For academics: Science Friday, an hour-long show about an interesting science. Such things show up in the shows throughout the weekday as well.
For artists: Shows about art and/or music and/or literature (rarely political) including interviews by the artists themselves.
For geeks: commentary about cool computer gadgets, Linux, free software, and even once an interview with Linus.
This is typical stuff for NPR. This is not leftist. Nobody can seem to give specific examples of this ongoing leftism on NPR. I'm leaning towards believing most of you think NPR is leftist because you hear the phrase repeated over and over.
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"NPR tends to be in favor of more government"
Can you give examples? Political commentary on NPR shows is minimal. Morning Edition is more factual reporting than anything else, for instance. Same with their periodic short news breaks (the ones Corva Coleman (sp?)used to do). Terry Gross' show usually has authors, musicians, etc... Ray Suarez's old show was the same but a little bit more political at times; however, his political leanings weren't really apparent until he wrote his book. Tavis Smiley's current show is probably viewed as the most political show ever on NPR, but any show hosted by a black person who considers black issues will be seen as such.
What on NPR suggests that they want to government to support deadbeats? Sounds like you've been watching NPR with the volume turned down, simultaneously with Fox News on the radio. No offense.
Dumb-ass loser. "address his point rationally" Please. Get a brain.
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After seeing all the "NPR is leftist" comments, I think I can guess what's going on. The definition of leftist in the United States has changed so dramatically in the past 2-3 decades that young people now actually think anything not in tune with pro-corporate mumbo jumbo is leftist. This may be your experience because you are so young, but it is not true. Just because NPR doesn't put shows on where people whine all the time about poor people being lazy doesn't make it leftist. Read some (recent) history, guys, or maybe listen to some non-American opinions.
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They'll become popular in ways artists became popular before the RIAA existed. Plus we have the internet now, which is the point.
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NPR is NOT "left wing". Never has been, and I've been listening for almost 20 years. If they seem to have a political slant, it's because the shows and views presented are usually in tune with the sensibilities of academics and artists and sometimes geeks even. NPR is "liberal" in the same sense that the New York Times is "liberal"-- it isn't. They did the pro-war shows during Bush's escapades as much as any other radio organization. Fox News, however, IS "right wing" and hardly anyone disagrees with this.
I guess the tech consultants they hire probably do this for the coolness factor, but maybe they don't display MS Windows because all the other companies pay them millions for product placement. So why advertise MS Windows for free?
Wow! I kinda laughed when I saw the claims about Microsoft's search engine overtaking Google. Now it looks like it will probably happen. Once Google goes public and scares everyone away with lame ads and lame pricing, Microsoft will rule. This is highly unfortunate. I really can't believe it.
No disrespect, but you can get OpenOffice for free, which supports Hebrew, as people are saying. So if Microsoft gets cut off, your options are still the same-- use OpenOffice or another word processor that supports Hebrew. You should make the transition today, and tell everyone you know!:)
Fifth, and I know it's not quite the same, but how many people feel offended because at some parks, God Bless America is sung during the seventh inning stretch? I have yet to see anyone complaining to Major League Baseball that it offends them.
You should think long and hard about that one. Why in the world would MLB care about dissenters? Also, it would take a lot of courage for someone to complain about this nowadays that the government can make you disappear for any whimsical reason purporting to be terrorist-related. Anyway, the reason why most Americans don't care about the "under God" phrase is because most were raised Christian; yet we all know these same people generally have a strong distaste for other religions.
And by the way, the "slippery slope" argument doesn't work here.
I know that OpenOffice is an whole suite, but as far a word processing goes, I think Abiword 2.0 is not worse than OO. I recently had to open up a.doc file and edit it, and I found Abiword 2.0's menu items much, much easier to find (like overstrike, for instance) compared to OO's which were hard as hell to locate. Also, Abiword 2.0 rendered the file more correctly than OO. By the way, I use the latest versions of each. Lastly, Abiword's UI is prettier. However, I do realize that the point of OO is to be a MS Office clone/replacement.
Not only that, but Maxtor requires you to run a diagnostic tool on your drive before giving you an RMA. And guess what? The the dianostic tool only runs in Windows. Seagate at least gives you a CDROM image download, and acknowledges that other OSes exist.
This is a good idea. All you have to do is use a KDE theme that looks exactly like Windows. There will be quirks, but these will be quickly forgiven because the users will think they're using Windows, where it's o.k. for things to go wrong.
Marx makes a good read, I'll grant you. But he's no more persuasive as an economic scientist that an old John Campbell editorial. Why? Because his theory makes assumptions and predictions, and the predictions haven't come true.
Are you kidding? The current state of global capitalism is exactly what Marx predicted. Your little strawman arguments/examples don't prove anything.
I don't think the point is whether someone has a right to your trash. If I told everyone in the world my personal information, lots of people could get credit cards in my name. However, they would all be committing fraud since I did not authorize them to do so. Anyway, the person who submitted your application illegally is the one to sue-- the credit card company is not liable unless the crook is an employee of theirs, which is not likely.
Reading out the digits as singular ones and zeros doesn't quantify the actual value either.
This is what I've always done, and it's my personal preference. I mean, in hexadecimal, how do you say "AB3F" other than reading the characters individually from left to right (or vice-versa)? In octal for instance, 0, 1, 2,..., 7 have the same values in base ten, so using the same names for the digits in base 8 isn't incorrect (and this generalizes, of course).
