Each line is comparing only two candiadates, without regards for others.
It's not really circular... it depends on who the choice comes down to. Faced with each pairing of candidates, you may have different issues that you see as significant.
Maybe between A and B you see feel the most important difference is foreign policy. Mabye on B and C you see the most important difference as health care, and on C vs A you see the most important difference as education funding.
" guess that whole "United STATES" thing just went over your head in high school history class, eh?"
You know.. although many of us realize the US is a federation of states.. it presents itself to the world, and generally acts as any other country would. The outside world sees "THE USA", one of may countries. The internal stuff about states and their respective powers is just that, internal.
Though I realize the distinction is very important to Americans, and very real, it's not significiant to outsiders. The US acts as a single entity, globally. Policy is set globally. Military is global. The international community doesn't really give a crap who the governor of texas is, but we sure do care who the president of the US is. Perception is everything.
So what about all those businesses out there that are not corporations?
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That doesn't sound right.. I've seen tritium watches for sale that ship to the US all over the place.. even the linked site in the parent post says they ship to the US.
Further, there is really on reason to ban tritium unless it's in high concentrations (military insturmentation often uses more dangerous leveles for brighter lights, for instance...). Or.. large quantities (I do mean large.. tritium is used to boost nuclear weapons yield)
Tritium is the most expensive commercially available substance by mass.
All of these sites are in the US or ship to the US
Seriously.. if anyone is willing to release ANY code that was previously proprietary under ANY conditions, it's a step forward.
Being GPL compatable is not a good benchmark to judge by... CPL is perfectly acceptable... in ways, it's even better than the GPL.
This is wiki code.. there is LOTS of good wiki code out there already.. it's a good, open concept. This is just YAWI (Yet Another Wiki Implementation)..
what's wrong with that?
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Traser watches are commonplace.... they are in no way banned in the US.
I would imagine a tritium gas light over a certian size would fall under some regulation.. but a small traser poses far less health risk than, say, a AA battery does.
Tritium has a half-life of 12.5 years... meaning your tritium gas lights will still be quite visible 25 years later.
Google for Luminox.
Tritium is a low level beta emitter... which means it produces electrons, and not very high energy ones. Very easy to contain.. the only health risk to tritium is if it is ingested.
Oracle is now pushing RedHat + Oracle 10g.. in fully supported configurations... just as with any other oracle setup.
As for mysql/postgres.. a project where you need oracle won't be served by either of those, not by a longshot. If the app is small enough to run on those adequately, then the choice of server OS isn't all that important.
Can anyone cite a real life example where Solaris was used in place of linux on a new project for a valid reason? I'm sure such reasons exist.. but I can no longer think of one.
Note: Situations where the choice was made to remain on solaris rather than linux, because you had an E10k or something, I don't consider valid for this question... staying with what you already have and know is a little different.
So.. anyone got an example of some wonderful solaris feature than linux doesn't have?
which brings us back to the beginning of the argument... that if the focus was more on dividends and less on share value going up and up and up, the incentive to cook books would not be as large.
Making the share price go up only requires BELIEF that the stock is worth more... paying more dividends requires actual profits... I think that was the point.
Nobody is arguing that it's not an investment.. it is.. but the inherent value of that investment is, or should be, based on what the company can actually produce.. in reality, it's now based largely on hype.
Yes, the victim could learn a lesson, and do more to protect themselves. Yes, it's fair for society to point that out.. but the BLAME lies entirely and completely with the person who knowingly broke the law.
Regarding a drunk driver: Yes, they do share part of the blame, but in this situation, they are doing something that is expressly forbidden. Our reasons for making this decision are to re-enforce the fact that you DO NOT DRIVE DRUNK... it's not just a bad idea, it's illegal. They may or may not have gotten out of the way. But that's not relevant. what's relevant is they had no business being there in the first place.
Your ISP doesn't give you only one or two addresses because they don't have space, they do it because there is no real market for it... only a few users would care.Anyone who actually has a valid reason for having more space can usually get it.
In some asian places now, that is not true. There simply isn't enough space.. it's running out, fast.
We don't need to outlaw them, not at all. The house has the absolute right to refuse service for any reason.
There is no need to detect bots.. what can be done with a bot can be done by a person with another computer sitting next to them.
Computer assisted play in poker will help a bad player play better, but will not significantly help a good player.
Further, the only concern for the house is that the game appears fair, so people will keep playing. You do not compete against the house in poker... just against other players.
Poker bots are a natural outcome of internet play.. and the game will have to adjust.
They won't hurt the house directly... when you play online poker, you do not in any way play against the house... the house takes a cut (the "rake") from each hand played.
Collusion between players is the largest online problem.. but again, it doesn't directly harm the house. The harm is indirect; players think other players are cheating, and so they don't want to play.. and THEN you lose.. so in order to keep customers, the house must have the players believing the game is fair.
