Correction, a mailbox you're paying for that someone else owns. I don't "own" the physical box at my local post office, but they aren't allowed to read all my mail on a whim either.
The USPS is a government institution and the government does not own the physical letter. Once it gets in the government's hands it ceases to be your property and becomes the property of the addressee.
With electronic mail, the physical medium that on which the message is located is owned by the mail provider. Thus they should have the rights to do whatever they please with it. It should be up to them to provide a policy saying that they will not scan, read or disclose your message to anyone else.
I think it is a niche market and I think the stores don't see any profit in carrying the products. They don't compete performance wise with the Intel/AMD offerings and are only of real use to people who want low power/noise systems. I know newegg used to carry VIA processors and motherboards but have not for about a year.
The site posted above has, by far, the largest selection that I have seen. They have good prices too. It looks like I will be able to get the processor/MB/Case for well under $200.
Well, they will have to if they want to stay competitive. I'm sure they are scrambling as fast as the can. For the time being, they'll just have to up their GHZ on their 32bit chips.
On a side note, I have been looking for some time now to purchase a via processor and motherboard for a file server. Anyone know of any sites that sell them?
To apply your metaphor to the actual situation being discussed here, not everyone can afford a hacksaw ( and the Federal Hacksaw Commission regulates who can and can't own one ) - but we already have the hammers.
Your counter-metaphor doesn't work. The statements surrounding the metaphor in the GP leads me to believe the statement wasn't about serving media; it was about receiving it. The hammer is the less reliable and more expensive method of receiving via the net and the hacksaw is the standard, free, broadcast method.
If elected President, what would you do to make quality healthcare affordable to all Americans?
I think this question is a little vague. The candidate could say something to the effect of, "I would protect medicare and ensure that all children under 18 have access to healthcare," and would answer the question without any specifics. We need to phrase it so that it's harder for them to worm their way around the question instead of showing that they have an actual plan.
The number of years of the program is not the only factor in determining the quality of education. If GWB taught a 10 year physics program, would that make it the best in the world?
Vietnam wasn't a military failure. It was a policy failure: a failure to get the support of the folks at home. There were far more US military victories in Vietnam than defeats. The governments of Iraq and Afghanistan did not put up much of a fight. I don't expect the same for NK.
An invasion wouldn't work without heavy bombing and civilian casulties and probably a nuclear attack on SK or Japan and the ensuing retaliatory attack. NK has a huge army and the largest special forces division in the world. On top of that, they are all in a relatively small country. I'd be like invading a beehive. A behive with nuclear weapons.
It's still a matter of national pride and the nationality of the designers doesn't really matter apart from that. If a Canadian team had one there would be the same type of response.
I know the Canadian daVinci project still intends to launch, even if the prize has already been won.
I expect most teams will. I doubt that these teams that were working on it are going to just roll over and die now that they cant win the $10 million prize. Many teams have spent more then that amount already.
The contest wasn't about the money, it was about pushing innovation and generating excitement. It has done just that. Perhaps this contest will be looked at as a turning point in space technology.
This post is VERY insightful. The idea that genetically modified foods are in some way fundamentally unsafe, wrong, or whathaveyou is, IMHO, without merit.
I disagree but I do NOT support Cobb so don't take it that way.
Say we find some super grain that is less succeptable to bugs and is healthier. Say we use this for 20 years or so and some new mutant bug devistates the worlds crops. It's natural selection on the part of the bugs. Natural selection is good for crops and livestock too and has worked for thousands of years. It encourages genetic diversity. The more diverse our diet is, the healthier we will be.
I wonder if instead of coloring the windows, we couldn't fleck them with something that would allow decent visibility out; but would be able to diffuse a laser coming in. May not be feasible; but it's an idea.
It sounds to me like you are suggesting somthing like tinted windows, where light basically travles only one way through. I think you're missing somthing here. In order for the pilots to see out, light has to come in to the cockpit. Lasers are light.
Especially the shuttle; once it's in order space it's officially off limits from a military perspective.
I can understand that, especially early on in the shuttle's career. The Soviets believed that the shuttle was in fact a military project. They were very concerned that it would be able to deliver a nuclear payload. This is one of the reasons they developed their own shuttle. This soviet shuttle was capable of making a nuclear attack.
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Would that have anything to do with the lack of a right mouse button?
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err... 'to'
I'd like to see them censor that.
You beat them too it.
Will do. I will probably just put gentoo on it since that is what I am use to. I won't really need to put anything on it besides samba
Correction, a mailbox you're paying for that someone else owns. I don't "own" the physical box at my local post office, but they aren't allowed to read all my mail on a whim either.
The USPS is a government institution and the government does not own the physical letter. Once it gets in the government's hands it ceases to be your property and becomes the property of the addressee.
With electronic mail, the physical medium that on which the message is located is owned by the mail provider. Thus they should have the rights to do whatever they please with it. It should be up to them to provide a policy saying that they will not scan, read or disclose your message to anyone else.
