we had the press to badger him. Even on most issues we could count on both the press and Democrats in Congress to scream the world is ending but now we don't have either. The press is just too much in the tank it is scary. My CNN buddy can't think of a bad thing to say about the guy - hell when you bring stuff up its like he doesn't even hear it.
AJC did a great job of burying it...
Someone bring back the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy please...
I know there are a few others here on Slashdot like myself who did not believe a word out of this guy's mouth during the campaign (and no I did not vote McCain)
You didn't really believe half the stuff he promised would come to pass did you? His own voting record (what little of it that is) and his writings (we actually got two) pointed to a direction not in line with his campaign. Throw in the fact he had basically zero experience people either were relying on the novelty of a black President or were so partisan that anyone not "R" was the only choice.
Look at his appointees, I would swear Hillary won. I was one of the deluded types who didn't really fret over Bush having such powers and holding such views because I knew the press would be merciless. I was worried about the next guy and apparently it will be fun to see if anything gets made of it, let alone the clowns in Congress who had a cow when he did this.
So did ya'll really buy into this shit or not?
It really blows my mind that so many act surprised.
News at 11, water is wet, fire is hot, and politicians only want power for themselves.
should be accused and consistently vilified over their "luxury" expenses at the cost of their own people it is North Korea. There never seemed to be and end to the bellyaching over India launching satellites as people pointed to all the people living in poverty there. Yet the only concern here seems to be that they now have a long range rocket and it might hit a civilized country. I guess we are so over the fact we can't do anything about North Korea that we totally ignore the people that live there.
Using the office to put future generations into debt beyond reckoning should result in jail. Using the office to write laws to deprive them of their property (to include cash) for merely punitive matters should result in jail time.
I don't know why so many don't see their money being taken as a violation of their rights. It is the profit of your labor yet so many turn a blind eye to its taking and outright abusive spending.
Why should locals care? We let Congress run amok all the time so its not like the locals won't get their air of aristocracy about themselves as well. Don't worry, you will get to pay for their golden retirements too. Too many locals when booted for any reason from office hold on to their cherry pensions.
Health Insurance should work like other insurance policies, for catastrophic issues. My auto insurance doesn't pay for maintenance but that is exactly what people expect from medical insurance. The same for dental. There are many services that are expensive simply because a "group/company" is paying for it, not a person. If auto/home/etc insurance worked like how medical/dental does we would have huge premiums to cover for people going in to get their oil changed every 3k and tires rotated just because someone else is helping pay for it.
I do not mind universal catastrophic health care, I do mind the idea of paying for every kook who thinks his tummy ache is an emergency. This recent story explains why it can be so out of control, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29998460/
A local hospital in Atlanta (actually more than one) reports many cases of people calling 911 to get a ride downtown where by law they are required to be given a "ticket" to get home. So what happens? Many abuse the system only to waste our money and the valuable time of doctors and nurses just so they can come downtown and see friends or do shopping.
Any UHC system is going to have to set real boundaries so stuff like this gets stopped. It isn't the treatment of real medical issues that is sinking the system, its the abuse of anyone who cries "I got a boo boo" doesn't even need a "boo boo" to get something and worse not be held accountable when it is nothing.
To them, we are too stupid to know what is good for us. We appointed them via election their guardians over us. As such they act like the parents we never had. They tell us how much we can spend, how to raise our kids, and pretty soon, what medical treatment we are allowed to have. In return they let us spend ourselves into debt to corporations and banks; sometimes the same thing; who in turn help keep these guardians in power by throwing all our money we don't give involuntarily to the government to the same people setting the rules.
Really, I watched a relative go from a nice everyday God fearing person, to someone who could find justification in almost any expenditure because it helped someone who either needed it or did not know they needed it. He could argue any point so long as he was part of the group saying yes.
Frankly the only thing that can save us from this self redistricting law protected aristocracy is term limits. Sure we may lose a few good people but damn the number of dangerous ones far outnumber the good ones.
