the closest thing cost about $1000. I have several friends who had never OCed before who did the same thing, all ending up with 2.8-3.6 GHz chips that all are still working perfectly and speedily ~1.5 years later.
Why not fix the issues with windows and the cheap commodity hardware that team up to cause the most OS's including linux and windows to get unstable and crash after more than a few cycles of suspending and resuming.
My Macbooks and Powerbooks have had flawless suspend restore activity allowing me to only boot the OS when I need to install an update. Teamed up with VMware Fusion I can run any of the x86 OS's in full screen mode in spaces and toggle through OS's effortlessly.
Why does it matter how fast a system boots anyway other than some geek masturbation contest? Real geeks don't boot their hardware at all. Its all about the uptime.
Real geeks in the 90s cared about uptime. Now they're called geezers and eating the geekdust of those who are smart enough to shut down personal systems when not in use.
Me either. I rarely have to reboot my Mac, so I don't really care how long it takes.
Try turning it off and saving power. Except in the winter months if you live in a cold climate, when you can use it completely for free, cutting the cost of heating your house/room.
This is still cheating - it's first of all not actually booting but suspending/resuming (albeit smartly).
Most importantly the system is not actually shut down, so it still draws power to refresh the memory. This will likely suck on high-performance laptops where the large amounts of ram with high voltages will suck the battery dry in a substantially short time.
And worse, this technology will take a _long_ time to shutdown. It's sacrificing a lot. We can (really) boot+shutdown a linux box in +- 10 seconds. Would you want a 3 second boot if your shutdown time becomes one minute?
For people who are on the go a lot and tend to open/close their laptops a lot, this may actually reduce their effective work time a lot.
1) It only draws current in "Fast Mode." The "Regular Mode" still allows for 22 second booting with no power draw.
2) Most people won't mind the slow shut down, even in a scenario where the computer is being turned on and off frequently. Why? You shut down because you want to do something else, so the computer can painlessly finish the process in the background where you don't need to notice it. Yes, it will hurt battery life by extending the powered up state for a little longer than your actual usage time, but it then shaves most or all of that off of boot time, which is subjectively more critical.
3) How do you boot a Linux box in negative 10 seconds? "+- 10" looks like a statement of error bounds to me. I think you meant "~10."
So why is it a mixed blessing? If Lego's products are better, they'll win on quality and be worth the price. Or perhaps the general public doesn't value the difference, in which case the public gets what it wants. This is capitalism working well: competition, with competitors competing on quality and price and consumers having options.
Quality doesn't win in this market. You can win on marketing, but not on quality. This ruling means there will soon be lead-tainted Lego-compatible pieces made in a certain Asian country and sold mostly through Walmart. Yeah, they'll break, discolor, and not fit together all that well, but they'll be significantly cheaper than genuine Legos, because Lego can't get away with paying its employees $2500 a year. And these new parts will soon outsell Lego. Now Lego does have a good marketing position, given their great brand recognition, and they'll make a lot more money per part. This will slowly erode, however, until Lego branded parts are a either niche market for elitist liberals who buy their groceries at farmers markets, or it will go away entirely.
Just so you know.
you could also bake on the range, but that's not as easy as just figuring out which part is the stove.
I guess you meant figuring out which part is the OVEN. :-) BOTH parts are the stove. But actually thanks for clarifying -- I always thought the range was the stove and the oven was not. And can you really bake on a range? My cooking world is being turned upside down this morning!
Put a lid on a pot. Bake inside. Use a thicker pot for more temperature uniformity. Use a rack to keep your baked goods off the very hot bottom surface.
Nice description!
Regarding the pager-feature request, WinMo phones also have free apps that should handle all his paging needs.
And returning to your list of cool, Symbian features: I don't have a ton of fancy stuff on my WinMo phone right now, but one feature that I find pretty cool is a free (of course) app that allows me to 1) find my phone if it's lost or stolen by someone who doesn't turn it off and 2) track my enemies (as long as I'm willing to sacrifice my phone). If I send it a text message with my security key, it receives the message silently and suppresses the message notification window. Then it deletes the message, activates the GPS, and sends me text messages with lat and long position updates. Also it can be set up to take and send periodic photos.
