Yes, brilliant. I can just see the Brits executing Winston Churchill at the conclusion of WWII. Or George Washington after the revolutionary war. That would have helped the country a lot.
I believe there is still some probability of error in the tests. If you are singled out for DNA testing because you're suspected due to other evidence, the risk is vanishingly small. But if every crime-related DNA sample were run against a database of 100 million other samples, well that certainly raises the risk of false positives. Granted, the defense lawyer will make that argument, but the prosecutor will be right there with expert testimony of 99.999% (or whatever) accuracy.
And BTW - those pricewatch "lowest prices" things are usually a crock - they usually have like $20 shipping fees to make up for the lower prices. Please factor those in too.
Actually Pricewatch has cleaned up that mess. Search results are sorted by a price that includes shipping. I'm not sure when they changed that but it was quite a few months ago now.
This thing hardly qualifies as a traditional PDA - it's too big! About the size of a Palm V and a foldout keyboard you can actually touch-type on (and not just with 2 thumbs).
If something's too big to fit conveniently in a pocket, it might as well be a laptop with a real OS.
While I'm complaining, I don't like the specification of battery life as " 14 days with 30 minutes of typical use per day." Let's do a highstreet poll and see how many people figure out that really means 7 hours.
I would go so far as to say that writable DVDs have already missed their prime window of opportunity. The technology has grown somewhat obsolete without ever consolidating. Now higher capacity discs are already coming out.
I don't get this argument. "I like the idea of freedom, but I also like the idea of controlling it." Whoa buddy. You can't CONTROL freedom, by definition.
That is ridiculous. The fact is that there is no freedom without some control. It would be nice if everybody could be completely free at once, but they can't, because most freedoms logically contradict some other freedom, or with the same freedom of another person.
There has always and always will be tension between conflicting freedoms.
Microsoft: Here, have a 10% discount
Customer: Not good enough.
Microsoft: OK, how about 20%
Customer: Nah.
Microsoft: 40%, that's our final offer.
Customer: No.
Microsoft: Okay, you win, 70% off, but that cuts our profit margin pretty slim.
Customers in unison: When did you start screwing us?
Fine in theory, but what happens when you handcuff American corporations to American labor? One of two things, either companies in other countries with cheaper labor markets rise to fill the product gap left by their less efficient (in terms of money) and more bloated American counterparts... OR those American companies move their operations to those cheaper locales.
#2 is just what they are doing.
#1 is the conventional wisdom, BUT (brace yourself)... who cares? If 99% of the jobs leave the country, why should we care that the last 1% leave too? The only difference is then decision makers feel the pain too, and people with means have some financial interest in their country's economy.
Levi's didn't "save the company" by shutting down US productions, the company is gone, and the only thing saved were a trademark and high-paying jobs for some executives.
Don't forget things like benefits & Social Security.
Well, sure, plus office space, equipment, supplies, legal and tax services... and oops that leaves $0 for advertising. We're talking about a whole organization here, not just salaries and benefits. They're not part of AOL anymore.
It's worth noting that eBay's AUP forbids the sale of non-tangible items via its service
Whatever that means. Is a book nontangible? The paper is worthless. Or perhaps I can sell the Star Wars items under the AUP if I burn them to $0.10 CDR first?
I agree. Mozilla shows great promise, and with a detailed roadmap (which they are following quite well) they will be better than Explorer, and probably soon. Go Mozilla!
AFAIK IE still doesn't have tabbed browsing or popup blocking. If that's true, Mozilla is already the better browser.
I could be wrong on this, but doesn't the scheduler run at each interupt anyways? If so, decreasing the timeslice might not improve responsiveness at all. Somebody please clarify.
OS-X is UNIX in the meaningful sense of the word. If you want to be pedantic use the little registered trademark-circle-R. Lawyers play their games, the rest of the world names things by how they work and what they do.
That kind of stuff I just put in a script, one called "home" one called "work" one called "school," and it seems to work. I like it more than Windows "Hardware Configurations" because it's more explicit (I know what's saved and what's not) and also more general (e.g. it edits my mozilla config to use the right proxy and popup blocker settings). But now that I have a powerbook with OS-X, are there reasons I should look more closely at Fast User Switching?
