You obviously haven't been around Washington enough.
The two definitions of "bipartisan" read as folllows:
#1 - Token RINOs/DINOs ("Republicans/Democrats In Name Only") voted for our crappy bill, yay!
#2 - The other side caved in and said "fuck it, we give up."
George Washington warned us about making political parties a legal part of our election system. Eleven Score and Five years later what do we have? Oh yeah - two political parties, the Republicrats and Demicans, who you can't tell apart 95% of the time and are a complete and utter sham the other 5%.
A year of Pelosi and Reid blocking any Republican bill from the floor is "nonpartisan"? Including blocking THREE Republican health-care bills from discussion while lying their asses off claiming the Republicans were "not offering alternatives"???
Holding closed meetings behind locked doors, Democrats-only, to "hash out" the Senate vs House bills, was "trying to appease" the other side?
Pull the other one. Partisan hackery is alive and well in Washington, especially in the Oval Office.
The Boy Scouts is an organization designed to mold young men into soldiers and subjects. We can do without its nationalist, homophobic, anti-freethinking training.
WTF?
An organization designed to teach kids to be courteous, kind, thrifty, brave? To volunteer in their community? To address community and world issues in a thoughtful manner, by contacting their elected representatives and engaging in respectful dialogue? To learn how, when it is time and if they feel so inclined, they should themselves run for office and serve their fellow citizens?
"Nationalist"? "Homophobic?" "Anti-Freethinking?"
Please, whatever you are smoking, please stop. It's obviously damaged whatever feeble quantity of functional brain cells you had prior to starting.
I'm Canadian, forgive me if this is an American issue.
Much of this is American issues, some of it crosses over to Canada as well from the word of my Canadian expatriate coworkers.
I must object to your undue, and likely highly frustrated, criticisms
I object to sending out people who lack the ability to speak properly, to inflict and impress their bad habits upon an entire generation of children in the formative years of their education.
Furthermore, the school system already has a place for intellectual spread. It's as tiered as it needs to be! The problem is again with the parents whom cannot accept a child in the lower educational tiers. Teachers, as caring as they generally are, are stuck helping the slower because their parents aren't being realistic with their abilities.
Sorry, but no. The public education system, as it exists today in America, is almost completely untiered until one reaches the latter half of what we term "high school" (grades 9-12). By that point, it is already too late.
I took part in scouting for around 8 years. I never once felt like our organisation was under any kind of attack. Diminishing popularity of these programs is rather due to the popularity of alternatives; karate or soccer lessons.... Though I agree that youth outreach programs and community programs are dwindling, I cannot blame people who are at a financial disadvantage for this.
Membership in Scouting is FREE. They have financial assistance and community support to ensure that all Scouts can get their basic uniform, no matter what their financial straits. Beyond the cost of travel (and even that was normally shared between many scouts!), the entirety of my Scouting life's costs were covered by diligently working our few fundraising activities each year. We were proud of working with our budget, going to the community and providing services (we did christmas wreath deliveries, for one example) and paying our own way with our own hard work and community contributions.
There's nothing wrong with a good martial arts program that provides philosophical teaching along with the physical training, though most American martial arts "schools" are plainly pathetic and completely lacking when it comes to the philosophical training side.
As it stands, though, to complain about Scouting losing out to soccer leagues and cut-rate fight clubs masquerading as "martial arts schools" because they are "alternatives" for people who are "at a financial disadvantage", indicates that something very wrong is going on.
Of course in the USA, anything that promotes good citizenship is under attack by freak groups like the ACLU, so all I can do is shrug my shoulders.
However, when the money got tight, the state opted to slash the education budget but continued to happily fund the fourth largest jail system in the world, something that, IMO, makes no sense. People in jail must be fed, clothed, sheltered etc by the State. People in college require assistance for a time, but eventually come out more educated and more capable, which would seem to be more helpful to the economy than funding a wack job sheriff who likes to drive a tank around poor neighborhoods to intimidate people.
Oh? Then let us begin. To start with, I take issue with your extraneous attack on a local sheriff. It has no place in the discussion.
