FYI: You should be aware that Microsoft does not provide such a thing either. (Not that you implied that they did, but readers may assume it). Windows XP SP2 out of the box needs to download a variety of Microsoft codecs, 3rd-party codecs, and 3rd-party players. DVD playback support is not included. Licensing issues play a big role here.
Now please tell me: Why does anyone want video in their browser? I go through lengths to eliminate this support where it exists. I don't want postage-stamp non-saveable non-resizable embedded video clips in a popup window. Yuck. I don't want sounds playing in my browser. I just want it to prompt me then launch in an external player.
It would be nice to have a link to the real article, rather than an oversimplistic summary. This number is _extremely_ difficult to calculate. Some estimates say tens of thousands. Some say hundreds of thousands. With wild variations like that no one should believe any of these numbers at all. When they are within a factor of 2 then we have a reasonable range. But it will be 10 years before we really have a good idea. The same thing happened with WWI, WWII, Hiroshima, etc.
For this report, the sample numbers were EXTREMELY EXTREMELY low: 988 housholds. The potential for error here is astounding.
Confirmation was sought to ensure that a large fraction of the reported deaths were not fabrications...but only in two cases for each cluster of [30] houses.
So they had confirmation of 6%.
But the team believes that lying about deaths is unlikely
That's silly. The death count is constantly overreported. Every article about military firefights ends with a quote from some official saying how the Americans attacked mostly women, children, and the elderly. It's the standard line and it gets old and less believable each time.
I would really like to see statistics on who was killed and how the deaths occurred. Firefights with US troops? Bombings? Deaths during reconstruction? Who is called a "civilian?"
I'm not against electronic voting because it is electronic, I am against it because there is no paper trail. But there is no paper trail for paper voting either! Seriously: Do you get a receipt? Do you get a cryptographic hash of your vote? Or the ID number for your ballot? Can you call the election commission on the following day and verify that ballot 12345 was received and has hash 0A57F2? If not -- then you can be sure of nothing.
Without this type of validation, a ballot can be lost and nobody knows. Electronic voting gives us the possibility of implementing truly modern methods for eliminating this problem. Granted, it could be done on paper too -- but nobody wants to reform the paper system.
Releases should be timed by the percent completion and bug status, not any fixed date. The date is a target for measuring your development processes and budgets. For example: Black and White was released late, but it had some bugs that actually made it impossible to beat the game! DOH! It should have been released even later rather than make it borderline unplayable.
No software is ever released with an empty list of bugs. There are always bugs. But will they affect major portions of the software? If no, then ship it. If so, then don't ship it. The hard part is determining what bugs are important and what bugs are not.
There is a common belief that certifications are wothless because tests are worthless. I assume that is the basis for the points I just read. But it isn't so. It is not accurate to say that is the case for all certification courses. It may be the case for many courses, but dismissing all forms of testing and certification is unfair.
Psychometrics, the application of psychology to measurement and testing, is a well-established field of science. The problem is that it is often cheaper to do skip the pshyometrics and just ask random questions.
By applying psychometric principles to testing, it is possible to evaluate someone's ability in most subjects with a high accuracy. In the case of no-child-left-behind, if the tests are done properly they can be very very useful. If they are done properly, it becomes impossible to "teach to the test" which is befinicial to students, teachers, and parents.
Please do not dismiss an entire field of science, or all forms of testing, just because you think some test sucks.
If this started to happen, the US would stop giving out H1-B visas. The entire point of H1-B is to supply workers in areas where there is a shortage. They must be periodically renewed, so this process is not a problem. And politically, Indian tech workers are not a political force. They aren't going to be marching on Washington DC to get keep their Visas. And they aren't illegally voting.
1) Does anyone know when will Linux nVidia drivers catch-up to the Windows versions, or why they are behind?
2) Any idea when 64-bit versions of the drivers will be available? (And what distro I need to take advantage of it)
3) Any idea when 64-bit version of Doom 3 will be available for either platform, or what priority that has over Linux-SSE2 instructions?
