What I meant to add was the Apple stopped their licensing of their OS to white box makers when Jobs came on board for this reason. Apple doesn't make money from selling their OS they make it from selling their hardware.
I have yet to see any government function that cannot be done better and cheaper privately
Prisons. Yes its cheaper, but the main problem is that you end up with an opposite profit motive. In most privatized goverment exist to create competition. Prisons don't compete (unless they are completly horrible and get shut down), but they do have a profit motive in repeat customers. While the government has a motive in non repeat offenders.
I'm sure there are a few other examples. But yes, for the most part I agree with you... Though I still don't understand whats with the popularity in private prisons. They simply don't work. BTW my employer monitors juvenile prisons education for DOE, I see the crappness of private juvenile centers on a regular basis. And I'm sure this translates well to adult prisons also.
Actually yes, (well not currently) my wife grew up in a home where her father drank all their money away, and most of the family starved on a regular basis. Did the government laps in getting these kids help? Yes. Is this a primary fault of our government system and can it happen just about anywhere in the world, even socialist countries? Definatly.
It seems like they would have come clause in their free box request thingy, to ensure you use the boxes for shipping via fedex, and not for personal use. I had no idea you could get tons of free fedex boxes, if I had known I might have gotten em last time I needed boxes. Anyways, if they don't have such a clause, they need to fix it. If they do, they need to prosecute this guy for violating that clause, in effect stealing their boxes. Otherwise they need to STFU.
Believe it or not $199 the operating system is not where Microsoft makes most of its money. It sells XP really cheap to dell and the likes, and sells only a few boxed versions. Its real money is in the server market where it makes tons of money on its high end software. XP is simply a product to create lock-in so it can sell its servers or office software.
But how would more games help Apple. Apple doesn't make much money from OS X, and it probably never will. Its money was always from sale of its hardware. If you can run it on any X86, there goes that profit line completly. Though I could see apple doing some sort of driver verification thing, where if you didn't have apple branded MB and apple branded video card etc, even if they were the same thing.. It wouldn't run. Then make the hardware vendors pay a fee for making apple hardware. This could work to consumers advantage even, because apple has historically been known as a stabler operating system, mainly because they can contol what hardware goes into it. So if you want a stable computer go apple, and as a side advantage you will probably get a stable window system to dual boot into.
In fact the astonaught even said "I will close this brief first podcast from space." Indicating NASA told him it was to be a podcast. Have to wonder why.
And who said a middle schooler should have a laptop.. Yea if the kid saves his allowance and money from chores maybe he can buy it himself. But till he's old enough for a job the chances of him taking good care of a laptop are low.
The Babylonians started it, they seperated circles into 60 minutes, and those into smaller 60 sections called seconds. Similar to our 360 degrees around a circle measurments.
Note we still use these today in degrees-minutes-seconds of our longitute latitute.
Personally if my neighrbor enforces a ban on comming within 200 feet of his front door (as long as those 200 feet arn't in the road), with his sniper rifle. While the rest of us ban 3feet from our door with our basebat bats. I say more power to em, just give me a warning shot first.. ok.
As others already stated if the useage is low enough it makes sense, also a photo color quality laser is enourmously expensive.
Another additional benefit is those combo fax/scanner deals. If you scan in and fax out a lot it doesn't cost you any ink, and you got it at a discount from the laser version.
You forget that populating into space will in no way reduce population on earth. Current birth rate is around 150 million a year. Luckly death rate follows that closely. Unfortunatly you would have to transport atleast a million people a year off this rock to have even the slightest effect. I don't see that happening anytime soon. So while colonising other planets will help the human race survive it won't stop the need for population controls as you speak of. So realistically you have to be for both.
He didn't say it was causation. He simply said that critics were wrong. Just as if critics started claiming that legalized abortions caused other violence, or that republican control causes violence. With the opposite is obviously nessesarly true, you can prove these idea false with the correlation, just as you can prove that gaming causes violence with this correlation showing a possibility of the opposite. Remember its easier to prove a negative than prove a positive.
