That seems to a bigger problem. Also dark asphalt roofs seemed a bit ridiculous next to reddish ceramic tiles.
(Don't laugh, one of the problems of climate change is when the poles shrink/melt, the reflectivity of ice and snow gives way to water which rather absorbs the heat, basically escalating a rising problem with temperature).
to make ram cheaper again relative to hard drive size (in proportion).
8-9 years ago, in 2001, I already had upgraded to 1GB ram in my desktop PC. I suppose it was the 32bit limit and what not, but while hard drive space grew a lot back then, ram size growth really seemed to slow down since then. Even now the manufacturers are getting to grips with 64bit Windows and often the computers sold with 2GB ram (pretty much standard) can't be upgraded past 3.5GB with the limitations of the Windows software it came with. What happens when the standard size will be 4GB? OS X will be well equipped for it with snow leopard.
Some people can barely react in that time. Although I can appreciate that a pop-up should not last longer, would a settable delay of 1-10 minutes really kill the medium? Perhaps with a "Send now" option on pending emails for urgent communication.
I never saw the problem as lack of time, but almost always the lack of prioritizing and also recognizing bullshit and avoiding/minimizing it. You can't do everything. Just pick a few important things.
If kids have time management problems in their life, they're probably having over-achiever parents who live through them trying them to do way too much.
The thing about libertarians is that they are VERY PRO IP, and very pro ownership. In fact, considering that I am libertarian and a card carrying member of the Swiss Libertarian party many would not like what libertarians represent...
If I ever met Ron Paul in person, this is something I would like to ask him about. Even though Libertarians are pro-property (copyrights and patents are in the Constitution iirc), he at the same time is very much against corporate welfare (voted against bailouts) and corporate fascism. So this new fangled IP (intellectual property) may not be so cut and dried.
I have a feeling he would have voted against all the copyright extensions and patents back in the day were not so bad when they protected implementations vs. now which is "intellectual property" vs. methods, thoughts, whatever, etc.
While I have sympathies to the pirate bay, a lot of it is just people demanding free shit which is a form of welfare if instituted on a public level. I enjoy using google books to find books and think fair use should extend to that although I don't demand the entire book for free.
One should remember while libertarians uphold private property rights, there is a real and distinct difference between private property vs intellectual property.
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There is no point voting the two major parties, they're owned by interests, not by the people.
BTW, Jesse Ventura won the governor's race as an independent so not only is your logic false, it only serves the status quo.
No, to save money, buy a double-edged (DEs) razor (you can find perfectly good, old handles by Merkur or Gillette on the fleamarket for $5, online on ebay used $10, new can cost much more). The normal straight ones are good but I prefer my slanted Merkur.
They are too sharp for me personally, sometimes the razor you have dictates the type of blades go well with them (angle and all that), and your face sensitivity. Just like many cartridge based razors. However, once you find them, you are free of expensive cartridges forever.
I find the whole cartridge thing a scam anyway. They don't shave closer and one of the major downsides of cartridges is that the more razors on one, the less distance between them, the less growth you can have before the razor clogs up. DE clog up less and are much easier to flush out. Cartridge razor have their face, the benefit of a head that follows the skin and adjusts its own angle, so that shaving some body parts is easier, but generally doesn't apply to the face when you are watching what you are doing anyhow.
Gillette got away from DE because it was the open source of the razor world and the disposable blades were very easy to manufacture, a single metal strip, relative to the more elaborate metal and plastic contraptios today. No vendor lock-in. Not because of some magical benefit to the user.
I feel the same way. Remember when Microsoft offer some dumb yahoos a bunch of money last year, only to decline it hoping for a better offer? Now MS won't touch that company, whose name I forgot for a moment.
Sun always seemed to be a Company that had its high noon around the early 90s to the 2000 bubble in terms of place in the IT world.
When kids are recognized as being highly intelligent and gifted, parents, extended family, and teachers go out of their to coddle them. To treat them as special. To give them far greater leniency and independence than kids with normal intelligence.
Is it any shock that these kids grow up to think the rules don't apply to them?
One of the pure group psychology shows I really like watching is Dog Whisperer. It's left unspoken, but I think a lot of it applies to kids and even adults in power situations.
