Cry a little louder and harder, bitches! We can't hear you from way up here on awesome mountain! What's that? You're mad and are going to form an open committee to discuss ways to retort in a GPL-based, socially pluralistic manner? In three years time, you'll have a shoddily constructed riposte AND a donated-by-Cory handkerchief with which to wipe away your salty tears? Keep debating, pansies! I'll be figuring out a way to put some TRUCK NUTS on my iPad.
I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the Awesome of my Android.
Yes you can, by withholding said profit from them. I refuse to buy games at new prices unless I know in advance the game is completely worth it... for that there needs to be a basis of trust that goes back some games. Once i've been screwed by a mediocre game that's made even crappier by requiring activation/disc inserted/internet connection I see this as a reduced value for those games... DRM devaluates games. I won't refuse to play it, but I will wait until it hits the bargain bins (and that can be surprisingly fast sometimes).
Steam is great for this. I have picked up many AAA titles for under $10 simply by being patient. My reasoning is that Steam does limit what I can do with it (no local sharing), so I only get Steam games when they're cheap enough to counter that.:)
Xmission has standard residential UTOPIA bandwidths of 15 Mbit/s and 50 Mbit/s - up and down. The end user links are all 100 Mbit/s Ethernet (over fiber), and you can get a 100 Mbit/s "business" connection if you want.
UTOPIA's member cities are: Brigham City, Cedar City, Cedar Hills, Centerville, Layton, Lindon, Midvale, Murray, Orem, Payson, Perry, Riverton, Tremonton, Vineyard, Washington, and West Valley City.
These are the only areas which have access to UTOPIA. Xmission provides DSL connections to other locations (and free wireless to libraries and coffee shops), but UTOPIA access can only happen where UTOPIA is available.
Went and looked up what you're talking about, and found this: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/fuel-supply.html
It seems that it isn't that there's not enough Uranium (easily mined or otherwise), but that we haven't been mining it, nor have we been effective in enriching what we have. Effectively, this is a supply/demand issue. We haven't built up our supply, so now that demand is increasing, we're setting ourselves up for trouble. But I don't think we're going to run out.
The real problem is that most of the big themes in classical SF require vast amounts of energy. And that's not happening. There hasn't been a new source of energy in fifty years, just
marginal improvements in the old ones. This matters.
That's why space travel is a bust. With chemical fuels, it will never be more than an overly expensive, marginal enterprise. The better '50s SF writers all knew this; read Heinlein's "The Man Who Sold the Moon". They just assumed that, somehow, the energy problem would be cracked. Didn't happen. So space travel remains an expensive ego trip for countries and billionaires.
Industrial civilization is only 200 years old. 1808, the first time someone bought a train ticket on a commercial railroad and went someplace, is a good starting point. Industrial abundance, being able to make more stuff than people could consume, only goes back to WWII.
During most of the 20th century, "progress" was a big theme. We don't hear that phrase used much any more.
The number by which one measures "progress" for the average Joe, "per capita median real income for urban wage earners", peaked in 1973. (Median income, not average income; the average is biased by wealth concentration to rich people.) Back then, a guy without a high school diploma could get a job at GM and make enough to buy a house, two cars, a boat, and an education for his kids. That's over. (You don't see that number mentioned much any more. It was heavily publicized back when the US boasted "the highest standard of living in the world".)
Now we're starting to run out of energy and raw materials. Nobody serious thinks there's enough left to sustain current output for another century, let alone bring China and India up to US levels of consumption.
It's hard to write good SF about "the great winding down". It's been done, but it's not read much. The glory days of SF coincide with the period during which "progress" was a win for the little guy.
That's why SF is dead. The plausible future sucks.
I think you're right, in a lot of ways. However, I suspect a chunk of the problem is that the best path to better energy begins with that N word people are so afraid of embracing. Our society has discovered a new form of fire, and it scares us. Until we're willing to actually embrace it (dangers of use and all), we're going to be stuck in our caves.
IMHO, this is dangerous. These days, if people see it on the internet, it's true until proven false. Of course in many newspapers that's also the case but it's much easier to come down on them like a ton of bricks and get people fired for spreading lies. Not so with a blogger. They aren't employed by a company generally who can reprimand them for not fact-checking and even if you get a court order to shut them down they'll just move the content to a different place.
