To be fair he's a maverick politician who's married to a billionaire heiress. A great deal less sexy.
Actually I don't see what makes him such a maverick. He still votes for FISA, unconditional war spending, offshore drilling, faith based initiatives, and military commissions. He is bought and paid for by big business in nearly every conceivable way despite the fact he doesn't really need their money and he'll die before retiring so they can never pay him back with a cushy board placement.
So what if he's opposed to torture and tried to compromise on immigration. Ron Paul is more of a maverick than John McCain ever will be, but you won't see him running around bragging about it.
I take issue with only one point. There are a lot of places with horrible traffic that could use a better rail system, where people would use it if it were even close to as fast as driving. The practical part is a relative thing. Was it practical when Napoleon bulldozed the Champs Elysee through crowded Paris?
It's not just the environmentalists, although some of them oppose any sort of construction, it's the people who live where the tracks are going to be.
It is most definitely not the case in a place like say LA which has a huge traffic problem that tracks could be built along current easements. Light rail sure, and that has been done to an extent, but not the kind of tracks needed for a high speed train.
Umm "Houston," by which I mean the spaceflight facility, is actually next to a nice park with lots of trees. No one lives there because it's not legal to live in a park.
I'm not sure about cross continental but in my area they can't build a high speed train along the current track route (which follows a highway) because the road is not straight enough or has too high a grade or something technical like that.
Also people throw a Get off my lawn get out the vote shit fit any time someone mentions expanding the freeway. So actually civil rights is only part of the problem; democracy is the other half.
The jokes reflect a stereotype more than a dislike. You can make fun of groups of people without actually hating them. You can make a joke about British people and everyone would get it too, but nobody is saying that Americans hate British people.
Depending on where you live that might not be true. Since residential properties are neither factories nor farms, there may be restrictions on what lights you can use if there is a fire hazard.
It is unfair to say that all or even most Americans dislike the French. There are a couple of angles to this, but I will point out a few. The most obvious is that the US and France have been allies since the US was founded and possibly before. This is well known in the US as it is in France. The French language is widely learned here. It is second only to Spanish due to the close proximity of our southern neighbor. When we can get abroad these days, France is a popular spot.
Perhaps the recent hating resonates more loudly abroad than a couple centuries of cooperation.
Agreed. The problem rarely comes up in murder cases where the sentences tend to be life regardless of how you plea, but the drug war is another story, especially when the "evidence" is provided by criminals.
Yeah, the ping times were bad. I don't play many FPSes but I did first notice the problem when I played GoW online. It was difficult to play, and I didn't last very long.
They fixed the problem about a year ago, as I was about to switch to DSL. I can't say for sure what they did, but I've heard that cable buffers packets at various points, negatively impacting latency when traffic is high. Maybe they kicked off the neighbor hood bandwidth hog...
I think it's a ploy. If your Internet provider offers media via IP they will almost certainly exclude that media from the cap, effectively penalizing you for using other providers.
In fact, the current model dictates that most of the "bandwidth" that could be used for Internet is used for plain old cable, including pay per view. The only thing missing here is that most US cable internet providers have no usage cap (officially at least).
I'm in an urban area. I used to get relatively bad (200ms) pings to most servers, gaming or otherwise. I tried paying for the high bandwidth connection. It did increase my bandwidth but did nothing for latency so I canceled it. One day the cable company cleaned up their act (I guess), and now I'm getting more like 30ms to geographically close sites.
I think slow ping times are an implementation problem with certain cable providers.
Today's GPUs are not multi-core, at least not beyond a few cores. They have a large number of functional units on a die, not a large number of discrete processors, which is what Intel seems to be proposing.
ATI got bought by AMD, which makes CPUs. In fact, they have announced their own plans for an integrated GPU/CPU.
Boot camp is a bootloader, repartitioning tool, and some sort of driver installer. Macs support legacy operating systems through the firmware, just like PCs. The firmware is also EFI compliant, and the two are not mutually exclusive.
They can't be forced to support it, but they could reasonably be forced to allow, if only through inaction, for people to install it on non-Macintosh branded computers.
It really is an issue of to what degree the EULA is enforceable.
Not necessary. If you can figure out how the 6x lens works you can build a 100x lens. The means of production is going to be highly dependent on what you have.
First and foremost, shouldn't a religion be judged on whether or not it's true?
While some of the tenets of Christianity are probably testable many other are certainly not. This is not terribly different from all the other major religions. That makes it difficult to compare.
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Actually I don't see what makes him such a maverick. He still votes for FISA, unconditional war spending, offshore drilling, faith based initiatives, and military commissions. He is bought and paid for by big business in nearly every conceivable way despite the fact he doesn't really need their money and he'll die before retiring so they can never pay him back with a cushy board placement.
So what if he's opposed to torture and tried to compromise on immigration. Ron Paul is more of a maverick than John McCain ever will be, but you won't see him running around bragging about it.
