There's a reason the people who started America were called the "Founding Fathers." If I gave my children the vote, it'd be candy for every meal, and staying up all night. Requiring vegetables and a bed time isn't popular, but it is the right thing to do.
The reality is, when you are a leader, you are NOT doing what everyone else thinks you should be doing. You are doing what needs to be done. And sometimes it takes a while before those behind you realize you are doing what's best for all concerned (thanks Mom and Dad for the vegetables and bed time!).
That reminds me of a quote from Sideshow Bob:
Because you _need_ me, Springfield. Your guilty conscience may
force you to vote Democratic, but deep down inside you secretly
long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize
criminals, and rule you like a king. That's why I did this: to
protect you from yourselves. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a
city to run.
I hardly ever watched TV before TiVo, and even now most of what I record is on one of the public stations in my area, so I won't miss the end of the current commercial revenue model.
I've read somewhere that the time it takes to navigate through a menu is about the same as the time it takes to remember and type in a complex command. If the majority of users are novices to whatever they are doing, then you wouldn't want some errant key combination doing something that the user has no idea of what happened.
In the US, our power generation is fully recovered, unlike Canada's. It's also cool enough not to need AC. Hence, no need to tell people to "conserve."
Read the news story.
If your goal is to save money, then forget it. The startup costs for either solar or wind are so high that you would have to be paying 25 cents per KWh to make it up over a 20 year period. Then, if you have 70+ foot trees blocking the sun and generating turbulance, don't count on getting anywhere near the max output.
Currently, you can get government grants and utillity rebates, but you would need a perfect site before you would break even.
This is all really clearly detailed at Apple Software Restore. The idea is to create a bootable disk image with all the software (apps, fonts, etc.) you want to deploy, put it on a file server, and then boot into the target machine with a FireWire disk or CD with Mac OS X on it. This is so you can go into Terminal and use the command-line tool to run 'asr' to install the disk image.
Regarding UNIX, your description is a simplistic fantasy-land of "what things would be like if, oh, everybody used unix." What happens if you don't have a library that does what you want to do? What happens if the libraries you have can't interface with one another without massive amounts of code? What happens to the performance of the machine when you have thousands of separate processes trying to access shared resources? Do you want to be dependent on another vendor's libraries, which could have bugs and other undocumented "features"?
What I've found in my experience of writing software is that you end up writing your own libraries for practically everything because the existing library is missing a feature, has bugs, is too slow, isn't being supported anymore, or just does things in strange ways.
or put it in the case. At some point you're going to have to move it from the case to your lap or desk, no? The surface of the TiBook is smooth and may be slippery, and a handle makes it easier to move.
That said, there are only two mounting points for this handle, and it's attached with some small screws, so I would be careful with the amount of force you put on such a handle, especially any twisting or torquing force.
I thought that military planes use an inertial guidance system as their primary means of navigation. This is where you have sensors that detect acceleration and use a computer to determine your position. Of course, you have to set it to a known location when you're on the ground.
In enemy territory or over the open ocean, you won't find radar beacons.
Gyros tend to drift as you fly over long distances, and need to be compared to a magnetic compass or other reference.
I used form-Z for all my 3D rendering and design work while working towards my BS in Architecture degree. Check out the gallery for someone else's work. I didn't have the CPU power at the time to do anything like what's in that gallery. But if you're going for realism, form-Z is one of the best on Mac OS X. I also suggest looking at ElectricImage.
Japanese is quite a complex language to learn. Not impossible, but it will take time. You will need to learn two separate character sets, one based on words and the other based on phonetic sounds. The word-based set has over 2000 symbols you must learn before you have a basic ability to read, while the sound-based set will only help you pronounce the words; you'll still have to learn what those sounds mean. I've read that it takes about six years of schooling for native-born Japanese to be able to read the language.
There are books and software packages that let you learn Japanese. As for your question about online materials, how hard is it to use a search engine?
I love how even mundane things get turned into games in Japan. There's Tokyo Bus Guide (scroll down a few paragraphs). And one of the most popular games in Japan was Densha De Go!, where you get to drive a train! From the Bullet train to metropolitan subway lines!
