Sadly, yes, not only is our Governor too stupid to wear his seatbelt, but he hasn't done much to stop the unfunded mandates, nor lower property taxes significantly.
And what of the Eminient domain cases there? Like the one that took a bunch of people's houses away from them and gave a drug company the property.
Finally: how would you justify invading Sudan vs e.g. Tibet? Tibet doesn't even exist anymore as the sovereign state it was. Yet I don't hear any whining from the usual suspects in our gov'ts.
Of course you don't hear anything about China's invasion of Tibet, trade is more important. You won't hear about the Chinese, Nationalists, invasion of Formosa, Tiawan, for the same reason. Fact is is until now, there has been no united China, like pre-Colombian America or pre-Czar Russia, there were many difference ethnic/religious groups occupying the landmass of China.
Only because too many people in the US are willing to put up with it. Those with long commutes could move closer to where they work or get a closer job. Not many but a few could even work from home.
This would be a very interesting community approach for other matters that are less subject to caution such as rain forest destruction rate...
This is happening now in Brazil. There was an article earlier this year on/. about how Indians and others were using Google Maps to look for places of illegal mining and such in Brazil. Although good use of Google Maps was being had, the problem was that the maps weren't being updated enough. By the tyme an illegal mine was identified and could be checked out the miners could of already left.
Venezuela seems to be losing its democracy right in front of our eyes, and nobody seems to want to do anything.
No, Venezuyela isn't loosing it's democracy, what it's loosing is what small amount of capitalism it has as well as freedom of the press. I used to support Chavez especially after the coup but he's going too far now in closing down the opposition press or radio and tv. Then again the US under Bush is supporting those outlets which is no different than the if the Chinese were to support the US opposition press.
Actually the government in Sudan doesn't have that much control. As long as a person is willing to risk their life they could enter the Darfur area via Chad or the Central African Republic or southern Sudan via Ethiopia or other nations. And these borders aren't strung with barbed wire fences or have many guards if any. Once inside travel to the center or north of Sudan is where there will be trouble with the government.
...the fact that Sudan has oil, which the Chinese are heavily invested in.
Which is why the UN will do nothing until after a massive atrocity, China won't allow the UN do do something. The thing is is this could byte China in the ass. The Sudan government is made up of Arab Muslims, and they may support Muslim separatists in western China. Though it's not in the news much, there are Muslims in the western part of present day China the Chinese under Mao invaded the lands of and subjegated such as the Uighur.
ISP:s are bountiful (in most places), play them against each other if they misbehave.
While isps may be plentiful many people can't get broadband and many of those who can only have one choice as to who they get it from. Wireless broadband will help those who live in urban areas but not those in rural areas. If broadband were plentiful then the big access providers wouldn't be fighting against city provided wireless, and most of these cities only decide to provide it after businesses refuse to provide it.
Honestly, I don't see what the problem is. Charging some sort of cost - whether it be responding to a whitelist request, paying in CPU cycles to complete a hash, or just flat out paying a quarter of a cent - is the only practical way to fight spam. Spamfilters always have a small false postive and false negative error rate, while charging money or a cost does not. A quarter of a cent is many times the expected monetary return on a pure spam.
The problem is is I already pay for my email and I don't want to pay twice. I wouldn't want to pay extra either if I ran either a business or a nonprofit.
Since it costs money to set up an infrastructure to accept a cost of any type (reliable servers, an organization, ect) charging actual money rather than hash cycles or CAPTCHAs makes the most sense, and is also the only practical way for a big organization to send emails to a bunch of users.
Yea, right, everyone's born with a silver or gold spoon in their mouth. NOT!!! The cost of the infrastructure, as well as profits, are made by providing net access to begin with. If providers can't make a profit then maybe they need to get out of the business.
Read up on the early history of Radio. It used to be free to broadcast. Now it's really expensive. Soon the only web pages and mailing activities will be those that are sanctioned by the key masters.
No, it's cheap to radio broadcast, Pirate radio stations do it all the tyme. There's even pirate radio on the internet. What's espensive is getting a license to broadcast. And that's just how the mass media wants it. Clear Channel doesn't want more competition, it wants less.
You act as if requiring the license for the landscaper is a bad thing. It isn't.
