Just this past weekend, the Fed said that it would absolutely not use taxpayer money to bail out Lehman Brothers.
I think it's in everybody's best interests right now for Ford or GM to fail. Then the other will hopefully take the hint, and start being competitive again.
The sad irony of it all is that GM and Ford's brands are probably stronger in Europe than they are in the US, and yet they continue to refuse to market those models here....
However, his Wikipedia Article makes it pretty clear that he's spent about half of his career leading crusades to repeal legislation that he drafted himself.
Even if I were a libertarian, I'd be apprehensive as hell about the guy.
And the GP is mostly correct. The Libertarian party has been increasingly used as a puppet party to mask the agendas of its members. Ron Paul's a huge states-rights advocate who runs with the Libertarians, because they share the common goal of reducing the size of the Federal government, even though his views on state government are borderline tyrannical.
Most of the "true" libertarians have already jumped ship, and are scrambling to form a new party (several have already been formed over the last few years). Their belief is generally that the government (at all levels) should only do things that individuals absolutely, positively cannot do for themselves. In many cases this actually does include civil rights and gun control to a certain extent.
Of course, I personally believe that humans are inherently social creatures, and that a libertarian government would be doomed to failure. Still, I don't like to see their core values distorted like this.
HTTP was designed as a more advanced version of Gopher, and was primarily intended to serve as a vehicle for distributing (and linking between) scientific information.
There was absolutely no need for it to be secure. Encrypting all traffic back in those days would have also created a huge (and unnecessary) CPU overhead.
He played a key role supporting legislation that helped construct the networks within the US, and eventually opened them to commercial traffic. For this, he took credit for having helped create the internet, just as Eisenhower helped create the Interstate Highway system. He's perfectly justified in that claim, too.
No, but given that science has been at odds with religion for much of history, it definitely makes sense for the two to be objectively discussed side by side.
Science and philosophy naturally go side by side. The early Greek philosophers were the pioneers of science as we know it. "Modern" science, as first practiced by Newton and the likes (and founders of the very Royal Society mentioned in the article!) was frequently termed "Natural Philosophy." Ph.D still stands for "Doctor of Philosophy".
Students should know how to objectively differentiate between religion and science. Neither are inherently bad, or even necessarily at odds with each other. Even the Catholic Church is generally very pro-science. The previous pope was a vocal supporter of evolution.
As long as we remain objective (which I do believe is perfectly possible, at least in Britain), I see absolutely no problem with this.
What sort of Apple hardware parts aren't standardized these days? All of the system internals are relatively "normal," and don't seem to contain a sufficiently higher percentage of proprietary bits than a Dell would.
I'm not a fan of their iPhone strategy, but this other information seems pretty blatantly false. Apple lets its users run Windows on their machines (and helps them do so, a la Boot Camp, and their publicized support of Parallels/VMWare). I ran Ubuntu on my old G4 without a problem. The only major linux support issues on any remotely recent mac have to do with NVidia's lack of open drivers, rather than anything specific to Apple.
The iPhone/iPod software licensing seems a bit draconian, though nobody's forcing you to buy one...
I have a Mac, and I use it as I see fit. I'll probably get a touchscreen iPod once Apple comes to its senses regarding app licensing (which, to be fair, is a lot more liberal than how most phone companies treat 3rd-party apps)
Chrome actually prompts you regarding which search engine you'd like to default to during installation.
Firefox simply defaults to Google. Safari doesn't even give you a choice anywhere.
I'm not entirely convinced that this is some sort of evil scheme to convert users to Google. The prompted choice, in fact, makes it seem very much not so.
I can get behind that. The documentation has fallen behind lately, compared to what it once was, but is still pretty good. You might want to first make sure that you have a decent understanding of the command prompt before attempting an install...
However, for Christ's sake, do not use Gentoo as your main distro. It will drive you insane.
Actually, Blow's been involved in the online gaming scene for over a decade.
Although WoW's success is certainly too complex of an issue to ascribe to one or two factors, replayability, and the entire "team" dynamic appear to be two of the most important. Leveling up comes far far after that.
Blow's first project is actually still alive over 10 years after its original release.
