Out of that total population of 324 million, not all are eligible to vote. About 75 million are underage. About 7% of the population, which would be about 23 million, are not citizens - some of them are also underage, so that probably takes out another 15 million. Many millions are ineligible to vote because of felony convictions. So in round numbers, the number of people living in the US who are ineligible to vote is around 100 million.
125 million voters out of 225 million eligible people is not where we should be. But it's not nearly as bad as you suggested. 55.5% of the people who could legally cast a vote did, not 38.5%.
Not true. Getting a vote in California would be no more valuable than getting a vote in Vermont. There will be some new challenges because mass marketing to the big states is easier than marketing to smaller states; overcoming that would require candidates to have a strong grass roots organization in the smaller states.
I disagree. You are a citizen of the world and the human race first. Then your nation, then your state, then your city or town. NOT the other way around.
Eliminating the Electoral College would also mean that everybody's vote would count. It would no longer be possible to ignore "safe states" because their outcomes are not in question. Candidates would have to campaign everywhere and listen to the concerns of people in every state.
Perhaps the original post has been edited. It now says that the novel has been accused of promoting fascism and being racist. The film is clearly a satire of militarism - which was why many Heinlein fans hated it, they felt it was a perversion of the author's intent. It sounds like the filmmakers are aiming to do a sort of Heinlein Light - softening the fascist and racist aspects while retaining the book's positivity toward military service and its take on the responsibilities of citizenship. I don't know whether it's possible to achieve that balance or whether the original source is too flawed under the lens of current day politics.
I have seen SD slots on low-end system where the card sticks out when inserted. My Samsung Chromebook is like that; the card only goes about halfway into the computer, allowing a simpler slot design with no spring latch. The fancier laptops I have used all have slots where the card goes all the way in, and sticks out just enough so you can push it in to release the spring latch.
SD cards are now commonplace on digital cameras. Only some really high end cameras still have CF slots, and plenty of professional work is done with the models a step down that have SD slots. On the Nikon side there is the top of the line D5, which has only CF or XQD slots (depending on which version you buy), but one step down is the D810 which has both CF and SD, and one more step down is the D750 which only has SD.. Same deal with Canon: the EOS 1D is CFast only, but the EOS 5D takes both CF and SD and the EOS 6D loses the CF. And if you're taking the third path, Sony, there are no models with CF slots.
Sometimes it is. If you need the USB stick to solve a problem RIGHT NOW, like get a presentation working that you otherwise can't do because of some other hardware failure or incompatibility, waiting a day for Amazon to deliver one is unacceptable.
Why would your iPhone touch your MacBook? To sync with iTunes or download a phone update. Or just to charge the phone; in some circumstances you can lighten your travel burden by one charger by using your laptop to charge the phone instead. And if you're an iOS developer, connecting the phone to your Mac is a routine part of your job so you can download and debug apps.
Fiber to the home can be very fast. And if you're building a new network it's the way to go. But existing cable companies can do nearly as much with a fiber to the pole infrastructure, and do it without the expensive operation of running new fibers to every house.
Cable via DOCSIS 3.0 can already deliver 300Mbps to the home, using its maximum of 16 channel bonding. DOCSIS 4.0 will be able to deliver gigabit speeds. That should be fast enough for home use for quite a few years, and by the time it's no longer fast enough there will be a more advanced cable standard that can go even faster.
What would seem to be more limiting is that the total bandwidth of coaxial cable is lower. It won't be possible to deliver the existing bundle of local broadcast and cable channels (especially once they start upgrading to 4K) and gigabit internet at the same time, though changing to HEVC encoding rather than MPEG-2 will help a lot. Eliminating the wasteful practice of sending both SD and HD versions of the same channel will also help; next generation set top boxes will always receive the highest resolution version of the channel and downconvert as needed for the customer's TV. But it's not actually necessary to deliver all those cable channels to your house simultaneously; you only need to receive the ones you are watching or recording. The key will be a smarter in-home box that interacts with the device on the pole; the pole then only sends the active channels to your house. Users will be able to self-install the new smart box, eliminating the expense of sending out technicians.
