That argument doesn't make sense, even if Apple made the right proc move. Why introduce an extra processor switch that only alienates your customer base?
Real Life Apple - Apple][... Mac... 68000 Mac.
Alternate Universe Apple - Apple ][... 68000 Apple.
Apple has made processor transitions with the mac that have gone relatively well... why couldn't the same evolution have occurred with an Apple][ ancestor?
There are certain styles of games that just aren't easily played on a console. Some games just need a mouse, and the keyboard doesn't hurt either. (Showing their age, but Diablo II, Starcraft, probably Civ type games too). Yes, I know there are add-on keyboards and such for consoles, but they aren't standard. On the other hand, it's sort of silly to have gamepad-style peripherals for a PC anymore because those games are indeed better played on a console.
I was more or less forced to buy Quickbooks Pro 2004 for our family business, though if I had been adamant I probably could have avoided it, but I didn't know how bad the software was. I have to say I have been terribly disappointed in the flexibility of the software. As I read the manual I am continually discovering that certain features just don't quite fit aspects of our business. The manual says things like "if your business requires X, then you will probably not be able to use this feature." If I was any kind of programmer I could probably write a custom app that would work much better.
There are two payroll employees right now (the partners use a "draw"), and the payroll has been done on paper for 18 years. Forcing it into QB was not going to happen, and especially not if I'm going to have to pay and be locked-in. I'll just let them do it on paper like they always have, and how they understand it.
Employers should be more accepting of PDFs because of formatting issues, and because of the potential macro viruses. I have Word97, but I really resent the assumption that I have spent money on a particular program.
A run-of-the-mill Money Market Fund earns about 2% annually. It would not be unheard of for an interest-bearing checking account to earn 1% (though perhaps w/ a minimum balance). You are right that this guy should have some more aggressive savings plans, but he's getting well below market value for even the most conservative types of investments.
In addition to the work of getting OOo installed, I would need to re-record all my macros. I'm not about to do that when they work just fine on Excel97, which I have no forseeable plans to upgrade.
Break-up would not have been as useless as you suggest. The "Office" group would then have an incentive to make MS Office for other platforms. And the IE group the same - but for sale, not for free. Windows would maintain its monopoly ONLY by improving and being technically competitive because the availability of Office and IE for other platforms reduces OS lock-in.
You could probably leave the "everything else" (games, etc.) software with Windows, or give it to IE so that it has a chance to survive.
My guess is that Office might be the strongest monopoly. However, it would be difficult to illegally leverage the Office monopoly on to other markets, which was really the problem in the first place.
It doesn't make more US programming jobs. It makes more jobs total, in all sectors combined, in all nations involved, on the whole. Some of those newly-created jobs will be in the US, but they won't be programming jobs for the most part. "The winners win more than the losers lose."
Offshoring is just a information-age version of buying imported goods. Buy enough Japanese cars and Americans will lose their auto-making jobs.
And on that comparison, I will borrow an analogy from some economist whose name I have long forgotten:
-Suppose that somebody developed a process for turning wheat into cars. Suppose that this process was less expensive than the usual process. THAT'S what importing is. And by extended analogy, that's what offshoring is.
There are ups and downs to free trade, but ignorance should not be the platform of debate about free trade. (Is your car an import? Do you shop at walmart/kmart/target?)
While Netflicks might be most directly impacted by this group, Blockbuster doesn't benefit by having free content available online either. "Cutting off your nose to spite your face".
The lightest flying contraption I am aware of is the giant-fan-plus-gliding-parachute system. Somebody could probably calculate how much energy a person could reasonably produce and whether it would be sufficient to mechanically power such a fan/prop.
In retrospect, you are mostly correct. However, after seeing IE4 totally trash my college roommate's Win95 install, I continued to relied on NS4.x
Besides, I liked the UI better, particularly bookmark management. And I preferred Netscape for mail and newsgroups too. Also, for some reason NS would open a new window maximized but I could never get IE4 to do that despite tweaking. The constant crashing did get on my nerves quite a bit though. But as far as page rendering and crashiness, yeah, IE4 kicked Netscape 4.x's ass.
