We have a gas co-op in Southfield, MI and our charges are also less than our non-co-op neighbors. On the other hand, one of my neighboring cities offers WOW in addition to Comcast cable. In that city, Comcast's prices are much lower.
How will you get competition if the threshold of entry is kept so high? I'm sure his point in the municipalities owning the lines was to increase the level of competition.
If we let the companies own the line you get 0 competition even when the government attempts to force it. Just look at DSL.
The law will be unimplementable. If the try to make me pay Taxes because I live in Michigan, well what happens when I make a purchase but I am in Georgia at the time? Or maybe Texas? Whose tax do I pay then? Does my tax burden follow me around the nation?
Its going to get real silly.
I agree that its unfair and causes one state to lose money to another state. But this is not the solution.
Not quite. The term was an attempt to classify a people in an increasingly smaller world. Black was not enough because as pointed out, there are Black people in India and Black people in Egypt and Black people in Pakistan, etc. So there was an attempt to differentiate by being African as opposed to Black.
It does not matter. The bottom line is the distinction is too complicated to put a simple word on. Descendent-of-African-Slave-American is too long and hard to say. Plus, African Americans want to recognize the uniqueness of what they have been through as a group, yet maintain the connection to their African roots. Can't really have it both ways.
The strange truth is this is likely why the term Nigger is still around. Offensive as it is, its the only term thats used historically and uniquely on this group of people.
We have been writing multi-threaded software for years. There is nothing special about multicore. Its basically a cut down version of a dual-CPU box. The only people that should have any concern at all would be the scheduler writers. And even then there is no cause for "panic".
As i understand it, encrypted DVDs will only play with HDMI but unencrypted ones will play in hi-def. Since most pr0n is not encrypted, those Blue-Ray players would take a beating.
I am looking for an HD-DVD myself simply as an upscaling standard DVD player. They are cheaper than the regular upscaling DVD players on average.
However, before I took anti-depressents I had lots of hobbies and did many different things. Now with the meds I am happy doing much less and so I do much less.
Meds are dangerous. I would highly advise anyone thinking about taking them to be sure you are using a therapist. They can make you feel like getting out and doing something. If you have no practice at how to get out and do something you can get into a dangerous situation. It can be even more depressing to have a desire that you have no idea how to fulfill.
I think it has a lot to do with why some people get on anti-depressents and then contemplate suicide. The medecine damn sure has an effect on your mind. Any suggestions that they do not is rediculous in my eyes.
Creating laws to combat hypothetical future situations is a waste of time. Let there be some evidence that the situation is actually feasible or enevitable before we pass a law preventing it.
That would be BOB alliance. But they have enemies and people band together because they don't like BOB "owning" parts of the universe and renting it out to corporations.
There is always an EPIC battle going on over this. There is also the Russians who are notorious farmers that try to occupy all the farming locations not in BOB control.
Eve is great because its a game between humans, with politics. I'm sure over 1/2 the players deal in PvP mostly.
Detroit is probably one of the worst public transportation systems around. However, when I went to Chicago last summer I went around without any rental car. I could not believe I could still get everywhere.
It required a midset change. I had to realize I would be sitting on the train for x amount of time. Once I accepted that, I was fine with it.
One thing I do agree on is that if one thinks Java is a good first programming course, then he indeed is missing what Java is about. It makes me suspect they are teaching a c course but simply using the Java language to do it.
I don't see a problem doing that actually. Java's environment is so much cleaner that c with its built-in compiler and API and no header files. But they probably shouldn't call it a Java course but call it a basic programming course.
If you look at email on Linux you see a big difference from that on WIndows. They do not have embedded code running in the email reader. I think OOO is trying to do the same thing. No embedded behaviors in the documents. Even if it makes the document less "live."
I suppose if you want to do something scripted you should not be writing a document but maybe a flash app or something.
Hasbro has had an abysmal online presence for over 10 years. My wife liked scrabble so we bought their offering of computer game. The online part was terrible. They had someone else do it a year later. That version was super sucky too. Then sites like MS gaming site or whatever it was called had their own scrabble and others did too. Hasbro made them ALL stop. I don't get why knock off people can build excellent scrabble online and offline versions, but Hasbro the owner in over 10 years can not make a single one...
Thats right. That is why Microsoft created their Made for Windows trademarked thingy. Since anyone can say something was made for Windows on their own, but they can not display that MS owned label without express approval of Microsoft.
This is just Ford lawyers trying to make some work for themselves.
You need a big screen to tell the difference. You should see it on a 50". I can certainly see it on my 90" projector. But if your screen is not big, there is no difference.
OTA HD is more than just HD. IIRC its a digital signal which is a step up from analog.
Thats foolishness. Open source is far and away a more secure platform than "closed" source. One problem with closed source is that no software is truly closed. So you still have a handful of perhaps underpaid folks that get to see the holes just for themselves. Not to mention same folks can add their own holes. And still when holes are found the closed source companies tend to act like they don't exist. And try to write for themselves contracts that prevent them getting in trouble for said holes. There are just too many problems with security in "closed" source software.
Open source does not have any of these problems. Only problem with open source is if you have one person who is significantly smarter than everyone else looking at the code and can come up with an exploit before anyone else notices. This is a more comfortable position to be in as far as I am concerned.
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We have a gas co-op in Southfield, MI and our charges are also less than our non-co-op neighbors. On the other hand, one of my neighboring cities offers WOW in addition to Comcast cable. In that city, Comcast's prices are much lower.
How will you get competition if the threshold of entry is kept so high? I'm sure his point in the municipalities owning the lines was to increase the level of competition.
If we let the companies own the line you get 0 competition even when the government attempts to force it. Just look at DSL.