"to a responsible and trustworthy country, France for example"
I actually find myself speechless...
France being the #4 arms exporter (if you exclude the EU as a whole) in the world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry#World.27s_largest_arms_exporters
Yeah, and France's rather recent history of illegal underwater testing of nuclear weapons, the reason for the huge zone of floating dead animals in the South Pacific, also doesn't speak well of them here.
They only tested with up to 256, 512, and 1024 MB of RAM available for the OS and apps. Yes, Vista is much much slower than XP if you have 256, 512, or 1024 MB of RAM. If you look at results with 2 or 4 gigs of RAM, using identical systems for XP and Vista, things look a lot different. App speed is roughly on par (app loading is much faster in Vista), and system responsiveness is certainly higher under Vista for a system with 4 gigs of RAM.
If you can get into Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc etc, and you're not wealthy, they'll be cheap for you. In fact, all of those schools have already replaced all loans with grants in their financial aid packages. I got $0 from parents and was in one of those schools back when student loans still happened. I racked up the maximum debt they allowed before giving grant money for all the remaining cash - about $21500. I then got payments deferred for a few years through grad school. Now my first payment is due in January, and with no financial help from anyone but my employer, check #1 will be for $21500, settling the account.
I know friends who went to state schools, had poorer parents, and have about $30,000 in loans. I know friends who went to private schools that weren't the self-styled elite and have $100,000 in loans. I think the real comparison is between going to a mid-tier private school and a state school. The quality of education is likely very similar, but the private tends to have much higher debt-potential. Meanwhile, go to Harvard and you'll have $0 in debt, and they'll also charge you less for tuition, assuming your family isn't rich enough to have to pay it all.
Also, another key was to not have any money saved for college. In negotiating my financial aid package, initially my school thought I had $20,000 saved for college. When I revealed that I had nothing saved, they reduced by tuition by exactly $20,000. Of course, a lot of other schools may not do this, and it's not a gamble I'd recommend without a lot more evidence than my anecdote. I think of it like shooting the moon in Hearts.
You didn't get the same thing, then. BB prices are never remotely close to online prices for the same item, unless BB has a large MIR.
I really havn't visited Circuit City since they stopped paying the employees commissions. When I used to enter a Circuit City, an employee would FIND ME, and try to sell me something.
Which is exactly why I don't shop at commissioned stores when I can help it. I prefer to educate myself from an impartial source rather than have propaganda thrown at me. Those sellers were motivated enough to negotiate ridiculous deals on things like TVs, but that's only relevant to me once every ten years.
4 gigs of RAM + turning off all animations (which should be done in any OS) make Vista a lot swifter than XP in terms of UI responsiveness. A particularly big deal is that commonly used apps load much faster. Firefox used to take 1-2 seconds for me in XP, and under Vista it's nearly instantaneous, at most 0.25 seconds. Game framerates with current drivers are 0-1% slower in Vista. File copying was the real complaint about Vista for those with enough RAM, and over the network it's still slower than XP, but locally the difference seems to be that XP says it's done writing before it actually is (once everything is read to RAM) while Vista says you're done when the write is complete.
The real problem with Vista is battery life on laptops. Check out anandtech's comparison of battery life under Vista vs. OSX in their recent MBP review. I think they have a a newer comparison showing Vista failing at battery life compared to XP, too. I wonder whether it's all of the superfetch/etc tasks that can be tweaked or whether it's something more fundamentally tied to the OS.
I dunno about most of you, but I do consider a nippier interface to be an improvement in productivity. For the vast majority of Windows users, the thing they want to see improved is those moments lost "when they click a button and nothing seems to happen", as the article author puts it. That is time that has been taken from me. If I get those moments back, and the performance of the trivial CPU tasks involved in actually reading and writing files are kept the same, then yes, my productivity has improved.
