> The Berlin Wall fell during Bush Senior, and we ended the Cold War. Bloodless revolutions for freedom and democracy happened throughout the world.
Close, but not quite. The US + NATO used our economic power to militarily outspend the Soviets + Warsaw Pack for a period of time that they (the Soviets) were unable to sustain.
While there were no large set-piece army vs. army battles during the Cold War, I do not think we should call it "bloodless." US and NATO service members lost their lives during the Cold War during the performance of their duties, starting with the Berlin Airlift (79). We will probably never know how many people lost their lives in some of those contries working for those "Bloodless revolutions for freedom and democracy."
> Elect those individuals that will best represent the people, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights at home and abroad
This is the same as saying: Elect those individuals that will best represent the people, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights at home + Elect those individuals that will best represent the people, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights abroad
Exactly what does the second mean? Last time I checked the Constitution and the Bill of Rights does not apply to non-US citizens who are outside of the United States.
A strict reading of the second would include those people.
>I can name at least 50 people who will never buy an Infinity Ward product again - because of their shoddy treatment of the PC gamers that made them what they are. Stay on the console side of the fence, Grant.
Make that 54 (me + 3 of my friends). Yes, damnit.... I do have 3 friends.
>>get a second degree (bachelor, master, associate, doctor... science, arts, fine arts... whatever) in whatever field you wish you'd gotten the first one in.
I've come to the same conclusion and I am going to do exactly that.... -after- I leave for and get back from Afghanistan....
Right. Absolutely......becuase terrorists have NEVER timed their attacks to a country's elections in an attempt to change the outsome of that election.
The gaming industry is killing itself. A good example of this is Call of Duty. The original game was good and playing online was a lot of fun. There were patches that fixed problems and improved playability.
Then UO (United Offensive) was released and things got even better. Improved online playability and it was even more fun.
Then COD2 was released. What crap. Fancy graphics, more drive space used and a -big- step backwards on playability, especially online. In UO, you can try to use some tactics, depending on the map and the weapons that you selected. In COD2, it all degenerates to "run-and-gun." If I could get half my money back for that piece of crap, I would.
I will be very hesitant to -ever- buy another game from them again. Maybe, if I have to chance to play first, but -never- again will I buy from them on blind faith...
The same applies to any other game. If they make a product that is good, I'll buy it. Otherwise, I'll just keep my money.
Bottom line: Crappy products are killing the industry, not piracy.
1. Motorola sells / spins off its microprocessor division (ColdFire, et. al.) into Freescale. 2. Intel sells its XScale microprocessor.
Collectively, this makes a significant portion of the >= 16 bit microprocessor market. (Sorry... I'm being conservative here. I suspect that both are 32-bit, but since I've been drinking a bit this evening, I'll error on the side of caution... )
What does this say for the state of (and the future of) the embedded microprocessor world? Are they saying that these markets are not profitable? That can't be.... can it?
What is the future for Atmel AVR family?... or the 8051-family?
Hmmm... Must drink more and think about it..head hits keyboard..........
A more reliable weapon (defined as one that requires less periodic maintenance therefore having a higher 'uptime') means that there needs to be fewer total nukes.
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I did the same this past January and arrived at the same conclusion and bought the same TV. I paid $2200.
If you can afford it, the Sony LCos is even better, but at $3300 in 50", I could not justify it.
Your analogy is very flawed or at least very short on details.
Given an undeveloped field at some location on the globe, it can very hard to determine who the owner of the land or even -if- there is an owner, although any land without a private owner I supposed belongs to the government. This assuming there is a government which has claim to the land.
A computer, on the other hand, is obviously a man-made device which owned by somebody, if not ultimately by whoever made it.
You can wander onto a piece of ground and reasonably not know that it is owned by someone. You cannot connect to a computer and reasonably believe that it does not have an owner.
Like you, I've traveled to places (within US and abroad) that I've never been before and I am in basic agreement with a lot of you wrote.
Now, the comments...
If you travel and use paper maps & printed directions, sometimes you can still look like a tourist because you are trying to make sense of where you are and where you intend to go. You may not attract the attention with "flashy stuff" but you still draw attention to yourself (pick pockets et al.) while you fumble with paper.
