As I said, I thought your post was actually fairly insightful. However, the problem with it (and why it might legitimately be considered Flamebait by some) is that it vastly overgeneralizes specific anecdotes to an unfair assertion about millions of Americans. Statements that could be supported by your links include specific (debatable) claims against Murtha, Kerry and a couple others, but you cited nothing to support the assertion that anti-military attitudes or actions (or violence!) in any way permeates the Democratic party, nor that the "far left" had "taken over" the party.
And my post is not "utter BS". I work with Army folks every day and many of them vote Democratic. If you believe a hatred of the the US military permeates the Democratic party it says more about your state of mind that those of Democrats.
Great post, except the part where you ascribe untruths to the Democratic party. They (we) represent a majority of Americans right now, and are not "far left" and DEFINITELY don't "hate the military". In fact many leaders of the Democrats (including Murtha) are retired military. Heck even many leaders of the far left, including Kos of DailyKos, are retired military. We may disagree about what is best for the military and the country, but please don't assign motives where none exist.
Does anyone else remember when Slashdot stories linked to journals and essays rather than blogs and press releases?
The most frustrating submissions to me lately are ones that link to fluff articles ABOUT a real journal article, but don't actually link the journal article in question. Meta-meta-discussions tend to quickly devolve into chaos.
The best-rated color laser printer under $1000 is the Dell 3130cn. It costs $350, but Dell offers a $150 mail-in rebate right now for about $200. Not bad. But 1K page ink cartridges cost $50 for black and $65 for each of Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow. That's a little under $0.25 a page if my math is correct.
My current HP OfficeJet Pro K5400 costed me $130 a couple years ago, and costs $51 for a 2400-page black and $27 each for a ~1700-1800 page C, M and Y. That's less than $0.10 per page.
Everyone else on here seems to be having different results than me. What am I missing?
Yes and no. Google AdSense is a way to add ads to any web page, and Google makes a lot of profit on those things. If the search engine were to suddenly disappear tomorrow, Google would be seriously hurting, but they'd still be selling a lot of ads.
I'm not sure if you're referring directly to Pittsburgh or not. There are areas of Pittsburgh, such as Oakland, where a majority of the land is owned by either the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon, Duquesne, Carlow, etc. Some of this property even generates revenue for those schools in terms of shops or sublets. In recent years, as well, the Universities have been buying property that was previously owned by commercial enterprises that had paid taxes.
The situation is exacerbated in Pittsburgh because the University of Pittsburgh is one of the best medical universities in the world, and has affiliated with it the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Hospitals are also not taxed in Pittsburgh, and THEY have also been expanding. There was an attempt to add a surcharge to all hospital bills at one point, but that too got shot down.
In short, Pittsburgh can't afford it. If the schools are really as good as everyone thinks, they're probably worth the extra 1%. If it does have an affect and the universities stop growing as fast and stop taking over commercial real estate, that's probably also a bonus for the city. And, in aggregate, probably a much bigger bonus than the small loss of student population the surcharge will induce.
Indeed, nanotech often plays prominently in modern sci-fi. Everything from self-assembling structures to epidemiology. In addition, there are many themes that investigate the nature of consciousness and sentience and how that relates to artificial structures (ie. downloading oneself into an artificial construct) and how one might use it to avoid death. In addition, there are various explorations of the intersection of quantum and relativistic phenomenon both on the small scale (Egan et al) and on the large scale (black holes and interstellar travel). Even near-future novels such as Firestar haven't come true yet, since space exploration slowed so dramatically in the last 20 years.
In short, if you're not seeing any new future tech in SF, you're not reading the same stuff I am.
especially laptops with things like weak power plugs breaking off at the motherboard requiring a full main board replacement.
Mac laptops don't have "power plugs" attached to their mainboard-- they all use MagSafe adapters which suffer extremely little wear and tear. And the new unibody laptops are extremely rigid construction. I'm not sure your information is up-to-date...
Secondly, the GNU Project would most likely like to have a word with you. Founded (not by Linus) in 1983. Created most of an OS using a distributed development model (sound familiar) and was at the point that all Linus had to do was put a kernel under it in 1991.
