Windows is not a selling point for the Mac at all. Apple only released BootCamp because too many people were bricking their machines by trying to modify their EFI without knowing what they were doing. Apple doesn't sell windows, they don't support windows, and if what you want to do is run windows, then you're on your own and that's entirely how it should be. If you need to run windows apps, buy a thinkpad.
People tend to forget that there are all kinds of ways to bring pressure to bear when someone is behaving badly or stupidly, and that leads to stupid shit like state legislators trying to outlaw teenager's fashion choices. The law is a very blunt instrument.
Incidentally, I would very much like to see shame used to regulate even more egregious examples of legislators wasting our money.
Jehovah's Witnesses are covered under the First Amendment.
Well, yes and no. Saying what they want to say is their right, but coming onto my property is not. So, if I post a "no soliciting" sign, and a prosyltute comes up to my door to try to recruit me, they are told in no uncertain terms to leave and never come back. To date, I haven't even had to raise my voice to get rid of them. If one of them were to persist, then a call to the police and a restraining order would likely follow.
Consider the flip side of this, though. Back when communism was collapsing in east germany, I remember seeing the crowds marching in Leipzig, and they were chanting Wir bleiben hier! ("we're staying here"). Before that time, most East Germans just wanted to escape to the west. After that point, they realized that they were being ruled by the will of a minority, and that was game over for the commies in Germany. What the thugs were most afraid of in East Germany, and what the Red Dynasty, the Saudi kleptocracy, the Burmese military oligarchy, the Castro dictaorship, and every other criminal regime around the world is most afraid of, is quick and effective internal communication.
So, in the scenario you describe above, your hypothetical suffragettes are rather like the samizdat authors who hid in the shadows during the communist nightmare. If they get exposed, then it sucks to be them, but isn't there also the effect of other people wondering why it's so important to them that they take that risk? Eventually, despite arrests, harassment, and physical attacks, the suffragettes convinced the USA to let women vote.
The Chicago solution to that problem is a hose and cold weather. People rarely park in the same place after they've had to chip through 3" of ice to get into the car.
I asked the obvious question right after the house lights came up, and there is no public SDK for this device, just like the other iPods. This was right from Ron Okamoto (Apple's VP of developer relations.)
That is known as "Security Theatre". It is useless. It wastes money. That money could better be spent on improving the security.
Exactly. I'd far rather see that money spent on training and supporting agents to infiltrate enemy organizations. The FBI broke the back of the Ku Klux Klan that way.
Have you given a thought to what discharging a firearm on an airplane at 30,000 feet might do if you puncture the hull of the plain and depressurize the cabin?
It will make a hole in the hull, or not. Hollywood depictions of windows blowing out and sucking people through them are fantasies, just like cars exploding in balls of flame if they go off the road.
Some better than others. If you want the specifics, try Google Finance. All the publicly-traded automobile makers make quarterly reports of earnings.
I really think that any car maker (even a new one) should be able to produce a turbine/electric hybrid that lasts forever, is a simple design, and can be mass produced like the Civic.
Well, if you're sure, then raise about $1M from your friends and family, build a prototype, and then see if you can come up with major venture funding to get it off the ground. Good luck to you!
Ah, but you ignore the principal benefit of public transportation to the state, which is to provide a massive transfer of wealth from the private to the public sector. Busses and trains employ thousands of bureacrats.
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Is there a way of producing foamed concrete?
t rained.asp >air-entrained concrete.
Yes, it's called http://www.cement.org/basics/concretebasics_airen
It's been used for decades for building floating docks, among other things. If you have enough air in the mix, you can make it less dense than water.
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I'm sure there is plenty of free trade in most of the countries there.
Guess again. Kleptocracies routinely hand out state-enforced monopolies to the head thug's cronies.
-jcr
Concrete without rebar isn't concrete.
No.
Concrete without rebar is still concrete. It just isn't reinforced concrete.
-jcr
I'm pretty sure /. has covered this before.
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one of their biggest selling points
Windows is not a selling point for the Mac at all. Apple only released BootCamp because too many people were bricking their machines by trying to modify their EFI without knowing what they were doing. Apple doesn't sell windows, they don't support windows, and if what you want to do is run windows, then you're on your own and that's entirely how it should be. If you need to run windows apps, buy a thinkpad.
-jcr
Bravo, for an inspired bit of hardware munging.
-jcr
Maybe, but you'd only be able to hold it for a minute or so before it got too hot.
