More seriously, my personal, non-legally-binding view is there has to be a clear, legal separation between areas with an expectation of privacy and areas considered "public." If a cop or a stranger can legally observe you from somewhere, then it doesn't matter if you replace a human with a camera.
I think just the opposite. The binary distinction between "private" and "non private" removes all the space in which we normally live - that is, public or privately owned places where we *could* be watched, but normally don't have to worry about being watched for no reason because it is cost-prohibitive.
The vast majority of those that don't vote do so because they are too damned lazy to either a.) get their asses to the polls or b.) educate themselves enough on the issues to be able to make an informed decision.
What about the fact that a single vote can never change a national election? I vote out of civic duty, and to legitmize all the time I spend watching the news. But I'm under no illusion that my one vote could ever be the tie-breaker in a national election. I don't even believe it's possible to count the votes in one state to within a margin of error of one vote.
I think that guy needs to take his superior knowledge elsewhere and try some benchmarks ("512K of cache isn't competitive for $3000")... apparently it is because it's winning benchmarks and people are buying them.
Would you mind pointing me to such benchmarks? I've consistently found it very difficult to find any decent comparos of Macs vs PCs. Every PC CPU review includes pages of benchmarks on a wide variety of games, media encoding, office apps, and scientific applications. I'm really curious how fast the G5's are, but simply timing a Photoshop filter won't cut it.
In the beginning, ActiveX wasnt supposed to be Platform Dependant. And I guess that kind of makes sense... COM is platform-indepentent. OLE is just a set of COM interfaces that Microsoft uses throughout their operating system and applications.
This is really not true. Microsoft will always see, "look what good guys we are, COM and DCOM are platform independent,.net is platform independent, ActiveX is platform independent." And there's always a little truth to it, enough to sway those who already made their decision and just want to justify it. But at the same time, compiling and running on another platform is never a real option.
I would rather have faster processors than multiple cores, as it is not enough is multi-threaded.
Any informed person would rather have a single processor than two processors each half as fast. Dual cores represent a failure to continue the exponential increases that have spoiled us for the last 30 years or so. It was nice while it lasted.
Not to mention Hitler's "Final Solution." (Millions of civilians). Nobody's claiming it was an accident, on either side:
It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed... The destruction of Dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of Allied bombing.
- Winston Churchill
Fire-bombing Tokyo and Nuking Japan weren't accidents either. (Hundreds of thousands of civilians).
Being able to remotely connect to a running X session is the main reason to use VNC on X anyway; if you want a new X session you might as well just run an X server locally
No sir! For being designed around a network protocol, it's the height of irony that X doesn't work very well over slow links anyways! VNC is better.
The reason - VNC allows fast-moving detail to be lost, while X bottles it up and draws it all, no longer how long it takes. Say you're running a web browser with an animated.gif banner ad. X will make sure it shoves every frame of that thing across the network, while VNC will only show you a frame every now and then, the sampling rate depending on bandwidth.
Obviously they should switch over to growing banannas. Any fool knows that the average Joe will never read hardware review sites. But mmmm, everybody loves a good bananna.
Think about it, how many fat 100 year olds have you seen?
Don't jump to conclusions based on that. Weight loss among the elderly is problematic, what it means is they're withering away. Don't assume most skin & bones 90 year olds looked that way at 50. Granted I doubt they were 400 lbs either.
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Now if you replace the word Microsoft with "the community" you get what is in essence the GPL license.
Wow, if Microsoft and the free software community were anything alike, you'd have a pretty good analogy going there. Oh well maybe next time.
I watch the The Daily Show regularly, and it is not a fake news show. It's real news presented through satire. I know Stewart specifically calls it a fake news show and I suppose he's trying to lower the bar.
Should The Daily Show be the lame duck? No. People tune into that show for biting satire. It's not funny when it's toothless. That's why he usually challenges his guests in some way. The question is why Kerry was an exception to The Daily Show's own rule.
What happened in the Kerry interview? Perhaps Jon was star-struck by interviewing the (maybe pretty soon) President of the United States. He was still glowing about the great John Kerry is on the next day's show. I know I've seen Conan Obrien lose his wit during some megastar interviews as he worked his way up through the Hollywood food chain.
