I have similar feelings, although I'm hopeful that Obama honors the platform he ran on and stays just slightly left of center. Clinton did this. He was pretty liberal, but definitely ran the Presidency just slightly left of center. Of course Clinton had a GOP congress to keep him in check. No such luck with Obama.
It actually scares me more to have a one-party system than it does to have a liberal president. Thank all that's holy the Senate Repubs still have enough to filibuster anything that's too far left, like a national police force.
I see this as more a failure of the republican party than anything else. Bush was/is not very conservative as far as I can tell and while I believe it was the right thing to do to go in to Iraq, Bush's reasons were extremely flawed, whether outright lies or just honest bad intelligence. Also the repubs put up some lousy candidates given the climate. They needed someone young and dynamic, like Obama, but instead we got old stiff business men that you could practically see reading their speeches word for word off their teleprompters. Of course they all do that, but Obama makes it look natural.
People with this attitude have always puzzled me... Honestly, what do you think people that make a lot of money do with that money? Do they squirrel it away in a mattress? If not then that money is generally creating jobs and wealth for others. They either spend it, my preferred form of "wealth redistribution", or they invest it in other enterprises that create jobs, and yes, make them more money in the process. That's how a free market is supposed to work!
And what do you think they do when they have to pay more taxes? Do they go out and hire more people so that they can increase their income by doing more of whatever it is they did to make that money in the first place, and thus make up for the loss they've taken because of the tax? Not generally. More likely they'll try to reduce their income, or even better these days, move to another country that doesn't have such a tax burden. And that helps us how?
Easy, I make over $100k a year. I want to pay as little as I can get away with to the US government, and I work for them! I find it hard to believe that people want the government to make decisions for them. You're actually happy you can't shop around for an insurance plan that suits you best? For example when I was younger and without children I had a minimal plan. It basically covered me in the case of a catastrophic illness and left me to pay for anything else. It was cheap and I got to keep more of the money I worked for. Now that I'm in my forties and have a couple of small children and a wife to look after I have the most extensive plan my company offers. It's more expensive but the health of my children is worth it and I'm less risk adverse with their well being at stake. Now I don't think it's perfect, I wish I knew the root cause of health-care costs rising so dramatically, but it's certainly better than some giant government bureaucracy mandating "Thou shalt use this health plan"!
BTW, my mother also had breast cancer and didn't pay anything but a small deductible, and within a week or two at most of being diagnosed she was in surgery and on her way to recovery.
Yeah, and your message was heard loud and clear! While watching CNN, FOX, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, etc., last night all the play the third-party candidates got was just overwhelming! Umm, oh, wait a minute....
Seriously, it's not wise to vote for third-parties at the national level at present. Your vote is wasted and doesn't send any message except in your own head. I lean more libertarian myself but I would never waste my vote in the present environment on a third-party candidate in a national election. Choose the best candidate for you that has a snow ball's chance.
If you want to send a message the place to do it is at the local level where your vote MAY not get lost in the noise. The abolition of the Dems or GOP will only take place if we take a bottom up approach (Uggh, now I sound like a democrat!).
Some of the best (and most reliable) programmers I've met use drugs. Why would I be afraid to hire someone just because he smokes a joint after work or during the weekend? Or why can't these programmers work for a company, just because that company's HR people never tried drugs and/or have misconceptions about it? In my experience their drug-use has nothing to do with their ability, as long as they're not serious abusers. What it does affect is the ability to compromise their integrity. If a "bad-guy" wants to harm a company and knows that a particular employee uses illegal drugs, that employee is open to being blackmailed.
This is also why requirements for security clearances ask you questions about drug-use going back 10+ years. It's not relevant to your job that you smoked a little dope back in college, and no longer do. What is significant is that everybody knows about it and nobody else can use that knowledge to compromise you and thus your employer.
I can say that the Scientific Atlanta 8300HD has an external SATA port for supposedly expanding the storage capacity of it's DVR. I haven't tried it yet to see if it actually works though.
First, you need the degree to get into just about any door these days. Yes, after a few years working the degree means less, but you're at a point where you need to get through the door first.
Second, if you have the means to attend a top tier school (Dad is pushing, so I assume that means he's paying) why not?
