I haven't conducted any studies, but I from what I observe from my children, source reliability is a boolean value
This is where the whole notion behind the word "liar" comes from it. On the playground, you're either a "liar" or you aren't, when in fact everybody tells lies at times, for good reasons and bad.
I would have thought that the phrase "Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model" in the caption would have indicated it was real.
I would have thought that the inconsistent light sources, the random disparity of sharpness from one area of the photo to the next, the contradictory scale of the various components, the complete lack of a discernable halftone pattern appropriate to a black and white print publication, and the pixel-perfect edges of the photo on the supposedly-scanned page, would have indicated that the whole image was a fake.
Meanwhile, computer science graduates make $49,036 a year....
Numbers like this are so incredibly inconsistent with the reality in which I live that I have to decide whether to A) laugh, B) cry, or C) convince myself that they're quoting these figures in Canadian dollarettes or Australian dollaroos.
In western Michigan, for a college graduate to get that kind of money, he'd have to have a degree in Comp Sci plus a decade or more of experience in the particlar discipline the employer is looking for.
Someone with just the CS degree... well, their income is going to depend on how well they do with commissions at Circuit City, or what kind of tips they can get mixing drinks, because all the "entry-level" tech jobs (paying in the $20Ks and $30Ks) have been taken by CS grads with 5-10 years of experience.
Exactly. Folks who live in the dark-colored states essentially have no say in the electoral college; "your" electors have already been selected. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans need your vote. So throw your vote to a party that can actually make use of it. The Libertarians, the Greens, the Constitutionists, the Natural Lawyers, the Socialists, etc. all need individual votes to gain credibility. If you have any principles at all, there's gotta be a smaller party that you like better than (at least) one of the Big Two, so give them your vote to add to their resume. Even if you live in Texas and like the idea of smaller government and lower taxes, vote for Badnarik instead of Bush. Or if you live in California and like the idea of a better safety net and more equal rights, vote for Nader instead of Kerry. Or vice versa. Or whatever. Voting instead for one of the Big Two in one of the "already decided" states would actually be throwing your vote away.
Why South Carolina!? They already have full control over all of Southwest Michigan. They'd just need to take over Detroit and they'd have the bulk of the population in favor of their "plan."
I have a feeling the unions, African-Americans, university liberals, and Muslims in southeast Michigan would effectively resist a take-over by right-wing Christians. Keep mind that the state has gone to the Democrat in each of the last three elections, and probably will again this year. As strong as the Christian theocrats are in West Michigan (and I live here, so I know), the rest of the state has too many "undesireables" they'd have to evict.
And immigrants from the South couldn't handle the climate.:)
I've got a candlestick phone on my desk at home. It's an "authentic" 1970's replica of the real thing with rotary dial (which I'm old enough to remember). It's kind of nice when taking a call from a jabbermouth, because I can hold the earpiece to my ear and leave the base and mouthpiece on the desk, and they won't hear me eating or drinking as they chatter away.
I've been using a 486/25 running a floppy Linux distro for (guessing) 4 years, and I have to admit some disappointment by the appearance in the last couple years of cheap little boxes like the ones you're looking at, because it means my l33t skillz configuring this box are no longer necessary, and I can't impress my new boss by saving hundreds of dollars building a firewall/router out of old parts. {wry grin}
But I'm in no hurry to retire it. For one thing, it works. For another, I know how it works, and I have the flexibility to make it do whatever I want (laws of physics permitting). For a third, Coyote Linux is still being enhanced, so periodically I find that building a new boot floppy will make it work even better.
P.S. Why put a 100Mbps NIC on the LAN side? Not that there's anything wrong with it, but contrary to the implication of the term "router", your local traffic (e.g. workstation to file server) doesn't pass through it; only your LAN-to-WAN traffic (which I trust has a <10Mbps bottleneck at your ISP) is actually received by the router. So there's no performance advantage to a fast card.
Sorry, but I'm in law school now, but have not yet taken IP law..... If I am not mistaken, however, you can't trademark a common word. For example, Microsoft can trademark "Windows" because it's already in the vernacular.
Well, be sure to ask about this in IP class. In theory, you're right, but in practise, it's not that simple... because Microsoft did a pretty good job of causing trouble to Lindows over alleged "confusion in the marketplace" with Windows. See also: the recurring scuffles between the Beatles's record company and the Steves's computer company, both of which apparently have some proprietary interest in the common word apple.
Quick TM Primer: The three keys to trademarks are usage, usage, and usage. That is, when you started/stopped using it, where you use it, and what you use it for. If there's no overlap in all three areas (e.g. you started after they stopped, you don't do business in the same places, or you're in different businesses), there's (probably) no trademark conflict.
Disclaimer: IANAL but I scored higher than most actual lawyers on the LSAT.
Where is the database for us to report the stuff we probably would have bought, but didn't because we could get it online?
Without that side of the situation also investigated, this "research" is pretty much a bunch of useless self-selected self-reported anecdotes from people who - let's face it - have plenty of motivation to exaggerate how commerce-friendly their activities are.