You know, back when the Bill of Rights was written, ANY idiot with a printing press could declare themselves to be a reporter, and post news. The truthiness of the news was not the issue, nor was the individual reporter's goals and motivations. The issue was the government shutting down people who said things they didn't like.
There is no other fauna shown on his desert homeworld that is "about two meters" Everything was much larger or much smaller, even in the remastered edition.
You didn't watch the real version: Super Star Wars for the SNES. The first level with luke is you whompin' whomprats.:)
$700K/yr for software support and hardware maintenance isn't really out of line for a high-capacity system with 99.999% uptime.
Maybe they don't need that level of reliability, but if they do five-9s, they will probably find that whatever system or group of systems replaces it will have similar support costs.
They probably don't need 99.999% uptime, considering the House schedules itself for downtime 2 months out of 12.:)
It's terminology, and behavior which make up the "fingerprint." It's not so much that only Christianity can cause a significant change, but that when it is Christianity there are identifiable signs.
I don't know if all religions do this. I do know that Mormons likewise have their own unique phrases and behaviors which come about after they change, which are distinctly different than Chrisitans. Alcoholics Anonymous, though not a religious institution per se, also has a signature.
(Forgive any poor spelling/grammar/word-choice, I'm terribly sick right now)
Ya know, two years ago, I did by a DS rather than the PS3. I had my stimulas check in hand, and I was ready to go...
Then I realized I could get a DS + GAMES GAMES GAMES for much less than the PS3 + No Games. I've not regretted it.:)
But then, I'm also happy with the Wii I bought myself for Christmas last year, and RockBand2 I purchased last week (it's way cheap cause they're making room for RB: Beatles). I've not missed having any of the NextGen Consoles, even those they look simply fabulous.
I think what people are seeing is that CellPhones are becomming commonplace (much as the PC is), and there's a market of people who might, when bored or excited about their awesome phone, spend 5$ or so to try a new game. You can buy a lot of games on the Iphone for the same price as a single Xbox360 game, after all.
Not to mention Children, when it comes to touch typing, kids can be fast learners, but before they get the hang of it, they can be very slow too.
Don't hate on the children. Most keyboards are way too big for the li'l ones anyways. We should be getting them netbooks... and maybe cellphone keyboards. They could probably type great on those, with their tiny little fingers.
I have to say, after visiting Portland back in April, the bicyclists in the city are MUCH better behaved than bicyclists in Utah. They stopped for stop signs, consistently; they wore helmets, reflective clothing, and flashers; they respected the cars, and the dedicated bike lanes made it a lot easier for the cars to get around them.
All that being said, I found driving in the city to be somewhat scary. A lot of single lane, curvy roads, and I felt cramped in my lane.
As for the tax, they've been proposing this since at least back in April, because I read about it while I was there. Rental cars already had the GPS installed, so they could bill you extra if you left the approved area (Washington, Oregon).
Their justification for the GPS was so that they could make sure that the fees were collected only for the cars which drove on their roads. As that was their best selling point, I'm not surprised the plan hasn't moved forward much.
With regards to the back flip carried out by Obama when he became president (where he changed from opposing the wiretaps to supporting them), the logical explanation is that when he became president the NSA showed him details of the wiretapping and possibly also showed him examples of things the NSA has intercepted via the wiretapping that has in some way benefited the national security of the nation or helped in the war on terror. Having seen that this wiretapping is actually producing beneficial results, he would then be more inclined to keep it going so it can keep producing these results.
Or perhaps the NSA offered to post transcripts of every embarrassing conversation Obama had ever had.
Yes. Because nothing in the Constitution could possibly be changed without an amendment...
The 10th Amendment says:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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Cry a little louder and harder, bitches! We can't hear you from way up here on awesome mountain! What's that? You're mad and are going to form an open committee to discuss ways to retort in a GPL-based, socially pluralistic manner? In three years time, you'll have a shoddily constructed riposte AND a donated-by-Cory handkerchief with which to wipe away your salty tears? Keep debating, pansies! I'll be figuring out a way to put some TRUCK NUTS on my iPad.
I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the Awesome of my Android.
You can't win against a profit motive.
Yes you can, by withholding said profit from them. I refuse to buy games at new prices unless I know in advance the game is completely worth it... for that there needs to be a basis of trust that goes back some games. Once i've been screwed by a mediocre game that's made even crappier by requiring activation/disc inserted/internet connection I see this as a reduced value for those games... DRM devaluates games. I won't refuse to play it, but I will wait until it hits the bargain bins (and that can be surprisingly fast sometimes).
