It's another case of the broken window economic fallacy. If more people receiving health care is what's helping keep the economy afloat, that's not a good thing. The money wasted on $100 boxes of Kleenex and $2000 short ambulance rides (don't laugh, it's the truth!) is money that couldn't have been spent elsewhere on better things.
Further:
Despite the splashy success of companies such as Google (GOOG ) and Yahoo! (YHOO ), businesses at the core of the information economy -- software, semiconductors, telecom, and the whole gamut of Web companies -- have lost more than 1.1 million jobs in the past five years.
Isn't this a good thing generally? These people are being displaced to do other, more important work. Information technology should, in general, not be a boom industry anymore. The tools are becoming good enough to displace human labor. Let more software and computers do work that people in IT used to do, and let them go work in the health care industry where mechanization has less benefit or opportunity.
What would happen if you walked in, ticked your name off, then didn't vote and just wrote "Screw you!" on the ballot paper. It's a secret ballot, right? So you didn't vote, but.. you kinda did. That's what I'd do.
There's nothing really in real life that inherently 'supports banking'. Putting your money in the bank is, for all intents and purposes, like handing over unsecured amounts of money. Of course, laws and institutions have built up around this to provide a more secure framework, but at the end of the day.. you're putting something at risk.
I guess I'm in a third camp then. Generally I have a very loose touch on the mouse, thumb down the left, two smallest fingers touching the right hand side with a finger resting on the button. I find that smaller mice result in the gap between thumb and small finger being too short and it gets crampy. The hand needs to be spread out, ideally.
I'm a big Apple fan and tend to buy most of their stuff. I bought the Mighty Mouse against my better judgement (simply because it was the cool thing to buy and my Mac friends kept saying it was great) and.. I forced myself to use it for a few months. I kinda got used to it, but eventually I caved in and switched back to my Microsoft Mouse.. Why?
* Too small and painful. I have pretty small hands, but the MM is still too short. My hand was falling off the back and causing me to adopt an awkward position.
* You can't press left and right buttons at the same time! Absolutely useless for gaming, although admittedly you don't need to do this anywhere else (that I'm aware of).
* Squeeze click is too sensitive. I'm a light touch but I kept triggering it. I ended up removing the functionality of that 'button' to stop it annoying me.
* Cable is ridiculously short. Fine with a Mac keyboard, but no good without an extension cable in most other configurations.
On the plus side?
* Mouse wheel. The middle wheel is very cool. It's great to be able to scroll in full 2D. And, um.. that's it.
Oh, it's also expensive, but that's not a reason why I'd avoid it. I'll pay for something good, but it's simply not.
Does this mean you have to be extra careful holding the mouse, because if you hold it just a little too tight, it will go into some other mode?
Yep, indeed you do. I'm a pretty light touch on the mouse, but I kept triggering it all the time. I undefined that 'button' and it was fine. A month later I ditched the Mighty Mouse (for other reasons), I think it's a crappy mouse (too small, painful to use for long periods of time due to the shape, can't press left AND right button at the same time..)
I was almost about to whip out the credit card ready for the event when I realized this wasn't the keyboard I thought it was. I got it confused with the Optimus keyboard, the one with a color TFT in every single key for key redefinition:) This one looks kinda dull. Bah:(
The "unstable" distribution is where active development of Debian occurs. Generally, this distribution is run by developers and those who like to live on the edge.
I'd say Steve Jobs is responsible for 100% of Apple's wealth, considering he created and drove the company and all.. and then, even when he wasn't in charge, it started to go downhill, until he came back and turned it around.
Using your logic, you can put practically any idea down to a single number, via text. You could convert a song into a number or a photo into a number and claim that you're merely telling people a number rather than actually copying Metallica's latest MP3 around.
Of course, you'd be clearly trying to cover something up, and they'd be able to prove it. The law is imprecise at the best of times, so applying strict logic to its potential is like trying to divine a law of how women work.
