And the reason they don't understand the significance is overreliance on the sales staff at the local electronics supermart. Back in the days, I once heard a salesperson tell a shopper that the difference between a 386DX and a 386SX was that the DX models came in higher clock speeds.
Anyone who is happy with the resolution, steadiness (lack), and sound quality of handycam movie ripoffs is going to wait to rent from the 99 cent category, if anything. Anyone who is unhappy with those attributes is going but watches it anyway is a dedicated fan who is going to go anyway to the theatre when it comes to their hometown.
Well, as a matter of fact, when Nixon left as vice President and JFK took office, there were 600 US soldiers in Vietnam as advisors. JFK, followed by Lyndon Johnson, were the two who ramped up troop involvment to the highest levels. Your assertion about this pullout is mentioned at this handy page at Marquette University:
"Revisionists who claim otherwise about JFK and Vietnam hinge their assertions on two points. One, are the stories told by JFK aides Dave Powers and Ken O'Donnell that JFK had privately revealed his intention to withdraw, but only after the 1964 elections, when it would be politically far more feasible to do so. This assertion has to be taken with a grain of salt."
His successor, Nixon, promised to end the war, but escalated it further
On the contrary, the week Nixon took office as President he ordered troop reductions in Vietnam. At no point in the Nixon administration were troops ever increased there. This continued until all were withdrawn. Perhaps you've been listening to the character of 'Larry' on Dharma and Greg?
This is why I'm working on a master's degree in data mining. Better to be on the inside. I for one welcome the chance to be your data mining overlord! Buahahaha!
You mean businesses make decisions on what they think they can convince us to buy. Sometimes it works, sometimes we want to buy something else. When cars that run on alternative fuels and the alternative fuel itself costs less than gasoline and gas powered cars, we'll be happy to buy them and it.
a system with economics with which a traditional local phone company simply can't compete'
How many times have we heard that (insert some innovation here) will lead to the demise of (insert traditional provider here). Look, the only times when large established providers of a given good or service are eliminated by something new is when entrenched management gets hubris and thinks the new thing is not worth their bother. If/when the existing telcos realise they need to get on this bandwagon they will, and with a vengance. You can't count out the resources they can bring to bear until they don't and are truly out.
GPS devices would be useful for people like cave explorers
Cave explorers could get by on an inertial guidance device but the market is a little too small to make such a product worthwhile. For now they'll have to stick with chalk.
Most of the time competition is good: software, hardware, cola. Sometimes monopolies are more acceptable: stringing up electric transmission cables, streets to my (your) house, large constellations of bright satellites that interfere with astronomic studies and general enjoyment of the night sky. Sure, GPS is very handy but more than one system seems a little redundant.
Sorry, here on/. we can only see the male color palette. Female-visible color shades like lavender and fuscia are simply purple and pink, respectively.
OK, the nice thing about launching from Cape Canaveral is that bad launches splash down in the mid Atlantic. I'm not to happy (as a Denver resident) about W(here)TF these amature efforts leaving from the left coast are supposed to ditch...
I thought about this as well and the common sense answer seems to be that because these slow slips are happening deep underground the surface isn't keeping up. So maybe when the stretch between the surface that hasn't moved and the underground that's been creeping along gets too great then the surface cuts loose with a big one-time quake. Anyway, that's the best I can come up with for why it could add to surface earthquakes.
in many countries (e.g. Germany) you are actually obliged to deliver a message, regardless of whether its a Virus
I can't help but marvel at what legislative insanity dreamed this up. Viruses/worms are not "messages" purposefully sent to a recipient; they're just random spewings trying to infect as many computers as possible. I think of all the folks in Asia last year being told they can't wear those face masks because they are obligated to receive any SARs viruses someone might try to "deliver" to them.
The biggest problem of this kind of idea is the one where line level law enforcement persons contract 'the computer is always right' syndrome.
"Well, yeah, he kept twitching nervously but the database said that according to his ID card he was allowed to have all those guns and explosives." "Well, I know she *looked* like someone's great grandmother but the database said she was really an international terrorist so we shot her on sight."
With good looking fake identification you can bluff your way past the most secure system as long as there's a person you can appeal to. And if your information gets entered incorrectly by the minimum wage data entry clerks hired to populate the database with its first data, you're SOL.
So you've got this national ID card with biometric data. Who gets to see it and how often? I haven't been pulled over and asked for a driver's license for over 15 years now. I have had to show a DL at the airport last year but what if I just drove everywhere? If this biometric card has a similar use pattern then it doesn't seem worthwhile. On the other hand, if they're going to set up roadblocks every few miles where you have to swipe the thing then I guess it will catch some baddies but how much aggrevation will that cause?
