Actually, Comcast is about to start a service where they will charge you someting like $12 a month, and they will PROVIDE and SUPPORT a home network AND WIRELESS connections, AND double your pipe speeds. It will hit at the same time their HD signals and VOD services hit, probably this fall. They are training, and seting up the infrastructure to administer and bill for this service as I type this.
And we have every right to not buy their products/services and to advise others to do the same. If they are *serious* about this, and not just being silly - then they are behaving no better than SCO.
I 100% agree. It is sad that people will base opinions of regular honda accord driving normal employees on the actions of yacht owning mansion dwelling executives.
Happens all the time. People gotta eat... Lets be more reasonable here, and remember who we all are...
Not that I expect anything to change because *I* asked...
Not until we had a President who deserved it. (grin)
Seriously though, it *is* a valid complaint. It is not unreasonable to ask that the man who has the power to kill the entire earth many times over - resting at his fingertips - at least take the 5 minutes to learn how to pronounce the name of said technology. A first grader would fail an exam for pronouncing nuclear "nuke-u-ler", yet we allow our President to do it regularly.
People regularly complained about Clinton being a bad example for our youth (because he was sexually promiscuous) - yet no one seems to care that "Dubya" can't even speak english correctly! Now I am not an expert at grammar, spelling, and speech - but if I were tasked with communicating values, issues, decisions, and all around important stuff for 300 million people - I WOULD TAKE A CLASS OR TWO.
Extra-terrestrial robots do, however, do lots of regular cattle mutilations.
It's only because they're the "newbies". All the talented and veteran ETR units get sent to more important planets. Earth is usually a punishment or training detail.
Right. So we elect our leader... Wait, maybe not. Hmm. Well, we can at least vote on things like the PATRIOT act... We can't? Oh then... Well, - good thing we all had a say in the DMCA. What? You didn't? Come to think of it - neither did I.
But our system IS better, right? I mean we all have rights... Right?
And define "tested"? Sure, maybe we haven't (publicly) blown one up - but aren't elaborite computer models and simulations just as good as "testing"? Haven't we "improved" our weapons? Aren't we developing "conventional" weapons with near or greater than nuclear destructive capability? The US is guilty of using Dirty weapons in Iraq one and two (depleated uranium projectiles). We are no better than ANYONE, and shouldn't be claiming to be. We just hide our evil better, and spend more money around the world.
Do you think the leaders of N. Korea can pronounce Nuclear correctly?
Almost any product can be used kill people (if you wanted to and were willing to stretch it far enough), and the Military can often gain from regular industry - albeit indirectly of course. There really is no high road. The best we can do is try to stem the tide AT THE SOURCE.
No way. He wasn't "of Pakistani-Indian-Arabic appearance". Only people "of Pakistani-Indian-Arabic appearance" can be bad guys. Come on, it was on FOX News just this morning...
Even if it was a troll, it was "funny". So the "funny" mod points are appropriate even if the post is not. It could also deserve other mod points, but it *Was* funny.
But to address your "stereotyping" comment. It is *not* a stereotype.
In 2002, a total of 55 people died in tornadoes, 37 of whom were in mobile homes, 12 in permanent homes, four in cars and two outside. In 2001, 40 fatalities were recorded, 11 of those in mobile homes, 18 in permanent homes, six in vehicles, three outside and two in buildings. In 2000, 29 of the 40 tornado deaths, or nearly 78 percent, were in mobile homes, four were in permanent homes, four in vehicles, one was outside and two were in buildings. - NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory report
It goes on to say that Mobile homes are *dangerous*. And if you take the numbers above and put them into context as to how many people live in regular homes/buildings vs. how many live in mobile homes, the numbers would be all that much more damning.
I agree 1000 million percent. Except I have kids. I would take them too, because they like music. But we have dumbarse laws that say I can't because most places with good local bands also have good local alcohol - and we wouldn't want our children to see people consuming alcohol... That would be bad. So instead, we sit at home watching movies and drinking alcohol. Much better for the fragile kiddies.
On a more related note: I stopped buying as many CDs when I lost my job. And then when my unemployment ran-out I stopped buying CDs all together. Now I am working for half what I was in 2000. So I buy many fewer CDs. Have they bothered to consider that poor people buy fewer CDs and we have many more poor people now than we did...;) (Poor is, of course, relative).
What about my freedom to write my own applications without requiring Apple to approve it?
Apple doesn't have to approve your software. There is *tons* of OSX software that I am sure Apple has not even heard of.
What about my freedom to use my own hardware, instead of being forcing to use Apple's mouse
I don't have a single Apple mouse left. I have several generic ones and a few trackballs.
