"Companies still have poor work environments -- they just go through the slave traders more."
Please, comparing having to work long hours in front of a computer screen in order to get a large paycheck to forced labor in the form of slavery is just absurd and insulting. You don't like your job, there is nothing stopping you from quitting and looking for a new job. That is not the case with slavery. Learn to appreciate the freedoms you have instead of whining everytime your boss asks you to sit at a desk for a few hours.
An overpaid job requiring short hours and virtually no manual labor is not a right of yours.
"the audio quality is always lousy, people chatter in the background, and there is invariably some big guy who takes a popcorn break right in the middle of the movie."
I take it you have never been to a movie theater. Thats how movies there always are.
There is no point to having a killer-app if you can't profit from it. No one would ever be willing to pay for something like winamp.
Besides, how much more development does winamp need? As far as I'm concerned, it was fine at 2.0. Is there some new market that it could have moved into had its staff not been reduced?
Does someone out there really expect wind power to become the major supplier (more than fossil fuels and nuclear) of Earth's energy? Is anyone out there really that naive?
My computer is my TV/stereo. I got a cheap TV tuner a couple years ago and it works fine, and I have my computer connected to my stereo. As a cheap college student, this is especially good as it also saves cash (TV tuners are much cheaper than TVs and I don't have to buy a seperate set of PC speakers) and space.
The catch is if you just use POP3 access, you do not get to utilize the benefits of gmail, namely a gig of storage (that doesn't matter if you are just downloading everything to your home machine) and a really nice UI. The reason most people use gmail is have access to these two features (ok, some use it for bragging rights), and thus its unlikely that most gmail users will switch to just using it with POP3.
I suspect the major effect this will have on gmail usage is that people will be able to use it as a primary email account with Outlook/Thunderbird/Evolution/Kontact/whatever (as opposed to just a webmail account), which could actually increase page hits as the depend more and more on their gmail account.
I see no reason why they would have to include some sort of catch.
Thanks. It is in a slightly different place than where it used to be (I think it was on the left side before) so I may have missed it had that been working in previous releases.
Yeah, but I do want to be notified, just quietly. Like an icon appearing in the status bar, like firefox used to have. That way if I am expecting something to happen I can check the status bar to see if it blocked a pop-up I wanted to see (the only possible reason I would want to be notified in the first place).
Am I the only one who hates the "Information bar"? Whats the point in blocking an intrusive popup if the notification is also intrusive? What happened to the nice little notification in the status bar? At the very least it should have an option to close should I not care about the fact someone wants me to see a popup ad.
Why is it the voters constantly insist on keeping control over their own lives. Don't they know a police state would be better for the environment?
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"That's just plain wrong. Just because there are humans here, it doesn't immediately follow that life evolved here. It's a good bet, sure, but you were taking it to be a logical truth, which it aint. That's why it it's very relevant, because the possibility life evolved somewhere else, and arrived here, denies it the status of logical truth."
There are truths other than logical truths. Logical truths can only exist in an abstract representation of the world. I was clearly discussing a scientific truth. All evidence suggests life evolved on Earth, and no respected scientist will argue otherwise. Regardless, your nitpick is still irrelevant.
"That this life could be traced back through it's evolutionary ancestry to a few amino acids forming in a rock pool, on this planet, under god knows what conditions, would be sufficient to explain our observation."
Your egregious misuse of the terms "necessary" and "sufficient" make your nitpick concerning my use look downright silly.
"How can one job be more important than the environment?"
For starters, this treaty won't help the environment. It would not stop any potential global warming, at best it might delay it a few years. More likely by screwing the economy it will halt any chance of developing technology that will have an actual effect.
You see statements like yours are a direct result of oversimplifying complicated issues into "pro-environment" vs "anti-environment" positions.
"Surely doing *something* is better than doing nothing at all."
Except when the only actual effect of that 'something' would be to slow down the economy which would stifle innovation which would screw our chances of finding a technological solution. It would not do near enough to stop any potential global warming disasters.
"So developed nations have to cut back more than developing nations? Well guess what - we pollute more than they do."
India and China pollute plenty. In terms of population, they are the two largest nations in the world.
Also, let me ask you a question. Assuming Bush did sign this treaty, how do you expect the federal government to implement it? How would the federal government lower pollution levels? Send FBI agents around turning off lights that people left on before they went to work? Arrest people for driving somewhere close enough to ride a bike to? There are solutions that do not require government interference you know.
Highly unlikely and completely irrelevant even if it did happen. It doesn't really matter if the "protein jackpot" evolved here from lose amino acid bases or came here from an extraterrestrial source. Their abundancy is still a necessary condition of our existence.
And it is certainly not a sufficient condition. Anyone with half a brain knows that just because amino acids were able to come into existence in no way means that intelligent life, much less us in particular, would also come into existence on the same planet.
"I wonder what great things they can calculate in just seconds now... maybe I should get a stronger PGP key."
It is quite clear what these computers are doing. They are designed to compute the folding patterns of protein molecules, a task which requires immense computational power.
"What are our odds of hitting the protein jackpot?"
100%. Given that we exist on this planet (which is of course a necessary fact in order for there to be a 'we' in the equation), proteins must exist on our planet. The probability of any given planet having proteins evolve is irrelevant as we do not live on just 'any given planet', we must (as a condition of our existence) live on a planet on which life did evolve.
