The US has lost much of its manufacturing and production capacity to other countries... China has manufacturing capability up the ying-yang (no pun intended).
I agree with your other points, but these two "facts" seem to rarely come with actual numbers backing them up.
So what's the truth - who's the bigger industrial nation? The US? Or China? I think it's the US, and it's probably still by a wide margin.
I don't have facts, but you need to remember that there are manufactured products out there that don't come with a remote and/or sold in Wal-Mart... Anyone who that watches shows on Discovery Channel or History Channel, such as "Modern Marvels", "How it's Made", is shown many different manufacturing industries still working hard here in the US.
Many average people "feel" safer, and that's an effect I'm sure that the government wants - the feeling of security. (Intellectuals and generally-educated people know that this is a farce, but Joe Six Pack doesn't know any better - he just feels better. "The cameras MUST work - they're still up.")
The same effect is felt with photo radar here in Arizona. A recent survey said that 7 out of 10 people "feel" safer with photo radar on the roads (I'm in the 30% minority), even though they don't really make drivers safer.
If that's all you like about Dreamweaver, I'd strongly suggest something like Haml if you can use it, or Eclipse if you can't. Both have the advantage of being free and open source. Eclipse has the additional advantage of an XML "design view", in which the XML (or XHTML) is turned into a tree (think Firebug). Haml has the additional advantage of having embedded Ruby and of just looking really freaking cool.
I agree with the person in the article about hand-coding. Even today, I still do my sites by hand with CSS/XHTML in the early stages because it IS faster to pin down bugs when you know what every tag is doing. Because of this, I've resisted changing to "Design View" in Dreamweaver. (Even in CS3, Dreamweaver still doesn't render exactly the way I want it to most of the time, and when it doesn't quite match what you get in browsers).
With that said, I have found that Dreamweaver's autocompletion of closing tags is nice in most cases in "Code View". It does speed up the coding process a bit, and it helps you find potential mistakes in your several layers of div-driven layouts when things get a little dicey.
Also, saying "I have used Dreamweaver" on your resume is probably going to be handy someday when decision-makers (i.e. PHBs) are looking for a web developer with Dreamweaver experience.
Thanks for pointing out Firebug - I'll try that out.
However, the GP post had a valid point in some cases. I don't see a good reason to save the source in memory for static pages, but for debugging dynamic pages (POSTs, etc), it doesn't make sense to have to repost every time you view source.
One problem with this: What happens when an artist creates a popular album and dies right after it's released? While people hate recording companies in general, they do make a substantial investment in their artists, and they wouldn't get much if any of the fruits of their investment.
To deal with situations like this, I'd say that a minimum copyright time should apply, regardless of the lifespan of the artists. It should be substantial but reasonably limited - perhaps to 25 years. So, it'd be "Until the artist dies, or 25 years, whichever term is longer."
I was a Romney supporter, but I liked a lot of Ron Paul's ideas.
I wonder if he will run for the Senate at some point. Admittedly, he'd lose access to the "purse strings" aspect of the House, but he'd have more last influence as a senator, IMO, and he wouldn't have to defend his seat against a political upstart every 24 months...
This would be a non-issue if the USA would start doing nuclear reprocessing. If the number of "60 times" the amount of uranium is true, I'm guessing that it would last us more than long enough to figure some other power source out (like nuclear fusion, deeper geothermal heat sources, etc.)
Does GM expect to survive as a business like this? I already wasn't going to ever buy a GM because of the EDRs, but this is icing on the cake. Stop pandering to insurance companies and the government, and think of the people actually buying your cars - the consumers.
One problem - Do you have the balls to pay me the cost to upgrade to digital TV (hundreds of dollars) so you can have all your cellphone bells and whistles?
I get the reallocation of the open-air bandwidth for other purposes, including emergency broadcast improvements for emergency services and the selling the other bandwidth to companies to better use it for new technologies. However, that has nothing to do with cable, so I'm glad to hear about this extension. My analog TV works fine, I'm a cable customer, and I have no need to drop a ton of money on a new TV for the next several years.
As a parent, I know almost every channel has crap on it if you watch enough, and good parenting and education are the best "censorship" tools out there. However, this could be a useful tool for blocking certain channels that I don't want my kids to watch. MTV - gone. Shopping networks - gone. (dirty bastards...)
What did this imposter do with the REAL FCC chairman? I can't believe a representative from today's FCC would support something so pro-consumer and anti-corporation.
In all seriousness - an ala carte "plan of plans", where you can choose your own set of channels, or a conventional package like today, or a combination of both, is LONG overdue...
