Yes! They solved the fat-finger problem! Now I won't need to get on a diet and give up greasy, greasy foods, AND I get to play with my toys.
Bring in the fried chicken!
You can sure as hell do more damage by a golf driver going flying at like 60MPH! I don't think the most uncoordinated humans on the planet should be embarrassing themselves by suing over letting their wiimote go.
When I was 14, my dad thought it would be a good idea to give me some golf lessons. I lived in Alabama at the time, and was practicing with some practice balls. It was really hot, and my hands got really sweaty, and my club slipped out of my hand.
Unbeknownst to me, my dad just so happened to step outside at this time. The club flew over the fence and smacked him in the side of his head. Ouch.
I have *never* had a wiimote do the same thing. In fact, the Wiimote has a pretty good grip, I think.
Contracts. If I sell a widget to you, and you sign a contract that says you will sell it at a certain price, then you are bound to do it.
The only time it would not be a free market is if someone (the government, the mafia, or even the company itself) came to the retailers who had no contract in place and held a gun to the owner's head saying, "You will sell it at this price."
The internet is the freest and most unregulated source of information there is. Certainly governments would want to regulate this, as many facts that make them uncomfortable can be spread. The mainstream media cannot be counted on to report everything; look at their cheer leading for the Iraq invasion.
Latvia even made it a crime to criticize their central bank policies, and bloggers can end up in trouble. The internet needs less regulation, not more.
All we'll end up with with regulation is having to pay or bribe (directly or indirectly) some stupid government official to get business done.
Some schools of thought hold that monopolies can only exist by government interference. What is the/. take on this, since we are throwing around monopoly accusations?
The Constitution, as written, generally only provides for what the government can do. The Tenth Amendment says it best: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The Constitution does not state that the government can invest in industry. Hell, it doesn't allow for probably 90% of everything our government does now. No, ladies and gentlemen, the preamble only states the reasons the Constitution was adopted, not what the government can do. No, the commerce clause does not mean the government can stop you from growing your own corn on your own property for your own consumption.
It is high time that we elected politicians that follow the Constitution. Our current crop, Republican and Democrat, does not. Torture, wars made by the President, not the Congress, the War on Drugs, these are all examples of policies that are illegal.
Look what it did to Bush's presidency. I mean he surrounded himself with the brightest people in washington but they were from another era and it didn't quite work out for him. The more then shined, the more Bush Failed.
You say "brightest people in Washington" as if that were saying something. An equivalent expression would be "brightest people in a special-needs class."
Politicians, lobbyists, lawyers, and such are not known to be the brightest.
"Left" and "Right" make up only one axis of the political spectrum, that of the economy. But there also is a freedom axis. Hitler and Stalin would be the highest of this authoritarian axis, while Stalin would be to the left and Hitler near the center. So of course, Ron Paul would make Hitler look like a leftist, Bush less so. Ron Paul, however, is pro-freedom, Bush is much more authoritarian.
what is surely a quantum leap in what technology and engineering
A quantum leap is actually a very small amount of movement.
As for the rest of your comment, I feel that those making jokes about this are just fine. I don't find it denigrating or bigoted. I'm American, and I have to put up with the typical "Americans are all fat and stupid" stereotype. I find jokes about us entertaining. Grow a skin.
"The scammers ran Spears through the whole program. They said President Bush and FBI Director "Robert Muller" (their spelling) were in on the deal and needed her help."
And all you people doubted our President's intelligence! He's opening additional revenue streams to get us out of debt.
I can only hope and pray that Obama, having African blood and thus being more closely related to our Nigerian friends, will be able to expand this source of government revenue.
Tomorrow we go to the polls to elect the next failed administration, and the next failed Congress.
Regardless of who is elected, I feel that both candidates have the wrong attitude towards government. I feel that the role of government is simply to protect our lives and our property from one another. Both candidates espouse statist ideals that want to take away from our self governance or continue policies that take away our power.
Both throw out petty scraps of meat to the people to get them to vote for their demise. This year, they throw the meager pickings of tax cuts. Perhaps four years from now it will be the threat of terrorists again, or perhaps health care.
