Young people tend to be more easily influenced by their friends and popular beliefs (which are not those of the people in the pres. bubble).
Got any evidence to support that assertation? Didn't think so.
McCain had a history of doing what he wanted, and not so much what others wanted of him. He proposed all kinds of legislation that was against _both_ parties' desires, and were generally not supportive of corporate influence (thus the unpopularity). That is what got him the title of maverick, and what lost him the election.
Actually, what lost him the election was moving far to the right of his original positions in order to appeal to the far right in the Republican party. In other words, he was willing to "do what others wanted of him."
That's not to say he'd have been the right choice or Obama was the the wrong one, but is to point out that dismissing him out of hand as a senile old man is rather... stupid.
You won't even stand behind your original point? Then why post this drivel? To make yourself sound smart? My friend, you've done quite the opposite!
I agree with you in principle (I favor individual gun ownership), however, the 9th and 10th amendments apply to a group as well...collective rights of the states, and the people.
2. When the TV was moved to digital, it should have been better than what was offered before. Yes, the quality is better (when you can receive the signal) but most of the time (even with good equipment) the signal doesn't come in, you lose channels, and they randomly drop audio and video. At least with the old way, if it came in most of the way, I could still see and hear what was going on.
This is the killer for me. Digital TV does not degrade gracefully. You can't get a low-res substitute if your signal starts going badly. And the use of 8VSB modulation means that stations *theoretically* can cover more distance with less power than COFDM, but it also means moving receivers are out of the question (goodbye Sony Watchman and car TV) and multipath interference (common in cities) can keep receivers from working properly.
In the 50's and 60's, they were able to upgrade to color TV without breaking compatibility with existing black and white sets. Today, they broke compatibility and they've failed to offer enough to justify it.
Yeah but who wants to pay extra to hear the same old shit? Wow, a higher quality feed of the same 10 songs that commercial FM radio plays over and over again.
Not to mention, digital radio fucks up adjacent channels, especially on AM. They really need to scrap AM like they did with digital TV (although that transition was far from perfect). FM is just fine. I don't think people really care about audio quality that much (why would
He feels like shit? No, he just feels dysphoria. He doesn't know what's going on.
He's not in pain. And he trusts his dad when he says it's not going to be forever. Kids still have a lot to learn about this world, and he just learned an important lesson!
But I really don't know anything about databases! Why don't you ask me about the history of the World Wide Wrestling Federation? I know a lot more about Big John Studd, the Hulkster, and (my favorite) Macho Man Randy Savage! He'll beat your database in a best of 3 falls match at SummerSlam! OH YEAH!
Sorry, Bennett Hasleton, but I might listen a little closer if you got a better nickname. "Bennett Hasleton" just sounds like the name for the male lead in a romance novel. Bennett Hasleton smirked roguishly as he pushed his mirrored aviators over his bronzed, jutting face. Aubrey St. Croix quivered as she caught his reflection in the Florentine bakery window.
Bennett Hasleton looks down his nose at you lowly plebes. Bennett Hasleton lives in a world filled with glamour and mysterious women. Bennett Hasleton drives a car that's more expensive than your house. And if I ever meet Bennett Hasleton, I will KICK HIS ASS!
PS His real name is Hassell "the United Colors of" Bennetton!
Penis pills, you say? They were discovered accidentally while working on a cure for heart disease. There's no conspiracy here. The truth, it's very difficult to cure certain diseases-viruses, autoimmune diseases, cancer...all of our cures are just stabbing in the dark. Modern medicine can't even explain why a lot of cures work.
If you understood anything about the nature of disease, you wouldn't blame the pharmaceutical companies for that. Not that I am defending them blindly-I think their record on providing AIDS drugs to the third world is reprehensible.
The SEGA of today is not the SEGA of yesteryear. That company went away when Sammy bought them. Nowadays they publish decent games, but most of the inhouse development is rehash or bargain bin trash.
Don't get me wrong, OS X is superior in every other way, but they decided to make the GUI flashy instead of functional in OS X, and it's only gotten worse since then.
That's pretty cynical of you. The truth is, people want a strong federal government because they want swift and decisive action. Realistically, the United States would not be the world's most powerful nation without a strong federal government. The Articles of Confederation did not work. I agree that the federal government should have limits (the Supreme Court's rulings about the Commerce Claus are far too broad), but saying the federal level should be the weakest is no longer practical. The State governments tend to be the most corrupt, and with newspapers cutting back on their budgets, there's nary a reporter keeping track of what's going on in the state capital anymore.
