Wikipedia has tons of non-notable articles, like an article about the VHS v. Betamax War (they're both dead - who cares?), a list of Kim Possible episodes, characters from the Star Trek universe (one article per character), and so on. I see no harm in adding articles about the gold standard, San Juan Mountains, and bimettalism.
Rather than have students waste time producing busywork that the professor will Trashfile at the end of the year, they are contributing their efforts toward society. These Wiki articles will be picked-up by other editors and added to with new information, and someone like me will come along and read them years later.
That really doesn't have anything to do with what I said. There's a difference between selling product, and an outright decision to killoff (war against) your competition like MS did to Lotus, WordPerfect, Netscape, Opera, Java, Kerberos, DR-DOS (blocked by Windows), and on and on, via any means necessary even illegal ones.
Or do you think MS was forced to appear before the US DOJ and European Union court systems just to have a friendly talk? c'mon. "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" is their motto. It's war.:-)
Apparently while we were not looking, our last three presidents did this to the Constitution:
(strikethrough)The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation.....(/strikethrough) ----- So what's left? Amend.10 - deleted. Amend.9 - deleted. Amend.8 - deleted. Amend.7 - deleted. Amend.6 - deleted. Amend.5 - deleted. Amend.4 - deleted. Amend.1 - deleted.
How ironic. The only rights left are those that forbid soldiers from living in our homes, and the one that allows self-defense of same.
Is there ANY event that would disprove global warming? I shoveled almost 9 feet of snow this winter, setting a new seasonal record, but apparently that is proof of GW. "More moisture in the air means more snow." --- Meanwhile the previous winter we had virtually no snow along the Mid-Atlantic coast, and Al Gore said that too is proof of GW.
I admit it. I'm confused. Lots of snow == GW. No snow == GW. What the fej?
I would wait until I actually move into the new apartment before doing anything. Why? Because when I first moved to my new room there was virtually no signal (1 bar) and although I could receive messages, I couldn't dialout voice calls. - But then about 3 hours later I had 5-6 bars. Apparently the local tower detected my phone's presence, self-adjusted itself to "steer" the signal in my direction, and I've had a strong signal ever since.
Perhaps this questioner will experience a similar phenomenon after he moves-in and his phone establishes a long term contact with the nearby tower.
>>>Got a shitty village in the way of the interstate? Move. No pissy little lawsuits there to slow things down. And then the interstate is done...
That used to be true in America too, but then in the 1970s the villagers started protesting because they didn't want their homes razed. It's why Baltimore's I-95 does not connect to I-83 or I-70 (it was supposed to). It's why Washington's I-66 does not run straight-through and connect to I-95 (it was supposed to). It's also why I-95 stops in Philadelphia instead of continuing onward to New York.
The people complained. Here in the States the "villagers" voices were heard. It's a representative Republic. In China they get executed or imprisoned. It's non-representative.
I don't mind healthcare for the poor who can't afford to pay the bills, but it should be funded by the Wealthy Corporations, not the citizens. After all the corporations just got about 2000 billion in handouts - let them return some of it in the form of free medicine for the poor.
Why should we apologize? I don't see Europe apologizing for the peoples they suppressed in:
- India - Africa - Egypt and the Mideast - Southeast Asia - China - South America - North America
from circa 1400s to 1900s. While the Europeans are correct that Bush did dumb stuff, at least he was only there for 8 years. Europeans did similar suppressive acts for about 500 years. It's a bit hypocritcal. Like a telling people, "Though shalt not steal," when you have several mansions filled with stolen goods (literally).
>>>Many American Christians truly believe that God® has commissioned us here in the land of milk and honey to spread democracy to the rest of the world. >>>
It sounds like you are quoting Democratic President Woodrow Wilson ("make the world safe for democracy"), and he was no Christian. He was a member of the KKK. Furthermore he was hardly democratic since he rounded-up folks and threw them in prison for daring to cricitize his adminstration. Example: Alice Paul, the suffragette.
Also you misuse the word Manifest Destiny, which referred to a U.S. that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It had nothing to do with world affairs beyond those borders.
