I thought Republicans were supposed to be the party of smaller government? Oh, that's right. They're in favor of smaller government when it comes to regulating their campaign contributors but much much bigger government when it comes to regulating what you do in the privacy of your own home.
How these people can call themselves conservative is beyond me.
Remind me again why we can't mod down stories? The submitter is an idiot for believing what an uninformed 12 year old wrote on some random site. The editor is an idiot for approving such a bullshit "story". We're all idiots for bothering to read past the first post linking to the MPAA press release.
Some of the cable companies (Charter, for example) require you to have digital cable to get broadband. So you're looking at a minimum of $90/month for your combined service with all the wonderful tech support they provide.
To be fair, cable co's are not generally known for their ability to deliver a one way analog signal particularly well, let alone two way digital. And yet people still pay $80 a month for a crappy service and worse customer service.
I am a very happy satellite customer and would never consider cable ever again. I would rather not have television than deal with a cable company ever again. Thus far the sat co's attempts at rolling their own DVR's have been lackluster, and I hope they decide to stick with TiVo instead.
I've been chasing the elusive "quiet PC" for five years. I've bought "silent" power supplies , sound damping material, "silent" hard drive enclosures, and have had no luck. Sure, I reduced noise dramatically, but it was not eliminated completely.
The mini has more power than my last x86 box (Athlon XP 2400, 1G RAM) and makes just slightly more noise than my linksys router. I have to put my ear right next to it to hear anything at all.
In modern art, anything is art. Throw a frame (literally or metaphorically) and boom, gen-u-wine ART. All that is required is defining the framework, which is as simple as pointing at something you did/said/excreted and say "that's art".
Because insurance companies donate heavily to political campaigns and any attempt to change things is met with overwhelming pr campaigns.
On example, back in the early 90's there was a ballot initiative in California to institute some mild insurance industry reform. Supporters managed to raise a few hundred thousand dollars to promote the initiative. The industry spent well over twenty million dollars on a campaign that basically said 'this initiative is anti-American, it will destroy the state economy and result in everyone in the state having no insurance at all.'
The initiative passed overwhelmingly in spite of this, amazingly. And last I checked, CA's economy was on par with the rest of the country, and roughly the same portion of the population has insurance.
And note that the demo units in store all have photoshop on them and some reasonably large sample photos to play with. They also have Office XP installed, so you can really get an idea how it will perform under real usage.
Um, many states use your SS# for your driver's license and/or state issued ID card. Only recently has Missouri allowed you to use an alternate number...
OMG What a rip off! The Radeon 9800 is $250!! Dood ! I can get a CompUSA brand one with the same amount of memory for $70!! Radeons are a total rip off!!!!
*note that if you miss the obvious sarcasm and the larger point that component quality actually matters, then you deserve the Dell you buy.
Highly unlikely. Just as the iPod Shuffle is not aimed at the same target market as the iPod Photo, the Mac mini is not aimed at the same market as the iMac.
Or more likely because the stock has been climbing for a week in anticipation of Mac Expo (as happens every year) and after the announcements all the speculators sell off trying to grab their profits quick before the stock levels off to about where it was before the speculators came in. As happens every year.
There is a very good reason for this. The prison-industrial complex is made up of companies that make lots and lots of campaign donations. In return for this, they get more and more legislation guaranteeing them more inmates.
When prison is a for-profit venture, rather than a safe-society venture, then the powers that be have a vested interest in throwing as many people in jail as possible. The number one purpose of our prison system is not rehabilitation, correction, safety, or even punishment. It is to turn a profit. Added bonus: reduces the unemployment numbers and provides cheap labor to other big companies.
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I've been reading the stories on folklore.org, and it's truly amazing what they were doing with the very limited memory they had available to them. These days software shops assume the user has a 1.5Ghz machine and at least 512M of ram and a seperate GPU and video ram as well. Makes them value efficiency and graceful code far less, in my opinion.
It is a function of being a publicly held company. Investors demand ever increasing profits and often only care about the short term effects of how you get those profits.
You're citing Michael Crichton for your evidence against global warming? That's like citing Pauly Shore as an authority on Non-Euclidean Geometry. Newsflash: Crichton is not a scientist. He makes up the science to suit the story. He writes some good books, but he's hardly someone to be taken seriously on something outside his area of expertise (which is telling a good story).
Note that a vast majority of *real* scientists concur that global warming is happening, though there are myriad theories of WHY it is happening.
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I thought Republicans were supposed to be the party of smaller government? Oh, that's right. They're in favor of smaller government when it comes to regulating their campaign contributors but much much bigger government when it comes to regulating what you do in the privacy of your own home.
How these people can call themselves conservative is beyond me.
Remind me again why we can't mod down stories? The submitter is an idiot for believing what an uninformed 12 year old wrote on some random site. The editor is an idiot for approving such a bullshit "story". We're all idiots for bothering to read past the first post linking to the MPAA press release.