I think it is a niche market and I think the stores don't see any profit in carrying the products. They don't compete performance wise with the Intel/AMD offerings and are only of real use to people who want low power/noise systems. I know newegg used to carry VIA processors and motherboards but have not for about a year.
The site posted above has, by far, the largest selection that I have seen. They have good prices too. It looks like I will be able to get the processor/MB/Case for well under $200.
That is exactly what I am looking for. I'll check that out.
Thanks!
Well, they will have to if they want to stay competitive. I'm sure they are scrambling as fast as the can. For the time being, they'll just have to up their GHZ on their 32bit chips.
On a side note, I have been looking for some time now to purchase a via processor and motherboard for a file server. Anyone know of any sites that sell them?
To apply your metaphor to the actual situation being discussed here, not everyone can afford a hacksaw ( and the Federal Hacksaw Commission regulates who can and can't own one ) - but we already have the hammers.
Your counter-metaphor doesn't work. The statements surrounding the metaphor in the GP leads me to believe the statement wasn't about serving media; it was about receiving it. The hammer is the less reliable and more expensive method of receiving via the net and the hacksaw is the standard, free, broadcast method.
If elected President, what would you do to make quality healthcare affordable to all Americans?
I think this question is a little vague. The candidate could say something to the effect of, "I would protect medicare and ensure that all children under 18 have access to healthcare," and would answer the question without any specifics. We need to phrase it so that it's harder for them to worm their way around the question instead of showing that they have an actual plan.
The number of years of the program is not the only factor in determining the quality of education. If GWB taught a 10 year physics program, would that make it the best in the world?
Vietnam wasn't a military failure. It was a policy failure: a failure to get the support of the folks at home. There were far more US military victories in Vietnam than defeats. The governments of Iraq and Afghanistan did not put up much of a fight. I don't expect the same for NK.
Fourth largest army in the world. Though mostly due to the fact that being in the army is the best way to survive.
Perhaps. I'm sure it has more to do with the fact that it is required.
An invasion wouldn't work without heavy bombing and civilian casulties and probably a nuclear attack on SK or Japan and the ensuing retaliatory attack. NK has a huge army and the largest special forces division in the world. On top of that, they are all in a relatively small country. I'd be like invading a beehive. A behive with nuclear weapons.
No it is not being blown way out of proportion at all. It is way cool and a good Aerospace "hack" if there ever was one.
I don't mean the achievment. I mean the statement about american innovation is being blown out of proportion.
But storage is EXTREMELY tricky. If the antimatter ever contacts the edges of its container, boom.
Simple solution: store the anti-matter in an anti-matter container. Duh.
Well it's all well and good when it works. But what happens when your current ruler dies and someone who is less favorable takes over. You are stuck.
I won't even respond to your last troll of a paragraph.
It's still a matter of national pride and the nationality of the designers doesn't really matter apart from that. If a Canadian team had one there would be the same type of response.
This is being blown way out of proportion.
I know the Canadian daVinci project still intends to launch, even if the prize has already been won.
I expect most teams will. I doubt that these teams that were working on it are going to just roll over and die now that they cant win the $10 million prize. Many teams have spent more then that amount already.
The contest wasn't about the money, it was about pushing innovation and generating excitement. It has done just that. Perhaps this contest will be looked at as a turning point in space technology.
This post is VERY insightful. The idea that genetically modified foods are in some way fundamentally unsafe, wrong, or whathaveyou is, IMHO, without merit.
I disagree but I do NOT support Cobb so don't take it that way.
Say we find some super grain that is less succeptable to bugs and is healthier. Say we use this for 20 years or so and some new mutant bug devistates the worlds crops. It's natural selection on the part of the bugs. Natural selection is good for crops and livestock too and has worked for thousands of years. It encourages genetic diversity. The more diverse our diet is, the healthier we will be.
And yet he accuses something/someone of being racist in nearly response.
I wonder if instead of coloring the windows, we couldn't fleck them with something that would allow decent visibility out; but would be able to diffuse a laser coming in. May not be feasible; but it's an idea.
It sounds to me like you are suggesting somthing like tinted windows, where light basically travles only one way through. I think you're missing somthing here. In order for the pilots to see out, light has to come in to the cockpit. Lasers are light.
Especially the shuttle; once it's in order space it's officially off limits from a military perspective.
I can understand that, especially early on in the shuttle's career. The Soviets believed that the shuttle was in fact a military project. They were very concerned that it would be able to deliver a nuclear payload. This is one of the reasons they developed their own shuttle. This soviet shuttle was capable of making a nuclear attack.
It's a slippery slope you see.
I keep hearing of all these slippery slopes. We never seem to slide down any of them though. Perhaps it is tin foil hat material.
And how is "can be forced to pay" different from "MIGHT have to pay"?