I've never understood this. If light from the beginning of the universe started traveling at the speed of light 14 billion years ago, how can we be out ahead of it to see it? At what point did the particles that became us move out from the beginning of the universe faster than light, so we can now turn back to the direction from which we came and see what should be very far ahead of us. No this is not a troll. It's a real question. Thanks in advance.
I know/. is not a news outlet, but the level of bias in the summary "..because she can't get preferential treatment..." is pretty offensive.
It seems to me from reading TFA that the producer does have some type of legitimate gripe. Just take this sentence FTA "Still, maybe the NSTA just being extra cautious. But there was one more curious argument in the e-mail: Accepting the DVDs, they wrote, would place "unnecessary risk upon the [NSTA] capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporters." One of those supporters, it turns out, is the Exxon Mobil Corp."
I am a global warming believer. I personally have been concerened about the possibility of global warming since the 80's.
A good site on the subject is http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics It contains a complete listing of the articles in "How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic," a series by Coby Beck containing responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming. There are four separate taxonomies; arguments are divided by:
* Stages of Denial,
* Scientific Topics,
* Types of Argument, and
* Levels of Sophistication.
I used to file or delete everything. I was proud of the low numbers in my inbox as it showed I was on top of it. Now, I've got over 1 TB of storage, and a fast processor. I still file some categories of email out of habit, and every once and a while I throw other categories away. My inbox has over 8,200 emails in it. At any time I can search them by name, date, subject, keyword, even multiple fields. I guess the bust thing about computers is that even if you don't have a meticulous filing system, you can index search and organize things anyway. Works for me anyhow.
I'm a Mac fanatic, and still I have to agree with you. I browse with + 5 flamebait + 5 troll just so I don't miss a good comment that happens to go against the grain or attack a a sacred cow.
I'm one of the non-IT/. readers. I've never doubted that AT&T charging Google protection money was a BAD idea, but I don't think I could have really articulated why at all, let alone stood up and departed the issue. What a great way to put it. In an instant, you can see just how bad an idea non-nutral, and just how bad it could get.
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One thing that makes me uncomfortable is being asked to proselytize. If someone wants FF, great. but it is not my job to convince them. I learned a meditation technique and was turned off when the class teachers asked to get my friends to do it. World FF day makes me feel the same way. People can make their own decisions.
This was a few years ago, they were called Blue Opps then, though it seems I have heard of a name change.
Neal really was running the show then as far as I know that hasn't changes, but I lost touch with my friend at Blue. Neal had a desk, showed up most days, head honcho. I met him there, in the "office / warehouse / industrial park." Asked him what he was working on. He gave me a vague answer about a trilogy which turned out to be the Baroque Cycle.
They had lost of other low cost launch ideas, but redirected to their current strategy of building and launching their own rocket some time latter.
I used to know a guy in Blue Operations, the Bezos funded space venture run by Sci-fi guy Neal Stevenson. They were exploring ideas for cheap space launches, and one of them was a floating high altitude lighter than air lifted launch platform.
Seems like a perfect match to supply the inflatable stations.
Robots in Asimov had positronic brains and could make decisions, which is why they needed the three laws. The robot that killed this poor man had less "brains" than the navigation system on a modern car.
That is not what I'm saying at all. In fact, the opposite.
If MS competitors are to be believed, MS has used their market power to engage in some pretty unsavory practices, and in my opinion putting their own search engine into their own browser, or putting Windows Media Player onto their own operating systems are bad examples of their evil ways. I've been surprised that these little things have been the focus of anti-trust cases.
To me, this brings up the entire issue of all of the antitrust action against Microsoft. Is MS a bully monopoly that violates anti trust laws? You bet. Is adding it's own WMP to the desktop of MS operating systems the most egregious case of this? I've never thought so.
I lived in Australia for a while in 1989, 1990. At the time Aussie politicos were investigating price fixing of CD's. It looks like the more things change the more they stay the same, but what do inflated prices have to do with rights? Do people have a right to low prices? What a strange concept. Maybe if it is AIDS drugs, a case could be made, but music downloads?
Yes, thank you. My thought exactly. And if you combine this with the news this week about Microsoft scanning computers checking for pirated software without user permission, well, where do you see this going?
Being an anti global warming guy, I follow these issues very closely. I would love to also embrace nuclear power, just to have something besides fossil fuels and their attendant emissions. And then, every time I hear read a new article, I am let down all over again, because the waste issue has not been dealt with in a new way since the beginning. Until we have a waste free nuke plant, or a can of "Nuke away" (remember Mork and Mindy?) then we really have a bad bad idea.
In my opinion, the one feature of Safari that almost kills Firefox is how good Safari Auto-fill is. I've tried a few FF auto fill extension, and they are not in the same ballpark at all. Anyone out there know one I'm missing? If not, could you make one?
Many shows on NPR are for sale on Audible.com at $3.00. It is hard to imagine they are going to start giving away for free something they sell.
"Fresh Air" is a popular NPR show that is now for sale on iTunes for $2.95 each. These prices are quite high in my opinion, considering that they can be recorded off the radio for free with a program like Audio Hijack.
"They don't even support 5.1 surround in most of their computers and Apple's one foray into networked multimedia ( AirTunes ) was a disaster in my opinion."
