What's the point of using Thunderbird and Firebird if you want a mail application *and* a browser?
For one thing, apps do still crash occasionally. I lost a few messages I was working on when Mozilla crashed, separate apps that won't take each other out would be good.
Agreed. My cable modem through Comcast is up ~15%, just like the regular cable fees. If there was an alternative source (I just checked Verizon DSL, no dice), I'd consider switching to DirecTV/DSL, but for now they have me by the happy sacks.
For instance, it was much warmer 1000 years ago, which was what allowed the Vikings to colonize Greenland. Hell, just look at the name. There isn't much green in Greenland these days.
From this site: [Eric the Red] called this new land "Greenland" because he "believed more people would go thither if the country had a beautiful name," according to one of the Icelandic chronicles (Hermann, 1954) although Greenland, as a whole, could not be considered "green." Additionally, the land was not very good for farming.
You are completely ignoring the fact that the people that pay most of the taxes are the people that make more money.
If you are retired and invest in non-taxable securities such as T-bills, you aren't paying a dime in federal income tax. But you still get all the benefits.
The current system is very unfair as the people that pay the least taxes get the most government benefits and those that pay more taxes get less benefits.
If it's so unfair, move. Otherwise, it's the "little" people who maintain this country in such a state that the rich can make money. A-Rod pays his agent a lot more than a first-year player pays his.
We need to move away from a welfare state and back towards what the constitution says our country should be.
Ah, like not having a standing army to the tune of $400 billion a year plus?
This could potentially push companies to opensource options, but would windows be able to read the files on the devices?
I would think the patents cover the filesystem itself, not the interface to it. Thus the device would merely need to respond to queries the same way. Most of the time we don't notice what filesystem a particular device in our computer is running, right?
Sure there is, it's just a question of from who to who.
Most public U.S. debt is owned by private U.S. individuals. People with money loan it to the government in return for t-bill/treasury bond interest.
The debt "servicing" -- interest on the debt -- is paid out of taxes.
Now borrowing, like most other things, obeys the laws of supply and demand. The more that is being borrowed (more demand), the higher the payment (interest) for that borrowing. So deficits and debt are good for people with money, as they can make more money from that money. That money comes (mostly) from people who are working, and paying taxes on their salary. So debt serves as a transfer mechanism of money to people who already have money to people who haven't.
If you turn 18 and get your first job, you're paying taxes, a significant percentage of which is paying interest on debt accumulated before you were even born. Money is being transferred from you to the people who loaned money to the gov't.
Don't you mean Louis XVI? IIRC, Louis XIV was the one who had Versailles built for himself.
"All right, Louis XVI!... listen to me, smartarse, when you're King of France,... you've got better things to do than go around all day remembering your bloody number."
I agree on the image quality of direct-view CRTs, but they don't really go larger than 40", and even those are very large and heavy. The projection sets tend to have a nice sweet spot in the center, but their quality varies more by viewing angle. Also, the projection TV don't seem to want to work with computers much. Any patterns seem to be as much a product of the scaler as the set itself, I've seen some plasmas that looked very nice with the right signal.
But I'd prefer a lower-power tech such as LCD or OLED, once they get the image size large enough and as long as they can avoid dead or stuck pixels.
I love tv and media and all but $5000 for a tv? Thats just crazy talk.
I agree! Where did they find a 54" plasma, and for only $5K? 50" ones are usually $6K and up.
How much more will people pay for a "nice" car vs. a practical one? If you buy a Honda S2000, you'll probably spend less time driving it than you do watching TV, but it's at least $10K more than a decent used Miata. We're not used to spending $5K for a TV, so it sounds like a lot, but the utility value is pretty high.
Moreover, I can honestly type a hell of a lot faster (50+ wpm) then I can handwrite or shorthand.
Oh definitely. But can you draw better with a mouse or a pen? Doodling, for marking up documents, etc., is better done with a pen. Also, in a meeting, having a device with silent input that is a single flat surface is a lot easier than even a laptop.
Then you plug in a keyboard and mouse when you want to do more "traditional" computing.
I can think of a device in a phone that [uses magnets and induction].
I think the telecoil that works with hearing aids also does so. "Telecoil couplers allow output of a personal amplifier, FM or infrared receiver to be magnetically coupled into a hearing aid with a T-switch."
I'm not using anyone's property, I'm broadcasting signals -- just like he is. He has chosen to set up his equipment such that the signals I transmit interact with it. The particular band is open access, and I'm free to transmit.
