Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Tom and Jerry an MGM cartoon, not a Disney cartoon? Though, of course, objecting to that little error among the vast swaths of disinformation on that page is a little ridiculous.
Vertical integration and leveraging would only become monopoly issues if Disney were able to maintain their monopoly on music downloads for a good long time - and there's an argument that CDs and satellite radio are competitors to iTunes for Apple to fall back on.
No, no, no - the correct answer to "Hey, Granpa" is "I never married."
(Ok, for all I know you've been married for 40 years; but never let reality get in the way of a good allusion.)
Nope - you forgot to add the cost of a $178 TFT monitor (included in Ars' $525 price), keyboard, and mouse. Also, this ultimate budget PC has an 80 GB HD and a DVD-RW drive. A comparable Mac mini would be $727 for the box (with 80 GB HD upgrade, SuperDrive upgrade, and wired keyboard and mouse) plus $178 for the monitor, for a whopping $905. On the other hand, the quality of the Mac mini hardware would be superior, and the Mac mini would run OS X. Me, I'd buy the Mac mini for the extra $380. But I've been thinking about upgrading my windows box (a pathetic PII-300; gave my last Windows box away 3 years ago), and this $525 box looks tempting.
I've got bad news for you: it's not the old farts in the Republican part that are wearing the brown shirts - they're mostly moderate conservatives who simply oppose higher taxes and spending money on social support systems, people like George HW Bush. It's the young fellas who are trying to turn the US into a Christianofacist state, all the while saying it's to protect us from the Islamofacists.
According to Diogenes Laertius, Thales determined the path of the sun between the equinoxes and the times of the solstices (i.e., he mapped the analemma). There is also a story that he foretold a solar eclipse (though perhaps it has been confused for a lunar eclipse); if true, he would have to have determined the saros. Diogenes also credits him with "discovering the seasons" (this is likely just another way of saying that he determined the dates of the solstices and equinoxes) and making the year 365 days. I thought that he also determined the apparent sizes of the disks of the sun and the moon (which would fit in with studying eclipses), but can't find the reference. Some of this, and some of the mathematical studies attributed to him, are probably based upon studies of ancient Near Eastern texts, I suspect, but otherwise he clearly knew something about the shape of the earth. Calling him "the first philosopher" is a bit oversimplified, too.
Not strictly true. The "bede.org" page is right that flat earth cosmology was never, ever accepted by any Christian intellectuals. But pre-scientific belief in the ancient world (for example, in Greece before the 6th or 7th century bc) the idea that the earth was flat was very common, because the things that make the sphericity of the earth apparent weren't yet obvious to them (beginning with the shadow the earth casts on the moon during a lunar eclipse). This was a time when "astronomers" had a hard time understanding that "the morning star" (Phosphoros) and "the evening star" (Hesperos) were actually the same astronomical body.
Alexander Mayer is a visiting scholar at the Physics department at Stanford, which means that he is likely either an adjunct professor or a post-doctoral student, though he may be a PhD candidate. If you simply looked at the pages for the Physics department at Stanford, you'd have found that easily, rather than confining your search to the university's directory.
Property tax rates are significantly lower in Massachusetts than they are in New Hampshire (especially southern NH). The meals tax rate is lower (5% versus 8%). Massachusetts doesn't tax groceries or clothes under a certain amount ($175, I think, though that may have changed over the years). On the other hand, Massachusetts expects you to pay a use tax on items you buy out of state (without paying sales tax) at the same time you pay your income taxes! However, services in Massachusetts are as a rule much better than in New Hampshire.
The term "oriental" has a hug freight of ideological baggage, basically painting every culture in the entire geographical swath from Giza and Istanbul to Kushiro and Kupang as effeminate, devious, and inscrutable for 2500 years. Read Edward Said's book on "Orientalism" to see why it is usually offensive when applied to a person or style (as opposed to the simple geographical usage). Comparing this to an idiot who doesn't understand that "chink in the armor" or "chink glasses" has nothing to do with being Chinese reveals a great deal of insensitivity to language.
You're an idiot. The word "chink" as used here has as much to do with the derogatory term for a Chinese person, and the word "niggard" has as much to do with the derogatory term for a person of African descent, as the Chinese surname "Ho", or the old Wade-Giles transliteration of the word for river, has to do with a derogatory street-slang term for women derived from the slang word for a prostitute. Shall we force all people with the last name "Ho" to change their names because they are calling women prostitutes?
