If I want to uninstall a program I hit the start button and type "uninstall" And there it is on my start menu "Control Panel -> Uninstall a Program"
If I want to view network connections I type in "Network Connections" and I get "View Network Connections"
Is the control panel easy to navigate? Not with the names I remember from XP but in some cases the new names actually do make more sense even if I can't find them. "Add/Remove Programs" has become "Programs\Uninstall" or using hte list mode "Programs and Features".
Windows 7's Control panel much easier to navigate than XP's and much much easier to navigate than Vista's.
Yes but SS, Medicare and Unemployment are all supposed to be payed out of their own incomes. Much like a forced savings fund. I don't know that I would call those "welfare" programs in the sense you're implying.
If we're talking about "Feeding the poor" then we shouldn't include SS, Unemployment *insurance* or much of medicare.
Medicaid and foodstamps being the two big programs to look at. At that point you see your 1600 billion shrink dramatically to less than 500 billion.
I would agree with that. Unfortunately the number who actually commited to an honest look at religion are on the fringes with little real power to influence the organization.
I'm an atheist but I largely agree with my dad (a PhD Theologian). Many theologians are quite sound in their reasoning. Unfortunately honest and thoughtful discussion on a subject is often regarded as 'lack of faith' and as such pushed aside as dangerous liberalization.
The strongest defenders of something are often the least likely to honestly appraise the various merits of all possible outcomes. And these are the people who often then rise through their commitment to the top ranks of an organization. Pragmatism is rare at the top of an ideological organization.
Now don't let me confuse you by saying that I don't think someone can or should be nearly certain about something. I'm pretty much certain that both Gravity and Evolution are true. When there is overwhelming evidence for something you can start to pretty safely say something is or is not likely to be true. And I would say global climate change research reached that point some time ago. The empirically defensible position with GW should imo be skeptical acceptance. Most peope who have a problem with Global Climate change don't have anything to say about the data on the subject. They just spend all their time taking anecdotal comments "Well it was really cold this winter".
What's also unscientific about this process is the way that the GW movement latches onto emotionally appealing icons to make their case (e.g. Polar bears, Katrina)
So your counter argument that an observed weather phenomenon on the opposite side of the planet casts into doubt the mountain of data that the north pole is losing its sea ice (to the detriment of Polar Bears) is scientific?
Talk about appealing to false causality. Was Katrina caused by GW? Who knows. One point of data trend does not make. Is the Arctic Melting caused by the fact that it's getting warmer, along with the rest of the planet on average? That's a pretty hard thing to disprove with millions of points of data all pointing to the same thing "The earth is warming."
Just like I can say we're getting less percipitation but more flooding in the northwest US. If there is a huge deluge of percipitation but then a 3 month drought then that can actually cause worse flooding later.
Similarly it could rain more often but still rain less.
That's why the leading worry about Global Warming isn't that you're going to need to get 3 more days of nice sunny weather every day. It's that Global Warming will cause UNPREDICTABLE weather patterns. Such as freak deep freezes. Unexpected ice patterns etc in addition to hotter summers and draught.
Maybe a region will see its weather patterns change such that they receive tons of percipitation during the winter but none during the growing season. That's a bad change for agriculture even if the region receives "more rain".
You're building a strawman against climate change that "Scientists claim that global warming will cause global heating in every point on earth." That's not a claim of global warming. And when shipping lanes open through the north pole (where polar bears reside) I would hardly be hasty to suggest that in general ice sheets aren't shrinking simply because one small region on earth is seeing increased ice.
There's increased ice in my freezer too... does that disprove global warming? Look at the data as a whole not cherry picked exceptions to the data trends.
Name something governments do well, aside perhaps from national defense.
