Nope, WOULD cost. "Will cost" assumes that it's going to be done. Truth is, it's NOT going to be done.
As one of the earlier posters mentioned, the reason people live in sprawling suburbs that require single-person vehicles is because they want to raise a family in a safe environment where the kids can have lots of room to run and play. Unless you can change basic human nature and the innate desires of most people, you aren't going to get the pie-in-the-sky mass transit system that every eco-nut loves to rave about.
In other words, it ain't EVER gonna happen, get over it.
The only "advantage" of the Mileage tax is that it fills the emotional need of those who don't understand the basic economics of the situation to "punish" the perceived wrongdoers, those who drive SUV's and drive alot. It's an emotional thing, grounded in no logic and even less practical economics, like most wacky Liberal ideas.
Yeah, yeah, that was kind of a trollish comment to make. I admit it. That doesn't make it amy less true though.
You have to consider that there are very good reasons why food (or anything else, for that matter) is shipped internationally. Cost. It's simply cheaper to expend the time and energy going halfway around the world to get your produce than it is to get it locally. Likely it has alot to do with the fact that the cost of producing the same food in a nearly 3rd world country is significantly less than it is to produce it locally. Also, as many of these countries are not heavily developed (as in land development) there is plenty of low-cost land available to farm on. In Europe, where there has been heavy development for literally hundreds if not thousands of years, the arable land available is very small and very very expensive to produce on. (It's less of an issue in America, as it has large tracts of arable flat land in the midwest.) So this makes farming in Europe very expensive. So expensive that it's actually cheaper to sail around the world and bring food back from far off countries.
Of course, as many of the 3rd world nations begin to throw off the shackles of dictatorships and communism and develop viable capitalist economies they will begin to enter the 2nd and 1st worlds, which steadily makes it less and less profitable to purchase food from them. Some areas will retain thier agricultural base, but many will likely switch to industrial or high-tech as time goes on. This a natural and inevitable process, which will eventually lead us back to producing more food locally as the costs equalize. Of course, this process will take decades if not hundreds of years to happen, so there shouldn't be any serious economic upheaval because of it.
The only current threat to this process is the spread of radical Islam, and the 7th century ideologies it espouses. While Islamofascists seem to be adept at adopting new technologies to their own ends, their violent and oppressive ideology prevents them from truly capitalizing on progressive and democratic concepts and leaves them in an economic straightjacket. If this Ideology takes hold in too many 3rd world countries we could see a permanent 3rd world develop. Let us all hope that does not happen.
Unfortunately,/. is infested with many of the same moonbat types that think that the Bush Administration actually planned 9/11 in conjuction with the Eeeevil Jews to implicate innocent Muslims so they could take over the Iraqi Oilfields, and then grant exclusive oil-rights to Haliburton while making obscene profits on the backs of "working class" Americans and randomly shooting people while going hunting!
So yeah, be prepared to be modded down and modded down hard. There isn't room for anything outside the/. groupthink.
Just making moonbats waste their mod points again. This is fun!
Unfortunately,/. is infested with many of the same moonbat types that think that the Bush Administration actually planned 9/11 in conjuction with the Eeeevil Jews to implicate innocent Muslims so they could take over the Iraqi Oilfields, and then grant exclusive oil-rights to Haliburton while making obscene profits on the backs of "working class" Americans and randomly shooting people while going hunting!
So yeah, be prepared to be modded down and modded down hard. There isn't room for anything outside the/. groupthink.
Just making moonbats waste their mod points. This is fun!
Except that it WASN'T false. His post contained exactly what we know about the program. You can make all the suppositions and theories you want, but that's all they are. suppositions and theories.
My point was that the OP post shouldn't have been modded down as now the entire conversation can't be placed in context. All you see is one side's view, and no opposing opinion.
Personally I don't have a problem with this program. How the heck else are we going to find out this information? We TRIED the "law enforcement" method already under the Clinton Administration. What did that get us? The USS Cole, the first tower bombing, and eventually, 9/11. Gee, that was working well.
This is a MILITARY ISSUE. Which means that the President, via his commander-in-chief powers, can do things that would be illegal for ordinary civilian law enforcment. He can do this because we are in a state of declared war. Once we are no longer in a state of war, he can no longer run this program.
This is why Congress is acting to change the laws, and why it is undergoing judicial review. This program needs to be run outside a state of war, and the current laws won't allow that.
You are correct in that the spying program is not "Domestic". This is just a term thrown around by politicos that want to frame the debate as one where one side is "Protecting the freedoms of Americans" and the other side is "Trying to take away our freedoms". The truth of the matter is that this is a program used to keep tabs on terrorist suspects abroad and their contacts in the United States. It's important and necessary as one of the weaknesses of any terrorist organization is thier communication link. As they are not a nation-state with the resources to develop thier own communications technology, they must rely on civilian technologies to for thier CAC functions. By tapping into these lines of communication we can thwart their efforts to attack us.