Some of the cable companies (Charter, for example) require you to have digital cable to get broadband. So you're looking at a minimum of $90/month for your combined service with all the wonderful tech support they provide.
To be fair, cable co's are not generally known for their ability to deliver a one way analog signal particularly well, let alone two way digital. And yet people still pay $80 a month for a crappy service and worse customer service.
I am a very happy satellite customer and would never consider cable ever again. I would rather not have television than deal with a cable company ever again. Thus far the sat co's attempts at rolling their own DVR's have been lackluster, and I hope they decide to stick with TiVo instead.
I've been chasing the elusive "quiet PC" for five years. I've bought "silent" power supplies , sound damping material, "silent" hard drive enclosures, and have had no luck. Sure, I reduced noise dramatically, but it was not eliminated completely.
The mini has more power than my last x86 box (Athlon XP 2400, 1G RAM) and makes just slightly more noise than my linksys router. I have to put my ear right next to it to hear anything at all.
Is the art of journalism dead?
You are aware that this is slashdot, right? The editors don't even read the submissions, let alone follow the links.
They make great sandwiches, soup, and bagels as well. Locally they operate as St Louis Bread Company, and are one of my favorite places to eat.
In modern art, anything is art. Throw a frame (literally or metaphorically) and boom, gen-u-wine ART. All that is required is defining the framework, which is as simple as pointing at something you did/said/excreted and say "that's art".
Because insurance companies donate heavily to political campaigns and any attempt to change things is met with overwhelming pr campaigns.
On example, back in the early 90's there was a ballot initiative in California to institute some mild insurance industry reform. Supporters managed to raise a few hundred thousand dollars to promote the initiative. The industry spent well over twenty million dollars on a campaign that basically said 'this initiative is anti-American, it will destroy the state economy and result in everyone in the state having no insurance at all.'
The initiative passed overwhelmingly in spite of this, amazingly. And last I checked, CA's economy was on par with the rest of the country, and roughly the same portion of the population has insurance.
And note that the demo units in store all have photoshop on them and some reasonably large sample photos to play with. They also have Office XP installed, so you can really get an idea how it will perform under real usage.
I call upon whatever gods there may be to spare us from seeing the rest of these photos, wherein a clearly stoned billg loosens up and strips down.
That's not what they're saying at all. What they are saying is "If you want us to use what you make, make something we would want to use."
Most Mac users do exactly as you suggest, which is use MS Office or some other native Mac alternative.
Saying "I'm giving you this for free, so you better use it even though it doesn't suit your needs." is just as arrogant.
And I say this as someone who is perfectly happy running the X11 version of OO.o on my Macs.
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Um, many states use your SS# for your driver's license and/or state issued ID card. Only recently has Missouri allowed you to use an alternate number...
OMG What a rip off! The Radeon 9800 is $250!! Dood ! I can get a CompUSA brand one with the same amount of memory for $70!! Radeons are a total rip off!!!!
*note that if you miss the obvious sarcasm and the larger point that component quality actually matters, then you deserve the Dell you buy.
Actually those both sound more interesting than their current programming.
Highly unlikely. Just as the iPod Shuffle is not aimed at the same target market as the iPod Photo, the Mac mini is not aimed at the same market as the iMac.
Some of use prefer Doritos, thank you very much.
Or more likely because the stock has been climbing for a week in anticipation of Mac Expo (as happens every year) and after the announcements all the speculators sell off trying to grab their profits quick before the stock levels off to about where it was before the speculators came in. As happens every year.
Mac mini sports a full-fledged ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB dedicated DDR SDRAM over an AGP 4x bus.
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That's what I called mine, at least.
There is a very good reason for this. The prison-industrial complex is made up of companies that make lots and lots of campaign donations. In return for this, they get more and more legislation guaranteeing them more inmates.
When prison is a for-profit venture, rather than a safe-society venture, then the powers that be have a vested interest in throwing as many people in jail as possible. The number one purpose of our prison system is not rehabilitation, correction, safety, or even punishment. It is to turn a profit. Added bonus: reduces the unemployment numbers and provides cheap labor to other big companies.
I've been reading the stories on folklore.org, and it's truly amazing what they were doing with the very limited memory they had available to them. These days software shops assume the user has a 1.5Ghz machine and at least 512M of ram and a seperate GPU and video ram as well. Makes them value efficiency and graceful code far less, in my opinion.
It is a function of being a publicly held company. Investors demand ever increasing profits and often only care about the short term effects of how you get those profits.
You're citing Michael Crichton for your evidence against global warming? That's like citing Pauly Shore as an authority on Non-Euclidean Geometry. Newsflash: Crichton is not a scientist. He makes up the science to suit the story. He writes some good books, but he's hardly someone to be taken seriously on something outside his area of expertise (which is telling a good story).
Note that a vast majority of *real* scientists concur that global warming is happening, though there are myriad theories of WHY it is happening.