Well they will be as soon as a better way to play Unreal Tournament is devised. Until then the pc will just get smaller,faster,quieter,more stable,and cheaper. I have never seen a great push to improve the speed of a text editor or the graphics on a spreadsheet so maybe if we just count the lame work-a-day uses then Uncle Billy is correct,but for the best gaming experience those little boxes you hook up to a tv just can't compete with a good or even semi-good PC
Now those five people will have nothing to do on friday night. Mind you that's just the few that actually care about the latest and greatest out of Apple, the other 15 or 20 will just keep mucking about with what they have.
I have to think about this for a minute.Hmmm.Ok, I got it, Your at 35,000
feet and every part around you is built by the lowest bidder. Now which do you think is more reliable when built on the cheap,Heavy duty cables,hydraulic pumps,servos,and lines or computers,routers,switches,and soleniods? I gotta tell ya I would rather try to recompile a kernel to
get a dotty server back up at 35,000 feet than climb out on a wing at 600 knots and replace a blown hydraulic line
Those lawsuits aren't going anywhere. The president will declare the matter top secret in the interest of national security and those grandstanding lawyers will have plenty of airtime to bash the president and all of his henchmen and the nightly news will no-doubt run stories in much the same vein.
All of this adds up to one more talking point for the democrats to bolster their bretheren who are trying to get elected. All that time and money wasted on politics. The other explanation is that the suits will go forward and sometime after the current administration is long gone the telcos will finally, after months of negotiation, agree to a 300$ rebate while insisting strenuously that while they would be proven non-liable in court, they would just like to put the matter behind them.
Moral of story:Don't get too excited about this,this is just lawyers fighting lawyers, nothing like truth or justice has any chance of prevailing.
Three words "Where's my truck?" Helen Hunt wins hands down. That's right up there with " You didn't sleep with it, did you Egon?" from Peter Venkman or
"Yes sir this man has no dick". But for sheer evil I think Kevin Bacon wins hands down in the Invisible Man. I mean who else would think of sneaking in on a cute young thing and raping here as a viable experiment? EVIL.
Because we still haven't figured out that all of our understanding of the universe is fettered by our unwillingness to admit that we don't know how to understand the universe we sometimes confuse observation with truth. We haven't yet recorded an instance such as you suggest, but we also do not know if we can. Is the speed of light a truth? Or is it merely a flawed
observation on our part.
There are parts of our own world that have not been explored yet. There are
creatures being discovered every year. How long have we been searching the earth? The universe is much bigger. I stopped doubting anything when Bush was elected. If a turd can get elected anything is possible.
I think that says it all. With all this new-found desire to make the customer happy maybe we can expect more features and less problems with windows. Who knows, maybe even a light version that has what customers really want in it,hahahahahahahahahaha I'm so funny
It is the single truth of all the world that Bureaucrats must always be informed,and,if at all possible,be as obstructive as possible. Therefore scientists know that it is easier to beg forgiveness that to ask permission.
Just look at how slow pyramid research is going,Zahi Hawass be damned.
If we let the current administration set the agenda on how the internet is governed the solution won't be to wait for the other party to get into office
as it will be just as hard to get them to relinquish control. We really need to decide now just what we want the internet to be because I assure you that
government sees it as another means to an end. What would that end be you ask? Why the pacification of the sodden masses I say, the great legions of beer swilling, monday morning quarterbacking, complain about your government but vote for em anyway drones that make up the largest majority of the populace. International oversight is as frightening to them as transparency
in campaign finance. The politicians cannot afford to give up even the tenuous hold they have on cyberspace right now because rampant freedom is of
course anathema to their needs. Without some way to massage our understanding of current events to fit their agenda why we could have people questioning the need for every law they pass or every committee they form. Even the very notion that there are opposing parties in government would become suspect if
we had an internet that wasn't controlled.
We could fall back to the true Darknet
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I'm talking about snailmail. If it gets right down to it you can fall back to this time honored completely private way of transporting any files you wish to share. It also has the advantage of carrying a federal criminal violation against anyone who attempts to stop your mail. If things gat so bad in this country that even this becomes too troublesome we can all move to eastern europe or china as they will become the beacons of freedom much as our country used to be.
We are too short lived to have any meaningful grasp of this situation. Only
arrogance lets us assume that the earth is of course supposed to be perfectly maintained at a suitable temperature for human habitation and we are the only
agent of destruction powerful enough to effect such a massive shift is climate.
The real truth is we could not possibly affect the earth so greatly in the few short years we have been keeping track of the climate. On the grand scale of things(millenia to those of you in Rio Linda)the earth is only fluctuating on a normal scale. The climate has never been a static phenomena and we need to step back and realize that the whole system runs whether we are here or not
and even if we did the unthinkable and wiped out all human habitation the earth would continue and a new dominant species would evolve. Perhaps the next
rulers of earth will have a more accurate grasp of their place or more likely
they won't get so uptight about things that are out of their control anyway.
I am not surprised by the glut of fascism in the educational system of late.
We are all to blame in this because we no longer value people who excercise
their rights in a conspicuous manner. This has lead administrators to believe
that censure is the answer to combatting opinions contrary to their policies.
In my day we would openly scorn teachers and administrators if we believed they were in any way trying abridge our right to free expression up to and including protesting rules we thought unconstitutional. We would educate ourselves as to the relevant arguments against whatever policy we disagreed
with and make our arguments and nobody ever thought to abridge these rights because we all had parents who either had fought for freedom or had a parent who did so they would have got their Irish up and got rid of the administrators because they didn't appreciate this kind of tomfoolery whem it came to freedom.
