You assume that making the wrong choice (as defined by your disappointment) is worse than making no choice.
Am I missing something here? In this case making the wrong choice is worse than making no choice. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if everyone abstained, the Bill wouldn't have passed.
There are just too many factors that go into why someone might be fat. There are plenty of skinny people that eat horribly. How much of that tax should go to their genes? What if you have bad eating habits but are in great shape, then break a leg.
Smoking is bad, you need cigarettes to smoke - tax cigarettes. People can become overweight many ways, should we tax someone that doesn't workout twice a week? Tax someone that doesn't get the Diet Coke with their meal?
I know someone that eats healthier then me, works out more, and is much heavier, is that fair?
It just seems immensly more likely that he got infected by malware from surfing porn sites, than getting infected by porn from having malware. But Child porn? Would he be that dumb? I've seen many really infected machines, and let me tell you so nasty stuff pops up, and I really hope if they were surfing porn that they were able to find better stuff than that.
Oh, and by the way, the real Truth is here. (check my name)
What if Global Warming is happening, but we are already too late? What if GW isn't because of us, but we destroy our economy trying to fix it?
What if we aren't too late, and GW is because of us, but we put most of our eggs in one basket? Perhaps if we had pushed forward our technology would have figured out a much better solution to Global Warming and we would be much more advanced instead of going backwards. Then if in, say 100 years, something comes along that could end us if we are not advanced enough to defeat it;
our current_technology + 100 years = enough to fight off doom
current_technology - years_fighting_GW + 100 != enough to survive
I guess my point is - who knows. We can't pretend to know that much. I don't know if we are causing GW, but don't point at my SUV with your bigger-carbon-footprint-to-build--uglier-than-anything-Hybrid and act like you are better than me.
Having recently taken a graduate class where I had to write my own shaders for OpenGL, it was neat to play with the video card on that level; however most cards are quite limited with what is open API.
This card, while too expensive for me, might spur some interesting projects - cypto stuff and Ray tracing come to mind. I hope someone does something great with this.
But downloading 400MB via bittorrent, limewire, Kermit or a binary dump is still going to amount to a 400MB download.
However you may have a bright future in either marketing or politics. Have you ever used Bittorrent at home and then tried to surf the web - Vs. - downloading off a mirror and surfing the web? bittorrent is very very chatty. 400 packets via bittorrent is far less data than 400 packets from an FTP site.
Do a tcpdump on a machine running bittorrent and then one downloading any other way. 400MB may be 400MB, but most of the packets with bittorrent are establishing connections and do not have any data toward that 400MB.
Perhaps we should give Comcast a break
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Aren't they just trying to speed up their internet for the average user, and bitTorrent just happens to be the biggest bandwitdh hog?
Do they really care if you're downloading newestLinuxDistro.iso or newestDVDrelease? I wouldn't think so.
On the other hand, if Comcast was my ISP, I would prefer faster p2p over normal web browsing. I want an open Internet. Period.
Apple sells OS X as software. Go to any Apple store and you can pull it off the shelf. You don't have to buy their computer to buy their software. IANAL, but I believe that you can install OS X on anything you want (as long as you buy it).
I'm actually surprised that someone hasn't done this already now that Macs are on the rise. There used to be a company years ago that sold 'Alternate' macs.
If I were Dell I'd be trying to mac one that ships with OS X. Apple most likely can do it cheaper and make it look nicer, but if Dell can get close and price and offer something new/different I say why not. If there was a sweet AlianWare machine running OSX I'd buy it just to have something different and fast.
Global Warming? Why? I don't see how this could compete with the others on the list. I didn't see any real breakthrough here (maybe I missed it), but I wouldn't count Al Gore's movie such.
The study of Global warming has been pretty steady over the past years. An Inconvenient Truth didn't make any new discoveries in the field that I know of. It looked more like a sob story to me, look more ice is melting, but don't you love nature like I do? Maybe we needed a movie to get people's attention, but it makes you feel like he is blaming YOU. If you are willing to dedicate your life to this noble cause, then don't take a private Jet to the showings.
