It could also make a difference on the margin anytime someone moved from one place to another. It's generally cheaper to live in a smaller place, so if you can live in less space, you can trade up to a more desirable location.
The same information that would help terrorists pick targets would also help the good guys prioritize which targets to protect better/first. Public information helps the good guys at least as much as the bad guys.
I don't see any colors other than black and white in the theme on Chrome 10 on Snow Leopard, but I do see bold, underline, italics. I see the colors on Firefox 4 beta on Snow Leopard.
Once one has power, what do they need understanding for? From our perspective, we would like the powerful to use their power wisely. From the perspective of someone with power, they are very unlikely to consider themselves unwise and in need of more understanding. And who is going to tell someone with power that they are unwise and lack understanding?
I don't have anything better than my own anecdotal impressions, but it seems to me that early adopters tend to be smart, rather than rich. That said, most people I've known who were smart and not rich were also young. Most people I've known who were smart and responsible eventually started to accumulate money. So, even if an early adopter isn't rich now, chances are they will get there in time.
"And the health care bill is huge for potential entrepreneurs; one of the major disincentives to quitting your job is the lack of health insurance."
After all the debate last year, I still find claims like this so strange. As far as I have ever been able to tell, the Health Care reform merely assesses a tax on being uninsured. So, if you quit your job to start a company, you no longer have the option to forgo insurance without now paying a penalty on your taxes. How an additional penalty would either a) provide more/better health care or b) spur entrepreneurship I have never been able to understand.
Something I've learned in the last few years is that I can almost always think of a reason why I will be unable to accomplish any goal. Which is to say, if I only pursued goals I was sure I would accomplish, I would never pursue anything (which is effectively what I ended up doing for a few years, without really noticing the hole I'd dug for myself.) My current MO is to not deny myself preemptively and to just go ahead and pursue the goals I want to achieve. As it turns out, it's OK to try and fail. It's even better to try and succeed. I'm not haunted by failures in my life as much as I am haunted by roads not traveled.
Savings with a bank would typically continue to circulate in the loans the bank makes. Even if one were to hide money under a mattress, the effect would be very, very slightly anti-inflationary (by withdrawing currency from the market), which anyone else with savings, or just cash, would appreciate.
Does anyone know if this will have some sort of way to trigger a "middle click", like when one clicks on the scroll wheel? As far as I've seen with Apple mice, they've never had support for middle click.
I think Apple is actually behaving completely reasonably about the antenna issue. I wouldn't have thought so until I realized that during the last few weeks, while I've had my iPhone 4, half a dozen strangers have approached me in public to ask me about my iPhone. Every single one of them had the same concern, which is if I had antenna issues and/or dropped calls. I never had a single person walk up to me and ask about any of the previous iPhones I owned, but now people regularly ask me about the single issue of the antenna. I am surprised to say it, but the antenna publicity put a big dent in the iPhone 4's reputation and Apple is definitely going to have to do some work, like posting lots of videos showing that other phone have similar problems, if they are going to minimize the bad reputation iPhone 4 got with some people.
A problematic dual-loyalty is embedded in this list.
"5. A journalist is obsessed with the Truth."
and
"6. A journalist serves the people." which was expanded on with "In telling all sides of a story for the benefit of the proletariat alone"
Without getting too deeply into it, you can't serve the people and the truth any more than a democratic vote will always arrive at the best public policy. A bias toward "the people with little or no power or influence in this world" is still a bias and will be a diversion from the truth.