The President is a manager, not a monarch. I'd argue that the nigh-royal treatment whoever is currently occupying the White House receives has a been a big part of the rise of the "Imperial Presidency"
The President has always been both chief executive and the ceremonial head of state. The "royal treatment" begins with Washington. But no President has ever lived on the scale of The Sun King.
Yet the Queen of the UK or the British Prime Minister can fly using scheduled air travel?
The President is both chief executive of the U.S. and its ceremonial head of state.
In many ways, he continues to take take on these essential roles for the West as a whole. I can't think of a PM since Churchill whose loss would have had any great significance on the international stage.
Their now elderly original fan base is dying off, and their work is not the sort that will excite many new fans.
There is a century of recorded music out there - and in each new generation, artists who look back to what has gone before and audiences whose tastes are no longer adolescent.
Delaying this isn't really going to help anything. Most Americans either don't watch TV (perhaps playing movies) or have cable or satellite hooked up. The largest group effected is the Sr. Citizens. Who are not much effected by the economy
Trust me on this one.
The elderly and disabled are affected by the economy.
Who do you think gets hit first and hit hardest when state and federal budgets are cut?
Food Stamps. Medicaid. Prescription Drugs. Heating Assistance. Rental assistance. Home Care. Transportation services - and so on, endlessly.
That "most Americans don't watch TV" is a pure geek meme.
You could make a kid's game of this - take a walk down any surburban street and count the big screen HDTV's visible in any window.
The empty Vizio cartons waiting for pick-up.
As, for myself, I have both antenna and cable. It's "Hockey Night in Canada" and - in this border town - if you want Toronto in HD you need the Winegard.
New Task Bar? Do the words "Titanic" and "rearranging the deckchairs" come to mind here?
The article explores features new to the beta.
It is not - and does not pretend to be - a review of Win 7 as a whole.
MS Vista ended the year with 21% of the global desktop. The OSX MacIntel with 7%. Linux with 0.8% Top Operating System Share Trend
We are not talking licenses here, we are talking users surfing the web - and a site that tracks access through the Wii as diligently as it does OSX and Windows.
The trend line for Linux couldn't be flatter if you drew it with a T-square.
Apple and Microsoft are pretty much where you would expect to find them anywhere in the last 25 years or so.
But Apple has bet its future on pricey high tech gadgets.
Microsoft profits - indirectly - from the $150 720p HD pocket camcorder.
Is it intended as a glorious remote control? If so what the heck are we paying a Windows license fee for? Is it a computer? Then what are we paying for wireless hdmi for again? With that dinky screen or a TV across the room general purpose computing will be hard.
The display across the room is a 1080p HDTV with a 40" - 75" screen.
The audio is 5.1 surround at 50 - 150 watts per channel.
The keyboard-PC can't store much of anything, but you can shop Amazon.com. do the IM video chat thing, stream radio from Live365 or Netflix video, and embarass your kids with the baby photos you slip into your homemade USB slide-shows. just as grandad did when he brought out the Kodak projector.
Because projects like this rely on the goodwill of volunteers. That comes from ideology, in a neutral sense, i.e. from people believing in something. Very few people believe in windos. It has millions of users, but few "believers".
There are billions of users running Windows.
Windows is simply and shamelessly a product of the market place - and that for many folks is its highest recommendation.
The simple truth is that the "true believer" is very hard to live with.
OLPC came bundled with a constructivist philosophy of education and the ideology of FOSS. It was in many ways the quintessential product of the Father-Knows-Best Geek in Academia.
When they decided to support Windows, that killed the only positive point I could see in it. They would be kept as consumers.
This is the geek way of thinking and it is fundamentally flawed.
The Linux OLPC never sold in the numbers that were predicted - never even approached the numbers that were predicted.
The third world education minister shops for the PC that promises nothing more than a smooth transition for kids who will go on the higher grades or vocational education.
That is the best chance he can give them.
OLPC could have chosen to work with Apple or Microsoft from the start. There is nothing inherently absurd about working with a strong financial partner and one which has close on to thirty years practical experience in the market you are about to enter.
OLPC tied itself to a constructivist philosophy of education that is some light years removed from the realities of a third world classroom ---
and it never missed an opportunity to re-invent the wheel.
Vista is pretty much a dud, with many of the public staying away in droves. IMHO this would be a perfect opportunity to grab some market share while still keeping the high profits they enjoy on the laptop front.