The interface for BeOS is still superior to any other OS I've used. It's like they took the good stuff from the old Mac OS 9 and Amiga and updated it. It was a power user's OS, yet still very user friendly. My college had a BeBox and I loved playing on that thing (the best part was that the CPU monitor allowed you to turn off both CPUs, instantly locking the computer).
I hope Haiku does well, but it seems like an also-ran in these days of Mac OS X and GNOME. I'm not sure there's a compelling reason to run it anymore, except for nostalgic purposes (sigh).
Realistically, the United States would not have become the most powerful nation on Earth without a strong federal government.
I would like to agree with you, but state governments are lower profile than federal. Yet, they are insulated from the people on a day-to-day basis. With newspapers running out of money, few even bother to keep tabs on politics at the state level anymore. It's a lot easier to hide corruption, especially if you're the member of a huge state legislature.
But the most notorious machine politicians are the ones who ALSO held perpetual office.
Wrong, the most notorious machine politicians are the ones that never got elected, the "kingmakers" if you will.
Term limits at least get rid of those.
Term limits empower machine politicians and take away the power of those who would defy them. A popular lawmaker can stand up against the machine, but it's for naught if he can't stay in office.
I don't see why you would be against term limits simply because they may be friendly to machine politicians in certain areas... there are better ways to address that particular situation.
Politicians who have the confidence of the electorate are the best deterrent to machine politicians. You cannot defuse the power of the politicians and expect it to flow back to the people. Instead, it flows back to lobbyists and party/machine politicians. In a representative democracy, the best place for the power to be is in the hands of the politician, rather than the back-door dealmaker.
Machine politicians love term limits. It takes all the power out and notoriety out of the office, and allows them to shuffle between machine-approved politicians with interchangeable names and records. They also love huge legislatures-the more representatives there are, the less notable each one is, and the easier it is to plug in their people.
Politicians should be powerful, visible, and accountable. Term limits make lobbyists and machine politics even more powerful. If you couldn't be re-elected, why wouldn't you try and push through legislation hostile to your constituents? The lobbyists are the only ones who stand to gain there. If the choice is between powerful idiots and powerful lobbyists, I'm going to choose the idiots every time.
Machine politicians love term limits. It takes all the power out and notoriety out of the office, and allows them to shuffle between machine-approved politicians with interchangeable names and records. They also love huge legislatures-the more representatives there are, the less notable each one is, and the easier it is to plug in their people.
Politicians should be powerful, visible, and accountable. I don't want to have to figure out which of the 50 shady aldermen voted for a bill that cut library funding and gave them a raise. That's why I oppose term limits.
Have you heard of Rock Band? It is a viable competitor to Guitar Hero World Tour that does not suffer from the "one person fails, everyone fails" problem! Check it out online or at finer retailers everywhere!
Also, you can unlock all the songs in Rock Band for a party with cheat codes, and I'm sure you can in Guitar Hero as well.
I want to go to Earth-2 and Qward. That would be truly awesome. Wolfman did a great job with Crisis on Infinite Earths, it kicked the shit out of John's confusing rush job sequel, Infinite Crisis. It's a great injustice that Wolfman is now working around Johns' script, but I'm sure he can wring some goodness out of it.
This is great news for everyone who hates Apple and wants to see them go the way of DR-DOS, OS/2, and BeOS.
It doesn't have much to do with fair competition-if the ruling forces Apple to sell their OS for generic x86 computers, it will put them right in competition with Microsoft. And you know how well that's worked out in the past.
They must have seriously low-balled NVidia. NVidia has the better tech. Intel is traveling into unknown territory here, and Sony is risking its reputation on the lowest bidder. Playstation 3 already is a so-what console due to its bizarre architecture. I personally love it, but I know why people have shied away from it. Sony can't afford another mediocre offering...and they are taking an awfully big risk with Intel.
The problem with 'self-updating' apps is you have to ensure that you never change the way they check for updates or at least always maintain the old paths. If you don't, then that person who only runs the app three times a year is never going to get the update.
Does the person who runs the app 3 times a year really *need* to have the latest version of the app?
I still don't understand why all these companies feel like they need to create their own bloated ecosystem on top of the OS. All the #$%@#! application needs to do is check for an update and link me to its website (even that is not necessary). Adobe is the worst at the this-they have their own $^$#&*$@ file browser, for $@#%'s sake! And their updater nags and doesn't work properly half the time.
I'm not excited to see Google go down this path. If this is cloud computing, I'd rather be from the moon!
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Young people tend to be more easily influenced by their friends and popular beliefs (which are not those of the people in the pres. bubble).
