Look, outside of work, if I really wanted to, I could live without my computer. Hell I can live without a cell phone too. It just takes discipline. I lived through the 70s and 80s without the access I have these days as did my parents and their parents before them.
Rural America has more pressing issues than the net, let alone the people with manual labor type jobs. Don't classify them as ignorant either. Many of them do a far better job at raising their families than the so called "educated elite". They don't need the net as a subsitute for life and friends. They don't need TV shows for entertainment, let alone care to see the violence in big cities portrayed in fiction and fact.
Its America stupid, we are not one giant homogenized horde. We are little tight knit groups spread out across a large area all enjoying the freedom this country affords, and that freedom can and does mean not doing what everyone thinks you should be doing. Hell there are times I wish I could live back on the farm, work 12 to 14 hour days, and never see a computer. Somethings the simpler life is actually better.
I would be curious as to how much of that increased price is going to the studios versus what it going to iTMS. I have a feeling that stock holder pressure is going to force Apple to make iTMS turn a real profit. None of this "break even crap and rely on hardware sales".
Hence Steve is making us feel good by "standing up" to the labels while getting us to cheer him on for raising the price. The guy is pretty amazing at that.
more widely advertised as well as celebrated when a winner is selected.
We need to recognize that individual accomplishment is still something to crow about. When schools turn to removing achievment rewards for fear of offending those who don't achieve to removing grades for the same reason we teach kids the wrong lesson. The winner of this competition was not only trying to help NASA but provide his child a valuable lesson. This is the type of stuff that needs to taught to kids in school today. Show them that one person can do what many cannot do, then explain to them the need for both individual and groups for accomplishing goals.
Many great advancements are the work of a single person, someone who thinks "outside the box". We have to remember that the village is made up of individuals and they are as important as the village.
Open software is a much better choice when you are trying to distribute low-cost computers to every child. Windows would have locked them into the Windows upgrade cycle, required frequent net access for updates, and would have just hidden a lot of the internals from the kids.
Get real, these are not machines destined for upgrades and I seriously doubt a full blown version of windows would have ever be used.
Besides, if you want to get nit picky. Windows delivers updates very easily and wholly hidden should you choose. Its by far one of the easiest methods out there. Second, the people destined to get these machines are not going to care one whit about the "internals".
These PCs are not about exploring an operating system, its about getting to the end user the information they need to lead better lives. The last thing on the minds of the supporters is a war between unix and windows. They are more concerned with making sure these people can communicate with each other, receive information helpful to their daily lives (like weather), and provide education to children who may not have access to a teacher.
On a side note, I still think the OLPC is more feel good than do good. We are still relying on these governments actually doing what we want them to do with these tools and we still have the belief that people actually want them in the countries we are sending them too. My fear is way too many of these will end up along the roadside with the other trash.
Get him for a hate crime, its about as nebolous as a terroristic crime they want to accuse him of.
Its not like you can't get the layout by simply yanking a fire escape plan off the wall, hell I bet they hand them out.
His crime is merely being around paranoid school officials who rely on the law to excuse them from thinking because they might be accused of favortism. The courts, because of over zealous parents, abusive rights groups (ACLU comes to mind), and money hungry lawyers, have hamstrung the school systems into becoming draconian with the rules.
Not only do they not teach students properly but teachers are forbidden from discipline or instill right or wrong. The only "right" they impose is that government schools will teach and coddle them. They are not taught what is wrong except in very broad terms again for fear of offending someone. Hell my friend's kid has even said that they cannot mention which religion the terrorists who beheaded journalist were! Hows that for a dysfunctional system.
No, the kid is only at fault for going to a public school. We are at fault as a nation for not taking the schools back from the federal government and teachers unions who find ways to prevent states and localities from instilling common sense and decency.
XFX and others have factory over clocked cards with better speeds than the ultra, though the ultra does feature better memory that should allow overclocked ultras to be quicker than overclocked gtxs.
One thing I did find interesting, most sites say that Nvidia is only competing against itself as the R600 is supposedly very disappointing. In other words, its no threat to the 88 series
As they put it, you pay the bills and you can decide whats allowed.
Basically they are right, no one here or elsewhere has the right to tell a site what they should allow or not until that someone is paying for the consequences.
