Fact is the State of California forced one of the oil companies to sell an oil refinery they want to close two or three years ago. If the government didn't intervene no entrepreneur would of had a chance to buy it.
Two problems with entrepeneurs: 1. where do you buy the oil? A few companies own most of the refineries and domestic supply plus and have the market power to cut better deals on crude than the little one refinery guy will. 2. Who do you sell it to? The big three are owning a bigger and bigger percent of the retail gas stations. 3. What happens if the price goes down? The big three integrated firms can cut you off at the knees with their control of crude and retail.
Earth First opposes tree spiking, engages in peaceful, no-violent protest, and was car bombed by terrorists. How is that terrorist?
Oh, they opposed some of Bush's crony friends destroying our nation's thousand year old trees. Opposing a Bush crony, that is SSSOOO definately "terrorism" please.
Sierra Club does not fund Earth First either.
Get a clue you Anti-American freedom hater and go move to Iran where the state spies and tortures. I'm sure you will like it there away from pesky freedoms, like speech and privacy.
I dunno, I like my OS to provide more in the way of a GUI than is supported by HTML.
This problem is being solved by the Mozilla foundation today in the form of XUL and the XULrunner under development, with support from Google. If they drop the ball Macromedia (Flash) and MS (Avalon) or someone else will take over the market with their technology.
First you claim that all killing is bad. Then Saddam's killing of Iraqis everyday through violence and starvation is o.k.
First all war is bad then ask why "we are not going to attack them"? Well because they have Nuclear weapons already! Nuclear war in Korea would kill too many people for us to consider it. It's too late! That and the Russians are only brutalizing Chechens and would stop if the West had the backbone to push them hard on it. War would not be needed, only Bush and the EU to actually care about human rights. Don't hold your breath.
Americans are willing to die to liberate the people of Iraq and bring peace and democracy to the poor people there, including the Shiites and Kurds killed and starved daily by Saddam. And you are attacking them for daring to interfere with Saddam's Stalinist regime.
I don't trust Bush, despise Ashcroft, and I hate war, but a short war is a small price to bring freedoms and US-UN guided reconstuction to Iraq. Where would you rather live now UN-administered Bosnia (aiming to get in the EU someday), transitionally-governed Afghanistan (where women can work and drive again(unlike Saudi Arabia)), or Saddam-controlled Iraq? Now let's make the Iraq like the first (or at least 2nd). If George W. loots some oil and extends America's sphere of influence as a side effect, well that too is an acceptable price to pay. Or would you rather wet your pants and let Saddam keep killing innocent Iraqis because those "ragheads" aren't worth saving if Americans have to die to do it and can't handle democracy anyway?
How many protesters hate war and how many think that non-Americans aren't worth liberating? Look at your own prejudices.
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The problem you describe is poor interconnections in the transit system. This is a symptom of poor system scheduling design. This is not a problem inherent in all transit.
Two solutions: 1. Schedule linking-trip times between lines to add up. The Bus/Tram would always meet with the other vehicle for quick tranfers at certain important junction points. No 12 minute wait for the bus at the light rail station or 17 minute wait at the transit center. 2. More direct service to reduce tranfers. An advantage Bus Rapid Transit is claiming over Light Rail is being able to run multiple lines over the same busway that enter and leave at diferent points. So many you get a bus or minibus that goes direct to the transit center without stopping.
Of course many commuter rail trains run people into a central downtown where if the office is somewhere in downtown, transit and walking and faster than a car at that point (in downtown) than driving and finding parking anyway. Another big advantage in commuter trains is that you can work/eat/sleep on the train, (none of which should be done while driving!) so you actually gain time.
"The fact of the matter is that browsing the web has because a fundamental feature of almost every gadget."
So I guess MS Office is part of the OS too? No it isn't. Just because everyone wants a browser or word processor on their computer doesn't mean they can co-mingle code or force-bundle tie it to the monopoly OS. Just ask the Appeals Court.