Yes it is! Requiring a license for most any type of business is bad. All that should matter is if a person can do it, and if someone can't word will get out. Also if they are paid but don't do the job then they can be sued.
The homeowner with that chemical will at most damage his own yard, and he's going to use fairly small quantities of the chemical. The landscaper has the potential to damage MUCH larger areas, and will likely use MUCH larger amounts of the chemical.
I think you have things mixed up. A pro will know how much is needed whereas a homeowner won't. While directions will be on the package most homeowners will not read them. Hell, many can't even use their dvd player right because they don't read the manual. Also you're wrong if you think a home owner can only cause harm to his/her own home, pollution knows no artificial border, line on a map.
And he's going to be using it to make a PROFIT, not deal with his own small weed problem. Why shouldn't he have to have a license to do that?
So, you want to require a license to make a profit? Ho about we reuire licenses to program as well? Or how about just write or read? What of breathing?
It's insane not to require one
No, it's insane to require one!!!
And a dry cleaner is the same sort of situation. The chemicals they use, in the quantity they use them, can cause real damage
Green drycleaning, which uses nontoxic, unpolluting, and safe supplies, is getting popular.
And they're not just using them to clean their own clothes, they're using them to make a profit. They should have to have a license
How about requiring a license to work? How about to live?
I say instead of the ISP auto-charging for emails they just include a "Bill them tab" on my web-email site, so if I click on it for yet another special offer, the sender gets charged six cents. A penny for the ISP/mail server and a nickel for me. I could pay my entire montly ISP service fee with all the crap that clogs up my box.
This woud of paid my isp years ago, back when I got a lot of spam, but I infrequently get more than 10 emails a day. My isp has both whitelists and blacklists. Everyone in your online email adddress book is on the whitelist and email from them go to your inbox. Users can add email from specific addies to their blacklist. Then all other email is placed in a "suspicious" folder.
How does it fight spam if the spammer can ask to be whitelisted, or if the spammer can pose as or actually be a business operating for more than a year? Lame.
And why should I have to pay or apply to be whitelisted? As far I can think of this is just another money grab.
the separately floating tool windows, the cryptic menu layout, and the inconsistent design mean that you'll spend twice the time trying to accomplish a goal you could complete more quickly in Paint.Net.
Perhaps your workflow needs working. I love having seperate tool pallets, the image I'm working on will be on the big monitor while the pallets will be visible on a smaller monitor. A slight shift of my gaze and a easy move of the mouse and there's the pallets I need. That's much faster to me than trying to look for the right (small) icon on a bar or drilling through menues. Using just one monitor though having a bunch of pallets open reduces work space.
It seems to me that photoshop is just designed to appeal to computer-illeterate designers who just can't be bothered to learn a new medium,
Photoshop is for photographers. And GIMP doesn't approach what many photoraphers need. Hell it doesn't even have 16 bit colour depths whereas PS has 24 and 32 bit colour depth. I'm hoping CinePaint works at these depths, that or inkscape works well with photos. I'm hoping to break into photography as a pro and want to try both before I spring for the cost for PS.
GIMP isn't a photoshop replacement, not for pros. It doesn't even have 16 bit colour depth yet however PS has 24 and 32 bit colour depth. A few months ago another/.er posted a link to another FOOS graphics editor that did support 24 bits though I don't recall what it was. However if you want to use an SVG editor, both GIMP and Photoshop are bitmapped, there's inkscape. How well it works for editing photos though I don't know. It does have CMYK, along with others, support though.
You could buy a copy of Tiger and install it on 1000 machines and Apple wouldn't care that much. But, they are a hardware company anyway. Their software is the "hook".
Apple is, or was, a systems integrator. They design the compleat system, hardware and software. This way it "just works". MS's Windows runs on more hardware because, until recently, MS has been a software company and Windows can be installed on many different computers made using many different parts. This however creates the problem where that the software might not work on every possible combination of hardware, and frequently the hardware manufacturers will write the drivers.
Most buisnesses exist and function soley so that they can take as much of your money as possible;
I disagree. Most businesses are started because the founder(s) have a vision of what's possible, as with technology. The WOZ didn't design and build the Apple I to make money, he wanted a computer he could use at home. Much like Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard he did the work in a garage. It's only later, usually after incorporation, that some turn to the idea of making money. But then they have shareholders they have to satisfy.