As for people who are in prison, they are there because they have committed crimes. They are deemed currently unsafe to be circulated among the general citizenry. Prison has two effects, each of which a locality must balance: the punitive effect, and the rehabilitative effect. If you wish to get into a discussion of the corrective effect of prisons, and what new programs could be instituted to reduce recidivism rates and increase the rehabilitative effect of your local, state, or federal prisons, then I encourage you to do so - but again, not by starting the debate with an ad hominem attack upon a civil servant who has been reelected to his position multiple times.
As for education, it is more of a discretionary budget item than prison. Like it or not, most laws have a reason. If the budget for prisons is reduced, then the facilities of the prisons must be reduced. I am all for taking away prisoners' televisions and other amenities if that cuts costs. I am all for reducing food costs. Prisons should not be posh. I could even be convinced that making the prisoners swap bunks, as people from the military are made to do at times, is not unreasonable. That being said, given X number of prisoners, a crime rate (especially in a state that shares a border with a pisswater hellhole run by drug gang barons like Mexico) that produces Y more prisoners more year, and a fixed amount of money to allocate, Education funding for college grants (as opposed to student loans, which can be paid back) is going to lose out when the alternative is letting violent wackos from the drug gangs out of prison early.
Remember one simple fact: the skill set required for someone to get a Ph.D in any given field has very little correlation with the skillsets required for such tasks as dressing oneself, attending to personal hygeine, or speaking in coherent sentences. The only "skills" required to get a Ph.D are (a) access to enough money to exist as a student for the requisite time, (b) the ability to regurgitate what your professors wish to hear, and (c) the ability to attach oneself to a previous Ph.D recipient long enough to have one's hand held through the process of writing a thesis.
I know too many Ph.D's who cannot tell the difference between its/it's, there/they're/their, and other simple homonyms. These people also have absolutely no concept of the value of money and are more than willing to give a passing grade to papers and assignments that contain similar grammatical mistakes as mentioned by TFA and the parent post.
As regards Idiocracy, while hyperbolic, it definitely does call attention to a growing concern for Western society. The lowest-intelligence portions of our society increasingly sit as dependent breeding stock, suckling at the teat of government social programs generationally whilst producing an overabundance of mentally deficient young who then perpetuate the cycle. Diseases perpetuated only by reckless or ignorant behavior that should have no foothold in a modern society are instead coming back in force, due to these idiots insisting that "well there will be a cure in the next 10 years so I don't have to worry" (actual quote from one of these morons who passed on HIV to one of her kids in the womb).
Well-meaning idiots bemoan the "failure" of the education system while refusing to make the basic changes necessary to reform it. Enforcing classroom discipline and removing troubled and disruptive children have become impossible. Properly stratified classes that truly challenge and educate the best and brighest children, while placing the lesser intellects into properly focused remedial programs, are seen as "discriminatory" if a given district strays too far from the racial numbers that racial supremacist agitators want to see. In the name of "diversity", all children are instead randomly tossed into classrooms that move at the pace of the slowest idiot, causing the education of the truly intelligent to be stunted. In most cases, creativity and intelligence - two innate talents that should be encouraged at all costs - are instead actively stifled by jealous teachers who are themselves the dimmest bulbs of their own generation (remember, the average IQ of college students in Education-related degree programs is lower even than Communications or Physical Education programs). Entrenched, unqualified individuals (tenured teachers and teachers' unions) insist that an unregulated and unfocused "more money for Education", rather than properly spent money combined with the elimination of unqualified individuals and proven-ineffective teaching doctrines from the system, is the solution.
And of course programs proven to nurture intelligence and leadership are then attacked as well. Scouting has been under attack for decades, a true shame since it encourages young men and women to go out and be active in their community and grow into thoughtful citizens, as well as teaching life skills such as planning schedules, reacting to emergencies and maintaining a budget. Programs like the Young Democrats and Young Republicans have all but vanished, a true shame since these programs did much to teach young men and women to engage in civil disagreement (as well as community engagement and good citizenship!) rather than the partisan hackery that is all young children learn today from television shows. Music and fine arts programs have been vanishing all over the country, victims to both the "more money for test scores" problem and the growth, overadulation and overfunding of "sports" (specifically, football and basketball) which rely more on the physical grotesqueness of one or two "team stars" than an ability on the part of players to react to different situations as a team.
