When a writer wants to kill off a character for shock value, to give a character "depth" by putting them through something traumatic, or just to change the direction of the plot from where a previous writer was taking it, female characters tend to be the most convenient targets. Odd. Care to name examples?
There'll be a little bit of a slant towards women being victims, because so often the lead of a comic is a man, and you can't kill off the lead and keep your book going strong. And since most comic heroes have a love interest, and aren't gay, you have your slant towards women being victims.
Maybe it's just because I read Marvel instead of DC or Image. I gotta love a company that puts all heroes through crap equally.
Is it that having a version of the work that you can hold in your hand reinforces a sense of property ownership? YES.
If I have a broken CD and I go to court, I can make a good case that I should be able to make a replacement CD.
If all I have is the server record, stored on some company, then I need to subpoena them and hope they exist if I want to prove that I really paid for the actual music I have.
They failed to address the application compatibility issues, the hardware compatibility issues, the lack of a compelling new feature isssue Wait--that's IT?
That's the best you can come up with to say Vista is bad?
application compatibility: I'm sorry, apps that never followed the windows spec will fail. This is a GOOD THING. Apps that spend the hour it takes to follow the spec, well, they work. I mean, unless they use OpenGL on an ATI card. Which leads us to...
hardware compatibility: Vista is a teeny bit different from XP in the driver model. Close enough that XP drivers work for MOST things. For any piece of hardware you've got that (1) doesn't have a Vista driver, (2) won't work with the generic MS driver, and (3) won't work with its XP driver, it's the manufacturer's fault. We DO NOT want MS writing device drivers for everything.
New Features: Off the top of my head, I'll name "press one key and type to open ANYTHING", "backup to your CD-burner", "way better Wi-Fi management", and "Shadow-backups of user files". You might have a utility that does three of those for XP, but now they're integrated.
The reasons not to use Vista are, in order, a game-breaking incompatability, cost, a desire to use something else, like Linux or the Mac. If the choice is between XP and Vista, and there's less than $10 difference in price, go Vista. You know, like the decision process you use to decide if to use the latest stable version of Linux everything.
# Bubonic Plague was a disease for rats. It killed a lot but not to the extent of exterminating entire species. Humans have developed resistance. Link?
Or by "resistance" do you mean "habits of cleanliness and antibiotics?"
This is different from the ID crowd, who apparently feel that 'God did it' means you actively refuse to even think about the rules. The ID vs. "evolution" debate is a result of groupthink among scientists. Evolution was banned because it opposed religion: therefore, evolution must be right, and any argument that opposes it and is in alignment with religion must be wrong. No discussion necessary.
The only fundamental difference between the two -- that life was created by random chance, instead of via supernatural intervention -- is a philosophical point, not a scientific one. If the scientific reply were simply "life evolves", instead of "ALL LIFE CAME FROM SOUP!", it wouldn't be an argument.
"Yeah, it will probably take a bit longer to get that Samba domain controller rolled out for accounting, but guess what, your licensing fees forever is $0.00." Let's say the license for that domain controller is $500. And you cost your employer the typical IT salary + benefits of $100,000 a year -- about $50 an hour. If it takes you more than ten hours to setup the Samba domain controller, it's a bad idea. As is if it takes more than ten hours extra to configure it, over the lifetime of the domain controller. (The Auditor's laptop takes an extra hour of your time to work with Samba? you need to spend a week to train your replacement when you leave?)
After initial purchase, the typical company pays "licensing fees forever" of $0.00. Anyone who doesn't is just throwing away money.
Now, there are LOTS of good reasons to use Linux over windows. But cost isn't one of them for any company not in the business of producing Linux-based widgets, or providing a service in a Linux/Unix-based industry. This is an inherent factor of the bazaar; if time is money, and you're not a native of the town, it's simply more expensive to go through the bazaar and find exactly what you need instead of just stopping by the cathedral and picking up what the priest is handing out.
I'm sorry, Eve has real consequences for failure. It's wide-scale PvP, in a way that actually makes roleplaying make sense.
Compared to the endless grind of City of Heroes or World of Warcraft... well, finding a way to deal with scammers in Eve is what makes it the only MMO worth playing.
Thank you for proving Mr. Paul's point; you don't even understand how the amending process works, as defined in your constitution. No wonder Congress and the Supremes don't feel bound by it. Sorry, I do. All but one of the forty-odd amendments to our constitution started out as acts of Congress. It's the far easier route.
Regardless of your position on abortion, most legal scholars agree the Roe v. Wade was one of the worst legal decisions ever made, relying on a non-existent and spurious "right to privacy". What part of "unlawful search and seizure" and "other rights" don't you understand? Roe v. Wade was a perfectly acceptable piece of American jurisprudence -- an American raises an argument that they have a previously unquestioned right, that right is accepted by SCOTUS, and that right becomes protected under the aegis of the 4th amendment.
