Then there's the geography. You have a beach right in front of it, yet huge mountains like the murderhorn and a skiing resort right behind it. And somewhere near is also a desert and what seems to be some kind of swamp/jungle and a seriously huge forest. It's equally close to Mexico and Canada.
Sounds like Oregon. Ocean going into forest (and probably some swamps) into mountains with ski resorts and then desert on the other side of the mountains, also about equidistant from Canada and Mexico (along I5).
Why is nobody ever specific on what they find so frightening about his policies? Is the Constitution frightening? His positions are basically the positions of the founding fathers.
Even the founding fathers had strict and loose constitutionalists among them. Basically, Ron Paul seems to be a strict constitutionalist that wants to come in and get rid of everything that doesn't fit into that despite centuries of case law while forgetting the problems that caused these things to be put into place to begin with. I wouldn't mind a bent towards that but really, I fear he would do all those changes he could imediately and believe that any such drastic changes will cause more trouble that they'll solve.
Considering the traditional meaning of 'hobo' was a transient male worker that moved across the country from low paying job to low paying job, there probably are a lot of them on/. but we just call them 'application consultants' now.
Depends on what one means by "renaissance". Will Kickstarter see a large boost for unknowns making new games for the first time? Maybe, it will help get some ideas done that otherwise never would have seen the day, (see Diaspora), but I doubt it will cause a huge increase in such. What I think we will be, and are, seeing is a large influx of established games and designers creating new work that otherwise wouldn't have ever seen the light of day. With the one and a quarter of a million that The Order of the Stick Reprint Drive made, I think we are already seeing this in the table top gaming community. Now other games companies are pulling out old favorites and using Kickstarter to judge interest and essentially get pre-sales for a product. We are seeing the same thing with the Shadowrun Returns game by the original designers. I'm hearing the same sort of things from friends who are comic book fans about new and old comic book projects. For what are essentially cottage industries with fans, I think it will help a great deal as one can essentially take a lot of risk out of guessing if something will sale enough to make the money back.
Personally, I'm beginning to really get into Kickstarter. New creative projects that I can not only look at getting, but if I really like it could even pay more for extras or even for things like getting myself added as a character in the video game. Some of the projects are small endevors that I want, but the larger demand just isn't there for. If I had to rely on brick and mortar stores or even the internet for such products to get produced, I'd probably never get them. With Kickstarter, a project can get the funding for it to fill what demand there is even if it's not enough to be sustainable for wide distribution.
I am not a musician - But my understanding is that musicians and bands make most of their money by touring.
I'm not a musician either, but I know a few of them and have heard them talking to their musician friends. Touring combined with product sales probably does out weigh the money from straight records sales via other avenues, however, I've heard them say that "any attempt to look at the money making side of music as anything other than licencing, is just delusion". Simply put, that the money involved in licensing a song to a game, commercial, movies, etc far outweighs the money involved in touring and related product sales. Of course, the conversation went on into how many musicians don't set things up to do that, and how hard it is to get that money (instead of a studio), but that's where the money is.
I ran a poker game for about 6 years. I have seen this before. Its not probability that failed, its your use of it that did. Low probability events happen with great regularity on the long run. A poker player that is willing to bet his entire stack on anything less than the nuts, even if there is only one hand out of the enitire deck that could beat him.... if he sees that situation enough times, he will still loose that hand that one time out of 250 or so.
Reminds me of a card trick/joke I always do. You have somebody draw from a deck of cards, look at it, then put it back. Then you start cutting the deck, counting cards into different piles, and otherwise doing weird things till the person is confused and can see no possible way that this could work. You then pull a card out of the deck and say "Is this your card?" If it is, they're surprised and you get to act smug with the card trick, and if it isn't you get to joke "Oh well, it works 1 out of 52 times."
Why do you nuke shills still pretend that Fukushima was not important or disastrous? Don't you realize it makes you look like total idiots? You may as well tattoo "my opinion is not worth listening to" on your forehead.
It's not that Fukushima isn't important, but its that we are worrying about contamination and performing evacuations to prevent the loss of life that we already are seeing in the coal industry. You have to decide what is important to you, saving lives, saving lives cause by one type of energy production, or just the cheapest energy in whatever metric (money, land, etc) you find important. If we were to switch all coal to nuclear, I'll go ahead and say other accidents will happen, there will be some evacuations, but there will probably be less deaths even in the long run overall.
