Why? You are the voter/stockholder are acting in the role of an employer. Should everybody applying for work have to turn over their medical records? Should you get fired if you have a health issue that may effect your performance or how long you might work at a company? I really don't think so. I know that this is a strange idea but CEO's and politicians are people and are granted the same rights as you and I.
I disagree. I think it is pretty easy to make a good movie. The problem comes with making a great movie. With the cost of tickets, drinks, and the grief of going to a theater anything less than great feels like you are being cheated.
Now if they would just release all the old movies from the 30's, 40's 50's and... on BlueRay for cheap I might buy a player.
So as I said "for most people it is just fine". I don't own a Prius and live where it is totally flat. I have heard complaints that the Prius was a little under powered but as I would guess by just reading the specs it is good enough in most cases. No need to be defensive since I was basically agreeing that the Prius is probably just fine except for some of the most extreme conditions and that the vast majority of people will never run into those.
"The problem with nuclear is waste, which we currently have no way of disposal." Not true. The fuel can be recycled which really cuts down the waste stream just like they do in France and Japan. The waste can be "burned" some of the new reactor designs.
We don't use the different options for disposal that are available.
"Picture solar concentrators in orbit sending focused beams of intensified sunlight to solar stations on the planet surface which is converted and stored for use later." Picture death beams. Think ants and a magnifying glass. Think of frying any birds that fly into that beam. Think of Greenpeace protests and the ASPCA screaming bloody murder.
I have heard that the Prius is a but under powered if you have to drive a lot in mountains. If you have all the seats full and have some luggage I could see how it might be a hand full in Utah or Colorado. On a flat road I am sure that is is just fine and dandy. I love fast cars but what people think they need and what they actually do need are worlds apart. I would say that the Prius could be under powered in some situations but that for most people it is just fine.
I think you mean thermocouple. You get to a point where it just costs too much for the power you get. At that point at least in cold climates you are probably better off using it for green houses or home heating if you have the infrastructure. The problem is most people don't want to have their office or house next to a power plant. When summer comes it really doesn't help a lot.
I know that my writing sucks but this article was bad even by my standards. Just from the burb. "The KDE developers were hoping to change this with KDE 4, the new radical release of KDE, but it was not to be. KDE 4.0 was buggy and unstable, leaving everyone except the hard-core KDE lovers." Leaving everyone except the hard-core KDE lovers what????
Actually I am teaching Nigerian teachers. You are right that way to often that Nigerians look for the guy from the UK or the US. Really a shame because there are a lot of very bright people there. And yes I have seen some people involved with projects over there that sound like something from Kipling. To me it is no different than when I train people from Ohio, the UK, Canada, or Ireland.
Sorry but I am working with project in Nigeria right now. To say that things can not change is just wrong. My family is from Northern Ireland. I visited there during the worst of the troubles and I learned some important facts that I wish everybody would learn. 1. Most people just want a future for themselves and their children. 2. Most the problems in the world are caused by a few heavily armed idiots. 3. It is a lot easier to be a hard core supporter outside of the war zone.
Things in Northern Ireland have improved a lot. People have jobs and a future so they are not killing each other and they are not putting up with people killing each other.
Oh the other lesson I learned was. When the IRA blows up a police station and you are a young man. RUN. The the British Army will not ask you for your passport before they knock you to the ground.
The problem isn't if girls are better than boys at math or vs versa. The problem comes in when we force individuals in to these generalizations. Even if boys tend to be better than girls at math it should never mean that a girl can not be very good at math or that it is bad that she is good at math.
Maybe there are difference. But it only because a problem when we forgot that people are individuals.
The AT command set was proprietary. Hayes created it for there revolutionary product called the smartmodem. Yes you could build or buy adaptors to use serial modems but even the cables varied from computer to computer. The PC totally tossed the standards for serial and printer ports out the windows.
This world of "standard computer parts" is actually pretty new. It is a good thing. And we do need to work hard to keep it. BUT it sure isn't like the old days.
Does Linux work on other Motherboards? Do those motherboards run windows as well? Then the problem is the hardware. The real key would be to test with a "reference design" motherboard and see if that works. If it does then it is clearly the motherboard.
"Whatever happened to the concept of generic hardware? " It has almost always been a myth.
