A well designed multiplayer poker game cannot be cheated except through collusion of players.
A well designed poker game cannot be cheated except through server-side hacks. Teamplay, while not accepted at almost any table, is technically not cheating.
only the MPAA would try to keep ahead of the technology, instead of trying to enforce people to watch their current technology
Yeah, and "if only" projection equipment wasn't amazingly specialized and expensive.. Theater owners aren't going to change their equipment until they know it will put more asses in the seats. The same resistance that we see in every business. If your local theater jumped at every new technology that bounced down the road, they would have been out of business years ago.
Data "never" used contractions (although in earlier episodes they either had not established this, or forgot a few times), but I don't believe the computer (or Data) had problems understanding contractions. Also, Lore (Data's evil brother, with emotions) used contractions, and this was a point in one of the Lore episodes (I believe the original, Datalore) when Lore turned Data off and was posing as him.
The main problem is you have to have a fair degree of mechanical aptitude to keep one of these systems running reliably.
Actually it sounds to me like the main problem is that you have to live out in the boonies where land is cheap, density is low, and driving is the way of life. The advantage of cities will not be eroded by solar cells. The advantage comes from a high population density which supports more commercial and infrastructure development per unit area.
Since he used the cost per watt, the efficiency difference is already integrated. It may turn out, however, that his calculations would call for a square footage of solar panels that is larger than your roof.
Gonna have to say "depends where you live". I recently got mapquest directions to a road that wasn't even paved. I live in NJ and have never had a serious mapquest problem.
Part of this may come from my diligence in ensuring that I know where I'm going. I don't just put it into mapquest and print it out. I review the directions it gives me, and follow them on the maps to ensure that it has given me a logical route. Since there are 1,001 ways to get from point A to point B in New Jersey, mapquest will sometimes dump you onto a highway you don't really want to be on (but will still get you where you are going!). Also, there can be some tricky intersections, and with the way mapquest divides roads up, it is usually easier to look at the map then try and decipher 5 legs of.01 miles each.
In short, like most tools, Mapquest works great when you know how to use it.
I should have been more clear. We are fighting a battle of definitions. I do not really call them subsidies because the federal government provides targetted funds to states. These funds frequently have a specific purpose and cannot be spent as the state sees fit.
Public Transportation systems (in properly planned areas) are failing for one reason and only one reason: lack of funding. (The other 80% of the Public Transit battle is planning. Without proper land use, transit will never work.)
The interstate highway system's benefit is clearly commercial and not military. This may not have been realized when it was first built, but this is most certainly the case today (part of this has to do with increased reliance on the auto since the 1950s (or was that because the interstate highway system was around? heh) and decreased use of trains for both passengers and freight).
The federal government does not provide subsidies to states. They assist states by funding large-scale projects which generally benefit more than just the state in question. The biggest example of this is transportation funding.
Things cost money. Government costs money. In our current lifestyle (and perhaps in the whole modern world), there's no way out of it.
Government costs money. Until we learn to pay for it like Canada and Europe do, the government will have to continue to use tricks to get money, while running up debt.
1) All the shit jobs now get paid even less, despite the right wing's claims that the market forces would stabilize on a just wage. Turns out the market is just out to make money for themselves (gasp!). Maybe a few more job openings, but not at a desirable wage to a former tech worker.
2) Federal funding is severely curtailed, and the states, who since the introduction of the income tax have come to live off of federal assistance, clamor to find new means of income (very similar to what has already occured with Bush's tax cut).
One of the problems with government is that the frequently make very fine distinctions where most people would not. For instance, the government uses both taxes and fees (among other devices such as tariffs) to collect income. While both of these may appear to be ways to get your money, they actually have different definitions.
Taxes are rated fees collected by the government, usually on income, sales, and property. The rate may not be the same for everyone (Progressive Tax Brackets), but it is a fee calculated using some other metrics.
