As another commenter pointed out, this is a problem that's existed for decades before Bush came around.
All that aside, I don't really get how this is a FEDERAL government issue? As far as I'm concerned, although New Orleans is a big city, it is not vital to the functioning of the rest of the country, thus it is more or less a STATE issue, and when the state didn't recieve the funding to properly secure the city, it should have raised taxes to fund it themselves. If you know your city is going to be destroyed, and you have the power ot prevent it, It's pretty lame to blame another organization for it.
I don't like bush any more than the next guy, but anybody trying to blame this disaster on him is trying to push their own political agenda. From what I've heard, the state of lousiana is overwhelmingly pleased by bush's response to the crisis.
Apple adopted AGP around the same time as Intel did (which was a moot point nonetheless, as A) Most 3D cards at the time were geared for D3D and not OpenGL, and B) The cards weren't compatible between platforms anyway)
USB on the other hand, was adopted AND EMBRACED lightyears earlier by apple.
And stop acting like there's always been this huge dispraity between PC and Mac games. Sure, the blockbuster games were mostly for the PC, but Apple's definitely had its share of awesome games (Escape Velocity immediately jumps to mind) -- the big distinction between the platforms was that 3d games took a long time to get off the ground for mac users.
Also remember that Mac users up until a year or two ago, typically ran MUCH OLDER hardware than their intel counterparts. Where PC users typically upgrade every 2-3 years, apple users typically don't see a need to upgrade for twice that period of time. A G4 running OS9 was laughable overkill.
OSX changed everything, making it infinitely easier for developers to support mac due to the unix core, friendly APIs, and (tada!) proper memory managment.
Even today, apple's getting some great open source games, and it would seem that the trend now is for the cool indie/OSS games to be written on OSX and then ported over to Unix/Win32. Lux comes to mind here...
I'm fairly certain they're reading the signs wrong here:
Any WiFi involvment on google's part is most likely some sort of GoogleMaps-intergrated hotspot finder for finding other (free and 3rd-party-commercial) hotspots.
On the other hand, TFA mentions google acquiring bits of dark fibre. IMO, this makes very little sense for building a WiFi ISP, as I would imagine that the fibre isn't exactly located in the sorts of places you'd want to put a hotspot. This could be some sort of project to connect their datacenters using private lines.
On the other hand, this could simply be a capital investment on their part. It could be an attempt to spark some life into the dormant telecom markets. Sure, the fibre's cheap now, but the increased attention Google will get from this will drive up interest, thus driving up prices, allowing google to sell the lines at a nice profit.
That said, AT&T left a heck of a lot of dark copper and fibre lying around. It'd be a shame to see it not put to use.
A lot of intel's planned 'improvements' closely mirror the major advantages of PowerPC architecture. Intel has clearly been influenced by Apple or is trying to push IBM out of the high-end market.
Either way, I welcome some good innovation from Intel. I was far from being impressed with the Pentium 4 (with the exception of the M). Over the past 4 or 5 years, AMD has been the clear winner in terms of cost, technology, innovation, and speed. Intel has been the winner on the business side of things. Funny how it works, eh?
I wonder what AMD's answer to this will be?
(PS: Doesn't the way they're describing this make it sound like it's gonna be a super-powerful RISC chip with x86 emulation?)
I'll take the chance to do an 'Ask Slashdot' in the comments section since it actually pertains to the topic:
I'm going off to college very soon, and need some sort of printer with a very small footprint. I don't care if it's laser or inkjet, although I'm pretty sure I'll have access to a laser for high-volume stuff.
The low-end HP models are perfect for this task, but as I've found out by owning one, you get gouged on the ink. Cartridges are low-capacity, cost a mint, and have no generic equivalent. Replenishing ink is actually more costly than replacing the printer and using the ink that's bundled with it.
So what I am asking --- are there any good small printers that don't cost a bundle for ink?
