Charlene Theron is beautiful, but what a clutz. She showed no aptitude for atheleticism at all in the movie and the editing showed. Most of her stunts reminded me of the 1970's series Wonder Woman. Cheezy.
It's an official document. It represents a message from the President of the United States. Whether it's parody or opinion or just a joke, that ends up being subject to the intelligence of the reader.
It may confuse or otherwise deceive the casual reader. Yea, now the jokes are obvious, but if the U.S government did nothing about it it would be more and more common to see forged seals on phony Whitehouse communications. Then who knows where it goes from there.
The individual PC in and of itself is certainly starting to die, but the future is in Home Servers and thin clients.
Family computing is going to be big. Your family server is going to handle your telepone service, Cable/digital TV, Home Security, Home messaging center, Digital Radio, Streaming Video, Home shopping, distributed TV and Music throughout the house.
The Home server will be multi-processor with extended service modules for broadcast TV reception, Digital Radio, wireless communications, Media recording and environmental controlls.
Spread about your house will be thin client TV's, Speakers, Telephones and Cameras. All your power sockets and light sockets will be smart and controlled by home central computing.
All your power needs will be monitored and your electric meter read automaticaly and transmitted to the power company for billing.
There will be TV and Radio services that will be pay per use, while there will also be general public broadcast. General education will be wired in and students will have opportunites to attend school classes from home, submitt homework from home and even create homework webpages.
Everything else, all those internet servics will just be "data pumps", that push data that you want (and of course the inevitable unwanted data)
Large internet service providers are going to have to struggle to keep up with the content demands or die. Yahoo is just a web starting point, Google is just a search engine. The big money is going to be in the last mile wiring and the bulk pipeline. Web services are going to have to compete for bandwith to the home and only the premium and well delivered services are going to survive.
Because many join the services with the expecation that they will never see action. Take a free ride for training, 3 square a day and a place to chill. Easy money.
Then reality comes by and smacks them upside the head. Some come to, others suddenly find a new belief in war is wrong, this war is wrong et al, anything to deny their obligations that they took so lightly when they enlisted.
Back on subject, most soldiers end up having no problems, they adjust to what they have to do and need to do. The killing, the maiming, the friends dying or losing limbs. See a man holding his intestines in his hands, thoughtlessly trying to put them back in, or another cradling his just blown off leg.
Some disconnect from these. Others have a harder time disconnecting. I can see playing a violent game can help people disconnect. Help them overcome the guilt they often feel from surviving where others died horrible deaths.
The coolest OS in the world isnt' going to displace anything unless it has application support.
Any great application written for Solaris is bound to end up on Linux. Talking about commercial applications. If an inherent flaw in the OS degrades the application.. they might not want to port it to that OS.
FOSS applications are abundant and many of them have very good basic functionality. What I find is that the majority of them often lack the "extra mile" or so that you find commercial applicatons -- and i'm not talking about eye candy and useless features either.
Looks like an armchair analysis, tastes like an armchair analysis and smells like an armchair analysis. So must be an armchair analysis.
Using highly relatavistic terms actually says nothing about what your trying to explain and alot about yourself.
I don't know where we are going to be in 2008 election, but I do think that Hillary is talking a conservative game for now. It's a shame, she would probably do well as a conservative, but she can't because what makes her is her hate for conservatives.
Few people recognize that Hillary is quite fascist, and if elected -- alot of liberals are going to be quite surprised.
It was worse then just a flop, it sank alot of companies bankrolls waiting for this technology -- meanwhile AMD delivered a fine performing chip for way way less, and lets face it, the big market in Desktop PC's is consumer electronics.
Intel was so late in delivery that all the high performance workstation people abandoned the Itanic.
All in all will be footmarked in history as one of the worst years every.
Can you imagine something like Gutenberg today? They would burn the presses because Monks and monastary incomes dropped due to wholesale printing.
How about the introduction of foreign law decisions in U.S cases.
Then of course, you can only own property at the whim of the government.
And of course one of the pillars of law... the ten commandments cannot be displayed in courts (but I guess it's okay to display in the scotus building).
Oh, there were so many crappy ill thought out decisions from this court.
More to the point, the MPAA doesn't like piracy because they see piracy as lost sales. They exist to support their members, who are for-profit companies that rely on sales to stay in business.
Well, must of the hoopla (particularly RIAA) is judicial jockeying to eventually assert control over the technology to ensure that their respective organizations still get their cut of the pie.
