So essentially foreigners are stuck with 'funny money' which they cannot use as true currency.
That's absolutely ridiculous. Foreign interests are able to own more US companies than ever before. The fact that they can't own EVERYTHING isn't going to slow them down one bit.
Even if you're incredible paranoid theory was right, and they couldn't invest in anything, they could still quite easily cash-out by currency exchange, buying gold, or buying just about anything else of value.
I'd agree if there were numerous warnings posted around the airport, warnings read when you call up to reserve a ticket, linked-to on the companies' websites, etc.
Second, from a legal stand point, intent is always considered. If the person did not intend to kill, only do injury by shooting in the arm, then it would probably be man slaughter and not murder.
You're clearly not a lawyer, because that's simply untrue.
Lots of people want to blame fast food for their ass being fat, or cigarettes for their getting cancer, or movies and video games for violence.
This sounds like libertarian bullshit to me... People started suing fast-food chains because they did not make nutrition information available, and cigarette companies for intentionally concealing health risks, and denying the issue, in contradiction of the evidence they had available to them, and so much more.
If some fat ass does something that's bad for their body, but NOT regular heathly people, that is their own fault!
It's very bad for regular health people to sit perfectly still in a tiny confined space as well... It's just very rarely LEATHAL when you're relatively healthy, and more than that, the smaller you are, the less you are confined by tiny airline seats (so women, for instance, are at much less risk than men).
If airlines were posting large (and accurate) warnings about the (non-obvious) dangers of flying, I wouldn't consider them culpable at all. Instead, it's Caveat Emptor, and unleash the lawyers.
Computer interfaces should look good and be efficient.
I'll take just the latter, thanks. "Form follows function," but eye-candy is by-definition, useless.
If OS and software vendors aren't pushing the envelope, then they aren't working hard enough at improvement.
I can push the hardware to it's limits, all without working, at all, on any kind of actual improvements. Just ask Microsoft, each release of Windows requires drastically more CPU-time to open up the (identical) "Open With..." dialog box.
Who cares about your lame 486's, anyway?
I don't care about my 486, however, I do care whether or not my nice, stable, low-power 1GHz PIII system is fast enough to run the software I want to use...
The author then makes the claim that nice interfaces rob the computer of processing power. I disagree. Most of the time the computer (especially desktop) is doing nothing.
Nice little contradiction there.
Besides, the eye-candy doesn't (and can't) just stop when your CPU is maxed-out with some task. In fact, that's when it's likely to be MOST active.
upcoming MS windows and some future X implememntations will use hardware acceleration for rendering window graphics-- so, the CPU won't be under any "strain" at all.
You can use OpenGL to speed-up display of graphics, but you can NEVER completely eliminate the CPU. Eyecandy will just not be as much of a slowdown as you might expect, because of hardware acceleration.
Anyways, I paid my dues with the vt100 era. It is now a pleasure to use a nice interface. I would not have it any other way.
With a CLI, I tend to just get work done, rather than resizing and moving windows around all the time. GUIs certainly have their advantages, but neither is the best of everything.
Sure blame the plane flight for DVTs. I mean, forget about the fact you weight 300 lbs (around the same as your cholesterol level), smoke, take birth control pills and are diabetic. It's the plane trip that caused it...
When some criminal shoots you in the arm, and you die of a heart-attack, they get charged with murder. You are responsible for problems you cause, irregardless of such contributing factors.
Personally, I'd be more comfortable being loaded into an airplane in a coffin, rather than a coach seat... Probably less risk that way too.
Find me a CRT that is flat, displays at least 1280x1024, that does weigh 20+ pounds,
Easily done (I presume you mean DOESN'T weigh 20+ pounds, but either way...).
and can fit on any desk without requiring a lot of wasted room behind it.
Yes, the added size of CRTs is a (very minor) draw-back. I'd say a standard keyboard and mouse waste much more desktop space than an average-sized CRT. I've always found it quite easy to work a CRT painlessly into any areas. Put it in a corner, at an angle, above the workspace (on a stand) etc.
As much as people tout the benefits of LCDs being flat, I don't see all that many running out to spend 3Xs as much money on a plasma/LCD/DLP TV.
Really? So every single open source project in the world has been taken care of after the original creators moved on to other things? Do you know how many abandoned projects are on SourceForge?
You've got to be trolling. OpenSSH isn't some 2-line program on SourceForce, it's the iPod of network protocols... I'd say it's more important than even Apache, BIND, Sendmail, etc. Huge companies are using it exclusively. It was absolutely the only free implimentation of SSH2 until very recently, and it's still the only decent one. Companies like SUN and IBM aren't going to switch back to turning-on telnet, and they certainly don't want to have to pay.
