I would worry more about the cost of the toner than the cost of the printer. Laser printer toner cartridges are much more expensive than ink-jet, at least the last time I checked.
Well, pacman does eat ghosts. Of course, they are already dead. I don't know where the percentage comes from though.
Publishers should just say what is in the content and let viewers or parents decide:
N - Nudity
S - Sex (or simulated Sex, S without an N)
V - Violence
A - Adult themes or content
L - Foul language
X - Perverted or gratuitous in any of the above categories.
Many R rated movies would be S,V,A,L
I think that most parents could understand this system better. Of course, many of us would look for the most marks before we watched a movie.
HP did not become huge because of their investments in R&D. They became huge because they offered products and services that people wanted. R&D may have contributed to their great products and therefore to their success, however all that says is that most successful companies must do at least some R&D if they want to deliver great products.
The reason that companies turn to defense contracts is because it is a form of welfare. They don't have to work as hard and can waste a lot of money. Who wouldn't want a guaranteed customer for a certain period of time? The original article only shows that it is human nature to seek out this type of welfare. This guy probably went from living at home to living at school, and now wants to live off someone else's dime when he leaves school. A lot of scientists are socialist types because they get their bread and butter from this type of welfare.
1. Imagine that there exists one major street that almost everyone drives down. 2. Imagine that this street has a limited number of billboards for advertisements. 3. Imagine that Google controls all of these billboards on this most major street. 4. Imagine that this is why businesses throw money at Google. 5. Imagine that many small businesses can only afford a very small sign on this road and that their signs are often hidden in the trees.
Now imagine that Google is charging each business by how many cars pass by their sign. See the problem?
People should fear Google as much or more than they do Microsoft, but they are blinded by the delilah.
One of the biggest, richest companies around is Google (at least as far as their market cap goes). It was started by two college students only about ten years ago. It has quite a large bit of money going towards R&D. Those "greedy" leftists sure make great capitalists. God Bless the USA.
Actually, the leftists will all have us growing organic food and living "simple lives" in a commune. Technological innovation will be low priority, as nobody will want to learn math because they won't get rewarded for it (any more than doing simple chores, anyway). People will start trading chores that they don't like with each other, which will bring back a form of Capitalism. Soon, everyone will realize how stupid forcing everyone to be equal is, then Capitalism will prevail again. Jealousy will continue to be part of human nature, etc. (Oh, and people will finally realize that Linux is based on ancient 1970s Unix technology, and is nothing all that new or great.)
That is true, but one can also hold a business card or small photograph up to one's face and never ask the question of how much DPI it has. Why do we do it for a small computer screen? Once all screens have a certain "high enough" DPI, the only time one would worry about DPI is when one wants to have a very large poster sized screen (and wants to work on it up close in order to have more desktop space or whatever). Even photographers have to worry about DPI in these cases.
When we work with real objects, we work with inches and millimeters, we don't work with pixels. We used to count bytes back when memory was expensive and computers did not have much of it, but we are moving away from that. I see the same thing happening with pixel counting too.
There's nothing wrong with higher resolutions in smaller screens. The problem is that GUI components are often based on pixel measurements rather than inches or millimeters. An inch is an inch, no matter how many pixels one can fit into it. The more pixels, the finer the detail, which should be what we are striving for. Vector based images have no problem in this scheme, it is raster images that must be scaled and anti-aliased which can sometimes make them look a bit blurry or even blocky. Once screens get away from being 72 DPI and start having paper like resolutions, this will be less of an issue. Graphics layout should be in millimeters or inches rather than pixels or DPI. Screens will obviously still have a DPI, but people will want to buy the screen that has the higher DPI just like they do with a printer or scanner.
Wikipedia isn't free of bias either. Why the desire to include current events/hot topics in Wikipedia, for instance? Also, wikipedia entries change so often that one month Dick Cheney's entry has a picture of him with cake on his face, the next month it is no longer there.
Alarmists have been saying this stuff for years. The US beat the British (twice), survived a bloody civil war, gotten through a great depression, beat fascism, beat communism, put a man on the moon, etc. We will also be victorious over leftists (lots of them on slashdot, apparently), the Islamic extremists, and those who seek to advance Junk Science for some political agenda or whatever. Meanwhile, Capitalism will survive, the planet will survive, and the truth will prevail. Most of us will probably not survive the next 100 years though, as our lifespan does not allow us to.
Scientists in 1976 said that massive global cooling was going to happen and proposed ideas such as spreading tar over the ice at the poles in order to absorb heat from the sun. Good thing we didn't listen to them then! Anyone with half a brain can figure out that the earth has been warming since the last ice age. We aren't in an ice age anymore and glaciers have slowly been disappearing. (Of course, Greenland used to be green and England used to be known for its wine.) It must be a conspiracy by those evil Capitalists. I think we should all turn communist and call everyone who doesn't agree with us liars!