We don't have more of a nuclear program for two reasons right now:
#1 - Every time someone starts trying to get the permits together to build a new reactor, the environmental wack-job crowd start staging protests and throwing lawyers at the situation. #2 - Ever since Jimmy Carter's dunderheaded executive order (in which he said the US will not reprocess spent nuclear fuel back into usable fuel, because it would set an "example" to other nations not to reprocess anything that could be weapons grade... nincompoop), we haven't refined our spent fuel. As a result, we have a "nuclear waste problem", despite the fact that with proper recycling methods, greater than 95% of our stock of "nuclear waste" could be turned back into usable fuel.
Probably the only thing I agree with Obama on is that we need a serious conversion of our energy supply to use as much Nuclear as possible (solar/wind/geothermal too but they have severe limitations and can't meet our needs by themselves... solar, for instance, produces immense amounts of toxic waste and currently requires polysilicon substrates as a base for the panels, plus the most common silica sources are currently strip-mined). That being said, his bit about loans is only a half measure, if he was really serious he'd rescind Carter's dumbass executive order and get us down the path of recycling to deal with the "nuclear waste" issue.
Sony has dropped Other OS as an option on the PS3 Slim and all future PS3 releases.
Plus, as it stood the Other OS setup only let you run crippled OSes that didn't have full access to the hardware.
What I want? Something that has full control. Something that can run with full access to all the hardware, something that can then be set up to actually stream datafiles correctly and play them natively (All the UPnP crapservers have to render the file "locally", eating up resources. Plus they're loaded down with the Shitty DLNA DRM setup, they choke on a fair number of codecs, and if I rip alternate audio from my DVD's, they choke trying to switch audio streams half the time.
Meanwhile if you think there's no cheating on the Xbox360/PS3, you've never seen the simple methods of forcing a "local" host and then periodically dropping signal ("standbying") for a second or two to non-local players.
The problem is that people get given simplistic data and forget their history.
So far we "know" of four currently living species based on DNA analysis; more may be recognized as the DNA analysis of the various groups is ongoing.
There's the "Asian Elephant", currently separated into three subspecies (Sri Lankan, Sumatran, and Mainland/Indian) and the recently-acknowledged full species, the Borneo Pygmy elephant (which actually is sized similar to the extinct species that made up the bulk of Hannibal's herd). There's also the possibility that the Laotian populations are a true subspecies.
Then there's the "African Elephant", which is actually two species (African Forest Elephant and African Bush Elephant). The African Pygmy Elephant (Loxodonta pumilio or Loxodonta fransseni) is currently considered a "morph", but might be a subspecies or full species, again pending research and time for the populations to continue diverging.
None of these are what the Romans were used to, however. The Romans used the North African Elephant (Loxodonta africana pharaoensis), sometimes considered a subspecies and sometimes a full species, and the Syrian Elephant (Elephas maximus asurus, sometimes referred to as mere Asian Elephants, sometimes considered a subspecies, sometimes considered a full species). Both of the lines of what the Romans used are considered extinct today. There are also a number of other extinct Elephant lines that had contact with people: Elephas maximus rubridens aka the Chinese Elephant, a number of "Pygmy" elephant species that shrank due to island habitats, several species of the subgenus Paleoloxodon (including the Mediterranean Dwarf elephants, skulls of which found on Cyprus, Crete, and Sicily could have given rise to the idea of the "Cyclops")...
Your heart rate remains higher if you remain vertical. And you'll move around a bit more just being in a standing position.
I wish I could bike to work. Unfortunately, I'd have to go through a couple really shitty neighborhoods. Plus, they take a dim view of riding bicycles on the "freeway" or "highway" around here, and half of them don't have frontage roads.
Holmes, in the country of his birth (Britain), has been public domain for TWENTY YEARS. Holmes, in the US and thanks to our fucked up laws passed by paid-off, bribed, and otherwise corrupt legislators, is covered by "copyright" law in the US all the way until 2023. At which time the character will be 136 years old.