The problem with many of those that don't like this program is that they see Terrorism in much the same way that the Clinton administration did. As a law-enforcement problem. That type of limited vision is how we ended up with 9/11 in the first place. By not treating terrorism as what it is, a MILITARY action against the US and other countries by an organized but decentralized force, and assuming that subpoenas, police and lawyers will be effective in stopping a global jihad, we place ourselves directly in the line of fire for another terror attack.
But there are plenty of people on Slashdot with mod points that just don't get that. Of course, many of them also think that Michael Moore is a visionary and Al Gore is an Environmental genius. There's no accounting for Common Sense I guess.
Here is fdiskne1's original post that was buried by moonbats:
"What the headline calls domestic spying is actually the tapping of phone calls to and from people inside the United States to and from someone outside the United States who is a known terrorist or member of Al Queda. It is not, as some believe, the government wiretapping phone calls internal to the United States."
There. Now everyone can put the discussion into context.
Keep modding me down Moonbats. I can post indefintely, you have limited mod points.
Oh, and here is fdiskne1's original post that was buried by moonbats:
"What the headline calls domestic spying is actually the tapping of phone calls to and from people inside the United States to and from someone outside the United States who is a known terrorist or member of Al Queda. It is not, as some believe, the government wiretapping phone calls internal to the United States."
There. Now everyone can put the discussion into context.
Just reposting this, because the moonbats with mod points decided to mod me down. (Are we surprised? Nope.)
You are correct sir.
Unfortunately,/. is infested with many of the same moonbat types that think that the Bush Administration actually planned 9/11 in conjuction with the Eeeevil Jews to implicate innocent Muslims so they could take over the Iraqi Oilfields, and then grant exclusive oil-rights to Haliburton while making obscene profits on the backs of "working class" Americans and randomly shooting people while going hunting!
So yeah, be prepared to be modded down and modded down hard. There isn't room for anything outside the/. groupthink.
Unfortunately,/. is infested with many of the same moonbat types that think that the Bush Administration actually planned 9/11 in conjuction with the Eeeevil Jews to implicate innocent Muslims so they could take over the Iraqi Oilfields, and then grant exclusive oil-rights to Haliburton while making obscene profits on the backs of "working class" Americans and randomly shooting people while going hunting!
So yeah, be prepared to be modded down and modded down hard. There isn't room for anything outside the/. groupthink.
Try newegg (www.newegg.com) They sell OEM versions of XP Home for about $125.00 and Pro for about $150.00. I would imagine once Vista is available they will be selling Vista Ultimate for about $200.00 or less.
Wow. You really don't understand the market, do you?
Apparently YOU are the one who way is out of touch. Virtualization is ABSOLUTELY making inroads into the home market. It's only at the beginning stages, but it is starting. I know quite a few regular users who are using virtualization to get work done. Most of them are Mac users who have one or two windows-specific programs that they need to use, and they don't want to go through the hassle of a dual-boot setup. VMWare or Parallels works great for them. Keep in mind, these are PHB types. NOT IT GUYS.
My father (for example) is one of the users I'm talking about. He tried using boot camp, but rebooting every time turned out to be a hassle. I used VM-ware converter to convert his existing windows parition into a virtual machine. He set up VMWare Player on OSx and now he uses the Windows machine virtually when he needs to use his Windows-only B2B software. It runs GREAT! There is little to no performace impact on his Powerbook Pro using a VMWare product.
If you don't understand the concept, there's little point in implementing the practice.
You know what? My Dad has NO CLUE how virtualization works, yet he uses it with no problem. Most of the users I have spoken with that use virtualization outside an enterprise environment only partially understand HOW it works, but they know it DOES work, and they use it. All it takes is seeing it in action one time, and they are sold.
It's not. Atrocious performance, if nothing else, rules it out for most tasks home users consider useful. The lack of any real utility for the vast, vast bulk of home users is another reason it's a miniscule niche in that market space.
If you have a modern (IE: made in the last 2-3 years) Laptop or desktop with a good amount of RAM (1GB or more, very common on any machine built recently) you will be able to run virtual machines with no problem at all. Yes, MICROSOFT'S V-machine product runs atrociously. Guess what? NOBODY ELSE'S DOES! Which is exactly my point. Of course, if you had RTFA, you would see the rest of the article supports my point even further:
Microsoft has also begun to put restrictive terms on the use of VMs. Specifically, Microsoft is starting to restrict use of its VMs to Microsoft's Virtual Server and Virtual PC only.