Obama, too polar, you either love him or hate him, sort of the Apple of the political world.
Something I really don't understand is that those people who loved George W. Bush now totally hate this Obama Bush.
I don't think the unusual thing is that people are liked Bush don't like Obama, but rather that people who like Obama liked Bush back then. Things are usually polarized along party lines, but even the liberals I knew were happy there was an aggressive Texan as President after 9/11,...at least for a little while.
Yes humans created the domestic cat as surely as we created the domestic dog...
Last I heard, the current theory is that the cat actually domesticated itself. Unlike the dog which man did actively do selective breeding, cats did it themselves. Humans created settlements, which stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats, which people encouraged to stay to kill more rodents. Those cats that got along with humans did prosper and became domesticated. Thinking about it, this really does seem to explain a great deal about cat behavior.
Well, you're a basket case if you think anything resembling the "species" will still be around in cosmic time scales. There were no humans around a million years ago, what makes you think there will in a million?
And what makes you think we have the energy to sustain anything close to what we have enjoyed for the past 150 years ????
We'll all be right here, on this "basket".
Idiot.
Well, there were our ancestors around a million years ago, stands to reason that our descendants will be around in another million years. Unless, of course, you're claiming we're only 6,000 years old and the apocalypse is coming.
There will still be a sun in another 150 years. There's plenty of energy coming from it to supply us with what we'd need for a decent life. It already supplies a large fraction of the earth's current energy budget through hydro (1/5 for the US). Then there's wind followed by other types of solar. Coal looks like it will last for another 150 years. Then, if we wanted to go to space based energy gathering schemes, there's effectivly limitless energy. Even if we reduced out energy usage to 20% of what it is now, I'm pretty sure we'd have a better sustainable standard of living than 50 years ago, let alone 150.
We are all in this basket, and lots of things, both good and bad, can happen in cosmic time scales, but your outlook on things seems to be lacking any sort of sustainable argument.
Well, there are lots of Southern Drawls. Southern Belle style accent is probably what you are thinking about. There is quite a bit of difference between that and an Arkansas drawl. Some Kentuckians I have met not only had an accent but also a cadence and way of speaking in normal conversation that made them sound like they should be an actor in Deadwood. Texas can be stereotypical Texan invoking big hats, cowboy boots and guns but listen to King of the Hill if you get it non-dubbed for real Texas speech, and there are people who speak just like Boomhauer. I can't understand what they are saying even through I'm from OK, but others can. I'm sure there are plenty of accents in the eastern side of the South which I'm no familiar with also.
Not just that. Initiatives like Fairtrade have made a lot of farmers shift from growing food for local consumption to growing things like roses and coffee for export. Guaranteeing a price above the market value of these crops made them a lot more lucrative.
Thing is, I don't believe you. You sounds like a free market wing nut, but I went to check out Fairtrade stuff over on Wikipedia. Certainly it seems at first to be what you say as the body of the description talks a great deal about how only exporters get an more money for the same product just to put the Fairtrade label on stuff. However, when I started clicking on links to the actual groups that certify Fairtrade (and there are lots of them and I didn't check them all), they all seem to have a mechanism to make sure that the actual farmers and workers share in that money. Even the WTO standard has social elements in it to make sure the growers share in the money. I sense more free market wing nuts playing around with Wilipedia to prove their point.
Still, I don't care much more than to look that much up, because I put my vote to Africa needing some sort of stable government and society first before any aid, market forces, or plan could take effect. We could feed all of them already for free, and probably would, if we could be sure the food would actually go to feeding starving people.
An honest question...why respond to a comment without even fucking reading it?
I read it, but I just don't believe it. It was essentially telling people to quit their jobs and become sustenance farmers again. I doubt if a farmer can make more growing food rather than a cash crop, they would continue to grow the cash crop. Plus, they only suggested stopping the purchase of Fairtrade goods, but not explotativly raised non-fairtrade goods, as if that would help anybody but the few who don't give a rat's ass about those working for them to begin with. I highly doubt that cutting off people from outside trade and making them all sustenance farmers hoping they don't starve with the next season is the answer.