Keep in mind that the NORMAL term of our fucked-up copyright laws is supposed to be either 95 years for "works for hire" (bought and paid for by hookers sent to legislators courtesy of Disney Corp and Sonny Bono's widow), or "Death of the author plus 70 years", which means the copyright on all of Conan Doyle's Holmes stories should have passed into public domain in the US back in 2000 (Sir Artie died in 1930). Actually, they should have passed back in 1980 (and did), but every time it gets close, Disney sends another round of hookers and bags of cash to Congress to buy another extension.
You try fighting that battle with CEOs, "managers", or tenured faculty and explaining why they shouldn't have admin privileges on "their" machine while you should.
On the other hand, how many users have I had where I go to their machine and they say they are having a "problem" connecting to the web, and they open up an IE window with 5 or more toolbars popping up?
How many users have I had that installed Weatherbug, or some other little widget, and then complained a couple weeks later when their machine was overrun by various spyware/scareware apps?
CutePDF, for instance, comes bundled with ASS ("Ask") TOOLBAR. Pain in the ass to remove. Nuisance in terms of security. If you don't know what you're doing when you install it, that crap gets dumped in along with it, then starts opening you up and phoning home as well.
"If it sounds too good to be true..."
Yeah. It's like that. Get yourself into a large enterprise and there are reasons to be cautious. Hell, there are reasons to be cautious at home on a 1-machine network.
To cache a decent portion, you'd be surprised. And it's the caching that would need to be important. Another reason they're loading the app from disc, rather than eating up space for a program that has to be copied into the Wii's internal flash...
After they introduced the "run from SD Card" kludge, it actually has less memory to work with. Ever completely filled your Wii's internal flash and then tried to run something from SD? You get problems like this. Essentially, in order to manage the "run from SD" area they make you keep your Wii's internal memory open.
Worse, this copy situation copies-then-deletes every time you use the "run from SD" function. Since it can't actually run the program from SD and copies it to internal flash instead, your internal flash gets worn on at an accelerated rate. If you download 5 games on your internal and played each once a day, you wrote to your flash precisely once for each game you downloaded. If you download them to SD instead and then "run" at the same rate, you're burning your flash 5+ times per day. We're going to see Wii's with bad internal flash start to pop up in a couple years because Nintendo couldn't make a sane architecture that was actually able to access its own external storage properly.
I don't know about the PS3, but I know technical limitations for memory on the Wii pretty much make this crap anyways.
The Wii can "download" apps, but its internal (flash) memory is incredibly small. Their "run from the SD slot" is a kludge that doesn't actually run the app from the SD slot, it copies it into part of the internal (flash) memory first.
I'm willing to bet the Netflix app is simply too big to fit inside the flash reliably.
Start with the fact that diesel is a BYPRODUCT OF GASOLINE PRODUCTION and work your way down.
Diesel prices shot up when we axed MTBE and made all gas use Ethanol (how's that corrosive Jim Beam derivative working in your gas tank btw? Enjoy having to constantly have your injectors cleaned of the gunk it leaves behind?). The reason? Old formulation was no more than 2% MTBE. New formulation is 10% Ethanol, sometimes higher.
All of a sudden, for the same amount of "Gas" available, there was 8% less Diesel. And airplane fuel. And heating oil. And all the other things that shot up in price due to scarcity.
Diesel is a nonviable "solution." Period. Get even 1% of gasoline users switched over to Diesel, and watch Diesel prices rise by 50 cents per gallon or more. Go to 5%, and watch interstate shipping and commuter airplane travel fail completely.
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You obviously haven't been around Washington enough.
The two definitions of "bipartisan" read as folllows:
#1 - Token RINOs/DINOs ("Republicans/Democrats In Name Only") voted for our crappy bill, yay!
#2 - The other side caved in and said "fuck it, we give up."
George Washington warned us about making political parties a legal part of our election system. Eleven Score and Five years later what do we have? Oh yeah - two political parties, the Republicrats and Demicans, who you can't tell apart 95% of the time and are a complete and utter sham the other 5%.
Run that by me again?
A year of Pelosi and Reid blocking any Republican bill from the floor is "nonpartisan"? Including blocking THREE Republican health-care bills from discussion while lying their asses off claiming the Republicans were "not offering alternatives"???