An good poker player already knows the odds.... the real art of the game is in bluffing and knowing the risk you are paying for each hand. The increased accuracy you get in pot odds calculation (which is all you are going to get from a computer) is not going to give a good player a significant advantage over other good players.
So no, this won't spell doom for online poker players... they could already keep nice charts of pot odds and track what other players do on their own at home... having a bot that does it doesn't help.
Randall Davis is a Professor of Computer Science at MIT where his research has focused on variety of model-based systems for diagnosis and design. He has also served as Associate Director of MIT's AI Lab, as the President of the AAAI, and as a member of the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. In 1990 he served as technical expert to the Court in the case of Computer Associates v. Altai, a case which substantially changed the legal view of software copyright. From 1998-2000 he chaired a study committee for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academy of Science; the report produced by the commmittee -- The Digital Dilemma -- was published in Februry 2000.
You need to be forced to use a Mac, with OS X, for a week or so.. then we can pull you off and see how you do on windows. You'll likely hate it, as you realize that all the "good UI design" and "ease of use" you thought you knew in windows were really just poor, inefficient approximations of how what Apple has done.
I say this as a heavy unix user, and long time windows user, and previous mac hater.
Apple has it's problems, for sure, but the Windows UI,and overall user experience, though a lot better than it used to be, is still not even a close second.
He doesn't need to; the software in question has probably been used many times before for the exact same thing.
Everyone is getting so far off base on this.
SCO is manging to convince people that this is somehow difficult to prove.. that they need more research and more time to PROVE that IBM stole code and put it in linux. Their only claim as to why they think Linux has SCO code is "because there is no way linux could have become as good as it did without stealing from us".. ie: denial
They have yet to show ONE section of code that was lifted. They haven't even shown how one was *similar* enough to have potentially been stolen and heavily modified.. they have shown *NOTHING*
IT's called an expert witness... and their word DOES mean something to the court.. they stake their reputation on it.
And who's going to need computers that can hold dates past 2000? That's 30 years away!
Seriously.. it's because we can do it. Because we can do it now and it will still potentially be viable in a decade or two.
Storage capacity is doing nothing but going up.. some home users now have terabytes of space, petabytes of space at research institutions are not unheard of... (but they were a few short years ago).
Yes, you ARE giving someone who is not a computer expert a computer. If they were all computer experts, we wouldn't need an IT department. The 300 employees where I work are not computer experts, but you can me damn sure their computers need to work, and work without restarting and being generally unstable. If the operating system can't function well in the hands of an inexperienced user, then that's significant.
So whether or not XP *can* be more stable isn't as important as how it actually performs in the field.
As for my experience.. XP is more stable from a kernel point of view.. (no screens of death), however, UI problems and weird behavior happens more than with win2k, requiring wiping of profiles, restarting, etc.
"messing with the equalizer" to get more bass is absolutely no comparison to using headphones that actually work the way you like.
No amount of signal processing is going to make a shitty pair of radio shack headphones sound like my beloved RS-1s.
Signal processing is not THAT advanced, not with winamp plugins and whatnot. if you think it is, I'd wager that you have not really listened on really good equipment.
The whole point of my post was to illustrate that things that modify the sound in inaccurate ways can sometimes be beneficial, just as with crappy tube amps or crappy headphones when listening to crappy audio.
The thing is.. I use my iPod for the gym, driving around in the car, or walking around town.. and there's no way in hell I'm doing any of those with my Grados;)
I live in the tropics in a place where the humidity is relatively high all year round, so the wood is nice and happy.
Efficiency isn't everything.. you still need a source that can handle the current (or voltage) needs of your cans.
Higher efficiency cans take less power to drive.. but that doesn't mean that your source necessarily operates in the ideal voltage or current ranges they want.
The HD600s are quiet largely because they are 300 ohm phones.. the efficiency is only 1dB lower than the Grado Rs-1 (which is not insignificant, but also not huge). Most common sources cannot produce the voltages needed to drive them. By the same token, the Grados sound decently loud on most sources, but bassy stuff and other bottom end stuff wants more current than many sources can provide stably.. and the sound suffers.
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Each line is comparing only two candiadates, without regards for others.
It's not really circular... it depends on who the choice comes down to. Faced with each pairing of candidates, you may have different issues that you see as significant.
Maybe between A and B you see feel the most important difference is foreign policy. Mabye on B and C you see the most important difference as health care, and on C vs A you see the most important difference as education funding.
" guess that whole "United STATES" thing just went over your head in high school history class, eh?"
You know.. although many of us realize the US is a federation of states.. it presents itself to the world, and generally acts as any other country would. The outside world sees "THE USA", one of may countries. The internal stuff about states and their respective powers is just that, internal.
