Nonsense. This is based on IBM's yield problems and the fact that they have a long history of over-promising on their chips and under-delivering...just ask Apple.
Yeah. Go read a textbook. Any textbook. Assloads of information, most of it useful, I promise. Some better than others, but almost all good.
Oh, hardly. Most textbooks aren't ment to teach kids to think or develop curiosity, but rather to drill information into their heads through blunt force repetition. Most of each school year is not spent teaching new information, but reviewing what was covered before. Math and English are bad, but History is horrible. Each history textbook is likely to start around Columbus and finish around WWII, chock-full of eurocentric bias and historical fictions like "The British are coming! The British are coming!", that skeptics of Columbus's proposed voyage thought the world was flat, John Handcock, "the shot heard round the world", etc etc.
The local school board is trying to keep people dumb so they won't question invasions? I think you've landed on Occam's bad side.
Rather than being obnoxious you might try reading up on how much controll Texas has over textbooks in this country.
A large number of people being stupid does not always indicate a conspiracy.
Who said anything about a conspiracy? You said "Oh, for the love of God, would you shut up? "The government" doesn't teach. Teachers do." Rather than refute my points on how government chooses the curriculum, you seem to be fond of straw men and changing the subject.
Or, more importantly and much more frequently, by boring them to tears for 7 hours a day.
Yup. And one of the primary causes of boredom in my case was that 90% of every school year was spent on review. Every Social Studies class started about the time of Columbus and stopped around WWII. I remember showing my 7th grade math teacher my 2nd grade sister's homework, and we were going over the same damn equality concepts. If we would spend 10% on review and 90% on new stuff, kids would be far more engaged and far better educated. Instead of covering the Revolutionary and Civil Wars for the Nth time, have a class on Asian history or current events. And kids would be far more interested in history if we taught it as it actually happened, as opposed to a whitewashed uber-patriotic version of how Pat Buchanan would look at history.
Bored as above, I was quietly reading a textbook on another subject when my teacher came up behind and smacked me in the back of my head.
I was never smacked, but I was constantly getting in detention for reading ahead when I was supposed to take my turn reading with the class. Bizzos.
Oh, for the love of God, would you shut up? "The government" doesn't teach. Teachers do.
And who picks the textbooks the teachers will use? Government. Who sets the curriculeum? Government. Most of this is done locally rather than at the federal level, aside from NCLB. But local governments can fubar things just as badly - look at the influence that Texas has over textbooks, or Kansas for example.
Uh huh. Unless you are a hermit living out in Alaska (doubtfull if you have internet access) you are a part of society, and anything that immesurably benefits society also benefits you, regaurdless of wether or not you have children that attend public schools or even if you have no kids at all.
Actually, with current iMacs, it's easier to buy it from Apple and not void your warranty by opening the non-user-servicible case.
You are mistaken. There's an easily accessed slot for adding memory on the new iMacs. Not only does it not void your warranty, Apple explains how to do it.
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Which wasn't a problem, when the towers started out at $1,600. Now they start out at $2500 with a mediocre video card. If you have to have a better video card, you have to fork out almost another two grand to get it with the same sized display.
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Problem: a "proper Mac Pro" is $500 more than the 24" iMac to start with, and that's without a display. The Mac Pro also comes with a wimpy 7300 GT, and to upgrade to the more capable Radeon X1900 will set you back another $250. Getting a 23" display from Apple will set you back another grand.
So, you have to spend almost another $2,000 to get a Mac with the same display size with a decent video card. Pretty crappy.
No, but there are others. These stores could put a big hurt on Netflix and Wal-Marts bargin bin. No more throttled queues, no more hasseling with the five layers of tape Wal-Mart puts over the box.
Thanks for the tip - I just got a new cable box. I'll have to try this.
If your box doesn't have one, I beleive cable companies are required by law to supply one, or by FCC regulation. Might want to double check before you start making demands tho.:)
I'd say you are wrong here. The publishing industry in general has that sort of industry practice. If I buy a book and it has an error in it, I don't take it back to the publisher for them to fix it. In fact, they might (or might not) fix it in their next release. If I buy a newspaper and there is an error in it, they print a correction in a newer paper a few days later - they don't recall or warranty the original paper.
Apples to funny looking oranges. If there's an error in a book or newspaper, it's not likely to have an impact on the rest of the book or newspaper. Contrast that to Windows, which has happily been leaving small holes open for big, show-stopping problems for a couple decades.
If that's the case, my respect for the media has hit an all-time low. Which I didn't think was possible anymore.
In any case, if the guy was willing to throw gas on his ex and start her on fire when she was surrounded by witnesses and cameras, he's hardly going to be restrained by a mere restraining order.
Actually it was being developed for the Mac and the PC simultaniously, like all Bungie games since Myth, IIRC. I will forever harbor a death curse against Microsoft for buying Bungie and Bungie for selling out, not only because they changed Halo from a multiplayer FPS to a much delayed console only tittle, but because they fucked over Oni. If you haven't played it, it was a very nice Matrix-like combo of guns and fisticuffs, years before Matrix started development. When Microsoft bought Bungie, the multiplayer was stripped out of Oni, the game was given to a different publisher and was released without mod tools. Burn in hell Microsoft!
