If we assume that "those not interested in politics do not educate themselves as to the issues and the candidates" then their action of NOT voting overrepresents the vote of the educated electorate, which is what you want anyway.
Ideally, each of us would learn about the system, the issues, and the players, but we don't. Low voter turnout is the sign of a either a healthy democracy. (or sometimes a protest against a system of oppression) It means that people don't feel that elected officials affect them.
Especially if the revolution comes out at $100 - $150. Think about it. Even hardcore gamers would get one as a second system, and parents would be MUCH more likely to get one than a $300 Xbox or PS3.
Perhaps it's important to note that PCs aren't really good gaming machines. (ack, the flames, they burn!) PCs as platforms have inconsistant hardware, inconsistant controls, they are expensive for consumers, difficult to support, and generally located in less comfortable spaces than TVs.
I say let it go. To my eternal shame, I had to upgrade my computer to play Civ 4. I would much rather have had it on my PS2.
Good Governance and security are far and away the #1 and #2 developmental problems in the world. Were it not for power hungry dictators, warlords, corrupt police, official land seizures and nationalization of private enterprises, terrorists, militants, etc, the developing world would be developed.
The easy example is North Vs South Korea. In this example we can factor out cultural differences, resources, and development time. with 50+ years of good governance and security aid, South Korea is a major industrialized nation and economic player. The north had tons of subsidies from the USSR and a dictatorship. As a result the people are impoverished, famine riddled, and sick while the government goes off and develops nuclear weapons and ICBMs.
Clean water, food, medical care, roads, electricity, basic literacy... All of these are dependent on stability afforded by good governanace and security.
I know there isn't an opensharepoint yet, but MS Sharepoint lets you do much of what they discuss. It was developed for exactly the same reasons, and it does a pretty good job if people know it and use it.
IANAPhysicist, but I am fairly certain that this dude is kinda conveniently ignoring relativity. Relativity is a proven fact.
Synchronize two atomic clocks Fly one around the world Leave the other one where it is Stop them at the same time The one that travelled will be a bit further back in spacetime relative to the stationary one. What accounts for that difference? It's certainly not Einstein's Special Absolutivity. The concept of absolute is dependant on a point of reference. Since no benchmarks are available, I'll stick with relativity.
There shouldn't be anything in a Bio except factual information, so that gives carte blanche for people to edit away. I'm not defending these particualr actions, but I am stating that a congressman editing their bio is not a bad thing.
If Kurt Vonnegut or one of his assistants edited his wiki-bio, would anybody complain? I would suggest that congressmen and their staff know themselves better than others, and are thus uniquely qualified to write on the topic. The removal of criticism is a non-issue, as wikipedia is supposed to be a repository of facts and interpretation, not opinion of partisan political smearing.
Why? What's wrong with flash? It does what it does quite well, it's flexible and extensible. It's mature and has almost 100% market penetration. Why does it need replacing.
If your answer involves "open source" then you can stop right there. Nobody (except about half the slashdot audience) gives a rat's ass about source code as long as the software works properly.
This is stupid. This impulsive, reactionary move will do nothing but cripple it's usage in any commercial application. Forget about tivo and the millions of titles that have CD-ROM protection through safedisc or macrovision, but this cuts out any possible commercial media delivery to GPL'd software. No iTunes, no DVDs, HD-DVDs, or any of the new wave of on-demand or streaming media. Great idea FSF, why don't you do an encore of punching yourself in the nuts?
What is freedom of expression then, other than not having undue punishments for your speech?
It is freedom from criminal prosecution. The student committed no crime. He was not arrested and thrown in jail. What happens to him on a civil level is a totally seperate issue.
Which does oil fall into?
This is nonsensical. Fossil fuels, even in the most abstract sense can not be considered either Solar, Nuclaer, or Stored Friction. They are chemical. Rapid oxidation of hydrocarbons releases potential energy. Even if you go back to the theoretical source of those hydrocarbons, they are likely geologic in nature, and not the above. Calculating conservation of energy back to the big bang is an exercise in futility.
While I applaud your sentiment, this is an overly simplified view of the world. The part that you have completely left out is that there are geopolitical areas in this country and this world that have been in a downward spiral of economic collapse for all time. When wealth concentrates in small areas, it creates a number of problems such as overpopulation, pollution, traffic jams, etc etc. In this country we have delegated the job of managable, balanced economic development to the federal government. We collect and redistribute these resources to maintain and mprove quality of life for everyone. Our military protects everybody equally. Our highway system is of reasonably equal quality everywhere.
