What in the world makes you think nobody would produce corn here if it weren't subsidised? There's simply no better place to grow it than the midwest. Without subsidies it would simply be more expensive in a direct fashion, rather than through taxation.
I have a solution to potential starvation, nevermind the fact that the US runs a huge food surplus during the worst of times. Can a bunch of food and put it somewhere. If anybody starts starving, give it away for free. Won't even cost very much.
I can't figure out where you're getting your numbers about the true price of food. Whatever the fair price, we're already paying the difference in taxes, plus whatever the portion is that represents inefficiency. I'll gladly eat cheaper foods if the government will give me my fair share of the 16 billion back.
No... if a large percentage of Americans actually cared about this it wouldn't be happening. Unfortunately most people are oblivious and tend to regard the privacy nuts as tinfoil hat types.
No to be fair we'd have to call the lady from New York Hilary Clinton, esq. and the other Barack Obama, esq. In actuality, however, they should both be called the unemployed. Neither practices law in addition to serving in Congrass.
Pff if you're Hillary the media will kiss your ass even when you lose. They've been conspiring to make her look like the front runner since before she started running. I don't think it's any particular bias, just basic storytelling: it helps if there's a front runner and an underdog or two.
BTW, why has no one pointed out the obvious problem with every president being either a Clinton or a Bush?
Yeah, I disagree. IT workers never get to sue their employer for anything, not even if your job gives you carpal tunnel. The last few classes of people that I can recall successfully suing are: McDonalds worker, truck drivers, asbestos factory workers, secretaries, Wal-mart checkers. Being too afraid of losing your job to just quit has more to do with the person than the job. Ability to sue is entirely dependent on how oppressed you are.
I've never heard of anyone being fired for his political views, per se, but being a loud mouth about them is risky.
The idea is that declaring a party affiliation is a public political statement. In some states you can, in fact, vote in all the primaries, although not in most. Although I've never heard of anyone being oppressed for declaring a democratic affiliation, at least not until they open their mouth about it which is a separate issue, I did know one guy who always got searched at the airport, presumably for being a member of the communist party. Apparently the government hasn't updated their list of enemies since 1992.
As part of the story indicated, hand counting is problematic as well. That's probably why so many switched to electronic voting. Well, that or it's a conspiracy to steal your vote, but I digress. I would settle for electronic voting with voter-verifiable paper trail, combined with good old fashioned security.
Does anyone else find it disturbing that shortly after 9/11 there were guys with assault rifles guarding the airport, but we trust the security of our voting for who's going to prevent the next 9/11 to senior citizens and black boxes?
Good thing my local water source tastes like camel spit and you could build pyramids out of the junk it leaves on your dishes, or else they'd be poisoning me with their fluoride.
WTF, my TV cost half that. I realize it's not "the same thing," but you're going to have a hard time squeezing 2k out of me for a monitor, even I were going to use it as a tiny TV. I guess it's priced competitively with the Apple Cinema Display.
There's no evidence whatsoever to indicate that one pair of hooved animals could evolve into all the known species of horse-like creatures in 6000 years, much less hundreds of years. Get rid of the young earth ideaology and the idea that life was created out of whole cloth is at least plausible, if unlikely.
Workin' for the wrong place. My father's company just bought him an X60 tablet. I had to buy my own:(
You could always try and sell them on the biometric stuff and built-in TPM if they have sensitive data. Fingerprint readers are pretty standard on business TPs these days, and apparently facial recognition is becoming more common. If they counter that that stuff is easy to fool you can remind them that you can always require a password too -- many people write their passwords down...
3. High price, which is a complaint I might see as legitimate (though, I think that the support Lenovo provides more than justifies the added cost). Got a T60, back when that was a decent machine, for 1200 bucks plus some extra for more RAM. In my experience, the "mass market" ThinkPads (T-series) etc. are priced competitively with MacBooks, or maybe it's the other way around. Get into the ultra portables and you're shelling out big bucks real quick. If you work the dell discount machine, you could definitely get a lower price on similar specs. Go lower on the brand name quality scale and you can save yourself a few hundred, but nothing spectacularly cheaper.
