When are you people going to realize that users don't buy an operating system...they buy APPLICATIONS, and as such buy the computer and the OS upon which they run?
The problem is that the Democrats can't fight a war on terror,
The current clusterfuck is NOT the Democrats' war. All Dubya, all the time. Which explains why it's a clusterfuck.
or keep Illegal (they call them Voters) immigrants out,
There's been no proof that illegals are voting. They try to keep as far under the radar as possible. If they're too scared to open a checking account at a bank, why would they attempt to register to vote?
while the Republicans can't keep Hollywood [snip] off our backs.
Funny, I recall actors being elected President and Governor of California. Both Republicans. Is there a connection?
"I'm sitting in my environmental engineering class (breadth elected, I'm a CompE major) ignoring the instructor to post on slashdot."
Too bad that while you were typing, the instructor mentioned something that would be on the exam, and he didn't write on the whiteboard and won't include it in his online lecture notes.
Perhaps you could call them right-wing, if you realize that the Republicans are NOT conservatives, and haven't been since Ronnie "let's run up the largest national debt in history" Reagan. They just like to pose as conservatives as a campaign strategy, since their real agenda wouldn't sell well to the public."
Exactly. Who were the big keynote speakers at the 2004 Republican Convention? Not the fundamentalist homophobic Christians who wield all the power in the GOP. Nope, the face of the GOP was the pro-choice pro-gay-rights divorcee Rudy Guiliani and pro-choice pro-gay-rights Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Plus a bunch of black people. Bait and switch.
I'm sure Mel Brooks would appreciate my paraphrase of a line from one of his movies: "Don't be stupid, be a smarty: come and join the Grand Old Party!"
If I remember correctly even Jesse Helms (the ORIGINAL SPONSOR of the DMCA) was criticizing the abuses of the DMCA just before he left office. This is simply one of the most unambiguously badly written laws in American legislative history."
As a SysAdmin I'm much less worried about the activities of a person I can just walk over to and beat the living crap out of. And since all the employees know that if they do something wrong on my network I will come over and beat the living crap out of them it's not really a problem at my company.
So, what happens when the employee whom you've beaten calls the police and has you arrested for assault and battery, and then sues both you (in civil court) AND sues the employer?
You might want to tone down your rhetoric before you become a liability to your employer.
Oh, wait, you're the SysAdmin, and you have the keys to the kingdom and can willfully damage all of your employer's data if you were to be fired.
Oh, wait, your former employer will know EXACTLY who caused the damage.
How many times do I have to tell people: a house is not an investment?
True, especially since if you sell your house and you want to live in the same city, clearly you'll pay more for your next house, and any profit you've made gets eaten up by the new house.
Yeah, great. Photoshop is already famous for it's amazingly high cost and the fact that it has somehow gotten itself to be the only one that the average joe knows about so they won't use alternatives. I mean, Paint Shop Pro (formerly Jasc, now Corel) costs about half the price and, as nearly as I've been able to tell in all the time I've been using both, has all the features of Photoshop, only PSP runs more smoothly. Then there's the GIMP, which is also quite capable and definitely quite free."
Yeah, yeah, great. Try using the Gimp for, say, color separations and pre-press stuff. Try using Paint Shop Pro for that.
PhotoShop was always more than cropping pictures and optimizing them for the web! It was designed to prepare images for print production. If you don't need those features, then maybe something else will work. If you DO need those features, then PhotoShop is the standard tool, and as usual, the cost of that tool is in the noise compared with the revenue one derives from using it.
Paper receipts printed by the voting machine can be falsified as easily as the votes themselves. I press the button for candidate JK, the machine prints out a receipt indicating that I voted for candidate JK, but in fact it records that I voted for candidate GWB. So what the hell good is a paper trail or a receipt?
That's bad.
Recounts are done only in the case of very close elections, perhaps with a vote difference of one percent or less. With an all-electronic system, of course you'll get the same number every time a "recount" is performed. Maybe with scanned ballots you'll get some slight differences (dirty machine? smudged ink?).
But consider a fraudulent voting system that allocates one vote cast for candidate JK out of every five instead to candidate GWB. This happens silently, in the machine. If the number of these fraudulent votes pushes candidate GWB's total over the recount threshold, then there's no recount and also there's no way of ever knowing that this took place.
That's Real Bad.
While it can be argued that the potential for fraud exists with hand counts, it's possible to minimize it by allowing representatives from all parties participate in and oversee the process of counting hand ballots. Ballots and counts can be challenged and verified or disqualified at the precinct level. Yes, it will take time to count the votes by hand. But the Consitution does not say that we must have the vote tallied before we go to bed on Election Night! So it takes a couple of weeks. That's fine. Democracy won't die from waiting. But it WILL die from fraudulent voting.
