Won't I lose everything with a hard reset? I mean I can always resync I guess.
Maybe. The reset button has two modes--"soft reset", which just ends all processes and starts again, thus not killing your memory, and "hard reset", which clears the RAM and boots from ROM (thus losing any not-backed-up data.)
Don't you lose everything if you let the battery run down? Or does your Treo have a flash memory backup?
When your Treo locks up, unscrew the stylus and hit the rest pin on the back. You might need to hold it for a bit, but this will cause a "hard" reboot.
Perhaps you've heard of a little technology called RAID? In most environments where space isn't an issue and you have a real IT staff, you could probably get by with a bunch of consumer-grade parts set up in a reduntant fashion.
In fact, the low-cost "servers" you would get from Dell aren't that much more than consumer-grade parts specifically configured to be ran as servers. The cheapest ones come with IDE and Celerons / Pentium 4s.
When it comes to hardware, you should only buy what you need and enough redundancy to keep running through the installation of the next level of redundancy. Computers depreciate faster than any other expense you could have; they aren't drill presses or factory automation.
Simple economics: if two "servers" cost $1500 each, and you can get "PCs" for $750 each, you can either get four times as many or save half the cost--which can help you move to better equipment as the budget goes along.
An advanced degree doesn't neccessarily equal wisdom. In fact, it seldom does.
"Wisdom" would be seperating the political label from the ethic. The evils of the USSR were many--intolerant atheism, tyranny, despotism, facism, war-mongering, etc., etc.--but "communism" was by far the least of them.
Remember: the USSR beat the snot out of the Germans in the latter part of WWII, and then went boondoggle for boondoggle with the USA for close to fifty years. There has to be SOMETHING to their economic policy.
Some of our brightest minds may have betrayed us during the Cold War, but many of our leaders betrayed us by turning what should have been a right-angle dispute into a head-on staring contest.
Because the idea is to make the "show an ID card" event checked along with an RFID card. It's politiaclly impossible for them to require the cards to not be kept in a no-scan device.
Doing so would be like requiring that all drivers put their drivers license in the windows of their car. Doesn't serve any governmental purpose and exposes the citizenry to harm: simply won't happen.
RFID is nothing more than an electronic barcode. Thus, if you worry about corporate America trackig you, you can pay in cash, wear a hood, use an RFID scanner on your clothes (or just make them yourself!), and keep your RFID cards within a signal-blocker until you take them out.
In which case, shouldn't any radiation created by the big bang be at least 13 billion light years away from it's point of origin by now?
Yes. Except that all points expanded at a rather amazing speed away from the point of origin. The microwave radition we're getting now is the radition from points that are about 13 billion light years away "now", along the path the radiation took.
Since we only have a 13-billion light year radius bubble of information, we can only conjecture as to what shape the universe really is.
"Even if God took a literal six earth revolutions to create the cosmos, He put those bone-shaped rocks there knowing that we would eventually figure out the apparant evolution therein, which would help us understand how the world will move on from the moment He finished the constructive part of creation. Thus, it is entirely appropriate for us to teach evolution--God wants us to."
Religion, like voting, is a community descision. People who are members of your community (and not in the YMCA/United Way meaning. I mean the folk who are your real kith) have a duty to share their views with you, and you have an opinion to share your views with them. If you don't, then they're not kith.
It is your busiess that your friends vote because if they don't vote, then the elected officials don't care about them and the government will not bend to assist them.
It is your business what religion your friends are. Formal or informal, agreeing or disagreeing, knowing how a person relates to the divine is part of knowing a person. At the very least, you need to know if you can invite them to be your kid's godparent or trust them to keep the kid from being brainwashed by organized religion.
Oh, and that "meddling" you're referring to--that's called DEMOCRACY.
I looked, didn't see the "Bush turned his campaign promises insided out" position anywhere on the DNC's website.
Your insult aside, I don't see this as anything other than a newspaper editor explaining why he changed his endorsement from Bush to not-Bush. If you want to call this parotting the DNC's platform--well, I'd have to say that you're abstracting the issues so far that you'd be unable to tell the Green Party from the Democrats or Terrorists from Muslims.
Yes. it also means that you're as evil as it gets. The mirror ericspinder is, in fact, a goody two-shoes pansy.
My evil twin, on the other hand, has the other half of my facial hair, and is just as confusing to the plot elements. We're scheming to open a rift and exchange electronic razors for fashion sense; look for the "two grey universes" coming soon.