The law will be unimplementable. If the try to make me pay Taxes because I live in Michigan, well what happens when I make a purchase but I am in Georgia at the time? Or maybe Texas? Whose tax do I pay then? Does my tax burden follow me around the nation?
Its going to get real silly.
I agree that its unfair and causes one state to lose money to another state. But this is not the solution.
Why do we give executives shares at all then? If they are so motivated to think of the shareholders, why not simply give them cash?
Because executives are thinking of themselves.
Not quite. The term was an attempt to classify a people in an increasingly smaller world. Black was not enough because as pointed out, there are Black people in India and Black people in Egypt and Black people in Pakistan, etc. So there was an attempt to differentiate by being African as opposed to Black.
It does not matter. The bottom line is the distinction is too complicated to put a simple word on. Descendent-of-African-Slave-American is too long and hard to say. Plus, African Americans want to recognize the uniqueness of what they have been through as a group, yet maintain the connection to their African roots. Can't really have it both ways.
The strange truth is this is likely why the term Nigger is still around. Offensive as it is, its the only term thats used historically and uniquely on this group of people.
Scapegoating the shareholders as an excuse for executive abuse is getting old.
I don't like opt-out memberships. The ability for companies to get away with opt-out usually comes from legislation. Not simple company choice.
Its more likely that the race for cheapness causes them to overload their software engineers because they don't hire enough.
Wikipedia does not state that.
Is it April 1st already?
We have been writing multi-threaded software for years. There is nothing special about multicore. Its basically a cut down version of a dual-CPU box. The only people that should have any concern at all would be the scheduler writers. And even then there is no cause for "panic".
As i understand it, encrypted DVDs will only play with HDMI but unencrypted ones will play in hi-def. Since most pr0n is not encrypted, those Blue-Ray players would take a beating.
I am looking for an HD-DVD myself simply as an upscaling standard DVD player. They are cheaper than the regular upscaling DVD players on average.
However, before I took anti-depressents I had lots of hobbies and did many different things. Now with the meds I am happy doing much less and so I do much less.
Meds are dangerous. I would highly advise anyone thinking about taking them to be sure you are using a therapist. They can make you feel like getting out and doing something. If you have no practice at how to get out and do something you can get into a dangerous situation. It can be even more depressing to have a desire that you have no idea how to fulfill.
I think it has a lot to do with why some people get on anti-depressents and then contemplate suicide. The medecine damn sure has an effect on your mind. Any suggestions that they do not is rediculous in my eyes.
Creating laws to combat hypothetical future situations is a waste of time. Let there be some evidence that the situation is actually feasible or enevitable before we pass a law preventing it.
That would be BOB alliance. But they have enemies and people band together because they don't like BOB "owning" parts of the universe and renting it out to corporations.
There is always an EPIC battle going on over this. There is also the Russians who are notorious farmers that try to occupy all the farming locations not in BOB control.
Eve is great because its a game between humans, with politics. I'm sure over 1/2 the players deal in PvP mostly.
Detroit is probably one of the worst public transportation systems around. However, when I went to Chicago last summer I went around without any rental car. I could not believe I could still get everywhere.
It required a midset change. I had to realize I would be sitting on the train for x amount of time. Once I accepted that, I was fine with it.
One thing I do agree on is that if one thinks Java is a good first programming course, then he indeed is missing what Java is about. It makes me suspect they are teaching a c course but simply using the Java language to do it.
I don't see a problem doing that actually. Java's environment is so much cleaner that c with its built-in compiler and API and no header files. But they probably shouldn't call it a Java course but call it a basic programming course.
I hear a lot of tingling fingers. If this is current, there must be another body part tingling. Where is the current leaving the body???
If there is no seperate tingle, then people are just feeling heat or some other source of vibration, but its not electricity.
I'm not completely sure what you mean here. A floating neutral is a highly dangerous failure condition. Thats a good way to destroy your power supply.
Naa, grounding a laptop case is for EMI. If you look inside a plastic case laptop you will likely see lots of grounded copper shielding.
If you look at email on Linux you see a big difference from that on WIndows. They do not have embedded code running in the email reader. I think OOO is trying to do the same thing. No embedded behaviors in the documents. Even if it makes the document less "live."
I suppose if you want to do something scripted you should not be writing a document but maybe a flash app or something.
Hasbro has had an abysmal online presence for over 10 years. My wife liked scrabble so we bought their offering of computer game. The online part was terrible. They had someone else do it a year later. That version was super sucky too. Then sites like MS gaming site or whatever it was called had their own scrabble and others did too. Hasbro made them ALL stop. I don't get why knock off people can build excellent scrabble online and offline versions, but Hasbro the owner in over 10 years can not make a single one...
Thats right. That is why Microsoft created their Made for Windows trademarked thingy. Since anyone can say something was made for Windows on their own, but they can not display that MS owned label without express approval of Microsoft.
This is just Ford lawyers trying to make some work for themselves.
In other news, the price of converter boxes just went up by $40...
You need a big screen to tell the difference. You should see it on a 50". I can certainly see it on my 90" projector. But if your screen is not big, there is no difference.
OTA HD is more than just HD. IIRC its a digital signal which is a step up from analog.
Thats foolishness. Open source is far and away a more secure platform than "closed" source. One problem with closed source is that no software is truly closed. So you still have a handful of perhaps underpaid folks that get to see the holes just for themselves. Not to mention same folks can add their own holes. And still when holes are found the closed source companies tend to act like they don't exist. And try to write for themselves contracts that prevent them getting in trouble for said holes. There are just too many problems with security in "closed" source software.
Open source does not have any of these problems. Only problem with open source is if you have one person who is significantly smarter than everyone else looking at the code and can come up with an exploit before anyone else notices. This is a more comfortable position to be in as far as I am concerned.