It was Oklahoma and they have a long history of following Robber's rules. They stole the five civilized tribes lands and stuck them in OK. Robbers stole from other states and hid in indian land. They then stole OK land fro the indians they put there and gave it to white people. White people, the Sooners, stole that land from other whites. The capitol was stolen at gun point form Edmond to move it to Oklahoma City. The money for the dome on the capitol building was stolen and to this day it is still the only non-domed state capitol building. Before I left there was a scandal as a National Guard General had been stealing NG life insurance money and giving the money to politicians election campaigns. The Sonics were stolen from Seattle. I could go on.
While i'm from MA, and I'm quite happy that my state is tied for first... but... 44%????? Only 44% of the kids tested passed the test, and it somehow tie for FIRST among the nation? If this was a test, then all 50 people (state) in the class (country) have failed. This is not good news:/
Maybe it's college level where everything is graded on a curve. I had some physics courses where a 44% would have gotten me a strong A in the course.
CS6 just launched and I mean JUST. It shipped on May 7th. So this isn't a case of an old version where Adobe is saying "Look guys, we are discontinuing support, have to buy the new one if you want it." The "old" version is only "old" by 3 days now.
Sounds like Adobe. We were having issues with Acrobat 9 Pro and Office 2010. Adobe's only solution was to upgrade to Acrobat X Pro.
They aren't the product, but the implied claim is 'our clothes/makeup will make you look like this person'.
Depend on what type of models you are talking about. There is a difference between "fashion" and "glamour" photography and models. Fashion, the ones most people complain about aren't anything but walking hangers for the clothes. They're not supposed to have full breasts or even be that interesting to look at. You'll notice that many designers even obfuscate their faces or otherwise make them look alike. If you're looking at fashion and looking at the models, you are confusing the frames for the picture. Glamour is about about making somebody look good to make the product look good. I doubt you'll find too many flat chested glamour models. Sure, there's overlap, but not as much as all this bitching warrants.
So there's no print shops in Seattle good enough for a corporation or a snooty artiste? Really? I think you simply aren't trying hard enough and completely lack any imagination.
No, you've got it backward. There are no print shops unless I am a snooty artiste. If I wanted to pay an arm and leg to get my stuff printed on metal, vinyl, canvas, or 'super dura luster metallic paper', I could do it. The other option would be Bartell's. The One Hour Photos which used to dot the city ten years ago are all gone. I knew all those people and they even had all the pro gigs with the newspapers and such but everybody went digital and there wasn't enough business to even keep the main store open. The 60 Minute Photo on Capital Hill is an empty storefront. The grocery stores don't even have film developing drop off points anymore. The closest thing to a mid-range photo developer and printer would be CostCo but I don't have a membership.
If it's Steve Jackson games, why do they need Kickstarter...they're Steeve Jackson Games. I'm beginning to think that Kickstarter is just for those who've already hit the "big time" but want to make some kind of ultra-niche vanity project that appeals to their hardcore fanbase and thusly wouldn't actually SELL in todays market, without spending their own capital.
Well, that's exactly what it is, and I'm really all right with that as I am one of those people that always wants those niche market items that would normally never make it because the print runs are too small or the idea too risky. However, I suspect there will be buy in by more and more established businesses as Kickstarter is a wonderful way to market to fans, judge marketability, and raise seed money pretty much without strings. I'm sure that the Shadowrun Returns guys could have fronted their own capital, but why do so when you don't have to? It'll probably come down to how Kickstarter's 5% take compares to what a VC might want.
I'm not sure if Kickstarter is a "bubble" that will burst. But, I do think there might be a risk of Kickstarter plateauing.
Ya, but I don't think we're anywhere near there yet. I think that because I am beginning to see things like game companies essentially do their initial funding from Kickstarter. With things like OotS reprint drive and Shadowrun Returns have shown that substantial amounts of money can be raised, you can market to your fans, judge marketablity, and gain seed money for what are essentially pre-orders fairly easily. I'd be surprised if in a year or two, we're not seeing established game companies doing things on Kickstarter either for marketing to fans or pre-orders.