Mostly, however, the cheaper notebooks are going to be much heavier, with bigger screens, better sound, reduced battery life. You certainly are getting, ummm, more for your money. If it's your only machine, though, this is the way to go. Perfect for students. I don't blame Lenovo for trying to tap that market, however competition is stiff.
The difference between DVD and HD-DVD is pretty clear to me on a standard 42" screen at what I consider a reasonable viewing distance. And this TV is not even 1080p capable. I agree that it's as much better than DVD as DVD is than VHS, but you can see it.
Sometime try flipping between a movie on HBO and HD-HBO. Easy to tell. I think the problem people have is that it doesn't contribute immensely to the viewing experience. Which is to say there's enough definition on a standard DVD that you don't miss anything you would've seen in the theater.
Also, having a nice screen makes a bigger difference in overall experience than whether or not you have HD-DVD. I understand why people are sitting out the format war, but I'm pretty convinced HD discs will catch on.
An interesting aside to this: part of the reason that many companies are having their software phone home is that they consider buying on eBay to be piracy, assuming it's second hand of course. What if the next version just shuts itself down when it finds out it's on a different machine? This has been standard operational procedure for Windows for a while now.
I seriously wish Mythbusters would put a hole in an airliner just to prove you (ok not you, but other people too) wrong. I realize I am stating this without proof, but logic should indicate that a tiny little hole will not lead to a catastrophic failure, regardless of how many feet above see level you happen to be. Except in space. There, you can suck a whole alien through a tiny hole in a the craft, or so I hear.
Agreed on the proper home defense weapon, but I have to disagree that the weapon in question is either effective or unlikely to hurt innocent bystanders. A pistol that fires shotgun shells is just a horrible idea. Such a device is impossible to aim -- dangerous to the shooter and anyone close enough in a 45 or more degree arc. There's a reason that shotguns are as long as they are (legally anyways.) When you do shoot someone as a matter of home defense, he is then fighting for his life too. He may decide to run, or he may decide to fight. It is best if the intruder is in no condition to do either of these things. With respect to going through walls, a lower powered shell is not the answer. Anything that drywall can stop, a canvas jacket could as well. Until technology improves, we're just going to have to settle for aiming our shotguns carefully.
I'm with you on the nVidia driver problems. Every single fscking version of the kernel has a different module ABI, meaning binary modules built for other versions will not work. In short, there's no practical way nVidia can distribute a binary driver, like they do for windows. Instead, their installer attempts to compile a module for you, a valiant effort, but writing one script that will do that for you on every single Linux distribution (or even all the current ones) is virtually impossible. Hence, the nvidia driver never installs on the first shot. This is truly a Linux problem, and something that should be addressed. Of course, most people will say that nVidia just needs to open-source their driver so it can be a in a distro by default.
Also, decent dual monitor support virtually requires that you edit Xorg.conf by hand. The multiple screen configuration that is natural to X is not what most people want when they setup a dual head machine. Xinerama mode never worked well for me. Therefore nVidia and ATI provide scantly documented, proprietary merged framebuffer modes (ATI calls it MergedFB, nVidia calls it TwinView), which trick X into thinking your two monitors are one screen. Using these requires, you guessed it, manual hacking of Xorg.conf.
For instance, here's my device section:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "ATI Technologies"
BoardName "X1300 Pro"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal,reverse" #Enable Big Desktop
Option "Mode2" "1280x1024" #Resolution for second monitor
Option "DesktopSetup" "LVDS,AUTO" #the types of monitors that is connected LVDS = LCD, CRT, AUTO
Option "EnablePrivateBackZ" "yes" #Enable 3d support = May Not Work
Option "HSync2" "65" #This sets the horizontal sync for the secondary display.
Option "VRefresh2" "60" #This sets the refresh rate of the secondary display.
EndSection
Does anyone really think end users are supposed to have to do this?