BZZT Wrong (A) The old standard was found dangerous years ago, Clinton just took forever because he was too busy with interns to care about people getting cancer. (B) Eisenhower created ANWR in the 50's when Billy and Georgey were still pissing in their pants. (C) Most stem-cells line are patent-restricted to the point of uselessness. (All patents created by YOUR research go to the stem-cell patent holder, WTF.)
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Libertarians support Corporate control you numb-skull. Remember contract law and the EULAs? As long as governments enforce private property and place no checks on its coersive power [see MS and it "voluntary" relations with OEMs] we will have corporate control.
If you don't want to decide how Society is run by government them someone will decide how it is run for THEIR benifit. Government decides how society is run ALWAYS that is WHY the constitution and Bill of Rights are so important, to control it. Government never goes away in civilized society. (Now if you believe government is BAD, BAD, BAD go to Somalia by all means but you will still find the informal gov of warlords)
Brin is saying vote for a more just society. Freeing ourselves from an Aristocracy is why we SHOT the British and their allies.
As far as "qualifications" to teach, there has been study after study showing home schooled students do far better than the average because of the personal attention. Let's face it... teaching is important, but it's not rocket science.
This philosophy is exactly the problem in these discussions. Just because most everyone can teach 1-on-1 they think that teaching is easy. Guess what most literate people can write "Hello World!" in any language or balance a simple low-volume checkbook. We still need 6 figure programmers and accountants. Try teaching 35 children with four or five unruly ones, probably couldn't.
Now if you want to fund me and everyone else to stay home with our children when we have them that would be great but most people gripe at paying poverty wages for 1 to 20 teacher/student ratios. I doubt they want to pay 20x as much.
"Troll, straw man, or agent provocateur, qu'est-ce que la différence? Perhaps I act out of love, holding the slashdot readership in such high regard that I would sacrifice all my time for the slim chance that it would encourage someone to examine his or her own prejudices, and thus leave this forum a better person."
And we are suppossed to be impressed with your planet slagging dreams more than the cold hard facts that natural climate variations in the past were extreme to the point they could wreck our current society if they happened again.
But hey we would nuke a few national parks and that would scare mother nature into doing our bidding?!
Nature follows physics and could care less what we can blow up. We need to respect and learn to massage those processes not stumble heedessly into them.
-The Clean Air Act, why no car has been built in America since 1975, as predicted by the Big 3
Check the monitors docs first that it is Mac compatible, most are but a few aren't.With memory just follow Apple's specs for exactly the right type and you can buy anyone's [go for quality brands if you're smart though, PC or Mac]. Video cards ATI has good drivers, 3Dfx will have a seperate Mac product for Voodoo5. I'm not sure where nVidea is right now.
OpenPlay does the same as DirectPlay except in a cross-platform open-source manner, thanks to the generousity of Apple who decided it was better freed and evolving that closed and used as a tool for OS lock-in.
"are people who are just too poor to buy a decent car. All of those cars are tiny, uncomfortable, dangerously underpowered rolling deathtraps. "
We that is great an example of American ignorance and stereotypes that has caused us Americans to have such problems as the SUV craze. New small cars today are as safe or safer than those old big cars from 20 years ago with no ABS or other refinements of the last 20 years. They also have lower profit margins than big cars/SUV, hence the car makers FUD campaigns against small cars.
Try the massive debt crisis engineered by the incompetence of 1st world bankers and greed of now-dead 3rd world despots, that has been enforced with I.M.F. controls of loans backed by the US's guns and butter. Think of what the US would of been like if Europe had loans billlions to the Confederacy and Union in the Civil War then demanded the victor repay with 17-30% interest. That is basically what we have done to some countries. These countries spend over 3 times as much servicing there debts as they can afford to spend on education. Forgive the debt that they didn't even get.
"raise prices or downgrade speeds on the 450 and 400 Mhz models?"
Uh well no. They DID raise the prices on the 400 mhz model but they raised the specs too. Unless of course you consider going from a PCI to a 2x AGP video card a downgrade. Or a 50% faster memory controller, or.... Basically they when from a modified G3 mboard to the same mboard used by the 450 mhz model.