There has to be a way to increase solar cell output with these
The trick is keeping it focused. The combined solar cell / lens assembly would need to be on a motorized gymbal that tracked the sun's arc across the sky perfectly. Otherwise the lens would be focusing the sun's rays off to the side of the cell except for a small time each day and that would hardly be an increase in efficiency.
You have completed more work units than 99.699% of our users.
When my computer turned in its first work unit my stats page said that I had complete more work units than 45% of the users. So I have to wonder just how many of these 5-million are what a reasonable person would call legit users. Not many, since a quick check shows that although I've turned in 1/10th as many work units as yourself, it says I've completed more than 97.285% of the users, a small difference.
I once ordered a hot ham and cheeze and was asked if I wanted cheeze on it. I pointed out that would make it just a hot ham. The worker told me so many people get mad about the cheeze that they didn't ask for when ordering a "hot ham and cheeze" by name that she now asks everyone even though she agreed it was a pretty stupid question.
Classic prisoners' dillema. As soon as you agree to limit what kind of weapons to bring the person bringing the next level up wins easily. No one should ever agree to a limit and if they do don't trust them to stick to it.
it seems like some countries *cough* *cough* go to war mostly for the economy
Name one war that was not fought for economic reasons. Even the so-called Crusades, nominally fought for religion, were an excuse to keep increasinly powerful nobility in check by making them incur such a large expense as trying to invade the middle east. Every war I can think of has economic motives despite frequent facades of other purposes. Not that there's anything wrong with that; large scale human social activity comes down to economics.
A.backed by an existing bricks and mortar bank (to provide security and confidence that there is real money in a vault somewhere to back up your virtual dollars) B.complying 100% with banking regulations
You seem unaware that according to said banking regulations a "fully capitalized" bank has only at least 7% of its demand deposits (checking accounts) in the vault. The rest is lent out to people who get car loans and home mortgages. So your argument that a brick and mortar bank has real money in a vault is around 93% false. Paypal is keeping all of the money on deposit in what are called sweep accounts (a checking account by day that turns into a savings account to gain interest at night) at real banks; isn't that close enough?
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And the reason they don't understand the significance is overreliance on the sales staff at the local electronics supermart. Back in the days, I once heard a salesperson tell a shopper that the difference between a 386DX and a 386SX was that the DX models came in higher clock speeds.
Anyone who is happy with the resolution, steadiness (lack), and sound quality of handycam movie ripoffs is going to wait to rent from the 99 cent category, if anything. Anyone who is unhappy with those attributes is going but watches it anyway is a dedicated fan who is going to go anyway to the theatre when it comes to their hometown.
Hooray! Thousands of people died! Let's par-tay!
Perhaps you need a refresher on the meaning of 'celebrate' before making would-be sarcastic remarks:
"1 : to perform (a sacrament or solemn ceremony) publicly and with appropriate rites"
"2 a : to honor (as a holiday) by solemn ceremonies"
JFK ordered a pullout of Vietnam
Well, as a matter of fact, when Nixon left as vice President and JFK took office, there were 600 US soldiers in Vietnam as advisors. JFK, followed by Lyndon Johnson, were the two who ramped up troop involvment to the highest levels. Your assertion about this pullout is mentioned at this handy page at Marquette University:
"Revisionists who claim otherwise about JFK and Vietnam hinge their assertions on two points. One, are the stories told by JFK aides Dave Powers and Ken O'Donnell that JFK had privately revealed his intention to withdraw, but only after the 1964 elections, when it would be politically far more feasible to do so. This assertion has to be taken with a grain of salt."
His successor, Nixon, promised to end the war, but escalated it further
On the contrary, the week Nixon took office as President he ordered troop reductions in Vietnam. At no point in the Nixon administration were troops ever increased there. This continued until all were withdrawn.
Perhaps you've been listening to the character of 'Larry' on Dharma and Greg?
This is why I'm working on a master's degree in data mining. Better to be on the inside. I for one welcome the chance to be your data mining overlord! Buahahaha!
Big business makes the decesions, not us
You mean businesses make decisions on what they think they can convince us to buy. Sometimes it works, sometimes we want to buy something else. When cars that run on alternative fuels and the alternative fuel itself costs less than gasoline and gas powered cars, we'll be happy to buy them and it.
a system with economics with which a traditional local phone company simply can't compete'
How many times have we heard that (insert some innovation here) will lead to the demise of (insert traditional provider here). Look, the only times when large established providers of a given good or service are eliminated by something new is when entrenched management gets hubris and thinks the new thing is not worth their bother. If/when the existing telcos realise they need to get on this bandwagon they will, and with a vengance. You can't count out the resources they can bring to bear until they don't and are truly out.
Isn't an edutainment title from someone called "Mr. McCool" similar to a used car from "Honest Eddie"?
Have you ever been forced to use low quality applications designed for multipurpose messing-things-up
Does WindowsME count?