Look, lifes not fair, don't place burdens on others you won't really pay yourself when push comes to shove
Well one way to handle the sexual desire problems is to neuter them. I would hope that as a people, especially highly trained as astronauts are, that sex isn't going to be a pressing issue for them on a long term journey. Even if so, send married couples, or send singles, don't mix it up. You could also try drugs to suppress the desires as well. It may also depend on the mission as well. One other note, if we as a specie cannot operate sensibly in space, which can include safe sex, they why are we there?
As for critical injuries, these are all professionals, many were test pilots. While some may never have served in the military they already know the risk their profession brings. If you set out the rules ahead of time they will accept their fate should it become an issue. If anything your going to have to deal with more of the non-critically injured wanting to break the rules to save a dieing friend than the other way around.
As for surgery to prevent possible medical complications, thats a mess. You would have to study both the population at large as well as the astronauts family history to see which issues they are prone too.
As for a dead astronaut. Bets are many would prefer to be buried at space if they have no immediate families at home. Still I cannot see why they cannot be ziplocked and stored in a cold but pressurized area of the ship. The only real negative is the emotional stress placed on the remaining crew having a corpse along, a corpse of a friend.
I happen to agree with one point he makes, Apple is late to the party. With the iPod they arrived "fashionably late", well before the party was going, but not until they knew it was going to be a good party. With the iPhone what we have is a big party and another glam-chick pining for attention. She'll attract eyes when she comes through the door but when people realize how shallow of an offering she is they will wait for her younger sister to arrive.
Talk is cheap, many people love to chime in they will buy one, but I bet they won't. It is a feel good response, makes them feel like part of the "in crowd" while never being obligated to do anything.
Apple's way late to the big show and their offering is seriously lacking. Wait for the second or THIRD revision of this iphone before jumping
An ex-girlfriend found me through public records. At the time I had an unlisted phone number and you could not find enough information online that I posted to get a street address, let alone what city and county I lived in.
How did she do it? Simple, many of the counties in my area post tax records for land, fully searchable. She simply picked county after county until she got mine. (its not good to have an uncommon last name)
So she not only had my street address she also could approximate my net worth based on the property values. It was even easy for her to tell how long I lived there.
The government is only concerned at laws restricting private companies and your information because they can take money from them when these companies screw up. Whereas themselves are immune to it, after all people are fallible.
Granted the submitter is trying to imply it will happen in the United States but I still ask, why does it matter to us what Iran chooses for messages in its own country?
It a repressive regime, what are we to expect? Does it violate their own laws? If there is an international law being violated do you really think they care? Its their country, let them govern it as they see fit. No one is losing their life over filtering.
Stop applying our standards to those in the rest of the world. There are things we take for granted many people never had, never wiil, and some probably don't want. Oh I am sure anyone can list a bunch of things ala Strawman style to refute that claim. It still comes down to, its their country, no one is losing their life over it.
plus disorienting may be more valuable when it comes to groups you cannot guarantee an instant kill on.
in other words, disorient then kill if necessary, a kill shot is not a guarantee but if you can keep them from taking any real action you open yourself more options, which includes a few important seconds to kill the baddies. think hostages, who cares if you give the hostage a headache or such, its better than the baddies getting shots off at him if you only wound one.
let alone the fact that the public seems to take a dim view lately of actually killing enemies...
There's a few reason to have desktops: 1. Large monitors 2. Large diskspace 3. Better graphics cards 4. You want to tinker with it, upgrade etc.
1. You can do this if you have a laptop or not. 2. External drives, and 200gb internals, allow laptops to equal desktops 3. Some laptops allow you to swap, there are many good laptops with high end video ability 4. ok, you got me, but you don't have the majority of buyers and I think thats why laptops and semi-laptops will pull away with the market
but does that mean games were better back in the age? What about asking the question, who are we today that we were not then?
Memories are great, just don't try and find out if they are accurate. I remember shows I loved when I was younger and purchased many on DVD only realizing that what I remembered wasn't what was. In other words, I am a little more critical and fail to always see the magic anymore that once caught my eye.