Though I realize the distinction is very important to Americans, and very real, it's not significiant to outsiders. The US acts as a single entity, globally. Policy is set globally. Military is global. The international community doesn't really give a crap who the governor of texas is, but we sure do care who the president of the US is. Perception is everything.
So what about all those businesses out there that are not corporations?
That doesn't sound right.. I've seen tritium watches for sale that ship to the US all over the place.. even the linked site in the parent post says they ship to the US.
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Further, there is really on reason to ban tritium unless it's in high concentrations (military insturmentation often uses more dangerous leveles for brighter lights, for instance...). Or.. large quantities (I do mean large.. tritium is used to boost nuclear weapons yield)
Tritium is the most expensive commercially available substance by mass.
All of these sites are in the US or ship to the US
http://www.cabelas.com/products/Cpod0003392.jsp
http://www.firebox.com/?dir=firebox&action=prod
http://search.ebay.com/traser_W0QQsokeywordredi
All this talk of licenses adn whether MS is evil or not...
Does anyone have a single comment about how this product stacks up to the other popular wiki suites out there?
(moin, twiki, etc)
You know... you are just paranoid.
Seriously.. if anyone is willing to release ANY code that was previously proprietary under ANY conditions, it's a step forward.
Being GPL compatable is not a good benchmark to judge by... CPL is perfectly acceptable... in ways, it's even better than the GPL.
This is wiki code.. there is LOTS of good wiki code out there already.. it's a good, open concept. This is just YAWI (Yet Another Wiki Implementation)..
what's wrong with that?
Traser watches are commonplace.... they are in no way banned in the US.
I would imagine a tritium gas light over a certian size would fall under some regulation.. but a small traser poses far less health risk than, say, a AA battery does.
Tritium has a half-life of 12.5 years... meaning your tritium gas lights will still be quite visible 25 years later.
Google for Luminox.
Tritium is a low level beta emitter... which means it produces electrons, and not very high energy ones. Very easy to contain.. the only health risk to tritium is if it is ingested.
Oracle is now pushing RedHat + Oracle 10g.. in fully supported configurations... just as with any other oracle setup.
As for mysql/postgres.. a project where you need oracle won't be served by either of those, not by a longshot. If the app is small enough to run on those adequately, then the choice of server OS isn't all that important.
Can anyone cite a real life example where Solaris was used in place of linux on a new project for a valid reason? I'm sure such reasons exist.. but I can no longer think of one.
Note: Situations where the choice was made to remain on solaris rather than linux, because you had an E10k or something, I don't consider valid for this question... staying with what you already have and know is a little different.
So.. anyone got an example of some wonderful solaris feature than linux doesn't have?
They can... sure. CallerID is not a security mechanism... but the point is, right now, CallerID works well for this.
If a commercial venture is spoofing CallerID, that could be fraud.
which brings us back to the beginning of the argument... that if the focus was more on dividends and less on share value going up and up and up, the incentive to cook books would not be as large.
Making the share price go up only requires BELIEF that the stock is worth more... paying more dividends requires actual profits... I think that was the point.
Nobody is arguing that it's not an investment.. it is.. but the inherent value of that investment is, or should be, based on what the company can actually produce.. in reality, it's now based largely on hype.
Yes, the victim could learn a lesson, and do more to protect themselves. Yes, it's fair for society to point that out.. but the BLAME lies entirely and completely with the person who knowingly broke the law.
Regarding a drunk driver: Yes, they do share part of the blame, but in this situation, they are doing something that is expressly forbidden. Our reasons for making this decision are to re-enforce the fact that you DO NOT DRIVE DRUNK... it's not just a bad idea, it's illegal. They may or may not have gotten out of the way. But that's not relevant. what's relevant is they had no business being there in the first place.
No.. you are missing the point.
Your ISP doesn't give you only one or two addresses because they don't have space, they do it because there is no real market for it... only a few users would care.Anyone who actually has a valid reason for having more space can usually get it.
In some asian places now, that is not true. There simply isn't enough space.. it's running out, fast.
We don't need to outlaw them, not at all. The house has the absolute right to refuse service for any reason.
There is no need to detect bots.. what can be done with a bot can be done by a person with another computer sitting next to them.
Computer assisted play in poker will help a bad player play better, but will not significantly help a good player.
Further, the only concern for the house is that the game appears fair, so people will keep playing. You do not compete against the house in poker... just against other players.
Poker bots are a natural outcome of internet play.. and the game will have to adjust.
Let's look at how poker bots would harm things.
They won't hurt the house directly... when you play online poker, you do not in any way play against the house... the house takes a cut (the "rake") from each hand played.
Collusion between players is the largest online problem.. but again, it doesn't directly harm the house. The harm is indirect; players think other players are cheating, and so they don't want to play.. and THEN you lose.. so in order to keep customers, the house must have the players believing the game is fair.