You have digital photos printed in the same places you would have had film developed 10 years ago. The transition to digital really didn't change much in that regard.
Not really. All the places I had photos developed and printed ten years ago are now closed. There's barely a photo printing place in Seattle that isn't a drug store (and they don't have matte paper above 4x6). As a photographer, this puts a sever limitation on what I can get printed and how quick. If I want some 8x12s to hang in my photo studio for the city's monthly Artwalk, I have to have everything done and submitted a week in advance to an online business (currently using mpix.com ) or I just don't get to hang anything new. Ten years ago I could just run to half a dozen pro photos shops and have whatever I wanted printed over night if not in a few hours.
When did people stop backing up shit locally they don't want to lose in a hard drive failure?
As desktop support that takes care of lots of doctors and administrative staff, I'd have to ask "When did they start?" I can't count the number of people who I've explained why they need to back up their data, how, and provided the servers space, yet have to send their hard drive out to a recovery service a year later because their now dead hard drive contianed the only copy of twenty years of either research or admin data.
We give them all our money and jobs, and then spend a fortune to arm ourselves against them. Something.....is.....wrong.....here.
Actually, I bet you will find that most components (and thus money and jobs) that are probably going into this will be made in Taiwan or Korea. China mainly does assembling and consumer grade components. It's the same with current electronics. Both Korea and Taiwan make more money than China on every iPad made as all China really does is put their parts together (for a Taiwanese company).
From the wiki page on the Delaware class battleship:
For reasons including expected hostilities with Japan, requiring travel across the Pacific Ocean, long operational range was a recurrent theme in all US battleship designs.
Congress authorized the Delaware class in 1906, thirty five years before the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. That war was decades in the making.
True enough. Japan was the one asian country not bowing to Western interests. They already controlled Korea and had just won a war with Russia. In five years they would take over Taiwan, and after that Manchuria. Effectively, you could say that the Pacific side of WW2 was already going on before WW1 even started.
Ronnie didn't beat the commies, they just fell apart. Fuel prices fucked their economy, they got tied down in a series of costly pointless overseas wars, and the government became too bloated, corrupt, and bureaucratically frozen to function.
Fortunately that combination of influences will never ever happen to anyone ever again, ever.
You're both right. The subject starts with Carter. He saw that the USSR's economy was falling apart, mainly because of military spending in the cold war. he cut back, giving the Soviets a chance to recover because if they ended up in a crisis, the choice would be war or collapse. Instead, they took the opportunity to jump ahead and invaded Afganistan in a time where the US military was unable to respond even if they wanted to. This is the main reason Carter is generally regarded as a bad president. Ronnie won the election and instead ramped up our military spending which caused the Soviets to spend even more causing them to head towards collapse even quicker. Luckily, when they hit that crisis, they opted for collapse rather than the military options of keeping their empire together.
It's like a vampire swooping down into a company and sucking the life out of them slowly until they sicken and die. Then they just move on to a new victim in the quest for lifeblood.
...or maybe a succubus sucking the life out of her lover's would be a better allegory.
The USA (under The Constitution) began as a voluntary agreement between independent states. Exactly as you described, we delegated certain authorities to a central government in a few areas (e.g. a monetary system and military) where it seemed we could be more effective as a unit.
True, and at the time of creation or shortly after, it would most likely have been possible for a state to leave that agreement unilaterally without too much issue. However, over the years, things got more complicated as group funds and efforts were used for projects. What about the land of the Lousiana Purchase for example? What about Texas which had been added to the union after a war with Mexico to secure their borders and freedom paid for mostly with Northern money and lives just ten years before they left and started the American Civil War. The more and more one shares something, the harder and harder it gets to take your toys and go home because no one can really tell what are whose toys.
It could be something I ran into in college. Writing a paper had a quote, the quote in my own words and other stuff that needed to be cited with a big citation at the end of the paragraph for the first draft. I get it back with essentially "Citation Needed" at the end of the quote. I move the citation to the end of the quote for second draft. I get back reviewed paper with "Citation Needed here also" at the end of the paragraph. I put the citation in both places and got back the review saying "Combine Citations" marked on the paper. Keep in mind that these were all done by the same teacher. I pretty sure I see a lot of the same silliness on Wikipedia with lots of those "Citation Needed" tags on stuff.
