It's nice of the EFF to spend time and money developing software that can detect what we know Comcast (and maybe others) are doing but without some sort of centralized data gathering operation to put together some sort of class action lawsuit what good is it? Knowing your packets are getting pummeled by Comcast allows you to... complain? I can't even get them to give me a clean cable tv signal- does anyone think they would listen to our complaints about packet loss? (does anyone think the average Comcast support rep would know what a packet is?) While others might be able to switch to another provider I think far too many of us (myself inculded)are stuck in monopohell with broadband providers. I'd prefer to see the EFF working on forcing Verizon (et al.) to drop fiber to the premises (after all we've been paying billions in infrastruture taxes for how long now??)
Residents of DC don't get to vote for any members of Congress, so I don't see how you can claim they're "already represented" because DC is administered by Congress.
The purpose of electing a represenative to congress is to have someone at the federal level looking out for your state's interests. Since DC is entirely the responsibility of congress (unlike a state) and have at large representation in congress those folks already have congressional representation.
offtopic but because DC is not a state it is not entitled to representation under the constitution. Residents of DC are already represented because it is run by congress as a whole
Yes, there are provisions for DOD requirements to take precedence. This does not make them somehow less independent as DOD requests are fully integrated into the charter. Also note that the DOD spec you mention was simply on how small the bay could be- not how large. There was also nothing stopping NASA from building a smaller one first had they so desired.
While the researc NASA has done is great wouldn't that same research have been done if private companies had a crack at that same money? NASA's function is supposed to be getting commercial enterprise involve in space. The fact that 30-odd years after going to the moon, NASA partnering with private enterprise is noteworthy should show that NASA isn't doing their part. I'd be ecstatic if all NASA did was research and let other folks build and run the missions. Instead we get half baked research and shoddy mission control/execution.
As a civilian agency they better not be following congressional orders. You can find the text of the act that created NASA here http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ogc/about/space_act1.html#POLICY. They're purposed as a civilian agency with congessional oversight. They get money from congress- not orders.
And those things couldn't be done better, more efficiently and safer by a private company? Those are the significant things- and that's a sad note. We should be going to mars by now, not sending probes. We should be sustaining live on the moon- not just in temporary space stations. Again, what's been done right?
You'd be trying to explain that to the same group of leftists "scientists" that told the world that they'd proved that we were all going to starve to death 30 years ago thanks to our horrible ways, then 20 years ago decided that we were all going to freeze to death thanks to our unspeakable use of industrial technologies, then 10 years ago said we were all going to suffocate by now thanks to our use of hairspray, and the latest "scientific revelation" that we caused global warming thanks to using hydrocarbons. Of course none of these crimes against the earth ever applied to polluters like china, russia, or developing nations.... Noone takes these guys seriously unless they can figure a way to make a buck off of them, so I wouldn;t worry about them "fixing" anything.
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Can we get an AMEN here? How many of us have seen these ridiculously complicated spreadsheets users are sharing across the network that should be some flavor of database instead.
I don't think they are trying to get folks hooked by reading the classic issues or if they are its a dumb idea. Anyone reading the classic issues and picking up a new issue of Xmen, Captain America, Spiderman (et al) will wonder if the guy writing today's issues ever read the classic issues. The only thing the new issues have in common with the old ones is the name.
I'm not sure you know what the democrat party stands for. Maybe 40 years ago or so they might have been pro consumer but for the last 15 or so they are patently anti-consumer and pro nanny-state regulation.
What good would that do? The problem is there's no good reason why IE isn't good enough for the average person. IE has flaws but Firefox simply isn't that much better than IE to make the average schmo stand up and take notice.
Like I stated previously, I have no problem with the government forcing business owners to accommodate disabled folks if and when there are no reasonable alternatives. However in the particular case of websites there may aleady be alternatives- in this case pick up the phone and call the local store. For most reasonable people I think they would be able to figure this out without a "you must be disabled and stupid to reach this page so call us if you want to buy something" page. Now if we take an internet only retailer like Amazon, they should be required to put up a page that gives either a brick and mortar location to call and or visit or a phone number to call and get info and or place an order. Of course, the other obvious route which would be to block californians from buying from your site altogether.
