Because from a corporate viewpoint it was unBecause from a corporate viewpoint it was unnecessary. Despite the fact their business model exposed customers to needless risk, the fact that the customers did not mind made expending resources for improvements counter indicated.
For instance, a school district standardizes on IE and Windows. It is clear that both potentially exposes children to pornographic images (violence and sexual content), as it issilly to believe a child will not accidently punch a adware button, or be confused by a pop up window. But, in spite of such risks, the school districts still wants every home to running IE.
Change is happening becaus of the potentiall loss of a customer base and liability concerns. The fact that people spent money on windows made the change take so long. I often think that we should let god sort out all the Windows users and those lost souls that buy products from spam.
Many of the people who gave us the greatest fiction, science or otherwise, worked as writers to make money. There is nothing wrong with that. Heinlien wrote for money, and I am part of a large group that thinks he is one the defining force of post WWII SciFi. They wrote pulp for money, and the paid experience allowed them to be better writers. Of course todays writers are expected to starve while corporations profit off their efforts.
Pohl is little different. I have bought and read every Pohl Book. He is an enjoyable light read, but still a pulp writer. Gateway is cool, but if Pohl is writing this instead of something else it is to leverage the Gateway brand.
So, to summarize, it is no sin for a writer to write for cash. It is no sin for a writer to write while the idea is fresh in his or her head. Often the regularity of a series has more to do with the abilities of the writer than the availability of cash. The problem with some series, in fact, is that they are designed and written by committee, rather than the coherent creation of a brilliant mind. For the less literary folks, think Friends versus Absolutely Fabulous. Or that special season of B5 as compared to the others.
In literature it is more often useful to focus on the use of the language, creative use of the medium, and overcoming limitations, rather than if the author received a quid for the effort.
(One final thing. According to a forward by Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 was written to pay the bills, in one run, at a rented typewriter, Maybe the threat of starvation does help motivate the writer. As it does us all.)
I was not going to buy an iPod, but it my creative player was not working so well, and I didn't want to spend the money on more memory, and the mini came out, so I went ahead and bought one.
Lately i have wanted a USB drive to store some critical files, just as a backup. I could clear up some memory and put it on my pod, but I don't carry it around all the time. It would be nice to have.
So, if apple did come out with a 1 gig flash player with Firewire, that would be cool. I use some for music and some for data. If it were $150, and that is a 50% markup over other usb drives, it would be quite pratical. At $200 I think the price to too close to a mini.
One must remember which people founded this country and what the major concern was. The fundemental right that was in question was that of profit. The men that founded this country were quiet upset with the crowns ability to restrict profti through taxes and the like. It did not matter that the crown put invested many resources for the infrastructure and security of the new world. The new rich did not want to pay it. They new rich wanted to keep all thier money, and were not happy when the old said the bills had to be paid, and, by the way, you are just a buch of yokels that recently found a few extra pence. Tho yokels would shout back that y'all are just a buch of lazy drug addicted snobs.
So, the country is still run for the people, and by the people. Sometime the non-people get a break, and the yokels are still occasionaly allowed to rise nearly the level of new aristocracy. However, the people, and even the oppressed non-people, feel comfortable having lazy drug-addicated snobs as thier leaders. I mean, who else can or would do it?
schedule and record live TV
Does this mean that I can only record shows that are live? Well that rules out just about everything, as even "live" shows are on a short delay.
But at least I get to schedule the shows. I would love to kick out all the reality show and replace it with more Buffy!
Or perhaps the text means that we can record real time. With proper hardware, of course.
Apple's big thing is the packaging of the hardware and software. It tends to be straightforward with much less game playing than is typical. This allows some really cool things to happen really easily. the innovation is in the access as much as the technology.
On the matter of speech, not speech recognition, we have talking moose. if you haven't hear of it, look it up. This, and the trivial way that system level icons could be replaced, kind of a proto-skinning, made that mac a much more personal experience that any prior computer. And the desk accessories, instead of the TSR, made it much more usable.
We see this all the way back to the Apple ][. When I first starting programming the Apple at school, this is after we learned to program on the DEC PDP, it took me like an hour to learn shape table and do some rather cool things. The elegance, at least to the teen aged mind, was astounding.
