The Great Depression was caused by government intervention in the wrong things and letting things go in areas they could have helped. Think Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act. That's exactly government meddling causing problems. Many of the safeguards built in after that fiasco did stabilize and prevent more government funded catastrophes which were then manipulated to cause more economic catastrophesl. Take, for example, the Liar Loans which were a result of the government attempting (poorly) to help low income people purchase houses that they couldn't afford. This has, to date, made a dramatic effect on underprivileged people by setting home ownership in poorer demographics back a decade or more.
Glasses are designed to aerate the wine in order to improve the flavor as well as the shape holds the aroma in the glass allowing the consumer to smell the wine as they taste it. The size and shape of the glass are important for this and specific wines have specific glasses designed just for them. I firmly believe this is dramatic overkill as I can't tell the differences between the glasses but my sommelier friends might disagree with me.
And it is an economic monoculture because the government decided to appropriate all the businesses owned by foreign nationals/corporations so much so that any remaining ones fled in fear of having that happen to them. The government went on a spending spree with all their newfound cash and promptly went into crushing debt as oil prices dropped and they had no other income to prop up their dictatorship.
So, the Philips Hue is not an advancement in UX as it takes such a deeply ingrained idiomatic interface as the light switch and makes it more complex, adding another layer of control. Flip the switch and nothing happens. Oh, it was already on? Flip it again, grab the phone, adjust the light. Not what I call an improvement. Yes, it can change colors. Wow! So can a whole host of other technologies. Is it $5 per bulb or less? If not, then I don't want it. I have 27 bulbs within my current view in my small apartment. Does it work with my existing switches? All my lights already have switches on the walls. The starter kit is $200 for three bulbs. Sorry, I don't see that as any major UX improvement.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
So, by repeating what was stated in our Declaration of Independence, you are demonizing the NRA and stating they are a seditious group. No, they are merely stating that we, as U.S. Citizens, have the right and obligation to keep our government in check. Nothing new to see here, move along.
In my city (Sacramento), most of the people driving come in from the suburbs. So, to use a Segway, these people would have to drive downtown (30+ minutes in a car, an eternity on a Segway) then park and pull a Segway out of their car to go where? Their office? Then they have to park a Segway? Really, that's just stupid. It isn't because they are dorky, it is because they are completely an inconvenience. They are great for tourists or specialty applications but horrible for general public. People who live downtown ride their bikes or walk, never a Segway. Google Glass has applications for the general public even if they are dorky. Making the transition from Glass to Sans Glass is as simple as shoving them into a pocket. Comparing these to a Segway is idiotic at best. Comparing to Bluetooth earpieces is more appropriate. Dorky, but functional and so ubiquitous that nobody cares any longer about how dorky they look.
Where in the Constitution does it state that the Federal Government has that authority? If it doesn't have it stated explicitly there, then it is the domain of the states, cities, or other localities.
Seriously? Anyone with an analytic mind and who has read both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution would understand that the TEA party has a valid point, whether or not you agree with them politically. Ignorance is no excuse for an ad hominem attack.
Check out www.linuxmce.org for how to do this exact thing. I use Z-Wave lighting controllers (not cheap but not too expensive either) combined with computers hooked up to my TVs and an Android app on my tablet allow me to control my home theater, lights, stream movies, music, and everything else that one might possibly think of wanting. One nice thing is that you can put together all these pieces one at a time so it isn't a $50k hit up front to automate everything. If you invest a few hundred in lighting controls then you can do all your lights in all your main areas. Add in some motion detectors and have fully automatic lights. Add a cheap computer for a media station and on and on...
Here we call it Home Owner's Associations. They have the legal right to lien your house if you don't cut your lawn. In my experience, the "police" for these groups are bored, older, retired people who volunteer to spy on their neighbors, their neighbor's neighbors, etc. Did I mention they were bored?
I found that sitting next to a noisy computer all day drains quite a bit out of me. I'm also a sound technician so I pay more attention to audio than most, I guess. I find that I get agitated by the constant whine of the fans on my system at work, which I have no real control over. At home I have all sorts of quiet components and can barely hear my computer. I can then play my music softly and cover up the rest of the noises and I find myself really able to get more involved with my work.
For those of us stuck behind restrictive firewalls, I'm glad to report that you can change the port to 80 and manage to connect still. Awesome job Google!