Supposedly they're also considering an "ASBO" channel, where people with anti-social behavior orders served upon them are shown. Combine this with the 10 'tip-off' rewards (where you get 10 if you text the police with crime tip-offs) and the CCTV channel, you could make a killing sitting at home, looking for 13-year-olds who've broken the terms of their ASBOs, and cash in via text message. Financial traders have moved from working at the exchange to trading on the Internet from home.. perhaps a whole new generation of telecommuting snitches and crime fighters will come along in the next twenty years?
I'm no battery expert, but isn't energy in a battery chemical energy? If so, what's to stop there being an 'electricity station' which merely sucks out your battery's chemicals and pumping in some fully charged chemicals? Just wondering.
They're right. I remember hordes of people saying "Vista" was a stupid name for the next Microsoft OS, and I thought it was pretty stupid too, but now it doesn't seem out of the ordinary. What about "Virgin"? Pretty funny the first few times you hear it, but it soon takes on a life of its own.
I seem to recall that something similar to this was brought up a few months ago here at Slashdot and several seemingly very intelligent posters made citations and pointed out that the amount of uranium we have available that can be processed will last for only a very limited timespan and that nuclear perhaps isn't the best way to go.
Of course, there's always the "we'll run out of oil by 1995" theories running around, but the arguments seemed quite compelling. I can't find them again now, but what's the real deal with this? If the whole world went nuclear, would we all be desperate for sources of uranium in fifty years' time?
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It's another case of the broken window economic fallacy. If more people receiving health care is what's helping keep the economy afloat, that's not a good thing. The money wasted on $100 boxes of Kleenex and $2000 short ambulance rides (don't laugh, it's the truth!) is money that couldn't have been spent elsewhere on better things.
Further:
Despite the splashy success of companies such as Google (GOOG ) and Yahoo! (YHOO ), businesses at the core of the information economy -- software, semiconductors, telecom, and the whole gamut of Web companies -- have lost more than 1.1 million jobs in the past five years.
Isn't this a good thing generally? These people are being displaced to do other, more important work. Information technology should, in general, not be a boom industry anymore. The tools are becoming good enough to displace human labor. Let more software and computers do work that people in IT used to do, and let them go work in the health care industry where mechanization has less benefit or opportunity.
What would happen if you walked in, ticked your name off, then didn't vote and just wrote "Screw you!" on the ballot paper. It's a secret ballot, right? So you didn't vote, but.. you kinda did. That's what I'd do.
iTerm. Just Google it :) It's the same as Terminal, but with tabs.
It's important to remember in all this that the guy who was continuing to use the Commodore 64 was a pedophile with severe mental disorders.
Yep, I bet we'll have a 'Report as Terrorist' icon soon too. And we know how lax the definition of 'terrorism' is in the Terrorism Act here in the UK.
There's nothing really in real life that inherently 'supports banking'. Putting your money in the bank is, for all intents and purposes, like handing over unsecured amounts of money. Of course, laws and institutions have built up around this to provide a more secure framework, but at the end of the day.. you're putting something at risk.
Years ago we had these digital speedometers that used a magnet on the wheel to detect speed. No need for GPS nonsense.
Slashdot gets 73.5% of its science and tech news from there so it has to be good. Ronald Piquepaille's Technology Trends.
Nothing to see here..
to Code Snippets. :) Blatant ad, I know.
I guess I'm in a third camp then. Generally I have a very loose touch on the mouse, thumb down the left, two smallest fingers touching the right hand side with a finger resting on the button. I find that smaller mice result in the gap between thumb and small finger being too short and it gets crampy. The hand needs to be spread out, ideally.
I'm a big Apple fan and tend to buy most of their stuff. I bought the Mighty Mouse against my better judgement (simply because it was the cool thing to buy and my Mac friends kept saying it was great) and.. I forced myself to use it for a few months. I kinda got used to it, but eventually I caved in and switched back to my Microsoft Mouse.. Why?
* Too small and painful. I have pretty small hands, but the MM is still too short. My hand was falling off the back and causing me to adopt an awkward position.
