Now if you would only put more into better QA for the stuff you sell to the military and medical fields. Rushing your product to these markets without very extensive QA is putting lives needlessly at risk for profit. I can not forgive that, no matter what you are giving to charity at the same time.
Ruthlessly crushing the competition is horribly phychotic and antisocial, but not evil. Creating a shoddy product for gamers and home PC users is terribly annoying, but not evil. Putting lives at risk by selling known faulty OSes to the military and medical fields is just evil.
Until Microsoft changes that, I can't justify giving them a single penny.
No, it is not. Not according to the scientific evidince we have. If humans were not putting huge amounts of gunk into the air, this would not be happening. There is zero controversy among scientists in this field that global warming is happening, and that human activity is contributing to it. You will not find a single scientific paper in a peer reviewed journal stating otherwise. You will find people outside of the field saying otherwise.. but they only provide spotty 'evidence' at best, ignoring what they don't like. But just as you shouldn't listen to say, a genetic scientist about how particle physics is all a lie (without extremely good and well researched evidence), you should be listening to scientists in this field first, not some statistician, for example.
To blythely say that this is a 'natural cycle' is to ignore evidence, ignore the experts on the subject, and to ignore reality.
Personally I don't care so much why it is happening so much as what are we going to do to stop it? If somehow every scientist in the field were wrong and it is a natural warming cycle, I would still want to change it. We have the ability to change the world. Let's do so for the better.
This is one of many broken things about a direct democracy. If we had laws be democracy in this manner, gays would be criminals for being gays, blacks would still be segragated, and swearing would be criminal.
Luckily direct democracies are rare in government, and there are restrictions on mob rule.
Instead of asking 'the people' what they think, we ask something called 'the experts'. Does swearing have general trend towards being psychologically harmful effect to an individual? This is something that can be studied, rather than having a mob level reaction to certain actions. This is why homosexuality was removed from being a phychological problem, for instance.
Laws banning swearing are not up for vote, in general, in most free countries. We have various documents, including the Declaration of Human Rights, that protects such speech. Even if an overwhelming amount of people do not like swearing, it's illegal to make it illegal.
Voting is not a solution to everything, and in fact can make a situation worse, not better.
That's right. In the US at least, the bank never owns the house. The government does.. you get to pay a yearly rent on it. Fortunately the US government is a fairly lenient landlord, and will let you paint it and such. Many modifications (additions, etc.) will require a one time fee, similar to a security deposit only non-refundable, and may increase the rent as property value goes up.
Doesn't matter what legal language you put on it. Doesn't matter if you legally, technically own it according to the letter of a law. If something can be taken away from you for non-payment, you de-facto do not yet own it.
Anything with a property tax is non-owned. You are just renting the experience of owning it.
This story reminds me of another couple. One that spent long hours toiling away to invent something, and another that uses his smarts and brains to invent something more quickly, and better. The slow toiling guy takes the credit and the money, leaving the smart guy with a small sum of money. This bubble guy seems like much less of a jerk than Edison was, but there are still some parallels.
Yes, that is the best we can have. That is the ultimate goal of working through the scientific method.. to have a strong confidence in reality matching what we think we know about it. The laws of physics are unchanging. If there were changes due to people's changing beliefs that would be an as of yet unknown variable in how we _understand_ the laws of physics. The physical reality itself is as it is. If belief affects it, that's part of the laws of physics. It's only our limited understanding of those laws that change.
But did they fix the boring? I tried ES3, and can't recommend it. It is not a role playing game in the slightest bit. The world is way too static. You kill a leader of some faction and what happens? Do others sweep in to take advantage of the chaos? Do you get recognized as some great/horrible person by random folks? No, nothing. The world stays essentially the same. You kill a freaking _god_ and are recognized by another god and what happens? Nothing.. you're still the same unremarked upon person going around doing remarkable things and having nobody remark upon it and nothing of any importance change as a consequence.
Roll playing and computer games just do not mix well. They can't mix well until we have true AIs running the game. Until then, the best we can do is games such as Fallout, Arcanum and Vampire: Bloodlines. A good balance between open ended and structured story.
ES takes the Final Fantasy railroading problem and tries to take it in the other direction. It goes way too far, and fails just as badly as the Final Fantasy series in making a computer RPG.
