Everyone nodding their heads in agreement should read Malstrom's articles.
Pre-1985 everyone knew the standard controller was a joystick. Then Nintendo released the button controller, and it became the standard.
The joystick is still around for some specialist games like flight simulators, but new games have replaced it. Ironically, buttonpad games may soon be confined to the PC.
One fear that Broadwater had in moving to Linux was degradation in performance, but he has been pleasantly surprised such degradation has not occurred. For example, the company's IBM Cognos BI application runs faster on x86 Linux boxes than it did on Sparc Solaris, he says.
WTF? That is an apples-oranges comparison. If you really wanted to do benchmarks, you would run both OSs on the SAME HARDWARE!! A Sun Blade 100 with Solaris 10 will run much slower than the latest whiz-bang x86_64 workstation.
Um, I have to disagree with you on this. Mexico (and presumably other more equatorial Latin American countries {almost definitely Venezuela}) have more natural resources per area than the United States does but are a lot poorer. As someone mentioned above, Iceland is, on average, wealthier than the United States is, but it lacks a lot of desirable natural resources (besides coastline, fishes, and geothermal vents). If anything, this data shows an inverse correlation between natural wealth and total wealth. Eric Raymond discussed this issue in his essay Fear and Loathing in Caracas.
I have to point out that Iceland has NOT been a 'genuine democracy since 930 AD.' It was largely under the control of the king of Norway or Denmark since the Middle Ages. It only achieved true independence in 1944.
Well, maybe she is not a good programmer? I have used a computer since I was 8, but I was not very 'good' with them until I was 17. Now I am possibly better than the Slashdot average (I am now 22). I remember being proud of myself at 16 for figuring out how to add an icon to the desktop. Now, I am a veteran of Linux/*BSD/etc, and I have pretty good experience with C/C++/Python/Java and experience with pattern-matching, OpenGL, etc.
Even if a person starts late, they still have plenty of opportunities to improve themselves. If they do not want to, they might not be good at it.
Colin Powell would have made a great vice-president for GWB in 2000 (or even a good presidential candidate), but now his reputation has been permanently tarnished by his association with the Iraq War and the Bush Administration in general. Since we are still in Iraq, I do not think his reputation will recover any time soon.
Anyway, I do not think he would make a good Presidential candidate for Barack Obama. Let's face he (Powell) is black and so is Obama. It would be best to have a white guy to 'balance' the ticket.
What do you mean by ill-fated? It was (and still is) a very cool idea. It, Daedalus, and Project Longshot are the only designs (that I know of) that have a maximum velocity in excess of.1c (one-tenth the speed of light). It was ended by the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
Well, I think you are talking about the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act. The Insurrection Act, however, was modified in 2007 in the following way:
The President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to--
(A) restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that--
(i) domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order; and
(ii) such violence results in a condition described in paragraph (2); or
(B) suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy if such insurrection, violation, combination, or conspiracy results in a condition described in paragraph (2).
However, according to Wikipedia, these changes may have been repealed in 2008.
Of course if the company did not advertise and therefore did not sell as many products, then you would likely pay even higher prices, or if the product maker could not sell enough and went out of business, you could not buy the product at all. So advertising is the least evil in this situation.
The Linux desktop is no different, get the home users and it will be dragged into business. The other way around isn't going to work. The problem with this approach is that consumer ISV support is nonexistent at best. Enterprise users that pay big money like choices because it compels various solution providers to compete for their business. Linux has the advantage of the preexisting influence of Unix in this sphere. Consumers, on the other hand, seem perfectly willing to take what the computer manufacturers give them. To compete with Windows, Linux must, out of the box, support gobs of various video codecs, and support all the popular pieces of software, Flash, iTunes, MSOffice (CrossOver Office needs to come standard), and all the various games. Cedega is not acceptable; it needs to be a lot better than that. Otherwise, more game designers need to be encouraged to develop for Linux. Adobe is known for their poor Linux Flash support. Oh, and a slew of manufacturers need to preload it onto the computers they sell.
At some point the business and I/T woke up and found these PCs took over the workplace, and finally invested in it. The business was driven by the users. Really? Then why did the International Business Machines PC become the de-facto standard for personal computers, as opposed to more consumer-friendly machines, such as the Apple II or the Commodore64 or the more hacker-friendly slew of Z80 systems? The original IBM PC was infamous for its horrible graphics, but it became popular because it was marketed to business professionals.
If anything, Red Hat aught to produce a home user version that is so easy to install a 5 year old could do it. And leverage the Vista mess and hand me down computers. Sell it for $20 a download.
They used to do that up through Red Hat 9. Okay, maybe a 5yo could not install it; however, usability standards were lower in those days. It did not seem to sell well, so they dropped it.
I don't need a leader. My life is in my hands, as are the lives of my family.
Apparently, the rest of your family does need a leader.
The surprise to me is that we United States citizens believe we need a leader, at least in government.