It takes a screen reader and a website from a company to tell a visually impaired person that the website they are going to isn't designed well for visually impaired people and to pick up the phone and call the nearest store in order to make a purchase? It's silly lawsuits like this that make people resent the ADA. I have no problem with the government forcing business owners to accommodate disabled folks if and when they are no reasonable alternatives. Last time I checked, commerce would not cease to exist without the internet. This lawsuit would only make sense if brick and mortar establishments were leftover from the old days.
obvious. Even more fun would be trying to explain that line to a complete newb. However looking under the isapi filters and seeing d:\PHP\php would be both obvious and easy even if you had to click on every tab to locate it.
The cable dvr is != tivo. It's not the TV guide that is the "Tivo" stuff it's the interface to the guide info. That's the trick that makes me go back to my regular def tivo vs a hi-def box from comcast. Tivo has a lot of obvious features that the other interfaces just don't have. Otherwise I'd have already ditched my tivo. But due to the fact that they dropped lifetime subs (except from Humax machines) I'm not recommending anyone buy another one. Once you're hooked it's like crack, so those that have never had it will probably not miss it.
In the 70's the science community(climatologist, specifically) was split just about 50/50 over global warming.
almost true, it was a split between those that believed in global warming and global cooling (yup back then we were all going to freeze to death). Saying there was a 50/50 split makes it sould like it was a true/not true debate
This is exactly how science works.
only in the so called science of climatology. Real science uses the scientific method, not a voting pool and political agenda to determine facts.
It definitely takes time to evaluate a theory which has not been proven but I think it's more a matter of time rather than bias. It took a lot longer in the past to communicate the ideas to one peers and get feedback. This is no longer the case today.
I think your post shows that it's not experience per se but the cert you have in many cases that gets you in the door (not that I am denigrating the CCIE cert). Many times having over 10 yrs experience gets thrown out because some HR idiot thinks an MCSE is the equivalent or worse yet thinks it's "better"
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I find it a much needed improvement. Some of the functionality is gone but it can be reproduced with a little work on the sharepoint side. BTW you can play with exchange 2007 at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/virtuallab/default.mspx without having to build your own
It's nice of the EFF to spend time and money developing software that can detect what we know Comcast (and maybe others) are doing but without some sort of centralized data gathering operation to put together some sort of class action lawsuit what good is it? Knowing your packets are getting pummeled by Comcast allows you to... complain? I can't even get them to give me a clean cable tv signal- does anyone think they would listen to our complaints about packet loss? (does anyone think the average Comcast support rep would know what a packet is?) While others might be able to switch to another provider I think far too many of us (myself inculded)are stuck in monopohell with broadband providers. I'd prefer to see the EFF working on forcing Verizon (et al.) to drop fiber to the premises (after all we've been paying billions in infrastruture taxes for how long now??)
The purpose of electing a represenative to congress is to have someone at the federal level looking out for your state's interests. Since DC is entirely the responsibility of congress (unlike a state) and have at large representation in congress those folks already have congressional representation.
offtopic but because DC is not a state it is not entitled to representation under the constitution. Residents of DC are already represented because it is run by congress as a whole
What we need to do is give away a carton of smokes with every violent video game thus balancing out the damage inflicted on society.
Yes, there are provisions for DOD requirements to take precedence. This does not make them somehow less independent as DOD requests are fully integrated into the charter. Also note that the DOD spec you mention was simply on how small the bay could be- not how large. There was also nothing stopping NASA from building a smaller one first had they so desired.
While the researc NASA has done is great wouldn't that same research have been done if private companies had a crack at that same money? NASA's function is supposed to be getting commercial enterprise involve in space. The fact that 30-odd years after going to the moon, NASA partnering with private enterprise is noteworthy should show that NASA isn't doing their part. I'd be ecstatic if all NASA did was research and let other folks build and run the missions. Instead we get half baked research and shoddy mission control/execution.
NASA's budget is a pittence. What would congress do cut it some more? Note that the DOD requirements are a part of the charter.
As a civilian agency they better not be following congressional orders. You can find the text of the act that created NASA here http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ogc/about/space_act1.html#POLICY. They're purposed as a civilian agency with congessional oversight. They get money from congress- not orders.
