I think you hit the nail on the head. I am seeing a lot of slashdot articles and discussion about "Oh my god, look how small it is! People will line up to buy this!", but for a windows user my entire life like myself my thought was "I've heard so much about OSX I'd like to give it a whirl, now I can finally afford a machine to run it." OSX is by no means perfect, there are some annoyances, but I am so much happier with my new mac mini than my windows box. So much so that I haven't booted my windows box since the day I got my mini.
And to anyone else in my same position who hasn't even tried OSX, the learning curve is surprisingly small. I recommend David Pogue's OSX: The Missing Manual Book which helped translate windows fuctionality to the mac equivalants. Also check out The Top 100 OSX Applications, it has helped me determine what the mac equivalant of my favorite windows software is.
The name in Latin means "after this therefore because of this".
This describes the fallacy. An author commits the fallacy when
it is assumed that because one thing follows another that the
one thing was caused by the other.
Examples:
(i) Immigration to Alberta from Ontario increased. Soon
after, the welfare rolls increased. Therefore, the increased
immigration caused the increased welfare rolls.
(ii) I took EZ-No-Cold, and two days later, my cold
disappeared.
Proof:
Show that the correlation is coincidental by showing that: (i)
the effect would have occurred even if the cause did not
occur, or (ii) that the effect was caused by something other
than the suggested cause.
...the words "SEC", "Patent Office","IRS" and "Bush administration" aren't very clearly defined either, how the hell are we supposed to know what country this article is talking about?? On behalf of all Slashdotters, we thank you for lodging this very valid complaint sir!
OR maybe, just maybe, Fox is just smarter than you....
Since Family Guy is going to start running long anticipated new episodes of a good show that really didn't grab an audience the first time around, they ran an old episode with a bare butt in it so they could pixelate the cartoon butt to create a little stir - the reprecussions of the Janet Jackson thing is still daily newspaper fodder. That hopefully (and did) grabbed a few headlines in the media like "Family Guy Pixelates Butt Due to FCC Concerns". What do you think the chances of Family Guy being mentioned around the water cooler had Fox not pixelated the character's ass? It created more awareness of the show and hopefully will score a bigger share of the Nielsen giving the show a running start on it's second lease on life. Nothing gets people to watch tv more than sex and controversy. But then again if you want to turn off your brain and just repeat when you read on Fark, then by all means strap on your tinfoil hat and full speed ahead!
Are you certain it's a DIMM? I'm asking. I looked at all the tech specs but couldn't find it. It's such a small form factor that I figured it'd be a SODIMM like the imacs had. I hope you're right and it's DIMM 'cause they're cheaper. Where do you see that it is a DIMM?
Also, I guess it only has one slot? As has been mentioned here before, the price for the 1gb stick on Apple's site is indeed overpriced, it'd be worth cracking the thing open and putting your own in there.
"Microsoft would propose proprietary technologies"
"Apple will take a big risk in 2005...though I am at a loss right now for what that might be."
Well at least he goes out on a limb and his predictions aren't vague or anything. If John Edward stops hosting Crossing Over, I know where they can get a new host.;)
It feels to be pretty close to the limit anyone is willing to pay for a new game around here.
Well then it sounds like they did their market research pretty carefully. Welcome to Economics 101. The value of goods is determined by what people are willing to pay for them, not what you think is a fair deal. If they raise the prices then you can bet that they've got a good idea that you're going to shell out the extra dough. If you don't, then they will lower the price.
I have a feeling that this will finally be the copy protection scheme that works because this morning the RIAA stopped by my house and removed the shift key from my keyboard.
Once again, when a Democrat dones something stupid, they are spared the indignity of having their political affiliation mentioned in the slashdot article. ALL politicians do stupid stuff - can we just have a policy, like a newspaper, where if a politician is named it lists their state and political affiliation? It's easy....
or maybe creating all the space scenes is infinitely expensive and they want to save some money by just setting the movie on earth. Do they have tinfoil hats in your world? You should look into a size small.
Check out the Paranoia Button. It adds a button to your toolbar that you can click and it clears your history, browser cache, passwords, download history, cookies, etc. You can do the same thing in options, but if the black helicopters are right overhead, the Paranoia Button is nice and quick.
