I wish I thought this was a silly idea. Aside from the fact that it may make Birchers go bugfuck... er, more bugfuck... it might be a good idea. An official request has been made; I haven't heard whether there's been an official response.
"Several members of the [US] House of Representatives have requested the United Nations to send observers to monitor the November 2 US presidential election to avoid a contentious vote like in 2000, when the outcome was decided by Florida." Link.
(Fair Warning: This is a link to an unabashedly progressive website, and therefore may not be suitable for work.)
With all of this intense solar storm activity we've been seeing lately, how can anyone with a properly raised consciousness doubt that human beings are upsetting the delicate solar environment?
I don't doubt it, but it's not the Republican's fault. It's a side-effect of the steep rise in pathetic attempts at humorous political discourse. So it's only mostly the Republican's fault!
Nothing personal, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh -- if the solar system can only have one flaming ball of hot gases, I think it has to be the Sun.
Maybe a dozen tops and I am one of the most well-informed people I know.
Did you read that in a Jayson Blair article?
Seriously, though, I like Google partly because I'm exposed to more spin variety than I would if I stuck to my favorites. Sometimes I'll even hold my nose and follow a link to Faux News, just to see what I'm not missing.
Won't sell enough to mass-produce, anyway. Too many people revel in the emotional anonymity of riding in a metal box. If this really helped people communicate while driving, even in this limited second-hand way, they might have to acknowledge that they're sharing the road with other people, and they might be less inclined to drive so obliviously and/or obnoxiously to others. The market for that is way too small.
The DNC's major idiocy was to have the convention in the capital city of a state with a Republican governor. "Gosh, some of the logistics aren't going very smoothly." Duh.
Probably people with more business sense then putting up a Bush banner across from the convention and closing shop during what will probably be that spots bussiest week in history?
Heh. Shows what lengths some people will go to to avoid exposure to opposing opinions. If it's the place I'm thinking of, they've got a TV in there that's usually tuned to Faux News ("We Distort, You Comply").
To be fair, I'm not entirely sure I blame him, though I like to think I'd stick it out if I was in a similar position. Still, it be a rough week.
How can they get hacked when it was AL Gore who invented the internet...
Har. Har.
It was Republicans who invented that claim. What Gore actually said was "I took the initiative in creating the Internet". Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf -- two of the people who did "invent the internet" have publicly stated that "Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development." Repub spinmasters pushed the reworded version hard as part of their successful effort to exaggerate Gore's supposed exaggerations.
(The Repub spin this time around is that Kerry always "flip-flops". That's the script, and they're pushing it hard. I guess this is to distinguish him from Bush, who sometimes flip-flops and sometimes sticks to his opinions... regardless of the facts.)
Bush Sr. took hits for his Mars push and ISS, Reagan for Star Wars and Clinton for the continued ISS support.
The Strategic Defense Initiative was not and is not a space initiative. It's a political posturing, defense contract padding, pork barrel initiative. It's an even stupider idea now, in the era of stateless conflicts, than it was when the USSR was crumbling.
I have only heard the term "unAmerican" or "unPatriotic" used by the left and friends.
I guess you've never listened to Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter or...
I have yet to hear the administration use the term "un-American" or even "all-American" to deride the left.
You are possible correct, technically. The administration usually has their bitches - excuse my French, I mean "attack dogs" - do their dirty work for them.
After all, if people actually like it, it can't possibly be good.
There may be something to that. After all, lots of people like the New York Times.
Seriously though, the NYT is part of the subset of popular culture that appeals to people who like to look down on pop culture.
And as far as "Comic books are what novels used to be", that's about as meaningful as saying that "grey is the new black". Though, to be fair, they included a qualifier that gets them off scot-free: "... if the highbrows are right...". When was the last time "the highbrows" were right?
Apple will do well not to try that stunt. MacOS was the first home user platform to be afflicted by viruses. When DOS was languishing in stolid austerity, Mac was the platform to play with, especially on college campuses. It proved to be a fertile breeding ground (pun intended).
How many people know this? How many people would care? Right, I can just see MS spokesdroids trying to take advantage of this:
"Well, twenty-five years ago, they had a lot more viruses."
These problems are not all extreme, but range from blurriness to flicker to strange horizontal lines.
How many of those issues are not CRT problems but problems with the graphics card? (I speak from experience -- that's what went wrong with my iMac. Got the card replaced, the CRT is just fine.)
Gee, maybe that is a problem with all-in-ones -- the graphics card should be kept in a separate module so that it can be easily swapped out!
The cost per employee at msft is high, partly due to some of the best working conditions in the industry - love 'em or hate em', msft is consistently voted as the best place to work...
Hmmm. What's the operating system on the machine where the vote is tallied?
Do you understand what sarcasm is? See, me saying "critically acclaimed", "Gigli", "and other fantastic movies that go straight to DVD" was supposed to clue you in to the HUMOR.
I dunno about flynt, but personally I'm clued into HUMOR only by something actually being funny. It's a terrible handicap these days, but I somehow still manage to find life worth living.
Not to mention the fact that it's probably illegal. DMCA, FCC, RIAA - need I go on?
And we all know how important it is to always obey the law, don't we? Gosh, yes, we're all such law-abiding citizens here on Slashdot.
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Yeah, but they will have to DEVELOP for the iMacs, so I think they would be interested. I mean, giving the consumer desktop more power would allow developers some more room to create interesting things.
Well, maybe, except most smart developers wouldn't develop specifically for the next-generation iMac even if they knew the specs. IANADeveloper, but if they're working on really high-powered stuff, they're probably targetting PowerMacs more. If they're hoping to develop for a wide market, it'll need to run well on current iMacs as well as the next-gen models. Sure, it'll be nice to be able to take advantage of the next-gen iMac's CPU and/or graphics card and/or whatever boost, but I'd think that'd be a refinement of development, not a focus.