What apple was not good at was integration. This is the big problem they have fixed with the iPod and iLife in general. The fact that we can now synch to bluetooth phones is a feature they would not have made a front issue 10 years ago. This is why the newton failed. I had to go to a Palm to do my work. If the sync for the Newton worked as well as iSync, I might still be using it today. Last I check, it worked perfectly.
Oh, get over yourself. When you were young they probably said the same thing about you and your inability to get food in your mouth instead of all over you clothes. They still might have a point. And they probably let you eat some of the foods you liked, instead of letting you starve until you ate the foods they wanted you to.
And someday we will all be confused with the new fangled gadgets, and our kids will be yelling at us telling us it is two blinks for on, and an eye up and to the left to open a window.
but the do come with tags called 'frequency' or 'wavelength' or 'momentum'. Each lightsource produces a different mixes of frequencies, which causes, among other things, for certain light sources to be hotter, or more yellow, or, as the grandparent noted, more natural.
I am sure everyone here knows this, but this knowledge makes the parent much less funny,as, yes virginia, light is tagged as 'organically grown'.
Which, is why BTW, we know certain things about the stars, galaxies, and even when metal is hot enough to pour into a the mold for a car door.
I do not see that the SCO v IBM case is all that decided, nor are the similiar in any interesting way. Furthermore, I do not think that there would be any great interest if SCO had limited the case to the alleged misappropriation by IBM.
But they did not. They started a PR campaign against open source. Why they did this we may never know. Perhaps it was just a publicity ploy. Perhaps it was a way to way to raise funds for an expensive fight against IBM. In any case, that is what most found interesting.
IBM may very well have taken code and used it in an unlicensed manner. Who knows. IBM is very big, and can probably get away with stuff like that. MS probably did tweak the API so as to disable Wordperfect. The defense will be that both were on the decline already and were unlikely to survive in any case. Even if IBM or MS loses, the payments are unlikely to significantly hurt the companies. And both will go on following the SOP of doing whatever it takes to make a dollar.
It depends what the bussiness model is. If the model is to have a portfolio of patents that can be perused and licensed as need be, there is some sense in that.
If, OTOH, the purpose is to contrive lawsuits against established products based on vaugue and silly patents, then we there is no benifit.
My suspision is that this is a way for the IT industry to protect itself from the frivilous lawsuits that corporations use against each other and are destroying all hope of the average citizen to get his or her day in court. For example, next time that a corporation comes by wanting a billion dollars for a patent covering the softwares ability to execute a jmp based on a logical tst, MS or Apple or whoever can visit this company, find a similiar patent, and go to court with a counter suit. Problem solved.
As has been mentioned, one reason that many people believe IBM is nigh invunerable is that, unlike MS, it actually has the patent on 1 and 0, so no one dares to engage in any legal action.
I am not sure what your point it, but if it is not nuetral...
I like many people believe that consumers that choose to shop at wal*mart are just shooting themselves in the foot, and none of these consumers have a right to complain when they are making $10 an hour on a sweat shop assembly line, but...
Did you also know Wal-Mart's employee name badges have RFID tags (and have had for many years) that allow Wal-Mart to track where an employee is at any given time?
I probably had something like an RFID tag in most of my badges. You would just have to pass the card near the scanner to gain entry. I doubt that walmart has scanner everywhere. Probably, as in many companies, they just have scanners at the clock in station, the break room, the bath rooms, and the like. It would cost way too much to track employees everywhere in the store. I don't work at those places anymore, but I would if i could still get paid enough.
Activity of the cards is ACTUALLY monitored for discrepencies in buying habits to find abusive employees who buy things for their friends?
I can't imagine a store not tracking employee sales. This is lost revenue, and must be compensated for in the pricing structure. I suppose employees sign an agreement that the products are not for resale. Otherwise it would make a lot of sense to buy stuff from Wal*mart and have your brother sell it in the neighborhood store/
Another interesting tidbit, did you know at Wal-Mart's Jewelery warehouses they actually WEIGH the amount of metal in your body when you enter a leave? (And I don't mean they ask you to put things in a dish and weigh the dish - they scan YOU)
Movie theatres do the same thing. They count inventory after every shift change. If anything is missing, even a single cup, you are screwed. this is neccesary because one could make more money pocketing the price of two cups of soda an hour than they wage.
