Not at all. You do want the military people to think and reflect on their actions. You have fallen for the idea that people in the military kill because they want to or it is easy for them. I had a co worker that was a gunner on a Bradly. His favorite and only war story was involved an Iraqi scout and his motor cycle. He picked up an Iraqi scout that was getting off his motorcycle to relieve him self. This guy took careful aim with 25mm Bushmaster cannon and blew up the motorcycle. He said it was great. He stopped the scout from performing his mission and no on had to die...
"China has a big enough army to march over Taiwan and Japan simultaneously, and would very likely win by sheer numbers alone without much of a fight." Only if they can march on water. The Chinese can not move those troops to Japan or Taiwan. Frankly the China we know now isn't the same China that "helped" North Korea. They wouldn't take kindly to the millions of men that they would loose in those operations.
Well the point is the Microsoft is leveraging there monopoly on Operating Systems to try and control other markets. Microsoft used to offer IE for Mac and I think Solaris way back when. This was so Microsoft could try and control the standard. Microsoft has forced IE into a "defacto standard". Now every web designer has to write code that works on IE and browsers that are not broken. Often you will see web pages that only work on IE. Silverlight is the next step. Flash is bad enough but Silverlight will make it even harder to keep the Internet OS neutral. To solve the no browser issue is real easy. Just provide an Icon for that will download Firefox, IE, Opera, or Safari from the desktop. Let the user decide at runtime. Of course you will then have to change the HTML help system so it can work with any browser and not just IE.
I am all for requiring IE to follow standards. Not bundling would be great IMHO but I just don't think it is practical.
Well I am not an extreme green type person. I just don't buy my food at Walmart because Publix has better stuff and is more convenient and has great service. It costs a little more but my time is worth it. I just don't see why people have such Venom for Walmart. For some items they are a good source. I get my mulch from them. It is made by a local company and it is "Earth wise" they also get compost from the same place so I get it from there. I put myself down as a centrist. I shop for food at Publix because I find them a better value for my money. I shop at Walmart for mulch, compost, plastic storage boxes and so on because they are the best value for those. I get my jeans from of all places Tractor Supply. They carry real blue jeans that are made for working. They cost a bit more but they will last five times as long as jeans from Walmart, Sears, or Penny's.
But again I ask why not buy a Wii at Walmart? Just why would any other chain that carries them be any better or worse?
CompUSA is gone. For the life of me I don't know why BestBuy is any better than Walmart, Kmart, Target, or EB Games. I don't shop for food at Walmart because frankly their produce just doesn't look as good as what I get at Publix. So why is BestBuy better than Walmart?
Now why did you have to go and ruin a good article by bringing some reason and light into it. Orwellian propaganda is in the eye of the beholder. Really if the edits had been negative then a lot of people wouldn't have a problem with it.
"Good for you! After all, if something is technically or physically possible to do, that must mean there is an implicit grant allowing you to do this.
Oh, I know I know. "What about recording from the radio?" "Shouldn't I be able to preserve sound waves that I have heard with my own ear, and re-listen to them on any device, anywhere I choose?"" The courts have stated that time shifting media is legal. Media shifting is also legal. Back in my high school days I would buy records and then record them on tape to take in my car. I can rip CDs and put them on MP3 players. Now what is broadcast on the public airwaves. I say again YES. Once it is on the public air waves why shouldn't have the option to record it or even listen to it? There should be a right for people to listen and or view anything that is broadcast in the RF spectrum.
I love how everybody loves too blame Bush for New Orleans. I am lover of GW but please. The governor and the Mayor should have been shoot. Where didn't they evacuate the city? Why did they leave the school buses that could have been used to evacuate in the flood plain? Why didn't the state have enough shelters for the population of New Orleans? Why didn't they have enough food, water, and police in the convention center and the super dome? I live in hurricane country. The fact that the idiot mayor got another term is the worst crime I have seen in a long time.
What two consoles struck out? The N64? It sold a lot of units and has a lot of really big hit games. The GC? Well it made more money than the XBox did. It is actually a good console compared to the PS2. Nintendo could have never built a new console by just pushing the GBA and DS. They have made a ton of money with them. The Wii took the DS to the next level.