I'd be concerned about speed. I used a similar printer to this at school, and it would take almost a full 5 minutes before it started to print. I'm not about to place blame squarely on the printer (our network sucks), but I've never seen a printer with that type of performance.
Also, I've noticed that there are a lot of color lasers that lookidentical to this one. Chances are it's an OEM equivalent of some tiwanese model....
The Penguins are a miraculous species, capable of extreme heroism, self-sacrifice, sorrow and unshakable love."
Funny. These are all things Michael Moore is incapable of.
Granted, I don't like Bush and the situation in Iraq just as much as the next guy, but I find Michael Moore's style of rabblerousing to be obnoxious and counterproductive. Humor is fine, but doing it at the expense of our government is a little harsh --- he's not doing anybody a service by building a public doubt and mistrust of the government.
On the other hand, Jon Stewart is friggin' hilarious, and seems to offend much fewer people.
legal issues aside, how was napster any better than the current breed of p2p apps?
it only let you share.mp3 files, couldn't do multi-source downloading, couldn't resume, was heavily centralized, etc...
all in all, I'd say that napster was pretty bad. even gnutella (acquisition/limewire) has evolved to be miles better than napster.
napster's popularity was it's only saving grace. end of story.
(oh, and about the keyboards.... fill a computer lab/library with buckling spring keyboards, and see how long you keep your sanity. clickclickclickclickclickclick)
WRT54G was a linksys product before the acquisition. there have been various revisions since then, but they've been mostly due to revisions of the chipsets used to power the router.
from what I hear, quality has gone UP across the various revisions, with specific regard to stability (probably related to the chipset), and power supplies.
True. AMD only makes chipsets when it's financially prudent for them to do so -- If Via, Sis, and NVidia can't/won't produce enough chipsets to meet demand for whatever reason, AMD steps in and produces their own.
Had AMD launched the athlon without launching its own chipset, it would have been doomed to failure, as the vast majority of the industry was extremely skeptical of AMD at that point. The 751 chipset was essential to the success of the athlon, and was used almost exclusively for about a year until AMD threatened to begin to pull out of the chipset biz, and Via and Sis stepped in and made BETTER chipsets as a result. Quality/Features shot through the roof, and prices actually fell. The NVidia/Via competition brought a lot of high-end features down into the mainstream (USB2,1394,RAID,Gigabit,etc...)
last time I checked, AMD was making every attempt possible to escape the chipset business. Intel doing the same isn't exactly news to my ears, other for the fact that intel sells a fair number of chipsets.
personally, I don't see why this is a bad move at all. I personally like AMD's strategy:
release a mid-range/high-end chipset when moving to a new architecture or introducing a significant new technology (DDR comes to mind), and then let Ali, SiS, nVidia, ATI, and Via copy it. This encourages innovation, competition, and cost-cutting among the various chipset makers, resulting in better chipsets.
all that put aside, AMD's essentially killed the concept of a chipset by integrating the primary functions of the northbridge into their Hammer core. All that's left is the southbridge, and anybody can make those, as they're hardly cpu/architecture-specific.
Regardless of the debate over evolution and Bush's support of Creationism, I must object to the wording of this/. blurb which is anything but neutral.
I find it hard to have any sort of intelligent scientific or philiosphical debate when our news is being presented to us in such a skewed manner. Granted, the slashdot community is much more likely to be in support of evolution, but is it really necessary to intentionally choose news blurbs slamming the conservatives?
You all complain about bias in the media, and it's right here in front of us! If slashdot continues its tradition of left-wing reporting, it's going to be no better than Fox.
It would have been more appropriate to word the abstract along the lines of:
"Citing political pressure, George Bush recently
discussed his views on Evolution and Intelligent Design, shortly following the Catholic Church's condemnation of the theory."
This abstract is at the very least, a good deal more neutral. The Washington Post article isn't quite as neutral as I'd like it to be, as it focuses mostly on quotes from those opposed to Evolution, but does take a stab at jounalistic integrity by pointing out that the President's views have been widely known since the time he was governor.
