Well, when the kids explain to the FBI that their computers came with "The Internet" already on the desktop, the feds will go get Microsoft for illegally distributing the Internet...
I've never been able to figure out how to respond to that question. A lot of my friends haven't read the books, and they all seem pissed that Gandalf died. They always asked me why Gandalf died, and I tried to avoid the question until one of them became convinced that he survived the fall and asked how he did it. So I told him, but I felt really bad about it. It's a tough life we live, those of us who read...
That makes me ask the question: what if Microsoft were to just use the bottom rung of Intel's production line at any given time, and put in the cheapest hard drive they can find? I mean, other than the fact that it might cause incompatibilities between the systems, but MS could probably figure out a software patch to fix that. Their costs would decrease at about the same rate they are now, and the Xbox would get more powerful at the same time. The biggest problem with this is that it would convince people not to buy an Xbox now, but instead wait until it gets that new processor.
Actually, when a younger person (I mean very much younger) tries to get one of these consoles, or any console for that matter, they have to convince their parents that it's worth it. The parents ask questions like "Will it still be as good in 5 years?" "Are you going to want to just get the next one that's a little better?" With a built in TV-recorder, it adds some amount of legitimacy to the device (in the minds of parents) that it lacked earlier. When a mother buys this for her son, she knows she can also use it herself, and that it will last longer.
You're right about that. A new convert to linux would not want to deal with something like that. There should be a toggle in the gui setup program. Maybe in 1.1
Yes, the poor keep buying from the rich, but once the poor are no longer fiscally capable of doing so, why would the rich continue producing? Once the rich destroy the poor, they stop doing what made them rich.
Indeed, his trade cycle theory seems to be exactly what I was getting at. Following every period of economic boom there follows a depression. This is not a fault of capitalism, it is a truth. People grow uneasy with the booming economy, and fear that it will collapse, and with the resulting cessation of investment, the booming economy collapses. Now, you might try and say that that means that taxes should be slashed and budgets cut and the market allowed to stabilize themselves, but that simply doesn't work. The solution, of course, is not pure socialism, rather the poor should be aided by the government such that they may survive. It is better to receive handouts than to take what is needed by force or cunning, is it not? As the poor get poorer, crime will increase. On the other side of the hand, is it not better for the wealthy product producers to have a massive base of people to whom they can sell their products, rather than attempt to sell to each other? If they cannot sell to the poor masses, why would they continue producing?
It is true that humans will do whatever is necessary to survive, even in times of economic despair, but that doesn't usually mean working harder at your job or working 18 hours a day (although it did mean that a century ago), it means resorting to crime (which it also meant a century ago). When someone can't afford to pay for food, they will still acquire enough food for survival. Thus, they steal. This definitely does not help those who are selling. If, however, everyone could afford to pay for food, everyone would purchase it and that would be very good for those selling.
As you can see, it is in the interest of the upper class to have as small a lower class as possible.
Hmm... you seem to be talking about SO, not OOo, but in OOo, you have to run the setup program twice. Once with the/net option, as root, then log out and log back in as your user and run setup again, without the/net option. I was having the exact same problem you described, and I tried chown, but was unsatisfied with that as a remedy. This method works, at least for OpenOffice.
Okay, you obviously don't like taxes, and you make a good point that a lot of tax dollars are spent poorly. But, while it makes sense for that argument to be made during the administration of someone who refuses to cut taxes, in order to convince him to cut the spending on these ridiculous items and insodoing lower the amount of tax dollars that are needed, the current president has cut a lot more taxes than he has cut spending. As is demonstrated by all of the foolish things you mentioned.
As a matter of fact, I like Zubrin, and I wish him all the luck in the world, but that doesn't change the fact that he just doesn't have that much money. When it comes to being able to fund a mission to another planet, you simply need the government in there. A few years ago Zubrin published a book, The Case for Mars, in which he proposed that the government open up the space race to the public, and offer a $20 billion reward for the first team to put a human on Mars and bring him/her back alive and safe. He proposed this because such a mission would cost more than $20 billion, but would cost less for a corporation to do it than for the government. It would thus guarantee that the government does not go overbudget, as it normally would. But tell me this: would we have gone to the moon if Kennedy had just offered a reward? In order to get something big, like space travel, done, the president has to grab the nation by the balls and tell them what's going on. The private sector can do fine, and they can make an assload of money eventually, the government can just get more done. If it is unproven that money can be made in space, the government is the only entity that can afford to go in. And once the government has pioneered the way, then the private sector can come swarming in, and thus comes economic growth. Hundreds of corporations were started by the government, with government capital and government technology, but with as much autonomy from the government as any other corporation. Cisco is one particularly good example of this.
