I think the other 2/3s is a vast exaggeration. However, even the poorest 10% in this country live better than the top 10% in many countries, and certainly far better than those a few hundred years ago. Of course we can move into the suburbs. You think that the indigent and unproductive will be able to move in along with the economically productive and more virtuous? The only way they can make up for their failures are through government hand-outs, which most of us are more than fed up with. It doesn't stop them from failing either, only increases the probability of it.
Flying off shelves? How can it fly off shelves if it's being sold direct by the author? Wouldn't it need to be sold in bookstores to be capable of flying off of shelves?
Hey, you want your kid to have an education, you pay for it. Just because other people would rather have an SUV doesn't let you off the hook. Don't be so goddamn greedy. Pay for your spawn yourself, let other people decide what to do with theirs.
I can see now why I absolutely despised The Matrix. I'm fully capable of handling lofty philosophical concepts, abstract thought, etc. I can't stand garbage prancing around as intellectualism. Speaking of Cornel West...
It's not a joke, thank you for correcting my mistake. Now if only trolls would stop marking other people as trolls simply because people like me take the time to try and find out who someone is that they've never heard of before and if they're reliable sources...
Who is Bruce Parens? I have never heard of him before, and this isn't a story carried from a major news source. Unless and until this story can be independantly verified, I'm taking this story with a grain of salt.
I'm in total agreement. Clearly, this Timothy is an intellectual pidgin, who does not use logic and objectivity in his evalutions of the world. I wonder if he drives a car, you never know when the car's BIOS will cause it to spontanously kill you. Or a computer, for that matter.
Whoever thought this thing was a PDA/laptop replacement is a total idiot. It's not a human I/0 device. This has everything to do with distributed computing, and nothing to do with mobile computers. It is clear to me that this is an attempt to have a "roaming profile" with all of your programs, settings and files in a real-world roaming device. Eventually, it will be possible for us to use almost any computer as if it was our own. Although why it is a physical device, and not a web service, I don't know. I could be a little off on it's true purpose, but I can't imagine anyone with intelligence thinking that a block of storage with wireless is a PDA or laptop replacement. That would be like saying cargo planes will replace cars.
Sorry, just on edge from all the nasty people who flame and then mod posts down as flamebait, ironically. Whenever I'm witty, some jerk mods it down anyways. Well, in the past couple of weeks anyways.
You do make a few good points. Ford would be much better than Bakula, and would finally bring "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" together in a way. A female Vulcan with huge tits is a bit odd to have as a science officer (maybe they could have a male with a large package?). The African-American does annoy the hell out of me, if only because he has that dopey smile and "aw-shucks" attitude that drives me up the wall. Can't detect a trace of Eubonics though, which is more of a deviant dialect than accent.
The reason they look vastly different from TNG to FC is due to budget and make-up techniques. One must assume that budget and make-up techniques have been carried over to ENT, so there's not an excuse not to make them look different for other reasons. After FC established the new look, it was carried on into ST:VOY. Unless, as another poster states, they are from the sphere, they should not look the same due to simple technology differences. I am quite knowledgable on all things Star Trek, especially technology, vessels and uniforms. ENT just doesn't follow known ST history very well, while TNG-VOY era was much more in sync.
At StarTrek.com, the Borg look exactly like those from ST:FC and ST:VOY. We're supposed to believe that the Borg, a race that assimilates and modifies itself on a daily basis, doesn't change cosmetically in hundreds of years? And then there's the obvious point of why Starfleet had no clue about the Borg until the mid-24th century. At this point I just assume that Enterprise has nothing to do with the canon Star Trek universe, but is just the product of drunken script writers and Bermans.
It wouldn't be cost-effective. The die size would be larger than it is already, the energy consumption would be over 200 watts, the heatsink would be the size of a small car, and you'd need a peltier cooler for the damn thing. And it would cost probably at least half again as before.
Perhaps companies that use Monster.com for potential hires don't want to have to worry about accidentally hiring a terrorist, hacker, or someone with a grudge.
Eventually, the IP structure, as it currently is and converse to the original design, will crumble, and a freer and more economically dynamic system will prevail. See the USSR, or the current state of the European welfare states.
Having more RAM in Palm's is not going to do anything for the speed, as they don't have the slow storage/fast storage split that PCs do. In the Palm world, everything is stored and worked with in RAM. It could even make them slower, I know that with the V and Vx, the 2MB version was slightly faster in some areas, as it had less RAM to scan when loading and working with applications.
Isn't this analgous to suing someone because they dissemble their car or vaccum cleaner to see how it functions? Embarrassed to live in Boston, although I was embarrased to live in Boston beforehand, mind you.