National Defense. Police. Fire Supression. National Resource management. (National Parks). Airspace management. Worker/Business relations. (When was the last time you heard of employees rioting and fighting in the streets. Used to be common before the government stepped in.) Airwaves regulation and leasing. Autmobile safety regulation. (Airbags, Seat belts, Padded stearing columns etc..) National Highway system. Airports. Bank Deposit Insurance. (FDIC). Public Libraries. Driving Regulations. (Standardized safe driving practices and enforcement). Street Parking Management. (Much cheaper than a parking lot most of the time and super easy). Science Grant Writing. Medical Grant Writing. Drug Testing and Approval. Food Safety Oversight. (The last few years was a great example of what happens when they lose funding.) City planning. (Go to Bankok and try getting anywhere. This one is huge.) Public Transportation. Baseline Medical Insurance for impoverished children. A social safety net so that to some degree the poorest in our population can feel free to change jobs and not let the economy completely devolve into a slave/endentured servitude in practice. Unemployment insurance. Tobacco taxation. (Reduces smoking use while not banning cigarettes.) The FBI. If your child is kidnapped or a bank robbed you want these people on your side. The National Weather Service. Air Traffic Controllers. The Public School system. It takes in EVERYBODY unlike a private school. Unlike my school (Private school) they don't expell students who fail a class or get caught with a beer. (shock and amaze, when you expell all the kids who fail classes your overall test scores go up!). They also accept vegetables and make their best effort to get them to an employable state at Burger King or stocking shelves. This saves the government a lot of money from having dependent adults who can't contribute to society. The US Coast Guard. (If your boat flips you want these people to be well funded.)
I apologize for the other million other government employees who also do a great job every day. I only have so much time to stand up for them.
Ok, this is not quit so. Fiber connections are not so widespread as people imagine, and in fact most of the people I know use ADSL 24/1. At my place it costs me around 700Kr (~U$87) for 100/100 with Telia. Some people can get it for around 300Kr, but it depends very much where you live.
Let's stop this nonsense, please.
Nonsense? Most people in the US would have to pay ~$100 for 24/1 ADSL (if it's even available which is EXTREMELY unlikely).
Most people pay ~$45 for 8/1 cable. To get 100/100 we're talking thousands of dollars in 99.999% of american cities.
If you read the blog post they say it's their own dumb fault for not expecting so many pirates.
In other words it is still sort of the pirate's fault. But they're taking responsibility for not planning adequately for the level of illegal behavior.
Both sides I would say are on a pretty safe footing. 1) Cause was Piracy 2) Cause was Stardock not planning for piracy.
Still that's a bit like blaming the victim. "Oh my we should have planned to get robbed and put better locks on our doors on opening day. Our bad."
I remember it differntly. I remember Netscape being a steaming pile of s*** and feeling liberated by IE. Finally a browser that was usable... and FREE!
But you have to admit. Porting over the Microsoft OFFICE spell checker to Microsoft WINDOWS would be a pretty ironic request from someone commending Microsoft's new found non-monopolistic efforts. Including Microsoft Office product features would seem to me be a return to 'old Microsoft'--which I was perfectly happy with. (Hated Netscape's POS browser).
Xbox 360 arcade can handle most saved games. It does after all come with a 512MB memory card.
So $169 from Dell if you're patient.
Xbox Live Gold is $30 a month if you buy it in January. So 5 years = $150
That's all you need $319 for 5 years of gaming. (Of course then games etc.)
I don't need Wifi. I use a primitive technology called CAT5. Since there is a conveniently placed cable plug right next to my television.
Meanwhile I just built a quadcore system and it cost me about $1200. Impossible to buy as a mac. And also a fare penny more than my Xbox which I own not because it's cheaper but because it's a better gaming system.
Also file format support is available in many other applications. Except for the default OS image viewer pretty much every image app I use can read and write PSDs.
As long as it is "faliable' then it has a place in science.
If the theories advanced by the JudeoChristian tradition had been verified by empirical evidence then the bible would be valuable as a scientific tool.
Similarly if there were wizards and witches harry potter would be a useful tool.
String Hypothes--eerrm--theory is perfectly valid in science. Just so long as we recognize that it's speculation. Speculation is valuable. Speculation that becomes dogma. That's a problem. After all the religious explanation was the best fit to the data we had for centuries. Just as the earth being flat seemed to be an excellent fit to our known data for centuries.
Those who use facebook more probably get employed faster and advance quicker. Because they're well trained in working networks of friends to advance their goals.
And if they do get around to it they better offer public admittance to up-wind viewing sites.
I really want to see a Nuke and have been dissapointed my entire life that I never have gotten the opportunity to see one.
Hopefully I'll get to on my terms some day.
If you think the Obama inauguration was packed I can only imagine the number of tickets which would be sold to a hydrogen bomb test.
In fact this might be a way to turn around the economy. Hydrogen bomb test in the middle of the pacific. Charge $5,000 a pop for the cruise and complimentary glasses and ear plugs. $2,000 to the cruise company and $3,000 to the government.
We'd lose the tides, and that would be bad because we are supposedly going to be generating clean energy from tidal forces
We would still have the tides. I assume blowing up the mooon mean making it a small asteroid field. The mass of the moon would collapse it back onto itself in all likelihood. It would be far more cosmetic than anything else.