I don't understand it. They are pretty small as is. What's the point of making them smaller?...so they're easier to lose the few times people have to handle them...like when they get a new phone or transfer there SIM for whatever reason?
The micro-SIM is small, but it's still the largest thing on the iPhone motherboard, larger than the A5 chip. Cut it by 30% and that's enough room to shrink the motherboard for a larger battery or add another chip for more features.
To be more specific, you can bring drinks on, but they have to be purchased after security check. Otherwise, they still have to meet the 3oz. rule.
Luckily, those little airplane bottles of alcohol which liquor stores also sale, are below the 3oz size (and cheaper than the drinks on American airlines).
If you take Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and make them aliens instead, you kind of just ditched half the title right there; they're no longer mutants, or turtles. For that matter, they may not qualify as teenagers, and can an alien really be a ninja?
They have long dealt with this sort of issue in the X-Men comics. The standard explanation is that they are aliens, but they are mutants of their own alien race, usually in lacking the race's usual homicidal tendencies. Thus Warlock and Broo can end up being in the X-Men because, although they are an alien race, they still end up being 'mutants'. So the turtles will still end up being teenagers and mutants, and such will probably be why they are forced to live on Earth by their alien race.
I learned the hard way that the usefulness of tablets is purely a marketing creation. They look like they have potential, but in practice they're just the combination of the worst of every other type of computer or computing device.
No, you learned the hard way that you are long to look and quick to jump and now have buyer's remorse. If you don't find it useful, sell it and stop your bitching for your own mistake.
I find mine very useful for my purposes. It makes a wonderful presentation device for an artist's portfolio. It's lighter than an laptop or print portfolio and you can bring up what you want to show people and hand it to them to look at in about any situation. Book readers might be better for ebooks, for full color PDFs, especially magazines and non-paperback format books, it works much better than smaller book readers. They also make better reading and game devices than laptops on plane flights. For that matter, if I don't have to download photos or burn CDs, it does everything I'd want a laptop for while on vacation for less than a third of the space and weight. But mainly, it's all about magazines as they are seemingly going to PDF format from paper and not only can it hold about as many as I could ever own, but makes a much better reader than laptop for carrying around and using.
People who still reduce Apple's strength(s) to marketing will never understand why they have been successful.
Here I want to both agree with you and disagree with you. That people who reduce Apple's strengths to Marketing will never understand why they are successful is true, but not because that is false, but because they have no idea of what marketing is. Marketing is not advertising. Marketing also includes figuring out what the market wants, building a good product to appease the market, and then presenting it, including advertising, to the market so they buy it. It is a combination of telling the people what they want along with the fact that it is actually what they want. Apple is successful 'because of marketing', but the people who use that phase usually have no idea what even wikipedia says about 'Marketing".
I still don't understand why no one has done a thin client tablet, with the real horsepower being a server, or even just server software, sitting on your home network somewhere. Most everyone has a desktop or laptop with multiple times more computing power than a tablet. Use wireless N to get the speeds you need for input and display and you could have 10 tablets for $50 each running off a single PC shoved in a closet somewhere. Yeah, no portability, but portability isn't the be all end all for many users.
Because thin clients suck and you're never going to get the case, screen, ram, and even minimal hardware to run a thin client for $50 less than the full tablet let alone total. Add in that the case you propose, use in a limited manner around a computer with wireless is such a limited feature that you'd never sell enough to get economy of manufacturing. Maybe if wireless were ubiquitous in all situations, but it's not, and probably never will be if you are talking about free open wireless. Still, it all goes back to that for the price of a thin client, you can usually have the real thing that doesn't stop working if you lose your single point of failure at the server (at the long line of other single points of failure such as the wireless).
Of course, I'm biased because I've been hearing about thin clients for the last 15 years and why they should replace PCs, and each case I've seen implimented has been a complete failure where PCs would have worked better and cheaper.
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Too much politics here creeping on this site.
Preach brother.
Hey! We don't want any religion either!
Then there's the geography. You have a beach right in front of it, yet huge mountains like the murderhorn and a skiing resort right behind it. And somewhere near is also a desert and what seems to be some kind of swamp/jungle and a seriously huge forest. It's equally close to Mexico and Canada.
Sounds like Oregon. Ocean going into forest (and probably some swamps) into mountains with ski resorts and then desert on the other side of the mountains, also about equidistant from Canada and Mexico (along I5).
