Have you considered that perhaps there's a reason for that? Apple gets bashed for doing some pretty nasty things. And the bashing gets even more savage as a result of the fanboyism that's common. There's plenty of Apple fanbois who can't accept that the iPod was simply the next step in portable music player technology, and that the coveted menu interface was ripped off from Creative. Pretty much the only thing about the iPod that was actually innovative was the wheel and white coloring, all the rest of it had been done before by somebody else.
Likewise with iOS, I don't see many people claiming that the iOS itself sucks, all the complaining I see is about how Apple takes all the control from the owners and tells people what they may and may not install on their devices, unless the owners jailbreak their device and void the warrant in the process.
I'm guessing that there's going to be a backlash from the various people that are writing programs using GTK+. Seriously, I'd be thrilled not to have to choose between the best utility of a type and not having to install GTK. It's a serious pain that one almost inevitably ends up with both kdelibs and GTK installed because there's invariably that one application which uses the other set of libraries for which there is no suitable replacement that uses ones preferred set of libraries.
Good luck with that, students rarely if ever get a break just because their parents didn't let them do their homework. Ultimately, the students still get their F on the assignment whether or not it was the parents fault. The only exceptions I've ever heard about was where there genuinely wasn't any possible way of doing it, due to accident or death in the family, not just because the parents were too lazy to reconfigure the computer to allow the homework to be done.
You do realize that anybody that's too poor to have internet probably doesn't live next to somebody with the internet, right? Same goes for WiFi, if somebody is too poor to have internet, it's unlikely that they'll bother with WiFi.
Plus, I don't think that all those excuses are intended to be used consecutively on the same occasion.
I think the real issue here is that if we have kids going to school year round and take away their snow days, what time is there left to be kids? Unfortunately you can't learn everything in school, and if you want kids that grow up to be well balanced adults you're going to have to give them time to screw around and play.
To be honest, unless you're in a part of the world with frequent snow days, I don' think this is worthwhile. And in all honesty, places which do get them frequently already have machinery and plans in place to take care of that. It's just places like Seattle which get snow infrequently and are at a topographic disadvantage for which this is a possible advantage. And I can't imagine the justification behind paying this much money in order to have students spend a couple more days in school when that money could be put to better use.
It really depends, some of them held up really well, and others not so much. Wolf 3D and Blake Stone are probably better now than they were back then largely because many people didn't have proper controllers or sound cards at that point, playing those games now is much more pleasant.
King's Quest held up pretty well, as long as you're more into the puzzles and humor, the graphics are quite lame compared with even the King's Quest I remake that came out 20 years ago.
The one time I needed a new one, which replaced the previously worn out one, AT&T just gave me a new one. The only questions they asked were to make sure I was authorized on that account.
But, this isn't the old days, and most handset manufacturers seem to be able to handle the regular SIMs just fine, you know the ones that approximately the same size as an SD card. So, going to micro SD might plausibly have some benefit, but at this point there's no legitimate reason for going any smaller since the real thing taking up all the space is electronics and battery, eliminating the SIM entirely just isn't going to save enough space to make creating a new format worthwhile.
It's always something to be concerned with, but one also must be aware of the benefits as well. ABS is one of the most significant advances since the seat belt. ESC offers similar promise in reducing rollover crashes.
But, ultimately, if they can get a system like this to work it would be a huge win.
Now, if only they can ban those annoying red lights that some cars have when they're driving, you know the ones that make it hard to tell if the driver has applied the brakes.
The problem is that most people can't tell the difference between an opinion and a fact. Even if the fact is wrong, they still can't distinguish that from an opinion.
You frequently see people complaining about "Obamacare" that's an incorrect fact, the actual meat and potatoes of the health care package was lifted from various conservative politicians, it only became "Obamacare" when they decided that they needed to stymy the President. All of the actual controversial aspects had been proposed by various conservative politicians.
I take it you haven't actually listened to NPR, like, ever. Unlike Limbaugh, Beck and O'Reilly, you do actually get multiple sides to the things they cover. There's a few exceptions here and there, but by and large it's pretty fair to the issues.
I take it you have yet to realize that reality has a liberal bias to it, a group that wants to take us to a future which will likely never exist is better than a group that wants to take us back to a reality which definitely never existed.
