Their Windows support was pretty crappy about two years ago as well. The cards benched out great but didn't do sho well in the real world.
Their Windows drivers are fine now. In linux, it's not perfect but it's better than it was. Sorry, that's all I can offer. I refuse to run linux because it doesn't have that helpful paper clip to remind me to add paper to the printer. I'm the type of guy who'll merge onto the freeway with my parking brake still on.
Very good points AC. Libertarians, you're not going to win the Presidency right out of the gate. You're an unknown quantity to the vast majority of Americans. You need a track record before we're just going to make you president. On a side note, of the many reasons I prefer Kerry to Bush is that Kerry has roughly twenty years more political experience.
I think it's quite possible for terrorists to lose, and for us to lose as well. It's a false dichotomy.
I think these cameras will have very little effect on terrorism. How exactly would cameras have stopped 9/11 or Oklahoma City? Instead they will be used by the government to track, monitor, and selectively prosecute us.
How does the saying go: Treat people like criminals, and they'll behave that way. Putting the world at large under surveillance is far too reactive a solution to the problems we're facing.
Why do police write speeding tickets? The pigs would say it's to keep the roads safe. But that's just a side effect. The raison d'ete is to generate revenue. Parking tickets are an even better example.
So no, I don't trust the government, and I don't see why I should be expected to. Their track record over the past 20 years is abysmal. Just look at the war on drugs. A criminal justice system that provides "customers" to a for-profit privatized prison system (NYSE: CXW). Civil forfeiture laws completely out of whack with common sense.
Fundamentally, the government is not there to hold my hand as I traverse life. There are occasions when a helping hand is appopriate. But not every time I step out into public.
Bobby Fischer wasn't using false ID, rather it was an expired ID that he did not realize had expired.
What exactly would you define as "this point in the world's history?" 9/11 wasn't the apocalypse you know.
If his only transgression were for the love of the game, the world would have forgiven him quickly
Actually, the world doesn't particularly care much one way or the other. You, on the other hand, seem to be quite willing to throw the book at him for his personal beliefs. Which in turn speaks volumes about your personal beliefs.
I don't even use Linux and I've always known that Slackware is the best.
Does this thing even have ISOs yet? gotta love software they deliberately make hard to install. It's the "I'd walk a mile for a camel" of Linux distributions.
I guess this is Microsoft's answer to the threat of getting sued by some random IP company because your shop uses Linux and oops! that little bit of IP has strayed far from home. (See SCO vs Autozone on the front page).
Rather than indemnify the customer, microsoft blocks the others in the industry from suing the customer. That's actually quite clever and a good example of what they call "leverage."
Or, you could just not purchase music that sounds like crap...
Patient: Doc, it hurts when I do this. Doctor: Don't do that.
Or, maybe you could get a really tiny tube amp, and listen at normal volumes, and hope that all the "pleasant" distortion of the tube amp in overdrive cancels out the overmodulated recording.
america could do it alone, as they have done, but it was not in her interests to do so. it probably still isn't, but that opinion is not in favor at the moment.
As for dead shiites, why not just blame saddam? he's the one who killed them. You could try to blame america, but it's not like she has a stellar track record. bay of pigs anyone?
(speaking as an american) osama has the buzz because he's the first guy to feed from our hand but escape the bitchslap when his time came. the shah, pinochet, saddam, marcos, noriega, rubin, couldn't pull that off. a few don't fit the mold, like idi amin or sukarno. but they never cashed in their chips like mr. bin laden has. i think eventually the third world figured out if you're a complete fucking psychopath you can keep the cia and the usa at bay. osama beat us at our own game. but i'm drunk and i never typed this. I 3 mr. ashcroft.
now what was that job we were finishing? oh right oil, from someone other than the saudis, because their time is up.
I realize it's hard to fathom, but the company I work for has hitched their wagon to the star that is IE. There are OCXs all over the place. And we can't be the only ones. Just the other day I went to reserve Flexcar and was told that FireFox is an "Incompatible Browser."
The good news? It keeps me in a job. Because I'm constantly removing spyware, popups, and browser hijacks! If we switched to Mozilla, I'd probably be downsized. Though any savings from that would surely be offset by the need to hire a bunch more web developers to make a site that works without all these OCX controls.