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What in the world makes you think nobody would produce corn here if it weren't subsidised? There's simply no better place to grow it than the midwest. Without subsidies it would simply be more expensive in a direct fashion, rather than through taxation.
I have a solution to potential starvation, nevermind the fact that the US runs a huge food surplus during the worst of times. Can a bunch of food and put it somewhere. If anybody starts starving, give it away for free. Won't even cost very much.
I can't figure out where you're getting your numbers about the true price of food. Whatever the fair price, we're already paying the difference in taxes, plus whatever the portion is that represents inefficiency. I'll gladly eat cheaper foods if the government will give me my fair share of the 16 billion back.
If there's no corn lobby then why all the subsidies? Any economist will tell you we don't need them.
No... if a large percentage of Americans actually cared about this it wouldn't be happening. Unfortunately most people are oblivious and tend to regard the privacy nuts as tinfoil hat types.
No to be fair we'd have to call the lady from New York Hilary Clinton, esq. and the other Barack Obama, esq. In actuality, however, they should both be called the unemployed. Neither practices law in addition to serving in Congrass.
Pff if you're Hillary the media will kiss your ass even when you lose. They've been conspiring to make her look like the front runner since before she started running. I don't think it's any particular bias, just basic storytelling: it helps if there's a front runner and an underdog or two.
BTW, why has no one pointed out the obvious problem with every president being either a Clinton or a Bush?
Yeah, I disagree. IT workers never get to sue their employer for anything, not even if your job gives you carpal tunnel. The last few classes of people that I can recall successfully suing are: McDonalds worker, truck drivers, asbestos factory workers, secretaries, Wal-mart checkers. Being too afraid of losing your job to just quit has more to do with the person than the job. Ability to sue is entirely dependent on how oppressed you are.
I've never heard of anyone being fired for his political views, per se, but being a loud mouth about them is risky.
The idea is that declaring a party affiliation is a public political statement. In some states you can, in fact, vote in all the primaries, although not in most. Although I've never heard of anyone being oppressed for declaring a democratic affiliation, at least not until they open their mouth about it which is a separate issue, I did know one guy who always got searched at the airport, presumably for being a member of the communist party. Apparently the government hasn't updated their list of enemies since 1992.
Is that you Michael Moore? Didn't know you posted on /.
As part of the story indicated, hand counting is problematic as well. That's probably why so many switched to electronic voting. Well, that or it's a conspiracy to steal your vote, but I digress. I would settle for electronic voting with voter-verifiable paper trail, combined with good old fashioned security.
Does anyone else find it disturbing that shortly after 9/11 there were guys with assault rifles guarding the airport, but we trust the security of our voting for who's going to prevent the next 9/11 to senior citizens and black boxes?
Good thing my local water source tastes like camel spit and you could build pyramids out of the junk it leaves on your dishes, or else they'd be poisoning me with their fluoride.
Are you trolling?
Macs use EFI and PC's use BIOS. That's why.
WTF, my TV cost half that. I realize it's not "the same thing," but you're going to have a hard time squeezing 2k out of me for a monitor, even I were going to use it as a tiny TV. I guess it's priced competitively with the Apple Cinema Display.
Gamesphere FTW!
There's no evidence whatsoever to indicate that one pair of hooved animals could evolve into all the known species of horse-like creatures in 6000 years, much less hundreds of years. Get rid of the young earth ideaology and the idea that life was created out of whole cloth is at least plausible, if unlikely.
They only use PortalPlayer's hardware (and maybe their kernel), but not their userland.
Workin' for the wrong place. My father's company just bought him an X60 tablet. I had to buy my own :(
You could always try and sell them on the biometric stuff and built-in TPM if they have sensitive data. Fingerprint readers are pretty standard on business TPs these days, and apparently facial recognition is becoming more common. If they counter that that stuff is easy to fool you can remind them that you can always require a password too -- many people write their passwords down...
Ummm the T60 line has a Windows key and a "Windows Vista Ready" logo.