Do not be so quick to fault the French. Seems to me recent stories about the US Congress show new tricks to avoid obtaining a majority of 60 votes to pass legislation increasing taxes or doing budgets because it allowed the minority party a voice. Hell even if they have to abide by their own rules they found gimmicks to get around them to include having the administrative branch issue POs
Summary, in all "Democratic" countries, democracy only works until the ruling parties figured out they were immune to the wishes of the voters and rule of law.
considering some of the mini's I worked on had similar setups in additions to external UPS.
then again, we achieve all sorts of power, cooling, and reliability, when we consolidated many "pc" style servers into minis which do the same work. (the heat change alone was staggering)
I know of no one who takes their 17 notebook on business. I don't care what it weighs, its the size that matters. Throw in the fact I would rather risk a lower cost laptop than a high cost one to travel an its a no brainer. Plus for every fool who buys a laptop on the basis they can take it where they need it I can find a dozen who never moved it after the first few months.
His comparison is exactly what the average consumer is going to do.
Your reply can be summarized in, Apple charges you $1200 for a fancy case.
Go to Best Buy or any other store selling Apple and Windows computers. They average consumer isn't going to compare that high end Mac laptop with a high end Dell/Sony etc. They are going to compare it to the door buster and then say "it doesn't have this or that but for XXXXX dollars I can live with it"
Yeah, I can but a similarly priced item but what I found by not looking at Mac based laptops is that I can make trade offs, trade ups, or whatnot, much easier because so many more companies are offering me options.
The name Mac Tax should be replaced with "CASE tax" because with similar hardware your more paying for a fancy case than the guts of the thing. I won't place a value on the OS because Apple doesn't legally; apple wise; let me buy it for my PC.
Basically the "reviewer" did what every mac fanboi does, makes excuses for making certain choices so he can arrive at the point he decided before writing the article. Look, I own an iMac, love it, but I am not fool enough to pay retail for it. No, I went and took advantage of whatever fanboi came by first who needed the cash for his latest new Mac. Works wonders. Got a great machine less than year old for 2/3rd the price. Very nice packaging but even at the price I paid I could buy the same hardware but no where as neat as packaging for a lot less.
Go read the Mac forums, more than enough owners don't upgrade because of price. With the hackintosh community doing well I will be highly interested if Apple actually enters the "netbook" range considering the Dell 9" is one DVD and about half a dozen boots from running OS X for three hundred dollars.
Too bad the "Pro" only stands for price now. It used to mean something but it doesn't anymore.
As to when it breaks, lets see who has best turn around. I have yet to get something back in less than two weeks with Apple and had an iMac out for nearly a month while under warranty. (and for desktops Apple will not come to you like Dell/HP at home contracts really work out to be)
* I own an iMac, Touch, and iPod, and a custom PC. I have purchased two Dell refurbs as presents in the last year.
My experience after Quake 3 makes me wonder about this "study". Seeing that most games like Quake and such seem to be rendered in full spread of the "dirt" spectrum I wonder how it turned out to be grays? I guess I am a dolt. Shouldn't any color with fine gradients work?
I think one area where FPS games excel versus games like the Sims and Strategy games is lighting. I remember the first time I played Unreal (original) and the flicker lights and even first "staged encounter" were shockers. I spent a lot of time amazed at all the tricks with said lighting. Hell shadows in some game generate as much fright as the monster that makes them.
So reflexes and detail. Well yeah, how else do you win these games?
Because it is from the UN Human Rights Council, led by countries who are anything but concerned about rights.
Seems to me that the UN is following the same naming system as the American Congress with Bills. (As in every Bill of "some new right" seems to lose me more of the rights I already had)
contributor of CO2 in our atmosphere, so what little we do to reduce it has no true effect on the condition. Why waste money on such an endeavor when there are far better things to spend it on (like clean water)
When the editors and such lean so hard to the left while the area they serve doesn't. A prime example is the AJC (Atlanta Journal and Constitution). They are so far the left they had to actually ask for a "conservative writer" for the editorial page. It was hilarious their reaction to known conservative writers they "refused to consider" . In other words they needed someone harmless and unknown. The AJC was practically the OJC during the last election. Yet go read pages which accept reader submissions and its clear the base doesn't lean at all the same way.
Now they are still bitching about loss of jobs and liberal professors are decrying the loss of jobs and "professionalism"; ready those dirty peasants with their blogs versus the glorious gods of journalism produced by said schools.
