We're living in a world where groups of people are willing to kill other people over a god damn cartoon! That should be a sure sign that we're not ready for the Utopian world that was sold to us in Star Trek.
And if you don't try to make things better, the world will never improve. Stop being a "they all want to kill us" downer and try having some vision and hope. Taking a defensive posture never got anyone anywhere.
No, seriously folks, at some point these stories about Vista have to lead to a stampede away from the product. Just watch for the signs....like the one above.
It's surprisingly easy to think planes are much closer together than they are. Here are some prime examples (and some nice photos to boot):
747 & 757 747 & A340 747 & Gulfstream II
What amazed me about this article is how unsure it is of everything. "Appears that" and "may be" keep coming up. If things are that unsure, how can the potential customers of this segmented spamnet know that there is a service for sale? Wouldn't any marketing that these bot-admins do also be picked up by the white hat guys? I'm confused.
Why is this on the drive manufacturers to fix when all previous discs played? Isn't this on the shoulders of the disc manufacturers, to produce discs that are playable? By promising firmware fixes, aren't the player manufacturers both diminishing their brand value in the eyes of consumers and also opening themselves up to a lot of headaches when other discs don't play a month or a year from now due to even more envelope-pushing protection?
This is like ignoring a "No Trespassing" sign, then getting shot.
Only in this case it's the previous owner of the property putting the "No Trespassing" sign on the property that you just paid them for and then shooting you when you choose to do what you want with what is now legally your property. Apple has no right to brick hardware that you paid for. They can shut off hacked software but they cannot deny you access to your hardware. The "warranty invalidation" claims are 100% bull, especially given that they are unable to prove that you hacked your phone. I have heard of at least one case of an iPhone owner saying he had NOT hacked his phone and the update bricked his anyway. Assuming he's telling the truth, I challenge Apple to tell the difference between an iPhone bricked by a failed update and one bricked due to having been hacked. Given this, if I took a bricked iPhone to an Apple store and were denied warranty service, I would file a small claims court action against them rather quickly.
As for the OP, you're one of those losers who calls everyone else who is screwed over a "crybaby" but who cries louder than anyone the second he's screwed over. Due to this, I hope Karma screws you over often.
Is there really someone left in the US who believes that people are unemployed because of production moving overseas? We are at full employment; people aren't starving here, just doing non-manufacturing jobs. It's okay.
What is it like going through life with your eyes closed? If you were to open yours, you would see that there are a lot of people who are not "okay". Our lovely government counts people who only work 5 hours per week as 'employed' and while I'm sure you are going to say 'they should work more', it isn't that easy. Many employers, such as WalMart, purposely prevent employees from working more than 20-30 hours to ensure they do not get benefits, and yet we count them as 'employed' just as if they were working 40+ hours. To you it is apparently 'okay' if we round all numbers, even if they are.1, up to 1. This is a very 'black and white' mindset that does not in any way reflect the real world. So go on, keep your eyes shut and believe the 5% unemployment numbers the government tells you without questioning them. But don't come here and post claiming you know what's really going on.
The Nobel Prize selection committees are whacked. They gave it to Carter, and not Gandhi?
At the time, brokering peace between the perpetually warring Egypt and Israel was rather revolutionary of Carter to have been able to pull off. What president since then can you imagine brokering a peace accord? Yet most Americans for some reason see peace as weak and therefore dislike Carter. This I probably will never understand--favoring war over peace.
Which is better (if at all) would depend on the situation.
I can suggest : a clearer black-white situation favors conservative thinking and vice-versa?
Here is another aspect of the problem: There are actually very few (almost none) situations in life that are truly black & white. Only by lack of analysis do conservatives see the world that way. Liberals usually use the cognition found in the study to realize that everything is a shade of grey. Conservatives even acknowledge this and deride liberals for being too hung up on "nauance". Personally, as a liberal, I cannot understand why nuance is a bad thing, for it is accurate. The old "you're either with us or you're against us" thought pattern sure hasn't led to very many good things.