"Drop the salaries across the board, and you won't get lesser performances. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie aren't going to stop trying so hard because they get paid $1 million per film instead of $20 million per film. Hell, you might get big name actors to work a bit longer before retiring."
Yes, and no. I suppose that it helps if the lead actors are already wealthy enough to work for scale. But it helps even more if the actors think that the subject matter is worthy--that the film [i]should[/i] be made. This is why George Clooney took no salary to make Good Night, and Good Luck (in fact, he produced it, and as such put up his own money to get it made). Likewise, Don Cheadle was compelled to make Hotel Rwanda and as such, did it for basically nothing. Neither of these films cost more than $20 million to make and both are well worth your two hours and eight bucks.
I suppose the point some here are making is that the movies are "entertainment," and as such I would guess the majority of theatre-goers want to be entertained. They want eye candy and escapism. They don't want to have to think while wolfing down a pound of "buttered" popcorn and a gallon of soda. They don't want to have to pay attention to the intricate plots of Syriana or The Constant Gardener (ignoring, for the moment, what the films are trying to say). They just want a good ride. I suppose there's nothing wrong with that, but I think that those of us who like to exercise our brains prefer something more satisfying than Big Momma's House 2.
BTW, it's worth noting that NONE of the big Pixar/Disney 3D-animated films were nominated for Best Animated Feature. Let's see: there was a claymation feature, an old-skool 2D animated feature from the master in Japan, and a Tim Burton feature (through Warners, not Disney/Pixar). And the claymation feature won! (Because it was truly great.) Will Disney--errr, um, Steve Jobs?--get it? It's not about the rendering quality or the buddy jokes or the usual Disney crap. It's about the STORY.
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For the record, past Thinkpads should probably not be referred to as Lenovos, they didn't sell the line to them until recently.
While Lenovo wasn't selling them until recently, they've certainly been making them for quite some time.
BTW: I have a ThinkPad G40 and I think it's great. My wife has a G4 PowerBook which is also excellent. Neither machine have had any problems and they're both a couple of years old. I'd have a PowerBook, too, if certain engineering software ran on Mac OS X.
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Years ago... Nuff Said... FU Intel
Oh, puh-leeze. Next thing, you're not going to use Ethernet because your NIC has a unique ID code. Which, BTW, has been used forever by FlexLM to license software.
And, you can also determine what sort of AMD processor is installed on your machine...
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Go back to grade school. You're trying to say, "Who would have thought."
Or, contracted, you get, "Who would've thought."
In any case, you're wrong.
When are you people going to realize that users don't buy an operating system...they buy APPLICATIONS, and as such buy the computer and the OS upon which they run?
The current clusterfuck is NOT the Democrats' war. All Dubya, all the time. Which explains why it's a clusterfuck.
or keep Illegal (they call them Voters) immigrants out,
There's been no proof that illegals are voting. They try to keep as far under the radar as possible. If they're too scared to open a checking account at a bank, why would they attempt to register to vote?
while the Republicans can't keep Hollywood [snip] off our backs.
Funny, I recall actors being elected President and Governor of California. Both Republicans. Is there a connection?
the Federal Trade Commission will never let that happen.
Any relation to Senator Orrin Hatch?
...and what does this have to do with Catherine Zeta-Jones?
You'd lose that bet. I work for a living. Engineer, in fact.
My guess is that you don't get laid much, if at all.
Alienware's founders decided it was time to cash out. Smart move.
Dell had programmers? To do what?
but Dell is evil. No body smiled at work, and was always worried about loosing their jobs.
You might not have lost your job if you knew how to spell the word, "losing," you loser.
Too bad that while you were typing, the instructor mentioned something that would be on the exam, and he didn't write on the whiteboard and won't include it in his online lecture notes.
No way. It's the student's responsibility to take notes.
Next thing you'll say is that it's the professor's responsibility to provide exam questions before administering the test.
Exactly. Who were the big keynote speakers at the 2004 Republican Convention? Not the fundamentalist homophobic Christians who wield all the power in the GOP. Nope, the face of the GOP was the pro-choice pro-gay-rights divorcee Rudy Guiliani and pro-choice pro-gay-rights Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Plus a bunch of black people. Bait and switch.
I'm sure Mel Brooks would appreciate my paraphrase of a line from one of his movies: "Don't be stupid, be a smarty: come and join the Grand Old Party!"
