I can drink a 64 oz. Mountain dew right before bed and sleep like a baby, aside from the multitude of piss breaks. That has to be one of the worst things about caffeine. Caffeine is a diuretic, so about 45 minutes after I drink mountain dea, I have to go to the bathroom.
Even without the Caffeine, I probably have the circulatory system of someone in their late twenties(I'm 17). I have an amazingly high calorie diet(well over 3,000 cals. a day average, sometimes going over 4,000). Most of these are carbohydrates, as I am a severe sugar addict.
The odd thing is, I'm almost 20 lbs. under weight, although my cholesterol is much too high for my age. 180+ last time i got it checked IIRC. That's what I get for eating double whoppers and pizza almost all the time though, i guess..
Well, the government, IMHO, shouldn't be involved in education or health care, which is a large chunk of the annual budget. Even more than the military budget IIRC.
I do think that NASA should remain government supported until it can be spun off and made self sufficient, like the post office, and they should recieve funding after that, for research and other things.
The only things the government should do are the things that private industry can't do better, which isn't very much.
I'm really glad I don't have to deal with that kind of stuff at my school. I am in an Electronic Engineering and telecommunications class right now. We get to do some interesting stuff most of the time. Although the teacher will make us work on circuit diagrams just to piss us off if we are bad in class. That is an effective punishment, making you calculate every resistance/voltage/current in a complex circuit..
Plus we get plenty of time to do whatever we want, if it is somewhat related to the class, and we don't have anything more important. I am a second year student in the class, so I get to take it for a whole half day, and we're basicly in charge of keeping the other computer labs running and all the teacher's PCs set up right. When we don't have something more important to do we get to experiment with whatever we want. Lately, we've been through a round of Mandrake Linux installs. Last week was BeOS(RIP).
It does seem like it would be a lot cheaper to have students do all the basic software installations and setups, instead of having to pay someone to do it...
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I know that compaq makes bad consumer PCs, and HPs seem (from my somewhat limited experience with them) to be merely mediocre, yet they have a large chunk of the market, while better PC makers (IMHO) like NEC, get only niche markets. Dell seems to be the only good and popular consumer PC.
I've always been a fan of NEC, though so maybe I'm a little impartial, but they seem to be one of the few innovative consumer PC makers. They have good support as well.
As for the merger, I don't see how merging two poorly-performing companies will help either of them. I want to see how their stock prices react tomorrow. This is definately a quite hefty purchase though.
PS: I bet dell is pissed that they can't say 'america's favorite PC' anymore... hehehe...
I wonder who they'll buy to catch up. Anyone want to place bets on it?
I really don't see what is so special about other countries having more cell phones per capita than the US. I (along with many other), consider them annoying most of the time. Besides, in many of the countries you are talking about, a cell phone is cheaper than a land line, which isn't the case in the US yet. Some of the stuff you mentions is cool, but not everyone needs a cell phone. I barely use phones at all anymore, as a matter of fact.
I don't have any clue what causes people to think that these new technoliges are necessities. As of now they are nothing more than neat technologies right now. I don't see 3G being viable for sometime, so I really see no reason for us to be the first. Japan is almost always first with wireless technologies, because it is so popular there. I doubt very seriously many people in the US aside from some geeks would trade in their PCS phone for a more expensive 3G phone anytime soon, nor do I think they should. I don't think 3G will be popular here until we get real wireless webpads and PDAs. By then, im sure the FCC will figure out what they want to do about it...
Gobe is greatness.. I wonder how good it will be on linux. If they can make it as good or better than the BeOS version, It will take over as the best linux office suite. I think the BeOS version already beats MS office in almost every category besides userbase...
No, not true... He would only have the counts of trafficking though, not the conspiracy to....for financial gain BS.
Of course, if many thousands of people downloaded the program, he might have more than 5 counts of the trafficking charge...
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I've also seen it on techTV, although i don't think that would quite be mainstream. Close to it though...
We need an ABC nightline special on the DMCA... Ted Koppel is the man!... lol
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It seems that cable news networks are worse at this than most other news outlets. I actually think ABC does an ok job of covering overseas items, and I watch The BBC daily news every morning as well, so I think i have things covered...
I wonder if they ever get in fights around redmond.
I can see it now....
Steve ballmer charger with 3 counts of aggravated assault after dropping an xbox on 3 nintendo of america employees after an argument at a local restaurant.
Well, not exactly, but a windows liscence is a large percentage (around 20%) of a low end system price. About 10% for an OEM copy actually... Which is still a sizeable chunk, and it is much cheaper to pay 2 dollars for a linux cd, which should be only a 20th or less of a windows OEM liscence...
I prefer opera on Linux, BeOS, and windows, but I usually use IE in windows, as it is more convenient for going to a few site really quick, which is what I usually do..
Entrapment is when the undercover police ASK a person to commit a crime that they would normally not do, ie. if an undercover cop asked someone to buy some drugs from them. In this case it would be when the agents asked him to show them the flaws in the site.
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Does anyone think that terrorists like Bin Laden can't afford to hire someone to build them their own encryption technologies?
If this does happen, it will only harm american citizen's privacy...
You mean you're going to be Keith Richards' replacement?
I can drink a 64 oz. Mountain dew right before bed and sleep like a baby, aside from the multitude of piss breaks. That has to be one of the worst things about caffeine. Caffeine is a diuretic, so about 45 minutes after I drink mountain dea, I have to go to the bathroom.
Even without the Caffeine, I probably have the circulatory system of someone in their late twenties(I'm 17). I have an amazingly high calorie diet(well over 3,000 cals. a day average, sometimes going over 4,000). Most of these are carbohydrates, as I am a severe sugar addict.
