Personally, I think voting should be MANDATORY for all citizens, but I don't think that will happen either.
So you want millions of uninformed uncaring citizens to start determining national policy? The solution is to education people so that they want to vote, not force people to vote on things they know nothing about.
States like MA that have consistantly voted Democrat since, forever, would probably not join anything like this. Other states that always vote Republican would probably do the same. The only states where their people would feel they have something to gain would be those that are consistantly "too close to call". Otherwise, it's betting too much state power on something that could only have a downside.
I agree, the only way to fix the electoral college is a constitutional amendment.
The term "flagship" has been a bit altered in the last century or so. Nowadays, it seems to mean the most prestigious/poweful model of whatever. Going by that definition, I'd say the Mac Pro will be the flagship of the desktop line, by nature of its superior stats. Still, one could say that the MacBook Pro is the flagship of the laptop line. But this is all just semantics, the iMac is the most sold desktop for Apple right now (as far as I know), and that's mostly what the guy was saying, I believe.
Exactly. Any law enforcement agency is going to try to work in the situation that gives them the most control and greatest safety. They guy's a PI, he probably owns a weapon, but probably wouldn't bring it with him to a conference. Why take the risk of storming his home or office when he might be armed, or see them coming? The conference probably gave them the best opportunity to take him down, and once they knew exactly where he was, they made their arrest.
Uh, the difference is that impersonating a federal officer is a crime, and that being an actual federal officer is not. And the FBI didn't walk in and tell everyone that Rambam is dangerous, they simply arrested him. What this PI allegedly did was illegal, arresting him for that illegal activity in a public place shouldn't be illegal.
I meant "influence" in a friendly way. Like some AMD people talking to Apple about GPUs and just happen to bring up the subject of AMD's latest advancements in CPUs (perfectly plausible, since I'm sure ATI+AMD engineers will be sharing technology now). AMD now has a channel of communication open that they didn't have before. And they could always say, give a special deal on Radeon X2900s or something with every AMD-based system down the line.
It's been my experience with the few generations I've gone through, that ATI makes a cheaper/faster graphics card for the Mac high-end. They tend to last longer too. But anyway, don't worry about it. AMD/ATI has no desire to give up their profits selling GPUs to Apple. They'll keep fighting just as hard as nVidia, and Apple will continue to play all three (I'm including Intel's integrated chips in the mix) against each other for the best performance and cheapest price.
Nothing is going to change in the next year but this will give AMD an opportunity to work with Apple and pitch it's wares.
That's a very good point. AMD would probably love to see Apple shipping AMD-based x86 systems. By buying one of Apple's longtime partners, this gives them some opportunity to exert some influence. That's not to say that we're suddenly going to see AMD Macs, but it does make it easier should Apple decide to go that route.
I had one nVidia card explode after a few months, and then its replacement was DOA. I bought an ATI that supposedly had about equal performance for cheaper than the nVidia card, and it's been performing far better. I don't think I'll be getting another nVidia card for a while, though I suppose after this AMD-ATI merger, I'll have to see what happens. In a few years when I make my next GPU purchase, things may be radically different with both companies.
See, I just don't worry about these medical type things. It seems to me that every possible problem I'll have when I'm old will be fixed (and in pill form!), from being blind and deaf to having no memory and a broken spine. If the government would hurry up and get those stem cells going, I won't have to worry about my parents either.
How exactly are we "shitting" on them? I mean, we're giving them jobs they wouldn't have otherwise, or they'd be in those jobs and not the crappy ones we're outsourcing, right? These people aren't stupid. As far as they're concerned, they at least have a job, unlike many many of their countrymen. And they're also spending their wages on food and necessities, they don't (yet) have the taste of your typical American (I'd argue human) greed for luxuries. They're still in poverty, sure, but they're better off than they were before whatever big corporation came in there. And if people in wealthy countries keep spending money on things to create more jobs in these poor countries, then your supply-and-demand will kick in, where the workers are what's in demand and in short supply.
Look at the history of labor in the US or any other industrialized nation. Every country has growing pains when it industrializes. To expect that every other country will just suddenly pop up to where we are with worker's rights, etc. overnight is naive. There are also cultural considerations. Every country has to go through its own process at developing.