As I recall, from history, it was the Europeans that believed it okay to colonize the whole world and suppress everyone to European ideas for 400-some years. Including China. Apparently the Euros think we've forgotten that, but we have not. We and our Canadian/South American neighbors used to be suppressed colonies too.
I think Microsoft probably follows Commodore's Jack Tramiel policy: "Business is war," and in war anything is acceptable. Therefore they would view Google's leaving China as a victory, even if it means going-to-bed with the Chinese Socialist government.
I've considered computer gaming dead for awhile now. When my Amiga passed-away as a viable gaming platform (due to lack of games), and I switched to PC, I quickly discovered what a royal pain in the ass it was to make the sound & graphics drivers work.
And if it's a pain for me, an engineer, imagine what it's like for the average customer. This is why consoles have come to be the dominant gaming platform with almost 200 million PS2s/Xboxes/Gamecubes/Dreamcasts sold previous generation.
I had that "off peak" installed in my just-built house in 1989. In fact it was more-or-less required because the Electric Company was trying out a new system that heated water at night, and used that hot water to keep the house warm during the day.
In exchange we get 2 cents cheaper power from 5 pm to 7 am.
On the other hand the People of these united States also benefit from IP that becomes public domain, so that the "fire" of invention can light the minds & lives of all. To quote Jefferson:
Take for instance, the tables of M. de Buffon... according to which half of those of 21 years and upwards, living at any one instant of time, will be dead in 18 years 8 months, or say 19 years as the nearest integral number. Then 19 years is the term beyond which neither the representatives of a nation, nor even the whole nation itself assembled, can validly extend a debt... This principle that the earth belongs to the living, and not to the dead, is of very extensive application... Establish the principle in the new law to be passed for protecting copyrights and new inventions, by securing the exclusive right for 19 years.
A computation using life tables from 1992 gives a Jeffersonian copyright term of 30 years. (Vital Statistics of the United States 1992, Volume II--Mortality, Part A, Public Health Service, Hyattsville, 1996, Section 6, Table 6-1.) That is a reasonable amount of time for an inventor (either person or corporation) to profit from his labor.
It means that the Mickey Mouse character which Walt Disney created would have fell into public domain in 1959..... just a few years prior to Disney's own death. e could have new Mickey Mouse cartoons, created by any American who desired to do it, rather than have "him" locked in a vault and rarely seen.
It also means the if Intellectual Ventures "lock up" these ideas behind a wall and not develope them, the damage to society would be less, since the copyright/patent would expire circa 2025 and become public domain.
P.S.
One of Jefferson's most famous statements on patent law was in his often-quoted letter of August 13, 1813 to Isaac McPherson, in which he wrote that, since there is no natural right to property in land, how much less is there a natural right to a property in ideas.
And what happens when you forget your password, or the system randomly decides to ask for your mother's maiden name. You have no idea what those random characters are.
BTW for what's it's worth, I use my GRANDmother's maiden name in the "mother's name" question. If I was president someone might know that bit of trivia, but for me? Nobody knows. My grandmother hasn't been a maiden since 1910, and since the town records burned to the ground, it would be very difficult to find.
I recall in Freshman Composition my professor used a similar example of how NOT to write. He then rewrote it, emphasizing that simple words help communicate. Multi-syllablic words merely indicate the speaker is trying to SOUND smarter than he really is, but communicates next to nothing to his readers or listeners, because his real message is hidden behind confusion.
Besides "ecosystem" I'd also like to nominate "userspace" for deletion. How about just calling it the "desktop". The stuff hidden behind the scenes can be called the "kernel"
Why lose respect for Novell or their spokesperson sharing his honest opinion? It's well-known that Microsoft stifles creativity with their legal team constantly hovering over the users & programmers. Well... unless..... .
Unless you're an Appl(bkspc)(bkspc)(bkspc)..... Microsoft fanboy. I met one yesterday at the FOX News chat room. He said and I quote, "Microsoft is an amazing company. They make the best products, best services, and best connectivity. They may be a little slow to innovate, but they always arrive with the most-advanced unit - like Xbox 360."
