This sounds so much like old teachers fretting over the use of calculators in math class.
In some ways, the scale of it is different, and it will be interesting to see how a kid born in 1995 thinks differently at 30 than one born in 1975, but still.
The net gives us all of the knowledge of humanity at our fingertips. It frees us from thinking about facts and gives us more time for abstract thinking and problem solving. At least for those of us who remember a time before google. Maybe a child born today really will be made dumb by google.
Not really, the cabin hatches work like a sink plug, and are sealed by the pressure in the plane, so unless you de-pressurize the plane, you're not getting to door off midflight.
I was having that EXACT problem today, trying to restore our crappy SBS server. The server's disc drive is a little messed up, and it's been a HUGE pain to provide drivers on floppy, because it only likes floppies written by very specific machines here.
If Nintendo really can have 4 million Wiis in stores by christmas, a late november launch makes sense, but in the case of the PS3, why did they release this late when they know full well they won't even begin to meet demand for christmas?
Christmas buyers aren't your hard core fanboys who will wait in line to buy the thing, so why not launch it in the summer, get the fanboys set, then work hard to produce enough of your system to keep in in stock for christmas buyers (you know, like MS did). Sony made a major error here, in that lots moms and dads buying the system for their kids are going to wait a full year till next christmas to do so. Meanwhile, Nintendo has Wiis in stock, for 1/2 the price, ready to be snatched up by Santa.
If one "follows the money" it's pretty obvious that Deibold has an incentive to make republicans win, but aren't most of these problems just awful engineering? Crappy programming, bad design, lazy execution.
Still inexcusable, but I just wonder if Deibold et al just suck, and aren't malicious.
Maybe it's because I have the lowest-end XM unit, but my damn FM modulator has a hard time making a signal that can successfully get from my dashboard to my radio.
OK, am I the only one who thinks that $12.99 for a magical digital-only copy isn't that great of a price?
For an extra $2, I get the discs with full-quality DVD video on them, and I can burn them in whatever format I want, and use them on any DVD-equiped TV. Not to mention a handy-dandy carrying case with some nice graphics from the movie on it.
Seriously, if ITMS was selling it for like $6, I could see retailers being pissed, but $12.99? Give me a break.
When are geeks going to figure out that 90% of people don't upgrade their computers. I've been using the same mac G4 at home for almost 4 years now. Hell, I AM a geek, and all I've done is add an HD and some more memory. It's JUST starting to slow down a little bit with some of the newer fancier apps.
Meanwhile, I'm currently replacing all of the 3 year old PCs at work.
Some people just want a box that works out of the box. Apple gives them that.
Having said all that, I can't wait for a decent bios-resident OS that contains a browser and nothing else. It could even sit in the keyborad, like one of those 19 in 1 retro game things. It might not be my only computer, but it would be my 2nd and 3rd computer for sure.
Remember a while ago when all of the "news" outlets were talking about al queda using lasers to blind pilots and crash planes? Is this another one of those? Could laser be one of those things that makes news people salivate, like internet, child porn, or video game violence?
Seriously, if the chinese are indeed doing this, it seems like an awfully impressive technological feat. I just wish they weren't doing it. Satellites are really good at keeping the peace, because they let you know what your enemy is doing so you're not making up dragons in your mind.
You've sort of learned the wrong lesson from Satellite. People want to listen to what they like. They're not concerned about local variants or national consistency.
Unless you happen to like today's hott jams, today's hot country, your listen at work station, or the hottest RAWK in (your town here), you've got nothing to listen to on FM. Unless you like preachers, political ranters, or fools talking about sports all day, you've got nothing to listen to on AM.
Hence, satellite radio. If I lived in a place where I could get the same variety as the 30 stations that are programmed into my XM unit, I'd cancel my subscription in a second. Plus, I like to hear my DJs say fuck once in a while.
Most pirate radio that I've heard is rather uninteresting. Pirate play their favorite artist (who is disproportionately Zappa), or rant on their favorite topic. The truly insane pirates broadcast on shortwave anyways.
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"computer scientists (a direct reference to Rubin and his team) who question the security of electronic voting machines are undermining our democracy"
And don't forget support al Queda.
What an ass. Don't question the government. They know what's best for you.
Seriously, how much of a wuss are you that you can't fess up to what you listen to, or silly sites you go to? My iTunes top 25 is probably embarassing as hell, but I don't care.
Now, if TFA was focused on ministers that surf hotjapanesetenticlerape.co.jp every night, that would be a different story.
Not that I expect the newsmedia to ever get it right, but Charities are allowed to lobby congress. The can't make it a major part of their work, but they can do it.
Unfortunately, there's a rather vague statute that says charities (501(c)(3) organizations) can only lobby to the extent that is uses "no significant part" of their income. This is generally accepted to mean under 5%, but don't piss off the IRS and find out.
There is also a way that charities can elect to come under stricter but more defined limits as well.
