Processor speed envy is like penis envy. The bigger it looks, the better it seems, but just as size can be less important than how you use it, speed can be less important if bandwidth is wimpy.
I don't know when I created mine, but it was months if not a couple years before I graduated from high school in May 2000. Either way, the only benefit I expect to receive from this is the ability to enjoy longer intervals between checking Hotmail for useful emails, since now there's not as much danger of spam using all my space before I get to it again!
Polling suggests that libertarian ideals are incredibly popular among American voters, with the exception of the Libertarian Party's ostensible advocacy for drug legalization. How much negative impact do you believe the Libertarian Party's stance on the "War on Drugs" has on its ability to secure votes, and do you believe Libertarians could improve their chances in November by toning down their collective approach to the issue?
I was once under the impression that a "Google bomb" was finding a short phrase that jumps directly to only one page on the entire internet, but upon consulting the wiki, I don't think so.
But anyway, is that sort of what this is like? Typing in keywords that result in a query with a single result ranked so highly above the rest that Google decided it just knows what you were looking for?
And what if I have search from the address bar turned off?
It's like you've studied Michael Moore's techniques and applied it to Slashdot commenting! You have offered not one shred of substantiative support to your claim that "there's almost nothing in it which is false or a lie". And inasmuch as the truth behind the claims in the film and your comment are hidden from the public eye, most claims made by people like you and me, who are so distant from the primary sources of the relevant information, are subjective, unfounded, and worth very little outside their utility as propaganda.
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I like the word "handtop". Whoever coined it probably did so for business reasons, as it fits nicely with the etymology of the PC industry -- desktop, laptop, handtop!
Does anyone have information on the origin or story behind the word "handtop"? A few Google and Wiki queries turned up nothing conclusive, so I figured returning to the Slashdot article would be an excellent place to start...again.
(In 50 years, stories of these word origins might prove to be more valuable than we'd think, from a purely historical perspective.)
In the interests of actually being "informative" rather than online lobbyists, feel free to post pro-Bush/Republican and/or neutral web sites with photos and convention info as well.
I'm interested in the truth and actual reporting, not the "let's see how bad I can make the other guy look" crap the political parties sling around.
Hmm: Thousands of politically motivated, aggravated activists in one of the most politically and emotionally spirited cities in the world during one of the most turbulent political periods in America's recent history.
Maybe the stopping this form of protest or vandalism isn't at the top of the NYPD's list of priorities.
Off-topic: HOW THE HELL is a link to the video "insightful"? This is informative. Slashdot user jx100 did not reveal any "deeper meaning" with his post; he merely posted an informative link.
Com'on, moderators. There are only TEN moderating options, and most of them are easily understandable for a nine-year-old. Consulting a dictionary for the remaining few wouldn't take more than a minute out of your life, and once you know the definition you're set!
Bush supports really dropped the ball on this one. They could have made their own bikes to go around spreading water on everything. Heck, they could have just rented a Zamboni machine!
They could have forced a new Trail of Tears and sponsored/coerced a tribal rain dance outside Madison Square Garden to bring on a gullywashing monsoon that could quench the Amazon's thirst...
Same effect, fewer tax dollars, and only at the expense of a few Native Americans' civil liberties... as if this country has ever had much respect for them anyway.
I suppose you have a link to the police report that proves he was arrested on political grounds... There were hundreds if not thousands of them. They posed a huge security risk. It was civil disobedience.
And like someone else has said here, what is civil disobedience worth if it doesn't earn an arrest? How else is it effective? It doesn't earn near as much attention without someone getting arrested for it.
These people were not arrested for political reasons. They were arrested for breaking the law. If they were not arrested, it would suggest that the police allowed masses of protesters to keep on breaking the law for political reasons. Is that what you want? A stopped-up NYC with a police department that only warrants arrests when in disagreement with the perpetrators' political ideals?
I think the press coverage on his civil disobedience and his detainment are largely a result of (a) his seeking it and (b) the fact that it's civil disobedience with a clear political goal. With thousands of partisan politicians and pundits in town, and politics being a potential hotbed for the hottest of heated debates in America these days, even minor civil disobedience like chalk art could potentially be a huge security threat.
My suspicion is that there is no "arrest" here. The man is being detained. No Miranda warning? You don't get one until you're actually arrested. The man is being detained because he and his actions are a security threat, and he'll either be released without charge, or he'll admit something criminal and be placed under arrest for that.
(He may then complain that he was not read his Miranda rights until just before his arrest, which would secure the case against him even further, because the Miranda warning doesn't come out until you're placed under arrest. All speech to that point is fair game.)
One of the first things you learn in a criminal law course, even at the high school level, is that you do not hear your "Miranda warning" until you are officially placed under arrest. Being detained (such as for questioning or to analyze a potential security issue) and being arrested are not the same at all.