Bite me. Papers are getting what they deserved. Do not expect in an age where information is available from many sources that if you don't appeal to your possible customer base that you can remain viable. Either adapt to your customers or go the way of the dodo
Look at how the front ends of most cars in Europe have grown more substantial all in the name of pedestrian safety. Top regulations of the human kind with regulations of the natural kind; think drag; and what can we truly expect?
Aptera? Get real, the thing is too wide and it still is a three wheeler. The thing people fail to understand is that a wedge shape front is not necessarily the best for aerodynamics, those Ferraris and Lambos we see aren't the best in many cases for aerodynamics - they actually need to manipulate the air for down force as sticking to the road is more important than getting mileage.
My beef with the S is the center console. Sorry, if my car is going to look like a computer it better damn well drive itself. Even then I don't want it to be intrusive and that giant LCD is very intrusive. I don't need a Christmas tree in my car. Frankly I think todays cars and tech give people too many distractions from the responsibility of driving.
Surely they account for a larger amount than desktops. I can point out racks where there is so little access at night I am surprised the drives don't sleep.
I am very sure if you looked at every nook and cranny you can find waste. In business areas this occurs for two reasons, the first "I'm not paying for it" and the second being "too afraid to ask if its ok". You could toss in "too stupid to know" and "no one high up will make a decisions" but it really doesn't matter. Waste is built into the system.
Newer desktops sleep. I don't know of a single desktop where I work that doesn't sleep, let alone the LCD panel goes to sleep as well. So were they playing with old style computers that cannot sleep? I guess there may be a lot of them out there or worse, new ones configured completely wrong.
me never want to take types like the OP seriously. Any tinfoil hat moment becomes fact to them because they repeat it enough to where they believe it.
The simple fact is, all the cries went suddenly away when the other guy won. All the cries for limiting money in campaigns wen the way of the dodo when it was realized both sides could just rake it in.
The real problem is that politics in America is controlled by two corrupt parties who do not care what the public truly thinks except for when it moves poll numbers leading to the election. They then modify their message without actually modifying their policies.
I find it funny that the majority of vote fraud that occurs in my state is from paper - as in absentee ballots. Tracking down people voting live and via absentee is a big job. Worse are the groups that cart people around to vote provided they vote "correctly".
If I want real fraud I can hit up any big city and see it. Certain areas of the North and Midwest are as famous for it as they are for local foods. The difference is that electronic voting suddenly turned it all on ear because they could not operate as they normally did. We really do need some way of seeing that one person gets one vote. The problem is tracing that vote back to the person without revealing who they voted for because if you could then you have intimidation.
This is why I am watching the "Card Check" issue so closely. We are getting close to codifying intimidation. I know how these people operate through friends and family who either are members or are not. It truly boggles the mind what some people will do. It almost is childish how some act and then justify it.
Yet where is the screaming over the obvious fraud that went down in Minnesota where there is statistically impossible changes in the out come. How many times do we get to count till we get it right. We already saw that effect in Washington (state) and nearly saw it in Florida in 2000; we all know they would have kept counting till they got the number they wanted.
Well from my understanding of how this works here in Georgia you have to cross the white line AFTER the light is red to warrant a ticket. I have been caught in one of the two red light camera intersections I pass through daily more than one time trying to complete a turn only to be stuck in the intersection because there is a business entrance that is nearby that people turn left illegally to enter. I have yet to be dinged for this.
So I am not sure why the camera would flag you if your already past the line. Is this documented somewhere? Perhaps some cities or states differ but ours was entering the intersection after red...
Why not compare the US to Africa... you would get the same result.
Look. China loves these comparisons because it makes them look good. Why not compare numbers when only using people with X miles of a metropolitan area. That would make more sense.
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we had the press to badger him. Even on most issues we could count on both the press and Democrats in Congress to scream the world is ending but now we don't have either. The press is just too much in the tank it is scary. My CNN buddy can't think of a bad thing to say about the guy - hell when you bring stuff up its like he doesn't even hear it.
AJC did a great job of burying it...
Someone bring back the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy please...