Go pull up your local weather station on the Weather Underground, and take a look at what percentage of the time the wind was blowing at above 10mph.
It's not terribly *rare*, but also not terribly *common*. The reason why wind turbines and sailboats both tend to be extremely tall is that the winds become both stronger and more reliable at higher altitudes.
Think about it: Air currents are going to be substantially lower at low altitudes, especially when surrounded by houses, trees, and other obstructions that block the wind.
It's a really cool energy source, particularly for devices that don't need to be constantly (or reliably) powered. However, I have some serious doubts as to whether or not this can be used as a primary power source.
On the other hand, if we can make wind power cheap (cheap turbines, which might not be quite as efficient, but still work, and towers constructed out of locally-available materials), a huge impact will be made.
Like it or not, abundant cheap energy will be the quickest route for the 3rd-world nations to eradicate extreme poverty. If we solve this problem, many other problems will be solved very quickly along with it. If we can't provide a solution, there are alternatives, though none are quite as attractive.......
There are also the games that got popular past their prime. These are pretty rare, but Freespace 2 and The Longest Journey both immediately come to mind as being among the best ever in their respective genres, despite lackluster sales upon their release.
It's a shame that The Underdogs has gone semi-defunct. They were pretty good at picking out the forgotten gems.
Also, the games that got incrementally better with each sequal (eg. SimCity, Unreal Torunament, C&C) will likely be remembered pretty easily. These sort of games also have terrific "replay value." It takes a good while for SimCity to get old.
Of course, I'm not a hardcore gamer, so what do I know......
I'm on an X86-64 version of Ubuntu, and Flash "just works" for me, and always has done so.
If there's any configuration that should be difficult to get working, this is it.
(PPC on the other hand, simply doesn't have a flash player. Gnash and swfdec are nice in concept, but rarely, if ever work on actual.SWF files in the wild)
The "Printer On Fire" status code is strictly a UNIX phenomenon.
Laugh all you want at Microsoft, but this one is mostly our fault:-P
(For those not familiar with this meme, there was a certain brand of mainframe printer in the 1970s that was infamous for continuing to print after jamming, despite being able to correctly detect the jam and take the printer "off-line". This would cause an immense heat-buildup that would often lead to the paper catching on fire. Therefore, a printer that is somehow printing while off-line is reported by most Unices to have a status code of "Printer On Fire")
What if there's some guy who has the same name as you?
I could see how that would complicate things quite easily.
The "ethical" thing to do would be at the very least to allow the perspective employee to defend themselves, or at least know why they were turned down.
My favorite tidbit about the Glasgow Subway is that they apparently have to occasionally flip the trains around, because the wheels on the "inner" side of the train wear down much faster than the ones on the outside.
Wikipedia's probably the best free Physics resource at the moment.
Similarly, there's barely any incentive to maliciously edit an article on basic mechanics. As long as we keep the Time Cube guy away, I think it'll be fine.
1. TFA states that this is for K-12, NOT college...so all the 'screw the Univ. for making me pay $200 for a textbook comments' are misguided
This may be true, but VA has been forward-thinking in this regard in the past.
Virginia Universities (public ones at least) require their instructors to distribute a list of ISBNs of required books for their course before the start of term.
This usually saves me a couple hundred dollars a semester.
Virginia can be completely ass-backwards 90% of the time, but when it comes to education, they seem to pull through more often than not. It just sucks that my home-state doesn't give a damn about its universities....
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The British pound is high compared to the dollar
Correction: The British Pound is currently at a 12-year low compared to the dollar.
(8 months ago, it was the exact opposite, as neither economy is doing particularly well at the moment.)
I wouldn't be too sure.
Just this past weekend, the Fed said that it would absolutely not use taxpayer money to bail out Lehman Brothers.
I think it's in everybody's best interests right now for Ford or GM to fail. Then the other will hopefully take the hint, and start being competitive again.
The sad irony of it all is that GM and Ford's brands are probably stronger in Europe than they are in the US, and yet they continue to refuse to market those models here....
I'd rather keep ourselves confined to Earth for all of eternity than give antimatter to any military force.