I'm in bigassed-lever-voting-machine land, so I hadn't given much thought as to how a touchscreen system would handle that situation. I'm guessing that rather than "none of the above" it would probably say something like "do not vote in this contest". Choosing not to vote in this circumstance would be the same as voting an affirmative "none" because the machine would prompt you and you couldn't accidentally fail to cast a vote.
Yes, you are right about (turnout - votes cast) = (undervote + overvote). (Again, being in level-machine land, no such thing as overvote.) However, there's nothing preventing the news media from reporting these statistics.
I still don't think that the American electorate could get a grip on "none of the above", especially if NOTA happened to win. We are legally and socially ill-equipped to deal with that situation.
In the US we don't just vote for President, but also for Congress at the same time, and in most places many other offices and ballot questions. One can easily choose not to vote for any particular office or question. It's not invalid. Some (Democrat Party lawyers) might consider this "undervote", but it isn't invalid. "Overvote" (accidentally voting for two candidates for the same office) is an invalid ballot. The news media may not report it often, but the "undervote" (either accidental or "blank vote") can easily be obtained by subtracting votes cast from turnout.
I'm not sure how this particular iterated PD game works, but in the serious academic version, there is uncertainty about which round is the last round. This accounts for "last round" defections, and also the subsequent collapse of any cooperation strategy by working backwards induction through the game and defecting on the "real" last round to one-up your opponent. (Knowing that your opponent is likely to defect on round N, you defect on N-1, N-2, N-3, back to the start of the game with a dominant "defect" strategy).
Sort of like the parable of the teacher who said there'd be a pop quiz but you wouldn't know what day it was. Obviously it wasn't Friday, because on Thursday you'd know the quiz was friday. Likewise for Thursday because if the quiz wasn't friday, and if you got to wednesday w/o a quiz, then you would know the quiz was thursday, and therefore the quiz couldn't be on thursday... leading to the conclusion that there is no quiz. Not a perfect example (since then the teacher could give the quiz on any day and it would be equally unknowable given the possibility of "no quiz"), but I hope it clarifies some.
My statement about "the same conclusion about Iraq's weapons programs" should have been clarified to specify that they agreed on the existence of these weapons.
Your quip about my logic is strage. Same evidence, both agree weapons existed, but somehow Bush "lied" when EVERYBODY said the exact same thing.
Premise: There was substantial evidence that Iraq had WMDs. Bush: "Iraq has WMDs" Kerry (and everybody else): "Iraq has WMDs"
Leftist morons: Bush lied AND Kerry is a truth teller.
The leftist morons cannot be right. This is perfectly clear logic.
First, thank you for being the first Non-AC to respond. I am tempted to rebut these AC's, but don't feel like getting into a pissing war with nobody in particular.
The weapons inspectors were being hindered and deceived by Saddam Hussein's regime. In other words, there was a very good reason to believe that they would (at best) be delayed from finding the weapons that EVERYBODY thought they had. The difference between the Bush philosophy and Kerry's is that Bush didn't think we could afford to wait for some indefinite period of time before taking action. (Shades of Clinton's warning against "some ambiguous third path...") Both candidates agree that WMD in the hands of terrorists is the most pressing issue facing the nation. Bush acted on that belief.
Iraq was indeed invaded for WMD. The WMDs that every credible government, politician and agency thought they had, including people in Saddam's government. (This would be why Kerry said that voting to authorize force was still the right vote.) That there are numerous other reasons for invading Iraq only ADDS to the hawk-ish position, not detracts from it.
"Lies", which were also forcefully and repeatedly asserted by John Kerry, John Edwards, Daschle, the UN, Clinton, Albright, Gore, Ted Kennedy, Sandy Berger...
Looking at the EXACT SAME INTELLIGENCE as Bush, Kerry came to the same conclusion about Iraq's weapons programs. Logically, Kerry is therefore either a dupe or a liar himself.