4) How is the Linux install? What package manager does it use? Or is it just an executable?
Oh, and "yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!! !!!!!!" If Carmack wants to email me the source code, I'll happily get starting compiling it for 64-bit for him...
Many posters are saying that creating this tool is illegal. They are right. But it is illegal to sell the tool to someone who intends to use it to do something illegal. That makes him an accomplice to their crimes.
If he put the project on SourceForge and GPL'd it then there would be no problem. But then again, who would write a purely malicious program and put it on SourceForge? (That's rhetorical, don't answer it.)
Why does everyone compare this to the "War on drugs" instead of the "War on stabbings" or the "War on illegal parking?":-) Seriously, I know this administration's stupid branding is ridiculous, but this is what we need. The same people who will laugh at this article will complain, in another Slashdot discussion, how the US government doesn't enforce the existing laws.
They aren't talking about new legislation, they are talking about reorganizing to put priorities onto existing enforcement. This is exactly what we want them to do. No RIAA involvemnet, no special legislation. Just a retooling.
Also, keep in mind that things like counterfeit drugs are dangerous. Some of these people don't care if they poison grandpa when he buys his discount viagra, so long as they make a buck. The article sites a counterfeit battery (????) that exploded. Fraud is a real crime, and needs real investigation and enforcement.
I think you are completely wrong. I'm googling to find stats. I heard my state governor (Robert Ehrlich - Maryland) say that 50% of the state school budget comes from federal funding. According to ahis article, Mississippi gets $600 million out of their $800 million budget from the federal government. That's 75%.
This and this are comments by various Maryland state senators complaining that the federal government is only paying between 11% and 18% of the special education budget. That's not even close to a full picture, but it sounds like 5% is nowhere close.
I wish it were 5%. Then the federal government couldn't use school funding to punish states.
...The United States is one of the only nations in the world that executes juvenile offenders... President George Bush Responds: ...Federal law prohibits execution of those under 18 when the offense was committed...
None of the candidate's seemed to answer this question. George Bush shed a little light on the subject (amazingly). If federal law prohibits this, then states cannot do it. Remember we fought a war over this? I will guess that federal law prohibits execution of juvenile's in federal cases, but makes no statement about states.
If I am correct, then the only fair and reasonable reply to this question would be "Write your state governor, it's not a federal issue."
I am shocked at the ridiculous number of connectors on today's TV equipment. I want to smack the person who created these things. Even if I I buy the best TV I can find with every connector I could find, it still won't hook to my computer, and still has less resolution than my 10 year old monitor!!
Perhaps someone can explain to me how/why most of these connectors exist: 1) Composite coaxial connector: Original, standard TV. Compatible with color or B&W. This make sense. 2) Composite video: Same exact thing, just a different connector. No better quality AFAIK. Why was this created? 3) S-video: Supposed to fix the problems of "composite" video signals, but it doesn't look any better. Still a crappy analog interlaced YRB signal. 4) Y-Pr-Pb component output: Silly. RGB is better, and was already supported by monitors, computers, and projectors. What is the point of this? 5) Y-Cr-Cb component output: Digital version of Y-Pr-Pb. DVI is better. Usually mislabeled as Y-Pr-Pb anyway. 6) VGA - Been around for >20 years, and is superior to all of the above. 7) DVI - Digital replacement for VGA. The best.
Even more frustrating is that TVs are RGB, so why did the industry continue to adopt YRB signal standards when it is both inconvenient to send, and to receive?
A French-Algerian chef who ran a panini and crepe stand outside our office building would regularly barge into the office, fire all the employees, steal supplies (phones, chairs, etc.) and demand that someone make him coffee. Of course, he was best friends with the CEO, so he was the only person who could open the CEO's door when it was closed without fearing for their life. If anyone else did something like this, the CEO would run up and down the office hallway yelling "Unbelievable!!! Un-f*cking-believable!!!!" But with this guy, it was okay. Note that it didn't matter if you were on a conference call, or conducting an interview. He had free reign.