My point is that regardless of where you go, when you are by yourself in a new place, you gotta take precautions. There is no technological solution to a crimal problem.
It is by coffee alone I set my mind in motion, It is by the beans of java that thoughts acquire speed, The hands acquire trembling, the trembling becomes a warning. It is by coffee alone I set my mind in motion.
>>CHM books open immediately, compared to slow pathetic PDF and allow lines and paragraphs to REFLOW based on the size and shape of your viewing window.
Perhaps the problem is your PDF reader. If Win32 is your choice of OS (yeah, I know... this is/.), I would suggest trying Foxit Reader. It is free, small to install (single file, the executable, fast to start). I recovered 80Mb that Adobe Acrobat reader needed and used 2.5Mb for Foxit. When comparing to Adobe's reader and loading a large (~100Mb) file, it was noticably fast loading and faster changing pages.
If you are on another OS, there are other choices...
The real problem is that most people do not know how to identify the best solution to a complex problem, where complex problem is defined as having multiple criteria where some are competing against each other.
One of the best courses that I have completed was a US Army one. It was CAS3 (Combined Arms and Services Staff School). They taught a formal method which deals with identifying possible solutions, identifying screening criteria (which removes solutions that are not viable), identifying evaluation criteria (which allows you to compare one aspect of a solution to another solution), weighting the evaluation criteria, and determining the best solution.
This is a method where it is possible to avoid comparing apples to oranges, and compare apples to apples, i.e. Car A is cheaper than Car B, but Car B has better fuel economy. You compare the cost of Car A to Car B and the fuel economy of Car A to Car B. Furthermore, because you have identified fuel economy as more important than cost, Car B should be the winner (absent any other evaluation criteria).
It is a little more complicated that that, but that is the Reader's Digest version. While this is not the only method to solve complex problems (including non-military ones), it is one that is not too difficult to use (with practice) and it works.
For further reading, see FM 5-0 (Chapter 2 covers it, but not in much detail) or, if you can find it, "52d Infantry Division & Fort Riley Staff Officer's Guide" (Chapter 5, Decision Briefing Example covers the steps of the analysis quite well).
My first was a Tandy 1000sl that I bought when I got back to college from basic training. It had 2 5.25" floppy drives, 384k RAM, and amber monochrome monitor.
Later, I upgraded the RAM to 640k and added a 32Mb hard card. I said to myself "I'll never use all that space!" Right... Famous last words.
Eventually, I loaded MS DOS 6.0 and ran DoubleSpace on it. I even got MS Windows 3.0 installed (real mode). Of course, it took 10 minutes from power until the hour glass went away...
>>Do nothing. Roll over. Keep quiet. Don't stick your neck out. Hunker down. Give up. Deal with it. Surrender. Comply.
- sarcasm on - That's right. People (term used loosely) have, and if given the opportunity, will take innocent life inside of our borders. They will plan and execute these acts using our own communication infrastructure against us as they have use our own transportation infrastructure against us. So lets "Do nothing. Roll over. Keep quiet. Don't stick your neck out. Hunker down. Give up. Deal with it. Surrender. Comply."
>>Is that what you'd recommend in the face of arrogance and tyranny?
Yes, in the face of the "arrogance and tyranny" of our enemies, that is exactly what we should do.
- sarcasm off -
You obviously perceive Bush as either a greater source of tyranny than those who want to destroy western civilization or as the only source of tyranny. I don't know which, however the result is the same. I will admit that I see all of this as a slippery slope which has the potential to lead to bad things. I also believe that Bush honestly believes that his actions are necessary, legal (whether or not they really are is another question), are not for his personal gain, and are in the best interests of the US.
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> The Berlin Wall fell during Bush Senior, and we ended the Cold War. Bloodless revolutions for freedom and democracy happened throughout the world.
Close, but not quite. The US + NATO used our economic power to militarily outspend the Soviets + Warsaw Pack for a period of time that they (the Soviets) were unable to sustain.
While there were no large set-piece army vs. army battles during the Cold War, I do not think we should call it "bloodless." US and NATO service members lost their lives during the Cold War during the performance of their duties, starting with the Berlin Airlift (79). We will probably never know how many people lost their lives in some of those contries working for those "Bloodless revolutions for freedom and democracy."