You say that cutting taxes always encourages economic growth, but only in one sphere. What it really does is widen the gap between the rich and the poor. When the taxes are lower, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It seems like economic growth at first, as the wealthy suddenly produce more products and the middle and lower classes purchase them, but as time goes on, the wealthy producers of products find that there is less and less return on their investments; this is because the mass public has less money to spend on products. With this shrunken consumer base, there is less monetary incentive to continue selling products, and thus you run into massive shrinkage of the economy, resulting in a much smaller tax base. At some point after the taxes are lowered, people begin to recognize this, and the economy goes south. But that is only part of Wall Street's paranoia: if it's doing too well for too long, it will drop. There is no getting around it. Similarly, if it is doing too poorly for too long, it will improve. It happened to Reagan, it happened to Clinton, and it will happen to every 8 year president who is at least a little bit good at economic issues. Unless you lock Americans into some kind of "Cold War-esque" mindset, the economy can't stay up forever. Bush's people realized this, and thus were born the weekly terror alerts. No one can be sure if there really is a threat, but everyone is sure that they have to be really careful and that they can't question the government.
And to get back to your first paragraph, both NASA and the Mars Society are doing interesting things. However, they are playing in different playgrounds. Zubrin's in Canada playing around with a habitat that he wants developed for a Mars mission, and NASA's in orbit taking pictures of distant stars or they're flying to Mars to see what it's actually like. I don't see exactly how playing with toys in Canada is any more exciting than flying low over the surface of Mars and taking high resolution photographs, or sending down a lander to map out the terrain at ground level. Contrary to popular belief, the government can do interesting things, despite the fact that you paid for it. In fact, why don't people take more interest in what the government does? After all, they helped pay for it. For the last seven decades it has been demonstrated that the government can spend money better than the individual. Would we have landed on the moon if it was up to the individual to get us there? Or the states?
Screw Watergate, the worst thing Nixon ever did was cut back the space program.
Remember that while the current administration cuts taxes. The only place the money is coming from is -- that's right -- NASA. And I don't think it's going to be the worst thing he does (unfortunately).
Just to be a little picky: water resistance in the ocean stops NT on a warship, because NT is connected to the warship in some way, and when the warship stops, so does NT. Water resistance is resistance, after all. It is little more than a frictional force that acts in a direction opposite that of motion, and all things in motion will eventually stop moving. Newton.
Yeah, and I bet the kids all like that $35/incident thing a whole lot. Why would you pay MS $35 more for something they didn't cater for you, when you could pay the kid down the street $5 to fix it for you and teach you how to use it.
When you install it, the command you should type in is: setup/net Then go through the setup program, get it where you want it, and then log in as yourself and run setup again, this time without the/net option. It will set up a folder in your home directory that OOo uses when it starts up.
I've noticed that about bullets, too, but I find that OpenOffice does a better job of them than MS-Office. I mean, it's more intuitive to use the bullets (if you're doing a whole lot of them) in OOo than in MS. But you're right, they could work on the OOo->MS compatibility in this area.
Actually I'd rather have the Xbox team under the current leadership. The have complete autonomy and unlimited resources. If they were separated, they might not be able to survive. Bear in mind that there are a lot of people who refuse to purchase an Xbox because it is made by Microsoft. I know several personally, and they assure me that it isn't an isolated point of view. If the Xbox team was cut off from the rest of the company, do you think the anti-MS contingent would just forgive them and all go out and buy an Xbox? If you're going to have any links to MS, you need the backing of their bankroll, especially if you don't stand to make money off of Windows.
