You are not the person bearing the brunt of this. People who are already working in very low paying jobs are the people who suffers as underemployment bumps everyone down. Unemployment may not be as high as it has been, but underemployment is epidemic. There are a large number of americans trying to support families on minimum wage.
For the rest of us, real wages are down as productivity increases and corporations continue to tighten their belts. With a tight job market people cannot seek new employment to increase their salaries and benefits, putting further downward pressure on salaries.
I just checked out the online demo of the TWC DVR. That thing is nothing like a tivo. Where is actor, director, and genre based wish lists? I couldn't stand not having that. And what about season passes? Per-recording quality settings....the list goes on...
Mod this up, this is a point that is missed. The tivo doesn't just record stuff. It changes the way you watch tv. It isn't time shifting, its video on demand. (cached on the client). This netflix idea is just building on that concept.
This sounds a lot like another company out there. I think anyone that says this about tivo doesn't have one. The interface is what makes tivo worth it, not just the functionality.
How did this not get modded "troll"? At most US universities the majority of students are women. I can assure you, a lot of those women get low grades and even fail classes. Even in EE, your anecdotal evidence not withstanding.
This is exactly the effect that cars and freeways had. In 1900 business people had no choice but to live in the city, close to where they worked. Today people routinely commute fifty miles to work. You can see the difference in comparing Manhatten to Los Angeles. Manhatten grew up before the car. It handles its huge population by being very very dense. It grew as a place that you could walk to the grocery and to work. Los Angeles is smaller in popuplaiton but sprawls out in every direction, people can live miles from work and grocery stores, relying on "efficient" highways to effectively shorten those distances.
Geography really messes up my sense of how the country feels. I live in Denver, CO an insanely liberal place (no, really, it is...my Rep is Diana Degette, from the Kucinich wing of the party. We always vote more liberally than even Boulder). Its hard for me to imagine Bush has any supporters, because I never meet any. But I know that my state is a red state, and all of the denver suburbs and rural colorado will vote republican. But in my neighborhood there is no contest.
All the suffering on both sides is ALREADY a complete waste. I do not blame the soldiers there trying to do their jobs as best they can. They are dealing with a fundemntal problem, to quote The Battle of Algiers: "Should we remain in Algeria? If you answer 'yes,' then you must accept all the necessary consequences."
The soldiers their are fighting an enemy that can't be defeated with out really going after them, the results of which would be a serious PR nightmare and a country and world dead set against us. (not to mention the morality of killing people on that scale). If we do nothing things may get out of control there more than they are.
But honestly, I think this is a no-win situation. Nothing we do can bring about a magic democracy there. We have lost that war. What we are doing now is throwing good money after bad and losing too many american and iraqi lives doing it. And it has nothing to do with the soldiers doing the best they can with a bad situation. It has everything to do with the people that put them there.
There is a special driver. It actually sends the luma channel to the led screen via a tiny line of white pixels on top of them image. They said it worked just fine with a standard nvidia Quadro FX 3000, they just had to write custom display drivers.
Well, interestingly enough buying lottery tickets does not significantly improve your odds of winning. (seriously, odds of winning with ticket 0.00002%, without, 0.00000%)
That is just insane! SSRIs have no side effects that should disqualify a pilot. Anti-psychotics and other bipolar meds maybe, but SSRIs...that's crazy. Unless the pilot's sexual performance is important, because that is the only major side effect.
What I like about the ipod is that you don't put things on it, per se. It IS itunes, just it goes with you. And when you connect the ipod they sync and all your playlists and everything else goes with you. And then, when you listen to the ipod your play counts sync back up with itunes. That, for me, is what makes it great.
Yes, true, the ipod has very good marketing. But it is also a great product. None of the other music players out there even approach the itunes/ipod solution. It is just so easy, so seamless and so powerful. No one else has made a comperable product, that's why it is the most succesful. Its not the construction its the interface and the integrated music "solution".
Specialized usage. It is not priced for consumers. This is probably going to be marketed to the medical field, where very high resolution monitors are very useful for view medical imaging. In fact, the low resolution of most LCDs is what is preventing hospitals from switching to an all digital solution for xRays. Your 10 17" LCD solution would not be useful in a hospital setting (or for view satallite images or any number of other special usage).
What, exactly, is wrong with a minivan? A minivan has all the advantages (and more) of those wagons. It also has none of the disadvantages of an SUV. Also mose mininvans seat more people than your average SUV.
I think your thesis that goverment regulation stopped detroit from making land yacht sation wagons seems to assume that is a bad thing. All cars are smaller now then they were in the 60s and 70s. Those cars were unsafe, gas guzzling boats that handled worse than a modern SUV. They still do make wagons (I have one). Like modern cars they are much better in every way except they are smaller. If you really need to haul 15 kids an SUV is not the answer. You need a full-size van.
