Well, this is the sort of wisdom that has made every damn military engagement using the strategy an utter failure since WW II.
Perhaps if we used the Carter Doctrine, and restored civil order in Iraq, and did not try to privatize and got out of their way -- they'd have civil order and peace. Really, for once in this world, if we tried actually believing in the bullshit we say America stands for -- we might be surprised that it works.
I can't understand how you blood and guts advocates, who think the show 24 is a great instruction manual, keep getting in charge of military and security when you can't point to any examples of this TERRORISM you advocate as making any place better. I think it has worked wonderfully for pacifying countries, corporate profits, and weapons dealers -- but none of this crap builds a nation.
THE ASSHOLES who are running things in Afghanistan and Iraq do actually have the cynical view of humanity that you ascribe to -- and you all would do great on trial at Nuremberg.
I totally understand that these theories are prevalent and I totally reject that the US has had ANY success with them. Take a fucking look sometime at the Marshall Plan. We did a good thing and dealt fairly with Germany and Japan. We didn't destabilize them after a war.
But all these recommendations -- I can see all over latin America and Africa. And I don't see anything but misery as a result. And why is it we can even damn OBL for his alleged acts -- it seems to me that any nation or person would be justified in any atrocity against a country that practiced these things. Oh, but that would be "blame America first." So, it isn't a tin-foil-hat theory that there are bloggers who promote Bush and torture being paid to do so -- because this is obviously a counter-insurgency tactic. The only damn problem is -- they are doing this in the USA.
I really think you need to perhaps re-evaluate a "great strategy for WINNING" and start imagining what it would be like if even our military believed that America stood for something decent.
Yes, I agree that China will probably fall soon and start the Global sell-off. It's like Japan in the 1980's when everyone in the US thought we were going to get buried.
YES, there growth will stall as all their manufacturing isn't cheap when labor isn't super-cheap. The inefficiency will multiply the costs and they will be left with lots of infrastructure without a growing business boom to support it or justify maintenance. They will still have the smog, though.
But that doesn't mean that we won't still be dealing with a copyright and technology beast that we created. China will go down pretty fast and hard but so will we. The winners in both nations will have their money in offshore accounts -- so what are WE getting so happy about?
China will fall but America will not rise. Both countries have corrupt leaders -- which is a bigger issue than relative strengths of military or business.
I have to wonder when China sues Boeing for trade secrets. Lot's of short-sighted profiteering. Boeing will have to buy parts soon from China and compete with aerospace technology that they helped develop.
I'm not a Microsoft fan -- but shouldn't China at least pretend to pay for all the copies they stole BEFORE they complain that Microsoft is a monopoly?
It's like someone who stole my car calling me up and complaining that I didn't pay the tag license on it so they'd like some money for they penalty they had to pay at Motor Vehicles.
I thought Gore was something tangible,... if we are a Gore Gnostic, then we know Gore as a belief system. But, if we have seen him on TV, then that definitely puts one in the Theist camp.
You must be a Gore Agnostic -- because you aren't sure if he is real or not, hence the reference to some unseen, all-powerful being. I don't think that is what the poster meant,... it was more along the lines of; "Hey, if we didn't give Gore a hard time and embraced his energy alternatives -- we'd be putting government money behind good research." I know that is a stretch, because we cannot know what the Gore is thinking.
To be honest, in my own church we recognize that Obama represents "the son" and of course, Kucinich would be the "holy spirit" -- but I don't want to get into a theological debate.
No examination of this issue "fear-- ter'rists gots super duper nuclear plans!" should be complete without first pointing out Siebel Edmunds story. She contends as an interpreter of classified transmissions -- principally through Turkey, she became aware that the Bush administration was either hindering the FBI, and in some cases selling nuclear secrets to people like A Q Khan.
It's likely these plans came from the US. And instead of searching all the laptops of citizens, we should arrest some people in our government and try to never, ever, put such corrupt people in power again.
I post on a lot of those sights and I consider myself a Progressive, for lack of any interest for Religious Kleptocrats (Republicans) or Marijuana enjoying Kleptocrats (Libertarians with Free-Market Happy Hour).
Obama has NOT sent me to %METATAG=TITLE% to help inform everyone. Nor has %INSERT_WEEKLY_SPONSOR% informed my opinion. Just good detective work./kidding
By asking McCain fans to blog on these Liberal websites, he may just risk the ire of the people who scrape by with $.10 a post already. Paid bloggers who rave about McCain are going to get really annoyed at all the "free help." In addition, the thousand or so volunteers, are probably already nephews and such of the Lobbyists who comprise MOST of McCain's staff -- so giving these miscreants something to do, might just save the Lobbyists time, money and Ritalin.
It really is a mixed bag. But by welcoming them, their internal deceitful and calculating natures are going to make them worry that we have an alternative motive -- and that will really irk them. Thus increasing the personal expenses of the Lobbyists again.
"Please, McCain bloggers -- we really enjoy your thoughts about how Obama's Muslim extremism helped him spend all those years in a Christian church -- come again!" Nothing bothers someone spoiling for a fight more than to cherish their flimsiest arguments.