I have seen a lot of hypocrisy floating around on this issue. People measure the PS2 on its merits, regardless of what Sony does otherwise, and the measure the Xbox by what Microsoft does otherwise, regardless of the Xbox's merits. They say the Xbox sucks because Windows sucks. They compare the PS2's merits to what they assume the Xbox has, based on how unstable Windows is. They write off anything the Xbox does as useless, on account of all the horsepower it has under the hood. The last time I checked, that was a good thing.
Cutting them off would not be liberating them, it would be stopping the flow of infinite funds. I don't think they want that.
Too bad MS shipped the Nimda virus with their Korean version of.Net Visual Studio.
Now, wait a second. These are two completely unrelated parts of the company. If the Xbox team does something well, they deserve praise, and if the.NET team does something poorly, they deserve to get slammed. But the Xbox team does not need to hear about the mistakes of the.NET team. You wouldn't say that the Playstation 2 sucks because Sony supports copy protection on its CDs, would you? That was un-called-for.
Actually, Nixon's America was very, very conservative in comparison to the Americas before and after (in a matter of speaking). Nobody was really saying anything bad about Nixon (according to what I've read, they really should have been), but when news about the scandal came out he lost all his support. I'm sure someone would make a sound if there was a huge scandal linked to the Bush administration.
On the other hand, the way things are going I wouldn't be too surprised if our right to free presses was removed if there were such a scandal. After all, terrorism. Right?
Ummm... yes, I believe you can say that, seeing as it is after September 11, and that is pretty much the only criterion for calling it "post-"anything. I'm not being a troll, I'm just pointing out a little bit of the obvious.
Since when is 1 overrated? How could that post have possibly been overrated? Until there's a -1: Not Funny, that shouldn't have been modded down. Maybe redundant. Maybe not funny. Definitely not overrated. I know I just sacrificed a few more karma points, but go right on ahead: mod me down again.
I always thought the voice of god would be at a pretty low frequency. The only voice I can think of that might be this high was Alvin the Chipmunk. Shudder.
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Well, when the kids explain to the FBI that their computers came with "The Internet" already on the desktop, the feds will go get Microsoft for illegally distributing the Internet...
I've never been able to figure out how to respond to that question. A lot of my friends haven't read the books, and they all seem pissed that Gandalf died. They always asked me why Gandalf died, and I tried to avoid the question until one of them became convinced that he survived the fall and asked how he did it. So I told him, but I felt really bad about it. It's a tough life we live, those of us who read...
That makes me ask the question: what if Microsoft were to just use the bottom rung of Intel's production line at any given time, and put in the cheapest hard drive they can find? I mean, other than the fact that it might cause incompatibilities between the systems, but MS could probably figure out a software patch to fix that. Their costs would decrease at about the same rate they are now, and the Xbox would get more powerful at the same time. The biggest problem with this is that it would convince people not to buy an Xbox now, but instead wait until it gets that new processor.
Actually, when a younger person (I mean very much younger) tries to get one of these consoles, or any console for that matter, they have to convince their parents that it's worth it. The parents ask questions like "Will it still be as good in 5 years?" "Are you going to want to just get the next one that's a little better?" With a built in TV-recorder, it adds some amount of legitimacy to the device (in the minds of parents) that it lacked earlier. When a mother buys this for her son, she knows she can also use it herself, and that it will last longer.
You're right about that. A new convert to linux would not want to deal with something like that. There should be a toggle in the gui setup program. Maybe in 1.1
:) Indeed
Yes, the poor keep buying from the rich, but once the poor are no longer fiscally capable of doing so, why would the rich continue producing? Once the rich destroy the poor, they stop doing what made them rich.
OK. I'm just saying, it worked for me with Open Office 1.0.
Indeed, his trade cycle theory seems to be exactly what I was getting at. Following every period of economic boom there follows a depression. This is not a fault of capitalism, it is a truth. People grow uneasy with the booming economy, and fear that it will collapse, and with the resulting cessation of investment, the booming economy collapses. Now, you might try and say that that means that taxes should be slashed and budgets cut and the market allowed to stabilize themselves, but that simply doesn't work. The solution, of course, is not pure socialism, rather the poor should be aided by the government such that they may survive. It is better to receive handouts than to take what is needed by force or cunning, is it not? As the poor get poorer, crime will increase. On the other side of the hand, is it not better for the wealthy product producers to have a massive base of people to whom they can sell their products, rather than attempt to sell to each other? If they cannot sell to the poor masses, why would they continue producing?