Clearly, you are living in a fantasy world. National security, while important and necessary, would have more success in securing our borders by actually securing our borders, and less in meddling in private enterprise. Personal security, is just that, personal. The connection between a well-armed citizenry and less crime is a well established one. People, while mistrustful of large corporations, being concentrations of power, are much less trustful of government, being even more massive concentrations of power. Americans voted Republicans, not Socialists, into power last election. Americans, time after time, prefer less services and less taxes than greater services and greater taxes. And Americans, in every Presidential election, vote for the candidate that is seen to be the one less likely to expand government, not the one most likely to increase government bloat. Your socialist world-view is built on a foundation of misassumptions and errors, contrary to reality.
I guess you can conveniently ignore slavery, indentured servitude, the Alien and Sedition acts, etc. since they don't fit into your libertarian revisionist view of history.
This shows a clear misunderstanding of what Libertarianism is. Libertaranism flows from classical liberalism, and it's core tenet is that people should be free to live their lives without governmental intrusion and of freedom of association. Slavery, being opposed to freedom, does not fit into this philosophy. The Alien and Sedition Acts, being opposed to the freedom of speech, is a direct blow to our freedoms as individuals and does not fit anywhere in classical liberalism. Indentured servitude, on the other hand, if entered into freely, is permissible, as people are free to mutually associate with others as they please. People in 1800 were more free in some areas, less free in others, but this does not mean that we continue to give up our freedoms simply because we had less freedom in the past.
There is no such thing as "moneyed" interests. In a free society, consumers hold the power to purchase goods as they see fit, and without consumers corporations and shareholders are worthless. As such, when a corporation does something that one disagrees with, the answer is to simply not patraonize their business. Do not blame corporations if they do not happen to do as you wish, as long as they are still those who value their services. Our society gives one the freedom to choose and to not choose.
Airport security was federalized despite the fact that the government was unable to protect us on 9/11, and I see no reason why they would suddenly be able to do so now. Airline cost cutting measures only exist because consumers aren't willing to pay the price for what you consider safe. Government, on the other hand, has the ability to force people to pay for what they voluntary would not, regardless of whether it is rational or not. It is display of congnitive dissonance that on one hand, the people in the form of the government want federalized airport security for "safety" reasons (or any other governmental take-over), while they were not willing to pay for it in a more efficient manner, through their own pocketbooks.
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I think the other 2/3s is a vast exaggeration. However, even the poorest 10% in this country live better than the top 10% in many countries, and certainly far better than those a few hundred years ago. Of course we can move into the suburbs. You think that the indigent and unproductive will be able to move in along with the economically productive and more virtuous? The only way they can make up for their failures are through government hand-outs, which most of us are more than fed up with. It doesn't stop them from failing either, only increases the probability of it.
Flying off shelves? How can it fly off shelves if it's being sold direct by the author? Wouldn't it need to be sold in bookstores to be capable of flying off of shelves?
Hey, you want your kid to have an education, you pay for it. Just because other people would rather have an SUV doesn't let you off the hook. Don't be so goddamn greedy. Pay for your spawn yourself, let other people decide what to do with theirs.
I can see now why I absolutely despised The Matrix. I'm fully capable of handling lofty philosophical concepts, abstract thought, etc. I can't stand garbage prancing around as intellectualism. Speaking of Cornel West...
My program is fully debugged then!
It's not a joke, thank you for correcting my mistake. Now if only trolls would stop marking other people as trolls simply because people like me take the time to try and find out who someone is that they've never heard of before and if they're reliable sources...
No, I'm not. I read Tom's Hardware, Ars, The Reg, etc. I've never heard of Parens before. Except for Parens calculator.
Who is Bruce Parens? I have never heard of him before, and this isn't a story carried from a major news source. Unless and until this story can be independantly verified, I'm taking this story with a grain of salt.
I'm in total agreement. Clearly, this Timothy is an intellectual pidgin, who does not use logic and objectivity in his evalutions of the world. I wonder if he drives a car, you never know when the car's BIOS will cause it to spontanously kill you. Or a computer, for that matter.
Whoever thought this thing was a PDA/laptop replacement is a total idiot. It's not a human I/0 device. This has everything to do with distributed computing, and nothing to do with mobile computers. It is clear to me that this is an attempt to have a "roaming profile" with all of your programs, settings and files in a real-world roaming device. Eventually, it will be possible for us to use almost any computer as if it was our own. Although why it is a physical device, and not a web service, I don't know. I could be a little off on it's true purpose, but I can't imagine anyone with intelligence thinking that a block of storage with wireless is a PDA or laptop replacement. That would be like saying cargo planes will replace cars.
Sorry, just on edge from all the nasty people who flame and then mod posts down as flamebait, ironically. Whenever I'm witty, some jerk mods it down anyways. Well, in the past couple of weeks anyways.
Look at the dates; it wasn't there when I posted. Duh.
