Deficit has no tangible negative effect on the economy.
Feh. Deficit spending is merely a delayed tax increase. We're paying boatloads for Reagan-Bush41 deficits even today.
Furthermore, a weak US dollar is great for the US economy.
B.S. A weak dollar means your savings and salary have decreased in terms of what they can buy. We may sell more stuff overseas, but you can't buy as much yourself. If the dollar's drop is not accompanied by a matching increase in salaries, then you personally have lost purchasing power, and no economic hand-waving is going to change that.
Paying $1.87/gallon for unleaded certainly isn't good for my economics, and a good bit of that price increase is due to the weaker dollar.
Agreed that the consumer debt cannot be viewed in and of itself as a bad indicator, as mortgage rates hit 30 year lows thus encouraging borrowing.
Agreed. A system that highlighted the most used items, or displayed less used ones in a faded fashion, would have been much better. It could even enlarge slightly the click area for often-used things. But don't keep moving things physically, TOG could have told you that.
Is there something akin to God[w]in's Law, but for typos in a thread about spelling?
There's this from 1990. Given that Murphy's, Sturgeon's, and Moore's Laws are all misquotes, perhaps we should come up with a suitable (and easier to say) misquote and call it Bell's Law?
The thing to use a rock in orbit for is not for mining (save possibly for very rare materials), but as a space station/assembly and re-launch site. It might even have material we could use for rocket fuel for those re-launches, you could set up a linear accelerator, etc.
This is a pretty significant thing to give up, don't you think?
No, because they never had the right to share derivative works from someone else's copyrighted works in the first place.
Consider the following: "Can I borrow your car?" "Ok, but only if you don't drive it faster than 60 mph." In this scenario, is the borrower "giving up" the right to drive the borrowed car faster than 60 mph?
From conversations with American friends, I believe you have succeeded with a fluke where others have spent lots to have acceptable results.
Both my U.S.-purchased DVD players can be region-modded and can play PAL DVDs with NTSC output, and I paid $170 and $80 for them a year or more ago. It's not a fluke, it's smart shopping, although the DVD-CCA nazis may be making it harder these days.
Broadcasting is "we broadcast it and you listen", and there's no automatic right to tape records off the radio.
What about the 1984 Betamax decision? Recording radio for time-shifting is nigh-identical to recording TV for time-shifting, and the Supreme Court ruled Americans can use their VCRs.
My favorite part is when Winstein shows a dumbfounded Valenti a six-line DVD descrambler he's designed, to which Valenti responds with language inappropriate for the Slashdot homepage.
If it was Perl, I think that was just Valenti trying to read the code out loud...
Uh, I hate to break this to you, Mr. "Scientist", but abstinence is proven to be very nearly 100% effective in preventing AIDS, a conclusion that in no way flies in the face of science, but instead, simply stands to reason.
The problem, though, is that abstinence education is nowhere near 100% effective. Us pragmatic types know that while condoms are not 100% effective at preventing STDs and pregnancy, neither is abstinence education. In poor countries, the lack of money for condoms may mean that abstinence education is the best solution. In richer countries, it may be that condom emphasis gets you less STDs and fewer pregnancies, even if people are somewhat more sexually active.
It isn't dead bodies, or even identifiable coffins, they're banning tasteful, respectful pictures of flag-draped coffins. Why? 'Cause evidence of the dead might stir up opposition to administration policies.
Moreover, whatever you get, in five years the tech will be vastly better. So spend $1000 now, and $1000 in five years for the equivalent of $5-10K now. Unless you try to run the thing full-time, the bulb cost shouldn't be more than ~1/2 the initial price.
Is there any possibility of improved bulb technology, say LEDs or the like, or is the lumen output needed hard to achieve with anything other than traditional style bulbs?
He's talking about buying CDs from a music store. Y'know, some of us are old enough we actually remember the ancient days, like 1993, when we didn't have CD recorders and trivially cheap CD-Rs. (In '95, when I worked for a multimedia company, blanks were $15 each, and the recorder had cost $8,000.)
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I don't believe in jail for property crimes.
So stealing cars, breaking and entering, looting banks... no threatened force, no jail time?
Deficit has no tangible negative effect on the economy.
Feh. Deficit spending is merely a delayed tax increase. We're paying boatloads for Reagan-Bush41 deficits even today.
Furthermore, a weak US dollar is great for the US economy.
B.S. A weak dollar means your savings and salary have decreased in terms of what they can buy. We may sell more stuff overseas, but you can't buy as much yourself. If the dollar's drop is not accompanied by a matching increase in salaries, then you personally have lost purchasing power, and no economic hand-waving is going to change that.
Paying $1.87/gallon for unleaded certainly isn't good for my economics, and a good bit of that price increase is due to the weaker dollar.
Agreed that the consumer debt cannot be viewed in and of itself as a bad indicator, as mortgage rates hit 30 year lows thus encouraging borrowing.
