I suspect this may be a case where correlation does not imply causality. It's entirely possible that children who were breast fed came from families that cared more about health over convienence and instilled those beliefs in their children.
Because it made it clear that the guy who was supposed to be in charge of this stuff for the government was about half way to step 1 on understanding the nature of what he was writing laws about. The guy was giving a talk that was at a level we might have given grade school children in 1995, in 2006, to the US congress. One got the impression that he had just finally read up on how the whole thing worked a week before that speech.
I had a bunch of X10 stuff for awhile, but the quality control was really bad. Appliance modules would turn off and on randomly, the motion sensor just plain stopped working after a few months, and pretty much everything gave me trouble after awhile except for the big white remotes in the freebie box they (used to?) give out. Maybe they've gotten a handle on their quality control since then, but I still don't trust them.
If you really want to get their attention, make sure you run down all of the stuff Fair Use and Copyright allows you to do. The chances are good that at least some of the kids will be hit with a Cease and Desist for doing something that is actually legal at some point in their lives. If they know the law they can be in much better shape than they would be otherwise. Sampling of music for instance is a good topic area to cover, as is parody, and educational use. Make sure you stress the importance of the public domain and why neverending (or exceedingly long) copyrights are such a bad idea. Remember that the work of the greats was built on the shoulders of everyone who came before them, overly restrictive copyright laws stifle innovation in the long run. The Public Domain is probably the most important resource the world has.
If you ever have to send your drive in for warentee work, just make sure you reflash it with standard firmware. If you brick your drive by flashing the firmware, then you're probably SOL, but that's a pretty rare occurance unless you're the kind of person who can't read directions.
Contemplate the flip side of the equation. If drugs were legal but regulated your daughter wouldn't have had to sneak and hide until it was too late to help her. If she had gotten help at the first sign of trouble, without social stigma and threat of jail time, then she might be alive today. Because we force drugs onto the black market and force authorities to punish offenders as harshly as possible, we create a system that almost guarentees that anybody who gets in trouble will have only the worst elements of society to support them.
The flipside of this is that if drug use was legalized we would have a definate increase in drug use in this country. If your agenda is to stop all recreational drug use entirely, well, I've got bad news. The cat is out of the bag and history has shown that it can't be put back in. By keeping it illegal you can reduce the number of people using drugs, but you put those people in a far worse position than they would be in otherwise. Chances are you also increase the number of problem cases despite decreasing the total number of drug users.
Eh, it's not like the dead need all of that stuff. It's generally distasteful, but if it helps people understand the past better I can't complain that much. If it's just being sold to private collectors or melted down for the gold then I think there is more room to complain, but when you're actually learning new things about the past there is a strong case to be made for swiping and preserving those historical artifacts.
From what I've seen, Ground Penetrating Radar is not all that it's cracked up to be. I've seen lots of shows where they're using it and most of the time it's about as accurate as a divining rod. It's entirely possible that Hollywood just doesn't know how to use the things properly, but it seems to me that unless there is a big chunk of metal embedded with whatever you're looking for, GPR just doesn't work very well.
I don't know exactly what kind of Matsushita drive is in the MBPs, but many of them can be flashed to be region free. The behavior you describe is normal for a region locked DVD drive by the way, they're all supposed to work that way.
IIRC, Union county has ~14000 residents. That is a big reason paper ballots worked for them. With barely enough people to fill a single town, you don't run into any of the issues of scale that plague the larger jurisdictions in the country.
The IBM PC wasn't so much "leaked" as it was just well documented and frankly there wasn't much in the OS that you could hide. There wasn't much there at all (this was back in MS DOS and Windows 3.1 days) actually. Apple's OS had a lot more features, and the machine forced you to use them (unlike DOS where you could always just twiddle with the hardware directly if it came down to it), but didn't document many of them. Apple wasn't interested in documenting them either, they considered hackers a threat and not the kind of users they wanted anyway. It didn't occur to Apple that most of those people were just trying to do something that Apple hadn't anticipated, not something nefarious.
That said, for aspiring young programmers, Hypercard was loads better than GWBasic, and back then you got a full Hypercard development environment with your OS, not the retarded "Hypercard Player".