I'd say I'm on the side of morality, because I can see in the future the world where people have living wages no matter where they live. It's better for somebody to be working 15 hour workdays for almost nothing than to have no job at all, and a greater demand for labor only leads to companies giving in to worker's demands. Someday down the line when every 3rd world country has too many jobs and not enough laborers, you'll see why what I'm saying makes sense.
Well, I don't know about racism. While some may have racist reasons for protectionism, I don't think the majority do. I tend to think these kinds of things are more based on a shortsightedness of the situation. Sure, jobs may go overseas, but at the same time, your cost of living has decreased because you can now get Product X cheaper. And if you really wanted that job so badly, why weren't you willing to be paid less to do it (of course that's a whole 'nother issue)? Not only that, but let the living standards increase in other countries, and they'll be able to afford to buy all of our luxuries Made in the USA. And if somebody can do it better than us, well then we'll just have all the more reason to apply some American creativity to do it cheaper, better, or faster. Protectionism is actually sort of the reverse of racism, because if you support protectionism, you're actually saying that your country is weak and useless without help.
What's wrong with the whole world being pulled out of abject poverty and living in industrialized nations? That's pretty much the whole point, isn't it?
I think if anything, the iPod sales would be lower this quarter because of the time of year, not because of some magical "everyone already has one" reason. They sell the most iPods around the holiday season, not during the summer.
The more jobs that go overseas to low-wage workers... The less people over there that are unemployed... The more demand there are for workers there... The more those workers are payed.
Economics like this actually works. I was reading recently in Time or Newsweek that India is outsourcing some of the jobs that have been outsourced to them. Indian jobs are moving to China and Vietnam because the demand for workers in India has increased the wages there.
Back when I played WoW, I didn't play any other games. Now that I've quit WoW I'm trying to catch up on the good games I missed, but I'm sure I'm not going to buy as many as I might have otherwise. It had little to do with money, really, well it sort of did... See, since I knew I was paying a monthly fee on it, I wanted to get the most out of my money. So I just didn't play other games. When I was a WoW subscriber, WoW was virtually my only form of computer gaming entertainment. While money was a related cause of this, it wasn't the main one, time was.
The real problem is that browsers aren't following standards, not that CSS is broken. But any decent web designer knows what won't work on which browsers, and decide how to do things accordingly.
Because that's what forcasting is all about. We don't know enough of the variables so we have to have to make best estimates on a chaotic system.
Any predictive computer will ultimately fail, because you can't compress the universe into a computer smaller than that universe, and we are unable to figure out every equation that's being calculated anyway. You might get data that's "good enough" for 30 years, but the deviation will only increase with time. That's why weather predictions are generally only good 3 or 4 days in advance (of course this also depends on where you live, there's some places I've been to where the weather is pretty much a sure thing). Their simplified models of the Earth can estimate about when it'll rain, and about how much, but it's not exact, and any ignored variable could throw the whole thing out of whack. I give them credit for trying though, and maybe we'll see some technological jump out of it.
All it takes is one large volcano to erupt and it'll throw off all your predictions. There are plenty of factors involved with the weather outside of normal weather-type things.
Thank you Netflix. I'm definitely plowing through my list of "maybe someday" movies, as well as some old favorites. I'm definitely somebody who's getting his money's worth out of the service too. I watch them the night I get them, and send them back the very next day. There has been the occasional exception, but otherwise, I'm seeing basically a movie a day. It takes about 3 days to cycle 1 from them to me to them, and I get 3 movies "at a time", so it works out like that. I do wish they'd at least send movies out on a Saturday though, so I'd have something to watch on Monday.
When it comes to ESP I chalk it up to the subconscious mind picking up on subtle information, and beliefs in ESP I chalk up to the human brain always looking for patterns in chaos. Anecdotes are meaningless. There are anecdotes for everything but it's simple superstition. There's not a single proven instance of telepathy. Nothing has been repeated in a lab. I won't believe in telepathy until it's been scientifically documented.
Coincidence and subconscious clues explain "telepathy". Your brain is constantly processing the most subtle details of your senses, things you wouldn't be aware of consciously if you tried. Add in the psychology of living with certain people for extended periods of time. You pick up on people's behavior and rhythms. You haven't heard from your sister in a while, subconsiously you're probably going to compute about when you'd get a phone call. It's not some sort of long-range paranormal communication, just simple behavioral computation. And of course it won't work every time, but when it does, you remember it because that's how the human brain works. Superstition is largely recognized as a behavioral phenomina. Telepathy is just another type of superstition.