Plus back then there wasn't much choice so the good games really did stand out. There are many games these days that are good but its hard for them to stand out, especially considering the platform choices as well
because there are cliques here and they do the same thing you claim that happens on Digg. People of certain beliefs will without reason mod down anything they don't like regardless of the truth of the statements. (Its probably the best reason to never EVER look at the political section of/.)
Legislation to change the laws to make all lenders EQUAL is what is needed. Also, get the government out of the loan business and just into guaranteeing it. Let the market assign the risks. If the government thinks the market is charging to much then it can investigate.
Too many people who claim to pay taxes get it all back at the end of year.
If paying income taxes were a requirement for voting we might actually have a Federal Government concerned with spending! There is no Constitutional right to vote in Presidental elections so it would not be a "poll tax" per se.
I do have friends that make under 30k a year and pay no income tax, a few actually get more money back than they supposedly paid in. What a crock that is. So they not only get paid by the Federal government they can vote back in people who will give them even more money, mine actually.
Don't claim that your not represented. For the most part the people paying the bulk of the taxes are underrepresented because its their money being used to buy votes
You think that the under 18 crowd is the leetspeek, ninja looters, griefers & beggars group? You obviously haven't met these people in real life. Some of the worse have kids!!!
Let alone the fact this is the typical selfish reaction from people who only think freedom works when someone else doesn't do something they don't like.
no, the solution is for you to ignore the people who cause you grief in these games or just don't play them. Most MMORPGs have methods to ignore the very people you speak of. Use it, never suggest to a politician new ways to thwart our rights.
when one of their own developers, and eventually it became policy, stated that ATTENDED combat macroing would be permitted in Asheron's Call.
They fully acknowledged that people were using bots. They even went so far as to define how and when they can be used. Now some of these provided good services to players, like bots that could make portals on demand and trade bots. Others were simply camped in locations and fought mobs 24x7. Some individuals ran as many as a dozen of these bots locking up entire dungeons to themselves.
I believed there was a collective groan from the industry the day Turbine did this. Since then bots have cursed games openly more and more as too many left AC or the debate about it in AC as being entitled to play the game however they wanted. (even if it meant not actually playing the game)
This is a UN body. Can you name for me three UN successes in the past 25 years? Just three. I can name three failures in about two seconds... Rwanda, Darfur, Oil for Food program, 17 Iraqi resolutions, Lebanon, Iran, North Korea... Oh, I was only supposed to stop at three?
That is classic ad-hominem, you are attacking the messanger rather than discussing the issue. This is especially irrelevant since we are discussing a scientific issue, you are talking about war and conflict areas.
Yet this is EXACTLY what the Global Warming is caused by Man crowd does to any scientist who dares raise issues against that mindset. Bring on any scientist, no matter what prestigious background or association he has and sure as shit he will get eviscerated.
It works both ways. Many of the scientist listed on that UN report don't agree with it or all its findings. Yet you will never here that in the press. Why? Simple, big money is involved. Businesses have now discovered the big money in being green, even if its all a shell game.
I look at it this way, the doomsayers have always been wrong. We are so damn egotistical in our supposed science that suddenly we can declare we know what will happen when just a few years back we thought the same and were wrong?
Global Warming stopped being science when some people decided there was no longer room for debate. Regardless of what the US and Europe does China and India are just going to keep going, which will invalidate any pollution gains we make.
I am more scared of the fact that we don't know for sure yet we are going to take a course of action regardless of that fact.
He is paying what they are charging. If he flew on a US flight then perhaps we can bitch about the costs, it sure would cost him more than a paltry 25m to get there.
War or no war NASA is never going to get anywhere until it does something that can generate votes. Until the polticians will only keep it around for the local jobs it creates and to bash the other party for not funding science enough
Let us also not forget the number of subdivisions with Home Owners Associations that practically outlaw anything and everything. Most of these rules are considered the same as local and even state laws in some areas!
Plus your bound to get lots of "keep it beautiful" groups who get areas rezoned to prevent panels as it disturbs the "natural beauty" of the area. Don't laugh, you'll never get them in any area designated "historical".
If anything this gives power companies a new avenue to generate power for places that could never put together enough space to generate it themselves.
It may take Federal regulation similar to what was done with Satellite TV service to override HOAs and local zoning rules to allow home owners to put these up should they become affordable and available.
