400 million for climate research? OK, another 450 for the manned space program (drop in a bucket) but their funds that were going to fix the place got butchered? (50m instead of the 250m they needed)
So out of 789 BILLION NASA gets 1 Billion and that is OK? So, that puts NASA up to 18 billion? Well, who got more?
So, lets see where did the rest go? The bulk of the 20 billion or so is for the NIH to establish a National Health Registry. Actually the figure is about 19 billion of what is allocated to "sciences" for this purpose alone. That is not about advancing science but advancing government. So we will spend more to establish bigger government control over our privacy and choice instead of funding science?
Science, the only real science is where the bill was signed.
the problem I see is that Bush while supported corporations seemed truly to protect the country and did what he thought best. So far all I see is Obama ceding authority and decisions to others. He seems adept at not taking action himself or taking responsibility. He is after face time and "credit" but credit without owning anything. The stimulus bill was handed over to Pelosi and Reid and he flew around campaigning with doom and gloom if it wasn't signed. Bush just stayed either out of sight or just said it was going to be done and did it.
Yeah you wasted your vote but don't feel bad. We didn't know jack shit about the guy other than he wasn't a Republican (I did not vote for either of these two so maybe I wasted my vote by not voting against him but no good conservative could vote for McCain like we could not vote for Obama).
Look, what little of his voting record existed should have told you his stance. We had two poor choices and after seeing the stimulus bill and the fear mongering used to push it I know we got it wrong. But hey, its America, there is only so much damage that can be done. Will we recover, certainly, will it be hard, yes. Yet we made this choice as a country and we as a country will bear it.
Who knows, he could suddenly wake up and realize that being President means living up to the hype and promise of his campaign. Its early. The stimulus bill was strike two (Geitner & related were strike one). Lets see where he goes from here. As they say, we can only go up - and I hope that is true.
budget is there because Congressmen use that budget to hide projects knocked out of general spending bills.
I know of certain charts that like to attribute payment of the debt as military spending but the military spending is the least of our problems. No matter how much you scale it back we cannot get out from under the social obligations of medicare and social security without making people realize the government cannot do it all. The promises far outstrip the ability of this country to pay.
The military budget takes up 16.6% in direct budget expenditures. 484 billion of which you can add another 150 to 200 billion for "war on terror". So lets say 700 to be nice. Considering the budget was 2.9 TRILLION of which 1.4 is MANDATORY spending you aren't going to save us by cutting the military spending.
It will help, don't get me wrong. I am not for not cutting some from the military budget; we do have a few extra carriers at least let alone all those old bases kept around because Congress forces the military to keep them open.
No, the only path to a balanced budget is to cap spending. All spending bills must sunset. Benefits must be scaled back. We must stop handing out money to everyone with a hand out for them. We have to tell people - do it yourselves. The government can help but it cannot be the solution.
We just spent 900 BILLION dollars in how many days? How much of that is for the military? This is on top of of the budget. So that would put military spending even further lower as a percent.
Scale it down all you want, guess we can try to make up the jobs with failed dream industries that never materialize and promises.
right next to the part where Congress holds themselves to account.
Honestly, everything you attributed to NY and California is attributable to the Federal Government. Worse, they Feds have no restraint whereas states do. The Feds aren't even bothering to try and balance the budget.
Face it, through years of manipulation Congressmen have managed to lay the blame for all things at the feet of people who have money while themselves spending money they don't have.
Congressmen vilify the businessman who sends his kids to private school, flies private jets, and vacations overseas, all the while doing the same thing on our dime. Congress chides the business for laying off people, losing money, or asking for money, all the while doing the same thing.
Look, the majority has spoken, they want all they can get from those who make money while there is still some to get.
you don't really have any idea how much you really pay for except what comes directly out of your pocket the day you pick it up?
Ignorance is bliss.
you are paying the full cost, you just don't what full cost really is let alone what is really being paid. In other words, if you were getting ripped off you wouldn't know it. Now, if a drug cost less than the threshold are you given it for that lower cost or at the mandated price? (as in, do you pay more for cheap drugs to make up paying less for expensive ones?)
Just because a chip isn't available in the PC at your local Best Buy does not make it a failure.
From zSeries, iSeries, and pSeries, machines which make up a large number of server and midrange hardware sold to variations of the theme in some of today's popular gaming platforms I think the PowerPc as an architecture does just fine. G5 is alive.
