I don't want global nuclear war, I like society, but if war did happen, one of it's very few benefits would be a shrinking of government overloads, a chance to rid us of waste and corruption, government on a scale people could understand. The internet would only be a hindrance to that. Would only help the worst parts of the government we no longer need. (military, the oval office technocrats, wackos with a agenda to press.
TFA says about the US site
it has two wells and a large enough water-storage facility to keep running water for a fortnight in the unlikely event they should both run dry.
lulz. First off, a fortnight is nothing if the whole nation is dying, second. What are those wells going to better serve, a possibility unpolluted water source for the local people, or some servers no one can access?
ok. The cell phone companies have announced they are going to price fix their rates up %15 among all good US carriers. Sense they own and built the networks, they do what they want right? Also, the restaurants on the east side of town have decided only to let white people eat there, because they own the property, and set the rules right? Breaking news, you can't drive through 3 of the cities near you anymore to get to work because your not a resident and didn't pay for the road upkeep. Enjoy driving around on federal roads parent poster. Also cereal and grain no longer has to be shipped in poison free food grade containers, because they own the grain till they sell it, they can store it how they want.
These are extreme examples but reasonable regulation that leans towards favoring the citizens while not fucking the investors is absolutely required. Especially if you are talking about anything that leans towards a 'natural monopoly' like infrastructure. Free markets don't work with things like water pipes because you can't have 5 didn't companies running pipes all over the city to every house. And even if you did, (say you built a star trek water transporter beam) you'd still need safety regulation.
I think one of the many problems with this approach that isn't mentioned is it has the greatest negative effect on young adults 18-27. Right at the age their brains are best set to learn lots of new info, they are also most likely to be lazy, and sub come to a free apartment and parties and whatnot. Yes, a lot of them do this now. but without real motivation to work, you will remove the work ethic from them. Suddenly new tech isn't made fast enough, but you don't realize it till 15 years later. Of course I suppose you could just make EVERYone join the army for 7 years, and ahve them build roads and such.
I see a lot of people posting about how ten years later they realize that college wasn't worth it, in so many words. I think these posters really don't realize the odds against them without it. While you might have a lot of debt, you also had a real job and are able to pay it off, and another real job, and the experience then to get another job, plus the ability to change careers if you really wanted. So many entry lvl positions just want a 4 year degree, in the field or not. I don't see many posts about "I went bankrupt from my student loans and now share a apartment with 3 strangers" I think it's mostly the perceived stress from the loans that bring this talk about. All the posters are still doing ok
A few of the problems is smart phones are more like computers. you can hide files, you can encrypt files, etc. Sorry I don't trust teachers to know every phone OS and os hack (kids love hacks) on every new phone coming out every 6 months. I think they should just take them away for the day on first offense. Offense meaning being seen. Second offense they should be banned from having them on their person
Going around your elbow to get to your armpit
First, Facebook re samples your pics with a beyond shitty filter to a faction of their original quality . Save the source pic. The facebook pics are only going to look worse and worse with newer screens. Even the newer facdebook 'hi rez' pics are bad.
Second.
Don't be silly. IF you want to save status updates....
We never looked forward to ME. You sound like a unwashed Linux user;) win98 SE was too good. Like XP was too good to convert to vista, no matter how much better the file system etc was
It's true the landline phone service has been consolidated again. Of course it's a little weaker due to cell phones, VoiP on cable lines and such. Not being a Aussie I have little commant on how this would work, but just because it didn't last here, doesn't mean they couldn't find a way to prevent a repeat there. Plus I think you forget how bad Ma bell was. Try thinking of the DMV from hell that has no offices, you have to call.
Also, the break up did what was intended, stopped it from monopolizing the computer industry (it tried) and other emerging techs. You could argue without the break-up Sprint could have never got into the long distance service, and Verizon started in 1983 as Bell Atlantic. It is possible, if left to stand, Ma Bell would have wrapped up most of the cell phone market before said competitors giving at least some market competition today. Just a thought. And it would seen completely natural to us today, as they own the phone lies, so why shouldn't they own the cell phones that connect to them?
You know people were saying in the 1980s how people didn't buy new cars as often. That's because the cars lasted longer.