However, my biggest gripe is that if you RTFA, it SPECIFICALLY mentions the Catholic church's condemnation of evolution, even though the abstract would lead you to believe otherwise. (I might add here that Bush is NOT Catholic. In general, both parties have shyed away from the Catholic Church.)
DISCLAIMER: I consider myself a moderate. I am economically moderate/conservative, socially liberal, and strongly dislike Bush.
FYI, the parent poster is referencing a moderately humorous passage from Niel Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon
It reads as such:
Epiphyte Corp.'s business plan is about an inch thick, neither fat nor skinny as these things go. The interior pages are slickly and groovily desktop-published out of Avi's laptop. The covers are rugged hand-laid paper of rice chaff, bamboo tailings, free-range hemp, and crystalline glacial meltwater made by wizened artisans operating out of a mist-shrouded temple hewn from living volcanic rock on some island known only to aerobically gifted, Spandex-sheathed Left Coast travel bores. An impressionistic map of the South China Sea has been dashed across these covers by molecularly reconstructed Ming Dynasty calligraphers using brushes of combed unicorn mane dipped into ink made by grinding down charcoal slabs fashioned by blind stylite monks from hand-charred fragments of the the True Cross.
The actual contents of the business plan hews to a logical structure straight out of the Principia Mathematica. Lesser entrepreneurs purchase business-plan-writing software: packages of boilerplate text and spreadsheets, craftily linked together so that you need only go through and fill in a few blanks. Avi and Beryl have written enough business plans between the two of them that they can smash them out from brute memory. Avi's business plans tend to go something like this:
MISSION: At [name of company], it is our conviction that [to do the stuff we want to do] and to increase shareholder value are not merely complementary activities -- they are inextricably linked.
PURPOSE: To increase shareholder value by [doing stuff].
EXTREMELY SERIOUS WARNING (printed out on a separate page, in red letters on a yellow background): Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near this document. Please dispose of it as you would any piece of high-level radioactive waste and then arrange with a qualified surgeon to amputate your arms at the elbows and gouge your eyes from their sockets. This warning is necessary because once, a hundred years ago, a little old lady in Kentucky put a hundred dollars into a dry goods company that went belly-up and returned her only ninety-nine dollars. Ever since, the government has been on our asses. If you ignore this warning, read on at your peril -- you are dead certain to lose everything you've got and live out your final decades beating back waves of termites in a Mississippi Delta leper colony.
Still reading? Great. Now that we've scared off the lightweights, let's get down to business.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: We will raise [some money], then [do some stuff] and increase shareholder value. Want details? Read on.
INTRODUCTION: [This trend], which everyone knows about, and [that trend], which is so incredibly arcane that you probably didn't know about it until just now, and [this other trend over here] which might seem, at first blush, to be completely unrelated, when all taken together, lead us to the (proprietary, secret, heavily patented, trademarked, and NDAed) insight that we could increase shareholder value by [doing stuff]. We will need $ [a large number] and after [not too long] we will be able to realize an increase in value to $ [an even larger number], unless [hell freezes over in midsummer].
DETAILS:
Phase 1: After taking vows of celibacy and abstinence and foregoing all of our material possessions for homespun robes, we (viz. appended resumes) will move into a modest complex of scavenged refrigerator boxes in the central Gobi Desert, where real estate is so cheap that we are actually being paid to occupy it, thereby enhancing shareholder value even before we have actually done anything. On
Verizon has made a tremendous investment into their infrastructure, and is rolling out their fiber network faster than they rolled out their DSL network. I've had FIOS for about 3 weeks now, and I must say that it's anything short of amazing.