The last Democrat who was worth a damn was Harry Truman.
Yet more flamebait, specifically because you provide not a single piece of supporting evidence. Therefore you're very easily shot down by the mention that Carter won the Nobel prize for his work while in office. Any Republicans win that? Didn't think so.
Medical equipment manufacturers have a lot of things to worry about already. They have tons of hoops to jump through to make sure that it never endangers people under normal operating conditions.
Cell phone signals have become "normal operating conditions" in our society.
DNA samples tend to clear innocent suspects, not falsely implicate them.
This is a close cousin of the "If you're not guilty then you have nothing to worry about" argument used whenever civil rights are intruded upon. It's the claim that officials can do whatever they please (interrogate you randomly, search your car randomly, put a camera on every street corner, etc.)
"The innocent have nothing to worry about" hopes to distract you from the fact that you end up in a police state. "What's so bad about that?" a few of you may be asking. Well, nobody is perfect. Do you want to be arrested every time you jaywalk or go 5MPH over the speed limit or walk on the grass or eat a grape at the store as you select the bunch you want to buy? That is the type of nation England is quickly becoming, even more so than the U.S. (and that's really saying something).
They can have my DNA when they arrest me for a wrongdoing. Until then I am innocent until proven guilty and my DNA is mine to keep.
Lets see, show him my driver's license (all of 30 seconds) and go on my way, or cause a big scene and go to jail. Seems like an easy choice to me.
You're right--it is easier to show your license when asked. And that's exactly why you should NOT do it. Freedom is not free. It's funny how it's usually conservatives who spout this mantra but who are also the first to give in when their rights are taken away. It's the liberals who stand up to cops who abuse power and yet somehow come under verbal attacks from the conservatives for being "commies" and "unamerican". You want easy, eh? Voting for Bush was the easier choice in both elections too--people chose the guy they'd rather drink a beer with than the guy who made them think and/or make the hard choices in life. Ever since WWII, Americans keep taking the easy way out instead of doing what is right. I am very glad to have the OP as a fellow citizen and I hope to be able to stand up for what is right just as he did. Anyone criticizing what he did is slacking off in their duties as an American.
That's fine, for I doubt I'd be interested. I never thought I'd hear myself saying this but I'm not sure you're working your employees hard enough. If you only give them enough work for two days a week, then I'd be very concerned that you are not staying competitive in the marketplace by utilizing your resources at anywhere near capacity. I've spoken out in the past against 60+ hour workweeks, but it seems like 16 hour workweeks are too far a swing in the other direction.
I don't care if you're non-violent or not, if you're communicating with the enemy, we (the American public as represented by our government) want to know why.
And we have every right to that knowledge.
Wow, where to start replying to this straw-man, loaded, trolling, "you're either with us or against us" post...
First, you are assuming that there is an "enemy". Just because Bush & Co. say we are at war and deploy our armies does not really mean we are. We are not being attacked (or at least I'm sure not) and all I see happening over there is people defending their country against foreign invaders much like white blood cells vs. a virus. You seem to be buying into the whole "war for war's sake" argument that they want you to.
Next, you are assuming that Al Qaida is a big ol' enemy like Germany was in WWII when in fact it's a close equivalent to the KKK--a small ragtag association of uber-radicals who vastly overachieved on 9/11. Going to "war" with such a group is the epitome of going after a gnat with a sledgehammer--you are giving them too much credit and are very unlikely to hit them 'cos you are using far too large a tool. The U.S. military is simply not designed to fight a guerilla war just as the Redcoats were not trained to fight George Washington's guerillas. As such, the outcome of the conflict was determined long ago; the current George is simply unwilling to admit it just as George III was at first.
Back to your "communicating with the enemy" claim. Just how many Americans do you think are really Al Qaida sympathizers? My best estimate would be under 100. You want our huge, bloated, red tape-ensconsed government to perform all this tracking to try (in vain) to come up with 100 numbnuts who barely have the $$ to pay their rent let alone do damage to anything? Again with the sledgehammer.