Steam is great for this. I have picked up many AAA titles for under $10 simply by being patient. My reasoning is that Steam does limit what I can do with it (no local sharing), so I only get Steam games when they're cheap enough to counter that. :)
Adding blu ray to your account now costs from $2 extra for the 1 disc at a time plan to $5 extra for the 4 disc at a time plan.
But the point doesn't change... it's not 2$ per disc, or 5$ per disc. It's just a boost to the monthly fee.
Xmission has standard residential UTOPIA bandwidths of 15 Mbit/s and 50 Mbit/s - up and down. The end user links are all 100 Mbit/s Ethernet (over fiber), and you can get a 100 Mbit/s "business" connection if you want.
But not in sandy.
Taken from: http://utopianet.org/service-area
UTOPIA's member cities are: Brigham City, Cedar City, Cedar Hills, Centerville, Layton, Lindon, Midvale, Murray, Orem, Payson, Perry, Riverton, Tremonton, Vineyard, Washington, and West Valley City.
These are the only areas which have access to UTOPIA. Xmission provides DSL connections to other locations (and free wireless to libraries and coffee shops), but UTOPIA access can only happen where UTOPIA is available.
...sadly.
--Jimmy
CAPSING random WORDS doesn't make your ARGUMENT stronger.
LIAR!
Went and looked up what you're talking about, and found this: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/fuel-supply.html It seems that it isn't that there's not enough Uranium (easily mined or otherwise), but that we haven't been mining it, nor have we been effective in enriching what we have. Effectively, this is a supply/demand issue. We haven't built up our supply, so now that demand is increasing, we're setting ourselves up for trouble. But I don't think we're going to run out.
maybe.
The real problem is that most of the big themes in classical SF require vast amounts of energy. And that's not happening. There hasn't been a new source of energy in fifty years, just marginal improvements in the old ones. This matters.
That's why space travel is a bust. With chemical fuels, it will never be more than an overly expensive, marginal enterprise. The better '50s SF writers all knew this; read Heinlein's "The Man Who Sold the Moon". They just assumed that, somehow, the energy problem would be cracked. Didn't happen. So space travel remains an expensive ego trip for countries and billionaires.
Industrial civilization is only 200 years old. 1808, the first time someone bought a train ticket on a commercial railroad and went someplace, is a good starting point. Industrial abundance, being able to make more stuff than people could consume, only goes back to WWII.
During most of the 20th century, "progress" was a big theme. We don't hear that phrase used much any more. The number by which one measures "progress" for the average Joe, "per capita median real income for urban wage earners", peaked in 1973. (Median income, not average income; the average is biased by wealth concentration to rich people.) Back then, a guy without a high school diploma could get a job at GM and make enough to buy a house, two cars, a boat, and an education for his kids. That's over. (You don't see that number mentioned much any more. It was heavily publicized back when the US boasted "the highest standard of living in the world".)
Now we're starting to run out of energy and raw materials. Nobody serious thinks there's enough left to sustain current output for another century, let alone bring China and India up to US levels of consumption.
It's hard to write good SF about "the great winding down". It's been done, but it's not read much. The glory days of SF coincide with the period during which "progress" was a win for the little guy.
That's why SF is dead. The plausible future sucks.
I think you're right, in a lot of ways. However, I suspect a chunk of the problem is that the best path to better energy begins with that N word people are so afraid of embracing. Our society has discovered a new form of fire, and it scares us. Until we're willing to actually embrace it (dangers of use and all), we're going to be stuck in our caves.
--Jimmy
IMHO, this is dangerous. These days, if people see it on the internet, it's true until proven false. Of course in many newspapers that's also the case but it's much easier to come down on them like a ton of bricks and get people fired for spreading lies. Not so with a blogger. They aren't employed by a company generally who can reprimand them for not fact-checking and even if you get a court order to shut them down they'll just move the content to a different place.
You know, back when the Bill of Rights was written, ANY idiot with a printing press could declare themselves to be a reporter, and post news. The truthiness of the news was not the issue, nor was the individual reporter's goals and motivations. The issue was the government shutting down people who said things they didn't like.
I don't see how bloggers are all that different.
--Jimmy
There is no other fauna shown on his desert homeworld that is "about two meters" Everything was much larger or much smaller, even in the remastered edition.