Sorry thanks, I checked a few months ago when I bought my last printer server, couldn't find anything. Maybe its time for a replacement, thanks.... for nothing.
It says these box is a complete set for playing, I got the impression that these cards are an expansion for the existing "Universal fighting system" meaning that they play with other UFS collectable card games. This box is probably the complete set (or close to it) of penny arcade cards. So unless your interested in other UFS cards there is no real reason to buy.
Ok given we all follow Dr. Johnsons' plan (note I have not read his plan so maybe I'm wrong here) you are probably right that he is advocating the end of scientific reason. Of course in the real world the logical reasoning has been steadily improving and I see no obvious end in sight. My point was that advocating teaching alternate viewpoints in a manor of "here are alternate viewpoints, please think for youself" is in no way an end of reason. And in fact the beginning of reason as it is encouraging one to think for themselves instead of simply saying "here is evolution, don't question it".
Ok did you just say that teaching varius cultural views in a "These are varius views, please use your own logical mind to make your personal decisions about these views, given all the facts." Will end all reason in society as we know it?
Remember its also a matter of culture. I believe I was taught many things about many cultures in my Social Studies classes. So saying these cultural things don't belong in school is absolutly wrong. Saying they don't belong in biology class (outside of a casual mention) is absolutly correct.
Yes, but the HDDVD XBox 2 won't be out for a good year after the initial XBox release. This will give blue-ray 6 months to a year of being the only player in the next-gen DVD market. I don't think toshiba will be able to recover despite their deal with Microsoft. Sure people will buy the HD-DVD XBox 2, mainly to play Xbox new titles released on that format.
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What I meant to add was the Apple stopped their licensing of their OS to white box makers when Jobs came on board for this reason. Apple doesn't make money from selling their OS they make it from selling their hardware.
I have yet to see any government function that cannot be done better and cheaper privately
Prisons.
Yes its cheaper, but the main problem is that you end up with an opposite profit motive. In most privatized goverment exist to create competition. Prisons don't compete (unless they are completly horrible and get shut down), but they do have a profit motive in repeat customers. While the government has a motive in non repeat offenders.
I'm sure there are a few other examples. But yes, for the most part I agree with you... Though I still don't understand whats with the popularity in private prisons. They simply don't work. BTW my employer monitors juvenile prisons education for DOE, I see the crappness of private juvenile centers on a regular basis. And I'm sure this translates well to adult prisons also.
Actually yes, (well not currently) my wife grew up in a home where her father drank all their money away, and most of the family starved on a regular basis. Did the government laps in getting these kids help? Yes. Is this a primary fault of our government system and can it happen just about anywhere in the world, even socialist countries? Definatly.
It seems like they would have come clause in their free box request thingy, to ensure you use the boxes for shipping via fedex, and not for personal use. I had no idea you could get tons of free fedex boxes, if I had known I might have gotten em last time I needed boxes. Anyways, if they don't have such a clause, they need to fix it. If they do, they need to prosecute this guy for violating that clause, in effect stealing their boxes. Otherwise they need to STFU.
Believe it or not $199 the operating system is not where Microsoft makes most of its money. It sells XP really cheap to dell and the likes, and sells only a few boxed versions. Its real money is in the server market where it makes tons of money on its high end software. XP is simply a product to create lock-in so it can sell its servers or office software.
But how would more games help Apple. Apple doesn't make much money from OS X, and it probably never will. Its money was always from sale of its hardware. If you can run it on any X86, there goes that profit line completly. Though I could see apple doing some sort of driver verification thing, where if you didn't have apple branded MB and apple branded video card etc, even if they were the same thing.. It wouldn't run. Then make the hardware vendors pay a fee for making apple hardware. This could work to consumers advantage even, because apple has historically been known as a stabler operating system, mainly because they can contol what hardware goes into it. So if you want a stable computer go apple, and as a side advantage you will probably get a stable window system to dual boot into.