Oh please. If it was up to GNU we'd still be waiting for Herd and the concept of a viable Free operating system would still be considered impossible. And without MIT's X-Windows system, BSD's sockets system, others' file system(s), etc, etc, you wouldn't have a viable operating system. Certainly GNU was a major contributor to Linux, but their contribution joins many others to make Linux what it is today. And it was really through Torvalds' guidance and systems engineering, not Stallman's or GNU's, that the operating system came together and became something great.
Great. What's a GDM? And how is that relevant to getting the Xnu kernel up on an Atom processor?
Apple open sources only what it has to in order to avoid a law suit from OSS groups.
Actually, Apple is a prolific open source contributor these days, having started several projects and contributed to countless more. They are under no obligation to anyone to open source most of what you find on http://www.opensource.apple.com/ .
Apple's kernel is OPEN SOURCE, isn't it? Isn't the whole theory of open source that if something doesn't work for you, go write some code to make it work? If folks are so pissed that the Xnu kernel that underlies MacOS X is now missing Atom support, then why not go add atom support, recompile your kernel, and use your own kernel?
I haven't installed a custom-compiled Xnu kernel on my own MacOS X box in a couple years, but as I recall the process isn't even very onerous...
I think things ARE relaxed and graded according to how the disease warrants it. For example, a children's Rotavirus vaccine was pulled off the market in 1999 because an extra ~5 out of 1,000,000 children had an adverse reaction (ie. the vaccine was 99.9995% safe) than was expected by statistical analysis. On the other hand, cancer treatments which cause a great deal of toxicity but which extend life an extra few months are regularly approved. You may feel the scale isn't set quite right, but I think qualitatively things are the way you suggest they should be.
I just wished 'anti-trust' hammers to fall upon their heads
As long as Apple is fighting its way up out of the single digits in market share, you're not going to see any anti-trust action against them on the Macintosh side of the house. And the portable music player market is waning anyway. The iPhone is holding its own but it's certainly got no monopoly. In other words, don't hold your breath.
The advantage is on the typical user side. As a Mac user over two architecture transitions, I've really appreciated just being able to pull down a single executable from a site and have it "just work". Disk space is cheap and my tolerance for pointless frustration decreases steadily with age. A distribution mechanism like fat binaries makes it so the user really has to go out of their way to get it wrong.
It depends on whether attraction to slimness (and big breasts, for that matter) have some other underlying benefit. For example, breasts tend to get bigger after a woman's first child, so perhaps men who favor flatter stomachs and bigger breasts are looking for women who are fertile yet not currently pregnant. While all sorts of societal factors would complicate that translating into reproductive success for such women, there would still be an underlying pressure that could push towards an equilibrium that avoids the opposite extreme.
Dr. Flammond: "A year ago, I was close to perfecting the first magnetic desalinization process. So revolutionary, it was capable of removing the salt from over a million gallons of sea water a day! Do you realise what that could mean to the starving nations of the earth?"
Nick Rivers: "My God, they'd have enough salt to last forever!"
Garmin's market cap is ~6B and TomTom's is less than 2B. Apple could buy either with cash on hand. Considering that GPS is a major feature and a major Apple competitor now controls that feature, I think Apple should seriously consider doing so.
Admittedly it's a $25 app, so maybe wait for a review. But this isn't vaporware. They actually released the app for public use and it's gotten 4 stars from buyers so far.
Many Indians are macro-scale vegetarians. They traditionally still got a significant amount of protein, however, from the bugs and such that were part of the harvested grains and vegetables. My understanding is that pesticides caused some significant malnutrition when introduced in some areas by eliminating this source of protein.
No software these days is developed from scratch, and the Government would be paying way, way more if it tried and probably getting significantly worse products. Most major programs utilize some proprietary code, for which the Government pays for "Government Purpose Rights". That means that the Government can use the software and often even demand the source code and deliver it to other contractors. But no one is allowed to use it for non-Government projects without contacting the original author and attaining their own license. It's kind of a Government version of dual-licensed open source.
