Any one else notice the picture of George W for the Larry King advertisement on the CNN link? It is placed right next to the image of the monkey in the tree! Kind of funny.
This strikes me as being an acquired characteristic. It would be interesting to see if she could pass this on to her children. If the children walk up right and are not simply trying to mimic their mother, then we are witnessing a mutation. A mutation is part of evolution.
It's always been this way. Look closely at your American history books and you will see that our country has always had these radicals. The mass media that we have now days just makes the information more apparant.
The past few years I have started to really question the old saying about Democrats and big government and big spending. It seems as though Republicans are behind the majority of the bills, laws and ammendments that put control at the federal level. The modern Republicans that are fiscal liberals seem to be only against big government when it comes to taxes.
"according to Koga, music is also good for the plants, which are invigorated by the constant musical vibes."
Any one ever do a Science Fair project on the effects of differnt types of music on plants? It would be cool to see an experiment on the effects of different types of music played through the plant with this device. And of course compare the findings to the original experiment.
I mean, when computers were running MS-DOS or were unix CLI terminals, making a payroll program must have been a challenge. Nowadays, a pre-bundled spreadsheet program will do it for you. An in-house database-and-html-proficient sysadmin may make quite a lot of that intranet solution all by himself.
I can't think of many medium or large companies that would trust their payroll to a spread sheet or a program written by a sysadmin. What happens when that sysadmin leaves? Companies that are worth millions will spend the money to get software and support for the product they will be using.
This is not true.
" in mature industries you can count members with the fingers of your hands"
Construction is a mature industry. Hell, its one of the oldest industries in the world. Yet there are still a lot of construction companies, architecture frims , law firms and advertising firms....
You are trying to compare the software industry to Auto and Airline industry. Those industries build products that need a lot of capitol to create. I think a much more realistic comparison would be with Software companies that make Operating Systems.
Yeah , we have VW's over in the US also. They are also quite popular. In fact we have quite a few European cars companies over here. Except for the crap ones like Renault and Citroen. Cars generally go on atleast a 3 year cycle in which they do not have any major changes. The parent post really was stupid as it was implies that the cars are under going a major change every year. Popular models generally keep their name even though the design changes. For example the Honda civic has been around since the late 70's. I have a 91 Civic that shared the same body design from 88 to 2003. The tendency to keep a popular name over many variations isn't just an American thing. I see no difference between this and my European friends who drool over the the latest Merc's and BMW's.
If you come and get to know real English people, you might think differently of us."
I lived in London for 2 years. I do think differently of you;) I ran into quite a few people that thought life in the U.S. was just like T.V. I also heard my fair share of racist steriotypes. However, I understood that stupidity inhabits any country and learned to deal with it.
My comment was a generalization. However, the average american doesn't realize the rivalry that the English and French have. My co-workers and random punters in England would make comments about the French. Some of it was just good natured teasing. The best way I can explain it to an American is to compare the situation to an American University football rivalry.
You are spot on that every country has it's good and bad. Most Americans have never even met a French person. I am pretty intollerant of the ignorant French bashing that occurs in the U.S..
The complaints are usually aimed at the cowardice and weakness of the French republic which didn't emerge for at least a decade after that (1789?).
That is a pretty ignorant statement as you are ignoring a lot of French history after 1789. The biggest ommision is Napoleon. Did you not know that Napoleon Controlled most of Europe? He was also slugging it out with our main Enemy in the early 19th century, the English. Remember when the British invaded the U.S in 1812 and burned D.C.? France was anything but weak under Napoleon. You also seem to be ignoring the hardships that the French endured over the 19th and 20th century. The aftermath of the Napoleonic wars left France with an installed Monarch and a subsequent revolution in 1830. France dealt with a serious shortage of Men over the 19th and 20th century due to heavy losses in Wars, ( Napoleonic,Franco-Prussian, WWI and WWII ). It's hard to fight Wars when there are missing generations of Men.
I think your view of France has been shaped by the English. The English hate the French. They have a very big rivalry as they were at war with each other for hundreds of years. Much of our society and law have been influenced by the English. After all aren't most Americans more familiar with the Kings and Queens of England than of France? When you think of the middle ages and knights do you not think of King arthur and an English settings. The fact is the French and other European countries were more advanced at an earlier stage than the English. Just travel to England and France and compare the architecture and the time periods in which they were built. You will see that the French were more advanced in their architecture and building methods than the English. For more info on why the Brittish hate the French and vise versa.... theotherside
Yup, you get what you pay for. Dell makes some cheap laptops, but they have this tendency to fall apart in about a week. That doesn't happen with powerbooks.