'It's not an accident that Central Park is in the middle of Manhattan,' says Berman. 'They needed to put a park there.'
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Central Park is the product of the same political compromises that put the county seat in Dogpatch as a close to dead-center on the map as it is physically possible.
In 1855, the site was uptown rock and swamp, suburban, lightly inhabited, difficult to develop commercially.
840 acres of [mostly] rustic, naturalistic, park, still looked to be a less expensive proposition than a densely populated public garden less than one-tenth its size - and - not incidentally - far more attractive to its future and very wealthy neighbors. CentralParkHistory.com
The Doctor is himself half-human. It doesn't seem inconceivable that the TARDIS would seek Jenny out on his death. It can't be coincidence that the writers introduced a daughter into their story as the Doctor nears the end of his story.
I have 3GB of Ram. Vista is far slower than XP on my machine.
Explain to me why this rates a +3 "Informative" mod when the poster tells us absolutely nothing more about his system, his applications, or how he uses his machine.
in The Doctor's Daughter, Jenny - a woman created from the Tenth Doctor's DNA - dies and later reanimates in a process that has some apparent similarities to a regeneration
Why not continue the series with Jenny as the Doctor?
Inexperienced. Unpredictable.
Determined to find her own way. But perhaps less content to see the Time Lords simply disappear from all of history.
In her first (or second) incarnation and not certain she'll be granted another. It opens up the story in new and interesting ways.
Bottom line: This is not a serious gaming rig. This is designed to be a PVR. You'd be lucky if it had playable frame-rates in Crysis at 1024x768 with mid-tier quality settings.
You are quite right to assume that the "monitor" here is mostly likely to be an HDTV. PC gaming at 720p and 60 fps on the 32"-40" LCD.
1080p and the 120 Hz refresh will be entry level in HDTV in all display sizes soon enough - if it hasn't happened already.
I suspect the video game console will become the geek's "network appliance" and the PC his media powerhouse.
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The President has always been both chief executive and the ceremonial head of state. The "royal treatment" begins with Washington. But no President has ever lived on the scale of The Sun King.
The smart ones do. The less attention you draw to yourself the better.
Why doesn't Slashdot retire the Borg icon and the stained glass window?
Tell me why the geek who fears his own shadow downloads an executable from a source like Pirate Bay.
The President is both chief executive of the U.S. and its ceremonial head of state.
In many ways, he continues to take take on these essential roles for the West as a whole. I can't think of a PM since Churchill whose loss would have had any great significance on the international stage.
There is a century of recorded music out there - and in each new generation, artists who look back to what has gone before and audiences whose tastes are no longer adolescent.
Trust me on this one.
The elderly and disabled are affected by the economy.
Who do you think gets hit first and hit hardest when state and federal budgets are cut?
Food Stamps. Medicaid. Prescription Drugs. Heating Assistance. Rental assistance. Home Care. Transportation services - and so on, endlessly.
That "most Americans don't watch TV" is a pure geek meme.
You could make a kid's game of this - take a walk down any surburban street and count the big screen HDTV's visible in any window.
The empty Vizio cartons waiting for pick-up.
As, for myself, I have both antenna and cable. It's "Hockey Night in Canada" and - in this border town - if you want Toronto in HD you need the Winegard.
The article explores features new to the beta.
It is not - and does not pretend to be - a review of Win 7 as a whole.
MS Vista ended the year with 21% of the global desktop. The OSX MacIntel with 7%. Linux with 0.8% Top Operating System Share Trend
We are not talking licenses here, we are talking users surfing the web - and a site that tracks access through the Wii as diligently as it does OSX and Windows.
The trend line for Linux couldn't be flatter if you drew it with a T-square.
Apple and Microsoft are pretty much where you would expect to find them anywhere in the last 25 years or so.
But Apple has bet its future on pricey high tech gadgets.
Microsoft profits - indirectly - from the $150 720p HD pocket camcorder.
"Attention WalMart shoppers."
Fun tech.
Family tech.
But not a budget-buster.
That is a good place to be right now.
The XP netbook at $350. The 64 Bit Vista Premium laptop at $800.
Microsoft is solvent, profitable - with Exxon-Mobil rated corporate credit. "Solid as the Rock of Gibraltar." Not even Apple can claim that much.
The display across the room is a 1080p HDTV with a 40" - 75" screen.
The audio is 5.1 surround at 50 - 150 watts per channel.