The Patriot [Act] trample[s] all over the Constitution's 4th amendment (the "Patriot Act II" is just a modification and replacement for the first one. Don't refer to them separately, when only one is law.)
If you read this, I'd like you to actually point out where the current Patriot Act does that even once. It's available online, even to a Canadian.
2. corporate vs personal copyrights? A lot of artists when they start make money incorperate. Where do there works fit in?, Name one artist who was stupid enough to create a personal corporation. I'll wait.
A successful artist might produce other artists under a label, or start a production company to finance their side-projects, but unless they're too stupid to hire a lawyer, they won't do anything that isn't THEIR OWN copyright.
The law is very clear on this already, btw. If you make a work that's yours, it's protected for your entire life, plus (IIRC) 80 years. If you make a work while working for your employer, and it's your employer's work, it's only protected for (again, IIRC) 120 years from the date its first "published".
Cutting way back on the length of corporate copyright would be a good thing, and give the balance back to the creative folk who made it in the first place. And you could even do it without compromising the "lifetime plus heir" copyright.
In the county where I live in upstate NY, the Republicans have had a majority since the early 80's, and we use asphalt for paving and repairs on all of the county roads. In the surrounding counties, the Democrats use a mix. It's interesting how politics affect so many things that you wouldn't think of. Name names, asshat.
I've never seen a road patched with dissimilar materials, nor could I imagine it being done for any reason other than cost. In Albany we've got a bundle of cobblestones under the roads, so we get cracks no matter what we put down. In Oneida, I lived on a gravel-and-tar road for ten years, that got a new "top coat" every year or two.
And I lived a few years in Saratoga County --which has a Republican Majority -- and found the roads to be as crappy as they were in the rest of the state. Worse, actually, when you account for the increased per-acre tax base Saratoga had.
Heck, I've never even heard of a Republican arguing that we need to raise money to completely re-do our broken roads. Not once. And in the five places I've lived in this country, the roads only ever get fixed when there's enough money to fix them.
What mythical republican island do you live in where roads are paved, while equally-well-funded neighboring counties waste their money by cutting corners to make more work for themselves?
Very racist, but oh so true. Nope. Not racist at all.
"Don't deal with black people" is racist. "Don't deal with African Countries, unless they're white" is racist. "Don't deal with country X that has a history of corruption, and happens to be black" is no more racist than "don't go down Johnson street, there were fifty murders there last year."
Nah, a nice Linux box with good hardware is the wave of the future, as far as high definition personal home media distribution servers are concerned. (Don't get me started on the joke of Windows Vista's media center PC's.) Care to explain how these are any different than a ordinary server?
You're not actually putting all of your decoding hardware in one box in your basement, are you?
Freedom of speech is a nice thing, but in real word people don't say to employers what they think if it means they lose their jobs Any employer that does not have a clear channel for their employees to express their honestly held opinions is a company doomed to failure. Any company that cares what their low-level employees do on their own time is just wasting money.
Things are different if you have actual company secrets, or if you're a corporate official. But in that case, you're hired EXACTLY to tell the company what you think.
I know it's not a direct linear translation, but think of it this way: 330MHz of your 3GHz CPU are being wasted all the time. No, it's not.
I want my computer to be smart enough to do boring things in the background when I'm not doing anything. 11% idle is "at worst, there's still 89% of the CPU ready to go in an instant."
Nothing would scare a greedy, corrupt cartel like the RIAA more than the risk of format shifting becoming de jure legal in the more general case, as that would mean that they basically would have to make a living entirely by creating new music that is worth listening to, something which they haven't, IMHO, done successfully in a very long time. Call up a recording company. Ask them for a prospectus, including their revenue ration of "new" to "old" music.
they just wanted to remind us that there is a system in place that can overrule America's policies No, there isn't.
The WTO, UN, NATO, UNICEF, and all the rest are strictly voluntary organizations. The US could drop out of them after a simple act of Congress, and in certain situations simply ignore them upon the President's discretion.
What they are is a way for other countries to band together against us. Which would normally be enough, except that the United States has an imbalance of power, and really can take on almost the entire world at once.
Why is the ultimate number of writes never taken into account in these comparison reviews? Why are solid state drives tested so that their weaknesses are not probed? Because it's a measure best reflected by Baysean Data, and they don't have enough time to test them.
If you want, buy an HDD and a Flash-Drive of the same cost, hook them up to a program that runs each at equal data-transfer rates, and see how much data you can read and write to each before they fail. Report back to us in the six months it'll take you.
Oh, and you need to do the trial over a wide sample, so get, oh, at least ten of each.
Most auto parts stores will quote you a price that includes the buy-back of the replaced part. You pay, say, $20 for a new part, and a $80 "core deposit."