That was my first impression, especially when I saw the author used a whopping six pages to explain this. But then, most people in their youth don't memorize the decimal values of the first 30 exponents of 2, like many of us here.
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This is typical stuff for NPR. This is not leftist. Nobody can seem to give specific examples of this ongoing leftism on NPR. I'm leaning towards believing most of you think NPR is leftist because you hear the phrase repeated over and over.
"NPR tends to be in favor of more government"
Can you give examples? Political commentary on NPR shows is minimal. Morning Edition is more factual reporting than anything else, for instance. Same with their periodic short news breaks (the ones Corva Coleman (sp?)used to do). Terry Gross' show usually has authors, musicians, etc... Ray Suarez's old show was the same but a little bit more political at times; however, his political leanings weren't really apparent until he wrote his book. Tavis Smiley's current show is probably viewed as the most political show ever on NPR, but any show hosted by a black person who considers black issues will be seen as such.
What on NPR suggests that they want to government to support deadbeats? Sounds like you've been watching NPR with the volume turned down, simultaneously with Fox News on the radio. No offense.
Dumb-ass loser. "address his point rationally" Please. Get a brain.
After seeing all the "NPR is leftist" comments, I think I can guess what's going on. The definition of leftist in the United States has changed so dramatically in the past 2-3 decades that young people now actually think anything not in tune with pro-corporate mumbo jumbo is leftist. This may be your experience because you are so young, but it is not true. Just because NPR doesn't put shows on where people whine all the time about poor people being lazy doesn't make it leftist. Read some (recent) history, guys, or maybe listen to some non-American opinions.
They'll become popular in ways artists became popular before the RIAA existed. Plus we have the internet now, which is the point.
NPR is NOT "left wing". Never has been, and I've been listening for almost 20 years. If they seem to have a political slant, it's because the shows and views presented are usually in tune with the sensibilities of academics and artists and sometimes geeks even. NPR is "liberal" in the same sense that the New York Times is "liberal"-- it isn't. They did the pro-war shows during Bush's escapades as much as any other radio organization. Fox News, however, IS "right wing" and hardly anyone disagrees with this.
Was the movie any good?
I guess the tech consultants they hire probably do this for the coolness factor, but maybe they don't display MS Windows because all the other companies pay them millions for product placement. So why advertise MS Windows for free?
Those are some amazing pictures! Nice to see someone who risks his life for the Slashdot crowd :)
Wow! I kinda laughed when I saw the claims about Microsoft's search engine overtaking Google. Now it looks like it will probably happen. Once Google goes public and scares everyone away with lame ads and lame pricing, Microsoft will rule. This is highly unfortunate. I really can't believe it.
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No disrespect, but you can get OpenOffice for free, which supports Hebrew, as people are saying. So if Microsoft gets cut off, your options are still the same-- use OpenOffice or another word processor that supports Hebrew. You should make the transition today, and tell everyone you know! :)
You speak as if Microsoft is a government or country, and could wage war against Israel. Wow.
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And by the way, the "slippery slope" argument doesn't work here.
Is it possible for an individual to buy a Transmeta processor plus a motherboard on which it can live?
I know that OpenOffice is an whole suite, but as far a word processing goes, I think Abiword 2.0 is not worse than OO. I recently had to open up a .doc file and edit it, and I found Abiword 2.0's menu items much, much easier to find (like overstrike, for instance) compared to OO's which were hard as hell to locate. Also, Abiword 2.0 rendered the file more correctly than OO. By the way, I use the latest versions of each. Lastly, Abiword's UI is prettier. However, I do realize that the point of OO is to be a MS Office clone/replacement.
Not only that, but Maxtor requires you to run a diagnostic tool on your drive before giving you an RMA. And guess what? The the dianostic tool only runs in Windows. Seagate at least gives you a CDROM image download, and acknowledges that other OSes exist.
This is a good idea. All you have to do is use a KDE theme that looks exactly like Windows. There will be quirks, but these will be quickly forgiven because the users will think they're using Windows, where it's o.k. for things to go wrong.
Marx makes a good read, I'll grant you. But he's no more persuasive as an economic scientist that an old John Campbell editorial. Why? Because his theory makes assumptions and predictions, and the predictions haven't come true.
Are you kidding? The current state of global capitalism is exactly what Marx predicted. Your little strawman arguments/examples don't prove anything.
I don't think the point is whether someone has a right to your trash. If I told everyone in the world my personal information, lots of people could get credit cards in my name. However, they would all be committing fraud since I did not authorize them to do so. Anyway, the person who submitted your application illegally is the one to sue-- the credit card company is not liable unless the crook is an employee of theirs, which is not likely.
FTP. You must be one of them younguns.
By the way, how do you computer guys pronounce "gigabyte" nowadays? Soft or hard "g"?
Reading out the digits as singular ones and zeros doesn't quantify the actual value either.
This is what I've always done, and it's my personal preference. I mean, in hexadecimal, how do you say "AB3F" other than reading the characters individually from left to right (or vice-versa)? In octal for instance, 0, 1, 2,
That was my first impression, especially when I saw the author used a whopping six pages to explain this. But then, most people in their youth don't memorize the decimal values of the first 30 exponents of 2, like many of us here.