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What are these "editors" of which you speak?
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Shame SHOULD be a check on social behavior.
Exactly!
People tend to forget that there are all kinds of ways to bring pressure to bear when someone is behaving badly or stupidly, and that leads to stupid shit like state legislators trying to outlaw teenager's fashion choices. The law is a very blunt instrument.
Incidentally, I would very much like to see shame used to regulate even more egregious examples of legislators wasting our money.
-jcr
The biggest danger of all in this is false accusation.
I concur, and if I were running such a web site I would not allow anonymous denunciations.
There's a reason why we don't allow anonymous accusers in criminal proceedings.
-jcr
Jehovah's Witnesses are covered under the First Amendment.
Well, yes and no. Saying what they want to say is their right, but coming onto my property is not. So, if I post a "no soliciting" sign, and a prosyltute comes up to my door to try to recruit me, they are told in no uncertain terms to leave and never come back. To date, I haven't even had to raise my voice to get rid of them. If one of them were to persist, then a call to the police and a restraining order would likely follow.
-jcr
Consider the flip side of this, though. Back when communism was collapsing in east germany, I remember seeing the crowds marching in Leipzig, and they were chanting Wir bleiben hier! ("we're staying here"). Before that time, most East Germans just wanted to escape to the west. After that point, they realized that they were being ruled by the will of a minority, and that was game over for the commies in Germany. What the thugs were most afraid of in East Germany, and what the Red Dynasty, the Saudi kleptocracy, the Burmese military oligarchy, the Castro dictaorship, and every other criminal regime around the world is most afraid of, is quick and effective internal communication.
So, in the scenario you describe above, your hypothetical suffragettes are rather like the samizdat authors who hid in the shadows during the communist nightmare. If they get exposed, then it sucks to be them, but isn't there also the effect of other people wondering why it's so important to them that they take that risk? Eventually, despite arrests, harassment, and physical attacks, the suffragettes convinced the USA to let women vote.
-jcr
The Chicago solution to that problem is a hose and cold weather. People rarely park in the same place after they've had to chip through 3" of ice to get into the car.
-jcr
I'd never heard of Uwe Boll, so I just looked him up on the old wikipedia..
Does that clown think he's the Idi Amin of filmmaking or something?
-jcr
in TOM, you could send a message like [someObject moveTo X:10 y:20] and it would be semantically identical to [someObject moveto y:20 x:10]
-jcr
I asked the obvious question right after the house lights came up, and there is no public SDK for this device, just like the other iPods. This was right from Ron Okamoto (Apple's VP of developer relations.)
-jcr
That is known as "Security Theatre". It is useless. It wastes money. That money could better be spent on improving the security.
Exactly. I'd far rather see that money spent on training and supporting agents to infiltrate enemy organizations. The FBI broke the back of the Ku Klux Klan that way.
-jcr
Have you given a thought to what discharging a firearm on an airplane at 30,000 feet might do if you puncture the hull of the plain and depressurize the cabin?
It will make a hole in the hull, or not. Hollywood depictions of windows blowing out and sucking people through them are fantasies, just like cars exploding in balls of flame if they go off the road.
-jcr
And how well are they performing that function?
Some better than others. If you want the specifics, try Google Finance. All the publicly-traded automobile makers make quarterly reports of earnings.
I really think that any car maker (even a new one) should be able to produce a turbine/electric hybrid that lasts forever, is a simple design, and can be mass produced like the Civic.
Well, if you're sure, then raise about $1M from your friends and family, build a prototype, and then see if you can come up with major venture funding to get it off the ground. Good luck to you!
-jcr
Use the batteries to service the peak loads, and a very small engine would be acceptable.
Which is of course, the whole point of a hybrid. The engine can be sized for the average power needed, which is far less than the peak.
-jcr
The engine efficiency is a big part of it. Another huge part is the very poor aerodynamics of a typical motorcycle, compared to a modern car.
-jcr
Ah, but you ignore the principal benefit of public transportation to the state, which is to provide a massive transfer of wealth from the private to the public sector. Busses and trains employ thousands of bureacrats.
-jcr
automakers are only interested in their own profits.
That's called "fulfilling their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders." It's a good thing.
-jcr
You could declare default values for any arguments. As for letting you put them in any order, that's not tricky at all. Even FORTRAN had namelists.
-jcr
slashdot's kneejerk moderators saw fit to mod me troll,
Probably because you were trolling. That happens sometimes.
-jcr