He should have gotten a motherboard with integrated graphics, so even if he needed to attach a monitor, integrated graphics would be more than enough to handle anything.
Because if he wasn't blowing $70 on a video card, and $160 on his keyboard and mouse, he wouldn't be able to complain about how RAID would blow the budget.
His calculations for the power supply have SEVENTY WATTS budgeted for the video card, which, of course, forces him to spend $190 on the 450 watt power supply.
His motherboard has dual gigabit LAN, because "an extra NIC is essential for a server." Note, he doesn't say WHY he needs that extra gigabit NIC (fault tolerance? Performance? It looks cool?) only that he considers it "essential."
He has a hundred dollar add-on that "displays the latest stock-quotes and surf reports."
Not true at all. The US as isolationist only with regards to Europe, and then not really. We participated in the Washington Naval Treaty and other treaties with europe throughout the time between the wars.
The US was a significant power, but "superpower" is the wrong word--we weren't a superpower until Japan awoke "the sleeping giant," and all that potential was put to a real political and military use.
No, most definatley not. The UN does, however, give them the chance to negoiate their differences fairly peacefully as well as allow other nations of the world ot exert pressure to prevent war.
To reiterate the point, do you think any other nations could make anything other than a symbolic guesture if the US and China were to decide to go at it?
The Chinese aren't all that well known for bowing to international pressure (example 1, Tibet, example 2, the Chinese fought a war against "UN" forces in the 1950s!) and international pressure recently failed to produce ANY results in preventing the US from going to war in the middle east.
I maintain that the UN is the world's first supra-national organization, before league of nations, simply because LN didn't have the US in it. It can hardly be considered world wide if you exclude one of the world's superpowers.
Maintain whatever you want, but the US wasn't a superpower until after WW2. America was pretty isolationist between the world wars.
Plenty of big iron boxes like Crays and IBM are obviously more powerful machines. The ad contains a blatently FALSE sataement.
The statement may indeed be false, but talking about "big iron" certainly doesn't prove that. Last I checked, an IBM zSeries was not a "personal computer."
You pay the money to someone who will get the best possible angle on the critical moments that the wedding couple will want to remember for the rest of their lives. Sometimes that requires a nudge to move Aunt Marge out of the way. It's not an occasion you're going to want to repeat if the photographer got it all wrong.
Some years ago, when I Was about 14 years old, I was at a family wedding. Since I wasn't doing anything, the Bride's father handed me his camcorder and told me to start recording.
There was also a "professional" in attendance, recording the wedding. Time after time, I found myself crowded out of the spots I was set up in by this guy. Literally, I would get out of the way, look around, find a better place to shoot from, and be pushed out of the way again five minutes later.
When the two tapes were later compared side by side, they were about even--my two failings were 1) mine wasn't edited, and 2) one scene where I completely misjudged the light and was filming people in profile only (considering I was pushed out of THAT spot as well, I'm assuming it was just edited out of the professional tape.)
Apparently, my eye is just as good as the guy charging a couple of thousand bucks--either I'm alot more artistic than I give myself credit for, or just about anybody can do it. Gimme a break, it's a WEDDING. There's a formula--EVERYBODY knows what wedding pictures and videos are supposed to look like--it's cookie-cutter work, not rocket science!
My respect goes out to people like nature photographers, jounralists, and people who use film as an art medium--who take unique, original photographs and not endless photos of people in tuxes and white dresses.
- After Columbine, they organized a rally in Denver.
Yup, the NRA was SOOOOO happy about what happened at Columbine that they changed the location of their yearly convention to Denver, just to bathe in the blood.
Of course, the above is sarcasm--the NRA conventions are scheduled over a year in advance, and Denver was chosen as the city for the 1999 convention long before the shootings there. In fact, the gathering in Denver was pared down to a single day, compared to the normal three. Most of the exhibits were cancelled, and generally only business was conducted.
After the shooting in Flint, Michigan, they organized a rally in Flint.
Eight months after the shooting referenced above, Charlton Heston appeared as a speaker at a REPUBLICAN PARTY EVENT. This was not a "pro-gun rally" but rather a "get out the vote" effort for Bush and other Republican candiddates.
- It was founded the SAME YEAR that the Ku Klux Klan became an official terrorist organization.