Actually it is really hot right now. They are having quite the heat wave. I heard it got to 55C in some parts of West Bengal and upper 40s in Kolkata itself. For the math challenged, the first is over 130F. Ouch.
He is a shilling machine. He will defend WHATEVER the Republicans do. ANYTHING that Dubaya does will be great.
A reasonable person will find SOMETHING about a leader they do not agree with. And this is where the liberals differ GREATLY from the conservative broadcasters. They will actually criticize Clinton for not being liberal enough;-)
It is obvious you have never listened to Rush's show. He bashes Republicans and "Dubaya" nearly as much as he does stark raving liberals like the TV talking heads tends to worship. Yeah, some of them do criticize Democrats and liberals, but the only people in the normal news I've ever heard criticize somebody like Clinton were the people that really, truely scare me.
Although the machine there isn't anything special (P4 2.8Ghz, 384MB Intel onboard video, 40GB HD) it's a bit much to wait around 15-20 seconds for OpenOffice to load (yes, I do increase the memory settings), or 8 seconds for Ethereal (gui).
Wow, my Celeron 500 with 128M RAM loads faster than your system. What's up with that?
While I was visiting, for the first time ever plans were being made for Cricket matches between the Indian and Pakistani national teams, with constant back-and-forth waffling by government people in both countries about whether the terrorism risk was acceptable. Last I heard, the match was going to happen.
Sorry. Just look at the word RESUME in the article. They have been having grudge matches for decades, they were called off only recently due to the excessive tensions on the border. My wife went to an India-Pak game in Calcutta some years back and painted her face with the Indian flag. She is such a Cricket nut. Good game, but five days???? Wow. And no, I'm not Indian.
Just get a referral. You should always talk to someone who knows someone. Some college student is going to try really hard, but they may not have the experience. Well, they won't have the experience. I have friends who are professional photographers and worth what you pay them. They don't take huge fees for their work and they do a great job. No, they aren't trying to get famous, but they love what they do and get paid to do it.
Making a point is all fine and well but maybe, just maybe, some vital services provided by the hospitals, police, fire brigade might have suffered if nothing was done about getting power back on?
They never would have shut down the power. If they had, then the companies would have been shut down themselves. Just imagine the political repercussions of that happening. Nobody would renew power contracts with these companies. They would go out of business in a matter of a few years. Davis advisors knew that the power companies wouldn't pull the plug. Davis just couldn't make a decision to save his life.
How about not doing this constant "Your side cheated! No, yours did!" crap all the time. You should be demanding campaign finance reform so that nobody can do this anymore.
I agree. Totally. Preachin' to the choir. I also think that there should be limits as to how the money is SPENT, not just how it is collected. Franking privilidge? Out. Limit the amount of TV ads they can place so that it reduces the barrier to entry for lesser known politicians who, obviously, don't have as much money.
Davis advisors told him not to sign the contract. They said to call his bluff. He didn't. He caved in to the demands of the power companies. He could have very easily said to them "Sure, cut the power. See what happens. You will have 30 million angry Californians tearing you limb from limb." Nope. The idiot couldn't make a decision. That is his real problem. He can't make a decision if his life depended upon it. Well, that and nobody likes him. Not even Democrats like him. Feinstein hates him. Bustamante wishes the guy would just die. Davis revoked Bustamante's parking permit as well as all his staff just to be a jerk to him. Get rid of the guy.
Oh, and about buying an election? It isn't just Republicans who can buy an election. Davis out spent Simon in the last election almost 3 to 1 and won by just a few points. Davis bought the election. He also ran campaigns against Riordan so that Simon would win as Simon was a defeatable candidate, Riordan would have won. That is the PERFECT example of somebody buying an election.
I know the place is a kids field trip, but when in San Francisco, visit the Exploratorium. It is the only place I know of with a live brain cell hooked up to electrodes and an oscilliscope. I love it. I could spend the whole day there and not want to leave. There are all kinds of techie experiments all over the place. I saw my first 3D shadows there. What a wonderful trick of polarized light. One cool thing is that many of the exhibits there can be replicated at home.
P.S. I envy you. Too many responsibilities now to take off and return "whenever."
Take whatever you think you will need and double it. Specifications only go so far. A 15 amp breaker might trip at 10 amps after it has "warmed up" under a 14 amp load for several hours. Had that happen. It didn't just trip the breaker, but burned it out. Test the power outlets with large loads before the party. Breakers get old and wear out.
