I blame the writing weaknesses on it's own success. Which is to say, it's not so bad I mind. At this point, I can deal with everyone not being immediately witty and just seeing the seeds sown in the last two seasons come to bear some sort of fruit. Mohinder with powers that are transforming him into something weird? Hell yes!
Like what kind of incompatibilities? I found that every driver, app and bit of software in the 95/98/98SE command prompt only mode ran just as well as it did in DOS6.22.
I'm a god hating, baby aborting, marx reading liberal.
Deficits don't matter. Rather, the existence of a deficit doesn't. Having a deficit and a debt we CAN PAY BACK is a GOOD thing. It means our credit rating is great and that we can extend ourselves in times of crises and be a financial powerhouse in the world.
however, when we're struggling to pay our principle much less the interest, then that's a different story all together.
Woz is looking at the iPhone with engineering eyes, not consumers eyes. It's a strange culture shock to geeks when they find out the universe of non-geeks doesn't work like them. Yes, the API is locked down, yes, it is locked to a single service provider but the average user really REALLY doesn't care. Even if they do know better, they really don't care. It's why McDonald's sales are high. They know a better burger, but they don't care. I'm not sure if this is a problem or not, to be quite frank. But when a geek tells me is a better solution, they're not realizing that "better" is incredibly subjective. Yes, OpenMoko is open, but is that better to me? I don't want to edit config files unless i'm being paid for it.
Is the iPod going to die out? Sure. Not before moving much much more product in the mean time.
Yeah, but in the old homeowner paradigm, your house had equity every year you sat on it and let it value up. now with the markets taking a shit all over the housing industry, I don't quite know, but, that's the way it was. You were throwing away money if you rented a *home*. A condo or an apartment is a different matter all together.
Second, all those people bought houses they couldn't afford at ludicrous interest rates, based on the idea that a bank would never give them a loan they couldn't afford. Wrong.
Don't blame them.
The land values shot through the roof. The only way anyone could reasonably afford a house to purchase was through a bad loan. Either that or pay out the nose to a land lord to rent a house that you could instead, in theory, be making equity on.
Companies wouldn't stop providing short term credit to each other. The payables industry just doesn't work like that. If company A wants payment for widgets A upon delivery, and widgets A are vital to the operation of company B, company A has no reason to believe that company B will stop paying them, because its vital to their business.
Things would mostly remain the same in the business world, despite what the leaders say if we didn't pass it.
But that's not what's actually happening. There IS a credit shortage in the markets right now and that IS having an effect on businesses. And small and medium companies face failure in face of it. Businesses with great ratings are having problems trying to get credit. This is why I'm pretty strongly for the bail out, and I'd have to hazard a guess, this is why politicians are for it too. If they wanted pork, they'd attach it to other spending bills, or figure out other ways to get their hog fix on.
You'd be paying for it ANYWAY when your business or the company you worked for couldn't get short term credit to do day to day business because the banking sector took it's ball and went home.
Why are players bothering with online games that can be manipulated by manipulating the local client's RAM? Isn't the whole point of "Online" supposed to make client side vulnerabilities moot?
No. As an absolutist opinion that I find most people take with the 10th Amendment is not necessarily right. Like i said, it's an out for anti-federalists and neither interpretation of the constitution is necessarily "Correct" due to the dynamic nature of the constitutional convention.
I find that the problem with Government isn't scope creep per-se but the complete lack of talent or ability of the administration over the last... 8 years or so.
Amendment 10 does not supercede Article 1 section 8 clause 18. Necessary and proper.
It's an out for federalists and you know it. The constitution wasn't formed by a group of people who walked in lock step and it's full of holes and inconsistencies(so I guess our constitution IS biblically based afterall)
I wouldn't say that there's a corporate bias... per-se. I'd say that there's a bias towards people paying bills but they're not untouchable, and there's a lazy bias. Why bother writing an article or putting a piece together if you can just crib right from a press release?
Greed is the real problem and if you even say the word greed you might as well have stripped naked and said FUCK on TV. Short run thinking like the kind we've been seeing that took down Tyco, Enron and now the collapse we're seeing, is fueled typically by greed. Who cares if the company's not around in 2 years if I can make a million in a year and a half and get out?
