Cutting taxes in an of itself does not raise the debt of a nation and actually in this case probably lessened the debt.
Alternatively, you could just look at the facts. Oops. You may be right about cutting taxes to help the economy, in order to increase tax revenue. The only problem is that Bush forgot the other half of the equation: cutting spending.
What happens when ice melts in a glass of water? The level stays the same.
Now repeat the same experiment, only this time use a fresh water ice cube, in a glass of salt water. You'll find that water level rises. The reason being that salt water is more dense than fresh water, thus the fresh water ice cube displaces a volume of salt water smaller than the volume of fresh water contained in the cube.
So I say, let the polar bears take care of themselves. I'm not worried about the polar bears.
I would worry about the polar bears. They may have certainly seen a warmer Earth than right now, but it's unlikely that they have seen the Earth warm up so quickly. I'm not sure that they will be able to adapt in only a few generations to a drastically different environment, where as in prehistoric times they had centuries and millenia to slowly adapt to climate changes.
With games like Lego Star Wars, which wants a graphics card but it doesn't need to be super high end, I've had pretty good luck with PCI graphics cards. You can get a Radeon 9200 series or a GeForce 5200 for about $60 with dual head and DVI out. While it won't be quite as fast as their respective AGP or PCI-X version, they seem to be plenty fast enough.
What year do you live in? Dual core chips on the desktop are barely 1.5 years old. Intel is still selling P4 2.8Ghz chips, and you can buy systems that run slower chips (namely, the Celeron). While I wouldn't consider a 2.8Ghz P4 a high end system, if it is built from decent hardware and has a decent video card, I may consider a mid level system.
A high end machine in 2001 would be something along the lines of an Athlon XP, Geforce 3 video card, 7200RPM hardrive, and 512MB-1GB of DDR memory. A well put together machine from 2001 will still outperform a low end machine today, overall. I knew people who played WoW on machines like this until recently. A few upgrades over the years (more memory, a better AGP graphics card, and a Barton processor) would make this machine still comprable to a lower-mid range 2006 machine, many of which are still single core, 512MB of memory, and with low end or integrated graphics.
The point remains, though, that barring some weird Finder-network behavior, Macs running OS X are faster and more responsive in perceived user feel than Windows Vista, Ubuntu, or Mandriva 2007--its primary competitors. Perceived feel goes a long way toward the average user's assessment of "speed."
I guess it depends on how you look at percieved speed. On Windows, and in Linux, I generally turn off the silly animations, and knock the delay times way down for things like displaying menus (Tweak UI is great for this in Windows). I'm used to UI things happening instantly in Windows and Linux on any reasonably fast computer. However, in OSX I haven't found a way to tweak it's UI to this level, thus to me OSX just feels slower and more bloated than Windows.
Then why are all these sites are also mostly broken in other browsers? Fact is, IE7 is a whole new standard, close but not quite what Firefox, Opera, etc. use, and not even compatible with the psuedo-standard that is IE6. What a mess.
Probably because most benchmarks are not that memory heavy. As a matter of fact, most of them tend to be pretty light, as they are more concerned with raw memory performance and raw CPU performance and don't want the system to start swapping and throwing the measurement off. In the real world, there will be a noticable difference between 1GB and 2GB, though to really see it you're going to have push the system some (1GB seems to already be plenty for common tasks).
Not going to happen. The license of OS X forbids it running on non-Apple hardware.
On the other hand, a lot of that hinges on the validity and legality of the EULA. Apple's position that you cannot legally run OSX on anything other than a Mac is not as strong as it seems, though they can easily not support anyone who tries.
Godwin's law is simply that the longer that a discussion on the internet goes, the probability that someone will bring up the Nazis approaches unity. That's all there is to it, and it actually seems to hold pretty well in the sense that I have seen Nazi Germany brought into all kinds of discussions. All the other crap attached to it, like relevancy and automatically losing the argument was added later by other people.
The way I see it, some of the Libertarian ideas are pretty nutty. However, that is the extreme end of things. I would say movement in the direction the Libertarians want to move would definently be a good thing, so let them push. I don't believe all those nutty ideas will actually come to pass.
That would only work if it was worth $300 to the fisherman to invest the time and effort to catch the tuna in the first place. If they could catch a can's worth in 30 minutes, I would guess they would be highly motivated. If it took a day, they'd probably be close to breaking even on the deal, and if it took 2 weeks they would do something else.
Horseshit. Turning lanes are usually symmetrical in both directions and are well marked with wide lines. If you see someone sitting in a central lane with cars whizzing by to its right, you can pretty well expect that there is intent to turn. Green left arrow lights in both directions are an additional tip -- and they mean it's a protected left.
That may work well for in the daytime, in an area you are somewhat familiar with, in a place that has regular streets that are well marked, and with enough traffic around that you can establish the patterns just by glancing at it. At night, or in bad weather, or during the winter where snow obscures many of the details, or in an area that you are not familiar with, or in a place with one way streets it may not be so obvious to infer how a car may turn based upon where it is. Turn signals are important, and given how simple they are, everyone should use them.