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Well they will be as soon as a better way to play Unreal Tournament is devised. Until then the pc will just get smaller,faster,quieter,more stable,and cheaper. I have never seen a great push to improve the speed of a text editor or the graphics on a spreadsheet so maybe if we just count the lame work-a-day uses then Uncle Billy is correct,but for the best gaming experience those little boxes you hook up to a tv just can't compete with a good or even semi-good PC
Now those five people will have nothing to do on friday night. Mind you that's just the few that actually care about the latest and greatest out of Apple, the other 15 or 20 will just keep mucking about with what they have.
I have to think about this for a minute.Hmmm.Ok, I got it, Your at 35,000 feet and every part around you is built by the lowest bidder. Now which do you think is more reliable when built on the cheap,Heavy duty cables,hydraulic pumps,servos,and lines or computers,routers,switches,and soleniods? I gotta tell ya I would rather try to recompile a kernel to get a dotty server back up at 35,000 feet than climb out on a wing at 600 knots and replace a blown hydraulic line
Those lawsuits aren't going anywhere. The president will declare the matter top secret in the interest of national security and those grandstanding lawyers will have plenty of airtime to bash the president and all of his henchmen and the nightly news will no-doubt run stories in much the same vein.
All of this adds up to one more talking point for the democrats to bolster their bretheren
who are trying to get elected. All that time and money wasted on politics. The other explanation is
that the suits will go forward and sometime after the current administration is long gone the telcos
will finally, after months of negotiation, agree to a 300$ rebate while insisting strenuously that
while they would be proven non-liable in court, they would just like to put the matter behind them.
Moral of story:Don't get too excited about this,this is just lawyers fighting lawyers, nothing like truth or justice has any chance of prevailing.
Three words "Where's my truck?" Helen Hunt wins hands down. That's right up there with " You didn't sleep with it, did you Egon?" from Peter Venkman or "Yes sir this man has no dick". But for sheer evil I think Kevin Bacon wins hands down in the Invisible Man. I mean who else would think of sneaking in on a cute young thing and raping here as a viable experiment? EVIL.
Because we still haven't figured out that all of our understanding of the universe is fettered by our unwillingness to admit that we don't know how to understand the universe we sometimes confuse observation with truth. We haven't yet recorded an instance such as you suggest, but we also do not know if we can. Is the speed of light a truth? Or is it merely a flawed observation on our part.
There are parts of our own world that have not been explored yet. There are creatures being discovered every year. How long have we been searching the earth? The universe is much bigger. I stopped doubting anything when Bush was elected. If a turd can get elected anything is possible.
I think that says it all. With all this new-found desire to make the customer happy maybe we can expect more features and less problems with windows. Who knows, maybe even a light version that has what customers really want in it,hahahahahahahahahaha I'm so funny
It hasn't worked with marijuana yet. Maybe it only works when the government isn't making money from the law.
It is the single truth of all the world that Bureaucrats must always be informed,and,if at all possible,be as obstructive as possible. Therefore scientists know that it is easier to beg forgiveness that to ask permission. Just look at how slow pyramid research is going,Zahi Hawass be damned.
men and rats? redundency is the hobgoblin of bored minds
If we let the current administration set the agenda on how the internet is governed the solution won't be to wait for the other party to get into office as it will be just as hard to get them to relinquish control. We really need to decide now just what we want the internet to be because I assure you that government sees it as another means to an end. What would that end be you ask? Why the pacification of the sodden masses I say, the great legions of beer swilling, monday morning quarterbacking, complain about your government but vote for em anyway drones that make up the largest majority of the populace. International oversight is as frightening to them as transparency in campaign finance. The politicians cannot afford to give up even the tenuous hold they have on cyberspace right now because rampant freedom is of course anathema to their needs. Without some way to massage our understanding of current events to fit their agenda why we could have people questioning the need for every law they pass or every committee they form. Even the very notion that there are opposing parties in government would become suspect if we had an internet that wasn't controlled.
I'm talking about snailmail. If it gets right down to it you can fall back to this time honored completely private way of transporting any files you wish to share. It also has the advantage of carrying a federal criminal violation against anyone who attempts to stop your mail. If things gat so bad in this country that even this becomes too troublesome we can all move to eastern europe or china as they will become the beacons of freedom much as our country used to be.
We are too short lived to have any meaningful grasp of this situation. Only arrogance lets us assume that the earth is of course supposed to be perfectly maintained at a suitable temperature for human habitation and we are the only agent of destruction powerful enough to effect such a massive shift is climate. The real truth is we could not possibly affect the earth so greatly in the few short years we have been keeping track of the climate. On the grand scale of things(millenia to those of you in Rio Linda)the earth is only fluctuating on a normal scale. The climate has never been a static phenomena and we need to step back and realize that the whole system runs whether we are here or not and even if we did the unthinkable and wiped out all human habitation the earth would continue and a new dominant species would evolve. Perhaps the next rulers of earth will have a more accurate grasp of their place or more likely they won't get so uptight about things that are out of their control anyway.
I am not surprised by the glut of fascism in the educational system of late. We are all to blame in this because we no longer value people who excercise their rights in a conspicuous manner. This has lead administrators to believe that censure is the answer to combatting opinions contrary to their policies. In my day we would openly scorn teachers and administrators if we believed they were in any way trying abridge our right to free expression up to and including protesting rules we thought unconstitutional. We would educate ourselves as to the relevant arguments against whatever policy we disagreed with and make our arguments and nobody ever thought to abridge these rights because we all had parents who either had fought for freedom or had a parent who did so they would have got their Irish up and got rid of the administrators because they didn't appreciate this kind of tomfoolery whem it came to freedom.