Holding closed meetings behind locked doors, Democrats-only, to "hash out" the Senate vs House bills, was "trying to appease" the other side?
Pull the other one. Partisan hackery is alive and well in Washington, especially in the Oval Office.
The Boy Scouts is an organization designed to mold young men into soldiers and subjects. We can do without its nationalist, homophobic, anti-freethinking training.
WTF?
An organization designed to teach kids to be courteous, kind, thrifty, brave? To volunteer in their community? To address community and world issues in a thoughtful manner, by contacting their elected representatives and engaging in respectful dialogue? To learn how, when it is time and if they feel so inclined, they should themselves run for office and serve their fellow citizens?
"Nationalist"? "Homophobic?" "Anti-Freethinking?"
Please, whatever you are smoking, please stop. It's obviously damaged whatever feeble quantity of functional brain cells you had prior to starting.
I'm Canadian, forgive me if this is an American issue.
Much of this is American issues, some of it crosses over to Canada as well from the word of my Canadian expatriate coworkers.
I must object to your undue, and likely highly frustrated, criticisms
I object to sending out people who lack the ability to speak properly, to inflict and impress their bad habits upon an entire generation of children in the formative years of their education.
Furthermore, the school system already has a place for intellectual spread. It's as tiered as it needs to be! The problem is again with the parents whom cannot accept a child in the lower educational tiers. Teachers, as caring as they generally are, are stuck helping the slower because their parents aren't being realistic with their abilities.
Sorry, but no. The public education system, as it exists today in America, is almost completely untiered until one reaches the latter half of what we term "high school" (grades 9-12). By that point, it is already too late.
I took part in scouting for around 8 years. I never once felt like our organisation was under any kind of attack. Diminishing popularity of these programs is rather due to the popularity of alternatives; karate or soccer lessons. ...
Though I agree that youth outreach programs and community programs are dwindling, I cannot blame people who are at a financial disadvantage for this.
Membership in Scouting is FREE. They have financial assistance and community support to ensure that all Scouts can get their basic uniform, no matter what their financial straits. Beyond the cost of travel (and even that was normally shared between many scouts!), the entirety of my Scouting life's costs were covered by diligently working our few fundraising activities each year. We were proud of working with our budget, going to the community and providing services (we did christmas wreath deliveries, for one example) and paying our own way with our own hard work and community contributions.
There's nothing wrong with a good martial arts program that provides philosophical teaching along with the physical training, though most American martial arts "schools" are plainly pathetic and completely lacking when it comes to the philosophical training side.
As it stands, though, to complain about Scouting losing out to soccer leagues and cut-rate fight clubs masquerading as "martial arts schools" because they are "alternatives" for people who are "at a financial disadvantage", indicates that something very wrong is going on.
Of course in the USA, anything that promotes good citizenship is under attack by freak groups like the ACLU, so all I can do is shrug my shoulders.
Some idiotic grammatical prescriptions
I believe the word you were looking for was, "proscriptions."
However, when the money got tight, the state opted to slash the education budget but continued to happily fund the fourth largest jail system in the world, something that, IMO, makes no sense. People in jail must be fed, clothed, sheltered etc by the State. People in college require assistance for a time, but eventually come out more educated and more capable, which would seem to be more helpful to the economy than funding a wack job sheriff who likes to drive a tank around poor neighborhoods to intimidate people.
Oh? Then let us begin. To start with, I take issue with your extraneous attack on a local sheriff. It has no place in the discussion.
As for people who are in prison, they are there because they have committed crimes. They are deemed currently unsafe to be circulated among the general citizenry. Prison has two effects, each of which a locality must balance: the punitive effect, and the rehabilitative effect. If you wish to get into a discussion of the corrective effect of prisons, and what new programs could be instituted to reduce recidivism rates and increase the rehabilitative effect of your local, state, or federal prisons, then I encourage you to do so - but again, not by starting the debate with an ad hominem attack upon a civil servant who has been reelected to his position multiple times.