I Am Not A Dendrochronologists; But, I do recall that the CO2 level is reportedly the highest PPM since about 600,000 years ago, when the ecology was a bit different.
"The current concentration, around 350 ppm, is actually at the lowest end for plant survival." I wonder if you aren't just full of crap -- if your name actually is "Anonymous."
There are N4 and N3 plants also involved in the mix of plants NOT inside PolyTunnels. The N4 plants like warmer temperatures at night to convert energy to carbohydrate and release oxygen. The N3 plants, thrive when nights are cooler. Guess what? Other than soybeans, most of the food we eat is an N3 plant.
So, while algae, weeds and soybeans are going to thrive -- I think the rest is a big risk and we MORE quantity life isn't just better because there is more.
This also doesn't prevent people injecting more CO2 into their PolyTunnel Farm -- whatever the hell they are trying to grow in it.
All I do is say; "Beetle-mack, Beetle-mack, Beetle-mack" and he appears in miniature on my laptop in a raincoat. I don't know what he is up to, but he then turns around and opens hist coat up towards the screen. I get a 15% increase in GPU speed, and one time my Quartz Extreme became enabled.
Carmack is magical, but you can't really send him back until you say his name 3 times again. But getting a word in edgewise during a discussion of Vertex displacement and such is quite difficult.
Is there any way to mod this parent comment up to 11?
Yeah, the business model that the US is following is one of "Royalties." Lawyers, brokers and accountants are NOT going to keep us in cash unless we can convince the rest of the world that they really need complicated procedures and copyright.
China will adopt Royalty and Copyright laws of the US -- as soon as THEY are making more money from it than we are. Intellectual property and shifting paper only work for a Super Power -- and how long do you think that will last?
Yes, of course there are a lot of people who hate their jobs. What does "being a man" have to do with it? Is that like "bend over and take it?" The poster took some initiative and asked for help -- isn't that an example of "self reliance?" If your suggestion is; learn to enjoy suffering. I'm assuming that most of us are doing the best we can in that regard, but if you have some Zen meditation technique that the rest of us don't know about; THAT would be useful.
Life is too short to "take it." The poster might do better explaining their abilities, and seeing if anyone has a career where this fits. Or likes and dislikes. There are promising careers in nanotechnology, farming, and outsourcing. Other than that, be happy you have income and keep looking.
There is no funds or agents available to check our food supply, not enough to examine bridges and buildings, not enough, apparently, to investigate crimes of politicians and arrest them.
But hey, we have Billions of $ for making sure that people don't pirate MP3 files.
I can understand that there are a lot more computers seized in drug raids. For one -- why are we still making drugs illegal? Are they dealing with identity theft or something that I as a citizen actually are about? Is kiddie p0rn going to magically appear on a drive if someone "wants to get this guy" no matter what? Please, I'm failing to trust the methods and goals of these government organizations anymore.
Who do these FBI people work for, again?
Oh, and have you found the people responsible for sending Anthrax to our elected representatives? -- it appears that there are only a few US labs and people that this could be tracked to, should be a piece of cake.
Their "upgrade" was a downgrade from Lotus Notes to an Exchange server. Many financial services companies, are on Exchange, and have to record a lot of emails -- apparently they are saying that all the companies required to follow the law, cannot due it because they are on Exchange.
I know -- this excuse isn't going to fly with Slashdot -- but on its face, it is bad PR for Exchange.
The pertinent paragraph; Enhanced Data Networks and Rates: Arguably the most important new features of S-GOLD3H are also semi-obvious ones. The new chip supports the 3G network standards picked by leading domestic and foreign mobile phone companies, including HSDPA category 8 (7.2Mbit/second) data transfers, as well as WCDMA with 384kbit/second simultaneous upload and downloads, or 640kbit/second independent uploading or downloading. It also adds support for third-generation GRPS, versus the second-generation GPRS in the current iPhone. Together, these standards could allow the new iPhone to work in virtually any country on the planet, and deliver tremendous improvements in web page, e-mail, and other data delivery: four to eight times faster with WCDMA, and potentially ten times that with the right HSDPA network. Real world speeds are likely to fall short of the theoretical maximums, but they'll still be a lot better, and iPhone will be more compatible, too.
If -- and this is a big "if", Telephone companies like AT&T support these higher bandwidth cellphone systems at a reasonable price, you can say good-bye to needing a phone at home, at work and an internet connection in both places. Your iPhone with a blue-tooth connection, could provide in most cases a faster connection. The only stumbling point would be the cost per minute. I expect all the greedy monopolies to charge dearly for these things, while places like Europe, Australia, Asia and Israel will have always-connected phones providing video and web services. Anyway, for the people lucky enough to be in countries with actual telecommunications competition, the next-gen iPhone could replace all the duplicate communications devices and media devices you own. That would be about $250 a month for me -- so even if there is a $150 per month charge on a phone like this, it would be worth it, if your company were savvy enough to support you using the phone, rather than setting up a network and phone system at your job.