I dunno, my Mac never seemed slow to determine which files were MP3s and which were JPGs. I'm pretty sure windows has to do roughly the same level of "open the file" to decide what icon to display based on the.xyz extension.
On a Mac, by the way, changing the.xyz (which usually isn't even there) won't change the icon or type of a file. For that you need the cute little program FileTyper. Another drawback is that.xyz only gives you one field to work with, and on a Mac you have two four-character fields, one for creator and one for type. Whereas in Windows all you get is.psd = any type of Photoshop document, on Mac you get pshp/tiff = a Tiff doc created by Photoshop. (not sure if it's pshp, and not sure if any of this stuff applies to OS X. It's been a few years since I had the pleasure of working in a Mac-friendly office.)
To sum up, the three letter extension is a bit of a kludge. I mean, we all know by now that if you want to email someone an executable, and they're on Outlook, which finally blocks a.exe, you just rename it.123 and tell the recipient to rename the attachment.exe. That's not really so great.
Good points, my argument certainly becomes conflated, and you do a good job of shooting it down.
But as you said, how can we separate the "good" lies from the bad? Taking this back to the top, the customer's lie is being used to get a lower price on the Best Buy sales floor. While this is a lie, it's also not really impinging on Best Buy all that much. They can always demand to see a printed ad (as Circuit City does) if they are going guarantee that they will beat a competitior's price.
Now, if you were to make up a fake ad, which shows the product you want at a very low cost, that's still lying, but now it might be considered fraud since you actually created a counterfeit ad and used it to scam the store. In other words, "talk is cheap" -- similarly, a signed, printed contract is more enforceable than an oral agreement.
Should cops be allowed to lie to carry out an undercover investigation? If lying to a police office is a crime, how about lying by a police officer? How about the CIA? Or a private investigator? How about an American lying about his citizenship in a hostage situation, or an Al Qaeda member being interrogated at Guantanamo?
One of my "favorite" lies was in the buildup to the first Iraq war. A Kuwaiti nurse appeared before Congress and told the horror story of Saddam's soldiers tossing babies from their incubators at the hospital's neonatal unit. Except that it was not sworn testimony, and the nurse was actually the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter, and the baby-tossing never occurred. But presented with all the right window dressing, it was front page news on the New York Times.
The truth is, lies, from the little white lie all the way up to the Big Lie, will be with us regardless of any legislation attempting to outlaw them. A more practical approach is to be able to tell when someone is lying, and manage your responses appropriately. Which is what happened the time I was pulled over for speeding by the cop who said the speed limit drops down to 25. This was at midnight and he failed to mention the fine print on the sign that says "When children are present." I knew he was lying about the speed limit, but I simply lied back and pretended I had no idea what he was talking about, and then I lied and said I'd be more careful in the future. And since I wasn't drunk, which is what he was looking for in the first place, we both just drove away.
It seems to me that the number one reason people lie is to get your money. I think that's where the phrase "caveat emptor" has its roots. And honestly do we really expect snake oil salesmen (or herbal viagra peddlers) to disappear anytime soon?
Having never played "Go", I can definately concede that a computer could beat me:)
That's exactly what I was thinking.
However I was surprised to learn that the top human checkers players can easily trounce the computer. I would guess that checkers would be orders-of-magnitude a "simpler" problem than chess. Maybe it's that chess gets all the buzz, since it's considered to be the ultimate thinking-man's game.
(Not trying to dis Go, maybe I should say chess is the Western Civilization's ultimate thinking-man's game.)
There have been many, many court cases which establish the right to lie as protected speech under the First Amendment. Freedom of Speech includes the freedom to say things that aren't true.
Don't make me out to be morally deficient simply because our society is skewed. On the contrary, I'd say our society's tolerance and even encouragement of lying is a far larger problem than whether or not I personally tell the truth.
Take a look at the lies surrounding any of our nation's recent Wars (Vietnam, drugs, terror) and you'll see that lying is endemic to our very way of life.
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Their Windows support was pretty crappy about two years ago as well. The cards benched out great but didn't do sho well in the real world.
Their Windows drivers are fine now. In linux, it's not perfect but it's better than it was. Sorry, that's all I can offer. I refuse to run linux because it doesn't have that helpful paper clip to remind me to add paper to the printer. I'm the type of guy who'll merge onto the freeway with my parking brake still on.
Don't go for wireless USB. All you really need is a bluetooth cable.