What I remember hearing about the Tiger vs. the Sherman is that we beat them by sheer numbers - each Tiger usually took out a handful Shermans before being overwhelmed.
When you're outnumbered, you either win by sophistication or not at all.
Sure all these people will be bringing different perspectives to what's going on in the world, but along with it they may bring prejudices and narrow viewpoints along with it. These are things we try to avoid in accurate journalism. Not everyone is going to care about bringing every side of the story, they may just show their opinion (bias) in order to persuade others. This is already happening today and encouraging everyone, no matter if they lack experience, objectivity, proper reporting skills, to be a reporter may not be a good idea.
The key to democratization of news is not in having any fair, unbiased source - it is in allowing all sides to tell their story, and in weighing and judging the evidence for yourself.
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Yes, brilliant. I can just see the Brits executing Winston Churchill at the conclusion of WWII. Or George Washington after the revolutionary war. That would have helped the country a lot.
Which is more dangerous statistically, being a footsoldier or Pres. of the US?
I believe there is still some probability of error in the tests. If you are singled out for DNA testing because you're suspected due to other evidence, the risk is vanishingly small. But if every crime-related DNA sample were run against a database of 100 million other samples, well that certainly raises the risk of false positives. Granted, the defense lawyer will make that argument, but the prosecutor will be right there with expert testimony of 99.999% (or whatever) accuracy.
But there is no need to keep everybody's DNA on file for defensive purposes, such as that.
Wow! everything you said holds exactly true for dual CPUs too.
But hey, what is this!?
/home/joebob/artery-machinima.zip
saving: artery-machinima.zip (150.5 MB)
percent done: 2.0
time left: 12 hour 15 min 20 sec
download to:
download rate: 6 kB/s
upload rate: 20 kB/s
I'm giving more than I'm getting! Has the entire world gone mad?
If something's too big to fit conveniently in a pocket, it might as well be a laptop with a real OS.
While I'm complaining, I don't like the specification of battery life as " 14 days with 30 minutes of typical use per day." Let's do a highstreet poll and see how many people figure out that really means 7 hours.
I would go so far as to say that writable DVDs have already missed their prime window of opportunity. The technology has grown somewhat obsolete without ever consolidating. Now higher capacity discs are already coming out.
There has always and always will be tension between conflicting freedoms.
Microsoft: Here, have a 10% discount
Customer: Not good enough.
Microsoft: OK, how about 20%
Customer: Nah.
Microsoft: 40%, that's our final offer.
Customer: No.
Microsoft: Okay, you win, 70% off, but that cuts our profit margin pretty slim.
Customers in unison: When did you start screwing us?
#1 is the conventional wisdom, BUT (brace yourself)... who cares? If 99% of the jobs leave the country, why should we care that the last 1% leave too? The only difference is then decision makers feel the pain too, and people with means have some financial interest in their country's economy.
Levi's didn't "save the company" by shutting down US productions, the company is gone, and the only thing saved were a trademark and high-paying jobs for some executives.
I hate to say it but $2M over 2 years is peanuts. That's only enough to hire about 5 developers.
Whatever that means. Is a book nontangible? The paper is worthless. Or perhaps I can sell the Star Wars items under the AUP if I burn them to $0.10 CDR first?
I could be wrong on this, but doesn't the scheduler run at each interupt anyways? If so, decreasing the timeslice might not improve responsiveness at all. Somebody please clarify.
OS-X is UNIX in the meaningful sense of the word. If you want to be pedantic use the little registered trademark-circle-R. Lawyers play their games, the rest of the world names things by how they work and what they do.
That kind of stuff I just put in a script, one called "home" one called "work" one called "school," and it seems to work. I like it more than Windows "Hardware Configurations" because it's more explicit (I know what's saved and what's not) and also more general (e.g. it edits my mozilla config to use the right proxy and popup blocker settings). But now that I have a powerbook with OS-X, are there reasons I should look more closely at Fast User Switching?
When you're outnumbered, you either win by sophistication or not at all.
Yes, I'm sure that's exactly what they had in mind.
Don't include Einstein, he was a crappy father. The mother of his kids divorced him because he was never around.
Maybe, it's hard to tell. Could also have been a case of "do what you have to, but don't tell me about it."