In Arizona, there are a ton of HOAs - many of them in newer neighborhoods and all with a ton of restrictive rules (some of which are necessary, unfortunately). Many of the HOAs banned all solar devices or required that the HOA gave prior approval. The look of the solar panels was frowned upon in the more affluent neighborhoods. This continued until a few years ago, when the state government passed a law that pretty much said "if it's solar, you can put it up" - thus throwing HOAs under the bus. Even then, however, one Chandler HOA went after a resident with heavy fines for putting pool-heating solar panels up and wanted him to take them down - because "he didn't consult with them" before putting them up (apparently, there was an HOA loophole there about consulting with HOAs). The state, under more public pressure, closed that loophole as well, so now you can finally do just about anything you want with solar (within reason) without HOA problems.
Remember that Arizona is the #1 state for year-round sunshine, and it still took multiple state laws and some high-profile legal battles to get HOAs to back off of them. We should have panels on EVERYTHING here - where was/is the common sense on those HOA boards? If you can, get involved with your HOA to keep the anal weirdos from setting up a fascist, mini-state within your own neighborhoods...
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Decent, large wide-screen HDTVs (LCDs, Plasmas, etc.) cost about $300-$400.
The HD-DVD or Blu-Ray debate is settled so I'm not buying the wrong tech.
Shopping for above parts or components is simplified or culled down a bit (I don't have to read a dozen articles to understand every bit of the technology - 720p, 1080i, compatibility issues, etc. - I just want it to work)
Hooking it all up is easy enough to where I'm not reading manuals or HOWTOs (i.e. done in less than 15 minutes - why waste the time?)
"Generally, I think the book was missing most of JKR's trademark wit, that made the rest of the story so enjoyable... and had too much of her maddening 'hand of god' habit of introducing new magical concepts to get the characters out of sticky situations instead of them having to figure a way out themselves."
She didn't start using "tachyon pulse" spells or wands, did she?
Slashdot has covered this before. Rush's 2002 offering, "Vapor Trails", suffered greatly from bad mixing. I have both the CD and 128 MP3s, and while the CD's sound quality is down but borderline tolerable, the MP3s are awful. When comparing Grace Under Pressure (1984) to Vapor Trails (2002), the difference in the quality and overall volume of the recording was substantial. (Off-topic: Alex Lifeson should NEVER be allowed to re-mix an older Rush album...)
I've also heard this same problem with other artists. Joe Satriani's album recording levels have grown too loud on some of his more recent albums. Compared to his earlier CDs (Time Machine, self-titled (1995?)), which were very clean recordings that you can turn way up without distortion, Crystal Planet (1998) and Engines of Creation (2000) are both considerably louder and crunchier, suffering from clipping. (Which is really sad, because Crystal Planet might be his best album overall).
It seems like the sound quality has improved a bit in some cases (at least on Rush & Joe Satriani's latest albums), but as others have said, it's still a problem. It is all about engineers and executives making the music louder and louder to sound better, and that attitude has permeated all levels of popular music.
I guess Hollywood will have to go away from the "man hotwires the car just in the nick of time" plot device - now it'll be the "reprograms electronic starter with cell phone hack" save.
This tech would be handy and I'd probably use it for many things. However, it won't ever easily replace the keyboard for all of my tasks. If I'm sitting in a cube or some other public place, the anonymity a keyboard provides in invaluable. It's not like typing is totally secure in a strict sense, but if I'm chatting with my wife about what I need to bring home after work, I don't need the world hearing me ask about what kind of toilet paper, feminine pads, gossip rag, or porno to pick up.
Great post. Just one thing - the "invisible" dude in the chair bit, as corny as it was, was in the latest Lost episode which aired two days ago. You need to come out of the Lost fan closet and accept who you are, my friend...
It sounds like most people here are against this theory, and they seem to be against it for various, thought out reasons. I'd definitely want more studies done before saying this may be the case, and in the end, I'm betting it's more likely a combination of factors that have combined to be lethal to bees, making it incredibly difficult to discover.
However (I don't mean this to be flamebait), if there was something to this cell phone theory (or some other, newer radiation-emitting wireless technology), would the posters at a "news for nerds" site that covers technology be objective enough to see it? Or would it be like global warming, which is such a polarizing issue that seemingly otherwise intelligent people turn into conspiracy theorists or Al Gore bashers? It would be seismic news in the IT industries around the world if there was something to this...
