Arguing death penalty (which I'm generally against, btw) is like arguing abortion on the internet. It's a moral issue, and it's not worth arguing unless you're going to post some well reasoned articles (not sound bytes) that are well documented and researched. I'm not kidding when I say I'd be very interested to see a well written argument against the death penalty for treason. I still hold that his actions fit the generally accepted definition of treason.
Are you really arguing about the death penalty in a treason case? I'd be curious to read arguments against the death penalty for treason. One person upthread mentioned you can trade a spy for a spy.
People's Republic of China is already in space. This technology just helps improve their ICBM tech. Besides, if it was so friendly, wouldn't China have just bought the tech from us in the first place? They already paid someone $3 million USD to get it for them.
It still sets a precedent. What about the 24 year old foreign exchange student-come-NASA intern? If treason gets downgraded from "death" to "uh, 15 years I guess", a (good) judge is going to have to sentence future treasonists according to precedent. I don't know if you've checked lately, but retiring at 40 in rural China on 3 million dollars allows you, your children, and your children's children to live very comfortably. That's an appealing prospect for some.
Space tech is basically ICBM tech which is weapons tech. We fight economic wars (see: Iran, Iraq, North Korea) not bullet wars (see: number of US casualties since 1970 vs pre 1970. War's war and when someone is killed by the leaked tech, it's murder.
He really should have gotten the death penalty. I'm not a right wing defense nut, but treason, particularly millitary treason (take a look at the early history of the space program(s) in the USA on wikipedia) needs to be dealt with in a swift manner. 15 years is not going to cut it, and eventually he's going to make it back to China and live a very comfortable life. 15 years (how many of that will be probation???) is a small price to pay to live in the lap of luxury for the rest of your life, especially coming from China.
I was the poster upstream. You've got to be trolling me, Love Field (not DFW, the other, smaller, faster airport in Dallas - Southwest Airlines are HQ'd out of Love Field, and it's no coincidence their logo is a heart) to ___ (san antonio's airport) are both commuter airports served by Southwest Airlines, "the greyhound of the skies" they call themselves. There's quite a market for this too, enough that they passed a law about how far you can fly from love field as to not steal interstate traffic from (newer airport) DFW.
The whole point of a high speed rail project is that it has it's own track and is not delayed by freight trains. This is the main problem with the current Amtrak service between Dallas/Fort Worth/Waco/Austin/San Antonio -- so the freight trains can save five minutes, they will delay the Amtrak train up to an hour. This starts to add up quickly, especially since the train originates in Chicago. It's not uncommon to buy tickets in dallas for a train that should have arrived four hours ago, and the four hour train ride from Dallas to Austin to take seven hours.
Last I checked,.flv files can still be opened in VLC. You might have some DRM enabled that disallows this, but as long as your video is available in.flv format to download, you can still read it.
I'm not sure why you got modded "insightful"; per wikipedia "total for defense spending to between $880 billion and $1.03 trillion in fiscal year 2010". Current import/export taxes by your numbers would pay for 300% of the millitary's budget, not less than 10% as you stated.
That sort of service already exists. I took a plane from Raleigh, NC to Havelock, NC (spitting distance from a military base no less) and you just walked right out on to the tarmac, onto the plane. The plane I was on seated as many as 50 although it was only about half full that day.
Income taxes are a fairly recent invention here in the US. We used to pay for the entirety of the Federal Government's budget (including the military!) solely on import/export taxes. Chew on that for a bit.
But due to the paranoid delusions of many, many Americans, air travel is now less convenient than it was 20 years ago.
It's true. Usually we drive from North Dallas to my mother's family's house an hour west of San Antonio. It's about 6 hours by car on average, since we only travel down there on busy holiday weekends. Finally with a good job I decided to "treat" us to a 45 minute plane ride. Between parking, security, waiting on the tarmac, picking up luggage and getting the rental car it actually took us 7 hours to get to our destination. I'm seriously looking at starting a PAC to get high speed light rail between Dallas and San Antonio (with a stop in Austin of course).
The entire market segment only extends back to october 2007 or so. The number of netbooks sold between July 2008 and January 2010 is something close to 100 times the number of netbooks sold before July 2008. Yes, it sucks that your early adopter Eee is underclassed and below modern standards, but I'd rather we go ahead and stop optimizing for the incredibly small minority and start optimizing for the standard atom 270, 1024x600 1gb that is roughly 80% of all netbooks ever manufactured.