Wireless networks have an established protocol for keeping people out. If you don't want people using your network, use that protocol.
The criteria included the act being in the U.S. Otherwise we'd have to count Blackhawks and other 'copters going down, and many other myriad attacks. The Kenya bombing did hit the U.S. embassy -- so on a technicality it counts -- but the attack itself may have come from outside U.S. territory.
I just find it amazing that this is really news and that people are asking others to step up to breaking the law.
The problem is that the law is wrong. No, not on general principles -- the appropriate parties should be able to go after pirates -- but it's wrong that the penalties per violation are so mind-bogglingly high, and have no relationship to the actual loss suffered by the copyright owners. Thus even an innocent party must roll over and pay whatever the RIAA demands, simply because the possibility of losing would wipe almost any of us out financially.
the people taht fell for it. they dont deserve their money back.
At one time or another, "we're all bozos on this bus." Someone forwarded me the fake PayPal scam the other day; it would have been very easy to fall for it.
Many of those who fall for these schemes are the elderly with deteriorated mental skills. Grandma deserves the fruit of her labor of forty years in the twenty years of her retirement.
stupid people dont deserve to have money.
Would that include ones that can't type, can't use apostrophes, and can't capitalize the appropriate words?
Just about every WWII historian considers "The Allied Powers" to include the Soviet Union. Whether you like it or not, it's true, you revisionist moron.
While you are correct, there's no need to be insulting. MoPo30's point, while not correct nomenclaturally, is that the alliance with the Soviets was not a happy, trusting one; I think we can all agree on this. He goes too far, however, in claiming this makes the Soviet Union not one of the Allies, as the term is used historically.
I don't there's any disagreement that Churchill and Roosevelt trusted Stalin about as far as they could throw him, if that, and only gave him support because they needed to in order to overcome the Axis. But they did give Stalin and the Soviets help, and thus it was one of the Allied powers, no matter how much the rest of the Allies held their nose while doing so.
Sorry, no. Very little of them will be recyclable.
The motors themselves are generally metal, which is highly recyclable. According to BWEA, most windfarm towers are steel, and thus 99% recyclable. The blades may be less recyclable, being polyester or wood-epoxy.
As for another message in this thread, I'm sorry, I don't take unsupported claims (that the pillars cannot be reused, will last no longer than 10 years, etc.) on faith. Neither should you.
And how much frickin' concrete do you think there is in a nuclear cooling tower?
What metric are you using to say that nuclear power has historically been unsafe?
"Unsafe" was a poor choice of words, although not completely tangential. Clean-up is the big issue. Follow the Yucca Mountain issue much? Nobody wants nuclear waste. Until you can change that, there's no point in proposing ways to make more of it. And saying, "Well, people shouldn't be so frickin' uptight about it" is not a solution.
While the deaths from Chernobyl pale next to coal-mining and other "uninteresting" power-production deaths, 115,000 people were evacuated and the town of Pripyat was and still is abandoned, and nuclear material was spread all over Western Europe. (The initial discovery of the problem in the West was when Swedish nuclear techs started registering for radioactive dust, and a check of their plant didn't discover a leak there.)
Then there's the terrorism issue. Every time the alert level rises, the National Guard gets sent out to guard powerplants. That doesn't fill me with love for the things.
And what of Iran, North Korea, et al? Every time they start talking nuclear power, we get very nervous, and with good reason. One bomb in the hands of the wrong people would make 9/11 look like a fender-bender. Maybe these new tech reactors would provide power without needing the wrong type of nuclear expertise and fuel, but as-is, nuclear power plants have made the world less safe by giving totalitarian gov'ts a rationalization for working with nuclear fuels.
Possibly not true, because for the same energy output you need a lot more material and maintenance with the "renewable" systems - a gigawatt of wind power would be 100 10MW windturbines - and 10meg windturbines would be VERY big.
Yes, but the turbines could probably be designed to be 99%+ recyclable.
Perhaps there is a nuclear power solution that would be safe enough on all measures. The history of nuclear power so far, however, doesn't leave one optimistic.
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What's the point of using Thunderbird and Firebird if you want a mail application *and* a browser?
For one thing, apps do still crash occasionally. I lost a few messages I was working on when Mozilla crashed, separate apps that won't take each other out would be good.
I meant DirecTV for the TV, DSL from whoever else -- not necessarily a combined service.
Agreed. My cable modem through Comcast is up ~15%, just like the regular cable fees. If there was an alternative source (I just checked Verizon DSL, no dice), I'd consider switching to DirecTV/DSL, but for now they have me by the happy sacks.