Very good video, definitely entertaining; However I don't see another dot-com crash happening. In the 1990's everyone was racing for a piece of the pie because growth was through the roof. Promises were made and money was being handed around before any stability. ATM had severe limitations that hadn't been seen, and many start-ups found out they went the wrong path. Facebook isn't going anywhere. There are so many average users using these social-networks that there is plenty of depth.
Something better will almost always come along, but I highly doubt there will be a big enough scare to get investors to jump ship as they did in the late 90's.
This was the reason I switched back to XP. I didn't run into this will a file that small, but I ran into it all the time. I couldn't figure out why it took so frigin long to calculate how long it was going to take. I didn't even care how long it thought it was going to take, I just wanted to move the file. I found this to be exceptionally bad when moving between hard drives. Vista does not offer me anything I need that XP doesn't, but XP offers me plenty that Vista cannot do.
For us it is hard to say just how much internal email is worth. We do get hit by spyware/viruses that can slow the internet to a crawl for the students, but there are 2 main cases that are very common for us to need internal email:
1 - A student has a nasty virus or is doing something real bad so we block them. They can still get to all of their shared drives and their email. Makes it a lot easier to send them an email explaining why they can't get out.
2 - A student refuses (or isn't a student) to register on our network. They don't like our policy for whatever reason, or don't want to risk getting viruses online. They can still send/receive mail from teachers and other students.
I've worked IT at a College for 5 years now. We actually had a push for MS live taking over our e-mail from some of our co-workers. It has always scared me, and much prefer keeping it in house. M$ was going to do everything for us for FREE. They would keep us up with the times, keep data secure, etc...
My two main issues:
1. If (when) M$ starts charging for this down the road, then what? They could charge virtually anything they wanted for us to get our e-mails back if we didn't like their new price.
2. We do sometimes lose connection to the internet, internal e-mail will no longer work
Ignoring taking sides over if Pirate Bay should be allowed to exist or not, is this worth it for Prince?
Money probably isn't an issue for him, so count that almost completely out (-.01)
This can't help him sell records I would imagine, image (-1)
Any publicity is good publicity? (+.2)
More people buy his record after not being able to find it on PB (doubt it ?)
A personal victory for Prince (he must really dislike Pirate Bay or I don't see why bother). Maybe he wants to help out other artists that don't want to attempt getting in the news for this.
Then why do i get yelled at if i use my puny 10 mb download that my ISP advertises? Because you aren't supposed to actually use it, just pay for it. You are supposed to be happy knowing that you have 10mb in case you need it.
They want you to buy a new sofa, but if you lie down on it then they aren't able to share the rest of it with your neighbors - shame on you.
2000 was a step leading to XP. It said, oh, sorry about winME, I'm more secure, reliable, and I have many more technical tools; use me for now. 2000 was a good OS, but XP built on that and appealed much more to desktop-users. It looked better, had the drivers you were looking for, was easier to navigate, and really improved on the amount of BSODs.
XP could run as fast as 2000 on the same hardware - crucial. Vista is a nice OS, but application issues they could not afford. I have come across network sharing issues with XP-to-Vista, static IP issues while IPv6 is on, Pop didn't work when originally shipped, and Aero constantly Blue Screened a co-workers Laptop.
I could almost overlook these issues for myself, but I can't for a business deployment solution. The killer for me is the hardware requirements. I can upgrade my machine to run Vista quite well, but man, then all I can think about is how fast XP would be on it. Vista has made me realize just how good XP is. XP > Vista whereas Leopard > Tiger.
In Tiger I had a bunch of drop-down options, like, say, hmmm, 'selection only' or say, duplex. This is entirely gone in Leopard for the printers that I have tried (i.e. HP 4050).
There is an app online that can do this for you, but it seems to only be for native programs (Safari, mail, etc...). Is it just me or should those options be built into the OS.
Everything else on Leopard has been very impressive, most of all it sped my computer up. Everything is faster, which I find very impressive for a new OS (ahem, buy-a-new-computer-4-me Vista).
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After FISA, this does not surprise me at all.
Another sad day for America.
