>>However, there is one thing to consider about short skirts. In all societies that men and women both did/do wear skirts, including the Greeks...
You've been watching far too much TV, that or have spent too much time in textbooks that you miss the forest for the trees. What you describe may have been true for the incredibly small percentage of the wealthy (which is all TV and liberal social studies classes focus on), but the rest of the world you can bet did NOT. How do I know this? - Simple, I grew up on a farm which the vast majority of the society you describe was. Working in a real field dressed the way you describe would lead to untold numbers of cuts, rashes, allergic reactions and so on. Technology in protective clothing evolved throughout the centuries until the ultimate was invented in the late 1800's - the denim blue jean. This invention was such a success it litterally changed how work was done. The same pair of clothes could be worn all week long since it dried easily overnight and the dirt from the day before could be flicked off of it. When a pair actually was chosen to be retired it became material to patch others.
add in Charmed and that %'age would probably increase. Then this season there's Threshold which has a female as the lead, Invasion which has several females as main characters of varying ages and Surface which also has a female (super-hot Lake Bell) as the lead.
>>If you were a government, which linux distribution would you choose?"
Answer: Novell. Because the company has been around for decades with no sign of going anywhere. Xandros while an excellent distro is still new in this arena and as such would be unwise.
>>a 500,000 ton tanker has difficulty changing course, but, lo and behold, that doesn't mean it can't actually change course, SLOWLY, but inevitably
No it doesn't have difficulty at all. The helmsman merely moves the joystick the appropriate number of degrees until the OOD is satisfied the new course has been achieved.
>>Microsoft has been fighting open standards/interfaces for 2-3 decades. I think I speak for all of us when I see WE'LL BELIEVE IT WHEN WE SEE IT!
Actually he's not really saying open standards at all. He's simply saying they'd work with other companies - which they already do with the XBox1, other companies make games for it. So in a way he's really saying "we'd love for iTunes and iPods to work on it all they have to do is switch to protected.wma instead of.m4p format!" - iow he's not saying anything new.
In a way, he's right. Apple is the holdout not practicing a standard. MSFT not only lets many many other companies sell and encode music in its DRM.wma format AND let's them work with Media Center/Player but they even provide built in links in Media Player to buy the music from those sites right there!
Is that practice wrong though? - No, it's exactly the same tactic Apple is doing with their format and iPod - it ensures people stay on their platform. The REAL test of just how loyal people will be to iTunes/iPod is Apple's new media center add-on for OS-X (an awesome idea btw of it being an add-on instead of a seperate OS product like MSFT's). If Media Center PC's really do continue to catch on, once the iTunes users see that they can't play their iTunes music in the Media Center tv interface they'll either switch to an Apple media PC or quickly convert all their music and stop using iTunes in favor of the.wma vendor of their choice instead.
>>We can't even get living on Earth right and we're going to Mars?
You may as well say "We can't even get whites and blacks to live together in harmony and you're going to try it with Indians/etc...".
As humans we strive for an ideal, we reach beyond ourselves, always pushing the limits lest we go stagnent. Along the way other issues often get resolved as well.
It's like the expression "The American Dream". Can it be achieved? Maybe not, but the joy is in the journey as many a country song has expressed.
More related to the origin article however. What proof does the author have that the "old" (whatever that is) is better than the Shuttle way? To determine that; I think we'd have to look at how many pre-shuttle missions with a live crew were conducted, adjust the $$ figure of those including man hours, and remember they didn't have re-usable rockets, and the number of accidents and compare all that to the shuttle's lifespan. I would wager that it's a toss up but the advantage to this new rocket design isn't the rocket itself but the crew capsule(s) being able to be customized based on the mission rather than some universal design which never really does any one job well.
proves once again that people with high fallooten pieces of paper from universities will do anything to justify spending half their life and income in school.
>>Hate to tell you this, but for the rest of the world, Jobs isn't a celebrity.
The "rest of the world" doesn't read tech articles either making your statment pointless. In the tech world he IS a celebrity.