> Elect those individuals that will best represent the people, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights at home and abroad
This is the same as saying:
Elect those individuals that will best represent the people, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights at home
+
Elect those individuals that will best represent the people, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights abroad
Exactly what does the second mean? Last time I checked the Constitution and the Bill of Rights does not apply to non-US citizens who are outside of the United States.
A strict reading of the second would include those people.
COD + UO expansion pack + online play = many, many hours of fun.
At least, that is my opinion. Also, my experience is limited to PC (not game console) play.
Hear, hear.
>I can name at least 50 people who will never buy an Infinity Ward product again - because of their shoddy treatment of the PC gamers that made them what they are. Stay on the console side of the fence, Grant.
Make that 54 (me + 3 of my friends). Yes, damnit.... I do have 3 friends.
>>get a second degree (bachelor, master, associate, doctor... science, arts, fine arts... whatever) in whatever field you wish you'd gotten the first one in.
I've come to the same conclusion and I am going to do exactly that.... -after- I leave for and get back from Afghanistan....
Right. It is all OUR FAULT.
Bullshit.
Right. Absolutely... ...becuase terrorists have NEVER timed their attacks to a country's elections in an attempt to change the outsome of that election.
Oh, wait... Yes, they have... Spain, anyone?
Agree with parent.
The gaming industry is killing itself. A good example of this is Call of Duty. The original game was good and playing online was a lot of fun. There were patches that fixed problems and improved playability.
Then UO (United Offensive) was released and things got even better. Improved online playability and it was even more fun.
Then COD2 was released. What crap. Fancy graphics, more drive space used and a -big- step backwards on playability, especially online. In UO, you can try to use some tactics, depending on the map and the weapons that you selected. In COD2, it all degenerates to "run-and-gun." If I could get half my money back for that piece of crap, I would.
I will be very hesitant to -ever- buy another game from them again. Maybe, if I have to chance to play first, but -never- again will I buy from them on blind faith...
The same applies to any other game. If they make a product that is good, I'll buy it. Otherwise, I'll just keep my money.
Bottom line: Crappy products are killing the industry, not piracy.
"Smart Nuclear Power Plant Construction on an Impossible Schedule"
Coming soon to your back yard!
1. Motorola sells / spins off its microprocessor division (ColdFire, et. al.) into Freescale.
... or the 8051-family?
2. Intel sells its XScale microprocessor.
Collectively, this makes a significant portion of the >= 16 bit microprocessor market. (Sorry... I'm being conservative here. I suspect that both are 32-bit, but since I've been drinking a bit this evening, I'll error on the side of caution... )
What does this say for the state of (and the future of) the embedded microprocessor world?
Are they saying that these markets are not profitable? That can't be.... can it?
What is the future for Atmel AVR family?
Hmmm... Must drink more and think about it..head hits keyboard..........
A more reliable weapon (defined as one that requires less periodic maintenance therefore having a higher 'uptime') means that there needs to be fewer total nukes.
I did the same this past January and arrived at the same conclusion and bought the same TV. I paid $2200.
If you can afford it, the Sony LCos is even better, but at $3300 in 50", I could not justify it.
Convince you? OK. How about this?
It is MY PRIVATE DATA.
If the government has reason to believe that I am doing something illegal, then convince a judge to SIGN A WARRENT.
Why would you assume that is the case?
I don't know either way, however, I know that I do not know.
>> Not just growing corn for fuel and throw away the rest.
The rest is NOT just thrown away. It is used for feedstock.
Your analogy is very flawed or at least very short on details.
Given an undeveloped field at some location on the globe, it can very hard to determine who the owner of the land or even -if- there is an owner, although any land without a private owner I supposed belongs to the government. This assuming there is a government which has claim to the land.
A computer, on the other hand, is obviously a man-made device which owned by somebody, if not ultimately by whoever made it.
You can wander onto a piece of ground and reasonably not know that it is owned by someone.
You cannot connect to a computer and reasonably believe that it does not have an owner.
I understand... Fair enough.
OK... I'll bite.
What _are_ his successes?
Like you, I've traveled to places (within US and abroad) that I've never been before and I am in basic agreement with a lot of you wrote.