Oh, and nice try mentioning the "suspects we didn't go to the moon." Like millions of people seeing a rocket go into the sky and thousands tracking it on telescope is equivalent to the Bush administration's word that a robo-gun didn't just misfire due to a software glitch. Why, that's just crazy talk!
Government spokesman; "Our Robo-gun 2000 did not misfire in Iraq. We don't even have the Robo-Gun stationed anywhere near Iraq. We also, if you prefer, do not have a Robo-Gun 2000. And, if it makes our lives easier with the patriotic 27% of Americans, we'd also like to point out that there is no such thing as Iraq."
Nobody is saying you cannot trust government. The point is you shouldn't trust government.
And comparing ALL governments, to this lying, stealing, cheating, war-profiteering imperialistic regime resident in our White House right now is not just "ANY" government. Watch the guy who said; "nothing to see here" get promoted.
I'm pretty sure they are using Iraq to test every damn piece of equipment they come up with. Zero liability issues.
If they pointed to Thimerisol, then it is unlikely the family would have won anything in the courts.
I don't have the time, to list how biased the courts are right now towards corporations. I think the same people will go round-and-round and you can tell who is on which side by their attitudes towards "I trust corporations more than government." If the government is corrupt, then you can't trust either.
Right now, we are under assault with a judicial system that is broken. People in positions of power, placed there after working as lobbyists for the fields where they once protected. Medical Lobbyists, get homes at the FDA. Coal lobbyists, get jobs at the EPA. Child molesters, get jobs running Child protection agencies.
My point is -- the jury on this cannot be out yet, because all the basis for the safety of drugs is lobbied in the very hearings that are supposed to approve them. Specialists object to things like Vioxx, and then, there testimony changes as the case goes on. If they are too strident against corporations, an expert won't be asked to testify again. There is no functioning oversight or investigation by our government, to prove that ANYTHING is safe for public consumption.
The money is currently "wasted" because we have jackasses in power. The idea that we can function without government -- well, good luck with that.
Which is better; a $2000 tax cut that results in a 40% decrease in the dollar or an increase in taxes of $2000 that results in a dollar that stays the same value or increases given a salary of about $60,000? If you do not get that the "Santa Clause" who brings you "free trade" and "free wars" is costing you more -- then you are probably someone who voted a Jackass into power.
I plead for the day when we have mere Democratic waste, where the money was spent on someone inside the US economy, and not a contractor who is headquartered in Dubai.
Suspicion arises when Obama wins 65% of the vote on paper ballots and McCain wins 98% on electronic voting machines; "We cannot accept these strange Democratic biases we are seeing with paper ballots" claimed Bill Frist.
1) A "Lite" version Mac OS X Leopard does indeed run on the iPhone. The core is different, but Apple is pretty good with Hardware Abstraction Layers. OS X also runs on PowerPC processors. They can probably move to better processors as they appear, and that will give them a competitive advantage.
2) Wrong. How could you think that it wouldn't take a lot of work to squeeze this down and isolate services to be able to run on an iPhone? The iPhone did indeed hold up the release of Leopard -- probably because they didn't want to have to redo this system but merely add-on features for the "heavy" version.
3) They have beta version of iPhone tools. It did expire recently. You'd have to ask someone who has made an app for Symbian, Nokia and Microsofts cell phone OS about development.
"Are these guys supposed to be taken seriously?" >> Now here I agree with you. This is, after all, the "Gartner Group" which includes a guy named Gartner and his Dog. He gets high marks for self-promotion techniques, but I've always suspected him of having opinions that followed money. I don't think he is any more insightful than the average post on Slashdot -- however, that is high praise since most of these analysts couldn't get a Kharma of 2 on Slashdot.
I thought I noticed that all the stop lights where these "auto ticket" devices were located, were about.5 seconds -- an eye-blink. Two cars get through and then the third is on candid camera. I'm glad this wasn't my imagination.
Making a financial incentive to catch crime, increases in incidence of crime? I guess that explains the 2.6 Million people we have in prison, and why the corporate prison systems were behind lobbying for the "three strikes and your out" laws and mandatory sentencing.
We should be paying the health system when people LIVE and are healthy, and we should be paying the Police and Prison system when crimes don't happen. That should solve these issues.
A medical review board just agreed that Thimerisol, and specific conditions in a young girl were responsible for causing her Autism. This one case does not prove all instances -- but it opens the door. In her case she had a mutation in her mitochondria that caused them to have reduced function. They found that the combination, and multiple immunizations, along with the mercury, overburdened her Immune system. So, it may be a combination effect; the low-level mercury poisoning (and I don't call add mercury to anyone by another name), combined with multiple immunizations, can cause Autism.
Now, the connection with the mutated mitochondria does not mean in itself that this is a freak instance, because underperforming mitochondria appear in about 20% of Autistic people.
I find the whole "debunking" thing these days, to highly favor well paid corporations. Bill Frist got lots of money from Eli Lilly, and he dutifully tried to put an immunity clause for them in 5 different bills. Finally, they got their clause into the Patriot Act II. Then we have to look at the lobbyists turned government oversight bureaucrats in the EPA, FDA and CDC -- oh heck, even NASA. They put a man who had an unhealthy liking for underage boys in charge of Child Endangerment. So, unfortunately, what "debunking" in the US could anyone trust?
