Yes, fuel cells and electric cars are all neat ideas, but the current administration is encouraging the consumption of the world's rapidly dwindling oil supply.
Quite the contrary, actually. Many prominent Democrats are begging the President to put price caps on energy right now, energy that is produced by oil (among other things).
However, any first year economics student can tell you that price caps screw up the balance between supply and demand. When the government sets a price cap on an item, they are pricing it below what the market rate is. When a product is selling below the market rate, the demand generally increases. In effect, putting a price cap on energy would cause Califonians to use a lot more energy, and burn up a lot more oil in the process.
This is just getting back to the basics-- Do you have a good backup strategy in place?
Right now, ASP's are not geared towards users doing their own backups. However, as the market shakes out and there is growing distrust of the ASP market, I'm sure that the ASP's will start allowing admin's to connect with whatever software and backup the company directory.
After all, ASP's have some appeal with small to medium sized businesses, but to tap into the large corporations, ASP's have to either guarantee backups or allow companies to do their own.
...the difference being that not all hacking is criminal activity, whereas all pedophilia is. The authors of Hacking Exposed could simply say that they were showing people how to hack into their own computers. OTOH, you couldn't say that NAMBLA was showing a man how to rape his own son.
I say it again, our right to free speech is not absolute, and that's a good thing. Like I pointed out, no one has the right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater; but that goes against our "absolute right to free speech," you might insist. Let's say that, for whatever reason, it becomes all the rage among young people to try to spook large crowds (maybe MTV ran a special episode of "Jackass" on it). A couple of young men will walk into the back of a crowded theater, and suddenly start screaming and running around yelling "Look out! He's got a gun!! He's got a gun!" In the ensuing stampede, several people are killed, and many more injured. And just to make it truthful, let's say that they had originally seen a little boy with a water pistol and decided to make some michief.
So who's at fault? The people who are "stupid enough" to believe two young men yelling and running around scared (the crowd made their own decisions, right?)? Or can we fault the two fellows who abused their free speech right?
Your argument is a straw man that plays to people's fears and prejudices rather than tackling the substance of the freedom issue (specifically, it's a scare piece which preys on the prejudice that there are tons of big, bad, slavering queers out there who just can't wait to get their hands on some supple boy flesh to rape and kill). That's dangerous stuff there, bullshit to boot (since most child molesters are hetero, proportionally), and certainly not a rigorous enough approach to so vital a discussion.
Whoa, whoa, whoa... You're making some broad assumptions there that I never said.
All I'll say, though, is that NAMBLA was criminally responsible for what happened because they acted in an advisory role to the perpetrator, telling him explicitly how to commit the crime and get away with it.
I don't give a rip about "big, bad, slavering queers," I'm worried about the psycho who looks at my kids and sees fresh meat, and is armed with enough knowledge to do something. Where are my rights and my family's rights? How, in a practical sense, does this "free society" benefit me if the threats to my kids are increasing because of groups like NAMBLA?
Seems to me that there's no such thing as a conditional freedom. At the risk of sounding like I'm making a false either/or proposition, either speech is free -- whether or not we like what is said -- or it's not. Freedom is one of those places where there is no middle ground. Any restriction on freedom does it in.
Not true... EVERY freedom we have has a condition on it. I have the freedom of speech, but I don't have the freedom to yell "Fire!" in a crowded room. I have the freedom to own a firearm, but I don't have the freedom to go around blowing people's heads off with it.
The ACLU is incapable of recognizing these limits; what they want is nothing less than anarchy. Why else would they be defending NAMBLA in another court case? (For those that don't know, NAMBLA stands for "the North American Man/Boy Love Association," a group that ran a support group/web site devoted to educating and encouraging pedophiles. They are being sued by the father of a boy who was raped and killed by someone who was directly influenced by the site to commit the crime. The web site has since been taken down because of the publicity that Fox News was giving the case.)