Err, so WHAT? You must be a disciple of Michael Moore if you somehow believe that because two organizations were formed in the same year that they're somehow related. Here's one for you: The ACLU was founded in 1920, and so was the "National Socialist German Workers Party." Are you REALLY going to make a value judgement of the ACLU based on that?! If not, then why judge the NRA based on the fucking Klan?
The NRA was founded in that well known bastion of racism, New York, in 1871 by retired UNION generals because their troops in the civil war lacked basic shooting skills and were hopelessly outclassed by their backwood Confederate brethern.
Since then, the primary purpose of the organization was to teach marksmanship and gun safety, and to promote the shooting sports.
It is only recently (since the 1970s) that the NRA has involved itself in politics, mostly because the membership felt (correctly!) that the right to bear arms was under attack, and there would BE no shooting sports if this was allowed to continue.
This isn't a gun safety organization.
Err, yes... Yes, it is. In fact, that's been its primary mission for over 130 years.
But we all know, based on your post, that you won't let the FACTS get in the way of your absurd beliefs.
, but because it clearly states that any rights they already had shouldn't be taken just because they aren't listed in the Bill of Rights. Then the question becomes did they already have the right to own weapons.
Why do you believe the two are mutually exclusive?
rather they were affirming the right of the people to have a standing army
Most of the founders considered standing armies to be horrible threats to liberty. That is, in fact, one of the reasons behind the 2nd amendment--that the government not have a monopoly on force should the people see the need to overthrow the government.
Sounds crazy in the context of how we do things today, but then again our founders were extremists.
I think I'm fairly safe in saying that "the people" in the Constitution is often referring to the country as a whole, not individual citizens.
Consider Amendment V - No person or Amendment VI - the accused. Each time they didn't use a generic "people" because they were giving specific rights to specific people. However, notice Amendment X. Here there are clearly three general layers of government: Federal, States, and "The People".
No body argues that "The People" of the United States should be allowed to own guns, but the amendment doesn't have to be contorted to say that INDIVIDUALS aren't necessarily uniformly given that right.
"The people" referenced in the 2nd amendment are the same "the people" mentioned in the 1st, 4th, 9th, and 10th amendments. Your interpretation above (that the words "person," and "accused" "gave" specific rights to specific people (btw, the constitution does NOT "give" rights, it GUARANTEES them!)) would suggest that the right to assembly is not, in fact, an individual right, but a collective right.
Imagine being told that "the people" had the right to assemble, but that individual persons (in fact, all of those who make up "the people") were not allowed to attend a political rally.
BTW, the below is my sig and not part of this comment.
The user has been able to map a filesystem to a folder rather than a drive letter since at least Windows 2000, and I think it was possible even under NT4. Nothing new there
DOS2 included the "assign" and "subst" commands that allowed one to map a drive to a directory, or vice versa.
The material you provided proves the point you are attempting to refute.
"We don't agree the 2nd amendment protects individual rights," is NOT "supporting the 2nd amendment." This is particularly annoying because the ACLU views the rest of the bill of rights as broadly as possible (which I agree with, btw.)
I'd like to see the response from the ACLU if someone dared to state that the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, or 14th amendments are anachronistic.
We've got a written constitution for a reason, remember? If we don't like parts of it, we're supposed to change them through the amendment process, not simply ignore them.
Btw, the below is my sig, and not part of this comment.
It's so annoying how people blow these things out of proportion - dude works for a voting machine company and has a sarcastic signature about voting - it's a joke - lighten up - it's like people are looking for things to whine about and then jumping on anything remotely sensational
It's even more ridiculous when you consider that it's not even an original quote--he attributes it IN THE DAMN SIG to "Revolution Books, New York, New York"
Ok for the users at home. Let me see if I get this right.
You don't.
$229 for Word $229 for Excel $109 for Outlook (Checking email is expensive) $229 for PowerPoint(For presentations at work and stuff) -------------- $796 Total
Office Standard (which includes the above four programs) costs $383.00 from Pc Connection--and you can almost always beat them on price. That's less than half of what you posted.
I agree with you that $400 bucks is WAY too much for an office suite. Open Office, which provides the same functionality for $0 is a no brainer, particularly if you're a home user.
That's no excuse to distort the facts though--indeed, it damages the credibility of your argument rather than enhancing it.
you cannot take SAT using a calculator with a QWERTY keyboard
The TI-92 is the EXACT SAME CALCULATOR as the TI-89+, just in a different shell. To prohibit one but not the other is capricious at best, and downright stupid at worst.