You didn't watch the real version: Super Star Wars for the SNES. The first level with luke is you whompin' whomprats. :)
--Jimmy
WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?
I think GAMES is the operative word here. A benchmark shouldn't be targeted in such a fashion.
$700K/yr for software support and hardware maintenance isn't really out of line for a high-capacity system with 99.999% uptime.
Maybe they don't need that level of reliability, but if they do five-9s, they will probably find that whatever system or group of systems replaces it will have similar support costs.
They probably don't need 99.999% uptime, considering the House schedules itself for downtime 2 months out of 12. :)
If it's not about people, there's no _story_.
Yes, there is.
When will you learn that Jovian's are people too? :)
It's terminology, and behavior which make up the "fingerprint." It's not so much that only Christianity can cause a significant change, but that when it is Christianity there are identifiable signs.
I don't know if all religions do this. I do know that Mormons likewise have their own unique phrases and behaviors which come about after they change, which are distinctly different than Chrisitans. Alcoholics Anonymous, though not a religious institution per se, also has a signature.
(Forgive any poor spelling/grammar/word-choice, I'm terribly sick right now)
--Jimmy
Ya know, two years ago, I did by a DS rather than the PS3. I had my stimulas check in hand, and I was ready to go...
:)
:)
Then I realized I could get a DS + GAMES GAMES GAMES for much less than the PS3 + No Games. I've not regretted it.
But then, I'm also happy with the Wii I bought myself for Christmas last year, and RockBand2 I purchased last week (it's way cheap cause they're making room for RB: Beatles). I've not missed having any of the NextGen Consoles, even those they look simply fabulous.
I think what people are seeing is that CellPhones are becomming commonplace (much as the PC is), and there's a market of people who might, when bored or excited about their awesome phone, spend 5$ or so to try a new game. You can buy a lot of games on the Iphone for the same price as a single Xbox360 game, after all.
So no, not the same market.
--Jimmy
Not to mention Children, when it comes to touch typing, kids can be fast learners, but before they get the hang of it, they can be very slow too.
Don't hate on the children. Most keyboards are way too big for the li'l ones anyways. We should be getting them netbooks... and maybe cellphone keyboards. They could probably type great on those, with their tiny little fingers.
:)
Lord knows, I can't do it.
--Jimmy
I have to say, after visiting Portland back in April, the bicyclists in the city are MUCH better behaved than bicyclists in Utah. They stopped for stop signs, consistently; they wore helmets, reflective clothing, and flashers; they respected the cars, and the dedicated bike lanes made it a lot easier for the cars to get around them.
All that being said, I found driving in the city to be somewhat scary. A lot of single lane, curvy roads, and I felt cramped in my lane.
As for the tax, they've been proposing this since at least back in April, because I read about it while I was there. Rental cars already had the GPS installed, so they could bill you extra if you left the approved area (Washington, Oregon).
Their justification for the GPS was so that they could make sure that the fees were collected only for the cars which drove on their roads. As that was their best selling point, I'm not surprised the plan hasn't moved forward much.
--Jimmy
If you prepay, you'll end up paying a lot less. My plan costs me about 35$ bucks a month for voice + text. No weird taxes or hidden fees.
I act out the commercials. In public. Naked.
:)
--Jimmy
With regards to the back flip carried out by Obama when he became president (where he changed from opposing the wiretaps to supporting them), the logical explanation is that when he became president the NSA showed him details of the wiretapping and possibly also showed him examples of things the NSA has intercepted via the wiretapping that has in some way benefited the national security of the nation or helped in the war on terror. Having seen that this wiretapping is actually producing beneficial results, he would then be more inclined to keep it going so it can keep producing these results.
Or perhaps the NSA offered to post transcripts of every embarrassing conversation Obama had ever had.
My credit union is part of the Co-Op Network. As such, I have tons and tons of free ATMs scattered throughout the valley. It's a good deal.
I think many people are probably watching it fullscreen or watching it via feed. The banner ad definitely doesn't show up in full screen.
No, a third party has an MSI of Firefox. Mozilla still hasn't stepped up to the plate.
Isn't that the strength of open source? It's done, even if it's not done by Mozilla.
Yes. Because nothing in the Constitution could possibly be changed without an amendment...
The 10th Amendment says:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
:-/
--Jimmy