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Look, outside of work, if I really wanted to, I could live without my computer. Hell I can live without a cell phone too. It just takes discipline. I lived through the 70s and 80s without the access I have these days as did my parents and their parents before them.
Rural America has more pressing issues than the net, let alone the people with manual labor type jobs. Don't classify them as ignorant either. Many of them do a far better job at raising their families than the so called "educated elite". They don't need the net as a subsitute for life and friends. They don't need TV shows for entertainment, let alone care to see the violence in big cities portrayed in fiction and fact.
Its America stupid, we are not one giant homogenized horde. We are little tight knit groups spread out across a large area all enjoying the freedom this country affords, and that freedom can and does mean not doing what everyone thinks you should be doing. Hell there are times I wish I could live back on the farm, work 12 to 14 hour days, and never see a computer. Somethings the simpler life is actually better.
Steve is pulling a fast one on us.
I would be curious as to how much of that increased price is going to the studios versus what it going to iTMS. I have a feeling that stock holder pressure is going to force Apple to make iTMS turn a real profit. None of this "break even crap and rely on hardware sales".
Hence Steve is making us feel good by "standing up" to the labels while getting us to cheer him on for raising the price. The guy is pretty amazing at that.
more widely advertised as well as celebrated when a winner is selected.
We need to recognize that individual accomplishment is still something to crow about. When schools turn to removing achievment rewards for fear of offending those who don't achieve to removing grades for the same reason we teach kids the wrong lesson. The winner of this competition was not only trying to help NASA but provide his child a valuable lesson. This is the type of stuff that needs to taught to kids in school today. Show them that one person can do what many cannot do, then explain to them the need for both individual and groups for accomplishing goals.
Many great advancements are the work of a single person, someone who thinks "outside the box". We have to remember that the village is made up of individuals and they are as important as the village.
Open software is a much better choice when you are trying to distribute low-cost computers to every child. Windows would have locked them into the Windows upgrade cycle, required frequent net access for updates, and would have just hidden a lot of the internals from the kids.
Get real, these are not machines destined for upgrades and I seriously doubt a full blown version of windows would have ever be used.
Besides, if you want to get nit picky. Windows delivers updates very easily and wholly hidden should you choose. Its by far one of the easiest methods out there. Second, the people destined to get these machines are not going to care one whit about the "internals".
These PCs are not about exploring an operating system, its about getting to the end user the information they need to lead better lives. The last thing on the minds of the supporters is a war between unix and windows. They are more concerned with making sure these people can communicate with each other, receive information helpful to their daily lives (like weather), and provide education to children who may not have access to a teacher.
On a side note, I still think the OLPC is more feel good than do good. We are still relying on these governments actually doing what we want them to do with these tools and we still have the belief that people actually want them in the countries we are sending them too. My fear is way too many of these will end up along the roadside with the other trash.
Get him for a hate crime, its about as nebolous as a terroristic crime they want to accuse him of.
Its not like you can't get the layout by simply yanking a fire escape plan off the wall, hell I bet they hand them out.
His crime is merely being around paranoid school officials who rely on the law to excuse them from thinking because they might be accused of favortism. The courts, because of over zealous parents, abusive rights groups (ACLU comes to mind), and money hungry lawyers, have hamstrung the school systems into becoming draconian with the rules.
Not only do they not teach students properly but teachers are forbidden from discipline or instill right or wrong. The only "right" they impose is that government schools will teach and coddle them. They are not taught what is wrong except in very broad terms again for fear of offending someone. Hell my friend's kid has even said that they cannot mention which religion the terrorists who beheaded journalist were! Hows that for a dysfunctional system.
No, the kid is only at fault for going to a public school. We are at fault as a nation for not taking the schools back from the federal government and teachers unions who find ways to prevent states and localities from instilling common sense and decency.
whats the point?
XFX and others have factory over clocked cards with better speeds than the ultra, though the ultra does feature better memory that should allow overclocked ultras to be quicker than overclocked gtxs.
One thing I did find interesting, most sites say that Nvidia is only competing against itself as the R600 is supposedly very disappointing. In other words, its no threat to the 88 series
As they put it, you pay the bills and you can decide whats allowed.