Both types of game may be fun for those that like that, but neither are role playing.
Seems like you're not very sound sensative. Not everyone has the same range and sensativity of hearing, you know. You might not be bothered by it, you might not even hear it, but some of us can. Total silence is the goal of many people with regards to their computer. Even the quietest drive reviewed here bottoms out at above mid 30s dbs. I personally find 20db to be fairly loud for fans and such in my system.
Technically she's going after his shirt, not Jayne. If she were going after Jayne, he'd have been dead. She just wanted to cut the Blue Sun logo, and Jayne happened to be the cutting board.
Reduction in IT management? If it was run correctly, you're not reducing IT costs much at all with SunRay vs. a standardized office desktop system. You still have email, data storage, calendar data, backups, etc. to deal with. All of that should be centralized regardless of which system you use. Desktop patches, etc. can be run centrally via script, and can actually reduce risk in some cases, running in small batches vs. updating a central SunRay server, in case of patch error.
SunRay is a wonderful product with some fantastic features that I would love to see elsewhere, but the reduction of IT costs with SunRay is largely a myth.
They knowingly have inadequate QA for products. Despite this they still market military and medical applications. These are areas that reliability of the product could mean lives. This is inexcusable.
OSS has a problem as well. Program with crappy UI gets made and released into the wild. People go 'what a crappy UI' and maybe even make suggestions on how to improve it. Coders reply with 'f-off! it's free. it does what it's supposed to. fix it yourself', etc. People go 'we're not coders, we're users!' and 'what a bunch of elitist jerks', etc. New version comes out that's even more complex, with just as crappy a UI. Users go 'where's the docs? how do I use this, etc'. Coders go 'read the source!', or at best point to the man pages rather than non-existent introductory documentation.
I bought several titles from Loki. Many no longer work, mostly due to library issues. I would have to reinstall older versions of Linux to get them up and running. This could be avoided by doing static rather than dynamic compiles, or including libraries with the game in it's own subdirectory, and point the game there.
Compare this to Windows. I can still play almost all my games, from DOS forward, in XP SP2. Some aren't too playable due to computer speed issues (plays too fast!), but there are programs to work around that. I don't have to reinstall DOS.
With Windows, I think the only program I can't really use anymore with a modern system is qpv (it had the _best_ UI for me for picture viewing/sorting... it's sad that nothing I've seen has come close to it in usability).
I want the May 21st version of resume.doc from my home directory. I've overwritten it 3 times since then, and then it was corrupted. Oh wait.. you can't get it, you only store the current corrupt version, but 3 times. Back to tapes.
Who in their right mind? People who use their desktop to IM, web, email, word processing, etc. Light basic work. About everyone in most any office. Low power and quiet opperation makes it perfect for this type of task.
Desktop does not only mean super fast 3d gaming system.
His nice-ness and acting ability aren't in question, it's his looks. He's not nearly pumped enough to play the man of steel. The role needs someone with strong broad shoulders, lantern jaw, etc.
I think SG1 should have ended last season. The current eps are just kind.. there. The big fight at the end was a perfect ending point to the series. As for Atlantis, it's also just blah. Also the bigbads from that show kind of suck.. mostly because the concept of 'life force' is lame.
Yeah, and it was great... in the 80s and before. Current science and technology is going in a very different direction, ala biotech/nanotech. Ignoring this to live in the future envisioned in the 70s and 80s is just too much. It goes way beyond suspension of disbelief into the realm of the absurd.
Keep up with the times... you're suposed to be a futurist, Mr. Nivin. Stop living in the past and come up with a new vision.
Friggin TV ruining the movie for me before I even see it. I hate to not be surprised by movies, and the ads on TV and before other movies in the theater always show too much! I hate that.
Let's compare for my town... weather.com: Fremont, CA will be 90F tommorow... cooling down a bit. weather.gov forwards me to the noaa.gov site... it says it'll be 102F tomorrow. Finally unisys... 68F. Wow!
Somewhere between weather.com and weather.gov the local thermometers agreed, for todays high.
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Now if you would only put more into better QA for the stuff you sell to the military and medical fields. Rushing your product to these markets without very extensive QA is putting lives needlessly at risk for profit. I can not forgive that, no matter what you are giving to charity at the same time.
