Probably only to cover the cost of licensing MSOffice for all of those macs. Otherwise those kids might have learned how to use some other word processor/spread sheet.
I'm hoping this isnt being taken to an extreme if the psycho sniper-guy in DC turns out to be a CS junkie who went overboard for head shots. This would be a major blow to gaming in general...
I have the same thought everytime I hear about him....
I distrust law enforcement more than most people, but those guys haven't suffered much at the hands of the police. They weren't taken to jail or anything like that. I personally think the problem happened because some hick saw three arabs together and called the police, but I haven't heard anything about the way the police responded that makes me think they were out of line (given what she told them).
As far as other arabs being held I have mixed feelings. If they being held on some visa violation, then they probably don't have much recourse. If they're being held in Cuba, then there's no telling why they're being held, and it does bother me. Most everyone else has been charged within our legal system (only exception I know about is Jose Padilla- a US Citizen, and not an arab).
When its all added up I don't see how you can say we're "putting away any arabs for any reason possible". Maybe you can enlighten me to some other group of arabs that I've missed.
Although class insecta has over 1000 identified species, they are still just a bunch of bugs.
I think your off by a few orders of magnitude. I have a collection with more that has more than 1000 unique species. IIRC there are more like 100,000 species of insect, but that may just be species of the order Coleoptera (beetles) I can't remember.
It takes more energy to produce fossil fuels than we get out of them, too.
I find that really hard to believe. The big difference between hydrogen-water and fossil fuels is that we are using energy break apart water and then recombine it later to create energy. Fossil fuels on the other hand have an incredible high energy density (unlike water) and only need to be refined before putting into a specific use.
That's like saying Norm Abrams does not know how to build anything with hand tools because he also uses power tools.
Thats not a very good analogy. Norm Abrams doesn't know how to use hand tools, but it has nothing to do with his proficiency with power tools.
Of course I'm judging him based on his show, not on any 1 on 1 sessions, but its pretty obvious when he picks up a saw or a chisel he only has the vaguest idea of what he is doing.
A better (but obscure) example would be someone like Frank Klause. He uses power tools every day, but using hand tools he can cut out all the dovetails for a drawer (4 sets!) faster than Norm could adjust his dovetail jig.
simply don't work because of the VM you're using or some setting you've been messing with in the registry
I don't know much about windows, but if a setting in a registry or your VM can screw up specific individual sites I would still call the web site broken.
Isn't it true that you can set commercial skipping once on your pvr and never have to think about it again? To me this seems to be the difference - the effort involved and the lack of a human element.
It definately doesn't work that way on a Tivo. You have to manually ff through the commercials. You can set up a 30 sec skip button. Tried it a few times and then went back to fastforwarding, it just works better.
That is the first intelligent response I've heard to the issue. Although I think the reason no one in the senate wanted to deal with is the fact that they were split 50/50 and Gore would have been casting the deciding vote for himeself- not something he would have wanted to do. I agree though that it probably would have been the right thing to do (and the way the founders would have envisioned it).
I should be dead then... I spent months of my life drinking nothing but pepsi. The only other water intake was from the food I was eating, and I'm not a big fan of soup.
"But what about rain fade?" you ask. I've never seen rain fade last for more than a half-hour while the moron down the street can kill cable for the block for most of the week
This is right on. Satellite goes out during extremely heavy storms. Cable goes out in the middle of the afternoon on sunny days. Its pretty easy to tell when the satellite will come back, but there's no telling about cable.
I've had both cable and satellite for about 4 months each this year. Cable downtime has far exceeded satellite. I would guess its the cable company screwing with the 'broadcast', because my cable internet connection has only gone down once.
I own a Tivo and I watch commercials now about as often as I used to without it. The only difference is how I avoid them. Before Tivo I would just channel surf. I would never see more than a few seconds of a commercial, and I would sometimes miss some of the show. Now channel surfing is difficult (channel changes are slow), but I can fast foward and only see a few seconds of commercials. I think its pretty much been a wash.
Every time there is an article about Apple some wintel guy pipes in with 'I was going to buy an Apple but now I'm not'. Who cares? If you haven't bought one yet, then you were never going to buy one. I don't want to hear about it.
I would guess that its because 7.5.2 was the first system to support PCI based motherboards. If the next hardware release is as big a change as NuBus->PCI then we don't have much to compain about, otherwise I think Apple probably EOLd OS9 too quick.
Its not a bad plan, but at least in northern virginia and DC cell phone coverage is too lame to use as a primary phone. I've had 3 different phones with 3 different providers, and I haven't been anywhere yet where the signal wasn't questionable. It may be at full strength, but when you walk across the room it will cut out or drop. I don't think its just my bad luck because it seems to happen when my friends call me from their cell phones too.
CA seems to have better coverage, but the quality can be spotty so I'm not sure I'd replace my land line there either.
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Probably only to cover the cost of licensing MSOffice for all of those macs. Otherwise those kids might have learned how to use some other word processor/spread sheet.
You don't even know the story. Catch up on your news, then try again.
So enlighten me.
I'm hoping this isnt being taken to an extreme if the psycho sniper-guy in DC turns out to be a CS junkie who went overboard for head shots. This would be a major blow to gaming in general...
I have the same thought everytime I hear about him....
story about the arab students a short time ago?
I distrust law enforcement more than most people, but those guys haven't suffered much at the hands of the police. They weren't taken to jail or anything like that. I personally think the problem happened because some hick saw three arabs together and called the police, but I haven't heard anything about the way the police responded that makes me think they were out of line (given what she told them).