The usefulness of the slightly faster model (cell phones, computers) has slowed down lately. THou this is mostly due to home user software not doubling it's resource demands every ~7 years like the hardware does. While I feel we are at more of a temporary plateau then a trend that will last a long time. It's also due to the spread of tech. While in the 90s a lot of the buyers were techies who wanted the newest, coolest best thing, more and more it's facebook and retired housewife normals sending email
Hey you, yeah you, the freshman in your 3d year at the local JC. You too can get hired by a company on the edge, all you need is this Google cert. on your resume, a mere 100 a test.
Channel partners interested in having staffers certified need to buy a special, $US45 webcam from Google and pay $100 per person who takes the test.
The tests, which last several hours and consist of multiple-choice questions, are monitored live by a Google representative through the webcam. Results are computed as soon as the test is over. Those who pass, receive via e-mail a diploma and access to an official badge graphic. Those who fail are told which areas they need to improve upon.
Because you know, those cisco and M$ certs are looking dusty.
Said part is this usually actually works, because managers that hire know dickins about IT tech and it makes them feel comfortable
Criags list has millions upon millions of users. 500 crimes is statistically insignificant in fact, looks UNDER reported. IF that is the crime rate, it's very low. Take any given group with large enough numbers a certain % will always be bad apples. remember Criags list is a community forum, it's not a company like Amazon
I remember back when magazines like Wired were using terms like the 'new economy' like they meant something. And 'New models' and 'Profit was meaningless' and "We the kids knows what is really gong on, the old brick and mortar company have it wrong' and 'virtual property' etc. Also stuff like 'Stock prices no longer have to be tied to earnings exceptions', and any net business is a good business etc. At least it hasn't gotton that bad.
I guess my point is Wired Magazine has always and still does suck
I still laugh how any time arcades comes up in a forum, someone posts that link, do they not realise it's the worse kind of advertising for arcades? It makes you look BAD. How can you not get saying games are better because they are designed to steal quarters is bad? He actually says this! This is exactly why the best games are on PC, the most artistic, involved games, because they don't need to kill you in lame ways for a extra quarter. He also defends the lack of social skills of arcade players. Completely ignores the PC market, on comparing arcade games to console games. And suffers from the worst case of weebooism (SP) you can see anywhere
Isn't that what F11 is for in firefox? Or just give the user the option. It's a mere UI issue, not like a below the hood engine thing, is it so hard to support two choices in this example?
All I've ever wanted was the web on a piece of paper, and the ipad is pretty close. I keep it on my coffee table. Yesterday someone didn't know what lox was, in 20 seconds the device was on, and google was serving us a picture of said food. The standby battery life is amazing it goes over a week without being plugged in.
Expensive compared to what? netbooks are about $100 less, are bulkly, do less, and like a tablet (so far) are not a replacement for a laptop. The price justification is all in that huge TOUCH screen you get. I remember when a few years ago 40 inch flatscreen TV's were $1500-2000 now they are less then $850. Yet even at the double price point you saw them in homes everywhere. Convertible/tablet laptops a year ago generally served a $1000 premium for the privilege of a touch screen Vs a comparable non touchscreen laptob.
You can't look at this as that ~20% (made up number) of the population that actually NEEDS a laptop for work, and or work travel. You have to look at all the OTHER uses it has.
a 360 cost $300+ at release after accessories. I am temped to blacklist TFA's author from ever reading again because this is soo far off base, just news filler dribble really. Tablets are selling well for there place right now, and forgoing company's fucking up the market, it will only get better. I am not a apple fan, put if all those people I know that have bought a smart phone at least one a year can afford that, they cam afford t his
Of course there is no real data linking video games to violence but your post suggests there is for decrease in violence which is equally bad data usage.
The only real data correlation that MIGHT explain the decrease in violence after a steep increase(not) in the time period is roe vs wade, As abortions became legal Just about the time for the kids coming of age that would have grown up in terrible homes with unstable uneducated mothers were starting to be born.
hey are planning to make the films in 3D and have already met with James Cameron to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the technology.
Isn't that like asking Steve Jobs the advantages of Apple OS's, or asking the pope the advantages and disadvantages of Christianity? I.E Biased. Anyone who knows anything Cameron has said in the last several years knows he has drunk the 3d kool aid despite just about every other respected film editor, director and other technical film artist has explained why 3d sucks and always will with current tech.