To say a word about someone's accusation is to admit that their allegations have some sort of merit that you paid attention to and took time and made effort to refute. In a sense, it validates their claim and makes you look guilty.
Yes, the old refusal to "dignify that with a responce" worked wonders for Presidents Dukakis, Gore and Kerry.
Of course we can blame Bush, if for no other reason than he has oppointed hundreds of judges throughout the system who will rubberstamp this sort of crap.
Because the US is not only not on the same page when it comes to male/female victums/perpetrator's of abuse, it's not even on the same planet. Why do we have a Violence Against Woman Act and women's self-defense courses up the wazoo, when men are far and away the #1 victums of violence? Why is it when a female school teacher has sex with a male student, it's "having an affair" rather than "statory rape"? Why is it when a man "murders" his wife we rush to put him in prison, but if a woman "kills" her husband we rush to find out why she did it? Why wasn't it a major scandal when Ann Richards, former govenor of Texas, said "in Texas the price of gas has gone up so high that women who want to run over their husbands are car-pooling," a reference to Clara Harris, who murdered her husband by running him over with a car...with his daughter in the front seat. Imagine a politician making a similar joke about Laci Peterson. And don't forget to throw in the old feminist urgan legends like 1 in 4 women will be raped, men committ 95% of domestic violence, women never lie about rape, etc.
No judge wants to have his name in the papers because he blew off a woman's request for protection...just look at the judge who denied a renewed restraining order for a women who was later set on fire by her ex. Wheras denying an abused man protection carries virtually no political cost or stigma, if he's even taken seriously in the first place.
Can a man lie about abuse as much as a woman? Sure. But a woman is infinitely more likely to be belived, and will have access to free legal resources to boot.
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No, definite ass-pulling is occuring.
Nonsense. This is based on IBM's yield problems and the fact that they have a long history of over-promising on their chips and under-delivering...just ask Apple.
Yeah. Go read a textbook. Any textbook. Assloads of information, most of it useful, I promise. Some better than others, but almost all good.
Oh, hardly. Most textbooks aren't ment to teach kids to think or develop curiosity, but rather to drill information into their heads through blunt force repetition. Most of each school year is not spent teaching new information, but reviewing what was covered before. Math and English are bad, but History is horrible. Each history textbook is likely to start around Columbus and finish around WWII, chock-full of eurocentric bias and historical fictions like "The British are coming! The British are coming!", that skeptics of Columbus's proposed voyage thought the world was flat, John Handcock, "the shot heard round the world", etc etc.
The local school board is trying to keep people dumb so they won't question invasions? I think you've landed on Occam's bad side.
Rather than being obnoxious you might try reading up on how much controll Texas has over textbooks in this country.
A large number of people being stupid does not always indicate a conspiracy.
Who said anything about a conspiracy? You said "Oh, for the love of God, would you shut up? "The government" doesn't teach. Teachers do." Rather than refute my points on how government chooses the curriculum, you seem to be fond of straw men and changing the subject.
this is flamebait...how?
Or, more importantly and much more frequently, by boring them to tears for 7 hours a day.
Yup. And one of the primary causes of boredom in my case was that 90% of every school year was spent on review. Every Social Studies class started about the time of Columbus and stopped around WWII. I remember showing my 7th grade math teacher my 2nd grade sister's homework, and we were going over the same damn equality concepts. If we would spend 10% on review and 90% on new stuff, kids would be far more engaged and far better educated. Instead of covering the Revolutionary and Civil Wars for the Nth time, have a class on Asian history or current events. And kids would be far more interested in history if we taught it as it actually happened, as opposed to a whitewashed uber-patriotic version of how Pat Buchanan would look at history.
Bored as above, I was quietly reading a textbook on another subject when my teacher came up behind and smacked me in the back of my head.
I was never smacked, but I was constantly getting in detention for reading ahead when I was supposed to take my turn reading with the class. Bizzos.
Oh, for the love of God, would you shut up? "The government" doesn't teach. Teachers do.
And who picks the textbooks the teachers will use? Government. Who sets the curriculeum? Government. Most of this is done locally rather than at the federal level, aside from NCLB. But local governments can fubar things just as badly - look at the influence that Texas has over textbooks, or Kansas for example.
Uh huh. Unless you are a hermit living out in Alaska (doubtfull if you have internet access) you are a part of society, and anything that immesurably benefits society also benefits you, regaurdless of wether or not you have children that attend public schools or even if you have no kids at all.
Sorry, scratch that. Apparently it's been becoming a word since 1912. It still sucks. Stupid American English. ;)
Ain't that a bitch?
Yup. I've thought for a while that the Mini was the Cube's reincarnation, only this time it had the right price.
Actually, with current iMacs, it's easier to buy it from Apple and not void your warranty by opening the non-user-servicible case.
