At my desk, I use a laptop stand and an external mouse and keyboard. It's all through a USB hub, so there's only one USB cord to unplug when I want to go mobile. Of course, if you're going for an equal-cost comparison, this isn't helping the laptop's score at all.
Ok, I looked at your username, ID number, and user page, and I even tried fingering your email address. I still don't know who you are or your credentials/experience in commercial video content publishing (AFAICT, this is the norm on/.).
Yeah, yeah, competition drives prices down. Unfortunately, broadband markets tend towards duopoly (or worse) -- not free competition. A price war would be great, but telecom companies tend to prefer using FUD and lock-in to maintain their customer base.
I highly doubt that the officer allows you to drive your car home if he determines you to be drunk. I'm sure that you get your car back once you sober up, but you are in fact temporarily denied the use of your car.
I think you missed the whole "probable cause" issue. If the officer determines you to be drunk, there is sufficient probable cause to take you back to the police station. He can't write a conviction into the record without going to trial, but he can still arrest you.
100% agree - but I don't think that Bush has suspended Habeas Corpus with this order...
Nope, not with this one. Previous action gave the President the authority to declare individuals to be "enemy combatants." I'm sure you've heard of the trial structure that came with that designation.
The problem with this quite similar: it essentially lets the executive give out punishment without getting approval from the courts. The cop can arrest a driver he determines to be drunk, but no conviction, no fine, and no more than two days' jail time can be imposed without going to court.
I find that it's more like half of the Mac users that I know, (this amounts to roughly 300 installations that I deal with on a daily basis), who update their software and the other half don't.
Have you tried telling them to set it to do automatic updates?
Here I was thinking code was supposed to be developed based on interface standards, and adapting it for slightly-off implementations was going out of your way.
What browser are you using?
In Firefox 2, there's a sidebar with "Sponsored Links" right at the top and (on some searches) a colored box in the top center, with "Sponsored Links" in its upper-right corner (as far from the links as "What browser" is from "In Firefox" in this post).
Maybe I just need to get one of those 30-inch monitors?
the second part of this lawsuit states that Google's entire business model of placing advertising in the first 3 slots of any search result -yet making it so subtly seperated that most people are unaware that those results are paid for- constitutes deceptive trade practices.
So labeling them "sponsored links" is still deception? If people don't want to read what they click, that's not the ad carrier's problem.
The problem with your argument is that the electoral college is the great "equalizer" of urban populations, and gives us more suburban/rural types a say in who is President.
How about you go down to Carbondale and try convincing people of that.
VoteHere has created an amazing piece of software that uses a multi-step encryption to make the election both publicly auditable and securely secretive.
VoteHere's web site says they provide "secure Internet voting services." Can someone describe how this works? If you update a database to include the new vote, at some point, the decrypted ballot data will pass through a computer capable of logging the vote with the name. It's the old DRM problem -- you can't give them (name,vote) data packets without them having the (name,vote) data packets. Are we just supposed to trust that VoteHere will voluntarily forget the names that went with the votes? Is there a way around this I'm missing?
I'm inclined to stick with a plain old box -- it's just too dumb to store the info election judges would need to match names to votes.
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At my desk, I use a laptop stand and an external mouse and keyboard. It's all through a USB hub, so there's only one USB cord to unplug when I want to go mobile. Of course, if you're going for an equal-cost comparison, this isn't helping the laptop's score at all.
People who favor a free market generally recognize that it is not the solution to everything.
Yeah, yeah, competition drives prices down. Unfortunately, broadband markets tend towards duopoly (or worse) -- not free competition. A price war would be great, but telecom companies tend to prefer using FUD and lock-in to maintain their customer base.
Nope, not with this one. Previous action gave the President the authority to declare individuals to be "enemy combatants." I'm sure you've heard of the trial structure that came with that designation.
The problem with this quite similar: it essentially lets the executive give out punishment without getting approval from the courts. The cop can arrest a driver he determines to be drunk, but no conviction, no fine, and no more than two days' jail time can be imposed without going to court.
Some people think raping 10-year-olds is not morally reprehensible, but that doesn't make it ok.
Here I was thinking code was supposed to be developed based on interface standards, and adapting it for slightly-off implementations was going out of your way.
$ rant --subject music\ industry\ lawsuits | sed s/RIAA/Capitol/g
Yep, 68k runs the TI-89, which really ought to be enough for anyone.
Only a politician could figure out how to spend $450,000 on lunch....
If they just happen to live there, sure. However, if it is just your policy to reject people from that neighborhood, you are skating on thin ice.
Race/color, most likely
The added specificity is nice.
The converse is true as well: people are a lot more willing to tell things to their friends.
What browser are you using?
In Firefox 2, there's a sidebar with "Sponsored Links" right at the top and (on some searches) a colored box in the top center, with "Sponsored Links" in its upper-right corner (as far from the links as "What browser" is from "In Firefox" in this post).
Maybe I just need to get one of those 30-inch monitors?
Depends what you consider "loads," but it sounds like your threshold for use of the term is a couple orders of magnitude below mine.
I'm inclined to stick with a plain old box -- it's just too dumb to store the info election judges would need to match names to votes.
Loads of people were saying those things and being taken seriously. So, what else were you saying along with that?