Where Verizon has really delivered, though, is on price. Unlike Cable, Verizon actually has competitors. Cable TV loves price-fixing, and it's rare to see a community with more than one cable franchise, allowing the companies to charge exorbitant rates while gouging their customers. The remarkable thing about Verizon's DSL/FiOS offerings is that they're significantly cheaper than anything else out there. I pay $35/month for 5/2mbps fibre, while getting 3/.768 service from my cable co. costs $60/month. The STATEWIDE franchises that the cable companies have been granted are striking fear into the hearts of the cable companies. I fully expect a huge legal battle to come out of this debating the legality of such franchises to begin with -- Cable is and always has been a legal monopoly. Healthy competition (Verizon in this case) drives prices down. Hopefully once FiOS-TV is rolled out, the cable co's will be forced to cut their rates and start expanding their HD offerings -- FiOS-TV is said to have 300 channels, about 75 of which are in HD.
I suppose Verizon expects a huge return on their investment in the fibre network. It's costing them a mint. A typical fios install takes 3 installers about 6-8 hours per residence just to do the premesis wiring and termination. On the up-side, the new network will cost them a lot less to operate than their old copper network. Reduced power draw, smaller local COs, and increased reliability to name a few, not to mention that they've finally rid themselves of copper wiring.
Hopefully this and satelitte will finally kill off the corrupt cable-tv industry.
First, get your mail into outlook/thunderbird using AOL's IMAP Server.
Then use your email program's Forward/Redirect (if it has it) function to forward it to your gmail/current account.
If you want to spend $20, TrueSwitch will automatically do this all for you AND transfer your address book and forward your mail for a month and notify all of your contacts of your address change. This service is free for many ISPs (AT&T, SBC, Yahoo, and MSN come to mind) which is how I know about it...
Novell and microsoft seem to get by with each other well enough, and I could see them allowing them to make a demonstration.
That said, I'm sick of the lack of innovation on Microsoft's behalf in their OS department. That ALSO said, I don't think that there's much more that a desktop OS should offer that Win2000 doesn't already offer.
Longhorn will be a step in the right direction, but 2000/XP are minimal enough to leave a very low overhead and not be noticed too much. Personally, I like it when the OS isn't in your face. Until Microsoft can justify the whiz-bang features in longhorn that will suck up my resources, I'm quite content to devote my processor time to the applications i'm using.
Yes, I also use a mac and love that too, and I find it hard to have some sort of happy medium where you have the minimalism/low overhead that I like. Windows sucks at managing multiple windows -- this could be improved, and linux/macOS have a definite advantage.
But, on a whole, since switching back to windows from my mac after 2 years for work reasons, I'm finding that despite the loss of all of the cool producitivity-boosting features MacOS has (dashboard, iPhoto, Expose, etc.), Win2000 satisfies my needs just fine.
Microsoft is going to have a hell of a time pushing OS upgrades to corporations from now on. Windows as an operating system would seem to be almost complete (apart from a few glaring security things). All they can do now is tack stuff on top.
Linux on the other hand, needs to figure out what it wants itself to be. It's in an eternal conflict between being super-feature-rich(KDE/Gnome), and being uber-minimalistic (you're forced to go to the command line on a daily basis. this is something that almost never happens on other platforms, and rightfuly so). Comparing a linux desktop to Windows is just embarrasing for linux.
Comparing linux to MacOS is humiliating. With a tiny team of developers (compared to MS/Linux), apple built an OS in 5 years that is considered by most to be the most 'modern' operating system available to consumers. Sure you can debate this, but OSX/Darwin has stuff that windows and linux are hurrying awfuly fast to copy.
but making a movie on 1.2 million? It's gonna be hard to get decent actors and scriptwriters at that cost, not to mention that SciFi NEEDS some sort of decent CG in order for it to be SciFi. We don't have many aliens and spaceships here on earth.
That said, 28 million isn't very much for a movie. Perhaps if they made 2 or 3 movies with that much, creativity would take over without being overly limited by budgets.
But I can guarruntee that these cheap movies will not have good plots or acting.
And of course, all that being said, my favorite movie of all time (Garden State) was super-low-budget simply because of the compelling plot and stellar acting.