Basically they are right, no one here or elsewhere has the right to tell a site what they should allow or not until that someone is paying for the consequences.
Look, lifes not fair, don't place burdens on others you won't really pay yourself when push comes to shove
Well one way to handle the sexual desire problems is to neuter them. I would hope that as a people, especially highly trained as astronauts are, that sex isn't going to be a pressing issue for them on a long term journey. Even if so, send married couples, or send singles, don't mix it up. You could also try drugs to suppress the desires as well. It may also depend on the mission as well. One other note, if we as a specie cannot operate sensibly in space, which can include safe sex, they why are we there?
As for critical injuries, these are all professionals, many were test pilots. While some may never have served in the military they already know the risk their profession brings. If you set out the rules ahead of time they will accept their fate should it become an issue. If anything your going to have to deal with more of the non-critically injured wanting to break the rules to save a dieing friend than the other way around.
As for surgery to prevent possible medical complications, thats a mess. You would have to study both the population at large as well as the astronauts family history to see which issues they are prone too.
As for a dead astronaut. Bets are many would prefer to be buried at space if they have no immediate families at home. Still I cannot see why they cannot be ziplocked and stored in a cold but pressurized area of the ship. The only real negative is the emotional stress placed on the remaining crew having a corpse along, a corpse of a friend.
I happen to agree with one point he makes, Apple is late to the party. With the iPod they arrived "fashionably late", well before the party was going, but not until they knew it was going to be a good party. With the iPhone what we have is a big party and another glam-chick pining for attention. She'll attract eyes when she comes through the door but when people realize how shallow of an offering she is they will wait for her younger sister to arrive.
Talk is cheap, many people love to chime in they will buy one, but I bet they won't. It is a feel good response, makes them feel like part of the "in crowd" while never being obligated to do anything.
Apple's way late to the big show and their offering is seriously lacking. Wait for the second or THIRD revision of this iphone before jumping
An ex-girlfriend found me through public records. At the time I had an unlisted phone number and you could not find enough information online that I posted to get a street address, let alone what city and county I lived in.
How did she do it? Simple, many of the counties in my area post tax records for land, fully searchable. She simply picked county after county until she got mine. (its not good to have an uncommon last name)
So she not only had my street address she also could approximate my net worth based on the property values. It was even easy for her to tell how long I lived there.
The government is only concerned at laws restricting private companies and your information because they can take money from them when these companies screw up. Whereas themselves are immune to it, after all people are fallible.
Granted the submitter is trying to imply it will happen in the United States but I still ask, why does it matter to us what Iran chooses for messages in its own country?
It a repressive regime, what are we to expect? Does it violate their own laws? If there is an international law being violated do you really think they care? Its their country, let them govern it as they see fit. No one is losing their life over filtering.
Stop applying our standards to those in the rest of the world. There are things we take for granted many people never had, never wiil, and some probably don't want. Oh I am sure anyone can list a bunch of things ala Strawman style to refute that claim. It still comes down to, its their country, no one is losing their life over it.
She could go and work at Wikipedia!
plus disorienting may be more valuable when it comes to groups you cannot guarantee an instant kill on.
in other words, disorient then kill if necessary, a kill shot is not a guarantee but if you can keep them from taking any real action you open yourself more options, which includes a few important seconds to kill the baddies. think hostages, who cares if you give the hostage a headache or such, its better than the baddies getting shots off at him if you only wound one.
let alone the fact that the public seems to take a dim view lately of actually killing enemies...
There's a few reason to have desktops:
1. Large monitors
2. Large diskspace
3. Better graphics cards
4. You want to tinker with it, upgrade etc.
1. You can do this if you have a laptop or not.
2. External drives, and 200gb internals, allow laptops to equal desktops
3. Some laptops allow you to swap, there are many good laptops with high end video ability
4. ok, you got me, but you don't have the majority of buyers and I think thats why laptops and semi-laptops will pull away with the market
why in the hell is the tax code so complicated we need computer programs to sort it out?
the real problem is the tax system and the fact that Congress does nothing to simplify it.
it is also possible that the gunman knowing there "could be" armed students or teachers might have gone elsewhere.
bringing the lack of guns is a valid point, because criminals, even the insane ones, rarely tread where they know a threat exists
but does that mean games were better back in the age? What about asking the question, who are we today that we were not then?
