What's this government for, of, and by the people coming to? How dare they solicit our help... Tax us to death and hire the usual incompetent rubes to mismanage, misdirect and overpay the contractors like usual. Kennedy was just saying those things so he could distract us from the real problems of the time.
You must be joking? Why are we now linking to a Fox new site?
Regardless, if this book was intended for children then it absolutely makes sense to have a warning label. If you cannot understand why then I would suggest that you brush up on your history. I'm not even referring exclusively to slave era history. Have a look at the filth that was published during McCarthyism's reign. Simply because the Constitution happens to be nested within the same book does not mean that ideals of justice, liberty, etc. are being claimed to be relics from a bygone era. It means that the dehumanization of non-European peoples, subservience of women, etc. are notions to be found within the documents contained in this book. They are cautioning the parent of this and advising them that they should discuss this with their children.
If I could get 5.2Mbps off my 3G I'd seriously consider dropping Crapcast much like how they randomly drop my modem off their network when I have connections to something on anything other than port 80. 3G at least here in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area is usually sub 1Mbps regardless of what may or may not be advertised.
It unfortunately tries (unsuccessfully) to perform throttling based upon load rather than having discrete under/overclocking modes as the proprietary Catalyst driver does. The result of which is that the GPU always draws excessive amounts of power even when running off the battery. The only real solution at this point is to swap out the open source driver for the ATI proprietary one and then use the "aticonfig" utility to set the power state according to your need at the time. Other non-GPU optimizations can be done as well, however, the power wasting the GPU is doing with the xf86 drivers is an order of magnitude greater.
That might make sense but we are talking about people who don't make sense. For instance appliance manufacturers use focus groups to ensure that their appliances sound like they're doing a good job of cleaning. The typical result is of course not the most quite appliance but usually something noisy because a noisy appliance sounds like it is doing a better job.
The target audience of TFA would certainly NOT comprehend what was going on. The site isn't for engineers or others with logic and abstraction skills, it's simply a site for people with an "oooh, shiny!" complex.
Here in America we have laws that protect mega-corporations enabling them to make insanely complicated contracts and inserting clauses about how they own your soul and can harvest your body parts whenever they please.
That's a work around to the rant. As a software engineer the more screen real-estate I have the better. However I'm not a geriatric. I don't need my text to be huge. I want to be able to display more on my screen not just make it look bigger. I'd also rather prefer it to be one monolithic display not a collection of disjointed ones where monitor frames cut down the middle of my content. The pixel pitch should not increase as I move up in physical dimension. Some where between 0.24 and 0.26 would be fine, but give it to me on a 30"+ 16:10 display that doesn't cost $1000+.
the more impressed I am by his lack of respect for the status quo of government IT. Keep up the good work. It's about about time someone applied some common sense.
It is funny how people like to take the 1 in 100 case and hold it up as a reason to not criticize the other 99. The fact of the matter is that the other 99% of the people who are as big around as they are tall got that way because they eat in horrible excess and move only in as much is as necessary to obtain and place food in their face.
I have sympathy for those 1% that have a legitimate, out of their control reason for their size. However, if I were to head to the casino with the same odds as I would have claiming that every randomly encountered morbidly obese person I met got that way due to their destructive lifestyle I'd break the bank.
The main problem I have with the 99% who can help it isn't that their countenance makes one nauseous. It's that they disproportionately and as excessively as they eat food consume funds from social treasuries be they private or public. My taxes, private insurance premiums, hospital fees, USDA crop subsidies, etc. should not be spent perpetuating their lifestyles of gluttonous excess.
Frankly using a mathematically provable means of describing all manner of (if not all) legal requirements would be an excellent idea. The notion of gray-areas wherein judge and jury have traditionally run wild would be non-existent. One could apply legal requirements to any case with absolute confidence of the outcome regardless of venue. Court proceedings would consist of nothing but what they were intended to consist of, the determination of givens.
Of course it's a useless figure. It's useless for many different reasons. First, when it comes to them purchasing services they are not paying Americans but their own kinsmen whom also work for a fraction of an American wage. When they purchase rent, food, or in general any domestically produced commodity intended for the local market they are purchasing it at prices in balance with the household budget of their average citizen not America's.