Granted that OpenSSH is a bit larger than most of the PHP editor projects on SourceForge,
That gets my vote for the single most serious understatement of the decade...
In conclusion, you obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
Actually those 125 W are what is printed on the little stickers on the devices. I haven't measured the real consumptions, but usually these little stickers are pretty accurate.
My ~65W CRT has a sticker on the back that says 2AMPS!
In my experience, those stickers haven't been remotely accurate. Perhaps that's absolute peak-voltage at power-up...
The fact that your eyes aren't very good (or that you're so accustomed to it that you can't see it anymore), doesn't change facts.
Grab a good-quality interlaced DVD, and play it back with a field-seperating filter to get the full 60fps. The problem should become quite obvious then.
and any theoretical deficit it may have in contrast ratio
It's not theoretical at all. It really, really looks like crap, and is much harder on your eyes.
is more than made up for by its nigh-infinite sharpness.
It's really not sharper, it's just that there's a black-wire grid around every LCD pixel, which makes them easier to discern from each other.
You should know there are adjustments which will allow you to make any CRT PAINFULLY high-contrast if you choose to do so.
We've got 10 years to get our emissions down, or we could be be looking at a flood that will compare to the legends of Atlantis and Noah as New Orleans does to an overflowing kitchen sink.
It's overzealous nutjobs like yourself which make global warming appear to be some sort of scam, to the public at large.
Now go back over to the kiddie table and play with your UFO action figures, so the adults can talk...
Normally when you break glass, it shatters and falls down. A CRT is one of the few exceptions where it will fly in your face of its own accord.
Nonsense.
Modern CRTs include a bonded, multi-layer faceplate that prevents implosion, and also protects you from one as well.
Besides, you need a very, very specific (and very unlikely) combination of conditions for it to violently implode. Most of the time, the force of the rushing air won't even break the glass.
And I'm also not so sure about LCDs being less power-hungry.
Yes, LCDs generally use about 50% as much power as CRTs, though that doesn't make-up for their other serious draw-backs.
A friend of mine has a 19" Philips LCD that uses 125 W; just as much as my 19" Iiyama CRT.
Those numbers are absolutely insane. You aren't going off the rating on the device are you? My Cheapo 19" CRT only uses 65W. (Also: a 19" LCD is 1" larger than a 19" CRT)
I'm a late convert as well, but the quality on even mid-range LCDs to day is way better than it was even two years ago.
LCDs continue to improve, of course... And in 50 years, they might rival CRTs.
Show me an LCD that can really do 60+ FPS without any blur at all... Show me an LCD with even a fraction the contrast ratio the cheapest CRT can deliver. Show me some LCDs which can display real black, not just grey. Show me an LCD where you don't have picture distortion due to the location of the light... Show me an LCD where I can turn down the back-light enough that I don't get a tan, and can still read the screen without straining.
I'd like to have a display, that does't use as much power, but I'd bet advances in effeciency will make CRTs lower power than LCDs before LCDs can catch-up to the picture quality of CRTs.
I'm much more optimistic about DLP and future display technologies.
Yeah, that makes a whole lot of sense... Because, of course, you wouldn't want people to KNOW it was going to be on... If you did that, they might actually tune-in, and watch it... Watching the ads... Making money for Fox...
So, yeah, I can see why they'd want to keep that a secret... They wouldn't want to, you know, make money...
It is all about the fact that you cannot use AAC or WMA when using multiple devices to play your music because neither has penetrated the market enough to be accepted on most players.
It doesn't matter. People with iPods don't care that they can't just burn their AAC files to CDs and play them in their DVD players. There is a balkanizing effect, with each person using what format is supported by their own player, and their own hardware. Very few are actively trying to be backwards-compatible, because they listen to ALL their music on their iPods, and their computers, AND NOTHING ELSE (or their burn their song to a standard CD, which any device can play).
Still, this is completely and totally besides the point. You still haven't gotten it. Quite a few people ARE using AAC. It doesn't matter how compatibile it is, BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE USING IT. It's a FACT, which all this bullshit can't change. If you don't believe it, do a few searches on Gnutella/Kazaa/etc. It is very simply a FACT that people are using AAC without DRM, so the test results are bullshit.
Since this very simple concept isn't getting through you're head, I'm just wasting my time.
There is a difference between not learning (ie not keeping up with new, updated theories) and continuing with your belief and values.
A very small difference.
b) He had dedicated his entire life to his religion, and was not receptive to something that tells him he had been wrong all that time.