The inherent failure of your simple world can easily be seen in our educational system. There is no reason that a child in beverly hills should get a better public education than a child in alabama, yet our system is set up so that local communities are in charge of their educational systems, and great disparities emerge as local priorities and resources are expressed in school funding. Meanwhile Bradley Charles Weatherby III gets a top notch public education and Cleatus B Dingleberry doesn't even have books printed in the last 50 years.
My point is this. It's too easy to look at a few useless sacks of crap that stay on welfare because they are lazy and dismiss the entire rank of poor people. The fact is that many of them are hard workers who lack access to education, economic opportunity, or cultural drive to succeed. Through successful redistribution of resources, improving the educational, economic, and social climates where these people live, we can provide a tangible benefit to everyone, including the "upper middle class" workhorses of our country.
Internationally, the situation changes. We ARE in a competitieve climate for resources, and it will only get worse. China and India have over two billion people that want what we have, and the physical material that it would take to get it to all of them does not exist. Energy, metals, food, fresh water, all of these exist in limited supply. You can't eat or drink wealth, nor can you build a townhouse from it. The minute you stop competeing, you learn this the hard way.
WTF, if the internet is in another country, the government of that country can do whatever they hell they want with it. That's how international law works. It's called respect for sovereignty.
I have spent some time in apple stores (with friends) and I can say with some certainty that I have never seen any real line to checkout. I live in DC, and the four or so stores that I know of are generally quiet. I was dragged along to the opening day launch of the ishuffle/MacMini, and the line was no longer than four deep. I thought it was funny that they had a velvet rope and sign stating a limit of 2 per customer as if they thought they were going to get crushed for inventory.
2. Increasing broadband speeds and their adoption rate enables new applications tomorrow.
Give me an example using a more mature technology. What do you do with your 4Ghz Processor that a 1Ghz processor couldn't do? 2Gb ram VS 128mb? *CONSUMER* Software applications have never scaled to fill available resources, and new applications *have not* emerged to utilize the power. (games don't count)
As I look at the back of my home theater, I see 35 cables required to hook up this nonsense. It's about time that SOMEBODY gets together to figure out and promote a simple, high quality way to hook up AV gear. You all can bitch and moan about how consumers don't want DRM, but I can tell you that I, as a consumer DO want just 1 freaking cable per device.
I thought the same thing at first, but then I realized that milspec isn't just another word for overpriced. When the military does stuff like this, it has a lot of considerations that you don't think of.
1) Where would you get ice or dry ice in Iraq? 2) The one you refer to lasts 2 hours on dry ice for 1 person. Now think 4 people for 10 hours and no dry ice. 3) Is it light enough that you can get out of it in a firefight and still be mobile enough to survive. 4) Does it go on top of or below fatigues/armor/etc 5) Does it affect the ability to drive or navigate or shoot? (condensation?)
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Ideally, each of us would learn about the system, the issues, and the players, but we don't. Low voter turnout is the sign of a either a healthy democracy. (or sometimes a protest against a system of oppression) It means that people don't feel that elected officials affect them.
Especially if the revolution comes out at $100 - $150.
Think about it. Even hardcore gamers would get one as a second system, and parents would be MUCH more likely to get one than a $300 Xbox or PS3.
Shopping Malls and Apartment buildings SHOULD have cameras to promote public safty.
Perhaps it's important to note that PCs aren't really good gaming machines. (ack, the flames, they burn!) PCs as platforms have inconsistant hardware, inconsistant controls, they are expensive for consumers, difficult to support, and generally located in less comfortable spaces than TVs. I say let it go. To my eternal shame, I had to upgrade my computer to play Civ 4. I would much rather have had it on my PS2.
The easy example is North Vs South Korea. In this example we can factor out cultural differences, resources, and development time. with 50+ years of good governance and security aid, South Korea is a major industrialized nation and economic player. The north had tons of subsidies from the USSR and a dictatorship. As a result the people are impoverished, famine riddled, and sick while the government goes off and develops nuclear weapons and ICBMs.
Clean water, food, medical care, roads, electricity, basic literacy...
All of these are dependent on stability afforded by good governanace and security.
I know there isn't an opensharepoint yet, but MS Sharepoint lets you do much of what they discuss. It was developed for exactly the same reasons, and it does a pretty good job if people know it and use it.
If that's a professional, so be it.
Ok, that's 4. Meanwhile there are 100,000,000 more windows machines.