Kirk Douglas was Spartacus. But Charlton Heston is president of the NRA, his tagline is "From my dead cold hands" while holding up a shotgun (or some other gun).
I gather the parent knew that. The grandparent was, indeed probably thinking of Ben Hur, and the parent properly corrected the mistake. He didn't say anything about what ELSE Charlton Heston does (did, actually, as he stepped down as NRA president due to his early symptoms of Alzheimer's.)
Think of seeing that R-Rated action movie cut up for network television. You know the edits themselves were entertaining.
The first time I saw "Leathal Weapon" was on network TV. The edits in that are particularly amusing, but my favorite "edit" by far was one of Danny Glover's. After being shot in the shoulder and having lye and salt poured in the wound, Glovey says, "Go spit!"
I laughed my ass off... imagine my surprise when I saw the uncut movie a week later and found out Glover really said that. Personally, I'd have a few stronger words...
Apparently they give everyone a PersonID. Guess they slipped up revealing it this time. I actually subscribe to the magazine; I wonder what my PersonID is
I'm assuming that Forbes, like most web news sites, turn the names of companies and prominent individuals into hyperlinks to direct the reader to more stories about same. The PersonID is probably put there by the author or the editor so whoever formats the stories can link appropriately.
In short, if you're serious about the above post, buy some more tinfoil.
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And BTW, the Canadian Forces routinely detects the US Los Angles-class nuclear subs while they're supposedly running in "quiet" mode :)
:)
Well, the platform IS 32 years old...
I wonder how they do against a Seawolf, or even an Ohio?
The benifit of them, however, is that diesel-electric subs are quite a bit more silent than their nuclear counterparts
Yeah, until you need to recharge your batteries, everybody in the north atlantic hears you, and a P-3C comes along and sinks your ass.
He should have gotten a motherboard with integrated graphics, so even if he needed to attach a monitor, integrated graphics would be more than enough to handle anything.
Because if he wasn't blowing $70 on a video card, and $160 on his keyboard and mouse, he wouldn't be able to complain about how RAID would blow the budget.
His calculations for the power supply have SEVENTY WATTS budgeted for the video card, which, of course, forces him to spend $190 on the 450 watt power supply.
His motherboard has dual gigabit LAN, because "an extra NIC is essential for a server." Note, he doesn't say WHY he needs that extra gigabit NIC (fault tolerance? Performance? It looks cool?) only that he considers it "essential."
He has a hundred dollar add-on that "displays the latest stock-quotes and surf reports."
I feel dumber for having read this article.
Not true at all. The US as isolationist only with regards to Europe, and then not really. We participated in the Washington Naval Treaty and other treaties with europe throughout the time between the wars.
The US was a significant power, but "superpower" is the wrong word--we weren't a superpower until Japan awoke "the sleeping giant," and all that potential was put to a real political and military use.
No, most definatley not. The UN does, however, give them the chance to negoiate their differences fairly peacefully as well as allow other nations of the world ot exert pressure to prevent war.
To reiterate the point, do you think any other nations could make anything other than a symbolic guesture if the US and China were to decide to go at it?
The Chinese aren't all that well known for bowing to international pressure (example 1, Tibet, example 2, the Chinese fought a war against "UN" forces in the 1950s!) and international pressure recently failed to produce ANY results in preventing the US from going to war in the middle east.
I maintain that the UN is the world's first supra-national organization, before league of nations, simply because LN didn't have the US in it. It can hardly be considered world wide if you exclude one of the world's superpowers.
Maintain whatever you want, but the US wasn't a superpower until after WW2. America was pretty isolationist between the world wars.
Plenty of big iron boxes like Crays and IBM are obviously more powerful machines. The ad contains a blatently FALSE sataement.
The statement may indeed be false, but talking about "big iron" certainly doesn't prove that. Last I checked, an IBM zSeries was not a "personal computer."
You pay the money to someone who will get the best possible angle on the critical moments that the wedding couple will want to remember for the rest of their lives. Sometimes that requires a nudge to move Aunt Marge out of the way. It's not an occasion you're going to want to repeat if the photographer got it all wrong.
Some years ago, when I Was about 14 years old, I was at a family wedding. Since I wasn't doing anything, the Bride's father handed me his camcorder and told me to start recording.
There was also a "professional" in attendance, recording the wedding. Time after time, I found myself crowded out of the spots I was set up in by this guy. Literally, I would get out of the way, look around, find a better place to shoot from, and be pushed out of the way again five minutes later.
