I know that this is normally a forum to bash **AA, but the fact still remains that Kim Dotcom made his fortune by providing a service that was used to circumvent paying for content.
And the recording industry made their fortune by providing a product that was used to circumvent paying for artists playing their music live.
Seriously? 40% is peanuts? Because that's exactly what the original statement implies.
No, that's not what the original statement implies. The definition of the word "most" ) is "the majority". If 60% of Belgians speak Dutch as their first language, that means the majority, that means "most Belgians speak Dutch". It implies absolutely nothing beyond "there are more Belgians that speak Dutch as their first language than Belgians that speak another language as their first language".
The fact that so many people, like you, read politico-lingual issues into that factual statement is a testament to how rotten the situation in Belgium is. I do not disagree with you on that point and I see no way out. But it's still just a very simple, neutral fact that more Belgians speak Dutch as their first language than any other language.
Yes, they do. Which leads to the hilarious situation here at the office when picking up any random keyboard: it could be qwerty, it could be azerty, it could be one of the few qwertz, and if you're really unlucky it's a ukrainian keyboard which is sort of like "everything at once".
And don't even get me started about efficiency psuedo-arguments. std::sort outperforms qsort by a huge margin on most platforms.
Here's a counterexample: a standards-compliant implementation of std::vector cannot contain aligned types if the single-argument resize member function is ever called explicitly or implicitly, because per the standard it takes a by-value argument, and you cannot pass aligned types by value while preserving the alignment.
Now, you're forgiven for perhaps thinking that is *obscure*, but it isn't if you care about low-level details. SSE instructions require alignment of their input types. An SSE implementation can be 2 to 4 times faster than a regular x86 one on supporting platforms.
Is this coincidence or a pattern? I have no idea how the journal publishing is supposed to work, but being the "victim" of the two most prolific forgers leaves me a little suspicious of the quality of the publishing in general.
This could easily be a case of "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me". These editors seem to be taking themselves seriously (slashdot editors, take note:) ). After being caught out by a cheater once they are probably now in the process of going over their past record with a fine-toothed comb looking for more fakers.
Looks like their new review process is working better - as they've found another one.
Maybe other papers should now be giving the suspiciously prolific submitters a new look as well.
Being intrigued by the summary, and naturally reluctant to RTFA, I tried to find out what an "Automated Litter Brother" is. Best I could come up with is something from the same litter as an other automaton, or some kind of automaton that litters.
When a 30 day supply of a medication that greatly improves your life costs hundreds of dollars from legal channels, and only a fraction of that from online pharmacies, what do you do?
You mean "when something ostensibly labeled the same as the medication that greatly improves your life is advertised on online pharmacies, who often have no accountability to actually supply you with the real thing whatsoever". These types of online places aren't in it for the altruism - they are in it for profit, and preying on the weak. I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.
Seriously, I've seen doctors prescribe pregnizone without any mention of any potential interactions and side effects, and that's the kind of drug where the side effects are often worse than the symptoms being treated.
Pregnizone? Are the side effects of that drug children?
Interesting! Could it be that using the BMI as a determining factor in who is healthy and who is not is in itself a flawed concept?
Like one of the above posters said: I'd put my bets on high BMI already being such a big factor in strokes that it drowns out the lack of sleep effect.
We're not at an "irreversible tipping point". If we can "accidentally" fuck up the earth within a few decades, we can certainly fix it if we are actually trying.
A very smart man once said that you cannot solve problems with the same level of thinking that created them.
The secrecy of the surveillance orders is what actually creates the uncertainty and doubt, and EVERYONE should be fearful of people in power starting to hide behind secrecy, because all the ages of history of mankind have shown that power corrupts.
and VS2010 doesn't support global directories so you must enter your search paths manually into every single library, making porting time consuming and tedious.
Or you add shared props files that have the correct settings to your project through the property manager, and then you only have to edit them in one place whenever they change. There are some new ways (better ways) of doing things in VS2010 compared to older versions. It's not perfect, but it works. And in the end, a project file is pretty human-readable XML that you can easily modify with Python for example. I do it relatively often to fix certain niggles (like how the dependency manager fails to handle files referenced in the project that are not on disk, but not required for a successful build).
From now on, if you want to start a war on a developed country, you should do it on a Tuesday. That's the day the soldiers are down for their Windows Updates.
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W849 Which could either be interpreted as "wait for Windows 9", or "Wait for NEIN!" which is what a certain German Retail Giant just told Microsoft.
Yeah, but I doubt anyone is under the dilution
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
You have dis solved.
It is a bit inconvenient to listen to a live band while driving a car.
It's inconvenient to have to drive to a music store as well if you can download music while sitting at your PC.
BUT the recording industry DID do what they did with the band's permission. And they also provided a product.
Megaupload had cooperations with several bands, i.e. they did have permission (e.g. Busta Rhymes.
And an online locker service is also a product.
I know that this is normally a forum to bash **AA, but the fact still remains that Kim Dotcom made his fortune by providing a service that was used to circumvent paying for content.
And the recording industry made their fortune by providing a product that was used to circumvent paying for artists playing their music live.
Seriously? 40% is peanuts? Because that's exactly what the original statement implies.