Hm. Nothing immediately comes to light.
However, his Wikipedia Article makes it pretty clear that he's spent about half of his career leading crusades to repeal legislation that he drafted himself.
Even if I were a libertarian, I'd be apprehensive as hell about the guy.
And the GP is mostly correct. The Libertarian party has been increasingly used as a puppet party to mask the agendas of its members. Ron Paul's a huge states-rights advocate who runs with the Libertarians, because they share the common goal of reducing the size of the Federal government, even though his views on state government are borderline tyrannical.
Most of the "true" libertarians have already jumped ship, and are scrambling to form a new party (several have already been formed over the last few years). Their belief is generally that the government (at all levels) should only do things that individuals absolutely, positively cannot do for themselves. In many cases this actually does include civil rights and gun control to a certain extent.
Of course, I personally believe that humans are inherently social creatures, and that a libertarian government would be doomed to failure. Still, I don't like to see their core values distorted like this.
Why?
HTTP was designed as a more advanced version of Gopher, and was primarily intended to serve as a vehicle for distributing (and linking between) scientific information.
There was absolutely no need for it to be secure. Encrypting all traffic back in those days would have also created a huge (and unnecessary) CPU overhead.
Al Gore never made that claim.
He played a key role supporting legislation that helped construct the networks within the US, and eventually opened them to commercial traffic. For this, he took credit for having helped create the internet, just as Eisenhower helped create the Interstate Highway system. He's perfectly justified in that claim, too.
No, but given that science has been at odds with religion for much of history, it definitely makes sense for the two to be objectively discussed side by side.
Science and philosophy naturally go side by side. The early Greek philosophers were the pioneers of science as we know it. "Modern" science, as first practiced by Newton and the likes (and founders of the very Royal Society mentioned in the article!) was frequently termed "Natural Philosophy." Ph.D still stands for "Doctor of Philosophy".
Students should know how to objectively differentiate between religion and science. Neither are inherently bad, or even necessarily at odds with each other. Even the Catholic Church is generally very pro-science. The previous pope was a vocal supporter of evolution.
As long as we remain objective (which I do believe is perfectly possible, at least in Britain), I see absolutely no problem with this.
They STILL choose which machines that you can run MACos on. I Still can't easily obtain a version of MACos anything on my pc.
Yes? no? Am I lying? I think not.
We're talking here about apple locking down its hardware, not its software.
These are two completely separate issues that need to be debated separately.
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What sort of Apple hardware parts aren't standardized these days? All of the system internals are relatively "normal," and don't seem to contain a sufficiently higher percentage of proprietary bits than a Dell would.
I'm not a fan of their iPhone strategy, but this other information seems pretty blatantly false. Apple lets its users run Windows on their machines (and helps them do so, a la Boot Camp, and their publicized support of Parallels/VMWare). I ran Ubuntu on my old G4 without a problem. The only major linux support issues on any remotely recent mac have to do with NVidia's lack of open drivers, rather than anything specific to Apple.
The iPhone/iPod software licensing seems a bit draconian, though nobody's forcing you to buy one...
I have a Mac, and I use it as I see fit. I'll probably get a touchscreen iPod once Apple comes to its senses regarding app licensing (which, to be fair, is a lot more liberal than how most phone companies treat 3rd-party apps)
Chrome actually prompts you regarding which search engine you'd like to default to during installation.
Firefox simply defaults to Google. Safari doesn't even give you a choice anywhere.
I'm not entirely convinced that this is some sort of evil scheme to convert users to Google. The prompted choice, in fact, makes it seem very much not so.
Nah, that's too extreme. Everyone knows that the best way to learn Unix is to run Gentoo.
I can get behind that. The documentation has fallen behind lately, compared to what it once was, but is still pretty good. You might want to first make sure that you have a decent understanding of the command prompt before attempting an install...
However, for Christ's sake, do not use Gentoo as your main distro. It will drive you insane.
Actually, Blow's been involved in the online gaming scene for over a decade.
Although WoW's success is certainly too complex of an issue to ascribe to one or two factors, replayability, and the entire "team" dynamic appear to be two of the most important. Leveling up comes far far after that.