Doesn't exist yet. I have a 2ghz athlon Turon tablet which runs ArtRage as a mobile sketch application and it JUST BARELY keeps up with ArtRage or Corel Painter.
The little Atom just doesn't have it in it yet to handle advanced paint apps at reasonable resolutions. Not to mention if you're working on a big painting you want at least 2GB of RAM.
What is critical mass? All of my programs working and not having to pick and choose compatibility like iPhone vs. Android vs. Simian vs WinMo.
If you switch phones you have to buy all your applications all over again. Some applications are only available on one phone. Some applications run better on one phone than another.
Hardware and OS shouldn't be a deciding factor in a system. Software should be. Microsoft DOMINATES the software compatibility. That's why I bought Windows 95 over MacOS. All of the programs and games I wanted to play ran on DOS/Windows not Macintosh. Linux application compatibility at the time? HA! I installed linux around when I upgraded to Window 2000. I found it incredibly useful as a boot from floppy router (Coyote Linux). That was it. There were no applications I wanted or open source apps that were similar.
Fast forward to today and Apple has seen some improvement on the app front. Still no where near PC but if you're willing to spend an extra $100 for Vista you can also run your Windows programs. There isn't a single application which tempts me over to the apple side. Avid/Premiere > FCP. Nuke > Shake. Everything else is cross platform.
My Windows installation runs pretty much every single application on the planet that I want. I use applications, not operating systems. And Windows is more than good enough as an operating system while offering millions of more programs for me to run. Millions of programs, billions of features and tools. That beats the socks off of a supposedly improved kernel.
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Why are people still using the Control Panel?
If I want to uninstall a program I hit the start button and type "uninstall" And there it is on my start menu "Control Panel -> Uninstall a Program"
If I want to view network connections I type in "Network Connections" and I get "View Network Connections"
Is the control panel easy to navigate? Not with the names I remember from XP but in some cases the new names actually do make more sense even if I can't find them. "Add/Remove Programs" has become "Programs\Uninstall" or using hte list mode "Programs and Features".
Windows 7's Control panel much easier to navigate than XP's and much much easier to navigate than Vista's.
Yes but SS, Medicare and Unemployment are all supposed to be payed out of their own incomes. Much like a forced savings fund. I don't know that I would call those "welfare" programs in the sense you're implying.
If we're talking about "Feeding the poor" then we shouldn't include SS, Unemployment *insurance* or much of medicare.
Medicaid and foodstamps being the two big programs to look at. At that point you see your 1600 billion shrink dramatically to less than 500 billion.
I would agree with that. Unfortunately the number who actually commited to an honest look at religion are on the fringes with little real power to influence the organization.
I'm an atheist but I largely agree with my dad (a PhD Theologian). Many theologians are quite sound in their reasoning. Unfortunately honest and thoughtful discussion on a subject is often regarded as 'lack of faith' and as such pushed aside as dangerous liberalization.
The strongest defenders of something are often the least likely to honestly appraise the various merits of all possible outcomes. And these are the people who often then rise through their commitment to the top ranks of an organization. Pragmatism is rare at the top of an ideological organization.
Now don't let me confuse you by saying that I don't think someone can or should be nearly certain about something. I'm pretty much certain that both Gravity and Evolution are true. When there is overwhelming evidence for something you can start to pretty safely say something is or is not likely to be true. And I would say global climate change research reached that point some time ago. The empirically defensible position with GW should imo be skeptical acceptance. Most peope who have a problem with Global Climate change don't have anything to say about the data on the subject. They just spend all their time taking anecdotal comments "Well it was really cold this winter".
And what happens when those millions of starving children can no longer grow crops because of climate change?
The amount of "money" you have doesn't mean jack squat if the price of food were to rise for some reaso--oh wait. That's already happening.
What's also unscientific about this process is the way that the GW movement latches onto emotionally appealing icons to make their case (e.g. Polar bears, Katrina)
So your counter argument that an observed weather phenomenon on the opposite side of the planet casts into doubt the mountain of data that the north pole is losing its sea ice (to the detriment of Polar Bears) is scientific?
Talk about appealing to false causality. Was Katrina caused by GW? Who knows. One point of data trend does not make. Is the Arctic Melting caused by the fact that it's getting warmer, along with the rest of the planet on average? That's a pretty hard thing to disprove with millions of points of data all pointing to the same thing "The earth is warming."