Frankly, the citation system we have sort of suck as it may designate the end of the cite nobody has any idea where the beginning of the cite is.
Nope. "At will" means a company can end employment for any or no reason.
For no reason, yes, but not for an illegal reason. What the illegal reasons are will vary from state to state. So, even if a company is ending somebodies employment for no reason, they still have to make sure they can defend themselves against the person claiming that it was for an illegal reason. Every now and then, it just turns out that everybody laid off for "no reason" are all the non-whites in the department, or the only person out of a group a few months from getting their pension. In those cases it turned out they had a case. (Anecdotal examples that did happen to coworkers of mine at various jobs.)
I honestly can't imagine the Woz saying anything negative about anything, simply because he seems to be an all round nice guy. I imagine he has some negative thoughts about somethings but I could see him just shrug and think "Well, I'll let others who want to use this. I'll just use something else. In fact, I could probably build something that would do exactly what I would rather have."
The state has bent over backwards giving concession after concession to Boeing, Microsoft, Starbucks, Amazon, to keep them from moving out of state lock stock and barrel. Not only have the rewritten the tax laws, they have done so repeatedly and done so in a manor that these companies qualify for special exemptions, carefully worded so as not to call attention, but exemptions that realistically can only be taken advantage of by these big companies.
My guess from having lived here for a while is this is because many remember when Boeing was not doing that well in Washington and was the only real industry. "Last one to move the California, please turn out the lights." was the famous slogan. I imagine they are seeking to keep that from happening again and see letting the coprorations get away with some money is less tragic to the state than losing those corporations to another state.
Our government is fine. It's the voters who are incompetent. We'll vote for something 10 times and then decide 2 years later right before construction that we don't want it... then spend another 10 years trying to decide what to do only to scratch that at the last second.
If you are talking about Seattle/Washington, I would still posit that it is the government/corporate interests. We vote something down several times, and the government decides to do it anyway. We vote for something, and interests fund keep having votes until one fails, and then there is no corporate interest to push back. Then there was the entire "populist crap" incident a few years back.
Does Amazon have operations on the ground in Texas?
Depends one what you mean by "Amazon" and what you mean by "operations". The companies are saying they don't while the states are trying to argue that they do, sometimes including rewriting laws. In this case, IIRC, Amazon, the main company is not in Texas, but it does own a distribution company that ships stuff people buy from Amazon, although the distribution company buys and sells nothing, just provides a service. In the case of CA and NY, it was a matter of the states rewriting laws so that if Amazon even hired a company to do any contract work that had an office in those states, or sold services to anybody in those states, then Amazon was considered to have a presence and was then required to collect taxes on all their sales in those states.
The idea of finding life on other planets is actually based on statistics. There are literally billions of Earth-like planets in the universe. The chances are that conditions on at least some of those planets has given rise to life.
We can probably assume there are billions of Earth-like planets for large values of Earth-like, and we know life rose on at least one of them, ours. However, it is can be argued that our Earth where life did rise is a combination of one in thousand occurances that could make for a very rare combination. There needs to be early metal rich stars to give rise to the supernovae needed to produce lots of heavier elements. There needs to be water. There needs to be a strong magnetic field so the atmosphere and water don't get blown away like Mars. Other arguments that there needs to be a large sattelite like the moon for tidal changes. There are several other issues, that by themselves does not make Earth that uncommon but rather that we have all these happening on this one planet could mean that to be Earth-like enough to give a good probability of life rising and prospering perhaps could be in the neighborhood of one in a galaxy.
PDF is to preserve presentation. This is precisely what you do NOT want on an e-reader. ePub, which is really just HTML, is designed to provide reflow for e-readers. It can be used with or without DRM.
Sorry, but I while I agree PDF isn't the best for everything, there are plenty of books where I do want the presentation preserved. Not to mention the difficulties of trying to cite something when text is reflowing all over the place.
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I think they did follow Robbers rules...