Sorry, no can do, there's a restraining order that keeps me away from the Scouts.
Very good points AC. Libertarians, you're not going to win the Presidency right out of the gate. You're an unknown quantity to the vast majority of Americans. You need a track record before we're just going to make you president. On a side note, of the many reasons I prefer Kerry to Bush is that Kerry has roughly twenty years more political experience.
I think it's quite possible for terrorists to lose, and for us to lose as well. It's a false dichotomy.
I think these cameras will have very little effect on terrorism. How exactly would cameras have stopped 9/11 or Oklahoma City? Instead they will be used by the government to track, monitor, and selectively prosecute us.
How does the saying go: Treat people like criminals, and they'll behave that way. Putting the world at large under surveillance is far too reactive a solution to the problems we're facing.
Why do police write speeding tickets? The pigs would say it's to keep the roads safe. But that's just a side effect. The raison d'ete is to generate revenue. Parking tickets are an even better example.
So no, I don't trust the government, and I don't see why I should be expected to. Their track record over the past 20 years is abysmal. Just look at the war on drugs. A criminal justice system that provides "customers" to a for-profit privatized prison system (NYSE: CXW). Civil forfeiture laws completely out of whack with common sense.
Fundamentally, the government is not there to hold my hand as I traverse life. There are occasions when a helping hand is appopriate. But not every time I step out into public.
America has no intention of spreading freedom around the world. Where did you get this notion? Certainly not from history or current events.
if i had an invite i would learn the language
this is any different in the business world?
Bobby Fischer wasn't using false ID, rather it was an expired ID that he did not realize had expired.
What exactly would you define as "this point in the world's history?" 9/11 wasn't the apocalypse you know.
If his only transgression were for the love of the game, the world would have forgiven him quickly
Actually, the world doesn't particularly care much one way or the other. You, on the other hand, seem to be quite willing to throw the book at him for his personal beliefs. Which in turn speaks volumes about your personal beliefs.
I don't even use Linux and I've always known that Slackware is the best.
Does this thing even have ISOs yet? gotta love software they deliberately make hard to install. It's the "I'd walk a mile for a camel" of Linux distributions.
I guess this is Microsoft's answer to the threat of getting sued by some random IP company because your shop uses Linux and oops! that little bit of IP has strayed far from home. (See SCO vs Autozone on the front page).
Rather than indemnify the customer, microsoft blocks the others in the industry from suing the customer. That's actually quite clever and a good example of what they call "leverage."
It sounds a lot like my VIC-20, but with the Power of the Internet.
I propose we begin tagging RFID tags with RFID tags, and feed the data into a meta-tracking database.
Or, you could just not purchase music that sounds like crap...
Patient: Doc, it hurts when I do this.
Doctor: Don't do that.
Or, maybe you could get a really tiny tube amp, and listen at normal volumes, and hope that all the "pleasant" distortion of the tube amp in overdrive cancels out the overmodulated recording.
america could do it alone, as they have done, but it was not in her interests to do so. it probably still isn't, but that opinion is not in favor at the moment.
As for dead shiites, why not just blame saddam? he's the one who killed them. You could try to blame america, but it's not like she has a stellar track record. bay of pigs anyone?
(speaking as an american)
osama has the buzz because he's the first guy to feed from our hand but escape the bitchslap when his time came. the shah, pinochet, saddam, marcos, noriega, rubin, couldn't pull that off. a few don't fit the mold, like idi amin or sukarno. but they never cashed in their chips like mr. bin laden has. i think eventually the third world figured out if you're a complete fucking psychopath you can keep the cia and the usa at bay. osama beat us at our own game. but i'm drunk and i never typed this. I 3 mr. ashcroft.
now what was that job we were finishing? oh right oil, from someone other than the saudis, because their time is up.
Is it safe to assume that when you say "7 in the Supreme Court," that's because Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia are technically cyborgs?
I realize it's hard to fathom, but the company I work for has hitched their wagon to the star that is IE. There are OCXs all over the place. And we can't be the only ones. Just the other day I went to reserve Flexcar and was told that FireFox is an "Incompatible Browser."
The good news? It keeps me in a job. Because I'm constantly removing spyware, popups, and browser hijacks! If we switched to Mozilla, I'd probably be downsized. Though any savings from that would surely be offset by the need to hire a bunch more web developers to make a site that works without all these OCX controls.
