I'm sure that if the iPhone 3.0 were available on Sprint your argument would make more since. Many of us have contracts with Sprint and/or just like Sprint better than AT&T.
Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam has just announced a number of new devices to be available from the carrier âoeover the next six months or soâ â" and they include the Palm Pre.âoe
Unlike the iPhone, though, the Palm Pre will be available on other networks as soon as 6 months from now. I'd bet on Sprint having the pre exclusive through the holidays.
Wait... Someone on slashdot not jumping on the "bash conservatives" bandwagon? And you're not AC? The only problem with your argument (though I don't believe this) is that many people believe "Human Life" doesn't begin until after the state that embryo's are harvested.
The team I'm on supports Exchange 2003 in a 40,000 user environment and Exchange handles it all very well. We're so under staffed (we also support our corporate SUN DS-LDAP environment, SUN IDM, application server farm, citrix farm, sharepoint environment), with a whopping 6 people, that we haven't even defragged the databases in over a year (the "business" can't "afford" downtime).
Luckily, we're in the middle of deploying Exchange 2007.
Saying that "61% of Texas Voters don't want him either" is completely disingenuous. It would be more accurate to say that "61% of the Texas voters didn't vote for him.", which only means that 61% wouldn't choose him as their first pick.
Using your logic, 71% of the Texas voters didn't want Bell, 86% didn't want Friedman and 85% didn't want Strayhorn. If you were completely honest, you'd mention tat Strayhorn was a Republican and decided to run as an Independant because she felt she couldn't defeat Perry in the primaries. So it is likely that a large % of the vote for Strayhorn would have gone to Perry. By the same token, Friedman was moderate, but more conservative than liberal-- so some of his 14% would have gone to Perry as well.
The problem, as you mentioned, is that the election is a plurality... This is why we need to adopt a voting system that allows a voter to weigh candidates.
Again, I see where you're coming from... Currently, and for most of our countries history, our government has been run by two parties. This might or might not seem logical because we generally think of people as either liberal or conservative. I, though, think that is flawed. There are so many viewpoints under both umbrellas it is asinine to believe that you're being represented by either party.
I am a conservative, but I'll let you in on a secret. A lot of people who consider themselves conservative only dissagree with liberals on two or three major points. To give some transparancy into my beliefs... I think abortion should be severely controlled, and be much more strict. I don't believe in abortion as a type of birth control. That viewpoint, however, tangles with my view that the federal government should be as limited as possible, which brings me to my next point... I think homosexuality is abhorent, but again I believe in limited government and I don't think it is any of the government's business nor is it any of mine...
While you have written an interesting and thought provoking response to my statement that I don't believe in evolution, I feel the need to point out that perhaps I used the wrong term. I think evolution is plausible, I just think it began with some sort of intelligent design.
The main issue here is that I understand where scientists are coming from. And i stand by the FACT that evolution is a theory. A good theory with a lot of intelligent people backing it.
I believe in a God. I go to Church. The Church I go to is Presbyterian. I believe, and I think it is anyone's right to not believe the same as I, that religion is good for humanity. I look to the stories of the Bible for a reference as to how to be a good person, not as a book of facts as to how the universe came to be.
Would I know right from wrong otherwise? Possibly. I appreciate that in your reply you did not attack my beliefs, it is those who do that give science a bad name.
You say %50 for all of these things, but don't mention that the %50 isn't the same people every time. You make it sound like %50 of America is stupid. So %100 of americans are included in the whole that do or do not believe in the topics you stated.
For instance, I don't believe in evolution but I believe in the health risks associated with second-hand-smoking. Everyone everywhere oversells their position on subjects to further promote that position. You are no different.
Then quit reading blogs based out of the United States that report on stuff that has relevance in the United States.
I'm tired of people complaining that news doesn't relate to them when they live somewhere other than where the source is located.
So the authors of viruses are using them to view child porn on other computers...
"Think of the children!" -- "Move to linux, there are no child-porn viruses there."
I'll have you know that I plan on, and know many "right wing right-to-life zealot's" that plan on, or already have, adopted. We are well aware that if we say adoption is the best option we have to step up and make it possible. You insensitive clod.
Right, because when shit happens all the President does is raise the warning level. His increase in approval couldn't possibly be due to speeches, negotiations and general appearance?
You're pulling one type of statistic and making it sound like the only one.
Actually their approval ratings have been on the up and up for the last month or two. You won't notice until it drops a point and the media covers the drop.
"This just in, Approval rating now down to 29%!"
"This just in, Approval rating now down to 37%!"
But you go ahead and keep reading/viewing you're biased media outlets that help fuel your idiocy.
I have to dissagree. The reason Apple did so well with the IPOD was because the got on right as it was becoming popular and they had a few innovations over the others. So as people decided they needed a portable music player, the IPOD was an easy choice.
Most people already have cellphones, and if they didn't pay $400, they got them for free. The market is already devided into the cheap and expensive categories and both are saturated.
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The Pre is not exactly selling like hot cakes.
Nonsense. How is this insightful? Not only is the Pre selling well, it has already made it to the top 5 list of smart phones and webOS is now at 4% market share since release. http://metrics.admob.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/AdMob-Mobile-Metrics-Aug-092.pdf
I'm sure that if the iPhone 3.0 were available on Sprint your argument would make more since. Many of us have contracts with Sprint and/or just like Sprint better than AT&T.
Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam has just announced a number of new devices to be available from the carrier âoeover the next six months or soâ â" and they include the Palm Pre.âoe
Unlike the iPhone, though, the Palm Pre will be available on other networks as soon as 6 months from now. I'd bet on Sprint having the pre exclusive through the holidays.
Wait... Someone on slashdot not jumping on the "bash conservatives" bandwagon? And you're not AC? The only problem with your argument (though I don't believe this) is that many people believe "Human Life" doesn't begin until after the state that embryo's are harvested.
The team I'm on supports Exchange 2003 in a 40,000 user environment and Exchange handles it all very well. We're so under staffed (we also support our corporate SUN DS-LDAP environment, SUN IDM, application server farm, citrix farm, sharepoint environment), with a whopping 6 people, that we haven't even defragged the databases in over a year (the "business" can't "afford" downtime). Luckily, we're in the middle of deploying Exchange 2007.
Well, they also haven't been in beta since start-up. Unlike our GMAIL-forever-in-beta-friends.
You see... When a man and a woman like eachother... Well... Go ask your mom upstairs, you've been in the basement too long my friend...
Saying that "61% of Texas Voters don't want him either" is completely disingenuous. It would be more accurate to say that "61% of the Texas voters didn't vote for him.", which only means that 61% wouldn't choose him as their first pick.
Using your logic, 71% of the Texas voters didn't want Bell, 86% didn't want Friedman and 85% didn't want Strayhorn. If you were completely honest, you'd mention tat Strayhorn was a Republican and decided to run as an Independant because she felt she couldn't defeat Perry in the primaries. So it is likely that a large % of the vote for Strayhorn would have gone to Perry. By the same token, Friedman was moderate, but more conservative than liberal-- so some of his 14% would have gone to Perry as well.
The problem, as you mentioned, is that the election is a plurality... This is why we need to adopt a voting system that allows a voter to weigh candidates.
I'm sorry, i know this is a nerd news site-- but wtf is with posting an "article" that begins with "IMO:"? Way to go Slashdot.
I am a conservative, but I'll let you in on a secret. A lot of people who consider themselves conservative only dissagree with liberals on two or three major points. To give some transparancy into my beliefs... I think abortion should be severely controlled, and be much more strict. I don't believe in abortion as a type of birth control. That viewpoint, however, tangles with my view that the federal government should be as limited as possible, which brings me to my next point... I think homosexuality is abhorent, but again I believe in limited government and I don't think it is any of the government's business nor is it any of mine...
While you have written an interesting and thought provoking response to my statement that I don't believe in evolution, I feel the need to point out that perhaps I used the wrong term. I think evolution is plausible, I just think it began with some sort of intelligent design. The main issue here is that I understand where scientists are coming from. And i stand by the FACT that evolution is a theory. A good theory with a lot of intelligent people backing it. I believe in a God. I go to Church. The Church I go to is Presbyterian. I believe, and I think it is anyone's right to not believe the same as I, that religion is good for humanity. I look to the stories of the Bible for a reference as to how to be a good person, not as a book of facts as to how the universe came to be. Would I know right from wrong otherwise? Possibly. I appreciate that in your reply you did not attack my beliefs, it is those who do that give science a bad name.
You say %50 for all of these things, but don't mention that the %50 isn't the same people every time. You make it sound like %50 of America is stupid. So %100 of americans are included in the whole that do or do not believe in the topics you stated. For instance, I don't believe in evolution but I believe in the health risks associated with second-hand-smoking. Everyone everywhere oversells their position on subjects to further promote that position. You are no different.
Then quit reading blogs based out of the United States that report on stuff that has relevance in the United States. I'm tired of people complaining that news doesn't relate to them when they live somewhere other than where the source is located.
They save energy, last longer, and lower your electic bill... Why not?
So the authors of viruses are using them to view child porn on other computers... "Think of the children!" -- "Move to linux, there are no child-porn viruses there."
I'll have you know that I plan on, and know many "right wing right-to-life zealot's" that plan on, or already have, adopted. We are well aware that if we say adoption is the best option we have to step up and make it possible. You insensitive clod.
Right, because when shit happens all the President does is raise the warning level. His increase in approval couldn't possibly be due to speeches, negotiations and general appearance? You're pulling one type of statistic and making it sound like the only one.
Actually their approval ratings have been on the up and up for the last month or two. You won't notice until it drops a point and the media covers the drop. "This just in, Approval rating now down to 29%!" "This just in, Approval rating now down to 37%!" But you go ahead and keep reading/viewing you're biased media outlets that help fuel your idiocy.
Hey AC, if you think Bush was seeking the right to do what you stated, you're a nutjob.
Little did we know that the light referred to for ages was actually a blue screen...
I have to dissagree. The reason Apple did so well with the IPOD was because the got on right as it was becoming popular and they had a few innovations over the others. So as people decided they needed a portable music player, the IPOD was an easy choice. Most people already have cellphones, and if they didn't pay $400, they got them for free. The market is already devided into the cheap and expensive categories and both are saturated.
I think apple knows it would lose tons of money in this saturated market.
All news worth hearing can be heard during the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm getting a bit tired of this...
8. A robot may not retaliate when a chair is thrown at it.