The comparisons are as equally ridiculous as comparing the price of American goods and services today with those of 10, 20, 50, 100 years ago. In the 1920's using your average annual salary of $1236 you could get a car for $300 but can you really compare it to a car of today? Likewise with that $1236 salary you could purchase a four room house in Wisconsin for $3000 or rent a two bedroom flat in New York for $40/month but would they even remotely compare to a modern one? Recall that the Rural electrification act wasn't going to happen for another 16 years.
So you're suggesting that Americans should redirect their labor from office jobs and other services to manufacturing and generally speaking, collapse the economy to industrial revolution levels where there was no such thing as the middle-class. Seeing as we're doing that we dispatch with higher education since sewing t-shirts doesn't really require one. Besides, who could afford one anyway? Mean while in all those countries where we were once purchasing their manufacturing labor, now having no buyers they themselves collapse into agrarian tribal societies. But hey, when we put on that $200 Walmart t-shirt at least we can be proud of the fact that it has a "made in the USA" label on it.
Then again, perhaps since China, India, and the rest of the developing economies are working hard to develop highly-skilled/well-trained labor forces using the money we once gave them for their labor they will be in a position to buy our manufactured goods! Just think of it now! The "made in the USA" label will be found in countries the world over. How proud we will feel as we work 15 hour days for $20/hr to buy our $200 t-shirts!
You sir are an economic genius! Not only do I wish to subscribe to your newsletter but I also want to send you to political office.
Flash has worked for some time now with no trouble on both 32 and 64 bit installations of Linux. I think you should reevaluate... The only real reason for using Windows (and there's still the possibility of dual-boot) is for computer gaming or if there are requirements of running certain heavy weight/OS intrusive Windows application (such as Office) for school. For kids that are not yet savvy about avoiding malware infested web sites Linux is probably the first choice for reliability/safety.
From a geek perspective the notion of "total control" via a web app is appealing but not necessarily the optimal choice for parenting. There's a fine balancing act that needs to take place between protecting your kids and developing within them a sense of responsibility and self-control/discipline. It's an unenviable task with parameters unique to the individual child. Done properly the parent should be able to continue to extend additional rope from which the child may hang themselves yet they will continue to do the responsible thing and not do so. I've seen plenty of well meaning parents do quite the opposite--they're often called helicopter parents--that control and shelter all aspects of the kid's life until they're out on their own as adults. These kids have no idea how to function on their own and often make and persist in making catastrophic choices for themselves. Few things are as heart wrenching as watching these people destroy the first decade or more of their adult life for lack of skills that should have been developed in childhood.
The milk jug "lid" is to lift the CD off of the floor of the microwave in order to enhance the light show (lasts about 10 seconds). Other similar non-metal items will work as well...
Perhaps a certain set of users would see things differently but I personally would much rather pay for a replacement table saw than to have to have my finger(s) sewn back on...
And if you hadn't found a replacement? How long could you have paid into COBRA to maintain coverage? Nothing short of a miracle would have enabled you to buy your own coverage given your wife's preexisting issues.
Our system works fine if you're healthy and employed. Find yourself unable to work, esp. for reasons of illness or injury and the ability to maintain coverage evaporates as fast as your income. Medical issues are one of the leading reasons for bankruptcy. Which of course causes hospitals to pass the loss onto everyone else.
I'm not sure why local, regional, or national should make much of a difference in whether or not government managed is ok or not.
But since you want to play that same tired mantra of "my [insert geo-political division here] knows what's best for us (except when it tells me something I don't like), how dare you [insert other geo-political division here] try to tell us what to do?" You realize that if you're looking to create in efficiencies in a system one of the fastest ways to do it is to duplicate services and infrastructure, especially on the administrative side.
I'm really getting tired of the f*** everyone but me isolationists. Everyone else is busy working hard to provide for a fair and prosperous society and you folks are reaping all manner of the benefit while spitting in our face demanding the right to not have to contribute. If you want to be an isolationist, get out of my government and get off my lawn. There are plenty of places you could go where you must survive by your wit and personal resources and no one but your neighbor living in the same manner to interfere with how you choose to go about it. Societies were formed to provide a better life for all, if you don't want to be a contributing member of it then leave.
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What's this government for, of, and by the people coming to? How dare they solicit our help... Tax us to death and hire the usual incompetent rubes to mismanage, misdirect and overpay the contractors like usual. Kennedy was just saying those things so he could distract us from the real problems of the time.
You must be joking? Why are we now linking to a Fox new site?