XP came out in November of 2001 - I know, I bought it for my old 700 MHz machine. My point was to slam the guy who inflated the upgrade prices from $457 to $600. And I suspect that there are a lot more people using 2001 Macs than 2001 Wintels out there.
There's a posting in this thread from someone who was working at NASA at the time debunking the claim that there was no political pressure on the launch schedule - saying that Oberg has made a straw man with his comments about there being no phone calls from the White House or plans to link up with the astronauts, that everyone at NASA knew that the president wanted to hail Christa MacAuliffe in his State of the Union (which was scheduled that same night) and so felt pressure to get the launch off that morning. Of course, that doesn't mean we should blame Reagan for the disaster, either.
Few people actually saw what happened live on television. The flight occurred during the early years of cable news, and although CNN was indeed carrying the launch when the shuttle was destroyed, all major broadcast stations had cut away -- only to quickly return with taped relays.
Notice the "although"? He's not claiming that CNN cut away - after all, CNN has NEVER been a broadcast station. He is only claiming that the networks cut away. And as I saw it live on CNN, which we had in my dorm common room, I can confirm that he is right about CNN staying on the story. So I think that maybe you'd better apologize to the fellow you said failed for being unable to read - you didn't read the story correctly, either.
Apple has released 5 different releases of OSX, 4 of witch were paid upgrades (approx. $600 if you were staying current all along)
OS X 10.0 - free with computer.
OS X 10.1 - $20 upgrade (That's how much OS X 10.1 cost if you had 10.0, only $19.95, and that's only if you ordered the disk on-line - I got mine for free from a reseller.)
OS X 10.2 - $149
OS X 10.3 - $149
OS X 10.4 - $149
Total - $467, assuming that you're still using a July 2001 Mac (which I am). Quick show of hands, by the way: who's still using a July 2001 Dell? With Windows XP SP2 Pro? (Assuming that you got Windows ME on that machine, and upgraded to XP Home, you'd have paid $149; Windows 2000, upgraded to XP Pro, $199.) And it's still quite usable, doesn't crawl? With 256 MB of RAM?
Thought so. I'll pay $467 to keep the same $1200 machine, still very usable, for 5 years any day of the week.
Your funny math extends to the number of security issues in CERT - There's a huge chunk in the UNIX pile that are Linux kernel only; and decent sized bunches of Solaris-only, Red Hat-only, and SUSE-only vulnerabilities. None of those is relevant to OS X.
Yes, this story does say that Apple needs to get on the ball about security. But it certainly doesn't say that Apple is inferior to Windows.
You're not thinking that through. That would basically mean that the children of authors would have to keep doing Brian Herberts (good god, no!) to keep their rights to their parents' estates.
Seven - "For the Birds," "Boundin'," "Geri's Game," "Knick Knack," "Luxo Jr.," "Red's Dream," and "Tin Toy" are on iTunes for $1.99 a piece (i.e., $13.93 for all seven).
He wasn't anywhere near as involved in day-to-day at Pixar as he is at Apple. If he ends up on the board of Disney, his work load likely will go up. If not, it will go down.
Google does something that is bound to endear them to their audience, and thus bound to increase their "ratings" (page views), and thus bound to increase click numbers for their customers, and so bound to increase their income - and their stock goes DOWN? Once they get a court order, they'll give up the data, sure, but the cost of fighting the supoena is nothing compared to the good will their resistance to releasing user data will garner. I don't think these investors really understand what Google is selling.
You're not reading carefully enough. My point is that Yahoo's use of SSL only on login doesn't matter, as unless the email content is encrypted (whether with PGP or as you have said, by encrypting on your computer and pasting the encrypted block in the webmail form), the transfer from mail host to mail host will expose the content anyway. In other words, encrypting mail reading pages on a webmail client is overkill unless the webmail client also incorporates an encryption methodology for the host-to-host transfer. The sniffer that picks up the http packets from the webmail client will also pick up the smtp packets that reached the mail host in the first place.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Tom and Jerry an MGM cartoon, not a Disney cartoon? Though, of course, objecting to that little error among the vast swaths of disinformation on that page is a little ridiculous.