Actually I've frequently seen rare bittorrets download at less then 5K so yes, dial-up speeds.
I think its more of a concern for the firewall's feelings. Either that or the feelings or someone who loves firewalls for all that they do.
Wireless networking perhaps, a few games, possibly a promised free upgrade to HD DVD when it comes out. Any number of things could push the price.
In fact the astonaught even said "I will close this brief first podcast from space." Indicating NASA told him it was to be a podcast. Have to wonder why.
And who said a middle schooler should have a laptop.. Yea if the kid saves his allowance and money from chores maybe he can buy it himself. But till he's old enough for a job the chances of him taking good care of a laptop are low.
The Babylonians started it, they seperated circles into 60 minutes, and those into smaller 60 sections called seconds. Similar to our 360 degrees around a circle measurments.
Note we still use these today in degrees-minutes-seconds of our longitute latitute.
Personally if my neighrbor enforces a ban on comming within 200 feet of his front door (as long as those 200 feet arn't in the road), with his sniper rifle. While the rest of us ban 3feet from our door with our basebat bats. I say more power to em, just give me a warning shot first.. ok.
As others already stated if the useage is low enough it makes sense, also a photo color quality laser is enourmously expensive.
Another additional benefit is those combo fax/scanner deals. If you scan in and fax out a lot it doesn't cost you any ink, and you got it at a discount from the laser version.
You forget that populating into space will in no way reduce population on earth. Current birth rate is around 150 million a year. Luckly death rate follows that closely. Unfortunatly you would have to transport atleast a million people a year off this rock to have even the slightest effect. I don't see that happening anytime soon. So while colonising other planets will help the human race survive it won't stop the need for population controls as you speak of. So realistically you have to be for both.
If you read the link, the X-Prize people are talking about starting the X-Cup, a regular space competition.
He didn't say it was causation. He simply said that critics were wrong. Just as if critics started claiming that legalized abortions caused other violence, or that republican control causes violence. With the opposite is obviously nessesarly true, you can prove these idea false with the correlation, just as you can prove that gaming causes violence with this correlation showing a possibility of the opposite. Remember its easier to prove a negative than prove a positive.
Sorry thanks, I checked a few months ago when I bought my last printer server, couldn't find anything. Maybe its time for a replacement, thanks.... for nothing.
Do you know of any wireless print servers that support WPA as thats what is really keeping me from implementing it.
It says these box is a complete set for playing, I got the impression that these cards are an expansion for the existing "Universal fighting system" meaning that they play with other UFS collectable card games. This box is probably the complete set (or close to it) of penny arcade cards. So unless your interested in other UFS cards there is no real reason to buy.
Ok given we all follow Dr. Johnsons' plan (note I have not read his plan so maybe I'm wrong here) you are probably right that he is advocating the end of scientific reason. Of course in the real world the logical reasoning has been steadily improving and I see no obvious end in sight. My point was that advocating teaching alternate viewpoints in a manor of "here are alternate viewpoints, please think for youself" is in no way an end of reason. And in fact the beginning of reason as it is encouraging one to think for themselves instead of simply saying "here is evolution, don't question it".
Ok did you just say that teaching varius cultural views in a "These are varius views, please use your own logical mind to make your personal decisions about these views, given all the facts." Will end all reason in society as we know it?
Remember its also a matter of culture. I believe I was taught many things about many cultures in my Social Studies classes. So saying these cultural things don't belong in school is absolutly wrong. Saying they don't belong in biology class (outside of a casual mention) is absolutly correct.
Yes it was obviously a joke, but it was so stupid I just couldn't resist. Either way trying to promote the gold standard however a can.. :)
Yes, but the HDDVD XBox 2 won't be out for a good year after the initial XBox release. This will give blue-ray 6 months to a year of being the only player in the next-gen DVD market. I don't think toshiba will be able to recover despite their deal with Microsoft. Sure people will buy the HD-DVD XBox 2, mainly to play Xbox new titles released on that format.