Obviously, Microsoft is doing the same thing it has always done. Enter a market and attempt to dominate it via legalistic maneuvers rather than competing on the merits of it's products. Of course, this is NOT what consumers want, but then, when has Microsoft EVER cared about what consumers want?
Customers and partners have been very clear that a closed system based on licensing restrictions, that locks customers into one vendor's products and formats is not acceptable
People do not want lock-in. They want CHOICE. This latest move isn't about price discrimination it's about limiting consumer choice in an attempt to strongarm a market it can't compete in on the merits of it's offerings.
This is OBVIOUS. It amazes me that you are even bothering to argue the point it's so plain. Sadly, you obviously aren't getting it, as you are too busy defending Microsoft's RIDICULOUS assertions. How about you do some real-world testing with different products and stop shilling for Microsoft? Then maybe you will understand the absurdity of your position.
Feel free to reply if you insist on getting the "last word". But it won't make you correct. You are simply flat-out wrong on this one, and absolutely on the wrong side of the argument. (Judging by the mod points I've seen so far, Slashdot agrees with me.)
Your argument is flawed, as some versions of Vista can still be run in virtualisation.
Hmm...
You must have missed the part where I said "home market".
You see, like many computing trends, virtualization is beginning to make inroads in the home market from the Enterprise market. It started among IT types wanting to run several OSes but not wanting the complication of a dual-boot setup. Apple has greatly helped it along with it's "Parallels" software, and VMWare has a version of it's free VMWare Player for OSX.
My point was not regarding price discrimination, but the absurd manner in which Microsoft has chosen to explain away the price discrimination, by saying that virtualization is somehow not ready for broad adoption. This is patently absurd just on the face of it. Virtualization, while difficult to understand in concept, is laughably easy to use and implement. Unless you are using Microsoft's virtual PC product, which is difficult to use, ugly, and slow.
What they are really saying is that THIER Virtual PC product is not ready for broad adoption, and so they decided to take thier "ball" (virtualization for the cheaper versions of Vista) and go home. It's quite obvious that thier intent was to try and take away a potential market from one of thier competitors. They know they can't compete in the virtual PC space on the merits of thier product (especially among home users) so they just try to reduce or eliminate any competition in that space at all. It's really not that difficult to understand, and I'm saddened that I had to explain the obvious to a slashdotter.
virtualization is not mature enough for broad adoption
Translation: "We are getting SPANKED by VMWare in the virtualization market, and our PC virtualization sucks. So since we are unable to win against VMWare in the home market, we are taking our ball and going home."
Is anyone really surprised? Any market Microsoft cannot dominate they attempt to squash.
Ok, the Gaming site is DOA, Slashdotted to hell and back. Does anyone know where this quote is coming from? It's not "Talking points" I check the Fox News archive and there's nothing related to gaming on there going back at least 6 months. I don't know if this is in any of his books or not, as i don't own them. Did they interview OReilly? Where is this quote coming from?
I guess I'm jaded, but I want confirmation of a quote by ANYBODY before I go off half-cocked and getting all upset over what someone is purported to have said.
I get a kick out of all these people using Emulators for DOS and Windows 3.1 games when VMWare exists. When I want to play a classic game I just fire up VMWare and play in a virtual machine. Not only is the overall performance incredible, but I get the complete experience as well. Of course, it doesn't work for every game, but you could say that about emulators too.
No, seriously. Prove that the Bible is a work of complete fiction. You can't, can you? Of course you can't. Why? Because The Bible is a book of faith, not science. You either accept it at face value, or not. There is no way to prove it incorrect using science. In truth, Christianity much more than any of the other major religions of the world, relies on classical Greco-Roman logic and reasoning to explain itself (the New Testament portion, anyway), making it even HARDER to prove incorrect, as it is so logical and complimentary to the scientific method in it's approach to faith.
Ultimately it doesn't matter wether you believe The Bible or not. Science tells you HOW things work. The Bible tells you WHY. The two are not incompatible in any way, as they deal with two entirely different subjects. Insulting Christians by telling them thier faith is based on fiction is merely rude, and simply shows a lack of critical thinking and social skills on your part.
It works the same way in Star Wars. The Midichlorian approach, and the "Force as a religion" approach are not incompatible. One gives you the how, the other the why. together they make up two halves of the whole of The Force.
Of course, the storytelling and overall narrative quality of the Midichlorian approach is suspect, and I think that is where the real bugaboo lies with most people who complain about that addition to the Star Wars universe. Unfortunately the story we were given is the one we have. I think we just simply have to look beyond GL's poor writing skills in this case and try to enjoy the story as a whole.
Now stop getting so serious about Star Wars and go get laid!:)
LUKE: Leia... do you remember your mother? Your real mother?