The original PC ran MS-DOS and CP/M 86 and that was it. Other OSs where ported to it but it was never ment to be a universal computer. Winmodems? Lots of computers had modems just for them. C-64s, Atari, Cocos, you name it. Printers? Same thing. Well now I know that I can buy a Foxcon motherboard. That just sucks but I bet that someone hacks Linux to work on them.
I have had debs blow up on me as well. RPMs can work very well as can Debs. I have used both and frankly it really depends on the people running the repository and if you need to install odd stuff.
It is close to it if not exactly. That or sugar or some such. That how microwave ovens work after all. But frankly I would worry more about eye damage than brain cancer and at the power levels I really wouldn't worry about it. The sun is probably a much greater threat.
No subversive is going to extremes and is a classic slippery slope argument in action. You are saying that if you can require a label about the violence level of a video game you can also require a label about the political content of a book. What I am saying is that labeling this law as a threat to rights is stupid because it really isn't and you are going to fail at opposing it.
Here is the argument will play out. 1. It doesn't restrict the content of the game or who can buy it in any way. 2. It simply requires that the content be labeled so the consumer can make an informed choice. 3. It will help parents make informed choices about what their children play.
And the counter arguments. 1. It is a threat to free speech! 2. It is no different than labeling books as subversive.
Voters will not agree with you because frankly it isn't a threat.
The correct arguments for this are much simpler. 1 It is going to cost tax dollars to enforce this law. 2 Games already have voluntary ratings all parents have to do is follow those. 3 All current game consoles already have parental controls so there is no need for this law. So this law will cost money and provide no real benefit.
Nobody is going to equate Blood Bowling IX with Uncle Tom's Cabin. No thinking adult should be trotting out the first amendment to fight this law because it is such an extreme case that it just does not work. It is a silly law because it is silly and useless law and will cost money.
Yes I know. I made a lot of typos. BT is 2.4 GHz and I meant a water molecule. That is what I get when I post a message when I am not feeling all that good.
Actually I doubt that any of that tech will cause cancer at all.
But BT uses 2.4 Mhz which is a harmonic of the water atom. Anything with water in it will tend to heat up when exposed. Cell phones are not. BT could be worse than Cells and you wireless phone at home could be very bad. Over all I am not to worred about any of it.
Not much of an issue with a netbook. Some printers now do say Linux compatible.
I think they are really missing the boat. What Ubuntu needs to do but I know this will tick of the FOSS zealots is offer an easy way to... Sell applications. Just like Apple is doing with the Itunes store with the IPhone. Make it easy to buy music, video, and applications for your netbook.
Frankly I am still waiting for Apple to come out with a netbook that will do exactly that. I would do to the netbook what the iPod and iTunes did to music players.
I have to disagree with you. He was a military combat pilot, a military test pilot, an Astronaut, and an Aerospace engineer. Not the same as an Airline pilot. If there where UFOs he is pretty high on the list of people that would probably know about it.
As to camouflage. I would venture that an interstellar craft might be kind of hard to hide.
That being said. I am sorry to say but I think he is very educated and intelligent person that is deluded.
Interesting but how do you get subversive out of violent? As I have said I can see many good reasons for this law to not be put into effect because of cost and redundancy. But since most stores will not allow you to return video games for cash how else can the consumer be protected if they are not informed on the box. They could hunt down reviews on websites but that seems to me to put an unfair burden on the consumer. Books are even a different than video games since at a brick and mortar store you can at scan the book to see the contents. As I said time and time again that this doesn't infringe on anybody's rights as to content. So getting all worked up over the rights aspect of it is just silly. Don't like the law because Video Games already have a voluntary ratings system and the parents can simply choose to only buy games that carry those voluntary ratings. This law isn't a great threat too freedom of speech. It is expensive unnecessary bureaucracy that serves no real function. Oppose it on those terms and you will get a lot farther.
Great. In the industry I am in a company patented sending text over a connection and displaying it on terminals. That got tossed but some other stupid parts didn't. They have no product but I have been prevented from putting in a really cool feature because it might get us sued.
The games yes. But this is the packaging and not the game. The packaging I would say is no more than advertising and does not have full first amendment standing.
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Why? You are the voter/stockholder are acting in the role of an employer.
Should everybody applying for work have to turn over their medical records?
Should you get fired if you have a health issue that may effect your performance or how long you might work at a company?