Apple's memory
I have plain old inexpensive RAM in all of my Macs, some even taken from old PCs that I no longer used.
Apple's monitor (with boat anchor attachment on the top)
What are you even talking about here? Only iMacs and eMacs have to use Apple monitors. The PowerMacs can use any brand you want.
Apple's video card, etc.?
Which Apple video card would that be? In a Mac you can use Nvidia or ATI products - just like in the PC. And there are other more customized options for things like digital video and such. But Apple doesn't even make a video card - so how could they force you to use one?
Sure, in just about everything - your choices in the Mac are *fewer* than the PC. Yes, there might be 7689 video cards available for the PC. But who cares? Why do you need more than 5 to chose from - especially since most video cards are all using one of a couple chipsets anyway. And sure, on Windows there might be 18 choices for Tax software and only 2 on the Mac. Hmm, I still did my taxes just fine, for the same price as the PC guys.
But for the most part - you are not limited with a Mac. I have non-Apple-stock mice, hard disk drives, memory, printers, media readers, and scanners. Just like my PC using friends.
Oh, mac users don't have as much choice in Viruses and Worms though, that is true.
How are they "self recharging"? Mine require Iams battery replacements every day or so, and they produce nauxious by-products in seemingly unending quantities... But they are funny when you give them Atomic Fireballs... Their "security" system goes off at the slightest thump from anywhere in the neighborhood - and the sensitivity, timing, volume, or length of alarm is random and can't be adjusted. And for some reason the vacuum system refuses to pick up peas.
Is there any good site with detailed comparison's of them that the average joe user could find?
I recently tried to install Mandrake 9.1 on an old IBM thinkpad Pentium II (My main machines are OSX), and had to choose between Gnome and KDE and IceWM, and had no idea which would be better. I chose Gnome, and the first startup after install the machine sat there at the "Gnome" splash screen cranking the disk for almost 3 FULL DAYS! (72 Hours for the math impaired!). I shut it down and tried again, it cranked for about 3 hours and I shut it down. It has been sitting there cold for a week and a half now - without my having the time to figure out what is going on...
What's my point? The basic home Windows user would just give up at this point.;)
You will *never* get rid of those types of violations, no matter waht you do. (Well actually - you could just outlaw cars all together, that would work). But even good, safe drivers who NEVER have an accident in their lives would be fined at least once a day. It is impossible to *not* violate a traffic law if you are driving a car off of your own private property.
The whole point of the petty laws like that are really to help establish fault when something DOES happen. Does a slightly rolling stop kill someone? Probably not. But if there *is* an accident caused by someone running a stop sign - then they are obviously at fault.
I challenge you to drive anywhere (in the USA since I don't know international traffic laws) for 1 week without EVER crossing a yellow line or a solid white line (not couting crosswalks and such which are often solid white lines).
And go on any freeway without finding "safe" drivers who stay in the left lane when not passing... Illegal? Yes. Annoying? Definately. Unsafe? Maybe - depending on the speed. Preventable? Apparantly not.
However, I WHOLE HEARTEDLY agree we need to get idiot drivers off the roads. But a system like this would only harm the good drivers, and probably not reduce the morons on the road.
Of course - I am not an expert, I just have lots of experience driving in at least half of the states in the US, and most of the largest cities in the US - and a couple in Canada and Mexico.
EVERYONE breaks traffic laws. Which laws, how often, and how severe are the only variables that change.
Have you:
Ever not come to a complete stop atr a stopsign? Ever come to stop at an intersection and the front of your vehicle extends into the crosswalk? Ever break the speed limit by 1? Ever change lanes too close to an intersection? Ever change lanes at the last minute before a split when the center line is solid white? Ever drive in the fast lane while not passing? Ever leave your brights on while passing oncoming cars? Ever squeal your tires? Ever go straight on a right turn only? Ever make an illegal U-Turn in the middle of the night? Ever follow too closely? Ever fail to use your turn signal? Ever drive through a crosswalk while a person is waiting to cross? Ever not yeild right of way? Ever forgotten to put on your seat-belt until you are already out in traffic? Ever drive too slow on the interstate? Ever honked your horn for a reason other than traffic related causes? Ever driven with under inflated or over worn tires?
What about poor Mars? What if something collided with Earth while it was this close to Mars? Couldn't it send fragments of Earth close to Mars? Has anyone considered that possibility?
Would "fragments of earth" that have been processed into spacecraft and landers and hurdled towards Mars be cause enough for alarm?
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How hard is it to find one in Portland? For crying out loud, there is just about one on every major street...
Er, I mean, I would guess there were - only from driving by on my way to church...