As for education, it is more of a discretionary budget item than prison. Like it or not, most laws have a reason. If the budget for prisons is reduced, then the facilities of the prisons must be reduced. I am all for taking away prisoners' televisions and other amenities if that cuts costs. I am all for reducing food costs. Prisons should not be posh. I could even be convinced that making the prisoners swap bunks, as people from the military are made to do at times, is not unreasonable. That being said, given X number of prisoners, a crime rate (especially in a state that shares a border with a pisswater hellhole run by drug gang barons like Mexico) that produces Y more prisoners more year, and a fixed amount of money to allocate, Education funding for college grants (as opposed to student loans, which can be paid back) is going to lose out when the alternative is letting violent wackos from the drug gangs out of prison early.
You have failed to avoid Muphry's law. You began a sentence with a conjuction.
Remember one simple fact: the skill set required for someone to get a Ph.D in any given field has very little correlation with the skillsets required for such tasks as dressing oneself, attending to personal hygeine, or speaking in coherent sentences. The only "skills" required to get a Ph.D are (a) access to enough money to exist as a student for the requisite time, (b) the ability to regurgitate what your professors wish to hear, and (c) the ability to attach oneself to a previous Ph.D recipient long enough to have one's hand held through the process of writing a thesis.
I know too many Ph.D's who cannot tell the difference between its/it's, there/they're/their, and other simple homonyms. These people also have absolutely no concept of the value of money and are more than willing to give a passing grade to papers and assignments that contain similar grammatical mistakes as mentioned by TFA and the parent post.
As regards Idiocracy, while hyperbolic, it definitely does call attention to a growing concern for Western society. The lowest-intelligence portions of our society increasingly sit as dependent breeding stock, suckling at the teat of government social programs generationally whilst producing an overabundance of mentally deficient young who then perpetuate the cycle. Diseases perpetuated only by reckless or ignorant behavior that should have no foothold in a modern society are instead coming back in force, due to these idiots insisting that "well there will be a cure in the next 10 years so I don't have to worry" (actual quote from one of these morons who passed on HIV to one of her kids in the womb).
Well-meaning idiots bemoan the "failure" of the education system while refusing to make the basic changes necessary to reform it. Enforcing classroom discipline and removing troubled and disruptive children have become impossible. Properly stratified classes that truly challenge and educate the best and brighest children, while placing the lesser intellects into properly focused remedial programs, are seen as "discriminatory" if a given district strays too far from the racial numbers that racial supremacist agitators want to see. In the name of "diversity", all children are instead randomly tossed into classrooms that move at the pace of the slowest idiot, causing the education of the truly intelligent to be stunted. In most cases, creativity and intelligence - two innate talents that should be encouraged at all costs - are instead actively stifled by jealous teachers who are themselves the dimmest bulbs of their own generation (remember, the average IQ of college students in Education-related degree programs is lower even than Communications or Physical Education programs). Entrenched, unqualified individuals (tenured teachers and teachers' unions) insist that an unregulated and unfocused "more money for Education", rather than properly spent money combined with the elimination of unqualified individuals and proven-ineffective teaching doctrines from the system, is the solution.
And of course programs proven to nurture intelligence and leadership are then attacked as well. Scouting has been under attack for decades, a true shame since it encourages young men and women to go out and be active in their community and grow into thoughtful citizens, as well as teaching life skills such as planning schedules, reacting to emergencies and maintaining a budget. Programs like the Young Democrats and Young Republicans have all but vanished, a true shame since these programs did much to teach young men and women to engage in civil disagreement (as well as community engagement and good citizenship!) rather than the partisan hackery that is all young children learn today from television shows. Music and fine arts programs have been vanishing all over the country, victims to both the "more money for test scores" problem and the growth, overadulation and overfunding of "sports" (specifically, football and basketball) which rely more on the physical grotesqueness of one or two "team stars" than an ability on the part of players to react to different situations as a team.
And none of them lifted it, and they all made a mistake in not doing so.
That doesn't let Obama off the hook now. He's the one in the Oval Office, it's now his responsibility.
Ever consider that for some of us it's not about partisanship, but about what's best for the US?
We don't have more of a nuclear program for two reasons right now:
#1 - Every time someone starts trying to get the permits together to build a new reactor, the environmental wack-job crowd start staging protests and throwing lawyers at the situation.