LEIA: Just a little bit. She died when I was very young.
Yes,
but keep in mind that Leia also did not know that she had been adopted. Speaking as someone who WAS adopted shortly after birth, I can say with all honesty that I thought my adopted mother WAS my birth mother until told otherwise by my adoptive parents.
It's not as though we have some kind of 6th sense that tells us who our parents are. If we've only known adopted parents all our lives, we accept them as our real parents. Let me tell you, finding out you are adopted comes as a shock, especially if the overall genetics are a close match. (IE: You look alot like your adoptive family, and aren't a white kid in a black family ala Steve Martin's "The Jerk" movie.)
It's quite resonable to assume that Leia thought that her adoptive mother was her real mother, and that her adoptive mother died from either an accident (probably a fall, the Star Wars universe apparently has no OSHA equivalent to make engineers use railings on suspended walkways.) or a disease. Indeed, it is likely thast at the end of Episode VI, LUKE probably thinks that Leia's adopted mother is HIS real mother too, as it isn't explained to either him or Leia by Obi-Wan's ghost. I dunno, maybe he has a sit-down with Anakin's (new) ghost at some point after Ep VI ends, and the whole thing is explained. But it's not really covered in the movie, as it's not exactly a salient plot-point. It takes only a little bit of thought to realize what is going on with that, and you can move on to the rest of the movie.
They do have a strong incentive to discourage alternative energy research though!
Why?
Who do you think is doing most of the major investment in Alternative Energy production development and infrastructure? Birkenstocked leftover hippies? Community groups? Environmentalist Communes?
Nope. It's the major energy companies. They have poured millions upon millions into alt-energy for YEARS.
Just in case the whole "peak oil" thing turns out to be true, they want to be out-in-front with readily available alternative choices so they can continue to make a profit. It's not like they're going to say; "Oh well, we're out of oil. I guess we'll just pack it up and have the office firesale next Tuesday." No, they want to stay in business as long as possible. So as a hedge against the future, they are the world's leading investors in Alt-Energy.
They would have nothing to gain by trying in influence a report like this one way or another. In fact they would have the most to gain by having as UNBIASED a report as possible, as it would allow them to more accurately predict when they can expect to see a need for alt-energy, and plan thier development costs accordingly.
It's not a "Global Conspiracy" of "Big Oil". It's plain economics and the complex dynamics of a supply and demand system in a modern world. This new study just backs that up.
Actually, Voting machines CAN work, provided they aren't electronic, but MECHANICAL in nature. That's what we use in our district (NY 26). We've had the old-fashioned mechanical pull-lever style machines for at least 50 years. They're big, bulky, tough, and they work reliably. I guess people in Buffalo just figure "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
No, the most likely explanation is that the trial has been in it's final stages for a few weeks, and that this happened to be the day Saddam was sentenced.
Here's a clue for all the conspiracy nuts that hang out at slashdot; The Iraqi courts don't give a damn about our mid-term elections! Hell, I'd hazard a guess that they probably didn't even know it was coming up!
Don't be so damned arrogant. The world doesn't revolve around the American election cycle or American politics. Some coincidences are just that; coincidences. Get over yourselves.
"there is direct evidence, which you ignore, to show that your theory doesn't fit the facts."
Um.. No. In fact there is a large amount of data which shows that my "theories" ARE fact. It was modded as a troll by Free Speech Suppressors fairly quickly, so you may have missed my earlier post with the link to several studies showing that there is indeed a Liberal media bias in America. My opinion is borne out by scientific study and fact.
On the other hand, the opinion that the voting machines are deliberately being tampered with to skew elections has only a small handful of voting irregularities (well within the norm for any election, e-voting or not.) and a SHITLOAD of kooky conspiracy theories. No real evidence, nothing concrete to back it up, just a bunch of hand wringing and inanity.
Occams Razor dictates that the simplest answer is most likely the correct one. What is more likely; That a national conspiracy involving Diebold, The Republican party, and THOUSANDS of election workers of all political stripes banded together to hand elections over to the Bush and the Republicans, OR, that a company has made an inferior product that sometimes causes irregularities in the voting records?
It seems to me that one would have to be a blind partisan not to see the obvious choice here.
Again, what is more likely; That a national Press corps comprised of individuals that overwhelmingly (over 80%) vote Democrat and Liberal in every election in the past 30 years might just tend to color thier reporting with a leftist view, and that over the years, that view would have seeped into the manner in which they conduct thier business and select stories to run, OR, that all the members of the national press corps except Fox News are PERFECT HUMANS capable of no wrong and are COMPLETELY UNBIASED in everything they do, and it's just those evil Republicans and Bill O'Reilly that are trying to pull the wool over people's eyes?