Fortunately, he always brought stuff back. And the panini's were excellent. So all was good:-)
What make you think that he will deliver this time. Fool me once same on you, fool me twice shame on me.
LOL!
All good points, but what is funny to me is that I made my post as apolitical as possible, just stating the candidate's views. And along comes somebody who assumes that one of those views is my own, and debates it.
Not on all issues. Both candidate's approaches domestic and fiscal issues are classical liberal -vs- conservative approaches. For example:
Problem: -------- Health care costs are skyrocketing, causing small businesses to suffer.
Kerry: ------ 1. Raise taxes on the rich. 2. Use that to provide a tax credit to small businesses who provide health insurance to their employees. 3. Work toward universal government-mandated health care.
Bush: ----- 1. Allow small businesses to pool into larger groups to get cheaper health care. 2. Provide tax-free health care savings plans for employees (much like flexible spending accounts are today) 3. Medical liability reform to keep the lawyers out of the way.
There is a significant diffeerence between these approaches, and I think that difference very clearly outlines the philosophical differences between the parties.
I cannot disagree with your point based on simple facts: The trip does use resources, and provides no measurable benefit to human society. But then I wonder, how do you justify any form of pleasure at all? Can't the same arguments be applied to painting, or playing a board game, reading a book, walking in the park, etc. Naturally, those things use fewer resources. Is that it? Is it just the proportion of resources used that makes this so terrible?
There has to be more to it than that. 15% just means that you create an to turn it off. Or put it in a patch. No big deal unless it impacts the gameplay.
That's one thing Doom 3 did differently than most games: They kept in all the CPU intensive stuff, and made it possible to turn it off. The knew that in a year, people would rather have it in there than not.
Black-and-White was the same way. It was beautiful. It was fun to play just because you could sit there and watch things happen around it. But the enemy AI was so weak it was just as fun to play the game alone.
Greens have moved beyond a lesser-evil approach to politics...
This quote summarizes his stance very well. To me, this reads as "Greens don't accept compromise." That's too bad. They just lost any chance of ever getting their ideas through a democratic system. This country was founded on compromise.
...
I cannot under any circumstances accept nuclear power
I can accept it in lots of places. How about alpha-emitters such that are used by the Galileo, Cassini, and Apollo space missions? What about the alpha emitters which are safe enough to hold in your hand and can fit in AA batteries? How about the pebble reactors China is proposing, where they can't meltdown? Or future breeder reactors that consume their own waste?
Blanket statements like this sound good to the uninformed person, but make bad policies. Issues just aren't this simple once you have to actually implement them.
...I cannot under any circumstances accept... genetically modified foods as a healthy alternative.
Good. Don't buy them. Shop at Whole Foods or Trader Joes. Or maybe your local grower's market.
But don't legislate away my mom's ability to eat the genetically modified wheat that she isn't allergic to. She is >50 years old, and at bread all her life. If it kills her in 50 years, that's okay, our family will deal with it.:-)
There are such simpler and more sensible ways to approach these issues. We could easily eliminate the need for nuclear power by conserving more energy.
This is where I need one of the geeks who can quote energy stats off the top of their head. Can conservation really suffice? I am very skeptical of this. It sounds more like an extreme environmentalist response to me.
We could replace nuclear power-and coal and other dirty forms of producing power-with the abundance of solar energy which shines on our country.
Multiply that over-abundance by about.01, and that's what current technology can successfully absorb and deliver to your home. (Nuclear power averages about 1.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, solar maxes at about $1 per kilowatt-hour)
For Democrats, Greens are the party which champions what Democrats used to: support for working people and people of color and protection of the environment.
This quote smacks of party politics. No party should champian "people of color." Is black a color? Is white a color? How about yellow-brown? Or red-brown? Saying "I support blacks" is just as racist as saying "I hate blacks" simply by the nature that you are separating them into a group. Equality does not mean adjusting the scales to be even - it means getting rid of the scale entirely.