I own a TI Powerbook. It's the best computer I have ever owned. However, they have a fatal flaw. The hinges often snap due to stress. Unfortunately, it is a pretty bad design flaw. In spite of this I can still say it is an awesome laptop. By the way the hinges cost about $300 dollars to fix now. I also noticed the new powerbooks have total redisgned hinges.
Communism cannot afford any kinds of rivals whatsoever, such is the nature of authoritarian regimes be them communist or otherwise.
I guess you could say that a communist government is a monopoply. Microsoft was found to be a monopoly. Microsoft doesn't want any sorts of competition either. Which makes things pretty interesting that Linux is considered to be "Communist" software just because it is developed for non-profit.
"Be expecting the environmental types to scream. One of the things I think environmentalist groups often miss is that, while nuclear waste is undoubtedly toxic, it also does not come in large quantities. I'd much rather have 1kg of incredibly toxic stuff in a sealed container than 10,000,000kg of fossil fuel residues in the air I have to breathe."
That's why I have been buying up land on the cheap around our nations Nuke reactors.
Wile it's true that some environmentalist go over board, I for one am glad that we have people that expose possible dangers.
Honestly, the game was a 2-d top scroller that had no more plot than dodge, dodge, fire. He must be planning an exploding boathouse scene though, I'm sure of that: Spyhunters car speeds towards the boathouse. Helecopter hovers overhead raining down a birrage of bombs. The car zooms into the boathouse, Spyhunter leaps from car to boat. Bombs crash through the roof, and the boat is blown out into the river by the fire and shockwave. Cheers to turning one of the most simple videogames into a 100million dollar budgeted dud. And thanks for ruining one of PKD's best story's
You forgot to include Woo's trademark scene where the Spy Hunter and his enemy will both have their guns pointed at each others heads. I am kind of curious how they will do that since the Spyhunter never left his car/boat in the original game.
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"rubber crisis which led the way to synthetics and recovery/recycle programs"
That was a very acurate description of what teachers face. My father is a Biology and Anatomy teacher and he would go years without getting a raise. He also wouldn't recieve the proper funding to teach Bio and Anatomy classes. He had to get creative with saving disections so kids in next years class could have some sort of lab. Some of the disections actually made it through several years. My sister was a grade school teacher. However, she got out of the profesion as a waitress with no degree working at her husbands BBQ restaurant made more than a teacher. Oh they also live in Central FL.
In my first year out of school with a CS degree I was makeing more than my father with 40 years experience.
well, it doesn't take much to encourage greed and selfishness... I wasn't trying to suggest that capitolism is the only socioeconomic model that encourages such things!
I know, I was just taking the piss. Trying to make a little joke on the hypocracy of the whole political labeling process. Kind of like when people talk about how great American society was in the 1950's but they don't want to pay 1950's taxes or credit the new deal that provided for all the improvement to the American infrastructure and quality of life. The same programs that were taking place in the 1950's would be labeled socialist today.
That's because in WWI there were clear cut combat lines with both sides adhering somewhat to rules of combat. You didn't have germans hiding in crowds of french women firing at allies or pushing baby carriages full of TNT up to checkpoints. They were able to cut each other slack, each man knowing that the other side was more doing his job than acting out of any personal hatred. In iraq, if our troops tried that, they'd be shot stabbed or blown to pieces, guaranteed.
WWI was about trench warfare not occupation. As a comparison look at WWII and the countries in which Germany occupied. Each occupied country had a resistence of some sort. The most famous was the french resistence. The French bombed checkpoints , trains , etc... It also was not uncommon for Nazi troops the kill all of the men or enslave them in the small towns that were occupied. The Greek population suffered severley under the Axis occupation. When you occupy a country you should expect resistence and not flowers.
What makes Iraq very dangerous to occupy when compared to a Western country is the stark difference in culture and the light military weapons that were always available to most of Iraq's population. It was not uncommon to see people carrying around AK47's even before the War.
I would say that War has actually become more humane. An interesting inverse considering that weapons are now increadibly destructive. The population of countries are not kept in the dark as much about the horror's of War. The populace will not tollerate the losses. In the past countries would hold parties and parades at the start of Warfare. Now we hold protests.
"There are firms which expect their employees not only to work a full 8 hour day at the office, but log on and work from home after office hours. Because the employee isn't at the employer's "place of business", the employer believes they owe the employee no additional compensation for those extra hours. "
As a salaried employee. I have never recieved additional pay for staying over 8 hours at the company office. I also have never recieved extra compensation when I have been on call.
