Read the WP article, I believe the 600 billion cover what you said, but I might be wrong.
My own take is that military spending is humongous and achieves little (cue Iraq), not to mention its questionable morality (porkbarreling, the shady militaro-industrial complex and the questionable ethics of building armament and using it effectively on civilians). In contrast, the money spent on welfare goes back to the economy via a direct route.
The babyboomers can well retire, they have contributed to the US economy in an amazing fashion during their productive years. The US is in no immediate danger of losing its workforce, millions are poundings at the gates to get in should the country start producing fewer babies. I wouldn't worry.
If anything bankrupts the US, it will be thinking it can effectively police the world and start invading a half dozen Iraqs at once. Its economy will be bankrupt and its morals as well.
According to the WP, the FY 2007 bugdet for welfare is only about 600 billions, and being cut all the time, whereas defence and homeland security are being increased. In a few years they will be on par.
A kernel panic is extremely unusual and most often the hallmark of a hardware problem, that sooner or later will crop up under Windows too. Perhaps you had bad RAM? A corrupted disk ? Did you check that your CD was OK before booting from it ? To be sure it can also happen due to some (usually temporary) incompatibility, in which case you need to search on the web for your hardware configuration, which can be a pain, I agree.
I found that Fedora is by and large the best distro when it comes to recognize hardware and fix problems quickly. The Ubuntu people don't have yet the same level of experience, Debian is usually a bit behind, and Suse is losing its way with Novel.
Since you talk about winmodems, does it mean it was on a laptop? With laptops things are harder because they often include lots of proprietary stuff. Try out the nice linux-laptop pages.
With all due respect, when did you last try Linux ? Things have finally gotten much better in the last 2 years or so.
When you buy a new computer bundled with XP, you have none of the problems you describe because they have been worked out by the EOM.
When you install XP on a machine that you built yourself or when you upgrade an older machine, what you describe applies as well to Microsoft's OS. In fact the driver hunting can be so bad that there are whole for-pay infrastructures on the net that help you hunt the correct drivers for you.
Now I find that installing Linux on a random desktop machine is way way easier than XP. I've had pretty much zero issues for years with either Fedora or Ubuntu. Laptops are a different matter though, you have to go by what other people have tried and does work.
To wit: if you really like jazz, this is the only place to find nontrivial Art (or Chet!) Baker, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, Charles Mingus, or Dave Brubeck.
Actually emusic has a lot more of that than allofmp3.
Well, in the US, Copyright law covers public performace of a work under copyright.
As worded, this is so general as to be untrue. Works under copyright are of course legally performed everyday. What is missing from your sentence is of course without permission from the copyright holder.
Now it happens that permission does not always need to be obtained explicitely. There are all the fair use exceptions, you can also record your own version of any copyrighted song and put it on a CD for sale without asking anyone. This is called a cover song, and the law gives you explicit permission to do that. Of course you need to perhaps eventually pay royalties but this proportionnal to the number of CDs that you sell. I'm sure there are plenty of other exceptions.
Also, in the case of the works of Mozart, this is irrelevant. The copyright holder of the work has been dead for way more than the prescribed 90 years and has no estate. The copyright holder of the Mozart *editions* can only prevent people from distributing a copy of their transcriptions, but cannot prevent a performance of the actual music, as they do not hold a copyright on it. There is simply no practical way this can be prevented.
You can't put me in jail as that would be a stressful event which could hasten my death Do you think that's going to fly.
Yes this could definitely fly. The courts routinely consider the health of people before submitting them to a trial and/or prison. Even people in prison are very commonly released when in very poor health.
> you would think restoring sight to the blind would be fundable, huh?
It would be obviously great, but however tragic, completely uncurable blindness is rare, people affected learn to cope - sometimes in amazing ways, and it's not life-threatening. Compare this to any malady that can affect anyone anywhere and kill them, and there may lie the reason for the rejection of your proposal.
Note that I completely disagree with this utilitarian view of science.
No they can't because the location, dimensions and density of the meteor cloud are not known. The rocks that make up the shower are really tiny ! Estimations are made from previous meteor showers, this is the best we can do so far.
No it's not. I don't know where this legend started from but Word 2003 on Macs is simply horrid. For a start it's at least 10x slower than on Windows, the interface is non-standard and it crashes constantly ; the font handling system is not the same than for other Mac applications, it gobbles memory like there's no tomorrow, and the list goes on (not universal, etc). For the record I use both.
