Note that this is not meant to imply that SS is a bad thing. It's certainly better than letting the elderly starve, but it's arguably the worst way to avoid letting the elderly starve....
You would think that the elderly would be those best able to support themselves, considering they have an entire lifetime to prepare for the inevitable breakdowns of old age. Failing that, many of them can fall back on family members to survive. Those without family can get charity. And then only the small subset that would truly starve in the streets should be given SS.
As it currently stands, pretty much everyone is eligible to get cash for being old, something which is totally unsustainable with the aging population, and even more unsustainable when you factor in the current recession/depression/downturn and current government expenditure levels.
and tell the fed reserve to give 10 trillion of printed from nothing US $dollars to nasa.
Surely having the Federal Reserve arbitrarily print off a dollar amount that is close to the US GDP isn't a good idea, for all the destruction such printing would do to anyone except the guys who get the trillions first. It kind of makes your 'we still have cash' statement sound a little silly. Sure, we have paper, but if it's worth half of what it used to, are we really better off?
Firefox renders their trickery just fine but Internet Explorer doesn't. Windows is not ready for the desktop: its browser can't even render HTML written like it's from 1995 correctly!
Linux is still hampered by -perceived- usability problems and the fact that WINE isn't 100% yet.
I have to agree that Linux does have a reputation for lacking usability. Just the other day, a guy in my (CS) major remarked that he wouldn't run Linux because he didn't want to have to edit config files all day. I can't say I've never had to edit config files, but for newer, mainstream versions of Linux, I haven't had to do so. Ubuntu 8.04 - 9.10 RC had sound and graphics working out of the box for my laptop, and wireless was easy to add with the restricted hardware drivers module.
That said, Linux does have a few nagging issues. Problems with sound can crop up. Not all drivers are in good condition. Sometimes UIs are not very well thought out. Distros jump to the latest and greatest without sufficient testing (e.g. KDE 4.0 when it wasn't ready for primetime).
It is a filesystem, available in (Open)Solaris and at least FreeBSD, possibly other BSDs as well. It has some interesting features, which you can check out here. I have heard it claimed that ZFS has good performance, but I have not evaluated any of those claims.
Spelling, too, is a nightmare, even for native speakers. Not only do we have crazy spellings like "knight," we also have regional differences in some of our crazy spellings, such as "color" and "colour." Some of the European languages (and probably others) do have a handful of things that are more complex, such as gender rules, that have mostly died out in English.
I knew that it would take more force to stop, but when I've driven a car that lacked power brakes, it made that fact all the more noticeable. No escaping from it, even for us youngins.
If searching stimulates brain activity, then I ought to have found all the zeros to the Riemann zeta function, cured cancer and AIDS, and devised a way to travel to Mars for 50 cents.
I thought most bacteria did not engage in sexual reproduction, but instead basically cloned themselves for each successive generation. If that's the case with this particular species, I don't think it would be entirely fair to call this group inbred, considering all of them would be clones, not just this group.
You can try WINE. Assuming Aion is Aion: The Tower of Eternity, people have gotten the game to play on Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X with WINE, though there may be caveats. No one has tested NBA 2k10 on the AppDB. NBA 2k08 seems to work, however.
Suing people is kind of the point of patents. Someone else uses the same idea, you get to use the force of law against them, assuming your patent is valid. Otherwise, I don't think there's a point, save for defensive purposes.
I was reffering to people who work at companies that write proprietary software and their lazy ass developpers.
Darn you, Apple! Why are you too lazy to write 100% of your operating system! Real coders write a new operating system every day, and those OSes have no need to ever be compatible in any way.
Kids these days. Next you'll be talking about "functions" and "object oriented" and other such hippy nonsense. Why, I've gotten by for years by copying and pasting all of that code where ever it goes. Now get off my lawn!
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You would think that the elderly would be those best able to support themselves, considering they have an entire lifetime to prepare for the inevitable breakdowns of old age. Failing that, many of them can fall back on family members to survive. Those without family can get charity. And then only the small subset that would truly starve in the streets should be given SS.
As it currently stands, pretty much everyone is eligible to get cash for being old, something which is totally unsustainable with the aging population, and even more unsustainable when you factor in the current recession/depression/downturn and current government expenditure levels.
Didn't work when the Russians had Salute's 5, 6, 7 and Mir or were you asleep during the last 50 years?
I haven't been alive for 50 years, you insensitive clod!
and tell the fed reserve to give 10 trillion of printed from nothing US $dollars to nasa.