An good poker player already knows the odds.... the real art of the game is in bluffing and knowing the risk you are paying for each hand. The increased accuracy you get in pot odds calculation (which is all you are going to get from a computer) is not going to give a good player a significant advantage over other good players.
So no, this won't spell doom for online poker players... they could already keep nice charts of pot odds and track what other players do on their own at home... having a bot that does it doesn't help.
Think chess.
Try getting a simple watch and ditching the cellular phone.. you'll find that much more liberating.
Randall Davis is a Professor of Computer Science at MIT where his research has focused on variety of model-based systems for diagnosis and design. He has also served as Associate Director of MIT's AI Lab, as the President of the AAAI, and as a member of the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. In 1990 he served as technical expert to the Court in the case of Computer Associates v. Altai, a case which substantially changed the legal view of software copyright. From 1998-2000 he chaired a study committee for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academy of Science; the report produced by the commmittee -- The Digital Dilemma -- was published in Februry 2000.
You need to be forced to use a Mac, with OS X, for a week or so.. then we can pull you off and see how you do on windows. You'll likely hate it, as you realize that all the "good UI design" and "ease of use" you thought you knew in windows were really just poor, inefficient approximations of how what Apple has done.
I say this as a heavy unix user, and long time windows user, and previous mac hater.
Apple has it's problems, for sure, but the Windows UI,and overall user experience, though a lot better than it used to be, is still not even a close second.
As an admin I am a *lot* more worried about exploits that can happen remotely over the network than I am about someone with a local exploit.
He doesn't need to; the software in question has probably been used many times before for the exact same thing.
Everyone is getting so far off base on this.
SCO is manging to convince people that this is somehow difficult to prove.. that they need more research and more time to PROVE that IBM stole code and put it in linux. Their only claim as to why they think Linux has SCO code is "because there is no way linux could have become as good as it did without stealing from us".. ie: denial
They have yet to show ONE section of code that was lifted. They haven't even shown how one was *similar* enough to have potentially been stolen and heavily modified.. they have shown *NOTHING*
IT's called an expert witness... and their word DOES mean something to the court.. they stake their reputation on it.
And who's going to need computers that can hold dates past 2000? That's 30 years away!
Seriously.. it's because we can do it. Because we can do it now and it will still potentially be viable in a decade or two.
Storage capacity is doing nothing but going up.. some home users now have terabytes of space, petabytes of space at research institutions are not unheard of... (but they were a few short years ago).
Yes, you ARE giving someone who is not a computer expert a computer. If they were all computer experts, we wouldn't need an IT department. The 300 employees where I work are not computer experts, but you can me damn sure their computers need to work, and work without restarting and being generally unstable. If the operating system can't function well in the hands of an inexperienced user, then that's significant.
So whether or not XP *can* be more stable isn't as important as how it actually performs in the field.
As for my experience.. XP is more stable from a kernel point of view.. (no screens of death), however, UI problems and weird behavior happens more than with win2k, requiring wiping of profiles, restarting, etc.
Heh.. largely true, however:
"messing with the equalizer" to get more bass is absolutely no comparison to using headphones that actually work the way you like.
No amount of signal processing is going to make a shitty pair of radio shack headphones sound like my beloved RS-1s.
Signal processing is not THAT advanced, not with winamp plugins and whatnot. if you think it is, I'd wager that you have not really listened on really good equipment.
The whole point of my post was to illustrate that things that modify the sound in inaccurate ways can sometimes be beneficial, just as with crappy tube amps or crappy headphones when listening to crappy audio.
;)
The thing is.. I use my iPod for the gym, driving around in the car, or walking around town.. and there's no way in hell I'm doing any of those with my Grados
I live in the tropics in a place where the humidity is relatively high all year round, so the wood is nice and happy.
Efficiency isn't everything.. you still need a source that can handle the current (or voltage) needs of your cans.
Higher efficiency cans take less power to drive.. but that doesn't mean that your source necessarily operates in the ideal voltage or current ranges they want.
The HD600s are quiet largely because they are 300 ohm phones.. the efficiency is only 1dB lower than the Grado Rs-1 (which is not insignificant, but also not huge). Most common sources cannot produce the voltages needed to drive them. By the same token, the Grados sound decently loud on most sources, but bassy stuff and other bottom end stuff wants more current than many sources can provide stably.. and the sound suffers.
An Amp really helps.
Neither.. because with an electric guitar we are talking about PRODUCTION, not REPRODUCTION.
IT's part of the insturment.. you could strap a speaker coil to a tibettan yak spleen if it sounded good.
Amplifiers for sound reproduction (your home stereo) and guitar amps are totally different beasts with totally different goals.
Most audiophilenuts are not talking about guitar amps.. they are talking about playing back their music.