The 286 does all the office applications you'll ever need, but we standardized on the 386 due to it being vastly superior. Mac System 6 was speedy as all fuck, included a TCP/IP stack and 10mbps eithernet drivers, but we standardized on System 7.5 because it was vastly more extensible. It's good to provide some amount of backwards compatibility for legacy users, but when a vastly better set of hardware comes along and is embraced by the general public, write your standard on that, and move forward.
Yeah sadly your "Net" book becomes a "Book" when the fat guy eating a bag of cheetos sits between you and the only open access point you already had a spotty connection to. Or the youth hostel in Colombia (I'm talking to you, Platypus hostel in Bogota!!!) has a shitty wifi router that you have to stand on your toes holding it in one hand at a funny angle while you type with the other, peering over the keyboard.
Doesn't matter; google chrome (which searches google by default) is a far superior browser UI-wise for the 600 pixel high netbook market segment. The Firefox that ships with UNR 9.10 is basically stock Firefox, which is a huge screen real estate hog. Chrome on the other hand uses about half the real estate FF does by getting rid of the file/edit/view/history bar. 20 pixels counts for a lot when you only have 600 to work with! (576 if you're a HP Mini 110 user like me)
The drive is the only part I port over from computer to computer. My primary drive (just the OS, I use a different drive for the swap and data) is an ancient 7.2gb drive that still loads XP in under a minute. Yeah its kind of strange to have a 7gb boot drive in the same computer with a 500gb "apps" drive and a 1tb "data" drive, but once windows from the 7gb drive is loaded into ram it just spins down and isn't used again. Makes reinstalling windows a snap after a virus too (since all the drivers are local on another hard drive). Hard drives also can withstand insane G-Forces considering all the moving parts (and their impressive precision) they have.
How small is the hard drive on your netbook? I bought the cheapest one I could at retail in October of last year and it still came with a 160gb hard drive. Perhaps first generation Eees have hard drives smaller than 30gb.... but it's time we stopped supporting their (highly flawed) low end specs. 400 vertical pixels? 2gb hard drive? No thanks. Lets aim for the 32gb minimum market segment and move forward.
Open Office runs just fine on my Atom 270 processor in UNR 9.10
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Good call; thanks for pointing this out.
Arguing death penalty (which I'm generally against, btw) is like arguing abortion on the internet. It's a moral issue, and it's not worth arguing unless you're going to post some well reasoned articles (not sound bytes) that are well documented and researched. I'm not kidding when I say I'd be very interested to see a well written argument against the death penalty for treason. I still hold that his actions fit the generally accepted definition of treason.
Are you really arguing about the death penalty in a treason case? I'd be curious to read arguments against the death penalty for treason. One person upthread mentioned you can trade a spy for a spy.
People's Republic of China is already in space. This technology just helps improve their ICBM tech. Besides, if it was so friendly, wouldn't China have just bought the tech from us in the first place? They already paid someone $3 million USD to get it for them.
It still sets a precedent. What about the 24 year old foreign exchange student-come-NASA intern? If treason gets downgraded from "death" to "uh, 15 years I guess", a (good) judge is going to have to sentence future treasonists according to precedent. I don't know if you've checked lately, but retiring at 40 in rural China on 3 million dollars allows you, your children, and your children's children to live very comfortably. That's an appealing prospect for some.
Space tech is basically ICBM tech which is weapons tech. We fight economic wars (see: Iran, Iraq, North Korea) not bullet wars (see: number of US casualties since 1970 vs pre 1970. War's war and when someone is killed by the leaked tech, it's murder.
He really should have gotten the death penalty. I'm not a right wing defense nut, but treason, particularly millitary treason (take a look at the early history of the space program(s) in the USA on wikipedia) needs to be dealt with in a swift manner. 15 years is not going to cut it, and eventually he's going to make it back to China and live a very comfortable life. 15 years (how many of that will be probation???) is a small price to pay to live in the lap of luxury for the rest of your life, especially coming from China.
That's what you get for coming late to the party I guess
you can just use your gmail login for youtube whats the big deal
I was the poster upstream. You've got to be trolling me, Love Field (not DFW, the other, smaller, faster airport in Dallas - Southwest Airlines are HQ'd out of Love Field, and it's no coincidence their logo is a heart) to ___ (san antonio's airport) are both commuter airports served by Southwest Airlines, "the greyhound of the skies" they call themselves. There's quite a market for this too, enough that they passed a law about how far you can fly from love field as to not steal interstate traffic from (newer airport) DFW.