For all those bagging on Apple's PR ("slow death" please! look at the orders/stock recently) there was no flip flopping press releases. Their was one announcement and two letters to customers. Some cancelled orders were in fact filled and Apple sent those people letters. The Mac rumor-news Press TM picked in up and ran "Everyone's going to get your orders!" That was conjecture Not Apple.
As a Mac (Not MAC people!) owner and Apple shareholder I am not outraged or concerned. How many "I used x but not anymore." messages appear hear for Apple, RedHat, Intel, etc. I don't reallly pay attention to them anymore. Apple will prosper and this will be like the whole G4 ROM block tempest in a teapot. (Everyone knows that the G4 upgrades are available now willl no action/reversal from Apple, right?) If I HAD ordered a 500mhz G4 I would be a little mad at Motorla, but hey -some Mhz +some RAM what is the big loss? Not much.
If these wild-cat boycotts worked/were even for real, Apple would of died after killing the Clones. Instead it's gotten 2x marketshare and 3+x stock price.:)
Disclaimer: Apple is a public corporation and should be trusted/not trusted to act as such. Apple is no one's mother Teresa it sells product for profit.
Flame me if I'm wrong but I believe Sun began actually supporting both the Mac MRJ team and the Blackdown JRE teams sometime over the last year with actual programmers. Adding one or two programmers however will not transform the porting timetables however. Java 2 support is going slowly with IBM and Apple as well as Linux but it will come.
I still can't get MkLinux to usefully install on my Powerbook 1400 but I'm not flaming everyone here as Apple hating-hippies. I can't help so I wait. Contribute to Blackdown or Japhar, or be patient.
Apple will fix the ROM block and the ROM will stay on the motherboard according to other (more reliable) sources. Either report both sides or stop this Anti-Apple Rumor mungering! It is not Slashdot's place to get taken in by every third crazy Apple rumor and spread all the bad ones attempting to hurt Apple. The Mac websites are full of crazy rumors, please be more responsible. This is supposed to be a news site not a rumor mill.
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Fact is the State of California forced one of the oil companies to sell an oil refinery they want to close two or three years ago. If the government didn't intervene no entrepreneur would of had a chance to buy it.
Two problems with entrepeneurs:
1. where do you buy the oil? A few companies own most of the refineries and domestic supply plus and have the market power to cut better deals on crude than the little one refinery guy will.
2. Who do you sell it to? The big three are owning a bigger and bigger percent of the retail gas stations.
3. What happens if the price goes down? The big three integrated firms can cut you off at the knees with their control of crude and retail.
Earth First opposes tree spiking, engages in peaceful, no-violent protest, and was car bombed by terrorists. How is that terrorist?
Oh, they opposed some of Bush's crony friends destroying our nation's thousand year old trees. Opposing a Bush crony, that is SSSOOO definately "terrorism" please.
Sierra Club does not fund Earth First either.
Get a clue you Anti-American freedom hater and go move to Iran where the state spies and tortures. I'm sure you will like it there away from pesky freedoms, like speech and privacy.
I'm really disappointed Yahoo has left Yahoo messanger to rot on the vine.
No Supermode
No Audibles
No new features for years now.
Yahoo, when are you going to update Messanger for the Mac.
Big money influence buying like this is a cancer on the body politic that will ruin the US or any other country if left unchecked.
It's time to investigate, prosecute, and start stuffing people in jail.
I dunno, I like my OS to provide more in the way of a GUI than is supported by HTML.
This problem is being solved by the Mozilla foundation today in the form of XUL and the XULrunner under development, with support from Google. If they drop the ball Macromedia (Flash) and MS (Avalon) or someone else will take over the market with their technology.
First you claim that all killing is bad. Then Saddam's killing of Iraqis everyday through violence and starvation is o.k.
First all war is bad then ask why "we are not going to attack them"? Well because they have Nuclear weapons already! Nuclear war in Korea would kill too many people for us to consider it. It's too late! That and the Russians are only brutalizing Chechens and would stop if the West had the backbone to push them hard on it. War would not be needed, only Bush and the EU to actually care about human rights. Don't hold your breath.