Tell me the dollar amount donated by lobbyists on any issue, and I'll tell you the results of how this government will act on it.
Your point about Apple being 6% and Windows being most of the rest used to be true. Apple is 10% now, and even bigger in the US. I would be willing to bet, that of the "workstation class" computers, capable of doing PhotoShop, Apple has a much bigger slice of the pie, vs. say a cash register at Applebee's running Windows. It's also a marketing fact that Mac users actually make up more than 50% of the people buying Adobe products. Not worth it to update the code? For millions of users when you charge $800 or more for a Suite? How much money does a program need to cost to motivate developers?
I'm in the process of justifying to myself the move from CS2 to CS3. Well I see improvements in After Effects and In Design -- but the improvements in Photoshop? I might see more improvement by spending the money on other plugins. I like the non-destructive filters and effects. But, the most obvious changes are just bug fixes for Leopard.
I have the total CS3 suite on another Mac I use. I'm really not seeing a real world difference in the product. the damn draconian DRM. It is a PIA with updates every week. I login with as a different user, and it tells me I need to re-authenticate. So, for what I do every day, I might be better off with CS2 and a better masking program on the side.
If someone comes along with something that does 90% of PhotoShop, gets rid of the performance bottlenecks and gets the stability of CS1 -- this person who has used PhotoShop since inception will jump ship. Especially if I have to give up a Mac.
>> My own opinion is that this is a shot across the bow of Adobe towards Apple. They want them to stop encroaching on their territory with applications like Aperture. Well, if Microsoft can't stop Apple from developing Quicktime, than I think this is a dumb move by Adobe. They are only going to force Jobs to listen to the developers who would like to take Adobe head on. Remember AVID? I can get a damn fine Avid symphony rig for pretty cheap right now -- and it can do a lot that Final Cut Pro can't. But FCP is about a community and the cost of the solution. Imagine a Mac bundled as an art station. How much would it take, for Apple to shore up the missing parts in Gimp, and give it an interface lift? Safari is a great end for Kerberos, isn't it?
I use both After Effects and Motion by the way. And Motion does not do everything that After Effects does -- but it does do about 80% and does it about 10 times faster.
I don't think it is a smart move for Adobe to use their product to threaten Apple to perhaps make development easier for them or not build a competing product. Adobe SHOULD be improving their product so that nobody could think of using anything else -- you know, the way I USED TO feel about their products 8 years ago. I guess they just want to sit on their rumps and collect money based upon really good DRM.
I think there are a few statistical problems here that must be addressed in order for this survey to make sense;
Microsoft is at least 10 times bigger than Apple at the moment, and so is their OS development. How does Apple have MORE unpatched errors when the Mac OS is not the one getting riddled with trojan horses, spyware, viruses and stolen data bases? So, one unpatched error does not equate to another.
The time of Knowing about the flaw to the time it is patched -- does this just mean a different reporting standard?
Of these errors from Apple -- how many of them are from the OS? Python, the Apache web browser -- a lot of open source and third party apps are bundled in the Mac UNIX system. I've heard reports that most of Apple's unpatched problems are actually these third-party apps. Without actually RTFA (I can't be bothered with that), I'd say, that's how Apple is getting a higher number.
IF Apple does bundle them -- then they kind of do have to deal with the problems -- it's the whole widget they give to the customer, so as an Apple customer -- my user experience is affected wether or not it was Python or Applescript that screwed up my iCal alarm. However, that said. it is pretty cool that Apple is pushing these third-party apps and improving them. The net result is that you have a synergistically powerful and useful computer. As a developer, I have a well installed suite of development tools for web solutions and even standard computing. I can send my python script to another Mac user, and they can run it if they have the latest OS update. You can't count on that on other systems == not even LINUX (as far as I know but I didn't RTFA), has a reliable bundled suite of development tools or apps.
This is probably just another security firm, trying to glom on some attention for itself, by basically making up a problem that doesn't exist. Yes, Apple has take its time on fixing a lot of known errors. I'd much rather they fix Leopard for stability right now, rather than chase down some buffer overflow in Python. They are both important however, but having better uptime with Tiger seems like a bigger improvement, rather than all the more up to date and patched third party applications in Leopard.
By net results alone, Apple is far ahead of Microsoft. Whether app problems are patched or unpatched, the User experience is what matters most. That's why Microsoft has had a lot of issues converting XP users to Vista.
You don't have to just remain cool in modern terms -- you have to consider your cool creds in the Google Cache and way-back machine. Good cache lends credence to your cache.
>> I've thought Bush sucked since 1999. And, since that family has their fingers in everything, it is way more on topic than say, talking about computers. I definitely wasn't cool at the time. It's like not liking Adolph in 1930 -- too soon./could not resist flame bait.
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Well, this is the sort of wisdom that has made every damn military engagement using the strategy an utter failure since WW II.