I have to disagree with that statement, I would definately think Chrysler would get that honor. How many time have they filed bankruptcy? and they are still in business.
Ah, but there's a big difference between Apple and Chrysler, Apple had recovered on it's own whereas Chrysler had the government bail them out. I'm kind of hoping a private-equity firm or hedge fund buys out Chrysler and turns them around.
There's a big difference though between extra ram to run photoshop smoothly and needing more ram to run Vista's Areo whereever.
Want to explain your logic?
Easy enough, if simply running the OS or part of it requires a lot of RAM then that RAM isn't available for Photoshop and other apps that use a lot of RAM and more needs to be added to run them. But when the OS doesn't use much RAM then the apps have more available.
Vista's Aero, even when running several 3D games in Windows uses less that 32mb of RAM.
I didn't know Aero doesn't need much RAM. As for how much RAM Aero needs I don't know but I read in a previous post Aero does needs a lot. I still stand by my statement that there's a big difference between the OS needing a lot of RAM and an app needing it.
Oh wait, you totally have NO freaking idea what you are talking about. ...
I'm not trying to be mean,
It certainly seems you're trying to be mean or disrespectful, otherwise you'd never have said I had "NO freaking idea". If you weren't trying to be mean all you would of had to do was say something like "XXX amount of RAM is the requirements to run Aero, so you are wrong." Saying "NO freaking idea" was totally uncalled for.
This is the point I was trying to get people to revisit
If so there are better ways of getting your point accross than using disrespectful language, using it only puts the receiver on the defense or they themself become offensive and both shutdown reasoning.
* Multiple displays (I eagerly await the first laptop than can drive 2+ LCDs. I'm actually quite surprised Apple hasn't done it already. No, hacks like that Matrox thing don't count.)
I wonder if there's an Expresscard that can handle the requirements for a monitor or two.
In short, there are numerous quite good reasons why laptops are not the computing nirvana some people seem to think they are.
There are advantaged and disadvantages to both laptops and desktops. I'm thinking that what throws a lot of people is this idea of a laptop that's a desktop replacement. They get one then it doesn't fill all their needs so they get down on the laptop. They aren't supposed to fill all the needs, a laptop is for portable work, stuff that you have to take with you. Several months ago I bought a new PC and I'm hoping to get a new Macbook Pro in the next couple of weeks. When I do I'll setup the PC as a server. I wish Apple'd make a docking station for the Macbook Pros, then I'd just be able to undock it and slip it into my backpack then go out the door instead of having to unplug everything.
I would like to see Apple create computers that are somewhat in between the MacBook and the MacBook Pro myself
I would like to see Apple release a computer between the iMac and the Mac Pro. Desktop or tower, it wouldn't really matter much so long as the hardware were expandable. I'd also like to see a laptop with a bigger display than 17". For the first tyme, several months ago I saw a Windows laptop with a 21" display and found myself wishing Apple would release a MacBook Pro with that much screen real estate. And no, the added weight doesn't turn me off. I used to hike with a backpack holding more than 70 lbs and I still carry one with 50 lbs. The one thing that would concern me is damage to the laptop.
Since 10.1, the minimum RAM requirements have only gone from 128 to 256mb. Not that that was EVER enough, but I think they've done a pretty good job of keeping people with even G3's still going. My old iBook with 768mb _never_ ran photoshop very well, nor did my win2k box with the same amount. RAM has gotten so cheap, though, that I think the bitching over Vista was kind of misplaced as well, except that there are a lot more people limping along on old PCs than on old Macs.
There's a big difference though between extra ram to run photoshop smoothly and needing more ram to run Vista's Areo whereever.
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Sadly, yes, not only is our Governor too stupid to wear his seatbelt, but he hasn't done much to stop the unfunded mandates, nor lower property taxes significantly.
And what of the Eminient domain cases there? Like the one that took a bunch of people's houses away from them and gave a drug company the property.
FalconFinally: how would you justify invading Sudan vs e.g. Tibet? Tibet doesn't even exist anymore as the sovereign state it was. Yet I don't hear any whining from the usual suspects in our gov'ts.