Got any evidence to support that assertation? Didn't think so.
McCain had a history of doing what he wanted, and not so much what others wanted of him. He proposed all kinds of legislation that was against _both_ parties' desires, and were generally not supportive of corporate influence (thus the unpopularity). That is what got him the title of maverick, and what lost him the election.
Actually, what lost him the election was moving far to the right of his original positions in order to appeal to the far right in the Republican party. In other words, he was willing to "do what others wanted of him."
That's not to say he'd have been the right choice or Obama was the the wrong one, but is to point out that dismissing him out of hand as a senile old man is rather... stupid.
You won't even stand behind your original point? Then why post this drivel? To make yourself sound smart? My friend, you've done quite the opposite!
I agree with you in principle (I favor individual gun ownership), however, the 9th and 10th amendments apply to a group as well...collective rights of the states, and the people.
Like...trolling Slashdot, for example?
2. When the TV was moved to digital, it should have been better than what was offered before. Yes, the quality is better (when you can receive the signal) but most of the time (even with good equipment) the signal doesn't come in, you lose channels, and they randomly drop audio and video. At least with the old way, if it came in most of the way, I could still see and hear what was going on.
This is the killer for me. Digital TV does not degrade gracefully. You can't get a low-res substitute if your signal starts going badly. And the use of 8VSB modulation means that stations *theoretically* can cover more distance with less power than COFDM, but it also means moving receivers are out of the question (goodbye Sony Watchman and car TV) and multipath interference (common in cities) can keep receivers from working properly.
In the 50's and 60's, they were able to upgrade to color TV without breaking compatibility with existing black and white sets. Today, they broke compatibility and they've failed to offer enough to justify it.
Yeah but who wants to pay extra to hear the same old shit? Wow, a higher quality feed of the same 10 songs that commercial FM radio plays over and over again.
Not to mention, digital radio fucks up adjacent channels, especially on AM. They really need to scrap AM like they did with digital TV (although that transition was far from perfect). FM is just fine. I don't think people really care about audio quality that much (why would
He feels like shit? No, he just feels dysphoria. He doesn't know what's going on.
He's not in pain. And he trusts his dad when he says it's not going to be forever. Kids still have a lot to learn about this world, and he just learned an important lesson!
But I really don't know anything about databases! Why don't you ask me about the history of the World Wide Wrestling Federation? I know a lot more about Big John Studd, the Hulkster, and (my favorite) Macho Man Randy Savage! He'll beat your database in a best of 3 falls match at SummerSlam! OH YEAH!
Sorry, Bennett Hasleton, but I might listen a little closer if you got a better nickname. "Bennett Hasleton" just sounds like the name for the male lead in a romance novel. Bennett Hasleton smirked roguishly as he pushed his mirrored aviators over his bronzed, jutting face. Aubrey St. Croix quivered as she caught his reflection in the Florentine bakery window.
Bennett Hasleton looks down his nose at you lowly plebes. Bennett Hasleton lives in a world filled with glamour and mysterious women. Bennett Hasleton drives a car that's more expensive than your house. And if I ever meet Bennett Hasleton, I will KICK HIS ASS!
PS His real name is Hassell "the United Colors of" Bennetton!
Did you just say "bull"? That's no kind of language for a distinguished web forum like Slashdot! You wash your mouth out with soap, young man!
Penis pills, you say? They were discovered accidentally while working on a cure for heart disease. There's no conspiracy here. The truth, it's very difficult to cure certain diseases-viruses, autoimmune diseases, cancer...all of our cures are just stabbing in the dark. Modern medicine can't even explain why a lot of cures work.
If you understood anything about the nature of disease, you wouldn't blame the pharmaceutical companies for that. Not that I am defending them blindly-I think their record on providing AIDS drugs to the third world is reprehensible.
The SEGA of today is not the SEGA of yesteryear. That company went away when Sammy bought them. Nowadays they publish decent games, but most of the inhouse development is rehash or bargain bin trash.
The UI was much better in OS 9 than in OS X.
Don't get me wrong, OS X is superior in every other way, but they decided to make the GUI flashy instead of functional in OS X, and it's only gotten worse since then.
That's pretty cynical of you. The truth is, people want a strong federal government because they want swift and decisive action. Realistically, the United States would not be the world's most powerful nation without a strong federal government. The Articles of Confederation did not work. I agree that the federal government should have limits (the Supreme Court's rulings about the Commerce Claus are far too broad), but saying the federal level should be the weakest is no longer practical. The State governments tend to be the most corrupt, and with newspapers cutting back on their budgets, there's nary a reporter keeping track of what's going on in the state capital anymore.