I would rather have the option of working at home with the understanding of flexibility. I am constantly in a situation where I sit around at work waiting for a task from another team to be completed. It can be even more time consuming depending on the geographic location of the team. That is wasting my time as I can not take care of my personal life and the companies. If the task gets to me at 5PM then I have basically lost most of the day and will have to start the task the following day. The result is that a project takes more time to finish. If I was at home then I could take care of my personal life while waiting for the task to reach me. If something gets to me at 5PM I am not in the mind set that it is time to wrap up the work day so I can take care of my personal life since I have already done those things while waiting for the work. Working outside of the traditional 9-6 hours is unappealing only because it is generally associated to the traditional office. I would rather work remotly at a flexible pace from 8:30AM to 9PM than work 8 hours in an office.
What is really needed is more of an "appliance" than a traditional laptop. As you mentioned it would be bootable from some sort of media and load the OS into memory. The device would not have the ability to make any sort of permanent storage locally. All storage would be performed to the company server. Thus Anti-virus would not be needed locally. Simply reboot the machine if there is a virus. The device would also have a tamper resistent case to discourage any sort of hardware modifications. It may also be nice to have a model that allows one to dump data to a USB drive or something smiliar when security is less of a concern or network access is not guaranteed.
Sure the world has natural temperature fluctuations. However, your logic is really flawed. Combine this data with the other data and we begin to see that the odds that this is not a coincidence are growing. For example have you ever heard of Global Diming. Global diming is caused by increased pollution in the atmosphere which blocks light from reaching the earth surface. It also makes sense that more particles in the air will mean more objects which can absorb solar heat. When you combine what we know about Global Dimming with this new data on Atmospheric temperature one could logically conclude that polution is most likely cause for the warming.
It's dangerous to be apathatic and reason that the issue is too complicated so we shouldn't be bothered.
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Any one else notice the picture of George W for the Larry King advertisement on the CNN link? It is placed right next to the image of the monkey in the tree! Kind of funny.
This reminds of a Quote from Cray. It goes something like, "Would you rather have 1024 chickens pulling a wagon or a big Ox."
This strikes me as being an acquired characteristic. It would be interesting to see if she could pass this on to her children. If the children walk up right and are not simply trying to mimic their mother, then we are witnessing a mutation. A mutation is part of evolution.
It's always been this way. Look closely at your American history books and you will see that our country has always had these radicals. The mass media that we have now days just makes the information more apparant.
The past few years I have started to really question the old saying about Democrats and big government and big spending. It seems as though Republicans are behind the majority of the bills, laws and ammendments that put control at the federal level. The modern Republicans that are fiscal liberals seem to be only against big government when it comes to taxes.
The republicans already have hacked some democrat computers.
"according to Koga, music is also good for the plants, which are invigorated by the constant musical vibes."
Any one ever do a Science Fair project on the effects of differnt types of music on plants? It would be cool to see an experiment on the effects of different types of music played through the plant with this device. And of course compare the findings to the original experiment.
I mean, when computers were running MS-DOS or were unix CLI terminals, making a payroll program must have been a challenge. Nowadays, a pre-bundled spreadsheet program will do it for you. An in-house database-and-html-proficient sysadmin may make quite a lot of that intranet solution all by himself.
I can't think of many medium or large companies that would trust their payroll to a spread sheet or a program written by a sysadmin. What happens when that sysadmin leaves? Companies that are worth millions will spend the money to get software and support for the product they will be using.
This is not true. " in mature industries you can count members with the fingers of your hands"
Construction is a mature industry. Hell, its one of the oldest industries in the world. Yet there are still a lot of construction companies, architecture frims , law firms and advertising firms....
You are trying to compare the software industry to Auto and Airline industry. Those industries build products that need a lot of capitol to create. I think a much more realistic comparison would be with Software companies that make Operating Systems.
Yeah , we have VW's over in the US also. They are also quite popular. In fact we have quite a few European cars companies over here. Except for the crap ones like Renault and Citroen. Cars generally go on atleast a 3 year cycle in which they do not have any major changes. The parent post really was stupid as it was implies that the cars are under going a major change every year. Popular models generally keep their name even though the design changes. For example the Honda civic has been around since the late 70's. I have a 91 Civic that shared the same body design from 88 to 2003. The tendency to keep a popular name over many variations isn't just an American thing. I see no difference between this and my European friends who drool over the the latest Merc's and BMW's.