The original dune series was compelling, and wonderfuly great considering the circumstances under which it was made. Acting was OK. CG was OK, but the story was a wonderful adaptaton of the novel.
How about something by asimov? Maybe make a film out of one of the Terry Pratchett novels (and have the side effect of it being hilarious). How about a decent 2001 remake with some new spin on it?
I'm convinced that War of the Worlds could have been a good movie if it wasn't directed by speilberg and didn't have a sky-high budget.
But please. No more B movies. From what I recall, Dune made a mint for SciFi. I doubt they'd recover the costs of all these B movies.
But we'll never reach the point where they aren't infinitely more pleasant places to live than suburban hellholes.
Clearly you've never been to New York City and the Jersey/NYS/Connecticut suburbs. The contrast is stark.
I can definitely attest that the majority of suburban communities are far more pleasant than the cities they support.
Sure, there are urban areas I wouldn't mind living in, but they're usually either super-expensive or spread-out enough to be almost considered suburban.
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Excuse me?
As another commenter pointed out, this is a problem that's existed for decades before Bush came around.
All that aside, I don't really get how this is a FEDERAL government issue? As far as I'm concerned, although New Orleans is a big city, it is not vital to the functioning of the rest of the country, thus it is more or less a STATE issue, and when the state didn't recieve the funding to properly secure the city, it should have raised taxes to fund it themselves. If you know your city is going to be destroyed, and you have the power ot prevent it, It's pretty lame to blame another organization for it.
I don't like bush any more than the next guy, but anybody trying to blame this disaster on him is trying to push their own political agenda. From what I've heard, the state of lousiana is overwhelmingly pleased by bush's response to the crisis.
If you want more of a blog-styled CMS while retaining the ability to do static content and such, I would strongly reccommend Textpattern.
It's VERY lightweight, and elegant in its design, and doesn't hit the database anywhere nearly as hard as Mambo theoretically does.
there's also a bunch of up and coming ruby-based weblogs/cms-es, most of which do Ajax/Web2.0/Whatever-you-want-to-call-it
I haven't used any of them, but I hear great things about the apps being built on top of ruby-on-rails.
AGP and USB are hardly PC standards.
Apple adopted AGP around the same time as Intel did (which was a moot point nonetheless, as A) Most 3D cards at the time were geared for D3D and not OpenGL, and B) The cards weren't compatible between platforms anyway)
USB on the other hand, was adopted AND EMBRACED lightyears earlier by apple.
And stop acting like there's always been this huge dispraity between PC and Mac games. Sure, the blockbuster games were mostly for the PC, but Apple's definitely had its share of awesome games (Escape Velocity immediately jumps to mind) -- the big distinction between the platforms was that 3d games took a long time to get off the ground for mac users.
Also remember that Mac users up until a year or two ago, typically ran MUCH OLDER hardware than their intel counterparts. Where PC users typically upgrade every 2-3 years, apple users typically don't see a need to upgrade for twice that period of time. A G4 running OS9 was laughable overkill.
OSX changed everything, making it infinitely easier for developers to support mac due to the unix core, friendly APIs, and (tada!) proper memory managment.
Even today, apple's getting some great open source games, and it would seem that the trend now is for the cool indie/OSS games to be written on OSX and then ported over to Unix/Win32. Lux comes to mind here...
I'm fairly certain they're reading the signs wrong here:
Any WiFi involvment on google's part is most likely some sort of GoogleMaps-intergrated hotspot finder for finding other (free and 3rd-party-commercial) hotspots.
On the other hand, TFA mentions google acquiring bits of dark fibre. IMO, this makes very little sense for building a WiFi ISP, as I would imagine that the fibre isn't exactly located in the sorts of places you'd want to put a hotspot. This could be some sort of project to connect their datacenters using private lines.
