I can't see how anyone's modding has censored you as I was able to see all of your posts.
Notice your first post is at 1, basically visible to everyone. This second post, full of all caps insults directed towards no one in particular is at -1.
Oh well now I'm off topic, and probably deserve a downmod myself.
i would probably annul my vote (can you do this in the us?) I'm not quite sure what you mean (because I've not experience with a system where you could), but I can tell you that I am not aware of any means for a citizen of the U.S. to annul his vote.
Well to be fair not every President has felt the need to either purposefully ignore the law or even expand executive power. The ones that have seem to lean Republican.
Actually, although he did attract many self-described conservatives, if exit polls can be trusted, he drew votes away from Bush and Clinton in equal numbers, in addition to getting out the vote a bit.
The main problem is that Perot's Reform "party" was himself and he lost a lot of credibility after losing the first time.
In sum, Perot didn't single handedly bring down the Republican party, but the effect on the political system was noticeable.
Oh people noticed. It didn't bring down the two party system, but it did remind the Republicans not to alienate the middle class.
In any case, Ross Perot was more of an independent than anything. The only party he represented was the one he created. A lot of votes going to an established third party might have different effects.
What I found interesting was that Paul was ignored even though he was a republican. It kind of makes perverted sense when they ignore the 3rd parties -- none of them ever win, but usually even seemingly marginal major party candidates will get a good amount of coverage. The MSM seemed to pigeonhole Paul as "some guy who's popular on the Internet and gets a lot of money from little people."
Or we could all go vote for a 3rd party candidate. Hell if even 10% did that you'd have an effect, whereas a 10% boycott would only be noted as a long-term trend towards lower turnout.
The government, at various levels, does fund a great deal of the research that enables medications to exist. The drug companies productize and test those discoveries. I guess the question is whether that process is deserving of a patent.
Consider a GPU. It's a basically a big vector engine. Anyone with access to a fab, regardless of who owns the fab, can make one. If you're nVidia or ATI this includes Intel, which has great fabs but can't make a driver to save its life. This is the reason that you have open source 2D drivers (anyone can do that) and closed source 3D ones.
The reverse engineering of compatible hardware will continue to happen, as it has since the beginning of computing, but providing open specs, much less source code, aids that process. Hence the reluctance of companies to do this.
Reader for Linux is great except it is slow as shit and crashes randomly due to some search cache issue.
Actually the two are probably related, I don't think Reader has yet figured out that my home directory is on an NFS share. Unfortunately, if you try to symlink it back home, as it were, Reader conveniently detects the situation and rectifies it, so to speak.
Oh and the plugin has a nice habit of freezing my Firefox.
Dude I'll settle for actual vendor-supported drivers any day. Then Linux will be as good as Windows:P
Seriously, though, you have to understand the position the company is in. Decent drivers not only cost a lot of money to develop, but they also provide a competitive advantage. For better or for worse, these guys are not just in the hardware business. Moreover, open source drivers make it very easy to reverse engineer the hardware itself -- again giving away your IP for free.
In short, it makes sense to encourage hardware makers to support Linux, whether it be open source or not.
They're probably wrong. I personally had it claim I gained six pounds in a few days. This was bogus of course, confirmed by a decent quality floor scale.
It doesn't actually surprise me that much. Nintendo really skimped on the motion sensors in the Wii-motes, choosing the cheapest possible at the noticeable expense of accuracy. Those things are designed to detect when your laptop is being dropped, not drive a Mario Kart. I imagine they did a similar thing with the balance board.
I am not that guy, but I will say that Wii Fit, compared to running, cycling, or swimming really doesn't cause you to work up as much of a sweat (well unless you're swimming but you get the idea) However I also keep hearing from the experts that in many respects walking is as good as running. Viewed that way, Wii Fit aerobics is as good as a good walk.
Overall the game is better when you consider the balance and core strength exercises. That's really where its goodness is. Even for fitness buffs, the machine can measure balance and posture in a way that even your average trainer might not pick up on. Again, it's not a replacement for a guru but it might be a decent substitute.
No, your're naive. You can buy videos and rent them if you like. The special rental versions, when they existed in the tape era, were only more expensive because they were available prior to the real release, at a price point that only video stores would pay.
Just look at any recent Motorola phone Hard to blame them. They always have to rush to market before samsung starts selling a knock of their (yet to be released) phone with an even worse interface.
If they're throwing them in a dumpster it better be the recycling dumpster or they've just committed a crime in most states. All states AFAIK but the submitter didn't say which one.
Wind power is hardly without merit, but there are a lot of problems with it. The ecological implications of wind power are only somewhat better than the implications of hydro power. In fact the principle problem is the same: habit destruction down-"stream." It's also unreliable compared to nuclear. To top it off, it generates more carbon than nuclear power because you have to expend a lot of energy building the windmills themselves.
One great thing about wind power, however, is that in the right places it's very cost effective, which is why we are seeing it implemented in places like West Texas.
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I can't see how anyone's modding has censored you as I was able to see all of your posts.
Notice your first post is at 1, basically visible to everyone. This second post, full of all caps insults directed towards no one in particular is at -1.
Oh well now I'm off topic, and probably deserve a downmod myself.