Perhaps if we used the Carter Doctrine, and restored civil order in Iraq, and did not try to privatize and got out of their way -- they'd have civil order and peace. Really, for once in this world, if we tried actually believing in the bullshit we say America stands for -- we might be surprised that it works.
I can't understand how you blood and guts advocates, who think the show 24 is a great instruction manual, keep getting in charge of military and security when you can't point to any examples of this TERRORISM you advocate as making any place better. I think it has worked wonderfully for pacifying countries, corporate profits, and weapons dealers -- but none of this crap builds a nation.
THE ASSHOLES who are running things in Afghanistan and Iraq do actually have the cynical view of humanity that you ascribe to -- and you all would do great on trial at Nuremberg.
I totally understand that these theories are prevalent and I totally reject that the US has had ANY success with them. Take a fucking look sometime at the Marshall Plan. We did a good thing and dealt fairly with Germany and Japan. We didn't destabilize them after a war.
But all these recommendations -- I can see all over latin America and Africa. And I don't see anything but misery as a result. And why is it we can even damn OBL for his alleged acts -- it seems to me that any nation or person would be justified in any atrocity against a country that practiced these things. Oh, but that would be "blame America first." So, it isn't a tin-foil-hat theory that there are bloggers who promote Bush and torture being paid to do so -- because this is obviously a counter-insurgency tactic. The only damn problem is -- they are doing this in the USA.
I really think you need to perhaps re-evaluate a "great strategy for WINNING" and start imagining what it would be like if even our military believed that America stood for something decent.
Yes, I agree that China will probably fall soon and start the Global sell-off.
It's like Japan in the 1980's when everyone in the US thought we were going to get buried.
YES, there growth will stall as all their manufacturing isn't cheap when labor isn't super-cheap. The inefficiency will multiply the costs and they will be left with lots of infrastructure without a growing business boom to support it or justify maintenance. They will still have the smog, though.
But that doesn't mean that we won't still be dealing with a copyright and technology beast that we created. China will go down pretty fast and hard but so will we. The winners in both nations will have their money in offshore accounts -- so what are WE getting so happy about?
China will fall but America will not rise. Both countries have corrupt leaders -- which is a bigger issue than relative strengths of military or business.
I have to wonder when China sues Boeing for trade secrets. Lot's of short-sighted profiteering. Boeing will have to buy parts soon from China and compete with aerospace technology that they helped develop.
I'm not a Microsoft fan -- but shouldn't China at least pretend to pay for all the copies they stole BEFORE they complain that Microsoft is a monopoly?
It's like someone who stole my car calling me up and complaining that I didn't pay the tag license on it so they'd like some money for they penalty they had to pay at Motor Vehicles.
I thought Gore was something tangible,...
if we are a Gore Gnostic, then we know Gore as a belief system. But, if we have seen him on TV, then that definitely puts one in the Theist camp.
You must be a Gore Agnostic -- because you aren't sure if he is real or not, hence the reference to some unseen, all-powerful being. I don't think that is what the poster meant,... it was more along the lines of; "Hey, if we didn't give Gore a hard time and embraced his energy alternatives -- we'd be putting government money behind good research." I know that is a stretch, because we cannot know what the Gore is thinking.
To be honest, in my own church we recognize that Obama represents "the son" and of course, Kucinich would be the "holy spirit" -- but I don't want to get into a theological debate.
No examination of this issue "fear-- ter'rists gots super duper nuclear plans!" should be complete without first pointing out Siebel Edmunds story. She contends as an interpreter of classified transmissions -- principally through Turkey, she became aware that the Bush administration was either hindering the FBI, and in some cases selling nuclear secrets to people like A Q Khan.
It's likely these plans came from the US. And instead of searching all the laptops of citizens, we should arrest some people in our government and try to never, ever, put such corrupt people in power again.
I post on a lot of those sights and I consider myself a Progressive, for lack of any interest for Religious Kleptocrats (Republicans) or Marijuana enjoying Kleptocrats (Libertarians with Free-Market Happy Hour).
/kidding
Obama has NOT sent me to %METATAG=TITLE% to help inform everyone. Nor has %INSERT_WEEKLY_SPONSOR% informed my opinion. Just good detective work.
By asking McCain fans to blog on these Liberal websites, he may just risk the ire of the people who scrape by with $.10 a post already. Paid bloggers who rave about McCain are going to get really annoyed at all the "free help." In addition, the thousand or so volunteers, are probably already nephews and such of the Lobbyists who comprise MOST of McCain's staff -- so giving these miscreants something to do, might just save the Lobbyists time, money and Ritalin.
It really is a mixed bag. But by welcoming them, their internal deceitful and calculating natures are going to make them worry that we have an alternative motive -- and that will really irk them. Thus increasing the personal expenses of the Lobbyists again.
"Please, McCain bloggers -- we really enjoy your thoughts about how Obama's Muslim extremism helped him spend all those years in a Christian church -- come again!" Nothing bothers someone spoiling for a fight more than to cherish their flimsiest arguments.
I Am Not A Dendrochronologists;
But, I do recall that the CO2 level is reportedly the highest PPM since about 600,000 years ago, when the ecology was a bit different.
