Your fears of a central office manipulating electrical supplies already happened, but it was a huge corporation doing the manipulating to jack up rates. Take away the profit motive and it's hard to see why a government entity would be playing those kinds of games. Even still, such an entity should be subject to intense scrutiny, which is fairly common in regards to government institutions. Nobody scrutinized Enron until their racket imploded, largely because they could use their immense wealth to neuter auditors and regulators.
Don't forget that in the late 80s/early 90's, PCs ran $2000-3000. On a price/performance ratio, Amiga totally handed DOS/Windows its ass. But MS owned the enterprise, and the "creative types" market was barely enough to keep Apple alive, much less a third player that didn't have a clue how to market its product.
...and you can't buy their equivalent for under a grand. I won't argue whether their low-end stuff is crap, I have one on my desk and it's been OK, but that hardly constitutes a significant data set. I'm just saying their enterprise products are still good. I did hear a story once that when Carly arrived she gave a speech complaining about how their products were built too well so they lasted too long and customers weren't replacing them fast enough, but in my experience their quality did not decline.
I do see a lot of people using the Ricoh Copier/Printers, they seem to hold up well.
I've been buying them for a couple decades and the latest models have fewer problems than their older counterparts. HP has plenty of issues: their Universal Print Driver is a nightmare, they have too many models with little to differentiate them (think Apple mid-1990s), their pricing on printer memory is beyond ridiculous, and their website sucks balls. But their hardware is still solid, at least in the $1000+ market.
why we need computerized voting? We hold elections once every year or two, it's not like counting the vote by hand is some huge drain on society's resources. Yes, hand counting is slow, that's why elections are held well before terms expire. Yes, it's labor-intensive to count by hand, but lots of eyes in the process makes fraud much harder. The Florida debacle did expose flaws in the system, but touch-screen voting is not the solution.
but rather lack of integrity. The US intelligence wouldn't give Cheney & friends an excuse to invade Iraq, so they created a new intel unit that somehow found all kinds of WMD-related intel...which, surprise, surprise, turned out to be bogus.
...in a much heavier vehicle, and the results weren't pretty as you found out, but they did address the problem in later models. I'm not a huge Honda fan, but I do own one that's given me zero problems in 5 years.
...I remember Firefox used to take forever to launch, even on a pretty decent rig. I actually added a splash screen plug-in because I was sick of wondering if my double-click had registered. As for Outlook, I never noticed it had a splash, it only shows up for about half a second for me. But on a slower machine with a crappy connection, I might appreciate it.
I don't see the issue here. If a program launches quickly, you don't notice the splash. If it's slow to launch, you want a splash so users don't kill their mice wondering if anything is happening.. If the splash itself is measurably slowing down launch time, that's some epicly stupid programming.
...Blu-ray disc player. Has access to a ton of internet content, which is fine, but trying to pull up a you-tube video is painful. Just a crappy interface.
Yeah, the media was so unbiased as they parroted government propaganda and hired retired generals, who also happened be receiving their talking points from the Pentagon, as consultants. Every time some old-media shill goes off on how "serious" they are, I can't help wanting to punch him in the face.
The guy can't go two weeks without contradicting himself. I don't think he believes in anything, except that being rich really kicks ass. And Joseph Smith.
Well all cars do actually, but the Volt is no more limited than any other vehicle. As long as you can find a gas station, you can keep driving. Yes, the batteries have limited range between charges, but that's how batteries work.
Whether the Volt is more or less practical than any other $40,000 vehicle depends on your criteria.
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Your fears of a central office manipulating electrical supplies already happened, but it was a huge corporation doing the manipulating to jack up rates. Take away the profit motive and it's hard to see why a government entity would be playing those kinds of games. Even still, such an entity should be subject to intense scrutiny, which is fairly common in regards to government institutions. Nobody scrutinized Enron until their racket imploded, largely because they could use their immense wealth to neuter auditors and regulators.
Don't forget that in the late 80s/early 90's, PCs ran $2000-3000. On a price/performance ratio, Amiga totally handed DOS/Windows its ass. But MS owned the enterprise, and the "creative types" market was barely enough to keep Apple alive, much less a third player that didn't have a clue how to market its product.
