It seems that men who had Someone to pray to, something to hope for, gained a psychological edge that could mean the difference between life and death under extreme conditions.
On the other hand. If Heaven is the good life then why not submit?
It took the loss of an election to start acknowledging their mistakes? In other words the Bush Administration was quite happy to keep pretending that nothing is wrong in Iraq while our troops go through a meat grinder....
I believe some bombs were also lost in the Swamps somewhere in the U.S. east cost? I think they are believed to have stayed intact on impact. Makes me wonder if we could see a similar situation in the U.S.?
Yeah, too bad all of that "infrastructure" spending hasn't helped their 9.1% unemployment rate.
Take away the extreme amount of home construction the past few years in the U.S. and I think you would find U.S. unemployment at a similar if not higher rate. We are very fortunate to have large amounts of spare land to buoy the economy. Europe on the other hand does not have this luxury.
Private enterprise can build a viable if there is the need.
I would say "profit" not "need". Private Enterprise would never have touched the Highway or TVA projects. They were simply to expensive and the payoff was far to distant. These projects were both started over 50 years ago and are paying dividends today. There was obviously a need for these projects. It just needed the government to prime the pump.
Simply factor in the monthly payments for you average 2 car family. You will see that the total cost for the 2 cars is around the same price as a mortgage.
There is nothing wrong with having your personal space. The problem is many Americans have a libertarian attitude towards society. See the latest studies showing Americans have 1/3 fewer friends than 2 decades ago. Many wrongly feel that they are isolated from society because the have a car and a TV. That "Freedom" comes at a heavy cost. Just compare the energy and resource usage between a city dweller and a suburbanite. From experience I can tell you that my lifestyle in London was very substainable compared to Atlanta. We are creating a country of consuming friendless debtors.
Try living in a big city like New York or a European city. When you come back to the gridlock of suburban rush hour you will find your self feeling detatched.
Wow, the parent deserves to be modded up. I live in the U.S. southest were suburbs spraw and public transit is often shot down as people are afraid of poor people living in the suburbs. I never felt more free while living in Europe. I spent less per month on public transit cards than I do on car insurance. When you add the cost of gas , upkeep and price to purchase the car it quickly adds up. Most Americans spend more on their cars than their homes. This helps to explain why we have such massive debt. Us Americans are spending large amounts of our salary on a liability (cars) that depreciates.
Sadly many Americans have this odd view that freedom means being seperate/isolated from the community.
I doubt Steve Jobs would have been the one to get upset about thing being closed off, since very little of the actual innovation, creative, and design work ever was his. I can see Steve Wozniak getting ticked off about it, but I imagine he'd hack away anyway.
The only problem is that OSX is based off of NEXT OS. Steve Jobs started NEXT when he was forced to leave Apple. A more apt comparison would be when Steve Jobs hired John Sculley as the new CEO of Apple. Sculley and Jobs had a a power struggle. The board stood behind Sculley, and Jobs was stripped of most of his duties and banished to an office at the back of a distant building on the Apple campus unofficially known as "Siberia". After a few months of being ignored, he left.
So Steve Jobs would get ticked off and come up with something better.
4GHz means virtually nothing to me these days. All it says is that the CPU is cycling at 4 billion times per second, but it doesn't say how much work is being done per cycle. Comparing GHz is apples and oranges. Real life testing is where it's at. Give me hard data.
Dude, Give it a rest. Apple finally switched to Intel. You can quit reciting the ole GHZ doesn't mater mantra.
It's a fair test. I switched to Speak Easy. I ran than the test while I still had BellSouth. I got the speeds expected. I also ran the test at work and got killer results of the T1.
They aren't "held back" by the same morality and environmental issues we are. When they want to build the largest dam in the world (which is an engineering marvel that will put out as much electricity as 15 nuclear power plants combined), they just do it, and don't worry about the environmental, social, or historical implications.
Actually they are "held back". A few years ago there was a flood which became a major flood due to deforestation. The Chineese government caculated the cost of the flood and how much the forest in the area was worth to prevent the flood. The Chineese raised the price of wood from that area by 300%. This rise in cost no longer justified the logging in the region.
Isn't the Wii's processor just a faster version of the GC processor? That's why the wii is able to play GC games. The Wii slows down it's clock speed for a GC game and voilla!
This is stupid. It's like me as an American complaining about the cost of a sandwich in the U.K. Oh my that sandwich in the plastic triangle costs 3 quid. That's almost 6 dollars! They are selling sandwich's for 6 dollars! Surely no Brittish citizen will pay 6 AMERICAN dollars for a sandwich in a plastic triangle!
A few years ago when I lived in England I seem to remember xbox,ps2 and gamecube going for a numerical price as in the U.S. The exchange rate of course pushed the price of a UK machine in U.S dollars well over it's American counter part.
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It seems that men who had Someone to pray to, something to hope for, gained a psychological edge that could mean the difference between life and death under extreme conditions.
On the other hand. If Heaven is the good life then why not submit?
It took the loss of an election to start acknowledging their mistakes? In other words the Bush Administration was quite happy to keep pretending that nothing is wrong in Iraq while our troops go through a meat grinder....
I believe some bombs were also lost in the Swamps somewhere in the U.S. east cost? I think they are believed to have stayed intact on impact. Makes me wonder if we could see a similar situation in the U.S.?
Consumers will have to make the choice between many $50 games on a $300 system or a couple $100 games on a $600 system. I think the choice is obvious.
I believe this is known in the industry as the "NeoGeo" factor.
"Can I make a Beowulf Cluster of those CIOs ?"