No, but they weren't told they couldn't pay them back. The banks played pretty fast and loose with the facts about their incomes or even if they had jobs or not. The banks are just as much at fault as the mortgage holders in this situation.
Okay, Glass-Steagall let banks sell financial instruments, namely securities. They developed securities backed by subprime mortgages that were going around thanks to the booming real-estate market and the dotcom bust. Thanks to the absurdly large number of mortgages, these securities got very very sexy. So companies like Lehman Brothers and Bear Sterns invested very heavily into them, and banks like Washington Mutual went balls out trying to sell as many mortgages AND with those mortgages, creating all sorts of wacky securities backed by them.
Had the SEC done it's JOB, it would've known that these securities do not pass the smell test and would've done something about them. Since they were asleep at the fucking wheel, the economy is now in the shitter.
And yes, it'd be a rosy and happy world if mortgage holders could pay back mortgages that are pretty much slanted directly against them, but they can't. The idea was that they'd go through a cycle of refinancings and somehow stay on top of it, even with refinancing, there's no way some of these mortgage holders could've paid off their mortgages. Even worse is that commentators and financial analysts were saying that it was a great time to buy homes and to get a mortgage.
The RIAA in concept do recognize something really important. While going after web broadcasters in a predatory manner is one thing, going after major movie studios and everyone else who seeks to profit off of the work of it's members is another, or to come up with regulations on things like CD and Vinyl production.
The fact that they're complete scum sucking bastards doesn't negate that there is a need to represent musicians professionally. It just means they're huge bastards.
it's stupidity. You can already setup your mail through Mail.app. It IS confusing to a lot of customers. I think now is the shock time when we find out that there are people who aren't computer literate who are vast majority who use these things.
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I blame the writing weaknesses on it's own success. Which is to say, it's not so bad I mind. At this point, I can deal with everyone not being immediately witty and just seeing the seeds sown in the last two seasons come to bear some sort of fruit. Mohinder with powers that are transforming him into something weird? Hell yes!
Oh and the Lone Gunmen die.
Like what kind of incompatibilities? I found that every driver, app and bit of software in the 95/98/98SE command prompt only mode ran just as well as it did in DOS6.22.
You missed the part where it said, "internally."
By internally I think he meant, "We have a working Linux client. It's a pain in the ass to support, so we're not releasing it. But it is nifty."
like how Apple had an x86 version of OS X for awhile named Marklar.
This is bullshit. There is no emulator. It just didn't allow the bootloader to boot to command.com. Please cite a source for this.
XP replaced DOS with an emulator(and no, cmd.exe is a shell, not an emulator).
I'm a god hating, baby aborting, marx reading liberal.
Deficits don't matter. Rather, the existence of a deficit doesn't. Having a deficit and a debt we CAN PAY BACK is a GOOD thing. It means our credit rating is great and that we can extend ourselves in times of crises and be a financial powerhouse in the world.
however, when we're struggling to pay our principle much less the interest, then that's a different story all together.
if sarah palin is to be believed, USA = Bumfuck nowhere...
Woz is looking at the iPhone with engineering eyes, not consumers eyes. It's a strange culture shock to geeks when they find out the universe of non-geeks doesn't work like them. Yes, the API is locked down, yes, it is locked to a single service provider but the average user really REALLY doesn't care. Even if they do know better, they really don't care. It's why McDonald's sales are high. They know a better burger, but they don't care. I'm not sure if this is a problem or not, to be quite frank. But when a geek tells me is a better solution, they're not realizing that "better" is incredibly subjective. Yes, OpenMoko is open, but is that better to me? I don't want to edit config files unless i'm being paid for it.
Is the iPod going to die out? Sure. Not before moving much much more product in the mean time.
Fake Steve Jobs' writer had a real heart attack?
Yeah, but in the old homeowner paradigm, your house had equity every year you sat on it and let it value up. now with the markets taking a shit all over the housing industry, I don't quite know, but, that's the way it was. You were throwing away money if you rented a *home*. A condo or an apartment is a different matter all together.
Second, all those people bought houses they couldn't afford at ludicrous interest rates, based on the idea that a bank would never give them a loan they couldn't afford. Wrong.
Don't blame them.