Yep Some printers don't work with Vista. I am a Linux user so that isn't my problem. You would think that with all the "Backward" compatible kruft in Windows they would have left a mode that used the old printer drivers.
I think that the old printers not working is less of a problem than we would all like it to be.
Most people with a lot of books don't buy all of them new. 1. Library Sales are great. 2. Yard Sales. 3. Flea markets. 4. Used bookstores. Try maybe $1 a book or less. And if you have two people buying it is a lot less.
For me it was a Commodore 64 which ran at between 1Mhz and.9 Mhz. The IBM PC ran at 4.77 MHZ if I rembember correctly and and the first PC-ATs ran at 6 Mhz but your could over clock them to 8 with a little effort. Like replacing the crystal on the Motherboard. Single digit hz computers. Maybe when stepping through a program for testing but not for production work in my life time.
"The "effort" is nothing more than what ANY consumer should be expending on ANY purchase whether it has anything to do with computers or not. This kind of mindless consumer mentality is why quality product in general is so difficult to come by."
You live in a fantasy world. Yes I will check and see if a printer is supported but even that isn't a sure thing. A printer may be brand new to the market and no one has tried it with Linux yet if the manufacture hasn't. Odds are pretty good that if it is an HP or Epson that it will work if it is close to a another model but it isn't a sure thing. Thank goodness for those brave souls that buy the first one. Yes a Works with Linux tag would great. It would mean that the manufacture did some testing and got it working with Linux. And SOME printer manufactures do test with Linux. How is a new Linux user supposed to know that they need to check Linuxprinting.org? What consumers want is to go and buy a Lexmark, HP, Epson, and or Brother printer and know that is going to work without going to a Website and checking. The Universe is under no obligation to work how you think it should.
"I can go to OfficeMax and buy a printer that will "just" work for Linux. For Windows I have to install drivers and then figure out what went wrong when the something inevitably goes wrong with the windows setup.
What I can't do is buy some random piece of crap."
Most printers don't say "will work with Linux" on the box. I can not go to office Max and grab and HP or Epson printer and be pretty sure they both just work. What I can not do is find a Scanner, fax, printer that will just work with out a lot of tricks.
Most random piece of crap printers will hook up to a Windows box and work. With Linux it takes effort.
I can make Linux work for me. But if you want the average person to think of Linux as an option for them then YES VIRGINA you have to have the option of going OfficeMAX or even WalMart and buying the $49.00 craptastic inkjet printer and having it work. What we are talking about here are LOW END PCs. People are going to want to hook up random crap to the Low End PC and have it just work.
Well I am not for wasting resources. Coastal areas are very sensitive and I think that is a big problem for tidal plants. As far as giving it a try. I am all for using a little bit of EVERYTHING. I think that every house built in the southern US should have a small solar panel. Even if it is just 100 Watts. The problem is that right now solar panels are in short supply. But you know if you build 10,000 homes with a small 100 watt panel then at peak production you gain a mega watt of clean power. Geo Thermal is under used and should be exploited. I am all for Nuclear plants in fact I get my power from one. Modern nuclear plants are right now the best solution for controllable clean power production. The mid western states and places like New Mexico could be producing a lot of wind power right now. I am not a huge fan of wind power since it seems the less reliable than Solar and Geothermal but I could be wrong on that. Tidal is just too small and diverse of power source to be worth spending a huge amount of development money on IMHO. submerging turbines in salt water just make me cringe. My post was more to try and stop all the zealots. Every time I hear that Solar, Wind, Tidal, electric cars, fuel cells, or Hydrogen is "THE SOLUTION" it just makes my head hurt. There isn't a single solution. We need to have more options and more sources of power. Oil will not go away. If we run out we will make it from coal. If we run out of coal we will make it from water and atmospheric CO2. So yes use tidal where it makes sense but don't delude yourself.
Yes but Windows installs can and are being subsidized by things like demo software and trial versions. AKA Craplets. That can drive down the cost of Windows to almost nothing for the OEM.