And those things couldn't be done better, more efficiently and safer by a private company? Those are the significant things- and that's a sad note. We should be going to mars by now, not sending probes. We should be sustaining live on the moon- not just in temporary space stations. Again, what's been done right?
The question you want to ask is what are they doing right
You'd be trying to explain that to the same group of leftists "scientists" that told the world that they'd proved that we were all going to starve to death 30 years ago thanks to our horrible ways, then 20 years ago decided that we were all going to freeze to death thanks to our unspeakable use of industrial technologies, then 10 years ago said we were all going to suffocate by now thanks to our use of hairspray, and the latest "scientific revelation" that we caused global warming thanks to using hydrocarbons. Of course none of these crimes against the earth ever applied to polluters like china, russia, or developing nations.... Noone takes these guys seriously unless they can figure a way to make a buck off of them, so I wouldn;t worry about them "fixing" anything.
Can we get an AMEN here? How many of us have seen these ridiculously complicated spreadsheets users are sharing across the network that should be some flavor of database instead.
I don't think they are trying to get folks hooked by reading the classic issues or if they are its a dumb idea. Anyone reading the classic issues and picking up a new issue of Xmen, Captain America, Spiderman (et al) will wonder if the guy writing today's issues ever read the classic issues. The only thing the new issues have in common with the old ones is the name.
I'm not sure you know what the democrat party stands for. Maybe 40 years ago or so they might have been pro consumer but for the last 15 or so they are patently anti-consumer and pro nanny-state regulation.
What good would that do? The problem is there's no good reason why IE isn't good enough for the average person. IE has flaws but Firefox simply isn't that much better than IE to make the average schmo stand up and take notice.
Try copying 60GB of MP3s
Like I stated previously, I have no problem with the government forcing business owners to accommodate disabled folks if and when there are no reasonable alternatives. However in the particular case of websites there may aleady be alternatives- in this case pick up the phone and call the local store. For most reasonable people I think they would be able to figure this out without a "you must be disabled and stupid to reach this page so call us if you want to buy something" page. Now if we take an internet only retailer like Amazon, they should be required to put up a page that gives either a brick and mortar location to call and or visit or a phone number to call and get info and or place an order. Of course, the other obvious route which would be to block californians from buying from your site altogether.
It takes a screen reader and a website from a company to tell a visually impaired person that the website they are going to isn't designed well for visually impaired people and to pick up the phone and call the nearest store in order to make a purchase? It's silly lawsuits like this that make people resent the ADA. I have no problem with the government forcing business owners to accommodate disabled folks if and when they are no reasonable alternatives. Last time I checked, commerce would not cease to exist without the internet. This lawsuit would only make sense if brick and mortar establishments were leftover from the old days.
obvious. Even more fun would be trying to explain that line to a complete newb. However looking under the isapi filters and seeing d:\PHP\php would be both obvious and easy even if you had to click on every tab to locate it.
The cable dvr is != tivo.
It's not the TV guide that is the "Tivo" stuff it's the interface to the guide info. That's the trick that makes me go back to my regular def tivo vs a hi-def box from comcast. Tivo has a lot of obvious features that the other interfaces just don't have. Otherwise I'd have already ditched my tivo. But due to the fact that they dropped lifetime subs (except from Humax machines) I'm not recommending anyone buy another one. Once you're hooked it's like crack, so those that have never had it will probably not miss it.
almost true, it was a split between those that believed in global warming and global cooling (yup back then we were all going to freeze to death). Saying there was a 50/50 split makes it sould like it was a true/not true debate
only in the so called science of climatology. Real science uses the scientific method, not a voting pool and political agenda to determine facts.
It definitely takes time to evaluate a theory which has not been proven but I think it's more a matter of time rather than bias. It took a lot longer in the past to communicate the ideas to one peers and get feedback. This is no longer the case today.
I think your post shows that it's not experience per se but the cert you have in many cases that gets you in the door (not that I am denigrating the CCIE cert). Many times having over 10 yrs experience gets thrown out because some HR idiot thinks an MCSE is the equivalent or worse yet thinks it's "better"
Right now but in florida they are closing down used CD shops.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070507-record-shops-used-cds-ihre-papieren-bitte.html