Well... non-MS/Apple OS's always seems to work best on slightly older hardware. I don't install Linux on any hardware less than a year old and not normally less than two and expect not to have issues.
Linux/BSD/Whatever-other-OS are not high priority targets for most hardware manufactures. In my experience, hardware manufactures generally take longer to produce drivers for non-MS OS's, if they produce them at all, and do significantly less updating to them. Quite a bit, the community ends up reverse engineering them, using wrappers, or using the most similar available FOSS driver.
As for wifi; Linux wifi support is, in general, bad; though this seems to be more of an issue with the hardware manufacturers rather than the OS.
I purchased Spore and I have a MacBook Pro for gaming that runs Mac OS 10.5 and Vista 64 bit. I chose to install it under Mac OS and have had no problems.
My optical disk drive is toast. I had to install from my fiancee's drive from targeted disk mode. My Spore disk is never, ever, in my drive. I have not had Spore complain once.
I was actually very happy the game included both PC & Mac versions all for one cost.
I purchased Spore and I have a MacBook Pro for gaming that runs Mac OS 10.5 and Vista 64 bit. I chose to install it under Mac OS and have had no problems.
My optical disk drive is toast. I had to install from my fiancee's drive from targeted disk mode. My Spore disk is never, ever, in my drive. I have not had Spore complain once.
(I know its a little late in the game to respond, but, I haven't seen any crippling DRM; but, they probably just didn't think about crippling the Mac version).
I was actually very happy the game included both PC & Mac versions all for one cost.
(Of course, I've posted this so late no one will read this comment.)
Wasn't there a slashdot article a while back that linked to a study where in which scientists found that branding campaigns do have an unconscious effect on us. When they showed people, briefly and subliminally, the Apple logo, they were more creative than the people who were flashed the IBM logo?
Just because a coke commercial doesn't make you go out and buy coke right now, doesn't mean it doesn't alter some part of your perception and functioning; possibly in ways you don't want or can't predict.
I only took classes in school (7-12, undergrad) that I enjoyed. Period. I investigated them before hand and, if I managed to get into a class I didn't like, I lobbied to get switch into another (that I had sat in and enjoyed) or to drop it all together. Jobs and assignments seem to work the same.
I didn't put up with teammates who didn't do their work -- if they missed the second meeting or did no work after having a private chat with them, I informed the instructor and then excluded them from the project. Work projects generally play the same way.
As for BS busy work, I always went to my instructor and told them it was BS and I didn't plan on doing it--and we agreed on something more interesting, and valuable, for me to do. Seems to work with supervisors too.
I suppose my questions are as follows: 1) Why pick work that is routine and unchallenging? (unless that is what you enjoy) 2) Why not ask your supervisor (or instructor) what the point is when you don't 'get' it?
I think a lot of people's working conditions would improve if they talked, openly, with their co-workers and employers from day one.
Well... there is this little thing called democracy... it tends to not work so well when the majority of people (who vote) are ill educated.
If the majority of people are not allowed to (and do not) better themselves and fail to understand the deeper and more nuanced aspects of science and culture, they are ill suited to vote on who should make law; let alone vote directly on any reformation or ordinance.
Democracy requires everyone be well educated or you end up in a situation where in which the populous signs away its liberties and freedoms for security... oh... wait...
The problem with this it takes time, not that people are, necessarily, unable to critically think. The average person certainly isn't lazy--but they are busy.
The average person does not have time to do fact checking about every study they hear on the news. (Yes, I know you were only indicating a few minutes of searching, however, even if I took 5 minutes to do a little searching about every 'study' I hear about in a day, that would be ~2 hours of my time a day; when 8 hours a day are consumed by sleep and 8 more by work, the precious remainder have to be spent carefully.)
The best an average person can hope for, due to time constraints, is to research particular venues of information and determine their own trusted sources of information and the short comings/biases of those sources.
So long as the study comes from a trusted source, and unless the subject of the study is particularly important to them; there is no reason the average person would devote time to research it.
Specific to the Moraelin's post; an RNA doesn't to much by itself. I have yet to see an example of an RNA strand reacting with itself. Even in your example, you posit appropriate sequence and necessary ions.
..applies to wikipedia too; there is a difference between RNA (RiboNucleic Acid) and ribozymes (ribonucleic acid enzymes). Big difference. By itself, RNA does little until processed by ribozymes to make proteins.
This is why I would like to see an MMORPG w/o *any* leveling. Of course, at that point, people would probably fail to see it as an RPG. However, those people probably never played an P'n'P RPG for 2 years where in there was near 0 skill change and little dice rolling.