However, I don't think it's the gifted children that are specifically the problem, I think any type of kid treated with gloves becomes that way. The one that can't perform are merely arrogant losers as adults. While the ones that can become like Josh. The brilliant ones without the anti-social problems don't use their brilliance as a excuse and often don't call attention to it in the first place and may be skipped over as merely above average (which the Josh of the world may be but play it up, afterall, when you aren't hamstringed by stupid bullshit rules, you can do things more freely and eventually do things others never thought of in the box they've been confined in).
I know that it's cool to say 'hey, Linux is making headway' but it's also true to say that someone else is losing out. One thing is reasonably certain in these times: There are very few companies expanding their IT departments and data centers. It Linux is winning, who is losing?
The history of economics is continually increasing productivity. Economies abhor what I call 'drag' - unnecessary costs for the same or similiar benefits. Successful companies reduce drag. If, over time, Linux = Windows - licesing costs; to put it bluntly, Linux will win. The customers of the companies win with lower costs. And MSFT joins the buggy whip manufacturers (which I assume they won't, plenty of other software to make other than OSes).
To argue that propping up Windows (or anything artificially, considering the bailouts) for its own sake is like arguing you create jobs by hiring 100 people to digg ditches and another 100 to filling them. Sure, you're not advancing humanity one iota, and placing a burden on society as a whole, but that busy work sure is keeping a lot of people employed! (People that would otherwise eventually get jobs in still economically productive sectors). BTW, government does this a lot in "job creation", they are called toll booths.
Your analogy would make more sense if America were making big leaps every few years in communication tech. However, just looking at the internet alone, so many people are still left with dial-up and will be there indefinitely while others here have Verizon Fios, the other side of the residential spectrum. Now, the old argument is population density one, but I feel that is a dead horse in many ways, with communities in Europe (Sweden) with comparable or lower density getting top notch speeds. Hell, just look at the gauge of wire for electricity that get to the super high % amount of population except the most, most remote, and also being able to provide telephone service for those same people too - and then tell me laying fiber optic is too expensive.
The only time I saw Verizon move in my area to provide better service the last 10 years (Fios) was when comcast started offering voip phone service (they already have a strong cable internet following). Suddenly Verizon felt threatened. But otherwise they stayed slothful, providing as little service as possible while extracting the greatest price. They only moved when they felt threatened (how Verizon shat itself and went to court when Philadelphia proposed ubiquitous wireless internet). It seems that way with many of the monopolies. Hell, even regular old cellular service is abysmal in this country once you go past the population centers of the east and west coast. Nevermind cellular data service.
Which is too bad. So much of the internet is really hampered by the traditional view of it being on the desktop. In a stationary place. The notebook boom coupled with WiFi spots moved to alleviate that but it really isn't on the go yet. The iPhone was probably the first mainstream product but service is still very expensive and no matter what you choose, pretty slow. Just as the internet was the killer app of the last 20 years, changing how we live; cheap, relatively speedy, ubiquitous wireless internet would probably be the next killer app the next 20 years.
This build is like Chewbacca, who is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense. I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense!
What's the mystery? Chewbacca obviously finds Ewoks easier to rape than other Wookies.
It's no one else's business. Sure, the word would probably get out anyway, but the company has nothing to gain by disseminating this kind of information.
Perhaps he was a good performing salesmen but was taking too much from the company trough, and this was their warning to others?
You are making as if this was a private matter, like something someone does at home or a student's grades at school (also debateable), I just don't see it that way.
As big a fan of CFLs as I am (my house lighting is 99% CFL), banning incandescents is stupid. What do you use in the oven? CFLs NOR LEDs can withstand the heat. (Then there is the dryer and freezer, although leds might do the job, CFLs won't fare well there).
A barrier is applications for the platform: I'm sure Windows doesn't run on it; and they'll be few binary linux applications. But I think the web is now mature enough, so web apps + multimedia.
No, most linux open source apps can be easily ported over. Such is the power of open source. This flexibility in many areas is why MS will be done in by Linux and friends one day.
Windows CE does run on Arm processor. However, I'm not sure if it's worth it. It's really not windows. And most of the killer apps on the desktop are, of course, x86 only.
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That seems to a bigger problem. Also dark asphalt roofs seemed a bit ridiculous next to reddish ceramic tiles.
(Don't laugh, one of the problems of climate change is when the poles shrink/melt, the reflectivity of ice and snow gives way to water which rather absorbs the heat, basically escalating a rising problem with temperature).