Of course it can.
Just like I can say we're getting less percipitation but more flooding in the northwest US. If there is a huge deluge of percipitation but then a 3 month drought then that can actually cause worse flooding later.
Similarly it could rain more often but still rain less.
That's why the leading worry about Global Warming isn't that you're going to need to get 3 more days of nice sunny weather every day. It's that Global Warming will cause UNPREDICTABLE weather patterns. Such as freak deep freezes. Unexpected ice patterns etc in addition to hotter summers and draught.
Maybe a region will see its weather patterns change such that they receive tons of percipitation during the winter but none during the growing season. That's a bad change for agriculture even if the region receives "more rain".
You're building a strawman against climate change that "Scientists claim that global warming will cause global heating in every point on earth." That's not a claim of global warming. And when shipping lanes open through the north pole (where polar bears reside) I would hardly be hasty to suggest that in general ice sheets aren't shrinking simply because one small region on earth is seeing increased ice.
There's increased ice in my freezer too... does that disprove global warming? Look at the data as a whole not cherry picked exceptions to the data trends.
Name something governments do well, aside perhaps from national defense.
National Defense.
Police.
Fire Supression.
National Resource management. (National Parks).
Airspace management.
Worker/Business relations. (When was the last time you heard of employees rioting and fighting in the streets. Used to be common before the government stepped in.)
Airwaves regulation and leasing.
Autmobile safety regulation. (Airbags, Seat belts, Padded stearing columns etc..)
National Highway system.
Airports.
Bank Deposit Insurance. (FDIC).
Public Libraries.
Driving Regulations. (Standardized safe driving practices and enforcement).
Street Parking Management. (Much cheaper than a parking lot most of the time and super easy).
Science Grant Writing.
Medical Grant Writing.
Drug Testing and Approval.
Food Safety Oversight. (The last few years was a great example of what happens when they lose funding.)
City planning. (Go to Bankok and try getting anywhere. This one is huge.)
Public Transportation.
Baseline Medical Insurance for impoverished children.
A social safety net so that to some degree the poorest in our population can feel free to change jobs and not let the economy completely devolve into a slave/endentured servitude in practice.
Unemployment insurance.
Tobacco taxation. (Reduces smoking use while not banning cigarettes.)
The FBI. If your child is kidnapped or a bank robbed you want these people on your side.
The National Weather Service.
Air Traffic Controllers.
The Public School system. It takes in EVERYBODY unlike a private school. Unlike my school (Private school) they don't expell students who fail a class or get caught with a beer. (shock and amaze, when you expell all the kids who fail classes your overall test scores go up!). They also accept vegetables and make their best effort to get them to an employable state at Burger King or stocking shelves. This saves the government a lot of money from having dependent adults who can't contribute to society.
The US Coast Guard. (If your boat flips you want these people to be well funded.)
I apologize for the other million other government employees who also do a great job every day. I only have so much time to stand up for them.
Ok, this is not quit so. Fiber connections are not so widespread as people imagine, and in fact most of the people I know use ADSL 24/1. At my place it costs me around 700Kr (~U$87) for 100/100 with Telia. Some people can get it for around 300Kr, but it depends very much where you live.
Let's stop this nonsense, please.
Nonsense? Most people in the US would have to pay ~$100 for 24/1 ADSL (if it's even available which is EXTREMELY unlikely).
Most people pay ~$45 for 8/1 cable. To get 100/100 we're talking thousands of dollars in 99.999% of american cities.
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I think Seattle would be forced to disagree.
If you read the blog post they say it's their own dumb fault for not expecting so many pirates.
In other words it is still sort of the pirate's fault. But they're taking responsibility for not planning adequately for the level of illegal behavior.
Both sides I would say are on a pretty safe footing. 1) Cause was Piracy 2) Cause was Stardock not planning for piracy.
Still that's a bit like blaming the victim. "Oh my we should have planned to get robbed and put better locks on our doors on opening day. Our bad."
There's also that other distinguishing factor where one goes into outer space and one reaches an altitude achieved by cessnas.
We're being told it costs like $4k-8k per household to wire fiber. Don't ask me where all the money is going.
I remember it differntly. I remember Netscape being a steaming pile of s*** and feeling liberated by IE. Finally a browser that was usable... and FREE!
I would love a spell checker.