Synchronize two atomic clocks
Fly one around the world
Leave the other one where it is
Stop them at the same time
The one that travelled will be a bit further back in spacetime relative to the stationary one. What accounts for that difference? It's certainly not Einstein's Special Absolutivity. The concept of absolute is dependant on a point of reference. Since no benchmarks are available, I'll stick with relativity.
If they just made the damn OS so that it wasn't susceptible to Viruses, I wouldn't have a problem with the unfair competetion.
There shouldn't be anything in a Bio except factual information, so that gives carte blanche for people to edit away. I'm not defending these particualr actions, but I am stating that a congressman editing their bio is not a bad thing.
If Kurt Vonnegut or one of his assistants edited his wiki-bio, would anybody complain? I would suggest that congressmen and their staff know themselves better than others, and are thus uniquely qualified to write on the topic. The removal of criticism is a non-issue, as wikipedia is supposed to be a repository of facts and interpretation, not opinion of partisan political smearing.
If your answer involves "open source" then you can stop right there. Nobody (except about half the slashdot audience) gives a rat's ass about source code as long as the software works properly.
This is stupid. This impulsive, reactionary move will do nothing but cripple it's usage in any commercial application. Forget about tivo and the millions of titles that have CD-ROM protection through safedisc or macrovision, but this cuts out any possible commercial media delivery to GPL'd software. No iTunes, no DVDs, HD-DVDs, or any of the new wave of on-demand or streaming media. Great idea FSF, why don't you do an encore of punching yourself in the nuts?
It is freedom from criminal prosecution. The student committed no crime. He was not arrested and thrown in jail. What happens to him on a civil level is a totally seperate issue.
Not a single trek joke yet, the geek level is really dropping around here!
Which does oil fall into? This is nonsensical. Fossil fuels, even in the most abstract sense can not be considered either Solar, Nuclaer, or Stored Friction. They are chemical. Rapid oxidation of hydrocarbons releases potential energy. Even if you go back to the theoretical source of those hydrocarbons, they are likely geologic in nature, and not the above. Calculating conservation of energy back to the big bang is an exercise in futility.
The inherent failure of your simple world can easily be seen in our educational system. There is no reason that a child in beverly hills should get a better public education than a child in alabama, yet our system is set up so that local communities are in charge of their educational systems, and great disparities emerge as local priorities and resources are expressed in school funding. Meanwhile Bradley Charles Weatherby III gets a top notch public education and Cleatus B Dingleberry doesn't even have books printed in the last 50 years.
My point is this. It's too easy to look at a few useless sacks of crap that stay on welfare because they are lazy and dismiss the entire rank of poor people. The fact is that many of them are hard workers who lack access to education, economic opportunity, or cultural drive to succeed. Through successful redistribution of resources, improving the educational, economic, and social climates where these people live, we can provide a tangible benefit to everyone, including the "upper middle class" workhorses of our country.
Internationally, the situation changes. We ARE in a competitieve climate for resources, and it will only get worse. China and India have over two billion people that want what we have, and the physical material that it would take to get it to all of them does not exist. Energy, metals, food, fresh water, all of these exist in limited supply. You can't eat or drink wealth, nor can you build a townhouse from it. The minute you stop competeing, you learn this the hard way.
WTF, if the internet is in another country, the government of that country can do whatever they hell they want with it. That's how international law works. It's called respect for sovereignty.
I have spent some time in apple stores (with friends) and I can say with some certainty that I have never seen any real line to checkout. I live in DC, and the four or so stores that I know of are generally quiet. I was dragged along to the opening day launch of the ishuffle/MacMini, and the line was no longer than four deep. I thought it was funny that they had a velvet rope and sign stating a limit of 2 per customer as if they thought they were going to get crushed for inventory.
This has nothing to do with safety. It is because the heat of the running car would otherwise cause your 360 to melt and crash.
Give me an example using a more mature technology. What do you do with your 4Ghz Processor that a 1Ghz processor couldn't do? 2Gb ram VS 128mb? *CONSUMER* Software applications have never scaled to fill available resources, and new applications *have not* emerged to utilize the power. (games don't count)
The real question is if graphics are all you're bringing to the table, will better graphics make my games more fun?
But then again, I don't steal music and movies ;-)
1) Where would you get ice or dry ice in Iraq?
2) The one you refer to lasts 2 hours on dry ice for 1 person. Now think 4 people for 10 hours and no dry ice.
3) Is it light enough that you can get out of it in a firefight and still be mobile enough to survive.
4) Does it go on top of or below fatigues/armor/etc
5) Does it affect the ability to drive or navigate or shoot? (condensation?)