Excel did not succeed on its own term, its actual technical qualities are not that great.
You can look further on the web for a long list of articles on Excel limitations (256 columns!), why it should be avoided for serious statistical calculations and modelling, how VBA really sucks, and so on. The lowly gnumeric has much better numerical stability for example. However, Excel is good enough for most tasks.
Excel wasn't popular until about version 6 or so. It's number 1 quality is that it is being sold by Microsoft. Numerous outfits, including random bunches of amateurs have produced spreadsheet programs that are as good or better than Excel, but they don't come bundled with Microsoft Office on just about every business PC in the world.
Excel may be one of the best things produced in Redmont, but to me it is still typical Microsoft software. So far away from technical excellence that it's not funny, but good enough, and present everywhere. Therefore just about everyone uses it for almost anything (calendars in Excel...).
64-bit is *not* overrated, especially on the x86_64 architecture.
Even without the extra register, which do help even with Intel's implementation, even with less than 4GB of RAM, 64-bit massively simplifies virtual memory management, which leads to better performances. However the kernel has to support it. On Linux this is the case, under OS/X, the kernel is still 32-bit.
The reason 64-bit sucks under OS/X is that Apple has not made the effort yet to truly take advantage of the enormous address space that it allows.
With this, with the extra registers, with more than 4GB of *virtual* memory (which is common now), 64-bit rocks.
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Read the WP article, I believe the 600 billion cover what you said, but I might be wrong.
My own take is that military spending is humongous and achieves little (cue Iraq), not to mention its questionable morality (porkbarreling, the shady militaro-industrial complex and the questionable ethics of building armament and using it effectively on civilians). In contrast, the money spent on welfare goes back to the economy via a direct route.
The babyboomers can well retire, they have contributed to the US economy in an amazing fashion during their productive years. The US is in no immediate danger of losing its workforce, millions are poundings at the gates to get in should the country start producing fewer babies. I wouldn't worry.
If anything bankrupts the US, it will be thinking it can effectively police the world and start invading a half dozen Iraqs at once. Its economy will be bankrupt and its morals as well.
Well yes, the image is better with HD, but the actual content is just the same.
Even at 0K, the reasoning still stands.
According to the WP, the FY 2007 bugdet for welfare is only about 600 billions, and being cut all the time, whereas defence and homeland security are being increased. In a few years they will be on par.
A kernel panic is extremely unusual and most often the hallmark of a hardware problem, that sooner or later will crop up under Windows too. Perhaps you had bad RAM? A corrupted disk ? Did you check that your CD was OK before booting from it ? To be sure it can also happen due to some (usually temporary) incompatibility, in which case you need to search on the web for your hardware configuration, which can be a pain, I agree.
I found that Fedora is by and large the best distro when it comes to recognize hardware and fix problems quickly. The Ubuntu people don't have yet the same level of experience, Debian is usually a bit behind, and Suse is losing its way with Novel.
Since you talk about winmodems, does it mean it was on a laptop? With laptops things are harder because they often include lots of proprietary stuff. Try out the nice linux-laptop pages.
With all due respect, when did you last try Linux ? Things have finally gotten much better in the last 2 years or so.
When you buy a new computer bundled with XP, you have none of the problems you describe because they have been worked out by the EOM.
When you install XP on a machine that you built yourself or when you upgrade an older machine, what you describe applies as well to Microsoft's OS. In fact the driver hunting can be so bad that there are whole for-pay infrastructures on the net that help you hunt the correct drivers for you.
Now I find that installing Linux on a random desktop machine is way way easier than XP. I've had pretty much zero issues for years with either Fedora or Ubuntu. Laptops are a different matter though, you have to go by what other people have tried and does work.
Your data is about 6-month old. Firefox usage worldwide seems to be now about 15%, over 20% in Europe and Australia, and still growing.
Linux definitely exists outside of server rooms, however perhaps not in corporate America.
Actually emusic has a lot more of that than allofmp3.
Re: your sig
> Throughout human history, the greatest threat to life and liberty has been not terrorism, but the power of the state.
I submit the humble personal automobile. Since about 1950, it has killed about 40,000 people a year in the USA alone.
That's more than 10x 9/11 each and every year, and way more than WWII since 1945. Only about 400,000 Americans died in that war.
