The most important issue involving DST is, I believe, it's effects on sleep and circadian rhythms. Our biological clocks are based largely on daylight hours. Our concept of "time" is entirely artificial.
I'm with you on this. I know there may be a True Computer Science definition that makes the GP true, but I don't tend to think of data as a program. Some binary data could be considered code to execute, but surely not text files that are parsed?
Okay, sure, there are scripts, but they have special parsers that turn the text into Real Code that CAN execute. I don't think notepad can turn a text document into Real Code.
In their defense, a lot of that office integration stuff relies on ActiveX controls. So it wouldn't make sense to open some office site to get, say, a template in FF, then it complain to the user to use IE. In that case, the user wouldn't be able to get it open in IE without their changing default browser.
I was just thinking about how Vista has turned the good ole' whipping boy XP into a saint. Maybe Microsoft's intention with Vista was just to make Windows look like a great OS. Not Vista -- but XP. Anything to keep eyes off osx and linux.
1) Sure it does. Anyone who believes in creationism is suspending belief in reality-as-we-can-prove-it-to-be to hold some other view that's faith-based. There's nothing wrong with that, but faith-based views are inherently something that you can't teach to others, as faith requires a certain "spark" to pickup. For most people, that spark is being brainwashed as a kid, but that's not always the case.
Having said that, you're going to have people in small towns end up trying to use the education system was a way to brainwash kids. If it weren't for federal laws in the matter, the southern states would still be forcing kids to pray to Jesus, even if they didn't believe in it. Leaving things "up to the states" is never a good solution. What it's really saying it, "I want my own America, so I don't have to come to deal with any sort of homogeny." In other words, you want everyone to be just like you. And if they're not, they ought to live somewhere else, away from you. I don't generally have a problem with that, except for the children. Your children deserve the right to grow up with being brainwashed.
2)Again, saying it's a "state issue" is just a cop-out.
3)No one stops students from praying in schools. No one ever has. It's always been the issue of forcing students to pray whether or not they want to. As for your property taxes, if you have to pay $5000 a year, then I say YOU are a thief. Lots of people in this country work their asses off every day, and don't own anything, because they can't afford it. Whether you like it or not, you indirectly "steal" from them in order to enjoy your standard of living.
4)That sounds like abolishing marriage entirely. Now that's something I can support.
5)You're talking about supporting charity, but being opposed to what you call "entitlements". You know what that really means? It means you want to help the poor christians who come grovel at your feet for help. You want to feel like you're this great, generous person. But if the government taxes you, and does the same thing -- you're up in arms? That's a serious psychological issue. You only want to help people when it makes you feel like you're a great person? Or when you can use your generosity to further support social homogeny? I'm sure if some lisping queen in a sequin-pant-suit came up to you hungry, asking for some money, you'd have something rather rude to say. If there was a Wiccan Center for Abused Children in your town, you probably wouldn't help them either. Not because they aren't helping other people -- but because you think they'd do what you do: try to brainwash the kids they're helping into believe what they believe. It's okay for kids to be brainwashed with your beliefs, but not anyone else's.
And this is the problem with christians, and other "faith-based" thinkers. They aren't logically consistent. These are not the people we need to be decision-makers.
You can maximize a window across both monitors in Vista, and both screens get hardware acceleration. You can do this even with games that don't specifically support it. You can either drag the window border to do it, or you can use software like UltraMon.
I'd also like to point out that Vista has better multi-monitor support than XP. For example, in Vista, you have have a configuration where the left monitor is 1, and the right monitor is 2. You can set #2 as the primary monitor, and #1 as the secondary monitor, yet STILL PLAY ALL YOUR GAMES on monitor #1. In XP, you'd have the problem of only being able to play a game on your primary monitor, and any items (like a downloaded file) that you'd add to your desktop would appear behind your game. Very annoying if you wanted to multitask while playing a MMPOG.
As for the old 16 bit games, a lot of people have suggested emulation. I totally agree. You're not only going to have better compatibility that way, but I know some old games run WAAY too fast on new CPU's, and you'd have to use something like moslo to run them natively.
