You treat all countries the same so that someone could not use Canada as a 'launching pad' to get into the US if the security was more lax.
This is one reason why some want to crack down on border security. Not because we don't want Jose to come and work for his family, but because someone with something more nefarious in mind could slip into Mexico and then into the US extremely easily.
From what I heard nuke ships are a pain in the ass.
nuke plants are expensive, you need a LOT of training (the navy nuke program is essentially a bachelors degree w/o the English and basket weaving courses crammed into a two year school), the navy is perpetually strapped for the personnel and offer insane reenlistment bonuses for those that stay in (I've heard of $100k, but it might have been a rumor).
Also the plants are never really off, so being a nuke in the navy is an awful job in port. Reactor Officer is considered an even worse job than being the lowliest deck seaman.
Gas Turbines (I'm on a Gas Turbine DDG Navy ship, so I know a little more about them), are powerful, cheaper, and easy as hell to maintain. The Gas Turbine Techs on the ship barely even touch the things since they are warrantied by the manufacturer (just a little bit of preventative maintenance).
The great part about them is that they start up in a minute or two, put out a TON of power, and if they do happen to break it's a VERY simple job of having them replaced.
The only reason I can see for running a nuke ship is either a) the ship is so big gas would be $$$$ (you cant make it independent from gas since a carrier always needs fuel for the planes) or b) you want it to be independent from air (Submarine).
Between Skippy the Boy President, Darth Shooter, Pinched Face Nancy "No Really, I'm not a Communist" Pelosi, Hillary "I'm going to ignore the fact that I've been cuckholded so I can win the Grand Chancellorship...er...Presidency" Clinton, we have lots to ridicule and show contempt for.
I'm certainly no fan of Hillary but I'm trying to figure out why she is singled out for contempt and ridicule here- for being cheated on by a spouse and then having the gall not to retire from politics because of it? No idea WTF your point is with Pelosi.
What the parent was trying to do is something rarely seen on slashdot: making fun of both sides of the aisle.
A) It hasn't seemed to hurt small budget films so far. Even The Blair Witch Project and Clerks, which only cost $25,000 and $30,000 to make respectivly seemed to be able to aford getting a rating.
B) You don't have to get a rating. You only really need one if you want to have a fighting chance of getting theater owners to show your movie.
C) Even if you don't get a rating, there are still a number of theaters who may decide to show the film anyway, as seen in the documentary The Aristocrats which declined to get a rating.
The reason I left the Republican party to join the Libertarians is because of bullcrap like this. Every damn politician seems to feel the need to legistlate morality from the capitol.
Why not just encourage the ESRP ratings? Organize a email campaign to Best Buy et al to have them voluntarily follow the ratings. It's not unprecidented.
When you go to a movie theater, and they have it rated as PG-13 or R, it's not because Congress mandated it. It is a voluntary action.
That's right, voluntary.
Movie ratings are entirely voluntary for theaters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_ratings#United _States). The reason it is universal is because the MPAA (remarkably, for once) listened to its customers and did business in a way to keep them happy. They tacked a rating onto each movie that asked for one and passed it onto the theaters, requesting that they display it and follow the recomendations.
Now most theaters in the US lists the ratings because they feel it's expected and normal, not because some stuffy politican demanded that they do it with laws and tedious regulations.
No laws, no regulations, just good business.
It would be good if these damn crusading politicians realized this for once and stopped adding crap to the lawbooks that doesn't need to be there.
It might help, though, if you keep in mind the fact that very little of what's in a Mac is unique to the line. All the important parts, are infact, standard PC gear. Video cards, RAM, hard drives, ect.
Thus my comment had nothing to do with OSX, and the comments about 'regestry hacks' were especially uncalled for as I'm a Linux user.
Apparently if we allow governments to run their top level domain names the way they want to, we are endorsing censorship.
However, if we do the opposite and give control of ccTLDs to other organizations if we judge the country's government to be 'wrong' in some way we are Meddling American Imperialists interfering in the affairs of another country. Then everyone starts screaming that control be transfered to the UN.
Utilicé recieve muchos de llamadas telefónicas de vendedores, también. Hasta que comencé a hablar como esto. Trabaja bueno. Piensan que no tengo ningún dinero.
But seriously, most of that falls into the area of enforcement and in the courts. I fail to see how this ties into my comment about laws being passed.
Even though Washington is usually in thrall to big business, sometimes they do have the backbone to do what is right.
If people demand it enough, and let our voices be heart, it can happen.
Look at the no call list, anti spam, and anti trust laws as proof of this.
No matter how much money you can get from a corporation, you'll get you butt booted out of office in short order if your opponent can say you voted against such popular ideas.
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You treat all countries the same so that someone could not use Canada as a 'launching pad' to get into the US if the security was more lax.
This is one reason why some want to crack down on border security. Not because we don't want Jose to come and work for his family, but because someone with something more nefarious in mind could slip into Mexico and then into the US extremely easily.
From what I heard nuke ships are a pain in the ass.
nuke plants are expensive, you need a LOT of training (the navy nuke program is essentially a bachelors degree w/o the English and basket weaving courses crammed into a two year school), the navy is perpetually strapped for the personnel and offer insane reenlistment bonuses for those that stay in (I've heard of $100k, but it might have been a rumor).
Also the plants are never really off, so being a nuke in the navy is an awful job in port. Reactor Officer is considered an even worse job than being the lowliest deck seaman.