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States like MA that have consistantly voted Democrat since, forever, would probably not join anything like this. Other states that always vote Republican would probably do the same. The only states where their people would feel they have something to gain would be those that are consistantly "too close to call". Otherwise, it's betting too much state power on something that could only have a downside.
I agree, the only way to fix the electoral college is a constitutional amendment.
We have at least 3 comanies to choose from here. We just changed service last week, in fact, to get a lower price.
The term "flagship" has been a bit altered in the last century or so. Nowadays, it seems to mean the most prestigious/poweful model of whatever. Going by that definition, I'd say the Mac Pro will be the flagship of the desktop line, by nature of its superior stats. Still, one could say that the MacBook Pro is the flagship of the laptop line. But this is all just semantics, the iMac is the most sold desktop for Apple right now (as far as I know), and that's mostly what the guy was saying, I believe.
Exactly. Any law enforcement agency is going to try to work in the situation that gives them the most control and greatest safety. They guy's a PI, he probably owns a weapon, but probably wouldn't bring it with him to a conference. Why take the risk of storming his home or office when he might be armed, or see them coming? The conference probably gave them the best opportunity to take him down, and once they knew exactly where he was, they made their arrest.
Uh, the difference is that impersonating a federal officer is a crime, and that being an actual federal officer is not. And the FBI didn't walk in and tell everyone that Rambam is dangerous, they simply arrested him. What this PI allegedly did was illegal, arresting him for that illegal activity in a public place shouldn't be illegal.
I meant "influence" in a friendly way. Like some AMD people talking to Apple about GPUs and just happen to bring up the subject of AMD's latest advancements in CPUs (perfectly plausible, since I'm sure ATI+AMD engineers will be sharing technology now). AMD now has a channel of communication open that they didn't have before. And they could always say, give a special deal on Radeon X2900s or something with every AMD-based system down the line.
It's been my experience with the few generations I've gone through, that ATI makes a cheaper/faster graphics card for the Mac high-end. They tend to last longer too. But anyway, don't worry about it. AMD/ATI has no desire to give up their profits selling GPUs to Apple. They'll keep fighting just as hard as nVidia, and Apple will continue to play all three (I'm including Intel's integrated chips in the mix) against each other for the best performance and cheapest price.
I had one nVidia card explode after a few months, and then its replacement was DOA. I bought an ATI that supposedly had about equal performance for cheaper than the nVidia card, and it's been performing far better. I don't think I'll be getting another nVidia card for a while, though I suppose after this AMD-ATI merger, I'll have to see what happens. In a few years when I make my next GPU purchase, things may be radically different with both companies.
See, I just don't worry about these medical type things. It seems to me that every possible problem I'll have when I'm old will be fixed (and in pill form!), from being blind and deaf to having no memory and a broken spine. If the government would hurry up and get those stem cells going, I won't have to worry about my parents either.
How exactly are we "shitting" on them? I mean, we're giving them jobs they wouldn't have otherwise, or they'd be in those jobs and not the crappy ones we're outsourcing, right? These people aren't stupid. As far as they're concerned, they at least have a job, unlike many many of their countrymen. And they're also spending their wages on food and necessities, they don't (yet) have the taste of your typical American (I'd argue human) greed for luxuries. They're still in poverty, sure, but they're better off than they were before whatever big corporation came in there. And if people in wealthy countries keep spending money on things to create more jobs in these poor countries, then your supply-and-demand will kick in, where the workers are what's in demand and in short supply.
Look at the history of labor in the US or any other industrialized nation. Every country has growing pains when it industrializes. To expect that every other country will just suddenly pop up to where we are with worker's rights, etc. overnight is naive. There are also cultural considerations. Every country has to go through its own process at developing.
I'd say I'm on the side of morality, because I can see in the future the world where people have living wages no matter where they live. It's better for somebody to be working 15 hour workdays for almost nothing than to have no job at all, and a greater demand for labor only leads to companies giving in to worker's demands. Someday down the line when every 3rd world country has too many jobs and not enough laborers, you'll see why what I'm saying makes sense.