You're making a critical error.... all over the place.
Spending more money on an electric car doesn't necessarily mean you have to "work harder" to earn more money. It could mean that you spend less money buying other goods (which is how most people would accomplish it). And your equation of work with energy usage is a huge non sequitur; perhaps you've confused the physics term "work" with the colloquial job-market term?
As for your old car, if you sell it to someone, odds are they'll use it to replace an even older (and probably less efficient) one, and so on. At the end of the line, an old oil-burning environmental disaster on wheels ends up in a landfill, where it will at least stop burning fuel. And if it's time for you to buy a new car anyway (which is when most people would actually purchase a hybrid or electric), then the status of your old car is irrelevant to the question of which kind of new car to buy.
So many "green" initiatives are driven solely by politics and have economics... that are questionable.
While I appreciate that economics are one legitimate argument for some of these initiatives, and are a strong selling point for many of them, saving money isn't the bottom line for whether something is worth doing. For example, recycling plastic may cost me more than landfilling the stuff, and it might be more costly for manufacturers than just using fresh petroleum, but it has value that can't be measured in economic terms. Whether your example of $20K solar arrays is "worth it" depends on the values of the person spending the money; perhaps to them, it is.
Instead of RGB phospors, the display is based on CMYK toner, so if someone uses a lot of, say, yellow in their on-screen graphics, it will eventually run out of yellow and develop a bluish tint.
As far as I know solaris (not sun OS) came out in the early 90's because of the issues is BSD licencing. That is not what a call a long history, IE linux was released in 1991 so i would say that are on par
In Linux in the early 90's were at all comparable to Solaris in the early 90's, you might actually have a point.
The supposed Xbox 2 logo looks heavily "inspired" by Sony's recent Walkman logo, plus the Cingular logo, and a bit lile Microsoft's Office:mac logos (and the whole Aqua motif). Unless MS is going for the "me too" look, I don't think that one'll happen.
A mildly entertaining bit of chit-chat, but really no information. Hammil doesn't actually say anything substantive about Eps 7-9. He says that, no, Eps 7 and later would not (when/if) be The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Jedi. He mentions that Lucas was at one time thinking in about doing 12 episodes, and that Lucas asked him in '76 if he'd be available in '11, so Luke could do the aging mentor bit for the next hero.
Lucas certainly had it in mind from the beginning to have both Threepio and Artoo present for the entire course of the saga. He just hadn't figured out at first how that would work. That's why he came up with that Anakin-built-Threepio nonsense: it was a contrivance to get each of the two droids into that part of the story.
Look, *I* didn't come up with the terminology. I'm just trying to...
...present it to the rest of you on stone tablets from on high.
This isn't a question of some great Truth that you can foist upon people by appeal to some unnamed authority. It's an opinion, a point of view. If you agree with it, then defend it. If you don't agree with it, then don't expect anyone else to.
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You'd have to ask my daughter that. ;)
So all I have to do is borrow my son's dongle, and I can go cyberstalk all the girls in his class.
This is where the whole notion behind the word "liar" comes from it. On the playground, you're either a "liar" or you aren't, when in fact everybody tells lies at times, for good reasons and bad.
I would have thought that the inconsistent light sources, the random disparity of sharpness from one area of the photo to the next, the contradictory scale of the various components, the complete lack of a discernable halftone pattern appropriate to a black and white print publication, and the pixel-perfect edges of the photo on the supposedly-scanned page, would have indicated that the whole image was a fake.
Numbers like this are so incredibly inconsistent with the reality in which I live that I have to decide whether to A) laugh, B) cry, or C) convince myself that they're quoting these figures in Canadian dollarettes or Australian dollaroos.
In western Michigan, for a college graduate to get that kind of money, he'd have to have a degree in Comp Sci plus a decade or more of experience in the particlar discipline the employer is looking for.
Someone with just the CS degree... well, their income is going to depend on how well they do with commissions at Circuit City, or what kind of tips they can get mixing drinks, because all the "entry-level" tech jobs (paying in the $20Ks and $30Ks) have been taken by CS grads with 5-10 years of experience.
Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch.
Exactly. Folks who live in the dark-colored states essentially have no say in the electoral college; "your" electors have already been selected. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans need your vote. So throw your vote to a party that can actually make use of it. The Libertarians, the Greens, the Constitutionists, the Natural Lawyers, the Socialists, etc. all need individual votes to gain credibility. If you have any principles at all, there's gotta be a smaller party that you like better than (at least) one of the Big Two, so give them your vote to add to their resume. Even if you live in Texas and like the idea of smaller government and lower taxes, vote for Badnarik instead of Bush. Or if you live in California and like the idea of a better safety net and more equal rights, vote for Nader instead of Kerry. Or vice versa. Or whatever. Voting instead for one of the Big Two in one of the "already decided" states would actually be throwing your vote away.
At least it's been more effective than no (or Libertarian) government would have been. Here's a fiver; you need a bunch of clues.