, stripping away civil liberties,
by requiring that all the "evil" snooping requires JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT, and the common sense to AVOID telling a terrorist suspect that you're looking at him/her closely. Oh yeah, and how 'bout the fact that the PATRIOT act expires and is subject to perpetual review. The real destruction of our civil liberties started with "campaign finance reform" AKA "how to keep certain people from exercising political speech when it is most relevant".
and skewing the tax code to favour the welathy
How about: giving a tax break to all who actually pay taxes and create jobs, and done so in such a way that makes the tax code marginally less skewed against the rich than before. ["favour"? Not so USian, are we?]
and bankrupt the treasury is not excusable.
A deficit during a recession-terrorist attack-war was probably inevitable, but I will agree wholeheartedly that spending has not been restrained and damn well ought to be - starting with fundamental Medicare and Social Security reforms.
karma be damned - I couldn't let that string of nonsense go unanswered.
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Let's have a big AMEN to that! Voyager was so, soooo bad for much of its run. Enterprise is way better than 90% of Voyager episodes.
And considering that Archer approved Trip's request for transfer, the plotline seems set to end, however abruptly.
So what do you call the last episode ever to be made? (The end of a US series)
Real Life Apple - Apple][... Mac... 68000 Mac.
Alternate Universe Apple - Apple ][... 68000 Apple.
Apple has made processor transitions with the mac that have gone relatively well... why couldn't the same evolution have occurred with an Apple][ ancestor?
There are certain styles of games that just aren't easily played on a console. Some games just need a mouse, and the keyboard doesn't hurt either. (Showing their age, but Diablo II, Starcraft, probably Civ type games too). Yes, I know there are add-on keyboards and such for consoles, but they aren't standard. On the other hand, it's sort of silly to have gamepad-style peripherals for a PC anymore because those games are indeed better played on a console.
There are two payroll employees right now (the partners use a "draw"), and the payroll has been done on paper for 18 years. Forcing it into QB was not going to happen, and especially not if I'm going to have to pay and be locked-in. I'll just let them do it on paper like they always have, and how they understand it.
Employers should be more accepting of PDFs because of formatting issues, and because of the potential macro viruses. I have Word97, but I really resent the assumption that I have spent money on a particular program.
A run-of-the-mill Money Market Fund earns about 2% annually. It would not be unheard of for an interest-bearing checking account to earn 1% (though perhaps w/ a minimum balance). You are right that this guy should have some more aggressive savings plans, but he's getting well below market value for even the most conservative types of investments.
"bow-chicka-wah-wah".
In addition to the work of getting OOo installed, I would need to re-record all my macros. I'm not about to do that when they work just fine on Excel97, which I have no forseeable plans to upgrade.
For me, it's a lot of work just for "philosophy".
You could probably leave the "everything else" (games, etc.) software with Windows, or give it to IE so that it has a chance to survive.
My guess is that Office might be the strongest monopoly. However, it would be difficult to illegally leverage the Office monopoly on to other markets, which was really the problem in the first place.
Offshoring is just a information-age version of buying imported goods. Buy enough Japanese cars and Americans will lose their auto-making jobs.
And on that comparison, I will borrow an analogy from some economist whose name I have long forgotten:
-Suppose that somebody developed a process for turning wheat into cars. Suppose that this process was less expensive than the usual process. THAT'S what importing is. And by extended analogy, that's what offshoring is.
There are ups and downs to free trade, but ignorance should not be the platform of debate about free trade. (Is your car an import? Do you shop at walmart/kmart/target?)
While Netflicks might be most directly impacted by this group, Blockbuster doesn't benefit by having free content available online either. "Cutting off your nose to spite your face".
Some might even say that France is Our Oldest Enemy. Come to think of it, many French seemed to be adapting to the Vichy government quite well.
(Thus sayeth the American with French and German heritage, among others.)
I remember seeing "Tuvoc" as a (human) bad guy on a TNG episode... "Tom Paris" also, iirc.
The lightest flying contraption I am aware of is the giant-fan-plus-gliding-parachute system. Somebody could probably calculate how much energy a person could reasonably produce and whether it would be sufficient to mechanically power such a fan/prop.
