The US does not have true capitalism--there are progressive income taxes, welfare/unemployment/social security, and, of course, antitrust laws.
The chief alternative to capitalism is socialism. In socialism, the government controls the means of production, so your only choice is what the government offers. It seems that semi-capitalism is a much better choice than alternatives if you won't want monopolies.
I have never understood gift cards or gift certificates.... Last Christmas I received 2 25$ gift cards to chain resturants form family. Unfortunately I live in rural Georgia and it is a 30 minutes drive to the nearest McDonalds and an hour plus drive to a Buffaloes, Moe's, Joe's crab shack, Roadhouse Grill, etc.
This is not necessarily something bad about gift cards--it just shows that you got a gift you can't easily use, such as if I was given a mower (I live in an apartment). Personally, I only give someone a gift card/certificate if I know that person shops/eats at the place I got the certificate from frequently (for instance, a McDonald's gift card would be more useless to me than to you as I can't stand McDonald's and refuse to eat there, but you might use the card when you traveled).
I guess it boils down to the store and how rigid they are with their policies, but if they reject it, then they run the risk of you shopping elsewhere.
One should note that this isn't too much of a loss for the company as they already have the money.
Checks are not accepted at many retail stores in the US, and at the ones they are accepted at, they generally require a driver's license number on the check as additional confirmation of who you are.
The Nevada law, which the Supremes cravenly upheld in this case, isn't about people who've been arrested - it's about people who _haven't_ been arrested, and says that cops can demand names from them.
Correct. However, the person I was replying to referred to the rights of the accused from Miranda v. Arizona, which simply does not apply in this case.
Well, as I said, I heard this secondhand. It seems like you were there, so I don't claim to know more than you. I just didn't see any posts mentioning something similar to what I had heard, so I posted.
It does sound like the gist of what I said is correct though--the truck saw a bush and, rather than driving through it (which TerraMax could do without much trouble), it tried unsuccessfully to find a way around it.
Mozilla and Opera will implement them, and then sites that see how it's easier to code for them will do so, and will recommend users do so as well. Then, Microsoft will ship XAML, and will find other standards are already more prevalant.
First of all, I heard this secondhand, from a grad student who knows many of the people on Ohio State's team. I don't know the size of the rocks nor the bushes either.
Also, there may have been a roadway for the length of the route, but one of the big points of the Challenge was that teams would have to hit 20 checkpoints given to them immediately before the race starts and dynamically find routes to them. It seems to me that while you may be able to go directly to the end of the race on a road, you would not necessarily be able to hit all 20 checkpoints on roads (or if you could, it would not be the most efficient way of reaching those checkpoints).
Ohio State had a team that entered this year, and they worked on their entry right next to the workspace of a project team I'm a part of. I heard, albeit secondhand, why most entries didn't work, and the only real reason is that the teams were unfamiliar with the course (e.g., Columbus doesn't exactly have a large desert to test the entry in).
A couple nights before the competition was to take place, it rained on the "course", as it is. Thus, there were many relatively large bushes in the desert when the competition started. This was not something most teams had planned for--however, they did plan for large rocks. Thus, a 9' tall truck would drive up to a (now relatively small) bush, detect it, determine it was a rock, and then try to plot a course around it rather than simply driving through it, which would have worked fine. With the number of bushes that had sprouted up, it was only a matter of time before a truck's computer got swamped trying to avoid all of the "rocks".
I look forward to hearing about next year's competition, for which I'm sure teams will think to find a way of differentiating a bush and a rock.
SVG is in the main branch, it just isn't built by default. Also, I believe the only guy doing any serious work with SVG for Mozilla is Alex Fritze. If you want SVG quicker, I'm sure Alex could use help.
I can't compare any of the BSDs with each other or with Linux, but I would personally recommend Debian or one of it's derivatives (Libranet, Xandros, Knoppix, etc.), but there are bigger issues than that, IMO.
If you have a friend that's a Linux/BSD guru, pick the same distro as him so that it's easier for him to help you when you have a problem. If not, then start looking at the advice presented here.
Disclaimer: I recommended some distros, but my recommendations are not necessarily right nor wrong. Don't flame me for my own opinions.
The way I understand it, WinFS is independent from Avalon, so there'd be little stopping us from "adopting" any part of its technology that made sense to us in a platform specific way - all of ths independent of how we do graphics. We already have budding shell integration services for things like default browser, with designs on further integration with each platform, e.g. using the existing Win32 Shell API.
