"I found it to be a long waste of time and the people to be a bit clueless....."
I'm still trying to understand how border security is enhanced by searching a hard drive when if I want to get "illegal" information somewhere I could just email myself.
I don't think any mature, relatively educated, and civic-minded citizen disagrees. The problem is when the ideals and procedures for jury duty were written America was mostly an agrarian society, the pace of life was much slower than it is today, and local government made more of a difference in their lives, making it more likely that they would be involved. Today, with federal taxes requiring an accounting degree to be understood, federal regulations of all kinds being part of life, especially if you just want to run a business to make a living, and now a federal mandate as a part of health care, along with whatever else I'm missing that has to do with the feds, life is much more complicated. People just don't have the time. Voting is a big enough hassle, on top of that we need to respond to a summons to be jurists every year or so. Its just too much.
Explain to me how a passenger talking on a cell phone, which would be killed by this jamming, makes anyone any more or less safer? As well as the already discussed problem of your phone being jammed after you've been in an accident...I still see a real problem there. Assuming you were injured but alive crawling far enough away from the car is not going to fly for most folks I think.
She was imprisoned because she is a human rights activist, the joke regarding the anti-Japan demonstrators was only a pretense. The PSC (the Politburo; the Standing Committee of the Communist Party) couldn't care less about a joke that makes fun of people they hate anyway.
"But I would always shy from ever saying that an operating system has all the major features it could ever need."
I would hope not. Constant improvement is always a good thing. For example I can't wait to get my hands on the 200 line kernel scheduling patch announced earlier this week.
"As in looking at the world with your head stuck firmly up your ass."
What do you expect from a society asking for Victor Bout back? This man has said publicly that his fondest wish is that the weapons he sells be used to kill Americans. Now an IT professional in Russia is crying that Linux isn't Russian enough. Well good luck with that. How many man-years and billions of (calculated) dollars were used to develop the Linux kernel? And this Pryanishnikov clown wants to dump it all for not being Russian enough.
Its also funny that he's the head of Microsoft's Russian presence. The man is obviously a clown.
You need to follow the link. Wen said that free speech was important. When Chinese official media distributed his interview, however, his words were removed from the loop. His speech was "harmonized" by the state media outlets. Talk about irony...
"...I love how these articles talk about THEORIES like they are pure facts. "
Not facts, theories. You do however seem to be laboring under some false pretense that scientific method is some kind of ramshackle rim-shot affair, like it doesn't really work, and is only for people who study it. People like you show what an astounding divide exists between science and the lay populace. Not that Science hasn't tried to bridge that divide, People like Sagan and Hawking have tried to do it. Those effort obviously weren't enough. A theory isn't an idea that a person, say YOU, came up with while smoking dope one day and in your haze supposed that an atom in your thumb is like the Solar System.
Most theories are 90% fact. They are fact right up to the point that experiments can be devised to prove them, then there often comes a point where there is no experiment that can be performed to prove it. Take for example relativity; Einstein was able to show that light is bent by gravity because Arthur Eddington went to the North Pole to observe light from a star bent by an eclipse in 1919. Even that wasn't enough; when atomic clocks and jets were invented in the 1950's a further aspect of relativity was shown. In the field of physics, by the way, quantum theory is the most successful theory ever advanced, it explains 95% of every aspect of physics for the topics it covers.
This idea you uneducated wretches have that the empirical method is a bunch of guys in white coats talking about crap is just that, crap. You Don't Know What You're Talking About.
"Then again, I always keep my distance from the Vatican."
Too bad, the Vatican is a warehouse of historical art and documents that span almost 20 centuries, from ancient Celtic gold captured by Roman Emperors to some of the most exquisite illuminated French manuscripts ever known. Sculpture by Michelangelo, paintings by Titian, medieval tryptics chased with gold filigree, original manuscripts by pagan authors such as Plato, Cato, and Virgil... really amazing stuff. But you'll never see it as you have obviously made the wise choice of avoiding Christian Ground Zero. They might zap you with their evil baptism rays. Good for you.
"So, how do you call the power company when the electricity goes out?"
Yeah, good point. I'm going to miss looking up the number for the elec. company in the dark, actually finding the number, then calling up only to get a busy signal. Or a recording telling me that the company is aware of the situation and working on it. Life is in order when I know the elec.. company is on the job.