Sorry, but I don't want any part of the "freedom" that groups like NAMBLA represent.
When was the last time you saw a commercial for The O'Reilly Factor on CNN? Or a commercial for Frasier on ABC? When was the last time you saw a full-page spread for the Washington Times in the Washington Post?
Probably never. So why is this such a big deal? If I was CEO of AOL Time Warner, I wouldn't allow my competitors to advertise on my sites, either.
Besides, it's not like there aren't PLENTY of other places to advertise on online. Most major sites that rely on advertising are still having to fill space with in-house ads, up to 30%, so it's not as if you couldn't paste ads all over Yahoo if you wanted to.
You can't claim censorship when AOL only accounts for a tiny fraction of the total websites in cyberspace.
It seems that the trend has been that when console manufacturers start doing things like this, the stability of the console goes downhill. I'm a little worried about the XBox for that reason.
Yeah, that and the name "Microsoft" on the outside of the box. I can see it now...
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Ford announced that the 2003 Ford Escape SUV would come with an option for a hybrid engine that would get 40 MPG, with performance comparable to a V6 and go approximately 500 miles on a single tank of gas.
Don't knock it until you've tried it. This system is much faster, because it uses USB, SCSI, or IEEE 1394 (which you might know as "FireWire.")
If you already have USB and FireWire, then you already have everything you need for a hot-pluggable drive solution. You don't need to buy a proprietary docking system.
Even if this Iomega drive ends up being slightly faster than other FireWire drives, the negatives of buying a proprietary system still outweigh the benefits.
$200 for a 20 GB hard drive? Big, fat hairy deal. They won't be building any marketshare with those prices.
This might even be slightly interesting if we didn't already have hot-pluggable drive technology available via FireWire. And you don't even have to buy an expensive dock for those, either.
This announcement is about as exciting as when they introduced the Iomega CD-R (also late to the market). Sadly, Iomega continues to disappoint...
I don't see why Westwood seems to think that the Dune series would make a good set of games, Especially not strategy games.
Uhh...I guess you don't know that the original Dune game Westwood created spawned a series of similar strategy titles by them, starting with Command & Conquer and Red Alert, and many imitators, most notably Total Annihilation and StarCraft.
I don't know how true they have been to the book (since I've never read it), but the Dune franchise proved to be very lucrative for them, if in an indirect way.
Yes, the point the article made was dead on-target: Who is going to take the booth babe into consideration when deciding to plunk down $50 for a game?
NOBODY.
Sex is not selling in this case; it's only a cheap trick to get a crowd around your booth when you've got a crap game, so you can say to your investors, "Yeah, we had a lot of interest in Xtreme Paintball 2!!!"
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Now don't get me wrong, I like the looks of apples and I found their iMacs quite cute. I even considered buying one for experimentation, but honestly all iMacs I saw on display had horribles monitors: flickering, too much contrast... Really:-(
Then again, the iMac is targeted towards budget-conscious consumers, not graphics professionals. I'd still say though that an iMac monitor is better than most of the el cheapo 15" CRT's on the market.
Apple has never shipped a 19" (or even 17") CRT for $200. Apple has very high QA standards for their monitors, so they have always charged a higher price than the KDS's of the world.
I agree, though, that it is a shame. I have a 17" flat-screen plugged into my Cube, and it's gorgeous. It even has its own automatic ColorSync color correction via the ADC connector. I wish Apple would have at least kept this monitor in production.
I haven't seen any games recently on an Apple LCD, but what I have seen at my local CompUSA has been impressive. I watched a good bit of Star Trek: First Contact on one, and it was unbelievably good; it totally changed my concept of what LCD's limitations were.
I think Taco is a little confused...there is a huge difference between LCD's in laptops and desktop LCD displays. The former is optimized for a low power situation, whereas the latter is not.