GPS devices would be useful for people like cave explorers
Cave explorers could get by on an inertial guidance device but the market is a little too small to make such a product worthwhile. For now they'll have to stick with chalk.
Most of the time competition is good: software, hardware, cola. Sometimes monopolies are more acceptable: stringing up electric transmission cables, streets to my (your) house, large constellations of bright satellites that interfere with astronomic studies and general enjoyment of the night sky. Sure, GPS is very handy but more than one system seems a little redundant.
Sorry, here on /. we can only see the male color palette. Female-visible color shades like lavender and fuscia are simply purple and pink, respectively.
OK, the nice thing about launching from Cape Canaveral is that bad launches splash down in the mid Atlantic. I'm not to happy (as a Denver resident) about W(here)TF these amature efforts leaving from the left coast are supposed to ditch...
I thought about this as well and the common sense answer seems to be that because these slow slips are happening deep underground the surface isn't keeping up. So maybe when the stretch between the surface that hasn't moved and the underground that's been creeping along gets too great then the surface cuts loose with a big one-time quake. Anyway, that's the best I can come up with for why it could add to surface earthquakes.
in many countries (e.g. Germany) you are actually obliged to deliver a message, regardless of whether its a Virus
I can't help but marvel at what legislative insanity dreamed this up. Viruses/worms are not "messages" purposefully sent to a recipient; they're just random spewings trying to infect as many computers as possible. I think of all the folks in Asia last year being told they can't wear those face masks because they are obligated to receive any SARs viruses someone might try to "deliver" to them.
The biggest problem of this kind of idea is the one where line level law enforcement persons contract 'the computer is always right' syndrome.
"Well, yeah, he kept twitching nervously but the database said that according to his ID card he was allowed to have all those guns and explosives."
"Well, I know she *looked* like someone's great grandmother but the database said she was really an international terrorist so we shot her on sight."
With good looking fake identification you can bluff your way past the most secure system as long as there's a person you can appeal to. And if your information gets entered incorrectly by the minimum wage data entry clerks hired to populate the database with its first data, you're SOL.
So you've got this national ID card with biometric data. Who gets to see it and how often? I haven't been pulled over and asked for a driver's license for over 15 years now. I have had to show a DL at the airport last year but what if I just drove everywhere? If this biometric card has a similar use pattern then it doesn't seem worthwhile. On the other hand, if they're going to set up roadblocks every few miles where you have to swipe the thing then I guess it will catch some baddies but how much aggrevation will that cause?
There has to be a way to increase solar cell output with these
The trick is keeping it focused. The combined solar cell / lens assembly would need to be on a motorized gymbal that tracked the sun's arc across the sky perfectly. Otherwise the lens would be focusing the sun's rays off to the side of the cell except for a small time each day and that would hardly be an increase in efficiency.
You have completed more work units than 99.699% of our users.
When my computer turned in its first work unit my stats page said that I had complete more work units than 45% of the users. So I have to wonder just how many of these 5-million are what a reasonable person would call legit users. Not many, since a quick check shows that although I've turned in 1/10th as many work units as yourself, it says I've completed more than 97.285% of the users, a small difference.
I once ordered a hot ham and cheeze and was asked if I wanted cheeze on it. I pointed out that would make it just a hot ham. The worker told me so many people get mad about the cheeze that they didn't ask for when ordering a "hot ham and cheeze" by name that she now asks everyone even though she agreed it was a pretty stupid question.
Classic prisoners' dillema. As soon as you agree to limit what kind of weapons to bring the person bringing the next level up wins easily. No one should ever agree to a limit and if they do don't trust them to stick to it.
Isn't that a violation of the Prime Directive?
I always thought it was called the "prime" directive because it's the one they're supposed to rush to break first.
the RIAA is not reporting the most 'useful' numbers to the public."
OMG! Someone is using statistics to slant an issue their way! OMG!
it seems like some countries *cough* *cough* go to war mostly for the economy
Name one war that was not fought for economic reasons. Even the so-called Crusades, nominally fought for religion, were an excuse to keep increasinly powerful nobility in check by making them incur such a large expense as trying to invade the middle east. Every war I can think of has economic motives despite frequent facades of other purposes. Not that there's anything wrong with that; large scale human social activity comes down to economics.
A.backed by an existing bricks and mortar bank (to provide security and confidence that there is real money in a vault somewhere to back up your virtual dollars)
B.complying 100% with banking regulations
You seem unaware that according to said banking regulations a "fully capitalized" bank has only at least 7% of its demand deposits (checking accounts) in the vault. The rest is lent out to people who get car loans and home mortgages. So your argument that a brick and mortar bank has real money in a vault is around 93% false. Paypal is keeping all of the money on deposit in what are called sweep accounts (a checking account by day that turns into a savings account to gain interest at night) at real banks; isn't that close enough?