Both voted for a plan to give hundreds of billions of dollars to failed banks that gave loans to people who deserved none. Let them fail. The consequences of propping up zombie banks are greater than of letting them fail and having the market adjust.
Tomorrow I go to the polls to vote Libertarian, to fight the establishment.
Well, I downloaded the CD and am now in the process of installing it. On the CD, it ran very quickly, especially for a live CD. The usual Folder View slowness in KDE4 that I've experienced in every other distro just did not exist in Mandriva. I'm assuming they used a later nVidia driver. A nice touch. I can already tell I'll like it much better than SuSE.
People don't want to learn something new concerning computers? I am SHOCKED, absolutely shocked.
Of course, this may be due to MSI's crappy version of Linux (according to other/.ers). I think an Ubuntu install or some other easy to use distro would do the trick. I'd go with SuSE with KDE 4.1.2 at the moment, but when KDE 4.2 comes out, SuSE's backports will become much less valuable.
Although regulation would just be "moderate," any change in growth over a long period can result in a massive gap between the non-regulated income and regulated income.
I would hazard that if we do absolutely nothing at the moment, we will actually save money even if the absolute worst predictions came true. The reason is that lost growth, let's say 0.5%, adds up to trillions of dollars over lots of years. What may seem unaffordable now may soon become well within our grasp.
Is "I'm sitting on [x]" used in the US or UK as a way of saying that you own/use [x] at all?
It can mean that. For example, "I'm sitting on a ton of gold" usually means that the speaker owns a large sum of gold (or possibly literally one ton of gold). I usually see it with money, not tangible property such as a house. "I'm sitting on a house" usually means that the speaker is literally on the roof of a house, unless there is some additional context. This is, at least, what it means to me.
I second that. I've been using KDE4 compiled from svn for weeks now. It's getting better and better all the time, getting more stable and such.
The things I miss most are Amarok and panel autohide. Panel autohide might be trivial to implement. Perhaps I should do some research and decide to use my n00b programming skills (if you wish to call them such) to use.
Anyone have any idea if it would be easy to do?
I happen to have a '65 Ford truck that I use for hauling things around. Sure, it's older than I am, but it gets the job done.
Your statement would be truer if you had said uncared for American cars last only 5 years. With some actual care, cars can last for a bazillion years unless you get in a wreck.
Well, as someone who graduated from high school two years ago, I feel that I can perhaps enlighten some of the older slashdotters about what a modern "classroom" (no offense to real places of learning) is like. So, let's visit the hallowed ground on which our future rests, shall we?
Welcome to high school. First, let's make some general critiques. Many classes in all disciplines assign busywork, designed simply to annoy the hell out of students, provide no real learning, and make up the bulk of all school work. Homework, for me at least, was ridiculous. I've had math classes (math!) where instead of say, learning the wonders of the Pythagorean theorem, differentials, etc., we baked cakes. Yes, cakes. And cupcakes, pies, and other sugary delights. Other math classes had drawing assignments. None of this inspired confidence in the educational system.
As for the rest of science, I had only one science teacher in all my years of high school that knew what the hell he was talking about. He wasn't the usual retard who got the job due to seniority or some act of a malicious god, but a real science teacher. However, he still made homework a large percentage of the grade, like most other teachers. I would get As on tests in every class, but end up with Cs or worse because I would never do homework. I felt it was unnecessary. I had mastered the material. Wasn't that the purpose of education?
I guess this rant from a (pissed off) young punk all boils down to this: Assign less busywork. Grade us on our factual knowledge. Even AP classes do not do so, in my experience, though the tests do. If this were actually in place, I would probably have had a 4.0 GPA, been top of my class, and many, many, people would have been demoted. But, I guess having all those who are obedient pass is more important than holding them back when they are not ready to advance. We are breading our future politicians with the inflated grades, telling them now they are so important and intelligent when they are really average, or worse.
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Yes! They solved the fat-finger problem! Now I won't need to get on a diet and give up greasy, greasy foods, AND I get to play with my toys. Bring in the fried chicken!
You can sure as hell do more damage by a golf driver going flying at like 60MPH! I don't think the most uncoordinated humans on the planet should be embarrassing themselves by suing over letting their wiimote go.