Of course you don't hear anything about China's invasion of Tibet, trade is more important. You won't hear about the Chinese, Nationalists, invasion of Formosa, Tiawan, for the same reason. Fact is is until now, there has been no united China, like pre-Colombian America or pre-Czar Russia, there were many difference ethnic/religious groups occupying the landmass of China.
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We spend half our lives commuting.
Only because too many people in the US are willing to put up with it. Those with long commutes could move closer to where they work or get a closer job. Not many but a few could even work from home.
FalconThis would be a very interesting community approach for other matters that are less subject to caution such as rain forest destruction rate...
This is happening now in Brazil. There was an article earlier this year on /. about how Indians and others were using Google Maps to look for places of illegal mining and such in Brazil. Although good use of Google Maps was being had, the problem was that the maps weren't being updated enough. By the tyme an illegal mine was identified and could be checked out the miners could of already left.
FalconVenezuela seems to be losing its democracy right in front of our eyes, and nobody seems to want to do anything.
No, Venezuyela isn't loosing it's democracy, what it's loosing is what small amount of capitalism it has as well as freedom of the press. I used to support Chavez especially after the coup but he's going too far now in closing down the opposition press or radio and tv. Then again the US under Bush is supporting those outlets which is no different than the if the Chinese were to support the US opposition press.
Falconthe government controls where people can go.
Actually the government in Sudan doesn't have that much control. As long as a person is willing to risk their life they could enter the Darfur area via Chad or the Central African Republic or southern Sudan via Ethiopia or other nations. And these borders aren't strung with barbed wire fences or have many guards if any. Once inside travel to the center or north of Sudan is where there will be trouble with the government.
...the fact that Sudan has oil, which the Chinese are heavily invested in.
Which is why the UN will do nothing until after a massive atrocity, China won't allow the UN do do something. The thing is is this could byte China in the ass. The Sudan government is made up of Arab Muslims, and they may support Muslim separatists in western China. Though it's not in the news much, there are Muslims in the western part of present day China the Chinese under Mao invaded the lands of and subjegated such as the Uighur.
FalconISP:s are bountiful (in most places), play them against each other if they misbehave.
While isps may be plentiful many people can't get broadband and many of those who can only have one choice as to who they get it from. Wireless broadband will help those who live in urban areas but not those in rural areas. If broadband were plentiful then the big access providers wouldn't be fighting against city provided wireless, and most of these cities only decide to provide it after businesses refuse to provide it.
FalconHonestly, I don't see what the problem is. Charging some sort of cost - whether it be responding to a whitelist request, paying in CPU cycles to complete a hash, or just flat out paying a quarter of a cent - is the only practical way to fight spam. Spamfilters always have a small false postive and false negative error rate, while charging money or a cost does not. A quarter of a cent is many times the expected monetary return on a pure spam.
The problem is is I already pay for my email and I don't want to pay twice. I wouldn't want to pay extra either if I ran either a business or a nonprofit.
Since it costs money to set up an infrastructure to accept a cost of any type (reliable servers, an organization, ect) charging actual money rather than hash cycles or CAPTCHAs makes the most sense, and is also the only practical way for a big organization to send emails to a bunch of users.
Yea, right, everyone's born with a silver or gold spoon in their mouth. NOT!!! The cost of the infrastructure, as well as profits, are made by providing net access to begin with. If providers can't make a profit then maybe they need to get out of the business.
FalconAnd how much will they pay me if my mail doesn't arrive?
No they won't pay you. Instead they'll call it a "good" service they provide and charge you more.
FalconRead up on the early history of Radio. It used to be free to broadcast. Now it's really expensive. Soon the only web pages and mailing activities will be those that are sanctioned by the key masters.
No, it's cheap to radio broadcast, Pirate radio stations do it all the tyme. There's even pirate radio on the internet. What's espensive is getting a license to broadcast. And that's just how the mass media wants it. Clear Channel doesn't want more competition, it wants less.
You act as if requiring the license for the landscaper is a bad thing. It isn't.
Yes it is! Requiring a license for most any type of business is bad. All that should matter is if a person can do it, and if someone can't word will get out. Also if they are paid but don't do the job then they can be sued.
