Most of our manufactured crap comes from there, but (aside from apple juice) our food supply is not completely overrun yet. Trader Joe's completely avoids Chinese suppliers.
My logic is that charities are typically more efficient than the government, so I'd rather someone pay - for instance - a soup kitchen directly. People and charities are also more responsive than government - a private charity can be on the move before congress starts debate. Further, charities are more likely to tailor their solution to local needs than the feds. I also find charity to be more democratic - rather than forcing people to pay money to a cause they may not agree with you are letting people vote with their own dollars.
On the other hand, a charity is not as accountable as the government, and small charities don't always coordinate - so the impact they have may not be as strong as a government program.
IBM (Lenovo) seem to be very well supported, and they are good solid laptops in general. I'll have to remember that if I need a Linux machine. To be truthful, these days I usually just virtualize it, which kills the need for supported hardware.
I never even tried a Dell - they don't seem to work right running Windows!:)
Yeah, the cost is out of control. $300 gets you a nice point-and-shoot. $20 gets you over 60 instant prints from the machine at Walgreens/CVS and over 200 prints at Snapfish.
I advocate this as well, though you would need to eliminate corporate income tax. Dividends should also be taxed as regular income. This would have the additional benefit of severely reducing overseas corporate tax havens, in fact possibly even making the US a haven. It would wipe out the entire corporate "creative accounting" industry, which IMHO is a good thing. I'm sure there will still be ways to dodge taxes, but nothing like the mess we have now.
I have no problem with keeping things like the mortgage deduction below a certain income limit, and phase it out for higher earners. Ease the shock to the housing market by grandfathering current loans. Most deductions should not be available for higher earners, except for charitable contributions.
"Haven't had problems" means different things to different people. You might be more comfortable fiddling. WiFi certainly didn't work 5 years ago unless you were very careful in selecting the hardware or you used one of the Windows driver wrappers. The video usually "works" in some regard, but getting 3D going was not something that just worked without fiddling. Power management is a sore spot for me - I feel like all laptops should do as well as Apple laptops do: sleep when the lid is closed and spring to life when opened. Windows laptops sometimes get this almost right, but with Linux I don't have the skill set and it certainly doesn't work like this upon a fresh install. I haven't had problems with sound on Linux in probably 10 years.
You are right, but Lenovo offers an option under Windows where you can run both at the same time to support more monitors. My comment was in the context that it is unlikely that you are playing 3D games in Linux...:)
The only use for video-chip-switching (actually running them in parallel) is multiple monitors. That laptop of yours can do three monitors under Windows, which is pretty cool for certain tasks. Of course, with a capable desktop of similar power going for less than $500-600, why not have a desktop for that kind of work?
Linux has worked on every desktop I've ever tried it on, though it sometimes throws fits over the ACPI and so I can't use sleep reliably. It sometimes doesn't like on-board ethernet, so I have to throw a $10 card in there. As you say, I generally check for Linux support prior to purchase but I forget some of these embedded parts sometimes. That goes double for FreeBSD. I find Linux easier to load on a PC than Windows, but as I said... how often do you have to load Windows on a PC? Usually it comes with it, and if you feed it the install disks it will be right back at the same state as when it was new.
And of course, there is Mac... simplest install but crazy limited hardware choices:)
That laptop is apparently very well supported, but even then features like on-demand video switching probably don't work, and getting both video cards working even when switching them manually on boot is not something that "just works". Unless you just have the integrated version, in which case you are good. You are also lucky regarding power management - laptops are notorious on any OS for buggy ACPI, and Linux is usually pretty unforgiving and you end up updating the BIOS and praying. And of course the laptop custom keyboard buttons almost never work without fiddling.
Most of us, um, buy a machine with Windows installed and then never touch it again. I've built all my Windows/Linux machines since my first Windows machine, but it's a tremendous waste of time and really something I only do for the fun of it.
Once you have an HP/Dell/Sony/whatever, the resident memory-hogging auto updater keeps everything up-to-date. The days of hunting down drivers on Windows have been lost to the last century.