"The current concentration, around 350 ppm, is actually at the lowest end for plant survival."
I wonder if you aren't just full of crap -- if your name actually is "Anonymous."
There are N4 and N3 plants also involved in the mix of plants NOT inside PolyTunnels. The N4 plants like warmer temperatures at night to convert energy to carbohydrate and release oxygen. The N3 plants, thrive when nights are cooler. Guess what? Other than soybeans, most of the food we eat is an N3 plant.
So, while algae, weeds and soybeans are going to thrive -- I think the rest is a big risk and we MORE quantity life isn't just better because there is more.
This also doesn't prevent people injecting more CO2 into their PolyTunnel Farm -- whatever the hell they are trying to grow in it.
All I do is say;
"Beetle-mack, Beetle-mack, Beetle-mack" and he appears in miniature on my laptop in a raincoat. I don't know what he is up to, but he then turns around and opens hist coat up towards the screen. I get a 15% increase in GPU speed, and one time my Quartz Extreme became enabled.
Carmack is magical, but you can't really send him back until you say his name 3 times again. But getting a word in edgewise during a discussion of Vertex displacement and such is quite difficult.
Is there any way to mod this parent comment up to 11?
Yeah, the business model that the US is following is one of "Royalties." Lawyers, brokers and accountants are NOT going to keep us in cash unless we can convince the rest of the world that they really need complicated procedures and copyright.
China will adopt Royalty and Copyright laws of the US -- as soon as THEY are making more money from it than we are. Intellectual property and shifting paper only work for a Super Power -- and how long do you think that will last?
Yes, of course there are a lot of people who hate their jobs.
What does "being a man" have to do with it? Is that like "bend over and take it?"
The poster took some initiative and asked for help -- isn't that an example of "self reliance?" If your suggestion is; learn to enjoy suffering. I'm assuming that most of us are doing the best we can in that regard, but if you have some Zen meditation technique that the rest of us don't know about; THAT would be useful.
Life is too short to "take it." The poster might do better explaining their abilities, and seeing if anyone has a career where this fits. Or likes and dislikes. There are promising careers in nanotechnology, farming, and outsourcing. Other than that, be happy you have income and keep looking.
There is no funds or agents available to check our food supply, not enough to examine bridges and buildings, not enough, apparently, to investigate crimes of politicians and arrest them.
But hey, we have Billions of $ for making sure that people don't pirate MP3 files.
I can understand that there are a lot more computers seized in drug raids. For one -- why are we still making drugs illegal? Are they dealing with identity theft or something that I as a citizen actually are about? Is kiddie p0rn going to magically appear on a drive if someone "wants to get this guy" no matter what? Please, I'm failing to trust the methods and goals of these government organizations anymore.
Who do these FBI people work for, again?
Oh, and have you found the people responsible for sending Anthrax to our elected representatives? -- it appears that there are only a few US labs and people that this could be tracked to, should be a piece of cake.
I'll poop in a bag and guarantee that. You get double your poop back if I'm wrong.
So what do I get -- because I can guarantee you have no idea what you are talking about.
... for defamation.
Their "upgrade" was a downgrade from Lotus Notes to an Exchange server. Many financial services companies, are on Exchange, and have to record a lot of emails -- apparently they are saying that all the companies required to follow the law, cannot due it because they are on Exchange.
I know -- this excuse isn't going to fly with Slashdot -- but on its face, it is bad PR for Exchange.
Couple this efficient processor with this new video can communications processor that is rumored to debut in Australia;
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/backstage/comments/what-s-gold3-could-really-mean-for-the-next-iphone/
The pertinent paragraph;
Enhanced Data Networks and Rates: Arguably the most important new features of S-GOLD3H are also semi-obvious ones. The new chip supports the 3G network standards picked by leading domestic and foreign mobile phone companies, including HSDPA category 8 (7.2Mbit/second) data transfers, as well as WCDMA with 384kbit/second simultaneous upload and downloads, or 640kbit/second independent uploading or downloading. It also adds support for third-generation GRPS, versus the second-generation GPRS in the current iPhone. Together, these standards could allow the new iPhone to work in virtually any country on the planet, and deliver tremendous improvements in web page, e-mail, and other data delivery: four to eight times faster with WCDMA, and potentially ten times that with the right HSDPA network. Real world speeds are likely to fall short of the theoretical maximums, but they'll still be a lot better, and iPhone will be more compatible, too.
If -- and this is a big "if", Telephone companies like AT&T support these higher bandwidth cellphone systems at a reasonable price, you can say good-bye to needing a phone at home, at work and an internet connection in both places. Your iPhone with a blue-tooth connection, could provide in most cases a faster connection. The only stumbling point would be the cost per minute. I expect all the greedy monopolies to charge dearly for these things, while places like Europe, Australia, Asia and Israel will have always-connected phones providing video and web services. Anyway, for the people lucky enough to be in countries with actual telecommunications competition, the next-gen iPhone could replace all the duplicate communications devices and media devices you own. That would be about $250 a month for me -- so even if there is a $150 per month charge on a phone like this, it would be worth it, if your company were savvy enough to support you using the phone, rather than setting up a network and phone system at your job.