Ruthlessly crushing the competition is horribly phychotic and antisocial, but not evil. Creating a shoddy product for gamers and home PC users is terribly annoying, but not evil. Putting lives at risk by selling known faulty OSes to the military and medical fields is just evil.
Until Microsoft changes that, I can't justify giving them a single penny.
No, it is not. Not according to the scientific evidince we have. If humans were not putting huge amounts of gunk into the air, this would not be happening. There is zero controversy among scientists in this field that global warming is happening, and that human activity is contributing to it. You will not find a single scientific paper in a peer reviewed journal stating otherwise. You will find people outside of the field saying otherwise.. but they only provide spotty 'evidence' at best, ignoring what they don't like. But just as you shouldn't listen to say, a genetic scientist about how particle physics is all a lie (without extremely
good and well researched evidence), you should be listening to scientists in this field first, not some statistician, for example.
To blythely say that this is a 'natural cycle' is to ignore evidence, ignore the experts on the subject, and to ignore reality.
Personally I don't care so much why it is happening so much as what are we going to do to stop it? If somehow every scientist in the field were wrong and it is a natural warming cycle, I would still want to change it. We have the ability to change the world. Let's do so for the better.
This is one of many broken things about a direct democracy. If we had laws be democracy in this manner, gays would be criminals for being gays, blacks would still be segragated, and swearing would be criminal.
Luckily direct democracies are rare in government, and there are restrictions on mob rule.
Instead of asking 'the people' what they think, we ask something called 'the experts'. Does swearing have general trend towards being psychologically harmful effect to an individual? This is something that can be studied, rather than having a mob level reaction to certain actions. This is why homosexuality was removed from being a phychological problem, for instance.
Laws banning swearing are not up for vote, in general, in most free countries. We have various documents, including the Declaration of Human Rights, that protects such speech. Even if an overwhelming amount of people do not like swearing, it's illegal to make it illegal.
Voting is not a solution to everything, and in fact can make a situation worse, not better.
That's right. In the US at least, the bank never owns the house. The government does.. you get to pay a yearly rent on it. Fortunately the US government is a fairly lenient landlord, and will let you paint it and such. Many modifications (additions, etc.) will require a one time fee, similar to a security deposit only non-refundable, and may increase the rent as property value goes up.
Doesn't matter what legal language you put on it. Doesn't matter if you legally, technically own it according to the letter of a law. If something can be taken away from you for non-payment, you de-facto do not yet own it.
Anything with a property tax is non-owned. You are just renting the experience of owning it.
This story reminds me of another couple. One that spent long hours toiling away to invent something, and another that uses his smarts and brains to invent something more quickly, and better. The slow toiling guy takes the credit and the money, leaving the smart guy with a small sum of money. This bubble guy seems like much less of a jerk than Edison was, but there are still some parallels.
Yes, that is the best we can have. That is the ultimate goal of working through the scientific method.. to have a strong confidence in reality matching what we think we know about it. The laws of physics are unchanging. If there were changes due to people's changing beliefs that would be an as of yet unknown variable in how we _understand_ the laws of physics. The physical reality itself is as it is. If belief affects it, that's part of the laws of physics. It's only our limited understanding of those laws that change.
But did they fix the boring? I tried ES3, and can't recommend it. It is not a role playing game in the slightest bit. The world is way too static. You kill a leader of some faction and what happens? Do others sweep in to take advantage of the chaos? Do you get recognized as some great/horrible person by random folks? No, nothing. The world stays essentially the same. You kill a freaking _god_ and are recognized by another god and what happens? Nothing.. you're still the same unremarked upon person going around doing remarkable things and having nobody remark upon it and nothing of any importance change as a consequence.
Roll playing and computer games just do not mix well. They can't mix well until we have true AIs running the game. Until then, the best we can do is games such as Fallout, Arcanum and Vampire: Bloodlines. A good balance between open ended and structured story.
ES takes the Final Fantasy railroading problem and tries to take it in the other direction. It goes way too far, and fails just as badly as the Final Fantasy series in making a computer RPG.
Both types of game may be fun for those that like that, but neither are role playing.