Fees are the same for everyone. It doesn't matter if you make 10 million or 10 dollars a year, you will still pay $17 to renew your driver's licence in New Jersey. According to your link, all corporations will pay the same fee to register in the State of Florida.
True... some of us consider living on the cheap from week to week, but near to the people and places we love to be more important than being able to buy that new graphics card when it comes out, but being 2500 miles from anyone you know.
You forgot another (big imo) difference. Regulation. You can't just decide you're going to be a plumber tomorrow. You need a licence from the state. OTOH, if I was a plumber and tomorrow I wanted to be a web designer, there's nothing stopping me.
As for Reich, he's still a complete idiot. Even after Clinton dropped him like a turd, he still manages to find work doing interviews on PBS/NPR financial shows and writing books that no one reads anymore. I seem to recall him trying to run for office at one point, but we all know how that turned out.
1. Reich left the post (according to his book).
2. He now is a professor at Brandeis University, in addition to speaking, writing and doing sporadic TV interviews.
Do you really believe this crap? Do you honestly believe that ANY president would have American soldiers killed to turn a profit for his friends? If so, you are delusional.
Your thinking is exactly the kind of thinking the government (any party, any country) would like you to have. Government? Doing things Wrong? Never!
It is the same idea. It was a cover article about 6 months ago "Private Desktops in Windows XP". He calls them private desktops, but the idea could be expanded and implemented to be multiple desktops.. I think MS just doesn't care to do this (I think there may be other WMs for Windows that have.. but I still use explorer).
France is not socialist. my comparison to france was purely on the level of near-socialist taxation levels
You mean high taxes. If it's not socialism, it's just high taxes (and high government service. Some people call this Social Democracy). The only reason I can think of calling this "near-socialist" is to make an association that does not exist (that association being France==socialist). This is the same type of language trickery that the right wing currently uses (Bush talks about "al-Qaeda like fighters".. he means terrorists).
Russia was far from 'communist' in the strict sense, but what's the point of splitting hairs in the definition?
The point of splitting hairs in the definition is the definition. Without an agreed upon definition, you cannot communicate. You can't just say it's close enough and be done with it. Russia wasn't communism. It's that simple.
Your historical inaccuracies and language style smacks of the right-wing version of the cold war, the same version many of us were taught in grade school, and then re-learned in college. Did the US out produce the USSR? Yes. Did this lead to the end of the cold war? Maybe. Was it the most important factor? No. The USSR and East Germany were in severe economic crises. Their system simply wasn't working, and it was only a matter of time until it imploded (my opinion, and many others share this view). The actions of Reagan, and mainly Gorbachev (through glasnost and perestroika), only hastened the inevitable.
CTRL-ALT-DEL also switches to another desktop that programs are not allowed to modify in any way (Yes, Windows has multiple desktops, see recent Dr. Dobbs article for more info).
and the difficulty in keeping all the lines running at 60Hz (50Hz for you Europeans) so that clocks run correctly and motors spin at the correct RPM
As I understand, they don't do this in real-time. They try to keep it around 60 Hz, but that isn't really possible due to many of the problems you discuss. They can adjust the frequency during low-demand times (night) so that it works out to an average of 60 Hz.
Wow talk about an argument all over the place. First you're comparing socialism to France.. okay.. then you switch gears to communism and Russia? Do you even *know* what you're talking about? Seriously. Your post smacks of what I learned (er.. was told) about Communism in 3rd grade, "communism==socialism==badbadbadbadbadbadbad"
Just so you know, the USA doesn't have the highest standard of living. That title goes to a socialist country. I hope you enjoy your "wealth", and the 300$ tax cut that Bush gave you, too.
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A well designed multiplayer poker game cannot be cheated except through collusion of players.