Obviously piracy is a concern of theirs, but control to maintain their business interests is the main objective.
1. The license only restricts your ability to take java, change the name and call it your product, then start charging for it, without paying license and royalty fees to Sun.
2. Seeing how the source code is available, I don't see how you can say they are using undocumented features and keep a straight face.
In the case of SCO/IBM, PJ and groklaw does a great job. Presenting fact with opinion only as commentary in the threads.
In regards to other FOSS issues, PJ does a terrible terrible job, presenting mainly Opinion (her opinion) as topic, with chitterings of approval coming from her chorus.
Because drivers license shouldn't be issued to illegal aliens. There is a cost involved in processing them and issuing them, and it's substantial.
It also makes it easier for them to stay in the U.S illegally and helps provide them with ways to get other ID and further state provided, tax payer funded benefits.
Illegals aliens dont' get U.S auto insurance either. So why let them get licenses.
And the law doesn't forbid states from giving illegal aliens drivers license, it just says if they do, that's state license isn't valid as an ID for Air travel, admission to federal buildings and perhaps other states might not recognize it.
I'm glad somebody pointed this out. Quite frankly, I'm skeptical that she was even really kidnapped at all. Things go terrible when journalist try and be the news rather then report the news.
In a war zone, the margin of error is about 1/4 of and inch and 1/2 a pound --- the distance and force needed to pull a trigger.
$714 million... thats a mere pittance for venture capital.
OSF is great for standards committees and good money for individual and localized experts and contributors, but as a business model -- spending ooodles and ooodles of money to develope something for the majority of people to use for free isn't a sucessfull big business venture model.
"A system for soliciting money and applying monetary incentives to induce political dialog on selected social-economic issues through elected officials".
Then start the lawsuits flying against Lobbiests and Politicians. That will get their attention and prove our point.
The fact that the terrorists are engaging our military is a testiment to the Bush policy, and not a proof that they are not terrorists.
While it is true that Terrorism is asymetrical warfare it is not true that they are waging a lawful or legal law -- and I use the terms lawful and legal very loosely.
The West, as most modern societies do, self-impose basic rules of engagement and behavior. These rules of engagement are based largely on our values system.
This is why the news of captured terrorists being abused in the form of light interogation (light mental and physical discomfort, with no real threat of permanent physical harm) is bigger news and overshadows the video taped beheadings of their captures. This is why we have a different threshold for our behavior vs. their behavior.
When the French were engaged in very similar situation in Algiers, De Gaul was prescience in his conclusion that the French could not win a war against the Islamunist insurgence in Algiers -- not because they didnt' have the firepower and manpower but because the brutality that would have been needed would not have been acceptable by Western standards. So France withdrew and the Islamunists went on to massacre 100's of thousands of unarmed non combatants comprised of 2nd and 3rd generation French colonists, not being contrained by the Wests self-imposed values.
Somewhere in there lies the definition of terrorism, not your simplistic view that it is dependent upon whether they are attacking military targets or civilian targets.
Poppycock, dont' start a post with here are the facts then slip in what is very arguably opinion, the social security plan is in trouble, way trouble and much less then 40 years from now. 40 year estimate is based on todays events and demands -- whenever in history has events and demands *not* changed for the worse.
Some people believe there are evolutionary differences, other believe the differences are merely environmental. In both instances, the PC crowd believes that they can be overcome by denying the differences, not letting people talk about it as if it were true, and letting time take its course.
However, as long as there are Victoria's Secrets and LL Beans, I don't think this is possible.
Oh come now, In Europe the people live to serve the state, in the U.S at least we have the illusion and pretense that the state lives to serve the people.
Some players want PvP as sort of a comptetitive bench mark on playing ability. This would be fine, but in my experience...which encompasses many mmorpg's the problem is level disparities. Which simply means that in most games, a lower level toon has absolutely no chance of defeating the higher level toon.
Orindarily this would be no problem, however, there are many high levels that take it to an extreme and "camp" low level people just to rack up kills. On a single incident basis, this is no problem because well... we play the PvP servers for the added excitement and added difficulty it presents, but multiply these incidences by 100X and you can see that it goes from challeging to impossible.
This then becomes a viscious circle as lower people quit because they perceive the system as imbalanced with no hope or opportunity to overcome that imbalance -- leaving only the higher level toons to own the server. Witness Asheron's call 2. PvP population on the servers dwindled from two servers 800 each to two years later where there is one server and the high population is now about 30 people.