On the other hand, this could simply be a capital investment on their part. It could be an attempt to spark some life into the dormant telecom markets. Sure, the fibre's cheap now, but the increased attention Google will get from this will drive up interest, thus driving up prices, allowing google to sell the lines at a nice profit.
That said, AT&T left a heck of a lot of dark copper and fibre lying around. It'd be a shame to see it not put to use.
I can get 250MPG.
Shift into neutral, and find a 250 mile stretch of downhill....
Mod parent up as insightful!
A lot of intel's planned 'improvements' closely mirror the major advantages of PowerPC architecture. Intel has clearly been influenced by Apple or is trying to push IBM out of the high-end market.
Either way, I welcome some good innovation from Intel. I was far from being impressed with the Pentium 4 (with the exception of the M). Over the past 4 or 5 years, AMD has been the clear winner in terms of cost, technology, innovation, and speed. Intel has been the winner on the business side of things. Funny how it works, eh?
I wonder what AMD's answer to this will be?
(PS: Doesn't the way they're describing this make it sound like it's gonna be a super-powerful RISC chip with x86 emulation?)
I've got some bad news and some good news.
The bad news is that the USPTO granted Microsoft assanine patent.
The good news is that we slashdotted the USPTO (and I just saved a bundle on my car insurance)
ah. I don't think you understood me. my primary concern is space. I want a small printer that I won't get gouged for on supplies.
The low-end HP printers are wonderfully tiny, but are astonishingly expensive when it comes to consumables....
I'll take the chance to do an 'Ask Slashdot' in the comments section since it actually pertains to the topic:
I'm going off to college very soon, and need some sort of printer with a very small footprint. I don't care if it's laser or inkjet, although I'm pretty sure I'll have access to a laser for high-volume stuff.
The low-end HP models are perfect for this task, but as I've found out by owning one, you get gouged on the ink. Cartridges are low-capacity, cost a mint, and have no generic equivalent. Replenishing ink is actually more costly than replacing the printer and using the ink that's bundled with it.
So what I am asking --- are there any good small printers that don't cost a bundle for ink?
I'd be concerned about speed. I used a similar printer to this at school, and it would take almost a full 5 minutes before it started to print. I'm not about to place blame squarely on the printer (our network sucks), but I've never seen a printer with that type of performance.
Also, I've noticed that there are a lot of color lasers that look identical to this one. Chances are it's an OEM equivalent of some tiwanese model....
Funny. These are all things Michael Moore is incapable of.
Granted, I don't like Bush and the situation in Iraq just as much as the next guy, but I find Michael Moore's style of rabblerousing to be obnoxious and counterproductive. Humor is fine, but doing it at the expense of our government is a little harsh --- he's not doing anybody a service by building a public doubt and mistrust of the government.
On the other hand, Jon Stewart is friggin' hilarious, and seems to offend much fewer people.
legal issues aside, how was napster any better than the current breed of p2p apps?
.mp3 files, couldn't do multi-source downloading, couldn't resume, was heavily centralized, etc...
it only let you share
all in all, I'd say that napster was pretty bad. even gnutella (acquisition/limewire) has evolved to be miles better than napster.
napster's popularity was it's only saving grace. end of story.
(oh, and about the keyboards.... fill a computer lab/library with buckling spring keyboards, and see how long you keep your sanity. clickclickclickclickclickclick)
WRT54G was a linksys product before the acquisition. there have been various revisions since then, but they've been mostly due to revisions of the chipsets used to power the router.
from what I hear, quality has gone UP across the various revisions, with specific regard to stability (probably related to the chipset), and power supplies.
True. AMD only makes chipsets when it's financially prudent for them to do so -- If Via, Sis, and NVidia can't/won't produce enough chipsets to meet demand for whatever reason, AMD steps in and produces their own.