It wouln't be in the compose view. You'd have to go in sent mail and it would be on each line of a pending email.
to make ram cheaper again relative to hard drive size (in proportion).
8-9 years ago, in 2001, I already had upgraded to 1GB ram in my desktop PC. I suppose it was the 32bit limit and what not, but while hard drive space grew a lot back then, ram size growth really seemed to slow down since then. Even now the manufacturers are getting to grips with 64bit Windows and often the computers sold with 2GB ram (pretty much standard) can't be upgraded past 3.5GB with the limitations of the Windows software it came with. What happens when the standard size will be 4GB? OS X will be well equipped for it with snow leopard.
Some people can barely react in that time. Although I can appreciate that a pop-up should not last longer, would a settable delay of 1-10 minutes really kill the medium? Perhaps with a "Send now" option on pending emails for urgent communication.
No.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7LOCg4uKAg
I never saw the problem as lack of time, but almost always the lack of prioritizing and also recognizing bullshit and avoiding/minimizing it. You can't do everything. Just pick a few important things.
If kids have time management problems in their life, they're probably having over-achiever parents who live through them trying them to do way too much.
If I ever met Ron Paul in person, this is something I would like to ask him about. Even though Libertarians are pro-property (copyrights and patents are in the Constitution iirc), he at the same time is very much against corporate welfare (voted against bailouts) and corporate fascism. So this new fangled IP (intellectual property) may not be so cut and dried.
I have a feeling he would have voted against all the copyright extensions and patents back in the day were not so bad when they protected implementations vs. now which is "intellectual property" vs. methods, thoughts, whatever, etc.
While I have sympathies to the pirate bay, a lot of it is just people demanding free shit which is a form of welfare if instituted on a public level. I enjoy using google books to find books and think fair use should extend to that although I don't demand the entire book for free.
One should remember while libertarians uphold private property rights, there is a real and distinct difference between private property vs intellectual property.
There is no point voting the two major parties, they're owned by interests, not by the people.
BTW, Jesse Ventura won the governor's race as an independent so not only is your logic false, it only serves the status quo.
Wow, what an argument. Is this what typically gets modded up around here?
No, to save money, buy a double-edged (DEs) razor (you can find perfectly good, old handles by Merkur or Gillette on the fleamarket for $5, online on ebay used $10, new can cost much more). The normal straight ones are good but I prefer my slanted Merkur.
Then buy blades. 10 Personna blades are at some walmarts for ~$1.70. Some people swear by these Derby blades (100 for $20):
http://www.amazon.com/Derby-Extra-Stainless-Double-Blades/dp/B0013RZ2ZM
They are too sharp for me personally, sometimes the razor you have dictates the type of blades go well with them (angle and all that), and your face sensitivity. Just like many cartridge based razors. However, once you find them, you are free of expensive cartridges forever.
I find the whole cartridge thing a scam anyway. They don't shave closer and one of the major downsides of cartridges is that the more razors on one, the less distance between them, the less growth you can have before the razor clogs up. DE clog up less and are much easier to flush out. Cartridge razor have their face, the benefit of a head that follows the skin and adjusts its own angle, so that shaving some body parts is easier, but generally doesn't apply to the face when you are watching what you are doing anyhow.
Gillette got away from DE because it was the open source of the razor world and the disposable blades were very easy to manufacture, a single metal strip, relative to the more elaborate metal and plastic contraptios today. No vendor lock-in. Not because of some magical benefit to the user.
Wow, one long emotional rant with 0 facts. Congrats sir, on being modded Insightful on horseshit.
I feel the same way. Remember when Microsoft offer some dumb yahoos a bunch of money last year, only to decline it hoping for a better offer? Now MS won't touch that company, whose name I forgot for a moment.
Sun always seemed to be a Company that had its high noon around the early 90s to the 2000 bubble in terms of place in the IT world.
I stopped going to Microcenter when they jacked up the price of the simplest cables to something ridiculous.
Just buy electronics online from a reputable source. Save the hassle.
One of the pure group psychology shows I really like watching is Dog Whisperer. It's left unspoken, but I think a lot of it applies to kids and even adults in power situations.