Why is nobody ever specific on what they find so frightening about his policies? Is the Constitution frightening? His positions are basically the positions of the founding fathers.
Even the founding fathers had strict and loose constitutionalists among them. Basically, Ron Paul seems to be a strict constitutionalist that wants to come in and get rid of everything that doesn't fit into that despite centuries of case law while forgetting the problems that caused these things to be put into place to begin with. I wouldn't mind a bent towards that but really, I fear he would do all those changes he could imediately and believe that any such drastic changes will cause more trouble that they'll solve.
I'm not even convinced he was trying to be deceptive. Maybe the AC simply doesn't get it.
Not surprising if they can't even figure out how to create an account and log in.
Dialup... service? What is this?
It's like the Internet on your Droid, but it's over a landline and you use a computer instead of a smart phone.
It's tethering your desktop computer with your land line phone.
Considering the traditional meaning of 'hobo' was a transient male worker that moved across the country from low paying job to low paying job, there probably are a lot of them on /. but we just call them 'application consultants' now.
Depends on what one means by "renaissance". Will Kickstarter see a large boost for unknowns making new games for the first time? Maybe, it will help get some ideas done that otherwise never would have seen the day, (see Diaspora), but I doubt it will cause a huge increase in such. What I think we will be, and are, seeing is a large influx of established games and designers creating new work that otherwise wouldn't have ever seen the light of day. With the one and a quarter of a million that The Order of the Stick Reprint Drive made, I think we are already seeing this in the table top gaming community. Now other games companies are pulling out old favorites and using Kickstarter to judge interest and essentially get pre-sales for a product. We are seeing the same thing with the Shadowrun Returns game by the original designers. I'm hearing the same sort of things from friends who are comic book fans about new and old comic book projects. For what are essentially cottage industries with fans, I think it will help a great deal as one can essentially take a lot of risk out of guessing if something will sale enough to make the money back.
Personally, I'm beginning to really get into Kickstarter. New creative projects that I can not only look at getting, but if I really like it could even pay more for extras or even for things like getting myself added as a character in the video game. Some of the projects are small endevors that I want, but the larger demand just isn't there for. If I had to rely on brick and mortar stores or even the internet for such products to get produced, I'd probably never get them. With Kickstarter, a project can get the funding for it to fill what demand there is even if it's not enough to be sustainable for wide distribution.
I am not a musician - But my understanding is that musicians and bands make most of their money by touring.
I'm not a musician either, but I know a few of them and have heard them talking to their musician friends. Touring combined with product sales probably does out weigh the money from straight records sales via other avenues, however, I've heard them say that "any attempt to look at the money making side of music as anything other than licencing, is just delusion". Simply put, that the money involved in licensing a song to a game, commercial, movies, etc far outweighs the money involved in touring and related product sales. Of course, the conversation went on into how many musicians don't set things up to do that, and how hard it is to get that money (instead of a studio), but that's where the money is.
I ran a poker game for about 6 years. I have seen this before. Its not probability that failed, its your use of it that did. Low probability events happen with great regularity on the long run. A poker player that is willing to bet his entire stack on anything less than the nuts, even if there is only one hand out of the enitire deck that could beat him.... if he sees that situation enough times, he will still loose that hand that one time out of 250 or so.
Reminds me of a card trick/joke I always do. You have somebody draw from a deck of cards, look at it, then put it back. Then you start cutting the deck, counting cards into different piles, and otherwise doing weird things till the person is confused and can see no possible way that this could work. You then pull a card out of the deck and say "Is this your card?" If it is, they're surprised and you get to act smug with the card trick, and if it isn't you get to joke "Oh well, it works 1 out of 52 times."
It's not that Fukushima isn't important, but its that we are worrying about contamination and performing evacuations to prevent the loss of life that we already are seeing in the coal industry. You have to decide what is important to you, saving lives, saving lives cause by one type of energy production, or just the cheapest energy in whatever metric (money, land, etc) you find important. If we were to switch all coal to nuclear, I'll go ahead and say other accidents will happen, there will be some evacuations, but there will probably be less deaths even in the long run overall.
This just offended or confused 90% of the MAC users
The fact that you wrote Mac as MAC offended or confused an even higher percentage of Mac users.