Unfortunately, you've fallen for one of the more classic blunders.
...the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia."
Agreed. A system that highlighted the most used items, or displayed less used ones in a faded fashion, would have been much better. It could even enlarge slightly the click area for often-used things. But don't keep moving things physically, TOG could have told you that.
TCO=Total Cost of Ownership
Includes price and rough estimates of other costs (support, downtime, etc.)
This thing is FILLED with typos, which is horrible for a reference manuel.
Horrible for a slashdot post too.
Yes, that line end should be reference, Manuel.
You'll have to excuse him, he's from Barcelona.
Is there something akin to God[w]in's Law, but for typos in a thread about spelling?
There's this from 1990. Given that Murphy's, Sturgeon's, and Moore's Laws are all misquotes, perhaps we should come up with a suitable (and easier to say) misquote and call it Bell's Law?
The thing to use a rock in orbit for is not for mining (save possibly for very rare materials), but as a space station/assembly and re-launch site. It might even have material we could use for rocket fuel for those re-launches, you could set up a linear accelerator, etc.
A small captured moon could be really handy.
This is a pretty significant thing to give up, don't you think?
No, because they never had the right to share derivative works from someone else's copyrighted works in the first place.
Consider the following:
"Can I borrow your car?"
"Ok, but only if you don't drive it faster than 60 mph."
In this scenario, is the borrower "giving up" the right to drive the borrowed car faster than 60 mph?
From conversations with American friends, I believe you have succeeded with a fluke where others have spent lots to have acceptable results.
Both my U.S.-purchased DVD players can be region-modded and can play PAL DVDs with NTSC output, and I paid $170 and $80 for them a year or more ago. It's not a fluke, it's smart shopping, although the DVD-CCA nazis may be making it harder these days.
I would like to contest that it was I and I alone who invented the apple tree and as such I will be suing.
Yeah, like you've got any lawyers up there.
No, it's those Exxon boys down in Mobile, Alabama who wrote this up....
Remember, in ten years... hardware will be free.
Consider a headline I found from five years ago:
LATEST NEWS
June 16, 1999
Dell finally goes sub-$1,000
If you go to Dell's site today, their "outrageous deal" is a $499AR computer w/monitor. So it's certainly getting closer to free.
AR = after rebate
The first link google shows says the public is in favor of the research by 58% to 30%, with 10% undecided.
How about Quisling of Norway then?
Dismissal with prejudice is what judges do to people who sue the government for alien mind control.
Yeah, well that's because they're controlled by the aliens.
Broadcasting is "we broadcast it and you listen", and there's no automatic right to tape records off the radio.
What about the 1984 Betamax decision? Recording radio for time-shifting is nigh-identical to recording TV for time-shifting, and the Supreme Court ruled Americans can use their VCRs.
My favorite part is when Winstein shows a dumbfounded Valenti a six-line DVD descrambler he's designed, to which Valenti responds with language inappropriate for the Slashdot homepage.
If it was Perl, I think that was just Valenti trying to read the code out loud...
Uh, I hate to break this to you, Mr. "Scientist", but abstinence is proven to be very nearly 100% effective in preventing AIDS, a conclusion that in no way flies in the face of science, but instead, simply stands to reason.
The problem, though, is that abstinence education is nowhere near 100% effective. Us pragmatic types know that while condoms are not 100% effective at preventing STDs and pregnancy, neither is abstinence education. In poor countries, the lack of money for condoms may mean that abstinence education is the best solution. In richer countries, it may be that condom emphasis gets you less STDs and fewer pregnancies, even if people are somewhat more sexually active.
I'm glad I'm not a student then, because I picked up my for FREE!
But if you were a student, you could get it for half that!
Feh.
It isn't dead bodies, or even identifiable coffins, they're banning tasteful, respectful pictures of flag-draped coffins. Why? 'Cause evidence of the dead might stir up opposition to administration policies.
Now the government is going to allow suppression of freedom of speach, this is not good.
Oh c'mon, the U.S. government? That'll never happen.
Moreover, whatever you get, in five years the tech will be vastly better. So spend $1000 now, and $1000 in five years for the equivalent of $5-10K now. Unless you try to run the thing full-time, the bulb cost shouldn't be more than ~1/2 the initial price.
Is there any possibility of improved bulb technology, say LEDs or the like, or is the lumen output needed hard to achieve with anything other than traditional style bulbs?
He's talking about buying CDs from a music store. Y'know, some of us are old enough we actually remember the ancient days, like 1993, when we didn't have CD recorders and trivially cheap CD-Rs. (In '95, when I worked for a multimedia company, blanks were $15 each, and the recorder had cost $8,000.)
I thought that movie was shot in B&W on purpose to keep with the whole style of it.
Did you know the word "gullible" is not in the dictionary?