I don't know what to do about networking for that scale. Gets scary at anything above 40-50 people. Our parties run between 35 and 50 people and we have some serious networking hardware borrowed from a company one of the guys works for.
Also, we have sponsors. Lots. We have several local companies sponsor with trinkets and t-shirts for door prizes as well as some big names sponsor with certains CPUs and graphics cards that they make. We actually got an entire server from one company. Awesome box too, not some throw-away.
Once you get one good sponsor, that validates the rest of them to do so. Also, we got onto TV on the largest news station in the city. That helps. They were doing a human interest story on gaming. Just so happened we have a good website that was easily found on a search engine.
Jim Gray, left, and Gordon Bell, scientists at Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco, say that research will increasingly be data-driven and make use of inexpensive clusters of PC's. BARC. It just doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
Although this seems like a troll, it really isn't. In recent years, both before and after Sept. 11, the US government has passed a raft of legislation curtailing and limiting the 1st Amendment, to the general apathy of the population. Meanwhile, any suggestion of curtailing the 2nd Amendment, however mild, is met with howls of protest.
Well, Americans are, in general, stupid and apathetic. They watch the nightly news as their entire news source. That is the most politically biased and sanitized version of the news you could possibly get without actually providing you with any actual information. Ten to fifteen second clips about real information and a couple of minutes devoted to a fire in an abandoned warehouse does not constitute news. It is just ridiculous. Yes, we have freedom of the press, but look where it gets us. We have a bunch of press who give us their version of the news. I'm just so glad I have the Internet available and can read non-mainstream sources.
Wouldn't it be nice if the ACLU was as politically powerful as the NRA?
They are, but they don't focus on benefitting freedom of speech. They have their own agenda that is not focused. When they put their weight behind something, it usually breaks. The problem is that they pick some really strange things to support. If they actually focused on freedom of speech issues and not some crap issue (literally) then I think they would be a more respectable institution and get some good work done.
Disclaimer: I am a Canadian.
I'll try not to hold that against you!;)
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The Great Depression was caused by government intervention in the wrong things and letting things go in areas they could have helped. Think Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act. That's exactly government meddling causing problems. Many of the safeguards built in after that fiasco did stabilize and prevent more government funded catastrophes which were then manipulated to cause more economic catastrophesl. Take, for example, the Liar Loans which were a result of the government attempting (poorly) to help low income people purchase houses that they couldn't afford. This has, to date, made a dramatic effect on underprivileged people by setting home ownership in poorer demographics back a decade or more.
Glasses are designed to aerate the wine in order to improve the flavor as well as the shape holds the aroma in the glass allowing the consumer to smell the wine as they taste it. The size and shape of the glass are important for this and specific wines have specific glasses designed just for them. I firmly believe this is dramatic overkill as I can't tell the differences between the glasses but my sommelier friends might disagree with me.
And it is an economic monoculture because the government decided to appropriate all the businesses owned by foreign nationals/corporations so much so that any remaining ones fled in fear of having that happen to them. The government went on a spending spree with all their newfound cash and promptly went into crushing debt as oil prices dropped and they had no other income to prop up their dictatorship.
So, the Philips Hue is not an advancement in UX as it takes such a deeply ingrained idiomatic interface as the light switch and makes it more complex, adding another layer of control. Flip the switch and nothing happens. Oh, it was already on? Flip it again, grab the phone, adjust the light. Not what I call an improvement. Yes, it can change colors. Wow! So can a whole host of other technologies. Is it $5 per bulb or less? If not, then I don't want it. I have 27 bulbs within my current view in my small apartment. Does it work with my existing switches? All my lights already have switches on the walls. The starter kit is $200 for three bulbs. Sorry, I don't see that as any major UX improvement.
And the Declaration of Independence said what?
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
So, by repeating what was stated in our Declaration of Independence, you are demonizing the NRA and stating they are a seditious group. No, they are merely stating that we, as U.S. Citizens, have the right and obligation to keep our government in check. Nothing new to see here, move along.