Seems like you're not very sound sensative. Not everyone has the same range and sensativity of hearing, you know. You might not be bothered by it, you might not even hear it, but some of us can. Total silence is the goal of many people with regards to their computer. Even the quietest drive reviewed here bottoms out at above mid 30s dbs. I personally find 20db to be fairly loud for fans and such in my system.
Yes. Maybe I should elaborate. YEEEEEEEEES.
Technically she's going after his shirt, not Jayne. If she were going after Jayne, he'd have been dead. She just wanted to cut the Blue Sun logo, and Jayne happened to be the cutting board.
Reduction in IT management? If it was run correctly, you're not reducing IT costs much at all with SunRay vs. a standardized office desktop system. You still have email, data storage, calendar data, backups, etc. to deal with. All of that should be centralized regardless of which system you use. Desktop patches, etc. can be run centrally via script, and can actually reduce risk in some cases, running in small batches vs. updating a central SunRay server, in case of patch error.
SunRay is a wonderful product with some fantastic features that I would love to see elsewhere, but
the reduction of IT costs with SunRay is largely a myth.
They knowingly have inadequate QA for products. Despite this they still market military and medical applications. These are areas that reliability of the product could mean lives. This is inexcusable.
What I would really love to see is something like the trackpoint, but with a little trackball instead of a nub in the center of the keyboard.
Microsoft would be the one to trademark ones and zeros. Instead now Apple owns the Numbers!
OSS has a problem as well. Program with crappy UI gets made and released into the wild. People go 'what a crappy UI' and maybe even make suggestions on how to improve it. Coders reply with 'f-off! it's free. it does what it's supposed to. fix it yourself', etc. People go 'we're not coders, we're users!' and 'what a bunch of elitist jerks', etc. New version comes out that's even more complex, with just as crappy a UI. Users go 'where's the docs? how do I use this, etc'. Coders go 'read the source!', or at best point to the man pages rather than non-existent introductory documentation.
I bought several titles from Loki. Many no longer work, mostly due to library issues. I would have to reinstall older versions of Linux to get them up and running. This could be avoided by doing static rather than dynamic compiles, or including libraries with the game in it's own subdirectory, and point the game there.
Compare this to Windows. I can still play almost all my games, from DOS forward, in XP SP2. Some aren't too playable due to computer speed issues (plays too fast!), but there are programs to work around that. I don't have to reinstall DOS.
With Windows, I think the only program I can't really use anymore with a modern system is qpv (it had the _best_ UI for me for picture viewing/sorting... it's sad that nothing I've seen has come close to it in usability).
Galaxy spanning alliances, you mean. The universe is so much bigger than one tiny little galaxy among at least billions.
I want the May 21st version of resume.doc from my home directory. I've overwritten it 3 times since then, and then it was
corrupted. Oh wait.. you can't get it, you only store the current corrupt version, but 3 times. Back to tapes.
Nope. I'd go for a cheap fanless VIA or a SunRay setup, in a lot of cases.
Who in their right mind? People who use their desktop to IM, web, email, word processing, etc. Light basic work. About everyone in most any office. Low power and quiet opperation makes it perfect for this type of task.
Desktop does not only mean super fast 3d gaming system.
His nice-ness and acting ability aren't in question, it's his looks. He's not nearly pumped enough to play the man of steel. The role needs someone with strong broad shoulders, lantern jaw, etc.
I think SG1 should have ended last season. The current eps are just kind.. there. The big fight at the end was a perfect ending point to the series. As for Atlantis, it's also just blah. Also the bigbads from that show kind of suck.. mostly because the concept of 'life force' is lame.
Yeah, and it was great... in the 80s and before. Current science and technology is going in a very different direction, ala biotech/nanotech. Ignoring this to live in the future envisioned in the 70s and 80s is just too much. It goes way beyond suspension of disbelief into the realm of the absurd.
Keep up with the times... you're suposed to be a futurist, Mr. Nivin. Stop living in the past and come up with a new vision.
Friggin TV ruining the movie for me before I even see it. I hate to not be surprised by movies, and the ads on TV and before other movies in the theater always show too much! I hate that.
Let's compare for my town... weather.com: Fremont, CA will be 90F tommorow... cooling down a bit. weather.gov forwards me to the noaa.gov site... it says it'll be 102F tomorrow. Finally unisys... 68F. Wow!
Somewhere between weather.com and weather.gov the local thermometers agreed, for todays high.