...we really need to address is the corruption in the White House and in Congress...
The democrats say that too. And the republicans. It's easy for a party who is outside the system to say that, but what is the plan for doing it?
We need to replace it with Instant Runoff Voting.
I said the same thing last week. Someone from Slashdot corrected me. IRV is worse than our current system - the problems are subtle to see but very significant. Here is why. I didn't believe it until I read it.
Question:...Electoral votes from a state be split proportional to the popular vote... Response:I believe we should move rapidly towards Instant Runoff Voting, as outlined above, rather than tinker with an anachronistic relic.
This is a naive response. You can't just say "okay, let's replace all the state election systems and change all the state constitutions all at once, and forget the steps that get us there." This country's system is an anachronistic relic. Good call there. But you must tinker with it until you get what you want.
One common thread amongs the smaller party replies is that they are often ideologically good, but realistically bad. I heard a Green party spokesperson on NPR say that if the Green party wins, they will immediately withdraw all troops from Iraq and apologize. That's beautiful, but it would also plunge Iraq into civil war, cause the UN to hate us even more, and kill millions of Iraqis. Great in concept, but unrealistic. We need people who realize that politics is compromise, and that small steps are what move us forward.
I would like to see the process streamlined so that undocumented workers, who are here and are paying taxes and contributing to our society, can obtain citizenship more simply and easily
This is the most political of all the answers. "Undocumented workers" is a nice way to say criminals who illegally tresspassed, dodged or lied to border police, and/or forged identities to get here. They are criminals and should be sent home. There are people who wait patiently for work visas for years to get into the US. But since the illegal immigrants have gotten good enough at forging IDs to vote, they are now a constituent base and must be appealed to.
50% of my coworkers are immigrants, and I respect every one of them. I went for lunch today, and I was served by immigrants. I respect every one of these people from IT professionals to minimum-wage workers. But it is really scary when we decide that we need to give voting rights to people who shouldn't even be allowed to walk the streets. I really hope it is just some massive trick to have them all come out, admit it, and ship them home. What's the unemployment rate right now?
Just so everyone understand where I am coming from, I am an independent who voted for Greens, Libertarians, Democrats, and Republicans. I look at candidate's qualifications first, and the party has no bearing on my decision. I'm not anti-green, I merely question some of these responses. I do fear that some of these Green part
I don't understand your reply. The RIAA is doing exactly what I want them to do. They realized attacking technology is impossible, but stopping real criminals is possible.
One suspect was found with approximately 2.5TB of allegedly illicit material...Within hours of the raids, net traffic in Iceland fell 40 per cent, according
How is it evil to stop someone who is (allegedly) distributing 2.5TB of copyrighted material, and using 40% of a nation's network traffic. Huh?????? This group wasn't a mom and pop who downloaded a song to try it out. This isn't a customer who will now boycott them. These are (alleged) criminals. Please explain what is wrong with stopping criminals?
If gun manufacturers stop people who steal guns, is that wrong? Are they alienating their customers? Would an art gallery be wrong for stopping the people who stole a famous painting? Are those people art lovers, and thus they are alienating their audience?
We need to get game companies to do the same thing. The last three PC games I purchased had copy protection on them and the games will not run even with the CD in the drive. I have no copy-protection software of CD emulation or anything like that.
I got a no CD crack for one, and I contacted tech support about the other two. Tech support's reply: You must play the game on a read-only drive! Neither one works on a CDRW! I find that amazing: They are totally willing to abandon everyone who only has a writable drive (which is almost every new computer these days).
Is piracy really that bad that this is worth doing? As far as I know, the pirates can get around it. They probably spent more money answering my tech support than they made off of the game (especially since I am going to give them hell for selling me a product that they know doesn't work, but don't mention it on the box).
