Are you referring to that article from a couple weeks ago? They fixed that. It was accidental. (If you're referring to something else, gimme some linky love please.)
As far as I see, the article only claims a chance for life to be on this planet. I don't see anything in there that talks about there being humans on this planet.
That makes no sense. What do you mean, people are switching to Windows and Linux from OSX in the meantime?
If what you're saying were true, the numbers would stagnate, not drop.
No, but it could very well be the only one that has a constitution saying that the flow of power goes people ---> states ---> federal government and not the other way around.
However, I never fully bought the states-rights argument because the Constitution also says that when federal and state law conflict, federal law wins. I think treaties like this are signable and the reason this one hasn't been is that in the United States, we have a fully private health care system except for the indigent and this treaty would more or less ban that.
While that's certainly true, I can't think of any DEA initiatives against marijuana that would have any noticeable effect to a DA of a relatively low-population county. There's plenty of square mileage in Missoula County, but it's not the right climate for growing. The DEA goes after kingpins and large-scale growers; they have little interest in this pissant sort of stuff.
As an aside, a few people are saying that local laws are irrelevant because the federal law still stands. True, but the DEA or FBI aren't going to bother with people buying eighths of weed. In my city (Madison, Wisconsin) up to an ounce is legal if it's in your private residence. I have never, ever, ever heard of federal statutes being enforced on people here.
I really think I remember seeing Mario Kart for the SNES being something like $55-60 (and offtopic, but it was some weird random number like $57.42)...back in the early 90s. Yes, I know that cartridges cost more than CDs/DVDs to manufacture, but Sega CD games were in the same price range at about the same time.
The laws of inflation don't seem to apply in the video game realm. We get off kind of easy now as compared to before. I don't remember relatively new "greatest hits" being sold for $20 a pop back then either...yet we see that today, even with Sony, which isn't exactly known for its philanthropy.
Am I the only person out there whose XP SP2 computer took the new daylight savings time perfectly fine, Outlook included? Honestly, I didn't know this had become an issue for anyone.
And is the "problem" limited to the fact that you have to change the time yourself? If so, my microwave is teh suck too.
I agree with everything that you said but your timeline ends in 1993. By the time the computer became an item that you were just kind of supposed to have, Windows/DOS was dominant in the business arena and that had spilled over into what home use there was because of its familiarity. Once the home computer market exploded, Microsoft was there, rightly or wrongly.
Realistically, for home use, AND for most users (myself included) there WASN'T anything before Windows anyway. Yeah, MacOS, but if I remember correctly the first Macs weren't exactly priced for the casual user. DOS was dominant and Windows ran on top of it. It was a GUI a person could ease into while still duking it out on the more familiar command line.
As OS tasks shift to the Web (and I think that will happen), we'll see a shift to the more stable Linux OS because the casual user won't have to figure out why their computer "has roots" (or whatever...)
I hear ya. I'm no Microsoft fan, but pointing out a corporation's greed (as if that were somehow unexpected or native only to Microsoft) is meaningless. Corporations are for making money and they're good at what they do.
As Voltaire once said: "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
The beauty, and horror, of UI design is that you have to design with more than one user in mind. You worry that the UI people will abandon the keyboarders, thereby only thinking of one user, named "Not You".
Take your own advice. Plenty of people, experts included, like to watch the arrow thing move toward the word that corresponds to what they want to do. That's why computer companies were falling off their asses to get pointing devices to work. They're useful as hell. Keyboards aren't Christ, man.
Perjury is selectively prosecuted because of the huge penalties it can have relative to the actual "crime". Typically, if perjury is committed on matters peripheral (at best) to the actual case, it's not perjury. If it's used to cover up an affair, ditto on that.
And the reason Bill Gates, etc didn't get convicted of perjury is because of the same reason that every convicted "not guilty" defendant isn't charged with perjury - clear fifth amendment problem.
"Too early? That excuse is only going to hold water for a little while longer."
Assuming no other technology "must-haves" surface, then sure. It used to be running cheap-o modems, it used to be easy printing, it used to be display drivers, now it's widespread wifi ability that Linux is almost, just almost! caught up with. Which has been automatic, literally, in Windows since 2002 at the latest, not to mention Apple.