Americans are willing to die to liberate the people of Iraq and bring peace and democracy to the poor people there, including the Shiites and Kurds killed and starved daily by Saddam. And you are attacking them for daring to interfere with Saddam's Stalinist regime.
I don't trust Bush, despise Ashcroft, and I hate war, but a short war is a small price to bring freedoms and US-UN guided reconstuction to Iraq. Where would you rather live now UN-administered Bosnia (aiming to get in the EU someday), transitionally-governed Afghanistan (where women can work and drive again(unlike Saudi Arabia)), or Saddam-controlled Iraq? Now let's make the Iraq like the first (or at least 2nd). If George W. loots some oil and extends America's sphere of influence as a side effect, well that too is an acceptable price to pay. Or would you rather wet your pants and let Saddam keep killing innocent Iraqis because those "ragheads" aren't worth saving if Americans have to die to do it and can't handle democracy anyway?
How many protesters hate war and how many think that non-Americans aren't worth liberating? Look at your own prejudices.
The problem you describe is poor interconnections in the transit system. This is a symptom of poor system scheduling design. This is not a problem inherent in all transit.
Two solutions:
1. Schedule linking-trip times between lines to add up. The Bus/Tram would always meet with the other vehicle for quick tranfers at certain important junction points. No 12 minute wait for the bus at the light rail station or 17 minute wait at the transit center.
2. More direct service to reduce tranfers. An advantage Bus Rapid Transit is claiming over Light Rail is being able to run multiple lines over the same busway that enter and leave at diferent points. So many you get a bus or minibus that goes direct to the transit center without stopping.
Of course many commuter rail trains run people into a central downtown where if the office is somewhere in downtown, transit and walking and faster than a car at that point (in downtown) than driving and finding parking anyway. Another big advantage in commuter trains is that you can work/eat/sleep on the train, (none of which should be done while driving!) so you actually gain time.
"The fact of the matter is that browsing the web has because a fundamental feature of almost every gadget."
So I guess MS Office is part of the OS too? No it isn't. Just because everyone wants a browser or word processor on their computer doesn't mean they can co-mingle code or force-bundle tie it to the monopoly OS. Just ask the Appeals Court.
BZZT Wrong (A) The old standard was found dangerous years ago, Clinton just took forever because he was too busy with interns to care about people getting cancer. (B) Eisenhower created ANWR in the 50's when Billy and Georgey were still pissing in their pants. (C) Most stem-cells line are patent-restricted to the point of uselessness. (All patents created by YOUR research go to the stem-cell patent holder, WTF.)
Libertarians support Corporate control you numb-skull. Remember contract law and the EULAs? As long as governments enforce private property and place no checks on its coersive power [see MS and it "voluntary" relations with OEMs] we will have corporate control.
If you don't want to decide how Society is run by government them someone will decide how it is run for THEIR benifit. Government decides how society is run ALWAYS that is WHY the constitution and Bill of Rights are so important, to control it. Government never goes away in civilized society. (Now if you believe government is BAD, BAD, BAD go to Somalia by all means but you will still find the informal gov of warlords)
Brin is saying vote for a more just society. Freeing ourselves from an Aristocracy is why we SHOT the British and their allies.
This philosophy is exactly the problem in these discussions. Just because most everyone can teach 1-on-1 they think that teaching is easy. Guess what most literate people can write "Hello World!" in any language or balance a simple low-volume checkbook. We still need 6 figure programmers and accountants. Try teaching 35 children with four or five unruly ones, probably couldn't.
Now if you want to fund me and everyone else to stay home with our children when we have them that would be great but most people gripe at paying poverty wages for 1 to 20 teacher/student ratios. I doubt they want to pay 20x as much.
"Troll, straw man, or agent provocateur, qu'est-ce que la différence? Perhaps I act out of love, holding the slashdot readership in such high regard that I would sacrifice all my time for the slim chance that it would encourage someone to examine his or her own prejudices, and thus leave this forum a better person."
And we are suppossed to be impressed with your planet slagging dreams more than the cold hard facts that natural climate variations in the past were extreme to the point they could wreck our current society if they happened again.