Well to be fair not every President has felt the need to either purposefully ignore the law or even expand executive power. The ones that have seem to lean Republican.
Just to follow up on what you've said:
I recommend this article for a critical view of McCain's attitude towards personal freedom.
In short, he doesn't believe you should have it. You're all soldier's in McCain's American army and insubordination will not be tolerated.
Actually, although he did attract many self-described conservatives, if exit polls can be trusted, he drew votes away from Bush and Clinton in equal numbers, in addition to getting out the vote a bit.
The main problem is that Perot's Reform "party" was himself and he lost a lot of credibility after losing the first time.
In sum, Perot didn't single handedly bring down the Republican party, but the effect on the political system was noticeable.
Oh people noticed. It didn't bring down the two party system, but it did remind the Republicans not to alienate the middle class.
In any case, Ross Perot was more of an independent than anything. The only party he represented was the one he created. A lot of votes going to an established third party might have different effects.
What I found interesting was that Paul was ignored even though he was a republican. It kind of makes perverted sense when they ignore the 3rd parties -- none of them ever win, but usually even seemingly marginal major party candidates will get a good amount of coverage. The MSM seemed to pigeonhole Paul as "some guy who's popular on the Internet and gets a lot of money from little people."
Or we could all go vote for a 3rd party candidate. Hell if even 10% did that you'd have an effect, whereas a 10% boycott would only be noted as a long-term trend towards lower turnout.
The government, at various levels, does fund a great deal of the research that enables medications to exist. The drug companies productize and test those discoveries. I guess the question is whether that process is deserving of a patent.
Consider a GPU. It's a basically a big vector engine. Anyone with access to a fab, regardless of who owns the fab, can make one. If you're nVidia or ATI this includes Intel, which has great fabs but can't make a driver to save its life. This is the reason that you have open source 2D drivers (anyone can do that) and closed source 3D ones.
The reverse engineering of compatible hardware will continue to happen, as it has since the beginning of computing, but providing open specs, much less source code, aids that process. Hence the reluctance of companies to do this.
Reader for Linux is great except it is slow as shit and crashes randomly due to some search cache issue.
Actually the two are probably related, I don't think Reader has yet figured out that my home directory is on an NFS share. Unfortunately, if you try to symlink it back home, as it were, Reader conveniently detects the situation and rectifies it, so to speak.
Oh and the plugin has a nice habit of freezing my Firefox.
Dude I'll settle for actual vendor-supported drivers any day. Then Linux will be as good as Windows :P
Seriously, though, you have to understand the position the company is in. Decent drivers not only cost a lot of money to develop, but they also provide a competitive advantage. For better or for worse, these guys are not just in the hardware business. Moreover, open source drivers make it very easy to reverse engineer the hardware itself -- again giving away your IP for free.
In short, it makes sense to encourage hardware makers to support Linux, whether it be open source or not.
They're probably wrong. I personally had it claim I gained six pounds in a few days. This was bogus of course, confirmed by a decent quality floor scale.
It doesn't actually surprise me that much. Nintendo really skimped on the motion sensors in the Wii-motes, choosing the cheapest possible at the noticeable expense of accuracy. Those things are designed to detect when your laptop is being dropped, not drive a Mario Kart. I imagine they did a similar thing with the balance board.
I am not that guy, but I will say that Wii Fit, compared to running, cycling, or swimming really doesn't cause you to work up as much of a sweat (well unless you're swimming but you get the idea) However I also keep hearing from the experts that in many respects walking is as good as running. Viewed that way, Wii Fit aerobics is as good as a good walk.
Overall the game is better when you consider the balance and core strength exercises. That's really where its goodness is. Even for fitness buffs, the machine can measure balance and posture in a way that even your average trainer might not pick up on. Again, it's not a replacement for a guru but it might be a decent substitute.
No, your're naive. You can buy videos and rent them if you like. The special rental versions, when they existed in the tape era, were only more expensive because they were available prior to the real release, at a price point that only video stores would pay.
So that's why I can't rent PC games at blockbuster any more... How come they can rent Xbox games?
$60/mo is not bad for unlimited 3G data, which is what sprint is charging. In my experience, it's about as fast as DSL except that the latency is 1s.
The pricing is just stupid. $.01/MB for the first 5000 MB then .50 thereafter? WTF? That's some verizon math right there.
Apparently the newest Eee PC will have a multi-touch trackpad, if that counts.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143882-pg,1/article.html
Pfff you're lucky with software if you can take it back at all.
Many of the MIPS dev boards are actually FPGA's. Therefore if you need to switch to a different variant you just reprogram the FPGA. Very cool.
If they're throwing them in a dumpster it better be the recycling dumpster or they've just committed a crime in most states. All states AFAIK but the submitter didn't say which one.
Yeah they might make a Wii 2, but only four of them will be produced, one for Nintendo HQ and three for the ebay market.
Wind power is hardly without merit, but there are a lot of problems with it. The ecological implications of wind power are only somewhat better than the implications of hydro power. In fact the principle problem is the same: habit destruction down-"stream." It's also unreliable compared to nuclear. To top it off, it generates more carbon than nuclear power because you have to expend a lot of energy building the windmills themselves.
One great thing about wind power, however, is that in the right places it's very cost effective, which is why we are seeing it implemented in places like West Texas.