Of course it's possible to reach that conclusion, the evidence has not ever supported the supposed link with autism. This new study is nothing more than another nail in the coffin of this conspiracy theory.
As for "safety", what is much more unsafe than a tiny amount of mercury is vaccinating less people against horrible diseases. Many vaccines have always been slightly unsafe (e.g. those made from weakened but complete germs) and that has never been an argument for avoiding vaccination.
Nothing can ever replace picking out your steed's hooves and departing on a horse-drawn carriage. Case in point, a fortnight ago I went to a delightful ball with my dear fiance and our return trip was oh so romantic, snuggling with him as the carriage roughly swayed. There is just something about those snorting, sweaty beasts that a rumbling mechanical carriage can't replace.
Good analogy. Because can you find the interview, article or speech where Gates supposedly made that statement? Because there exists exactly as much documentation of it as of Saddam Hussein sending the hijackers out from Iraq.
Not really, no. If they wanted to avoid violating the GPL, they could easily have switched to a BSD-licensed compression library like zlib. These libraries all have essentially the same API, so it's a simple matter to go from one to the other.
Aside from the up-front cost of defragmenting (you'll probably get a brief hiccup when you do it), unless your algorithm guarantees optimal packing that still leaves you with a lot of unpredictability. If some obscure sequence of allocations, deallocations, and defragmentations results in a peak memory usage above the total RAM of the game console, the game crashes.
And, anyway, actually the logical conclusion from 1) and 2) is that we should incentivize externalities via such measures as tradable pollution credits, thus making them directly bear on companies' bottom lines and encouraging a market-based solution, instead of imposing regulations by fiat.
During a 1996 Congressional inquiry into the "Filegate" scandal, Rep. Lantos told witness Craig Livingstone that "with an infinitely more distinguished public record than yours, Admiral Boorda committed suicide when he may have committed a minor mistake." Boorda, the Chief of Naval Operations, had recently taken his own life after his right to wear Combat V decorations had been questioned. Lantos was criticized by some (including fellow Congressman Joe Scarborough) who interpreted the remark as a suggestion that Livingstone too should kill himself.
On May 3, 2000, Lantos was involved in an automobile accident while driving on Capitol Hill. Lantos drove over a young boy's foot and then failed to stop his vehicle. He was later fined over the incident for inattentive driving.
In June 2007, Lantos called former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder a political prostitute.
In October 2007, Lantos insulted Dutch parliament members, while discussing the War on Terrorism by stating that the Netherlands had to help the United States, because they liberated them in the Second World War, whilst adding that the upheaval over Guantanamo in Europe was bigger than over Auschwitz at the time.
The founding fathers did not envision that there would be political parties at all; they basically imagined every congressman, senator and the president being factionless independent candidates -- choosing what to vote for via debate and discussion instead of ramming through the policy of the majority party. That didn't quite work out (though it should be noted that congressmen still vote more independently in the US than in parliamentary democracies), but the Constitution still doesn't say a word about party nominations or whatever. So the answer to your question is the latter.
Reminds me of this passage from the Unabomber manifesto:
131. Technicians (we use this term in its broad sense to describe all those who perform a specialized task that requires training) tend to be so involved in their work (their surrogate activity) that when a conflict arises between their technical work and freedom, they almost always decide in favor of their technical work. This is obvious in the case of scientists, but it also appears elsewhere: Educators, humanitarian groups, conservation organizations do not hesitate to use propaganda or other psychological techniques to help them achieve their laudable ends. Corporations and government agencies, when they find it useful, do not hesitate to collect information about individuals without regard to their privacy. Law enforcement agencies are frequently inconvenienced by the constitutional rights of suspects and often of completely innocent persons, and they do whatever they can do legally (or sometimes illegally) to restrict or circumvent those rights. Most of these educators, government officials and law officers believe in freedom, privacy and constitutional rights, but when these conflict with their work, they usually feel that their work is more important.
Serious question: how did you invest in them? I was actually looking at buying their stock before the Wii launch (I made the same correct call you did), but was stymied by the fact that it was on the Japanese stockmarket and had big fixed costs for foreigners.
Slashdot would have done better to remain narrowly focuses on technical stuff. Whenever any other topic is covered the comments are largely ignorant. For example, slashdot pop-science articles are filled with almost nothing but +5 Funny comments.
Google, not its critics is the one who insisted on presenting themselves as perfect angels by using a strong, simple-minded slogan like "do no evil". As far as I'm concerned they painted a giant target on their back, and deserve all the blasting they get about their hypocrisy.
You missed the root cause of DirectX's success, which is that Microsoft has been a lot more quickly responsive and to the concerns of developers and hardware designers. They listen to the API fixes and new features that game developers ask them for, and they work with graphics card manufacturers to expose new capabilities as soon as they are available, and release new DirectX SDKs every few months. Meanwhile OpenGL's committee decisions are always a step behind.
So if you want to make your game portable by not using any DirectX stuff, well, you'll have to write your own equivalent for that other stuff. That translates directly into higher development costs, plus God knows if your own stuff will work as well, and what bugs will it have.
Nah there are excellent portable third-party libraries for this stuff now, such as Miles (sound), Bink (video), DemonWare (networking). The components of DirectX that are not Direct3D are pretty much irrelevant today.