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Vacuum doesn't suck-- everything ELSE blows.
As I said, I thought your post was actually fairly insightful. However, the problem with it (and why it might legitimately be considered Flamebait by some) is that it vastly overgeneralizes specific anecdotes to an unfair assertion about millions of Americans. Statements that could be supported by your links include specific (debatable) claims against Murtha, Kerry and a couple others, but you cited nothing to support the assertion that anti-military attitudes or actions (or violence!) in any way permeates the Democratic party, nor that the "far left" had "taken over" the party.
And my post is not "utter BS". I work with Army folks every day and many of them vote Democratic. If you believe a hatred of the the US military permeates the Democratic party it says more about your state of mind that those of Democrats.
Great post, except the part where you ascribe untruths to the Democratic party. They (we) represent a majority of Americans right now, and are not "far left" and DEFINITELY don't "hate the military". In fact many leaders of the Democrats (including Murtha) are retired military. Heck even many leaders of the far left, including Kos of DailyKos, are retired military. We may disagree about what is best for the military and the country, but please don't assign motives where none exist.
The most frustrating submissions to me lately are ones that link to fluff articles ABOUT a real journal article, but don't actually link the journal article in question. Meta-meta-discussions tend to quickly devolve into chaos.
Can't methane be Carbon-dated like any other metabolic by-product?
You can do this in Safari, too. Just have the tabs always visible and drag the tab (not the title bar) back into the main window.
I just looked around to try and verify this.
The best-rated color laser printer under $1000 is the Dell 3130cn. It costs $350, but Dell offers a $150 mail-in rebate right now for about $200. Not bad. But 1K page ink cartridges cost $50 for black and $65 for each of Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow. That's a little under $0.25 a page if my math is correct.
My current HP OfficeJet Pro K5400 costed me $130 a couple years ago, and costs $51 for a 2400-page black and $27 each for a ~1700-1800 page C, M and Y. That's less than $0.10 per page.
Everyone else on here seems to be having different results than me. What am I missing?
Yes and no. Google AdSense is a way to add ads to any web page, and Google makes a lot of profit on those things. If the search engine were to suddenly disappear tomorrow, Google would be seriously hurting, but they'd still be selling a lot of ads.
The last pager/beeper I saw used by a software geek was in the mid 90's. Believe it or not, the tech universe didn't start 10 years ago :).
I'm not sure if you're referring directly to Pittsburgh or not. There are areas of Pittsburgh, such as Oakland, where a majority of the land is owned by either the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon, Duquesne, Carlow, etc. Some of this property even generates revenue for those schools in terms of shops or sublets. In recent years, as well, the Universities have been buying property that was previously owned by commercial enterprises that had paid taxes.
The situation is exacerbated in Pittsburgh because the University of Pittsburgh is one of the best medical universities in the world, and has affiliated with it the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Hospitals are also not taxed in Pittsburgh, and THEY have also been expanding. There was an attempt to add a surcharge to all hospital bills at one point, but that too got shot down.
In short, Pittsburgh can't afford it. If the schools are really as good as everyone thinks, they're probably worth the extra 1%. If it does have an affect and the universities stop growing as fast and stop taking over commercial real estate, that's probably also a bonus for the city. And, in aggregate, probably a much bigger bonus than the small loss of student population the surcharge will induce.
Indeed, nanotech often plays prominently in modern sci-fi. Everything from self-assembling structures to epidemiology. In addition, there are many themes that investigate the nature of consciousness and sentience and how that relates to artificial structures (ie. downloading oneself into an artificial construct) and how one might use it to avoid death. In addition, there are various explorations of the intersection of quantum and relativistic phenomenon both on the small scale (Egan et al) and on the large scale (black holes and interstellar travel). Even near-future novels such as Firestar haven't come true yet, since space exploration slowed so dramatically in the last 20 years.
In short, if you're not seeing any new future tech in SF, you're not reading the same stuff I am.
Mac laptops don't have "power plugs" attached to their mainboard-- they all use MagSafe adapters which suffer extremely little wear and tear. And the new unibody laptops are extremely rigid construction. I'm not sure your information is up-to-date...