35% of tax money comes from taxes specifically to fund Social Security and Medicare...
Social Security and Medicare only makeup 33% of expenditure...
If the government is making a 2% profit on Social Security, well...
Of course, this all assumes the cite you referenced is reputable (I did not do any checking regarding that...).
(I didn't look into different, individual entitlements as, well, on the chart you posted a link to there is no definition of what the 'other' category covered.)
Actually, this varies from state to state; when I lived in Arizona you could just give a $100,000 deposit to ADoT's MVD division instead of carrying liability insurance.
Beyond that, you know, some people do break the law... I've known people who have been poor enough that they can't afford their insurance or who didn't have citizenship or who have had their licenses suspended and shouldn't be driving or people who got in so many accidents they were virtually un-insurable... (not that I'm condoning their behavior; I am mentioning them as their, illegal, risks putting *innocent* individuals into severe financial distress if said lawless-individuals cause an accident)
As for your suggestion that we solve the burden of *not* providing medical care if you can't pay it yourself and the injury is the fault of another; how about we extend that to fire and police services as well? I mean, if you can't pay your fire department bill, and your house is on fire, to bad for you. It will suck even harder when you are responcible for your neighbors' houses' damage too... then gain, maybe they shouldn't have built so close to the property line or on so few acres or with so many trees... or buy a house that someone else built that way...
Similarly, if you can't pay the cops how much they are asking for (which, of course, would have to go up during a crisis; got to meet supply and demand) when the crook has a gun to your head, oh well: sucks to be you.
I'm not saying to pay for stupidity, however, if I'm sitting in the parking lot in my properly parked car and a drunk, uninsured driver smashes into me, rendering me severely incapacitated and unconscious, I 1) don't get the 'option' of declining services if someone else calls the EMT's -- I just get the bill upon waking up and 2) shouldn't have to pay for something that is entirely not my fault but is the fault of an unlawful individual. #1 might seem silly, but I've known people who have been rendered unconscious (through no fault of their own), taken to the hospital, then given a bill for care they didn't agree to -- one (who was without medical insurance) would have rather died.
If you want to go to the extreme of making everyone personally responsible for everything that they do; that's fine. I like personal responsibility. But I doubt that you would be willing to accept the true consequences of such a system. Example: Say you do get insurance and then they don't pay out when you get into an accident; what would you do then (especially if the company has no history of any similar behavior)? What if your insurance doesn't cover all your injuries? What if your insurance company goes bankrupt before paying out your claim? etc. The position you seem to be supporting would lay this all down at your feet.
And are you advocating that people let themselves die? or would you advocate EMT's waiting on payment upfront before rendering service to the injured? should we hold good Samaritans liable for medical expense for the unconscious, as the unconscious person obviously didn't chose to call for help?
Why do we just not make the jump and make everything public?
Our information is out there. It is getting leaked. It is being rampantly abused. Why not just make all of our information public?
Why note create nice, neat databases with comfortable user interfaces that can query all of your, currently, personal information? And apply this to *every* one and *every* organization. No clauses for 'national security'. Everyone gets to know everything about everyone whenever they want.
Works well with cameras everywhere and GPS. Should we issue $100,000 in credit in your name? Well... you passed the DNA, finger-print, and retina tests and had the appropriate federal ID and pin; but, lets check the camera closest to your location to make sure that it is you too...
And you could watch our president 24/7 (as well as any other government official you wanted). Rummage through all their financial information and determine where their special interests are.
Of course, server rooms and back-up/long-term storage would have to be monitored as well and the information kept for as long as the media would allow.
True, an oppressive regime *could* abuse this system by turning off the surveillance, however, if we had a well armed and educated populous, this would not be an issue. (Before someone asks, yes, I'm ok with civilians having anti-tank, and larger, weapons. I wish basic arms could be a *requirement*.)
I'm not saying capitalism *is* not for you, just that it might not be for you. Personally, I do not like spending as much time as I do evaluating products and services; I am at the point in my life where I would like things to just work, however, capitalism doesn't work that way.
If you are not constantly scanning the horizons, you might very well not only miss better financial options but unknowingly support the institution of a monopoly by not adopting a smaller, better service firm (this is not to say that smaller firms are better; rather, smaller firms are more fragile. Thus, a *good* small firm will exist for a shorter period unsupported than a larger *good* firm.)
You can get away with doing one-time research for most goods and one-time services, but on-going services and high-maintenance goods (like your IT products and services) require constant attention. Not doing so can actively cause problems for other people in a democratic and capitalistic environment.
