Shouldn't the tag-line say: 2008 won't be like 2004?
Then it would make sense: "Don't elect a loser to run for your party because he/she is the establishment candidate."
How soon we forget history. The Democratic candidate in '84, Walter Mondale, was exactly what you describe-- a guy that got the nomination because he was the long time party hack whose turn it was to run. More so than Kerry was. Mondale managed to lose every state in the union except for his home state of Minnesota and D.C.. Kerry actually had a following, and could have pulled out a win should things have gone only slightly differently. Though I must say, just a slightly more dynamic candidate and the Dems would have easily won.
I think the author of the ad picked what he did for the 1984 reference, and it wasn't just happenstance. Political nerds remember stuff like this long after the general public has long forgotten.
Anyways, point being, the ad is clearly linking Hillary to the Democratic establishment, is aimed directly at her campaign (the careful selection of her "conversation" reference), and is pointing to the disastrous defeat the Democrats suffered in '84 because they ran a candidate whose support was almost all from within the party itself and not the general public. Obama is playing at the "fresh new blood" and "party outsider" angle, and the intent is to juxtapose the two.
And sometimes, it simply can't be played even with a valid Steam account. They had an outage a while back that resulted in many people not being able to play their valid Steam games. Apparently, if the client recognizes that you have a working internet connection, but still can't get authorization from the Steam servers, you don't get to play. Caused all kinds of fuss on the Steam forums.
Well, they probably didn't expect to be featured on Slashdot every few days and have the results skewed by a bunch of Linux loving slasdotters. As it is, they do have a Redhat option on their servers in the Mid and Large business offerings.
No no no. You got it all wrong. You slowly warm the ice cubes in an alcohol solution. I'm going to begin some preliminary experimentation this evening with an eye towards large scale experiments this weekend. I'll let you know how it goes.
Cuba's economy is remarkably healthy despite the USA's deliberate attempts to sabotage it.
What planet do you live on? Cuba's economy tanked in the late 80s (do to lack of freebies from the former Soviet Union) and it's GDP shrank every year until about 2000, at which time it began to grow again, based entirely on freebies from their socialist buddies in Venezuela. Living off of foreign aid (read charity) is hardly what anyone would call a healthy economy.
You forgot to add the $700 you pay for the old ladys son, who lives in the basement next door, for troubleshooting your PC in the next 8 months.
Know your audience. This is slashdot, we can all maintain our own computers. Hell, the guy living in the basement next door that you pay to maintain your computer because you lack the knowledge to do so youself, is probably a regular poster here.
You seem to be saying that no laws have value if the behavior that they are intended to prevent still occurs. In addition to bank robbery, that would include murder, rape, theft of any sort, speeding, and cheating on your taxes. Since all of these things still happen, the laws against them must have no value, yes?
Why would it even be an issue if it was made for young girls? Seriously, would you feel less manly if the developers had set out to make the game for young girls, and you were just part of the "crossover" crowd? It's not like you're playing "My Little Pony" or some such.
It's for that "theater experience" that you normally miss out on with an ordinary DVD. Now just throw in some $5 popcorn, and you'd have no reason to go to the movies. That's what the RIAA is protecting!
Maybe they aren't trying to make windows look bad, but it seems odd that a company like Apple, that had access to all of the betas and should have had the RTM for the last three months, didn't have this fixed prior to product launch. New PCs are shipping with Vista now, so a not unsizable chunk of people are going to run in to this problem.
Really? I've had a yahoo account since '98 or so, and have gone, at times, over a year without logging in to it. I just checked it to see if I could still log on, and low and behold, it's all still there, including some spam from March of 2000 that I never got around to deleting. Maybe I'm just special or something.
If you are doing an upgrade install that fails, it is reversable, or at least was with the beta. Also, Vista will let you install without a key, but will lock you out after three days with no-key. Not to say it wasn't a monumental screw-up, and I'm sure someone currently employed at MS is going to be looking for a new job on Monday.
Actually, I think that they are releasing the service pack so fast because they decided they were shipping what they had to businesses in November because certain software assurance contracts where up for renewal then. They spent a few months polishing up what they had and shipped it. Obviously, it wasn't in the kind of shape that they wanted it in, so the early SP should get it in to the shape they had hoped for at RTM without having to delay again.
And I'm using Vista as we speak, and though it's in better shape than XP at RTM, it certainly could use some work. It has a much better version of minesweeper by the way.
Actually, I'm just talking about the groups and people that make grandious statements and public acusations (Jesse Jackson comes to mind, he was making public statements about how they were going to investigate this and that, then was no where to be seen after the results came in and his guys won).
Anyone with even a bit of intellegence would want independent oversite of elections. But the media whoring, FUD mongering, jackasses on both sides I can do without. In recent years, with the House, Senate, and Whitehouse in Republican hands, that's mostly come from the left, but I have no doubt that the Right will do the same thing in a similar situation. But it's incredibly hypocritical talk about problems with election systems when your guys lose.
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Then it would make sense: "Don't elect a loser to run for your party because he/she is the establishment candidate."