Figure that will be one way to sell it. Hello carbon tax.
Yes it is not reasonable to you or me, however there are many who would like nothing more to "punish" people who drive cars, after all only the rich or those who don't care if they are destroying the planet will drive cars. Honestly this is how it will come to pass. We have toll roads that were supposed to expire (ga400) when they paid off, guess what, ain't happened and won't ever happen.
Once a government gets a tax in it will take a change of government to remove it. I seriously doubt it will be republican or democrats that will help us.
I am sure I could rattle off stuff obscure to anyone but a select few for many big companies that many love or hate.
the point is, where people want it is where Apple isn't going to let them get it.
Apple isn't the new Microsoft, they have always been essentially the same thing but were excused for having a lower market share of Personal computers, though unlike MS you are not free to choose the hardware to run their OS on.
Would not having smoother roads do more to benefit economy as well as reduce maintenance costs?
Besides you have to evaluate the whole of the suspension system to get an accurate measure of how well it rides and handles. Shocks used to be a bigger part of it ages ago, today they are just one component in many that determines how a car rides. If anything you can cause more issue by just having too much air pressure in the tires.
it is the fact that as the sole decider in your treatment what recourse do you have? You versus the government.
With private control over health care the government can have oversight in the process and laws can be crafted and enforced by the government to ensure fair application of the rules. Do you really think that will happen with the government? While your fighting it for your rights your condition will continue to exist all the while you hope that some government bureaucrat bothers to even look at your case or give it some priority over the hundreds if not thousands of other pleading their case is equally if not more deserving that yours.
In effect you relegate yourself to being like that woman at the recent Obama press show where she pleaded with him to give her a home because she is in a pickup truck. She was in effect stating she is more deserving than those already on the waiting list. Who decides? Government. Look they are already managing that housing issue in Florida and they are botching it. Now you show no fear that they can manage your health care nor do you care if they keep your condition secret?
No what happens when they know your condition fully they will do a measure of your lifespan versus the costs to treat you. Then all those little things add up and suddenly your left without recourse. Not a fun society when the rules and test change based on the needs of government, a government your unlikely to have any protection against.
we wanted to work. As a people we had a goal. We were working towards a goal all could agree upon.
Frankly I am not willing to suffer another world war to change our perspective back that of our grand parents.
Now it is all about getting our "fair share" which apparently for many does not require personal sacrifice let alone work. The problem today is people figured out they could vote themselves other peoples stuff.
Until we change the attitude of Americans no amount of stimulus, let alone this giant lie of a bill, is going to fix the economy. Americans as a whole need to realize that every person's work is to be valued and the primary method of demonstrating the value of a persons work is not to take the fruit of it to provide for others who won't work.
There is no real spending on infrastructure in this bill because it was never meant to stimulate the economy. It was all about paying off groups that supported those in power. It is all about ensuring those in power stay in power. American reinvestment act my ass, more like Incumbent Rescue Act.
This whole thing is a crock. Worse they are sneaking in universal health care through the back door using the bill. The major sponsors won't even discuss it. Yet people aren't rallying over that?
This bill will haunt us for decades. The fact we had a chance to do things like fix our infrastructure, both electronic and physical, but didn't will hurt us more than we are willing to admit.
My grand parents our of the generation that you do it yourselves. When my grandmother needed a wheel chair she went out and bought it. It never occurred to her to ask someone else to buy it. When I went for a PSA I was surprised that insurance would cover it. Insurance is all wrong in this country, it should cover catastrophic issues, not daily required stuff that I should be doing. Its not like most of can't find the money for the latest tech toy, phone service, or super fast internet, yet ask many and they are offended they have to pay for the daily maintenance drugs - let alone change their habits so as not to need them
but Apple's use of Intel chips and similar chip sets validated the comparisons. Outside of OS X what we have is cutting edge cases: packaging. Apple is the mastery of packaging and marketing. Throw in a long standing and in some cases deserved following and the die is set.
That isn't to say there is some value in packaging. Yet this what happens is that there is this great disconnect. I follow and post to various mac forums (being an owner on an iMac and two iPods does let me get away with it) where the same people who one day berate Alienware (insert name of any PC specialty maker) for charging high prices for essentially fancy cased machines will drag you into the dirt arguing why the case on the new "mac xxx" is so revolutionary that it deserves exception.