You are mistaken. There's an easily accessed slot for adding memory on the new iMacs. Not only does it not void your warranty, Apple explains how to do it.
Which wasn't a problem, when the towers started out at $1,600. Now they start out at $2500 with a mediocre video card. If you have to have a better video card, you have to fork out almost another two grand to get it with the same sized display.
Problem: a "proper Mac Pro" is $500 more than the 24" iMac to start with, and that's without a display. The Mac Pro also comes with a wimpy 7300 GT, and to upgrade to the more capable Radeon X1900 will set you back another $250. Getting a 23" display from Apple will set you back another grand.
So, you have to spend almost another $2,000 to get a Mac with the same display size with a decent video card. Pretty crappy.
Oh that's right, you pulled it out of your ass.
Or comon news articles, take your pick.
There's no analog to that for movies,
No, but there are others. These stores could put a big hurt on Netflix and Wal-Marts bargin bin. No more throttled queues, no more hasseling with the five layers of tape Wal-Mart puts over the box.
Thanks for the tip - I just got a new cable box. I'll have to try this.
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If your box doesn't have one, I beleive cable companies are required by law to supply one, or by FCC regulation. Might want to double check before you start making demands tho.
You are a dumbass. What you are talking about is for new installations. The PP is talking about upgrading an old installation.
I'd say you are wrong here. The publishing industry in general has that sort of industry practice. If I buy a book and it has an error in it, I don't take it back to the publisher for them to fix it. In fact, they might (or might not) fix it in their next release. If I buy a newspaper and there is an error in it, they print a correction in a newer paper a few days later - they don't recall or warranty the original paper.
Apples to funny looking oranges. If there's an error in a book or newspaper, it's not likely to have an impact on the rest of the book or newspaper. Contrast that to Windows, which has happily been leaving small holes open for big, show-stopping problems for a couple decades.
The PCs I build are less expensive, more powerful, and more stable...blah blah blah
The same is true for any OEM, dumbass. You're comparing Apples to oranges here.
If that's the case, my respect for the media has hit an all-time low. Which I didn't think was possible anymore.
In any case, if the guy was willing to throw gas on his ex and start her on fire when she was surrounded by witnesses and cameras, he's hardly going to be restrained by a mere restraining order.
Halo was being developed for the Macintosh.
Actually it was being developed for the Mac and the PC simultaniously, like all Bungie games since Myth, IIRC. I will forever harbor a death curse against Microsoft for buying Bungie and Bungie for selling out, not only because they changed Halo from a multiplayer FPS to a much delayed console only tittle, but because they fucked over Oni. If you haven't played it, it was a very nice Matrix-like combo of guns and fisticuffs, years before Matrix started development. When Microsoft bought Bungie, the multiplayer was stripped out of Oni, the game was given to a different publisher and was released without mod tools. Burn in hell Microsoft!
Goldeneye did invent levels with actual goals, per point reactions from shooting enemies, and created the standard for fast paced deathmatching.
On consoles, maybe. But it didn't do a thing that PC games hadn't done years earlier.
System Shock One (introduced the idea of "plot", and first to make an effort to immerse the player in a story)
Actually Marathon came out the same year. Maybe the "first FPS with a plot" should have been a dual-award.
To say a word about someone's accusation is to admit that their allegations have some sort of merit that you paid attention to and took time and made effort to refute. In a sense, it validates their claim and makes you look guilty.
Yes, the old refusal to "dignify that with a responce" worked wonders for Presidents Dukakis, Gore and Kerry.
Of course we can blame Bush, if for no other reason than he has oppointed hundreds of judges throughout the system who will rubberstamp this sort of crap.
We've already started to deny the accused due process, via rape shield laws.
Who says it has to be a woman?
Because the US is not only not on the same page when it comes to male/female victums/perpetrator's of abuse, it's not even on the same planet. Why do we have a Violence Against Woman Act and women's self-defense courses up the wazoo, when men are far and away the #1 victums of violence? Why is it when a female school teacher has sex with a male student, it's "having an affair" rather than "statory rape"? Why is it when a man "murders" his wife we rush to put him in prison, but if a woman "kills" her husband we rush to find out why she did it? Why wasn't it a major scandal when Ann Richards, former govenor of Texas, said "in Texas the price of gas has gone up so high that women who want to run over their husbands are car-pooling," a reference to Clara Harris, who murdered her husband by running him over with a car...with his daughter in the front seat. Imagine a politician making a similar joke about Laci Peterson. And don't forget to throw in the old feminist urgan legends like 1 in 4 women will be raped, men committ 95% of domestic violence, women never lie about rape, etc.
No judge wants to have his name in the papers because he blew off a woman's request for protection...just look at the judge who denied a renewed restraining order for a women who was later set on fire by her ex. Wheras denying an abused man protection carries virtually no political cost or stigma, if he's even taken seriously in the first place.
Can a man lie about abuse as much as a woman? Sure. But a woman is infinitely more likely to be belived, and will have access to free legal resources to boot.