First I told him that X360 is a fine product, but I like my N64, PS1/PS2, and Wii better. (He then called Wii inferior 480i crap, and Nintendo games lousy with poor plot.) - Second, I told him my 20+ years of experience with Microsoft (windows 3 to 7) tells me the exact opposite of his opinion, and that's why I used alternatives like Commodore, GEOS, Amiga, and Macintosh during the 80s and 90s until I finally caved to the inevitable facts (windows is defacto standard with >90% uptake). BUT I still consider MS to be inferior overall and use alternative programs where possible. - He called me a right-brained, female Progressive, said open-source "Firefox is shit", Linux is crap, hopes my sex life with Steve Jobs & Apple is be great, and told me to leave the room.
No I'm not exaggerating.
Anyway other than these types of persons, most technically-minded people acknowledge that Microsoft produces second- or third-rate products that are buggy, insecure (IE8 still has years-old holes), and stifled by legal teams that make RIAA look friendly.
Yeah the first post didn't make much sense to me either. Other than my air conditioner (which had been off for months), everything in my house uses single phase power, and it's billed by watts. So I'm not really sure what you're referring to in regards to phase1 and phase2 since all my present usage is only single phase.
Maybe the First Poster can explain further what he meant?
As for the article, I think it would be cool to have an electricity meter. The MPG gauge in my Honda Insight has helped me tailor my driving. When I first bought the thing I could barely get the EPA-stickered 70 miles per gallon, but now with practice I average 90 overall, and over 100 MPG on I-95 (the key is to not use the brake, as it wastes energy).
Being able to monitor my house amd make similar adjustments would work in my favor.
To whomever modded me down for "being wrong" you should watch this lecture by a college professor. It's called "Sugar - The Bitter Truth" and is about how sugar causes obesity using the same mechanism as HFCS.
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I think you worry too much.
Wikipedia has tons of non-notable articles, like an article about the VHS v. Betamax War (they're both dead - who cares?), a list of Kim Possible episodes, characters from the Star Trek universe (one article per character), and so on. I see no harm in adding articles about the gold standard, San Juan Mountains, and bimettalism.
Rather than have students waste time producing busywork that the professor will Trashfile at the end of the year, they are contributing their efforts toward society. These Wiki articles will be picked-up by other editors and added to with new information, and someone like me will come along and read them years later.
>>>Google wasn't going anywhere in China
That really doesn't have anything to do with what I said. There's a difference between selling product, and an outright decision to killoff (war against) your competition like MS did to Lotus, WordPerfect, Netscape, Opera, Java, Kerberos, DR-DOS (blocked by Windows), and on and on, via any means necessary even illegal ones.
Or do you think MS was forced to appear before the US DOJ and European Union court systems just to have a friendly talk? c'mon. "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" is their motto. It's war. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft
There's a difference? And yeah China is socialist, just like Cuba is socialist, and the former United Soviet Socialist Republics were socialist.
Apparently while we were not looking, our last three presidents did this to the Constitution:
(strikethrough)The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation.....(/strikethrough) ----- So what's left? Amend.10 - deleted. Amend.9 - deleted. Amend.8 - deleted. Amend.7 - deleted. Amend.6 - deleted. Amend.5 - deleted. Amend.4 - deleted. Amend.1 - deleted.
How ironic. The only rights left are those that forbid soldiers from living in our homes, and the one that allows self-defense of same.
Is there ANY event that would disprove global warming? I shoveled almost 9 feet of snow this winter, setting a new seasonal record, but apparently that is proof of GW. "More moisture in the air means more snow." --- Meanwhile the previous winter we had virtually no snow along the Mid-Atlantic coast, and Al Gore said that too is proof of GW.
I admit it. I'm confused. Lots of snow == GW. No snow == GW. What the fej?
To answer the original question:
I would wait until I actually move into the new apartment before doing anything. Why? Because when I first moved to my new room there was virtually no signal (1 bar) and although I could receive messages, I couldn't dialout voice calls. - But then about 3 hours later I had 5-6 bars. Apparently the local tower detected my phone's presence, self-adjusted itself to "steer" the signal in my direction, and I've had a strong signal ever since.
Perhaps this questioner will experience a similar phenomenon after he moves-in and his phone establishes a long term contact with the nearby tower.
First Citizen?
Sounds like Roman Republic circa 50 BC.