The US has been at war about 95 of the last 100 years., and if not warrinng, they are bombing countries. Not to mention their extreme involvement across the whole world in goings ons, from funding militaries and militia from south America to Africa, and other more subtle interventions. Not to mention the fact we have armed bases all over the world.
Just because you play games and read game mags and buy consoles does not mean you know how the industry works.
Just because you come up with easily summarized phrases like 5-year cycle to make yourselves feel smart, doesn't mean they EVER had any causal relationship
hostile much? also your wrong. It sounds better/to you/ because you think that warm vinyl sound=better sound. It doesn't, it's just what you like, probably because you were introduced to it in a nostalgia environment (if your older) or in a 'get ready for awesome' elitist refined way if your younger, like going to a nice restaurant for the first time, where the decor is nice, the music is nice, the hostess is nice, the server is nice,and the food tastes better before you've even tried it. Early CD's had bad quality but 99% of modern ones are better sounding, more flat, natural sound. Also not using words directed at the reader like "save your bullshit" " This is fact, shut it" "hey assholes" might have me think a little better of you, but not your argument.
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TFA says about the US site
it has two wells and a large enough water-storage facility to keep running water for a fortnight in the unlikely event they should both run dry.
lulz. First off, a fortnight is nothing if the whole nation is dying, second. What are those wells going to better serve, a possibility unpolluted water source for the local people, or some servers no one can access?
These are extreme examples but reasonable regulation that leans towards favoring the citizens while not fucking the investors is absolutely required. Especially if you are talking about anything that leans towards a 'natural monopoly' like infrastructure. Free markets don't work with things like water pipes because you can't have 5 didn't companies running pipes all over the city to every house. And even if you did, (say you built a star trek water transporter beam) you'd still need safety regulation.
I think one of the many problems with this approach that isn't mentioned is it has the greatest negative effect on young adults 18-27. Right at the age their brains are best set to learn lots of new info, they are also most likely to be lazy, and sub come to a free apartment and parties and whatnot. Yes, a lot of them do this now. but without real motivation to work, you will remove the work ethic from them. Suddenly new tech isn't made fast enough, but you don't realize it till 15 years later. Of course I suppose you could just make EVERYone join the army for 7 years, and ahve them build roads and such.
I see a lot of people posting about how ten years later they realize that college wasn't worth it, in so many words. I think these posters really don't realize the odds against them without it. While you might have a lot of debt, you also had a real job and are able to pay it off, and another real job, and the experience then to get another job, plus the ability to change careers if you really wanted. So many entry lvl positions just want a 4 year degree, in the field or not. I don't see many posts about "I went bankrupt from my student loans and now share a apartment with 3 strangers" I think it's mostly the perceived stress from the loans that bring this talk about. All the posters are still doing ok
A few of the problems is smart phones are more like computers. you can hide files, you can encrypt files, etc. Sorry I don't trust teachers to know every phone OS and os hack (kids love hacks) on every new phone coming out every 6 months. I think they should just take them away for the day on first offense. Offense meaning being seen. Second offense they should be banned from having them on their person
Don't be mad they have a better union. They are not overpayed. You are just under payed
For gods sake Mod this up
Safari doesn't. and thats the point
oh boohoo. opensource != redhat works for you.
Where is a young Ralph Nader when you need one?
Second. Don't be silly. IF you want to save status updates....
We never looked forward to ME. You sound like a unwashed Linux user ;) win98 SE was too good. Like XP was too good to convert to vista, no matter how much better the file system etc was
Also, the break up did what was intended, stopped it from monopolizing the computer industry (it tried) and other emerging techs. You could argue without the break-up Sprint could have never got into the long distance service, and Verizon started in 1983 as Bell Atlantic. It is possible, if left to stand, Ma Bell would have wrapped up most of the cell phone market before said competitors giving at least some market competition today. Just a thought. And it would seen completely natural to us today, as they own the phone lies, so why shouldn't they own the cell phones that connect to them?