How do you know that he wasn't actually talking about users of a certain Canadian cosmetic brand?
Obama, too polar, you either love him or hate him, sort of the Apple of the political world.
Something I really don't understand is that those people who loved George W. Bush now totally hate this Obama Bush.
I don't think the unusual thing is that people are liked Bush don't like Obama, but rather that people who like Obama liked Bush back then. Things are usually polarized along party lines, but even the liberals I knew were happy there was an aggressive Texan as President after 9/11, ...at least for a little while.
WTF? Where the hell did that come from?
Yes humans created the domestic cat as surely as we created the domestic dog...
Last I heard, the current theory is that the cat actually domesticated itself. Unlike the dog which man did actively do selective breeding, cats did it themselves. Humans created settlements, which stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats, which people encouraged to stay to kill more rodents. Those cats that got along with humans did prosper and became domesticated. Thinking about it, this really does seem to explain a great deal about cat behavior.
Well, you're a basket case if you think anything resembling the "species" will still be around in cosmic time scales. There were no humans around a million years ago, what makes you think there will in a million? And what makes you think we have the energy to sustain anything close to what we have enjoyed for the past 150 years ???? We'll all be right here, on this "basket". Idiot.
Well, there were our ancestors around a million years ago, stands to reason that our descendants will be around in another million years. Unless, of course, you're claiming we're only 6,000 years old and the apocalypse is coming.
There will still be a sun in another 150 years. There's plenty of energy coming from it to supply us with what we'd need for a decent life. It already supplies a large fraction of the earth's current energy budget through hydro (1/5 for the US). Then there's wind followed by other types of solar. Coal looks like it will last for another 150 years. Then, if we wanted to go to space based energy gathering schemes, there's effectivly limitless energy. Even if we reduced out energy usage to 20% of what it is now, I'm pretty sure we'd have a better sustainable standard of living than 50 years ago, let alone 150.
We are all in this basket, and lots of things, both good and bad, can happen in cosmic time scales, but your outlook on things seems to be lacking any sort of sustainable argument.
Well, there are lots of Southern Drawls. Southern Belle style accent is probably what you are thinking about. There is quite a bit of difference between that and an Arkansas drawl. Some Kentuckians I have met not only had an accent but also a cadence and way of speaking in normal conversation that made them sound like they should be an actor in Deadwood. Texas can be stereotypical Texan invoking big hats, cowboy boots and guns but listen to King of the Hill if you get it non-dubbed for real Texas speech, and there are people who speak just like Boomhauer. I can't understand what they are saying even through I'm from OK, but others can. I'm sure there are plenty of accents in the eastern side of the South which I'm no familiar with also.
Not just that. Initiatives like Fairtrade have made a lot of farmers shift from growing food for local consumption to growing things like roses and coffee for export. Guaranteeing a price above the market value of these crops made them a lot more lucrative.
Thing is, I don't believe you. You sounds like a free market wing nut, but I went to check out Fairtrade stuff over on Wikipedia. Certainly it seems at first to be what you say as the body of the description talks a great deal about how only exporters get an more money for the same product just to put the Fairtrade label on stuff. However, when I started clicking on links to the actual groups that certify Fairtrade (and there are lots of them and I didn't check them all), they all seem to have a mechanism to make sure that the actual farmers and workers share in that money. Even the WTO standard has social elements in it to make sure the growers share in the money. I sense more free market wing nuts playing around with Wilipedia to prove their point.
Still, I don't care much more than to look that much up, because I put my vote to Africa needing some sort of stable government and society first before any aid, market forces, or plan could take effect. We could feed all of them already for free, and probably would, if we could be sure the food would actually go to feeding starving people.
An honest question...why respond to a comment without even fucking reading it?
I read it, but I just don't believe it. It was essentially telling people to quit their jobs and become sustenance farmers again. I doubt if a farmer can make more growing food rather than a cash crop, they would continue to grow the cash crop. Plus, they only suggested stopping the purchase of Fairtrade goods, but not explotativly raised non-fairtrade goods, as if that would help anybody but the few who don't give a rat's ass about those working for them to begin with. I highly doubt that cutting off people from outside trade and making them all sustenance farmers hoping they don't starve with the next season is the answer.