All people should be constantly reviewing all their existing insurances, subscriptions, contracts, and providers. Additionally, all people should be attending their local town meetings and planning commissions. All of the meetings. And by all people, I'm including those under 18.
Additionally, all people need to gather their daily news constantly; they can never stop. All people need to research all their purchases, not only for cost and usability, but also for company work place practices, environmental practices, shareholder profits, etc.
If you don't see how this can happen, maybe democracy and capitalism aren't the best venues for you.
Seriously. Democracy and capitalism are not family-friendly political or economic platforms. They require *constant* diligence of *all* parties at *all* levels to work properly (working properly for me is benefiting *all* parties involved).
I'm not saying I'm against them; just that most people are nowhere near willing to insert the amount of time and thought they need into modern choices. Of course, the beauty of both systems is that, by choosing to not make a choice (like choosing to look up data as well as the obvious abstention from deciding), people make a choice.
Please...
I have a 8 month wait to see a dermatologist for a mole that should probably be removed and investigated (my family has an extensive history of skin cancer and my dad's favorite activity when I was young was letting me fry). I don't really have any other options as there is only one located within 4 hours of me.
I say really as, I suppose, I *could* travel further, but I my private (employer provided) insurance will only cover 'local' practitioners. I guess I could pay out of pocket, or have purchased my own health insurance, but, to bring this back to the Canadian example, at that point, what is the difference between me and a Canadian who just hops the boarder here and pays out of pocket too?
Mildly tangential: My PDA/cellphone has no data plan. I got one with wifi access (they do exist). I never understood why people got PDAs/smartphones without wifi access.
That said, yes, the sub-laptop is rather pointless.
...you are. Take hardcore diablo II, after you've been significantly leveled up; granted, it is still just a game, however, 'dying' results in a massive loss of time and energy for the individual involved. The same can be said of old platformers where you only got one life and had to start over back at the beginning when you died.
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Actually, we sort of don't, depending on how you define 'constitution' -- free speech was in the first amendment.
Sadly, the patch is PC only... I had such high hopes with the retail release being a Mac/PC simultaneous release.
Well... non-MS/Apple OS's always seems to work best on slightly older hardware. I don't install Linux on any hardware less than a year old and not normally less than two and expect not to have issues.
Linux/BSD/Whatever-other-OS are not high priority targets for most hardware manufactures. In my experience, hardware manufactures generally take longer to produce drivers for non-MS OS's, if they produce them at all, and do significantly less updating to them. Quite a bit, the community ends up reverse engineering them, using wrappers, or using the most similar available FOSS driver.
As for wifi; Linux wifi support is, in general, bad; though this seems to be more of an issue with the hardware manufacturers rather than the OS.
How long until someone tries that?
I purchased Spore and I have a MacBook Pro for gaming that runs Mac OS 10.5 and Vista 64 bit. I chose to install it under Mac OS and have had no problems.
My optical disk drive is toast. I had to install from my fiancee's drive from targeted disk mode. My Spore disk is never, ever, in my drive. I have not had Spore complain once.
I was actually very happy the game included both PC & Mac versions all for one cost.
I purchased Spore and I have a MacBook Pro for gaming that runs Mac OS 10.5 and Vista 64 bit. I chose to install it under Mac OS and have had no problems.
My optical disk drive is toast. I had to install from my fiancee's drive from targeted disk mode. My Spore disk is never, ever, in my drive. I have not had Spore complain once.
(I know its a little late in the game to respond, but, I haven't seen any crippling DRM; but, they probably just didn't think about crippling the Mac version).
I was actually very happy the game included both PC & Mac versions all for one cost.
(Of course, I've posted this so late no one will read this comment.)
Wasn't there a slashdot article a while back that linked to a study where in which scientists found that branding campaigns do have an unconscious effect on us. When they showed people, briefly and subliminally, the Apple logo, they were more creative than the people who were flashed the IBM logo?
Just because a coke commercial doesn't make you go out and buy coke right now, doesn't mean it doesn't alter some part of your perception and functioning; possibly in ways you don't want or can't predict.
The problem is that once everyone switches to an ad-free pay service, you that service (or services) then add ads in order to increase revenue.
The only real way to stop advertising is to outlaw it.
Yes
I don't know that your theory works universally.
I only took classes in school (7-12, undergrad) that I enjoyed. Period. I investigated them before hand and, if I managed to get into a class I didn't like, I lobbied to get switch into another (that I had sat in and enjoyed) or to drop it all together. Jobs and assignments seem to work the same.