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FYI: You should be aware that Microsoft does not provide such a thing either. (Not that you implied that they did, but readers may assume it). Windows XP SP2 out of the box needs to download a variety of Microsoft codecs, 3rd-party codecs, and 3rd-party players. DVD playback support is not included. Licensing issues play a big role here.
Now please tell me: Why does anyone want video in their browser? I go through lengths to eliminate this support where it exists. I don't want postage-stamp non-saveable non-resizable embedded video clips in a popup window. Yuck. I don't want sounds playing in my browser. I just want it to prompt me then launch in an external player.
It pains me when someone agrees with me, but then shows themself to be an ass. I was with you until you used the words "liberals" and "war-mongerer."
For this report, the sample numbers were EXTREMELY EXTREMELY low: 988 housholds. The potential for error here is astounding. So they had confirmation of 6%. That's silly. The death count is constantly overreported. Every article about military firefights ends with a quote from some official saying how the Americans attacked mostly women, children, and the elderly. It's the standard line and it gets old and less believable each time. I would really like to see statistics on who was killed and how the deaths occurred. Firefights with US troops? Bombings? Deaths during reconstruction? Who is called a "civilian?"
I'm not against electronic voting because it is electronic, I am against it because there is no paper trail. But there is no paper trail for paper voting either! Seriously: Do you get a receipt? Do you get a cryptographic hash of your vote? Or the ID number for your ballot? Can you call the election commission on the following day and verify that ballot 12345 was received and has hash 0A57F2? If not -- then you can be sure of nothing.
Without this type of validation, a ballot can be lost and nobody knows. Electronic voting gives us the possibility of implementing truly modern methods for eliminating this problem. Granted, it could be done on paper too -- but nobody wants to reform the paper system.
Releases should be timed by the percent completion and bug status, not any fixed date. The date is a target for measuring your development processes and budgets. For example: Black and White was released late, but it had some bugs that actually made it impossible to beat the game! DOH! It should have been released even later rather than make it borderline unplayable.
No software is ever released with an empty list of bugs. There are always bugs. But will they affect major portions of the software? If no, then ship it. If so, then don't ship it. The hard part is determining what bugs are important and what bugs are not.
There is a common belief that certifications are wothless because tests are worthless. I assume that is the basis for the points I just read. But it isn't so. It is not accurate to say that is the case for all certification courses. It may be the case for many courses, but dismissing all forms of testing and certification is unfair.
Psychometrics, the application of psychology to measurement and testing, is a well-established field of science. The problem is that it is often cheaper to do skip the pshyometrics and just ask random questions.
By applying psychometric principles to testing, it is possible to evaluate someone's ability in most subjects with a high accuracy. In the case of no-child-left-behind, if the tests are done properly they can be very very useful. If they are done properly, it becomes impossible to "teach to the test" which is befinicial to students, teachers, and parents.
Please do not dismiss an entire field of science, or all forms of testing, just because you think some test sucks.
THanks.
If this started to happen, the US would stop giving out H1-B visas. The entire point of H1-B is to supply workers in areas where there is a shortage. They must be periodically renewed, so this process is not a problem. And politically, Indian tech workers are not a political force. They aren't going to be marching on Washington DC to get keep their Visas. And they aren't illegally voting.
1) Does anyone know when will Linux nVidia drivers catch-up to the Windows versions, or why they are behind?
! !!!!!!" If Carmack wants to email me the source code, I'll happily get starting compiling it for 64-bit for him...
2) Any idea when 64-bit versions of the drivers will be available? (And what distro I need to take advantage of it)
3) Any idea when 64-bit version of Doom 3 will be available for either platform, or what priority that has over Linux-SSE2 instructions?
4) How is the Linux install? What package manager does it use? Or is it just an executable?
Oh, and "yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!
Many posters are saying that creating this tool is illegal. They are right. But it is illegal to sell the tool to someone who intends to use it to do something illegal. That makes him an accomplice to their crimes.
If he put the project on SourceForge and GPL'd it then there would be no problem. But then again, who would write a purely malicious program and put it on SourceForge? (That's rhetorical, don't answer it.)