* You can't press left and right buttons at the same time! Absolutely useless for gaming, although admittedly you don't need to do this anywhere else (that I'm aware of).
* Squeeze click is too sensitive. I'm a light touch but I kept triggering it. I ended up removing the functionality of that 'button' to stop it annoying me.
* Cable is ridiculously short. Fine with a Mac keyboard, but no good without an extension cable in most other configurations.
On the plus side?
* Mouse wheel. The middle wheel is very cool. It's great to be able to scroll in full 2D. And, um.. that's it.
Oh, it's also expensive, but that's not a reason why I'd avoid it. I'll pay for something good, but it's simply not.
Does this mean you have to be extra careful holding the mouse, because if you hold it just a little too tight, it will go into some other mode?
Yep, indeed you do. I'm a pretty light touch on the mouse, but I kept triggering it all the time. I undefined that 'button' and it was fine. A month later I ditched the Mighty Mouse (for other reasons), I think it's a crappy mouse (too small, painful to use for long periods of time due to the shape, can't press left AND right button at the same time..)
I was almost about to whip out the credit card ready for the event when I realized this wasn't the keyboard I thought it was. I got it confused with the Optimus keyboard, the one with a color TFT in every single key for key redefinition :) This one looks kinda dull. Bah :(
The "unstable" distribution is where active development of Debian occurs. Generally, this distribution is run by developers and those who like to live on the edge.
:)
That's what you get for running UNSTABLE
I'd say Steve Jobs is responsible for 100% of Apple's wealth, considering he created and drove the company and all.. and then, even when he wasn't in charge, it started to go downhill, until he came back and turned it around.
Using your logic, you can put practically any idea down to a single number, via text. You could convert a song into a number or a photo into a number and claim that you're merely telling people a number rather than actually copying Metallica's latest MP3 around.
Of course, you'd be clearly trying to cover something up, and they'd be able to prove it. The law is imprecise at the best of times, so applying strict logic to its potential is like trying to divine a law of how women work.
Supposedly they're also considering an "ASBO" channel, where people with anti-social behavior orders served upon them are shown. Combine this with the 10 'tip-off' rewards (where you get 10 if you text the police with crime tip-offs) and the CCTV channel, you could make a killing sitting at home, looking for 13-year-olds who've broken the terms of their ASBOs, and cash in via text message. Financial traders have moved from working at the exchange to trading on the Internet from home.. perhaps a whole new generation of telecommuting snitches and crime fighters will come along in the next twenty years?
I'm no battery expert, but isn't energy in a battery chemical energy? If so, what's to stop there being an 'electricity station' which merely sucks out your battery's chemicals and pumping in some fully charged chemicals? Just wondering.
They're right. I remember hordes of people saying "Vista" was a stupid name for the next Microsoft OS, and I thought it was pretty stupid too, but now it doesn't seem out of the ordinary. What about "Virgin"? Pretty funny the first few times you hear it, but it soon takes on a life of its own.
I'd rather have the 7337135 than the 1337 any day!
Here's another one.. the Toyota MR2 in France.
M R 2 = French pronunciation = "emm ehr douh" (sort of)
Anyway, it sounds somewhat like the word "merde", which means "shit" in French.
The main character.
The name is in Kill Bill 2, but it's also in Kill Bill 1 on the plane tickets if you look carefully.
I don't really know about Lara Croft, but I'd say I felt this for Beatrix Kiddo in Kill Bill. I was like, whoa.. I really want this chick to kick ass!
I seem to recall that something similar to this was brought up a few months ago here at Slashdot and several seemingly very intelligent posters made citations and pointed out that the amount of uranium we have available that can be processed will last for only a very limited timespan and that nuclear perhaps isn't the best way to go.
Of course, there's always the "we'll run out of oil by 1995" theories running around, but the arguments seemed quite compelling. I can't find them again now, but what's the real deal with this? If the whole world went nuclear, would we all be desperate for sources of uranium in fifty years' time?