Again, one would have to be a blind partisan not to see the obvious.
Logic. It's good for me, for you, and for the country. Try it sometime!
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Nope, WOULD cost. "Will cost" assumes that it's going to be done. Truth is, it's NOT going to be done.
As one of the earlier posters mentioned, the reason people live in sprawling suburbs that require single-person vehicles is because they want to raise a family in a safe environment where the kids can have lots of room to run and play. Unless you can change basic human nature and the innate desires of most people, you aren't going to get the pie-in-the-sky mass transit system that every eco-nut loves to rave about.
In other words, it ain't EVER gonna happen, get over it.
There isn't one.
The only "advantage" of the Mileage tax is that it fills the emotional need of those who don't understand the basic economics of the situation to "punish" the perceived wrongdoers, those who drive SUV's and drive alot. It's an emotional thing, grounded in no logic and even less practical economics, like most wacky Liberal ideas.
Yeah, yeah, that was kind of a trollish comment to make. I admit it. That doesn't make it amy less true though.
Not at all really.
You have to consider that there are very good reasons why food (or anything else, for that matter) is shipped internationally. Cost. It's simply cheaper to expend the time and energy going halfway around the world to get your produce than it is to get it locally. Likely it has alot to do with the fact that the cost of producing the same food in a nearly 3rd world country is significantly less than it is to produce it locally. Also, as many of these countries are not heavily developed (as in land development) there is plenty of low-cost land available to farm on. In Europe, where there has been heavy development for literally hundreds if not thousands of years, the arable land available is very small and very very expensive to produce on. (It's less of an issue in America, as it has large tracts of arable flat land in the midwest.) So this makes farming in Europe very expensive. So expensive that it's actually cheaper to sail around the world and bring food back from far off countries.
Of course, as many of the 3rd world nations begin to throw off the shackles of dictatorships and communism and develop viable capitalist economies they will begin to enter the 2nd and 1st worlds, which steadily makes it less and less profitable to purchase food from them. Some areas will retain thier agricultural base, but many will likely switch to industrial or high-tech as time goes on. This a natural and inevitable process, which will eventually lead us back to producing more food locally as the costs equalize. Of course, this process will take decades if not hundreds of years to happen, so there shouldn't be any serious economic upheaval because of it.
The only current threat to this process is the spread of radical Islam, and the 7th century ideologies it espouses. While Islamofascists seem to be adept at adopting new technologies to their own ends, their violent and oppressive ideology prevents them from truly capitalizing on progressive and democratic concepts and leaves them in an economic straightjacket. If this Ideology takes hold in too many 3rd world countries we could see a permanent 3rd world develop. Let us all hope that does not happen.
You are correct sir.
/. is infested with many of the same moonbat types that think that the Bush Administration actually planned 9/11 in conjuction with the Eeeevil Jews to implicate innocent Muslims so they could take over the Iraqi Oilfields, and then grant exclusive oil-rights to Haliburton while making obscene profits on the backs of "working class" Americans and randomly shooting people while going hunting!
/. groupthink.
Unfortunately,
So yeah, be prepared to be modded down and modded down hard. There isn't room for anything outside the
Just making moonbats waste their mod points again. This is fun!
You are correct sir.
/. is infested with many of the same moonbat types that think that the Bush Administration actually planned 9/11 in conjuction with the Eeeevil Jews to implicate innocent Muslims so they could take over the Iraqi Oilfields, and then grant exclusive oil-rights to Haliburton while making obscene profits on the backs of "working class" Americans and randomly shooting people while going hunting!
/. groupthink.
Unfortunately,
So yeah, be prepared to be modded down and modded down hard. There isn't room for anything outside the
Just making moonbats waste their mod points. This is fun!
Except that it WASN'T false. His post contained exactly what we know about the program. You can make all the suppositions and theories you want, but that's all they are. suppositions and theories.
My point was that the OP post shouldn't have been modded down as now the entire conversation can't be placed in context. All you see is one side's view, and no opposing opinion.
Personally I don't have a problem with this program. How the heck else are we going to find out this information? We TRIED the "law enforcement" method already under the Clinton Administration. What did that get us? The USS Cole, the first tower bombing, and eventually, 9/11. Gee, that was working well.
This is a MILITARY ISSUE. Which means that the President, via his commander-in-chief powers, can do things that would be illegal for ordinary civilian law enforcment. He can do this because we are in a state of declared war. Once we are no longer in a state of war, he can no longer run this program.
This is why Congress is acting to change the laws, and why it is undergoing judicial review. This program needs to be run outside a state of war, and the current laws won't allow that.
