require that electoral votes be distributed proportionately.
It requires and amendment to a state's constitution and is already done in Nebraska and Maine. These state-level band-aids do not address the root problem. There's no reason in 2004 that we do not have a direct election.
But if they are indeed this widespread, I would have to say the election couldnt have reflected accurately what the people voted.
You do know that we don't elect the president directly, right? That if one candidate gets 49.3% of the votes and one candidate get 49.4% of the votes, he gets all the electoral votes, and that the electoral college isn't bound to vote by the popular vote, anyway?
How, exactly, does this reflect accurately what the people voted? The electoral college needs to be abolished. The fear that candidates will only pander to more populated areas is already realised by candidates pandering almost solely to swing states.
This fiasco is just one more example that we need a direct election. 4,000 votes in a direct election is not as bad as what we have now where 4,000 votes could mean all or none of the electoral votes.
Clicking the 'X' doesnt actually close the application. This annoyed me to start with, but ive slowly gotton used to it.
The Mac OS is document-centric and not application-centric like Windows. The close button is not a quit button. The close button should only quit the application if the application only has one window instance (such as System Preferences).
It can sometimes be difficult for Windows users to switch to a Mac because Windows users aren't accustomed to things making sense. Once you let yourself do what makes sense instead of what Windows does it's much easier to use.
This is a good read if you are interested in the reasons behind Apple's interface choices.
Only the initial index is lengthy. Depending on the system and how many files you have. New files are indexed as they are created, this is PART of the file system now, not an add on.
Apple has had this type of search engine before, they called it V Twin and it was a basic part of Copland. This is what Sherlock used in Classic and why it was so fast. The idea is even older, it's from a conceptual computer interface Apple dubbed the Knowledge Navigator. All this appears to be is V Twin running on SQLite instead of a proprietary method.
The interesting part to me is the focus on metadata. I loved this feature in BFS that metadata was king. This is going to lead the way to better file management. Hopefully the Finder will integrate it.
There's not very many of these, although there are a few like the Jaguar that aren't emulated very well.
Bah, the ONLY game worth having on the Jaguar was Tempest 2000. I know, I had all the games made in cartridge. Trevor McFur was a nice technology demo.
I LOVED my 3DO and doubt there will ever be a working Mac emulator. I had a BOATload of games for it. When it was finally being discontinued they had the games at Best Buy for $15 and under (mostly around $10). I played Gex, Soccer Kid and Pandemonium for HOURS. Not to mention an arcade perfect port of Super Street Fighter II Turbo plus Star Wars-Rebel Assault and Total Eclipse as well as the only FMV game that was any good; Daedalus Encounter. Sadly I lost it and all my games in a break up.
It would be awesome to see Apple incorporate this into the next version of Keynote to have a cross-platform way to export presentations.
Also makes me wish Microsoft supported more of the CSS standard on IE. I've been using CSS since '99 and almost every interesting effect breaks in IE Win. Thankfully more Windows users are using alternative browsers for security reasons.
I said a company deserves the consequences from their poor policies. I never said there was justification in wrongdoing. Interesting and very American to jump from accepting consequences to justifying theft.
Thank you for reinforcing what I said though. You agree that companies have such poor policies in place for hiring and managing employees that they are hiring the types that do not keep on task and that surf for porn instead of working.
Clearly you are one of the people that feel it's a waste of time to try and hire for quality and work to keep employees satisfied when you can just block their net access and hope for the best. Zieg heil corporate Amerika!
I can also see the next assumption being that they're using that connection to transfer proprietary information from the company's network to their own computer.
Downfall of improper screening of employees and a McJob society in America. Boo freaking hoo.
A. It's a workplace that fosters animosity of workers against the company
B. It's a disgruntled employee and there's no interest in assuring job satisfaction
C. You have a crap HR department and crap managers that pay so little attention to employees as to miss the fact they have industrial espionage on their hands
If you have such little regard to who your employees are and what they are doing, you deserve all the consequences.
There's no such thing as video game consoles as far as the law is concerned. Nintendo made the law clarify that video game systems are computers and video games are computer software.