Another interesting thing, Wal-Mart has a fallout facility in Oklahoma that has a near-real-time backup of each BIT of that 460 terabytes of data?
Wal-Mart could survive a direct nuclear blast and still keep on a truckin'.
Frankly any big company that does not do this is an idiot.
And, of course, if you're in a Wal-Mart home office - ISD building - distribution center - et al... and dial 911 - BOOM - you get Wal-Mart's private security? Niiice, hope it's not a real emergency, you first have to explain it to them - then if they deem it neccessary THEY will call the REAL 911!
fake 911 calls cost money and lives. It would not be an uncommom occurance for a wage slave that just received a reprimand to dial 911 in an attempt to cause problems for their employer. Wal*mart blocking calls make sense from a corporate and public safety point of view.
Of course, wal*mart recently is in a lot of trouble for, among other things, locking all thier overnight employees in the store in direct violation of the fire code. I have some sympathy for the people working at wal*mart because everyone gots to eat, and there are just so many jobs in the sex industry, but if you shop there you are selling you soul for a few pennies.
The American Physical Society has done a bunch of research of intercepting missile. My understanding was that the so-called Star Wars focused on midcourse interception, and related to the then still present threat of the USSR. Technically, the problem was hitting a bullet with another bullet, as well as getting all the necessary hardware into space. Politically there was a question of once the US starting building a system, wouldn't any rational enemy launch an attack, as there would nothing from stopping us from doing so once the system was built. Practically it was a dud because there were too many simple ways for an enemy to defend it's resources against such a system. Most notably, the enemy could probably build ICBM's faster than we could build additional defense, and many of these could be inactive. An even simpler solution is just have a single ICBM release dozens of decoys along with the armed weapon.
In any case, the USSR is no longer a threat and star wars morphed into the current program of defending against individual crude ICBMs from the so-called rogue states. This program started looking at boost phase interception, which is interesting as it protects against some of the most simpler countermeasures. There is, for example, only going to be limited ICBM, and they will be hot. However, the boost time is very short, so the US would have to identify the launch event, confirm the identity of the projectile, set up the trajectory of our own ballistic device, and launch, within a matter of minutes. Our device would then have to be fast, accurate, and maneuverable in order to intercept.
The APS did a study on this and found that rockets would have to be faster and bigger than those normally proposed. Something like a thousand vehicles would be necessary, and the cost would be enormous. Even then, some coastal areas of the US would remain defenseless. In particular, even if the vehicle were disabled, inertia would still enable the live munition to make contact. All this is true only for the antique liquid propelled missiles we expect N Korea and Iran to be developing. The system would be less effective against solid rockets, and not against those launched from the middle east.
I believe these issues are why the airborne laser is so popular. The system would not require the expense of a thousand large vehicles, and would allow more time to detect an event and make a decision. However, according to the report, the system would only be effective against the crude liquid fuel missile.
Practically speaking, I think such a system would be too simple to defend against. The simplest thing would be to target the aircraft during an ICBM launch. A 747 is not exactly stealth, and evasive action is sure to throw off the effectiveness of the laser. It will not be necessary to disable the vehicle. A suicide mission involving several enemy aircraft would certainly do the trick.
Our local school system recieves about $6K support per child. 80% of that money goes to salaries. Funding increases every year due to infation and number of children educated. You will have to decide if there is an increase beyond these factors and decide if higher test scores should be expected.
Additionally, No Child Left Behine created a great unfunded mandate. Schools either recieve additional funds, or shift funds frum the core task of educating children, to the purchase and grading of test. Tests are big bussiness.A lot of publishers are indeed indebted to the generousity of our president in this new big government program. Testing can provide a valuable metric, but one reason it has never happened on such a scale is the cost benifit analysis. Clearly congress does not think the benifits outweigh the cost, as they are not funding it.
H2G2 was and is a radio series, is a book, is a TV show, is a video game, and is a web site. H2G2 is simply a set of characters, one of which is a book, that Adams used to convey a whimsical philosophy of life, and got quite a bit of cash in the process of doing so. Unlike some stories, like Harry Potter, in which the other media are merely an attempt to squeeze cash out a franchise as quickly as possible, the history of H2G2 suggests the transformation between and betwixt media is part of the story. No two stories are the same. No one cares that nothing makes sense. It is all secondary to the quest for the hidden truth, which is really what all fiction is about.