Well, the election was fraught with problems, perhaps the biggest of which was the media calling Florida for Gore an hour before the polls were closed in the western part of the state. A democratic pollster has estimated that Bush lost approximately 8,000 votes (net) in Florida because of it, not to mention how many more votes he may have lost nationwide. George Bush should have taken Florida by a comfortable margin.
What Al Gore attempted was nothing short of a coup d'etat. He saw that the numbers were close enough that he could engineer a win. He's been in politics long enough that he knows full well that voting is an inaccurate process that's open to manipulation. And who better to enlist for the task than the son of Richard Daley, the master ballot stuffer.
"Hey, here's an idea--why don't we recount the largest counties where Gore won by the widest margin! Surely that will turn up more Gore votes. Then we'll throw out as many military ballots as we possibly can! We know that the military vote is slanted towards the Republicans."
The thing to keep in mind is that not once did the recounts ever put Gore in the lead, even after all his shenanigans. Face it, your boy lost.
So, we're measuring intelligence with the ability to stand up in front of an audience of thousands and cameras beaming your image to tens of millions (maybe billions), and speak confidently off the cuff? Gee, by that standard, probably 90% of the people here on/. are fucking idiots.
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Quite the contrary, actually. Many prominent Democrats are begging the President to put price caps on energy right now, energy that is produced by oil (among other things).
However, any first year economics student can tell you that price caps screw up the balance between supply and demand. When the government sets a price cap on an item, they are pricing it below what the market rate is. When a product is selling below the market rate, the demand generally increases. In effect, putting a price cap on energy would cause Califonians to use a lot more energy, and burn up a lot more oil in the process.
Right now, ASP's are not geared towards users doing their own backups. However, as the market shakes out and there is growing distrust of the ASP market, I'm sure that the ASP's will start allowing admin's to connect with whatever software and backup the company directory.
After all, ASP's have some appeal with small to medium sized businesses, but to tap into the large corporations, ASP's have to either guarantee backups or allow companies to do their own.
I say it again, our right to free speech is not absolute, and that's a good thing. Like I pointed out, no one has the right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater; but that goes against our "absolute right to free speech," you might insist. Let's say that, for whatever reason, it becomes all the rage among young people to try to spook large crowds (maybe MTV ran a special episode of "Jackass" on it). A couple of young men will walk into the back of a crowded theater, and suddenly start screaming and running around yelling "Look out! He's got a gun!! He's got a gun!" In the ensuing stampede, several people are killed, and many more injured. And just to make it truthful, let's say that they had originally seen a little boy with a water pistol and decided to make some michief.
So who's at fault? The people who are "stupid enough" to believe two young men yelling and running around scared (the crowd made their own decisions, right?)? Or can we fault the two fellows who abused their free speech right?
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Paine
Great quote... I liked it better when Thomas Jefferson said it.
Whoa, whoa, whoa... You're making some broad assumptions there that I never said.
All I'll say, though, is that NAMBLA was criminally responsible for what happened because they acted in an advisory role to the perpetrator, telling him explicitly how to commit the crime and get away with it.
I don't give a rip about "big, bad, slavering queers," I'm worried about the psycho who looks at my kids and sees fresh meat, and is armed with enough knowledge to do something. Where are my rights and my family's rights? How, in a practical sense, does this "free society" benefit me if the threats to my kids are increasing because of groups like NAMBLA?
Not true... EVERY freedom we have has a condition on it. I have the freedom of speech, but I don't have the freedom to yell "Fire!" in a crowded room. I have the freedom to own a firearm, but I don't have the freedom to go around blowing people's heads off with it.
The ACLU is incapable of recognizing these limits; what they want is nothing less than anarchy. Why else would they be defending NAMBLA in another court case? (For those that don't know, NAMBLA stands for "the North American Man/Boy Love Association," a group that ran a support group/web site devoted to educating and encouraging pedophiles. They are being sued by the father of a boy who was raped and killed by someone who was directly influenced by the site to commit the crime. The web site has since been taken down because of the publicity that Fox News was giving the case.)