It was Oklahoma and they have a long history of following Robber's rules. They stole the five civilized tribes lands and stuck them in OK. Robbers stole from other states and hid in indian land. They then stole OK land fro the indians they put there and gave it to white people. White people, the Sooners, stole that land from other whites. The capitol was stolen at gun point form Edmond to move it to Oklahoma City. The money for the dome on the capitol building was stolen and to this day it is still the only non-domed state capitol building. Before I left there was a scandal as a National Guard General had been stealing NG life insurance money and giving the money to politicians election campaigns. The Sonics were stolen from Seattle. I could go on.
While i'm from MA, and I'm quite happy that my state is tied for first... but... 44%????? Only 44% of the kids tested passed the test, and it somehow tie for FIRST among the nation? If this was a test, then all 50 people (state) in the class (country) have failed. This is not good news :/
Maybe it's college level where everything is graded on a curve. I had some physics courses where a 44% would have gotten me a strong A in the course.
CS6 just launched and I mean JUST. It shipped on May 7th. So this isn't a case of an old version where Adobe is saying "Look guys, we are discontinuing support, have to buy the new one if you want it." The "old" version is only "old" by 3 days now.
Sounds like Adobe. We were having issues with Acrobat 9 Pro and Office 2010. Adobe's only solution was to upgrade to Acrobat X Pro.
They aren't the product, but the implied claim is 'our clothes/makeup will make you look like this person'.
Depend on what type of models you are talking about. There is a difference between "fashion" and "glamour" photography and models. Fashion, the ones most people complain about aren't anything but walking hangers for the clothes. They're not supposed to have full breasts or even be that interesting to look at. You'll notice that many designers even obfuscate their faces or otherwise make them look alike. If you're looking at fashion and looking at the models, you are confusing the frames for the picture. Glamour is about about making somebody look good to make the product look good. I doubt you'll find too many flat chested glamour models. Sure, there's overlap, but not as much as all this bitching warrants.
So there's no print shops in Seattle good enough for a corporation or a snooty artiste? Really? I think you simply aren't trying hard enough and completely lack any imagination.
No, you've got it backward. There are no print shops unless I am a snooty artiste. If I wanted to pay an arm and leg to get my stuff printed on metal, vinyl, canvas, or 'super dura luster metallic paper', I could do it. The other option would be Bartell's. The One Hour Photos which used to dot the city ten years ago are all gone. I knew all those people and they even had all the pro gigs with the newspapers and such but everybody went digital and there wasn't enough business to even keep the main store open. The 60 Minute Photo on Capital Hill is an empty storefront. The grocery stores don't even have film developing drop off points anymore. The closest thing to a mid-range photo developer and printer would be CostCo but I don't have a membership.
If it's Steve Jackson games, why do they need Kickstarter...they're Steeve Jackson Games. I'm beginning to think that Kickstarter is just for those who've already hit the "big time" but want to make some kind of ultra-niche vanity project that appeals to their hardcore fanbase and thusly wouldn't actually SELL in todays market, without spending their own capital.
Well, that's exactly what it is, and I'm really all right with that as I am one of those people that always wants those niche market items that would normally never make it because the print runs are too small or the idea too risky. However, I suspect there will be buy in by more and more established businesses as Kickstarter is a wonderful way to market to fans, judge marketability, and raise seed money pretty much without strings. I'm sure that the Shadowrun Returns guys could have fronted their own capital, but why do so when you don't have to? It'll probably come down to how Kickstarter's 5% take compares to what a VC might want.
I'm not sure if Kickstarter is a "bubble" that will burst. But, I do think there might be a risk of Kickstarter plateauing.
Ya, but I don't think we're anywhere near there yet. I think that because I am beginning to see things like game companies essentially do their initial funding from Kickstarter. With things like OotS reprint drive and Shadowrun Returns have shown that substantial amounts of money can be raised, you can market to your fans, judge marketablity, and gain seed money for what are essentially pre-orders fairly easily. I'd be surprised if in a year or two, we're not seeing established game companies doing things on Kickstarter either for marketing to fans or pre-orders.
The whole question is pretty silly really.
You have digital photos printed in the same places you would have had film developed 10 years ago. The transition to digital really didn't change much in that regard.