Diamon,
You are correct in that the spying program is not "Domestic". This is just a term thrown around by politicos that want to frame the debate as one where one side is "Protecting the freedoms of Americans" and the other side is "Trying to take away our freedoms". The truth of the matter is that this is a program used to keep tabs on terrorist suspects abroad and their contacts in the United States. It's important and necessary as one of the weaknesses of any terrorist organization is thier communication link. As they are not a nation-state with the resources to develop thier own communications technology, they must rely on civilian technologies to for thier CAC functions. By tapping into these lines of communication we can thwart their efforts to attack us.
The problem with many of those that don't like this program is that they see Terrorism in much the same way that the Clinton administration did. As a law-enforcement problem. That type of limited vision is how we ended up with 9/11 in the first place. By not treating terrorism as what it is, a MILITARY action against the US and other countries by an organized but decentralized force, and assuming that subpoenas, police and lawyers will be effective in stopping a global jihad, we place ourselves directly in the line of fire for another terror attack.
But there are plenty of people on Slashdot with mod points that just don't get that. Of course, many of them also think that Michael Moore is a visionary and Al Gore is an Environmental genius. There's no accounting for Common Sense I guess.
Here is fdiskne1's original post that was buried by moonbats:
"What the headline calls domestic spying is actually the tapping of phone calls to and from people inside the United States to and from someone outside the United States who is a known terrorist or member of Al Queda. It is not, as some believe, the government wiretapping phone calls internal to the United States."
There. Now everyone can put the discussion into context.
Keep modding me down Moonbats. I can post indefintely, you have limited mod points.
Oh, and here is fdiskne1's original post that was buried by moonbats:
"What the headline calls domestic spying is actually the tapping of phone calls to and from people inside the United States to and from someone outside the United States who is a known terrorist or member of Al Queda. It is not, as some believe, the government wiretapping phone calls internal to the United States."
There. Now everyone can put the discussion into context.
Just reposting this, because the moonbats with mod points decided to mod me down. (Are we surprised? Nope.)
/. is infested with many of the same moonbat types that think that the Bush Administration actually planned 9/11 in conjuction with the Eeeevil Jews to implicate innocent Muslims so they could take over the Iraqi Oilfields, and then grant exclusive oil-rights to Haliburton while making obscene profits on the backs of "working class" Americans and randomly shooting people while going hunting!
/. groupthink.
You are correct sir.
Unfortunately,
So yeah, be prepared to be modded down and modded down hard. There isn't room for anything outside the
You are correct sir.
/. is infested with many of the same moonbat types that think that the Bush Administration actually planned 9/11 in conjuction with the Eeeevil Jews to implicate innocent Muslims so they could take over the Iraqi Oilfields, and then grant exclusive oil-rights to Haliburton while making obscene profits on the backs of "working class" Americans and randomly shooting people while going hunting!
/. groupthink.
Unfortunately,
So yeah, be prepared to be modded down and modded down hard. There isn't room for anything outside the
Try newegg (www.newegg.com) They sell OEM versions of XP Home for about $125.00 and Pro for about $150.00. I would imagine once Vista is available they will be selling Vista Ultimate for about $200.00 or less.
Apparently YOU are the one who way is out of touch. Virtualization is ABSOLUTELY making inroads into the home market. It's only at the beginning stages, but it is starting. I know quite a few regular users who are using virtualization to get work done. Most of them are Mac users who have one or two windows-specific programs that they need to use, and they don't want to go through the hassle of a dual-boot setup. VMWare or Parallels works great for them. Keep in mind, these are PHB types. NOT IT GUYS.
My father (for example) is one of the users I'm talking about. He tried using boot camp, but rebooting every time turned out to be a hassle. I used VM-ware converter to convert his existing windows parition into a virtual machine. He set up VMWare Player on OSx and now he uses the Windows machine virtually when he needs to use his Windows-only B2B software. It runs GREAT! There is little to no performace impact on his Powerbook Pro using a VMWare product.
You know what? My Dad has NO CLUE how virtualization works, yet he uses it with no problem. Most of the users I have spoken with that use virtualization outside an enterprise environment only partially understand HOW it works, but they know it DOES work, and they use it. All it takes is seeing it in action one time, and they are sold.
If you have a modern (IE: made in the last 2-3 years) Laptop or desktop with a good amount of RAM (1GB or more, very common on any machine built recently) you will be able to run virtual machines with no problem at all. Yes, MICROSOFT'S V-machine product runs atrociously. Guess what? NOBODY ELSE'S DOES! Which is exactly my point. Of course, if you had RTFA, you would see the rest of the article supports my point even further:
Obviously, Microsoft is doing the same thing it has always done. Enter a market and attempt to dominate it via legalistic maneuvers rather than competing on the merits of it's products. Of course, this is NOT what consumers want, but then, when has Microsoft EVER cared about what consumers want?