The primary problem is that too many in the Mac community still fail to recognize that Apple isn't just about computers. They go out of their way to ignore the boards on the site dedicated to the iPhone and Touch. Yet from those products one can see why much of the Mac hardware is what it is. Is Apple big enough to create a multitude of products for both the Mac enthusiast and the music/phone consumer? Considering the state of Mac I think they aren't. While I laud them on continued extension of OS X I am really annoyed at the hardware I am forced to run it on. Apple goes to no end to stomp anyone trying to use their hardware or software in ways they don't approve yet at the same time refuse to fill the void that is being called out by these upstarts.
Apple put themselves into the same position IBM was in, they have a common hardware platform in Mac with the rest of the PC world. Their market is ripe for a competitor. It is only a matter of time before one surfaces who doesn't just back down. Apple's reaction will be interesting once OS X cannot be held to just Apple made computers. Frankly they should license it to very specific ranges on computers to fill the void in their product line they refuse to fill themselves. Create a system of "OX X" certified with real enforcement. Will it happen, no but it is nice to dream.
Macs are like Harley Davidson, only a fool buys them new. Get them used and save yourself the expense. Exploit the irrational expectations that some of the community have for having to have the newest item, this years new case. You will get a good machine and have the very same experience except you can look at your bank account and feel good about it.
Because I have to wonder. They allowed the Mac Pro to languish, the iMac needs an update already, and the Mac Mini is just a disgrace.
Apple's problem is that they make very little effort to keep their computers up to date. Since the switch to Intel if it were not for OS X all we would have is Alienware, overpriced hardware in cool cases. Changing to Intel makes cost comparisons all the more likely and they are fair to make. While I do enjoy using OS X I just cannot stand the premium they want for hardware that at times is more than a generation behind or lacking some major area. Where is my HD DVD option (like Blu-Ray). Now I have to take it to the Windows machine to do it. Lovely, I guess they WANT me to have a Microsoft computer too.
Trying to sell friends on a Mac is a joke when they can buy a $349 laptop that provides nearly the same services. (go look at the Toshiba in Best Buy's ad this week - SHEESH)
Sometimes I think Apple wants the desktop market to go away. They seem damn happy with their laptops and they come across as trying to make real strives with them.
They are creating an assembled computer system they claim can run software X. How is that any different from selling computers that run Windows?
Why can't a computer manufacture label their products "OS X Certified".
I don't care if Apple is only 10% of the WHOLE OF THE PC MARKETPLACE, they are the only source of hardware that is allowed to run their OPERATING SYSTEM. Yeah I am using capitalization to make a point. What they are doing is just as bad, if not worse, than what Microsoft did. Look at the story about bundling, at least with Explorer embedded in the OS I could still choose. I don't have any choice with Apple, if I want to use OS X I can only use it on their hardware.
Just because they used to be, emphasis in used to, the little guy doesn't give them rights to trample mine.
FWIW, I own an iMac (white ones) and two iPods. I like their products but I am loathe to buy another system where I am forced to pay a premium of over 30% just so I can run an operating system I want.
Yes you can bot killing things, that is not hard to do. Any game can be run by a bot if it just involves monitor player health/power and killing things in the local area.
WOW's entire progression is to get people into doing 5 man content, instances and raids. This is not the realm of bots. Comparing EQ1 with WOW gives EQ much more credit than it ever deserved.
Your quote is laughable "Instead, every task in these damn MMOs is supremely suited to perfect repetition (e.g. use these skills in a certain order, on a certain number of creatures, repeat) and repetition is about the only thing computers/bots excel at."
So is real life. Every task in real life is supremely suited to perfect repetition. Just like in real life extraordinary events will require something other than a bot and those who cannot operate otherwise usually suffer.
For the most all games are the same. You can bot chess just fine thank you, last I heard a computer did just fine. Hence I don't think your argument is other than your bored and it is someone's fault other than your own.
that if they can show periods of both cooling and warming that they actually publish it any get past the hyperbole of the groups who profit of the global warming industry. The problem with every generation is that they think they are unique. It has all happened before and will happen again.
Still it is a great thing to announce during a cold snap.
One of the "gimmes" when trying to get these past the state legislature was to not apply points to a person's license when they got fined.
The fine is $90 for of the two I go through, yeah it nailed me but I had the same problem you did, a truck obscured my view. In the end I was following too closely.