Not really. All the places I had photos developed and printed ten years ago are now closed. There's barely a photo printing place in Seattle that isn't a drug store (and they don't have matte paper above 4x6). As a photographer, this puts a sever limitation on what I can get printed and how quick. If I want some 8x12s to hang in my photo studio for the city's monthly Artwalk, I have to have everything done and submitted a week in advance to an online business (currently using mpix.com ) or I just don't get to hang anything new. Ten years ago I could just run to half a dozen pro photos shops and have whatever I wanted printed over night if not in a few hours.
When did people stop backing up shit locally they don't want to lose in a hard drive failure?
As desktop support that takes care of lots of doctors and administrative staff, I'd have to ask "When did they start?" I can't count the number of people who I've explained why they need to back up their data, how, and provided the servers space, yet have to send their hard drive out to a recovery service a year later because their now dead hard drive contianed the only copy of twenty years of either research or admin data.
We give them all our money and jobs, and then spend a fortune to arm ourselves against them. Something.....is.....wrong.....here.
Actually, I bet you will find that most components (and thus money and jobs) that are probably going into this will be made in Taiwan or Korea. China mainly does assembling and consumer grade components. It's the same with current electronics. Both Korea and Taiwan make more money than China on every iPad made as all China really does is put their parts together (for a Taiwanese company).
From the wiki page on the Delaware class battleship:
Congress authorized the Delaware class in 1906, thirty five years before the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. That war was decades in the making.
True enough. Japan was the one asian country not bowing to Western interests. They already controlled Korea and had just won a war with Russia. In five years they would take over Taiwan, and after that Manchuria. Effectively, you could say that the Pacific side of WW2 was already going on before WW1 even started.
This, people, is where we are heading.
Oh shit! We're heading toward 1997. Marty, we have to get 'back to the future'!
Ronnie didn't beat the commies, they just fell apart. Fuel prices fucked their economy, they got tied down in a series of costly pointless overseas wars, and the government became too bloated, corrupt, and bureaucratically frozen to function.
Fortunately that combination of influences will never ever happen to anyone ever again, ever.
You're both right. The subject starts with Carter. He saw that the USSR's economy was falling apart, mainly because of military spending in the cold war. he cut back, giving the Soviets a chance to recover because if they ended up in a crisis, the choice would be war or collapse. Instead, they took the opportunity to jump ahead and invaded Afganistan in a time where the US military was unable to respond even if they wanted to. This is the main reason Carter is generally regarded as a bad president. Ronnie won the election and instead ramped up our military spending which caused the Soviets to spend even more causing them to head towards collapse even quicker. Luckily, when they hit that crisis, they opted for collapse rather than the military options of keeping their empire together.
...claims another victim.
It's like a vampire swooping down into a company and sucking the life out of them slowly until they sicken and die. Then they just move on to a new victim in the quest for lifeblood.
...or maybe a succubus sucking the life out of her lover's would be a better allegory.
The USA (under The Constitution) began as a voluntary agreement between independent states. Exactly as you described, we delegated certain authorities to a central government in a few areas (e.g. a monetary system and military) where it seemed we could be more effective as a unit.
True, and at the time of creation or shortly after, it would most likely have been possible for a state to leave that agreement unilaterally without too much issue. However, over the years, things got more complicated as group funds and efforts were used for projects. What about the land of the Lousiana Purchase for example? What about Texas which had been added to the union after a war with Mexico to secure their borders and freedom paid for mostly with Northern money and lives just ten years before they left and started the American Civil War. The more and more one shares something, the harder and harder it gets to take your toys and go home because no one can really tell what are whose toys.
That was seriously your retort?
Dude. you can't go confusing the brands of a Canadian make up company and an electronic widget vendor around here. You'll seriously confuse most of /.
It could be something I ran into in college. Writing a paper had a quote, the quote in my own words and other stuff that needed to be cited with a big citation at the end of the paragraph for the first draft. I get it back with essentially "Citation Needed" at the end of the quote. I move the citation to the end of the quote for second draft. I get back reviewed paper with "Citation Needed here also" at the end of the paragraph. I put the citation in both places and got back the review saying "Combine Citations" marked on the paper. Keep in mind that these were all done by the same teacher. I pretty sure I see a lot of the same silliness on Wikipedia with lots of those "Citation Needed" tags on stuff.