I know there are a few others here on Slashdot like myself who did not believe a word out of this guy's mouth during the campaign (and no I did not vote McCain)
You didn't really believe half the stuff he promised would come to pass did you? His own voting record (what little of it that is) and his writings (we actually got two) pointed to a direction not in line with his campaign. Throw in the fact he had basically zero experience people either were relying on the novelty of a black President or were so partisan that anyone not "R" was the only choice.
Look at his appointees, I would swear Hillary won. I was one of the deluded types who didn't really fret over Bush having such powers and holding such views because I knew the press would be merciless. I was worried about the next guy and apparently it will be fun to see if anything gets made of it, let alone the clowns in Congress who had a cow when he did this.
So did ya'll really buy into this shit or not?
It really blows my mind that so many act surprised.
News at 11, water is wet, fire is hot, and politicians only want power for themselves.
should be accused and consistently vilified over their "luxury" expenses at the cost of their own people it is North Korea. There never seemed to be and end to the bellyaching over India launching satellites as people pointed to all the people living in poverty there. Yet the only concern here seems to be that they now have a long range rocket and it might hit a civilized country. I guess we are so over the fact we can't do anything about North Korea that we totally ignore the people that live there.
Using the office to put future generations into debt beyond reckoning should result in jail. Using the office to write laws to deprive them of their property (to include cash) for merely punitive matters should result in jail time.
I don't know why so many don't see their money being taken as a violation of their rights. It is the profit of your labor yet so many turn a blind eye to its taking and outright abusive spending.
Why should locals care? We let Congress run amok all the time so its not like the locals won't get their air of aristocracy about themselves as well. Don't worry, you will get to pay for their golden retirements too. Too many locals when booted for any reason from office hold on to their cherry pensions.
is ass backwards.
Health Insurance should work like other insurance policies, for catastrophic issues. My auto insurance doesn't pay for maintenance but that is exactly what people expect from medical insurance. The same for dental. There are many services that are expensive simply because a "group/company" is paying for it, not a person. If auto/home/etc insurance worked like how medical/dental does we would have huge premiums to cover for people going in to get their oil changed every 3k and tires rotated just because someone else is helping pay for it.
I do not mind universal catastrophic health care, I do mind the idea of paying for every kook who thinks his tummy ache is an emergency. This recent story explains why it can be so out of control, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29998460/
A local hospital in Atlanta (actually more than one) reports many cases of people calling 911 to get a ride downtown where by law they are required to be given a "ticket" to get home. So what happens? Many abuse the system only to waste our money and the valuable time of doctors and nurses just so they can come downtown and see friends or do shopping.
Any UHC system is going to have to set real boundaries so stuff like this gets stopped. It isn't the treatment of real medical issues that is sinking the system, its the abuse of anyone who cries "I got a boo boo" doesn't even need a "boo boo" to get something and worse not be held accountable when it is nothing.
They would just make their own government and find themselves within a few dozen years or two crisis right back where we are.
Never under estimate the people to give up their freedom if someone else offers to make it all better.
To them, we are too stupid to know what is good for us. We appointed them via election their guardians over us. As such they act like the parents we never had. They tell us how much we can spend, how to raise our kids, and pretty soon, what medical treatment we are allowed to have. In return they let us spend ourselves into debt to corporations and banks; sometimes the same thing; who in turn help keep these guardians in power by throwing all our money we don't give involuntarily to the government to the same people setting the rules.
Really, I watched a relative go from a nice everyday God fearing person, to someone who could find justification in almost any expenditure because it helped someone who either needed it or did not know they needed it. He could argue any point so long as he was part of the group saying yes.
Frankly the only thing that can save us from this self redistricting law protected aristocracy is term limits. Sure we may lose a few good people but damn the number of dangerous ones far outnumber the good ones.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Radeon-HD-3200.9591.0.html
Basically on part with Nvida 8400 series mobility cards.
I assume they underclock the CPU to reduce heat? I don't see why otherwise.
Do not be so quick to fault the French. Seems to me recent stories about the US Congress show new tricks to avoid obtaining a majority of 60 votes to pass legislation increasing taxes or doing budgets because it allowed the minority party a voice. Hell even if they have to abide by their own rules they found gimmicks to get around them to include having the administrative branch issue POs
Summary, in all "Democratic" countries, democracy only works until the ruling parties figured out they were immune to the wishes of the voters and rule of law.