Why does everyone compare this to the "War on drugs" instead of the "War on stabbings" or the "War on illegal parking?" :-) Seriously, I know this administration's stupid branding is ridiculous, but this is what we need. The same people who will laugh at this article will complain, in another Slashdot discussion, how the US government doesn't enforce the existing laws.
They aren't talking about new legislation, they are talking about reorganizing to put priorities onto existing enforcement. This is exactly what we want them to do. No RIAA involvemnet, no special legislation. Just a retooling.
Also, keep in mind that things like counterfeit drugs are dangerous. Some of these people don't care if they poison grandpa when he buys his discount viagra, so long as they make a buck. The article sites a counterfeit battery (????) that exploded. Fraud is a real crime, and needs real investigation and enforcement.
I think you are completely wrong. I'm googling to find stats. I heard my state governor (Robert Ehrlich - Maryland) say that 50% of the state school budget comes from federal funding. According to ahis article, Mississippi gets $600 million out of their $800 million budget from the federal government. That's 75%.
This and this are comments by various Maryland state senators complaining that the federal government is only paying between 11% and 18% of the special education budget. That's not even close to a full picture, but it sounds like 5% is nowhere close.
I wish it were 5%. Then the federal government couldn't use school funding to punish states.
I am shocked at the ridiculous number of connectors on today's TV equipment. I want to smack the person who created these things. Even if I I buy the best TV I can find with every connector I could find, it still won't hook to my computer, and still has less resolution than my 10 year old monitor!!
Perhaps someone can explain to me how/why most of these connectors exist:
1) Composite coaxial connector: Original, standard TV. Compatible with color or B&W. This make sense.
2) Composite video: Same exact thing, just a different connector. No better quality AFAIK. Why was this created?
3) S-video: Supposed to fix the problems of "composite" video signals, but it doesn't look any better. Still a crappy analog interlaced YRB signal.
4) Y-Pr-Pb component output: Silly. RGB is better, and was already supported by monitors, computers, and projectors. What is the point of this?
5) Y-Cr-Cb component output: Digital version of Y-Pr-Pb. DVI is better. Usually mislabeled as Y-Pr-Pb anyway.
6) VGA - Been around for >20 years, and is superior to all of the above.
7) DVI - Digital replacement for VGA. The best.
Even more frustrating is that TVs are RGB, so why did the industry continue to adopt YRB signal standards when it is both inconvenient to send, and to receive?
A French-Algerian chef who ran a panini and crepe stand outside our office building would regularly barge into the office, fire all the employees, steal supplies (phones, chairs, etc.) and demand that someone make him coffee. Of course, he was best friends with the CEO, so he was the only person who could open the CEO's door when it was closed without fearing for their life. If anyone else did something like this, the CEO would run up and down the office hallway yelling "Unbelievable!!! Un-f*cking-believable!!!!" But with this guy, it was okay. Note that it didn't matter if you were on a conference call, or conducting an interview. He had free reign.
:-)
Fortunately, he always brought stuff back. And the panini's were excellent. So all was good
IANAC (I am not a cosmologist)
AINAA (I am not an astrophysicist)
IAAAJ (I am an average joe)
Could the dwarf star absorb enough mass that fusion could start again? That would be awesome!
All good points, but what is funny to me is that I made my post as apolitical as possible, just stating the candidate's views. And along comes somebody who assumes that one of those views is my own, and debates it.
Not on all issues. Both candidate's approaches domestic and fiscal issues are classical liberal -vs- conservative approaches. For example:
Problem:
--------
Health care costs are skyrocketing, causing small businesses to suffer.
Kerry:
------
1. Raise taxes on the rich.
2. Use that to provide a tax credit to small businesses who provide health insurance to their employees.
3. Work toward universal government-mandated health care.
Bush:
-----
1. Allow small businesses to pool into larger groups to get cheaper health care.
2. Provide tax-free health care savings plans for employees (much like flexible spending accounts are today)
3. Medical liability reform to keep the lawyers out of the way.
There is a significant diffeerence between these approaches, and I think that difference very clearly outlines the philosophical differences between the parties.