#2 - Ever since Jimmy Carter's dunderheaded executive order (in which he said the US will not reprocess spent nuclear fuel back into usable fuel, because it would set an "example" to other nations not to reprocess anything that could be weapons grade... nincompoop), we haven't refined our spent fuel. As a result, we have a "nuclear waste problem", despite the fact that with proper recycling methods, greater than 95% of our stock of "nuclear waste" could be turned back into usable fuel.
Probably the only thing I agree with Obama on is that we need a serious conversion of our energy supply to use as much Nuclear as possible (solar/wind/geothermal too but they have severe limitations and can't meet our needs by themselves... solar, for instance, produces immense amounts of toxic waste and currently requires polysilicon substrates as a base for the panels, plus the most common silica sources are currently strip-mined). That being said, his bit about loans is only a half measure, if he was really serious he'd rescind Carter's dumbass executive order and get us down the path of recycling to deal with the "nuclear waste" issue.
Let's see: so in essence what we have here is an iPod Touch with a 10" screen, and still pretty skimpy storage space.
Plus, it's only useful if you jailbreak it, once people figure out how to do so.
Yeah. I get the feeling this is gonna fly like the Macbook Air did. Give 'em 48 hours and people will wonder what the hell Apple was thinking.
Rovers in two-part harmony:
"We're doing science and we're still alive..."
Homebrew is already possible on PS3
Sony has dropped Other OS as an option on the PS3 Slim and all future PS3 releases.
Plus, as it stood the Other OS setup only let you run crippled OSes that didn't have full access to the hardware.
What I want? Something that has full control. Something that can run with full access to all the hardware, something that can then be set up to actually stream datafiles correctly and play them natively (All the UPnP crapservers have to render the file "locally", eating up resources. Plus they're loaded down with the Shitty DLNA DRM setup, they choke on a fair number of codecs, and if I rip alternate audio from my DVD's, they choke trying to switch audio streams half the time.
Meanwhile if you think there's no cheating on the Xbox360/PS3, you've never seen the simple methods of forcing a "local" host and then periodically dropping signal ("standbying") for a second or two to non-local players.
See also. Nitwit.
Actually, there's more than two kinds today.
The problem is that people get given simplistic data and forget their history.
So far we "know" of four currently living species based on DNA analysis; more may be recognized as the DNA analysis of the various groups is ongoing.
There's the "Asian Elephant", currently separated into three subspecies (Sri Lankan, Sumatran, and Mainland/Indian) and the recently-acknowledged full species, the Borneo Pygmy elephant (which actually is sized similar to the extinct species that made up the bulk of Hannibal's herd). There's also the possibility that the Laotian populations are a true subspecies.
Then there's the "African Elephant", which is actually two species (African Forest Elephant and African Bush Elephant). The African Pygmy Elephant (Loxodonta pumilio or Loxodonta fransseni) is currently considered a "morph", but might be a subspecies or full species, again pending research and time for the populations to continue diverging.
None of these are what the Romans were used to, however. The Romans used the North African Elephant (Loxodonta africana pharaoensis), sometimes considered a subspecies and sometimes a full species, and the Syrian Elephant (Elephas maximus asurus, sometimes referred to as mere Asian Elephants, sometimes considered a subspecies, sometimes considered a full species). Both of the lines of what the Romans used are considered extinct today. There are also a number of other extinct Elephant lines that had contact with people: Elephas maximus rubridens aka the Chinese Elephant, a number of "Pygmy" elephant species that shrank due to island habitats, several species of the subgenus Paleoloxodon (including the Mediterranean Dwarf elephants, skulls of which found on Cyprus, Crete, and Sicily could have given rise to the idea of the "Cyclops")...
A good start is to set up an adjustable height desk.
Your heart rate remains higher if you remain vertical. And you'll move around a bit more just being in a standing position.
I wish I could bike to work. Unfortunately, I'd have to go through a couple really shitty neighborhoods. Plus, they take a dim view of riding bicycles on the "freeway" or "highway" around here, and half of them don't have frontage roads.