In todays market every advantage you have over joe-blow means you have a better chance of finding a better starting job. Take advantage of every opportunity
I too enjoy Enterprise. I like some conflict that manifests itself physically in the stories, something I found severly lacking in TNG. If Picard risked all one more time to come up with a "diplomatic" solution I woulda screamed. I understand that lots of folks hope that at some point humanity can rise above it's base emotions, but I sure don't want to watch a TV show about that era.
And I apologize to all you Farscape fans, but I just could NOT get past the muppets. I kept expecting miss piggy to pop in at any moment looking for kermit. (PIGGGGSSS IN SPAAACCCEEEE) Maybe Farscape fans are too young to remember the muppets?
Scary? Why? I sit at work and have absolutely no expectation of privacy. My boss could walk in at any time and, in part, my behavior is based on that knowledge. I don't see why kids should have it any better.
Another thing is that these are kids and privacy isn't a "right", it's a privilege that you have to earn. I have 2 small children and as far as I'm concerned the school can track them to within 5mm if they so desire, and keep me informed about the fact that they do it and for what purpose. Shoot, I'd ask them to provide me with the frequency so I could track them off school grounds myself!
When you have kids you'll take whatever steps are necessary to protect them. If that means they have to live without much privacy for 18 or so years of their life then so be it! They have approx. 70 more to have all the privacy they want.
Ok, I started reading the paper and got to the intro where HE starts using SHE for a pronoun. That's it, I refuse to read the rest. Gawd that annoys me! If a woman writes, by all means use "she", but it smacks of political correctness, IMHO, when a man does it.
I dunno. You lose one of the most important, to me, features of regular backups. Versioning. If you change a config file, it gets backed up, and then you decide you made an error how do you recover in the mirroring scheme you describe? You could argue that I should be using something else for versioning, like a CVS repository, but that's too painful in a large multi-user environment.
In my experience backups are used more often for this situation than they are for disaster recovery.
I have a similar feeling for farscape. I just couldn't get into a space ship with muppets on it! I kept expecting to see Miss Piggy pop in looking for Kermit.
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Aside from the Cummins -vs- Cummings problem, you can't get a diesel in a 1500. You have to go to the 2500 series to get a diesel.
He expressed dissapointment that the top effects studio went on strike during the filming of "Final Frontier". He felt it would have done better at the box office if they had full effects. Hmmmm. Perhaps they can re-release it and edit in better effects, like Lucas did to Star Wars. Should I ask him if that has ever been considered?
At the same time ask him if he can have it completely rewritten and redone with a new director. That *might* actually improve the movie.
...who, then would make drugs for AIDS patients, invent the internet, build spaceships to discover the wonders of space, or to send inordinate amounts of food to shit-hole piss poor countries like Ethiopia?
I'm curious as to what everyone expects companies in these situations to do if not patent these things? If I owned a company I'd be patenting everything I could knowing that if I didn't some lamer like British Telecom would patent them and then they'd sue me for royalties.
For example, say Bezos doesn't patent the system, and later eBay does and sues Amazon for royalties. How does a company protect itself from this besides patent everything in sight?
The real problem is allowing patents like this to be put in place in the first place. The problem, once again, is the government, not the companies.
You make some good points, but the originating author of this thread made some valid points too, admittedly without much tact.
1) There are a lot of people talking about privacy issues. Huh? I would imagine this device being targeted at an age range of 2 to maybe 12 years. How much privacy does a 2-12 year old need? First, I think it's obvious to anyone that a toddler doesn't need and couldn't handle "privacy." As a child grows older, of course, the parent should endeavor to let the child earn a right to privacy. But, again, at the age range this device is probably targeted at privacy is a non-issue.
2) A lot of posters who don't have children really can't fathom the depth of emotion a parent feels for their child, and thus the lengths a parent is willing to go to in order to protect that child. Saying you'd give your life for your child is an understatement.
3) I saw a lot of "Parents must be lazy, just watch your kid" type of posts. As a parent yourself I don't think I need to explain the shortcomings of this type of statement. Kids are constantly in motion, taking your eye off of them for even a second can mean loosing track of them. My hat is tipped to anyone who can say they never loose track of their kids.