Regarding the news blurb I think the claim is rubbish. Why? Apple has simply been innovating non-stop since Steve came back. And that leads to news. If the claim was correct then the following wouldn't be worthy news:
iPod nano.
iPod with movie playability
iTunes tv downloads available
G5 Dual Core CPU's arrive
Those are all valid tech news therefore the claim is flat out rubbish. By comparison what has the "wintel" side of things innovated on lately deserving coverage by those media sources in the last 2 months? How about the last 4,6,8? Heck how about a year? - Very little, and part of the reason is wintel is disjointed, made up of many different companies so the few innovations go relatively unnoticed.
disclaimer: I'm a wintel and lintel user so I'm not a "mac"addict. I simply recognize recognition no matter who/what does it.
I don't believe their results at all. If it were true then no one would have trouble remembering the multiplication table, math formula's, and grammar. All of which are repetitious things done from K-12th grade over and over again. If having 50+ math questions to solve every night 5 days a week isn't forming a habit then nothing is.
"long roe to hoe"
that should say "long roW to hoe". It's a term taken from agriculture. So sad that people are so removed from agriculture now that they don't what the term means or it would have been spelled correctly instead of after Roe v. Wade, the most common way now that people see that sounding word.
While adult deviants are a concern. A bigger concern is kid to kid. That shouldn't be encouraged either. If the statistics I've read are correct in that 1 in 4 girls are sexually approached online then that's an aweful lot of predators which means the vast majority are actually other kids. But no one wants to say our own children are little deviants that somehow that behavior magically only flips on at age 18 so the powers that be have created the boogy man of the adult predator. And they even describe him in my state by tv warning commercials of them being late 40's, white, and having Charles Manson like beards. A very misleading stereotype.
We don't need scientists! We've got the puppet master god that can seemingly do no wrong. When we lose trust we just turn to Benny Hinn for a faith-refresher:p
I see this a lot in articles about this issue and I think it needs addressed:
"A vocal minority of scientists say the warming climate is the result of a natural cycle."
Me: no duh! No one's saying it's NOT part of a natural cycle. What is alarming though is that the current trend has occurred faster than other periods in history which means an investigation was needed to determine just why that is. All the evidence has led to the affect of the industrial revolution. That's the one thing differing from all other "natural cycle" trends of the past.
What can be done about it? Nothing. Short of an asteroid hitting us and turning our clocks back 200+ years I don't see anything meaningful being done to change anything. As the expression goes "the genie can't be put back in the bottle."
On top of this, global population has forced the governments to lock down just where we can live tighter than a popcorn fart so you have a hard time escapeing the toxic asthma bothering gasses and pollution of the city.
yes it is a free speech issue because freedom of the press and free speach are the same article.
Irish Samurai makes very valid points. - Government at all times should be limited and watched like a hawk which was the purpose of the Bill of Rights.
google aint' a competitor here at all. They've taken too long with their GMail project to even think about taking market share from Yahoo's communities.
I don't mind however because I always hoped Google WOULDN'T become a "portal" site. They've so far struck a nice balance.
>>people say that what someone does alone in their own home is nobody else's business.
ehh it is other people's business though you selfish nut because trafficking affects commerce, transportation, illegal immigration, violence, oh and the AID'S epidemic!!
One's made in the US such as Meth are even worse because it kill or brain damage those making it and using it - that becomes a problem for everyone because taxpayer money now has to pay for their freaking medical care when their brain is fried. It was the cause of two deaths this winter in Nebraska and thousands of dollars of manpower and untold value of volunteers that went looking for them because they called 911 in a hallucinatory state while they wandered around in a snowstorm. And that's just one of hundreds of weird cases you can find about Meth use alone!
from the second linked article in the blurb:
"tell your representative that you and your fellow constituents won't stand for the Broadcast Flag, especially without a hearing showing evidence that anyone but the MPAA and RIAA supports it."