The homeowner with that chemical will at most damage his own yard, and he's going to use fairly small quantities of the chemical. The landscaper has the potential to damage MUCH larger areas, and will likely use MUCH larger amounts of the chemical.
I think you have things mixed up. A pro will know how much is needed whereas a homeowner won't. While directions will be on the package most homeowners will not read them. Hell, many can't even use their dvd player right because they don't read the manual. Also you're wrong if you think a home owner can only cause harm to his/her own home, pollution knows no artificial border, line on a map.
And he's going to be using it to make a PROFIT, not deal with his own small weed problem. Why shouldn't he have to have a license to do that?
So, you want to require a license to make a profit? Ho about we reuire licenses to program as well? Or how about just write or read? What of breathing?
It's insane not to require one
No, it's insane to require one!!!
And a dry cleaner is the same sort of situation. The chemicals they use, in the quantity they use them, can cause real damage
Green drycleaning, which uses nontoxic, unpolluting, and safe supplies, is getting popular.
And they're not just using them to clean their own clothes, they're using them to make a profit. They should have to have a license
How about requiring a license to work? How about to live?
FalconI say instead of the ISP auto-charging for emails they just include a "Bill them tab" on my web-email site, so if I click on it for yet another special offer, the sender gets charged six cents. A penny for the ISP/mail server and a nickel for me. I could pay my entire montly ISP service fee with all the crap that clogs up my box.
This woud of paid my isp years ago, back when I got a lot of spam, but I infrequently get more than 10 emails a day. My isp has both whitelists and blacklists. Everyone in your online email adddress book is on the whitelist and email from them go to your inbox. Users can add email from specific addies to their blacklist. Then all other email is placed in a "suspicious" folder.
FalconHow does it fight spam if the spammer can ask to be whitelisted, or if the spammer can pose as or actually be a business operating for more than a year? Lame.
And why should I have to pay or apply to be whitelisted? As far I can think of this is just another money grab.
FalconI'm kind of hoping a private-equity firm or hedge fund buys out Chrysler and turns them around.
Were you being sarcastic? Because the first part of that already happened
I guess I'm behind the tymes, prior to reading the article you provided to link to I hadn't heard of it.
Falconthe separately floating tool windows, the cryptic menu layout, and the inconsistent design mean that you'll spend twice the time trying to accomplish a goal you could complete more quickly in Paint.Net.
Perhaps your workflow needs working. I love having seperate tool pallets, the image I'm working on will be on the big monitor while the pallets will be visible on a smaller monitor. A slight shift of my gaze and a easy move of the mouse and there's the pallets I need. That's much faster to me than trying to look for the right (small) icon on a bar or drilling through menues. Using just one monitor though having a bunch of pallets open reduces work space.
It seems to me that photoshop is just designed to appeal to computer-illeterate designers who just can't be bothered to learn a new medium,
Photoshop is for photographers. And GIMP doesn't approach what many photoraphers need. Hell it doesn't even have 16 bit colour depths whereas PS has 24 and 32 bit colour depth. I'm hoping CinePaint works at these depths, that or inkscape works well with photos. I'm hoping to break into photography as a pro and want to try both before I spring for the cost for PS.
FalconGIMP isn't a photoshop replacement, not for pros. It doesn't even have 16 bit colour depth yet however PS has 24 and 32 bit colour depth. A few months ago another /.er posted a link to another FOOS graphics editor that did support 24 bits though I don't recall what it was. However if you want to use an SVG editor, both GIMP and Photoshop are bitmapped, there's inkscape. How well it works for editing photos though I don't know. It does have CMYK, along with others, support though.
FalconYou could buy a copy of Tiger and install it on 1000 machines and Apple wouldn't care that much. But, they are a hardware company anyway. Their software is the "hook".
Apple is, or was, a systems integrator. They design the compleat system, hardware and software. This way it "just works". MS's Windows runs on more hardware because, until recently, MS has been a software company and Windows can be installed on many different computers made using many different parts. This however creates the problem where that the software might not work on every possible combination of hardware, and frequently the hardware manufacturers will write the drivers.