Oh for pervasive wireless...
For instance, it was much warmer 1000 years ago, which was what allowed the Vikings to colonize Greenland. Hell, just look at the name. There isn't much green in Greenland these days.
From this site:
[Eric the Red] called this new land "Greenland" because he "believed more people would go thither if the country had a beautiful name," according to one of the Icelandic chronicles (Hermann, 1954) although Greenland, as a whole, could not be considered "green." Additionally, the land was not very good for farming.
You are completely ignoring the fact that the people that pay most of the taxes are the people that make more money.
If you are retired and invest in non-taxable securities such as T-bills, you aren't paying a dime in federal income tax. But you still get all the benefits.
The current system is very unfair as the people that pay the least taxes get the most government benefits and those that pay more taxes get less benefits.
If it's so unfair, move. Otherwise, it's the "little" people who maintain this country in such a state that the rich can make money. A-Rod pays his agent a lot more than a first-year player pays his.
We need to move away from a welfare state and back towards what the constitution says our country should be.
Ah, like not having a standing army to the tune of $400 billion a year plus?
This could potentially push companies to opensource options, but would windows be able to read the files on the devices?
I would think the patents cover the filesystem itself, not the interface to it. Thus the device would merely need to respond to queries the same way. Most of the time we don't notice what filesystem a particular device in our computer is running, right?
Debt? there ain't no debt.
Sure there is, it's just a question of from who to who.
Most public U.S. debt is owned by private U.S. individuals. People with money loan it to the government in return for t-bill/treasury bond interest.
The debt "servicing" -- interest on the debt -- is paid out of taxes.
Now borrowing, like most other things, obeys the laws of supply and demand. The more that is being borrowed (more demand), the higher the payment (interest) for that borrowing. So deficits and debt are good for people with money, as they can make more money from that money. That money comes (mostly) from people who are working, and paying taxes on their salary. So debt serves as a transfer mechanism of money to people who already have money to people who haven't.
If you turn 18 and get your first job, you're paying taxes, a significant percentage of which is paying interest on debt accumulated before you were even born. Money is being transferred from you to the people who loaned money to the gov't.
Nice copy from Kuro5hin.
They have fought the War on Drugs with skill
Now I know you're a troll.
Don't you mean Louis XVI? IIRC, Louis XIV was the one who had Versailles built for himself.
"All right, Louis XVI!... listen to me, smartarse, when you're King of France,... you've got better things to do than go around all day remembering your bloody number."
I visited the book bins last August and September to make money to live on.
A little "GoodWill Hunting", eh?
[Rimshot]
I agree on the image quality of direct-view CRTs, but they don't really go larger than 40", and even those are very large and heavy. The projection sets tend to have a nice sweet spot in the center, but their quality varies more by viewing angle. Also, the projection TV don't seem to want to work with computers much. Any patterns seem to be as much a product of the scaler as the set itself, I've seen some plasmas that looked very nice with the right signal.
But I'd prefer a lower-power tech such as LCD or OLED, once they get the image size large enough and as long as they can avoid dead or stuck pixels.
I love tv and media and all but $5000 for a tv? Thats just crazy talk.
I agree! Where did they find a 54" plasma, and for only $5K? 50" ones are usually $6K and up.
How much more will people pay for a "nice" car vs. a practical one? If you buy a Honda S2000, you'll probably spend less time driving it than you do watching TV, but it's at least $10K more than a decent used Miata. We're not used to spending $5K for a TV, so it sounds like a lot, but the utility value is pretty high.
Moreover, I can honestly type a hell of a lot faster (50+ wpm) then I can handwrite or shorthand.
Oh definitely. But can you draw better with a mouse or a pen? Doodling, for marking up documents, etc., is better done with a pen. Also, in a meeting, having a device with silent input that is a single flat surface is a lot easier than even a laptop.
Then you plug in a keyboard and mouse when you want to do more "traditional" computing.
I was going to make some comment of this type, but you beat me to it. I can't wait for 3D pr0n. :-)
Some of us call it "sex."
I can think of a device in a phone that [uses magnets and induction].
I think the telecoil that works with hearing aids also does so. "Telecoil couplers allow output of a personal amplifier, FM or infrared receiver to be magnetically coupled into a hearing aid with a T-switch."
Last I knew a nipple was, by default, an ouput device
:-)
You must be male *and* single *and* young.
Not a bad combination, IIRC...