I can't remember if it was Tengen vs. Nintendo or a class action that decided this. Google it.
'll put my money where my mouth is when I care. I just bought a very nice bike with a lifetime warranty on the frame - and don't ever expect to have to call in the warranty. It doesn't cost that much more to make a bike frame _much_ better, and it's worth the premim
Lifetime warranties are usually a gimmick. I remember my little brother getting a mongoose bike with a lifetime warranty on the frame. It was supposed to be some great alloy, forget what it was. Anyway, he cracked 4 frames. Eventually they wouldn't replace the frame anymore, they just refunded the price of the bike. Like I said, they're just gimmicks.
Sure he could return it, but why can't we expect the manufacturer to provide a quality product that will last longer than 1 year
Exactly. Besides the fact that if I were to take the product back, I would be sticking it to the retailer that I bought it from instead of Microsoft. The retailer had to pay for the shipment in of the original dud XBox as well as having to pay to send out the defective XBox if Microsoft will even take it back, then most likely at a discounted rate.
It should not be the retailer's responsibility for quality control. Most hardware manuals state in their instructions that if there is a problem you should not take it back to the retailer.
As for these "militant Christians bent on world domination" I just don't see it.
Well, that goes to show how little you know about your cult. A fundamental of Christianity is that some day Christians are going to rule the world. Read the New Testament much?
It's not about the battery, it's that they've specced themselves out of the competition.
Every handheld that has ever come out after Gameboy has always had better specs than Gameboy. You don't win on better specs. You win on games and battery life, and better games does not mean console ports.
Nintendo has sold more Gameboys than Sony has sold PSX and PS2s combined, they know what they are doing.
Only an uninformed idiot or a morally challenged, anti-American fool to think that how the Taliban came to power was "an election".
Yes, you're exactly right. The Taliban didn't come to power from an election, it came to power because of Regan-era policies supplying aid to them to drive the Russians out.
If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll want a drink of milk.
Nintendo has stated that the DS is not supposed to be a successor to Gameboy. Of course the public views it this way. The DS doesn't play any original Gameboy or Gameboy Color games. It only has backwards compatability for GBA games.
I have a LOT of Gameboy and Gameboy Color games. I still plan on getting a DS but I will definitely get a lot of continued use from my GBA.
You do realize that, fundamentally, no matter how "ironic" you think it is, that US citizens do not and should not have any say whatsoever in the outcome of Afghanistan elections? And that, therefore, Afghanistan has no actual reason to serve anyone other than voters?
I have 3 different machines and VLC produces errors without fail on all of them: G3, G4, and G5. It chokes on QuickTime content played from a network disk (where QuickTime player plays it fine), it causes me to have to log out and log in to restore audio on my G5 after trying to play a DVD, along with other various, random errors.
I only keep it around because it plays malformed AVIs that QuickTime player will not.
What business is it of yours to tamper with things that don't belong to you? Other people might want to watch...Television is merely a conduit of information; there is nothing inherently evil about it.
I don't watch TV at home. Ever. I have broadband cable but no cable TV. My TV does not get reception without a powered antenna. I watch movies and play games on it.
When I go out, it is very entertaining and novel to watch TV because I don't do it at home. There's a couple shows that I go down to the restaurant/bar to watch with other people. I totally agree with your statement about one needing to control their own actions and not others. However, I don't think "America's Next Top Model" is a conduit of information.;-)
The modern geek is pretty clueless how the hardware he uses works. Most would not know what to do with a soldering iron, even given an unlimited supply of logic ICs, circuit boards, etc.
I think "geek" is now more of a term that encompasses all the "geeky" specialties. There's very few general geeks anymore.
I know basically how all my computers work because I read the schematics of all my hardware in technotes. I know when I open any of them what all the ICs are because of reading those schematics. Do I want to solder anything? HELL NO. I'm clumsy and break things. Soldering is not a "dirty" skill at all, it's a delicate skill. I WISH I had the dexterity to solder.
The real dilemma here is that this may disprove the existence of god and that scares people shitless.