I didn't put up with teammates who didn't do their work -- if they missed the second meeting or did no work after having a private chat with them, I informed the instructor and then excluded them from the project. Work projects generally play the same way.
As for BS busy work, I always went to my instructor and told them it was BS and I didn't plan on doing it--and we agreed on something more interesting, and valuable, for me to do. Seems to work with supervisors too.
I suppose my questions are as follows:
1) Why pick work that is routine and unchallenging? (unless that is what you enjoy)
2) Why not ask your supervisor (or instructor) what the point is when you don't 'get' it?
I think a lot of people's working conditions would improve if they talked, openly, with their co-workers and employers from day one.
Well... there is this little thing called democracy... it tends to not work so well when the majority of people (who vote) are ill educated.
If the majority of people are not allowed to (and do not) better themselves and fail to understand the deeper and more nuanced aspects of science and culture, they are ill suited to vote on who should make law; let alone vote directly on any reformation or ordinance.
Democracy requires everyone be well educated or you end up in a situation where in which the populous signs away its liberties and freedoms for security... oh... wait...
The problem with this it takes time, not that people are, necessarily, unable to critically think. The average person certainly isn't lazy--but they are busy.
The average person does not have time to do fact checking about every study they hear on the news. (Yes, I know you were only indicating a few minutes of searching, however, even if I took 5 minutes to do a little searching about every 'study' I hear about in a day, that would be ~2 hours of my time a day; when 8 hours a day are consumed by sleep and 8 more by work, the precious remainder have to be spent carefully.)
The best an average person can hope for, due to time constraints, is to research particular venues of information and determine their own trusted sources of information and the short comings/biases of those sources.
So long as the study comes from a trusted source, and unless the subject of the study is particularly important to them; there is no reason the average person would devote time to research it.
Specific to the Moraelin's post; an RNA doesn't to much by itself. I have yet to see an example of an RNA strand reacting with itself. Even in your example, you posit appropriate sequence and necessary ions.
Not all RNA will act as enzymes.
..applies to wikipedia too; there is a difference between RNA (RiboNucleic Acid) and ribozymes (ribonucleic acid enzymes). Big difference. By itself, RNA does little until processed by ribozymes to make proteins.
This is why I would like to see an MMORPG w/o *any* leveling. Of course, at that point, people would probably fail to see it as an RPG. However, those people probably never played an P'n'P RPG for 2 years where in there was near 0 skill change and little dice rolling.
Yeah... but look at parent of that page:
http://www.facingup.org/why-it-matters/facts-figures
35% of tax money comes from taxes specifically to fund Social Security and Medicare...
Social Security and Medicare only makeup 33% of expenditure...
If the government is making a 2% profit on Social Security, well...
Of course, this all assumes the cite you referenced is reputable (I did not do any checking regarding that...).
(I didn't look into different, individual entitlements as, well, on the chart you posted a link to there is no definition of what the 'other' category covered.)
Actually, this varies from state to state; when I lived in Arizona you could just give a $100,000 deposit to ADoT's MVD division instead of carrying liability insurance.
Beyond that, you know, some people do break the law... I've known people who have been poor enough that they can't afford their insurance or who didn't have citizenship or who have had their licenses suspended and shouldn't be driving or people who got in so many accidents they were virtually un-insurable... (not that I'm condoning their behavior; I am mentioning them as their, illegal, risks putting *innocent* individuals into severe financial distress if said lawless-individuals cause an accident)
As for your suggestion that we solve the burden of *not* providing medical care if you can't pay it yourself and the injury is the fault of another; how about we extend that to fire and police services as well? I mean, if you can't pay your fire department bill, and your house is on fire, to bad for you. It will suck even harder when you are responcible for your neighbors' houses' damage too... then gain, maybe they shouldn't have built so close to the property line or on so few acres or with so many trees... or buy a house that someone else built that way...
Similarly, if you can't pay the cops how much they are asking for (which, of course, would have to go up during a crisis; got to meet supply and demand) when the crook has a gun to your head, oh well: sucks to be you.
I'm not saying to pay for stupidity, however, if I'm sitting in the parking lot in my properly parked car and a drunk, uninsured driver smashes into me, rendering me severely incapacitated and unconscious, I 1) don't get the 'option' of declining services if someone else calls the EMT's -- I just get the bill upon waking up and 2) shouldn't have to pay for something that is entirely not my fault but is the fault of an unlawful individual. #1 might seem silly, but I've known people who have been rendered unconscious (through no fault of their own), taken to the hospital, then given a bill for care they didn't agree to -- one (who was without medical insurance) would have rather died.