I really don't think so. I know that this is a strange idea but CEO's and politicians are people and are granted the same rights as you and I.
I disagree. I think it is pretty easy to make a good movie.
The problem comes with making a great movie. With the cost of tickets, drinks, and the grief of going to a theater anything less than great feels like you are being cheated.
Now if they would just release all the old movies from the 30's, 40's 50's and... on BlueRay for cheap I might buy a player.
Isn't my car a suborbital vehicle?
What about a piper cub?
And every model rocket?
So as I said "for most people it is just fine". I don't own a Prius and live where it is totally flat. I have heard complaints that the Prius was a little under powered but as I would guess by just reading the specs it is good enough in most cases.
No need to be defensive since I was basically agreeing that the Prius is probably just fine except for some of the most extreme conditions and that the vast majority of people will never run into those.
"The problem with nuclear is waste, which we currently have no way of disposal."
Not true.
The fuel can be recycled which really cuts down the waste stream just like they do in France and Japan. The waste can be "burned" some of the new reactor designs.
We don't use the different options for disposal that are available.
"Picture solar concentrators in orbit sending focused beams of intensified sunlight to solar stations on the planet surface which is converted and stored for use later."
Picture death beams. Think ants and a magnifying glass.
Think of frying any birds that fly into that beam.
Think of Greenpeace protests and the ASPCA screaming bloody murder.
I have heard that the Prius is a but under powered if you have to drive a lot in mountains. If you have all the seats full and have some luggage I could see how it might be a hand full in Utah or Colorado.
On a flat road I am sure that is is just fine and dandy. I love fast cars but what people think they need and what they actually do need are worlds apart.
I would say that the Prius could be under powered in some situations but that for most people it is just fine.
I think you mean thermocouple. You get to a point where it just costs too much for the power you get.
At that point at least in cold climates you are probably better off using it for green houses or home heating if you have the infrastructure.
The problem is most people don't want to have their office or house next to a power plant.
When summer comes it really doesn't help a lot.
Nope The Bell 212A was just a standard for sending data using audio tones. The AT command set for dialing and such was Hayes.
I know that my writing sucks but this article was bad even by my standards.
Just from the burb.
"The KDE developers were hoping to change this with KDE 4, the new radical release of KDE, but it was not to be. KDE 4.0 was buggy and unstable, leaving everyone except the hard-core KDE lovers."
Leaving everyone except the hard-core KDE lovers what????
Actually I am teaching Nigerian teachers. You are right that way to often that Nigerians look for the guy from the UK or the US. Really a shame because there are a lot of very bright people there. And yes I have seen some people involved with projects over there that sound like something from Kipling. To me it is no different than when I train people from Ohio, the UK, Canada, or Ireland.
Sorry but I am working with project in Nigeria right now. To say that things can not change is just wrong.
My family is from Northern Ireland. I visited there during the worst of the troubles and I learned some important facts that I wish everybody would learn.
1. Most people just want a future for themselves and their children.
2. Most the problems in the world are caused by a few heavily armed idiots.
3. It is a lot easier to be a hard core supporter outside of the war zone.
Things in Northern Ireland have improved a lot. People have jobs and a future so they are not killing each other and they are not putting up with people killing each other.
Oh the other lesson I learned was. When the IRA blows up a police station and you are a young man. RUN. The the British Army will not ask you for your passport before they knock you to the ground.
The problem isn't if girls are better than boys at math or vs versa.
The problem comes in when we force individuals in to these generalizations.
Even if boys tend to be better than girls at math it should never mean that a girl can not be very good at math or that it is bad that she is good at math.
Maybe there are difference. But it only because a problem when we forgot that people are individuals.
The AT command set was proprietary. Hayes created it for there revolutionary product called the smartmodem. Yes you could build or buy adaptors to use serial modems but even the cables varied from computer to computer. The PC totally tossed the standards for serial and printer ports out the windows.
This world of "standard computer parts" is actually pretty new. It is a good thing. And we do need to work hard to keep it. BUT it sure isn't like the old days.
Does Linux work on other Motherboards?
Do those motherboards run windows as well?
Then the problem is the hardware.
The real key would be to test with a "reference design" motherboard and see if that works.
If it does then it is clearly the motherboard.
"Whatever happened to the concept of generic hardware? "
It has almost always been a myth.