No, this is Slashdot. You may only imagine a Beowulf Cluster of those CIO's.
mod parent up. FreePC did try this in the late 90's.
Yeah, too bad all of that "infrastructure" spending hasn't helped their 9.1% unemployment rate.
Take away the extreme amount of home construction the past few years in the U.S. and I think you would find U.S. unemployment at a similar if not higher rate. We are very fortunate to have large amounts of spare land to buoy the economy. Europe on the other hand does not have this luxury.
(Liberals have their own hot-button issues, though these days the conservatives seem to be punching them just fine from the other side.)
You mean like affordable health care and a livable minimum wage? Atleast those issues are real and not trivial like flag burning.
Damn Canada has gone right wing all of the sudden. First they elect a Canadian version of Bush and now this...
Private enterprise can build a viable if there is the need.
I would say "profit" not "need". Private Enterprise would never have touched the Highway or TVA projects. They were simply to expensive and the payoff was far to distant. These projects were both started over 50 years ago and are paying dividends today. There was obviously a need for these projects. It just needed the government to prime the pump.
Simply factor in the monthly payments for you average 2 car family. You will see that the total cost for the 2 cars is around the same price as a mortgage.
There is nothing wrong with having your personal space. The problem is many Americans have a libertarian attitude towards society. See the latest studies showing Americans have 1/3 fewer friends than 2 decades ago. Many wrongly feel that they are isolated from society because the have a car and a TV. That "Freedom" comes at a heavy cost. Just compare the energy and resource usage between a city dweller and a suburbanite. From experience I can tell you that my lifestyle in London was very substainable compared to Atlanta. We are creating a country of consuming friendless debtors.
Try living in a big city like New York or a European city. When you come back to the gridlock of suburban rush hour you will find your self feeling detatched.
Wow, the parent deserves to be modded up. I live in the U.S. southest were suburbs spraw and public transit is often shot down as people are afraid of poor people living in the suburbs. I never felt more free while living in Europe. I spent less per month on public transit cards than I do on car insurance. When you add the cost of gas , upkeep and price to purchase the car it quickly adds up. Most Americans spend more on their cars than their homes. This helps to explain why we have such massive debt. Us Americans are spending large amounts of our salary on a liability (cars) that depreciates.
Sadly many Americans have this odd view that freedom means being seperate/isolated from the community.
I doubt Steve Jobs would have been the one to get upset about thing being closed off, since very little of the actual innovation, creative, and design work ever was his. I can see Steve Wozniak getting ticked off about it, but I imagine he'd hack away anyway.
The only problem is that OSX is based off of NEXT OS. Steve Jobs started NEXT when he was forced to leave Apple. A more apt comparison would be when Steve Jobs hired John Sculley as the new CEO of Apple. Sculley and Jobs had a a power struggle. The board stood behind Sculley, and Jobs was stripped of most of his duties and banished to an office at the back of a distant building on the Apple campus unofficially known as "Siberia". After a few months of being ignored, he left.
So Steve Jobs would get ticked off and come up with something better.
4GHz means virtually nothing to me these days. All it says is that the CPU is cycling at 4 billion times per second, but it doesn't say how much work is being done per cycle. Comparing GHz is apples and oranges. Real life testing is where it's at. Give me hard data.
Dude, Give it a rest. Apple finally switched to Intel. You can quit reciting the ole GHZ doesn't mater mantra.
Boyle argues that this is dumb, unconstitutional, and anyway should be debated domestically first."
Having debates on U.S. Policy is sooo pre-2001. Try again in January 2009...
That is the best leading slashdot post I have ever seen!
Interesting that you managed to string these sentences together...
Oh well, enough people think that I'm gay anyways, no need to advertise. It would be nice to have more power strapped to my hip though.
It's a fair test. I switched to Speak Easy. I ran than the test while I still had BellSouth. I got the speeds expected. I also ran the test at work and got killer results of the T1.
In case if you still didn't get it, it's your job to keep that stuff away from your kid. And now stop getting in my way of blowing shit up.
Well said, Dick Cheney...
They aren't "held back" by the same morality and environmental issues we are. When they want to build the largest dam in the world (which is an engineering marvel that will put out as much electricity as 15 nuclear power plants combined), they just do it, and don't worry about the environmental, social, or historical implications.
Actually they are "held back". A few years ago there was a flood which became a major flood due to deforestation. The Chineese government caculated the cost of the flood and how much the forest in the area was worth to prevent the flood. The Chineese raised the price of wood from that area by 300%. This rise in cost no longer justified the logging in the region.
Tell me I am not the only one that sees an add for a game called Assy Mcgee at the top of that link you postedh.
They system admins just need a good night's sleep without the pager going off. No drugs are needed but recreational drugs are welcome!
Isn't the Wii's processor just a faster version of the GC processor? That's why the wii is able to play GC games. The Wii slows down it's clock speed for a GC game and voilla!
This is stupid. It's like me as an American complaining about the cost of a sandwich in the U.K. Oh my that sandwich in the plastic triangle costs 3 quid. That's almost 6 dollars! They are selling sandwich's for 6 dollars! Surely no Brittish citizen will pay 6 AMERICAN dollars for a sandwich in a plastic triangle!
A few years ago when I lived in England I seem to remember xbox,ps2 and gamecube going for a numerical price as in the U.S. The exchange rate of course pushed the price of a UK machine in U.S dollars well over it's American counter part.
"Farfetched? Maybe. But you don't have to be a Sci-Fi author to imagine crazy abuses of this data.
You only have to have lived through the McCarthy era to imagine the abuses...