BTW, old versions of Connectix Virtual Game Station would play Japanese titles without mods.
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"Let's play Twister, let's play Risk / Yea yea yea yea yea... / If you believe they put a man on the moon / If you believe there's nothing up their sleeves...." -R.E.M.
My question is, does playing any of these games actually make you better at the real thing? Like if you got good at Dance Dance Revolution, would that make you better at dancing on stage? Or, for other games, better on the maracas, drums, or guitars?
I would guess not. I mean, people who play sniper games don't automatically become good at shooting a real sniper rifle. On the other hand, I've seen some cool drum-pad setups in arcades which are pretty much the same as your studio drum machine setup.
Of course, it's much cooler to be able to play the drums or guitar well than to have really fast reflexes and eye-hand coordination (unless you're at QuakeCon). My advice would be to try playing an instrument -- it's lots of fun if your neighbors don't mind the noise!
Whenever I read about issues about environmental pollution, I think of the Tragedy of the Commons. Essentially, things like air pollution and industrial run-off are absorbed by the community at large, while cost of using cleaner processes are borne by the producer with little benefit to the producer. The referenced article does a better job of explaining it:
At the point when the carrying capacity of the commons was fully reached, a herdsman might ask himself, "Should I add another animal to my herd?" Because the herdsman owned his animals, the gain of so doing would come solely to him. But the loss incurred by overloading the pasture would be "commonized" among all the herdsmen. Because the privatized gain would exceed his share of the commonized loss, a self-seeking herdsman would add another animal to his herd. And another. And reasoning in the same way, so would all the other herdsmen. Ultimately, the common property would be ruined.
Environmental concerns are very important. If there was no mechanism for controlling pollution, we would still have smokestacks belching out coal dust and blackening our buildings. We would have raw sewage being dumped in our streams and lakes.
But the solution as I see it is not heavy-handed government regulation to regulate every step of producing microchips. Ideally, each producer would have to pay a tax according to how much pollution they create.
Certainly, the purification process requires a lot of work and generates waste, but this is not limited to the semiconductor industry. Take a look at the petroleum, steel, or electricity production industry. In western Pennsylvania, the steel industry and power plants continue to produce the majority of air pollution in the area.
It would be more worthwhile to seek to reduce pollution from those industries which produce many more pounds of pollution than the semiconductor industry.
It makes more sense to max out your motherboard RAM and not have to go out to swap in the first place. If your motherboard is constrained the number in DIMM slots, you could always swap out the motherboard with one with more slots. Consider the cost of a motherboard ($300) vs. cost of a RAM drive ($3000).
I don't mean to sound cynical, but why don't you buy a motherboard that supports enough DIMM slots to let you max out your RAM to what your OS lets you use? Motherboards are cheap and you can reuse your CPU, RAM, PSU, HD, etc.
Did it ever occur to you that there might be people who can comprehend the subject matter, get their work done, and get good grades for it?
Yes, if all your classes were in subjet matter that was actually important to you, and the amount of course-work was reasonable. Maybe I've had some bad teachers, but there were some courses which I felt were a waste of my time and the teacher really didn't care about the subject matter.
Ultimately, nobody's going to ask you what your GPA was once you're in the working world. If you went to school because you enjoyed learning the subject matter, and the high GPA was a side-effect of that, then more power to you. It's just when parents push their kids to get an Ivy League degree costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, that's when I get suspicious
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That reminds me of a quote from Sideshow Bob:
(The Simpsons, 2F02, "Sideshow Bob Roberts")You mean comcast on demand? How's that working for you?
I hardly ever watched TV before TiVo, and even now most of what I record is on one of the public stations in my area, so I won't miss the end of the current commercial revenue model.
I've read somewhere that the time it takes to navigate through a menu is about the same as the time it takes to remember and type in a complex command. If the majority of users are novices to whatever they are doing, then you wouldn't want some errant key combination doing something that the user has no idea of what happened.
In the US, our power generation is fully recovered, unlike Canada's. It's also cool enough not to need AC. Hence, no need to tell people to "conserve." Read the news story.