When the two tapes were later compared side by side, they were about even--my two failings were 1) mine wasn't edited, and 2) one scene where I completely misjudged the light and was filming people in profile only (considering I was pushed out of THAT spot as well, I'm assuming it was just edited out of the professional tape.)
Apparently, my eye is just as good as the guy charging a couple of thousand bucks--either I'm alot more artistic than I give myself credit for, or just about anybody can do it. Gimme a break, it's a WEDDING. There's a formula--EVERYBODY knows what wedding pictures and videos are supposed to look like--it's cookie-cutter work, not rocket science!
My respect goes out to people like nature photographers, jounralists, and people who use film as an art medium--who take unique, original photographs and not endless photos of people in tuxes and white dresses.
good thing this book came out before the End of Life for Redhat 9, in 5 months.
(yeah, I guess this is a troll)
Don't feel too bad--my first thought on seeing this was that the next Slashdot book review would be "Mastering Windows NT."
I use it for the audiobooks. These are not available by *ahem* cheaper means, so I love having iTunes for them.
Actually, there are huge numbers of audiobooks available on IRC.
- After Columbine, they organized a rally in Denver.
Yup, the NRA was SOOOOO happy about what happened at Columbine that they changed the location of their yearly convention to Denver, just to bathe in the blood.
Of course, the above is sarcasm--the NRA conventions are scheduled over a year in advance, and Denver was chosen as the city for the 1999 convention long before the shootings there. In fact, the gathering in Denver was pared down to a single day, compared to the normal three. Most of the exhibits were cancelled, and generally only business was conducted.
After the shooting in Flint, Michigan, they organized a rally in Flint.
Eight months after the shooting referenced above, Charlton Heston appeared as a speaker at a REPUBLICAN PARTY EVENT. This was not a "pro-gun rally" but rather a "get out the vote" effort for Bush and other Republican candiddates.
- It was founded the SAME YEAR that the Ku Klux Klan became an official terrorist organization.
Err, so WHAT? You must be a disciple of Michael Moore if you somehow believe that because two organizations were formed in the same year that they're somehow related. Here's one for you: The ACLU was founded in 1920, and so was the "National Socialist German Workers Party." Are you REALLY going to make a value judgement of the ACLU based on that?! If not, then why judge the NRA based on the fucking Klan?
The NRA was founded in that well known bastion of racism, New York, in 1871 by retired UNION generals because their troops in the civil war lacked basic shooting skills and were hopelessly outclassed by their backwood Confederate brethern.
Since then, the primary purpose of the organization was to teach marksmanship and gun safety, and to promote the shooting sports.
It is only recently (since the 1970s) that the NRA has involved itself in politics, mostly because the membership felt (correctly!) that the right to bear arms was under attack, and there would BE no shooting sports if this was allowed to continue.
This isn't a gun safety organization.
Err, yes... Yes, it is. In fact, that's been its primary mission for over 130 years.
But we all know, based on your post, that you won't let the FACTS get in the way of your absurd beliefs.
, but because it clearly states that any rights they already had shouldn't be taken just because they aren't listed in the Bill of Rights. Then the question becomes did they already have the right to own weapons.
Why do you believe the two are mutually exclusive?
rather they were affirming the right of the people to have a standing army
Most of the founders considered standing armies to be horrible threats to liberty. That is, in fact, one of the reasons behind the 2nd amendment--that the government not have a monopoly on force should the people see the need to overthrow the government.
Sounds crazy in the context of how we do things today, but then again our founders were extremists.
I think I'm fairly safe in saying that "the people" in the Constitution is often referring to the country as a whole, not individual citizens.
Consider Amendment V - No person or Amendment VI - the accused. Each time they didn't use a generic "people" because they were giving specific rights to specific people. However, notice Amendment X. Here there are clearly three general layers of government: Federal, States, and "The People".
No body argues that "The People" of the United States should be allowed to own guns, but the amendment doesn't have to be contorted to say that INDIVIDUALS aren't necessarily uniformly given that right.
"The people" referenced in the 2nd amendment are the same "the people" mentioned in the 1st, 4th, 9th, and 10th amendments. Your interpretation above (that the words "person," and "accused" "gave" specific rights to specific people (btw, the constitution does NOT "give" rights, it GUARANTEES them!)) would suggest that the right to assembly is not, in fact, an individual right, but a collective right.