If you come and get to know real English people, you might think differently of us." ;) I ran into quite a few people that thought life in the U.S. was just like T.V. I also heard my fair share of racist steriotypes. However, I understood that stupidity inhabits any country and learned to deal with it.
I lived in London for 2 years. I do think differently of you
My comment was a generalization. However, the average american doesn't realize the rivalry that the English and French have. My co-workers and random punters in England would make comments about the French. Some of it was just good natured teasing. The best way I can explain it to an American is to compare the situation to an American University football rivalry.
You are spot on that every country has it's good and bad. Most Americans have never even met a French person. I am pretty intollerant of the ignorant French bashing that occurs in the U.S..
The complaints are usually aimed at the cowardice and weakness of the French republic which didn't emerge for at least a decade after that (1789?).
That is a pretty ignorant statement as you are ignoring a lot of French history after 1789. The biggest ommision is Napoleon. Did you not know that Napoleon Controlled most of Europe? He was also slugging it out with our main Enemy in the early 19th century, the English. Remember when the British invaded the U.S in 1812 and burned D.C.? France was anything but weak under Napoleon. You also seem to be ignoring the hardships that the French endured over the 19th and 20th century. The aftermath of the Napoleonic wars left France with an installed Monarch and a subsequent revolution in 1830. France dealt with a serious shortage of Men over the 19th and 20th century due to heavy losses in Wars, ( Napoleonic,Franco-Prussian, WWI and WWII ). It's hard to fight Wars when there are missing generations of Men.
I think your view of France has been shaped by the English. The English hate the French. They have a very big rivalry as they were at war with each other for hundreds of years. Much of our society and law have been influenced by the English. After all aren't most Americans more familiar with the Kings and Queens of England than of France? When you think of the middle ages and knights do you not think of King arthur and an English settings. The fact is the French and other European countries were more advanced at an earlier stage than the English. Just travel to England and France and compare the architecture and the time periods in which they were built. You will see that the French were more advanced in their architecture and building methods than the English. For more info on why the Brittish hate the French and vise versa.... theotherside
"I was working at a convenience store a few years ago, and got held up at gun point while developing on my powerbook
Damn, is the job market really that bad?
Yup, you get what you pay for. Dell makes some cheap laptops, but they have this tendency to fall apart in about a week. That doesn't happen with powerbooks.
I own a TI Powerbook. It's the best computer I have ever owned. However, they have a fatal flaw. The
hinges often snap due to stress. Unfortunately, it is a pretty bad design flaw. In spite of this I can still say it is an awesome laptop. By the way the hinges cost about $300 dollars to fix now. I also noticed the new powerbooks have total redisgned hinges.
Communism cannot afford any kinds of rivals whatsoever, such is the nature of authoritarian regimes be them communist or otherwise.
I guess you could say that a communist government is a monopoply. Microsoft was found to be a monopoly. Microsoft doesn't want any sorts of competition either. Which makes things pretty interesting that Linux is considered to be "Communist" software just because it is developed for non-profit.
"Be expecting the environmental types to scream. One of the things I think environmentalist groups often miss is that, while nuclear waste is undoubtedly toxic, it also does not come in large quantities. I'd much rather have 1kg of incredibly toxic stuff in a sealed container than 10,000,000kg of fossil fuel residues in the air I have to breathe."
That's why I have been buying up land on the cheap around our nations Nuke reactors.
Wile it's true that some environmentalist go over board, I for one am glad that we have people that expose possible dangers.
Honestly, the game was a 2-d top scroller that had no more plot than dodge, dodge, fire. He must be planning an exploding boathouse scene though, I'm sure of that: Spyhunters car speeds towards the boathouse. Helecopter hovers overhead raining down a birrage of bombs. The car zooms into the boathouse, Spyhunter leaps from car to boat. Bombs crash through the roof, and the boat is blown out into the river by the fire and shockwave. Cheers to turning one of the most simple videogames into a 100million dollar budgeted dud. And thanks for ruining one of PKD's best story's
You forgot to include Woo's trademark scene where the Spy Hunter and his enemy will both have their guns pointed at each others heads. I am kind of curious how they will do that since the Spyhunter never left his car/boat in the original game.
"rubber crisis which led the way to synthetics and recovery/recycle programs"
Aren't the synthetics made of petroleum?
That was a very acurate description of what teachers face. My father is a Biology and Anatomy teacher and he would go years without getting a raise. He also wouldn't recieve the proper funding to teach Bio and Anatomy classes. He had to get creative with saving disections so kids in next years class could have some sort of lab. Some of the disections actually made it through several years. My sister was a grade school teacher. However, she got out of the profesion as a waitress with no degree working at her husbands BBQ restaurant made more than a teacher. Oh they also live in Central FL.