And just because somebody slaps the name "trusted computing" on a piece of silicon it does not mean that I am going to "trust" it without question- even if they are being shipped by IBM (who can do no wrong!)
You're wholly missing the point. "Trusted computing" is not a term aimed at the consumer. It's a term aimed at the content-providers. As in, "even though PCs gave rise to rampant copyright infringement, you can trust these not to do so."
It sounds like you don't think a reasonable person would be for those things.
No. I just happen to have been on/. long enough to see the right-wing sub-groupthink react rather hypocritically. Consistency of viewpoint is a very good thing. ([POLITICAL] And you can even compromise to get "almost what you want" without being called a flip-flopper by the Democrats [/POLITICAL])
As for the definition you give for welfare, correct or not it is not the one that governments use. Welfare=money to a government
A "government" is an unintelligent organism that can only think in terms of law and money. When we get small enough communities that money and laws are not necessary, government vanishes. (We call these "families" here in America, y'know.)
If the government was allowed to think in terms other than money, we'd probably have a better system to preserve the welfare of the unsuccessful. But, given that even the frickin USSR wasn't able to do away with money, I don't reasonably expect it to happen in my lifetime.
Hmm... Come to think of it, I'm for high inheritance taxes (checked by a deductable of, oh, a few million dollars) and no-tuition education, too. But I must say that I've never met a rich person's child that was miserable due to the money. A jerk, maybe, but not miserable.
In NY's SEFA and United Way campaigns, a payroll deduction can be designated to any 501(c)(3) organization, even those not on the list.
You should ask the person running you office's campaign what your options are. Tell them that you want to donate to one particular charity that isn't on the list. If they don't have a process to help you out, just decline to participate in the CFC and send your donation seperately.
I personally do not want to live in such a society. Yes, everyone should be given the tools to make themselves happy (whether stupid, sick handicapped, etc.), but an external force will NEVER be able to make someone happy.
Welfare != happiness.
Welfare = survival.
We're talking about the first of the three guaranteed divine rights here= "life."
I believe that the primary function of society is to give everyone an even chance. Beyond that, what you do with it is your own affair. (Yes, there should exist safety nets for people that get slammed by pure economics. But that is not the primary function of society, in my opinion.)
So, you're for near-100% inheritance taxes, college educations for anyone who can pass the tests, and starting grants to "get life moving" for those without well-off relatives?
The successfull will be successful (and survive) without society. The unsuccessful need society to survive.
This is not to say that the Electoral College is the best system, but we need to remember that if switch to a strict popular vote, then Smalltown, USA or Smallstate, USA would never get fair representation.
Sure they would. Smalltown gets a house rep, Smallstate gets two senators. And both of THOSE are elected by popular votes.
Is there anyone here that is voting Bush or Kerry with a clear conscience?
Yep. I'm [planning on] voting for Kerry, a few of my/. friends are [planning on] voting for Bush, a few of my/. friends are [planning on] voting for Kerry.
- The film is thirty years old and has been seen by hundreds of millions of people. It is outside of the copyright period in effect at the time of the film's initial release.
- A film seen by so many people becomes public domain as a result of having entered the cultural consciousness. The fact that is not legally secure only proves the absurdity of the USA copyright laws.
Damn. Where the hell did you learn about copyright law?
The US modified our copyright laws to conform to the Berne convention in 1976, thus making Lucas's Star Wars release in 1977 covered by the life-of-author+50 measure. So you're wrong on the first quoted claim.
The second quoted claim, that somehow over-use of copyright can erode it, is a misunderstanding. TRADEMARKS can be eroded to lose their legal meaning (i.e., Xerox), but copyrights cannot. Even if everyone on the entire planet has seen a work and can recite it from memory, the work is still protected by copyright until it expires.
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Won't I lose everything with a hard reset? I mean I can always resync I guess.
Maybe. The reset button has two modes--"soft reset", which just ends all processes and starts again, thus not killing your memory, and "hard reset", which clears the RAM and boots from ROM (thus losing any not-backed-up data.)
Don't you lose everything if you let the battery run down? Or does your Treo have a flash memory backup?
When your Treo locks up, unscrew the stylus and hit the rest pin on the back. You might need to hold it for a bit, but this will cause a "hard" reboot.
Perhaps you've heard of a little technology called RAID? In most environments where space isn't an issue and you have a real IT staff, you could probably get by with a bunch of consumer-grade parts set up in a reduntant fashion.