All of the above aside, what if I'm *not* communicating with the enemy? The Feds still have my information, who I associate with, where I've been, etc. Treating the innocent as if they were guilty is absolutely NOT how this country was designed to work. If it's how you want it to work, I suggest you go to China or some other totalitarian society and live there.
You're a hippie with a magical dream... put down the bong and learn some mathematics. It's not boring, it is hard, but it is rewarding. Don't like hard work? Not only will you never understand anything beyond the most basic physics, you don't deserve to.
Again with the elitist "only certain people deserve to know physics" attitude, which essentially equates to "learn it our way or you don't get to join our elitist club." Y'know, those other profs down the hall from you in the psychology department aren't all dumb--they've discovered that different humans do learn in different ways. So I repeat my original assertion--that because you insist on only teaching physics one particular way you are excluding students who learn the other ways. I, for example, absolutely must know WHY I am learning something for me to digest it. My physics profs never showed me the big picture--how the equations they were scribbling related to the universe. It was just "memorize this, memorize that" so my mind basically said "fuck you" and shut down. There have been an awful lot of things teachers have made me learn over the years that were bullshit and I'd learned by freshman year to start questioning whether the prof was giving busy work or was giving real knowledge that was worthy of retention. So when a guy puts marks on a board and says "learn this" without showing what value it contains, I tend to think he's playing a weed-out game of who will be his little obsequious minions and decided his game had nothing to do with the physics I'd gone there to learn. So fine, in your mind I did not "deserve" to learn physics. Thankfully I found another field (I.T.) that by its nature shows you why you are learning each factoid and how it applies to the whole. And I'm doing quite well at it, thank you. You may now return to your own little world and collaborate with your other "deserving" physics club members.
I think what they're encountering is a resistance to learning the formalizations of physics. As soon as you step beyond Newtonian mechanics (really, beyond two-body problems) all that evolutionary intuition is gone. When you get to physics at that stage, you must place it on firm mathematical footing, or you have no hope of understanding: that is hard work.
The attitude you are presenting here is the reason that I and many others who took physics, and in spite of being interested in it, did not do well at it. Physics was presented to me in college in a very dry, purely mathematical, and therefore snooze-inducing manner. And this is a true pity, for what you've ended up doing is taking one of the most fascinating subjects in the universe and ruining it. Physics beyond the Newtonian can still be interesting, and certain parts of it can still be intuitive, but you have to teach it using more than just symbols. Pure theoretical learning via chalk scribblings on a blackboard only works for certain types of brains and one wonders how many potentially great physicists you've excluded from the field over the decades by only teaching one way. I say huzzah! to anyone, including the prof. in TFA who are trying to break free from the traditional "physics must be boring hard work" mindset. It's amazing how much hard work you can get from students (or Google employees, etc.) who are having fun.
this is obviously all true because newspapers never lie and the Rupert Murdoch owned Times, couldn't possibly be bias against the BBC; a competitor to the Rupert Murdoch owned Sky TV.
It is incorrect logic to state that because bias may (or even can be proven to) exist that all statements by the biased party are necessarily wrong.
These appeared to be well-to-do kids who were very likely to have used computers before. That is not who OLPC is aimed at. It would be much more telling to see tests with kids in poorer nations for whom OLPC is their first PC.
Note the interviewee who says that while the living conditions have improved since the BBC publicity last year (the "iPod slaves" story), he says the changes are "incomplete" and seemed afraid to go into more detail or give his full name. I really do wish that buying electronics wouldn't mean supporting companies whose workers have to live in slum conditions. But I really don't know what to do short of writing probably useless letters to Steve Jobs and Michael Dell.
do they see copying homework and research and taking credit for it as their own as good as well?
You're attacking the messenger. He specifically said he did not excuse the copying, but was merely trying to explain the ancient cultural traditions that were the fertile ground that let it flourish.