I admit, i look forward to the movie about as much as a dental pick shoved up my left nostril, and think it will probably be as entertaining as the American Red Dwarf, but, unlike the Boyz on the Dwarf, H2G2 is solid enough to take the Disney member up the back orifice.
I have to admit, OO.org is tracing the evolution of MS Office nicely. Not long ago it was as perfectly useful as Office in the early 90's. Now it is as annoying as Office was after the late 90's. The Autonumbering function is useless. The lightbulb inane. I tried to enter a number in a table today, and it would not let me enter my decimals. Just truncated it to a whole number. Could not get it to work right at all.
I do appreciate all the hours that went into the project, especially to the selfless Mac developer. There is no reward great enough.
and officially became a non-story on November 2, 2004
I think it still is a story. It is just that 51% of the U.S. citizens, many of whom are assumed to call themselves christians, care more about who marries who than whether the US is living up to Jesus's expectations of not torturing people. Or did all those people not go and see the passion? Or did that movie merely validate torture? I wonder how many of those voters have broken their promise to god with a divorce?
This will certainly spell the end of the Mac as a commercial/production machine. Instead using it as a serious business tool, employees will now spend their days playing doom3. The Mac advantage, the ability to remove components such as WMP, IE and the like, and thus avoid unnecessary vulnerabilities and distraction for staff and production workers, will be annihilated with this one game.
I long for the days when we Mac user had the freedom to simply create, compile, and compute without these applications of the commoner. To risk a pun, we are doomed.
Well, paper falling is classic physics. The classic physics in which we assume the divine is deterministic and try to understand the nature of that determinacy for the purpose of better understanding the nature of the divine, and thus becoming more one with the divine. Evolution can be argued the same way.
OTOH, curing cancer is a pseudoscientific attempt to interfere with the clear intention of the divine. In fact, by curing cancer, and going beyond the understanding of the divine to the prideful attempt to compete with the divine, we are surely condemning ourselves to eternal suffering. All to prevent a few years of suffering in this life. How gauche.
We do not need a fuckin' navigation system for a car. Learn to read a map. Write instructuion in 1 inch high letters so you can follow. Them. Turn off you phone and pay attention to the fuckin' street signs.
If you travel a lot in a city, get a key map. Pull over and figure out where you want to go. Do not, under any circumstances, pull accross five lanes of freeway traffic because you computer told you you are going to miss the exit.
If you can't read a map or plan a route, just buy a GPS and keep it your car.
There are cool things that should be in cars but are not. Like a proximity sensor when you are backing up. Or the BMW ajust your mirrors when you are backing up. Or a panic button that will connect you to your service provider, like mercedes.
What I don't want is anything that requires a driver to have less skills. Maximize a base set of skills yes. But if person of average physical abilities cannot parallel park with full power everything, then they probably should not be driving.
But the claim is that 6% of the doctors cause 66% of the claims. Therefore, if the 6% were gone, insurance rates might drop at least 50%. So this becomes a good alternative to tort reform, which frankly, is just there to protect the negligent and maximize profits of insurance companies(states with tort reform have not seen insurance rates decline significantly).
and we can take this further with your 6%. Get rid of thoses and another 50% of the insurance rates goes away. Now a doctor is paying a quarter of what he or she was. Perhaps some that saving is passed to the patient. Perhaps some of that will pay the doctors who do the work well, rather than insurance companies that protect the incompetant.
this only makes Groklaw look like they are hiding something. truth does not emerge through the selectrive printing of prescreened propoganda, but through the widespread distribution of varied opinions and points of view, some of which are probably propoganda. The truth is further served by acive discussion on those opinions, a think for which/. is quite good.
By whining that/. posted a unfavorable story, groklaw is establishing itself as exactly the fan stie other accuse it of being. There was likely nothing amiss with/. editorial decision. An interesting point of view was submitted, posted, and generated active discussion. An opposing point of view was then submitted posted, and will again generate discussion. That last part is the difference between freedom and not. As I often say, if you can't handle the responsibilies and dangers of freedom, move to someplace where you don't have them.