Mostly, however, the cheaper notebooks are going to be much heavier, with bigger screens, better sound, reduced battery life. You certainly are getting, ummm, more for your money. If it's your only machine, though, this is the way to go. Perfect for students. I don't blame Lenovo for trying to tap that market, however competition is stiff.
TrackPoint FTW.
The difference between DVD and HD-DVD is pretty clear to me on a standard 42" screen at what I consider a reasonable viewing distance. And this TV is not even 1080p capable. I agree that it's as much better than DVD as DVD is than VHS, but you can see it.
Sometime try flipping between a movie on HBO and HD-HBO. Easy to tell. I think the problem people have is that it doesn't contribute immensely to the viewing experience. Which is to say there's enough definition on a standard DVD that you don't miss anything you would've seen in the theater.
Also, having a nice screen makes a bigger difference in overall experience than whether or not you have HD-DVD. I understand why people are sitting out the format war, but I'm pretty convinced HD discs will catch on.
An interesting aside to this: part of the reason that many companies are having their software phone home is that they consider buying on eBay to be piracy, assuming it's second hand of course. What if the next version just shuts itself down when it finds out it's on a different machine? This has been standard operational procedure for Windows for a while now.
That is one of the funniest slashdot meta-jokes I've heard in a while. Bonus points for burying it in a thread about how MP3s suck.
I seriously wish Mythbusters would put a hole in an airliner just to prove you (ok not you, but other people too) wrong. I realize I am stating this without proof, but logic should indicate that a tiny little hole will not lead to a catastrophic failure, regardless of how many feet above see level you happen to be. Except in space. There, you can suck a whole alien through a tiny hole in a the craft, or so I hear.
Agreed on the proper home defense weapon, but I have to disagree that the weapon in question is either effective or unlikely to hurt innocent bystanders. A pistol that fires shotgun shells is just a horrible idea. Such a device is impossible to aim -- dangerous to the shooter and anyone close enough in a 45 or more degree arc. There's a reason that shotguns are as long as they are (legally anyways.) When you do shoot someone as a matter of home defense, he is then fighting for his life too. He may decide to run, or he may decide to fight. It is best if the intruder is in no condition to do either of these things. With respect to going through walls, a lower powered shell is not the answer. Anything that drywall can stop, a canvas jacket could as well. Until technology improves, we're just going to have to settle for aiming our shotguns carefully.
I'm with you on the nVidia driver problems. Every single fscking version of the kernel has a different module ABI, meaning binary modules built for other versions will not work. In short, there's no practical way nVidia can distribute a binary driver, like they do for windows. Instead, their installer attempts to compile a module for you, a valiant effort, but writing one script that will do that for you on every single Linux distribution (or even all the current ones) is virtually impossible. Hence, the nvidia driver never installs on the first shot. This is truly a Linux problem, and something that should be addressed. Of course, most people will say that nVidia just needs to open-source their driver so it can be a in a distro by default.
Also, decent dual monitor support virtually requires that you edit Xorg.conf by hand. The multiple screen configuration that is natural to X is not what most people want when they setup a dual head machine. Xinerama mode never worked well for me. Therefore nVidia and ATI provide scantly documented, proprietary merged framebuffer modes (ATI calls it MergedFB, nVidia calls it TwinView), which trick X into thinking your two monitors are one screen. Using these requires, you guessed it, manual hacking of Xorg.conf.
For instance, here's my device section:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "ATI Technologies"
BoardName "X1300 Pro"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal,reverse" #Enable Big Desktop
Option "Mode2" "1280x1024" #Resolution for second monitor
Option "DesktopSetup" "LVDS,AUTO" #the types of monitors that is connected LVDS = LCD, CRT, AUTO
Option "EnablePrivateBackZ" "yes" #Enable 3d support = May Not Work
Option "HSync2" "65" #This sets the horizontal sync for the secondary display.
Option "VRefresh2" "60" #This sets the refresh rate of the secondary display.
EndSection
Does anyone really think end users are supposed to have to do this?