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And you didn't file against them in small claims court because....?
No, seriously folks, at some point these stories about Vista have to lead to a stampede away from the product. Just watch for the signs....like the one above.
It's surprisingly easy to think planes are much closer together than they are. Here are some prime examples (and some nice photos to boot):
747 & 757
747 & A340
747 & Gulfstream II
What amazed me about this article is how unsure it is of everything. "Appears that" and "may be" keep coming up. If things are that unsure, how can the potential customers of this segmented spamnet know that there is a service for sale? Wouldn't any marketing that these bot-admins do also be picked up by the white hat guys? I'm confused.
Why is this on the drive manufacturers to fix when all previous discs played? Isn't this on the shoulders of the disc manufacturers, to produce discs that are playable? By promising firmware fixes, aren't the player manufacturers both diminishing their brand value in the eyes of consumers and also opening themselves up to a lot of headaches when other discs don't play a month or a year from now due to even more envelope-pushing protection?
As for the OP, you're one of those losers who calls everyone else who is screwed over a "crybaby" but who cries louder than anyone the second he's screwed over. Due to this, I hope Karma screws you over often.
[John Cleese mode=on]
6 months: "Not done yet? Carry on."
12 months: "Still not cross platform? Jolly good."
18 months: "What, no Linux so far? You chaps are putting on a fine show."
And so on
"The innocent have nothing to worry about" hopes to distract you from the fact that you end up in a police state. "What's so bad about that?" a few of you may be asking. Well, nobody is perfect. Do you want to be arrested every time you jaywalk or go 5MPH over the speed limit or walk on the grass or eat a grape at the store as you select the bunch you want to buy? That is the type of nation England is quickly becoming, even more so than the U.S. (and that's really saying something).
They can have my DNA when they arrest me for a wrongdoing. Until then I am innocent until proven guilty and my DNA is mine to keep.
First, you are assuming that there is an "enemy". Just because Bush & Co. say we are at war and deploy our armies does not really mean we are. We are not being attacked (or at least I'm sure not) and all I see happening over there is people defending their country against foreign invaders much like white blood cells vs. a virus. You seem to be buying into the whole "war for war's sake" argument that they want you to.
Next, you are assuming that Al Qaida is a big ol' enemy like Germany was in WWII when in fact it's a close equivalent to the KKK--a small ragtag association of uber-radicals who vastly overachieved on 9/11. Going to "war" with such a group is the epitome of going after a gnat with a sledgehammer--you are giving them too much credit and are very unlikely to hit them 'cos you are using far too large a tool. The U.S. military is simply not designed to fight a guerilla war just as the Redcoats were not trained to fight George Washington's guerillas. As such, the outcome of the conflict was determined long ago; the current George is simply unwilling to admit it just as George III was at first.
Back to your "communicating with the enemy" claim. Just how many Americans do you think are really Al Qaida sympathizers? My best estimate would be under 100. You want our huge, bloated, red tape-ensconsed government to perform all this tracking to try (in vain) to come up with 100 numbnuts who barely have the $$ to pay their rent let alone do damage to anything? Again with the sledgehammer.
All of the above aside, what if I'm *not* communicating with the enemy? The Feds still have my information, who I associate with, where I've been, etc. Treating the innocent as if they were guilty is absolutely NOT how this country was designed to work. If it's how you want it to work, I suggest you go to China or some other totalitarian society and live there.
These appeared to be well-to-do kids who were very likely to have used computers before. That is not who OLPC is aimed at. It would be much more telling to see tests with kids in poorer nations for whom OLPC is their first PC.
Note the interviewee who says that while the living conditions have improved since the BBC publicity last year (the "iPod slaves" story), he says the changes are "incomplete" and seemed afraid to go into more detail or give his full name. I really do wish that buying electronics wouldn't mean supporting companies whose workers have to live in slum conditions. But I really don't know what to do short of writing probably useless letters to Steve Jobs and Michael Dell.