When it comes to shmucks like me who have no place to maintain their cars, well, the local garages charge an arm and a leg because they can, and we're more worried about "how much will it cost" than "can I get my beatup fender back."
"the poor" have a better lifestyle today than they have at any other time in history. only if you measure access to luxury goods. If you instead measure access and retention of wealth -- the poor today have more crap than they used to. In most places they're not even guaranteed a place to live if they keep doing their menial job.
A diet consisting of the poisons you've listed would make somebody fat even if they only ate 1400 calories of it a day. No.
1400 calories of fried food will not make someone fat. For most Americans, only 1400 calories of anything will cause them to lose more than a pound a day.
What those "poisons" will do, if eaten exclusively, is to mess up someone's blood chemistry. On a long enough time scale, they'll get their weight way down -- and then have a heart attack from the cholesterol that's choking their heart.
The "multi-billion dollar" diet industry exists because it sells gimicks, that help someone eat few enough calories that they lose weight.
In all fairness 512meg is a reasonable about for XP, 1gig however is better. I don't see your average joe 6-pack user benefiting from more than 2gigs. \
Have you ever actually used a computer?
Joe Sixpack benefits from a computer that runs faster, swaps less, and has a shorter boot time. In fact, I'd wager that he gets more benefit from memory than the typical/. user's second box.
The story here is that the Wii is worth so much money to some people. For that kind of money one could get a Playstation. Not really a good comparison. No person I know desires a Playstation 3 for playing games; the only person I do know who wants to get one is eyeing it as a Blue ray player.
He doesn't have "beliefs" about what authorities the federal government has, it's clearly in the laws that defined our government system, it's written down yet you make it sound like his opinion. Ron Paul claims that the United States Federal Government is doing things that it Constitutionally is not allowed to do.
Until he becomes the Supreme Court, it's just an opinion. The Constitution says what the Supreme Court says it says -- if Mr. Paul cannot convince the Justices that his point of view is correct, it's simply one citizen's opinion. As a member of Congress he certainly has standing to file the suit.
Just for the record: if Ron were to file that suit, and actually succeed, you can expect that the Congress would have a Constitutional Amendment to rectify the problem passed with record speed.
but even in its best possible light, its a minor improvement on XP In the best possible light -- someone who has $5,000 to spend on a home theater Nvidia laptop, who happily only wants to play games written in Direct X -- Vista is as big an improvement over XP as any other OS upgrade, ever.
But you're right -- Vista is simply not worth the upgrade price. In a large part, neither were Windows 98, 2000, or XP.
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There'll be a little bit of a slant towards women being victims, because so often the lead of a comic is a man, and you can't kill off the lead and keep your book going strong. And since most comic heroes have a love interest, and aren't gay, you have your slant towards women being victims.
Maybe it's just because I read Marvel instead of DC or Image. I gotta love a company that puts all heroes through crap equally.
If I have a broken CD and I go to court, I can make a good case that I should be able to make a replacement CD.
If all I have is the server record, stored on some company, then I need to subpoena them and hope they exist if I want to prove that I really paid for the actual music I have.
That's the best you can come up with to say Vista is bad?
application compatibility: I'm sorry, apps that never followed the windows spec will fail. This is a GOOD THING. Apps that spend the hour it takes to follow the spec, well, they work. I mean, unless they use OpenGL on an ATI card. Which leads us to...
hardware compatibility: Vista is a teeny bit different from XP in the driver model. Close enough that XP drivers work for MOST things. For any piece of hardware you've got that (1) doesn't have a Vista driver, (2) won't work with the generic MS driver, and (3) won't work with its XP driver, it's the manufacturer's fault. We DO NOT want MS writing device drivers for everything.
New Features: Off the top of my head, I'll name "press one key and type to open ANYTHING", "backup to your CD-burner", "way better Wi-Fi management", and "Shadow-backups of user files". You might have a utility that does three of those for XP, but now they're integrated.
The reasons not to use Vista are, in order, a game-breaking incompatability, cost, a desire to use something else, like Linux or the Mac. If the choice is between XP and Vista, and there's less than $10 difference in price, go Vista. You know, like the decision process you use to decide if to use the latest stable version of Linux everything.
Or by "resistance" do you mean "habits of cleanliness and antibiotics?"
The only fundamental difference between the two -- that life was created by random chance, instead of via supernatural intervention -- is a philosophical point, not a scientific one. If the scientific reply were simply "life evolves", instead of "ALL LIFE CAME FROM SOUP!", it wouldn't be an argument.
After initial purchase, the typical company pays "licensing fees forever" of $0.00. Anyone who doesn't is just throwing away money.