You mean the Centris machines? I remember those being rather overpriced for their performance, many of them were even bad road Apples. Even more, Apple was being undercut by the clone manufacturers. While I'm still not sure opening up the market to the clones was a terrible idea, it is obvious that it hurt Apple bottom line in the 90s.
We also have to get rid of our expectations to know the winner of the election on the day of the election or the next. Sane people are willing to wait a few weeks to get all of the counting done I guess.
What would be the point of that? The exit polls have been stunninging wrong for the past two elections anyway. Apparently Republicans just don't take the things, because they're always a several point difference from the actual results.
Heck, the fact that it won't play European region Blu-Ray Movies is one reason people buy second consoles. It's not uncommon at all to buy a second player if you import a lot of movies from another country, especially if you feel legally queasy about modding your DVD player to ignore regions.
"Portable" doesn't always mean "use it exclusivly on the airplane". Sometimes you need something that you can easily pick up and move, but not necessarily use on the go. There are also times when you need the faster graphics card, memory, processor, etc... and larger laptops make sense.
So, when they say they're going to offer a replacement service for the controllers, is it going to be something like: Send us your old controller and $50 and we'll send you a new one?
It's my experience that Li-Po batteries don't suffer from a memory effect, but they do wear out after a number of charge and discharge cycles. In particular, the "battery conditioning" that most laptops do (slightly draining and recharging the battery constantly) seems to wear them out pretty fast. We'll have to see how these controllers stand up.
To be fair, most troop leaders are average guys who are more interested in teaching kids how to tie knots and go camping. It's the higher ups who have gone completely off their rocker. I was a boy scout all the way until 18 and even then there were plenty of signs that the higher ups were not quite in touch with the real world. They used to have this funny requirement that the boys must believe in a monotheistic diety of some sort, although they were careful not to actually say "Christian God" outright. Down at the troop level that requirement was quietly swept under the rug. It's a shame the scouts have gotten saddled with this, because it is a great organization for teaching children leadership skills (patrol leaders have quite a big of responsibility) and a variety of useful skills for life. Everybody in the world should know how to tie a Bowline and Taut-line hitch, those two knots are invaluable in daily life.
I guess the kids also get a lesson in how messed up upper management can be...
Either way, no matter how messed up the Boy Scouts are, they still have nothing on the Girl Scouts. Talk about an organization that doesn't know what it's doing. They're still not sure if they should be teaching girls how to cook, how to camp, or how to not speak unless spoken to. It doesn't help that girls interested in the more exciting parts of scouting can join the Boy Scouts via the Venture program.
Yeah, how long have they been promising to update the engine now? It seems to have gotten to the point where the developers look at the engine and throw up their hands in despair. There have been some improvements, but they tend to be pretty incremental, although the change to the lighting system was a nice and sorely needed.
Ultimately, these guys need to kick their union and get them to specify that promotional materials cannot be purchased by the consumer, and must be of lesser value (based on market value) than anything they come bundled with. Reclassifing stuff that they're selling as "promotional materials" is clearly bogus, and they need to be called on it.
Eh, most rackmountable servers from venders you might buy a home machine from suck. I'm talking IBM, Dell, HP, the whole lot. Dell gets special points for choosing only the loudest possible fans for their machines. A whole rack of them practically requires ear protection to work near.
The MIPSpro compilers were wicked good at optimizing, easily beating the pants off of GCC, but they were very very picky about your code. Compiling random stuff off of the internet with them was challenging, and it was common to have to fix a bunch of little bugs in the code to get it to compile for you. There were times where a programmer decided he loved some technique and decided to use it everywhere, integrating it into the core of his code. In these cases, porting the program was hopeless. I kept both gcc and MIPSpro on my box just for those situations. Using gcc all of the time was a lousy option though, it produced code 20-50% slower on average, even on the most aggressive optimizer settings (which were buggy in their own right). Of course this was back in the gcc 2.95 days, the difference might not be so pronounced these days, especially since new development on MIPSpro has been dead for years.
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I suspect this may be a case where correlation does not imply causality. It's entirely possible that children who were breast fed came from families that cared more about health over convienence and instilled those beliefs in their children.