I don't understand it. They are pretty small as is. What's the point of making them smaller?...so they're easier to lose the few times people have to handle them...like when they get a new phone or transfer there SIM for whatever reason?
The micro-SIM is small, but it's still the largest thing on the iPhone motherboard, larger than the A5 chip. Cut it by 30% and that's enough room to shrink the motherboard for a larger battery or add another chip for more features.
To be more specific, you can bring drinks on, but they have to be purchased after security check. Otherwise, they still have to meet the 3oz. rule.
Luckily, those little airplane bottles of alcohol which liquor stores also sale, are below the 3oz size (and cheaper than the drinks on American airlines).
there's a difference between hacktivists and cybercriminals? sounds like a false distinction to me.
I think it is meant to distinguish between motives. Cybercriminals are doing it to make money. Hacktivists are doing it because they are pissed off.
If you take Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and make them aliens instead, you kind of just ditched half the title right there; they're no longer mutants, or turtles. For that matter, they may not qualify as teenagers, and can an alien really be a ninja?
They have long dealt with this sort of issue in the X-Men comics. The standard explanation is that they are aliens, but they are mutants of their own alien race, usually in lacking the race's usual homicidal tendencies. Thus Warlock and Broo can end up being in the X-Men because, although they are an alien race, they still end up being 'mutants'. So the turtles will still end up being teenagers and mutants, and such will probably be why they are forced to live on Earth by their alien race.
I saw Mike Daisey cut off a woman's hand and feed it to her dog. For money.
No, wait. I didn't. That was theater.
But you can still claim you did and be just as much of a journalist as Mr. Daisey though.
I learned the hard way that the usefulness of tablets is purely a marketing creation. They look like they have potential, but in practice they're just the combination of the worst of every other type of computer or computing device.
No, you learned the hard way that you are long to look and quick to jump and now have buyer's remorse. If you don't find it useful, sell it and stop your bitching for your own mistake.
I find mine very useful for my purposes. It makes a wonderful presentation device for an artist's portfolio. It's lighter than an laptop or print portfolio and you can bring up what you want to show people and hand it to them to look at in about any situation. Book readers might be better for ebooks, for full color PDFs, especially magazines and non-paperback format books, it works much better than smaller book readers. They also make better reading and game devices than laptops on plane flights. For that matter, if I don't have to download photos or burn CDs, it does everything I'd want a laptop for while on vacation for less than a third of the space and weight. But mainly, it's all about magazines as they are seemingly going to PDF format from paper and not only can it hold about as many as I could ever own, but makes a much better reader than laptop for carrying around and using.
People who still reduce Apple's strength(s) to marketing will never understand why they have been successful.
Here I want to both agree with you and disagree with you. That people who reduce Apple's strengths to Marketing will never understand why they are successful is true, but not because that is false, but because they have no idea of what marketing is. Marketing is not advertising. Marketing also includes figuring out what the market wants, building a good product to appease the market, and then presenting it, including advertising, to the market so they buy it. It is a combination of telling the people what they want along with the fact that it is actually what they want. Apple is successful 'because of marketing', but the people who use that phase usually have no idea what even wikipedia says about 'Marketing".
I still don't understand why no one has done a thin client tablet, with the real horsepower being a server, or even just server software, sitting on your home network somewhere. Most everyone has a desktop or laptop with multiple times more computing power than a tablet. Use wireless N to get the speeds you need for input and display and you could have 10 tablets for $50 each running off a single PC shoved in a closet somewhere. Yeah, no portability, but portability isn't the be all end all for many users.
Because thin clients suck and you're never going to get the case, screen, ram, and even minimal hardware to run a thin client for $50 less than the full tablet let alone total. Add in that the case you propose, use in a limited manner around a computer with wireless is such a limited feature that you'd never sell enough to get economy of manufacturing. Maybe if wireless were ubiquitous in all situations, but it's not, and probably never will be if you are talking about free open wireless. Still, it all goes back to that for the price of a thin client, you can usually have the real thing that doesn't stop working if you lose your single point of failure at the server (at the long line of other single points of failure such as the wireless).
Of course, I'm biased because I've been hearing about thin clients for the last 15 years and why they should replace PCs, and each case I've seen implimented has been a complete failure where PCs would have worked better and cheaper.