The odd thing is, I'm almost 20 lbs. under weight, although my cholesterol is much too high for my age. 180+ last time i got it checked IIRC. That's what I get for eating double whoppers and pizza almost all the time though, i guess..
I say that 5-7 would be a better number for software copyrights, and maybe 10 for certain types of software...
Well, I'm still not old enough to vote(barely), so I guess I have an excuse... :)
Well, the government, IMHO, shouldn't be involved in education or health care, which is a large chunk of the annual budget. Even more than the military budget IIRC.
I do think that NASA should remain government supported until it can be spun off and made self sufficient, like the post office, and they should recieve funding after that, for research and other things.
The only things the government should do are the things that private industry can't do better, which isn't very much.
I'm really glad I don't have to deal with that kind of stuff at my school. I am in an Electronic Engineering and telecommunications class right now. We get to do some interesting stuff most of the time. Although the teacher will make us work on circuit diagrams just to piss us off if we are bad in class. That is an effective punishment, making you calculate every resistance/voltage/current in a complex circuit..
Plus we get plenty of time to do whatever we want, if it is somewhat related to the class, and we don't have anything more important. I am a second year student in the class, so I get to take it for a whole half day, and we're basicly in charge of keeping the other computer labs running and all the teacher's PCs set up right. When we don't have something more important to do we get to experiment with whatever we want. Lately, we've been through a round of Mandrake Linux installs. Last week was BeOS(RIP).
It does seem like it would be a lot cheaper to have students do all the basic software installations and setups, instead of having to pay someone to do it...
I know that compaq makes bad consumer PCs, and HPs seem (from my somewhat limited experience with them) to be merely mediocre, yet they have a large chunk of the market, while better PC makers (IMHO) like NEC, get only niche markets. Dell seems to be the only good and popular consumer PC.
I've always been a fan of NEC, though so maybe I'm a little impartial, but they seem to be one of the few innovative consumer PC makers. They have good support as well.
As for the merger, I don't see how merging two poorly-performing companies will help either of them. I want to see how their stock prices react tomorrow. This is definately a quite hefty purchase though.
PS: I bet dell is pissed that they can't say 'america's favorite PC' anymore... hehehe...
I wonder who they'll buy to catch up. Anyone want to place bets on it?
I really don't see what is so special about other countries having more cell phones per capita than the US. I (along with many other), consider them annoying most of the time. Besides, in many of the countries you are talking about, a cell phone is cheaper than a land line, which isn't the case in the US yet. Some of the stuff you mentions is cool, but not everyone needs a cell phone. I barely use phones at all anymore, as a matter of fact.
I don't have any clue what causes people to think that these new technoliges are necessities. As of now they are nothing more than neat technologies right now. I don't see 3G being viable for sometime, so I really see no reason for us to be the first. Japan is almost always first with wireless technologies, because it is so popular there. I doubt very seriously many people in the US aside from some geeks would trade in their PCS phone for a more expensive 3G phone anytime soon, nor do I think they should. I don't think 3G will be popular here until we get real wireless webpads and PDAs. By then, im sure the FCC will figure out what they want to do about it...
Just because the address has a .org after it definately does not mean that the owners have noble intentions, or maybe even legal intentions.
I'll leave it to a judge to decide who is right, but the TV show has the right to protect their interests, even if they don't win the suit...
Gobe is greatness.. I wonder how good it will be on linux. If they can make it as good or better than the BeOS version, It will take over as the best linux office suite. I think the BeOS version already beats MS office in almost every category besides userbase...
No, not true... He would only have the counts of trafficking though, not the conspiracy to.. ..for financial gain BS.
Of course, if many thousands of people downloaded the program, he might have more than 5 counts of the trafficking charge...
I've also seen it on techTV, although i don't think that would quite be mainstream. Close to it though...
We need an ABC nightline special on the DMCA... Ted Koppel is the man!... lol
It seems that cable news networks are worse at this than most other news outlets. I actually think ABC does an ok job of covering overseas items, and I watch The BBC daily news every morning as well, so I think i have things covered...
Doesnt have to be on a GOD, you could possibly use one of those 8 cm CD-R's...
theoreticly possible... not sure though...
I don't think the Z-trigger is actually patented anyway. I did a search at the USPTO, and got no mmatches for z-target or z-trigger....
Doesnt mean it isnt in there somewhere though...
Yes I am indeed a very fervent capitalist. And generics will definately be made en masse, and they even look pretty cool.
I love having official nintendo accessories though... I'll probably only get 1 extra controller, and maybe 2 generics anyway..
Its just a PPC chip, so the kernel should be about ready.
I think the graphics chip stuff may take a while though...
Nintendo is just matching sony's controller pricing, although I agree that it is odd..
I wonder if they ever get in fights around redmond.
I can see it now....
Steve ballmer charger with 3 counts of aggravated assault after dropping an xbox on 3 nintendo of america employees after an argument at a local restaurant.
lol..
All that is aside from the fact that minimum wage laws hamper free trade.
If someone want (or needs) to work for less than minimum wage, then they should definately be able to.
Well, not exactly, but a windows liscence is a large percentage (around 20%) of a low end system price. About 10% for an OEM copy actually... Which is still a sizeable chunk, and it is much cheaper to pay 2 dollars for a linux cd, which should be only a 20th or less of a windows OEM liscence...
I prefer opera on Linux, BeOS, and windows, but I usually use IE in windows, as it is more convenient for going to a few site really quick, which is what I usually do..
Entrapment is when the undercover police ASK a person to commit a crime that they would normally not do, ie. if an undercover cop asked someone to buy some drugs from them. In this case it would be when the agents asked him to show them the flaws in the site.
I doubt the case will go far either. The government has to prove that he had criminal intent, which will be hard, IMO.
You never really know though...