As far as other arabs being held I have mixed feelings. If they being held on some visa violation, then they probably don't have much recourse. If they're being held in Cuba, then there's no telling why they're being held, and it does bother me. Most everyone else has been charged within our legal system (only exception I know about is Jose Padilla- a US Citizen, and not an arab).
When its all added up I don't see how you can say we're "putting away any arabs for any reason possible". Maybe you can enlighten me to some other group of arabs that I've missed.
Although class insecta has over 1000 identified species, they are still just a bunch of bugs.
I think your off by a few orders of magnitude. I have a collection with more that has more than 1000 unique species. IIRC there are more like 100,000 species of insect, but that may just be species of the order Coleoptera (beetles) I can't remember.
We were just lucky they come pre-made.
Whoops... Looks like I missed the last line of your post. Taking that into account your of course right.
It takes more energy to produce fossil fuels than we get out of them, too.
I find that really hard to believe. The big difference between hydrogen-water and fossil fuels is that we are using energy break apart water and then recombine it later to create energy. Fossil fuels on the other hand have an incredible high energy density (unlike water) and only need to be refined before putting into a specific use.
That's like saying Norm Abrams does not know how to build anything with hand tools because he also uses power tools.
Thats not a very good analogy. Norm Abrams doesn't know how to use hand tools, but it has nothing to do with his proficiency with power tools.
Of course I'm judging him based on his show, not on any 1 on 1 sessions, but its pretty obvious when he picks up a saw or a chisel he only has the vaguest idea of what he is doing.
A better (but obscure) example would be someone like Frank Klause. He uses power tools every day, but using hand tools he can cut out all the dovetails for a drawer (4 sets!) faster than Norm could adjust his dovetail jig.
Pretty soon you've got -- literally -- a 1 megaton explosion engulfing LA.
So what was the problem again?
You say hydrogen not explosive? I say Space Shuttle Challenger January 28, 1986!
I believe that the main fuel tank on the shuttle contains mostly liquid oxygen, not hydrogen.
don't want 3rd degree burns on my private parts any more than I want them blown off
I wholeheartedly agree!
BETTER boxen then apple.
If by better you mean cheaper then you're right.
This is because apple dropped ALL support for the thing they were saying is the next greatest thing ever
Not quite sure what your talking about. I can't think of anything that had actual external development behind it that they dropped. Maybe the Newton?
The rest I agree with...
policeman's testimony does not meet the burden of proof to convict you
Obviously you've never seen a criminal court in action. People get convicted every day based soley on a single officer's testimony.
Cold, hard evidence like fingerprints, DNA, whatever, are required
This isn't Matlock, people are convicted of murder based only on circumstantial evidence quite often.
If a site uses Flash and you've broken your Flash installation, it's not exactly the site's fault.
;-)
If a site uses flash, then its definitely the sites fault
apparently I don't know much about closing tags either ;-)
simply don't work because of the VM you're using or some setting you've been messing with in the registry
I don't know much about windows, but if a setting in a registry or your VM can screw up specific individual sites I would still call the web site broken.
Isn't it true that you can set commercial skipping once on your pvr and never have to think about it again? To me this seems to be the difference - the effort involved and the lack of a human element.
It definately doesn't work that way on a Tivo. You have to manually ff through the commercials. You can set up a 30 sec skip button. Tried it a few times and then went back to fastforwarding, it just works better.
That is the first intelligent response I've heard to the issue. Although I think the reason no one in the senate wanted to deal with is the fact that they were split 50/50 and Gore would have been casting the deciding vote for himeself- not something he would have wanted to do. I agree though that it probably would have been the right thing to do (and the way the founders would have envisioned it).
Nearly 100 years! Wow!:-)
I know your being funny, but psycology doesn't go back much further than 100 years...
I should be dead then... I spent months of my life drinking nothing but pepsi. The only other water intake was from the food I was eating, and I'm not a big fan of soup.
Sony, HP, et all, came up with DVD+R and RW.
If Sony had something to do with it it must be evil. They are the MS of the electronics world (minus the monopoly... so far)
"But what about rain fade?" you ask. I've never seen rain fade last for more than a half-hour while the moron down the street can kill cable for the block for most of the week
This is right on. Satellite goes out during extremely heavy storms. Cable goes out in the middle of the afternoon on sunny days. Its pretty easy to tell when the satellite will come back, but there's no telling about cable.
I've had both cable and satellite for about 4 months each this year. Cable downtime has far exceeded satellite. I would guess its the cable company screwing with the 'broadcast', because my cable internet connection has only gone down once.
I own a Tivo and I watch commercials now about as often as I used to without it. The only difference is how I avoid them. Before Tivo I would just channel surf. I would never see more than a few seconds of a commercial, and I would sometimes miss some of the show. Now channel surfing is difficult (channel changes are slow), but I can fast foward and only see a few seconds of commercials. I think its pretty much been a wash.
I was going to buy a Mac when the time was right.
Sorry to pick on you personally, but...
Every time there is an article about Apple some wintel guy pipes in with 'I was going to buy an Apple but now I'm not'. Who cares? If you haven't bought one yet, then you were never going to buy one. I don't want to hear about it.
I would guess that its because 7.5.2 was the first system to support PCI based motherboards. If the next hardware release is as big a change as NuBus->PCI then we don't have much to compain about, otherwise I think Apple probably EOLd OS9 too quick.
Its not a bad plan, but at least in northern virginia and DC cell phone coverage is too lame to use as a primary phone. I've had 3 different phones with 3 different providers, and I haven't been anywhere yet where the signal wasn't questionable. It may be at full strength, but when you walk across the room it will cut out or drop. I don't think its just my bad luck because it seems to happen when my friends call me from their cell phones too.
CA seems to have better coverage, but the quality can be spotty so I'm not sure I'd replace my land line there either.