The unsigned driver thing is my biggest annoyance. I'm waiting for someone to write bootloader hack that just enables it every time, without having to select it from the boot menu.
I think you're right. What we need are more lobbyists that represent the will of the little people. Since there are a vast many more little people, they have to contribute a vast amount less to the lobby. Ten bucks from 10,000 people is the same as $100 from a thousand. People need to realize, the government operates almost completely based on buying politicians. Until that changes, the pragmatic thing to do would be to step into the fray, and outbid the people we don't like.
It's like something else I've never understood: How can there be more poor people than rich people? You'd think the poor would revolt, so to speak, and demand more equality. I've never understood how anyone could believe in the virtues of democracy, where everyone has equal power in government, but not think that equal power in the economy would go right along with it. The day that we have no more rich people, and no more poor people will be the day we've finally achieved a democracy. I don't know about you, but I'd never vote for someone else to have vast amounts of wealth more than me -- and I suspect no one else would vote that way either. So if that's the will of the people, what do we have right now?
Access is heavily VBA dependent, much more than the rest of the suite. In fact, using VSTO, you can write code for all the other Office applications in.NET, but not Access. VBA is sortof a cornerstone for Access. I also wonder what this means for Windows Script Host. A lot of companies have a lot of.vbs scripts and the like out there doing important stuff. I know I end up writing WSH scripts in VBA to do routine things all the time. I really need to get into the habit of using Perl, I guess...
While I agree with you, there are two possibilities that come to mind that could be a problem.
First, if our universe has a non-computable system, it's still possible that our reality is a simulation, and that in the universe from which the simulation is run also has a non-computable system that's interfaced somehow with the simulation.
Second, it is possible that anyone sufficiently capable of making such a simulation has figured a way to make all problems computable, at least to the degree enough to fool our powers of observation.
I think if you compare all the job fields, you'll find that many of them have lost their earning power, while few of them have gained earning power. What you're saying is definitely true, but I don't think it's the point some of the other posters are trying to make. It's not just IT paying less, it's everything. And where is the money going? I know it's not going to low-wage jobs, because those still don't pay enough to live on.
All I can guess is that the ultra-wealthy are becoming even wealthier (short-term) at the expensive of the middle class. That hypothesis would also correspond nicely to the plummeting value of the dollar. By and large, yes, politicians are to blame. They more often than not represent the aforementioned ultra-wealthy, because that's the class they came from, or because they are bribed into submission under the guise of "campaign funding".
OTOH of course neither Windows nor MacOS (although the latter can do quite a lot more out of the box than Windows) come with such a vast number of applications, so a 1:1 comparison doesn't really make sense.
But for both Windows and Mac, you can download software that works, or buy it at a local computer store. Often, the stuff in the repositories is one of only a few apps to do whatever is you're trying to do, and usually all of similar quality.
I don't think it's an issue of what's available "out of the box", but just an issue of what's available. Free isn't everyone's motive. Some people just want what works without any hassle. I think that's the whole business model of Apple.
I think we've seen that the body of human knowledge is more important to our superiority over other animals than any innate talents. If modern babies were swapped with those of early homo-sapiens, I suspect the modern babies would grow up hunting for food and wearing animal hides, while the early homo-sapien babies growing up in our society would be educated and literate.
We need to look no further than to the fall of great civilizations, and the disparity between the richest countries and poorest countries to see that this is true. We still have a very small number of people who live, more or less, like their ancestors did as hunter-gatherers. At some point, we all lived that way, they have simply not developed the ever-growing body of human knowledge that we have.
This is why I think intellectual property should not belong to any one person. It should be added to the body of human knowledge, and free for anyone to use. That's the system (or lack of a system) that's allowed us to become the dominant species on this planet, and given us all the comforts we now enjoy. It's also the system that's going to help us solve larger problems we are facing and will continue to face as a race.