Has anyone actually furnished a police report proving that he was "arrested"? Or has he just been detained? My suspicion is that, either way, it's all smoke and mirrors. People are going to turn this story into what they want it to be no matter what the truth really is.
They've been doing this around here for a few years now. A local theatre manager who happened to like video games would allow co-workers to invite a couple of friends and play video games on the big screen once in a while on either Friday or Saturday nights. I don't remember what it started with, but they had been addicted to Halo for a while last I heard. I don't play Halo, so I've never bothered to check it out.:-P
What happens in Jennifer Government will never happen for exactly the opposite reasons why what happens in 1984 will never happen -- by and large, people's ideals are centrist. And they have to be by definition, or else we would redefine the "center" to keep it in the middle.
Putting logos everywhere is one thing, but a super-libertarian-anarchic world order like the one in Jennifer Government will never, ever come to life.
The new San Andreas requires your character, Carl Johnson, to eat right and stay active in order not to become a fatass. The potential for in-game advertising in GTA:SA is huge. But... I have a sneaking suspicion that a few PR departments are under the impression that putting their image in a GTA game would harm more than help.
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The internet is no longer the Internet, but a few million networks that were once based on what would require the proper name. The Internet was created 10-15 years ago. The internet is what we have today.
In business, market forces such as competition take care of the inefficient in a nice, Darwinian way.
You're forgetting about the principle of comparative advantage; David Ricardo would not be pleased. Ricardo essentially said that a less efficient producer could survive in an economy -- and indeed it would have to -- by producing whatever it could produce comparatively to its own greatest advantage. That is, even an inefficient producer is most efficient at something.
Given that less efficient producers (determined to be less efficient by who has absolute advantage) are everywhere, it can be assumed that someone working at maximum output for a multitude of tasks could be handled in that "nice, Darwinian way" of which you speak and have his/her productive capacity significantly reduced to the detriment of the economy/business. After all, if someone works best by doing several little things, but nothing singularly significant enough to be noticed, the "survival of the fittest" may only be a subsistence while some lazy, inefficient jack-off keeps his job and can't match the overall output despite "looking" better.
So I should say that the real problem with business today is our obsession with looking "professional" -- suits, ties, fancy shoes... None of that has anything to do with productivity, and I would argue that a brilliant mind in comfortable clothing has more potential than a similarly capable mind who adheres to the stylistic norms of the workplace, for that is an indication of his/her willingness to forego innovation for the sake of fitting in.
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Seems like technicians would realize the benefit of a wireless network pretty quickly if we started attacking all the wires.
(Don't try this at home.)
Yeah, so it's fast. How much can it handle?
Processor speed envy is like penis envy. The bigger it looks, the better it seems, but just as size can be less important than how you use it, speed can be less important if bandwidth is wimpy.
I don't know when I created mine, but it was months if not a couple years before I graduated from high school in May 2000. Either way, the only benefit I expect to receive from this is the ability to enjoy longer intervals between checking Hotmail for useful emails, since now there's not as much danger of spam using all my space before I get to it again!
Polling suggests that libertarian ideals are incredibly popular among American voters, with the exception of the Libertarian Party's ostensible advocacy for drug legalization. How much negative impact do you believe the Libertarian Party's stance on the "War on Drugs" has on its ability to secure votes, and do you believe Libertarians could improve their chances in November by toning down their collective approach to the issue?
Ivan makes us wet and blows hard
Tobacco products may or may not cause cancer
Slashdot readers have little use for obvious news
One should not reference the context of the movie Contact when trying to use Occam's Razor to make a point. :-P
I was once under the impression that a "Google bomb" was finding a short phrase that jumps directly to only one page on the entire internet, but upon consulting the wiki, I don't think so.
But anyway, is that sort of what this is like? Typing in keywords that result in a query with a single result ranked so highly above the rest that Google decided it just knows what you were looking for?
And what if I have search from the address bar turned off?
It's like you've studied Michael Moore's techniques and applied it to Slashdot commenting! You have offered not one shred of substantiative support to your claim that "there's almost nothing in it which is false or a lie". And inasmuch as the truth behind the claims in the film and your comment are hidden from the public eye, most claims made by people like you and me, who are so distant from the primary sources of the relevant information, are subjective, unfounded, and worth very little outside their utility as propaganda.
I like the word "handtop". Whoever coined it probably did so for business reasons, as it fits nicely with the etymology of the PC industry -- desktop, laptop, handtop!
Does anyone have information on the origin or story behind the word "handtop"? A few Google and Wiki queries turned up nothing conclusive, so I figured returning to the Slashdot article would be an excellent place to start...again.
(In 50 years, stories of these word origins might prove to be more valuable than we'd think, from a purely historical perspective.)
In the interests of actually being "informative" rather than online lobbyists, feel free to post pro-Bush/Republican and/or neutral web sites with photos and convention info as well.
I'm interested in the truth and actual reporting, not the "let's see how bad I can make the other guy look" crap the political parties sling around.