There is no risk for higher level toons to PK much lower level toons -- particularly when they really can't be defeated. So, have a bad day at work and go home, log on, and commence the mayhem by killing all the noobs you come across.
One way of dealing with this, which would be very unpopular but nonetheless balance the system is to have PvP servers "PERMA-DEATH". Meaning, you get defeated in PvP and your toon is put back to square one with all your money and bankables taken away. This would give you the politics of PvP, but the actual PvP being the last resort because of the inherent risks involved in losing your toon. This combined with giving even the lowest toon a certain percentage chance to defeat anybody who attacks him, would certainly cut back on the random PvP'ing that ruins the game.
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Charlene Theron is beautiful, but what a clutz. She showed no aptitude for atheleticism at all in the movie and the editing showed. Most of her stunts reminded me of the 1970's series Wonder Woman. Cheezy.
It may confuse or otherwise deceive the casual reader. Yea, now the jokes are obvious, but if the U.S government did nothing about it it would be more and more common to see forged seals on phony Whitehouse communications. Then who knows where it goes from there.
The individual PC in and of itself is certainly starting to die, but the future is in Home Servers and thin clients.
Family computing is going to be big. Your family server is going to handle your telepone service, Cable/digital TV, Home Security, Home messaging center, Digital Radio, Streaming Video, Home shopping, distributed TV and Music throughout the house.
The Home server will be multi-processor with extended service modules for broadcast TV reception, Digital Radio, wireless communications, Media recording and environmental controlls.
Spread about your house will be thin client TV's, Speakers, Telephones and Cameras. All your power sockets and light sockets will be smart and controlled by home central computing. All your power needs will be monitored and your electric meter read automaticaly and transmitted to the power company for billing.
There will be TV and Radio services that will be pay per use, while there will also be general public broadcast. General education will be wired in and students will have opportunites to attend school classes from home, submitt homework from home and even create homework webpages.
Everything else, all those internet servics will just be "data pumps", that push data that you want (and of course the inevitable unwanted data)
Large internet service providers are going to have to struggle to keep up with the content demands or die. Yahoo is just a web starting point, Google is just a search engine. The big money is going to be in the last mile wiring and the bulk pipeline. Web services are going to have to compete for bandwith to the home and only the premium and well delivered services are going to survive.
Then reality comes by and smacks them upside the head. Some come to, others suddenly find a new belief in war is wrong, this war is wrong et al, anything to deny their obligations that they took so lightly when they enlisted.
Back on subject, most soldiers end up having no problems, they adjust to what they have to do and need to do. The killing, the maiming, the friends dying or losing limbs. See a man holding his intestines in his hands, thoughtlessly trying to put them back in, or another cradling his just blown off leg.
Some disconnect from these. Others have a harder time disconnecting. I can see playing a violent game can help people disconnect. Help them overcome the guilt they often feel from surviving where others died horrible deaths.
Any great application written for Solaris is bound to end up on Linux. Talking about commercial applications. If an inherent flaw in the OS degrades the application .. they might not want to port it to that OS.
FOSS applications are abundant and many of them have very good basic functionality. What I find is that the majority of them often lack the "extra mile" or so that you find commercial applicatons -- and i'm not talking about eye candy and useless features either.
Using highly relatavistic terms actually says nothing about what your trying to explain and alot about yourself.
I don't know where we are going to be in 2008 election, but I do think that Hillary is talking a conservative game for now. It's a shame, she would probably do well as a conservative, but she can't because what makes her is her hate for conservatives.
Few people recognize that Hillary is quite fascist, and if elected -- alot of liberals are going to be quite surprised.
Intel was so late in delivery that all the high performance workstation people abandoned the Itanic.
Can you imagine something like Gutenberg today? They would burn the presses because Monks and monastary incomes dropped due to wholesale printing.
How about the introduction of foreign law decisions in U.S cases.
Then of course, you can only own property at the whim of the government.
And of course one of the pillars of law ... the ten commandments cannot be displayed in courts (but I guess it's okay to display in the scotus building).
Oh, there were so many crappy ill thought out decisions from this court.
Google has to do it right, with rock solid verification of accounts and credit cards.
Well, must of the hoopla (particularly RIAA) is judicial jockeying to eventually assert control over the technology to ensure that their respective organizations still get their cut of the pie.
Obviously piracy is a concern of theirs, but control to maintain their business interests is the main objective.