The land values shot through the roof. The only way anyone could reasonably afford a house to purchase was through a bad loan. Either that or pay out the nose to a land lord to rent a house that you could instead, in theory, be making equity on.
which would you have taken?
Companies wouldn't stop providing short term credit to each other. The payables industry just doesn't work like that. If company A wants payment for widgets A upon delivery, and widgets A are vital to the operation of company B, company A has no reason to believe that company B will stop paying them, because its vital to their business.
Things would mostly remain the same in the business world, despite what the leaders say if we didn't pass it.
But that's not what's actually happening. There IS a credit shortage in the markets right now and that IS having an effect on businesses. And small and medium companies face failure in face of it. Businesses with great ratings are having problems trying to get credit. This is why I'm pretty strongly for the bail out, and I'd have to hazard a guess, this is why politicians are for it too. If they wanted pork, they'd attach it to other spending bills, or figure out other ways to get their hog fix on.
You'd be paying for it ANYWAY when your business or the company you worked for couldn't get short term credit to do day to day business because the banking sector took it's ball and went home.
Then why are many transsexuals successfully treated with hormone therapy and such?
Why are players bothering with online games that can be manipulated by manipulating the local client's RAM? Isn't the whole point of "Online" supposed to make client side vulnerabilities moot?
No. As an absolutist opinion that I find most people take with the 10th Amendment is not necessarily right. Like i said, it's an out for anti-federalists and neither interpretation of the constitution is necessarily "Correct" due to the dynamic nature of the constitutional convention.
I find that the problem with Government isn't scope creep per-se but the complete lack of talent or ability of the administration over the last... 8 years or so.
Amendment 10 does not supercede Article 1 section 8 clause 18. Necessary and proper.
It's an out for federalists and you know it. The constitution wasn't formed by a group of people who walked in lock step and it's full of holes and inconsistencies(so I guess our constitution IS biblically based afterall)
I wouldn't say that there's a corporate bias... per-se. I'd say that there's a bias towards people paying bills but they're not untouchable, and there's a lazy bias. Why bother writing an article or putting a piece together if you can just crib right from a press release?
Greed is the real problem and if you even say the word greed you might as well have stripped naked and said FUCK on TV. Short run thinking like the kind we've been seeing that took down Tyco, Enron and now the collapse we're seeing, is fueled typically by greed. Who cares if the company's not around in 2 years if I can make a million in a year and a half and get out?
No. I blame the SEC who's republican controlled right now. Glass Steagall's repeal wouldn't have been so bad if the SEC just did their damn job.
No, but they weren't told they couldn't pay them back. The banks played pretty fast and loose with the facts about their incomes or even if they had jobs or not. The banks are just as much at fault as the mortgage holders in this situation.
Racism? God I don't even know where to start.
Okay, Glass-Steagall let banks sell financial instruments, namely securities. They developed securities backed by subprime mortgages that were going around thanks to the booming real-estate market and the dotcom bust. Thanks to the absurdly large number of mortgages, these securities got very very sexy. So companies like Lehman Brothers and Bear Sterns invested very heavily into them, and banks like Washington Mutual went balls out trying to sell as many mortgages AND with those mortgages, creating all sorts of wacky securities backed by them.
Had the SEC done it's JOB, it would've known that these securities do not pass the smell test and would've done something about them. Since they were asleep at the fucking wheel, the economy is now in the shitter.
And yes, it'd be a rosy and happy world if mortgage holders could pay back mortgages that are pretty much slanted directly against them, but they can't. The idea was that they'd go through a cycle of refinancings and somehow stay on top of it, even with refinancing, there's no way some of these mortgage holders could've paid off their mortgages. Even worse is that commentators and financial analysts were saying that it was a great time to buy homes and to get a mortgage.
The RIAA in concept do recognize something really important. While going after web broadcasters in a predatory manner is one thing, going after major movie studios and everyone else who seeks to profit off of the work of it's members is another, or to come up with regulations on things like CD and Vinyl production.
The fact that they're complete scum sucking bastards doesn't negate that there is a need to represent musicians professionally. It just means they're huge bastards.
it's stupidity. You can already setup your mail through Mail.app. It IS confusing to a lot of customers. I think now is the shock time when we find out that there are people who aren't computer literate who are vast majority who use these things.
everyone laughs at you for losing 30 bucks.