Hmm: Thousands of politically motivated, aggravated activists in one of the most politically and emotionally spirited cities in the world during one of the most turbulent political periods in America's recent history.
Maybe the stopping this form of protest or vandalism isn't at the top of the NYPD's list of priorities.
Off-topic: HOW THE HELL is a link to the video "insightful"? This is informative. Slashdot user jx100 did not reveal any "deeper meaning" with his post; he merely posted an informative link.
Com'on, moderators. There are only TEN moderating options, and most of them are easily understandable for a nine-year-old. Consulting a dictionary for the remaining few wouldn't take more than a minute out of your life, and once you know the definition you're set!
Same effect, fewer tax dollars, and only at the expense of a few Native Americans' civil liberties... as if this country has ever had much respect for them anyway.
I suppose you have a link to the police report that proves he was arrested on political grounds... There were hundreds if not thousands of them. They posed a huge security risk. It was civil disobedience.
And like someone else has said here, what is civil disobedience worth if it doesn't earn an arrest? How else is it effective? It doesn't earn near as much attention without someone getting arrested for it.
These people were not arrested for political reasons. They were arrested for breaking the law. If they were not arrested, it would suggest that the police allowed masses of protesters to keep on breaking the law for political reasons. Is that what you want? A stopped-up NYC with a police department that only warrants arrests when in disagreement with the perpetrators' political ideals?
I'm surprised no one made a ketchup-as-lube joke.
I think the press coverage on his civil disobedience and his detainment are largely a result of (a) his seeking it and (b) the fact that it's civil disobedience with a clear political goal. With thousands of partisan politicians and pundits in town, and politics being a potential hotbed for the hottest of heated debates in America these days, even minor civil disobedience like chalk art could potentially be a huge security threat.
My suspicion is that there is no "arrest" here. The man is being detained. No Miranda warning? You don't get one until you're actually arrested. The man is being detained because he and his actions are a security threat, and he'll either be released without charge, or he'll admit something criminal and be placed under arrest for that.
(He may then complain that he was not read his Miranda rights until just before his arrest, which would secure the case against him even further, because the Miranda warning doesn't come out until you're placed under arrest. All speech to that point is fair game.)
One of the first things you learn in a criminal law course, even at the high school level, is that you do not hear your "Miranda warning" until you are officially placed under arrest. Being detained (such as for questioning or to analyze a potential security issue) and being arrested are not the same at all.
Has anyone actually furnished a police report proving that he was "arrested"? Or has he just been detained? My suspicion is that, either way, it's all smoke and mirrors. People are going to turn this story into what they want it to be no matter what the truth really is.
They've been doing this around here for a few years now. A local theatre manager who happened to like video games would allow co-workers to invite a couple of friends and play video games on the big screen once in a while on either Friday or Saturday nights. I don't remember what it started with, but they had been addicted to Halo for a while last I heard. I don't play Halo, so I've never bothered to check it out. :-P
What happens in Jennifer Government will never happen for exactly the opposite reasons why what happens in 1984 will never happen -- by and large, people's ideals are centrist. And they have to be by definition, or else we would redefine the "center" to keep it in the middle.
Putting logos everywhere is one thing, but a super-libertarian-anarchic world order like the one in Jennifer Government will never, ever come to life.
The new San Andreas requires your character, Carl Johnson, to eat right and stay active in order not to become a fatass. The potential for in-game advertising in GTA:SA is huge. But... I have a sneaking suspicion that a few PR departments are under the impression that putting their image in a GTA game would harm more than help.
..."Your Hotmail Account is Almost Full" system emails that try to persuade me to upgrade!
The internet is no longer the Internet, but a few million networks that were once based on what would require the proper name. The Internet was created 10-15 years ago. The internet is what we have today.
In business, market forces such as competition take care of the inefficient in a nice, Darwinian way.
You're forgetting about the principle of comparative advantage; David Ricardo would not be pleased. Ricardo essentially said that a less efficient producer could survive in an economy -- and indeed it would have to -- by producing whatever it could produce comparatively to its own greatest advantage. That is, even an inefficient producer is most efficient at something.
Given that less efficient producers (determined to be less efficient by who has absolute advantage) are everywhere, it can be assumed that someone working at maximum output for a multitude of tasks could be handled in that "nice, Darwinian way" of which you speak and have his/her productive capacity significantly reduced to the detriment of the economy/business. After all, if someone works best by doing several little things, but nothing singularly significant enough to be noticed, the "survival of the fittest" may only be a subsistence while some lazy, inefficient jack-off keeps his job and can't match the overall output despite "looking" better.
So I should say that the real problem with business today is our obsession with looking "professional" -- suits, ties, fancy shoes... None of that has anything to do with productivity, and I would argue that a brilliant mind in comfortable clothing has more potential than a similarly capable mind who adheres to the stylistic norms of the workplace, for that is an indication of his/her willingness to forego innovation for the sake of fitting in.
Sheep, sheep, sheep...