People do not want lock-in. They want CHOICE. This latest move isn't about price discrimination it's about limiting consumer choice in an attempt to strongarm a market it can't compete in on the merits of it's offerings.
This is OBVIOUS. It amazes me that you are even bothering to argue the point it's so plain. Sadly, you obviously aren't getting it, as you are too busy defending Microsoft's RIDICULOUS assertions. How about you do some real-world testing with different products and stop shilling for Microsoft? Then maybe you will understand the absurdity of your position.
Feel free to reply if you insist on getting the "last word". But it won't make you correct. You are simply flat-out wrong on this one, and absolutely on the wrong side of the argument. (Judging by the mod points I've seen so far, Slashdot agrees with me.)
Hmm...
You must have missed the part where I said "home market".
You see, like many computing trends, virtualization is beginning to make inroads in the home market from the Enterprise market. It started among IT types wanting to run several OSes but not wanting the complication of a dual-boot setup. Apple has greatly helped it along with it's "Parallels" software, and VMWare has a version of it's free VMWare Player for OSX.
My point was not regarding price discrimination, but the absurd manner in which Microsoft has chosen to explain away the price discrimination, by saying that virtualization is somehow not ready for broad adoption. This is patently absurd just on the face of it. Virtualization, while difficult to understand in concept, is laughably easy to use and implement. Unless you are using Microsoft's virtual PC product, which is difficult to use, ugly, and slow.
What they are really saying is that THIER Virtual PC product is not ready for broad adoption, and so they decided to take thier "ball" (virtualization for the cheaper versions of Vista) and go home. It's quite obvious that thier intent was to try and take away a potential market from one of thier competitors. They know they can't compete in the virtual PC space on the merits of thier product (especially among home users) so they just try to reduce or eliminate any competition in that space at all. It's really not that difficult to understand, and I'm saddened that I had to explain the obvious to a slashdotter.
Translation: "We are getting SPANKED by VMWare in the virtualization market, and our PC virtualization sucks. So since we are unable to win against VMWare in the home market, we are taking our ball and going home."
Is anyone really surprised? Any market Microsoft cannot dominate they attempt to squash.
Ok, the Gaming site is DOA, Slashdotted to hell and back. Does anyone know where this quote is coming from? It's not "Talking points" I check the Fox News archive and there's nothing related to gaming on there going back at least 6 months. I don't know if this is in any of his books or not, as i don't own them. Did they interview OReilly? Where is this quote coming from?
I guess I'm jaded, but I want confirmation of a quote by ANYBODY before I go off half-cocked and getting all upset over what someone is purported to have said.
I get a kick out of all these people using Emulators for DOS and Windows 3.1 games when VMWare exists. When I want to play a classic game I just fire up VMWare and play in a virtual machine. Not only is the overall performance incredible, but I get the complete experience as well. Of course, it doesn't work for every game, but you could say that about emulators too.
Prove it.
No, seriously. Prove that the Bible is a work of complete fiction. You can't, can you? Of course you can't. Why? Because The Bible is a book of faith, not science. You either accept it at face value, or not. There is no way to prove it incorrect using science. In truth, Christianity much more than any of the other major religions of the world, relies on classical Greco-Roman logic and reasoning to explain itself (the New Testament portion, anyway), making it even HARDER to prove incorrect, as it is so logical and complimentary to the scientific method in it's approach to faith.
Ultimately it doesn't matter wether you believe The Bible or not. Science tells you HOW things work. The Bible tells you WHY. The two are not incompatible in any way, as they deal with two entirely different subjects. Insulting Christians by telling them thier faith is based on fiction is merely rude, and simply shows a lack of critical thinking and social skills on your part.
It works the same way in Star Wars. The Midichlorian approach, and the "Force as a religion" approach are not incompatible. One gives you the how, the other the why. together they make up two halves of the whole of The Force.
Of course, the storytelling and overall narrative quality of the Midichlorian approach is suspect, and I think that is where the real bugaboo lies with most people who complain about that addition to the Star Wars universe. Unfortunately the story we were given is the one we have. I think we just simply have to look beyond GL's poor writing skills in this case and try to enjoy the story as a whole.
Now stop getting so serious about Star Wars and go get laid!
Yes,
but keep in mind that Leia also did not know that she had been adopted. Speaking as someone who WAS adopted shortly after birth, I can say with all honesty that I thought my adopted mother WAS my birth mother until told otherwise by my adoptive parents.
It's not as though we have some kind of 6th sense that tells us who our parents are. If we've only known adopted parents all our lives, we accept them as our real parents. Let me tell you, finding out you are adopted comes as a shock, especially if the overall genetics are a close match. (IE: You look alot like your adoptive family, and aren't a white kid in a black family ala Steve Martin's "The Jerk" movie.)