Moreso than most projects we're aware of the cost of rewrites. You're right - it's all about RSS. We're not about to throw away all that we've done to undertake some "convert to XAML/Avalon" folly when we could be creating more useful applications;-)
Currently Mozilla is looking towards integrating with GNOME. Scoble wants them to put the same effort into integrating with Microsoft technologies. That still doesn't explain why a browser would want to integrate with a filesystem, but I'm sure there's some explanation that makes sense to someone about that.
I don't know about T1, but T2 definitely had a version for Linux that I've been trying to find for about a year now. I've looked through these links and can't find anything relating to a download of it--has anyone else seen if there's a Linux download?
Slashdot Mirror
Why 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0? Wouldn't you rather the requests for files go nowhere as opposed to right back at your machine?
The US does not have true capitalism--there are progressive income taxes, welfare/unemployment/social security, and, of course, antitrust laws.
The chief alternative to capitalism is socialism. In socialism, the government controls the means of production, so your only choice is what the government offers. It seems that semi-capitalism is a much better choice than alternatives if you won't want monopolies.
Checks are not accepted at many retail stores in the US, and at the ones they are accepted at, they generally require a driver's license number on the check as additional confirmation of who you are.
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Once arrested, you do not have the right to withhold your name. You do have the right to refuse other questions, but you must give your name.
AFAIK, PageRank has not been included in the Googlebar yet because it infringes on one of Google's patents.
I don't think Torvalds and Tanenbaum have anything against one another.
Well, as I said, I heard this secondhand. It seems like you were there, so I don't claim to know more than you. I just didn't see any posts mentioning something similar to what I had heard, so I posted.
It does sound like the gist of what I said is correct though--the truck saw a bush and, rather than driving through it (which TerraMax could do without much trouble), it tried unsuccessfully to find a way around it.
Mozilla and Opera will implement them, and then sites that see how it's easier to code for them will do so, and will recommend users do so as well. Then, Microsoft will ship XAML, and will find other standards are already more prevalant.
First of all, I heard this secondhand, from a grad student who knows many of the people on Ohio State's team. I don't know the size of the rocks nor the bushes either.
Also, there may have been a roadway for the length of the route, but one of the big points of the Challenge was that teams would have to hit 20 checkpoints given to them immediately before the race starts and dynamically find routes to them. It seems to me that while you may be able to go directly to the end of the race on a road, you would not necessarily be able to hit all 20 checkpoints on roads (or if you could, it would not be the most efficient way of reaching those checkpoints).
Ohio State had a team that entered this year, and they worked on their entry right next to the workspace of a project team I'm a part of. I heard, albeit secondhand, why most entries didn't work, and the only real reason is that the teams were unfamiliar with the course (e.g., Columbus doesn't exactly have a large desert to test the entry in).
A couple nights before the competition was to take place, it rained on the "course", as it is. Thus, there were many relatively large bushes in the desert when the competition started. This was not something most teams had planned for--however, they did plan for large rocks. Thus, a 9' tall truck would drive up to a (now relatively small) bush, detect it, determine it was a rock, and then try to plot a course around it rather than simply driving through it, which would have worked fine. With the number of bushes that had sprouted up, it was only a matter of time before a truck's computer got swamped trying to avoid all of the "rocks".
I look forward to hearing about next year's competition, for which I'm sure teams will think to find a way of differentiating a bush and a rock.
SVG is in the main branch, it just isn't built by default. Also, I believe the only guy doing any serious work with SVG for Mozilla is Alex Fritze. If you want SVG quicker, I'm sure Alex could use help.
I can't compare any of the BSDs with each other or with Linux, but I would personally recommend Debian or one of it's derivatives (Libranet, Xandros, Knoppix, etc.), but there are bigger issues than that, IMO.
If you have a friend that's a Linux/BSD guru, pick the same distro as him so that it's easier for him to help you when you have a problem. If not, then start looking at the advice presented here.
Disclaimer: I recommended some distros, but my recommendations are not necessarily right nor wrong. Don't flame me for my own opinions.
Certainly not on an airplane anyway.
I just put the wrong word in. Nevertheless, this is roughly what Scoble wants.
I hate all software patents--I don't make exceptions based on who is hurt by the patent.
Currently Mozilla is looking towards integrating with GNOME. Scoble wants them to put the same effort into integrating with Microsoft technologies. That still doesn't explain why a browser would want to integrate with a filesystem, but I'm sure there's some explanation that makes sense to someone about that.
I don't know about T1, but T2 definitely had a version for Linux that I've been trying to find for about a year now. I've looked through these links and can't find anything relating to a download of it--has anyone else seen if there's a Linux download?