The problem in GATTACA wasn't the more perfect people it was that their society was biased against the genetically "disadvantaged". Duh, we do that now, it's called racism. GATTACA was not trying to present a dystopian future, it was a social commentary.
You assume that genetically planned people will only produce genetically planned people. You know they already do this in parts of the world and call it ethnic cleansing. Where's your high-horse on that?
If it weren't for double-standards, most wouldn't have any standards at all.
What a WASPy little thing to say. I notice you don't say "in America". No, it's "in the world". Because everyone knows there's too many [insert non-WASP group] in the world. There's no such thing as overcrowding and almost every famine in the world is a political famine forced on the people by either their own government or by neighbouring countries.
There's no evidence that the US government has replaced anything. There has been an election in Afghanistan without the final results and there is still an absence of a traditional government.
G Dub has declared war on the UN. We are not friends with the world right now. I for one do not welcome my warmongering overlords. No one has a right to invade another country without going through the UN. We did just that and I can't believe it didn't have further extending repercussions.
I am more worried about North Korea and their very real WMDs than I am of the make-believe boogeyman Bush is conjuring up.
Trust me, with all the oil being found in Russia and Russians being the new rich, it won't be long before we are at war with THEM.
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Except that most Mac users actually PAY for their shareware.
It requires and amendment to a state's constitution and is already done in Nebraska and Maine. These state-level band-aids do not address the root problem. There's no reason in 2004 that we do not have a direct election.
You do know that we don't elect the president directly, right? That if one candidate gets 49.3% of the votes and one candidate get 49.4% of the votes, he gets all the electoral votes, and that the electoral college isn't bound to vote by the popular vote, anyway?
How, exactly, does this reflect accurately what the people voted? The electoral college needs to be abolished. The fear that candidates will only pander to more populated areas is already realised by candidates pandering almost solely to swing states.
This fiasco is just one more example that we need a direct election. 4,000 votes in a direct election is not as bad as what we have now where 4,000 votes could mean all or none of the electoral votes.
The Mac OS is document-centric and not application-centric like Windows. The close button is not a quit button. The close button should only quit the application if the application only has one window instance (such as System Preferences).
It can sometimes be difficult for Windows users to switch to a Mac because Windows users aren't accustomed to things making sense. Once you let yourself do what makes sense instead of what Windows does it's much easier to use. This is a good read if you are interested in the reasons behind Apple's interface choices.
Apple has had this type of search engine before, they called it V Twin and it was a basic part of Copland. This is what Sherlock used in Classic and why it was so fast. The idea is even older, it's from a conceptual computer interface Apple dubbed the Knowledge Navigator. All this appears to be is V Twin running on SQLite instead of a proprietary method.
The interesting part to me is the focus on metadata. I loved this feature in BFS that metadata was king. This is going to lead the way to better file management. Hopefully the Finder will integrate it.
Bah, the ONLY game worth having on the Jaguar was Tempest 2000. I know, I had all the games made in cartridge. Trevor McFur was a nice technology demo.
I LOVED my 3DO and doubt there will ever be a working Mac emulator. I had a BOATload of games for it. When it was finally being discontinued they had the games at Best Buy for $15 and under (mostly around $10). I played Gex, Soccer Kid and Pandemonium for HOURS. Not to mention an arcade perfect port of Super Street Fighter II Turbo plus Star Wars-Rebel Assault and Total Eclipse as well as the only FMV game that was any good; Daedalus Encounter. Sadly I lost it and all my games in a break up.
Also makes me wish Microsoft supported more of the CSS standard on IE. I've been using CSS since '99 and almost every interesting effect breaks in IE Win. Thankfully more Windows users are using alternative browsers for security reasons.
Now if only Slashdot would validate!
Thank you for reinforcing what I said though. You agree that companies have such poor policies in place for hiring and managing employees that they are hiring the types that do not keep on task and that surf for porn instead of working.
Clearly you are one of the people that feel it's a waste of time to try and hire for quality and work to keep employees satisfied when you can just block their net access and hope for the best. Zieg heil corporate Amerika!