February 9th in History 1923: Soviet Aeroflot airlines established 1950: Senator Joseph McCarthy says the US State Department is infested with communists 1970: World's first nerve transplant, in Germany 1971: First British soldier killed in Northern Ireland 1989: Neo-Nazi groups outlawed in West Germany 1992: Fighting between government and guerrilla forces in Rwanda 1994: Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Yasser Arafat.
February 9th birthdays 1700: Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician 1909: Carmen Miranda, Brazilian actress. 1943: Joe Pesci, American actor. 1945: Mia Farrow, American film actress
It's pretty clear what's going on here - On February 9th, Joe Pesci will be outted as a Communist.
He said "umpireS"...There is only 1 umpire in the NFL. Couple that with the fact that he said the ball was "hiked" (the ball isn't hiked - "hike" is what you say for the center to "snap" the ball) and I'm pretty certain the guy has no clue what he's talking about. But 'twas a joke, so don't get your jockstrap in a wad.
Democrats and Republicans are planning to restore the draft with House Resolution 162 in the House of Representatives
Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats will bring back the draft. In fact, that bill was killed weeks ago. The Republicans from the Prez on down have said there will be no draft, and even though the Democrats sponsored the draft bill in the House, they weren't really serious about it - it was just used as a scare tactic / wedge issue.
So either Badnarick is either ignorant, or just thinks young people are so stupid that you can just scare them into voting for you. MTV does the same thing with Rock the Vote. Check it out - as we've seen before, neither party is bringing back the draft but MTV still hosts this page.
Perhaps if Badnarick starts treating the "Dot Net" age group like the intelligent, informed people that we are instead of all the MTV-esque scare-mongering, maybe we might vote for him.
If you are speaking about the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, then I have the sad duty of informing you that it no longer exists. Don't get me wrong, I'm with ya - anything not explicitely laid out in the Constition is a power retained by the states. Unfortunately, the 10th Amend. has been eviscerated by the Courts. Only recently has a Justice (Clarence Thomas) spoken any words giving the 10th Amend. any effect, but that was in a dissenting opinion, but hey, it's a start.
Senate - each state gets two Senators, Senators are the STATE's representative's, not the people of the states - that's the house. So, each state gets an equal 2% respresentation of the entire Senate.
House - OK, now the House does represent the people broken up into little districts. But how on god's green earth can you say that the House gives larger representation to smaller populations? I live in Delaware, we have one Representative. That means 1 vote out of 435 in the House. California on the other hand has 56 Representatives. If it were just between us two states, California would win every time. And furthermore, Resprentatives are awarded per population (I don't have the numbers offhand, but it's somewhere around a million citizens per Representative). So as populations change, so does representation.
President - Are you kidding me? Like an earlier post said, the founding fathers were not stupid. The electoral college is in place to even things out. My home state of Delaware has a population of slightly over a million people. We're small. Don't blink or you'll miss us. The point is, the electoral college ensures that the President is elected by the States - as in President of the United STATES (not President of the Popular Vote). If the Prez was elected by the popular vote, then the Candidates would be in California, Texas, and New York for the duration of the campaign and would never set foot in Delaware, Rhode Island, Wyoming, Vermont, et al. However, as it stands, because of the electoral college, both Bush and Kerry have made multiple stops to this little tiny dot on the map called Delaware. We only have slightly over a million people, but the STATE has 3 electoral votes so while the candidates spend most of their time in the states with the huge populations, tiny states like ours don't get a lot of attention, but the electoral college makes sure we're not forgotten.
You know, a while ago I bought a PCR and was psyched when I saw the TimeTrax software so I bought it. I tested it and it works brilliantly, but honestly, I haven't really found a need to record mp3's wholesale. I mean, I have the pcr and I can go channel to channel and listen to whatever I want. I just listen to my xm and don't even use the TimeTrax software.
I'm so happy with xm that I'm going to get a head unit in my truck too. It's only like $6/month for an additional radio if you have one already, so the unit is cool because you can listen to tons of new music commercial free on your computer, but don't just get it because of the TimeTrax software because you probably won't use it for mp3's - you'll just get hooked on XM.
Are there any other slashdotters out there that have experienced something similar?