Surely having the Federal Reserve arbitrarily print off a dollar amount that is close to the US GDP isn't a good idea, for all the destruction such printing would do to anyone except the guys who get the trillions first. It kind of makes your 'we still have cash' statement sound a little silly. Sure, we have paper, but if it's worth half of what it used to, are we really better off?
Probably not. I think that, even if the rocket explodes before takeoff, it's money better spent than all that money spent on bailouts.
Firefox renders their trickery just fine but Internet Explorer doesn't. Windows is not ready for the desktop: its browser can't even render HTML written like it's from 1995 correctly!
Apple is happy to let Microsoft pick off the low-hanging unprofitable customers. They'd never spend $1700 on a laptop anyway..
Unprofitable customers?! If they're so unprofitable, how did Microsoft make all those billions of dollars?
Linux is still hampered by -perceived- usability problems and the fact that WINE isn't 100% yet.
I have to agree that Linux does have a reputation for lacking usability. Just the other day, a guy in my (CS) major remarked that he wouldn't run Linux because he didn't want to have to edit config files all day. I can't say I've never had to edit config files, but for newer, mainstream versions of Linux, I haven't had to do so. Ubuntu 8.04 - 9.10 RC had sound and graphics working out of the box for my laptop, and wireless was easy to add with the restricted hardware drivers module.
That said, Linux does have a few nagging issues. Problems with sound can crop up. Not all drivers are in good condition. Sometimes UIs are not very well thought out. Distros jump to the latest and greatest without sufficient testing (e.g. KDE 4.0 when it wasn't ready for primetime).
God forbid the summary tell us what ZFS is
It is a filesystem, available in (Open)Solaris and at least FreeBSD, possibly other BSDs as well. It has some interesting features, which you can check out here. I have heard it claimed that ZFS has good performance, but I have not evaluated any of those claims.
Spelling, too, is a nightmare, even for native speakers. Not only do we have crazy spellings like "knight," we also have regional differences in some of our crazy spellings, such as "color" and "colour."
Some of the European languages (and probably others) do have a handful of things that are more complex, such as gender rules, that have mostly died out in English.
iTunes installs a USB driver on Windows.
I knew that it would take more force to stop, but when I've driven a car that lacked power brakes, it made that fact all the more noticeable. No escaping from it, even for us youngins.
What about very old vehicles, such as one from the 60's? How do they manage that?
If searching stimulates brain activity, then I ought to have found all the zeros to the Riemann zeta function, cured cancer and AIDS, and devised a way to travel to Mars for 50 cents.
Windows 7 requires less from your hardware, and sorry Linux is not always cheaper (free is not cheap).
Damn Small Linux can run entirely in 128 MB of RAM, and at a minimum can run on a 486DX with 16MB of RAM.
Let's see Windows 7 do that.
We'll get to throw those awesome Windows 7 launch parties, remember?
Mark Shuttleworth shaped Ubuntu up to be the ONLY decent desktop linux distro
Flamewar starting in 3....2....1....
That's only the net install ISO, not the full disk.
I thought most bacteria did not engage in sexual reproduction, but instead basically cloned themselves for each successive generation. If that's the case with this particular species, I don't think it would be entirely fair to call this group inbred, considering all of them would be clones, not just this group.
You can try WINE. Assuming Aion is Aion: The Tower of Eternity, people have gotten the game to play on Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X with WINE, though there may be caveats. No one has tested NBA 2k10 on the AppDB. NBA 2k08 seems to work, however.
I believe they patched their extension, not Firefox. As far as sabotage, they've done it before with Word Perfect IIRC.
Don't know about you, but "Disable" is not grayed out on my Ubuntu box for that add-on.
Yes, WebKit is based on KHTML; Apple forked it, IIRC.
Suing people is kind of the point of patents. Someone else uses the same idea, you get to use the force of law against them, assuming your patent is valid. Otherwise, I don't think there's a point, save for defensive purposes.
I was reffering to people who work at companies that write proprietary software and their lazy ass developpers.
Darn you, Apple! Why are you too lazy to write 100% of your operating system! Real coders write a new operating system every day, and those OSes have no need to ever be compatible in any way.
Kids these days. Next you'll be talking about "functions" and "object oriented" and other such hippy nonsense. Why, I've gotten by for years by copying and pasting all of that code where ever it goes. Now get off my lawn!
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That's what I said, until those funny men in the black uniforms removed me from the White House lawn for trespassing.