Well, I don't know about racism. While some may have racist reasons for protectionism, I don't think the majority do. I tend to think these kinds of things are more based on a shortsightedness of the situation. Sure, jobs may go overseas, but at the same time, your cost of living has decreased because you can now get Product X cheaper. And if you really wanted that job so badly, why weren't you willing to be paid less to do it (of course that's a whole 'nother issue)? Not only that, but let the living standards increase in other countries, and they'll be able to afford to buy all of our luxuries Made in the USA. And if somebody can do it better than us, well then we'll just have all the more reason to apply some American creativity to do it cheaper, better, or faster. Protectionism is actually sort of the reverse of racism, because if you support protectionism, you're actually saying that your country is weak and useless without help.
What's wrong with the whole world being pulled out of abject poverty and living in industrialized nations? That's pretty much the whole point, isn't it?
I think if anything, the iPod sales would be lower this quarter because of the time of year, not because of some magical "everyone already has one" reason. They sell the most iPods around the holiday season, not during the summer.
The more jobs that go overseas to low-wage workers...
The less people over there that are unemployed...
The more demand there are for workers there...
The more those workers are payed.
Economics like this actually works. I was reading recently in Time or Newsweek that India is outsourcing some of the jobs that have been outsourced to them. Indian jobs are moving to China and Vietnam because the demand for workers in India has increased the wages there.
Back when I played WoW, I didn't play any other games. Now that I've quit WoW I'm trying to catch up on the good games I missed, but I'm sure I'm not going to buy as many as I might have otherwise. It had little to do with money, really, well it sort of did... See, since I knew I was paying a monthly fee on it, I wanted to get the most out of my money. So I just didn't play other games. When I was a WoW subscriber, WoW was virtually my only form of computer gaming entertainment. While money was a related cause of this, it wasn't the main one, time was.
The real problem is that browsers aren't following standards, not that CSS is broken. But any decent web designer knows what won't work on which browsers, and decide how to do things accordingly.
Because that's what forcasting is all about. We don't know enough of the variables so we have to have to make best estimates on a chaotic system.
Any predictive computer will ultimately fail, because you can't compress the universe into a computer smaller than that universe, and we are unable to figure out every equation that's being calculated anyway. You might get data that's "good enough" for 30 years, but the deviation will only increase with time. That's why weather predictions are generally only good 3 or 4 days in advance (of course this also depends on where you live, there's some places I've been to where the weather is pretty much a sure thing). Their simplified models of the Earth can estimate about when it'll rain, and about how much, but it's not exact, and any ignored variable could throw the whole thing out of whack. I give them credit for trying though, and maybe we'll see some technological jump out of it.
All it takes is one large volcano to erupt and it'll throw off all your predictions. There are plenty of factors involved with the weather outside of normal weather-type things.
The only people who respond to my blog want to sell me drugs or porn.
Although, you have sticky legal issues with DMCA. DVDs come with encryption and whatnot.
Thank you Netflix. I'm definitely plowing through my list of "maybe someday" movies, as well as some old favorites. I'm definitely somebody who's getting his money's worth out of the service too. I watch them the night I get them, and send them back the very next day. There has been the occasional exception, but otherwise, I'm seeing basically a movie a day. It takes about 3 days to cycle 1 from them to me to them, and I get 3 movies "at a time", so it works out like that. I do wish they'd at least send movies out on a Saturday though, so I'd have something to watch on Monday.
When it comes to ESP I chalk it up to the subconscious mind picking up on subtle information, and beliefs in ESP I chalk up to the human brain always looking for patterns in chaos. Anecdotes are meaningless. There are anecdotes for everything but it's simple superstition. There's not a single proven instance of telepathy. Nothing has been repeated in a lab. I won't believe in telepathy until it's been scientifically documented.
Coincidence and subconscious clues explain "telepathy". Your brain is constantly processing the most subtle details of your senses, things you wouldn't be aware of consciously if you tried. Add in the psychology of living with certain people for extended periods of time. You pick up on people's behavior and rhythms. You haven't heard from your sister in a while, subconsiously you're probably going to compute about when you'd get a phone call. It's not some sort of long-range paranormal communication, just simple behavioral computation. And of course it won't work every time, but when it does, you remember it because that's how the human brain works. Superstition is largely recognized as a behavioral phenomina. Telepathy is just another type of superstition.