Regardless, if this book was intended for children then it absolutely makes sense to have a warning label. If you cannot understand why then I would suggest that you brush up on your history. I'm not even referring exclusively to slave era history. Have a look at the filth that was published during McCarthyism's reign. Simply because the Constitution happens to be nested within the same book does not mean that ideals of justice, liberty, etc. are being claimed to be relics from a bygone era. It means that the dehumanization of non-European peoples, subservience of women, etc. are notions to be found within the documents contained in this book. They are cautioning the parent of this and advising them that they should discuss this with their children.
If I could get 5.2Mbps off my 3G I'd seriously consider dropping Crapcast much like how they randomly drop my modem off their network when I have connections to something on anything other than port 80. 3G at least here in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area is usually sub 1Mbps regardless of what may or may not be advertised.
It unfortunately tries (unsuccessfully) to perform throttling based upon load rather than having discrete under/overclocking modes as the proprietary Catalyst driver does. The result of which is that the GPU always draws excessive amounts of power even when running off the battery. The only real solution at this point is to swap out the open source driver for the ATI proprietary one and then use the "aticonfig" utility to set the power state according to your need at the time. Other non-GPU optimizations can be done as well, however, the power wasting the GPU is doing with the xf86 drivers is an order of magnitude greater.
But what about February 0.9 to February 1.1, or perhaps December 0.8 to June 1.4?
That might make sense but we are talking about people who don't make sense. For instance appliance manufacturers use focus groups to ensure that their appliances sound like they're doing a good job of cleaning. The typical result is of course not the most quite appliance but usually something noisy because a noisy appliance sounds like it is doing a better job.
The target audience of TFA would certainly NOT comprehend what was going on. The site isn't for engineers or others with logic and abstraction skills, it's simply a site for people with an "oooh, shiny!" complex.
Here in America we have laws that protect mega-corporations enabling them to make insanely complicated contracts and inserting clauses about how they own your soul and can harvest your body parts whenever they please.
There fixed that for ya...
make some progress on the orbital debris problem. Nothing like taking away an American's television to spur the democracy into action.
That's a work around to the rant. As a software engineer the more screen real-estate I have the better. However I'm not a geriatric. I don't need my text to be huge. I want to be able to display more on my screen not just make it look bigger. I'd also rather prefer it to be one monolithic display not a collection of disjointed ones where monitor frames cut down the middle of my content. The pixel pitch should not increase as I move up in physical dimension. Some where between 0.24 and 0.26 would be fine, but give it to me on a 30"+ 16:10 display that doesn't cost $1000+.
the more impressed I am by his lack of respect for the status quo of government IT. Keep up the good work. It's about about time someone applied some common sense.
It is funny how people like to take the 1 in 100 case and hold it up as a reason to not criticize the other 99. The fact of the matter is that the other 99% of the people who are as big around as they are tall got that way because they eat in horrible excess and move only in as much is as necessary to obtain and place food in their face.
I have sympathy for those 1% that have a legitimate, out of their control reason for their size. However, if I were to head to the casino with the same odds as I would have claiming that every randomly encountered morbidly obese person I met got that way due to their destructive lifestyle I'd break the bank.
The main problem I have with the 99% who can help it isn't that their countenance makes one nauseous. It's that they disproportionately and as excessively as they eat food consume funds from social treasuries be they private or public. My taxes, private insurance premiums, hospital fees, USDA crop subsidies, etc. should not be spent perpetuating their lifestyles of gluttonous excess.
Frankly using a mathematically provable means of describing all manner of (if not all) legal requirements would be an excellent idea. The notion of gray-areas wherein judge and jury have traditionally run wild would be non-existent. One could apply legal requirements to any case with absolute confidence of the outcome regardless of venue. Court proceedings would consist of nothing but what they were intended to consist of, the determination of givens.
I think you're missing the point. Just think what the ramifications are if the results of this experiment can be repeated!
Now if you will excuse me I have some shares in Nintendo to purchase...
Perhaps this?
While it's nothing to write home about, these factories also provide room and board which should be factored into the compensation they are receiving.
Of course it's a useless figure. It's useless for many different reasons. First, when it comes to them purchasing services they are not paying Americans but their own kinsmen whom also work for a fraction of an American wage. When they purchase rent, food, or in general any domestically produced commodity intended for the local market they are purchasing it at prices in balance with the household budget of their average citizen not America's.
