How many people like me, who got Tiger with his Mac, are WAITING for Leopard to come out? How many people are waiting to buy a new Mac to get the new OS? What was the increase of XP vs Win 2000 use just before Vista came out?
Outsourcing only works because the US Government lets it work. It the US was to pass tariff laws, like we had from the founding of this country, then if it cost $50 to make in the US and $20 to make in China, the product would have a $30 tariff on it. As a result, more items sold in the US would be MADE in the us by US workers. Up until the civil war, tariffs paid for ALL of the US governments costs. If the government can't pass tariffs, they could force labor laws in to all deals that they make with other countries. We have great laws protecting Music, but not labor. It's all a matter of what the government does.
You might not be able to our run a laser, however, shooting an object going 2200 mph at 100,000 feet is not an easy task. The tracking system would have to be very precise to get a good shot, and depending on how strong the laser is, might have to stay on target for a "long" (1 second?) time.
Funny story about the SR-71. I don't know if this is true, but it sounds right. The SR-71 would fly over Sweden to spy USSR. Sweden knew when this was going to happen and would scramble jets to intercept. One time, pushing as hard as the jet could take, they got a brief radar lock on the Blackbird. The jet was going as fast and as high as it could, and was in no position to fire even if they wanted to. Later the pilot got a cake from the SR-71 crew that read "Congratulations".
When I worked for Apple, at 6am ATI let slip that they were making cards for The PowerMac and "something else". That "something else" was the cube. My boss got a call about 5 minutes later from Steve telling us to remove all references to ATI on all web pages, in 17 languages, by 9am.
It's a good think that all this technology was paid for by loans from China, and other countries. With the debt load that we have right now, China can destroy the US without shooing one shot. No hot war needed. All they have to do is call in the loans they gave us and we will be bankrupt. Add that to Iran shooing a few of it's medium range missiles at the oil fields in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and oil will double or triple overnight. They would not even have to do much damage, it's the thought that counts. They can do this today if they want. We would SOL overnight. This is why 1, we need to get out of debt and 2, we need to be energy independent.
http://expresscameras.com/welcome.asp Is also a shady grey market seller. They sold me a grey Nikon D100 that had dead pixels, and a photocopied manual. I also got lenses with dirt on the INSIDE of the glass. This might be the same company. I had to send the camera back 2 times before I got one that only had 2 dead pixels. At that point I had to leave on a trip so I could not return the camera. Don't buy from them. They also used to go under the name Hello Cameras.
I think that everyone here is overlooking the most important aspect of this. Content. Right now, if a TV show does something that "some" people don't like, they can get it pulled off the air by calling the advertisers or FCC. With this system, companies/people/anyone could produce a show HBO style and not care if you see Janet Jackson's boob for 1/10 of a second. You could see TV the way creators want, not the government, advertisers or people who want to push their views of right and wrong on you want.
The right way to do this is: 1. You prove who you are and are handed a paper ballot. 2. You go to a electronic vote machine and insert your ballot. 3. You vote. 4. You get a summary screen at the end. When you agree it prints the vote on the ballot. 5. You get to check if the ballot and the screen are the same. If you are happy, you deposit the ballot in the box, and the electronic vote is added.
On the ballot are both a simple listing of who you voted for as well as a optical method for a computer to scan. Also when the ballot is printed it is assigned a number that is tied to the electronic vote. When it comes time to count, you get a fast tally of the electronic vote, and a slower conformation of the paper vote. You would know in one night who won, and be able to confirm it a day or two later. Any person who questions the electronic vote can pull up the vote of each paper ballot by entering the number on the ballot and checking they are the same, as well as make sure the names of the people voted for are the same as the results of the computer scan. All 3 would have to be the same. The electronic vote, the printed names, and the optical scan method. Further more, no one company can make all the hardware. If company A makes the voting machines, company B has to make the counters. All other rules of open source and code checks by the public apply. This is the only fair way to do this.