The usefulness of the slightly faster model (cell phones, computers) has slowed down lately. THou this is mostly due to home user software not doubling it's resource demands every ~7 years like the hardware does. While I feel we are at more of a temporary plateau then a trend that will last a long time. It's also due to the spread of tech. While in the 90s a lot of the buyers were techies who wanted the newest, coolest best thing, more and more it's facebook and retired housewife normals sending email
Channel partners interested in having staffers certified need to buy a special, $US45 webcam from Google and pay $100 per person who takes the test. The tests, which last several hours and consist of multiple-choice questions, are monitored live by a Google representative through the webcam. Results are computed as soon as the test is over. Those who pass, receive via e-mail a diploma and access to an official badge graphic. Those who fail are told which areas they need to improve upon.
Because you know, those cisco and M$ certs are looking dusty.
Said part is this usually actually works, because managers that hire know dickins about IT tech and it makes them feel comfortable
Criags list has millions upon millions of users. 500 crimes is statistically insignificant in fact, looks UNDER reported. IF that is the crime rate, it's very low. Take any given group with large enough numbers a certain % will always be bad apples. remember Criags list is a community forum, it's not a company like Amazon
I guess my point is Wired Magazine has always and still does suck
I still laugh how any time arcades comes up in a forum, someone posts that link, do they not realise it's the worse kind of advertising for arcades? It makes you look BAD. How can you not get saying games are better because they are designed to steal quarters is bad? He actually says this! This is exactly why the best games are on PC, the most artistic, involved games, because they don't need to kill you in lame ways for a extra quarter. He also defends the lack of social skills of arcade players. Completely ignores the PC market, on comparing arcade games to console games. And suffers from the worst case of weebooism (SP) you can see anywhere
Isn't that what F11 is for in firefox? Or just give the user the option. It's a mere UI issue, not like a below the hood engine thing, is it so hard to support two choices in this example?
Expensive compared to what? netbooks are about $100 less, are bulkly, do less, and like a tablet (so far) are not a replacement for a laptop. The price justification is all in that huge TOUCH screen you get. I remember when a few years ago 40 inch flatscreen TV's were $1500-2000 now they are less then $850. Yet even at the double price point you saw them in homes everywhere. Convertible/tablet laptops a year ago generally served a $1000 premium for the privilege of a touch screen Vs a comparable non touchscreen laptob.
You can't look at this as that ~20% (made up number) of the population that actually NEEDS a laptop for work, and or work travel. You have to look at all the OTHER uses it has.
a 360 cost $300+ at release after accessories. I am temped to blacklist TFA's author from ever reading again because this is soo far off base, just news filler dribble really. Tablets are selling well for there place right now, and forgoing company's fucking up the market, it will only get better. I am not a apple fan, put if all those people I know that have bought a smart phone at least one a year can afford that, they cam afford t his
The only real data correlation that MIGHT explain the decrease in violence after a steep increase(not) in the time period is roe vs wade, As abortions became legal Just about the time for the kids coming of age that would have grown up in terrible homes with unstable uneducated mothers were starting to be born.
Still, everyone needs to remember http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation
hey are planning to make the films in 3D and have already met with James Cameron to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the technology.
Isn't that like asking Steve Jobs the advantages of Apple OS's, or asking the pope the advantages and disadvantages of Christianity? I.E Biased. Anyone who knows anything Cameron has said in the last several years knows he has drunk the 3d kool aid despite just about every other respected film editor, director and other technical film artist has explained why 3d sucks and always will with current tech.
The US has been at war about 95 of the last 100 years., and if not warrinng, they are bombing countries. Not to mention their extreme involvement across the whole world in goings ons, from funding militaries and militia from south America to Africa, and other more subtle interventions. Not to mention the fact we have armed bases all over the world.
Just because you come up with easily summarized phrases like 5-year cycle to make yourselves feel smart, doesn't mean they EVER had any causal relationship
hostile much? also your wrong. It sounds better /to you/ because you think that warm vinyl sound=better sound. It doesn't, it's just what you like, probably because you were introduced to it in a nostalgia environment (if your older) or in a 'get ready for awesome' elitist refined way if your younger, like going to a nice restaurant for the first time, where the decor is nice, the music is nice, the hostess is nice, the server is nice,and the food tastes better before you've even tried it. Early CD's had bad quality but 99% of modern ones are better sounding, more flat, natural sound. Also not using words directed at the reader like "save your bullshit" " This is fact, shut it" "hey assholes" might have me think a little better of you, but not your argument.