I have a feeling the unions, African-Americans, university liberals, and Muslims in southeast Michigan would effectively resist a take-over by right-wing Christians. Keep mind that the state has gone to the Democrat in each of the last three elections, and probably will again this year. As strong as the Christian theocrats are in West Michigan (and I live here, so I know), the rest of the state has too many "undesireables" they'd have to evict.
And immigrants from the South couldn't handle the climate. :)
Don't forget South Carolina, which has also been targeted for take-over and secession.
I've got a candlestick phone on my desk at home. It's an "authentic" 1970's replica of the real thing with rotary dial (which I'm old enough to remember). It's kind of nice when taking a call from a jabbermouth, because I can hold the earpiece to my ear and leave the base and mouthpiece on the desk, and they won't hear me eating or drinking as they chatter away.
But I'm in no hurry to retire it. For one thing, it works. For another, I know how it works, and I have the flexibility to make it do whatever I want (laws of physics permitting). For a third, Coyote Linux is still being enhanced, so periodically I find that building a new boot floppy will make it work even better.
P.S. Why put a 100Mbps NIC on the LAN side? Not that there's anything wrong with it, but contrary to the implication of the term "router", your local traffic (e.g. workstation to file server) doesn't pass through it; only your LAN-to-WAN traffic (which I trust has a <10Mbps bottleneck at your ISP) is actually received by the router. So there's no performance advantage to a fast card.
Well, be sure to ask about this in IP class. In theory, you're right, but in practise, it's not that simple... because Microsoft did a pretty good job of causing trouble to Lindows over alleged "confusion in the marketplace" with Windows. See also: the recurring scuffles between the Beatles's record company and the Steves's computer company, both of which apparently have some proprietary interest in the common word apple.
Quick TM Primer: The three keys to trademarks are usage, usage, and usage. That is, when you started/stopped using it, where you use it, and what you use it for. If there's no overlap in all three areas (e.g. you started after they stopped, you don't do business in the same places, or you're in different businesses), there's (probably) no trademark conflict.
Disclaimer: IANAL but I scored higher than most actual lawyers on the LSAT.
Without that side of the situation also investigated, this "research" is pretty much a bunch of useless self-selected self-reported anecdotes from people who - let's face it - have plenty of motivation to exaggerate how commerce-friendly their activities are.
Spending more money on an electric car doesn't necessarily mean you have to "work harder" to earn more money. It could mean that you spend less money buying other goods (which is how most people would accomplish it). And your equation of work with energy usage is a huge non sequitur; perhaps you've confused the physics term "work" with the colloquial job-market term?
As for your old car, if you sell it to someone, odds are they'll use it to replace an even older (and probably less efficient) one, and so on. At the end of the line, an old oil-burning environmental disaster on wheels ends up in a landfill, where it will at least stop burning fuel. And if it's time for you to buy a new car anyway (which is when most people would actually purchase a hybrid or electric), then the status of your old car is irrelevant to the question of which kind of new car to buy.
While I appreciate that economics are one legitimate argument for some of these initiatives, and are a strong selling point for many of them, saving money isn't the bottom line for whether something is worth doing. For example, recycling plastic may cost me more than landfilling the stuff, and it might be more costly for manufacturers than just using fresh petroleum, but it has value that can't be measured in economic terms. Whether your example of $20K solar arrays is "worth it" depends on the values of the person spending the money; perhaps to them, it is.
Perhaps if your goal is to become as fit as Stephen Hawking, but through lack of exercise rather than disease.
Instead of RGB phospors, the display is based on CMYK toner, so if someone uses a lot of, say, yellow in their on-screen graphics, it will eventually run out of yellow and develop a bluish tint.
In Linux in the early 90's were at all comparable to Solaris in the early 90's, you might actually have a point.
Some of the pre-G3 Macs (7x00/8x00/9x00) will run OSX (with device support issues in some cases), with the assistance of XPostFacto
They're reluctant to leave the nest behind.
The supposed Xbox 2 logo looks heavily "inspired" by Sony's recent Walkman logo, plus the Cingular logo, and a bit lile Microsoft's Office:mac logos (and the whole Aqua motif). Unless MS is going for the "me too" look, I don't think that one'll happen.
A mildly entertaining bit of chit-chat, but really no information. Hammil doesn't actually say anything substantive about Eps 7-9. He says that, no, Eps 7 and later would not (when/if) be The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Jedi. He mentions that Lucas was at one time thinking in about doing 12 episodes, and that Lucas asked him in '76 if he'd be available in '11, so Luke could do the aging mentor bit for the next hero.
Lucas certainly had it in mind from the beginning to have both Threepio and Artoo present for the entire course of the saga. He just hadn't figured out at first how that would work. That's why he came up with that Anakin-built-Threepio nonsense: it was a contrivance to get each of the two droids into that part of the story.
This isn't a question of some great Truth that you can foist upon people by appeal to some unnamed authority. It's an opinion, a point of view. If you agree with it, then defend it. If you don't agree with it, then don't expect anyone else to.
P.S. It's patent nonsense.