That won't work. Writing your congressman doesn't work at all wether Rep. or Democrat because they both only listen to the money. Back during the Napster fiasco I wrote a letter to my Washington state Congresswoman who was a Democrat by the way and simply asked her to make sure this pressure against Napster does NOT stand in the way of a new music distribution business method. To do so would be akin to the Pony Express whineing to congress about the invention of the telegraph.
Her reply? "I fully support companie's attempts to protect their copyrighted content."
Even though no where did I say Napster should be left alone or that the Napster suit wasn't valid.
Translation: Wake up you liberals, the Democrats are no different, if not worse than republican's when it comes to doing whatever the supporters for them want instead of what their constituents want.
And before some liberal say's I'm a right wing nut who finds fault only with democrats let me say I am disgusted with how the Republican's (particularly Delay) pushed through the G.A.S. bill last week as they simply towed the party line (as Delay demanded) instead of what their constituents wanted. A vote that close on something that monumental should NOT have been allowed - PERIOD! It should have been forced to be dropped and re-examined at a later date. It did go along with what the President has been saying he wanted since his very first inaugural address though - more refineries of our own which is how Delay was able to twist all the other republican's arms and it shouldn't have surprised anyone but still it's obvious they voted that way instead of constituents way. BUT neither do I like the Democrats tactic either. They didn't vote as their constituents wanted either but merely to stick their tongues out at the republicans.
The whole thing is just sick./em wishes for a rocketship to blast off this rock with and find a new home.
pardon the expression but: "duh". The reason is that his use of Quake as an analogy is showing how Linux is a complete user AND development environment. Your criticism misses the entire point because you're being too literal. You wouldn't happen to be architect or engineer would you? Those are common types that miss the forest for the trees like this.
wouldn't they cry if they bothered to find out why people get Sat. radio and discover that many get it for talk radio and other non-music reasons. They think the world revolves around Brittany and PDiddy.
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>>However, there is one thing to consider about short skirts. In all societies that men and women both did/do wear skirts, including the Greeks... You've been watching far too much TV, that or have spent too much time in textbooks that you miss the forest for the trees. What you describe may have been true for the incredibly small percentage of the wealthy (which is all TV and liberal social studies classes focus on), but the rest of the world you can bet did NOT. How do I know this? - Simple, I grew up on a farm which the vast majority of the society you describe was. Working in a real field dressed the way you describe would lead to untold numbers of cuts, rashes, allergic reactions and so on. Technology in protective clothing evolved throughout the centuries until the ultimate was invented in the late 1800's - the denim blue jean. This invention was such a success it litterally changed how work was done. The same pair of clothes could be worn all week long since it dried easily overnight and the dirt from the day before could be flicked off of it. When a pair actually was chosen to be retired it became material to patch others.
add in Charmed and that %'age would probably increase. Then this season there's Threshold which has a female as the lead, Invasion which has several females as main characters of varying ages and Surface which also has a female (super-hot Lake Bell) as the lead.
>>If you were a government, which linux distribution would you choose?" Answer: Novell. Because the company has been around for decades with no sign of going anywhere. Xandros while an excellent distro is still new in this arena and as such would be unwise.
If you want to have a quake type game play Quake. But in a RPG you use an RPG style name. Not CmdrTaco.
>>a 500,000 ton tanker has difficulty changing course, but, lo and behold, that doesn't mean it can't actually change course, SLOWLY, but inevitably No it doesn't have difficulty at all. The helmsman merely moves the joystick the appropriate number of degrees until the OOD is satisfied the new course has been achieved.
>>Microsoft has been fighting open standards/interfaces for 2-3 decades. I think I speak for all of us when I see WE'LL BELIEVE IT WHEN WE SEE IT! Actually he's not really saying open standards at all. He's simply saying they'd work with other companies - which they already do with the XBox1, other companies make games for it. So in a way he's really saying "we'd love for iTunes and iPods to work on it all they have to do is switch to protected .wma instead of .m4p format!" - iow he's not saying anything new.