Because it made it clear that the guy who was supposed to be in charge of this stuff for the government was about half way to step 1 on understanding the nature of what he was writing laws about. The guy was giving a talk that was at a level we might have given grade school children in 1995, in 2006, to the US congress. One got the impression that he had just finally read up on how the whole thing worked a week before that speech.
I had a bunch of X10 stuff for awhile, but the quality control was really bad. Appliance modules would turn off and on randomly, the motion sensor just plain stopped working after a few months, and pretty much everything gave me trouble after awhile except for the big white remotes in the freebie box they (used to?) give out. Maybe they've gotten a handle on their quality control since then, but I still don't trust them.
How often does a game you buy turn out to be crap, especially if it's evident in the first 5 minutse that the game is crap?
If you really want to get their attention, make sure you run down all of the stuff Fair Use and Copyright allows you to do. The chances are good that at least some of the kids will be hit with a Cease and Desist for doing something that is actually legal at some point in their lives. If they know the law they can be in much better shape than they would be otherwise. Sampling of music for instance is a good topic area to cover, as is parody, and educational use. Make sure you stress the importance of the public domain and why neverending (or exceedingly long) copyrights are such a bad idea. Remember that the work of the greats was built on the shoulders of everyone who came before them, overly restrictive copyright laws stifle innovation in the long run. The Public Domain is probably the most important resource the world has.
If you ever have to send your drive in for warentee work, just make sure you reflash it with standard firmware. If you brick your drive by flashing the firmware, then you're probably SOL, but that's a pretty rare occurance unless you're the kind of person who can't read directions.
Contemplate the flip side of the equation. If drugs were legal but regulated your daughter wouldn't have had to sneak and hide until it was too late to help her. If she had gotten help at the first sign of trouble, without social stigma and threat of jail time, then she might be alive today. Because we force drugs onto the black market and force authorities to punish offenders as harshly as possible, we create a system that almost guarentees that anybody who gets in trouble will have only the worst elements of society to support them.
The flipside of this is that if drug use was legalized we would have a definate increase in drug use in this country. If your agenda is to stop all recreational drug use entirely, well, I've got bad news. The cat is out of the bag and history has shown that it can't be put back in. By keeping it illegal you can reduce the number of people using drugs, but you put those people in a far worse position than they would be in otherwise. Chances are you also increase the number of problem cases despite decreasing the total number of drug users.
Eh, it's not like the dead need all of that stuff. It's generally distasteful, but if it helps people understand the past better I can't complain that much. If it's just being sold to private collectors or melted down for the gold then I think there is more room to complain, but when you're actually learning new things about the past there is a strong case to be made for swiping and preserving those historical artifacts.
From what I've seen, Ground Penetrating Radar is not all that it's cracked up to be. I've seen lots of shows where they're using it and most of the time it's about as accurate as a divining rod. It's entirely possible that Hollywood just doesn't know how to use the things properly, but it seems to me that unless there is a big chunk of metal embedded with whatever you're looking for, GPR just doesn't work very well.
I don't know exactly what kind of Matsushita drive is in the MBPs, but many of them can be flashed to be region free. The behavior you describe is normal for a region locked DVD drive by the way, they're all supposed to work that way.
IIRC, Union county has ~14000 residents. That is a big reason paper ballots worked for them. With barely enough people to fill a single town, you don't run into any of the issues of scale that plague the larger jurisdictions in the country.
The IBM PC wasn't so much "leaked" as it was just well documented and frankly there wasn't much in the OS that you could hide. There wasn't much there at all (this was back in MS DOS and Windows 3.1 days) actually. Apple's OS had a lot more features, and the machine forced you to use them (unlike DOS where you could always just twiddle with the hardware directly if it came down to it), but didn't document many of them. Apple wasn't interested in documenting them either, they considered hackers a threat and not the kind of users they wanted anyway. It didn't occur to Apple that most of those people were just trying to do something that Apple hadn't anticipated, not something nefarious.
That said, for aspiring young programmers, Hypercard was loads better than GWBasic, and back then you got a full Hypercard development environment with your OS, not the retarded "Hypercard Player".