If you want to go to the extreme of making everyone personally responsible for everything that they do; that's fine. I like personal responsibility. But I doubt that you would be willing to accept the true consequences of such a system. Example: Say you do get insurance and then they don't pay out when you get into an accident; what would you do then (especially if the company has no history of any similar behavior)? What if your insurance doesn't cover all your injuries? What if your insurance company goes bankrupt before paying out your claim? etc. The position you seem to be supporting would lay this all down at your feet.
And are you advocating that people let themselves die? or would you advocate EMT's waiting on payment upfront before rendering service to the injured? should we hold good Samaritans liable for medical expense for the unconscious, as the unconscious person obviously didn't chose to call for help?
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed to be able to whine about your whining about whining.... pullllllllease......
Can I whine about your whining about whining?
Why do we just not make the jump and make everything public?
Our information is out there. It is getting leaked. It is being rampantly abused. Why not just make all of our information public?
Why note create nice, neat databases with comfortable user interfaces that can query all of your, currently, personal information? And apply this to *every* one and *every* organization. No clauses for 'national security'. Everyone gets to know everything about everyone whenever they want.
Works well with cameras everywhere and GPS. Should we issue $100,000 in credit in your name? Well... you passed the DNA, finger-print, and retina tests and had the appropriate federal ID and pin; but, lets check the camera closest to your location to make sure that it is you too...
And you could watch our president 24/7 (as well as any other government official you wanted). Rummage through all their financial information and determine where their special interests are.
Of course, server rooms and back-up/long-term storage would have to be monitored as well and the information kept for as long as the media would allow.
True, an oppressive regime *could* abuse this system by turning off the surveillance, however, if we had a well armed and educated populous, this would not be an issue. (Before someone asks, yes, I'm ok with civilians having anti-tank, and larger, weapons. I wish basic arms could be a *requirement*.)
I'm not saying capitalism *is* not for you, just that it might not be for you. Personally, I do not like spending as much time as I do evaluating products and services; I am at the point in my life where I would like things to just work, however, capitalism doesn't work that way.
If you are not constantly scanning the horizons, you might very well not only miss better financial options but unknowingly support the institution of a monopoly by not adopting a smaller, better service firm (this is not to say that smaller firms are better; rather, smaller firms are more fragile. Thus, a *good* small firm will exist for a shorter period unsupported than a larger *good* firm.)
You can get away with doing one-time research for most goods and one-time services, but on-going services and high-maintenance goods (like your IT products and services) require constant attention. Not doing so can actively cause problems for other people in a democratic and capitalistic environment.
Maybe, at this point, you need less services.
All people should be constantly reviewing all their existing insurances, subscriptions, contracts, and providers. Additionally, all people should be attending their local town meetings and planning commissions. All of the meetings. And by all people, I'm including those under 18.
Additionally, all people need to gather their daily news constantly; they can never stop. All people need to research all their purchases, not only for cost and usability, but also for company work place practices, environmental practices, shareholder profits, etc.
If you don't see how this can happen, maybe democracy and capitalism aren't the best venues for you.
Seriously. Democracy and capitalism are not family-friendly political or economic platforms. They require *constant* diligence of *all* parties at *all* levels to work properly (working properly for me is benefiting *all* parties involved).
I'm not saying I'm against them; just that most people are nowhere near willing to insert the amount of time and thought they need into modern choices. Of course, the beauty of both systems is that, by choosing to not make a choice (like choosing to look up data as well as the obvious abstention from deciding), people make a choice.
Please... I have a 8 month wait to see a dermatologist for a mole that should probably be removed and investigated (my family has an extensive history of skin cancer and my dad's favorite activity when I was young was letting me fry). I don't really have any other options as there is only one located within 4 hours of me. I say really as, I suppose, I *could* travel further, but I my private (employer provided) insurance will only cover 'local' practitioners. I guess I could pay out of pocket, or have purchased my own health insurance, but, to bring this back to the Canadian example, at that point, what is the difference between me and a Canadian who just hops the boarder here and pays out of pocket too?
Mildly tangential: My PDA/cellphone has no data plan. I got one with wifi access (they do exist). I never understood why people got PDAs/smartphones without wifi access.
That said, yes, the sub-laptop is rather pointless.
...you are. Take hardcore diablo II, after you've been significantly leveled up; granted, it is still just a game, however, 'dying' results in a massive loss of time and energy for the individual involved. The same can be said of old platformers where you only got one life and had to start over back at the beginning when you died.