If Kerry wins and returns to the Daily Show a few years down the road, it will be very interesting to see what happens.
Corddry: How does one report the facts in an unbiased way when the facts themselves are biased?
Stewart: I'm sorry, Rob, did you say the facts are biased?
Corddry: That's right Jon. From the names of our fallen soldiers to the gradual withdrawal of our allies to the growing insurgency, it's become all too clear that facts in Iraq have an anti-Bush agenda.
But Jon doesn't force his show to lean either way; he just has more cannon fodder from Republicans.
How can you watch his interviews with Republicans vs. Democrats and honestly believe he doesn't bias the show? In recent interviews Stewart was buddy-buddy with Kerry and argumentative (nearly hostile) with Juliani.
The problem is just what your parent post said - if you're too biased some of your complaints about the other side ring hollow, and you miss a lot of opportunity to lampoon your own side. Perhaps the show should hire a more conservative writer or two. It needn't degenerate into Crossfire so long as both sides are somewhat open-minded and not just trying to "win."
It's a good clip. But Bow-Tie man is right about one thing - Stewart didn't do a very good job of interviewing Kerry. Sure the show is on Commedy Central, but it's no harder to ask a real question than a fake one it? And Stewart has no trouble throwing fastballs when a Republican comes on. His recent interview with Juliani after one of the debates came very close to hostile.
That said, Stewart's point is still dead on, and he deserves a lot of credit for making the point. Going out on a limb like this will only force Stewart to make his own show closer to his ideals.
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What do you make of the gamespot report though? They seem certain it's done.
Also IGN did mention a shipping date - probably November. If Valve is *anywhere near* done with this game, late November / early December is the latest it will ship. They do NOT want to miss Christmas.
While games aren't the center of my universe, Half Life was fun and the early technology preview demos of HL2 were very cool. With all the negativity over Steam and Valve's excuses for pushing back the schedule, I'd almost forgotten that HL2 may be a really great game after all.
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Then again, check out the prices on the Garmin StreetPilot series. About $1200 for the cheap one. I wonder how this new one stacks up?
Killjoy! I'm amazed at how well it flies. I've never seen a lawnmower do a loop in midair before.
Who are you replying to? Anybody?
The reason - VNC allows fast-moving detail to be lost, while X bottles it up and draws it all, no longer how long it takes. Say you're running a web browser with an animated .gif banner ad. X will make sure it shoves every frame of that thing across the network, while VNC will only show you a frame every now and then, the sampling rate depending on bandwidth.
Admit it, we Penguinistas are dissapointed :)
Obviously they should switch over to growing banannas. Any fool knows that the average Joe will never read hardware review sites. But mmmm, everybody loves a good bananna.
Are you claiming 2 x 2.5 ghz is worth 5 ghz? It isn't.
They were expensive!
I'm sure "2001" here refers to HAL. Not roomba.
Should The Daily Show be the lame duck? No. People tune into that show for biting satire. It's not funny when it's toothless. That's why he usually challenges his guests in some way. The question is why Kerry was an exception to The Daily Show's own rule.
What happened in the Kerry interview? Perhaps Jon was star-struck by interviewing the (maybe pretty soon) President of the United States. He was still glowing about the great John Kerry is on the next day's show. I know I've seen Conan Obrien lose his wit during some megastar interviews as he worked his way up through the Hollywood food chain.
If Kerry wins and returns to the Daily Show a few years down the road, it will be very interesting to see what happens.
The problem is just what your parent post said - if you're too biased some of your complaints about the other side ring hollow, and you miss a lot of opportunity to lampoon your own side. Perhaps the show should hire a more conservative writer or two. It needn't degenerate into Crossfire so long as both sides are somewhat open-minded and not just trying to "win."
That said, Stewart's point is still dead on, and he deserves a lot of credit for making the point. Going out on a limb like this will only force Stewart to make his own show closer to his ideals.
Also IGN did mention a shipping date - probably November. If Valve is *anywhere near* done with this game, late November / early December is the latest it will ship. They do NOT want to miss Christmas.
While games aren't the center of my universe, Half Life was fun and the early technology preview demos of HL2 were very cool. With all the negativity over Steam and Valve's excuses for pushing back the schedule, I'd almost forgotten that HL2 may be a really great game after all.