Because we are human beings, and human beings seem to behave best when there is someone to guide them and resolve disputes. Why do corporations need CEOs? It seems necessary to invest certain powers in a single individual in order to decisions which are time-critical. The president has always been seen as a leader, ever since George Washington.
The Constitution doesn't give the President power to lead, only to execute the laws which we wanted put in place; equitable laws that infringe on everyone equally, rather than giving preferential treatment to the few at the cost of the many (or vice versa).
Well, Article II Sections 2 & 3 of the US Constitution seem to list the following responsibilities of the President: 1. Commander-in-Chief of the Army & Navy 2. Make treaties 3. Appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law 4. Give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient 5. Receive ambassadors and other public ministers 6. Take care that the laws be faithfully executed 7. Commission all the officers of the United States
To me, those responsibilities seem like those of a leader.
The President is not the Commander-in-Chief until Congress actively declares war. We declared war in WW2, but since then, we have not had a legal CiC.
Huh?! Article II Section 2 Paragraph i states: the President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices.
There is nothing in there about the CinC position only being available in times of war.
The President is not there to save the economy, or even care about the economy, because economic issues are the domain of Congress, or even more preferably the States.
The President has to execute the laws passed by Congress, and interstate commerce is the jurisdiction of the federal government.
The President isn't supposed to take positions on what he or she will support or wants to do, because the President merely reviews signed bills and their Constitutionality, and only then making the decision to support future execution of said bills into law if the bills mass Constitutional muster.
Huh?! Where in the Constitution does it say that? Article I Section 7 Paragraph ii states: Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it.
So, the President can veto any bill he disapproves of, regardless of its Constitutionality. The Constitution does not provide an explicit method for determining the constitutionality of a law; traditionally, the question has been left to the Supreme Court to decide.
It is sad when people demand a leader, but are too fearful of being leaders themselves.
Not everyone is good at being a leader. Are you disgusted at your family for not being leaders?
How much money are you willing to sink into putting a goddamn WALL around the country? I frankly don't think it will ever work, Well, the Israeli wall has been very effective at keeping out suicide bombers, who are a lot more determined than coyotes ever will be. Mexico seems to think that it can keep out people by building a fence along their Guatemala border.
sure if we put as much money into it as we put into Iraq, I bet we could stop the immigration across the land, but I don't think that would be sufficient in the long run. If people want in, they'll get in. It would probably not cost nearly that much. Maybe, it might cost ~$7.4 Billion to build.
Tax their salaries to help pay for the demographic hellhole that will be this country for the next 30 or so years. Which demographic hellhole are you referring to?
That means we will need those people; we will need their labor, and we will need the tax revenue to pay for services for the huge chunk of society that's going to be retired. Right, low-skilled workers who take more in benefits than they pay in taxes are going to pay for Social Security and Medicare.
For example Fruit/veg picking is largely manual labour that can't cut its costs by mechanising, it relies on on low labour costs so the government looks the other way. Well, there is the Robot Picker. It seems promising.
Cotton growing is now largely mechanised and wouldn't benefit much from cheaper labour so instead they get huge subsidies to keep the price competitive. What is so expensive about cotton? Is it the amount for land used? Is it because of transportation costs? Maybe, the cotton growers need to enact some serious business reforms.
Anyway, the labor cost of picking fruit is a small fraction of the total cost. The labor cost of strawberries, a notoriously labor-intensive crop, is only six percent. If wages were to double, that would mean labor costs would only be ~11%. So, for every dollar spent on strawberries, six or eleven pennies would go to laborers. That is not very much.
Plus, being low-skilled workers, there are a lot of other "hidden costs":
Sorry it took so long to reply.
My computer is a MacBook (2006 model) running OSX 10.4. I am running the standard OSX applications, along with XCode, Microsoft Office 2003, X11, Camino, and I have tried lots of other applications with no problems.
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They may be more 'biodegradable', but they certainly are not vegan.
Everyone nodding their heads in agreement should read Malstrom's articles. Pre-1985 everyone knew the standard controller was a joystick. Then Nintendo released the button controller, and it became the standard. The joystick is still around for some specialist games like flight simulators, but new games have replaced it. Ironically, buttonpad games may soon be confined to the PC.
Merger never changes.
WTF? That is an apples-oranges comparison. If you really wanted to do benchmarks, you would run both OSs on the SAME HARDWARE!! A Sun Blade 100 with Solaris 10 will run much slower than the latest whiz-bang x86_64 workstation.
If Atlanta was hit by a hurricane, and you were in Nebraska at the time, wouldn't you want your 404 area code cell phone to still work?
Yeah, but it would probably not be found.
I guess I should help organize the resistance. WOLVERINES!!! (Wait a minute) BULLDOGS!!! (That's better)
Um, I have to disagree with you on this. Mexico (and presumably other more equatorial Latin American countries {almost definitely Venezuela}) have more natural resources per area than the United States does but are a lot poorer. As someone mentioned above, Iceland is, on average, wealthier than the United States is, but it lacks a lot of desirable natural resources (besides coastline, fishes, and geothermal vents). If anything, this data shows an inverse correlation between natural wealth and total wealth. Eric Raymond discussed this issue in his essay Fear and Loathing in Caracas.