In my city (Sacramento), most of the people driving come in from the suburbs. So, to use a Segway, these people would have to drive downtown (30+ minutes in a car, an eternity on a Segway) then park and pull a Segway out of their car to go where? Their office? Then they have to park a Segway? Really, that's just stupid. It isn't because they are dorky, it is because they are completely an inconvenience. They are great for tourists or specialty applications but horrible for general public. People who live downtown ride their bikes or walk, never a Segway. Google Glass has applications for the general public even if they are dorky. Making the transition from Glass to Sans Glass is as simple as shoving them into a pocket. Comparing these to a Segway is idiotic at best. Comparing to Bluetooth earpieces is more appropriate. Dorky, but functional and so ubiquitous that nobody cares any longer about how dorky they look.
Where in the Constitution does it state that the Federal Government has that authority? If it doesn't have it stated explicitly there, then it is the domain of the states, cities, or other localities.
Seriously? Anyone with an analytic mind and who has read both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution would understand that the TEA party has a valid point, whether or not you agree with them politically. Ignorance is no excuse for an ad hominem attack.
Check out www.linuxmce.org for how to do this exact thing. I use Z-Wave lighting controllers (not cheap but not too expensive either) combined with computers hooked up to my TVs and an Android app on my tablet allow me to control my home theater, lights, stream movies, music, and everything else that one might possibly think of wanting. One nice thing is that you can put together all these pieces one at a time so it isn't a $50k hit up front to automate everything. If you invest a few hundred in lighting controls then you can do all your lights in all your main areas. Add in some motion detectors and have fully automatic lights. Add a cheap computer for a media station and on and on...
Here we call it Home Owner's Associations. They have the legal right to lien your house if you don't cut your lawn. In my experience, the "police" for these groups are bored, older, retired people who volunteer to spy on their neighbors, their neighbor's neighbors, etc. Did I mention they were bored?
I found that sitting next to a noisy computer all day drains quite a bit out of me. I'm also a sound technician so I pay more attention to audio than most, I guess. I find that I get agitated by the constant whine of the fans on my system at work, which I have no real control over. At home I have all sorts of quiet components and can barely hear my computer. I can then play my music softly and cover up the rest of the noises and I find myself really able to get more involved with my work.
For those of us stuck behind restrictive firewalls, I'm glad to report that you can change the port to 80 and manage to connect still. Awesome job Google!
Actually it is really hot right now. They are having quite the heat wave. I heard it got to 55C in some parts of West Bengal and upper 40s in Kolkata itself. For the math challenged, the first is over 130F. Ouch.
Monsoon isn't until later.
He is a shilling machine. He will defend WHATEVER the Republicans do. ANYTHING that Dubaya does will be great.
;-)
A reasonable person will find SOMETHING about a leader they do not agree with. And this is where the liberals differ GREATLY from the conservative broadcasters. They will actually criticize Clinton for not being liberal enough
It is obvious you have never listened to Rush's show. He bashes Republicans and "Dubaya" nearly as much as he does stark raving liberals like the TV talking heads tends to worship. Yeah, some of them do criticize Democrats and liberals, but the only people in the normal news I've ever heard criticize somebody like Clinton were the people that really, truely scare me.
Although the machine there isn't anything special (P4 2.8Ghz, 384MB Intel onboard video, 40GB HD) it's a bit much to wait around 15-20 seconds for OpenOffice to load (yes, I do increase the memory settings), or 8 seconds for Ethereal (gui).
Wow, my Celeron 500 with 128M RAM loads faster than your system. What's up with that?
I can't be the only person who uses #WARNING statements in his code to do just that, create a task list.
While I was visiting, for the first time ever plans were being made for Cricket matches between the Indian and Pakistani national teams, with constant back-and-forth waffling by government people in both countries about whether the terrorism risk was acceptable. Last I heard, the match was going to happen.
Sorry. Just look at the word RESUME in the article. They have been having grudge matches for decades, they were called off only recently due to the excessive tensions on the border. My wife went to an India-Pak game in Calcutta some years back and painted her face with the Indian flag. She is such a Cricket nut. Good game, but five days???? Wow. And no, I'm not Indian.
Just get a referral. You should always talk to someone who knows someone. Some college student is going to try really hard, but they may not have the experience. Well, they won't have the experience. I have friends who are professional photographers and worth what you pay them. They don't take huge fees for their work and they do a great job. No, they aren't trying to get famous, but they love what they do and get paid to do it.
Making a point is all fine and well but maybe, just maybe, some vital services provided by the hospitals, police, fire brigade might have suffered if nothing was done about getting power back on?