What do you think a phase conjugate tracking mirror is used for, Kent?
Seriously, good for them. It's sort of DRM of a different kind (imagine is Sony made you agree that you'd never use their product to do anything to help Vivendi), but I suppose you have to draw a line somewhere.
Holy crap, I went back and read the article that you referenced (somehow I missed it the first time) and came across this chestnut:
"Even if CDs do become damaged, replacements are readily available at affordable prices"
The RIAA really plays both sides of the issue, eh? Sometimes I own a lisence to the music (when they're complaining about second-hand CD sales), and sometimes the music is a physical object that I have to spend $18 to replace if it breaks.
If these pricks didn't have the ears of congress, they'd be laughable.
How do they know those are all illegal? My CD collection is in my attic. My p2p software is on my desktop. I DL tracks from CDs I own all the time, because it's easier than finding the CD.
He picked Zimbabwe because it follows the rules of Krusty's Komedy Konsonants.
Like Walla Walla.
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Now that name brands are pretty much all set up solely for R&D and advertising, I'm surprised this doesn't happen all the time.
Back when an NEC-owned factory made NEC brand products, this would have been impossible. Now that NEC gets all of its products made for it by another business, what's stopping that business from selling the same product to somebody else, with or without the NEC.
Take apparel for example. Nike designs and markets a shoe. They send the specs to a factory in china and order 10,000 pairs. What's stopping the factory from ordering enough raw materiels for 12,000 and selling the remaining 2000 on ebay, or to shady retailers? If nike finds out, they'll probably never do business with the manufacturer again, but if the manufacturer doesn't get greedy, they might be able to skim 20% for years. And they get all of nike's profit.
Great, so Apple can give away either its best product (or it's number one hardware advertisement, depending on if you think Apple is a hardware company, or a software company), into a hardware environment it can't control, thereby eroding its famous stability.
Great business plan. Apple would be insane to turn OSX into an open source product. The market has repeatedly shown what happens to high end wintel box manufacturers.
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This sounds so much like old teachers fretting over the use of calculators in math class.
In some ways, the scale of it is different, and it will be interesting to see how a kid born in 1995 thinks differently at 30 than one born in 1975, but still.
The net gives us all of the knowledge of humanity at our fingertips. It frees us from thinking about facts and gives us more time for abstract thinking and problem solving. At least for those of us who remember a time before google. Maybe a child born today really will be made dumb by google.
Not really, the cabin hatches work like a sink plug, and are sealed by the pressure in the plane, so unless you de-pressurize the plane, you're not getting to door off midflight.
I was having that EXACT problem today, trying to restore our crappy SBS server. The server's disc drive is a little messed up, and it's been a HUGE pain to provide drivers on floppy, because it only likes floppies written by very specific machines here.
If Nintendo really can have 4 million Wiis in stores by christmas, a late november launch makes sense, but in the case of the PS3, why did they release this late when they know full well they won't even begin to meet demand for christmas?
Christmas buyers aren't your hard core fanboys who will wait in line to buy the thing, so why not launch it in the summer, get the fanboys set, then work hard to produce enough of your system to keep in in stock for christmas buyers (you know, like MS did). Sony made a major error here, in that lots moms and dads buying the system for their kids are going to wait a full year till next christmas to do so. Meanwhile, Nintendo has Wiis in stock, for 1/2 the price, ready to be snatched up by Santa.
Or does the difference matter?
If one "follows the money" it's pretty obvious that Deibold has an incentive to make republicans win, but aren't most of these problems just awful engineering? Crappy programming, bad design, lazy execution.
Still inexcusable, but I just wonder if Deibold et al just suck, and aren't malicious.
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Maybe it's because I have the lowest-end XM unit, but my damn FM modulator has a hard time making a signal that can successfully get from my dashboard to my radio.
OK, am I the only one who thinks that $12.99 for a magical digital-only copy isn't that great of a price?
For an extra $2, I get the discs with full-quality DVD video on them, and I can burn them in whatever format I want, and use them on any DVD-equiped TV. Not to mention a handy-dandy carrying case with some nice graphics from the movie on it.
Seriously, if ITMS was selling it for like $6, I could see retailers being pissed, but $12.99? Give me a break.
When are geeks going to figure out that 90% of people don't upgrade their computers. I've been using the same mac G4 at home for almost 4 years now. Hell, I AM a geek, and all I've done is add an HD and some more memory. It's JUST starting to slow down a little bit with some of the newer fancier apps.
Meanwhile, I'm currently replacing all of the 3 year old PCs at work.
Some people just want a box that works out of the box. Apple gives them that.
Having said all that, I can't wait for a decent bios-resident OS that contains a browser and nothing else. It could even sit in the keyborad, like one of those 19 in 1 retro game things. It might not be my only computer, but it would be my 2nd and 3rd computer for sure.