Memories are great, just don't try and find out if they are accurate. I remember shows I loved when I was younger and purchased many on DVD only realizing that what I remembered wasn't what was. In other words, I am a little more critical and fail to always see the magic anymore that once caught my eye.
Plus back then there wasn't much choice so the good games really did stand out. There are many games these days that are good but its hard for them to stand out, especially considering the platform choices as well
because there are cliques here and they do the same thing you claim that happens on Digg. People of certain beliefs will without reason mod down anything they don't like regardless of the truth of the statements. (Its probably the best reason to never EVER look at the political section of /.)
Legislation to change the laws to make all lenders EQUAL is what is needed. Also, get the government out of the loan business and just into guaranteeing it. Let the market assign the risks. If the government thinks the market is charging to much then it can investigate.
Too many people who claim to pay taxes get it all back at the end of year.
If paying income taxes were a requirement for voting we might actually have a Federal Government concerned with spending! There is no Constitutional right to vote in Presidental elections so it would not be a "poll tax" per se.
I do have friends that make under 30k a year and pay no income tax, a few actually get more money back than they supposedly paid in. What a crock that is. So they not only get paid by the Federal government they can vote back in people who will give them even more money, mine actually.
Don't claim that your not represented. For the most part the people paying the bulk of the taxes are underrepresented because its their money being used to buy votes
You think that the under 18 crowd is the leetspeek, ninja looters, griefers & beggars group? You obviously haven't met these people in real life. Some of the worse have kids!!!
Let alone the fact this is the typical selfish reaction from people who only think freedom works when someone else doesn't do something they don't like.
no, the solution is for you to ignore the people who cause you grief in these games or just don't play them. Most MMORPGs have methods to ignore the very people you speak of. Use it, never suggest to a politician new ways to thwart our rights.
when one of their own developers, and eventually it became policy, stated that ATTENDED combat macroing would be permitted in Asheron's Call.
They fully acknowledged that people were using bots. They even went so far as to define how and when they can be used. Now some of these provided good services to players, like bots that could make portals on demand and trade bots. Others were simply camped in locations and fought mobs 24x7. Some individuals ran as many as a dozen of these bots locking up entire dungeons to themselves.
I believed there was a collective groan from the industry the day Turbine did this. Since then bots have cursed games openly more and more as too many left AC or the debate about it in AC as being entitled to play the game however they wanted. (even if it meant not actually playing the game)
Yet this is EXACTLY what the Global Warming is caused by Man crowd does to any scientist who dares raise issues against that mindset. Bring on any scientist, no matter what prestigious background or association he has and sure as shit he will get eviscerated.
It works both ways. Many of the scientist listed on that UN report don't agree with it or all its findings. Yet you will never here that in the press. Why? Simple, big money is involved. Businesses have now discovered the big money in being green, even if its all a shell game. I look at it this way, the doomsayers have always been wrong. We are so damn egotistical in our supposed science that suddenly we can declare we know what will happen when just a few years back we thought the same and were wrong? Global Warming stopped being science when some people decided there was no longer room for debate. Regardless of what the US and Europe does China and India are just going to keep going, which will invalidate any pollution gains we make. I am more scared of the fact that we don't know for sure yet we are going to take a course of action regardless of that fact.
He is paying what they are charging. If he flew on a US flight then perhaps we can bitch about the costs, it sure would cost him more than a paltry 25m to get there.
War or no war NASA is never going to get anywhere until it does something that can generate votes. Until the polticians will only keep it around for the local jobs it creates and to bash the other party for not funding science enough
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Let us also not forget the number of subdivisions with Home Owners Associations that practically outlaw anything and everything. Most of these rules are considered the same as local and even state laws in some areas!
Plus your bound to get lots of "keep it beautiful" groups who get areas rezoned to prevent panels as it disturbs the "natural beauty" of the area. Don't laugh, you'll never get them in any area designated "historical".
If anything this gives power companies a new avenue to generate power for places that could never put together enough space to generate it themselves.
It may take Federal regulation similar to what was done with Satellite TV service to override HOAs and local zoning rules to allow home owners to put these up should they become affordable and available.