A well designed poker game cannot be cheated except through server-side hacks. Teamplay, while not accepted at almost any table, is technically not cheating.
only the MPAA would try to keep ahead of the technology, instead of trying to enforce people to watch their current technology
Yeah, and "if only" projection equipment wasn't amazingly specialized and expensive.. Theater owners aren't going to change their equipment until they know it will put more asses in the seats. The same resistance that we see in every business. If your local theater jumped at every new technology that bounced down the road, they would have been out of business years ago.
The quality and sound are equal or better than the theater
Either you're going to some shitty movie theatres, or some amazing home setups.
Data "never" used contractions (although in earlier episodes they either had not established this, or forgot a few times), but I don't believe the computer (or Data) had problems understanding contractions. Also, Lore (Data's evil brother, with emotions) used contractions, and this was a point in one of the Lore episodes (I believe the original, Datalore) when Lore turned Data off and was posing as him.
The main problem is you have to have a fair degree of mechanical aptitude to keep one of these systems running reliably.
Actually it sounds to me like the main problem is that you have to live out in the boonies where land is cheap, density is low, and driving is the way of life. The advantage of cities will not be eroded by solar cells. The advantage comes from a high population density which supports more commercial and infrastructure development per unit area.
Since he used the cost per watt, the efficiency difference is already integrated. It may turn out, however, that his calculations would call for a square footage of solar panels that is larger than your roof.
Yeah I heard this on Morning Edition as well, but I thought the piece there talked about Minnesota? I cannot recall.
Gonna have to say "depends where you live". I recently got mapquest directions to a road that wasn't even paved. I live in NJ and have never had a serious mapquest problem.
.01 miles each.
Part of this may come from my diligence in ensuring that I know where I'm going. I don't just put it into mapquest and print it out. I review the directions it gives me, and follow them on the maps to ensure that it has given me a logical route. Since there are 1,001 ways to get from point A to point B in New Jersey, mapquest will sometimes dump you onto a highway you don't really want to be on (but will still get you where you are going!). Also, there can be some tricky intersections, and with the way mapquest divides roads up, it is usually easier to look at the map then try and decipher 5 legs of
In short, like most tools, Mapquest works great when you know how to use it.
I should have been more clear. We are fighting a battle of definitions. I do not really call them subsidies because the federal government provides targetted funds to states. These funds frequently have a specific purpose and cannot be spent as the state sees fit.
Public Transportation systems (in properly planned areas) are failing for one reason and only one reason: lack of funding. (The other 80% of the Public Transit battle is planning. Without proper land use, transit will never work.)
The interstate highway system's benefit is clearly commercial and not military. This may not have been realized when it was first built, but this is most certainly the case today (part of this has to do with increased reliance on the auto since the 1950s (or was that because the interstate highway system was around? heh) and decreased use of trains for both passengers and freight).
The federal government does not provide subsidies to states. They assist states by funding large-scale projects which generally benefit more than just the state in question. The biggest example of this is transportation funding.
Things cost money. Government costs money. In our current lifestyle (and perhaps in the whole modern world), there's no way out of it.
Government costs money. Until we learn to pay for it like Canada and Europe do, the government will have to continue to use tricks to get money, while running up debt.
Yeah, that'll do it!
1) All the shit jobs now get paid even less, despite the right wing's claims that the market forces would stabilize on a just wage. Turns out the market is just out to make money for themselves (gasp!). Maybe a few more job openings, but not at a desirable wage to a former tech worker.
2) Federal funding is severely curtailed, and the states, who since the introduction of the income tax have come to live off of federal assistance, clamor to find new means of income (very similar to what has already occured with Bush's tax cut).
Jobs?
One of the problems with government is that the frequently make very fine distinctions where most people would not. For instance, the government uses both taxes and fees (among other devices such as tariffs) to collect income. While both of these may appear to be ways to get your money, they actually have different definitions.
Taxes are rated fees collected by the government, usually on income, sales, and property. The rate may not be the same for everyone (Progressive Tax Brackets), but it is a fee calculated using some other metrics.