In fact, the low-cost "servers" you would get from Dell aren't that much more than consumer-grade parts specifically configured to be ran as servers. The cheapest ones come with IDE and Celerons / Pentium 4s.
When it comes to hardware, you should only buy what you need and enough redundancy to keep running through the installation of the next level of redundancy. Computers depreciate faster than any other expense you could have; they aren't drill presses or factory automation.
Simple economics: if two "servers" cost $1500 each, and you can get "PCs" for $750 each, you can either get four times as many or save half the cost--which can help you move to better equipment as the budget goes along.
An economic policy that can't provide such things is horribly flawed.
Yes, it is. A proper method for the USSR would have been to focus on building their country, not going boondogle for boondogle.
But if communism was as horribly flawed as some capitalists make it out to be, the USSR would have starved to death long before Mir was launched.
A bar code which can be read without you knowing that it has been read.
Which is why wallet-sized RFID blockers and homemade RFID "ping" devices will make a brisk profit once the tech matures and is used.
If I wore a shirt with a 12x12 inch bar code on my back, folk could read it without my knowing, either.
An advanced degree doesn't neccessarily equal wisdom. In fact, it seldom does.
"Wisdom" would be seperating the political label from the ethic. The evils of the USSR were many--intolerant atheism, tyranny, despotism, facism, war-mongering, etc., etc.--but "communism" was by far the least of them.
Remember: the USSR beat the snot out of the Germans in the latter part of WWII, and then went boondoggle for boondoggle with the USA for close to fifty years. There has to be SOMETHING to their economic policy.
Some of our brightest minds may have betrayed us during the Cold War, but many of our leaders betrayed us by turning what should have been a right-angle dispute into a head-on staring contest.
Because the idea is to make the "show an ID card" event checked along with an RFID card. It's politiaclly impossible for them to require the cards to not be kept in a no-scan device.
Doing so would be like requiring that all drivers put their drivers license in the windows of their car. Doesn't serve any governmental purpose and exposes the citizenry to harm: simply won't happen.
RFID is nothing more than an electronic barcode. Thus, if you worry about corporate America trackig you, you can pay in cash, wear a hood, use an RFID scanner on your clothes (or just make them yourself!), and keep your RFID cards within a signal-blocker until you take them out.
In which case, shouldn't any radiation created by the big bang be at least 13 billion light years away from it's point of origin by now?
Yes. Except that all points expanded at a rather amazing speed away from the point of origin. The microwave radition we're getting now is the radition from points that are about 13 billion light years away "now", along the path the radiation took.
Since we only have a 13-billion light year radius bubble of information, we can only conjecture as to what shape the universe really is.
Sure.
"Even if God took a literal six earth revolutions to create the cosmos, He put those bone-shaped rocks there knowing that we would eventually figure out the apparant evolution therein, which would help us understand how the world will move on from the moment He finished the constructive part of creation. Thus, it is entirely appropriate for us to teach evolution--God wants us to."
That Christ didn't come to bring peace on earth. He came to say "the apocolypse is coming, and you sinners better repent now."
Wow. You're 2 for 2.
Religion, like voting, is a community descision. People who are members of your community (and not in the YMCA/United Way meaning. I mean the folk who are your real kith) have a duty to share their views with you, and you have an opinion to share your views with them. If you don't, then they're not kith.
It is your busiess that your friends vote because if they don't vote, then the elected officials don't care about them and the government will not bend to assist them.
It is your business what religion your friends are. Formal or informal, agreeing or disagreeing, knowing how a person relates to the divine is part of knowing a person. At the very least, you need to know if you can invite them to be your kid's godparent or trust them to keep the kid from being brainwashed by organized religion.
Oh, and that "meddling" you're referring to--that's called DEMOCRACY.
I looked, didn't see the "Bush turned his campaign promises insided out" position anywhere on the DNC's website.
Your insult aside, I don't see this as anything other than a newspaper editor explaining why he changed his endorsement from Bush to not-Bush. If you want to call this parotting the DNC's platform--well, I'd have to say that you're abstracting the issues so far that you'd be unable to tell the Green Party from the Democrats or Terrorists from Muslims.
Got a link?
Yes. it also means that you're as evil as it gets. The mirror ericspinder is, in fact, a goody two-shoes pansy.