You had me until you claimed that CD music is often already released. IMHO, the fact that they charge $20 for movies is the crime. Most CDs are originally recorded music that have not been previously been sold. Most movies are old stock. They have been in movie houses and on TV. In most cases they have already recouped all investment, and maybe even made a profit.
So while CD sales help defray the cost of production and pressing, movie sales only need to defray the remastering and pressing costs.
So my question is is it neccesary for used movies to charge more that original music.By all measures, the used movies should cost less.
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For instance, a school district standardizes on IE and Windows. It is clear that both potentially exposes children to pornographic images (violence and sexual content), as it issilly to believe a child will not accidently punch a adware button, or be confused by a pop up window. But, in spite of such risks, the school districts still wants every home to running IE.
Change is happening becaus of the potentiall loss of a customer base and liability concerns. The fact that people spent money on windows made the change take so long. I often think that we should let god sort out all the Windows users and those lost souls that buy products from spam.
Pohl is little different. I have bought and read every Pohl Book. He is an enjoyable light read, but still a pulp writer. Gateway is cool, but if Pohl is writing this instead of something else it is to leverage the Gateway brand.
So, to summarize, it is no sin for a writer to write for cash. It is no sin for a writer to write while the idea is fresh in his or her head. Often the regularity of a series has more to do with the abilities of the writer than the availability of cash. The problem with some series, in fact, is that they are designed and written by committee, rather than the coherent creation of a brilliant mind. For the less literary folks, think Friends versus Absolutely Fabulous. Or that special season of B5 as compared to the others.
In literature it is more often useful to focus on the use of the language, creative use of the medium, and overcoming limitations, rather than if the author received a quid for the effort.
(One final thing. According to a forward by Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 was written to pay the bills, in one run, at a rented typewriter, Maybe the threat of starvation does help motivate the writer. As it does us all.)
Lately i have wanted a USB drive to store some critical files, just as a backup. I could clear up some memory and put it on my pod, but I don't carry it around all the time. It would be nice to have.
So, if apple did come out with a 1 gig flash player with Firewire, that would be cool. I use some for music and some for data. If it were $150, and that is a 50% markup over other usb drives, it would be quite pratical. At $200 I think the price to too close to a mini.
and don't forget the midnight bomber what bombs at midnight!
So, the country is still run for the people, and by the people. Sometime the non-people get a break, and the yokels are still occasionaly allowed to rise nearly the level of new aristocracy. However, the people, and even the oppressed non-people, feel comfortable having lazy drug-addicated snobs as thier leaders. I mean, who else can or would do it?
schedule and record live TV
Does this mean that I can only record shows that are live? Well that rules out just about everything, as even "live" shows are on a short delay.
But at least I get to schedule the shows. I would love to kick out all the reality show and replace it with more Buffy!
Or perhaps the text means that we can record real time. With proper hardware, of course.
On the matter of speech, not speech recognition, we have talking moose. if you haven't hear of it, look it up. This, and the trivial way that system level icons could be replaced, kind of a proto-skinning, made that mac a much more personal experience that any prior computer. And the desk accessories, instead of the TSR, made it much more usable.
We see this all the way back to the Apple ][. When I first starting programming the Apple at school, this is after we learned to program on the DEC PDP, it took me like an hour to learn shape table and do some rather cool things. The elegance, at least to the teen aged mind, was astounding.
What apple was not good at was integration. This is the big problem they have fixed with the iPod and iLife in general. The fact that we can now synch to bluetooth phones is a feature they would not have made a front issue 10 years ago. This is why the newton failed. I had to go to a Palm to do my work. If the sync for the Newton worked as well as iSync, I might still be using it today. Last I check, it worked perfectly.
- Hide in the shame of your ignorance by not posting
- Aknowledge your ignorance and listen nicely while the adults talked, and in the process learned something
- Let your ignorance get the best of you and post your temper trantrum on
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Want to take a guess on your choice?And someday we will all be confused with the new fangled gadgets, and our kids will be yelling at us telling us it is two blinks for on, and an eye up and to the left to open a window.
I am sure everyone here knows this, but this knowledge makes the parent much less funny,as, yes virginia, light is tagged as 'organically grown'.
Which, is why BTW, we know certain things about the stars, galaxies, and even when metal is hot enough to pour into a the mold for a car door.