One of the things that I still feel is holding back Linux is the lack of a stable binary driver interface. It is impossible to include a driver CD with your hardware product and just have it work. The idea that it will discourage binary device drivers has been proven false by nVidia and ATI. When a company does produce an FOSS driver it is often not all that useful from a FOSS point of view because it is obscured "Intel". And sometimes is lacking features that are available on Windows "Intel". It is very hard for a hardware company create a product and put on the box "Supports Linux". Then you have the big missing software for Linux. For the home I can thing of two "must have" programs that you can not get for Linux. Quicken and TaxCut/TurboTax.
I use Linux everyday and really like it but until you can go to OfficeMax and buy a printer that will just work. And play DVDs on it without breaking some law. Linux will not "take over" the desktop.
Well for tidal power there are a few problems. 1. They Bay of Fundy is kind of unusual. There is a lack of sites that are really that good. 2. Enviromental impact. Tidal areas tend to be very sensitive. 3. Cost. Except at few places tidal energy isn't very dense. It would require constructing huge systems.
You know I have seen big programs written in ASM and Basic as well. Perl has just to many syntactic tricks for me to feel comfortable. And part of it what do you consider a large program. Are you talking 20,000 lines of code or 200,000 lines of code?
"Well, it can't have been too large an expense, if the planes flew until there was an accident. As I see it, if it were a real burden, they would have found some way to kill it much earlier while saving face." Oh the UK and French Goverment lost there shirts on the Concorde. They where for prestige only. Why do you think so few where made? Take a look at the 777. It was much cheaper to develop than the Concorde but it took over 100 planes for Boeing to make a profit. I think Britsh Airways eventually made a profit on the operations but just. I don't think the French ever did.
It only works well if you have broadband. Imagine a device like AppleTV that uses this spectrum to provide a WiMax like connection. As a bonus you can get broadband.
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Not at all. You do want the military people to think and reflect on their actions. You have fallen for the idea that people in the military kill because they want to or it is easy for them. I had a co worker that was a gunner on a Bradly. His favorite and only war story was involved an Iraqi scout and his motor cycle. He picked up an Iraqi scout that was getting off his motorcycle to relieve him self. This guy took careful aim with 25mm Bushmaster cannon and blew up the motorcycle.
He said it was great. He stopped the scout from performing his mission and no on had to die...
"China has a big enough army to march over Taiwan and Japan simultaneously, and would very likely win by sheer numbers alone without much of a fight."
Only if they can march on water.
The Chinese can not move those troops to Japan or Taiwan. Frankly the China we know now isn't the same China that "helped" North Korea. They wouldn't take kindly to the millions of men that they would loose in those operations.
Well the point is the Microsoft is leveraging there monopoly on Operating Systems to try and control other markets. Microsoft used to offer IE for Mac and I think Solaris way back when. This was so Microsoft could try and control the standard.
Microsoft has forced IE into a "defacto standard". Now every web designer has to write code that works on IE and browsers that are not broken. Often you will see web pages that only work on IE.
Silverlight is the next step. Flash is bad enough but Silverlight will make it even harder to keep the Internet OS neutral.
To solve the no browser issue is real easy. Just provide an Icon for that will download Firefox, IE, Opera, or Safari from the desktop. Let the user decide at runtime.
Of course you will then have to change the HTML help system so it can work with any browser and not just IE.
I am all for requiring IE to follow standards. Not bundling would be great IMHO but I just don't think it is practical.
Well I am not an extreme green type person. I just don't buy my food at Walmart because Publix has better stuff and is more convenient and has great service. It costs a little more but my time is worth it. I just don't see why people have such Venom for Walmart. For some items they are a good source. I get my mulch from them. It is made by a local company and it is "Earth wise" they also get compost from the same place so I get it from there.
I put myself down as a centrist. I shop for food at Publix because I find them a better value for my money. I shop at Walmart for mulch, compost, plastic storage boxes and so on because they are the best value for those. I get my jeans from of all places Tractor Supply. They carry real blue jeans that are made for working. They cost a bit more but they will last five times as long as jeans from Walmart, Sears, or Penny's.
But again I ask why not buy a Wii at Walmart? Just why would any other chain that carries them be any better or worse?