That said, you're post is tremendously misleading unless you have a rig bought specifically with Linux in mind or you are lucky and you have older hardware. Wireless drivers are still a pain half the time and laptops are a real PITA overall.
It says 90 in their TOS. I presume you are right about POP/Exchange, but have no way to verify short of trying it - a short search of their website came up dry for me.
'Fraid I don't know. The terms say, "Our reasons for cancellation may include that we stop providing the service in your region or that you breach this contract, fail to sign in to the Windows Live ID network during a 90-day period, or don't pay fees that you owe to us or to our agents." and make no mention of POP. Gmail can definitely get Hotmail via POP, but I don't know what happens if you only use that.
That entirely depends on what else sets them off. Even a 1% false positive result would be pretty bad. It also depends on the definition of "explosive". To me, gunpowder is an explosive - I'd certainly hope that loading a few shells won't get me flagged by one of these.
I think you have Sockatume's argument backwards. He's not arguing that it is possible for us to destroy the universe - he's arguing that if you have a theory that says that you can get free energy, but the math works out such that it would destroy the universe... you probably don't have a way to extract that energy. In other words, the free energy "proof" works out to 1=2.
The power grid obviously covers most of the US, but as a practical matter energy is not being moved very large distances.
The line losses would be horrendous without some kind of new technology being employed. China and Brazil seem to be creating high voltage DC lines with losses around 3%/1000km. I think average loss in the US is 10%, so that still would be more line loss than we have today, but it might at least be feasible.
Because you need some LOOOOOOOOONG wires to get from all that dark color in the west to the population centers in the east. Might be feasible for CA, though.
Blackberry is great for email, but the web is horrible on it - especially in the state it was in when the iPhone launched. Mobile browsers on the whole were very weak compared to mobile Safari.
Slashdot Mirror
A mileage-based tax
I'm pretty sure I could disconnect my odometer.
Most of our manufactured crap comes from there, but (aside from apple juice) our food supply is not completely overrun yet. Trader Joe's completely avoids Chinese suppliers.
My retirement grease!
My logic is that charities are typically more efficient than the government, so I'd rather someone pay - for instance - a soup kitchen directly. People and charities are also more responsive than government - a private charity can be on the move before congress starts debate. Further, charities are more likely to tailor their solution to local needs than the feds. I also find charity to be more democratic - rather than forcing people to pay money to a cause they may not agree with you are letting people vote with their own dollars.
On the other hand, a charity is not as accountable as the government, and small charities don't always coordinate - so the impact they have may not be as strong as a government program.
IBM (Lenovo) seem to be very well supported, and they are good solid laptops in general. I'll have to remember that if I need a Linux machine. To be truthful, these days I usually just virtualize it, which kills the need for supported hardware.
I never even tried a Dell - they don't seem to work right running Windows! :)
Yeah, the cost is out of control. $300 gets you a nice point-and-shoot. $20 gets you over 60 instant prints from the machine at Walgreens/CVS and over 200 prints at Snapfish.
why not simply tax Capital Gains as income
I advocate this as well, though you would need to eliminate corporate income tax. Dividends should also be taxed as regular income. This would have the additional benefit of severely reducing overseas corporate tax havens, in fact possibly even making the US a haven. It would wipe out the entire corporate "creative accounting" industry, which IMHO is a good thing. I'm sure there will still be ways to dodge taxes, but nothing like the mess we have now.
I have no problem with keeping things like the mortgage deduction below a certain income limit, and phase it out for higher earners. Ease the shock to the housing market by grandfathering current loans. Most deductions should not be available for higher earners, except for charitable contributions.
LOL, I need to know what brand you use. That's like Nirvana.
"Haven't had problems" means different things to different people. You might be more comfortable fiddling. WiFi certainly didn't work 5 years ago unless you were very careful in selecting the hardware or you used one of the Windows driver wrappers. The video usually "works" in some regard, but getting 3D going was not something that just worked without fiddling. Power management is a sore spot for me - I feel like all laptops should do as well as Apple laptops do: sleep when the lid is closed and spring to life when opened. Windows laptops sometimes get this almost right, but with Linux I don't have the skill set and it certainly doesn't work like this upon a fresh install. I haven't had problems with sound on Linux in probably 10 years.