Oh please. If it was up to GNU we'd still be waiting for Herd and the concept of a viable Free operating system would still be considered impossible. And without MIT's X-Windows system, BSD's sockets system, others' file system(s), etc, etc, you wouldn't have a viable operating system. Certainly GNU was a major contributor to Linux, but their contribution joins many others to make Linux what it is today. And it was really through Torvalds' guidance and systems engineering, not Stallman's or GNU's, that the operating system came together and became something great.
Great. What's a GDM? And how is that relevant to getting the Xnu kernel up on an Atom processor?
Actually, Apple is a prolific open source contributor these days, having started several projects and contributed to countless more. They are under no obligation to anyone to open source most of what you find on http://www.opensource.apple.com/ .
Apple's kernel is OPEN SOURCE, isn't it? Isn't the whole theory of open source that if something doesn't work for you, go write some code to make it work? If folks are so pissed that the Xnu kernel that underlies MacOS X is now missing Atom support, then why not go add atom support, recompile your kernel, and use your own kernel?
I haven't installed a custom-compiled Xnu kernel on my own MacOS X box in a couple years, but as I recall the process isn't even very onerous...
I think things ARE relaxed and graded according to how the disease warrants it. For example, a children's Rotavirus vaccine was pulled off the market in 1999 because an extra ~5 out of 1,000,000 children had an adverse reaction (ie. the vaccine was 99.9995% safe) than was expected by statistical analysis. On the other hand, cancer treatments which cause a great deal of toxicity but which extend life an extra few months are regularly approved. You may feel the scale isn't set quite right, but I think qualitatively things are the way you suggest they should be.
As long as Apple is fighting its way up out of the single digits in market share, you're not going to see any anti-trust action against them on the Macintosh side of the house. And the portable music player market is waning anyway. The iPhone is holding its own but it's certainly got no monopoly. In other words, don't hold your breath.
The advantage is on the typical user side. As a Mac user over two architecture transitions, I've really appreciated just being able to pull down a single executable from a site and have it "just work". Disk space is cheap and my tolerance for pointless frustration decreases steadily with age. A distribution mechanism like fat binaries makes it so the user really has to go out of their way to get it wrong.
It depends on whether attraction to slimness (and big breasts, for that matter) have some other underlying benefit. For example, breasts tend to get bigger after a woman's first child, so perhaps men who favor flatter stomachs and bigger breasts are looking for women who are fertile yet not currently pregnant. While all sorts of societal factors would complicate that translating into reproductive success for such women, there would still be an underlying pressure that could push towards an equilibrium that avoids the opposite extreme.
Dr. Flammond: "A year ago, I was close to perfecting the first magnetic desalinization process. So revolutionary, it was capable of removing the salt from over a million gallons of sea water a day! Do you realise what that could mean to the starving nations of the earth?"
Nick Rivers: "My God, they'd have enough salt to last forever!"
Garmin's market cap is ~6B and TomTom's is less than 2B. Apple could buy either with cash on hand. Considering that GPS is a major feature and a major Apple competitor now controls that feature, I think Apple should seriously consider doing so.
Genghis Khan was also very much a geek when it comes to war.
Download it from the App Store and see for yourself... http://jibbigo.com/
Admittedly it's a $25 app, so maybe wait for a review. But this isn't vaporware. They actually released the app for public use and it's gotten 4 stars from buyers so far.
Many Indians are macro-scale vegetarians. They traditionally still got a significant amount of protein, however, from the bugs and such that were part of the harvested grains and vegetables. My understanding is that pesticides caused some significant malnutrition when introduced in some areas by eliminating this source of protein.
No software these days is developed from scratch, and the Government would be paying way, way more if it tried and probably getting significantly worse products. Most major programs utilize some proprietary code, for which the Government pays for "Government Purpose Rights". That means that the Government can use the software and often even demand the source code and deliver it to other contractors. But no one is allowed to use it for non-Government projects without contacting the original author and attaining their own license. It's kind of a Government version of dual-licensed open source.