Not every DMV is inefficient, badly managed, or hostile to the customer. The one I use is the most efficient public service I've ever seen, and most services are available online anyway.
I suppose I should have written "like America's typical large town DMVs".
Hitler loved the socialist ideas as long as they could only benefit people of "German blood". You picked a real good example to show your understanding of what socialist ideas are there.
I was attempting to dispel the myth that right-wing in America equates to Hitler or Skinheads. Many of the socialists in Germany at the time turned communist. This led to the left wing being communist and the right wing being socialist. In America, many blue collar, FDR loving Union workers of the 60s were racists (many still are).
the Executive Branch has asserted more authority than I believe they are entitled.
I remember hearing about the super spy project of the NSA called "Echelon" during the Clinton era. I never heard one Democrat speak out against it during that time. The income tax is one of the biggest invasion of one's privacy, yet I never hear Democrats speak out against it. Internet companies buy and sell our personal information, yet the government does nothing about that. Our social security numbers were never meant to be a form of ID, but everyone seems to ask for it and the government has done virtually nothing to limit its use. The left invades our privacy in order to take our money and to socially engineer, the right invades our privacy in order to "protect us." I don't know which is worse.
In my opinion, the activist Judicial branch has done way more over-reaching than the Executive branch. At least the Executive branch is popularly elected.
Socialism and the "mentality of entitlement" that socialism breads are probably the main reasons why socialist countries do not produce the number of good startups. Socialists strive for mediocrity (equality is the same thing as mediocrity, if you think about it). Socialists believe that one is born, one pays lots of taxes, one works, one has lots of pleasure, one maybe raises children, and one dies. They believe that happiness comes from not standing out. People in the U.S. strive for something above that.
(yet) a police state
Please! The socialist countries of Europe (and even Canada) are a lot closer to being a police state than the U.S. has ever been. Just because they are more liberal in certain areas does not mean that they don't spy on their own citizens, treat people like cattle by making them wait in lines (like our DMV), collect information on what people have in their houses for tax reasons, etc.
Everyone seems to think that right wing = police state, which is not really the case here in America. Nazis were socialists. The KKK are socialists. They should not be considered right wing as far as American politics go. The most extreme right wing in America looks like a fairly liberal semi-theocracy.
The whole "right" vs "privilege" argument is silly. Rights are only guaranteed by a people's ability to agree on them and protect them. Privileges are something we give children because they live under a dictatorship until they are adults. Our government does not grant privileges, but rather it protects its citizen's rights. The government serves us, not the other way around. With rights come responsibilities, which is where the entertainment company failed and where the rating system comes into play.
The KKK is socialist, therefore they are "left wing" as far as American politics go. The south has largely voted Democrat until the 1980s. In fact, the whole south voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976. Many racists are also blue collar union workers. I don't think they "moved" right. What happened was the Democrats, who used to be for traditional family values, have moved to the extreme left.
You are a victim of your own propaganda. I agree that America should take the high road and that we have done a lot of damage to our reputation, but when a family member has a problem you talk to the family member about it and try to resolve the problem. You don't try to publicly humiliate the family member. You and your fellow leftists are a disgrace.
Let's say that four of your family members were kidnapped by several people and you knew that they were going to be killed within a few days. Let's also say that you managed to capture one of the kidnappers. Do you try to find out where your family members are located through something other than being nice, or do you try to setup a court date for the kidnapper and spend millions of dollars to try to make sure he is treated justly? Which is more important, justice for your family or justice for the kidnapper? You cannot have it both ways, particularly during a time of war.
Which is why Sen. Byrd, grand master of the KKK, is a welcomed Democrat to this day. Southern racists were Democrats all the way up until Newt Gingrich. What has really happened is that the unions have weakened as the economy has strengthened and diversified, and leftists can no longer pit worker against manager or rich against poor. Now the Democrats are mostly made of leftist anti-Christians. Reagan Democrats have been pushed out of the party.
Actually, many conservatives are for minimal anti-trust laws as long as they are fair to business and competition. I'm not a big fan of Nixon, as I think he did more harm than good. You are right though.
Here are some other facts:
Most "racist" southerners were Democrats at the time of the civil rights movement.
Democrats controlled the presidency when we got into WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. Now they act like the anti-war party!
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Apparently, you've never run a business. If you had, you would know that even when you work for someone else, you are your own business.
How about even before Apple:
http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html
I would worry more about the cost of the toner than the cost of the printer. Laser printer toner cartridges are much more expensive than ink-jet, at least the last time I checked.