I wear a pocketpc on my waist everyday. It's also a cellphone, and has 600-700kbps data rates through cellular (EVDO). I'd call that wearable computing. It can do pretty much everything my desktop can except games. Sure, the interface isn't as good for some tasks, but it works. Oh, and a slide out QWERTY keyboard. There's really nothing else I could want on it, except maybe being a little easier to use. But that's just in software design, really. Nothing I couldn't fix myself, with a little time and creativity invested in writing my own version of MS BOB. Heh.
It's not better than lying to the american people in any other situation. Bush would be in the same boat, over MUCH more serious matters, except that he refuses to take any kind of oath, or be held accountable by anyone.
2)Their in ability to pay for health care also benefits you. The economy needs and prospers on low-wage workers.
Even looking past the idea of helping your fellow man in need, healthy people work better for pennies than sick people. Imagine if everyone made enough money to pay for their own healthcare. You'd either have no one working at groceries, restaurants, or in factories, OR you'd be making less money because costs just went up a whole hell of a lot.
Unless you're just suggesting that if poor people get sick and maybe die, tough shit to them. In that case, you need serious help.
Indeed. WoW is sortof the lowest common denominator. What WoW does have is a programming interface and really well put-together graphics. I think both have been key to its success. I really like playing DAoC years ago, but I tried a few months back, and it ran rather poorly (on a much more powerful computer). Maybe it was something on my end.
You can. Critical thinking classes were taught at my college, and they were very good. Some of the students actually learned something from it. They need to make it a standard, 12-year program, starting in 1st grade. It needs to be just as important as math and English and science. If you drill thinking skills into someone's head, they WILL pick up at least some of it. Repetitio mater studiorum est.
Also important to note that critical thinking skills beget critical thinking skills. Kinda like the Singularity idea that if we're smart enough to make a machine smarter than us, it can make a machine smarter than it, etc. So even a little bit would go a long way. I don't know any ANY high school programs that require a critical thinking course. But I have seen a many that require a "how to study" type of course. How backwards.
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The most important issue involving DST is, I believe, it's effects on sleep and circadian rhythms. Our biological clocks are based largely on daylight hours. Our concept of "time" is entirely artificial.
I'm with you on this. I know there may be a True Computer Science definition that makes the GP true, but I don't tend to think of data as a program. Some binary data could be considered code to execute, but surely not text files that are parsed?
Okay, sure, there are scripts, but they have special parsers that turn the text into Real Code that CAN execute. I don't think notepad can turn a text document into Real Code.
Goodness, no! Not a democratic system! But it's so unfair to the conservatives! You can meta-moderate if you think the moderators are unfair. :)
Stargate Atlantis has been coming out every week, or there abouts.
In their defense, a lot of that office integration stuff relies on ActiveX controls. So it wouldn't make sense to open some office site to get, say, a template in FF, then it complain to the user to use IE. In that case, the user wouldn't be able to get it open in IE without their changing default browser.
I was just thinking about how Vista has turned the good ole' whipping boy XP into a saint. Maybe Microsoft's intention with Vista was just to make Windows look like a great OS. Not Vista -- but XP. Anything to keep eyes off osx and linux.
I wish I had mod points. I got strange looks in the office from laughing out at that comment. :)
You met your wife online in 1981? Uh...
1) Sure it does. Anyone who believes in creationism is suspending belief in reality-as-we-can-prove-it-to-be to hold some other view that's faith-based. There's nothing wrong with that, but faith-based views are inherently something that you can't teach to others, as faith requires a certain "spark" to pickup. For most people, that spark is being brainwashed as a kid, but that's not always the case.
Having said that, you're going to have people in small towns end up trying to use the education system was a way to brainwash kids. If it weren't for federal laws in the matter, the southern states would still be forcing kids to pray to Jesus, even if they didn't believe in it. Leaving things "up to the states" is never a good solution. What it's really saying it, "I want my own America, so I don't have to come to deal with any sort of homogeny." In other words, you want everyone to be just like you. And if they're not, they ought to live somewhere else, away from you. I don't generally have a problem with that, except for the children. Your children deserve the right to grow up with being brainwashed.