How will it all end?
Ah, better.
Figured you meant that, but after you re-posted and it was the same, questioned it.
You assume that making the wrong choice (as defined by your disappointment) is worse than making no choice.
Am I missing something here? In this case making the wrong choice is worse than making no choice. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if everyone abstained, the Bill wouldn't have passed.
I would have been happy with that.
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There are just too many factors that go into why someone might be fat. There are plenty of skinny people that eat horribly. How much of that tax should go to their genes? What if you have bad eating habits but are in great shape, then break a leg.
Smoking is bad, you need cigarettes to smoke - tax cigarettes. People can become overweight many ways, should we tax someone that doesn't workout twice a week? Tax someone that doesn't get the Diet Coke with their meal?
I know someone that eats healthier then me, works out more, and is much heavier, is that fair?
Oh, and by the way, the real Truth is here. (check my name)
in my experience more like 100%. It doesn't seem to be a matter of if it would break, but when.
Every original 360 that I know of has now managed to die (at least once).
What if Global Warming is happening, but we are already too late? What if GW isn't because of us, but we destroy our economy trying to fix it?
What if we aren't too late, and GW is because of us, but we put most of our eggs in one basket? Perhaps if we had pushed forward our technology would have figured out a much better solution to Global Warming and we would be much more advanced instead of going backwards. Then if in, say 100 years, something comes along that could end us if we are not advanced enough to defeat it;
our current_technology + 100 years = enough to fight off doom
current_technology - years_fighting_GW + 100 != enough to survive
I guess my point is - who knows. We can't pretend to know that much. I don't know if we are causing GW, but don't point at my SUV with your bigger-carbon-footprint-to-build--uglier-than-anything-Hybrid and act like you are better than me.
If going 'green' makes you feel nice the rock on, but perhaps we should push forward until we know more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtbn9zBfJSs
Having recently taken a graduate class where I had to write my own shaders for OpenGL, it was neat to play with the video card on that level; however most cards are quite limited with what is open API.
This card, while too expensive for me, might spur some interesting projects - cypto stuff and Ray tracing come to mind. I hope someone does something great with this.
However you may have a bright future in either marketing or politics.
Have you ever used Bittorrent at home and then tried to surf the web - Vs. - downloading off a mirror and surfing the web? bittorrent is very very chatty. 400 packets via bittorrent is far less data than 400 packets from an FTP site.
Do a tcpdump on a machine running bittorrent and then one downloading any other way. 400MB may be 400MB, but most of the packets with bittorrent are establishing connections and do not have any data toward that 400MB.
Aren't they just trying to speed up their internet for the average user, and bitTorrent just happens to be the biggest bandwitdh hog?
Do they really care if you're downloading newestLinuxDistro.iso or newestDVDrelease? I wouldn't think so.
On the other hand, if Comcast was my ISP, I would prefer faster p2p over normal web browsing. I want an open Internet. Period.
I just want to say that this is why I love slashdot. This is the type of information we need, both sides.
Thank you.
Apple sells OS X as software. Go to any Apple store and you can pull it off the shelf. You don't have to buy their computer to buy their software. IANAL, but I believe that you can install OS X on anything you want (as long as you buy it).
I'm actually surprised that someone hasn't done this already now that Macs are on the rise. There used to be a company years ago that sold 'Alternate' macs.
If I were Dell I'd be trying to mac one that ships with OS X. Apple most likely can do it cheaper and make it look nicer, but if Dell can get close and price and offer something new/different I say why not. If there was a sweet AlianWare machine running OSX I'd buy it just to have something different and fast.
Al Gore?
All girls look hot in their Profile Pictures
Global Warming? Why? I don't see how this could compete with the others on the list. I didn't see any real breakthrough here (maybe I missed it), but I wouldn't count Al Gore's movie such.
The study of Global warming has been pretty steady over the past years. An Inconvenient Truth didn't make any new discoveries in the field that I know of. It looked more like a sob story to me, look more ice is melting, but don't you love nature like I do? Maybe we needed a movie to get people's attention, but it makes you feel like he is blaming YOU. If you are willing to dedicate your life to this noble cause, then don't take a private Jet to the showings.