It is true that humans will do whatever is necessary to survive, even in times of economic despair, but that doesn't usually mean working harder at your job or working 18 hours a day (although it did mean that a century ago), it means resorting to crime (which it also meant a century ago). When someone can't afford to pay for food, they will still acquire enough food for survival. Thus, they steal. This definitely does not help those who are selling. If, however, everyone could afford to pay for food, everyone would purchase it and that would be very good for those selling.
As you can see, it is in the interest of the upper class to have as small a lower class as possible.
Hmm... you seem to be talking about SO, not OOo, but in OOo, you have to run the setup program twice. Once with the /net option, as root, then log out and log back in as your user and run setup again, without the /net option. I was having the exact same problem you described, and I tried chown, but was unsatisfied with that as a remedy. This method works, at least for OpenOffice.
Okay, you obviously don't like taxes, and you make a good point that a lot of tax dollars are spent poorly. But, while it makes sense for that argument to be made during the administration of someone who refuses to cut taxes, in order to convince him to cut the spending on these ridiculous items and insodoing lower the amount of tax dollars that are needed, the current president has cut a lot more taxes than he has cut spending. As is demonstrated by all of the foolish things you mentioned.
As a matter of fact, I like Zubrin, and I wish him all the luck in the world, but that doesn't change the fact that he just doesn't have that much money. When it comes to being able to fund a mission to another planet, you simply need the government in there. A few years ago Zubrin published a book, The Case for Mars, in which he proposed that the government open up the space race to the public, and offer a $20 billion reward for the first team to put a human on Mars and bring him/her back alive and safe. He proposed this because such a mission would cost more than $20 billion, but would cost less for a corporation to do it than for the government. It would thus guarantee that the government does not go overbudget, as it normally would. But tell me this: would we have gone to the moon if Kennedy had just offered a reward? In order to get something big, like space travel, done, the president has to grab the nation by the balls and tell them what's going on. The private sector can do fine, and they can make an assload of money eventually, the government can just get more done. If it is unproven that money can be made in space, the government is the only entity that can afford to go in. And once the government has pioneered the way, then the private sector can come swarming in, and thus comes economic growth. Hundreds of corporations were started by the government, with government capital and government technology, but with as much autonomy from the government as any other corporation. Cisco is one particularly good example of this.
You say that cutting taxes always encourages economic growth, but only in one sphere. What it really does is widen the gap between the rich and the poor. When the taxes are lower, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It seems like economic growth at first, as the wealthy suddenly produce more products and the middle and lower classes purchase them, but as time goes on, the wealthy producers of products find that there is less and less return on their investments; this is because the mass public has less money to spend on products. With this shrunken consumer base, there is less monetary incentive to continue selling products, and thus you run into massive shrinkage of the economy, resulting in a much smaller tax base. At some point after the taxes are lowered, people begin to recognize this, and the economy goes south. But that is only part of Wall Street's paranoia: if it's doing too well for too long, it will drop. There is no getting around it. Similarly, if it is doing too poorly for too long, it will improve. It happened to Reagan, it happened to Clinton, and it will happen to every 8 year president who is at least a little bit good at economic issues. Unless you lock Americans into some kind of "Cold War-esque" mindset, the economy can't stay up forever. Bush's people realized this, and thus were born the weekly terror alerts. No one can be sure if there really is a threat, but everyone is sure that they have to be really careful and that they can't question the government.
And to get back to your first paragraph, both NASA and the Mars Society are doing interesting things. However, they are playing in different playgrounds. Zubrin's in Canada playing around with a habitat that he wants developed for a Mars mission, and NASA's in orbit taking pictures of distant stars or they're flying to Mars to see what it's actually like. I don't see exactly how playing with toys in Canada is any more exciting than flying low over the surface of Mars and taking high resolution photographs, or sending down a lander to map out the terrain at ground level. Contrary to popular belief, the government can do interesting things, despite the fact that you paid for it. In fact, why don't people take more interest in what the government does? After all, they helped pay for it. For the last seven decades it has been demonstrated that the government can spend money better than the individual. Would we have landed on the moon if it was up to the individual to get us there? Or the states?