...and you can't buy their equivalent for under a grand. I won't argue whether their low-end stuff is crap, I have one on my desk and it's been OK, but that hardly constitutes a significant data set. I'm just saying their enterprise products are still good. I did hear a story once that when Carly arrived she gave a speech complaining about how their products were built too well so they lasted too long and customers weren't replacing them fast enough, but in my experience their quality did not decline.
I do see a lot of people using the Ricoh Copier/Printers, they seem to hold up well.
I've been buying them for a couple decades and the latest models have fewer problems than their older counterparts. HP has plenty of issues: their Universal Print Driver is a nightmare, they have too many models with little to differentiate them (think Apple mid-1990s), their pricing on printer memory is beyond ridiculous, and their website sucks balls. But their hardware is still solid, at least in the $1000+ market.
...I know I'm free.*
*As long as I don't discuss anything that someone in our ever-expanding security apparatus doesn't want discussed.
How about......NO!!!!
why we need computerized voting? We hold elections once every year or two, it's not like counting the vote by hand is some huge drain on society's resources. Yes, hand counting is slow, that's why elections are held well before terms expire. Yes, it's labor-intensive to count by hand, but lots of eyes in the process makes fraud much harder. The Florida debacle did expose flaws in the system, but touch-screen voting is not the solution.
but rather lack of integrity. The US intelligence wouldn't give Cheney & friends an excuse to invade Iraq, so they created a new intel unit that somehow found all kinds of WMD-related intel...which, surprise, surprise, turned out to be bogus.
...in a much heavier vehicle, and the results weren't pretty as you found out, but they did address the problem in later models. I'm not a huge Honda fan, but I do own one that's given me zero problems in 5 years.
Sony you are dead to me. Still. Although I'll keep watching my 10 year old 30-inch Trinitron THAT WILL NOT DIE!!
...I remember Firefox used to take forever to launch, even on a pretty decent rig. I actually added a splash screen plug-in because I was sick of wondering if my double-click had registered. As for Outlook, I never noticed it had a splash, it only shows up for about half a second for me. But on a slower machine with a crappy connection, I might appreciate it.
I don't see the issue here. If a program launches quickly, you don't notice the splash. If it's slow to launch, you want a splash so users don't kill their mice wondering if anything is happening.. If the splash itself is measurably slowing down launch time, that's some epicly stupid programming.
...Blu-ray disc player. Has access to a ton of internet content, which is fine, but trying to pull up a you-tube video is painful. Just a crappy interface.
....they were all scratched.
all those liberal news outlets were beating the drums for peace? Oh, wait...
Yeah, the media was so unbiased as they parroted government propaganda and hired retired generals, who also happened be receiving their talking points from the Pentagon, as consultants. Every time some old-media shill goes off on how "serious" they are, I can't help wanting to punch him in the face.
The guy can't go two weeks without contradicting himself. I don't think he believes in anything, except that being rich really kicks ass. And Joseph Smith.
as governor. Actually a few million reasons, known as the voters of Massachusetts.
There's W of course..... well, maybe not that great. Herbert Hoover, there was a great...no maybe not. Don't worry, I'll find one...
so I still can't figure out how any questions about it were relevant to the trial.
Well all cars do actually, but the Volt is no more limited than any other vehicle. As long as you can find a gas station, you can keep driving. Yes, the batteries have limited range between charges, but that's how batteries work.
Whether the Volt is more or less practical than any other $40,000 vehicle depends on your criteria.
But what about Brokaw's right to protect his public image? Especially since he has gone out of his way to remain neutral in politics?
Compare footage of his interactions with McCain and Obama from 2008. Neutral my ass.
...in the material in question, I don't see how NBC/Brokaw can claim that they seem to be endorsing him.
Especially the bit about using excerpts from print media. Too bad Tom doesn't like it, it's part of the job.
uncomfortable does absolutely nothing to discourage the executives who decided to install the damn scanners. Sadly, it seems to be the best we can do.
we know we know everything.