Would have preferred Hal and Sal?
I know I would.
considering some of the mini's I worked on had similar setups in additions to external UPS.
then again, we achieve all sorts of power, cooling, and reliability, when we consolidated many "pc" style servers into minis which do the same work. (the heat change alone was staggering)
I know of no one who takes their 17 notebook on business. I don't care what it weighs, its the size that matters. Throw in the fact I would rather risk a lower cost laptop than a high cost one to travel an its a no brainer. Plus for every fool who buys a laptop on the basis they can take it where they need it I can find a dozen who never moved it after the first few months.
His comparison is exactly what the average consumer is going to do.
Your reply can be summarized in, Apple charges you $1200 for a fancy case.
What matters is this.
Go to Best Buy or any other store selling Apple and Windows computers. They average consumer isn't going to compare that high end Mac laptop with a high end Dell/Sony etc. They are going to compare it to the door buster and then say "it doesn't have this or that but for XXXXX dollars I can live with it"
Yeah, I can but a similarly priced item but what I found by not looking at Mac based laptops is that I can make trade offs, trade ups, or whatnot, much easier because so many more companies are offering me options.
The name Mac Tax should be replaced with "CASE tax" because with similar hardware your more paying for a fancy case than the guts of the thing. I won't place a value on the OS because Apple doesn't legally; apple wise; let me buy it for my PC.
Basically the "reviewer" did what every mac fanboi does, makes excuses for making certain choices so he can arrive at the point he decided before writing the article. Look, I own an iMac, love it, but I am not fool enough to pay retail for it. No, I went and took advantage of whatever fanboi came by first who needed the cash for his latest new Mac. Works wonders. Got a great machine less than year old for 2/3rd the price. Very nice packaging but even at the price I paid I could buy the same hardware but no where as neat as packaging for a lot less.
Go read the Mac forums, more than enough owners don't upgrade because of price. With the hackintosh community doing well I will be highly interested if Apple actually enters the "netbook" range considering the Dell 9" is one DVD and about half a dozen boots from running OS X for three hundred dollars.
Too bad the "Pro" only stands for price now. It used to mean something but it doesn't anymore.
As to when it breaks, lets see who has best turn around. I have yet to get something back in less than two weeks with Apple and had an iMac out for nearly a month while under warranty. (and for desktops Apple will not come to you like Dell/HP at home contracts really work out to be)
* I own an iMac, Touch, and iPod, and a custom PC. I have purchased two Dell refurbs as presents in the last year.
My experience after Quake 3 makes me wonder about this "study". Seeing that most games like Quake and such seem to be rendered in full spread of the "dirt" spectrum I wonder how it turned out to be grays? I guess I am a dolt. Shouldn't any color with fine gradients work?
I think one area where FPS games excel versus games like the Sims and Strategy games is lighting. I remember the first time I played Unreal (original) and the flicker lights and even first "staged encounter" were shockers. I spent a lot of time amazed at all the tricks with said lighting. Hell shadows in some game generate as much fright as the monster that makes them.
So reflexes and detail. Well yeah, how else do you win these games?
Because it is from the UN Human Rights Council, led by countries who are anything but concerned about rights.
Seems to me that the UN is following the same naming system as the American Congress with Bills. (As in every Bill of "some new right" seems to lose me more of the rights I already had)
I am amazed they didn't exclude Judaism from it.
contributor of CO2 in our atmosphere, so what little we do to reduce it has no true effect on the condition. Why waste money on such an endeavor when there are far better things to spend it on (like clean water)
When the editors and such lean so hard to the left while the area they serve doesn't. A prime example is the AJC (Atlanta Journal and Constitution). They are so far the left they had to actually ask for a "conservative writer" for the editorial page. It was hilarious their reaction to known conservative writers they "refused to consider" . In other words they needed someone harmless and unknown. The AJC was practically the OJC during the last election. Yet go read pages which accept reader submissions and its clear the base doesn't lean at all the same way.