When I was 14, my dad thought it would be a good idea to give me some golf lessons. I lived in Alabama at the time, and was practicing with some practice balls. It was really hot, and my hands got really sweaty, and my club slipped out of my hand.
Unbeknownst to me, my dad just so happened to step outside at this time. The club flew over the fence and smacked him in the side of his head. Ouch.
I have *never* had a wiimote do the same thing. In fact, the Wiimote has a pretty good grip, I think.
Contracts. If I sell a widget to you, and you sign a contract that says you will sell it at a certain price, then you are bound to do it.
The only time it would not be a free market is if someone (the government, the mafia, or even the company itself) came to the retailers who had no contract in place and held a gun to the owner's head saying, "You will sell it at this price."
The internet is the freest and most unregulated source of information there is. Certainly governments would want to regulate this, as many facts that make them uncomfortable can be spread. The mainstream media cannot be counted on to report everything; look at their cheer leading for the Iraq invasion. Latvia even made it a crime to criticize their central bank policies, and bloggers can end up in trouble. The internet needs less regulation, not more. All we'll end up with with regulation is having to pay or bribe (directly or indirectly) some stupid government official to get business done.
Some schools of thought hold that monopolies can only exist by government interference. What is the /. take on this, since we are throwing around monopoly accusations?
The Constitution, as written, generally only provides for what the government can do. The Tenth Amendment says it best: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The Constitution does not state that the government can invest in industry. Hell, it doesn't allow for probably 90% of everything our government does now. No, ladies and gentlemen, the preamble only states the reasons the Constitution was adopted, not what the government can do. No, the commerce clause does not mean the government can stop you from growing your own corn on your own property for your own consumption.
It is high time that we elected politicians that follow the Constitution. Our current crop, Republican and Democrat, does not. Torture, wars made by the President, not the Congress, the War on Drugs, these are all examples of policies that are illegal.
Look what it did to Bush's presidency. I mean he surrounded himself with the brightest people in washington but they were from another era and it didn't quite work out for him. The more then shined, the more Bush Failed.
You say "brightest people in Washington" as if that were saying something. An equivalent expression would be "brightest people in a special-needs class." Politicians, lobbyists, lawyers, and such are not known to be the brightest.
"Left" and "Right" make up only one axis of the political spectrum, that of the economy. But there also is a freedom axis. Hitler and Stalin would be the highest of this authoritarian axis, while Stalin would be to the left and Hitler near the center. So of course, Ron Paul would make Hitler look like a leftist, Bush less so. Ron Paul, however, is pro-freedom, Bush is much more authoritarian.
what is surely a quantum leap in what technology and engineering
A quantum leap is actually a very small amount of movement.
As for the rest of your comment, I feel that those making jokes about this are just fine. I don't find it denigrating or bigoted. I'm American, and I have to put up with the typical "Americans are all fat and stupid" stereotype. I find jokes about us entertaining. Grow a skin.
"The scammers ran Spears through the whole program. They said President Bush and FBI Director "Robert Muller" (their spelling) were in on the deal and needed her help."
And all you people doubted our President's intelligence! He's opening additional revenue streams to get us out of debt.
I can only hope and pray that Obama, having African blood and thus being more closely related to our Nigerian friends, will be able to expand this source of government revenue.
Tomorrow we go to the polls to elect the next failed administration, and the next failed Congress.
Regardless of who is elected, I feel that both candidates have the wrong attitude towards government. I feel that the role of government is simply to protect our lives and our property from one another. Both candidates espouse statist ideals that want to take away from our self governance or continue policies that take away our power.
Both throw out petty scraps of meat to the people to get them to vote for their demise. This year, they throw the meager pickings of tax cuts. Perhaps four years from now it will be the threat of terrorists again, or perhaps health care.
Both voted for a plan to give hundreds of billions of dollars to failed banks that gave loans to people who deserved none. Let them fail. The consequences of propping up zombie banks are greater than of letting them fail and having the market adjust.
Tomorrow I go to the polls to vote Libertarian, to fight the establishment.
Gecko glue? Isn't that what Firefox does, bind Gecko to the user? Oh, wait, wrong gecko. . .