There's a big difference between being wrong all your life, and being wrong for the first 1/3rd of your life, or so... In the former case, your example may hold, but in the latter case, probably not.
Besides, the actual reason would be some combination of A & B, not either-or.
If people don't die die, old (wrong) ideas will never die, and humans will never improve.
I don't believe that at all. The reason "old people" fail to continue learning is precisely because they know they aren't going to live very long.
If that wasn't the situation, society would change... Right now, it's pretty much expected that you go to school until you're in your 20's, then you NEVER GO AGAIN. That could quite easily be changed, forcing older people to re-learn what they know every few decades, including new, updated theories.
In addition, can we stop pretending the news needs to be "balanced"? Not every issue or event has "sides" and when they do they often don't have equal merit.
It's a sad, sad day when the cable news networks have people so confused that they think "balanced" means having TWO idiots yelling at each other, rather than one...
Balanced actually means giving the appropriate time and credit to the sides which deserve it, and overing equal criticism to both.
FOX just usurped that term because they didn't think "Guarding the henhouse" would make a good slogan...
This is all a moot point. It doesn't matter how far and wide MP3 may be accepted. What matters is that there are a lot of people that will be using DRM-free AAC (or WMA), which therefore nullifies these results completely.
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That's absolutely ridiculous. Foreign interests are able to own more US companies than ever before. The fact that they can't own EVERYTHING isn't going to slow them down one bit.
Even if you're incredible paranoid theory was right, and they couldn't invest in anything, they could still quite easily cash-out by currency exchange, buying gold, or buying just about anything else of value.
I must have imagined this one: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-01-17-pr
I'd agree if there were numerous warnings posted around the airport, warnings read when you call up to reserve a ticket, linked-to on the companies' websites, etc.
You're clearly not a lawyer, because that's simply untrue.
This sounds like libertarian bullshit to me... People started suing fast-food chains because they did not make nutrition information available, and cigarette companies for intentionally concealing health risks, and denying the issue, in contradiction of the evidence they had available to them, and so much more.
It's very bad for regular health people to sit perfectly still in a tiny confined space as well... It's just very rarely LEATHAL when you're relatively healthy, and more than that, the smaller you are, the less you are confined by tiny airline seats (so women, for instance, are at much less risk than men).
If airlines were posting large (and accurate) warnings about the (non-obvious) dangers of flying, I wouldn't consider them culpable at all. Instead, it's Caveat Emptor, and unleash the lawyers.
In fact, forget the lunar lander and the blackjack.
I'll take just the latter, thanks. "Form follows function," but eye-candy is by-definition, useless.
I can push the hardware to it's limits, all without working, at all, on any kind of actual improvements. Just ask Microsoft, each release of Windows requires drastically more CPU-time to open up the (identical) "Open With..." dialog box.
I don't care about my 486, however, I do care whether or not my nice, stable, low-power 1GHz PIII system is fast enough to run the software I want to use...
Nice little contradiction there.
Besides, the eye-candy doesn't (and can't) just stop when your CPU is maxed-out with some task. In fact, that's when it's likely to be MOST active.
You can use OpenGL to speed-up display of graphics, but you can NEVER completely eliminate the CPU. Eyecandy will just not be as much of a slowdown as you might expect, because of hardware acceleration.
With a CLI, I tend to just get work done, rather than resizing and moving windows around all the time. GUIs certainly have their advantages, but neither is the best of everything.
When some criminal shoots you in the arm, and you die of a heart-attack, they get charged with murder. You are responsible for problems you cause, irregardless of such contributing factors.
Personally, I'd be more comfortable being loaded into an airplane in a coffin, rather than a coach seat... Probably less risk that way too.
To use an iPod of course...
It's NOT "a security system", it is an Operating System.
It would be very nice if firewire drives could have been used for system back-ups, and other things like that, before USB2 came around.
Easily done (I presume you mean DOESN'T weigh 20+ pounds, but either way...).
Yes, the added size of CRTs is a (very minor) draw-back. I'd say a standard keyboard and mouse waste much more desktop space than an average-sized CRT. I've always found it quite easy to work a CRT painlessly into any areas. Put it in a corner, at an angle, above the workspace (on a stand) etc.
As much as people tout the benefits of LCDs being flat, I don't see all that many running out to spend 3Xs as much money on a plasma/LCD/DLP TV.
Funny thing is: OpenBSD, to this day, still doesn't have any Firewire drivers, let alone an HFS+ filesystem driver...