Short Answer No.
To get FCC approval these devices will have to be not "modifiable" by the end user.
CompUSA is gone.
For the life of me I don't know why BestBuy is any better than Walmart, Kmart, Target, or EB Games.
I don't shop for food at Walmart because frankly their produce just doesn't look as good as what I get at Publix.
So why is BestBuy better than Walmart?
Sorry but your sample is really too small. I can find four of five people that thought that ME was great.
Now why did you have to go and ruin a good article by bringing some reason and light into it.
Orwellian propaganda is in the eye of the beholder.
Really if the edits had been negative then a lot of people wouldn't have a problem with it.
"Good for you! After all, if something is technically or physically possible to do, that must mean there is an implicit grant allowing you to do this.
Oh, I know I know. "What about recording from the radio?" "Shouldn't I be able to preserve sound waves that I have heard with my own ear, and re-listen to them on any device, anywhere I choose?""
The courts have stated that time shifting media is legal.
Media shifting is also legal.
Back in my high school days I would buy records and then record them on tape to take in my car. I can rip CDs and put them on MP3 players.
Now what is broadcast on the public airwaves. I say again YES. Once it is on the public air waves why shouldn't have the option to record it or even listen to it?
There should be a right for people to listen and or view anything that is broadcast in the RF spectrum.
I love how everybody loves too blame Bush for New Orleans.
I am lover of GW but please.
The governor and the Mayor should have been shoot.
Where didn't they evacuate the city? Why did they leave the school buses that could have been used to evacuate in the flood plain? Why didn't the state have enough shelters for the population of New Orleans?
Why didn't they have enough food, water, and police in the convention center and the super dome?
I live in hurricane country. The fact that the idiot mayor got another term is the worst crime I have seen in a long time.
The stores are doing the bundles not Nintendo.
What two consoles struck out?
The N64? It sold a lot of units and has a lot of really big hit games.
The GC? Well it made more money than the XBox did. It is actually a good console compared to the PS2. Nintendo could have never built a new console by just pushing the GBA and DS. They have made a ton of money with them.
The Wii took the DS to the next level.
Yep Some printers don't work with Vista. I am a Linux user so that isn't my problem. You would think that with all the "Backward" compatible kruft in Windows they would have left a mode that used the old printer drivers.
I think that the old printers not working is less of a problem than we would all like it to be.
Why?
Yes people that use flash for layout and menus are just as stupid as people that used Java buttons.
But Google doesn't need to read applications.
Most people with a lot of books don't buy all of them new.
1. Library Sales are great.
2. Yard Sales.
3. Flea markets.
4. Used bookstores.
Try maybe $1 a book or less.
And if you have two people buying it is a lot less.
For me it was a Commodore 64 which ran at between 1Mhz and .9 Mhz. The IBM PC ran at 4.77 MHZ if I rembember correctly and and the first PC-ATs ran at 6 Mhz but your could over clock them to 8 with a little effort. Like replacing the crystal on the Motherboard.
Single digit hz computers. Maybe when stepping through a program for testing but not for production work in my life time.
"The "effort" is nothing more than what ANY consumer should be expending
on ANY purchase whether it has anything to do with computers or not. This
kind of mindless consumer mentality is why quality product in general is
so difficult to come by."
You live in a fantasy world.
Yes I will check and see if a printer is supported but even that isn't a sure thing. A printer may be brand new to the market and no one has tried it with Linux yet if the manufacture hasn't. Odds are pretty good that if it is an HP or Epson that it will work if it is close to a another model but it isn't a sure thing. Thank goodness for those brave souls that buy the first one.
Yes a Works with Linux tag would great. It would mean that the manufacture did some testing and got it working with Linux. And SOME printer manufactures do test with Linux.
How is a new Linux user supposed to know that they need to check Linuxprinting.org?
What consumers want is to go and buy a Lexmark, HP, Epson, and or Brother printer and know that is going to work without going to a Website and checking.
The Universe is under no obligation to work how you think it should.
"I can go to OfficeMax and buy a printer that will
"just" work for Linux. For Windows I have to install
drivers and then figure out what went wrong when the
something inevitably goes wrong with the windows setup.