The USA-PATRIOT act is a lot worse.
And occasionally have a bit of veal.
Ummmm, veal comes from COW, not sheep. Thanks for playing, though.
So, what happens when the employee whom you've beaten calls the police and has you arrested for assault and battery, and then sues both you (in civil court) AND sues the employer?
You might want to tone down your rhetoric before you become a liability to your employer.
Oh, wait, you're the SysAdmin, and you have the keys to the kingdom and can willfully damage all of your employer's data if you were to be fired.
Oh, wait, your former employer will know EXACTLY who caused the damage.
True, especially since if you sell your house and you want to live in the same city, clearly you'll pay more for your next house, and any profit you've made gets eaten up by the new house.
Yeah, yeah, great. Try using the Gimp for, say, color separations and pre-press stuff. Try using Paint Shop Pro for that.
PhotoShop was always more than cropping pictures and optimizing them for the web! It was designed to prepare images for print production. If you don't need those features, then maybe something else will work. If you DO need those features, then PhotoShop is the standard tool, and as usual, the cost of that tool is in the noise compared with the revenue one derives from using it.
Paper receipts printed by the voting machine can be falsified as easily as the votes themselves. I press the button for candidate JK, the machine prints out a receipt indicating that I voted for candidate JK, but in fact it records that I voted for candidate GWB. So what the hell good is a paper trail or a receipt?
That's bad.
Recounts are done only in the case of very close elections, perhaps with a vote difference of one percent or less. With an all-electronic system, of course you'll get the same number every time a "recount" is performed. Maybe with scanned ballots you'll get some slight differences (dirty machine? smudged ink?).
But consider a fraudulent voting system that allocates one vote cast for candidate JK out of every five instead to candidate GWB. This happens silently, in the machine. If the number of these fraudulent votes pushes candidate GWB's total over the recount threshold, then there's no recount and also there's no way of ever knowing that this took place.
That's Real Bad.
While it can be argued that the potential for fraud exists with hand counts, it's possible to minimize it by allowing representatives from all parties participate in and oversee the process of counting hand ballots. Ballots and counts can be challenged and verified or disqualified at the precinct level. Yes, it will take time to count the votes by hand. But the Consitution does not say that we must have the vote tallied before we go to bed on Election Night! So it takes a couple of weeks. That's fine. Democracy won't die from waiting. But it WILL die from fraudulent voting.
My musings are here.
Yes, and no. I suppose that it helps if the lead actors are already wealthy enough to work for scale. But it helps even more if the actors think that the subject matter is worthy--that the film [i]should[/i] be made. This is why George Clooney took no salary to make Good Night, and Good Luck (in fact, he produced it, and as such put up his own money to get it made). Likewise, Don Cheadle was compelled to make Hotel Rwanda and as such, did it for basically nothing. Neither of these films cost more than $20 million to make and both are well worth your two hours and eight bucks.
I suppose the point some here are making is that the movies are "entertainment," and as such I would guess the majority of theatre-goers want to be entertained. They want eye candy and escapism. They don't want to have to think while wolfing down a pound of "buttered" popcorn and a gallon of soda. They don't want to have to pay attention to the intricate plots of Syriana or The Constant Gardener (ignoring, for the moment, what the films are trying to say). They just want a good ride. I suppose there's nothing wrong with that, but I think that those of us who like to exercise our brains prefer something more satisfying than Big Momma's House 2.
BTW, it's worth noting that NONE of the big Pixar/Disney 3D-animated films were nominated for Best Animated Feature. Let's see: there was a claymation feature, an old-skool 2D animated feature from the master in Japan, and a Tim Burton feature (through Warners, not Disney/Pixar). And the claymation feature won! (Because it was truly great.) Will Disney--errr, um, Steve Jobs?--get it? It's not about the rendering quality or the buddy jokes or the usual Disney crap. It's about the STORY.
While Lenovo wasn't selling them until recently, they've certainly been making them for quite some time.
BTW: I have a ThinkPad G40 and I think it's great. My wife has a G4 PowerBook which is also excellent. Neither machine have had any problems and they're both a couple of years old. I'd have a PowerBook, too, if certain engineering software ran on Mac OS X.
Oh, puh-leeze. Next thing, you're not going to use Ethernet because your NIC has a unique ID code. Which, BTW, has been used forever by FlexLM to license software.
And, you can also determine what sort of AMD processor is installed on your machine ...
Sounds like they take their cues from the Bush Administration.
They may not take taxes from you -- but they can certainly use any DRM scheme they care to use.