Terrorism is so overrated.
It's not difficult, but it's harder than yumex (for example) and doesn't work as well, by far.
As worded, this is so general as to be untrue. Works under copyright are of course legally performed everyday. What is missing from your sentence is of course without permission from the copyright holder.
Now it happens that permission does not always need to be obtained explicitely. There are all the fair use exceptions, you can also record your own version of any copyrighted song and put it on a CD for sale without asking anyone. This is called a cover song, and the law gives you explicit permission to do that. Of course you need to perhaps eventually pay royalties but this proportionnal to the number of CDs that you sell. I'm sure there are plenty of other exceptions.
Also, in the case of the works of Mozart, this is irrelevant. The copyright holder of the work has been dead for way more than the prescribed 90 years and has no estate. The copyright holder of the Mozart *editions* can only prevent people from distributing a copy of their transcriptions, but cannot prevent a performance of the actual music, as they do not hold a copyright on it. There is simply no practical way this can be prevented.
I'm curious to learn how a performance of this material could be prevented.
I don't imagine that for a moment, myself.
Just to be fair, I've had Word documents that opened fine on MS-word but not at all under OO.o (infinite loop somewhere).
Yes this could definitely fly. The courts routinely consider the health of people before submitting them to a trial and/or prison. Even people in prison are very commonly released when in very poor health.
Sorry my sentence was not very readable, I wrote exactly what you mean : I don't think what Gaia was doing was illegal.
There is a story here because Google asked nicely, explaining why they thought Gaia was a big no-no to them. They didn't send in the lawyers.
More amazingly, the Gaia people understood Google's reasoning and complied, even though that meant canning many hours of work.
Please note that it is not an open-and-shut case here that what Gaia was doing was illegal, only detrimental to Google.
Intelligence at work is something worth telling sometime.
He's only saying that the trigger is simple. Adjusting, now that's a different issue.
Hello, IANAMR, but I work with some of them,
> you would think restoring sight to the blind would be fundable, huh?
It would be obviously great, but however tragic, completely uncurable blindness is rare, people affected learn to cope - sometimes in amazing ways, and it's not life-threatening. Compare this to any malady that can affect anyone anywhere and kill them, and there may lie the reason for the rejection of your proposal.
Note that I completely disagree with this utilitarian view of science.
The sex ratio of radiation workers' offsprings is often altered, in favour of girls.
You can read this for example. Other studies show similar effects on (nuclear) submariners, etc.
No they can't because the location, dimensions and density of the meteor cloud are not known. The rocks that make up the shower are really tiny ! Estimations are made from previous meteor showers, this is the best we can do so far.
No it's not. I don't know where this legend started from but Word 2003 on Macs is simply horrid. For a start it's at least 10x slower than on Windows, the interface is non-standard and it crashes constantly ; the font handling system is not the same than for other Mac applications, it gobbles memory like there's no tomorrow, and the list goes on (not universal, etc). For the record I use both.
Excel did not succeed on its own term, its actual technical qualities are not that great.
You can look further on the web for a long list of articles on Excel limitations (256 columns!), why it should be avoided for serious statistical calculations and modelling, how VBA really sucks, and so on. The lowly gnumeric has much better numerical stability for example. However, Excel is good enough for most tasks.
Excel wasn't popular until about version 6 or so. It's number 1 quality is that it is being sold by Microsoft. Numerous outfits, including random bunches of amateurs have produced spreadsheet programs that are as good or better than Excel, but they don't come bundled with Microsoft Office on just about every business PC in the world.
Excel may be one of the best things produced in Redmont, but to me it is still typical Microsoft software. So far away from technical excellence that it's not funny, but good enough, and present everywhere. Therefore just about everyone uses it for almost anything (calendars in Excel...).
64-bit is *not* overrated, especially on the x86_64 architecture.
Even without the extra register, which do help even with Intel's implementation, even with less than 4GB of RAM, 64-bit massively simplifies virtual memory management, which leads to better performances. However the kernel has to support it. On Linux this is the case, under OS/X, the kernel is still 32-bit.
The reason 64-bit sucks under OS/X is that Apple has not made the effort yet to truly take advantage of the enormous address space that it allows.
With this, with the extra registers, with more than 4GB of *virtual* memory (which is common now), 64-bit rocks.