You really didn't solve the real problem (users of the computer doing stupid stuff), you just bought them a system that isn't targetted, so they can't screw up their system easily. Good ol' security by obscurity. What do you think will happen when malware starts showing up for OSX? What about phishing websites that'll work anywhere? Telling people to "just get a Mac" is a bandaid, and an expensive one at that. You still have to educate them about good security.
What about the ones that do? They exist - just a couple of weeks ago Apple got burned by one that specifically targetted USB harddisks. Probably the best solution would be automatic incremental backups over the network to something like your home server for things like their documents (likely only to be a few MB at most), plus teaching them to burn a CD of their photos every couple of weeks and storing the CDs away from the computer if they have a digital camera.
OSX won't help with things like phishing, fake websites, weak passwords. And I would still say you should teach them about malware with OSX, otherwise when it starts showing up, they'll get burned just like on Windows. If you're going to give them something and hopefully not have to worry about it for a while, yeah - OSX would be better. But if you're going to teach them properly, they should be able to manage Windows just as easy.
Well, everyone knew that Iraq had a WMD program at one time, no one denies that. It's a matter of timing - the WMD program had been dismantled for years. Finding a bunch of documents dated from before the Gulf War are pretty much irrelevant in the context to the 2003 invasion.
It's quite simple really. Saddam could have all the knowledge he could ever want about nuclear weapons, but without the needed materials and facilities he would not have the ability to build one. And it's quite easy to prove that he did not have the means to build one as we've been searching Iraq the past several years looking for these means. They don't exist, and they hadn't for some time, and Bush was lying when he claimed they did. I suggest you wake up, because that's reality.
However, there are other countries that do have the means, or are very close to acquiring those means and would very much like to get their hands on some instructions so they don't have to reinvent the wheel, so to speak. Those countries include Iran and North Korea.
You can't have it both ways on this, even though the left is currently spinning this like a 78 RPM record plugged into a european power outlet. Oops!
Why not? This is nothing compared to what the White House was telling us Saddam had a few years ago. This is hardly the smoking gun that the Republicans have wanting for the last several years to justify their war.
Microsoft counts the Pentium 4 dual core processors as 1 processor, despite then being essentially two Pentium 4 chips wedged into the same package. AMD enthusiasts should not be worry.
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So turn off your phone. That costs you what, 3 seconds?
So that's your response to an attempt by a major political party to swing an election by illegal and unethical means? Democracy is doomed.
Cutting taxes in an of itself does not raise the debt of a nation and actually in this case probably lessened the debt.
Alternatively, you could just look at the facts. Oops. You may be right about cutting taxes to help the economy, in order to increase tax revenue. The only problem is that Bush forgot the other half of the equation: cutting spending.
What happens when ice melts in a glass of water? The level stays the same.
Now repeat the same experiment, only this time use a fresh water ice cube, in a glass of salt water. You'll find that water level rises. The reason being that salt water is more dense than fresh water, thus the fresh water ice cube displaces a volume of salt water smaller than the volume of fresh water contained in the cube.
So I say, let the polar bears take care of themselves. I'm not worried about the polar bears.
I would worry about the polar bears. They may have certainly seen a warmer Earth than right now, but it's unlikely that they have seen the Earth warm up so quickly. I'm not sure that they will be able to adapt in only a few generations to a drastically different environment, where as in prehistoric times they had centuries and millenia to slowly adapt to climate changes.
With games like Lego Star Wars, which wants a graphics card but it doesn't need to be super high end, I've had pretty good luck with PCI graphics cards. You can get a Radeon 9200 series or a GeForce 5200 for about $60 with dual head and DVI out. While it won't be quite as fast as their respective AGP or PCI-X version, they seem to be plenty fast enough.
What year do you live in? Dual core chips on the desktop are barely 1.5 years old. Intel is still selling P4 2.8Ghz chips, and you can buy systems that run slower chips (namely, the Celeron). While I wouldn't consider a 2.8Ghz P4 a high end system, if it is built from decent hardware and has a decent video card, I may consider a mid level system.
A high end machine in 2001 would be something along the lines of an Athlon XP, Geforce 3 video card, 7200RPM hardrive, and 512MB-1GB of DDR memory. A well put together machine from 2001 will still outperform a low end machine today, overall. I knew people who played WoW on machines like this until recently. A few upgrades over the years (more memory, a better AGP graphics card, and a Barton processor) would make this machine still comprable to a lower-mid range 2006 machine, many of which are still single core, 512MB of memory, and with low end or integrated graphics.
The point remains, though, that barring some weird Finder-network behavior, Macs running OS X are faster and more responsive in perceived user feel than Windows Vista, Ubuntu, or Mandriva 2007--its primary competitors. Perceived feel goes a long way toward the average user's assessment of "speed."
I guess it depends on how you look at percieved speed. On Windows, and in Linux, I generally turn off the silly animations, and knock the delay times way down for things like displaying menus (Tweak UI is great for this in Windows). I'm used to UI things happening instantly in Windows and Linux on any reasonably fast computer. However, in OSX I haven't found a way to tweak it's UI to this level, thus to me OSX just feels slower and more bloated than Windows.