Currently, you can get government grants and utillity rebates, but you would need a perfect site before you would break even.
This is all really clearly detailed at Apple Software Restore. The idea is to create a bootable disk image with all the software (apps, fonts, etc.) you want to deploy, put it on a file server, and then boot into the target machine with a FireWire disk or CD with Mac OS X on it. This is so you can go into Terminal and use the command-line tool to run 'asr' to install the disk image.
What I've found in my experience of writing software is that you end up writing your own libraries for practically everything because the existing library is missing a feature, has bugs, is too slow, isn't being supported anymore, or just does things in strange ways.
That said, there are only two mounting points for this handle, and it's attached with some small screws, so I would be careful with the amount of force you put on such a handle, especially any twisting or torquing force.
In enemy territory or over the open ocean, you won't find radar beacons.
Gyros tend to drift as you fly over long distances, and need to be compared to a magnetic compass or other reference.
I used form-Z for all my 3D rendering and design work while working towards my BS in Architecture degree. Check out the gallery for someone else's work. I didn't have the CPU power at the time to do anything like what's in that gallery. But if you're going for realism, form-Z is one of the best on Mac OS X. I also suggest looking at ElectricImage.
There are books and software packages that let you learn Japanese. As for your question about online materials, how hard is it to use a search engine?
BTW, old versions of Connectix Virtual Game Station would play Japanese titles without mods.
-- ... / If you believe they put a man on the moon / If you believe there's nothing up their sleeves...." -R.E.M.
"Let's play Twister, let's play Risk / Yea yea yea yea yea
I would guess not. I mean, people who play sniper games don't automatically become good at shooting a real sniper rifle. On the other hand, I've seen some cool drum-pad setups in arcades which are pretty much the same as your studio drum machine setup.
Of course, it's much cooler to be able to play the drums or guitar well than to have really fast reflexes and eye-hand coordination (unless you're at QuakeCon). My advice would be to try playing an instrument -- it's lots of fun if your neighbors don't mind the noise!
I don't think it's a fair comparison between London-Edinburgh and NYC-Detroit, since Detroit doesn't have a rail line directly from NYC.
But the solution as I see it is not heavy-handed government regulation to regulate every step of producing microchips. Ideally, each producer would have to pay a tax according to how much pollution they create.
Certainly, the purification process requires a lot of work and generates waste, but this is not limited to the semiconductor industry. Take a look at the petroleum, steel, or electricity production industry. In western Pennsylvania, the steel industry and power plants continue to produce the majority of air pollution in the area.
It would be more worthwhile to seek to reduce pollution from those industries which produce many more pounds of pollution than the semiconductor industry.
Does this mean that NASA has decided that they don't need a Moon Hoax Book because they can just redesign their web site with more eye-candy?
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The 2GB limit on 32-bit machines will be overcome when 64-bit processors start shipping. This workaround would only be temporary,
It makes more sense to max out your motherboard RAM and not have to go out to swap in the first place. If your motherboard is constrained the number in DIMM slots, you could always swap out the motherboard with one with more slots. Consider the cost of a motherboard ($300) vs. cost of a RAM drive ($3000).
That's an OS issue. Some OSes have persistent RAM disks which stick around after a restart. You still lose the data if you shut down.
I don't mean to sound cynical, but why don't you buy a motherboard that supports enough DIMM slots to let you max out your RAM to what your OS lets you use? Motherboards are cheap and you can reuse your CPU, RAM, PSU, HD, etc.
I thought this comment was funny (parent). It seems silly to put RAM on the other side of the slow PCI bus.
Yes, if all your classes were in subjet matter that was actually important to you, and the amount of course-work was reasonable. Maybe I've had some bad teachers, but there were some courses which I felt were a waste of my time and the teacher really didn't care about the subject matter.
Ultimately, nobody's going to ask you what your GPA was once you're in the working world. If you went to school because you enjoyed learning the subject matter, and the high GPA was a side-effect of that, then more power to you. It's just when parents push their kids to get an Ivy League degree costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, that's when I get suspicious