I have to point out that Iceland has NOT been a 'genuine democracy since 930 AD.' It was largely under the control of the king of Norway or Denmark since the Middle Ages. It only achieved true independence in 1944.
Well, maybe she is not a good programmer? I have used a computer since I was 8, but I was not very 'good' with them until I was 17. Now I am possibly better than the Slashdot average (I am now 22). I remember being proud of myself at 16 for figuring out how to add an icon to the desktop. Now, I am a veteran of Linux/*BSD/etc, and I have pretty good experience with C/C++/Python/Java and experience with pattern-matching, OpenGL, etc. Even if a person starts late, they still have plenty of opportunities to improve themselves. If they do not want to, they might not be good at it.
Dear Aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all.
Colin Powell would have made a great vice-president for GWB in 2000 (or even a good presidential candidate), but now his reputation has been permanently tarnished by his association with the Iraq War and the Bush Administration in general. Since we are still in Iraq, I do not think his reputation will recover any time soon. Anyway, I do not think he would make a good Presidential candidate for Barack Obama. Let's face he (Powell) is black and so is Obama. It would be best to have a white guy to 'balance' the ticket.
What do you mean by ill-fated? It was (and still is) a very cool idea. It, Daedalus, and Project Longshot are the only designs (that I know of) that have a maximum velocity in excess of .1c (one-tenth the speed of light). It was ended by the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
Uh, the death of 'amateurism' was, IMO, a good thing. Read this article for more clarification; it discusses the NCAA, but it applies here as well.
Of course if the company did not advertise and therefore did not sell as many products, then you would likely pay even higher prices, or if the product maker could not sell enough and went out of business, you could not buy the product at all. So advertising is the least evil in this situation.
All property is imaginary, anyway.
Why do Swedes celebrate Thanksgiving? I thought it was primarily a North American tradition.
So does this mean it is Schrodinger's Internet connection?
I don't need a leader. My life is in my hands, as are the lives of my family.
Apparently, the rest of your family does need a leader.
The surprise to me is that we United States citizens believe we need a leader, at least in government.
Because we are human beings, and human beings seem to behave best when there is someone to guide them and resolve disputes. Why do corporations need CEOs? It seems necessary to invest certain powers in a single individual in order to decisions which are time-critical. The president has always been seen as a leader, ever since George Washington.
The Constitution doesn't give the President power to lead, only to execute the laws which we wanted put in place; equitable laws that infringe on everyone equally, rather than giving preferential treatment to the few at the cost of the many (or vice versa).
Well, Article II Sections 2 & 3 of the US Constitution seem to list the following responsibilities of the President:
1. Commander-in-Chief of the Army & Navy
2. Make treaties
3. Appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law
4. Give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient
5. Receive ambassadors and other public ministers
6. Take care that the laws be faithfully executed
7. Commission all the officers of the United States
To me, those responsibilities seem like those of a leader.
The President is not the Commander-in-Chief until Congress actively declares war. We declared war in WW2, but since then, we have not had a legal CiC.
Huh?! Article II Section 2 Paragraph i states: the President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices.
There is nothing in there about the CinC position only being available in times of war.
The President is not there to save the economy, or even care about the economy, because economic issues are the domain of Congress, or even more preferably the States.
The President has to execute the laws passed by Congress, and interstate commerce is the jurisdiction of the federal government.
The President isn't supposed to take positions on what he or she will support or wants to do, because the President merely reviews signed bills and their Constitutionality, and only then making the decision to support future execution of said bills into law if the bills mass Constitutional muster.
Huh?! Where in the Constitution does it say that? Article I Section 7 Paragraph ii states: Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it.
So, the President can veto any bill he disapproves of, regardless of its Constitutionality. The Constitution does not provide an explicit method for determining the constitutionality of a law; traditionally, the question has been left to the Supreme Court to decide.
It is sad when people demand a leader, but are too fearful of being leaders themselves.
Not everyone is good at being a leader. Are you disgusted at your family for not being leaders?
This is why I am disgusted -- not with poli
As an American, I applaud you, sir. Bravo!
Okay, put you will likely pay more, eventually.
Anyway, the labor cost of picking fruit is a small fraction of the total cost. The labor cost of strawberries, a notoriously labor-intensive crop, is only six percent. If wages were to double, that would mean labor costs would only be ~11%. So, for every dollar spent on strawberries, six or eleven pennies would go to laborers. That is not very much.
Plus, being low-skilled workers, there are a lot of other "hidden costs":
Health Care
Schools
Road Construction
House Prices
Let's not even get into the possible political consequences.
There are some sound non-ideological reasons for beeing leery of uncontrolled immigration.
Sorry it took so long to reply. My computer is a MacBook (2006 model) running OSX 10.4. I am running the standard OSX applications, along with XCode, Microsoft Office 2003, X11, Camino, and I have tried lots of other applications with no problems.