It's quite resonable to assume that Leia thought that her adoptive mother was her real mother, and that her adoptive mother died from either an accident (probably a fall, the Star Wars universe apparently has no OSHA equivalent to make engineers use railings on suspended walkways.) or a disease. Indeed, it is likely thast at the end of Episode VI, LUKE probably thinks that Leia's adopted mother is HIS real mother too, as it isn't explained to either him or Leia by Obi-Wan's ghost. I dunno, maybe he has a sit-down with Anakin's (new) ghost at some point after Ep VI ends, and the whole thing is explained. But it's not really covered in the movie, as it's not exactly a salient plot-point. It takes only a little bit of thought to realize what is going on with that, and you can move on to the rest of the movie.
Why?
Who do you think is doing most of the major investment in Alternative Energy production development and infrastructure? Birkenstocked leftover hippies? Community groups? Environmentalist Communes?
Nope. It's the major energy companies. They have poured millions upon millions into alt-energy for YEARS.
Just in case the whole "peak oil" thing turns out to be true, they want to be out-in-front with readily available alternative choices so they can continue to make a profit. It's not like they're going to say; "Oh well, we're out of oil. I guess we'll just pack it up and have the office firesale next Tuesday." No, they want to stay in business as long as possible. So as a hedge against the future, they are the world's leading investors in Alt-Energy.
They would have nothing to gain by trying in influence a report like this one way or another. In fact they would have the most to gain by having as UNBIASED a report as possible, as it would allow them to more accurately predict when they can expect to see a need for alt-energy, and plan thier development costs accordingly.
It's not a "Global Conspiracy" of "Big Oil". It's plain economics and the complex dynamics of a supply and demand system in a modern world. This new study just backs that up.
I noticed that too. I'm watching the video, and all of a sudden... "Hey. Isn't that the 'Pirates of the Carribean' theme song?"
I wonder of the robot comes equipped with swashbuckling attachments. Hey! Maybe it runs on Rum!
I guess that would make it a cross between Bender and Jack Sparrow. "You can kiss my shiny metal ass, Savvy?"
Actually, Voting machines CAN work, provided they aren't electronic, but MECHANICAL in nature. That's what we use in our district (NY 26). We've had the old-fashioned mechanical pull-lever style machines for at least 50 years. They're big, bulky, tough, and they work reliably. I guess people in Buffalo just figure "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
No, the most likely explanation is that the trial has been in it's final stages for a few weeks, and that this happened to be the day Saddam was sentenced.
Here's a clue for all the conspiracy nuts that hang out at slashdot; The Iraqi courts don't give a damn about our mid-term elections! Hell, I'd hazard a guess that they probably didn't even know it was coming up!
Don't be so damned arrogant. The world doesn't revolve around the American election cycle or American politics. Some coincidences are just that; coincidences. Get over yourselves.
Ok, now THAT is disturbing.
"there is direct evidence, which you ignore, to show that your theory doesn't fit the facts."
Um.. No. In fact there is a large amount of data which shows that my "theories" ARE fact. It was modded as a troll by Free Speech Suppressors fairly quickly, so you may have missed my earlier post with the link to several studies showing that there is indeed a Liberal media bias in America. My opinion is borne out by scientific study and fact.
On the other hand, the opinion that the voting machines are deliberately being tampered with to skew elections has only a small handful of voting irregularities (well within the norm for any election, e-voting or not.) and a SHITLOAD of kooky conspiracy theories. No real evidence, nothing concrete to back it up, just a bunch of hand wringing and inanity.
Occams Razor dictates that the simplest answer is most likely the correct one. What is more likely; That a national conspiracy involving Diebold, The Republican party, and THOUSANDS of election workers of all political stripes banded together to hand elections over to the Bush and the Republicans, OR, that a company has made an inferior product that sometimes causes irregularities in the voting records?
It seems to me that one would have to be a blind partisan not to see the obvious choice here.
Again, what is more likely; That a national Press corps comprised of individuals that overwhelmingly (over 80%) vote Democrat and Liberal in every election in the past 30 years might just tend to color thier reporting with a leftist view, and that over the years, that view would have seeped into the manner in which they conduct thier business and select stories to run, OR, that all the members of the national press corps except Fox News are PERFECT HUMANS capable of no wrong and are COMPLETELY UNBIASED in everything they do, and it's just those evil Republicans and Bill O'Reilly that are trying to pull the wool over people's eyes?
Again, one would have to be a blind partisan not to see the obvious.
Logic. It's good for me, for you, and for the country. Try it sometime!