Wikipedia says: "Self-awareness is the ability to perceive one's own existence, including one's own traits, feelings and behaviour"
Not really the best definition. I suppose the arguement I was trying to make is that sentience is not really required to solve a lot of hard AI problems. The issues of awareness in animals and the nature of consciousness...that is a whole other animal.
There are plenty of animals that are capable of solving a lot of the "hard" AI problems without self awareness. My cat is not self aware, but she can easily jump on to small things, recognize items by there appearence or smell, catch moving objects, distinguish between food and non-food and she can figure out how to use a cat door. More still, she can understand that when I put a treat on a shelf it remains on that shelf when I leave and then attempt to climb up to get it. If I put something she wants behind a door she can see that there is a problem and then attempt to solve it.
EXACTLY. Everytime I here people complain that they are doing video editing and they need x TBs of RAID storage in their g5 I want to scream: you don't want that, you want an external disk array. Online editors have always used external arrays and the xserve RAID is the perfect tool. Easly swappable drives. Fibre channel. Its the perfect video editing array.
My complaint about windows is memory management. On windows, it sucks. It is a lot better in XP but if I get to many memory hogs open it starts acting very strange, menus disappear, windows won't open. I use windows at work and I need to use photoshop, maya, after effects and flash. I like to have them all open so I don't have to wait for them to launch if I need to switch. On my mac there is no limit to how many apps I have open. The os seems to happily manage memory and resources so that apps I'm not using at the moment are cached and don't use any resources. Of course, I still use windows...but still.
Get a grip. This is a wireless access point what also has the feature of airtunes. It is also small and convenient. I think its a little expensive when compared with the Linksys WRT-54G's street price, but it looks like a nice little device. A lot cheaper than the regular UFO airport base station. The airtunes feature is not what it could be, but as an add on to a base station I think its a nice feature.
You know, it would destroy our conception of the past if there was any evidence at all to support your thesis. And rense.com doesn't count. This site has numerous articles with very dubious claims, including UFO pictures and articles questioning the veracity of the holocaust. There are, incidentaly, plenty of explanations for the Pyrimids. The egyptians had a written language which makes it easier to figure things out. Mostly because we can read their language. The pyrimids are giant piles of stone. Technology wise they are relatively simple. The real challenge was organization.
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You are not the person bearing the brunt of this. People who are already working in very low paying jobs are the people who suffers as underemployment bumps everyone down. Unemployment may not be as high as it has been, but underemployment is epidemic. There are a large number of americans trying to support families on minimum wage.
For the rest of us, real wages are down as productivity increases and corporations continue to tighten their belts. With a tight job market people cannot seek new employment to increase their salaries and benefits, putting further downward pressure on salaries.
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I just checked out the online demo of the TWC DVR. That thing is nothing like a tivo. Where is actor, director, and genre based wish lists? I couldn't stand not having that. And what about season passes? Per-recording quality settings....the list goes on...
Mod this up, this is a point that is missed. The tivo doesn't just record stuff. It changes the way you watch tv. It isn't time shifting, its video on demand. (cached on the client). This netflix idea is just building on that concept.
This sounds a lot like another company out there. I think anyone that says this about tivo doesn't have one. The interface is what makes tivo worth it, not just the functionality.
How did this not get modded "troll"? At most US universities the majority of students are women. I can assure you, a lot of those women get low grades and even fail classes. Even in EE, your anecdotal evidence not withstanding.
This is exactly the effect that cars and freeways had. In 1900 business people had no choice but to live in the city, close to where they worked. Today people routinely commute fifty miles to work. You can see the difference in comparing Manhatten to Los Angeles. Manhatten grew up before the car. It handles its huge population by being very very dense. It grew as a place that you could walk to the grocery and to work. Los Angeles is smaller in popuplaiton but sprawls out in every direction, people can live miles from work and grocery stores, relying on "efficient" highways to effectively shorten those distances.
Geography really messes up my sense of how the country feels. I live in Denver, CO an insanely liberal place (no, really, it is...my Rep is Diana Degette, from the Kucinich wing of the party. We always vote more liberally than even Boulder). Its hard for me to imagine Bush has any supporters, because I never meet any. But I know that my state is a red state, and all of the denver suburbs and rural colorado will vote republican. But in my neighborhood there is no contest.
All the suffering on both sides is ALREADY a complete waste. I do not blame the soldiers there trying to do their jobs as best they can. They are dealing with a fundemntal problem, to quote The Battle of Algiers: "Should we remain in Algeria? If you answer 'yes,' then you must accept all the necessary consequences."
The soldiers their are fighting an enemy that can't be defeated with out really going after them, the results of which would be a serious PR nightmare and a country and world dead set against us. (not to mention the morality of killing people on that scale). If we do nothing things may get out of control there more than they are.
But honestly, I think this is a no-win situation. Nothing we do can bring about a magic democracy there. We have lost that war. What we are doing now is throwing good money after bad and losing too many american and iraqi lives doing it. And it has nothing to do with the soldiers doing the best they can with a bad situation. It has everything to do with the people that put them there.