The problem is that AT&T also isn't making the investment in doing that. They're basically letting the technology of their wired networks stagnate. I'm not in love with Comcast and I think the Comcast-NBC merger should have also been blocked, but at least they are actively upgrading their network and testing next-generation solutions.
The fans are an issue. But you can take care of the spinning drive problem by spending $40 on an SSD. That will only get you 128GB, but if you're looking for a netbook replacement that's plenty. Or you can spend another $20 to step up to 256GB.
Depends on the price. I have an X200 that I got for $20. A bit beat up looking and the keycap for one of the Windows keys is missing, but in perfect working order otherwise. Hard to beat that for computing value.
Why not? Allowing third party sellers lets Amazon offer a larger selection of goods. And it's always clear whether you are buying directly from Amazon, from a third party with Amazon fulfillment, or from a third party with their own shipping.
Some of those things that Apple systems do well are things that don't matter to all users. Yes, those Apple trackpads are great, but if you're a user who doesn't like trackpads, even the very best ones, and who will connect a mouse to any computer you use, that magic trackpad is worthless. Sometimes it's less than worthless, like on those new MacBook Pro systems where the huge trackpad means that the keyboard has been moved farther back and is harder to reach, not to mentionthat the placement is so far back that typing on the system partially blocks your view of the screen.
And Apple doesn't offer some things that some users DO care about. For example, they don't make any equivalent to a typical PC tower. Want a Mac that will let you have multiple hard drives? Sorry, your only option is an awkward chain of USB or Thunderbolt devices. Want to add some kind of internal expansion like a TV tuner? Sorry, can't do that.
Some of us don't like all-in-one desktop systems because they increase the cost of upgrading. You have to replace your display every time you want to upgrade some other aspect of your computer, since it's all tied together in one box. Displays have a longer useful lifetime than CPUs do, but if you buy an iMac your upgrade path is all or nothing.
A minor catch: Apple laptops are the only ones that will run Mac OS. If somebody is already thoroughly entrenched in that environment, switching to Windows or Linux would be a major upheaval. And if that person happens to be a Mac or iOS developer, a Mac is the only option.
Multiple virtual machines. Running lots of applications simultaneously, as a multimedia developer will sometimes do. Editing very large images or 4K video. Developing and building large software packages. Those are all tasks that can benefit from having more than 16GB RAM.
Right now, those users are a small subset of the total user base. But they do exist.
Yes doesn't have any original members left, but they do have one member, Steve Howe, who was with the band during its primary creative peak - the period from The Yes Album through Tales from Topographic Oceans.
As for the original members forming a new band, the closest thing we've got right now is Anderson, Rabin, and Wakefield (aka ARW). Only one of them, Rick Wakefield, is an original member. But they are currently doing a tour where they primarily perform classic Yes songs, and probably do sound more like early Yes than the current band does.
So far as I know, there are no plans for Yes and ARW to tour together. But it would be amazing if they did!
They didn't do that with Captain Janeway in Voyager. She was a strong independent woman, as one would expect from somebody who becomes a starship captain. But she didn't spend her time making a social statement about being a strong independent woman.
But it's also true that the LGBTQ representation in creative professions is higher, in Hollywood and elsewhere. Disney was one of the leaders in offering LGBTQ-friendly benefits packages for that reason; they could have lost a lot of important people if they had not done so.
Is the current push for more representation in films and television tokenism? Depends on how the characters are used. It's tokenism if they're just paraded on to show that the production is being inclusive. If they are being given substantial roles that are about more than just being queer, then it's proper inclusion.
Read carefully. Some of the bar graphs seriously distort the truth by using a non-zero origin. Notably, the one for Oort Online makes it look like there are big differences between the three browsers, despite the fact that the slowest browser is less than 1% slower than the fastest one.