FalconMost buisnesses exist and function soley so that they can take as much of your money as possible;
I disagree. Most businesses are started because the founder(s) have a vision of what's possible, as with technology. The WOZ didn't design and build the Apple I to make money, he wanted a computer he could use at home. Much like Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard he did the work in a garage. It's only later, usually after incorporation, that some turn to the idea of making money. But then they have shareholders they have to satisfy.
FalconI have to disagree with that statement, I would definately think Chrysler would get that honor. How many time have they filed bankruptcy? and they are still in business.
Ah, but there's a big difference between Apple and Chrysler, Apple had recovered on it's own whereas Chrysler had the government bail them out. I'm kind of hoping a private-equity firm or hedge fund buys out Chrysler and turns them around.
Falconbelkin do an expresscard docking station that includes a graphics adaptor.
Thanks for the link. I'll check it out.
FalconThere's a big difference though between extra ram to run photoshop smoothly and needing more ram to run Vista's Areo whereever.
Want to explain your logic?
Easy enough, if simply running the OS or part of it requires a lot of RAM then that RAM isn't available for Photoshop and other apps that use a lot of RAM and more needs to be added to run them. But when the OS doesn't use much RAM then the apps have more available.
Vista's Aero, even when running several 3D games in Windows uses less that 32mb of RAM.
I didn't know Aero doesn't need much RAM. As for how much RAM Aero needs I don't know but I read in a previous post Aero does needs a lot. I still stand by my statement that there's a big difference between the OS needing a lot of RAM and an app needing it.
Oh wait, you totally have NO freaking idea what you are talking about.
...
I'm not trying to be mean,
It certainly seems you're trying to be mean or disrespectful, otherwise you'd never have said I had "NO freaking idea". If you weren't trying to be mean all you would of had to do was say something like "XXX amount of RAM is the requirements to run Aero, so you are wrong." Saying "NO freaking idea" was totally uncalled for.
This is the point I was trying to get people to revisit
If so there are better ways of getting your point accross than using disrespectful language, using it only puts the receiver on the defense or they themself become offensive and both shutdown reasoning.
FalconNot as a personal workstation.
Yes, as a "personal workstation":
* Multiple displays (I eagerly await the first laptop than can drive 2+ LCDs. I'm actually quite surprised Apple hasn't done it already. No, hacks like that Matrox thing don't count.)
I wonder if there's an Expresscard that can handle the requirements for a monitor or two.
In short, there are numerous quite good reasons why laptops are not the computing nirvana some people seem to think they are.
There are advantaged and disadvantages to both laptops and desktops. I'm thinking that what throws a lot of people is this idea of a laptop that's a desktop replacement. They get one then it doesn't fill all their needs so they get down on the laptop. They aren't supposed to fill all the needs, a laptop is for portable work, stuff that you have to take with you. Several months ago I bought a new PC and I'm hoping to get a new Macbook Pro in the next couple of weeks. When I do I'll setup the PC as a server. I wish Apple'd make a docking station for the Macbook Pros, then I'd just be able to undock it and slip it into my backpack then go out the door instead of having to unplug everything.
FalconI would like to see Apple create computers that are somewhat in between the MacBook and the MacBook Pro myself
I would like to see Apple release a computer between the iMac and the Mac Pro. Desktop or tower, it wouldn't really matter much so long as the hardware were expandable. I'd also like to see a laptop with a bigger display than 17". For the first tyme, several months ago I saw a Windows laptop with a 21" display and found myself wishing Apple would release a MacBook Pro with that much screen real estate. And no, the added weight doesn't turn me off. I used to hike with a backpack holding more than 70 lbs and I still carry one with 50 lbs. The one thing that would concern me is damage to the laptop.
FalconSince 10.1, the minimum RAM requirements have only gone from 128 to 256mb. Not that that was EVER enough, but I think they've done a pretty good job of keeping people with even G3's still going. My old iBook with 768mb _never_ ran photoshop very well, nor did my win2k box with the same amount. RAM has gotten so cheap, though, that I think the bitching over Vista was kind of misplaced as well, except that there are a lot more people limping along on old PCs than on old Macs.
There's a big difference though between extra ram to run photoshop smoothly and needing more ram to run Vista's Areo whereever.
Falcon