It is very common to see people lock down when it goes yellow so approaching either of the two I go through does require extra caution. The fortunate application is that they did concentrate on those crossings with the most amount of accidents from people running red lights. They have not applied them to intersections for leaving or entering an interstate where the rule seems to be five cars on red.
that Ubuntu runs benchmarks faster? A copy file is faster? Certainly things that the average user will never care about. Even my parents leave their machines on 24x7 so boot times matter?
Really, I don't care which is more efficient at booting or copying, if Ubuntu cannot run the software I want all of its performance benefits are lost
expression of redistribution of resources. Instead of being able to have what you can afford you can only have what everyone else can have.
Administered by corporate entity or government entity there is no difference in the outcome. Regardless of service availability everyone gets limited all to stop those who are "excessive" and help those under privileged.
Talk is cheap, actions haven't followed all the hype.
Lets see, Iran is now openly declaring we have to respect their nuclear right. North Korea is again launching test rockets towards Japan.
Yeah, looks like newly found world wide respect.
Throw in, the French laughing at our bail out ideas... I have seen the manure recently (read: two nominees toasted, two more that should have been, and the labor one is on her way out already) but I haven't seen the flowers or unicorns. Instead of substance we get interviews with him about his substance use (read: tobacco)
Science at the forefront? Looks like to me that building water slides in Louisiana is more important (read the stimulus bill he so solidly supports). What science? Must be the 50 plus million to the arts. Go read it http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/hr1_engrossed.pdf (warning it is like only page and half of the 600 page bill)
Don't know where you've been but nothing has changed except for how fast the back peddling has become or where it comes from. If this is change I am not sure it is what we really wanted.
Still, if you want, you can research through most papers using their online facilities.
for the most part he walked into a mess at the DC school system back in 2007 and worked to upgrade them to something respectable. That and investigating people using government systems to surf porn. Apparently before him most of the record keeping was still in paper form.
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After this wonder demonstration of government incompetence I say let us let them manage our Health Care and Health Care records!
At least we know they are demonstrably bad at most of what they do, so we won't have higher than normal expectations.
400 million for climate research? OK, another 450 for the manned space program (drop in a bucket) but their funds that were going to fix the place got butchered? (50m instead of the 250m they needed)
So out of 789 BILLION NASA gets 1 Billion and that is OK? So, that puts NASA up to 18 billion? Well, who got more?
So, lets see where did the rest go? The bulk of the 20 billion or so is for the NIH to establish a National Health Registry. Actually the figure is about 19 billion of what is allocated to "sciences" for this purpose alone. That is not about advancing science but advancing government. So we will spend more to establish bigger government control over our privacy and choice instead of funding science?
Science, the only real science is where the bill was signed.
the problem I see is that Bush while supported corporations seemed truly to protect the country and did what he thought best. So far all I see is Obama ceding authority and decisions to others. He seems adept at not taking action himself or taking responsibility. He is after face time and "credit" but credit without owning anything. The stimulus bill was handed over to Pelosi and Reid and he flew around campaigning with doom and gloom if it wasn't signed. Bush just stayed either out of sight or just said it was going to be done and did it.
Yeah you wasted your vote but don't feel bad. We didn't know jack shit about the guy other than he wasn't a Republican (I did not vote for either of these two so maybe I wasted my vote by not voting against him but no good conservative could vote for McCain like we could not vote for Obama).
Look, what little of his voting record existed should have told you his stance. We had two poor choices and after seeing the stimulus bill and the fear mongering used to push it I know we got it wrong. But hey, its America, there is only so much damage that can be done. Will we recover, certainly, will it be hard, yes. Yet we made this choice as a country and we as a country will bear it.
Who knows, he could suddenly wake up and realize that being President means living up to the hype and promise of his campaign. Its early. The stimulus bill was strike two (Geitner & related were strike one). Lets see where he goes from here. As they say, we can only go up - and I hope that is true.
budget is there because Congressmen use that budget to hide projects knocked out of general spending bills.
I know of certain charts that like to attribute payment of the debt as military spending but the military spending is the least of our problems. No matter how much you scale it back we cannot get out from under the social obligations of medicare and social security without making people realize the government cannot do it all. The promises far outstrip the ability of this country to pay.
The military budget takes up 16.6% in direct budget expenditures. 484 billion of which you can add another 150 to 200 billion for "war on terror". So lets say 700 to be nice. Considering the budget was 2.9 TRILLION of which 1.4 is MANDATORY spending you aren't going to save us by cutting the military spending.