4) A lot of folks talk about how easy it would be to defeat the device. Well, it's pretty darn easy to defeat a home alarm system too. Just a snip of the phone line for most systems, and nobody pays attention to sirens anymore. Shoot, most home owners even advertise the fact that they've got monitored systems. And yet the systems continue to catch crooks. In general, criminals are often given too much credit in the brains department.
Now would I buy the device? No. I consider it unproven and doubt it could stand up to the daily abuse it would likely get from a child. But, I'll definately be keeping my eye on products like this!
You might consider an aliasing service. Back in the pre-broadband days I was switching ISP's like mad to find the best pings. I finally got a Bigfoot account that with a bigfoot email address that would forward email to any address I gave it. Worked great.
I quit using them when IEEE started offering the same service free to members. I understand that since then Bigfoot has gone to a pay or get Spam system but it's worth considering.
I tend to agree that 1024x768 is enough, but then I use my laptop mainly for presentations and it's rare that I've seen a projecter that does better than 1024x768 well, if at all. Quite a few people around here run their laptops at 1280x1024 and they all have to drop back when they do presentations. And I'm talking about some fairly new projectors.
Personally I'd stay away from the touch screen remotes. I find that I rely on tactile feedback too much to use them. In other words I like to feel my way to the correct button rather than look down to find where I need to press. If you do go touch screen make sure you get one that's backlit. Without tactile feedback it's hard to find the right button and it's doubly hard when you have the lights out.
I don't have any specific recommendations but if I were going to buy a new universal remote I'd get a good ole push button type with learning capability and plenty of extra buttons. My biggest complaint with the cheaper universal remotes is that they always seem to leave off one or two buttons that I use frequently on the native remote. Get a good learning remote with plenty of programmable buttons and that'd alleviate that problem.
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I have similar feelings, although I'm hopeful that Obama honors the platform he ran on and stays just slightly left of center. Clinton did this. He was pretty liberal, but definitely ran the Presidency just slightly left of center. Of course Clinton had a GOP congress to keep him in check. No such luck with Obama.
It actually scares me more to have a one-party system than it does to have a liberal president. Thank all that's holy the Senate Repubs still have enough to filibuster anything that's too far left, like a national police force.
I see this as more a failure of the republican party than anything else. Bush was/is not very conservative as far as I can tell and while I believe it was the right thing to do to go in to Iraq, Bush's reasons were extremely flawed, whether outright lies or just honest bad intelligence. Also the repubs put up some lousy candidates given the climate. They needed someone young and dynamic, like Obama, but instead we got old stiff business men that you could practically see reading their speeches word for word off their teleprompters. Of course they all do that, but Obama makes it look natural.
People with this attitude have always puzzled me... Honestly, what do you think people that make a lot of money do with that money? Do they squirrel it away in a mattress? If not then that money is generally creating jobs and wealth for others. They either spend it, my preferred form of "wealth redistribution", or they invest it in other enterprises that create jobs, and yes, make them more money in the process. That's how a free market is supposed to work!
And what do you think they do when they have to pay more taxes? Do they go out and hire more people so that they can increase their income by doing more of whatever it is they did to make that money in the first place, and thus make up for the loss they've taken because of the tax? Not generally. More likely they'll try to reduce their income, or even better these days, move to another country that doesn't have such a tax burden. And that helps us how?
Easy, I make over $100k a year. I want to pay as little as I can get away with to the US government, and I work for them! I find it hard to believe that people want the government to make decisions for them. You're actually happy you can't shop around for an insurance plan that suits you best? For example when I was younger and without children I had a minimal plan. It basically covered me in the case of a catastrophic illness and left me to pay for anything else. It was cheap and I got to keep more of the money I worked for. Now that I'm in my forties and have a couple of small children and a wife to look after I have the most extensive plan my company offers. It's more expensive but the health of my children is worth it and I'm less risk adverse with their well being at stake. Now I don't think it's perfect, I wish I knew the root cause of health-care costs rising so dramatically, but it's certainly better than some giant government bureaucracy mandating "Thou shalt use this health plan"!
BTW, my mother also had breast cancer and didn't pay anything but a small deductible, and within a week or two at most of being diagnosed she was in surgery and on her way to recovery.