They never would have shut down the power. If they had, then the companies would have been shut down themselves. Just imagine the political repercussions of that happening. Nobody would renew power contracts with these companies. They would go out of business in a matter of a few years. Davis advisors knew that the power companies wouldn't pull the plug. Davis just couldn't make a decision to save his life.
How about not doing this constant "Your side cheated! No, yours did!" crap all the time. You should be demanding campaign finance reform so that nobody can do this anymore.
I agree. Totally. Preachin' to the choir. I also think that there should be limits as to how the money is SPENT, not just how it is collected. Franking privilidge? Out. Limit the amount of TV ads they can place so that it reduces the barrier to entry for lesser known politicians who, obviously, don't have as much money.
Davis advisors told him not to sign the contract. They said to call his bluff. He didn't. He caved in to the demands of the power companies. He could have very easily said to them "Sure, cut the power. See what happens. You will have 30 million angry Californians tearing you limb from limb." Nope. The idiot couldn't make a decision. That is his real problem. He can't make a decision if his life depended upon it. Well, that and nobody likes him. Not even Democrats like him. Feinstein hates him. Bustamante wishes the guy would just die. Davis revoked Bustamante's parking permit as well as all his staff just to be a jerk to him. Get rid of the guy.
Oh, and about buying an election? It isn't just Republicans who can buy an election. Davis out spent Simon in the last election almost 3 to 1 and won by just a few points. Davis bought the election. He also ran campaigns against Riordan so that Simon would win as Simon was a defeatable candidate, Riordan would have won. That is the PERFECT example of somebody buying an election.
I know the place is a kids field trip, but when in San Francisco, visit the Exploratorium. It is the only place I know of with a live brain cell hooked up to electrodes and an oscilliscope. I love it. I could spend the whole day there and not want to leave. There are all kinds of techie experiments all over the place. I saw my first 3D shadows there. What a wonderful trick of polarized light. One cool thing is that many of the exhibits there can be replicated at home.
P.S. I envy you. Too many responsibilities now to take off and return "whenever."
Ahh, but the NEA might give you a grant for that!
Take whatever you think you will need and double it. Specifications only go so far. A 15 amp breaker might trip at 10 amps after it has "warmed up" under a 14 amp load for several hours. Had that happen. It didn't just trip the breaker, but burned it out. Test the power outlets with large loads before the party. Breakers get old and wear out.
I don't know what to do about networking for that scale. Gets scary at anything above 40-50 people. Our parties run between 35 and 50 people and we have some serious networking hardware borrowed from a company one of the guys works for.
Also, we have sponsors. Lots. We have several local companies sponsor with trinkets and t-shirts for door prizes as well as some big names sponsor with certains CPUs and graphics cards that they make. We actually got an entire server from one company. Awesome box too, not some throw-away.
Once you get one good sponsor, that validates the rest of them to do so. Also, we got onto TV on the largest news station in the city. That helps. They were doing a human interest story on gaming. Just so happened we have a good website that was easily found on a search engine.
Jim Gray, left, and Gordon Bell, scientists at Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco, say that research will increasingly be data-driven and make use of inexpensive clusters of PC's.
BARC. It just doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
Although this seems like a troll, it really isn't. In recent years, both before and after Sept. 11, the US government has passed a raft of legislation curtailing and limiting the 1st Amendment, to the general apathy of the population. Meanwhile, any suggestion of curtailing the 2nd Amendment, however mild, is met with howls of protest.
;)
Well, Americans are, in general, stupid and apathetic. They watch the nightly news as their entire news source. That is the most politically biased and sanitized version of the news you could possibly get without actually providing you with any actual information. Ten to fifteen second clips about real information and a couple of minutes devoted to a fire in an abandoned warehouse does not constitute news. It is just ridiculous. Yes, we have freedom of the press, but look where it gets us. We have a bunch of press who give us their version of the news. I'm just so glad I have the Internet available and can read non-mainstream sources.
Wouldn't it be nice if the ACLU was as politically powerful as the NRA?
They are, but they don't focus on benefitting freedom of speech. They have their own agenda that is not focused. When they put their weight behind something, it usually breaks. The problem is that they pick some really strange things to support. If they actually focused on freedom of speech issues and not some crap issue (literally) then I think they would be a more respectable institution and get some good work done.
Disclaimer: I am a Canadian.
I'll try not to hold that against you!