I'm interested in your opinion about this. Why do you think it was a disaster? I have one, and setting it up was a problem, which considering the "just works" ascetic of most Mac products, that sure could be the problem you are thinking of. Now that it is set up and going though, I love it and use it every day. I guess I give it a mixed review, but don't personally think it is a disaster
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I've never understood this. If light from the beginning of the universe started traveling at the speed of light 14 billion years ago, how can we be out ahead of it to see it? At what point did the particles that became us move out from the beginning of the universe faster than light, so we can now turn back to the direction from which we came and see what should be very far ahead of us. No this is not a troll. It's a real question. Thanks in advance.
It seems to me from reading TFA that the producer does have some type of legitimate gripe. Just take this sentence FTA "Still, maybe the NSTA just being extra cautious. But there was one more curious argument in the e-mail: Accepting the DVDs, they wrote, would place "unnecessary risk upon the [NSTA] capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporters." One of those supporters, it turns out, is the Exxon Mobil Corp."
I am a global warming believer. I personally have been concerened about the possibility of global warming since the 80's. A good site on the subject is http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics It contains a complete listing of the articles in "How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic," a series by Coby Beck containing responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming. There are four separate taxonomies; arguments are divided by: * Stages of Denial, * Scientific Topics, * Types of Argument, and * Levels of Sophistication.
I used to file or delete everything. I was proud of the low numbers in my inbox as it showed I was on top of it. Now, I've got over 1 TB of storage, and a fast processor. I still file some categories of email out of habit, and every once and a while I throw other categories away. My inbox has over 8,200 emails in it. At any time I can search them by name, date, subject, keyword, even multiple fields. I guess the bust thing about computers is that even if you don't have a meticulous filing system, you can index search and organize things anyway. Works for me anyhow.
I'm a Mac fanatic, and still I have to agree with you. I browse with + 5 flamebait + 5 troll just so I don't miss a good comment that happens to go against the grain or attack a a sacred cow.
I'm one of the non-IT /. readers. I've never doubted that AT&T charging Google protection money was a BAD idea, but I don't think I could have really articulated why at all, let alone stood up and departed the issue. What a great way to put it. In an instant, you can see just how bad an idea non-nutral, and just how bad it could get.
One thing that makes me uncomfortable is being asked to proselytize. If someone wants FF, great. but it is not my job to convince them. I learned a meditation technique and was turned off when the class teachers asked to get my friends to do it. World FF day makes me feel the same way. People can make their own decisions.
Neal really was running the show then as far as I know that hasn't changes, but I lost touch with my friend at Blue. Neal had a desk, showed up most days, head honcho. I met him there, in the "office / warehouse / industrial park." Asked him what he was working on. He gave me a vague answer about a trilogy which turned out to be the Baroque Cycle.
They had lost of other low cost launch ideas, but redirected to their current strategy of building and launching their own rocket some time latter.
Seems like a perfect match to supply the inflatable stations.
Robots in Asimov had positronic brains and could make decisions, which is why they needed the three laws. The robot that killed this poor man had less "brains" than the navigation system on a modern car.
ok, I totally desreved that.
No TV.
I've never in my life seen a corporate head admit wrongdoing so quickly without being forced to by a court. This is simply amazing.
If MS competitors are to be believed, MS has used their market power to engage in some pretty unsavory practices, and in my opinion putting their own search engine into their own browser, or putting Windows Media Player onto their own operating systems are bad examples of their evil ways. I've been surprised that these little things have been the focus of anti-trust cases.
BTW you are a jerk. (pathetic?)
To me, this brings up the entire issue of all of the antitrust action against Microsoft. Is MS a bully monopoly that violates anti trust laws? You bet. Is adding it's own WMP to the desktop of MS operating systems the most egregious case of this? I've never thought so.
I lived in Australia for a while in 1989, 1990. At the time Aussie politicos were investigating price fixing of CD's. It looks like the more things change the more they stay the same, but what do inflated prices have to do with rights? Do people have a right to low prices? What a strange concept. Maybe if it is AIDS drugs, a case could be made, but music downloads?
It was on digg. The link: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/04 /microsoft_expands_antipiracy_p.html
cover iSight, still use computer. cover moniter...
Yes, thank you. My thought exactly. And if you combine this with the news this week about Microsoft scanning computers checking for pirated software without user permission, well, where do you see this going?
Being an anti global warming guy, I follow these issues very closely. I would love to also embrace nuclear power, just to have something besides fossil fuels and their attendant emissions. And then, every time I hear read a new article, I am let down all over again, because the waste issue has not been dealt with in a new way since the beginning. Until we have a waste free nuke plant, or a can of "Nuke away" (remember Mork and Mindy?) then we really have a bad bad idea.
In my opinion, the one feature of Safari that almost kills Firefox is how good Safari Auto-fill is. I've tried a few FF auto fill extension, and they are not in the same ballpark at all. Anyone out there know one I'm missing? If not, could you make one?
yes, my horse skills have just tanked since i got a car.
"Fresh Air" is a popular NPR show that is now for sale on iTunes for $2.95 each. These prices are quite high in my opinion, considering that they can be recorded off the radio for free with a program like Audio Hijack.
I'm interested in your opinion about this. Why do you think it was a disaster? I have one, and setting it up was a problem, which considering the "just works" ascetic of most Mac products, that sure could be the problem you are thinking of. Now that it is set up and going though, I love it and use it every day. I guess I give it a mixed review, but don't personally think it is a disaster
Someone moderated you a troll? Wild. Hey, mods, please mod parent up. The poor guy wasn't trolling, he was making a good point!