Except that you forgot "and not gettin' any." Depending on age, that's not nearly so good.
I'm not using anyone's property, I'm broadcasting signals -- just like he is. He has chosen to set up his equipment such that the signals I transmit interact with it. The particular band is open access, and I'm free to transmit.
Wireless networks have an established protocol for keeping people out. If you don't want people using your network, use that protocol.
Only 2 acts of terrorism under the Clinton admin?
The criteria included the act being in the U.S. Otherwise we'd have to count Blackhawks and other 'copters going down, and many other myriad attacks. The Kenya bombing did hit the U.S. embassy -- so on a technicality it counts -- but the attack itself may have come from outside U.S. territory.
I wouldn't count it or the sniper myself.
I just find it amazing that this is really news and that people are asking others to step up to breaking the law.
The problem is that the law is wrong. No, not on general principles -- the appropriate parties should be able to go after pirates -- but it's wrong that the penalties per violation are so mind-bogglingly high, and have no relationship to the actual loss suffered by the copyright owners. Thus even an innocent party must roll over and pay whatever the RIAA demands, simply because the possibility of losing would wipe almost any of us out financially.
the people taht fell for it. they dont deserve their money back.
At one time or another, "we're all bozos on this bus." Someone forwarded me the fake PayPal scam the other day; it would have been very easy to fall for it.
Many of those who fall for these schemes are the elderly with deteriorated mental skills. Grandma deserves the fruit of her labor of forty years in the twenty years of her retirement.
stupid people dont deserve to have money.
Would that include ones that can't type, can't use apostrophes, and can't capitalize the appropriate words?
Just about every WWII historian considers "The Allied Powers" to include the Soviet Union. Whether you like it or not, it's true, you revisionist moron.
While you are correct, there's no need to be insulting. MoPo30's point, while not correct nomenclaturally, is that the alliance with the Soviets was not a happy, trusting one; I think we can all agree on this. He goes too far, however, in claiming this makes the Soviet Union not one of the Allies, as the term is used historically.
I don't there's any disagreement that Churchill and Roosevelt trusted Stalin about as far as they could throw him, if that, and only gave him support because they needed to in order to overcome the Axis. But they did give Stalin and the Soviets help, and thus it was one of the Allied powers, no matter how much the rest of the Allies held their nose while doing so.
Exactly, a common one is called COD. And yes, I did COD sales over the internet before 1990.
Sorry, no. Very little of them will be recyclable.
The motors themselves are generally metal, which is highly recyclable. According to BWEA, most windfarm towers are steel, and thus 99% recyclable. The blades may be less recyclable, being polyester or wood-epoxy.
As for another message in this thread, I'm sorry, I don't take unsupported claims (that the pillars cannot be reused, will last no longer than 10 years, etc.) on faith. Neither should you.
And how much frickin' concrete do you think there is in a nuclear cooling tower?
What metric are you using to say that nuclear power has historically been unsafe?
"Unsafe" was a poor choice of words, although not completely tangential. Clean-up is the big issue. Follow the Yucca Mountain issue much? Nobody wants nuclear waste. Until you can change that, there's no point in proposing ways to make more of it. And saying, "Well, people shouldn't be so frickin' uptight about it" is not a solution.
While the deaths from Chernobyl pale next to coal-mining and other "uninteresting" power-production deaths, 115,000 people were evacuated and the town of Pripyat was and still is abandoned, and nuclear material was spread all over Western Europe. (The initial discovery of the problem in the West was when Swedish nuclear techs started registering for radioactive dust, and a check of their plant didn't discover a leak there.)
Then there's the terrorism issue. Every time the alert level rises, the National Guard gets sent out to guard powerplants. That doesn't fill me with love for the things.
And what of Iran, North Korea, et al? Every time they start talking nuclear power, we get very nervous, and with good reason. One bomb in the hands of the wrong people would make 9/11 look like a fender-bender. Maybe these new tech reactors would provide power without needing the wrong type of nuclear expertise and fuel, but as-is, nuclear power plants have made the world less safe by giving totalitarian gov'ts a rationalization for working with nuclear fuels.
Possibly not true, because for the same energy output you need a lot more material and maintenance with the "renewable" systems - a gigawatt of wind power would be 100 10MW windturbines - and 10meg windturbines would be VERY big.
Yes, but the turbines could probably be designed to be 99%+ recyclable.
Perhaps there is a nuclear power solution that would be safe enough on all measures. The history of nuclear power so far, however, doesn't leave one optimistic.