On the contrary, it shows why the electoral college was established in the first place. It insures that smaller states like North Dakota and Alaska have a stake in deciding our national destiny, and keeps it from being steered entirely from California, Texas, and New York.
Personally, I think Office in general and Word in particular is the best product MS has ever produced. It does everything I want it too, lets me produce great looking documents, and in general works smoothly. I think that people's main beef with Word is the fact that it was produced by Microsoft.
Does anyone know of a phone available in the U.S. which can handle the Cyrillic character set? I'm planning on going to Russia next year with my Church, and I'm in the process of learning to speak, read, and write Russian. I'm looking for ways I can practice in everyday life.
First, get a copy of USB Complete. This book provides a good reference to the USB interface, and is oriented to hardware design. It also gives a lot of useful advice on picking a USB controller.
Second, visit the Silicon labs web site. They sell a development board for their USB enabled Microcontroller which includes all cables, an assembler, and a bunch of utilities and examples. They also include a development kit for implementing the Windows drivers for your new device.
Finally, there's a utility available on the web called Snoopy which will let you capture USB packets.
I was a rocket scientist briefly, but that's another story...
One would assume that during a solar eclipse, the serial effect of the sun and moon's gravity would reduce the felt gravity on earth. With a lower gravitational acceleration, I think the pendulum should slow down, and not speed up. Of course when Allais (sp?) made his observation, there may have been something else acting on the pendulum coincident to the eclipse.
He did talk about this in 1984 with the concept of Newspeak. Newspeak was a limited version of english in which all "seditious" words had been removed, along with anything which encouraged individualism and creative thought. The idea was that if you didn't have the language to plot against the government, you couldn't plot against the government, and it would serve to keep the people under control.
Incidentally, the turn of phrase "double-plus-good" is straight from the book. It reflects the effort to reduce the number of adjectives in the language to two: good and bad. Plus and double-plus were added as a way to emphasize those. Also, bad was rendered as synonomous with crime.
Some people compare the political correctness movements in the '90s to Newspeak.
Preventing them from saying what they are allowed to say by blasting them off the internet, rather than engaging in proper debate?
Remember, these are the same tactics campus activists have been using for years. This is about the equivalent of grabbing every copy of the Berkeley unofficial student paper when they print something the campus leftists don't agree with.
It's all well and good to improve the picture quality, but this doesn't address the main issue of TV today. The content sucks. We're now down to maybe one or two good shows, about 20 cop-dramas, and about 1000 "reality" shows.
Let's stop trying to make the mechanics better, and actually make something worth watching.
Why not just have a set of games where there are no restrictions on performance enhancing technologies? We'll keep the Olympics all-natural, but have a parallel event where anything goes.
So let's see, at $700 per license, that means they've sold between 140 and 1400 licenses, which absolutely sucks sales-wise. I wonder what the marketing costs were for that? I have a feeling that reading SCO's revenue report may be the best laugh I get all month!
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On the contrary, it shows why the electoral college was established in the first place. It insures that smaller states like North Dakota and Alaska have a stake in deciding our national destiny, and keeps it from being steered entirely from California, Texas, and New York.
Don't forget NeXT? It might have worked with a "mature" internet ...
In many ways it has. It's just been rebranded as Mac OS X, and given a prettier interface.
To make it even more realistic, they should get a bunch of clueless business administration students to come in and grade your work.
Personally, I think Office in general and Word in particular is the best product MS has ever produced. It does everything I want it too, lets me produce great looking documents, and in general works smoothly. I think that people's main beef with Word is the fact that it was produced by Microsoft.
This was done with Adult stem cells, which are not covered under the federal restrictions, and can be researched in the United States.
Does anyone know of a phone available in the U.S. which can handle the Cyrillic character set? I'm planning on going to Russia next year with my Church, and I'm in the process of learning to speak, read, and write Russian. I'm looking for ways I can practice in everyday life.
If Linux doesn't actually exit, doesn't that pretty much negate their complaint?
First, get a copy of USB Complete. This book provides a good reference to the USB interface, and is oriented to hardware design. It also gives a lot of useful advice on picking a USB controller.
Second, visit the Silicon labs web site. They sell a development board for their USB enabled Microcontroller which includes all cables, an assembler, and a bunch of utilities and examples. They also include a development kit for implementing the Windows drivers for your new device.
Finally, there's a utility available on the web called Snoopy which will let you capture USB packets.
I was a rocket scientist briefly, but that's another story...
One would assume that during a solar eclipse, the serial effect of the sun and moon's gravity would reduce the felt gravity on earth. With a lower gravitational acceleration, I think the pendulum should slow down, and not speed up. Of course when Allais (sp?) made his observation, there may have been something else acting on the pendulum coincident to the eclipse.
Never mind. I RTFA, and now I know that it was an economist who first discovered the effect. (Which in my mind only casts doubt on its existance.)
Why is this being carried in the Economist? Shouldn't it be picked up by New Scientist or some other scientific (or pseudo-scientific) publication?
Remember: there is no gravity. The Earth sucks.
He did talk about this in 1984 with the concept of Newspeak. Newspeak was a limited version of english in which all "seditious" words had been removed, along with anything which encouraged individualism and creative thought. The idea was that if you didn't have the language to plot against the government, you couldn't plot against the government, and it would serve to keep the people under control.
Incidentally, the turn of phrase "double-plus-good" is straight from the book. It reflects the effort to reduce the number of adjectives in the language to two: good and bad. Plus and double-plus were added as a way to emphasize those. Also, bad was rendered as synonomous with crime.
Some people compare the political correctness movements in the '90s to Newspeak.
More likely, they decided there wasn't enough alcohol on the plane to accomodate Senator Kennedy.
Actually, yes. About half of them are going into the embedded market, and the rest go into Apples.
We're selling a whole lot of them.
Didn't they announce this months ago? I've had my copy on pre-order with Amazon since July 1st.
Preventing them from saying what they are allowed to say by blasting them off the internet, rather than engaging in proper debate?
Remember, these are the same tactics campus activists have been using for years. This is about the equivalent of grabbing every copy of the Berkeley unofficial student paper when they print something the campus leftists don't agree with.
Just remember, the definition of free speech according to some people means "free to say what I agree with."
It's all well and good to improve the picture quality, but this doesn't address the main issue of TV today. The content sucks. We're now down to maybe one or two good shows, about 20 cop-dramas, and about 1000 "reality" shows.
Let's stop trying to make the mechanics better, and actually make something worth watching.
In Washington D.C., they're already doping the mayor.
Why not just have a set of games where there are no restrictions on performance enhancing technologies? We'll keep the Olympics all-natural, but have a parallel event where anything goes.
Now Apple can tap the huge market for Tablet PCs. After all, the Windows based tablets are selling so friggin well.
It's not necessarily bad, just utterly pointless.
So let's see, at $700 per license, that means they've sold between 140 and 1400 licenses, which absolutely sucks sales-wise. I wonder what the marketing costs were for that? I have a feeling that reading SCO's revenue report may be the best laugh I get all month!