But hey we would nuke a few national parks and that would scare mother nature into doing our bidding?!
Nature follows physics and could care less what we can blow up. We need to respect and learn to massage those processes not stumble heedessly into them.
-The Clean Air Act, why no car has been built in America since 1975, as predicted by the Big 3
Check the monitors docs first that it is Mac compatible, most are but a few aren't.With memory just follow Apple's specs for exactly the right type and you can buy anyone's [go for quality brands if you're smart though, PC or Mac]. Video cards ATI has good drivers, 3Dfx will have a seperate Mac product for Voodoo5. I'm not sure where nVidea is right now.
OpenPlay does the same as DirectPlay except in a cross-platform open-source manner, thanks to the generousity of Apple who decided it was better freed and evolving that closed and used as a tool for OS lock-in.
"are people who are just too poor to buy a decent car. All of those cars are tiny, uncomfortable, dangerously underpowered rolling deathtraps. "
We that is great an example of American ignorance and stereotypes that has caused us Americans to have such problems as the SUV craze. New small cars today are as safe or safer than those old big cars from 20 years ago with no ABS or other refinements of the last 20 years. They also have lower profit margins than big cars/SUV, hence the car makers FUD campaigns against small cars.
Try the massive debt crisis engineered by the incompetence of 1st world bankers and greed of now-dead 3rd world despots, that has been enforced with I.M.F. controls of loans backed by the US's guns and butter. Think of what the US would of been like if Europe had loans billlions to the Confederacy and Union in the Civil War then demanded the victor repay with 17-30% interest. That is basically what we have done to some countries.
These countries spend over 3 times as much servicing there debts as they can afford to spend on education. Forgive the debt that they didn't even get.
"raise prices or downgrade speeds on the 450 and 400 Mhz models?"
Uh well no. They DID raise the prices on the 400 mhz model but they raised the specs too. Unless of course you consider going from a PCI to a 2x AGP video card a downgrade. Or a 50% faster memory controller, or.... Basically they when from a modified G3 mboard to the same mboard used by the 450 mhz model.
For all those bagging on Apple's PR ("slow death" please! look at the orders/stock recently) there was no flip flopping press releases. Their was one announcement and two letters to customers. Some cancelled orders were in fact filled and Apple sent those people letters. The Mac rumor-news Press TM picked in up and ran "Everyone's going to get your orders!" That was conjecture Not Apple.
:)
As a Mac (Not MAC people!) owner and Apple shareholder I am not outraged or concerned. How many "I used x but not anymore." messages appear hear for Apple, RedHat, Intel, etc. I don't reallly pay attention to them anymore. Apple will prosper and this will be like the whole G4 ROM block tempest in a teapot. (Everyone knows that the G4 upgrades are available now willl no action/reversal from Apple, right?) If I HAD ordered a 500mhz G4 I would be a little mad at Motorla, but hey -some Mhz +some RAM what is the big loss? Not much.
If these wild-cat boycotts worked/were even for real, Apple would of died after killing the Clones. Instead it's gotten 2x marketshare and 3+x stock price.
Disclaimer: Apple is a public corporation and should be trusted/not trusted to act as such. Apple is no one's mother Teresa it sells product for profit.
Flame me if I'm wrong but I believe Sun began actually supporting both the Mac MRJ team and the Blackdown JRE teams sometime over the last year with actual programmers. Adding one or two programmers however will not transform the porting timetables however. Java 2 support is going slowly with IBM and Apple as well as Linux but it will come.
I still can't get MkLinux to usefully install on my Powerbook 1400 but I'm not flaming everyone here as Apple hating-hippies. I can't help so I wait. Contribute to Blackdown or Japhar, or be patient.
Apple will fix the ROM block and the ROM will stay on the motherboard according to other (more reliable) sources. Either report both sides or stop this Anti-Apple Rumor mungering! It is not Slashdot's place to get taken in by every third crazy Apple rumor and spread all the bad ones attempting to hurt Apple. The Mac websites are full of crazy rumors, please be more responsible. This is supposed to be a news site not a rumor mill.