No, the big issue is that Russia, China and a handful of other nations don't prosecute those crimes unless they take place completely on their soil. As long as some nations out there don't prosecute suspected crackers, there's unlikely to ever be much changed.
On top of that, in the US we failed to prosecute the corporations that were benefiting from spam while turning a blind eye to how the messages were being sent. It would be naive to say the least of them not to put two and two together when spam messages started showing up showing their goods and services being advertised. Spammers don't provide such services without some sort of profit motive.
There was that scare a few years back about people manufacturing the small pox virus from scratch in a lab. My understanding was that the samples were being kept for research purposes in Atlanta. But in case of somebody releasing them, you'd need samples with which to create a vaccine, typically, you'd culture those from somebody that's been infected as viruses have a nasty tendency to mutate.
Keeping these things secured is really tough, so I'd be surprised if the US or anybody else had viable samples that nobody knew about.
The key there is most of the time. There are definitely going to be times when having a robot that can talk is going to be of serious importance. For instance rescue missions where it's too dangerous to send humans in, but where there is still a need to rescue somebody. In situations like that you're not likely to have access to a serial port, and likewise if you're wanting to have two robots coordinating with a person in a situation like that, the robots likely will understand themselves better over a serial connection, but not if a human also needs to be in on the talk.
I'm actively looking for a new distro. I wasn't particularly attached to Ubuntu to begin with, mainly because I do my tinkering in FreeBSD and just need Linux for a few applications which don't yet work in FreeBSD, such as Crashplan. But this unity crap and major change slipped into a stable release pretty much eliminates any point of using Linux. Thankfully, there are other distros, but still, it's a serious PITA.
I kind of like SUSE, apart from the headaches with getting some software packages which aren't available in the repository. Most likely, I'll try Slackware and then a couple other ones to see if I find something that's going to be stable, with a good repository and somewhat resource efficient.
The issue has been litigated to death by the catalog industry, and guess what, it's completely constitutional. This is a states' rights issue, and in this case, the states have a clear right to tax their residence with a sales tax, no matter how stupid I think that type of a tax is, they do have the right to levy it.
If that's the case, then why don't we see that happening when the tax situation changes drastically? I don't recall having huge numbers of wealthy people moving to the US when Reagan cut taxes from ~73% down to the mid 30s, and likewise there's no evidence that prior to that that the rich had fled high taxes elsewhere.
It's easy to say that they would move, but guess what, the only places that they'd likely want to live have taxes which are substantially higher than they are here.
You can easily get a substantial portion of that $1,4 bn by cutting the defense spending down to something reasonable, last I checked we were spending almost half that much on defense. Then you close tax loopholes, such as the ones that allow businesses to book losses without booking gains at the same time.
Lastly, you keep in mind that the deficit right now is in large part a reflection of the economy being in the dumps, tax revenue is down on the individuals who are paying taxes, and we're having to spend our way out of the recession because the lower classes don't have the money to spend.
That would get us a long way along the road. It's just that conservatives such as yourself can't stand the idea of spending a reasonable sum of money on defense and taxing those that benefit most from our national sovereignty.
It's because the federal government is barred from setting tax rates on a state by state basis. What's doing well financially in South Dakota would likely be impoverished in many other parts of the country. So, you do wind up with those situations where somebody is getting money back, but doing OK. But in general it doesn't work out like that.
Around here somebody making 30k is barely scraping by when you consider the retirement savings and high cost of living. Sure, one can be much more comfortable if one ignores retirement, but in this day and age, you can't assume that there's going to be a good pension and social security if you're not socking away money on your own.
Yes, but this isn't an interstate transaction, the transaction is considered to be at the home of the individual who is making the purchase. The only reason why Amazon collects tax in states with a definite presence is that it's not able to twist things that far.
And Amazon is arguing that it can't be required to collect the tax, there's no argument about the taxes being owed.
Strictly speaking, what the constitution says on the matter may or may not agree with SCOTUS. I'm not aware of them ever finding a treaty to be unconstitutional even some which are of questionable constitutionality.