(Also, a slightly off topic question, has anyone had both xm and sirius and can give an honest opinion between the two?)
You said our Electoral system is built for two parties, but that is only half correct. While it's true only major parties end up running against each other, Democrats and Republicans are not the only parties to ever win the election.
We have had an Independent President (George Washington). We have had Democratic-Republicans (Thomas Jefferson). We have had a Federalist Party President (John Adams). We've had 6 Whig Party Presidents (the eternal trivia question himself William Henry Harrison was a Whig). We've had many Republican Presidents along with many Democratic Presidents (you already know many of these). And just over a decade ago, Ross Perot from the Reform Party got a hell of a lot of the popular vote for a 3rd party.
The Democratic and Republican parties both absorbed a few of the ideas of the Reform party and the voter base followed. 3rd parties usually are a check against the major parties when the electorate gets upset when both parties have gone too far outside the mainstream. Like the Reform party, the 3rd party's platform is absorbed by the major parties until it gets back into 'check'. So I'd say as a matter of course, voting for a 3rd party is not "throwing your vote away" is not necessarily true - especially if you are politically disaffected. It can sway the major parties to get back in line with your beliefs if enough people feel the same way.
So while a predominantly 2 party system may seem flawed, in reality they take up many of the ideas of the 3rd parties and as such, none really get a foothold. Is this imperfect? Sure, but while having a candidate only "slightly" representing a viewpoint held by a small minorty of voters, what would be even more flawed would be to have the general population represented by a 3rd party candidate whose main platform was an issue held to be important by an extreme minority of voters.
This type of representive democracy is flawed - there will never be a perfect system, but it's a hell of a lot better than anything else out there.
Slashdot Mirror
you might be on to something...
"liberal wacko in Washington, DC" comes up with CNN, PBS, and the Washington Post. Spot on!
I think you hit the nail on the head. I am seeing a lot of slashdot articles and discussion about "Oh my god, look how small it is! People will line up to buy this!", but for a windows user my entire life like myself my thought was "I've heard so much about OSX I'd like to give it a whirl, now I can finally afford a machine to run it." OSX is by no means perfect, there are some annoyances, but I am so much happier with my new mac mini than my windows box. So much so that I haven't booted my windows box since the day I got my mini.
And to anyone else in my same position who hasn't even tried OSX, the learning curve is surprisingly small. I recommend David Pogue's OSX: The Missing Manual Book which helped translate windows fuctionality to the mac equivalants. Also check out The Top 100 OSX Applications, it has helped me determine what the mac equivalant of my favorite windows software is.
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Definition:
The name in Latin means "after this therefore because of this".
This describes the fallacy. An author commits the fallacy when
it is assumed that because one thing follows another that the
one thing was caused by the other.
Examples:
(i) Immigration to Alberta from Ontario increased. Soon
after, the welfare rolls increased. Therefore, the increased
immigration caused the increased welfare rolls.
(ii) I took EZ-No-Cold, and two days later, my cold
disappeared.
Proof:
Show that the correlation is coincidental by showing that: (i)
the effect would have occurred even if the cause did not
occur, or (ii) that the effect was caused by something other
than the suggested cause.
References
(Cedarblom and Paulsen: 237, Copi and Cohen: 101)
...the words "SEC", "Patent Office","IRS" and "Bush administration" aren't very clearly defined either, how the hell are we supposed to know what country this article is talking about?? On behalf of all Slashdotters, we thank you for lodging this very valid complaint sir!
OR maybe, just maybe, Fox is just smarter than you....
Since Family Guy is going to start running long anticipated new episodes of a good show that really didn't grab an audience the first time around, they ran an old episode with a bare butt in it so they could pixelate the cartoon butt to create a little stir - the reprecussions of the Janet Jackson thing is still daily newspaper fodder. That hopefully (and did) grabbed a few headlines in the media like "Family Guy Pixelates Butt Due to FCC Concerns". What do you think the chances of Family Guy being mentioned around the water cooler had Fox not pixelated the character's ass? It created more awareness of the show and hopefully will score a bigger share of the Nielsen giving the show a running start on it's second lease on life. Nothing gets people to watch tv more than sex and controversy. But then again if you want to turn off your brain and just repeat when you read on Fark, then by all means strap on your tinfoil hat and full speed ahead!