It will help, don't get me wrong. I am not for not cutting some from the military budget; we do have a few extra carriers at least let alone all those old bases kept around because Congress forces the military to keep them open.
No, the only path to a balanced budget is to cap spending. All spending bills must sunset. Benefits must be scaled back. We must stop handing out money to everyone with a hand out for them. We have to tell people - do it yourselves. The government can help but it cannot be the solution.
We just spent 900 BILLION dollars in how many days? How much of that is for the military? This is on top of of the budget. So that would put military spending even further lower as a percent.
Scale it down all you want, guess we can try to make up the jobs with failed dream industries that never materialize and promises.
right next to the part where Congress holds themselves to account.
Honestly, everything you attributed to NY and California is attributable to the Federal Government. Worse, they Feds have no restraint whereas states do. The Feds aren't even bothering to try and balance the budget.
Face it, through years of manipulation Congressmen have managed to lay the blame for all things at the feet of people who have money while themselves spending money they don't have.
Congressmen vilify the businessman who sends his kids to private school, flies private jets, and vacations overseas, all the while doing the same thing on our dime. Congress chides the business for laying off people, losing money, or asking for money, all the while doing the same thing.
Look, the majority has spoken, they want all they can get from those who make money while there is still some to get.
you don't really have any idea how much you really pay for except what comes directly out of your pocket the day you pick it up?
Ignorance is bliss.
you are paying the full cost, you just don't what full cost really is let alone what is really being paid. In other words, if you were getting ripped off you wouldn't know it. Now, if a drug cost less than the threshold are you given it for that lower cost or at the mandated price? (as in, do you pay more for cheap drugs to make up paying less for expensive ones?)
Just because a chip isn't available in the PC at your local Best Buy does not make it a failure.
From zSeries, iSeries, and pSeries, machines which make up a large number of server and midrange hardware sold to variations of the theme in some of today's popular gaming platforms I think the PowerPc as an architecture does just fine. G5 is alive.
Figure that will be one way to sell it. Hello carbon tax.
Yes it is not reasonable to you or me, however there are many who would like nothing more to "punish" people who drive cars, after all only the rich or those who don't care if they are destroying the planet will drive cars. Honestly this is how it will come to pass. We have toll roads that were supposed to expire (ga400) when they paid off, guess what, ain't happened and won't ever happen.
Once a government gets a tax in it will take a change of government to remove it. I seriously doubt it will be republican or democrats that will help us.
I am sure I could rattle off stuff obscure to anyone but a select few for many big companies that many love or hate.
the point is, where people want it is where Apple isn't going to let them get it.
Apple isn't the new Microsoft, they have always been essentially the same thing but were excused for having a lower market share of Personal computers, though unlike MS you are not free to choose the hardware to run their OS on.
Would not having smoother roads do more to benefit economy as well as reduce maintenance costs?
Besides you have to evaluate the whole of the suspension system to get an accurate measure of how well it rides and handles. Shocks used to be a bigger part of it ages ago, today they are just one component in many that determines how a car rides. If anything you can cause more issue by just having too much air pressure in the tires.
it is the fact that as the sole decider in your treatment what recourse do you have? You versus the government.
With private control over health care the government can have oversight in the process and laws can be crafted and enforced by the government to ensure fair application of the rules. Do you really think that will happen with the government? While your fighting it for your rights your condition will continue to exist all the while you hope that some government bureaucrat bothers to even look at your case or give it some priority over the hundreds if not thousands of other pleading their case is equally if not more deserving that yours.
In effect you relegate yourself to being like that woman at the recent Obama press show where she pleaded with him to give her a home because she is in a pickup truck. She was in effect stating she is more deserving than those already on the waiting list. Who decides? Government. Look they are already managing that housing issue in Florida and they are botching it. Now you show no fear that they can manage your health care nor do you care if they keep your condition secret?
No what happens when they know your condition fully they will do a measure of your lifespan versus the costs to treat you. Then all those little things add up and suddenly your left without recourse. Not a fun society when the rules and test change based on the needs of government, a government your unlikely to have any protection against.
she has not yet entered into public education.
duh!
we wanted to work. As a people we had a goal. We were working towards a goal all could agree upon.
Frankly I am not willing to suffer another world war to change our perspective back that of our grand parents.
Now it is all about getting our "fair share" which apparently for many does not require personal sacrifice let alone work. The problem today is people figured out they could vote themselves other peoples stuff.