But they did not. They started a PR campaign against open source. Why they did this we may never know. Perhaps it was just a publicity ploy. Perhaps it was a way to way to raise funds for an expensive fight against IBM. In any case, that is what most found interesting.
IBM may very well have taken code and used it in an unlicensed manner. Who knows. IBM is very big, and can probably get away with stuff like that. MS probably did tweak the API so as to disable Wordperfect. The defense will be that both were on the decline already and were unlikely to survive in any case. Even if IBM or MS loses, the payments are unlikely to significantly hurt the companies. And both will go on following the SOP of doing whatever it takes to make a dollar.
If, OTOH, the purpose is to contrive lawsuits against established products based on vaugue and silly patents, then we there is no benifit.
My suspision is that this is a way for the IT industry to protect itself from the frivilous lawsuits that corporations use against each other and are destroying all hope of the average citizen to get his or her day in court. For example, next time that a corporation comes by wanting a billion dollars for a patent covering the softwares ability to execute a jmp based on a logical tst, MS or Apple or whoever can visit this company, find a similiar patent, and go to court with a counter suit. Problem solved.
As has been mentioned, one reason that many people believe IBM is nigh invunerable is that, unlike MS, it actually has the patent on 1 and 0, so no one dares to engage in any legal action.
I like many people believe that consumers that choose to shop at wal*mart are just shooting themselves in the foot, and none of these consumers have a right to complain when they are making $10 an hour on a sweat shop assembly line, but...
Did you also know Wal-Mart's employee name badges have RFID tags (and have had for many years) that allow Wal-Mart to track where an employee is at any given time?
I probably had something like an RFID tag in most of my badges. You would just have to pass the card near the scanner to gain entry. I doubt that walmart has scanner everywhere. Probably, as in many companies, they just have scanners at the clock in station, the break room, the bath rooms, and the like. It would cost way too much to track employees everywhere in the store. I don't work at those places anymore, but I would if i could still get paid enough.
Activity of the cards is ACTUALLY monitored for discrepencies in buying habits to find abusive employees who buy things for their friends?
I can't imagine a store not tracking employee sales. This is lost revenue, and must be compensated for in the pricing structure. I suppose employees sign an agreement that the products are not for resale. Otherwise it would make a lot of sense to buy stuff from Wal*mart and have your brother sell it in the neighborhood store/
Another interesting tidbit, did you know at Wal-Mart's Jewelery warehouses they actually WEIGH the amount of metal in your body when you enter a leave? (And I don't mean they ask you to put things in a dish and weigh the dish - they scan YOU) Movie theatres do the same thing. They count inventory after every shift change. If anything is missing, even a single cup, you are screwed. this is neccesary because one could make more money pocketing the price of two cups of soda an hour than they wage.
Another interesting thing, Wal-Mart has a fallout facility in Oklahoma that has a near-real-time backup of each BIT of that 460 terabytes of data? Wal-Mart could survive a direct nuclear blast and still keep on a truckin'.
Frankly any big company that does not do this is an idiot.
And, of course, if you're in a Wal-Mart home office - ISD building - distribution center - et al... and dial 911 - BOOM - you get Wal-Mart's private security? Niiice, hope it's not a real emergency, you first have to explain it to them - then if they deem it neccessary THEY will call the REAL 911!
fake 911 calls cost money and lives. It would not be an uncommom occurance for a wage slave that just received a reprimand to dial 911 in an attempt to cause problems for their employer. Wal*mart blocking calls make sense from a corporate and public safety point of view.
Of course, wal*mart recently is in a lot of trouble for, among other things, locking all thier overnight employees in the store in direct violation of the fire code. I have some sympathy for the people working at wal*mart because everyone gots to eat, and there are just so many jobs in the sex industry, but if you shop there you are selling you soul for a few pennies.
In any case, the USSR is no longer a threat and star wars morphed into the current program of defending against individual crude ICBMs from the so-called rogue states. This program started looking at boost phase interception, which is interesting as it protects against some of the most simpler countermeasures. There is, for example, only going to be limited ICBM, and they will be hot. However, the boost time is very short, so the US would have to identify the launch event, confirm the identity of the projectile, set up the trajectory of our own ballistic device, and launch, within a matter of minutes. Our device would then have to be fast, accurate, and maneuverable in order to intercept.