Sorry, but I don't want any part of the "freedom" that groups like NAMBLA represent.
Probably never. So why is this such a big deal? If I was CEO of AOL Time Warner, I wouldn't allow my competitors to advertise on my sites, either.
Besides, it's not like there aren't PLENTY of other places to advertise on online. Most major sites that rely on advertising are still having to fill space with in-house ads, up to 30%, so it's not as if you couldn't paste ads all over Yahoo if you wanted to.
You can't claim censorship when AOL only accounts for a tiny fraction of the total websites in cyberspace.
Yeah, that and the name "Microsoft" on the outside of the box. I can see it now...
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2) Think of who AOL is...AOL Time/Warner. How many sites is that? A lot. Not to mention that AOL is the largest ISP in the world.
3) Napster had, at its peak, 50 million users (I think they're down to 10 users now).
4) 96% of PC's use an MS operating system.
It's all been caught on video, right here.
The article is here.
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http://ere2.free.fr/lotr_trailer2.mov
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What, doesn't everyone have a Mac? ;-)
Check out this 20 Gig USB Hard Drive from APS Tech, a very reputable company. Only $179.
If you already have USB and FireWire, then you already have everything you need for a hot-pluggable drive solution. You don't need to buy a proprietary docking system.
Even if this Iomega drive ends up being slightly faster than other FireWire drives, the negatives of buying a proprietary system still outweigh the benefits.
What are they smoking over Iomega?
This might even be slightly interesting if we didn't already have hot-pluggable drive technology available via FireWire. And you don't even have to buy an expensive dock for those, either.
This announcement is about as exciting as when they introduced the Iomega CD-R (also late to the market). Sadly, Iomega continues to disappoint...
Uhh...I guess you don't know that the original Dune game Westwood created spawned a series of similar strategy titles by them, starting with Command & Conquer and Red Alert, and many imitators, most notably Total Annihilation and StarCraft.
I don't know how true they have been to the book (since I've never read it), but the Dune franchise proved to be very lucrative for them, if in an indirect way.
Yes, the point the article made was dead on-target: Who is going to take the booth babe into consideration when deciding to plunk down $50 for a game?
NOBODY.
Sex is not selling in this case; it's only a cheap trick to get a crowd around your booth when you've got a crap game, so you can say to your investors, "Yeah, we had a lot of interest in Xtreme Paintball 2!!!"
Just attach The Wire(TM) and your troubles will be over! No more hunting around for lost controllers! No additional expensive circuitry to beep at you!
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Then again, the iMac is targeted towards budget-conscious consumers, not graphics professionals. I'd still say though that an iMac monitor is better than most of the el cheapo 15" CRT's on the market.
I agree, though, that it is a shame. I have a 17" flat-screen plugged into my Cube, and it's gorgeous. It even has its own automatic ColorSync color correction via the ADC connector. I wish Apple would have at least kept this monitor in production.
I think Taco is a little confused...there is a huge difference between LCD's in laptops and desktop LCD displays. The former is optimized for a low power situation, whereas the latter is not.
What Al Gore attempted was nothing short of a coup d'etat. He saw that the numbers were close enough that he could engineer a win. He's been in politics long enough that he knows full well that voting is an inaccurate process that's open to manipulation. And who better to enlist for the task than the son of Richard Daley, the master ballot stuffer.
"Hey, here's an idea--why don't we recount the largest counties where Gore won by the widest margin! Surely that will turn up more Gore votes. Then we'll throw out as many military ballots as we possibly can! We know that the military vote is slanted towards the Republicans."
The thing to keep in mind is that not once did the recounts ever put Gore in the lead, even after all his shenanigans. Face it, your boy lost.
So, we're measuring intelligence with the ability to stand up in front of an audience of thousands and cameras beaming your image to tens of millions (maybe billions), and speak confidently off the cuff? Gee, by that standard, probably 90% of the people here on /. are fucking idiots.