Fees are the same for everyone. It doesn't matter if you make 10 million or 10 dollars a year, you will still pay $17 to renew your driver's licence in New Jersey. According to your link, all corporations will pay the same fee to register in the State of Florida.
190 calories yeah, but something like 70% of your daily sodium too! Ouch!
True... some of us consider living on the cheap from week to week, but near to the people and places we love to be more important than being able to buy that new graphics card when it comes out, but being 2500 miles from anyone you know.
You forgot another (big imo) difference. Regulation. You can't just decide you're going to be a plumber tomorrow. You need a licence from the state. OTOH, if I was a plumber and tomorrow I wanted to be a web designer, there's nothing stopping me.
As for Reich, he's still a complete idiot. Even after Clinton dropped him like a turd, he still manages to find work doing interviews on PBS/NPR financial shows and writing books that no one reads anymore. I seem to recall him trying to run for office at one point, but we all know how that turned out.
1. Reich left the post (according to his book).
2. He now is a professor at Brandeis University, in addition to speaking, writing and doing sporadic TV interviews.
3. Keep believing the party line.
Do you really believe this crap? Do you honestly believe that ANY president would have American soldiers killed to turn a profit for his friends? If so, you are delusional.
Your thinking is exactly the kind of thinking the government (any party, any country) would like you to have. Government? Doing things Wrong? Never!
Thats because lamefilter put a space in there.
It is the same idea. It was a cover article about 6 months ago "Private Desktops in Windows XP". He calls them private desktops, but the idea could be expanded and implemented to be multiple desktops.. I think MS just doesn't care to do this (I think there may be other WMs for Windows that have.. but I still use explorer).
France is not socialist. my comparison to france was purely on the level of near-socialist taxation levels
You mean high taxes. If it's not socialism, it's just high taxes (and high government service. Some people call this Social Democracy). The only reason I can think of calling this "near-socialist" is to make an association that does not exist (that association being France==socialist). This is the same type of language trickery that the right wing currently uses (Bush talks about "al-Qaeda like fighters".. he means terrorists).
Russia was far from 'communist' in the strict sense, but what's the point of splitting hairs in the definition?
The point of splitting hairs in the definition is the definition. Without an agreed upon definition, you cannot communicate. You can't just say it's close enough and be done with it. Russia wasn't communism. It's that simple.
Your historical inaccuracies and language style smacks of the right-wing version of the cold war, the same version many of us were taught in grade school, and then re-learned in college. Did the US out produce the USSR? Yes. Did this lead to the end of the cold war? Maybe. Was it the most important factor? No. The USSR and East Germany were in severe economic crises. Their system simply wasn't working, and it was only a matter of time until it imploded (my opinion, and many others share this view). The actions of Reagan, and mainly Gorbachev (through glasnost and perestroika), only hastened the inevitable.
I believe Sweden, but I didn't want to check at the time of posting (and have the possible inaccuracy be a point of debate)
CTRL-ALT-DEL also switches to another desktop that programs are not allowed to modify in any way (Yes, Windows has multiple desktops, see recent Dr. Dobbs article for more info).
and the difficulty in keeping all the lines running at 60Hz (50Hz for you Europeans) so that clocks run correctly and motors spin at the correct RPM
As I understand, they don't do this in real-time. They try to keep it around 60 Hz, but that isn't really possible due to many of the problems you discuss. They can adjust the frequency during low-demand times (night) so that it works out to an average of 60 Hz.
Wow talk about an argument all over the place. First you're comparing socialism to France.. okay.. then you switch gears to communism and Russia? Do you even *know* what you're talking about? Seriously. Your post smacks of what I learned (er.. was told) about Communism in 3rd grade, "communism==socialism==badbadbadbadbadbadbad"
Just so you know, the USA doesn't have the highest standard of living. That title goes to a socialist country. I hope you enjoy your "wealth", and the 300$ tax cut that Bush gave you, too.