Had AMD launched the athlon without launching its own chipset, it would have been doomed to failure, as the vast majority of the industry was extremely skeptical of AMD at that point. The 751 chipset was essential to the success of the athlon, and was used almost exclusively for about a year until AMD threatened to begin to pull out of the chipset biz, and Via and Sis stepped in and made BETTER chipsets as a result. Quality/Features shot through the roof, and prices actually fell. The NVidia/Via competition brought a lot of high-end features down into the mainstream (USB2,1394,RAID,Gigabit,etc...)
last time I checked, AMD was making every attempt possible to escape the chipset business. Intel doing the same isn't exactly news to my ears, other for the fact that intel sells a fair number of chipsets.
personally, I don't see why this is a bad move at all. I personally like AMD's strategy:
release a mid-range/high-end chipset when moving to a new architecture or introducing a significant new technology (DDR comes to mind), and then let Ali, SiS, nVidia, ATI, and Via copy it. This encourages innovation, competition, and cost-cutting among the various chipset makers, resulting in better chipsets.
all that put aside, AMD's essentially killed the concept of a chipset by integrating the primary functions of the northbridge into their Hammer core. All that's left is the southbridge, and anybody can make those, as they're hardly cpu/architecture-specific.
I find it hard to have any sort of intelligent scientific or philiosphical debate when our news is being presented to us in such a skewed manner. Granted, the slashdot community is much more likely to be in support of evolution, but is it really necessary to intentionally choose news blurbs slamming the conservatives?
You all complain about bias in the media, and it's right here in front of us! If slashdot continues its tradition of left-wing reporting, it's going to be no better than Fox.
It would have been more appropriate to word the abstract along the lines of:
This abstract is at the very least, a good deal more neutral. The Washington Post article isn't quite as neutral as I'd like it to be, as it focuses mostly on quotes from those opposed to Evolution, but does take a stab at jounalistic integrity by pointing out that the President's views have been widely known since the time he was governor.
However, my biggest gripe is that if you RTFA, it SPECIFICALLY mentions the Catholic church's condemnation of evolution, even though the abstract would lead you to believe otherwise. (I might add here that Bush is NOT Catholic. In general, both parties have shyed away from the Catholic Church.)
DISCLAIMER: I consider myself a moderate. I am economically moderate/conservative, socially liberal, and strongly dislike Bush.
It reads as such:
Mod parent up!
Verizon has made a tremendous investment into their infrastructure, and is rolling out their fiber network faster than they rolled out their DSL network. I've had FIOS for about 3 weeks now, and I must say that it's anything short of amazing.
Where Verizon has really delivered, though, is on price. Unlike Cable, Verizon actually has competitors. Cable TV loves price-fixing, and it's rare to see a community with more than one cable franchise, allowing the companies to charge exorbitant rates while gouging their customers. The remarkable thing about Verizon's DSL/FiOS offerings is that they're significantly cheaper than anything else out there. I pay $35/month for 5/2mbps fibre, while getting 3/.768 service from my cable co. costs $60/month. The STATEWIDE franchises that the cable companies have been granted are striking fear into the hearts of the cable companies. I fully expect a huge legal battle to come out of this debating the legality of such franchises to begin with -- Cable is and always has been a legal monopoly. Healthy competition (Verizon in this case) drives prices down. Hopefully once FiOS-TV is rolled out, the cable co's will be forced to cut their rates and start expanding their HD offerings -- FiOS-TV is said to have 300 channels, about 75 of which are in HD.
I suppose Verizon expects a huge return on their investment in the fibre network. It's costing them a mint. A typical fios install takes 3 installers about 6-8 hours per residence just to do the premesis wiring and termination. On the up-side, the new network will cost them a lot less to operate than their old copper network. Reduced power draw, smaller local COs, and increased reliability to name a few, not to mention that they've finally rid themselves of copper wiring.
Hopefully this and satelitte will finally kill off the corrupt cable-tv industry.
First, get your mail into outlook/thunderbird using AOL's IMAP Server.
Then use your email program's Forward/Redirect (if it has it) function to forward it to your gmail/current account.