Well, I downloaded the CD and am now in the process of installing it. On the CD, it ran very quickly, especially for a live CD. The usual Folder View slowness in KDE4 that I've experienced in every other distro just did not exist in Mandriva. I'm assuming they used a later nVidia driver. A nice touch. I can already tell I'll like it much better than SuSE.
Sounds like something Sony would do. I guess once you have a near monopoly on handheld gaming devices (apart from phones) you can do what you will
People don't want to learn something new concerning computers? I am SHOCKED, absolutely shocked. Of course, this may be due to MSI's crappy version of Linux (according to other /.ers). I think an Ubuntu install or some other easy to use distro would do the trick. I'd go with SuSE with KDE 4.1.2 at the moment, but when KDE 4.2 comes out, SuSE's backports will become much less valuable.
... How many furlongs per meter? How many fortnights per night? I can't understand these eeeevil foreign units.
Although regulation would just be "moderate," any change in growth over a long period can result in a massive gap between the non-regulated income and regulated income. I would hazard that if we do absolutely nothing at the moment, we will actually save money even if the absolute worst predictions came true. The reason is that lost growth, let's say 0.5%, adds up to trillions of dollars over lots of years. What may seem unaffordable now may soon become well within our grasp.
1. Leak album to pirates.
2. Blame pirates for leaked album.
3. ???
4. Profit!
I suppose then that Firefox, various flavors of Linux, and Mac OS X are then the most insecure pieces of software ever developed.
Is "I'm sitting on [x]" used in the US or UK as a way of saying that you own/use [x] at all?
It can mean that. For example, "I'm sitting on a ton of gold" usually means that the speaker owns a large sum of gold (or possibly literally one ton of gold). I usually see it with money, not tangible property such as a house. "I'm sitting on a house" usually means that the speaker is literally on the roof of a house, unless there is some additional context. This is, at least, what it means to me.
As a Linux user, let me say both "Already done" and "When we will get the marketing power of Apple?"
I second that. I've been using KDE4 compiled from svn for weeks now. It's getting better and better all the time, getting more stable and such. The things I miss most are Amarok and panel autohide. Panel autohide might be trivial to implement. Perhaps I should do some research and decide to use my n00b programming skills (if you wish to call them such) to use. Anyone have any idea if it would be easy to do?
I happen to have a '65 Ford truck that I use for hauling things around. Sure, it's older than I am, but it gets the job done. Your statement would be truer if you had said uncared for American cars last only 5 years. With some actual care, cars can last for a bazillion years unless you get in a wreck.
Microsoft, Automobile Division: giving new meaning to "Blue Screen of Death."
Enjoy your ride.
Well, as someone who graduated from high school two years ago, I feel that I can perhaps enlighten some of the older slashdotters about what a modern "classroom" (no offense to real places of learning) is like. So, let's visit the hallowed ground on which our future rests, shall we?
Welcome to high school. First, let's make some general critiques. Many classes in all disciplines assign busywork, designed simply to annoy the hell out of students, provide no real learning, and make up the bulk of all school work. Homework, for me at least, was ridiculous. I've had math classes (math!) where instead of say, learning the wonders of the Pythagorean theorem, differentials, etc., we baked cakes. Yes, cakes. And cupcakes, pies, and other sugary delights. Other math classes had drawing assignments. None of this inspired confidence in the educational system.
As for the rest of science, I had only one science teacher in all my years of high school that knew what the hell he was talking about. He wasn't the usual retard who got the job due to seniority or some act of a malicious god, but a real science teacher. However, he still made homework a large percentage of the grade, like most other teachers. I would get As on tests in every class, but end up with Cs or worse because I would never do homework. I felt it was unnecessary. I had mastered the material. Wasn't that the purpose of education?
I guess this rant from a (pissed off) young punk all boils down to this: Assign less busywork. Grade us on our factual knowledge. Even AP classes do not do so, in my experience, though the tests do. If this were actually in place, I would probably have had a 4.0 GPA, been top of my class, and many, many, people would have been demoted. But, I guess having all those who are obedient pass is more important than holding them back when they are not ready to advance. We are breading our future politicians with the inflated grades, telling them now they are so important and intelligent when they are really average, or worse.