However, I don't think it's the gifted children that are specifically the problem, I think any type of kid treated with gloves becomes that way. The one that can't perform are merely arrogant losers as adults. While the ones that can become like Josh. The brilliant ones without the anti-social problems don't use their brilliance as a excuse and often don't call attention to it in the first place and may be skipped over as merely above average (which the Josh of the world may be but play it up, afterall, when you aren't hamstringed by stupid bullshit rules, you can do things more freely and eventually do things others never thought of in the box they've been confined in).
But as a counter, I have to bring in the brilliant George Carlin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7LOCg4uKAg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izE4_Jd2dOw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3XeRCAAkZY
What ever happened to freedom, the right to privacy, search warrants, due process and innocent until proven guilty ?
Welcome to America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWiBt-pqp0E
3D Realms just announced Duke Nukem Forever was to be released in the Year of the Linux Desktop.
The history of economics is continually increasing productivity. Economies abhor what I call 'drag' - unnecessary costs for the same or similiar benefits. Successful companies reduce drag. If, over time, Linux = Windows - licesing costs; to put it bluntly, Linux will win. The customers of the companies win with lower costs. And MSFT joins the buggy whip manufacturers (which I assume they won't, plenty of other software to make other than OSes).
To argue that propping up Windows (or anything artificially, considering the bailouts) for its own sake is like arguing you create jobs by hiring 100 people to digg ditches and another 100 to filling them. Sure, you're not advancing humanity one iota, and placing a burden on society as a whole, but that busy work sure is keeping a lot of people employed! (People that would otherwise eventually get jobs in still economically productive sectors). BTW, government does this a lot in "job creation", they are called toll booths.
Your analogy would make more sense if America were making big leaps every few years in communication tech. However, just looking at the internet alone, so many people are still left with dial-up and will be there indefinitely while others here have Verizon Fios, the other side of the residential spectrum. Now, the old argument is population density one, but I feel that is a dead horse in many ways, with communities in Europe (Sweden) with comparable or lower density getting top notch speeds. Hell, just look at the gauge of wire for electricity that get to the super high % amount of population except the most, most remote, and also being able to provide telephone service for those same people too - and then tell me laying fiber optic is too expensive.
The only time I saw Verizon move in my area to provide better service the last 10 years (Fios) was when comcast started offering voip phone service (they already have a strong cable internet following). Suddenly Verizon felt threatened. But otherwise they stayed slothful, providing as little service as possible while extracting the greatest price. They only moved when they felt threatened (how Verizon shat itself and went to court when Philadelphia proposed ubiquitous wireless internet). It seems that way with many of the monopolies. Hell, even regular old cellular service is abysmal in this country once you go past the population centers of the east and west coast. Nevermind cellular data service.
Which is too bad. So much of the internet is really hampered by the traditional view of it being on the desktop. In a stationary place. The notebook boom coupled with WiFi spots moved to alleviate that but it really isn't on the go yet. The iPhone was probably the first mainstream product but service is still very expensive and no matter what you choose, pretty slow. Just as the internet was the killer app of the last 20 years, changing how we live; cheap, relatively speedy, ubiquitous wireless internet would probably be the next killer app the next 20 years.
I'll do one better. Replace a host of taxes with the APT-TAX:
http://www.apttax.com/
Cut down on administration costs throughout the government and rest of the economy as well.
What's the mystery? Chewbacca obviously finds Ewoks easier to rape than other Wookies.
Perhaps he was a good performing salesmen but was taking too much from the company trough, and this was their warning to others?
You are making as if this was a private matter, like something someone does at home or a student's grades at school (also debateable), I just don't see it that way.
As a customer, I find this absolutely disgusting. These type of things should be opt in if anything.
I'm illegally blind. What is the typical punishment if I turn myself in?
Why doesn't it just tax them at a higher rate?
As big a fan of CFLs as I am (my house lighting is 99% CFL), banning incandescents is stupid. What do you use in the oven? CFLs NOR LEDs can withstand the heat. (Then there is the dryer and freezer, although leds might do the job, CFLs won't fare well there).
No, most linux open source apps can be easily ported over. Such is the power of open source. This flexibility in many areas is why MS will be done in by Linux and friends one day.
Windows CE does run on Arm processor. However, I'm not sure if it's worth it. It's really not windows. And most of the killer apps on the desktop are, of course, x86 only.
That makes absolutely no sense. And out of that bunch, this article was the most interesting to read:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/02/28/japanese_hate_for_iphone_all_a_big_mistake.html