Gas Turbines (I'm on a Gas Turbine DDG Navy ship, so I know a little more about them), are powerful, cheaper, and easy as hell to maintain. The Gas Turbine Techs on the ship barely even touch the things since they are warrantied by the manufacturer (just a little bit of preventative maintenance).
The great part about them is that they start up in a minute or two, put out a TON of power, and if they do happen to break it's a VERY simple job of having them replaced.
The only reason I can see for running a nuke ship is either a) the ship is so big gas would be $$$$ (you cant make it independent from gas since a carrier always needs fuel for the planes) or b) you want it to be independent from air (Submarine).
Just my $.02
As someone who has used both OO.o and MS Office extensively I'll say this:
IMHO, MS office is reliable, easy to use, has a smaller memory footprint, and is universal in the business world.
OO.o is free, in every sense of the word.
If your class is Business Admin 101, tell your students to get MS Office.
If Timmy needs to write his book report, save the $122 and spend it on something else. Hell, $122 will buy school supplies for the rest of the year
Just my $0.02.
What the parent was trying to do is something rarely seen on slashdot: making fun of both sides of the aisle.
I call bullshit.
No one that posts on slashdot would know what teen pussy feels like.
It is so fucking sad that the only people Apple has left supporting them are garbage like you.
Because we all cant wait to get a Mac Mini where we can wipe OSX and install WinXP!
I have a Hitachi Pentium Pro that is still running.
I only stopped using it after I broke the CD tray.
DSL ran like a dream on that thing.
What's worse than posting on Slashdot on New Year's Eve?
LDAP server maintenance
A) It hasn't seemed to hurt small budget films so far. Even The Blair Witch Project and Clerks, which only cost $25,000 and $30,000 to make respectivly seemed to be able to aford getting a rating.
B) You don't have to get a rating. You only really need one if you want to have a fighting chance of getting theater owners to show your movie.
C) Even if you don't get a rating, there are still a number of theaters who may decide to show the film anyway, as seen in the documentary The Aristocrats which declined to get a rating.
The reason I left the Republican party to join the Libertarians is because of bullcrap like this. Every damn politician seems to feel the need to legistlate morality from the capitol.
d _States). The reason it is universal is because the MPAA (remarkably, for once) listened to its customers and did business in a way to keep them happy. They tacked a rating onto each movie that asked for one and passed it onto the theaters, requesting that they display it and follow the recomendations.
Why not just encourage the ESRP ratings? Organize a email campaign to Best Buy et al to have them voluntarily follow the ratings. It's not unprecidented.
When you go to a movie theater, and they have it rated as PG-13 or R, it's not because Congress mandated it. It is a voluntary action.
That's right, voluntary.
Movie ratings are entirely voluntary for theaters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_ratings#Unite
Now most theaters in the US lists the ratings because they feel it's expected and normal, not because some stuffy politican demanded that they do it with laws and tedious regulations.
No laws, no regulations, just good business.
It would be good if these damn crusading politicians realized this for once and stopped adding crap to the lawbooks that doesn't need to be there.
It's all good.
It might help, though, if you keep in mind the fact that very little of what's in a Mac is unique to the line. All the important parts, are infact, standard PC gear. Video cards, RAM, hard drives, ect.
Thus my comment had nothing to do with OSX, and the comments about 'regestry hacks' were especially uncalled for as I'm a Linux user.
Apparently if we allow governments to run their top level domain names the way they want to, we are endorsing censorship.
However, if we do the opposite and give control of ccTLDs to other organizations if we judge the country's government to be 'wrong' in some way we are Meddling American Imperialists interfering in the affairs of another country. Then everyone starts screaming that control be transfered to the UN.
We can't win no matter how we do it.
Utilicé recieve muchos de llamadas telefónicas de vendedores, también. Hasta que comencé a hablar como esto. Trabaja bueno. Piensan que no tengo ningún dinero.
But seriously, most of that falls into the area of enforcement and in the courts. I fail to see how this ties into my comment about laws being passed.
Dual Grapics Cards? most macs can support 2 displays on the existing card.
ALL modern graphics cards have dual output (three if you include S-Video).
You use dual graphics cards (SLI) for GAMING.
Thank you for trying to sound smart!
Even though Washington is usually in thrall to big business, sometimes they do have the backbone to do what is right.
If people demand it enough, and let our voices be heart, it can happen.
Look at the no call list, anti spam, and anti trust laws as proof of this.
No matter how much money you can get from a corporation, you'll get you butt booted out of office in short order if your opponent can say you voted against such popular ideas.
Ditto.
If you are wishing that you could pay your IT staff LESS than minimum wage, they pick up on that.
Hell I could work as a busboy instead and save me the trouble of working for such a demanding boss while making the same money.
If you treat your IT staff like crap you will get crap performance in return.
And since when did processor fequency mean anything?
Intel has been concentrating on everything BUT processor fequency for some time now.
Thats why they came up with the PR rating instead of just showing off the clock speed.
I'd love to use this on workstations.
Make shit compile faster.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what the Intel PR ratings mean? or are they just arbritary numbers?
955 doesn't really mean anything to me.
At least AMD tries to base theirs off something tangible.
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Is Dell going to be giving free memory upgrades and tech support ...
They're preinstalling Firefox, not OpenOffice.
Linus is that you?
Holy crap, an intelligent and thought provoking thread that doesnt follow the usual group think.
I salute you, sir!
This is actually an insightful.
I think someone went on a powertrip with mod points.
If only I had mod points ...