The comparisons are as equally ridiculous as comparing the price of American goods and services today with those of 10, 20, 50, 100 years ago. In the 1920's using your average annual salary of $1236 you could get a car for $300 but can you really compare it to a car of today? Likewise with that $1236 salary you could purchase a four room house in Wisconsin for $3000 or rent a two bedroom flat in New York for $40/month but would they even remotely compare to a modern one? Recall that the Rural electrification act wasn't going to happen for another 16 years.
So you're suggesting that Americans should redirect their labor from office jobs and other services to manufacturing and generally speaking, collapse the economy to industrial revolution levels where there was no such thing as the middle-class. Seeing as we're doing that we dispatch with higher education since sewing t-shirts doesn't really require one. Besides, who could afford one anyway? Mean while in all those countries where we were once purchasing their manufacturing labor, now having no buyers they themselves collapse into agrarian tribal societies. But hey, when we put on that $200 Walmart t-shirt at least we can be proud of the fact that it has a "made in the USA" label on it.
Then again, perhaps since China, India, and the rest of the developing economies are working hard to develop highly-skilled/well-trained labor forces using the money we once gave them for their labor they will be in a position to buy our manufactured goods! Just think of it now! The "made in the USA" label will be found in countries the world over. How proud we will feel as we work 15 hour days for $20/hr to buy our $200 t-shirts!
You sir are an economic genius! Not only do I wish to subscribe to your newsletter but I also want to send you to political office.
Flash has worked for some time now with no trouble on both 32 and 64 bit installations of Linux. I think you should reevaluate... The only real reason for using Windows (and there's still the possibility of dual-boot) is for computer gaming or if there are requirements of running certain heavy weight/OS intrusive Windows application (such as Office) for school. For kids that are not yet savvy about avoiding malware infested web sites Linux is probably the first choice for reliability/safety.
From a geek perspective the notion of "total control" via a web app is appealing but not necessarily the optimal choice for parenting. There's a fine balancing act that needs to take place between protecting your kids and developing within them a sense of responsibility and self-control/discipline. It's an unenviable task with parameters unique to the individual child. Done properly the parent should be able to continue to extend additional rope from which the child may hang themselves yet they will continue to do the responsible thing and not do so. I've seen plenty of well meaning parents do quite the opposite--they're often called helicopter parents--that control and shelter all aspects of the kid's life until they're out on their own as adults. These kids have no idea how to function on their own and often make and persist in making catastrophic choices for themselves. Few things are as heart wrenching as watching these people destroy the first decade or more of their adult life for lack of skills that should have been developed in childhood.
It would seem to me that if such hardware were available then the development of drivers would set a new world record for shortest development cycle.
The milk jug "lid" is to lift the CD off of the floor of the microwave in order to enhance the light show (lasts about 10 seconds). Other similar non-metal items will work as well...
Perhaps a certain set of users would see things differently but I personally would much rather pay for a replacement table saw than to have to have my finger(s) sewn back on...
And if you hadn't found a replacement? How long could you have paid into COBRA to maintain coverage? Nothing short of a miracle would have enabled you to buy your own coverage given your wife's preexisting issues.
Our system works fine if you're healthy and employed. Find yourself unable to work, esp. for reasons of illness or injury and the ability to maintain coverage evaporates as fast as your income. Medical issues are one of the leading reasons for bankruptcy. Which of course causes hospitals to pass the loss onto everyone else.
I'm not sure why local, regional, or national should make much of a difference in whether or not government managed is ok or not.
But since you want to play that same tired mantra of "my [insert geo-political division here] knows what's best for us (except when it tells me something I don't like), how dare you [insert other geo-political division here] try to tell us what to do?" You realize that if you're looking to create in efficiencies in a system one of the fastest ways to do it is to duplicate services and infrastructure, especially on the administrative side.
I'm really getting tired of the f*** everyone but me isolationists. Everyone else is busy working hard to provide for a fair and prosperous society and you folks are reaping all manner of the benefit while spitting in our face demanding the right to not have to contribute. If you want to be an isolationist, get out of my government and get off my lawn. There are plenty of places you could go where you must survive by your wit and personal resources and no one but your neighbor living in the same manner to interfere with how you choose to go about it. Societies were formed to provide a better life for all, if you don't want to be a contributing member of it then leave.
Lose your job for a few months...