Vertical integration and leveraging would only become monopoly issues if Disney were able to maintain their monopoly on music downloads for a good long time - and there's an argument that CDs and satellite radio are competitors to iTunes for Apple to fall back on.
No, no, no - the correct answer to "Hey, Granpa" is "I never married." (Ok, for all I know you've been married for 40 years; but never let reality get in the way of a good allusion.)
Nope - you forgot to add the cost of a $178 TFT monitor (included in Ars' $525 price), keyboard, and mouse. Also, this ultimate budget PC has an 80 GB HD and a DVD-RW drive. A comparable Mac mini would be $727 for the box (with 80 GB HD upgrade, SuperDrive upgrade, and wired keyboard and mouse) plus $178 for the monitor, for a whopping $905. On the other hand, the quality of the Mac mini hardware would be superior, and the Mac mini would run OS X. Me, I'd buy the Mac mini for the extra $380. But I've been thinking about upgrading my windows box (a pathetic PII-300; gave my last Windows box away 3 years ago), and this $525 box looks tempting.
I've got bad news for you: it's not the old farts in the Republican part that are wearing the brown shirts - they're mostly moderate conservatives who simply oppose higher taxes and spending money on social support systems, people like George HW Bush. It's the young fellas who are trying to turn the US into a Christianofacist state, all the while saying it's to protect us from the Islamofacists.
Yes, I thought it was quite funny in an over-the-top kind of humor.
According to Diogenes Laertius, Thales determined the path of the sun between the equinoxes and the times of the solstices (i.e., he mapped the analemma). There is also a story that he foretold a solar eclipse (though perhaps it has been confused for a lunar eclipse); if true, he would have to have determined the saros. Diogenes also credits him with "discovering the seasons" (this is likely just another way of saying that he determined the dates of the solstices and equinoxes) and making the year 365 days. I thought that he also determined the apparent sizes of the disks of the sun and the moon (which would fit in with studying eclipses), but can't find the reference. Some of this, and some of the mathematical studies attributed to him, are probably based upon studies of ancient Near Eastern texts, I suspect, but otherwise he clearly knew something about the shape of the earth. Calling him "the first philosopher" is a bit oversimplified, too.
Not strictly true. The "bede.org" page is right that flat earth cosmology was never, ever accepted by any Christian intellectuals. But pre-scientific belief in the ancient world (for example, in Greece before the 6th or 7th century bc) the idea that the earth was flat was very common, because the things that make the sphericity of the earth apparent weren't yet obvious to them (beginning with the shadow the earth casts on the moon during a lunar eclipse). This was a time when "astronomers" had a hard time understanding that "the morning star" (Phosphoros) and "the evening star" (Hesperos) were actually the same astronomical body.
Alexander Mayer is a visiting scholar at the Physics department at Stanford, which means that he is likely either an adjunct professor or a post-doctoral student, though he may be a PhD candidate. If you simply looked at the pages for the Physics department at Stanford, you'd have found that easily, rather than confining your search to the university's directory.
There's a zoom gesture that doesn't involve a control - they show the user parting two fingers to zoom a map in on part of California.
These are not all argumentum ad hominem. Only your second example is argumentum ad hominem.
Property tax rates are significantly lower in Massachusetts than they are in New Hampshire (especially southern NH). The meals tax rate is lower (5% versus 8%). Massachusetts doesn't tax groceries or clothes under a certain amount ($175, I think, though that may have changed over the years). On the other hand, Massachusetts expects you to pay a use tax on items you buy out of state (without paying sales tax) at the same time you pay your income taxes! However, services in Massachusetts are as a rule much better than in New Hampshire.
The term "oriental" has a hug freight of ideological baggage, basically painting every culture in the entire geographical swath from Giza and Istanbul to Kushiro and Kupang as effeminate, devious, and inscrutable for 2500 years. Read Edward Said's book on "Orientalism" to see why it is usually offensive when applied to a person or style (as opposed to the simple geographical usage). Comparing this to an idiot who doesn't understand that "chink in the armor" or "chink glasses" has nothing to do with being Chinese reveals a great deal of insensitivity to language.
You're an idiot. The word "chink" as used here has as much to do with the derogatory term for a Chinese person, and the word "niggard" has as much to do with the derogatory term for a person of African descent, as the Chinese surname "Ho", or the old Wade-Giles transliteration of the word for river, has to do with a derogatory street-slang term for women derived from the slang word for a prostitute. Shall we force all people with the last name "Ho" to change their names because they are calling women prostitutes?
