How is this concentrating power in the federal governements hands? Simply asking for a 'standard' thats agreed upon by states? That standard does NOT have to be mandated by the federal government
I'm sure there a million different/better ways to ensure stability. Storing grain (or some edible but not so tasty longer lasting variant) perhaps a la the oil reserves we maintain? Also not to be too political (OT) but if we weren't subsidizing so much, that money could a) be used for a bunch of cool stuff like scitech and helping others b) would improve the 3rd worlds economy to the tune of 300 billion c) better 3rd world economy = more global stability.......
Sure they're providing jobs as does McDonalds, but in general they're introducing inefficiencies in the system especially farm subsidies. Instead of wasting say coupla hundred billion on having 1k+ soldiers n 30K+ iraqi's killed we could have um used that money for research? new tech = new jobs Imagine the possibilities of a 100 billion dollar investment in sci-tech? i'm sure there are a bunch of amazing things we could do that other/.ers will list. Heh and thats not even factoring in how bad living on debt will be long term.
this is more like Syria, all the fun terrorist-sponsoring governments............ Kinda like the US has acted out its foreign policy in the past 50 years? South America? Nam? Iran (Shah)? You name it:)
The thing is most people dont have the balls to choose death despite knowing its the right choice. Personally I doubt I would have it in me either, but here's to hoping the world has better ppl then i am:)
First off, that was not a typical experience, I've had a deskjet up and running in under a minute on Windows XP, plug it in, ding ding hardware found, printer found, hardware installed , worst case it asks me to choose which printer driver (deskjet 720 vs 722), increasing the time to 2 minutes tops. Same goes for a couple of other printers, the only printer it took me longer then 2 minutes to install was an HP Jetdirect Color Laser. And i'm not slamming linux, i use it love and advocate its use not to mention i've never really setup printing on Linux (workplace = Windows, rarely print from home). Bottom line your comparison is inaccurate. Also about the comparison about your friend, thats the way it always is if you want to switch people over from anything, you make it similar or provide a ton of tips and help to make the switch easier, anyone remember the early versions of word and their 'help for wordperfect users' option? If you want to get people to switch the learning curve must be minimized radically (a la XPde) , and again i'm not saying that getting people to switch is of paramount importance , but if thats your goal....
As well as the grandma types from what i've seen. A whole lot of users use the web simply to
a) chat / im other ppl - gaim etc work well not amazing but still good enough
b) Send and receieve email (usually via webmail) and browse sites - firefox takes care of this
c) listen to music
d) download, receive (via email) and view pictures
e) type out a letter or minor document etc and print out stuff occassionaly
f) a very small %age of this demographic use the computer to watch videos which to an extent should be ok as well, as well video conference
Except for f this demographic will be well served with linux especially with the cost savings, i've been advocating people i know that fit the demographic to use linux, usually via knoppix or if i'm doing an install suse:)
(and no i dont follow up , dont have the time:P)
Agree partly but for the most part thats a gross over simplification.
1) Yes and no, any foreign invading army is invariably considered BAD regardless of its true intentions (which frankly we all were lied to about anyways). Its not simply about prosperity, its about the US favouring regimes that favour them regardless of it being good for the people. Thats what governments and people do (you scratch my back i'll scratch yours etc) but on the flip side its easier to blame ones problem on the foreign cause (no matter how minor a part they played) then admitting to ones own mistakes and that holds true for America as well as the Muslim world (9/11 providing ample evidence of that on the american end).
2) that may be true about bin laden but not his followers, most of his followers believe in the palestinian cause, ditto for chechnya, kashmir , what happened in bosnia etc. Check this out - Guardian story about a hijacker from 9/11. If it was only about saudi arabia 90%+ of his followers would vanish, people largely dont give that much of a shit about it in the sense that the country itself is a mess and its the rulers fault , long live monarchy...