There is a special driver. It actually sends the luma channel to the led screen via a tiny line of white pixels on top of them image. They said it worked just fine with a standard nvidia Quadro FX 3000, they just had to write custom display drivers.
Well, interestingly enough buying lottery tickets does not significantly improve your odds of winning. (seriously, odds of winning with ticket 0.00002%, without, 0.00000%)
That is just insane! SSRIs have no side effects that should disqualify a pilot. Anti-psychotics and other bipolar meds maybe, but SSRIs...that's crazy. Unless the pilot's sexual performance is important, because that is the only major side effect.
What I like about the ipod is that you don't put things on it, per se. It IS itunes, just it goes with you. And when you connect the ipod they sync and all your playlists and everything else goes with you. And then, when you listen to the ipod your play counts sync back up with itunes. That, for me, is what makes it great.
Yes, true, the ipod has very good marketing. But it is also a great product. None of the other music players out there even approach the itunes/ipod solution. It is just so easy, so seamless and so powerful. No one else has made a comperable product, that's why it is the most succesful. Its not the construction its the interface and the integrated music "solution".
Specialized usage. It is not priced for consumers. This is probably going to be marketed to the medical field, where very high resolution monitors are very useful for view medical imaging. In fact, the low resolution of most LCDs is what is preventing hospitals from switching to an all digital solution for xRays. Your 10 17" LCD solution would not be useful in a hospital setting (or for view satallite images or any number of other special usage).
What, exactly, is wrong with a minivan? A minivan has all the advantages (and more) of those wagons. It also has none of the disadvantages of an SUV. Also mose mininvans seat more people than your average SUV.
I think your thesis that goverment regulation stopped detroit from making land yacht sation wagons seems to assume that is a bad thing. All cars are smaller now then they were in the 60s and 70s. Those cars were unsafe, gas guzzling boats that handled worse than a modern SUV. They still do make wagons (I have one). Like modern cars they are much better in every way except they are smaller. If you really need to haul 15 kids an SUV is not the answer. You need a full-size van.
"from all the gas I pump, from simply owning a car"
You like having nice, well-maintained roads to drive that car on, right? Because that is what the taxes on your fuel and car are for.
Wikipedia says: "Self-awareness is the ability to perceive one's own existence, including one's own traits, feelings and behaviour"
Not really the best definition. I suppose the arguement I was trying to make is that sentience is not really required to solve a lot of hard AI problems. The issues of awareness in animals and the nature of consciousness...that is a whole other animal.
There are plenty of animals that are capable of solving a lot of the "hard" AI problems without self awareness. My cat is not self aware, but she can easily jump on to small things, recognize items by there appearence or smell, catch moving objects, distinguish between food and non-food and she can figure out how to use a cat door. More still, she can understand that when I put a treat on a shelf it remains on that shelf when I leave and then attempt to climb up to get it. If I put something she wants behind a door she can see that there is a problem and then attempt to solve it.
EXACTLY. Everytime I here people complain that they are doing video editing and they need x TBs of RAID storage in their g5 I want to scream: you don't want that, you want an external disk array. Online editors have always used external arrays and the xserve RAID is the perfect tool. Easly swappable drives. Fibre channel. Its the perfect video editing array.
I really wish apple would but nVidia Quadros in the high end, or allow it as an option. You know, an actual pro card for a pro machine...
The guy did it for the hell of it. No one is proposing that we start using php for graphics coding. Just proving that we could if we wanted to.
My complaint about windows is memory management. On windows, it sucks. It is a lot better in XP but if I get to many memory hogs open it starts acting very strange, menus disappear, windows won't open. I use windows at work and I need to use photoshop, maya, after effects and flash. I like to have them all open so I don't have to wait for them to launch if I need to switch. On my mac there is no limit to how many apps I have open. The os seems to happily manage memory and resources so that apps I'm not using at the moment are cached and don't use any resources. Of course, I still use windows...but still.
The california energy crisis was caused by Enron gaming the system. Plain and simple.
Get a grip. This is a wireless access point what also has the feature of airtunes. It is also small and convenient. I think its a little expensive when compared with the Linksys WRT-54G's street price, but it looks like a nice little device. A lot cheaper than the regular UFO airport base station. The airtunes feature is not what it could be, but as an add on to a base station I think its a nice feature.
You know, it would destroy our conception of the past if there was any evidence at all to support your thesis. And rense.com doesn't count. This site has numerous articles with very dubious claims, including UFO pictures and articles questioning the veracity of the holocaust. There are, incidentaly, plenty of explanations for the Pyrimids. The egyptians had a written language which makes it easier to figure things out. Mostly because we can read their language. The pyrimids are giant piles of stone. Technology wise they are relatively simple. The real challenge was organization.