In a way, he's right. Apple is the holdout not practicing a standard. MSFT not only lets many many other companies sell and encode music in its DRM .wma format AND let's them work with Media Center/Player but they even provide built in links in Media Player to buy the music from those sites right there!
Is that practice wrong though? - No, it's exactly the same tactic Apple is doing with their format and iPod - it ensures people stay on their platform. The REAL test of just how loyal people will be to iTunes/iPod is Apple's new media center add-on for OS-X (an awesome idea btw of it being an add-on instead of a seperate OS product like MSFT's). If Media Center PC's really do continue to catch on, once the iTunes users see that they can't play their iTunes music in the Media Center tv interface they'll either switch to an Apple media PC or quickly convert all their music and stop using iTunes in favor of the .wma vendor of their choice instead.
>>We can't even get living on Earth right and we're going to Mars? You may as well say "We can't even get whites and blacks to live together in harmony and you're going to try it with Indians/etc...". As humans we strive for an ideal, we reach beyond ourselves, always pushing the limits lest we go stagnent. Along the way other issues often get resolved as well. It's like the expression "The American Dream". Can it be achieved? Maybe not, but the joy is in the journey as many a country song has expressed. More related to the origin article however. What proof does the author have that the "old" (whatever that is) is better than the Shuttle way? To determine that; I think we'd have to look at how many pre-shuttle missions with a live crew were conducted, adjust the $$ figure of those including man hours, and remember they didn't have re-usable rockets, and the number of accidents and compare all that to the shuttle's lifespan. I would wager that it's a toss up but the advantage to this new rocket design isn't the rocket itself but the crew capsule(s) being able to be customized based on the mission rather than some universal design which never really does any one job well.
At least they aren't having the place named after them like all the other greedy SOB corporations do.
proves once again that people with high fallooten pieces of paper from universities will do anything to justify spending half their life and income in school.
>>Hate to tell you this, but for the rest of the world, Jobs isn't a celebrity. The "rest of the world" doesn't read tech articles either making your statment pointless. In the tech world he IS a celebrity. Regarding the news blurb I think the claim is rubbish. Why? Apple has simply been innovating non-stop since Steve came back. And that leads to news. If the claim was correct then the following wouldn't be worthy news: iPod nano. iPod with movie playability iTunes tv downloads available G5 Dual Core CPU's arrive Those are all valid tech news therefore the claim is flat out rubbish. By comparison what has the "wintel" side of things innovated on lately deserving coverage by those media sources in the last 2 months? How about the last 4,6,8? Heck how about a year? - Very little, and part of the reason is wintel is disjointed, made up of many different companies so the few innovations go relatively unnoticed. disclaimer: I'm a wintel and lintel user so I'm not a "mac"addict. I simply recognize recognition no matter who/what does it.
I don't believe their results at all. If it were true then no one would have trouble remembering the multiplication table, math formula's, and grammar. All of which are repetitious things done from K-12th grade over and over again. If having 50+ math questions to solve every night 5 days a week isn't forming a habit then nothing is.
"long roe to hoe" that should say "long roW to hoe". It's a term taken from agriculture. So sad that people are so removed from agriculture now that they don't what the term means or it would have been spelled correctly instead of after Roe v. Wade, the most common way now that people see that sounding word.
Lack of marketing is what's killed Asheron's Call 2 so I agree with your statement daVinci.
While adult deviants are a concern. A bigger concern is kid to kid. That shouldn't be encouraged either. If the statistics I've read are correct in that 1 in 4 girls are sexually approached online then that's an aweful lot of predators which means the vast majority are actually other kids. But no one wants to say our own children are little deviants that somehow that behavior magically only flips on at age 18 so the powers that be have created the boogy man of the adult predator. And they even describe him in my state by tv warning commercials of them being late 40's, white, and having Charles Manson like beards. A very misleading stereotype.
Why fight it? Just take down the imagery of all government places and be done with it.
Good point. I think the idea is cool.