Screw Watergate, the worst thing Nixon ever did was cut back the space program.
Remember that while the current administration cuts taxes. The only place the money is coming from is -- that's right -- NASA. And I don't think it's going to be the worst thing he does (unfortunately).
Just to be a little picky: water resistance in the ocean stops NT on a warship, because NT is connected to the warship in some way, and when the warship stops, so does NT. Water resistance is resistance, after all. It is little more than a frictional force that acts in a direction opposite that of motion, and all things in motion will eventually stop moving. Newton.
Yeah, but the blaster is useless after the robots steal its batteries...
Yeah, and I bet the kids all like that $35/incident thing a whole lot. Why would you pay MS $35 more for something they didn't cater for you, when you could pay the kid down the street $5 to fix it for you and teach you how to use it.
When you install it, the command you should type in is: /net /net option. It will set up a folder in your home directory that OOo uses when it starts up.
setup
Then go through the setup program, get it where you want it, and then log in as yourself and run setup again, this time without the
I've noticed that about bullets, too, but I find that OpenOffice does a better job of them than MS-Office. I mean, it's more intuitive to use the bullets (if you're doing a whole lot of them) in OOo than in MS. But you're right, they could work on the OOo->MS compatibility in this area.
Actually I'd rather have the Xbox team under the current leadership. The have complete autonomy and unlimited resources. If they were separated, they might not be able to survive. Bear in mind that there are a lot of people who refuse to purchase an Xbox because it is made by Microsoft. I know several personally, and they assure me that it isn't an isolated point of view. If the Xbox team was cut off from the rest of the company, do you think the anti-MS contingent would just forgive them and all go out and buy an Xbox? If you're going to have any links to MS, you need the backing of their bankroll, especially if you don't stand to make money off of Windows.
I have seen a lot of hypocrisy floating around on this issue. People measure the PS2 on its merits, regardless of what Sony does otherwise, and the measure the Xbox by what Microsoft does otherwise, regardless of the Xbox's merits. They say the Xbox sucks because Windows sucks. They compare the PS2's merits to what they assume the Xbox has, based on how unstable Windows is. They write off anything the Xbox does as useless, on account of all the horsepower it has under the hood. The last time I checked, that was a good thing.
Cutting them off would not be liberating them, it would be stopping the flow of infinite funds. I don't think they want that.
Too bad MS shipped the Nimda virus with their Korean version of .Net Visual Studio.
.NET team does something poorly, they deserve to get slammed. But the Xbox team does not need to hear about the mistakes of the .NET team. You wouldn't say that the Playstation 2 sucks because Sony supports copy protection on its CDs, would you? That was un-called-for.
Now, wait a second. These are two completely unrelated parts of the company. If the Xbox team does something well, they deserve praise, and if the
Actually, Nixon's America was very, very conservative in comparison to the Americas before and after (in a matter of speaking). Nobody was really saying anything bad about Nixon (according to what I've read, they really should have been), but when news about the scandal came out he lost all his support. I'm sure someone would make a sound if there was a huge scandal linked to the Bush administration.
On the other hand, the way things are going I wouldn't be too surprised if our right to free presses was removed if there were such a scandal. After all, terrorism. Right?
in the (dare I say it?) post-September 11 world.
Ummm... yes, I believe you can say that, seeing as it is after September 11, and that is pretty much the only criterion for calling it "post-"anything. I'm not being a troll, I'm just pointing out a little bit of the obvious.
Since when is 1 overrated? How could that post have possibly been overrated? Until there's a -1: Not Funny, that shouldn't have been modded down. Maybe redundant. Maybe not funny. Definitely not overrated. I know I just sacrificed a few more karma points, but go right on ahead: mod me down again.
... no, the short version. ;)
Probably, but I'd figure he went through it like 3000 years ago, what with all the fire and brimstones and all...
I always thought the voice of god would be at a pretty low frequency. The only voice I can think of that might be this high was Alvin the Chipmunk. Shudder.