The Suzuki Samurai, the model that Consumer Reports went after, actually DID have a stability problem. It wasn't anything unique about its design; the problem was inherent to its short wheelbase and high center of gravity. The original Jeep, later named the CJ-5 after the company introduced the larger CJ-7, had the same problem, and CR successfully pushed that vehicle off the market.
The problems with the Samurai were exacerbated by its advertising and market positioning. It was sold primarily as a fun and inexpensive car for young drivers. That meant that most of them were in the hands of drivers who were unprepared for the fact that the car was all too easy to roll over.
Suzuki's larger SUVs like the Sidekick were no worse than anybody else's SUVs of the time. (They're all terrible compared to modern ones because electronic stability control is now mandated on SUVs.) Unlike Jeep, the Suzuki brand was unable to recover from the bad publicity and so the company abandoned the US market.
The fancy doors added to the wow factor of the Model X. But they didn't deliver any utility, which is the point of an SUV. And they added expense and a new point of failure, especially since they needed even more complexity to allow opening the doors in a parking garage. Tesla would have been better off ditching them.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, Intel killed the future of the Windows tablet market when they cancelled the successors to the Cherry Trail platform. More powerful and expensive hybrids like the Surface Pro remain alive and well.
Microsoft made one key error. They could have made support of the RISC architectures a condition of getting Windows certification for software. They didn't do it. They didn't even produce RISC versions of all of their own applications.
But a bigger blow was Apple's refusal to license OS X for PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform) and CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform) systems. (The idea went through a few iterations of its name before dying.) The plan was for those to be systems that could run all three of the major OSes: Windows, OS X, and Unix; IBM produced CHRP prototypes and was prepared to go into mass production as soon as the Mac license was signed. The idea was born during the time when Mac clones were a big thing, but then Steve Jobs returned to Apple and killed the clone market, and PReP/CHRP along with it. If those systems had been made and been popular they would have offered a large market for Windows applications on PowerPC, and that would have put pressure on software developers to support more than one platform
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Guarana is a stimulant. (It contains caffeine.) If you take it before going to bed you are unlikely to sleep well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Out of that total population of 324 million, not all are eligible to vote. About 75 million are underage. About 7% of the population, which would be about 23 million, are not citizens - some of them are also underage, so that probably takes out another 15 million. Many millions are ineligible to vote because of felony convictions. So in round numbers, the number of people living in the US who are ineligible to vote is around 100 million.
125 million voters out of 225 million eligible people is not where we should be. But it's not nearly as bad as you suggested. 55.5% of the people who could legally cast a vote did, not 38.5%.
Not true. Getting a vote in California would be no more valuable than getting a vote in Vermont. There will be some new challenges because mass marketing to the big states is easier than marketing to smaller states; overcoming that would require candidates to have a strong grass roots organization in the smaller states.
I disagree. You are a citizen of the world and the human race first. Then your nation, then your state, then your city or town. NOT the other way around.
Eliminating the Electoral College would also mean that everybody's vote would count. It would no longer be possible to ignore "safe states" because their outcomes are not in question. Candidates would have to campaign everywhere and listen to the concerns of people in every state.
Perhaps the original post has been edited. It now says that the novel has been accused of promoting fascism and being racist. The film is clearly a satire of militarism - which was why many Heinlein fans hated it, they felt it was a perversion of the author's intent. It sounds like the filmmakers are aiming to do a sort of Heinlein Light - softening the fascist and racist aspects while retaining the book's positivity toward military service and its take on the responsibilities of citizenship. I don't know whether it's possible to achieve that balance or whether the original source is too flawed under the lens of current day politics.
I have seen SD slots on low-end system where the card sticks out when inserted. My Samsung Chromebook is like that; the card only goes about halfway into the computer, allowing a simpler slot design with no spring latch. The fancier laptops I have used all have slots where the card goes all the way in, and sticks out just enough so you can push it in to release the spring latch.
