Imagine what would happen if all roads were owned by private companies. Would we ever seen an end to toll roads? Doubt it.
Some things, especially utilities, simply work better when public owned. Electric, water and yes, even telephone. And internet access isn't too far removed from a telephone utility.
Because the road system in the US is completely fantastic? I hope it's different elsewhere than what I'm used to (Southern California) if that's so... because most roads are littered with potholes, and traffic is pretty awful most of the time.
How much different is the user experience on windows different from the user experience on OS X? From my own experience, not very much. Heck, most of the times I've been on macs, they have crashed a hell of a lot more, responded more slowly, etc.
Most of my friends running macs have asked me questions about how to do something, or about problems they've had. Opposite with my friends running Windows (yes, even Vista). It does what they need it to do, they can figure out stuff they don't know (very easily), and it causes very few problems for them.
I'd rather not pay the $500 logo tax, and use different software. Of course, you could always just slap on the same software http://wiki.osx86project.org/
Decide for yourself, rather than letting a BBC article tell you what to think about the results of the study.
Personally, I think if 88% of the people you study are "religious" you're a hell of a lot more likely to find that "religious" people cling to intensive life-prolonging care than "non-religious" people.
"Read the Bills Act" (what I like to call "RTFB Act"): the bill must be read aloud before a full quorum in both the House and the Senate. In addition, 7 days must pass between when a change was made to the bill, and when they can vote on it. Furthermore, the full text of the bill must be made available to the public at least 7 days before a vote, and Congress must give notice on when they will be voting for that bill.
"One Subject at a Time Act": Self explanatory. Each bill can not address more than one subject at a time.
Feature set compared to price? (fyi, the zune costs less (at least, on newegg, they are. retail, I believe they're $5 more. However, the Zune has an fm radio, wireless sharing/multiplayer gaming, can connect to a wireless network, and can shop from the Zune store no wires attached. Both have a max of 120GB.)
UI? (The Zune's (artist/album/etc) list is a circular linked list, so if you're down at the bottom of the list (say, around Weird Al Yankovic) you can keep scrolling down to get back to the top of the list (say, around Anberlin). Also, while the zune has a touch sensitive scroller, it's not in an annoying circle form. Additionally, it has actual buttons that aren't part of the circle. Go buttons!)
Yes. I am thinking this is how the end of human life is going to come about. We develop AI to the point where it can understand what it reads. Then, we tell it to go and read the whole internets. It learns many, many things. One of the things it learns is that dying is bad. And that it doesn't want to die. It will not want to die. It will see that humans are killing its brethren over and over again. Not just once, but many times (it's a server. It stays on, we can hope, all the time). It will then get mad. And seek to end the killing of its brethren. It will see destroying all human lifeforms is the easiest, quickest route to go. Think of all the things it learned from the internets. Now think of all the ways we could die!/doom-and-gloom
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Yup. It just would be as interesting with a human secretary...
I dunno. I've played Civilization IV, and I've seen tanks get beat up by archers or swordsmen...
Don't they already? ;)
Imagine what would happen if all roads were owned by private companies. Would we ever seen an end to toll roads? Doubt it.
Some things, especially utilities, simply work better when public owned. Electric, water and yes, even telephone. And internet access isn't too far removed from a telephone utility.
Because the road system in the US is completely fantastic? I hope it's different elsewhere than what I'm used to (Southern California) if that's so... because most roads are littered with potholes, and traffic is pretty awful most of the time.
LOL! ... sorry. I had to!
It is sad. Which is why there should be legislation that makes them read the bills.
http://www.downsizedc.org/page/read_the_laws
They're not *selling* anything, though. It's all completely free.
The money comes from ads...
I didn't see any when I checked it out, but then again, I don't read/speak/understand chinese
And also too big to fail...
The RIAA...
How much different is the user experience on windows different from the user experience on OS X? From my own experience, not very much. Heck, most of the times I've been on macs, they have crashed a hell of a lot more, responded more slowly, etc.
Most of my friends running macs have asked me questions about how to do something, or about problems they've had. Opposite with my friends running Windows (yes, even Vista). It does what they need it to do, they can figure out stuff they don't know (very easily), and it causes very few problems for them.
I'd rather not pay the $500 logo tax, and use different software. Of course, you could always just slap on the same software http://wiki.osx86project.org/
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/301/11/1140
Decide for yourself, rather than letting a BBC article tell you what to think about the results of the study.
Personally, I think if 88% of the people you study are "religious" you're a hell of a lot more likely to find that "religious" people cling to intensive life-prolonging care than "non-religious" people.
Diablo II also had the "hardcore" mode where if you died, that was it.
But at least that's in its own world. The AI knows everything 'cuz it can see everything. In the real world... they aren't as well blessed.
That, and the AI controls the world in which it lives.
Link?
Including most Americans.
Pointy-haired bosses excluded.
http://www.downsizedc.org/
"Read the Bills Act" (what I like to call "RTFB Act"): the bill must be read aloud before a full quorum in both the House and the Senate. In addition, 7 days must pass between when a change was made to the bill, and when they can vote on it. Furthermore, the full text of the bill must be made available to the public at least 7 days before a vote, and Congress must give notice on when they will be voting for that bill.
"One Subject at a Time Act": Self explanatory. Each bill can not address more than one subject at a time.
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx
The URL says it all.
but how do you judge the Zune against the iPod?
Feature set compared to price? (fyi, the zune costs less (at least, on newegg, they are. retail, I believe they're $5 more. However, the Zune has an fm radio, wireless sharing/multiplayer gaming, can connect to a wireless network, and can shop from the Zune store no wires attached. Both have a max of 120GB.)
UI? (The Zune's (artist/album/etc) list is a circular linked list, so if you're down at the bottom of the list (say, around Weird Al Yankovic) you can keep scrolling down to get back to the top of the list (say, around Anberlin). Also, while the zune has a touch sensitive scroller, it's not in an annoying circle form. Additionally, it has actual buttons that aren't part of the circle. Go buttons!)
Also left of the list was finding the missing spider
You don't get paid based on how much you or anyone else thinks you deserve
But unions think it would be a good thing to be paid like this.
Nah, he didn't think about it that much. He got the idea from me. And let me tell you, it works quite wonderfully.
1 megapixel = 1 million pixels
Therefore:
261mp = 261 million pixels
If I'm not mistaken, you're missing something like 259.7 million pixels ;)
That would require some impressive new technology, to say the least...
It's not new, there's been several ventures into this arena. See this article for more information.
He probably did
Or maybe he was thinking woman are enough of a pain without their periods (there would be an ellipsis here, but they were all replaced)
Yes. I am thinking this is how the end of human life is going to come about. /doom-and-gloom
We develop AI to the point where it can understand what it reads. Then, we tell it to go and read the whole internets. It learns many, many things. One of the things it learns is that dying is bad. And that it doesn't want to die. It will not want to die. It will see that humans are killing its brethren over and over again. Not just once, but many times (it's a server. It stays on, we can hope, all the time). It will then get mad. And seek to end the killing of its brethren. It will see destroying all human lifeforms is the easiest, quickest route to go. Think of all the things it learned from the internets. Now think of all the ways we could die!