My company decided to outsource our shipping/warehousing to a company in N. Carolina, and something like 4 or so of our employees in that department agreed to move out there and work for that company as our liaisons. So lack of qualified people wasn't too much of an issue in that case. I wonder how many other companies are dealing with the qualified candidate issue in that way?
Well, here in the states you pretty much have to bite the bullet and pay Microsoft's ransom and get your netbook pre-loaded. Some manufacturers used to install a little application that asked you to agree to Microsoft's EULA before the starting the desktop, which you could then deny and have a chance at getting your license money back, but I've purchased three netbooks from various manufacturers in the last few years and none of them had the app. I just grit my teeth and blow Microsoft away. Anyone who says Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly is blind.
A few years ago I stumbled upon a web site that sold ultra-light laptops that specialized in linux on their machines but were still much more expensive than I could afford, I think they were in the realm of $800-1000 so I never purchased and I've forgotten their url, some kind of letter-number combination, like pc2049.com or something. I wish I still had that url so I could see what they are charging for those machine today.
Yeah, symbols are powerful. I once bought a t-shirt with a sort logo-like cartoon of a baker man with the logo "Freshly Baked" underneath. The VERY NEXT DAY I was shooting heroin and selling my underage sister for drug money. The shirt was obviously the work of Satan and the reason I'm now posting on/. from underneath an overpass bridge in my underwear.
"The world was abuzz with HTML5 and Silverlight innuendo after the SL platform was all but ignored at PDC10. Silverlight developers were furious over what they deemed to be something of a betrayal by Microsoft, nullifying endless hard work."
...so can some one explain to me in simple terms why developing a tablet pc seems to take as much effort as the Manhattan project? Are we really talking about cutting-edge, rocket science or what?
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"I found it to be a long waste of time and the people to be a bit clueless....."
I'm still trying to understand how border security is enhanced by searching a hard drive when if I want to get "illegal" information somewhere I could just email myself.
"Voting is a "hassle"?"
Go ahead, ignore the rest of my post to make your point, all the liberals are doing it.
"...being on a jury is not a bad thing."
I don't think any mature, relatively educated, and civic-minded citizen disagrees. The problem is when the ideals and procedures for jury duty were written America was mostly an agrarian society, the pace of life was much slower than it is today, and local government made more of a difference in their lives, making it more likely that they would be involved. Today, with federal taxes requiring an accounting degree to be understood, federal regulations of all kinds being part of life, especially if you just want to run a business to make a living, and now a federal mandate as a part of health care, along with whatever else I'm missing that has to do with the feds, life is much more complicated. People just don't have the time. Voting is a big enough hassle, on top of that we need to respond to a summons to be jurists every year or so. Its just too much.
It would be if anyone liked speed metal.
Explain to me how a passenger talking on a cell phone, which would be killed by this jamming, makes anyone any more or less safer? As well as the already discussed problem of your phone being jammed after you've been in an accident...I still see a real problem there. Assuming you were injured but alive crawling far enough away from the car is not going to fly for most folks I think.
"Why would you want to drive something that's more damaging to the environment than fossil fuel vehicles?"
Just get on your skateboard and move along ya damned hippie.
She was imprisoned because she is a human rights activist, the joke regarding the anti-Japan demonstrators was only a pretense. The PSC (the Politburo; the Standing Committee of the Communist Party) couldn't care less about a joke that makes fun of people they hate anyway.
"But I would always shy from ever saying that an operating system has all the major features it could ever need."
I would hope not. Constant improvement is always a good thing. For example I can't wait to get my hands on the 200 line kernel scheduling patch announced earlier this week.
"As in looking at the world with your head stuck firmly up your ass."
What do you expect from a society asking for Victor Bout back? This man has said publicly that his fondest wish is that the weapons he sells be used to kill Americans. Now an IT professional in Russia is crying that Linux isn't Russian enough. Well good luck with that. How many man-years and billions of (calculated) dollars were used to develop the Linux kernel? And this Pryanishnikov clown wants to dump it all for not being Russian enough.
Its also funny that he's the head of Microsoft's Russian presence. The man is obviously a clown.
You need to follow the link. Wen said that free speech was important. When Chinese official media distributed his interview, however, his words were removed from the loop. His speech was "harmonized" by the state media outlets. Talk about irony...