A. It's a workplace that fosters animosity of workers against the company
B. It's a disgruntled employee and there's no interest in assuring job satisfaction
C. You have a crap HR department and crap managers that pay so little attention to employees as to miss the fact they have industrial espionage on their hands
If you have such little regard to who your employees are and what they are doing, you deserve all the consequences.
I can't remember if it was Tengen vs. Nintendo or a class action that decided this. Google it.
Lifetime warranties are usually a gimmick. I remember my little brother getting a mongoose bike with a lifetime warranty on the frame. It was supposed to be some great alloy, forget what it was. Anyway, he cracked 4 frames. Eventually they wouldn't replace the frame anymore, they just refunded the price of the bike. Like I said, they're just gimmicks.
Exactly. Besides the fact that if I were to take the product back, I would be sticking it to the retailer that I bought it from instead of Microsoft. The retailer had to pay for the shipment in of the original dud XBox as well as having to pay to send out the defective XBox if Microsoft will even take it back, then most likely at a discounted rate.
It should not be the retailer's responsibility for quality control. Most hardware manuals state in their instructions that if there is a problem you should not take it back to the retailer.
Well, that goes to show how little you know about your cult. A fundamental of Christianity is that some day Christians are going to rule the world. Read the New Testament much?
Every handheld that has ever come out after Gameboy has always had better specs than Gameboy. You don't win on better specs. You win on games and battery life, and better games does not mean console ports.
Nintendo has sold more Gameboys than Sony has sold PSX and PS2s combined, they know what they are doing.
Yes, you're exactly right. The Taliban didn't come to power from an election, it came to power because of Regan-era policies supplying aid to them to drive the Russians out.
If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll want a drink of milk.
I have a LOT of Gameboy and Gameboy Color games. I still plan on getting a DS but I will definitely get a lot of continued use from my GBA.
You do realize that, fundamentally, no matter how "ironic" you think it is, that US citizens do not and should not have any say whatsoever in the outcome of Afghanistan elections? And that, therefore, Afghanistan has no actual reason to serve anyone other than voters?
I only keep it around because it plays malformed AVIs that QuickTime player will not.
I don't watch TV at home. Ever. I have broadband cable but no cable TV. My TV does not get reception without a powered antenna. I watch movies and play games on it.
When I go out, it is very entertaining and novel to watch TV because I don't do it at home. There's a couple shows that I go down to the restaurant/bar to watch with other people. I totally agree with your statement about one needing to control their own actions and not others. However, I don't think "America's Next Top Model" is a conduit of information. ;-)
I think "geek" is now more of a term that encompasses all the "geeky" specialties. There's very few general geeks anymore.
I know basically how all my computers work because I read the schematics of all my hardware in technotes. I know when I open any of them what all the ICs are because of reading those schematics. Do I want to solder anything? HELL NO. I'm clumsy and break things. Soldering is not a "dirty" skill at all, it's a delicate skill. I WISH I had the dexterity to solder.
I used a "prying tool" last night on my old iBook battery to get in to replace the cells.
The problem in GATTACA wasn't the more perfect people it was that their society was biased against the genetically "disadvantaged". Duh, we do that now, it's called racism. GATTACA was not trying to present a dystopian future, it was a social commentary.
You assume that genetically planned people will only produce genetically planned people. You know they already do this in parts of the world and call it ethnic cleansing. Where's your high-horse on that?
If it weren't for double-standards, most wouldn't have any standards at all.
What a WASPy little thing to say. I notice you don't say "in America". No, it's "in the world". Because everyone knows there's too many [insert non-WASP group] in the world. There's no such thing as overcrowding and almost every famine in the world is a political famine forced on the people by either their own government or by neighbouring countries.
G Dub has declared war on the UN. We are not friends with the world right now. I for one do not welcome my warmongering overlords. No one has a right to invade another country without going through the UN. We did just that and I can't believe it didn't have further extending repercussions.
I am more worried about North Korea and their very real WMDs than I am of the make-believe boogeyman Bush is conjuring up.
Trust me, with all the oil being found in Russia and Russians being the new rich, it won't be long before we are at war with THEM.
Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
Washington University is not a state school.