You've got to be trolling. OpenSSH isn't some 2-line program on SourceForce, it's the iPod of network protocols... I'd say it's more important than even Apache, BIND, Sendmail, etc. Huge companies are using it exclusively. It was absolutely the only free implimentation of SSH2 until very recently, and it's still the only decent one. Companies like SUN and IBM aren't going to switch back to turning-on telnet, and they certainly don't want to have to pay.
That gets my vote for the single most serious understatement of the decade...
In conclusion, you obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
My ~65W CRT has a sticker on the back that says 2AMPS!
In my experience, those stickers haven't been remotely accurate. Perhaps that's absolute peak-voltage at power-up...
The fact that your eyes aren't very good (or that you're so accustomed to it that you can't see it anymore), doesn't change facts.
Grab a good-quality interlaced DVD, and play it back with a field-seperating filter to get the full 60fps. The problem should become quite obvious then.
It's not theoretical at all. It really, really looks like crap, and is much harder on your eyes.
It's really not sharper, it's just that there's a black-wire grid around every LCD pixel, which makes them easier to discern from each other.
You should know there are adjustments which will allow you to make any CRT PAINFULLY high-contrast if you choose to do so.
I've been meaning to move into a smaller place
It's overzealous nutjobs like yourself which make global warming appear to be some sort of scam, to the public at large.
Now go back over to the kiddie table and play with your UFO action figures, so the adults can talk...
Nonsense.
Modern CRTs include a bonded, multi-layer faceplate that prevents implosion, and also protects you from one as well.
Besides, you need a very, very specific (and very unlikely) combination of conditions for it to violently implode. Most of the time, the force of the rushing air won't even break the glass.
Yes, LCDs generally use about 50% as much power as CRTs, though that doesn't make-up for their other serious draw-backs.
Those numbers are absolutely insane. You aren't going off the rating on the device are you? My Cheapo 19" CRT only uses 65W. (Also: a 19" LCD is 1" larger than a 19" CRT)
LCDs continue to improve, of course... And in 50 years, they might rival CRTs.
Show me an LCD that can really do 60+ FPS without any blur at all... Show me an LCD with even a fraction the contrast ratio the cheapest CRT can deliver. Show me some LCDs which can display real black, not just grey. Show me an LCD where you don't have picture distortion due to the location of the light... Show me an LCD where I can turn down the back-light enough that I don't get a tan, and can still read the screen without straining.
I'd like to have a display, that does't use as much power, but I'd bet advances in effeciency will make CRTs lower power than LCDs before LCDs can catch-up to the picture quality of CRTs.
I'm much more optimistic about DLP and future display technologies.
Yeah, that makes a whole lot of sense... Because, of course, you wouldn't want people to KNOW it was going to be on... If you did that, they might actually tune-in, and watch it... Watching the ads... Making money for Fox...
So, yeah, I can see why they'd want to keep that a secret... They wouldn't want to, you know, make money...
It doesn't matter. People with iPods don't care that they can't just burn their AAC files to CDs and play them in their DVD players. There is a balkanizing effect, with each person using what format is supported by their own player, and their own hardware. Very few are actively trying to be backwards-compatible, because they listen to ALL their music on their iPods, and their computers, AND NOTHING ELSE (or their burn their song to a standard CD, which any device can play).
Still, this is completely and totally besides the point. You still haven't gotten it. Quite a few people ARE using AAC. It doesn't matter how compatibile it is, BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE USING IT. It's a FACT, which all this bullshit can't change. If you don't believe it, do a few searches on Gnutella/Kazaa/etc. It is very simply a FACT that people are using AAC without DRM, so the test results are bullshit.
Since this very simple concept isn't getting through you're head, I'm just wasting my time.
A very small difference.
There's a big difference between being wrong all your life, and being wrong for the first 1/3rd of your life, or so... In the former case, your example may hold, but in the latter case, probably not.
Besides, the actual reason would be some combination of A & B, not either-or.
I don't believe that at all. The reason "old people" fail to continue learning is precisely because they know they aren't going to live very long.
If that wasn't the situation, society would change... Right now, it's pretty much expected that you go to school until you're in your 20's, then you NEVER GO AGAIN. That could quite easily be changed, forcing older people to re-learn what they know every few decades, including new, updated theories.
It's a sad, sad day when the cable news networks have people so confused that they think "balanced" means having TWO idiots yelling at each other, rather than one...
Balanced actually means giving the appropriate time and credit to the sides which deserve it, and overing equal criticism to both.
FOX just usurped that term because they didn't think "Guarding the henhouse" would make a good slogan...
This is all a moot point. It doesn't matter how far and wide MP3 may be accepted. What matters is that there are a lot of people that will be using DRM-free AAC (or WMA), which therefore nullifies these results completely.