I'm certainly NOT a Windows fanboy, I have tried using Linux (SuSE, and I got sick of my at the time bleeding-edge computer having page-file hard drive thrashing for ten minutes every time I closed Firefox) and I'll try again once the powers that be finally realize that the big boys will make Linux compatible with their stuff if they just give them some money. But I'm not holding my breath. For now I'll just BitTorrent me some Vista.
Hell, I don't know. How are we supposed to know that? And more to the point, does anyone out there ever press that "safely remove hardware" thing anyway? Bunch of dorks.
Once again, paid speech on behalf of a political campaign is advertisement and should be treated as such. The general rule is that if you get a W-2 for what you're doing, it's susceptible to regulation. Thomas Paine it ain't.
"Sony has missed all their predictions from production numbers to sales numbers, and I think it can probably be attributed entirely to the price of the unit, which most would consider a very valid criticism. The PS2 had a similar [tiny] number of decent games at launch, yet it sold like hotcakes."
Right. That's why it's doing badly; its availability on the shelves is being touted as a gauge of its success which is inaccurate. From a supply chain standpoint, the PS3 is doing better because it has been able to supply an appropriate number of units relative to demand.:)
Personally, I think the reason the PS3 is doing poorly is because it's boring to play. It's just the continuation of a graphics upgrade. There's nothing new or exciting, and yes, for the price they want, the damn console better be able to shit rubies.
Not really. Lobbyists are marketers. They're not speaking for speech's sake, or (in the case of Abramoff's actions, among others) they're not even acting in defense of their political beliefs. If the FEC didn't have jurisdiction over this matter, then the FTC would.
Where's the censorship? Registering as a lobbyist sure as HELL doesn't restrict access or speech. All it does is label you as what you are. That's like saying states that ask for party identification when you register to vote are keeping you from voting.
Yeah...that's pretty much what I said. As far as I can tell, this proposed bill was meant to cover THOSE groups - people hired by campaigns to conduct campaign activity. Maybe calling them "lobbyists" is wrong in a strict sense but this type of activity should be covered under election law...
Right. This only applies to astroturfing (which is manufactured grassroots action, paid for by a certain candidate). This bill doesn't even apply to bloggers who work for campaigns, as far as I can tell.
I'm for this bill - astroturfing is bullshit; fake citizens' groups have put horrible initiatives on ballots in recent years. It doesn't violate the First Amendment, in my opinion, because it doesn't actually restrict speech.
I'd buy Toyota. Most Toyotas (I believe Honda is this way too) offered for sale in the USA are actually made in the USA. Most Chevys, etc are mostly made either in Mexico or Canada. I don't really care who the hell gets the profit; I care about who has the job.
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That's UW-Milwaukee. UW-Madison is either called UW, or Madison, but it's not UWM. You damn out-of-towners.
Are you referring to that article from a couple weeks ago? They fixed that. It was accidental. (If you're referring to something else, gimme some linky love please.)
As far as I see, the article only claims a chance for life to be on this planet. I don't see anything in there that talks about there being humans on this planet.
Duh. Didn't you know insisting on sounding like the shift manager at a Cabela's was the new black?
That makes no sense. What do you mean, people are switching to Windows and Linux from OSX in the meantime? If what you're saying were true, the numbers would stagnate, not drop.
No, but it could very well be the only one that has a constitution saying that the flow of power goes people ---> states ---> federal government and not the other way around.
However, I never fully bought the states-rights argument because the Constitution also says that when federal and state law conflict, federal law wins. I think treaties like this are signable and the reason this one hasn't been is that in the United States, we have a fully private health care system except for the indigent and this treaty would more or less ban that.
Which I personally support.
As an aside, a few people are saying that local laws are irrelevant because the federal law still stands. True, but the DEA or FBI aren't going to bother with people buying eighths of weed. In my city (Madison, Wisconsin) up to an ounce is legal if it's in your private residence. I have never, ever, ever heard of federal statutes being enforced on people here.