Oh, and nice try mentioning the "suspects we didn't go to the moon." Like millions of people seeing a rocket go into the sky and thousands tracking it on telescope is equivalent to the Bush administration's word that a robo-gun didn't just misfire due to a software glitch. Why, that's just crazy talk!
Government spokesman; "Our Robo-gun 2000 did not misfire in Iraq. We don't even have the Robo-Gun stationed anywhere near Iraq. We also, if you prefer, do not have a Robo-Gun 2000. And, if it makes our lives easier with the patriotic 27% of Americans, we'd also like to point out that there is no such thing as Iraq."
Nobody is saying you cannot trust government.
The point is you shouldn't trust government.
And comparing ALL governments, to this lying, stealing, cheating, war-profiteering imperialistic regime resident in our White House right now is not just "ANY" government. Watch the guy who said; "nothing to see here" get promoted.
I'm pretty sure they are using Iraq to test every damn piece of equipment they come up with. Zero liability issues.
If they pointed to Thimerisol, then it is unlikely the family would have won anything in the courts.
I don't have the time, to list how biased the courts are right now towards corporations. I think the same people will go round-and-round and you can tell who is on which side by their attitudes towards "I trust corporations more than government." If the government is corrupt, then you can't trust either.
Right now, we are under assault with a judicial system that is broken. People in positions of power, placed there after working as lobbyists for the fields where they once protected. Medical Lobbyists, get homes at the FDA. Coal lobbyists, get jobs at the EPA. Child molesters, get jobs running Child protection agencies.
My point is -- the jury on this cannot be out yet, because all the basis for the safety of drugs is lobbied in the very hearings that are supposed to approve them. Specialists object to things like Vioxx, and then, there testimony changes as the case goes on. If they are too strident against corporations, an expert won't be asked to testify again. There is no functioning oversight or investigation by our government, to prove that ANYTHING is safe for public consumption.
The money is currently "wasted" because we have jackasses in power.
The idea that we can function without government -- well, good luck with that.
Which is better; a $2000 tax cut that results in a 40% decrease in the dollar or an increase in taxes of $2000 that results in a dollar that stays the same value or increases given a salary of about $60,000? If you do not get that the "Santa Clause" who brings you "free trade" and "free wars" is costing you more -- then you are probably someone who voted a Jackass into power.
I plead for the day when we have mere Democratic waste, where the money was spent on someone inside the US economy, and not a contractor who is headquartered in Dubai.
Suspicion arises when Obama wins 65% of the vote on paper ballots and McCain wins 98% on electronic voting machines;
"We cannot accept these strange Democratic biases we are seeing with paper ballots" claimed Bill Frist.
1) A "Lite" version Mac OS X Leopard does indeed run on the iPhone. The core is different, but Apple is pretty good with Hardware Abstraction Layers. OS X also runs on PowerPC processors. They can probably move to better processors as they appear, and that will give them a competitive advantage.
2) Wrong. How could you think that it wouldn't take a lot of work to squeeze this down and isolate services to be able to run on an iPhone?
The iPhone did indeed hold up the release of Leopard -- probably because they didn't want to have to redo this system but merely add-on features for the "heavy" version.
3) They have beta version of iPhone tools. It did expire recently. You'd have to ask someone who has made an app for Symbian, Nokia and Microsofts cell phone OS about development.
"Are these guys supposed to be taken seriously?"
>> Now here I agree with you. This is, after all, the "Gartner Group" which includes a guy named Gartner and his Dog. He gets high marks for self-promotion techniques, but I've always suspected him of having opinions that followed money. I don't think he is any more insightful than the average post on Slashdot -- however, that is high praise since most of these analysts couldn't get a Kharma of 2 on Slashdot.
I thought I noticed that all the stop lights where these "auto ticket" devices were located, were about .5 seconds -- an eye-blink. Two cars get through and then the third is on candid camera. I'm glad this wasn't my imagination.
Making a financial incentive to catch crime, increases in incidence of crime? I guess that explains the 2.6 Million people we have in prison, and why the corporate prison systems were behind lobbying for the "three strikes and your out" laws and mandatory sentencing.
We should be paying the health system when people LIVE and are healthy, and we should be paying the Police and Prison system when crimes don't happen. That should solve these issues.
A medical review board just agreed that Thimerisol, and specific conditions in a young girl were responsible for causing her Autism.
This one case does not prove all instances -- but it opens the door.
In her case she had a mutation in her mitochondria that caused them to have reduced function. They found that the combination, and multiple immunizations, along with the mercury, overburdened her Immune system. So, it may be a combination effect; the low-level mercury poisoning (and I don't call add mercury to anyone by another name), combined with multiple immunizations, can cause Autism.
Now, the connection with the mutated mitochondria does not mean in itself that this is a freak instance, because underperforming mitochondria appear in about 20% of Autistic people.