Remember a while ago when all of the "news" outlets were talking about al queda using lasers to blind pilots and crash planes? Is this another one of those? Could laser be one of those things that makes news people salivate, like internet, child porn, or video game violence?
Seriously, if the chinese are indeed doing this, it seems like an awfully impressive technological feat. I just wish they weren't doing it. Satellites are really good at keeping the peace, because they let you know what your enemy is doing so you're not making up dragons in your mind.
Well, we're screwed once radical islamic countries get the bomb.
There's nothing they love more than their kids being martyrs.
You've sort of learned the wrong lesson from Satellite. People want to listen to what they like. They're not concerned about local variants or national consistency.
Unless you happen to like today's hott jams, today's hot country, your listen at work station, or the hottest RAWK in (your town here), you've got nothing to listen to on FM. Unless you like preachers, political ranters, or fools talking about sports all day, you've got nothing to listen to on AM.
Hence, satellite radio. If I lived in a place where I could get the same variety as the 30 stations that are programmed into my XM unit, I'd cancel my subscription in a second. Plus, I like to hear my DJs say fuck once in a while.
Most pirate radio that I've heard is rather uninteresting. Pirate play their favorite artist (who is disproportionately Zappa), or rant on their favorite topic. The truly insane pirates broadcast on shortwave anyways.
"computer scientists (a direct reference to Rubin and his team) who question the security of electronic voting machines are undermining our democracy"
And don't forget support al Queda.
What an ass. Don't question the government. They know what's best for you.
Seriously, how much of a wuss are you that you can't fess up to what you listen to, or silly sites you go to? My iTunes top 25 is probably embarassing as hell, but I don't care.
Now, if TFA was focused on ministers that surf hotjapanesetenticlerape.co.jp every night, that would be a different story.
Not that I expect the newsmedia to ever get it right, but Charities are allowed to lobby congress. The can't make it a major part of their work, but they can do it.
Unfortunately, there's a rather vague statute that says charities (501(c)(3) organizations) can only lobby to the extent that is uses "no significant part" of their income. This is generally accepted to mean under 5%, but don't piss off the IRS and find out.
There is also a way that charities can elect to come under stricter but more defined limits as well.
I've been stalking them for a while. The imac that was 799 is now 599 (minus 20MB on the HD and DVD writer).
So it sort of is a price drop.
Seriously, it seems like the voting system is just shoddy, not specifically corrupt. But the shoddyness sure does help the corruption.
If only people thought their vote mattered, they might be concerned about this.
What do you think a phase conjugate tracking mirror is used for, Kent?
Seriously, good for them. It's sort of DRM of a different kind (imagine is Sony made you agree that you'd never use their product to do anything to help Vivendi), but I suppose you have to draw a line somewhere.
Holy crap, I went back and read the article that you referenced (somehow I missed it the first time) and came across this chestnut:
"Even if CDs do become damaged, replacements are readily available at affordable prices"
The RIAA really plays both sides of the issue, eh? Sometimes I own a lisence to the music (when they're complaining about second-hand CD sales), and sometimes the music is a physical object that I have to spend $18 to replace if it breaks.
If these pricks didn't have the ears of congress, they'd be laughable.
Wow, 3+ tracks for every person on the planet?
How do they know those are all illegal? My CD collection is in my attic. My p2p software is on my desktop. I DL tracks from CDs I own all the time, because it's easier than finding the CD.
Did that get counted as an illegal download?
If this is basically going to just decompress windows onto your drive, where do the install options come in to play?
Still, anything that makes installs easier is probably a good thing, at least to the average user.
"as long as their having fun"
And you used to teach English? Did you mean "as long as they're having fun?"
He picked Zimbabwe because it follows the rules of Krusty's Komedy Konsonants.
Like Walla Walla.
Now that name brands are pretty much all set up solely for R&D and advertising, I'm surprised this doesn't happen all the time.
Back when an NEC-owned factory made NEC brand products, this would have been impossible. Now that NEC gets all of its products made for it by another business, what's stopping that business from selling the same product to somebody else, with or without the NEC.
Take apparel for example. Nike designs and markets a shoe. They send the specs to a factory in china and order 10,000 pairs. What's stopping the factory from ordering enough raw materiels for 12,000 and selling the remaining 2000 on ebay, or to shady retailers? If nike finds out, they'll probably never do business with the manufacturer again, but if the manufacturer doesn't get greedy, they might be able to skim 20% for years. And they get all of nike's profit.
Great, so Apple can give away either its best product (or it's number one hardware advertisement, depending on if you think Apple is a hardware company, or a software company), into a hardware environment it can't control, thereby eroding its famous stability.
Great business plan. Apple would be insane to turn OSX into an open source product. The market has repeatedly shown what happens to high end wintel box manufacturers.
Yeah, but that covers direct educational spening by the feds, and doesn't count block grants used by the states to fund education.
Plus, a lot of the new funding is being eaten up by new reuqirements of the No Child Left Behind Act