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I can't quite figure out why Apple didn't roll out a prototype of the iMac at WWDC or spill a few pictures to the rumor sites...
The people at WWDC (or paying attention to news about it) aren't generally an iMac market. It was a better place to focus on Tiger.
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Given voting machine makers -- especially Diebold -- the difference is slight enough to not matter.
Um, no, I guess we won't see that this year. Might get him elected, though.
I wish I thought this was a silly idea. Aside from the fact that it may make Birchers go bugfuck ... er, more bugfuck ... it might be a good idea. An official request has been made; I haven't heard whether there's been an official response.
"Several members of the [US] House of Representatives have requested the United Nations to send observers to monitor the November 2 US presidential election to avoid a contentious vote like in 2000, when the outcome was decided by Florida." Link.
(Fair Warning: This is a link to an unabashedly progressive website, and therefore may not be suitable for work.)
I don't doubt it, but it's not the Republican's fault. It's a side-effect of the steep rise in pathetic attempts at humorous political discourse. So it's only mostly the Republican's fault!
Nothing personal, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh -- if the solar system can only have one flaming ball of hot gases, I think it has to be the Sun.
Did you read that in a Jayson Blair article?
Seriously, though, I like Google partly because I'm exposed to more spin variety than I would if I stuck to my favorites. Sometimes I'll even hold my nose and follow a link to Faux News, just to see what I'm not missing.
Won't sell enough to mass-produce, anyway. Too many people revel in the emotional anonymity of riding in a metal box. If this really helped people communicate while driving, even in this limited second-hand way, they might have to acknowledge that they're sharing the road with other people, and they might be less inclined to drive so obliviously and/or obnoxiously to others. The market for that is way too small.
Even with that backing, I wonder if they would've made it without 9-11 to give them an irrational audience to play to.
The DNC's major idiocy was to have the convention in the capital city of a state with a Republican governor. "Gosh, some of the logistics aren't going very smoothly." Duh.
Heh. Shows what lengths some people will go to to avoid exposure to opposing opinions. If it's the place I'm thinking of, they've got a TV in there that's usually tuned to Faux News ("We Distort, You Comply").
To be fair, I'm not entirely sure I blame him, though I like to think I'd stick it out if I was in a similar position. Still, it be a rough week.
Har. Har.
It was Republicans who invented that claim. What Gore actually said was "I took the initiative in creating the Internet". Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf -- two of the people who did "invent the internet" have publicly stated that "Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development." Repub spinmasters pushed the reworded version hard as part of their successful effort to exaggerate Gore's supposed exaggerations.
(The Repub spin this time around is that Kerry always "flip-flops". That's the script, and they're pushing it hard. I guess this is to distinguish him from Bush, who sometimes flip-flops and sometimes sticks to his opinions ... regardless of the facts.)
The Strategic Defense Initiative was not and is not a space initiative. It's a political posturing, defense contract padding, pork barrel initiative. It's an even stupider idea now, in the era of stateless conflicts, than it was when the USSR was crumbling.
I second your comment on Chaikin's "A Man on the Moon". It's excellent.
I guess you've never listened to Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter or ...
I have yet to hear the administration use the term "un-American" or even "all-American" to deride the left.
You are possible correct, technically. The administration usually has their bitches - excuse my French, I mean "attack dogs" - do their dirty work for them.
Yeah, he has the unfair advantage of knowing what he's talking about, but the "stupidly simple FAQ" is worth seeing.
There may be something to that. After all, lots of people like the New York Times.
Seriously though, the NYT is part of the subset of popular culture that appeals to people who like to look down on pop culture.
And as far as "Comic books are what novels used to be", that's about as meaningful as saying that "grey is the new black". Though, to be fair, they included a qualifier that gets them off scot-free: "... if the highbrows are right ...". When was the last time "the highbrows" were right?
How many people know this? How many people would care? Right, I can just see MS spokesdroids trying to take advantage of this:
"Well, twenty-five years ago, they had a lot more viruses."
Yeah, that'll really scare people away from Macs.
How many of those issues are not CRT problems but problems with the graphics card? (I speak from experience -- that's what went wrong with my iMac. Got the card replaced, the CRT is just fine.)
Gee, maybe that is a problem with all-in-ones -- the graphics card should be kept in a separate module so that it can be easily swapped out!
Hmmm. What's the operating system on the machine where the vote is tallied?
I have a hunch that the lead-off to this story should have been "An anonymous AppleInsider editor writes ...".
And after a little while more, no more script kiddie families. And no more script kiddie neighbors. And so on ...
"Seriously.".
You forgot #4: Someone says, "Big deal, this isn't new."
I dunno about flynt, but personally I'm clued into HUMOR only by something actually being funny. It's a terrible handicap these days, but I somehow still manage to find life worth living.
And we all know how important it is to always obey the law, don't we? Gosh, yes, we're all such law-abiding citizens here on Slashdot.
Well, maybe, except most smart developers wouldn't develop specifically for the next-generation iMac even if they knew the specs. IANADeveloper, but if they're working on really high-powered stuff, they're probably targetting PowerMacs more. If they're hoping to develop for a wide market, it'll need to run well on current iMacs as well as the next-gen models. Sure, it'll be nice to be able to take advantage of the next-gen iMac's CPU and/or graphics card and/or whatever boost, but I'd think that'd be a refinement of development, not a focus.
The people at WWDC (or paying attention to news about it) aren't generally an iMac market. It was a better place to focus on Tiger.