The interface for BeOS is still superior to any other OS I've used. It's like they took the good stuff from the old Mac OS 9 and Amiga and updated it. It was a power user's OS, yet still very user friendly. My college had a BeBox and I loved playing on that thing (the best part was that the CPU monitor allowed you to turn off both CPUs, instantly locking the computer).
I hope Haiku does well, but it seems like an also-ran in these days of Mac OS X and GNOME. I'm not sure there's a compelling reason to run it anymore, except for nostalgic purposes (sigh).
Realistically, the United States would not have become the most powerful nation on Earth without a strong federal government.
I would like to agree with you, but state governments are lower profile than federal. Yet, they are insulated from the people on a day-to-day basis. With newspapers running out of money, few even bother to keep tabs on politics at the state level anymore. It's a lot easier to hide corruption, especially if you're the member of a huge state legislature.
But the most notorious machine politicians are the ones who ALSO held perpetual office.
Wrong, the most notorious machine politicians are the ones that never got elected, the "kingmakers" if you will.
Term limits at least get rid of those.
Term limits empower machine politicians and take away the power of those who would defy them. A popular lawmaker can stand up against the machine, but it's for naught if he can't stay in office.
I don't see why you would be against term limits simply because they may be friendly to machine politicians in certain areas... there are better ways to address that particular situation.
Politicians who have the confidence of the electorate are the best deterrent to machine politicians. You cannot defuse the power of the politicians and expect it to flow back to the people. Instead, it flows back to lobbyists and party/machine politicians. In a representative democracy, the best place for the power to be is in the hands of the politician, rather than the back-door dealmaker.
Machine politicians love term limits. It takes all the power out and notoriety out of the office, and allows them to shuffle between machine-approved politicians with interchangeable names and records. They also love huge legislatures-the more representatives there are, the less notable each one is, and the easier it is to plug in their people.
Politicians should be powerful, visible, and accountable. Term limits make lobbyists and machine politics even more powerful. If you couldn't be re-elected, why wouldn't you try and push through legislation hostile to your constituents? The lobbyists are the only ones who stand to gain there. If the choice is between powerful idiots and powerful lobbyists, I'm going to choose the idiots every time.
Machine politicians love term limits. It takes all the power out and notoriety out of the office, and allows them to shuffle between machine-approved politicians with interchangeable names and records. They also love huge legislatures-the more representatives there are, the less notable each one is, and the easier it is to plug in their people.
Politicians should be powerful, visible, and accountable. I don't want to have to figure out which of the 50 shady aldermen voted for a bill that cut library funding and gave them a raise. That's why I oppose term limits.
Have you heard of Rock Band? It is a viable competitor to Guitar Hero World Tour that does not suffer from the "one person fails, everyone fails" problem! Check it out online or at finer retailers everywhere!
Also, you can unlock all the songs in Rock Band for a party with cheat codes, and I'm sure you can in Guitar Hero as well.
I want to go to Earth-2 and Qward. That would be truly awesome. Wolfman did a great job with Crisis on Infinite Earths, it kicked the shit out of John's confusing rush job sequel, Infinite Crisis. It's a great injustice that Wolfman is now working around Johns' script, but I'm sure he can wring some goodness out of it.
This is great news for everyone who hates Apple and wants to see them go the way of DR-DOS, OS/2, and BeOS.
It doesn't have much to do with fair competition-if the ruling forces Apple to sell their OS for generic x86 computers, it will put them right in competition with Microsoft. And you know how well that's worked out in the past.
History: I put on my robe and judge's wig.
They must have seriously low-balled NVidia. NVidia has the better tech. Intel is traveling into unknown territory here, and Sony is risking its reputation on the lowest bidder. Playstation 3 already is a so-what console due to its bizarre architecture. I personally love it, but I know why people have shied away from it. Sony can't afford another mediocre offering...and they are taking an awfully big risk with Intel.
The problem with 'self-updating' apps is you have to ensure that you never change the way they check for updates or at least always maintain the old paths. If you don't, then that person who only runs the app three times a year is never going to get the update.
Does the person who runs the app 3 times a year really *need* to have the latest version of the app?
I still don't understand why all these companies feel like they need to create their own bloated ecosystem on top of the OS. All the #$%@#! application needs to do is check for an update and link me to its website (even that is not necessary). Adobe is the worst at the this-they have their own $^$#&*$@ file browser, for $@#%'s sake! And their updater nags and doesn't work properly half the time.
I'm not excited to see Google go down this path. If this is cloud computing, I'd rather be from the moon!