It does have room for 3 people, but to qualify for the prize it must have 3 people (or a pilot and the weight of 2 people) on board. This flight just has a pilot.
Unlike the Hindenburg, cars will have small, reenforced, crash protected tanks (about halfway down the page). Not Huge volumes of H2. If you drove you H2 car in to a skyscrapers, you would need ALOT more fuel then what you will have in this tank. If the tank is protected for car crashes, driving it in to a building will do no more then driving you gas powered car that you have now.
Does anyone else feel that this is just a non aggression treaty, like the one between Germany and Russia, and both sides are holding off the government until they come up with the killer technology to screw the other side, and us as well?
Not only do they want to tax the movement of money, they want to tax anything that moves. The city of Los Angeles wanted to tax satellites in space a property tax because they cost hundreds of millions of dollars and, for now they are not taxed. The city was looking at the satellites as about $300,000 in lost revinue. Thankfully that idea was turned down.
You forgot:
- Alan Ralsky edition iPod (play lots of adds for porn, offers from the president of Nigeria, and home loan deals, taking up most of the space on your iPod )
Another reason that OEMs don't like to sell computers without an OS is because after the computer is built, they TEST it. Without an OS they can not check to see if everything is working. I guess that they could format the drive after the testing is done, but why take the extra step when 95% will use that OS?
Yes, it would be bad to have your entire music collection on one disc. Just think about how much money the RIAA would lose if you "lost" your disk, or multiple copies of it all at once.:-)
-TheWizardTim
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How many people like me, who got Tiger with his Mac, are WAITING for Leopard to come out? How many people are waiting to buy a new Mac to get the new OS? What was the increase of XP vs Win 2000 use just before Vista came out?
Unless you'd like to avoid this, of course, in which case I take payment in Visa, Mastercard, or hookers.
Wait, are you Duke Cunningham?
At least we know that we can get CZ in powder form.
Outsourcing only works because the US Government lets it work. It the US was to pass tariff laws, like we had from the founding of this country, then if it cost $50 to make in the US and $20 to make in China, the product would have a $30 tariff on it. As a result, more items sold in the US would be MADE in the us by US workers. Up until the civil war, tariffs paid for ALL of the US governments costs. If the government can't pass tariffs, they could force labor laws in to all deals that they make with other countries. We have great laws protecting Music, but not labor. It's all a matter of what the government does.
The dupe of me, read about this on the dupe of slashdot on the dupe of earth.
What about old people?
Wait. The problem will solve itself.
You might not be able to our run a laser, however, shooting an object going 2200 mph at 100,000 feet is not an easy task. The tracking system would have to be very precise to get a good shot, and depending on how strong the laser is, might have to stay on target for a "long" (1 second?) time.
Funny story about the SR-71. I don't know if this is true, but it sounds right. The SR-71 would fly over Sweden to spy USSR. Sweden knew when this was going to happen and would scramble jets to intercept. One time, pushing as hard as the jet could take, they got a brief radar lock on the Blackbird. The jet was going as fast and as high as it could, and was in no position to fire even if they wanted to. Later the pilot got a cake from the SR-71 crew that read "Congratulations".
When I worked for Apple, at 6am ATI let slip that they were making cards for The PowerMac and "something else". That "something else" was the cube. My boss got a call about 5 minutes later from Steve telling us to remove all references to ATI on all web pages, in 17 languages, by 9am.
LOOK! Up in the sky! The Flying Spaghetti Monster choose to show himself!
But you may call me, Tim. or Password, one, two, three, four, five.
Quick lads, join me on me ship and we will loot an plunder. The more the better until the temperature goes down.
Arrrrrrrrr!
Yo ho, yo ho, it's a pirates life for me....
It's a good think that all this technology was paid for by loans from China, and other countries. With the debt load that we have right now, China can destroy the US without shooing one shot. No hot war needed. All they have to do is call in the loans they gave us and we will be bankrupt. Add that to Iran shooing a few of it's medium range missiles at the oil fields in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and oil will double or triple overnight. They would not even have to do much damage, it's the thought that counts. They can do this today if they want. We would SOL overnight. This is why 1, we need to get out of debt and 2, we need to be energy independent.