Plus, I can take a shower every day over here! :)
Yeah, and your message was heard loud and clear! While watching CNN, FOX, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, etc., last night all the play the third-party candidates got was just overwhelming! Umm, oh, wait a minute....
Seriously, it's not wise to vote for third-parties at the national level at present. Your vote is wasted and doesn't send any message except in your own head. I lean more libertarian myself but I would never waste my vote in the present environment on a third-party candidate in a national election. Choose the best candidate for you that has a snow ball's chance.
If you want to send a message the place to do it is at the local level where your vote MAY not get lost in the noise. The abolition of the Dems or GOP will only take place if we take a bottom up approach (Uggh, now I sound like a democrat!).
Why would I be afraid to hire someone just because he smokes a joint after work or during the weekend?
Or why can't these programmers work for a company, just because that company's HR people never tried drugs and/or have misconceptions about it? In my experience their drug-use has nothing to do with their ability, as long as they're not serious abusers. What it does affect is the ability to compromise their integrity. If a "bad-guy" wants to harm a company and knows that a particular employee uses illegal drugs, that employee is open to being blackmailed.
This is also why requirements for security clearances ask you questions about drug-use going back 10+ years. It's not relevant to your job that you smoked a little dope back in college, and no longer do. What is significant is that everybody knows about it and nobody else can use that knowledge to compromise you and thus your employer.
Another effect of global warming?
Your name isn't Sponge Bob is it?
I can say that the Scientific Atlanta 8300HD has an external SATA port for supposedly expanding the storage capacity of it's DVR. I haven't tried it yet to see if it actually works though.
Dude, you don't listen to Dr. Laura do you. You ever heard of Citracal?
First, you need the degree to get into just about any door these days. Yes, after a few years working the degree means less, but you're at a point where you need to get through the door first.
Second, if you have the means to attend a top tier school (Dad is pushing, so I assume that means he's paying) why not?
In todays market every advantage you have over joe-blow means you have a better chance of finding a better starting job. Take advantage of every opportunity
G.I too enjoy Enterprise. I like some conflict that manifests itself physically in the stories, something I found severly lacking in TNG. If Picard risked all one more time to come up with a "diplomatic" solution I woulda screamed. I understand that lots of folks hope that at some point humanity can rise above it's base emotions, but I sure don't want to watch a TV show about that era.
And I apologize to all you Farscape fans, but I just could NOT get past the muppets. I kept expecting miss piggy to pop in at any moment looking for kermit. (PIGGGGSSS IN SPAAACCCEEEE) Maybe Farscape fans are too young to remember the muppets?
Scary? Why? I sit at work and have absolutely no expectation of privacy. My boss could walk in at any time and, in part, my behavior is based on that knowledge. I don't see why kids should have it any better.
Another thing is that these are kids and privacy isn't a "right", it's a privilege that you have to earn. I have 2 small children and as far as I'm concerned the school can track them to within 5mm if they so desire, and keep me informed about the fact that they do it and for what purpose. Shoot, I'd ask them to provide me with the frequency so I could track them off school grounds myself!
When you have kids you'll take whatever steps are necessary to protect them. If that means they have to live without much privacy for 18 or so years of their life then so be it! They have approx. 70 more to have all the privacy they want.
G.
Ok, I started reading the paper and got to the intro where HE starts using SHE for a pronoun. That's it, I refuse to read the rest. Gawd that annoys me! If a woman writes, by all means use "she", but it smacks of political correctness, IMHO, when a man does it.
I know, I am too easily annoyed.
I dunno. You lose one of the most important, to me, features of regular backups. Versioning. If you change a config file, it gets backed up, and then you decide you made an error how do you recover in the mirroring scheme you describe? You could argue that I should be using something else for versioning, like a CVS repository, but that's too painful in a large multi-user environment.
In my experience backups are used more often for this situation than they are for disaster recovery.
I have a similar feeling for farscape. I just couldn't get into a space ship with muppets on it! I kept expecting to see Miss Piggy pop in looking for Kermit.
G.
Aside from the Cummins -vs- Cummings problem, you can't get a diesel in a 1500. You have to go to the 2500 series to get a diesel.