The keyboard-PC can't store much of anything, but you can shop Amazon.com. do the IM video chat thing, stream radio from Live365 or Netflix video, and embarass your kids with the baby photos you slip into your homemade USB slide-shows. just as grandad did when he brought out the Kodak projector.
There are billions of users running Windows.
Windows is simply and shamelessly a product of the market place - and that for many folks is its highest recommendation.
The simple truth is that the "true believer" is very hard to live with.
OLPC came bundled with a constructivist philosophy of education and the ideology of FOSS. It was in many ways the quintessential product of the Father-Knows-Best Geek in Academia.
This is the geek way of thinking and it is fundamentally flawed.
The Linux OLPC never sold in the numbers that were predicted - never even approached the numbers that were predicted.
The third world education minister shops for the PC that promises nothing more than a smooth transition for kids who will go on the higher grades or vocational education.
That is the best chance he can give them.
OLPC could have chosen to work with Apple or Microsoft from the start. There is nothing inherently absurd about working with a strong financial partner and one which has close on to thirty years practical experience in the market you are about to enter.
OLPC tied itself to a constructivist philosophy of education that is some light years removed from the realities of a third world classroom ---
and it never missed an opportunity to re-invent the wheel.
The 16:9 display format seems more or less inevitable.
That is where everyone else is headed, if they aren't already there.
But eliminating the keyboard impacts the blind and visually impaired - and you want to see kids in the elementary grades writing.
Not laboriously tapping out a ten word IM.
Is it something in his genes that compels a Geek to give a worthwhile project a name that carries a lot of excess baggage?
Vista ended the year with 21% of the market and the MacIntel with 7%. Top Operating System Share Trend
This is the MS Vista Basic desktop at WalMart.com at $700:
Dell Inspiron 531s Sempron CPU, 19" widescreen monitor, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD, HP Multifunction Printer-Scanner, MS Office Home and Student 2007 [Full Version]
Vista Premium at $800:
HP Pavilion Desktop 2 GHz Intel Dual-Core CPU, 22" screen, 3 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD.
64 Bit Vista Premium at $900 + options:
HP Pavilion Desktop AMD 2.2 GHz Phenom Quad Core CPU, 6 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, nForce chip set and NVIDIA 6150 DX 10 graphics
The point being that the headless Mac Mini remains a tough sell in the mass consumer market.
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Central Park is the product of the same political compromises that put the county seat in Dogpatch as a close to dead-center on the map as it is physically possible.
In 1855, the site was uptown rock and swamp, suburban, lightly inhabited, difficult to develop commercially.
840 acres of [mostly] rustic, naturalistic, park, still looked to be a less expensive proposition than a densely populated public garden less than one-tenth its size - and - not incidentally - far more attractive to its future and very wealthy neighbors. CentralParkHistory.com
So you telling me that the Zune is the only device that has ever used the Freescale code?
The Doctor is himself half-human. It doesn't seem inconceivable that the TARDIS would seek Jenny out on his death. It can't be coincidence that the writers introduced a daughter into their story as the Doctor nears the end of his story.
....and I don't do sock puppets.
Explain to me why this rates a +3 "Informative" mod when the poster tells us absolutely nothing more about his system, his applications, or how he uses his machine.
Why not continue the series with Jenny as the Doctor?
Inexperienced. Unpredictable.
Determined to find her own way. But perhaps less content to see the Time Lords simply disappear from all of history.
In her first (or second) incarnation and not certain she'll be granted another. It opens up the story in new and interesting ways.
I will take the odds that classes in MS Office are being offered within a twenty minute drive of wherever you happen to live.
That competence in Office is the simplest path to full or part time employment above minimum wage.
Comic Chat stripped IRC of its jargon.
In text or graphics mode it was probably the most accessible of all IRC clients.
There were many user created manga and anime themed characters - and a significant asian base of users.
one wishes the message would get through to the F/OSS developer as well. meaningful and memorable names give your project a leg-up.
America's Army serves its purpose as a recruiting tool.
It is the perfect match to the stereotypical gamer demographic - which is the recruiter's target demographic, as well, of course.
You need to make the case that your company will see a return on the money it invests in a game.
You are quite right to assume that the "monitor" here is mostly likely to be an HDTV. PC gaming at 720p and 60 fps on the 32"-40" LCD.
1080p and the 120 Hz refresh will be entry level in HDTV in all display sizes soon enough - if it hasn't happened already.
I suspect the video game console will become the geek's "network appliance" and the PC his media powerhouse.