Then why are all these sites are also mostly broken in other browsers? Fact is, IE7 is a whole new standard, close but not quite what Firefox, Opera, etc. use, and not even compatible with the psuedo-standard that is IE6. What a mess.
Too bad that won't help with this story, as it seems to be under the more generic Hardware category rather than the Apple category.
Probably because most benchmarks are not that memory heavy. As a matter of fact, most of them tend to be pretty light, as they are more concerned with raw memory performance and raw CPU performance and don't want the system to start swapping and throwing the measurement off. In the real world, there will be a noticable difference between 1GB and 2GB, though to really see it you're going to have push the system some (1GB seems to already be plenty for common tasks).
Not going to happen. The license of OS X forbids it running on non-Apple hardware.
On the other hand, a lot of that hinges on the validity and legality of the EULA. Apple's position that you cannot legally run OSX on anything other than a Mac is not as strong as it seems, though they can easily not support anyone who tries.
Godwin's law is simply that the longer that a discussion on the internet goes, the probability that someone will bring up the Nazis approaches unity. That's all there is to it, and it actually seems to hold pretty well in the sense that I have seen Nazi Germany brought into all kinds of discussions. All the other crap attached to it, like relevancy and automatically losing the argument was added later by other people.
The way I see it, some of the Libertarian ideas are pretty nutty. However, that is the extreme end of things. I would say movement in the direction the Libertarians want to move would definently be a good thing, so let them push. I don't believe all those nutty ideas will actually come to pass.
That would only work if it was worth $300 to the fisherman to invest the time and effort to catch the tuna in the first place. If they could catch a can's worth in 30 minutes, I would guess they would be highly motivated. If it took a day, they'd probably be close to breaking even on the deal, and if it took 2 weeks they would do something else.
Horseshit. Turning lanes are usually symmetrical in both directions and are well marked with wide lines. If you see someone sitting in a central lane with cars whizzing by to its right, you can pretty well expect that there is intent to turn. Green left arrow lights in both directions are an additional tip -- and they mean it's a protected left.
That may work well for in the daytime, in an area you are somewhat familiar with, in a place that has regular streets that are well marked, and with enough traffic around that you can establish the patterns just by glancing at it. At night, or in bad weather, or during the winter where snow obscures many of the details, or in an area that you are not familiar with, or in a place with one way streets it may not be so obvious to infer how a car may turn based upon where it is. Turn signals are important, and given how simple they are, everyone should use them.
Can you tell me what day that Airlines Flight 587 crashed without looking it up? Hint: It happened on the east coast, roughly five years ago.
You really didn't solve the real problem (users of the computer doing stupid stuff), you just bought them a system that isn't targetted, so they can't screw up their system easily. Good ol' security by obscurity. What do you think will happen when malware starts showing up for OSX? What about phishing websites that'll work anywhere? Telling people to "just get a Mac" is a bandaid, and an expensive one at that. You still have to educate them about good security.
What about the ones that do? They exist - just a couple of weeks ago Apple got burned by one that specifically targetted USB harddisks. Probably the best solution would be automatic incremental backups over the network to something like your home server for things like their documents (likely only to be a few MB at most), plus teaching them to burn a CD of their photos every couple of weeks and storing the CDs away from the computer if they have a digital camera.
OSX won't help with things like phishing, fake websites, weak passwords. And I would still say you should teach them about malware with OSX, otherwise when it starts showing up, they'll get burned just like on Windows. If you're going to give them something and hopefully not have to worry about it for a while, yeah - OSX would be better. But if you're going to teach them properly, they should be able to manage Windows just as easy.
Well, everyone knew that Iraq had a WMD program at one time, no one denies that. It's a matter of timing - the WMD program had been dismantled for years. Finding a bunch of documents dated from before the Gulf War are pretty much irrelevant in the context to the 2003 invasion.
It's quite simple really. Saddam could have all the knowledge he could ever want about nuclear weapons, but without the needed materials and facilities he would not have the ability to build one. And it's quite easy to prove that he did not have the means to build one as we've been searching Iraq the past several years looking for these means. They don't exist, and they hadn't for some time, and Bush was lying when he claimed they did. I suggest you wake up, because that's reality.
However, there are other countries that do have the means, or are very close to acquiring those means and would very much like to get their hands on some instructions so they don't have to reinvent the wheel, so to speak. Those countries include Iran and North Korea.
Get it now?
You can't have it both ways on this, even though the left is currently spinning this like a 78 RPM record plugged into a european power outlet. Oops!
Why not? This is nothing compared to what the White House was telling us Saddam had a few years ago. This is hardly the smoking gun that the Republicans have wanting for the last several years to justify their war.
Couldn't you buy it with one of those credit cards that automatically extends the warrenty for whatever you purchase with it?
Microsoft counts the Pentium 4 dual core processors as 1 processor, despite then being essentially two Pentium 4 chips wedged into the same package. AMD enthusiasts should not be worry.