I dunno, my Mac never seemed slow to determine which files were MP3s and which were JPGs. I'm pretty sure windows has to do roughly the same level of "open the file" to decide what icon to display based on the .xyz extension.
.xyz (which usually isn't even there) won't change the icon or type of a file. For that you need the cute little program FileTyper. Another drawback is that .xyz only gives you one field to work with, and on a Mac you have two four-character fields, one for creator and one for type. Whereas in Windows all you get is .psd = any type of Photoshop document, on Mac you get pshp/tiff = a Tiff doc created by Photoshop. (not sure if it's pshp, and not sure if any of this stuff applies to OS X. It's been a few years since I had the pleasure of working in a Mac-friendly office.)
.exe, you just rename it .123 and tell the recipient to rename the attachment .exe. That's not really so great.
On a Mac, by the way, changing the
To sum up, the three letter extension is a bit of a kludge. I mean, we all know by now that if you want to email someone an executable, and they're on Outlook, which finally blocks a
That's nothing compared to your local neighborhood adult bookstore.
Just add U2 and it will fly, believe me.
free porn ins't a legitimate use of BitTorrent???
First, its much less stressful to just pay your bills.
True, but some of us thrive on stress.
Stinking sewers create jobs. You lose. I blame Judge Greene.
Good points, my argument certainly becomes conflated, and you do a good job of shooting it down.
But as you said, how can we separate the "good" lies from the bad? Taking this back to the top, the customer's lie is being used to get a lower price on the Best Buy sales floor. While this is a lie, it's also not really impinging on Best Buy all that much. They can always demand to see a printed ad (as Circuit City does) if they are going guarantee that they will beat a competitior's price.
Now, if you were to make up a fake ad, which shows the product you want at a very low cost, that's still lying, but now it might be considered fraud since you actually created a counterfeit ad and used it to scam the store. In other words, "talk is cheap" -- similarly, a signed, printed contract is more enforceable than an oral agreement.
Should cops be allowed to lie to carry out an undercover investigation? If lying to a police office is a crime, how about lying by a police officer? How about the CIA? Or a private investigator? How about an American lying about his citizenship in a hostage situation, or an Al Qaeda member being interrogated at Guantanamo?
One of my "favorite" lies was in the buildup to the first Iraq war. A Kuwaiti nurse appeared before Congress and told the horror story of Saddam's soldiers tossing babies from their incubators at the hospital's neonatal unit. Except that it was not sworn testimony, and the nurse was actually the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter, and the baby-tossing never occurred. But presented with all the right window dressing, it was front page news on the New York Times.
The truth is, lies, from the little white lie all the way up to the Big Lie, will be with us regardless of any legislation attempting to outlaw them. A more practical approach is to be able to tell when someone is lying, and manage your responses appropriately. Which is what happened the time I was pulled over for speeding by the cop who said the speed limit drops down to 25. This was at midnight and he failed to mention the fine print on the sign that says "When children are present." I knew he was lying about the speed limit, but I simply lied back and pretended I had no idea what he was talking about, and then I lied and said I'd be more careful in the future. And since I wasn't drunk, which is what he was looking for in the first place, we both just drove away.
It seems to me that the number one reason people lie is to get your money. I think that's where the phrase "caveat emptor" has its roots. And honestly do we really expect snake oil salesmen (or herbal viagra peddlers) to disappear anytime soon?
Having never played "Go", I can definately concede that a computer could beat me :)
That's exactly what I was thinking.
However I was surprised to learn that the top human checkers players can easily trounce the computer. I would guess that checkers would be orders-of-magnitude a "simpler" problem than chess. Maybe it's that chess gets all the buzz, since it's considered to be the ultimate thinking-man's game.
(Not trying to dis Go, maybe I should say chess is the Western Civilization's ultimate thinking-man's game.)
There have been many, many court cases which establish the right to lie as protected speech under the First Amendment. Freedom of Speech includes the freedom to say things that aren't true.
Don't make me out to be morally deficient simply because our society is skewed. On the contrary, I'd say our society's tolerance and even encouragement of lying is a far larger problem than whether or not I personally tell the truth.
Take a look at the lies surrounding any of our nation's recent Wars (Vietnam, drugs, terror) and you'll see that lying is endemic to our very way of life.
Don't shoot the messenger, bro.