Wow. Interesting.
I cannot disagree with your point based on simple facts: The trip does use resources, and provides no measurable benefit to human society. But then I wonder, how do you justify any form of pleasure at all? Can't the same arguments be applied to painting, or playing a board game, reading a book, walking in the park, etc. Naturally, those things use fewer resources. Is that it? Is it just the proportion of resources used that makes this so terrible?
There has to be more to it than that. 15% just means that you create an to turn it off. Or put it in a patch. No big deal unless it impacts the gameplay.
That's one thing Doom 3 did differently than most games: They kept in all the CPU intensive stuff, and made it possible to turn it off. The knew that in a year, people would rather have it in there than not.
Black-and-White was the same way. It was beautiful. It was fun to play just because you could sit there and watch things happen around it. But the enemy AI was so weak it was just as fun to play the game alone.
This quote smacks of party politics. No party should champian "people of color." Is black a color? Is white a color? How about yellow-brown? Or red-brown? Saying "I support blacks" is just as racist as saying "I hate blacks" simply by the nature that you are separating them into a group. Equality does not mean adjusting the scales to be even - it means getting rid of the scale entirely.
The democrats say that too. And the republicans. It's easy for a party who is outside the system to say that, but what is the plan for doing it?
I said the same thing last week. Someone from Slashdot corrected me. IRV is worse than our current system - the problems are subtle to see but very significant. Here is why. I didn't believe it until I read it.
This is a naive response. You can't just say "okay, let's replace all the state election systems and change all the state constitutions all at once, and forget the steps that get us there." This country's system is an anachronistic relic. Good call there. But you must tinker with it until you get what you want.
One common thread amongs the smaller party replies is that they are often ideologically good, but realistically bad. I heard a Green party spokesperson on NPR say that if the Green party wins, they will immediately withdraw all troops from Iraq and apologize. That's beautiful, but it would also plunge Iraq into civil war, cause the UN to hate us even more, and kill millions of Iraqis. Great in concept, but unrealistic. We need people who realize that politics is compromise, and that small steps are what move us forward.
This is the most political of all the answers. "Undocumented workers" is a nice way to say criminals who illegally tresspassed, dodged or lied to border police, and/or forged identities to get here. They are criminals and should be sent home. There are people who wait patiently for work visas for years to get into the US. But since the illegal immigrants have gotten good enough at forging IDs to vote, they are now a constituent base and must be appealed to.
50% of my coworkers are immigrants, and I respect every one of them. I went for lunch today, and I was served by immigrants. I respect every one of these people from IT professionals to minimum-wage workers. But it is really scary when we decide that we need to give voting rights to people who shouldn't even be allowed to walk the streets. I really hope it is just some massive trick to have them all come out, admit it, and ship them home. What's the unemployment rate right now?
Just so everyone understand where I am coming from, I am an independent who voted for Greens, Libertarians, Democrats, and Republicans. I look at candidate's qualifications first, and the party has no bearing on my decision. I'm not anti-green, I merely question some of these responses. I do fear that some of these Green part
We need to get game companies to do the same thing. The last three PC games I purchased had copy protection on them and the games will not run even with the CD in the drive. I have no copy-protection software of CD emulation or anything like that.
I got a no CD crack for one, and I contacted tech support about the other two. Tech support's reply: You must play the game on a read-only drive! Neither one works on a CDRW! I find that amazing: They are totally willing to abandon everyone who only has a writable drive (which is almost every new computer these days).
Is piracy really that bad that this is worth doing? As far as I know, the pirates can get around it. They probably spent more money answering my tech support than they made off of the game (especially since I am going to give them hell for selling me a product that they know doesn't work, but don't mention it on the box).
Transactional database format
True client - server
Encrypted passwords
Built-in SSH support