Now, the comments...
If you travel and use paper maps & printed directions, sometimes you can still look like a tourist because you are trying to make sense of where you are and where you intend to go. You may not attract the attention with "flashy stuff" but you still draw attention to yourself (pick pockets et al.) while you fumble with paper.
My point is that regardless of where you go, when you are by yourself in a new place, you gotta take precautions. There is no technological solution to a crimal problem.
I like this one better...
It is by coffee alone I set my mind in motion,
It is by the beans of java that thoughts acquire speed,
The hands acquire trembling, the trembling becomes a warning.
It is by coffee alone I set my mind in motion.
>>CHM books open immediately, compared to slow pathetic PDF and allow lines and paragraphs to REFLOW based on the size and shape of your viewing window.
/.), I would suggest trying Foxit Reader. It is free, small to install (single file, the executable, fast to start). I recovered 80Mb that Adobe Acrobat reader needed and used 2.5Mb for Foxit. When comparing to Adobe's reader and loading a large (~100Mb) file, it was noticably fast loading and faster changing pages.
Perhaps the problem is your PDF reader. If Win32 is your choice of OS (yeah, I know... this is
If you are on another OS, there are other choices...
The real problem is that most people do not know how to identify the best solution to a complex problem, where complex problem is defined as having multiple criteria where some are competing against each other.
One of the best courses that I have completed was a US Army one. It was CAS3 (Combined Arms and Services Staff School). They taught a formal method which deals with identifying possible solutions, identifying screening criteria (which removes solutions that are not viable), identifying evaluation criteria (which allows you to compare one aspect of a solution to another solution), weighting the evaluation criteria, and determining the best solution.
This is a method where it is possible to avoid comparing apples to oranges, and compare apples to apples, i.e. Car A is cheaper than Car B, but Car B has better fuel economy. You compare the cost of Car A to Car B and the fuel economy of Car A to Car B. Furthermore, because you have identified fuel economy as more important than cost, Car B should be the winner (absent any other evaluation criteria).
It is a little more complicated that that, but that is the Reader's Digest version. While this is not the only method to solve complex problems (including non-military ones), it is one that is not too difficult to use (with practice) and it works.
For further reading, see FM 5-0 (Chapter 2 covers it, but not in much detail) or, if you can find it, "52d Infantry Division & Fort Riley Staff Officer's Guide" (Chapter 5, Decision Briefing Example covers the steps of the analysis quite well).
My first was a Tandy 1000sl that I bought when I got back to college from basic training. It had 2 5.25" floppy drives, 384k RAM, and amber monochrome monitor.
Later, I upgraded the RAM to 640k and added a 32Mb hard card. I said to myself "I'll never use all that space!" Right... Famous last words.
Eventually, I loaded MS DOS 6.0 and ran DoubleSpace on it. I even got MS Windows 3.0 installed (real mode). Of course, it took 10 minutes from power until the hour glass went away...
Sigh... (wipes tear away)....
>>Do nothing. Roll over. Keep quiet. Don't stick your neck out. Hunker down. Give up. Deal with it. Surrender. Comply.
- sarcasm on -
That's right. People (term used loosely) have, and if given the opportunity, will take innocent life inside of our borders. They will plan and execute these acts using our own communication infrastructure against us as they have use our own transportation infrastructure against us. So lets "Do nothing. Roll over. Keep quiet. Don't stick your neck out. Hunker down. Give up. Deal with it. Surrender. Comply."
>>Is that what you'd recommend in the face of arrogance and tyranny?
Yes, in the face of the "arrogance and tyranny" of our enemies, that is exactly what we should do.
- sarcasm off -
You obviously perceive Bush as either a greater source of tyranny than those who want to destroy western civilization or as the only source of tyranny. I don't know which, however the result is the same. I will admit that I see all of this as a slippery slope which has the potential to lead to bad things. I also believe that Bush honestly believes that his actions are necessary, legal (whether or not they really are is another question), are not for his personal gain, and are in the best interests of the US.
Is this not what a President is supposed to do?
I concur with necronom426. I am using Opera 8.5.1 on Debian/SPARC, WinXP, and Debian/x86. I have never seen that behavior.