Are you trying to ruin the media-created stereotypes of our world leaders in an attempt to make people actually think about politics instead of beltching out hackneyed slogans? Shame on you.
Thats like asking a kid to wait until Christmas to know what presents he got. Even if he can't open them before hand, he will try staring at them and shaking them in order to guess what he got.
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Please, comparing having to work long hours in front of a computer screen in order to get a large paycheck to forced labor in the form of slavery is just absurd and insulting. You don't like your job, there is nothing stopping you from quitting and looking for a new job. That is not the case with slavery. Learn to appreciate the freedoms you have instead of whining everytime your boss asks you to sit at a desk for a few hours.
An overpaid job requiring short hours and virtually no manual labor is not a right of yours.
I take it you have never been to a movie theater. Thats how movies there always are.
Besides, how much more development does winamp need? As far as I'm concerned, it was fine at 2.0. Is there some new market that it could have moved into had its staff not been reduced?
Does someone out there really expect wind power to become the major supplier (more than fossil fuels and nuclear) of Earth's energy? Is anyone out there really that naive?
My computer is my TV/stereo. I got a cheap TV tuner a couple years ago and it works fine, and I have my computer connected to my stereo. As a cheap college student, this is especially good as it also saves cash (TV tuners are much cheaper than TVs and I don't have to buy a seperate set of PC speakers) and space.
I suspect the major effect this will have on gmail usage is that people will be able to use it as a primary email account with Outlook/Thunderbird/Evolution/Kontact/whatever (as opposed to just a webmail account), which could actually increase page hits as the depend more and more on their gmail account.
I see no reason why they would have to include some sort of catch.
Thanks. It is in a slightly different place than where it used to be (I think it was on the left side before) so I may have missed it had that been working in previous releases.
Yeah, but I do want to be notified, just quietly. Like an icon appearing in the status bar, like firefox used to have. That way if I am expecting something to happen I can check the status bar to see if it blocked a pop-up I wanted to see (the only possible reason I would want to be notified in the first place).
Am I the only one who hates the "Information bar"? Whats the point in blocking an intrusive popup if the notification is also intrusive? What happened to the nice little notification in the status bar? At the very least it should have an option to close should I not care about the fact someone wants me to see a popup ad.
Why is it the voters constantly insist on keeping control over their own lives. Don't they know a police state would be better for the environment?
</sarcasm>
There are truths other than logical truths. Logical truths can only exist in an abstract representation of the world. I was clearly discussing a scientific truth. All evidence suggests life evolved on Earth, and no respected scientist will argue otherwise. Regardless, your nitpick is still irrelevant.
"That this life could be traced back through it's evolutionary ancestry to a few amino acids forming in a rock pool, on this planet, under god knows what conditions, would be sufficient to explain our observation."
Your egregious misuse of the terms "necessary" and "sufficient" make your nitpick concerning my use look downright silly.
For starters, this treaty won't help the environment. It would not stop any potential global warming, at best it might delay it a few years. More likely by screwing the economy it will halt any chance of developing technology that will have an actual effect.
You see statements like yours are a direct result of oversimplifying complicated issues into "pro-environment" vs "anti-environment" positions.
You mean other than the fact that free trade actually creates jobs?
Except when the only actual effect of that 'something' would be to slow down the economy which would stifle innovation which would screw our chances of finding a technological solution. It would not do near enough to stop any potential global warming disasters.
"So developed nations have to cut back more than developing nations? Well guess what - we pollute more than they do."
India and China pollute plenty. In terms of population, they are the two largest nations in the world.
Also, let me ask you a question. Assuming Bush did sign this treaty, how do you expect the federal government to implement it? How would the federal government lower pollution levels? Send FBI agents around turning off lights that people left on before they went to work? Arrest people for driving somewhere close enough to ride a bike to? There are solutions that do not require government interference you know.
Confused? Think about what the negative effects of radiation (a byproduct of nuclear weapons) on the human body are.
No you don't. Put down the joint before you hurt someone.
Actually they do. But feel free to keep on your tin foild hat if you like, it looks good on you.
Those are some powerful drugs you are taking there. Doesn't mean what you wrote is in any way meaningful.
And it is certainly not a sufficient condition. Anyone with half a brain knows that just because amino acids were able to come into existence in no way means that intelligent life, much less us in particular, would also come into existence on the same planet.
It is quite clear what these computers are doing. They are designed to compute the folding patterns of protein molecules, a task which requires immense computational power.
100%. Given that we exist on this planet (which is of course a necessary fact in order for there to be a 'we' in the equation), proteins must exist on our planet. The probability of any given planet having proteins evolve is irrelevant as we do not live on just 'any given planet', we must (as a condition of our existence) live on a planet on which life did evolve.
Possibly, if such an event actually happened. What are you trying to refer to?
Are you trying to ruin the media-created stereotypes of our world leaders in an attempt to make people actually think about politics instead of beltching out hackneyed slogans? Shame on you.
I have to listen to people whine about it wherever I go.
Thats like asking a kid to wait until Christmas to know what presents he got. Even if he can't open them before hand, he will try staring at them and shaking them in order to guess what he got.