Besides, I liked the UI better, particularly bookmark management. And I preferred Netscape for mail and newsgroups too. Also, for some reason NS would open a new window maximized but I could never get IE4 to do that despite tweaking. The constant crashing did get on my nerves quite a bit though. But as far as page rendering and crashiness, yeah, IE4 kicked Netscape 4.x's ass.
Yes, you are right about (turnout - votes cast) = (undervote + overvote). (Again, being in level-machine land, no such thing as overvote.) However, there's nothing preventing the news media from reporting these statistics.
I still don't think that the American electorate could get a grip on "none of the above", especially if NOTA happened to win. We are legally and socially ill-equipped to deal with that situation.
In the US we don't just vote for President, but also for Congress at the same time, and in most places many other offices and ballot questions. One can easily choose not to vote for any particular office or question. It's not invalid. Some (Democrat Party lawyers) might consider this "undervote", but it isn't invalid. "Overvote" (accidentally voting for two candidates for the same office) is an invalid ballot. The news media may not report it often, but the "undervote" (either accidental or "blank vote") can easily be obtained by subtracting votes cast from turnout.
Sort of like the parable of the teacher who said there'd be a pop quiz but you wouldn't know what day it was. Obviously it wasn't Friday, because on Thursday you'd know the quiz was friday. Likewise for Thursday because if the quiz wasn't friday, and if you got to wednesday w/o a quiz, then you would know the quiz was thursday, and therefore the quiz couldn't be on thursday... leading to the conclusion that there is no quiz. Not a perfect example (since then the teacher could give the quiz on any day and it would be equally unknowable given the possibility of "no quiz"), but I hope it clarifies some.
Not exactly. In many games there can be several Nash equilibria, any of which could be a possible outcome.
Your quip about my logic is strage. Same evidence, both agree weapons existed, but somehow Bush "lied" when EVERYBODY said the exact same thing.
Premise: There was substantial evidence that Iraq had WMDs.
Bush: "Iraq has WMDs"
Kerry (and everybody else): "Iraq has WMDs"
Leftist morons: Bush lied AND Kerry is a truth teller.
The leftist morons cannot be right. This is perfectly clear logic.
The weapons inspectors were being hindered and deceived by Saddam Hussein's regime. In other words, there was a very good reason to believe that they would (at best) be delayed from finding the weapons that EVERYBODY thought they had. The difference between the Bush philosophy and Kerry's is that Bush didn't think we could afford to wait for some indefinite period of time before taking action. (Shades of Clinton's warning against "some ambiguous third path...") Both candidates agree that WMD in the hands of terrorists is the most pressing issue facing the nation. Bush acted on that belief.
Iraq was indeed invaded for WMD. The WMDs that every credible government, politician and agency thought they had, including people in Saddam's government. (This would be why Kerry said that voting to authorize force was still the right vote.) That there are numerous other reasons for invading Iraq only ADDS to the hawk-ish position, not detracts from it.
"Lies", which were also forcefully and repeatedly asserted by John Kerry, John Edwards, Daschle, the UN, Clinton, Albright, Gore, Ted Kennedy, Sandy Berger...
Looking at the EXACT SAME INTELLIGENCE as Bush, Kerry came to the same conclusion about Iraq's weapons programs. Logically, Kerry is therefore either a dupe or a liar himself.
, stripping away civil liberties,
by requiring that all the "evil" snooping requires JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT, and the common sense to AVOID telling a terrorist suspect that you're looking at him/her closely. Oh yeah, and how 'bout the fact that the PATRIOT act expires and is subject to perpetual review. The real destruction of our civil liberties started with "campaign finance reform" AKA "how to keep certain people from exercising political speech when it is most relevant".
and skewing the tax code to favour the welathy
How about: giving a tax break to all who actually pay taxes and create jobs, and done so in such a way that makes the tax code marginally less skewed against the rich than before. ["favour"? Not so USian, are we?]
and bankrupt the treasury is not excusable.
A deficit during a recession-terrorist attack-war was probably inevitable, but I will agree wholeheartedly that spending has not been restrained and damn well ought to be - starting with fundamental Medicare and Social Security reforms.
karma be damned - I couldn't let that string of nonsense go unanswered.
If it can't be done with RTF, it probably shouldn't.