Now they are still bitching about loss of jobs and liberal professors are decrying the loss of jobs and "professionalism"; ready those dirty peasants with their blogs versus the glorious gods of journalism produced by said schools.
Bite me. Papers are getting what they deserved. Do not expect in an age where information is available from many sources that if you don't appeal to your possible customer base that you can remain viable. Either adapt to your customers or go the way of the dodo
Look at how the front ends of most cars in Europe have grown more substantial all in the name of pedestrian safety. Top regulations of the human kind with regulations of the natural kind; think drag; and what can we truly expect?
Aptera? Get real, the thing is too wide and it still is a three wheeler. The thing people fail to understand is that a wedge shape front is not necessarily the best for aerodynamics, those Ferraris and Lambos we see aren't the best in many cases for aerodynamics - they actually need to manipulate the air for down force as sticking to the road is more important than getting mileage.
My beef with the S is the center console. Sorry, if my car is going to look like a computer it better damn well drive itself. Even then I don't want it to be intrusive and that giant LCD is very intrusive. I don't need a Christmas tree in my car. Frankly I think todays cars and tech give people too many distractions from the responsibility of driving.
I am sure others have ideas about when California jumped the shark before, but they seem adept at repeating the event.
It won't stop. Soon it will be interiors, materials used to make cars, etc.
Why not bitch about blacktop next?
meet management.
I don't think I need to explain that picture.
refer to the Apple section, you can find it on the left.
Surely they account for a larger amount than desktops. I can point out racks where there is so little access at night I am surprised the drives don't sleep.
I am very sure if you looked at every nook and cranny you can find waste. In business areas this occurs for two reasons, the first "I'm not paying for it" and the second being "too afraid to ask if its ok". You could toss in "too stupid to know" and "no one high up will make a decisions" but it really doesn't matter. Waste is built into the system.
Newer desktops sleep. I don't know of a single desktop where I work that doesn't sleep, let alone the LCD panel goes to sleep as well. So were they playing with old style computers that cannot sleep? I guess there may be a lot of them out there or worse, new ones configured completely wrong.
me never want to take types like the OP seriously. Any tinfoil hat moment becomes fact to them because they repeat it enough to where they believe it.
The simple fact is, all the cries went suddenly away when the other guy won. All the cries for limiting money in campaigns wen the way of the dodo when it was realized both sides could just rake it in.
The real problem is that politics in America is controlled by two corrupt parties who do not care what the public truly thinks except for when it moves poll numbers leading to the election. They then modify their message without actually modifying their policies.
I find it funny that the majority of vote fraud that occurs in my state is from paper - as in absentee ballots. Tracking down people voting live and via absentee is a big job. Worse are the groups that cart people around to vote provided they vote "correctly".
If I want real fraud I can hit up any big city and see it. Certain areas of the North and Midwest are as famous for it as they are for local foods. The difference is that electronic voting suddenly turned it all on ear because they could not operate as they normally did. We really do need some way of seeing that one person gets one vote. The problem is tracing that vote back to the person without revealing who they voted for because if you could then you have intimidation.
This is why I am watching the "Card Check" issue so closely. We are getting close to codifying intimidation. I know how these people operate through friends and family who either are members or are not. It truly boggles the mind what some people will do. It almost is childish how some act and then justify it.
Yet where is the screaming over the obvious fraud that went down in Minnesota where there is statistically impossible changes in the out come. How many times do we get to count till we get it right. We already saw that effect in Washington (state) and nearly saw it in Florida in 2000; we all know they would have kept counting till they got the number they wanted.
Well from my understanding of how this works here in Georgia you have to cross the white line AFTER the light is red to warrant a ticket. I have been caught in one of the two red light camera intersections I pass through daily more than one time trying to complete a turn only to be stuck in the intersection because there is a business entrance that is nearby that people turn left illegally to enter. I have yet to be dinged for this.
So I am not sure why the camera would flag you if your already past the line. Is this documented somewhere? Perhaps some cities or states differ but ours was entering the intersection after red...
Why not compare the US to Africa ... you would get the same result.
Look. China loves these comparisons because it makes them look good. Why not compare numbers when only using people with X miles of a metropolitan area. That would make more sense.