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Have you considered that perhaps there's a reason for that? Apple gets bashed for doing some pretty nasty things. And the bashing gets even more savage as a result of the fanboyism that's common. There's plenty of Apple fanbois who can't accept that the iPod was simply the next step in portable music player technology, and that the coveted menu interface was ripped off from Creative. Pretty much the only thing about the iPod that was actually innovative was the wheel and white coloring, all the rest of it had been done before by somebody else.
Likewise with iOS, I don't see many people claiming that the iOS itself sucks, all the complaining I see is about how Apple takes all the control from the owners and tells people what they may and may not install on their devices, unless the owners jailbreak their device and void the warrant in the process.
How so? Atheism is hardly a religion, it's simply the term for anybody that doesn't believe in God or really any paranormal phenomenon.
Calling atheism a religion is simply a method of subjugating those that choose not to buy into all that religious stuff.
I'm guessing that there's going to be a backlash from the various people that are writing programs using GTK+. Seriously, I'd be thrilled not to have to choose between the best utility of a type and not having to install GTK. It's a serious pain that one almost inevitably ends up with both kdelibs and GTK installed because there's invariably that one application which uses the other set of libraries for which there is no suitable replacement that uses ones preferred set of libraries.
Good luck with that, students rarely if ever get a break just because their parents didn't let them do their homework. Ultimately, the students still get their F on the assignment whether or not it was the parents fault. The only exceptions I've ever heard about was where there genuinely wasn't any possible way of doing it, due to accident or death in the family, not just because the parents were too lazy to reconfigure the computer to allow the homework to be done.
You do realize that anybody that's too poor to have internet probably doesn't live next to somebody with the internet, right? Same goes for WiFi, if somebody is too poor to have internet, it's unlikely that they'll bother with WiFi.
Plus, I don't think that all those excuses are intended to be used consecutively on the same occasion.
I think the real issue here is that if we have kids going to school year round and take away their snow days, what time is there left to be kids? Unfortunately you can't learn everything in school, and if you want kids that grow up to be well balanced adults you're going to have to give them time to screw around and play.
To be honest, unless you're in a part of the world with frequent snow days, I don' think this is worthwhile. And in all honesty, places which do get them frequently already have machinery and plans in place to take care of that. It's just places like Seattle which get snow infrequently and are at a topographic disadvantage for which this is a possible advantage. And I can't imagine the justification behind paying this much money in order to have students spend a couple more days in school when that money could be put to better use.
You really should try eDuke32 especially with the High Res Pack.
It really depends, some of them held up really well, and others not so much. Wolf 3D and Blake Stone are probably better now than they were back then largely because many people didn't have proper controllers or sound cards at that point, playing those games now is much more pleasant.
King's Quest held up pretty well, as long as you're more into the puzzles and humor, the graphics are quite lame compared with even the King's Quest I remake that came out 20 years ago.
The one time I needed a new one, which replaced the previously worn out one, AT&T just gave me a new one. The only questions they asked were to make sure I was authorized on that account.
But, this isn't the old days, and most handset manufacturers seem to be able to handle the regular SIMs just fine, you know the ones that approximately the same size as an SD card. So, going to micro SD might plausibly have some benefit, but at this point there's no legitimate reason for going any smaller since the real thing taking up all the space is electronics and battery, eliminating the SIM entirely just isn't going to save enough space to make creating a new format worthwhile.
It's always something to be concerned with, but one also must be aware of the benefits as well. ABS is one of the most significant advances since the seat belt. ESC offers similar promise in reducing rollover crashes.
But, ultimately, if they can get a system like this to work it would be a huge win.
Now, if only they can ban those annoying red lights that some cars have when they're driving, you know the ones that make it hard to tell if the driver has applied the brakes.
The problem is that most people can't tell the difference between an opinion and a fact. Even if the fact is wrong, they still can't distinguish that from an opinion.
You frequently see people complaining about "Obamacare" that's an incorrect fact, the actual meat and potatoes of the health care package was lifted from various conservative politicians, it only became "Obamacare" when they decided that they needed to stymy the President. All of the actual controversial aspects had been proposed by various conservative politicians.
I take it you haven't actually listened to NPR, like, ever. Unlike Limbaugh, Beck and O'Reilly, you do actually get multiple sides to the things they cover. There's a few exceptions here and there, but by and large it's pretty fair to the issues.
I take it you have yet to realize that reality has a liberal bias to it, a group that wants to take us to a future which will likely never exist is better than a group that wants to take us back to a reality which definitely never existed.