"...I love how these articles talk about THEORIES like they are pure facts. "
Not facts, theories. You do however seem to be laboring under some false pretense that scientific method is some kind of ramshackle rim-shot affair, like it doesn't really work, and is only for people who study it. People like you show what an astounding divide exists between science and the lay populace. Not that Science hasn't tried to bridge that divide, People like Sagan and Hawking have tried to do it. Those effort obviously weren't enough. A theory isn't an idea that a person, say YOU, came up with while smoking dope one day and in your haze supposed that an atom in your thumb is like the Solar System.
Most theories are 90% fact. They are fact right up to the point that experiments can be devised to prove them, then there often comes a point where there is no experiment that can be performed to prove it. Take for example relativity; Einstein was able to show that light is bent by gravity because Arthur Eddington went to the North Pole to observe light from a star bent by an eclipse in 1919. Even that wasn't enough; when atomic clocks and jets were invented in the 1950's a further aspect of relativity was shown. In the field of physics, by the way, quantum theory is the most successful theory ever advanced, it explains 95% of every aspect of physics for the topics it covers.
This idea you uneducated wretches have that the empirical method is a bunch of guys in white coats talking about crap is just that, crap. You Don't Know What You're Talking About.
"Then again, I always keep my distance from the Vatican."
Too bad, the Vatican is a warehouse of historical art and documents that span almost 20 centuries, from ancient Celtic gold captured by Roman Emperors to some of the most exquisite illuminated French manuscripts ever known. Sculpture by Michelangelo, paintings by Titian, medieval tryptics chased with gold filigree, original manuscripts by pagan authors such as Plato, Cato, and Virgil... really amazing stuff. But you'll never see it as you have obviously made the wise choice of avoiding Christian Ground Zero. They might zap you with their evil baptism rays. Good for you.
Not in the market right now, but I'll try to remember your suggestions, thanks.
"So, how do you call the power company when the electricity goes out?"
Yeah, good point. I'm going to miss looking up the number for the elec. company in the dark, actually finding the number, then calling up only to get a busy signal. Or a recording telling me that the company is aware of the situation and working on it. Life is in order when I know the elec.. company is on the job.
I've been tossing them out whenever they arrive on my doorstep for years. Big, massive, pains in the ass.
My company decided to outsource our shipping/warehousing to a company in N. Carolina, and something like 4 or so of our employees in that department agreed to move out there and work for that company as our liaisons. So lack of qualified people wasn't too much of an issue in that case. I wonder how many other companies are dealing with the qualified candidate issue in that way?
Well, here in the states you pretty much have to bite the bullet and pay Microsoft's ransom and get your netbook pre-loaded. Some manufacturers used to install a little application that asked you to agree to Microsoft's EULA before the starting the desktop, which you could then deny and have a chance at getting your license money back, but I've purchased three netbooks from various manufacturers in the last few years and none of them had the app. I just grit my teeth and blow Microsoft away. Anyone who says Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly is blind.
A few years ago I stumbled upon a web site that sold ultra-light laptops that specialized in linux on their machines but were still much more expensive than I could afford, I think they were in the realm of $800-1000 so I never purchased and I've forgotten their url, some kind of letter-number combination, like pc2049.com or something. I wish I still had that url so I could see what they are charging for those machine today.
Yeah, symbols are powerful. I once bought a t-shirt with a sort logo-like cartoon of a baker man with the logo "Freshly Baked" underneath. The VERY NEXT DAY I was shooting heroin and selling my underage sister for drug money. The shirt was obviously the work of Satan and the reason I'm now posting on /. from underneath an overpass bridge in my underwear.
Remember "Burn the money on marketing now, reap the profits later."? And how pre-IPOs were so proud of their burn rates...
Japanese, agreed. And C/C++ and firmware work.
Can decisions be labeled as bad if the majority of the public believes them to be bad? Such can be argued for this E. Texas Court.
The names were probably better before Microsoft acquired Danger, Inc. Hiptop & Sidekick are slightly better than "KIN". I suppose. Whatever.
Whether Silverlight
"The world was abuzz with HTML5 and Silverlight innuendo after the SL platform was all but ignored at PDC10. Silverlight developers were furious over what they deemed to be something of a betrayal by Microsoft, nullifying endless hard work."
...so can some one explain to me in simple terms why developing a tablet pc seems to take as much effort as the Manhattan project? Are we really talking about cutting-edge, rocket science or what?
Yeah. Long live steam. The only drm I would say that about.