Until we change the attitude of Americans no amount of stimulus, let alone this giant lie of a bill, is going to fix the economy. Americans as a whole need to realize that every person's work is to be valued and the primary method of demonstrating the value of a persons work is not to take the fruit of it to provide for others who won't work.
There is no real spending on infrastructure in this bill because it was never meant to stimulate the economy. It was all about paying off groups that supported those in power. It is all about ensuring those in power stay in power. American reinvestment act my ass, more like Incumbent Rescue Act.
This whole thing is a crock. Worse they are sneaking in universal health care through the back door using the bill. The major sponsors won't even discuss it. Yet people aren't rallying over that?
This bill will haunt us for decades. The fact we had a chance to do things like fix our infrastructure, both electronic and physical, but didn't will hurt us more than we are willing to admit.
My grand parents our of the generation that you do it yourselves. When my grandmother needed a wheel chair she went out and bought it. It never occurred to her to ask someone else to buy it. When I went for a PSA I was surprised that insurance would cover it. Insurance is all wrong in this country, it should cover catastrophic issues, not daily required stuff that I should be doing. Its not like most of can't find the money for the latest tech toy, phone service, or super fast internet, yet ask many and they are offended they have to pay for the daily maintenance drugs - let alone change their habits so as not to need them
but Apple's use of Intel chips and similar chip sets validated the comparisons. Outside of OS X what we have is cutting edge cases: packaging. Apple is the mastery of packaging and marketing. Throw in a long standing and in some cases deserved following and the die is set.
That isn't to say there is some value in packaging. Yet this what happens is that there is this great disconnect. I follow and post to various mac forums (being an owner on an iMac and two iPods does let me get away with it) where the same people who one day berate Alienware (insert name of any PC specialty maker) for charging high prices for essentially fancy cased machines will drag you into the dirt arguing why the case on the new "mac xxx" is so revolutionary that it deserves exception.
The primary problem is that too many in the Mac community still fail to recognize that Apple isn't just about computers. They go out of their way to ignore the boards on the site dedicated to the iPhone and Touch. Yet from those products one can see why much of the Mac hardware is what it is. Is Apple big enough to create a multitude of products for both the Mac enthusiast and the music/phone consumer? Considering the state of Mac I think they aren't. While I laud them on continued extension of OS X I am really annoyed at the hardware I am forced to run it on. Apple goes to no end to stomp anyone trying to use their hardware or software in ways they don't approve yet at the same time refuse to fill the void that is being called out by these upstarts.
Apple put themselves into the same position IBM was in, they have a common hardware platform in Mac with the rest of the PC world. Their market is ripe for a competitor. It is only a matter of time before one surfaces who doesn't just back down. Apple's reaction will be interesting once OS X cannot be held to just Apple made computers. Frankly they should license it to very specific ranges on computers to fill the void in their product line they refuse to fill themselves. Create a system of "OX X" certified with real enforcement. Will it happen, no but it is nice to dream.
Macs are like Harley Davidson, only a fool buys them new. Get them used and save yourself the expense. Exploit the irrational expectations that some of the community have for having to have the newest item, this years new case. You will get a good machine and have the very same experience except you can look at your bank account and feel good about it.
Because I have to wonder. They allowed the Mac Pro to languish, the iMac needs an update already, and the Mac Mini is just a disgrace.
Apple's problem is that they make very little effort to keep their computers up to date. Since the switch to Intel if it were not for OS X all we would have is Alienware, overpriced hardware in cool cases. Changing to Intel makes cost comparisons all the more likely and they are fair to make. While I do enjoy using OS X I just cannot stand the premium they want for hardware that at times is more than a generation behind or lacking some major area. Where is my HD DVD option (like Blu-Ray). Now I have to take it to the Windows machine to do it. Lovely, I guess they WANT me to have a Microsoft computer too.
Trying to sell friends on a Mac is a joke when they can buy a $349 laptop that provides nearly the same services. (go look at the Toshiba in Best Buy's ad this week - SHEESH)
Sometimes I think Apple wants the desktop market to go away. They seem damn happy with their laptops and they come across as trying to make real strives with them.
They are creating an assembled computer system they claim can run software X. How is that any different from selling computers that run Windows?
Why can't a computer manufacture label their products "OS X Certified".