Frankly, the citation system we have sort of suck as it may designate the end of the cite nobody has any idea where the beginning of the cite is.
Nope. "At will" means a company can end employment for any or no reason.
For no reason, yes, but not for an illegal reason. What the illegal reasons are will vary from state to state. So, even if a company is ending somebodies employment for no reason, they still have to make sure they can defend themselves against the person claiming that it was for an illegal reason. Every now and then, it just turns out that everybody laid off for "no reason" are all the non-whites in the department, or the only person out of a group a few months from getting their pension. In those cases it turned out they had a case. (Anecdotal examples that did happen to coworkers of mine at various jobs.)
I honestly can't imagine the Woz saying anything negative about anything, simply because he seems to be an all round nice guy. I imagine he has some negative thoughts about somethings but I could see him just shrug and think "Well, I'll let others who want to use this. I'll just use something else. In fact, I could probably build something that would do exactly what I would rather have."
The state has bent over backwards giving concession after concession to Boeing, Microsoft, Starbucks, Amazon, to keep them from moving out of state lock stock and barrel. Not only have the rewritten the tax laws, they have done so repeatedly and done so in a manor that these companies qualify for special exemptions, carefully worded so as not to call attention, but exemptions that realistically can only be taken advantage of by these big companies.
My guess from having lived here for a while is this is because many remember when Boeing was not doing that well in Washington and was the only real industry. "Last one to move the California, please turn out the lights." was the famous slogan. I imagine they are seeking to keep that from happening again and see letting the coprorations get away with some money is less tragic to the state than losing those corporations to another state.
Our local government seems amazingly incompetent.
Our government is fine. It's the voters who are incompetent. We'll vote for something 10 times and then decide 2 years later right before construction that we don't want it... then spend another 10 years trying to decide what to do only to scratch that at the last second.
If you are talking about Seattle/Washington, I would still posit that it is the government/corporate interests. We vote something down several times, and the government decides to do it anyway. We vote for something, and interests fund keep having votes until one fails, and then there is no corporate interest to push back. Then there was the entire "populist crap" incident a few years back.
Does Amazon have operations on the ground in Texas?
Depends one what you mean by "Amazon" and what you mean by "operations". The companies are saying they don't while the states are trying to argue that they do, sometimes including rewriting laws. In this case, IIRC, Amazon, the main company is not in Texas, but it does own a distribution company that ships stuff people buy from Amazon, although the distribution company buys and sells nothing, just provides a service. In the case of CA and NY, it was a matter of the states rewriting laws so that if Amazon even hired a company to do any contract work that had an office in those states, or sold services to anybody in those states, then Amazon was considered to have a presence and was then required to collect taxes on all their sales in those states.
You laugh now...
The idea of finding life on other planets is actually based on statistics. There are literally billions of Earth-like planets in the universe. The chances are that conditions on at least some of those planets has given rise to life.
We can probably assume there are billions of Earth-like planets for large values of Earth-like, and we know life rose on at least one of them, ours. However, it is can be argued that our Earth where life did rise is a combination of one in thousand occurances that could make for a very rare combination. There needs to be early metal rich stars to give rise to the supernovae needed to produce lots of heavier elements. There needs to be water. There needs to be a strong magnetic field so the atmosphere and water don't get blown away like Mars. Other arguments that there needs to be a large sattelite like the moon for tidal changes. There are several other issues, that by themselves does not make Earth that uncommon but rather that we have all these happening on this one planet could mean that to be Earth-like enough to give a good probability of life rising and prospering perhaps could be in the neighborhood of one in a galaxy.
PDF is to preserve presentation. This is precisely what you do NOT want on an e-reader. ePub, which is really just HTML, is designed to provide reflow for e-readers. It can be used with or without DRM.
Sorry, but I while I agree PDF isn't the best for everything, there are plenty of books where I do want the presentation preserved. Not to mention the difficulties of trying to cite something when text is reflowing all over the place.