You are right, but Lenovo offers an option under Windows where you can run both at the same time to support more monitors. My comment was in the context that it is unlikely that you are playing 3D games in Linux... :)
The only use for video-chip-switching (actually running them in parallel) is multiple monitors. That laptop of yours can do three monitors under Windows, which is pretty cool for certain tasks. Of course, with a capable desktop of similar power going for less than $500-600, why not have a desktop for that kind of work?
Linux has worked on every desktop I've ever tried it on, though it sometimes throws fits over the ACPI and so I can't use sleep reliably. It sometimes doesn't like on-board ethernet, so I have to throw a $10 card in there. As you say, I generally check for Linux support prior to purchase but I forget some of these embedded parts sometimes. That goes double for FreeBSD. I find Linux easier to load on a PC than Windows, but as I said... how often do you have to load Windows on a PC? Usually it comes with it, and if you feed it the install disks it will be right back at the same state as when it was new.
And of course, there is Mac... simplest install but crazy limited hardware choices :)
You got lucky :)
That laptop is apparently very well supported, but even then features like on-demand video switching probably don't work, and getting both video cards working even when switching them manually on boot is not something that "just works". Unless you just have the integrated version, in which case you are good. You are also lucky regarding power management - laptops are notorious on any OS for buggy ACPI, and Linux is usually pretty unforgiving and you end up updating the BIOS and praying. And of course the laptop custom keyboard buttons almost never work without fiddling.
Most of us, um, buy a machine with Windows installed and then never touch it again. I've built all my Windows/Linux machines since my first Windows machine, but it's a tremendous waste of time and really something I only do for the fun of it.
Once you have an HP/Dell/Sony/whatever, the resident memory-hogging auto updater keeps everything up-to-date. The days of hunting down drivers on Windows have been lost to the last century.
That said, you're post is tremendously misleading unless you have a rig bought specifically with Linux in mind or you are lucky and you have older hardware. Wireless drivers are still a pain half the time and laptops are a real PITA overall.
It says 90 in their TOS. I presume you are right about POP/Exchange, but have no way to verify short of trying it - a short search of their website came up dry for me.
'Fraid I don't know. The terms say, "Our reasons for cancellation may include that we stop providing the service in your region or that you breach this contract, fail to sign in to the Windows Live ID network during a 90-day period, or don't pay fees that you owe to us or to our agents." and make no mention of POP. Gmail can definitely get Hotmail via POP, but I don't know what happens if you only use that.
Hotmail kills your account after 90 days, so you also have to remember to log in once in a while.
That entirely depends on what else sets them off. Even a 1% false positive result would be pretty bad. It also depends on the definition of "explosive". To me, gunpowder is an explosive - I'd certainly hope that loading a few shells won't get me flagged by one of these.
but will it be destroyed the first time you have to wipe off dust/fingerprints/etc
No problem! Just put a thin coating of glass over it to protect it!
I think you have Sockatume's argument backwards. He's not arguing that it is possible for us to destroy the universe - he's arguing that if you have a theory that says that you can get free energy, but the math works out such that it would destroy the universe... you probably don't have a way to extract that energy. In other words, the free energy "proof" works out to 1=2.
I don't know - I'm still on a 1st generation iPhone... not exactly an early adopter.
With iOS there's also the $99 per year tax to run applications from outside the App Store.
Google for Cydia.
The power grid obviously covers most of the US, but as a practical matter energy is not being moved very large distances.
The line losses would be horrendous without some kind of new technology being employed. China and Brazil seem to be creating high voltage DC lines with losses around 3%/1000km. I think average loss in the US is 10%, so that still would be more line loss than we have today, but it might at least be feasible.
Because you need some LOOOOOOOOONG wires to get from all that dark color in the west to the population centers in the east. Might be feasible for CA, though.
Blackberry is great for email, but the web is horrible on it - especially in the state it was in when the iPhone launched. Mobile browsers on the whole were very weak compared to mobile Safari.
While the logical part of me is glad this is gone, the engineering part of my brain is sad. :)