Are you certain it's a DIMM? I'm asking. I looked at all the tech specs but couldn't find it. It's such a small form factor that I figured it'd be a SODIMM like the imacs had. I hope you're right and it's DIMM 'cause they're cheaper. Where do you see that it is a DIMM?
Also, I guess it only has one slot? As has been mentioned here before, the price for the 1gb stick on Apple's site is indeed overpriced, it'd be worth cracking the thing open and putting your own in there.
"I wrote that spam would get worse"
"Microsoft would propose proprietary technologies"
"Apple will take a big risk in 2005...though I am at a loss right now for what that might be."
Well at least he goes out on a limb and his predictions aren't vague or anything. If John Edward stops hosting Crossing Over, I know where they can get a new host.
It feels to be pretty close to the limit anyone is willing to pay for a new game around here.
Well then it sounds like they did their market research pretty carefully. Welcome to Economics 101. The value of goods is determined by what people are willing to pay for them, not what you think is a fair deal. If they raise the prices then you can bet that they've got a good idea that you're going to shell out the extra dough. If you don't, then they will lower the price.
I thought they allowed gaming in the military now, but you just couldn't tell anybody that you were a gamer.
I have a feeling that this will finally be the copy protection scheme that works because this morning the RIAA stopped by my house and removed the shift key from my keyboard.
Once again, when a Democrat dones something stupid, they are spared the indignity of having their political affiliation mentioned in the slashdot article. ALL politicians do stupid stuff - can we just have a policy, like a newspaper, where if a politician is named it lists their state and political affiliation? It's easy....
Sen. Joe Smith - Maine (R)
see?
Thanks.
I wonder if Kerry had won if we would have articles titled "Failed Election" etc etc. Guys, Bush won - wipe your tears and MoveOn.
or maybe creating all the space scenes is infinitely expensive and they want to save some money by just setting the movie on earth. Do they have tinfoil hats in your world? You should look into a size small.
Check out the Paranoia Button. It adds a button to your toolbar that you can click and it clears your history, browser cache, passwords, download history, cookies, etc. You can do the same thing in options, but if the black helicopters are right overhead, the Paranoia Button is nice and quick.
It's the Jihad, stupid
Oh, and Ohio went to Bush in 2000 as well. This word "staunch", I do think it means what you think it means.
of the current law. Please cite your cases.
February 9th in History
1923: Soviet Aeroflot airlines established
1950: Senator Joseph McCarthy says the US State Department is infested with communists
1970: World's first nerve transplant, in Germany
1971: First British soldier killed in Northern Ireland
1989: Neo-Nazi groups outlawed in West Germany
1992: Fighting between government and guerrilla forces in Rwanda
1994: Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Yasser Arafat.
February 9th birthdays
1700: Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
1909: Carmen Miranda, Brazilian actress.
1943: Joe Pesci, American actor.
1945: Mia Farrow, American film actress
It's pretty clear what's going on here - On February 9th, Joe Pesci will be outted as a Communist.
He said "umpireS"...There is only 1 umpire in the NFL. Couple that with the fact that he said the ball was "hiked" (the ball isn't hiked - "hike" is what you say for the center to "snap" the ball) and I'm pretty certain the guy has no clue what he's talking about. But 'twas a joke, so don't get your jockstrap in a wad.
Umpires? Mr. Kerry, please stop playing around on slashdot and go campaign or something.
Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats will bring back the draft. In fact, that bill was killed weeks ago. The Republicans from the Prez on down have said there will be no draft, and even though the Democrats sponsored the draft bill in the House, they weren't really serious about it - it was just used as a scare tactic / wedge issue.
So either Badnarick is either ignorant, or just thinks young people are so stupid that you can just scare them into voting for you. MTV does the same thing with Rock the Vote. Check it out - as we've seen before, neither party is bringing back the draft but MTV still hosts this page.
Perhaps if Badnarick starts treating the "Dot Net" age group like the intelligent, informed people that we are instead of all the MTV-esque scare-mongering, maybe we might vote for him.