Nope. Wall of Air = Card.
Consider the following point:
Holmes, in the country of his birth (Britain), has been public domain for TWENTY YEARS.
Holmes, in the US and thanks to our fucked up laws passed by paid-off, bribed, and otherwise corrupt legislators, is covered by "copyright" law in the US all the way until 2023. At which time the character will be 136 years old.
Keep in mind that the NORMAL term of our fucked-up copyright laws is supposed to be either 95 years for "works for hire" (bought and paid for by hookers sent to legislators courtesy of Disney Corp and Sonny Bono's widow), or "Death of the author plus 70 years", which means the copyright on all of Conan Doyle's Holmes stories should have passed into public domain in the US back in 2000 (Sir Artie died in 1930). Actually, they should have passed back in 1980 (and did), but every time it gets close, Disney sends another round of hookers and bags of cash to Congress to buy another extension.
You try fighting that battle with CEOs, "managers", or tenured faculty and explaining why they shouldn't have admin privileges on "their" machine while you should.
On the other hand, how many users have I had where I go to their machine and they say they are having a "problem" connecting to the web, and they open up an IE window with 5 or more toolbars popping up?
How many users have I had that installed Weatherbug, or some other little widget, and then complained a couple weeks later when their machine was overrun by various spyware/scareware apps?
CutePDF, for instance, comes bundled with ASS ("Ask") TOOLBAR. Pain in the ass to remove. Nuisance in terms of security. If you don't know what you're doing when you install it, that crap gets dumped in along with it, then starts opening you up and phoning home as well.
"If it sounds too good to be true..."
Yeah. It's like that. Get yourself into a large enterprise and there are reasons to be cautious. Hell, there are reasons to be cautious at home on a 1-machine network.
How about: any future updates should forever and for all time get rid of those fucking stupid pop-over ads they stick into the videos.
Advertise if you want. Do NOT obscure the content while doing so.
To cache a decent portion, you'd be surprised. And it's the caching that would need to be important. Another reason they're loading the app from disc, rather than eating up space for a program that has to be copied into the Wii's internal flash...
After they introduced the "run from SD Card" kludge, it actually has less memory to work with. Ever completely filled your Wii's internal flash and then tried to run something from SD? You get problems like this. Essentially, in order to manage the "run from SD" area they make you keep your Wii's internal memory open.
Worse, this copy situation copies-then-deletes every time you use the "run from SD" function. Since it can't actually run the program from SD and copies it to internal flash instead, your internal flash gets worn on at an accelerated rate. If you download 5 games on your internal and played each once a day, you wrote to your flash precisely once for each game you downloaded. If you download them to SD instead and then "run" at the same rate, you're burning your flash 5+ times per day. We're going to see Wii's with bad internal flash start to pop up in a couple years because Nintendo couldn't make a sane architecture that was actually able to access its own external storage properly.
I don't know about the PS3, but I know technical limitations for memory on the Wii pretty much make this crap anyways.
The Wii can "download" apps, but its internal (flash) memory is incredibly small. Their "run from the SD slot" is a kludge that doesn't actually run the app from the SD slot, it copies it into part of the internal (flash) memory first.
I'm willing to bet the Netflix app is simply too big to fit inside the flash reliably.
Start with the fact that diesel is a BYPRODUCT OF GASOLINE PRODUCTION and work your way down.
Diesel prices shot up when we axed MTBE and made all gas use Ethanol (how's that corrosive Jim Beam derivative working in your gas tank btw? Enjoy having to constantly have your injectors cleaned of the gunk it leaves behind?). The reason? Old formulation was no more than 2% MTBE. New formulation is 10% Ethanol, sometimes higher.
All of a sudden, for the same amount of "Gas" available, there was 8% less Diesel. And airplane fuel. And heating oil. And all the other things that shot up in price due to scarcity.
Diesel is a nonviable "solution." Period. Get even 1% of gasoline users switched over to Diesel, and watch Diesel prices rise by 50 cents per gallon or more. Go to 5%, and watch interstate shipping and commuter airplane travel fail completely.
Remember: the difference between a "rip-off" and an "homage" is whether or not the other side has a goddamn sense of humor.