Well, pacman does eat ghosts. Of course, they are already dead. I don't know where the percentage comes from though.
Publishers should just say what is in the content and let viewers or parents decide:
N - Nudity
S - Sex (or simulated Sex, S without an N)
V - Violence
A - Adult themes or content
L - Foul language
X - Perverted or gratuitous in any of the above categories.
Many R rated movies would be S,V,A,L
I think that most parents could understand this system better. Of course, many of us would look for the most marks before we watched a movie.
HP did not become huge because of their investments in R&D. They became huge because they offered products and services that people wanted. R&D may have contributed to their great products and therefore to their success, however all that says is that most successful companies must do at least some R&D if they want to deliver great products.
The reason that companies turn to defense contracts is because it is a form of welfare. They don't have to work as hard and can waste a lot of money. Who wouldn't want a guaranteed customer for a certain period of time? The original article only shows that it is human nature to seek out this type of welfare. This guy probably went from living at home to living at school, and now wants to live off someone else's dime when he leaves school. A lot of scientists are socialist types because they get their bread and butter from this type of welfare.
Socialists need those people at the top who are not as equal as everyone else. See how it works? Orwell was right.
1. Imagine that there exists one major street that almost everyone drives down.
2. Imagine that this street has a limited number of billboards for advertisements.
3. Imagine that Google controls all of these billboards on this most major street.
4. Imagine that this is why businesses throw money at Google.
5. Imagine that many small businesses can only afford a very small sign on this road and that their signs are often hidden in the trees.
Now imagine that Google is charging each business by how many cars pass by their sign. See the problem?
People should fear Google as much or more than they do Microsoft, but they are blinded by the delilah.
In other words, Clinton did one thing right and smaller government is better. Where is the proof that innovation is moving overseas?
Google
One of the biggest, richest companies around is Google (at least as far as their market cap goes). It was started by two college students only about ten years ago. It has quite a large bit of money going towards R&D. Those "greedy" leftists sure make great capitalists. God Bless the USA.
Actually, the leftists will all have us growing organic food and living "simple lives" in a commune. Technological innovation will be low priority, as nobody will want to learn math because they won't get rewarded for it (any more than doing simple chores, anyway). People will start trading chores that they don't like with each other, which will bring back a form of Capitalism. Soon, everyone will realize how stupid forcing everyone to be equal is, then Capitalism will prevail again. Jealousy will continue to be part of human nature, etc. (Oh, and people will finally realize that Linux is based on ancient 1970s Unix technology, and is nothing all that new or great.)
That is true, but one can also hold a business card or small photograph up to one's face and never ask the question of how much DPI it has. Why do we do it for a small computer screen? Once all screens have a certain "high enough" DPI, the only time one would worry about DPI is when one wants to have a very large poster sized screen (and wants to work on it up close in order to have more desktop space or whatever). Even photographers have to worry about DPI in these cases.
When we work with real objects, we work with inches and millimeters, we don't work with pixels. We used to count bytes back when memory was expensive and computers did not have much of it, but we are moving away from that. I see the same thing happening with pixel counting too.
There's nothing wrong with higher resolutions in smaller screens. The problem is that GUI components are often based on pixel measurements rather than inches or millimeters. An inch is an inch, no matter how many pixels one can fit into it. The more pixels, the finer the detail, which should be what we are striving for. Vector based images have no problem in this scheme, it is raster images that must be scaled and anti-aliased which can sometimes make them look a bit blurry or even blocky. Once screens get away from being 72 DPI and start having paper like resolutions, this will be less of an issue. Graphics layout should be in millimeters or inches rather than pixels or DPI. Screens will obviously still have a DPI, but people will want to buy the screen that has the higher DPI just like they do with a printer or scanner.
Wikipedia isn't free of bias either. Why the desire to include current events/hot topics in Wikipedia, for instance? Also, wikipedia entries change so often that one month Dick Cheney's entry has a picture of him with cake on his face, the next month it is no longer there.
Alarmists have been saying this stuff for years. The US beat the British (twice), survived a bloody civil war, gotten through a great depression, beat fascism, beat communism, put a man on the moon, etc. We will also be victorious over leftists (lots of them on slashdot, apparently), the Islamic extremists, and those who seek to advance Junk Science for some political agenda or whatever. Meanwhile, Capitalism will survive, the planet will survive, and the truth will prevail. Most of us will probably not survive the next 100 years though, as our lifespan does not allow us to.
It's about time one of the richest leftist Capitalists starting giving away fish.