TheWizardTim
That's nothing, right now we have a dictator faking a democracy in the US. Beat that pirates!
http://expresscameras.com/welcome.asp Is also a shady grey market seller. They sold me a grey Nikon D100 that had dead pixels, and a photocopied manual. I also got lenses with dirt on the INSIDE of the glass. This might be the same company. I had to send the camera back 2 times before I got one that only had 2 dead pixels. At that point I had to leave on a trip so I could not return the camera. Don't buy from them. They also used to go under the name Hello Cameras.
I think that everyone here is overlooking the most important aspect of this. Content. Right now, if a TV show does something that "some" people don't like, they can get it pulled off the air by calling the advertisers or FCC. With this system, companies/people/anyone could produce a show HBO style and not care if you see Janet Jackson's boob for 1/10 of a second. You could see TV the way creators want, not the government, advertisers or people who want to push their views of right and wrong on you want.
Two words: Faraday Cage
I would pay extra to go to a movie theater that had one of these built-in to the walls and roof.
The right way to do this is:
1. You prove who you are and are handed a paper ballot.
2. You go to a electronic vote machine and insert your ballot.
3. You vote.
4. You get a summary screen at the end. When you agree it prints the vote on the ballot.
5. You get to check if the ballot and the screen are the same. If you are happy, you deposit the ballot in the box, and the electronic vote is added.
On the ballot are both a simple listing of who you voted for as well as a optical method for a computer to scan.
Also when the ballot is printed it is assigned a number that is tied to the electronic vote.
When it comes time to count, you get a fast tally of the electronic vote, and a slower conformation of the paper vote. You would know in one night who won, and be able to confirm it a day or two later.
Any person who questions the electronic vote can pull up the vote of each paper ballot by entering the number on the ballot and checking they are the same, as well as make sure the names of the people voted for are the same as the results of the computer scan.
All 3 would have to be the same. The electronic vote, the printed names, and the optical scan method.
Further more, no one company can make all the hardware. If company A makes the voting machines, company B has to make the counters.
All other rules of open source and code checks by the public apply.
This is the only fair way to do this.
I have been waiting for this topic for years now. About time.
The Wizard Tim
(mod me down if you like, this post is pointless)
It does have room for 3 people, but to qualify for the prize it must have 3 people (or a pilot and the weight of 2 people) on board. This flight just has a pilot.
Unlike the Hindenburg, cars will have small, reenforced, crash protected tanks (about halfway down the page). Not Huge volumes of H2. If you drove you H2 car in to a skyscrapers, you would need ALOT more fuel then what you will have in this tank. If the tank is protected for car crashes, driving it in to a building will do no more then driving you gas powered car that you have now.
Does anyone else feel that this is just a non aggression treaty, like the one between Germany and Russia, and both sides are holding off the government until they come up with the killer technology to screw the other side, and us as well?
Maybe it's just me.
Not only do they want to tax the movement of money, they want to tax anything that moves. The city of Los Angeles wanted to tax satellites in space a property tax because they cost hundreds of millions of dollars and, for now they are not taxed. The city was looking at the satellites as about $300,000 in lost revinue. Thankfully that idea was turned down.
You forgot: - Alan Ralsky edition iPod (play lots of adds for porn, offers from the president of Nigeria, and home loan deals, taking up most of the space on your iPod )
Another reason that OEMs don't like to sell computers without an OS is because after the computer is built, they TEST it. Without an OS they can not check to see if everything is working. I guess that they could format the drive after the testing is done, but why take the extra step when 95% will use that OS?
Yes, it would be bad to have your entire music collection on one disc. Just think about how much money the RIAA would lose if you "lost" your disk, or multiple copies of it all at once. :-)
-TheWizardTim