Blow's first project is actually still alive over 10 years after its original release.
$20 an hour isn't bad pay for someone going to college full time.
Actually, I think most college students would kill for wages like that.
The big "gotcha" is the 10mph wind.
Go pull up your local weather station on the Weather Underground, and take a look at what percentage of the time the wind was blowing at above 10mph.
It's not terribly *rare*, but also not terribly *common*. The reason why wind turbines and sailboats both tend to be extremely tall is that the winds become both stronger and more reliable at higher altitudes.
Think about it: Air currents are going to be substantially lower at low altitudes, especially when surrounded by houses, trees, and other obstructions that block the wind.
It's a really cool energy source, particularly for devices that don't need to be constantly (or reliably) powered. However, I have some serious doubts as to whether or not this can be used as a primary power source.
On the other hand, if we can make wind power cheap (cheap turbines, which might not be quite as efficient, but still work, and towers constructed out of locally-available materials), a huge impact will be made.
Like it or not, abundant cheap energy will be the quickest route for the 3rd-world nations to eradicate extreme poverty. If we solve this problem, many other problems will be solved very quickly along with it. If we can't provide a solution, there are alternatives, though none are quite as attractive.......
Ah. True. I was never really into that series, but can definitely appreciate that it seemed to have had an absolutely rabid fanbase.
Seriously. If there was ever a use for the Offtopic mod option, that post is it!
I'd almost actually mod it funny, if only for the absurdist value.
There are also the games that got popular past their prime. These are pretty rare, but Freespace 2 and The Longest Journey both immediately come to mind as being among the best ever in their respective genres, despite lackluster sales upon their release.
It's a shame that The Underdogs has gone semi-defunct. They were pretty good at picking out the forgotten gems.
Also, the games that got incrementally better with each sequal (eg. SimCity, Unreal Torunament, C&C) will likely be remembered pretty easily. These sort of games also have terrific "replay value." It takes a good while for SimCity to get old.
Of course, I'm not a hardcore gamer, so what do I know......
I'm on an X86-64 version of Ubuntu, and Flash "just works" for me, and always has done so.
If there's any configuration that should be difficult to get working, this is it.
(PPC on the other hand, simply doesn't have a flash player. Gnash and swfdec are nice in concept, but rarely, if ever work on actual .SWF files in the wild)
The "Printer On Fire" status code is strictly a UNIX phenomenon.
Laugh all you want at Microsoft, but this one is mostly our fault :-P
(For those not familiar with this meme, there was a certain brand of mainframe printer in the 1970s that was infamous for continuing to print after jamming, despite being able to correctly detect the jam and take the printer "off-line". This would cause an immense heat-buildup that would often lead to the paper catching on fire. Therefore, a printer that is somehow printing while off-line is reported by most Unices to have a status code of "Printer On Fire")
What if there's some guy who has the same name as you?
I could see how that would complicate things quite easily.
The "ethical" thing to do would be at the very least to allow the perspective employee to defend themselves, or at least know why they were turned down.
My favorite tidbit about the Glasgow Subway is that they apparently have to occasionally flip the trains around, because the wheels on the "inner" side of the train wear down much faster than the ones on the outside.
This is getting severely offtopic, but thanks for that post. It's really something that needed to be said.
The entire argument of "family values" is an absolute joke.
Wikipedia's probably the best free Physics resource at the moment.
Similarly, there's barely any incentive to maliciously edit an article on basic mechanics. As long as we keep the Time Cube guy away, I think it'll be fine.
1. TFA states that this is for K-12, NOT college...so all the 'screw the Univ. for making me pay $200 for a textbook comments' are misguided
This may be true, but VA has been forward-thinking in this regard in the past.
Virginia Universities (public ones at least) require their instructors to distribute a list of ISBNs of required books for their course before the start of term.
This usually saves me a couple hundred dollars a semester.
Virginia can be completely ass-backwards 90% of the time, but when it comes to education, they seem to pull through more often than not. It just sucks that my home-state doesn't give a damn about its universities....
I wonder if she was talking about Quarks in that last panel.......