Scientists in 1976 said that massive global cooling was going to happen and proposed ideas such as spreading tar over the ice at the poles in order to absorb heat from the sun. Good thing we didn't listen to them then! Anyone with half a brain can figure out that the earth has been warming since the last ice age. We aren't in an ice age anymore and glaciers have slowly been disappearing. (Of course, Greenland used to be green and England used to be known for its wine.) It must be a conspiracy by those evil Capitalists. I think we should all turn communist and call everyone who doesn't agree with us liars!
Not every DMV is inefficient, badly managed, or hostile to the customer. The one I use is the most efficient public service I've ever seen, and most services are available online anyway.
I suppose I should have written "like America's typical large town DMVs".
Hitler loved the socialist ideas as long as they could only benefit people of "German blood". You picked a real good example to show your understanding of what socialist ideas are there.
I was attempting to dispel the myth that right-wing in America equates to Hitler or Skinheads. Many of the socialists in Germany at the time turned communist. This led to the left wing being communist and the right wing being socialist. In America, many blue collar, FDR loving Union workers of the 60s were racists (many still are).
the Executive Branch has asserted more authority than I believe they are entitled.
I remember hearing about the super spy project of the NSA called "Echelon" during the Clinton era. I never heard one Democrat speak out against it during that time. The income tax is one of the biggest invasion of one's privacy, yet I never hear Democrats speak out against it. Internet companies buy and sell our personal information, yet the government does nothing about that. Our social security numbers were never meant to be a form of ID, but everyone seems to ask for it and the government has done virtually nothing to limit its use. The left invades our privacy in order to take our money and to socially engineer, the right invades our privacy in order to "protect us." I don't know which is worse.
In my opinion, the activist Judicial branch has done way more over-reaching than the Executive branch. At least the Executive branch is popularly elected.
Socialism and the "mentality of entitlement" that socialism breads are probably the main reasons why socialist countries do not produce the number of good startups. Socialists strive for mediocrity (equality is the same thing as mediocrity, if you think about it). Socialists believe that one is born, one pays lots of taxes, one works, one has lots of pleasure, one maybe raises children, and one dies. They believe that happiness comes from not standing out. People in the U.S. strive for something above that.
(yet) a police state
Please! The socialist countries of Europe (and even Canada) are a lot closer to being a police state than the U.S. has ever been. Just because they are more liberal in certain areas does not mean that they don't spy on their own citizens, treat people like cattle by making them wait in lines (like our DMV), collect information on what people have in their houses for tax reasons, etc.
Everyone seems to think that right wing = police state, which is not really the case here in America. Nazis were socialists. The KKK are socialists. They should not be considered right wing as far as American politics go. The most extreme right wing in America looks like a fairly liberal semi-theocracy.
The whole "right" vs "privilege" argument is silly. Rights are only guaranteed by a people's ability to agree on them and protect them. Privileges are something we give children because they live under a dictatorship until they are adults. Our government does not grant privileges, but rather it protects its citizen's rights. The government serves us, not the other way around. With rights come responsibilities, which is where the entertainment company failed and where the rating system comes into play.
The KKK is socialist, therefore they are "left wing" as far as American politics go. The south has largely voted Democrat until the 1980s. In fact, the whole south voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976. Many racists are also blue collar union workers. I don't think they "moved" right. What happened was the Democrats, who used to be for traditional family values, have moved to the extreme left.
You are a victim of your own propaganda. I agree that America should take the high road and that we have done a lot of damage to our reputation, but when a family member has a problem you talk to the family member about it and try to resolve the problem. You don't try to publicly humiliate the family member. You and your fellow leftists are a disgrace. Let's say that four of your family members were kidnapped by several people and you knew that they were going to be killed within a few days. Let's also say that you managed to capture one of the kidnappers. Do you try to find out where your family members are located through something other than being nice, or do you try to setup a court date for the kidnapper and spend millions of dollars to try to make sure he is treated justly? Which is more important, justice for your family or justice for the kidnapper? You cannot have it both ways, particularly during a time of war.
Which is why Sen. Byrd, grand master of the KKK, is a welcomed Democrat to this day. Southern racists were Democrats all the way up until Newt Gingrich. What has really happened is that the unions have weakened as the economy has strengthened and diversified, and leftists can no longer pit worker against manager or rich against poor. Now the Democrats are mostly made of leftist anti-Christians. Reagan Democrats have been pushed out of the party.
Hence the word "even" before FDR. It is called being devil's advocate.
Actually, many conservatives are for minimal anti-trust laws as long as they are fair to business and competition. I'm not a big fan of Nixon, as I think he did more harm than good. You are right though.
Here are some other facts:
Most "racist" southerners were Democrats at the time of the civil rights movement.
Democrats controlled the presidency when we got into WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. Now they act like the anti-war party!