SD cards are now commonplace on digital cameras. Only some really high end cameras still have CF slots, and plenty of professional work is done with the models a step down that have SD slots. On the Nikon side there is the top of the line D5, which has only CF or XQD slots (depending on which version you buy), but one step down is the D810 which has both CF and SD, and one more step down is the D750 which only has SD.. Same deal with Canon: the EOS 1D is CFast only, but the EOS 5D takes both CF and SD and the EOS 6D loses the CF. And if you're taking the third path, Sony, there are no models with CF slots.
Sometimes it is. If you need the USB stick to solve a problem RIGHT NOW, like get a presentation working that you otherwise can't do because of some other hardware failure or incompatibility, waiting a day for Amazon to deliver one is unacceptable.
Why would your iPhone touch your MacBook? To sync with iTunes or download a phone update. Or just to charge the phone; in some circumstances you can lighten your travel burden by one charger by using your laptop to charge the phone instead. And if you're an iOS developer, connecting the phone to your Mac is a routine part of your job so you can download and debug apps.
Fiber to the home can be very fast. And if you're building a new network it's the way to go. But existing cable companies can do nearly as much with a fiber to the pole infrastructure, and do it without the expensive operation of running new fibers to every house.
Cable via DOCSIS 3.0 can already deliver 300Mbps to the home, using its maximum of 16 channel bonding. DOCSIS 4.0 will be able to deliver gigabit speeds. That should be fast enough for home use for quite a few years, and by the time it's no longer fast enough there will be a more advanced cable standard that can go even faster.
What would seem to be more limiting is that the total bandwidth of coaxial cable is lower. It won't be possible to deliver the existing bundle of local broadcast and cable channels (especially once they start upgrading to 4K) and gigabit internet at the same time, though changing to HEVC encoding rather than MPEG-2 will help a lot. Eliminating the wasteful practice of sending both SD and HD versions of the same channel will also help; next generation set top boxes will always receive the highest resolution version of the channel and downconvert as needed for the customer's TV. But it's not actually necessary to deliver all those cable channels to your house simultaneously; you only need to receive the ones you are watching or recording. The key will be a smarter in-home box that interacts with the device on the pole; the pole then only sends the active channels to your house. Users will be able to self-install the new smart box, eliminating the expense of sending out technicians.
The problem is that AT&T also isn't making the investment in doing that. They're basically letting the technology of their wired networks stagnate. I'm not in love with Comcast and I think the Comcast-NBC merger should have also been blocked, but at least they are actively upgrading their network and testing next-generation solutions.
The fans are an issue. But you can take care of the spinning drive problem by spending $40 on an SSD. That will only get you 128GB, but if you're looking for a netbook replacement that's plenty. Or you can spend another $20 to step up to 256GB.
Depends on the price. I have an X200 that I got for $20. A bit beat up looking and the keycap for one of the Windows keys is missing, but in perfect working order otherwise. Hard to beat that for computing value.
Why not? Allowing third party sellers lets Amazon offer a larger selection of goods. And it's always clear whether you are buying directly from Amazon, from a third party with Amazon fulfillment, or from a third party with their own shipping.
Some of those things that Apple systems do well are things that don't matter to all users. Yes, those Apple trackpads are great, but if you're a user who doesn't like trackpads, even the very best ones, and who will connect a mouse to any computer you use, that magic trackpad is worthless. Sometimes it's less than worthless, like on those new MacBook Pro systems where the huge trackpad means that the keyboard has been moved farther back and is harder to reach, not to mentionthat the placement is so far back that typing on the system partially blocks your view of the screen.
And Apple doesn't offer some things that some users DO care about. For example, they don't make any equivalent to a typical PC tower. Want a Mac that will let you have multiple hard drives? Sorry, your only option is an awkward chain of USB or Thunderbolt devices. Want to add some kind of internal expansion like a TV tuner? Sorry, can't do that.
Some of us don't like all-in-one desktop systems because they increase the cost of upgrading. You have to replace your display every time you want to upgrade some other aspect of your computer, since it's all tied together in one box. Displays have a longer useful lifetime than CPUs do, but if you buy an iMac your upgrade path is all or nothing.