How soon we forget history. The Democratic candidate in '84, Walter Mondale, was exactly what you describe-- a guy that got the nomination because he was the long time party hack whose turn it was to run. More so than Kerry was. Mondale managed to lose every state in the union except for his home state of Minnesota and D.C.. Kerry actually had a following, and could have pulled out a win should things have gone only slightly differently. Though I must say, just a slightly more dynamic candidate and the Dems would have easily won.
I think the author of the ad picked what he did for the 1984 reference, and it wasn't just happenstance. Political nerds remember stuff like this long after the general public has long forgotten.
Anyways, point being, the ad is clearly linking Hillary to the Democratic establishment, is aimed directly at her campaign (the careful selection of her "conversation" reference), and is pointing to the disastrous defeat the Democrats suffered in '84 because they ran a candidate whose support was almost all from within the party itself and not the general public. Obama is playing at the "fresh new blood" and "party outsider" angle, and the intent is to juxtapose the two.
And sometimes, it simply can't be played even with a valid Steam account. They had an outage a while back that resulted in many people not being able to play their valid Steam games. Apparently, if the client recognizes that you have a working internet connection, but still can't get authorization from the Steam servers, you don't get to play. Caused all kinds of fuss on the Steam forums.
Looks like it actually made PNAS about a year and a half ago. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/102/28/9790
Either way, the summary and the linked article look to be way off base.
Well, Gates is an athiest and a liberal, so I don't think he'd fit in so well with the neo-cons.
And it looks like that they are already selling workstations with Linux pre-installed:
x /precn_n?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.asp
Well, they probably didn't expect to be featured on Slashdot every few days and have the results skewed by a bunch of Linux loving slasdotters. As it is, they do have a Redhat option on their servers in the Mid and Large business offerings.
No no no. You got it all wrong. You slowly warm the ice cubes in an alcohol solution. I'm going to begin some preliminary experimentation this evening with an eye towards large scale experiments this weekend. I'll let you know how it goes.
What planet do you live on? Cuba's economy tanked in the late 80s (do to lack of freebies from the former Soviet Union) and it's GDP shrank every year until about 2000, at which time it began to grow again, based entirely on freebies from their socialist buddies in Venezuela. Living off of foreign aid (read charity) is hardly what anyone would call a healthy economy.
Na, it'll be required for the next version of windows when it's released. So we have nothing to worry about.
You must be new here.
Know your audience. This is slashdot, we can all maintain our own computers. Hell, the guy living in the basement next door that you pay to maintain your computer because you lack the knowledge to do so youself, is probably a regular poster here.
You seem to be saying that no laws have value if the behavior that they are intended to prevent still occurs. In addition to bank robbery, that would include murder, rape, theft of any sort, speeding, and cheating on your taxes. Since all of these things still happen, the laws against them must have no value, yes?
Why would it even be an issue if it was made for young girls? Seriously, would you feel less manly if the developers had set out to make the game for young girls, and you were just part of the "crossover" crowd? It's not like you're playing "My Little Pony" or some such.
It's for that "theater experience" that you normally miss out on with an ordinary DVD. Now just throw in some $5 popcorn, and you'd have no reason to go to the movies. That's what the RIAA is protecting!
What are you talking about? Open source is a religion.
Maybe they aren't trying to make windows look bad, but it seems odd that a company like Apple, that had access to all of the betas and should have had the RTM for the last three months, didn't have this fixed prior to product launch. New PCs are shipping with Vista now, so a not unsizable chunk of people are going to run in to this problem.
Really? I've had a yahoo account since '98 or so, and have gone, at times, over a year without logging in to it. I just checked it to see if I could still log on, and low and behold, it's all still there, including some spam from March of 2000 that I never got around to deleting. Maybe I'm just special or something.
Seriously. My first reaction to this story was "Fucking Lycos is still around?"
Come on, we're talking about HP here. Of course they read Dell's financial records.
Apple is currently advertising the iPhone, so they are using the trademark. http://www.apple.com/iphone/
If you are doing an upgrade install that fails, it is reversable, or at least was with the beta. Also, Vista will let you install without a key, but will lock you out after three days with no-key. Not to say it wasn't a monumental screw-up, and I'm sure someone currently employed at MS is going to be looking for a new job on Monday.
Yeah, even with the typo the point still stands.
Actually, I think that they are releasing the service pack so fast because they decided they were shipping what they had to businesses in November because certain software assurance contracts where up for renewal then. They spent a few months polishing up what they had and shipped it. Obviously, it wasn't in the kind of shape that they wanted it in, so the early SP should get it in to the shape they had hoped for at RTM without having to delay again.
And I'm using Vista as we speak, and though it's in better shape than XP at RTM, it certainly could use some work. It has a much better version of minesweeper by the way.
Actually, I'm just talking about the groups and people that make grandious statements and public acusations (Jesse Jackson comes to mind, he was making public statements about how they were going to investigate this and that, then was no where to be seen after the results came in and his guys won).
Anyone with even a bit of intellegence would want independent oversite of elections. But the media whoring, FUD mongering, jackasses on both sides I can do without. In recent years, with the House, Senate, and Whitehouse in Republican hands, that's mostly come from the left, but I have no doubt that the Right will do the same thing in a similar situation. But it's incredibly hypocritical talk about problems with election systems when your guys lose.