If you are speaking about the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, then I have the sad duty of informing you that it no longer exists. Don't get me wrong, I'm with ya - anything not explicitely laid out in the Constition is a power retained by the states. Unfortunately, the 10th Amend. has been eviscerated by the Courts. Only recently has a Justice (Clarence Thomas) spoken any words giving the 10th Amend. any effect, but that was in a dissenting opinion, but hey, it's a start.
OK let me break this down for you....
Senate - each state gets two Senators, Senators are the STATE's representative's, not the people of the states - that's the house. So, each state gets an equal 2% respresentation of the entire Senate.
House - OK, now the House does represent the people broken up into little districts. But how on god's green earth can you say that the House gives larger representation to smaller populations? I live in Delaware, we have one Representative. That means 1 vote out of 435 in the House. California on the other hand has 56 Representatives. If it were just between us two states, California would win every time. And furthermore, Resprentatives are awarded per population (I don't have the numbers offhand, but it's somewhere around a million citizens per Representative). So as populations change, so does representation.
President - Are you kidding me? Like an earlier post said, the founding fathers were not stupid. The electoral college is in place to even things out. My home state of Delaware has a population of slightly over a million people. We're small. Don't blink or you'll miss us. The point is, the electoral college ensures that the President is elected by the States - as in President of the United STATES (not President of the Popular Vote). If the Prez was elected by the popular vote, then the Candidates would be in California, Texas, and New York for the duration of the campaign and would never set foot in Delaware, Rhode Island, Wyoming, Vermont, et al. However, as it stands, because of the electoral college, both Bush and Kerry have made multiple stops to this little tiny dot on the map called Delaware. We only have slightly over a million people, but the STATE has 3 electoral votes so while the candidates spend most of their time in the states with the huge populations, tiny states like ours don't get a lot of attention, but the electoral college makes sure we're not forgotten.
You know, a while ago I bought a PCR and was psyched when I saw the TimeTrax software so I bought it. I tested it and it works brilliantly, but honestly, I haven't really found a need to record mp3's wholesale. I mean, I have the pcr and I can go channel to channel and listen to whatever I want. I just listen to my xm and don't even use the TimeTrax software.
I'm so happy with xm that I'm going to get a head unit in my truck too. It's only like $6/month for an additional radio if you have one already, so the unit is cool because you can listen to tons of new music commercial free on your computer, but don't just get it because of the TimeTrax software because you probably won't use it for mp3's - you'll just get hooked on XM.
Are there any other slashdotters out there that have experienced something similar?
(Also, a slightly off topic question, has anyone had both xm and sirius and can give an honest opinion between the two?)
You gotta read the flippin' history book...
You said our Electoral system is built for two parties, but that is only half correct. While it's true only major parties end up running against each other, Democrats and Republicans are not the only parties to ever win the election.
We have had an Independent President (George Washington). We have had Democratic-Republicans (Thomas Jefferson). We have had a Federalist Party President (John Adams). We've had 6 Whig Party Presidents (the eternal trivia question himself William Henry Harrison was a Whig). We've had many Republican Presidents along with many Democratic Presidents (you already know many of these). And just over a decade ago, Ross Perot from the Reform Party got a hell of a lot of the popular vote for a 3rd party.
The Democratic and Republican parties both absorbed a few of the ideas of the Reform party and the voter base followed. 3rd parties usually are a check against the major parties when the electorate gets upset when both parties have gone too far outside the mainstream. Like the Reform party, the 3rd party's platform is absorbed by the major parties until it gets back into 'check'. So I'd say as a matter of course, voting for a 3rd party is not "throwing your vote away" is not necessarily true - especially if you are politically disaffected. It can sway the major parties to get back in line with your beliefs if enough people feel the same way.
So while a predominantly 2 party system may seem flawed, in reality they take up many of the ideas of the 3rd parties and as such, none really get a foothold. Is this imperfect? Sure, but while having a candidate only "slightly" representing a viewpoint held by a small minorty of voters, what would be even more flawed would be to have the general population represented by a 3rd party candidate whose main platform was an issue held to be important by an extreme minority of voters.
This type of representive democracy is flawed - there will never be a perfect system, but it's a hell of a lot better than anything else out there.
Cheers.
Your Results:
1. Your ideal theoretical candidate. (100%)
2. Kang - (88%)
3. Kodos -(84%)
4. 3rd Party Candidate - Go ahead, throw your vote away