No, that's not what the original statement implies. The definition of the word "most" ) is "the majority". If 60% of Belgians speak Dutch as their first language, that means the majority, that means "most Belgians speak Dutch". It implies absolutely nothing beyond "there are more Belgians that speak Dutch as their first language than Belgians that speak another language as their first language".
The fact that so many people, like you, read politico-lingual issues into that factual statement is a testament to how rotten the situation in Belgium is. I do not disagree with you on that point and I see no way out. But it's still just a very simple, neutral fact that more Belgians speak Dutch as their first language than any other language.
Yes, they do. Which leads to the hilarious situation here at the office when picking up any random keyboard: it could be qwerty, it could be azerty, it could be one of the few qwertz, and if you're really unlucky it's a ukrainian keyboard which is sort of like "everything at once".
Now, there may be more Flemish people than Walloon people, but saying "most Belgians" is really an exaggeration.
Why in the name of all that's logical would "most belgians" be an exaggeration? 60% of Belgium speaks dutch.. That's "most Belgians", mathematically.
And don't even get me started about efficiency psuedo-arguments. std::sort outperforms qsort by a huge margin on most platforms.
Here's a counterexample: a standards-compliant implementation of std::vector cannot contain aligned types if the single-argument resize member function is ever called explicitly or implicitly, because per the standard it takes a by-value argument, and you cannot pass aligned types by value while preserving the alignment.
Now, you're forgiven for perhaps thinking that is *obscure*, but it isn't if you care about low-level details. SSE instructions require alignment of their input types. An SSE implementation can be 2 to 4 times faster than a regular x86 one on supporting platforms.
Which is why race cars have ABS right? Oh wait, no they don't.
In F1 ABS was *banned* in the 1994. That's probably why they don't have ABS then.
Is this coincidence or a pattern? I have no idea how the journal publishing is supposed to work, but being the "victim" of the two most prolific forgers leaves me a little suspicious of the quality of the publishing in general.
This could easily be a case of "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me". These editors seem to be taking themselves seriously (slashdot editors, take note :) ). After being caught out by a cheater once they are probably now in the process of going over their past record with a fine-toothed comb looking for more fakers.
Looks like their new review process is working better - as they've found another one.
Maybe other papers should now be giving the suspiciously prolific submitters a new look as well.
In a distopian novel, the government would do this so that they could turn off your heart, if you said anything out of turn.
It wouldn't work on politicians or lawyers. They don't have hearts.
My best ACTUAL guess is that they meant "little brother", in a sort of reference to "big brother"
Being intrigued by the summary, and naturally reluctant to RTFA, I tried to find out what an "Automated Litter Brother" is. Best I could come up with is something from the same litter as an other automaton, or some kind of automaton that litters.
And why do you think the pharmaceutical industry is in it?
And that's EXACTLY why they are heavily regulated by the FDA and local laws.
When a 30 day supply of a medication that greatly improves your life costs hundreds of dollars from legal channels, and only a fraction of that from online pharmacies, what do you do?
You mean "when something ostensibly labeled the same as the medication that greatly improves your life is advertised on online pharmacies, who often have no accountability to actually supply you with the real thing whatsoever". These types of online places aren't in it for the altruism - they are in it for profit, and preying on the weak. I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.
Seriously, I've seen doctors prescribe pregnizone without any mention of any potential interactions and side effects, and that's the kind of drug where the side effects are often worse than the symptoms being treated.
Pregnizone? Are the side effects of that drug children?
This isn't news. Michael Moore has informed us years ago that the USA is already full of mindless drones! ( ;-) )
Interesting! Could it be that using the BMI as a determining factor in who is healthy and who is not is in itself a flawed concept?
Like one of the above posters said: I'd put my bets on high BMI already being such a big factor in strokes that it drowns out the lack of sleep effect.
We're not at an "irreversible tipping point". If we can "accidentally" fuck up the earth within a few decades, we can certainly fix it if we are actually trying.
A very smart man once said that you cannot solve problems with the same level of thinking that created them.
The secrecy of the surveillance orders is what actually creates the uncertainty and doubt, and EVERYONE should be fearful of people in power starting to hide behind secrecy, because all the ages of history of mankind have shown that power corrupts.
It's also something that a lot of terrorists seem to lack.
and VS2010 doesn't support global directories so you must enter your search paths manually into every single library, making porting time consuming and tedious.
Or you add shared props files that have the correct settings to your project through the property manager, and then you only have to edit them in one place whenever they change. There are some new ways (better ways) of doing things in VS2010 compared to older versions. It's not perfect, but it works. And in the end, a project file is pretty human-readable XML that you can easily modify with Python for example. I do it relatively often to fix certain niggles (like how the dependency manager fails to handle files referenced in the project that are not on disk, but not required for a successful build).
From now on, if you want to start a war on a developed country, you should do it on a Tuesday. That's the day the soldiers are down for their Windows Updates.
I believe the process is to first identify the "bottom bioethecist". Then the other one of the pair would have to be the "top".
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Posted anonymously as post may express more about the author's opinion of bioethics than he prefers to reveal.
You are mistaken. The top and bottom bioethicist are one and the same. Except after taking LSD. For research.
I don't know if the "cyberworrier" typo is intentional, but it seems oddly appropriate.