I don't care if Apple is only 10% of the WHOLE OF THE PC MARKETPLACE, they are the only source of hardware that is allowed to run their OPERATING SYSTEM. Yeah I am using capitalization to make a point. What they are doing is just as bad, if not worse, than what Microsoft did. Look at the story about bundling, at least with Explorer embedded in the OS I could still choose. I don't have any choice with Apple, if I want to use OS X I can only use it on their hardware.
Just because they used to be, emphasis in used to, the little guy doesn't give them rights to trample mine.
FWIW, I own an iMac (white ones) and two iPods. I like their products but I am loathe to buy another system where I am forced to pay a premium of over 30% just so I can run an operating system I want.
for content that matters.
Yes you can bot killing things, that is not hard to do. Any game can be run by a bot if it just involves monitor player health/power and killing things in the local area.
WOW's entire progression is to get people into doing 5 man content, instances and raids. This is not the realm of bots. Comparing EQ1 with WOW gives EQ much more credit than it ever deserved.
Your quote is laughable "Instead, every task in these damn MMOs is supremely suited to perfect repetition (e.g. use these skills in a certain order, on a certain number of creatures, repeat) and repetition is about the only thing computers/bots excel at."
So is real life. Every task in real life is supremely suited to perfect repetition. Just like in real life extraordinary events will require something other than a bot and those who cannot operate otherwise usually suffer.
For the most all games are the same. You can bot chess just fine thank you, last I heard a computer did just fine. Hence I don't think your argument is other than your bored and it is someone's fault other than your own.
that if they can show periods of both cooling and warming that they actually publish it any get past the hyperbole of the groups who profit of the global warming industry. The problem with every generation is that they think they are unique. It has all happened before and will happen again.
Still it is a great thing to announce during a cold snap.
One of the "gimmes" when trying to get these past the state legislature was to not apply points to a person's license when they got fined.
The fine is $90 for of the two I go through, yeah it nailed me but I had the same problem you did, a truck obscured my view. In the end I was following too closely.
the lights near me which were changed to camera enforced had their yellow reduced the minimum allowed by the law.
The formula for this is pretty swift, http://safety.transportation.org/htmlguides/sgn_int/App02.htm
It is very common to see people lock down when it goes yellow so approaching either of the two I go through does require extra caution. The fortunate application is that they did concentrate on those crossings with the most amount of accidents from people running red lights. They have not applied them to intersections for leaving or entering an interstate where the rule seems to be five cars on red.
that Ubuntu runs benchmarks faster? A copy file is faster? Certainly things that the average user will never care about. Even my parents leave their machines on 24x7 so boot times matter?
Really, I don't care which is more efficient at booting or copying, if Ubuntu cannot run the software I want all of its performance benefits are lost
expression of redistribution of resources. Instead of being able to have what you can afford you can only have what everyone else can have.
Administered by corporate entity or government entity there is no difference in the outcome. Regardless of service availability everyone gets limited all to stop those who are "excessive" and help those under privileged.
Talk is cheap, actions haven't followed all the hype.
Lets see, Iran is now openly declaring we have to respect their nuclear right. North Korea is again launching test rockets towards Japan.
Yeah, looks like newly found world wide respect.
Throw in, the French laughing at our bail out ideas... I have seen the manure recently (read: two nominees toasted, two more that should have been, and the labor one is on her way out already) but I haven't seen the flowers or unicorns. Instead of substance we get interviews with him about his substance use (read: tobacco)
Science at the forefront? Looks like to me that building water slides in Louisiana is more important (read the stimulus bill he so solidly supports). What science? Must be the 50 plus million to the arts. Go read it http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/hr1_engrossed.pdf (warning it is like only page and half of the 600 page bill)
Don't know where you've been but nothing has changed except for how fast the back peddling has become or where it comes from. If this is change I am not sure it is what we really wanted.
Because we all know that everyone else will uphold the same morals.
Sorry, but this is just political grandstanding for his base. If the does follow through he will simply gimp the US going forward
that this nominee paid his taxes on time.
Still, if you want, you can research through most papers using their online facilities.
for the most part he walked into a mess at the DC school system back in 2007 and worked to upgrade them to something respectable. That and investigating people using government systems to surf porn. Apparently before him most of the record keeping was still in paper form.
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=vivek+kundra&hl=en&um=1&sa=N&sugg=d&as_user_ldate=2008&as_user_hdate=2009&lnav=h0&ldrange=2003,2006