Very good video, definitely entertaining; However I don't see another dot-com crash happening. In the 1990's everyone was racing for a piece of the pie because growth was through the roof. Promises were made and money was being handed around before any stability. ATM had severe limitations that hadn't been seen, and many start-ups found out they went the wrong path. Facebook isn't going anywhere. There are so many average users using these social-networks that there is plenty of depth.
Something better will almost always come along, but I highly doubt there will be a big enough scare to get investors to jump ship as they did in the late 90's.
This was the reason I switched back to XP. I didn't run into this will a file that small, but I ran into it all the time. I couldn't figure out why it took so frigin long to calculate how long it was going to take. I didn't even care how long it thought it was going to take, I just wanted to move the file. I found this to be exceptionally bad when moving between hard drives. Vista does not offer me anything I need that XP doesn't, but XP offers me plenty that Vista cannot do.
For us it is hard to say just how much internal email is worth. We do get hit by spyware/viruses that can slow the internet to a crawl for the students, but there are 2 main cases that are very common for us to need internal email:
1 - A student has a nasty virus or is doing something real bad so we block them. They can still get to all of their shared drives and their email. Makes it a lot easier to send them an email explaining why they can't get out.
2 - A student refuses (or isn't a student) to register on our network. They don't like our policy for whatever reason, or don't want to risk getting viruses online. They can still send/receive mail from teachers and other students.
I've worked IT at a College for 5 years now. We actually had a push for MS live taking over our e-mail from some of our co-workers. It has always scared me, and much prefer keeping it in house. M$ was going to do everything for us for FREE. They would keep us up with the times, keep data secure, etc...
My two main issues:
1. If (when) M$ starts charging for this down the road, then what? They could charge virtually anything they wanted for us to get our e-mails back if we didn't like their new price.
2. We do sometimes lose connection to the internet, internal e-mail will no longer work
Ignoring taking sides over if Pirate Bay should be allowed to exist or not, is this worth it for Prince?
Money probably isn't an issue for him, so count that almost completely out (-.01)
This can't help him sell records I would imagine, image (-1)
Any publicity is good publicity? (+.2)
More people buy his record after not being able to find it on PB (doubt it ?)
A personal victory for Prince (he must really dislike Pirate Bay or I don't see why bother). Maybe he wants to help out other artists that don't want to attempt getting in the news for this.
They want you to buy a new sofa, but if you lie down on it then they aren't able to share the rest of it with your neighbors - shame on you.
*Mod Parent up*
2000 was a step leading to XP. It said, oh, sorry about winME, I'm more secure, reliable, and I have many more technical tools; use me for now. 2000 was a good OS, but XP built on that and appealed much more to desktop-users. It looked better, had the drivers you were looking for, was easier to navigate, and really improved on the amount of BSODs.
XP could run as fast as 2000 on the same hardware - crucial. Vista is a nice OS, but application issues they could not afford. I have come across network sharing issues with XP-to-Vista, static IP issues while IPv6 is on, Pop didn't work when originally shipped, and Aero constantly Blue Screened a co-workers Laptop.
I could almost overlook these issues for myself, but I can't for a business deployment solution. The killer for me is the hardware requirements. I can upgrade my machine to run Vista quite well, but man, then all I can think about is how fast XP would be on it. Vista has made me realize just how good XP is. XP > Vista whereas Leopard > Tiger.
I feel like a moron, thanks for the post. I googled this too and couldn't find it. I swear I had clicked that, which of course is always the issue.
In Tiger I had a bunch of drop-down options, like, say, hmmm, 'selection only' or say, duplex. This is entirely gone in Leopard for the printers that I have tried (i.e. HP 4050).
There is an app online that can do this for you, but it seems to only be for native programs (Safari, mail, etc...). Is it just me or should those options be built into the OS.
Everything else on Leopard has been very impressive, most of all it sped my computer up. Everything is faster, which I find very impressive for a new OS (ahem, buy-a-new-computer-4-me Vista).