You do make a few good points. Ford would be much better than Bakula, and would finally bring "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" together in a way. A female Vulcan with huge tits is a bit odd to have as a science officer (maybe they could have a male with a large package?). The African-American does annoy the hell out of me, if only because he has that dopey smile and "aw-shucks" attitude that drives me up the wall. Can't detect a trace of Eubonics though, which is more of a deviant dialect than accent.
The reason they look vastly different from TNG to FC is due to budget and make-up techniques. One must assume that budget and make-up techniques have been carried over to ENT, so there's not an excuse not to make them look different for other reasons. After FC established the new look, it was carried on into ST:VOY. Unless, as another poster states, they are from the sphere, they should not look the same due to simple technology differences. I am quite knowledgable on all things Star Trek, especially technology, vessels and uniforms. ENT just doesn't follow known ST history very well, while TNG-VOY era was much more in sync.
At StarTrek.com, the Borg look exactly like those from ST:FC and ST:VOY. We're supposed to believe that the Borg, a race that assimilates and modifies itself on a daily basis, doesn't change cosmetically in hundreds of years? And then there's the obvious point of why Starfleet had no clue about the Borg until the mid-24th century. At this point I just assume that Enterprise has nothing to do with the canon Star Trek universe, but is just the product of drunken script writers and Bermans.
Looks like the parent story has been slashdotted. Anyone mirror it yet?
It wouldn't be cost-effective. The die size would be larger than it is already, the energy consumption would be over 200 watts, the heatsink would be the size of a small car, and you'd need a peltier cooler for the damn thing. And it would cost probably at least half again as before.
Perhaps companies that use Monster.com for potential hires don't want to have to worry about accidentally hiring a terrorist, hacker, or someone with a grudge.
Eventually, the IP structure, as it currently is and converse to the original design, will crumble, and a freer and more economically dynamic system will prevail. See the USSR, or the current state of the European welfare states.
Having more RAM in Palm's is not going to do anything for the speed, as they don't have the slow storage/fast storage split that PCs do. In the Palm world, everything is stored and worked with in RAM. It could even make them slower, I know that with the V and Vx, the 2MB version was slightly faster in some areas, as it had less RAM to scan when loading and working with applications.
Isn't this analgous to suing someone because they dissemble their car or vaccum cleaner to see how it functions? Embarrassed to live in Boston, although I was embarrased to live in Boston beforehand, mind you.
Clearly, you are living in a fantasy world. National security, while important and necessary, would have more success in securing our borders by actually securing our borders, and less in meddling in private enterprise. Personal security, is just that, personal. The connection between a well-armed citizenry and less crime is a well established one. People, while mistrustful of large corporations, being concentrations of power, are much less trustful of government, being even more massive concentrations of power. Americans voted Republicans, not Socialists, into power last election. Americans, time after time, prefer less services and less taxes than greater services and greater taxes. And Americans, in every Presidential election, vote for the candidate that is seen to be the one less likely to expand government, not the one most likely to increase government bloat. Your socialist world-view is built on a foundation of misassumptions and errors, contrary to reality.
Now that it has the special FX set, all it needs is competent actors, a believable and original plot, good storywriting, and a decent title.
This shows a clear misunderstanding of what Libertarianism is. Libertaranism flows from classical liberalism, and it's core tenet is that people should be free to live their lives without governmental intrusion and of freedom of association. Slavery, being opposed to freedom, does not fit into this philosophy. The Alien and Sedition Acts, being opposed to the freedom of speech, is a direct blow to our freedoms as individuals and does not fit anywhere in classical liberalism. Indentured servitude, on the other hand, if entered into freely, is permissible, as people are free to mutually associate with others as they please. People in 1800 were more free in some areas, less free in others, but this does not mean that we continue to give up our freedoms simply because we had less freedom in the past.
There is no such thing as "moneyed" interests. In a free society, consumers hold the power to purchase goods as they see fit, and without consumers corporations and shareholders are worthless. As such, when a corporation does something that one disagrees with, the answer is to simply not patraonize their business. Do not blame corporations if they do not happen to do as you wish, as long as they are still those who value their services. Our society gives one the freedom to choose and to not choose.
Airport security was federalized despite the fact that the government was unable to protect us on 9/11, and I see no reason why they would suddenly be able to do so now. Airline cost cutting measures only exist because consumers aren't willing to pay the price for what you consider safe. Government, on the other hand, has the ability to force people to pay for what they voluntary would not, regardless of whether it is rational or not. It is display of congnitive dissonance that on one hand, the people in the form of the government want federalized airport security for "safety" reasons (or any other governmental take-over), while they were not willing to pay for it in a more efficient manner, through their own pocketbooks.
It doesn't look like the Enterprise to me, the warp nacelle pylons, warp nacelle, and engineering hull are all wrong. But I'm a picky ship critic.