Complaining about ONE WEEK turnaround. Geeze, don't ever try to get cable TV installed... (grin)
Actually, Comcast is about to start a service where they will charge you someting like $12 a month, and they will PROVIDE and SUPPORT a home network AND WIRELESS connections, AND double your pipe speeds. It will hit at the same time their HD signals and VOD services hit, probably this fall. They are training, and seting up the infrastructure to administer and bill for this service as I type this.
I tried fasting once, but I got hungry.
And we have every right to not buy their products/services and to advise others to do the same. If they are *serious* about this, and not just being silly - then they are behaving no better than SCO.
I 100% agree. It is sad that people will base opinions of regular honda accord driving normal employees on the actions of yacht owning mansion dwelling executives.
Happens all the time. People gotta eat... Lets be more reasonable here, and remember who we all are...
Not that I expect anything to change because *I* asked...
ooh! I beat you by 1 minute. You took the time to write all that good stuff, and I just blurted it out.. -grin-
AFAIK Timecode was also shot entirely in ONE TAKE. Impressive, kinda like the Honda commercial of lore...
You should check out "Timecode", which uses that technique for the whole movie. Pretty intersting, not too hard to watch. I sort of liked it.
And as for your last comment, ad hominem much?
Not until we had a President who deserved it. (grin)
Seriously though, it *is* a valid complaint. It is not unreasonable to ask that the man who has the power to kill the entire earth many times over - resting at his fingertips - at least take the 5 minutes to learn how to pronounce the name of said technology. A first grader would fail an exam for pronouncing nuclear "nuke-u-ler", yet we allow our President to do it regularly.
People regularly complained about Clinton being a bad example for our youth (because he was sexually promiscuous) - yet no one seems to care that "Dubya" can't even speak english correctly! Now I am not an expert at grammar, spelling, and speech - but if I were tasked with communicating values, issues, decisions, and all around important stuff for 300 million people - I WOULD TAKE A CLASS OR TWO.
Check out Bush Presidential (Mis)Speak for a laugh!
Extra-terrestrial robots do, however, do lots of regular cattle mutilations.
It's only because they're the "newbies". All the talented and veteran ETR units get sent to more important planets. Earth is usually a punishment or training detail.
Plutonium. That's so 1980's.
Right. So we elect our leader... Wait, maybe not. Hmm. Well, we can at least vote on things like the PATRIOT act... We can't? Oh then... Well, - good thing we all had a say in the DMCA. What? You didn't? Come to think of it - neither did I.
But our system IS better, right? I mean we all have rights... Right?
And define "tested"? Sure, maybe we haven't (publicly) blown one up - but aren't elaborite computer models and simulations just as good as "testing"? Haven't we "improved" our weapons? Aren't we developing "conventional" weapons with near or greater than nuclear destructive capability? The US is guilty of using Dirty weapons in Iraq one and two (depleated uranium projectiles). We are no better than ANYONE, and shouldn't be claiming to be. We just hide our evil better, and spend more money around the world.
Do you think the leaders of N. Korea can pronounce Nuclear correctly?
But that's just my opinion. I may be wrong.
Almost any product can be used kill people (if you wanted to and were willing to stretch it far enough), and the Military can often gain from regular industry - albeit indirectly of course. There really is no high road. The best we can do is try to stem the tide AT THE SOURCE.
But with the current economy that might be the only place you can get a job.
No way. He wasn't "of Pakistani-Indian-Arabic appearance". Only people "of Pakistani-Indian-Arabic appearance" can be bad guys. Come on, it was on FOX News just this morning...
But to address your "stereotyping" comment. It is *not* a stereotype.
It goes on to say that Mobile homes are *dangerous*. And if you take the numbers above and put them into context as to how many people live in regular homes/buildings vs. how many live in mobile homes, the numbers would be all that much more damning.
I agree 1000 million percent. Except I have kids. I would take them too, because they like music. But we have dumbarse laws that say I can't because most places with good local bands also have good local alcohol - and we wouldn't want our children to see people consuming alcohol... That would be bad. So instead, we sit at home watching movies and drinking alcohol. Much better for the fragile kiddies.
;) (Poor is, of course, relative).
On a more related note: I stopped buying as many CDs when I lost my job. And then when my unemployment ran-out I stopped buying CDs all together. Now I am working for half what I was in 2000. So I buy many fewer CDs. Have they bothered to consider that poor people buy fewer CDs and we have many more poor people now than we did...
What?
What about my freedom to write my own applications without requiring Apple to approve it?
Apple doesn't have to approve your software. There is *tons* of OSX software that I am sure Apple has not even heard of.
What about my freedom to use my own hardware, instead of being forcing to use Apple's mouse
I don't have a single Apple mouse left. I have several generic ones and a few trackballs.