The original PC ran MS-DOS and CP/M 86 and that was it.
Other OSs where ported to it but it was never ment to be a universal computer.
Winmodems? Lots of computers had modems just for them. C-64s, Atari, Cocos, you name it.
Printers? Same thing.
Well now I know that I can buy a Foxcon motherboard.
That just sucks but I bet that someone hacks Linux to work on them.
I have had debs blow up on me as well.
RPMs can work very well as can Debs. I have used both and frankly it really depends on the people running the repository and if you need to install odd stuff.
It is close to it if not exactly. That or sugar or some such.
That how microwave ovens work after all. But frankly I would worry more about eye damage than brain cancer and at the power levels I really wouldn't worry about it.
The sun is probably a much greater threat.
No subversive is going to extremes and is a classic slippery slope argument in action. You are saying that if you can require a label about the violence level of a video game you can also require a label about the political content of a book.
What I am saying is that labeling this law as a threat to rights is stupid because it really isn't and you are going to fail at opposing it.
Here is the argument will play out.
1. It doesn't restrict the content of the game or who can buy it in any way.
2. It simply requires that the content be labeled so the consumer can make an informed choice.
3. It will help parents make informed choices about what their children play.
And the counter arguments.
1. It is a threat to free speech!
2. It is no different than labeling books as subversive.
Voters will not agree with you because frankly it isn't a threat.
The correct arguments for this are much simpler.
1 It is going to cost tax dollars to enforce this law.
2 Games already have voluntary ratings all parents have to do is follow those.
3 All current game consoles already have parental controls so there is no need for this law.
So this law will cost money and provide no real benefit.
Nobody is going to equate Blood Bowling IX with Uncle Tom's Cabin. No thinking adult should be trotting out the first amendment to fight this law because it is such an extreme case that it just does not work.
It is a silly law because it is silly and useless law and will cost money.
Yes I know. I made a lot of typos.
BT is 2.4 GHz and I meant a water molecule.
That is what I get when I post a message when I am not feeling all that good.
Actually I doubt that any of that tech will cause cancer at all.
I was more just being silly.
But BT uses 2.4 Mhz which is a harmonic of the water atom. Anything with water in it will tend to heat up when exposed.
Cell phones are not.
BT could be worse than Cells and you wireless phone at home could be very bad.
Over all I am not to worred about any of it.
Not much of an issue with a netbook.
Some printers now do say Linux compatible.
I think they are really missing the boat. What Ubuntu needs to do but I know this will tick of the FOSS zealots is offer an easy way to ... Sell applications.
Just like Apple is doing with the Itunes store with the IPhone.
Make it easy to buy music, video, and applications for your netbook.
Frankly I am still waiting for Apple to come out with a netbook that will do exactly that. I would do to the netbook what the iPod and iTunes did to music players.
I have to disagree with you.
He was a military combat pilot, a military test pilot, an Astronaut, and an Aerospace engineer.
Not the same as an Airline pilot. If there where UFOs he is pretty high on the list of people that would probably know about it.
As to camouflage. I would venture that an interstellar craft might be kind of hard to hide.
That being said. I am sorry to say but I think he is very educated and intelligent person that is deluded.
Interesting but how do you get subversive out of violent? As I have said I can see many good reasons for this law to not be put into effect because of cost and redundancy.
But since most stores will not allow you to return video games for cash how else can the consumer be protected if they are not informed on the box. They could hunt down reviews on websites but that seems to me to put an unfair burden on the consumer.
Books are even a different than video games since at a brick and mortar store you can at scan the book to see the contents.
As I said time and time again that this doesn't infringe on anybody's rights as to content. So getting all worked up over the rights aspect of it is just silly.
Don't like the law because Video Games already have a voluntary ratings system and the parents can simply choose to only buy games that carry those voluntary ratings. This law isn't a great threat too freedom of speech. It is expensive unnecessary bureaucracy that serves no real function. Oppose it on those terms and you will get a lot farther.
Great.
In the industry I am in a company patented sending text over a connection and displaying it on terminals. That got tossed but some other stupid parts didn't. They have no product but I have been prevented from putting in a really cool feature because it might get us sued.
The games yes.
But this is the packaging and not the game. The packaging I would say is no more than advertising and does not have full first amendment standing.