You mean the Centris machines? I remember those being rather overpriced for their performance, many of them were even bad road Apples. Even more, Apple was being undercut by the clone manufacturers. While I'm still not sure opening up the market to the clones was a terrible idea, it is obvious that it hurt Apple bottom line in the 90s.
We also have to get rid of our expectations to know the winner of the election on the day of the election or the next. Sane people are willing to wait a few weeks to get all of the counting done I guess.
What would be the point of that? The exit polls have been stunninging wrong for the past two elections anyway. Apparently Republicans just don't take the things, because they're always a several point difference from the actual results.
Heck, the fact that it won't play European region Blu-Ray Movies is one reason people buy second consoles. It's not uncommon at all to buy a second player if you import a lot of movies from another country, especially if you feel legally queasy about modding your DVD player to ignore regions.
Given Sony's history with batteries, you may be out of luck.
"Portable" doesn't always mean "use it exclusivly on the airplane". Sometimes you need something that you can easily pick up and move, but not necessarily use on the go. There are also times when you need the faster graphics card, memory, processor, etc... and larger laptops make sense.
So, when they say they're going to offer a replacement service for the controllers, is it going to be something like: Send us your old controller and $50 and we'll send you a new one?
It's my experience that Li-Po batteries don't suffer from a memory effect, but they do wear out after a number of charge and discharge cycles. In particular, the "battery conditioning" that most laptops do (slightly draining and recharging the battery constantly) seems to wear them out pretty fast. We'll have to see how these controllers stand up.
To be fair, most troop leaders are average guys who are more interested in teaching kids how to tie knots and go camping. It's the higher ups who have gone completely off their rocker. I was a boy scout all the way until 18 and even then there were plenty of signs that the higher ups were not quite in touch with the real world. They used to have this funny requirement that the boys must believe in a monotheistic diety of some sort, although they were careful not to actually say "Christian God" outright. Down at the troop level that requirement was quietly swept under the rug. It's a shame the scouts have gotten saddled with this, because it is a great organization for teaching children leadership skills (patrol leaders have quite a big of responsibility) and a variety of useful skills for life. Everybody in the world should know how to tie a Bowline and Taut-line hitch, those two knots are invaluable in daily life.
I guess the kids also get a lesson in how messed up upper management can be...
Either way, no matter how messed up the Boy Scouts are, they still have nothing on the Girl Scouts. Talk about an organization that doesn't know what it's doing. They're still not sure if they should be teaching girls how to cook, how to camp, or how to not speak unless spoken to. It doesn't help that girls interested in the more exciting parts of scouting can join the Boy Scouts via the Venture program.
Yeah, how long have they been promising to update the engine now? It seems to have gotten to the point where the developers look at the engine and throw up their hands in despair. There have been some improvements, but they tend to be pretty incremental, although the change to the lighting system was a nice and sorely needed.
Ultimately, these guys need to kick their union and get them to specify that promotional materials cannot be purchased by the consumer, and must be of lesser value (based on market value) than anything they come bundled with. Reclassifing stuff that they're selling as "promotional materials" is clearly bogus, and they need to be called on it.
The only problem is that you miss out on the occasions where something good does come on TV, like the new Battlestar Galactica.
Eh, most rackmountable servers from venders you might buy a home machine from suck. I'm talking IBM, Dell, HP, the whole lot. Dell gets special points for choosing only the loudest possible fans for their machines. A whole rack of them practically requires ear protection to work near.
The MIPSpro compilers were wicked good at optimizing, easily beating the pants off of GCC, but they were very very picky about your code. Compiling random stuff off of the internet with them was challenging, and it was common to have to fix a bunch of little bugs in the code to get it to compile for you. There were times where a programmer decided he loved some technique and decided to use it everywhere, integrating it into the core of his code. In these cases, porting the program was hopeless. I kept both gcc and MIPSpro on my box just for those situations. Using gcc all of the time was a lousy option though, it produced code 20-50% slower on average, even on the most aggressive optimizer settings (which were buggy in their own right). Of course this was back in the gcc 2.95 days, the difference might not be so pronounced these days, especially since new development on MIPSpro has been dead for years.