He expressed dissapointment that the top effects studio went on strike during the filming of "Final Frontier". He felt it would have done better at the box office if they had full effects. Hmmmm. Perhaps they can re-release it and edit in better effects, like Lucas did to Star Wars. Should I ask him if that has ever been considered?
At the same time ask him if he can have it completely rewritten and redone with a new director. That *might* actually improve the movie.
G.
...who, then would make drugs for AIDS patients, invent the internet, build spaceships to discover the wonders of space, or to send inordinate amounts of food to shit-hole piss poor countries like Ethiopia?
I know, I know... Al Gore could do it!!!
G.
I'm curious as to what everyone expects companies in these situations to do if not patent these things? If I owned a company I'd be patenting everything I could knowing that if I didn't some lamer like British Telecom would patent them and then they'd sue me for royalties.
For example, say Bezos doesn't patent the system, and later eBay does and sues Amazon for royalties. How does a company protect itself from this besides patent everything in sight?
The real problem is allowing patents like this to be put in place in the first place. The problem, once again, is the government, not the companies.
Nothing wrong with appreciating beauty. Face it, humans have sex and have sexual interests.
:) Surprisingly, a Google search didn't turn anything up!
Speaking of which, anyone got a link to a photo of Ms. McCaffrey?
G.
You make some good points, but the originating author of this thread made some valid points too, admittedly without much tact.
1) There are a lot of people talking about privacy issues. Huh? I would imagine this device being targeted at an age range of 2 to maybe 12 years. How much privacy does a 2-12 year old need? First, I think it's obvious to anyone that a toddler doesn't need and couldn't handle "privacy." As a child grows older, of course, the parent should endeavor to let the child earn a right to privacy. But, again, at the age range this device is probably targeted at privacy is a non-issue.
2) A lot of posters who don't have children really can't fathom the depth of emotion a parent feels for their child, and thus the lengths a parent is willing to go to in order to protect that child. Saying you'd give your life for your child is an understatement.
3) I saw a lot of "Parents must be lazy, just watch your kid" type of posts. As a parent yourself I don't think I need to explain the shortcomings of this type of statement. Kids are constantly in motion, taking your eye off of them for even a second can mean loosing track of them. My hat is tipped to anyone who can say they never loose track of their kids.
4) A lot of folks talk about how easy it would be to defeat the device. Well, it's pretty darn easy to defeat a home alarm system too. Just a snip of the phone line for most systems, and nobody pays attention to sirens anymore. Shoot, most home owners even advertise the fact that they've got monitored systems. And yet the systems continue to catch crooks. In general, criminals are often given too much credit in the brains department.
Now would I buy the device? No. I consider it unproven and doubt it could stand up to the daily abuse it would likely get from a child. But, I'll definately be keeping my eye on products like this!
Gary
You might consider an aliasing service. Back in the pre-broadband days I was switching ISP's like mad to find the best pings. I finally got a Bigfoot account that with a bigfoot email address that would forward email to any address I gave it. Worked great.
I quit using them when IEEE started offering the same service free to members. I understand that since then Bigfoot has gone to a pay or get Spam system but it's worth considering.
Nope, at least Comcast@Home in Albuquerque hasn't dropped once. And I have the same IP I started with.
I tend to agree that 1024x768 is enough, but then I use my laptop mainly for presentations and it's rare that I've seen a projecter that does better than 1024x768 well, if at all. Quite a few people around here run their laptops at 1280x1024 and they all have to drop back when they do presentations. And I'm talking about some fairly new projectors.
Personally I'd stay away from the touch screen remotes. I find that I rely on tactile feedback too much to use them. In other words I like to feel my way to the correct button rather than look down to find where I need to press. If you do go touch screen make sure you get one that's backlit. Without tactile feedback it's hard to find the right button and it's doubly hard when you have the lights out.
I don't have any specific recommendations but if I were going to buy a new universal remote I'd get a good ole push button type with learning capability and plenty of extra buttons. My biggest complaint with the cheaper universal remotes is that they always seem to leave off one or two buttons that I use frequently on the native remote. Get a good learning remote with plenty of programmable buttons and that'd alleviate that problem.