So they take the edge off of their methods - so what. It's still a repression of the basic, personal freedoms of the people they govern, and it's espeically egregious because it's repression inside their own homes. The Chinese government is still Communist, despite the roots of capitalism taking hold, and they still have a generation of old-school, "we run everyon'e lives for the good of the people" governmental officials that need to die off before real freedom can take root.
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The US has lost much of its manufacturing and production capacity to other countries... China has manufacturing capability up the ying-yang (no pun intended).
I agree with your other points, but these two "facts" seem to rarely come with actual numbers backing them up.
So what's the truth - who's the bigger industrial nation? The US? Or China? I think it's the US, and it's probably still by a wide margin.
I don't have facts, but you need to remember that there are manufactured products out there that don't come with a remote and/or sold in Wal-Mart... Anyone who that watches shows on Discovery Channel or History Channel, such as "Modern Marvels", "How it's Made", is shown many different manufacturing industries still working hard here in the US.
Many average people "feel" safer, and that's an effect I'm sure that the government wants - the feeling of security. (Intellectuals and generally-educated people know that this is a farce, but Joe Six Pack doesn't know any better - he just feels better. "The cameras MUST work - they're still up.")
The same effect is felt with photo radar here in Arizona. A recent survey said that 7 out of 10 people "feel" safer with photo radar on the roads (I'm in the 30% minority), even though they don't really make drivers safer.
I'll check out Haml - thanks.
I agree with the person in the article about hand-coding. Even today, I still do my sites by hand with CSS/XHTML in the early stages because it IS faster to pin down bugs when you know what every tag is doing. Because of this, I've resisted changing to "Design View" in Dreamweaver. (Even in CS3, Dreamweaver still doesn't render exactly the way I want it to most of the time, and when it doesn't quite match what you get in browsers).
With that said, I have found that Dreamweaver's autocompletion of closing tags is nice in most cases in "Code View". It does speed up the coding process a bit, and it helps you find potential mistakes in your several layers of div-driven layouts when things get a little dicey.
Also, saying "I have used Dreamweaver" on your resume is probably going to be handy someday when decision-makers (i.e. PHBs) are looking for a web developer with Dreamweaver experience.
Thanks for pointing out Firebug - I'll try that out.
However, the GP post had a valid point in some cases. I don't see a good reason to save the source in memory for static pages, but for debugging dynamic pages (POSTs, etc), it doesn't make sense to have to repost every time you view source.
One problem with this: What happens when an artist creates a popular album and dies right after it's released? While people hate recording companies in general, they do make a substantial investment in their artists, and they wouldn't get much if any of the fruits of their investment.
To deal with situations like this, I'd say that a minimum copyright time should apply, regardless of the lifespan of the artists. It should be substantial but reasonably limited - perhaps to 25 years. So, it'd be "Until the artist dies, or 25 years, whichever term is longer."
I was a Romney supporter, but I liked a lot of Ron Paul's ideas. I wonder if he will run for the Senate at some point. Admittedly, he'd lose access to the "purse strings" aspect of the House, but he'd have more last influence as a senator, IMO, and he wouldn't have to defend his seat against a political upstart every 24 months...
Terrorists don't care if you're afraid. They care that you are dead.
People like you are the reason that the government can get away with abuses of freedom and liberty like they do today.
This would be a non-issue if the USA would start doing nuclear reprocessing. If the number of "60 times" the amount of uranium is true, I'm guessing that it would last us more than long enough to figure some other power source out (like nuclear fusion, deeper geothermal heat sources, etc.)
Does GM expect to survive as a business like this? I already wasn't going to ever buy a GM because of the EDRs, but this is icing on the cake. Stop pandering to insurance companies and the government, and think of the people actually buying your cars - the consumers.
The faster IE6 goes away, the faster we can have fewer CSS issues in our XHTML/CSS. IE7 is hardly perfect, but it is much improved over IE6...
One problem - Do you have the balls to pay me the cost to upgrade to digital TV (hundreds of dollars) so you can have all your cellphone bells and whistles?
I get the reallocation of the open-air bandwidth for other purposes, including emergency broadcast improvements for emergency services and the selling the other bandwidth to companies to better use it for new technologies. However, that has nothing to do with cable, so I'm glad to hear about this extension. My analog TV works fine, I'm a cable customer, and I have no need to drop a ton of money on a new TV for the next several years.
As a parent, I know almost every channel has crap on it if you watch enough, and good parenting and education are the best "censorship" tools out there. However, this could be a useful tool for blocking certain channels that I don't want my kids to watch. MTV - gone. Shopping networks - gone. (dirty bastards...)