What I don't understand is why our OWN president praises Chavez as a supporter of democracy.
>>>Got a shitty village in the way of the interstate? Move. No pissy little lawsuits there to slow things down. And then the interstate is done...
That used to be true in America too, but then in the 1970s the villagers started protesting because they didn't want their homes razed. It's why Baltimore's I-95 does not connect to I-83 or I-70 (it was supposed to). It's why Washington's I-66 does not run straight-through and connect to I-95 (it was supposed to). It's also why I-95 stops in Philadelphia instead of continuing onward to New York.
The people complained.
Here in the States the "villagers" voices were heard. It's a representative Republic.
In China they get executed or imprisoned. It's non-representative.
Bread and circuses keep the people happy.
I don't mind healthcare for the poor who can't afford to pay the bills, but it should be funded by the Wealthy Corporations, not the citizens. After all the corporations just got about 2000 billion in handouts - let them return some of it in the form of free medicine for the poor.
Why should we apologize? I don't see Europe apologizing for the peoples they suppressed in:
- India
- Africa
- Egypt and the Mideast
- Southeast Asia
- China
- South America
- North America
from circa 1400s to 1900s. While the Europeans are correct that Bush did dumb stuff, at least he was only there for 8 years. Europeans did similar suppressive acts for about 500 years. It's a bit hypocritcal. Like a telling people, "Though shalt not steal," when you have several mansions filled with stolen goods (literally).
>>>Many American Christians truly believe that God® has commissioned us here in the land of milk and honey to spread democracy to the rest of the world.
>>>
It sounds like you are quoting Democratic President Woodrow Wilson ("make the world safe for democracy"), and he was no Christian. He was a member of the KKK. Furthermore he was hardly democratic since he rounded-up folks and threw them in prison for daring to cricitize his adminstration. Example: Alice Paul, the suffragette.
Also you misuse the word Manifest Destiny, which referred to a U.S. that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It had nothing to do with world affairs beyond those borders.
As I recall, from history, it was the Europeans that believed it okay to colonize the whole world and suppress everyone to European ideas for 400-some years. Including China. Apparently the Euros think we've forgotten that, but we have not. We and our Canadian/South American neighbors used to be suppressed colonies too.
I think Microsoft probably follows Commodore's Jack Tramiel policy: "Business is war," and in war anything is acceptable. Therefore they would view Google's leaving China as a victory, even if it means going-to-bed with the Chinese Socialist government.
I've considered computer gaming dead for awhile now. When my Amiga passed-away as a viable gaming platform (due to lack of games), and I switched to PC, I quickly discovered what a royal pain in the ass it was to make the sound & graphics drivers work.
And if it's a pain for me, an engineer, imagine what it's like for the average customer. This is why consoles have come to be the dominant gaming platform with almost 200 million PS2s/Xboxes/Gamecubes/Dreamcasts sold previous generation.
No actually it's the physical equivalent of breaking-and-entering. You may not have taken anything but you still cracked the lock.
I had that "off peak" installed in my just-built house in 1989. In fact it was more-or-less required because the Electric Company was trying out a new system that heated water at night, and used that hot water to keep the house warm during the day.
In exchange we get 2 cents cheaper power from 5 pm to 7 am.
On the other hand the People of these united States also benefit from IP that becomes public domain, so that the "fire" of invention can light the minds & lives of all. To quote Jefferson:
Take for instance, the tables of M. de Buffon... according to which half of those of 21 years and upwards, living at any one instant of time, will be dead in 18 years 8 months, or say 19 years as the nearest integral number. Then 19 years is the term beyond which neither the representatives of a nation, nor even the whole nation itself assembled, can validly extend a debt... This principle that the earth belongs to the living, and not to the dead, is of very extensive application... Establish the principle in the new law to be passed for protecting copyrights and new inventions, by securing the exclusive right for 19 years.
A computation using life tables from 1992 gives a Jeffersonian copyright term of 30 years. (Vital Statistics of the United States 1992, Volume II--Mortality, Part A, Public Health Service, Hyattsville, 1996, Section 6, Table 6-1.) That is a reasonable amount of time for an inventor (either person or corporation) to profit from his labor.