A minor catch: Apple laptops are the only ones that will run Mac OS. If somebody is already thoroughly entrenched in that environment, switching to Windows or Linux would be a major upheaval. And if that person happens to be a Mac or iOS developer, a Mac is the only option.
Multiple virtual machines. Running lots of applications simultaneously, as a multimedia developer will sometimes do. Editing very large images or 4K video. Developing and building large software packages. Those are all tasks that can benefit from having more than 16GB RAM.
Right now, those users are a small subset of the total user base. But they do exist.
The current Eastern Air Lines has no connection with the earlier company other than the name and logo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes doesn't have any original members left, but they do have one member, Steve Howe, who was with the band during its primary creative peak - the period from The Yes Album through Tales from Topographic Oceans.
As for the original members forming a new band, the closest thing we've got right now is Anderson, Rabin, and Wakefield (aka ARW). Only one of them, Rick Wakefield, is an original member. But they are currently doing a tour where they primarily perform classic Yes songs, and probably do sound more like early Yes than the current band does.
So far as I know, there are no plans for Yes and ARW to tour together. But it would be amazing if they did!
They didn't do that with Captain Janeway in Voyager. She was a strong independent woman, as one would expect from somebody who becomes a starship captain. But she didn't spend her time making a social statement about being a strong independent woman.
Best current data has it somewhere in the 3-4% range, not 2%. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But it's also true that the LGBTQ representation in creative professions is higher, in Hollywood and elsewhere. Disney was one of the leaders in offering LGBTQ-friendly benefits packages for that reason; they could have lost a lot of important people if they had not done so.
Is the current push for more representation in films and television tokenism? Depends on how the characters are used. It's tokenism if they're just paraded on to show that the production is being inclusive. If they are being given substantial roles that are about more than just being queer, then it's proper inclusion.
Read carefully. Some of the bar graphs seriously distort the truth by using a non-zero origin. Notably, the one for Oort Online makes it look like there are big differences between the three browsers, despite the fact that the slowest browser is less than 1% slower than the fastest one.
The Suzuki Samurai, the model that Consumer Reports went after, actually DID have a stability problem. It wasn't anything unique about its design; the problem was inherent to its short wheelbase and high center of gravity. The original Jeep, later named the CJ-5 after the company introduced the larger CJ-7, had the same problem, and CR successfully pushed that vehicle off the market.
The problems with the Samurai were exacerbated by its advertising and market positioning. It was sold primarily as a fun and inexpensive car for young drivers. That meant that most of them were in the hands of drivers who were unprepared for the fact that the car was all too easy to roll over.
Suzuki's larger SUVs like the Sidekick were no worse than anybody else's SUVs of the time. (They're all terrible compared to modern ones because electronic stability control is now mandated on SUVs.) Unlike Jeep, the Suzuki brand was unable to recover from the bad publicity and so the company abandoned the US market.
The fancy doors added to the wow factor of the Model X. But they didn't deliver any utility, which is the point of an SUV. And they added expense and a new point of failure, especially since they needed even more complexity to allow opening the doors in a parking garage. Tesla would have been better off ditching them.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, Intel killed the future of the Windows tablet market when they cancelled the successors to the Cherry Trail platform. More powerful and expensive hybrids like the Surface Pro remain alive and well.
Microsoft made one key error. They could have made support of the RISC architectures a condition of getting Windows certification for software. They didn't do it. They didn't even produce RISC versions of all of their own applications.
But a bigger blow was Apple's refusal to license OS X for PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform) and CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform) systems. (The idea went through a few iterations of its name before dying.) The plan was for those to be systems that could run all three of the major OSes: Windows, OS X, and Unix; IBM produced CHRP prototypes and was prepared to go into mass production as soon as the Mac license was signed. The idea was born during the time when Mac clones were a big thing, but then Steve Jobs returned to Apple and killed the clone market, and PReP/CHRP along with it. If those systems had been made and been popular they would have offered a large market for Windows applications on PowerPC, and that would have put pressure on software developers to support more than one platform