No, the big issue is that Russia, China and a handful of other nations don't prosecute those crimes unless they take place completely on their soil. As long as some nations out there don't prosecute suspected crackers, there's unlikely to ever be much changed.
On top of that, in the US we failed to prosecute the corporations that were benefiting from spam while turning a blind eye to how the messages were being sent. It would be naive to say the least of them not to put two and two together when spam messages started showing up showing their goods and services being advertised. Spammers don't provide such services without some sort of profit motive.
There was that scare a few years back about people manufacturing the small pox virus from scratch in a lab. My understanding was that the samples were being kept for research purposes in Atlanta. But in case of somebody releasing them, you'd need samples with which to create a vaccine, typically, you'd culture those from somebody that's been infected as viruses have a nasty tendency to mutate.
Keeping these things secured is really tough, so I'd be surprised if the US or anybody else had viable samples that nobody knew about.
The key there is most of the time. There are definitely going to be times when having a robot that can talk is going to be of serious importance. For instance rescue missions where it's too dangerous to send humans in, but where there is still a need to rescue somebody. In situations like that you're not likely to have access to a serial port, and likewise if you're wanting to have two robots coordinating with a person in a situation like that, the robots likely will understand themselves better over a serial connection, but not if a human also needs to be in on the talk.
I'm actively looking for a new distro. I wasn't particularly attached to Ubuntu to begin with, mainly because I do my tinkering in FreeBSD and just need Linux for a few applications which don't yet work in FreeBSD, such as Crashplan. But this unity crap and major change slipped into a stable release pretty much eliminates any point of using Linux. Thankfully, there are other distros, but still, it's a serious PITA.
I kind of like SUSE, apart from the headaches with getting some software packages which aren't available in the repository. Most likely, I'll try Slackware and then a couple other ones to see if I find something that's going to be stable, with a good repository and somewhat resource efficient.
The issue has been litigated to death by the catalog industry, and guess what, it's completely constitutional. This is a states' rights issue, and in this case, the states have a clear right to tax their residence with a sales tax, no matter how stupid I think that type of a tax is, they do have the right to levy it.
If that's the case, then why don't we see that happening when the tax situation changes drastically? I don't recall having huge numbers of wealthy people moving to the US when Reagan cut taxes from ~73% down to the mid 30s, and likewise there's no evidence that prior to that that the rich had fled high taxes elsewhere.
It's easy to say that they would move, but guess what, the only places that they'd likely want to live have taxes which are substantially higher than they are here.
You can easily get a substantial portion of that $1,4 bn by cutting the defense spending down to something reasonable, last I checked we were spending almost half that much on defense. Then you close tax loopholes, such as the ones that allow businesses to book losses without booking gains at the same time.
Lastly, you keep in mind that the deficit right now is in large part a reflection of the economy being in the dumps, tax revenue is down on the individuals who are paying taxes, and we're having to spend our way out of the recession because the lower classes don't have the money to spend.
That would get us a long way along the road. It's just that conservatives such as yourself can't stand the idea of spending a reasonable sum of money on defense and taxing those that benefit most from our national sovereignty.
It's because the federal government is barred from setting tax rates on a state by state basis. What's doing well financially in South Dakota would likely be impoverished in many other parts of the country. So, you do wind up with those situations where somebody is getting money back, but doing OK. But in general it doesn't work out like that.
Around here somebody making 30k is barely scraping by when you consider the retirement savings and high cost of living. Sure, one can be much more comfortable if one ignores retirement, but in this day and age, you can't assume that there's going to be a good pension and social security if you're not socking away money on your own.
Yes, but this isn't an interstate transaction, the transaction is considered to be at the home of the individual who is making the purchase. The only reason why Amazon collects tax in states with a definite presence is that it's not able to twist things that far.
And Amazon is arguing that it can't be required to collect the tax, there's no argument about the taxes being owed.
Wouldn't that enable wire fraud and racketeering charges against whomever it is that set up Righthaven? Not to mention related conspiracy charges.
Strictly speaking, what the constitution says on the matter may or may not agree with SCOTUS. I'm not aware of them ever finding a treaty to be unconstitutional even some which are of questionable constitutionality.