I find the whole "debunking" thing these days, to highly favor well paid corporations. Bill Frist got lots of money from Eli Lilly, and he dutifully tried to put an immunity clause for them in 5 different bills. Finally, they got their clause into the Patriot Act II. Then we have to look at the lobbyists turned government oversight bureaucrats in the EPA, FDA and CDC -- oh heck, even NASA. They put a man who had an unhealthy liking for underage boys in charge of Child Endangerment. So, unfortunately, what "debunking" in the US could anyone trust?
Tell me the dollar amount donated by lobbyists on any issue, and I'll tell you the results of how this government will act on it.
Your point about Apple being 6% and Windows being most of the rest used to be true. Apple is 10% now, and even bigger in the US.
I would be willing to bet, that of the "workstation class" computers, capable of doing PhotoShop, Apple has a much bigger slice of the pie, vs. say a cash register at Applebee's running Windows.
It's also a marketing fact that Mac users actually make up more than 50% of the people buying Adobe products. Not worth it to update the code? For millions of users when you charge $800 or more for a Suite? How much money does a program need to cost to motivate developers?
I'm in the process of justifying to myself the move from CS2 to CS3. Well I see improvements in After Effects and In Design -- but the improvements in Photoshop? I might see more improvement by spending the money on other plugins. I like the non-destructive filters and effects. But, the most obvious changes are just bug fixes for Leopard.
I have the total CS3 suite on another Mac I use. I'm really not seeing a real world difference in the product. the damn draconian DRM. It is a PIA with updates every week. I login with as a different user, and it tells me I need to re-authenticate. So, for what I do every day, I might be better off with CS2 and a better masking program on the side.
If someone comes along with something that does 90% of PhotoShop, gets rid of the performance bottlenecks and gets the stability of CS1 -- this person who has used PhotoShop since inception will jump ship. Especially if I have to give up a Mac.
>> My own opinion is that this is a shot across the bow of Adobe towards Apple. They want them to stop encroaching on their territory with applications like Aperture. Well, if Microsoft can't stop Apple from developing Quicktime, than I think this is a dumb move by Adobe. They are only going to force Jobs to listen to the developers who would like to take Adobe head on. Remember AVID? I can get a damn fine Avid symphony rig for pretty cheap right now -- and it can do a lot that Final Cut Pro can't. But FCP is about a community and the cost of the solution. Imagine a Mac bundled as an art station. How much would it take, for Apple to shore up the missing parts in Gimp, and give it an interface lift? Safari is a great end for Kerberos, isn't it?
I use both After Effects and Motion by the way. And Motion does not do everything that After Effects does -- but it does do about 80% and does it about 10 times faster.
I don't think it is a smart move for Adobe to use their product to threaten Apple to perhaps make development easier for them or not build a competing product. Adobe SHOULD be improving their product so that nobody could think of using anything else -- you know, the way I USED TO feel about their products 8 years ago. I guess they just want to sit on their rumps and collect money based upon really good DRM.
I think there are a few statistical problems here that must be addressed in order for this survey to make sense;
Microsoft is at least 10 times bigger than Apple at the moment, and so is their OS development. How does Apple have MORE unpatched errors when the Mac OS is not the one getting riddled with trojan horses, spyware, viruses and stolen data bases? So, one unpatched error does not equate to another.
The time of Knowing about the flaw to the time it is patched -- does this just mean a different reporting standard?
Of these errors from Apple -- how many of them are from the OS? Python, the Apache web browser -- a lot of open source and third party apps are bundled in the Mac UNIX system. I've heard reports that most of Apple's unpatched problems are actually these third-party apps. Without actually RTFA (I can't be bothered with that), I'd say, that's how Apple is getting a higher number.
IF Apple does bundle them -- then they kind of do have to deal with the problems -- it's the whole widget they give to the customer, so as an Apple customer -- my user experience is affected wether or not it was Python or Applescript that screwed up my iCal alarm. However, that said. it is pretty cool that Apple is pushing these third-party apps and improving them. The net result is that you have a synergistically powerful and useful computer. As a developer, I have a well installed suite of development tools for web solutions and even standard computing. I can send my python script to another Mac user, and they can run it if they have the latest OS update. You can't count on that on other systems == not even LINUX (as far as I know but I didn't RTFA), has a reliable bundled suite of development tools or apps.
This is probably just another security firm, trying to glom on some attention for itself, by basically making up a problem that doesn't exist. Yes, Apple has take its time on fixing a lot of known errors. I'd much rather they fix Leopard for stability right now, rather than chase down some buffer overflow in Python. They are both important however, but having better uptime with Tiger seems like a bigger improvement, rather than all the more up to date and patched third party applications in Leopard.
By net results alone, Apple is far ahead of Microsoft. Whether app problems are patched or unpatched, the User experience is what matters most. That's why Microsoft has had a lot of issues converting XP users to Vista.
You don't have to just remain cool in modern terms -- you have to consider your cool creds in the Google Cache and way-back machine. Good cache lends credence to your cache.
/could not resist flame bait.
>> I've thought Bush sucked since 1999. And, since that family has their fingers in everything, it is way more on topic than say, talking about computers. I definitely wasn't cool at the time. It's like not liking Adolph in 1930 -- too soon.