Apple's memory
I have plain old inexpensive RAM in all of my Macs, some even taken from old PCs that I no longer used.
Apple's monitor (with boat anchor attachment on the top)
What are you even talking about here? Only iMacs and eMacs have to use Apple monitors. The PowerMacs can use any brand you want.
Apple's video card, etc.?
Which Apple video card would that be? In a Mac you can use Nvidia or ATI products - just like in the PC. And there are other more customized options for things like digital video and such. But Apple doesn't even make a video card - so how could they force you to use one?
Sure, in just about everything - your choices in the Mac are *fewer* than the PC. Yes, there might be 7689 video cards available for the PC. But who cares? Why do you need more than 5 to chose from - especially since most video cards are all using one of a couple chipsets anyway. And sure, on Windows there might be 18 choices for Tax software and only 2 on the Mac. Hmm, I still did my taxes just fine, for the same price as the PC guys.
But for the most part - you are not limited with a Mac. I have non-Apple-stock mice, hard disk drives, memory, printers, media readers, and scanners. Just like my PC using friends.
Oh, mac users don't have as much choice in Viruses and Worms though, that is true.
[a mountain bike] is pretty much acceptible to use on sidewalks
In some cities, bicycles are illegal on sidewalks downtown.
How are they "self recharging"? Mine require Iams battery replacements every day or so, and they produce nauxious by-products in seemingly unending quantities... But they are funny when you give them Atomic Fireballs... Their "security" system goes off at the slightest thump from anywhere in the neighborhood - and the sensitivity, timing, volume, or length of alarm is random and can't be adjusted. And for some reason the vacuum system refuses to pick up peas.
Is there any good site with detailed comparison's of them that the average joe user could find?
;)
I recently tried to install Mandrake 9.1 on an old IBM thinkpad Pentium II (My main machines are OSX), and had to choose between Gnome and KDE and IceWM, and had no idea which would be better. I chose Gnome, and the first startup after install the machine sat there at the "Gnome" splash screen cranking the disk for almost 3 FULL DAYS! (72 Hours for the math impaired!). I shut it down and tried again, it cranked for about 3 hours and I shut it down. It has been sitting there cold for a week and a half now - without my having the time to figure out what is going on...
What's my point? The basic home Windows user would just give up at this point.
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Not really.
You will *never* get rid of those types of violations, no matter waht you do. (Well actually - you could just outlaw cars all together, that would work). But even good, safe drivers who NEVER have an accident in their lives would be fined at least once a day. It is impossible to *not* violate a traffic law if you are driving a car off of your own private property.
The whole point of the petty laws like that are really to help establish fault when something DOES happen. Does a slightly rolling stop kill someone? Probably not. But if there *is* an accident caused by someone running a stop sign - then they are obviously at fault.
I challenge you to drive anywhere (in the USA since I don't know international traffic laws) for 1 week without EVER crossing a yellow line or a solid white line (not couting crosswalks and such which are often solid white lines).
And go on any freeway without finding "safe" drivers who stay in the left lane when not passing... Illegal? Yes. Annoying? Definately. Unsafe? Maybe - depending on the speed. Preventable? Apparantly not.
However, I WHOLE HEARTEDLY agree we need to get idiot drivers off the roads. But a system like this would only harm the good drivers, and probably not reduce the morons on the road.
Of course - I am not an expert, I just have lots of experience driving in at least half of the states in the US, and most of the largest cities in the US - and a couple in Canada and Mexico.
EVERYONE breaks traffic laws. Which laws, how often, and how severe are the only variables that change.
Have you:
Ever not come to a complete stop atr a stopsign? Ever come to stop at an intersection and the front of your vehicle extends into the crosswalk? Ever break the speed limit by 1? Ever change lanes too close to an intersection? Ever change lanes at the last minute before a split when the center line is solid white? Ever drive in the fast lane while not passing? Ever leave your brights on while passing oncoming cars? Ever squeal your tires? Ever go straight on a right turn only? Ever make an illegal U-Turn in the middle of the night? Ever follow too closely? Ever fail to use your turn signal? Ever drive through a crosswalk while a person is waiting to cross? Ever not yeild right of way? Ever forgotten to put on your seat-belt until you are already out in traffic? Ever drive too slow on the interstate? Ever honked your horn for a reason other than traffic related causes? Ever driven with under inflated or over worn tires?
Hope you like traffic fines....
What about poor Mars? What if something collided with Earth while it was this close to Mars? Couldn't it send fragments of Earth close to Mars? Has anyone considered that possibility?
Would "fragments of earth" that have been processed into spacecraft and landers and hurdled towards Mars be cause enough for alarm?