If you want to spend $20, TrueSwitch will automatically do this all for you AND transfer your address book and forward your mail for a month and notify all of your contacts of your address change. This service is free for many ISPs (AT&T, SBC, Yahoo, and MSN come to mind) which is how I know about it...
Only if you've got Adobe Type Manager (ATM) installed
I'll bet the 3rd party was Novell.
Novell and microsoft seem to get by with each other well enough, and I could see them allowing them to make a demonstration.
That said, I'm sick of the lack of innovation on Microsoft's behalf in their OS department. That ALSO said, I don't think that there's much more that a desktop OS should offer that Win2000 doesn't already offer.
Longhorn will be a step in the right direction, but 2000/XP are minimal enough to leave a very low overhead and not be noticed too much. Personally, I like it when the OS isn't in your face. Until Microsoft can justify the whiz-bang features in longhorn that will suck up my resources, I'm quite content to devote my processor time to the applications i'm using.
Yes, I also use a mac and love that too, and I find it hard to have some sort of happy medium where you have the minimalism/low overhead that I like. Windows sucks at managing multiple windows -- this could be improved, and linux/macOS have a definite advantage.
But, on a whole, since switching back to windows from my mac after 2 years for work reasons, I'm finding that despite the loss of all of the cool producitivity-boosting features MacOS has (dashboard, iPhoto, Expose, etc.), Win2000 satisfies my needs just fine.
Microsoft is going to have a hell of a time pushing OS upgrades to corporations from now on. Windows as an operating system would seem to be almost complete (apart from a few glaring security things). All they can do now is tack stuff on top.
Linux on the other hand, needs to figure out what it wants itself to be. It's in an eternal conflict between being super-feature-rich(KDE/Gnome), and being uber-minimalistic (you're forced to go to the command line on a daily basis. this is something that almost never happens on other platforms, and rightfuly so). Comparing a linux desktop to Windows is just embarrasing for linux.
Comparing linux to MacOS is humiliating. With a tiny team of developers (compared to MS/Linux), apple built an OS in 5 years that is considered by most to be the most 'modern' operating system available to consumers. Sure you can debate this, but OSX/Darwin has stuff that windows and linux are hurrying awfuly fast to copy.
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but making a movie on 1.2 million? It's gonna be hard to get decent actors and scriptwriters at that cost, not to mention that SciFi NEEDS some sort of decent CG in order for it to be SciFi. We don't have many aliens and spaceships here on earth.
That said, 28 million isn't very much for a movie. Perhaps if they made 2 or 3 movies with that much, creativity would take over without being overly limited by budgets.
But I can guarruntee that these cheap movies will not have good plots or acting.
And of course, all that being said, my favorite movie of all time (Garden State) was super-low-budget simply because of the compelling plot and stellar acting.
Why not make one great movie for $21 million.
The original dune series was compelling, and wonderfuly great considering the circumstances under which it was made. Acting was OK. CG was OK, but the story was a wonderful adaptaton of the novel.
How about something by asimov? Maybe make a film out of one of the Terry Pratchett novels (and have the side effect of it being hilarious). How about a decent 2001 remake with some new spin on it?
I'm convinced that War of the Worlds could have been a good movie if it wasn't directed by speilberg and didn't have a sky-high budget.
But please. No more B movies. From what I recall, Dune made a mint for SciFi. I doubt they'd recover the costs of all these B movies.
But we'll never reach the point where they aren't infinitely more pleasant places to live than suburban hellholes.
Clearly you've never been to New York City and the Jersey/NYS/Connecticut suburbs. The contrast is stark.
I can definitely attest that the majority of suburban communities are far more pleasant than the cities they support.
Sure, there are urban areas I wouldn't mind living in, but they're usually either super-expensive or spread-out enough to be almost considered suburban.
really? In my experience, it always just tries to save the file, and then does nothing with it...
In fact, I haven't seen a single browser that will natively open the svgz files made by thefacebook