1. The license only restricts your ability to take java, change the name and call it your product, then start charging for it, without paying license and royalty fees to Sun.
2. Seeing how the source code is available, I don't see how you can say they are using undocumented features and keep a straight face.
In regards to other FOSS issues, PJ does a terrible terrible job, presenting mainly Opinion (her opinion) as topic, with chitterings of approval coming from her chorus.
It also makes it easier for them to stay in the U.S illegally and helps provide them with ways to get other ID and further state provided, tax payer funded benefits.
Illegals aliens dont' get U.S auto insurance either. So why let them get licenses.
And the law doesn't forbid states from giving illegal aliens drivers license, it just says if they do, that's state license isn't valid as an ID for Air travel, admission to federal buildings and perhaps other states might not recognize it.
In a war zone, the margin of error is about 1/4 of and inch and 1/2 a pound --- the distance and force needed to pull a trigger.
OSF is great for standards committees and good money for individual and localized experts and contributors, but as a business model -- spending ooodles and ooodles of money to develope something for the majority of people to use for free isn't a sucessfull big business venture model.
If Microsoft owns portions of OS/2 because it was jointly developed by IBM, does IBM then own portions of Windows?
We'll just have to see what the licenses is like or how IBM responds.
"A system for soliciting money and applying monetary incentives to induce political dialog on selected social-economic issues through elected officials".
Then start the lawsuits flying against Lobbiests and Politicians. That will get their attention and prove our point.
Duke moving to Linux .... I see another distro coming in the future.
Blogging isn't journalism, but todays journalism isn't "JOURNALISM" either.
While it is true that Terrorism is asymetrical warfare it is not true that they are waging a lawful or legal law -- and I use the terms lawful and legal very loosely.
The West, as most modern societies do, self-impose basic rules of engagement and behavior. These rules of engagement are based largely on our values system.
This is why the news of captured terrorists being abused in the form of light interogation (light mental and physical discomfort, with no real threat of permanent physical harm) is bigger news and overshadows the video taped beheadings of their captures. This is why we have a different threshold for our behavior vs. their behavior.
When the French were engaged in very similar situation in Algiers, De Gaul was prescience in his conclusion that the French could not win a war against the Islamunist insurgence in Algiers -- not because they didnt' have the firepower and manpower but because the brutality that would have been needed would not have been acceptable by Western standards. So France withdrew and the Islamunists went on to massacre 100's of thousands of unarmed non combatants comprised of 2nd and 3rd generation French colonists, not being contrained by the Wests self-imposed values.
Somewhere in there lies the definition of terrorism, not your simplistic view that it is dependent upon whether they are attacking military targets or civilian targets.
Poppycock, dont' start a post with here are the facts then slip in what is very arguably opinion, the social security plan is in trouble, way trouble and much less then 40 years from now. 40 year estimate is based on todays events and demands -- whenever in history has events and demands *not* changed for the worse.
However, as long as there are Victoria's Secrets and LL Beans, I don't think this is possible.
European courts are some of the most oppressive when it comes to common rights we take for granted.
Here in the U.S it's the people vs. In Europe it's the state vs.
That simple little difference is why I trembled when some of our supreme court justices started quoting current european case law.
Orindarily this would be no problem, however, there are many high levels that take it to an extreme and "camp" low level people just to rack up kills. On a single incident basis, this is no problem because well ... we play the PvP servers for the added excitement and added difficulty it presents, but multiply these incidences by 100X and you can see that it goes from challeging to impossible.
This then becomes a viscious circle as lower people quit because they perceive the system as imbalanced with no hope or opportunity to overcome that imbalance -- leaving only the higher level toons to own the server. Witness Asheron's call 2. PvP population on the servers dwindled from two servers 800 each to two years later where there is one server and the high population is now about 30 people.
There is no risk for higher level toons to PK much lower level toons -- particularly when they really can't be defeated. So, have a bad day at work and go home, log on, and commence the mayhem by killing all the noobs you come across.
One way of dealing with this, which would be very unpopular but nonetheless balance the system is to have PvP servers "PERMA-DEATH". Meaning, you get defeated in PvP and your toon is put back to square one with all your money and bankables taken away. This would give you the politics of PvP, but the actual PvP being the last resort because of the inherent risks involved in losing your toon. This combined with giving even the lowest toon a certain percentage chance to defeat anybody who attacks him, would certainly cut back on the random PvP'ing that ruins the game.