Imagine being told that "the people" had the right to assemble, but that individual persons (in fact, all of those who make up "the people") were not allowed to attend a political rally.
BTW, the below is my sig and not part of this comment.
The user has been able to map a filesystem to a folder rather than a drive letter since at least Windows 2000, and I think it was possible even under NT4. Nothing new there
DOS2 included the "assign" and "subst" commands that allowed one to map a drive to a directory, or vice versa.
65,000 processors x $699/processor= $45,435,000. 45.4 million dollars.
Don't you just know Daryl's about to go apoplectic over all that money IBM is "stealing".
SCO is currently suing IBM for $5,000,000,000 dollars. Your number above represents 0.9% of that figure.
Even in the SCO world, I doubt they're losing any sleep over this...
They do support the 2nd ammendment ass
The material you provided proves the point you are attempting to refute.
"We don't agree the 2nd amendment protects individual rights," is NOT "supporting the 2nd amendment." This is particularly annoying because the ACLU views the rest of the bill of rights as broadly as possible (which I agree with, btw.)
I'd like to see the response from the ACLU if someone dared to state that the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, or 14th amendments are anachronistic.
We've got a written constitution for a reason, remember? If we don't like parts of it, we're supposed to change them through the amendment process, not simply ignore them.
Btw, the below is my sig, and not part of this comment.
It's so annoying how people blow these things out of proportion - dude works for a voting machine company and has a sarcastic signature about voting - it's a joke - lighten up - it's like people are looking for things to whine about and then jumping on anything remotely sensational
It's even more ridiculous when you consider that it's not even an original quote--he attributes it IN THE DAMN SIG to "Revolution Books, New York, New York"
Have you looked into Baen Books?
Jim Baen seems to be much more down to earth than the typical publisher you describe.
Ok for the users at home. Let me see if I get this right.
You don't.
$229 for Word
$229 for Excel
$109 for Outlook (Checking email is expensive)
$229 for PowerPoint(For presentations at work and stuff)
--------------
$796 Total
Office Standard (which includes the above four programs) costs $383.00 from Pc Connection--and you can almost always beat them on price. That's less than half of what you posted.
I agree with you that $400 bucks is WAY too much for an office suite. Open Office, which provides the same functionality for $0 is a no brainer, particularly if you're a home user.
That's no excuse to distort the facts though--indeed, it damages the credibility of your argument rather than enhancing it.
you cannot take SAT using a calculator with a QWERTY keyboard
The TI-92 is the EXACT SAME CALCULATOR as the TI-89+, just in a different shell. To prohibit one but not the other is capricious at best, and downright stupid at worst.
Kirk Douglas was Spartacus. But Charlton Heston is president of the NRA, his tagline is "From my dead cold hands" while holding up a shotgun (or some other gun).
:)
:)
I gather the parent knew that. The grandparent was, indeed probably thinking of Ben Hur, and the parent properly corrected the mistake. He didn't say anything about what ELSE Charlton Heston does (did, actually, as he stepped down as NRA president due to his early symptoms of Alzheimer's.)
Not that I support him...
I do.
Whoaaa They were more advanced than was generally believed...
;)
Advanced? With an NXDOMAIN response? Surely no civilization can be considered Advanced until it discovers SiteFinder...
And then there was this 500 Internal Server Error and my wit and wisdom were lost forever to the bit bucket in the sky.
...It was a very good Slashdot post.
The webserver was like "Beep Beep!"
You're forgetting the massive tax writeoff that's probably involved when you take an asset that you purchased for $21B and sell it off for $100M.
Think of seeing that R-Rated action movie cut up for network television. You know the edits themselves were entertaining.
The first time I saw "Leathal Weapon" was on network TV. The edits in that are particularly amusing, but my favorite "edit" by far was one of Danny Glover's. After being shot in the shoulder and having lye and salt poured in the wound, Glovey says, "Go spit!"
I laughed my ass off... imagine my surprise when I saw the uncut movie a week later and found out Glover really said that. Personally, I'd have a few stronger words...
Apparently they give everyone a PersonID. Guess they slipped up revealing it this time. I actually subscribe to the magazine; I wonder what my PersonID is
I'm assuming that Forbes, like most web news sites, turn the names of companies and prominent individuals into hyperlinks to direct the reader to more stories about same. The PersonID is probably put there by the author or the editor so whoever formats the stories can link appropriately.
In short, if you're serious about the above post, buy some more tinfoil.