The laws of inflation don't seem to apply in the video game realm. We get off kind of easy now as compared to before. I don't remember relatively new "greatest hits" being sold for $20 a pop back then either...yet we see that today, even with Sony, which isn't exactly known for its philanthropy.
And is the "problem" limited to the fact that you have to change the time yourself? If so, my microwave is teh suck too.
I agree with everything that you said but your timeline ends in 1993. By the time the computer became an item that you were just kind of supposed to have, Windows/DOS was dominant in the business arena and that had spilled over into what home use there was because of its familiarity. Once the home computer market exploded, Microsoft was there, rightly or wrongly.
As OS tasks shift to the Web (and I think that will happen), we'll see a shift to the more stable Linux OS because the casual user won't have to figure out why their computer "has roots" (or whatever...)
As Voltaire once said: "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
Oy. Speech and talking are two different things. If 230 years of US case law isn't enough, go back to English common law.
Take your own advice. Plenty of people, experts included, like to watch the arrow thing move toward the word that corresponds to what they want to do. That's why computer companies were falling off their asses to get pointing devices to work. They're useful as hell. Keyboards aren't Christ, man.
And the reason Bill Gates, etc didn't get convicted of perjury is because of the same reason that every convicted "not guilty" defendant isn't charged with perjury - clear fifth amendment problem.
Assuming no other technology "must-haves" surface, then sure. It used to be running cheap-o modems, it used to be easy printing, it used to be display drivers, now it's widespread wifi ability that Linux is almost, just almost! caught up with. Which has been automatic, literally, in Windows since 2002 at the latest, not to mention Apple.
I'm certainly NOT a Windows fanboy, I have tried using Linux (SuSE, and I got sick of my at the time bleeding-edge computer having page-file hard drive thrashing for ten minutes every time I closed Firefox) and I'll try again once the powers that be finally realize that the big boys will make Linux compatible with their stuff if they just give them some money. But I'm not holding my breath. For now I'll just BitTorrent me some Vista.
Hell, I don't know. How are we supposed to know that? And more to the point, does anyone out there ever press that "safely remove hardware" thing anyway? Bunch of dorks.
Once again, paid speech on behalf of a political campaign is advertisement and should be treated as such. The general rule is that if you get a W-2 for what you're doing, it's susceptible to regulation. Thomas Paine it ain't.
Right. That's why it's doing badly; its availability on the shelves is being touted as a gauge of its success which is inaccurate. From a supply chain standpoint, the PS3 is doing better because it has been able to supply an appropriate number of units relative to demand. :)
Personally, I think the reason the PS3 is doing poorly is because it's boring to play. It's just the continuation of a graphics upgrade. There's nothing new or exciting, and yes, for the price they want, the damn console better be able to shit rubies.
Not really. Lobbyists are marketers. They're not speaking for speech's sake, or (in the case of Abramoff's actions, among others) they're not even acting in defense of their political beliefs. If the FEC didn't have jurisdiction over this matter, then the FTC would.
It seems to me that it's a popular criticism on /. that the PS3 is doing poorly based on the fact that it can be found on the shelves.
The ps3 IS doing badly, relative to the Wii, but that ain't why.
Where's the censorship? Registering as a lobbyist sure as HELL doesn't restrict access or speech. All it does is label you as what you are. That's like saying states that ask for party identification when you register to vote are keeping you from voting.
Yeah...that's pretty much what I said. As far as I can tell, this proposed bill was meant to cover THOSE groups - people hired by campaigns to conduct campaign activity. Maybe calling them "lobbyists" is wrong in a strict sense but this type of activity should be covered under election law...
Right. This only applies to astroturfing (which is manufactured grassroots action, paid for by a certain candidate). This bill doesn't even apply to bloggers who work for campaigns, as far as I can tell.
I'm for this bill - astroturfing is bullshit; fake citizens' groups have put horrible initiatives on ballots in recent years. It doesn't violate the First Amendment, in my opinion, because it doesn't actually restrict speech.
I'd buy Toyota. Most Toyotas (I believe Honda is this way too) offered for sale in the USA are actually made in the USA. Most Chevys, etc are mostly made either in Mexico or Canada. I don't really care who the hell gets the profit; I care about who has the job.