The APS did a study on this and found that rockets would have to be faster and bigger than those normally proposed. Something like a thousand vehicles would be necessary, and the cost would be enormous. Even then, some coastal areas of the US would remain defenseless. In particular, even if the vehicle were disabled, inertia would still enable the live munition to make contact. All this is true only for the antique liquid propelled missiles we expect N Korea and Iran to be developing. The system would be less effective against solid rockets, and not against those launched from the middle east.
I believe these issues are why the airborne laser is so popular. The system would not require the expense of a thousand large vehicles, and would allow more time to detect an event and make a decision. However, according to the report, the system would only be effective against the crude liquid fuel missile.
Practically speaking, I think such a system would be too simple to defend against. The simplest thing would be to target the aircraft during an ICBM launch. A 747 is not exactly stealth, and evasive action is sure to throw off the effectiveness of the laser. It will not be necessary to disable the vehicle. A suicide mission involving several enemy aircraft would certainly do the trick.
Additionally, No Child Left Behine created a great unfunded mandate. Schools either recieve additional funds, or shift funds frum the core task of educating children, to the purchase and grading of test. Tests are big bussiness.A lot of publishers are indeed indebted to the generousity of our president in this new big government program. Testing can provide a valuable metric, but one reason it has never happened on such a scale is the cost benifit analysis. Clearly congress does not think the benifits outweigh the cost, as they are not funding it.
I admit, i look forward to the movie about as much as a dental pick shoved up my left nostril, and think it will probably be as entertaining as the American Red Dwarf, but, unlike the Boyz on the Dwarf, H2G2 is solid enough to take the Disney member up the back orifice.
I do appreciate all the hours that went into the project, especially to the selfless Mac developer. There is no reward great enough.
Like SP2, this patch breaks some MS and non-MS products. MS suggests that the vendors conform to the proper standards when writing their code.
I think it still is a story. It is just that 51% of the U.S. citizens, many of whom are assumed to call themselves christians, care more about who marries who than whether the US is living up to Jesus's expectations of not torturing people. Or did all those people not go and see the passion? Or did that movie merely validate torture? I wonder how many of those voters have broken their promise to god with a divorce?
I long for the days when we Mac user had the freedom to simply create, compile, and compute without these applications of the commoner. To risk a pun, we are doomed.
OTOH, curing cancer is a pseudoscientific attempt to interfere with the clear intention of the divine. In fact, by curing cancer, and going beyond the understanding of the divine to the prideful attempt to compete with the divine, we are surely condemning ourselves to eternal suffering. All to prevent a few years of suffering in this life. How gauche.
We do not need a fuckin' navigation system for a car. Learn to read a map. Write instructuion in 1 inch high letters so you can follow. Them. Turn off you phone and pay attention to the fuckin' street signs.
If you travel a lot in a city, get a key map. Pull over and figure out where you want to go. Do not, under any circumstances, pull accross five lanes of freeway traffic because you computer told you you are going to miss the exit.
If you can't read a map or plan a route, just buy a GPS and keep it your car.
There are cool things that should be in cars but are not. Like a proximity sensor when you are backing up. Or the BMW ajust your mirrors when you are backing up. Or a panic button that will connect you to your service provider, like mercedes.
What I don't want is anything that requires a driver to have less skills. Maximize a base set of skills yes. But if person of average physical abilities cannot parallel park with full power everything, then they probably should not be driving.
and we can take this further with your 6%. Get rid of thoses and another 50% of the insurance rates goes away. Now a doctor is paying a quarter of what he or she was. Perhaps some that saving is passed to the patient. Perhaps some of that will pay the doctors who do the work well, rather than insurance companies that protect the incompetant.
By whining that /. posted a unfavorable story, groklaw is establishing itself as exactly the fan stie other accuse it of being. There was likely nothing amiss with /. editorial decision. An interesting point of view was submitted, posted, and generated active discussion. An opposing point of view was then submitted posted, and will again generate discussion. That last part is the difference between freedom and not. As I often say, if you can't handle the responsibilies and dangers of freedom, move to someplace where you don't have them.
So while CD sales help defray the cost of production and pressing, movie sales only need to defray the remastering and pressing costs.
So my question is is it neccesary for used movies to charge more that original music.By all measures, the used movies should cost less.