What did this imposter do with the REAL FCC chairman? I can't believe a representative from today's FCC would support something so pro-consumer and anti-corporation. In all seriousness - an ala carte "plan of plans", where you can choose your own set of channels, or a conventional package like today, or a combination of both, is LONG overdue...
In Arizona, there are a ton of HOAs - many of them in newer neighborhoods and all with a ton of restrictive rules (some of which are necessary, unfortunately). Many of the HOAs banned all solar devices or required that the HOA gave prior approval. The look of the solar panels was frowned upon in the more affluent neighborhoods. This continued until a few years ago, when the state government passed a law that pretty much said "if it's solar, you can put it up" - thus throwing HOAs under the bus. Even then, however, one Chandler HOA went after a resident with heavy fines for putting pool-heating solar panels up and wanted him to take them down - because "he didn't consult with them" before putting them up (apparently, there was an HOA loophole there about consulting with HOAs). The state, under more public pressure, closed that loophole as well, so now you can finally do just about anything you want with solar (within reason) without HOA problems.
Remember that Arizona is the #1 state for year-round sunshine, and it still took multiple state laws and some high-profile legal battles to get HOAs to back off of them. We should have panels on EVERYTHING here - where was/is the common sense on those HOA boards? If you can, get involved with your HOA to keep the anal weirdos from setting up a fascist, mini-state within your own neighborhoods...
Call me when:
Until then, my nice,
"Generally, I think the book was missing most of JKR's trademark wit, that made the rest of the story so enjoyable... and had too much of her maddening 'hand of god' habit of introducing new magical concepts to get the characters out of sticky situations instead of them having to figure a way out themselves."
She didn't start using "tachyon pulse" spells or wands, did she?
I guess that $9.95/mo. DSL does have some strings attached to it...
Slashdot has covered this before. Rush's 2002 offering, "Vapor Trails", suffered greatly from bad mixing. I have both the CD and 128 MP3s, and while the CD's sound quality is down but borderline tolerable, the MP3s are awful. When comparing Grace Under Pressure (1984) to Vapor Trails (2002), the difference in the quality and overall volume of the recording was substantial. (Off-topic: Alex Lifeson should NEVER be allowed to re-mix an older Rush album...)
I've also heard this same problem with other artists. Joe Satriani's album recording levels have grown too loud on some of his more recent albums. Compared to his earlier CDs (Time Machine, self-titled (1995?)), which were very clean recordings that you can turn way up without distortion, Crystal Planet (1998) and Engines of Creation (2000) are both considerably louder and crunchier, suffering from clipping. (Which is really sad, because Crystal Planet might be his best album overall).
It seems like the sound quality has improved a bit in some cases (at least on Rush & Joe Satriani's latest albums), but as others have said, it's still a problem. It is all about engineers and executives making the music louder and louder to sound better, and that attitude has permeated all levels of popular music.
I guess Hollywood will have to go away from the "man hotwires the car just in the nick of time" plot device - now it'll be the "reprograms electronic starter with cell phone hack" save.
This tech would be handy and I'd probably use it for many things. However, it won't ever easily replace the keyboard for all of my tasks. If I'm sitting in a cube or some other public place, the anonymity a keyboard provides in invaluable. It's not like typing is totally secure in a strict sense, but if I'm chatting with my wife about what I need to bring home after work, I don't need the world hearing me ask about what kind of toilet paper, feminine pads, gossip rag, or porno to pick up.
Great post. Just one thing - the "invisible" dude in the chair bit, as corny as it was, was in the latest Lost episode which aired two days ago. You need to come out of the Lost fan closet and accept who you are, my friend...
It sounds like most people here are against this theory, and they seem to be against it for various, thought out reasons. I'd definitely want more studies done before saying this may be the case, and in the end, I'm betting it's more likely a combination of factors that have combined to be lethal to bees, making it incredibly difficult to discover. However (I don't mean this to be flamebait), if there was something to this cell phone theory (or some other, newer radiation-emitting wireless technology), would the posters at a "news for nerds" site that covers technology be objective enough to see it? Or would it be like global warming, which is such a polarizing issue that seemingly otherwise intelligent people turn into conspiracy theorists or Al Gore bashers? It would be seismic news in the IT industries around the world if there was something to this...
So they take the edge off of their methods - so what. It's still a repression of the basic, personal freedoms of the people they govern, and it's espeically egregious because it's repression inside their own homes. The Chinese government is still Communist, despite the roots of capitalism taking hold, and they still have a generation of old-school, "we run everyon'e lives for the good of the people" governmental officials that need to die off before real freedom can take root.