Hmm, not true while i'm a semi computer literate guy, work primarily in windows stuff and have managed a redhat 9 and fedora core 2 install w/o any hardware not having to be manually tweaked. Yes setting up more complicated stuff like ssh / cvs / samba wasnt as simple as the default install but dont really see end users needing anything like that.
Why exactly was this modded down? Why would anybody (third world / islamic world / bin laden) give a f**k about 'the american way of life' and trying to destroy it?
Everyone deserves the same protection, the problem being all people (and corporations) are equal but some are more equal then others;). The average joe can't influence the law while mega corps and the like actually write the law, thats where the difference lies. As long as that bias remains, the opposite will deem to be fair play as well
Ok
I'll take a look, everythign i've seen so far was how to drive, which well i know. I need something to tell me how to react when you lose control etc. Thanks a bunch:)
Quick OT question, I learned driving in another country and was never told how to handle situations like that, had a pretty bad accident recently and well how can i get that 'training'? are there classes? videos? something?:-D Thanks
Wonder why they built them that way? Pretty sure the people at GM would've known that this would be BAD (tm). More then a tad bit odd that they went with that design ?
Which games are you specifically referring to, I'm 90% sure that people buying these 'now' are primarily looking for gaming rigs for Doom3 (heh as am I:)) and that from the reviews is heavily dependant on GPU performance
Hey
I tried googling for it but wasnt able to turn up anything. Just wondering what happened with ssh? (Sorry for being a pain / am sortofa newbie regarding following the industry n all:D)
Sorry but until recently and to a large extent even now, its still portrayed as linux hippies vs the nice normal company and how the poor angelic SCO is suffering etc etc. Truth be damned (not enough of a 'human' angle?)
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The difference between both 'invasions' being?
How is this concentrating power in the federal governements hands? Simply asking for a 'standard' thats agreed upon by states? That standard does NOT have to be mandated by the federal government
The same principle applies to citizens of the First World vs the Third World. Its much harder to see whats really happening from out here
I'm sure there a million different/better ways to ensure stability. Storing grain (or some edible but not so tasty longer lasting variant) perhaps a la the oil reserves we maintain? Also not to be too political (OT) but if we weren't subsidizing so much, that money could a) be used for a bunch of cool stuff like scitech and helping others b) would improve the 3rd worlds economy to the tune of 300 billion c) better 3rd world economy = more global stability.......
Sure they're providing jobs as does McDonalds, but in general they're introducing inefficiencies in the system especially farm subsidies. Instead of wasting say coupla hundred billion on having 1k+ soldiers n 30K+ iraqi's killed we could have um used that money for research? /.ers will list. Heh and thats not even factoring in how bad living on debt will be long term.
new tech = new jobs
Imagine the possibilities of a 100 billion dollar investment in sci-tech? i'm sure there are a bunch of amazing things we could do that other
OR tin foil hat its a CONSPIRACY!!!! .
they want us to have 0.56*10^28 Kids per person O:-)
this is more like Syria, all the fun terrorist-sponsoring governments............ :)
Kinda like the US has acted out its foreign policy in the past 50 years? South America? Nam? Iran (Shah)? You name it
What your talking about is today, A decade later I'd hope we'd be pushing a bit more data through whatever media format is dominant :)
The thing is most people dont have the balls to choose death despite knowing its the right choice. Personally I doubt I would have it in me either, but here's to hoping the world has better ppl then i am :)
First off, that was not a typical experience, I've had a deskjet up and running in under a minute on Windows XP, plug it in, ding ding hardware found, printer found, hardware installed , worst case it asks me to choose which printer driver (deskjet 720 vs 722), increasing the time to 2 minutes tops. Same goes for a couple of other printers, the only printer it took me longer then 2 minutes to install was an HP Jetdirect Color Laser. And i'm not slamming linux, i use it love and advocate its use not to mention i've never really setup printing on Linux (workplace = Windows, rarely print from home). Bottom line your comparison is inaccurate.