In addition to what AC said there's drug companies, medical equipment manufacturers and millions of caretakers for the elderly.
We're basically moving towards a society whose entire output is dedicated towards keeping alive the sick and infirm. In other words, we're devolving.
It doesn't sound like we disagree on much at all. More telecommuting and more mass transit are complementary not mutually exclusive.
Not everybody works in the information economy. Some people actually need to be at the work site.
I take issue with only one point. There are a lot of places with horrible traffic that could use a better rail system, where people would use it if it were even close to as fast as driving. The practical part is a relative thing. Was it practical when Napoleon bulldozed the Champs Elysee through crowded Paris?
It's not just the environmentalists, although some of them oppose any sort of construction, it's the people who live where the tracks are going to be.
It is most definitely not the case in a place like say LA which has a huge traffic problem that tracks could be built along current easements. Light rail sure, and that has been done to an extent, but not the kind of tracks needed for a high speed train.
Umm "Houston," by which I mean the spaceflight facility, is actually next to a nice park with lots of trees. No one lives there because it's not legal to live in a park.
I'm not sure about cross continental but in my area they can't build a high speed train along the current track route (which follows a highway) because the road is not straight enough or has too high a grade or something technical like that.
Also people throw a Get off my lawn get out the vote shit fit any time someone mentions expanding the freeway. So actually civil rights is only part of the problem; democracy is the other half.
The jokes reflect a stereotype more than a dislike. You can make fun of groups of people without actually hating them. You can make a joke about British people and everyone would get it too, but nobody is saying that Americans hate British people.
Depending on where you live that might not be true. Since residential properties are neither factories nor farms, there may be restrictions on what lights you can use if there is a fire hazard.
It is unfair to say that all or even most Americans dislike the French. There are a couple of angles to this, but I will point out a few. The most obvious is that the US and France have been allies since the US was founded and possibly before. This is well known in the US as it is in France. The French language is widely learned here. It is second only to Spanish due to the close proximity of our southern neighbor. When we can get abroad these days, France is a popular spot.
Perhaps the recent hating resonates more loudly abroad than a couple centuries of cooperation.
President Bush went to Yale.
Agreed. The problem rarely comes up in murder cases where the sentences tend to be life regardless of how you plea, but the drug war is another story, especially when the "evidence" is provided by criminals.
Yeah, the ping times were bad. I don't play many FPSes but I did first notice the problem when I played GoW online. It was difficult to play, and I didn't last very long.
They fixed the problem about a year ago, as I was about to switch to DSL. I can't say for sure what they did, but I've heard that cable buffers packets at various points, negatively impacting latency when traffic is high. Maybe they kicked off the neighbor hood bandwidth hog...
I think it's a ploy. If your Internet provider offers media via IP they will almost certainly exclude that media from the cap, effectively penalizing you for using other providers.
In fact, the current model dictates that most of the "bandwidth" that could be used for Internet is used for plain old cable, including pay per view. The only thing missing here is that most US cable internet providers have no usage cap (officially at least).
I'm in an urban area. I used to get relatively bad (200ms) pings to most servers, gaming or otherwise. I tried paying for the high bandwidth connection. It did increase my bandwidth but did nothing for latency so I canceled it. One day the cable company cleaned up their act (I guess), and now I'm getting more like 30ms to geographically close sites.
I think slow ping times are an implementation problem with certain cable providers.
Today's GPUs are not multi-core, at least not beyond a few cores. They have a large number of functional units on a die, not a large number of discrete processors, which is what Intel seems to be proposing.
ATI got bought by AMD, which makes CPUs. In fact, they have announced their own plans for an integrated GPU/CPU.
Don't buy health insurance if you don't want to pay for other people's problems because that's what health insurance is.
Boot camp is a bootloader, repartitioning tool, and some sort of driver installer. Macs support legacy operating systems through the firmware, just like PCs. The firmware is also EFI compliant, and the two are not mutually exclusive.
They can't be forced to support it, but they could reasonably be forced to allow, if only through inaction, for people to install it on non-Macintosh branded computers.
It really is an issue of to what degree the EULA is enforceable.
Wrong. New Macs support a BIOS interface as well.
From Wikipedia:
"Now all current Macintosh systems are also able to boot legacy BIOS Operating Systems such as Windows XP and Vista."
Not necessary. If you can figure out how the 6x lens works you can build a 100x lens. The means of production is going to be highly dependent on what you have.
They already sent one to a comet or some such, according to TFA.
Yes because the world's great theocracies are known for their respect for civil rights...
First and foremost, shouldn't a religion be judged on whether or not it's true?
While some of the tenets of Christianity are probably testable many other are certainly not. This is not terribly different from all the other major religions. That makes it difficult to compare.
I imagine the disc would have to be a little bigger if it didn't require magnification...