Yeah, obviously. The benchmarked tasks in TFA are going to be the same speed in Vista/7/XP/anything else running the same applications, because none of these operating systems get in the way of these applications in a significant manner. To use my first /. car analogy, this comparison is like asking which car will get you to work faster: the one with the rubber bumper or the one with the steel bumper.
It's a rather outrageous case, and we all know it. Still, there's a certain satisfaction in seeing Google execs suffer for any reason. I imagine I'd feel the same way if W went to Singapore, gave his secret service buddy a stick of gum that was later spit onto the sidewalk, and got caned.
Why would Obama or McCain have secret foreign policy plans in their campaign planning computers? The sensitive data here was most likely canvassing, financing, and advertising plans. They'd be very useful to the other campaign, or to a party supporting either campaign and planning to influence the election. Maybe unaffiliated but supportive organizations like those of T Boone Pickens and his democratic equivalent had this done.
Sorry, I fail for not RTFA. They are misusing "rooted", which confused me. "rooted" in the popular [geek] vernacular means that a remote non-admin user can gain root access, such as through a buffer overflow exploit. It has nothing to do with the practice of gaining root access on your own devices.
I think they're using it to imply that you're renting access to Google's OS instead of gaining ownership of it, so you're gaining root access against the owner's intent.
McCain would tax the Poor?? really? If you really believe that then McCain's campaign has failed even worse than I'd imagined. Not once has he said he'd raise taxes on the Poor. Good Grief!
But he has a long and proud record of voting for it.
To the GGP, Barack Obama is the first presidential candidate in my lifetime (extending back to the beginning of Reagan's first term) who is a decent, thoughtful human being. If you opposed Obama, at least be happy that he's uniquely concerned with hearing your voice as well as that of his supporters.
This was easily the best election I ever participated in. Mostly because of Ron Paul. He opened my eyes to real liberty and true freedoms, and I've been a changed person man ever since. I'm not going to take crap from the two parties sitting down anymore, and I have real hope for this country, that someday we all might really be free from the federal government. I was also exposed to Ayn Rand and read her fiction, and really enjoyed it.
I wrote Ron Paul in, and I was beyond happy the rest of the day. It honestly felt awesome to vote for someone that I honestly believe in, an opportunity I've never taken before.
The head of the KKK in my state seems more bitter about Ron Paul's loss than happy to have been a leader in his campaign. I congratulate you on not having the same response he did.
As for Rand, I urge you to keep reading and not to be afraid to keep reading serious literature and thinking of the world in nuanced terms. When the world stops being black and white, I think you'll find that Rand loses a little luster. This also applies to some extent to Ron Paul.
Don't forget that McCain also got a free pass about G Gordon Liddy.
My aunt forwarded an anti-Obama email that quoted a few books. It began by telling me to go buy or read the books ASAP before Obama has them banned.
I still marvel at the audacity of that claim.
> Actually, Adam Smith (the guy who basically invented Capitalism) was also in favor of the rich being taxed
> at a higher rate than the poor, so that's not a good argument.
Progressive taxation is debatable but people of good intent can argue both sides and still be good Capitalists and traditional Americans. The government must have revenue, even if it were bound back to only doing the things it should be doing. The question of how to raise those funds with the least impact on the citizenry is valid.
What Obama is proposing is a different thing. He isn't talking about how best to fund the operations of the government, he is talking about redistribution of income by taxing people he decrees to be 'making too much' and handing out checks to people to don't pay any taxes at all. And that is Socialism/Communism. From Each according to their Abilities, to Each according to their Need. It doesn't get more clear cut.
This is called a straw man argument. Obama doesn't support this policy. McCain simply claims he does, ignoring that Obama's tax plan is the same as the one we had under Bill Clinton. McCain argued vehemently against Bush's tax cuts when they were enacted, and now that Obama's plan is to simply let the tax cuts for those making over $250k/year expire, he's labeling that socialism. The McCain that existed until 2008 and Obama agree on this.