Also about the comparison about your friend, thats the way it always is if you want to switch people over from anything, you make it similar or provide a ton of tips and help to make the switch easier, anyone remember the early versions of word and their 'help for wordperfect users' option?
If you want to get people to switch the learning curve must be minimized radically (a la XPde) , and again i'm not saying that getting people to switch is of paramount importance , but if thats your goal....
As well as the grandma types from what i've seen. A whole lot of users use the web simply to :)
:P)
a) chat / im other ppl - gaim etc work well not amazing but still good enough
b) Send and receieve email (usually via webmail) and browse sites - firefox takes care of this
c) listen to music
d) download, receive (via email) and view pictures
e) type out a letter or minor document etc and print out stuff occassionaly
f) a very small %age of this demographic use the computer to watch videos which to an extent should be ok as well, as well video conference
Except for f this demographic will be well served with linux especially with the cost savings, i've been advocating people i know that fit the demographic to use linux, usually via knoppix or if i'm doing an install suse
(and no i dont follow up , dont have the time
The Goa'uld O:-)
dammit, why does it always have to start with me.......
Agree partly but for the most part thats a gross over simplification. 1) Yes and no, any foreign invading army is invariably considered BAD regardless of its true intentions (which frankly we all were lied to about anyways). Its not simply about prosperity, its about the US favouring regimes that favour them regardless of it being good for the people. Thats what governments and people do (you scratch my back i'll scratch yours etc) but on the flip side its easier to blame ones problem on the foreign cause (no matter how minor a part they played) then admitting to ones own mistakes and that holds true for America as well as the Muslim world (9/11 providing ample evidence of that on the american end). 2) that may be true about bin laden but not his followers, most of his followers believe in the palestinian cause, ditto for chechnya, kashmir , what happened in bosnia etc. Check this out - Guardian story about a hijacker from 9/11. If it was only about saudi arabia 90%+ of his followers would vanish, people largely dont give that much of a shit about it in the sense that the country itself is a mess and its the rulers fault , long live monarchy ...
Ironically as the ads say 'I am an american' ;). Heh and yes i know ur post shud've been modded funny :)
Hmm, not true while i'm a semi computer literate guy, work primarily in windows stuff and have managed a redhat 9 and fedora core 2 install w/o any hardware not having to be manually tweaked. Yes setting up more complicated stuff like ssh / cvs / samba wasnt as simple as the default install but dont really see end users needing anything like that.
Why exactly was this modded down? Why would anybody (third world / islamic world / bin laden) give a f**k about 'the american way of life' and trying to destroy it?
Everyone deserves the same protection, the problem being all people (and corporations) are equal but some are more equal then others ;). The average joe can't influence the law while mega corps and the like actually write the law, thats where the difference lies. As long as that bias remains, the opposite will deem to be fair play as well
Ok I'll take a look, everythign i've seen so far was how to drive, which well i know. I need something to tell me how to react when you lose control etc. Thanks a bunch :)
Quick OT question, I learned driving in another country and was never told how to handle situations like that, had a pretty bad accident recently and well how can i get that 'training'? are there classes? videos? something? :-D Thanks
Wonder why they built them that way? Pretty sure the people at GM would've known that this would be BAD (tm). More then a tad bit odd that they went with that design ?
Which games are you specifically referring to, I'm 90% sure that people buying these 'now' are primarily looking for gaming rigs for Doom3 (heh as am I :)) and that from the reviews is heavily dependant on GPU performance
The more public awareness about that, the more chance artists won't be crushed by the RIAA / ClearChannel?
Hey I tried googling for it but wasnt able to turn up anything. Just wondering what happened with ssh? (Sorry for being a pain / am sortofa newbie regarding following the industry n all :D)
Sorry but until recently and to a large extent even now, its still portrayed as linux hippies vs the nice normal company and how the poor angelic SCO is suffering etc etc. Truth be damned (not enough of a 'human' angle?)