Staples uses mostly on-line rebates, and I have never had a problem with a Staples rebate. https://www.stapleseasyrebates.com/
The simple solution is to reduce the terms of copyrights to 20 years after death, which would approximate the old term of 75 years.
XP came out in November of 2001 - I know, I bought it for my old 700 MHz machine. My point was to slam the guy who inflated the upgrade prices from $457 to $600. And I suspect that there are a lot more people using 2001 Macs than 2001 Wintels out there.
There's a posting in this thread from someone who was working at NASA at the time debunking the claim that there was no political pressure on the launch schedule - saying that Oberg has made a straw man with his comments about there being no phone calls from the White House or plans to link up with the astronauts, that everyone at NASA knew that the president wanted to hail Christa MacAuliffe in his State of the Union (which was scheduled that same night) and so felt pressure to get the launch off that morning. Of course, that doesn't mean we should blame Reagan for the disaster, either.
Few people actually saw what happened live on television. The flight occurred during the early years of cable news, and although CNN was indeed carrying the launch when the shuttle was destroyed, all major broadcast stations had cut away -- only to quickly return with taped relays.
Notice the "although"? He's not claiming that CNN cut away - after all, CNN has NEVER been a broadcast station. He is only claiming that the networks cut away. And as I saw it live on CNN, which we had in my dorm common room, I can confirm that he is right about CNN staying on the story. So I think that maybe you'd better apologize to the fellow you said failed for being unable to read - you didn't read the story correctly, either.
Apple has released 5 different releases of OSX, 4 of witch were paid upgrades (approx. $600 if you were staying current all along)
OS X 10.0 - free with computer.
OS X 10.1 - $20 upgrade (That's how much OS X 10.1 cost if you had 10.0, only $19.95, and that's only if you ordered the disk on-line - I got mine for free from a reseller.)
OS X 10.2 - $149
OS X 10.3 - $149
OS X 10.4 - $149
Total - $467, assuming that you're still using a July 2001 Mac (which I am). Quick show of hands, by the way: who's still using a July 2001 Dell? With Windows XP SP2 Pro? (Assuming that you got Windows ME on that machine, and upgraded to XP Home, you'd have paid $149; Windows 2000, upgraded to XP Pro, $199.) And it's still quite usable, doesn't crawl? With 256 MB of RAM?
Thought so. I'll pay $467 to keep the same $1200 machine, still very usable, for 5 years any day of the week.
Your funny math extends to the number of security issues in CERT - There's a huge chunk in the UNIX pile that are Linux kernel only; and decent sized bunches of Solaris-only, Red Hat-only, and SUSE-only vulnerabilities. None of those is relevant to OS X.
Yes, this story does say that Apple needs to get on the ball about security. But it certainly doesn't say that Apple is inferior to Windows.
You're not thinking that through. That would basically mean that the children of authors would have to keep doing Brian Herberts (good god, no!) to keep their rights to their parents' estates.
Seven - "For the Birds," "Boundin'," "Geri's Game," "Knick Knack," "Luxo Jr.," "Red's Dream," and "Tin Toy" are on iTunes for $1.99 a piece (i.e., $13.93 for all seven).
He wasn't anywhere near as involved in day-to-day at Pixar as he is at Apple. If he ends up on the board of Disney, his work load likely will go up. If not, it will go down.
Google does something that is bound to endear them to their audience, and thus bound to increase their "ratings" (page views), and thus bound to increase click numbers for their customers, and so bound to increase their income - and their stock goes DOWN? Once they get a court order, they'll give up the data, sure, but the cost of fighting the supoena is nothing compared to the good will their resistance to releasing user data will garner. I don't think these investors really understand what Google is selling.
You're not reading carefully enough. My point is that Yahoo's use of SSL only on login doesn't matter, as unless the email content is encrypted (whether with PGP or as you have said, by encrypting on your computer and pasting the encrypted block in the webmail form), the transfer from mail host to mail host will expose the content anyway. In other words, encrypting mail reading pages on a webmail client is overkill unless the webmail client also incorporates an encryption methodology for the host-to-host transfer. The sniffer that picks up the http packets from the webmail client will also pick up the smtp packets that reached the mail host in the first place.