It means that the Mickey Mouse character which Walt Disney created would have fell into public domain in 1959..... just a few years prior to Disney's own death. e could have new Mickey Mouse cartoons, created by any American who desired to do it, rather than have "him" locked in a vault and rarely seen.
It also means the if Intellectual Ventures "lock up" these ideas behind a wall and not develope them, the damage to society would be less, since the copyright/patent would expire circa 2025 and become public domain.
P.S.
One of Jefferson's most famous statements on patent law was in his often-quoted letter of August 13, 1813 to Isaac McPherson, in which he wrote that, since there is no natural right to property in land, how much less is there a natural right to a property in ideas.
And what happens when you forget your password, or the system randomly decides to ask for your mother's maiden name. You have no idea what those random characters are.
BTW for what's it's worth, I use my GRANDmother's maiden name in the "mother's name" question. If I was president someone might know that bit of trivia, but for me? Nobody knows. My grandmother hasn't been a maiden since 1910, and since the town records burned to the ground, it would be very difficult to find.
I recall in Freshman Composition my professor used a similar example of how NOT to write. He then rewrote it, emphasizing that simple words help communicate. Multi-syllablic words merely indicate the speaker is trying to SOUND smarter than he really is, but communicates next to nothing to his readers or listeners, because his real message is hidden behind confusion.
Besides "ecosystem" I'd also like to nominate "userspace" for deletion. How about just calling it the "desktop". The stuff hidden behind the scenes can be called the "kernel"
Why lose respect for Novell or their spokesperson sharing his honest opinion? It's well-known that Microsoft stifles creativity with their legal team constantly hovering over the users & programmers. Well... unless.....
.
Unless you're an Appl(bkspc)(bkspc)(bkspc)..... Microsoft fanboy. I met one yesterday at the FOX News chat room. He said and I quote, "Microsoft is an amazing company. They make the best products, best services, and best connectivity. They may be a little slow to innovate, but they always arrive with the most-advanced unit - like Xbox 360."
First I told him that X360 is a fine product, but I like my N64, PS1/PS2, and Wii better. (He then called Wii inferior 480i crap, and Nintendo games lousy with poor plot.) - Second, I told him my 20+ years of experience with Microsoft (windows 3 to 7) tells me the exact opposite of his opinion, and that's why I used alternatives like Commodore, GEOS, Amiga, and Macintosh during the 80s and 90s until I finally caved to the inevitable facts (windows is defacto standard with >90% uptake). BUT I still consider MS to be inferior overall and use alternative programs where possible. - He called me a right-brained, female Progressive, said open-source "Firefox is shit", Linux is crap, hopes my sex life with Steve Jobs & Apple is be great, and told me to leave the room.
No I'm not exaggerating.
Anyway other than these types of persons, most technically-minded people acknowledge that Microsoft produces second- or third-rate products that are buggy, insecure (IE8 still has years-old holes), and stifled by legal teams that make RIAA look friendly.
IMHO.
Yeah the first post didn't make much sense to me either. Other than my air conditioner (which had been off for months), everything in my house uses single phase power, and it's billed by watts. So I'm not really sure what you're referring to in regards to phase1 and phase2 since all my present usage is only single phase.
Maybe the First Poster can explain further what he meant?
As for the article, I think it would be cool to have an electricity meter. The MPG gauge in my Honda Insight has helped me tailor my driving. When I first bought the thing I could barely get the EPA-stickered 70 miles per gallon, but now with practice I average 90 overall, and over 100 MPG on I-95 (the key is to not use the brake, as it wastes energy).
Being able to monitor my house amd make similar adjustments would work in my favor.
>>>but sucrose is broken down into fructose and glucose over a period of time.
Yeah. Like half a second. So basically no time at all, and then you have free fructose to be absorbed.
To whomever modded me down for "being wrong" you should watch this lecture by a college professor. It's called "Sugar - The Bitter Truth" and is about how sugar causes obesity using the same mechanism as HFCS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Oh an by the way, mod points are not meant to be used to say "I disagree" or otherwise punish other users. Read the fraaking FAQ.
Okay clueless employee here:
I want to run Opera Mini web browser. My provider is Virgin Mobile. How do I figure out which of their phones will run this software?