But you have to admit. Porting over the Microsoft OFFICE spell checker to Microsoft WINDOWS would be a pretty ironic request from someone commending Microsoft's new found non-monopolistic efforts. Including Microsoft Office product features would seem to me be a return to 'old Microsoft'--which I was perfectly happy with. (Hated Netscape's POS browser).
Try again. This time with real numbers.
Xbox 360 arcade can handle most saved games. It does after all come with a 512MB memory card.
So $169 from Dell if you're patient.
Xbox Live Gold is $30 a month if you buy it in January. So 5 years = $150
That's all you need $319 for 5 years of gaming. (Of course then games etc.)
I don't need Wifi. I use a primitive technology called CAT5. Since there is a conveniently placed cable plug right next to my television.
Meanwhile I just built a quadcore system and it cost me about $1200. Impossible to buy as a mac. And also a fare penny more than my Xbox which I own not because it's cheaper but because it's a better gaming system.
True. But the only alternative to computer heat in my apartment is in-wall heater.
Which means both are resistance heaters but one crunches numbers.
.PSD files are normal image files.
More normalized than tif.
Also file format support is available in many other applications. Except for the default OS image viewer pretty much every image app I use can read and write PSDs.
That's not true.
As long as it is "faliable' then it has a place in science.
If the theories advanced by the JudeoChristian tradition had been verified by empirical evidence then the bible would be valuable as a scientific tool.
Similarly if there were wizards and witches harry potter would be a useful tool.
String Hypothes--eerrm--theory is perfectly valid in science. Just so long as we recognize that it's speculation. Speculation is valuable. Speculation that becomes dogma. That's a problem. After all the religious explanation was the best fit to the data we had for centuries. Just as the earth being flat seemed to be an excellent fit to our known data for centuries.
Because it doesn't really need any more updates.
They'll continue security patches until 2014 or something crazy like that.
You just won't get any more bug fixes. And I would like to think that after almost 10 years you've gotten enough bug fixes to be happy.
Yes, losing a post-it note during an arrest. Insiduous.
That was my first thought.
Those who use facebook more probably get employed faster and advance quicker. Because they're well trained in working networks of friends to advance their goals.
And if they do get around to it they better offer public admittance to up-wind viewing sites.
I really want to see a Nuke and have been dissapointed my entire life that I never have gotten the opportunity to see one.
Hopefully I'll get to on my terms some day.
If you think the Obama inauguration was packed I can only imagine the number of tickets which would be sold to a hydrogen bomb test.
In fact this might be a way to turn around the economy. Hydrogen bomb test in the middle of the pacific. Charge $5,000 a pop for the cruise and complimentary glasses and ear plugs. $2,000 to the cruise company and $3,000 to the government.
We'd lose the tides, and that would be bad because we are supposedly going to be generating clean energy from tidal forces
We would still have the tides. I assume blowing up the mooon mean making it a small asteroid field. The mass of the moon would collapse it back onto itself in all likelihood. It would be far more cosmetic than anything else.
Doesn't exist yet. I have a 2ghz athlon Turon tablet which runs ArtRage as a mobile sketch application and it JUST BARELY keeps up with ArtRage or Corel Painter.
The little Atom just doesn't have it in it yet to handle advanced paint apps at reasonable resolutions. Not to mention if you're working on a big painting you want at least 2GB of RAM.
What is critical mass? All of my programs working and not having to pick and choose compatibility like iPhone vs. Android vs. Simian vs WinMo.
If you switch phones you have to buy all your applications all over again. Some applications are only available on one phone. Some applications run better on one phone than another.
Hardware and OS shouldn't be a deciding factor in a system. Software should be. Microsoft DOMINATES the software compatibility. That's why I bought Windows 95 over MacOS. All of the programs and games I wanted to play ran on DOS/Windows not Macintosh. Linux application compatibility at the time? HA! I installed linux around when I upgraded to Window 2000. I found it incredibly useful as a boot from floppy router (Coyote Linux). That was it. There were no applications I wanted or open source apps that were similar.
Fast forward to today and Apple has seen some improvement on the app front. Still no where near PC but if you're willing to spend an extra $100 for Vista you can also run your Windows programs. There isn't a single application which tempts me over to the apple side. Avid/Premiere > FCP. Nuke > Shake. Everything else is cross platform.
My Windows installation runs pretty much every single application on the planet that I want. I use applications, not operating systems. And Windows is more than good enough as an operating system while offering millions of more programs for me to run. Millions of programs, billions of features and tools. That beats the socks off of a supposedly improved kernel.