2)Again, saying it's a "state issue" is just a cop-out.
3)No one stops students from praying in schools. No one ever has. It's always been the issue of forcing students to pray whether or not they want to. As for your property taxes, if you have to pay $5000 a year, then I say YOU are a thief. Lots of people in this country work their asses off every day, and don't own anything, because they can't afford it. Whether you like it or not, you indirectly "steal" from them in order to enjoy your standard of living.
4)That sounds like abolishing marriage entirely. Now that's something I can support.
5)You're talking about supporting charity, but being opposed to what you call "entitlements". You know what that really means? It means you want to help the poor christians who come grovel at your feet for help. You want to feel like you're this great, generous person. But if the government taxes you, and does the same thing -- you're up in arms? That's a serious psychological issue. You only want to help people when it makes you feel like you're a great person? Or when you can use your generosity to further support social homogeny? I'm sure if some lisping queen in a sequin-pant-suit came up to you hungry, asking for some money, you'd have something rather rude to say. If there was a Wiccan Center for Abused Children in your town, you probably wouldn't help them either. Not because they aren't helping other people -- but because you think they'd do what you do: try to brainwash the kids they're helping into believe what they believe. It's okay for kids to be brainwashed with your beliefs, but not anyone else's.
And this is the problem with christians, and other "faith-based" thinkers. They aren't logically consistent. These are not the people we need to be decision-makers.
You can maximize a window across both monitors in Vista, and both screens get hardware acceleration. You can do this even with games that don't specifically support it. You can either drag the window border to do it, or you can use software like UltraMon.
I'd also like to point out that Vista has better multi-monitor support than XP. For example, in Vista, you have have a configuration where the left monitor is 1, and the right monitor is 2. You can set #2 as the primary monitor, and #1 as the secondary monitor, yet STILL PLAY ALL YOUR GAMES on monitor #1. In XP, you'd have the problem of only being able to play a game on your primary monitor, and any items (like a downloaded file) that you'd add to your desktop would appear behind your game. Very annoying if you wanted to multitask while playing a MMPOG.
As for the old 16 bit games, a lot of people have suggested emulation. I totally agree. You're not only going to have better compatibility that way, but I know some old games run WAAY too fast on new CPU's, and you'd have to use something like moslo to run them natively.
The unsigned driver thing is my biggest annoyance. I'm waiting for someone to write bootloader hack that just enables it every time, without having to select it from the boot menu.
The day they take away the 4th amendment rights is the day we most ought to exercise them.
I think you're right. What we need are more lobbyists that represent the will of the little people. Since there are a vast many more little people, they have to contribute a vast amount less to the lobby. Ten bucks from 10,000 people is the same as $100 from a thousand. People need to realize, the government operates almost completely based on buying politicians. Until that changes, the pragmatic thing to do would be to step into the fray, and outbid the people we don't like.
It's like something else I've never understood: How can there be more poor people than rich people? You'd think the poor would revolt, so to speak, and demand more equality. I've never understood how anyone could believe in the virtues of democracy, where everyone has equal power in government, but not think that equal power in the economy would go right along with it. The day that we have no more rich people, and no more poor people will be the day we've finally achieved a democracy. I don't know about you, but I'd never vote for someone else to have vast amounts of wealth more than me -- and I suspect no one else would vote that way either. So if that's the will of the people, what do we have right now?
Or a cow that can speak, and will tell you in plain English that it, more than anything, wants you to eat it.
Access is heavily VBA dependent, much more than the rest of the suite. In fact, using VSTO, you can write code for all the other Office applications in .NET, but not Access. VBA is sortof a cornerstone for Access. I also wonder what this means for Windows Script Host. A lot of companies have a lot of .vbs scripts and the like out there doing important stuff. I know I end up writing WSH scripts in VBA to do routine things all the time. I really need to get into the habit of using Perl, I guess...
While I agree with you, there are two possibilities that come to mind that could be a problem.
First, if our universe has a non-computable system, it's still possible that our reality is a simulation, and that in the universe from which the simulation is run also has a non-computable system that's interfaced somehow with the simulation.