Now, there are LOTS of good reasons to use Linux over windows. But cost isn't one of them for any company not in the business of producing Linux-based widgets, or providing a service in a Linux/Unix-based industry. This is an inherent factor of the bazaar; if time is money, and you're not a native of the town, it's simply more expensive to go through the bazaar and find exactly what you need instead of just stopping by the cathedral and picking up what the priest is handing out.
If you want to make a "perfect character build", find a perfect ship build.
If you want to build social networks -- well, how do you think we avoid the scammers?
I'm sorry, Eve has real consequences for failure. It's wide-scale PvP, in a way that actually makes roleplaying make sense.
Compared to the endless grind of City of Heroes or World of Warcraft... well, finding a way to deal with scammers in Eve is what makes it the only MMO worth playing.
If you read this, I'd like you to actually point out where the current Patriot Act does that even once. It's available online, even to a Canadian.
A successful artist might produce other artists under a label, or start a production company to finance their side-projects, but unless they're too stupid to hire a lawyer, they won't do anything that isn't THEIR OWN copyright.
The law is very clear on this already, btw. If you make a work that's yours, it's protected for your entire life, plus (IIRC) 80 years. If you make a work while working for your employer, and it's your employer's work, it's only protected for (again, IIRC) 120 years from the date its first "published".
Cutting way back on the length of corporate copyright would be a good thing, and give the balance back to the creative folk who made it in the first place. And you could even do it without compromising the "lifetime plus heir" copyright.
I've never seen a road patched with dissimilar materials, nor could I imagine it being done for any reason other than cost. In Albany we've got a bundle of cobblestones under the roads, so we get cracks no matter what we put down. In Oneida, I lived on a gravel-and-tar road for ten years, that got a new "top coat" every year or two.
And I lived a few years in Saratoga County --which has a Republican Majority -- and found the roads to be as crappy as they were in the rest of the state. Worse, actually, when you account for the increased per-acre tax base Saratoga had.
Heck, I've never even heard of a Republican arguing that we need to raise money to completely re-do our broken roads. Not once. And in the five places I've lived in this country, the roads only ever get fixed when there's enough money to fix them.
What mythical republican island do you live in where roads are paved, while equally-well-funded neighboring counties waste their money by cutting corners to make more work for themselves?
"Don't deal with black people" is racist. "Don't deal with African Countries, unless they're white" is racist. "Don't deal with country X that has a history of corruption, and happens to be black" is no more racist than "don't go down Johnson street, there were fifty murders there last year."
You're not actually putting all of your decoding hardware in one box in your basement, are you?
Things are different if you have actual company secrets, or if you're a corporate official. But in that case, you're hired EXACTLY to tell the company what you think.
I want my computer to be smart enough to do boring things in the background when I'm not doing anything. 11% idle is "at worst, there's still 89% of the CPU ready to go in an instant."
The WTO, UN, NATO, UNICEF, and all the rest are strictly voluntary organizations. The US could drop out of them after a simple act of Congress, and in certain situations simply ignore them upon the President's discretion.
What they are is a way for other countries to band together against us. Which would normally be enough, except that the United States has an imbalance of power, and really can take on almost the entire world at once.
If you want, buy an HDD and a Flash-Drive of the same cost, hook them up to a program that runs each at equal data-transfer rates, and see how much data you can read and write to each before they fail. Report back to us in the six months it'll take you.
Oh, and you need to do the trial over a wide sample, so get, oh, at least ten of each.
Most auto parts stores will quote you a price that includes the buy-back of the replaced part. You pay, say, $20 for a new part, and a $80 "core deposit."
When it comes to shmucks like me who have no place to maintain their cars, well, the local garages charge an arm and a leg because they can, and we're more worried about "how much will it cost" than "can I get my beatup fender back."
1400 calories of fried food will not make someone fat. For most Americans, only 1400 calories of anything will cause them to lose more than a pound a day.
What those "poisons" will do, if eaten exclusively, is to mess up someone's blood chemistry. On a long enough time scale, they'll get their weight way down -- and then have a heart attack from the cholesterol that's choking their heart.
The "multi-billion dollar" diet industry exists because it sells gimicks, that help someone eat few enough calories that they lose weight.
Have you ever actually used a computer?
Joe Sixpack benefits from a computer that runs faster, swaps less, and has a shorter boot time. In fact, I'd wager that he gets more benefit from memory than the typical
Until he becomes the Supreme Court, it's just an opinion. The Constitution says what the Supreme Court says it says -- if Mr. Paul cannot convince the Justices that his point of view is correct, it's simply one citizen's opinion. As a member of Congress he certainly has standing to file the suit.
Just for the record: if Ron were to file that suit, and actually succeed, you can expect that the Congress would have a Constitutional Amendment to rectify the problem passed with record speed.
But you're right -- Vista is simply not worth the upgrade price. In a large part, neither were Windows 98, 2000, or XP.