My evil twin, on the other hand, has the other half of my facial hair, and is just as confusing to the plot elements. We're scheming to open a rift and exchange electronic razors for fashion sense; look for the "two grey universes" coming soon.
And just because somebody slaps the name "trusted computing" on a piece of silicon it does not mean that I am going to "trust" it without question- even if they are being shipped by IBM (who can do no wrong!)
You're wholly missing the point. "Trusted computing" is not a term aimed at the consumer. It's a term aimed at the content-providers. As in, "even though PCs gave rise to rampant copyright infringement, you can trust these not to do so."
It sounds like you don't think a reasonable person would be for those things.
/. long enough to see the right-wing sub-groupthink react rather hypocritically. Consistency of viewpoint is a very good thing. ([POLITICAL] And you can even compromise to get "almost what you want" without being called a flip-flopper by the Democrats [/POLITICAL])
No. I just happen to have been on
As for the definition you give for welfare, correct or not it is not the one that governments use. Welfare=money to a government
A "government" is an unintelligent organism that can only think in terms of law and money. When we get small enough communities that money and laws are not necessary, government vanishes. (We call these "families" here in America, y'know.)
If the government was allowed to think in terms other than money, we'd probably have a better system to preserve the welfare of the unsuccessful. But, given that even the frickin USSR wasn't able to do away with money, I don't reasonably expect it to happen in my lifetime.
Hmm... Come to think of it, I'm for high inheritance taxes (checked by a deductable of, oh, a few million dollars) and no-tuition education, too. But I must say that I've never met a rich person's child that was miserable due to the money. A jerk, maybe, but not miserable.
In NY's SEFA and United Way campaigns, a payroll deduction can be designated to any 501(c)(3) organization, even those not on the list.
You should ask the person running you office's campaign what your options are. Tell them that you want to donate to one particular charity that isn't on the list. If they don't have a process to help you out, just decline to participate in the CFC and send your donation seperately.
I personally do not want to live in such a society. Yes, everyone should be given the tools to make themselves happy (whether stupid, sick handicapped, etc.), but an external force will NEVER be able to make someone happy.
Welfare != happiness.
Welfare = survival.
We're talking about the first of the three guaranteed divine rights here= "life."
I believe that the primary function of society is to give everyone an even chance. Beyond that, what you do with it is your own affair. (Yes, there should exist safety nets for people that get slammed by pure economics. But that is not the primary function of society, in my opinion.)
So, you're for near-100% inheritance taxes, college educations for anyone who can pass the tests, and starting grants to "get life moving" for those without well-off relatives?
The successfull will be successful (and survive) without society. The unsuccessful need society to survive.
This is not to say that the Electoral College is the best system, but we need to remember that if switch to a strict popular vote, then Smalltown, USA or Smallstate, USA would never get fair representation.
Sure they would. Smalltown gets a house rep, Smallstate gets two senators. And both of THOSE are elected by popular votes.
d'oh. Silly lack of two letters.
UNstated. UNstated. As in "implied." As in "even a screwball can catch this."
Does he have to specify that it display a language he can read?
Ever use OS X? It seems to fit all your requirements.
You're missing the stated "runs on my computer" requirement.
Who's interested in trying to get that to happen?
Already happened. After this election, 527s are going to be as restricted as everyone else.
Is there anyone here that is voting Bush or Kerry with a clear conscience?
/. friends are [planning on] voting for Bush, a few of my /. friends are [planning on] voting for Kerry.
Yep. I'm [planning on] voting for Kerry, a few of my
That's an argument against copyright for simple works, not over-use.
You might as well ask why you should have to pay for a copy of Lord of the Rings.
- The film is thirty years old and has been seen by hundreds of millions of people. It is outside of the copyright period in effect at the time of the film's initial release.
- A film seen by so many people becomes public domain as a result of having entered the cultural consciousness. The fact that is not legally secure only proves the absurdity of the USA copyright laws.
Damn. Where the hell did you learn about copyright law?
The US modified our copyright laws to conform to the Berne convention in 1976, thus making Lucas's Star Wars release in 1977 covered by the life-of-author+50 measure. So you're wrong on the first quoted claim.
The second quoted claim, that somehow over-use of copyright can erode it, is a misunderstanding. TRADEMARKS can be eroded to lose their legal meaning (i.e., Xerox), but copyrights cannot. Even if everyone on the entire planet has seen a work and can recite it from memory, the work is still protected by copyright until it expires.