In my first year out of school with a CS degree I was makeing more than my father with 40 years experience.
well, it doesn't take much to encourage greed and selfishness... I wasn't trying to suggest that capitolism is the only socioeconomic model that encourages such things!
I know, I was just taking the piss. Trying to make a little joke on the hypocracy of the whole political labeling process. Kind of like when people talk about how great American society was in the 1950's but they don't want to pay 1950's taxes or credit the new deal that provided for all the improvement to the American infrastructure and quality of life. The same programs that were taking place in the 1950's would be labeled socialist today.
It seems that capitolism tends to encourage greed and selfishness, perhaps a concerted effort towards community building will help balance things out.
Kind of like Social programs. Be careful with what you say or people will call you a socialist and tell you to move to Europe.
That's because in WWI there were clear cut combat lines with both sides adhering somewhat to rules of combat. You didn't have germans hiding in crowds of french women firing at allies or pushing baby carriages full of TNT up to checkpoints. They were able to cut each other slack, each man knowing that the other side was more doing his job than acting out of any personal hatred. In iraq, if our troops tried that, they'd be shot stabbed or blown to pieces, guaranteed.
WWI was about trench warfare not occupation. As a comparison look at WWII and the countries in which Germany occupied. Each occupied country had a resistence of some sort. The most famous was the french resistence. The French bombed checkpoints , trains , etc... It also was not uncommon for Nazi troops the kill all of the men or enslave them in the small towns that were occupied. The Greek population suffered severley under the Axis occupation. When you occupy a country you should expect resistence and not flowers.
What makes Iraq very dangerous to occupy when compared to a Western country is the stark difference in culture and the light military weapons that were always available to most of Iraq's population. It was not uncommon to see people carrying around AK47's even before the War.
I would say that War has actually become more humane. An interesting inverse considering that weapons are now increadibly destructive. The population of countries are not kept in the dark as much about the horror's of War. The populace will not tollerate the losses. In the past countries would hold parties and parades at the start of Warfare. Now we hold protests.
"There are firms which expect their employees not only to work a full 8 hour day at the office, but log on and work from home after office hours. Because the employee isn't at the employer's "place of business", the employer believes they owe the employee no additional compensation for those extra hours. "
As a salaried employee. I have never recieved additional pay for staying over 8 hours at the company office. I also have never recieved extra compensation when I have been on call.
I would rather have the option of working at home with the understanding of flexibility. I am constantly in a situation where I sit around at work waiting for a task from another team to be completed. It can be even more time consuming depending on the geographic location of the team. That is wasting my time as I can not take care of my personal life and the companies. If the task gets to me at 5PM then I have basically lost most of the day and will have to start the task the following day. The result is that a project takes more time to finish. If I was at home then I could take care of my personal life while waiting for the task to reach me. If something gets to me at 5PM I am not in the mind set that it is time to wrap up the work day so I can take care of my personal life since I have already done those things while waiting for the work. Working outside of the traditional 9-6 hours is unappealing only because it is generally associated to the traditional office. I would rather work remotly at a flexible pace from 8:30AM to 9PM than work 8 hours in an office.
What is really needed is more of an "appliance" than a traditional laptop. As you mentioned it would be bootable from some sort of media and load the OS into memory. The device would not have the ability to make any sort of permanent storage locally. All storage would be performed to the company server. Thus Anti-virus would not be needed locally. Simply reboot the machine if there is a virus. The device would also have a tamper resistent case to discourage any sort of hardware modifications. It may also be nice to have a model that allows one to dump data to a USB drive or something smiliar when security is less of a concern or network access is not guaranteed.
Sure the world has natural temperature fluctuations. However, your logic is really flawed. Combine this data with the other data and we begin to see that the odds that this is not a coincidence are growing. For example have you ever heard of Global Diming. Global diming is caused by increased pollution in the atmosphere which blocks light from reaching the earth surface. It also makes sense that more particles in the air will mean more objects which can absorb solar heat. When you combine what we know about Global Dimming with this new data on Atmospheric temperature one could logically conclude that polution is most likely cause for the warming.
It's dangerous to be apathatic and reason that the issue is too complicated so we shouldn't be bothered.
"The 747-400F [baworldcargo.com] could be Airforce One (if it's not already)"
Any Airplane carrying the president is considered "Airforce one". Airforce one is only a call sign for the whatever air craft the president is on.