1t's a recursi^e typ0, to keep with the theme of the article :)
1e100 is the same as 1^100, which is a Googol, or if you're a google founder, spelled "Google"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
The whole point of a high speed rail project is that it has it's own track and is not delayed by freight trains. This is the main problem with the current Amtrak service between Dallas/Fort Worth/Waco/Austin/San Antonio -- so the freight trains can save five minutes, they will delay the Amtrak train up to an hour. This starts to add up quickly, especially since the train originates in Chicago. It's not uncommon to buy tickets in dallas for a train that should have arrived four hours ago, and the four hour train ride from Dallas to Austin to take seven hours.
Last I checked, .flv files can still be opened in VLC. You might have some DRM enabled that disallows this, but as long as your video is available in .flv format to download, you can still read it.
Here in Dallas the DART rail is called "light rail" and does not share the road with cars (except for a short three block section in downtown).
I'm not sure why you got modded "insightful"; per wikipedia "total for defense spending to between $880 billion and $1.03 trillion in fiscal year 2010". Current import/export taxes by your numbers would pay for 300% of the millitary's budget, not less than 10% as you stated.
That sort of service already exists. I took a plane from Raleigh, NC to Havelock, NC (spitting distance from a military base no less) and you just walked right out on to the tarmac, onto the plane. The plane I was on seated as many as 50 although it was only about half full that day.
Income taxes are a fairly recent invention here in the US. We used to pay for the entirety of the Federal Government's budget (including the military!) solely on import/export taxes. Chew on that for a bit.
It's true. Usually we drive from North Dallas to my mother's family's house an hour west of San Antonio. It's about 6 hours by car on average, since we only travel down there on busy holiday weekends. Finally with a good job I decided to "treat" us to a 45 minute plane ride. Between parking, security, waiting on the tarmac, picking up luggage and getting the rental car it actually took us 7 hours to get to our destination. I'm seriously looking at starting a PAC to get high speed light rail between Dallas and San Antonio (with a stop in Austin of course).
The entire market segment only extends back to october 2007 or so. The number of netbooks sold between July 2008 and January 2010 is something close to 100 times the number of netbooks sold before July 2008. Yes, it sucks that your early adopter Eee is underclassed and below modern standards, but I'd rather we go ahead and stop optimizing for the incredibly small minority and start optimizing for the standard atom 270, 1024x600 1gb that is roughly 80% of all netbooks ever manufactured.
The 286 does all the office applications you'll ever need, but we standardized on the 386 due to it being vastly superior. Mac System 6 was speedy as all fuck, included a TCP/IP stack and 10mbps eithernet drivers, but we standardized on System 7.5 because it was vastly more extensible. It's good to provide some amount of backwards compatibility for legacy users, but when a vastly better set of hardware comes along and is embraced by the general public, write your standard on that, and move forward.
Seriously. Look at it. Just look at it:
http://xkcd.com/651/
Yeah sadly your "Net" book becomes a "Book" when the fat guy eating a bag of cheetos sits between you and the only open access point you already had a spotty connection to. Or the youth hostel in Colombia (I'm talking to you, Platypus hostel in Bogota!!!) has a shitty wifi router that you have to stand on your toes holding it in one hand at a funny angle while you type with the other, peering over the keyboard.
Doesn't matter; google chrome (which searches google by default) is a far superior browser UI-wise for the 600 pixel high netbook market segment. The Firefox that ships with UNR 9.10 is basically stock Firefox, which is a huge screen real estate hog. Chrome on the other hand uses about half the real estate FF does by getting rid of the file/edit/view/history bar. 20 pixels counts for a lot when you only have 600 to work with! (576 if you're a HP Mini 110 user like me)
The drive is the only part I port over from computer to computer. My primary drive (just the OS, I use a different drive for the swap and data) is an ancient 7.2gb drive that still loads XP in under a minute. Yeah its kind of strange to have a 7gb boot drive in the same computer with a 500gb "apps" drive and a 1tb "data" drive, but once windows from the 7gb drive is loaded into ram it just spins down and isn't used again. Makes reinstalling windows a snap after a virus too (since all the drivers are local on another hard drive). Hard drives also can withstand insane G-Forces considering all the moving parts (and their impressive precision) they have.
How small is the hard drive on your netbook? I bought the cheapest one I could at retail in October of last year and it still came with a 160gb hard drive. Perhaps first generation Eees have hard drives smaller than 30gb.... but it's time we stopped supporting their (highly flawed) low end specs. 400 vertical pixels? 2gb hard drive? No thanks. Lets aim for the 32gb minimum market segment and move forward.
Open Office runs just fine on my Atom 270 processor in UNR 9.10