We don't need scientists! We've got the puppet master god that can seemingly do no wrong. When we lose trust we just turn to Benny Hinn for a faith-refresher :p
I see this a lot in articles about this issue and I think it needs addressed: "A vocal minority of scientists say the warming climate is the result of a natural cycle." Me: no duh! No one's saying it's NOT part of a natural cycle. What is alarming though is that the current trend has occurred faster than other periods in history which means an investigation was needed to determine just why that is. All the evidence has led to the affect of the industrial revolution. That's the one thing differing from all other "natural cycle" trends of the past. What can be done about it? Nothing. Short of an asteroid hitting us and turning our clocks back 200+ years I don't see anything meaningful being done to change anything. As the expression goes "the genie can't be put back in the bottle." On top of this, global population has forced the governments to lock down just where we can live tighter than a popcorn fart so you have a hard time escapeing the toxic asthma bothering gasses and pollution of the city.
yes it is a free speech issue because freedom of the press and free speach are the same article. Irish Samurai makes very valid points. - Government at all times should be limited and watched like a hawk which was the purpose of the Bill of Rights.
google aint' a competitor here at all. They've taken too long with their GMail project to even think about taking market share from Yahoo's communities. I don't mind however because I always hoped Google WOULDN'T become a "portal" site. They've so far struck a nice balance.
>>people say that what someone does alone in their own home is nobody else's business. ehh it is other people's business though you selfish nut because trafficking affects commerce, transportation, illegal immigration, violence, oh and the AID'S epidemic!! One's made in the US such as Meth are even worse because it kill or brain damage those making it and using it - that becomes a problem for everyone because taxpayer money now has to pay for their freaking medical care when their brain is fried. It was the cause of two deaths this winter in Nebraska and thousands of dollars of manpower and untold value of volunteers that went looking for them because they called 911 in a hallucinatory state while they wandered around in a snowstorm. And that's just one of hundreds of weird cases you can find about Meth use alone!
from the second linked article in the blurb: "tell your representative that you and your fellow constituents won't stand for the Broadcast Flag, especially without a hearing showing evidence that anyone but the MPAA and RIAA supports it." That won't work. Writing your congressman doesn't work at all wether Rep. or Democrat because they both only listen to the money. Back during the Napster fiasco I wrote a letter to my Washington state Congresswoman who was a Democrat by the way and simply asked her to make sure this pressure against Napster does NOT stand in the way of a new music distribution business method. To do so would be akin to the Pony Express whineing to congress about the invention of the telegraph. Her reply? "I fully support companie's attempts to protect their copyrighted content." Even though no where did I say Napster should be left alone or that the Napster suit wasn't valid. Translation: Wake up you liberals, the Democrats are no different, if not worse than republican's when it comes to doing whatever the supporters for them want instead of what their constituents want. And before some liberal say's I'm a right wing nut who finds fault only with democrats let me say I am disgusted with how the Republican's (particularly Delay) pushed through the G.A.S. bill last week as they simply towed the party line (as Delay demanded) instead of what their constituents wanted. A vote that close on something that monumental should NOT have been allowed - PERIOD! It should have been forced to be dropped and re-examined at a later date. It did go along with what the President has been saying he wanted since his very first inaugural address though - more refineries of our own which is how Delay was able to twist all the other republican's arms and it shouldn't have surprised anyone but still it's obvious they voted that way instead of constituents way. BUT neither do I like the Democrats tactic either. They didn't vote as their constituents wanted either but merely to stick their tongues out at the republicans. The whole thing is just sick. /em wishes for a rocketship to blast off this rock with and find a new home.
pardon the expression but: "duh". The reason is that his use of Quake as an analogy is showing how Linux is a complete user AND development environment. Your criticism misses the entire point because you're being too literal. You wouldn't happen to be architect or engineer would you? Those are common types that miss the forest for the trees like this.
wouldn't they cry if they bothered to find out why people get Sat. radio and discover that many get it for talk radio and other non-music reasons. They think the world revolves around Brittany and PDiddy.
What's the big deal? Use the right tool for the job. Rob