Direct3D is the only part of DirectX that matters. Developers don't give a shit about DirectInput, DirectSound and DirectPlay. That stuff doesn't cause major programming difficulties and in any case third-party libraries (such as Miles in the case of sound) do it better and are more portable than Microsoft's stuff.
Ask any lottery clerk. They see it all the time. You think the above poster is the only one who thinks, "I'm so clever, I'll pick 1-2-3-4-5-6 because it has the same chance of turning up as anything else"?
Picking 1,2,3,4,5,6 is stupid. Thousands of people choose those numbers, so if they come up the winnings are going to be a tiny fraction of what you'd normally get.
The sales could be a few million less than predicted by analysts -- for whatever reason, it doesn't even have to be due to the leak -- then the publisher's stock would go down, and the guy who decided to implement the wildly unconventional marketing technique would be the scapegoat. Your conspiracy theory just doesn't jibe with the cover-your-ass mentality in large corporations.
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Of course it's possible to reach that conclusion, the evidence has not ever supported the supposed link with autism. This new study is nothing more than another nail in the coffin of this conspiracy theory.
As for "safety", what is much more unsafe than a tiny amount of mercury is vaccinating less people against horrible diseases. Many vaccines have always been slightly unsafe (e.g. those made from weakened but complete germs) and that has never been an argument for avoiding vaccination.
Oh you dashing stranger, you make me blush! No matter how vigorously you may kiss my hand, it is destined to another.
Nothing can ever replace picking out your steed's hooves and departing on a horse-drawn carriage. Case in point, a fortnight ago I went to a delightful ball with my dear fiance and our return trip was oh so romantic, snuggling with him as the carriage roughly swayed. There is just something about those snorting, sweaty beasts that a rumbling mechanical carriage can't replace.
Vista (or Windows XP w/ Resource Kit) already includes a robust copy tool, called Robocopy.
Speaking of putting words into people's mouths... Bush never claimed there was a direct link between Iraq and 9/11.
Good analogy. Because can you find the interview, article or speech where Gates supposedly made that statement? Because there exists exactly as much documentation of it as of Saddam Hussein sending the hijackers out from Iraq.
Not really, no. If they wanted to avoid violating the GPL, they could easily have switched to a BSD-licensed compression library like zlib. These libraries all have essentially the same API, so it's a simple matter to go from one to the other.
Aside from the up-front cost of defragmenting (you'll probably get a brief hiccup when you do it), unless your algorithm guarantees optimal packing that still leaves you with a lot of unpredictability. If some obscure sequence of allocations, deallocations, and defragmentations results in a peak memory usage above the total RAM of the game console, the game crashes.
And, anyway, actually the logical conclusion from 1) and 2) is that we should incentivize externalities via such measures as tradable pollution credits, thus making them directly bear on companies' bottom lines and encouraging a market-based solution, instead of imposing regulations by fiat.
Who the hell is a "libertarian-neocon"? Nice job knocking down that straw man.
The founding fathers did not envision that there would be political parties at all; they basically imagined every congressman, senator and the president being factionless independent candidates -- choosing what to vote for via debate and discussion instead of ramming through the policy of the majority party. That didn't quite work out (though it should be noted that congressmen still vote more independently in the US than in parliamentary democracies), but the Constitution still doesn't say a word about party nominations or whatever. So the answer to your question is the latter.
Serious question: how did you invest in them? I was actually looking at buying their stock before the Wii launch (I made the same correct call you did), but was stymied by the fact that it was on the Japanese stockmarket and had big fixed costs for foreigners.
Slashdot would have done better to remain narrowly focuses on technical stuff. Whenever any other topic is covered the comments are largely ignorant. For example, slashdot pop-science articles are filled with almost nothing but +5 Funny comments.
Google, not its critics is the one who insisted on presenting themselves as perfect angels by using a strong, simple-minded slogan like "do no evil". As far as I'm concerned they painted a giant target on their back, and deserve all the blasting they get about their hypocrisy.
He took the number of values representable by a 32-bit number and multiplied it by four, since 128 = 32 * 4. Makes perfect sense!
Nah there are excellent portable third-party libraries for this stuff now, such as Miles (sound), Bink (video), DemonWare (networking). The components of DirectX that are not Direct3D are pretty much irrelevant today.
Direct3D is the only part of DirectX that matters. Developers don't give a shit about DirectInput, DirectSound and DirectPlay. That stuff doesn't cause major programming difficulties and in any case third-party libraries (such as Miles in the case of sound) do it better and are more portable than Microsoft's stuff.
WTF does Quake Wars have to do with the Wii? What a non sequitur.
You have it exactly upside down. EA is too attached to their existing userbase, and failed to foresee the new, different users jumping in.
Ask any lottery clerk. They see it all the time. You think the above poster is the only one who thinks, "I'm so clever, I'll pick 1-2-3-4-5-6 because it has the same chance of turning up as anything else"?
The point is that the expected winnings are even further in the negative than usual. It's a bad choice.
Picking 1,2,3,4,5,6 is stupid. Thousands of people choose those numbers, so if they come up the winnings are going to be a tiny fraction of what you'd normally get.
The sales could be a few million less than predicted by analysts -- for whatever reason, it doesn't even have to be due to the leak -- then the publisher's stock would go down, and the guy who decided to implement the wildly unconventional marketing technique would be the scapegoat. Your conspiracy theory just doesn't jibe with the cover-your-ass mentality in large corporations.