Second, it is possible that anyone sufficiently capable of making such a simulation has figured a way to make all problems computable, at least to the degree enough to fool our powers of observation.
I think if you compare all the job fields, you'll find that many of them have lost their earning power, while few of them have gained earning power. What you're saying is definitely true, but I don't think it's the point some of the other posters are trying to make. It's not just IT paying less, it's everything. And where is the money going? I know it's not going to low-wage jobs, because those still don't pay enough to live on.
All I can guess is that the ultra-wealthy are becoming even wealthier (short-term) at the expensive of the middle class. That hypothesis would also correspond nicely to the plummeting value of the dollar. By and large, yes, politicians are to blame. They more often than not represent the aforementioned ultra-wealthy, because that's the class they came from, or because they are bribed into submission under the guise of "campaign funding".
I don't think it's an issue of what's available "out of the box", but just an issue of what's available. Free isn't everyone's motive. Some people just want what works without any hassle. I think that's the whole business model of Apple.
I think we've seen that the body of human knowledge is more important to our superiority over other animals than any innate talents. If modern babies were swapped with those of early homo-sapiens, I suspect the modern babies would grow up hunting for food and wearing animal hides, while the early homo-sapien babies growing up in our society would be educated and literate.
We need to look no further than to the fall of great civilizations, and the disparity between the richest countries and poorest countries to see that this is true. We still have a very small number of people who live, more or less, like their ancestors did as hunter-gatherers. At some point, we all lived that way, they have simply not developed the ever-growing body of human knowledge that we have.
This is why I think intellectual property should not belong to any one person. It should be added to the body of human knowledge, and free for anyone to use. That's the system (or lack of a system) that's allowed us to become the dominant species on this planet, and given us all the comforts we now enjoy. It's also the system that's going to help us solve larger problems we are facing and will continue to face as a race.
Is it possible to have a tube that isn't three dimensional?
I wear a pocketpc on my waist everyday. It's also a cellphone, and has 600-700kbps data rates through cellular (EVDO). I'd call that wearable computing. It can do pretty much everything my desktop can except games. Sure, the interface isn't as good for some tasks, but it works. Oh, and a slide out QWERTY keyboard. There's really nothing else I could want on it, except maybe being a little easier to use. But that's just in software design, really. Nothing I couldn't fix myself, with a little time and creativity invested in writing my own version of MS BOB. Heh.
It's not better than lying to the american people in any other situation. Bush would be in the same boat, over MUCH more serious matters, except that he refuses to take any kind of oath, or be held accountable by anyone.
1) Their health benefits you.
2)Their in ability to pay for health care also benefits you. The economy needs and prospers on low-wage workers.
Even looking past the idea of helping your fellow man in need, healthy people work better for pennies than sick people. Imagine if everyone made enough money to pay for their own healthcare. You'd either have no one working at groceries, restaurants, or in factories, OR you'd be making less money because costs just went up a whole hell of a lot.
Unless you're just suggesting that if poor people get sick and maybe die, tough shit to them. In that case, you need serious help.
Indeed. WoW is sortof the lowest common denominator. What WoW does have is a programming interface and really well put-together graphics. I think both have been key to its success. I really like playing DAoC years ago, but I tried a few months back, and it ran rather poorly (on a much more powerful computer). Maybe it was something on my end.
You can. Critical thinking classes were taught at my college, and they were very good. Some of the students actually learned something from it. They need to make it a standard, 12-year program, starting in 1st grade. It needs to be just as important as math and English and science. If you drill thinking skills into someone's head, they WILL pick up at least some of it. Repetitio mater studiorum est.
Also important to note that critical thinking skills beget critical thinking skills. Kinda like the Singularity idea that if we're smart enough to make a machine smarter than us, it can make a machine smarter than it, etc. So even a little bit would go a long way. I don't know any ANY high school programs that require a critical thinking course. But I have seen a many that require a "how to study" type of course. How backwards.
I assume it didn't ship with the LCD it's show with in a few of the pictures? xD