What I can't do is buy some random piece of crap."
Most printers don't say "will work with Linux" on the box. I can not go to office Max and grab and HP or Epson printer and be pretty sure they both just work.
What I can not do is find a Scanner, fax, printer that will just work with out a lot of tricks.
Most random piece of crap printers will hook up to a Windows box and work. With Linux it takes effort.
I can make Linux work for me. But if you want the average person to think of Linux as an option for them then YES VIRGINA you have to have the option of going OfficeMAX or even WalMart and buying the $49.00 craptastic inkjet printer and having it work.
What we are talking about here are LOW END PCs. People are going to want to hook up random crap to the Low End PC and have it just work.
Well I am not for wasting resources. Coastal areas are very sensitive and I think that is a big problem for tidal plants. As far as giving it a try.
I am all for using a little bit of EVERYTHING. I think that every house built in the southern US should have a small solar panel. Even if it is just 100 Watts. The problem is that right now solar panels are in short supply. But you know if you build 10,000 homes with a small 100 watt panel then at peak production you gain a mega watt of clean power. Geo Thermal is under used and should be exploited. I am all for Nuclear plants in fact I get my power from one. Modern nuclear plants are right now the best solution for controllable clean power production. The mid western states and places like New Mexico could be producing a lot of wind power right now. I am not a huge fan of wind power since it seems the less reliable than Solar and Geothermal but I could be wrong on that.
Tidal is just too small and diverse of power source to be worth spending a huge amount of development money on IMHO. submerging turbines in salt water just make me cringe.
My post was more to try and stop all the zealots. Every time I hear that Solar, Wind, Tidal, electric cars, fuel cells, or Hydrogen is "THE SOLUTION" it just makes my head hurt.
There isn't a single solution. We need to have more options and more sources of power.
Oil will not go away. If we run out we will make it from coal. If we run out of coal we will make it from water and atmospheric CO2.
So yes use tidal where it makes sense but don't delude yourself.
Yes but Windows installs can and are being subsidized by things like demo software and trial versions. AKA Craplets.
That can drive down the cost of Windows to almost nothing for the OEM.
One of the things that I still feel is holding back Linux is the lack of a stable binary driver interface.
It is impossible to include a driver CD with your hardware product and just have it work. The idea that it will discourage binary device drivers has been proven false by nVidia and ATI. When a company does produce an FOSS driver it is often not all that useful from a FOSS point of view because it is obscured "Intel". And sometimes is lacking features that are available on Windows "Intel".
It is very hard for a hardware company create a product and put on the box "Supports Linux".
Then you have the big missing software for Linux. For the home I can thing of two "must have" programs that you can not get for Linux.
Quicken and TaxCut/TurboTax.
I use Linux everyday and really like it but until you can go to OfficeMax and buy a printer that will just work. And play DVDs on it without breaking some law. Linux will not "take over" the desktop.
Well for tidal power there are a few problems.
1. They Bay of Fundy is kind of unusual. There is a lack of sites that are really that good.
2. Enviromental impact. Tidal areas tend to be very sensitive.
3. Cost. Except at few places tidal energy isn't very dense. It would require constructing huge systems.
You know I have seen big programs written in ASM and Basic as well. Perl has just to many syntactic tricks for me to feel comfortable. And part of it what do you consider a large program. Are you talking 20,000 lines of code or 200,000 lines of code?
"Well, it can't have been too large an expense, if the planes flew until there was an accident. As I see it, if it were a real burden, they would have found some way to kill it much earlier while saving face."
Oh the UK and French Goverment lost there shirts on the Concorde. They where for prestige only. Why do you think so few where made? Take a look at the 777. It was much cheaper to develop than the Concorde but it took over 100 planes for Boeing to make a profit. I think Britsh Airways eventually made a profit on the operations but just. I don't think the French ever did.
It only works well if you have broadband.
Imagine a device like AppleTV that uses this spectrum to provide a WiMax like connection. As a bonus you can get broadband.
I would go also but most people I just don't think would want a 3 hour roller coaster ride.