This needed to start yesterday. I'm sick of this crap. If they can spread lies like truth then we should be able to spread truth about their dirty secrets. *obviously* I don't support doing anything illegal... I'm just saying that if someone happened to come across some really personal and destructive information about these clowns that it would be for the common good.
While we're at it, maybe we should make changes to the US Postal Service as well. I bet there are all kinds of shady documents, products, letters, checks, etc sent through the mail everyday. I mean, friends could be sending each other burned CDs or DVDs!!! USPS should read everything sent by everyone - just in case!
FYI - Lousy drivers aren't Microsoft's fault. They're the manufacturer's. Microsoft knows that they'll be blamed for the crappy experience if there aren't drivers and they do everything they can to get hardware vendors to pump out up-to-date versions, but they can't force them to. If you want to have some real fun... try running 64bit Vista like I am. Good luck finding drivers that are 64bit AND Vista AND any good.
*sigh* Silverlight IS cross platform. It works in Opera, FireFox, IE on PC and Mac (don't know about Linux). As to the "why" of switching - the next version of Silverlight is going to contain the.NET CLR which will make running client-side code in it quite fast. You'll also have access to a good portion of the.NET framework. So, if you're already a.NET coder and you don't want to learn ActionScript, I'd say it's a decent alternative.
This is a ridiculous article anyway - what're they expecting, dot-com-boom ads? Where'd you see "Must have 5 years HTML 4.0 experience" 1 year after it came out? And books? Of course their are more Flash books. Don't be ridiculous. Flash has been around for years and Silverlight just came out. That's like being shocked that there are more games available for PS2 than PS3 - duh.
These e-mail's don't paint a picture of a company that's dismayed with their own product, what they're obviously sad about is that they feel they have a good product but that they've screwed themselves over by caving to Intel. They *knew* that Vista required a certain level of GPU / memory performance and they pushed for that for 18 months, and then threw it all away when they let Intel convince them to lower the standards for "Vista Capable". Which went from meaning "Runs Vista ok - similar to XP" to meaning "Runs Vista, but don't plan on doing anything else".
It's like saying Crysis is "capable" of running on 5 year old hardware... yeah, sure, at 640x480 and 15 fps... If everyone ran it like that they'd say it's the biggest pile of crap ever made - and that's what happened to the Vista boys. They let outside vendors / OEMs define the requirements rather than them and then people got pissed when it ran like crap.
Oh please, anything but AOL. They were a designer's worst nightmare back then. Crazy non-standard browser that compressed the crap out of all of your finely tuned images until they looked like garbage. Your smooth gradient looks like a ribbon of crap on AOhelL. I always prayed that they would eventually go away... they never did... but at least people started using IE and Netscape/FireFox instead of the stupid AOL browser.
I agree. I'll admit that I can sometimes be a little nit picky but mostly it boils down to communication. It can be really frustrating trying to determine what someone is trying to say when the language they're using isn't accurately conveying their thought.
with traffic signals out and major delays on roads...
Wait, wait, wait, you mean... that the traffic signals stop working when there's no electricity!? They aren't run on fairy dust or something? Pretty soon you're going to start telling me that local homes and businesses were without power too! That's crazy talk! The amount of time the media spends stating the obvious is just so fantastic.
Also from Wikipedia - When caused by alcohol, it occurs only in individuals with a history of constant, long-term alcohol consumption.
Additionally, that same problem can be caused by other barbiturates.
So, I'd say that doing that is about equivalent to eating lead paint chips every day. It's your choice, and it's not too smart. Now, you may be able to convince me that the physical need to drink may at some point become a disease... but to say that you have some disease which has caused you to be an excessive drinker from day one is ridiculous (and that's the way you usually hear it handled). We live in an age where no one wants to be held accountable for anything. It's ridiculous. *You* drink too much; now gather up a little self-discipline and stop. You're not stricken one day with a sudden desire to drink to prevent yourself from feeling like crap. It's something you do to yourself, slowly, over time. I'm not saying we should expect people to be perfect, but if you've screwed up - own it. Don't push that off on society, or alcohol or whatever.
Thanks for the link to Radiolab, I'll have to check it out. Psychology fascinates me.
I think the problem is that there is little differentiation between severe depression and just depression. In TFA it mentions that only patients with the most severe depression are affected by the drugs. This would cause me to believe that those are the only people actually being affected by their brain chemistry. Whether those changes are physiological or purely outside of the control of the patient - I don't know - but that would be the differentiator between it being a disease vs not a disease (in my mind at least). If your brain chemistry has slowly changed over time because you live your life in an altered state of mind, there's a difference between that and Alzheimer's where your brain slowly stops functioning on its own.
Yeah... I went looking for a dictionary definition too, but there are so many it quickly becomes useless. You can pretty easily find one to fit either side of the argument.:)
If you do a study comparing steroid users to non-steroid users there's going to be huge physical differences. If there weren't, it wouldn't be illegal in athletics now would it? I've seen steroid users in sports and their strength next to people that work just as hard is insane.
TFA says that there was only a significant difference in the performance of drugs vs placebo in SEVERELY depressed patients. Everybody else did the same whether they were on real drugs or not. How are you going to argue with that? Clearly the drugs themselves are doing nothing for patients with mild depression.
Based on the article I would infer that only the most severely depressed patients are being affected by their brain's chemistry. The rest are just sad about crap that's happened in their lives and they've never dug themselves out of that pit. Once they see a light at the end of the tunnel - in this case a placebo that they've been told will make them feel better - they start to convince themselves that life isn't that bad.
Even *with* the drugs there's still no guarantee that they're helping as much as we think they are. Even in the article they state that they're prescribed drugs which will *hypothetically* balance their brain's chemistry.
I absolutely agree that the "disease" label gets thrown around far too much. I see it used as a crutch and almost a source of justification - "I have a disease, I can't help it". This is true of people addicted to alcohol. Alcoholism isn't a disease any more than being a meth addict is a disease. You may get various diseases as a result of those activities, but a there is no "Alcoholism" disease which has caused you to unwillingly drink yourself into a stupor every night.
Depression can be awful but I think that labeling it as a disease only adds to the helpless feeling that depressed people have. Placebos / drugs work because they're empowering - I'm doing something, I'm taking something, things will get better. That's the opposite of being told you have a disease that means you're sad all the time - then you feel doomed.
No, no, they'll have a separate knob for that - similar to the old "turbo" buttons which everyone just left on all the time. That way you can "crank it to 11" when you need it and then turn it back down when you get tired of the noise of the fans running at 11 too.
Great, I can't wait to give one of these to my gramma. She's always sitting around complaining about being sore. Well, this will get her in shape! Even setting it up should be exciting. I hope that rickety nightstand she has can handle the weight... it's already full of old coins, moth balls and jars of preserves.
Yeah, I immediately thought the exact same thing. This isn't new, and it's not for 12 year olds. It's for old nerds and it's been around for a few years. Additionally, I'd say these are more like lego knock-offs than action figures. GI Joe is an action figure - he's got the grippy hands and movable limbs. He can hold a gun and shoot people. These little plastic thingies can sit on your desk and serve as evidence that you're the biggest nerd in the office... that's about it.
I *have* a commercial grade link and I'm *still* getting throttled. It wasn't too much of a problem until this last month or so. Steam updates get dropped. VPN connections take forever. Netflix movie downloads that used to be fast are a joke now (from nearly instant to 10 minutes, ugh). It's infuriating. Nearly everything I do everyday requires a fast Internet connection and even though I'm paying specifically for one, I'm not getting it.:-/
You guys should take this lawsuit more seriously. Prince is ferocious... anyone needing proof only needs to watch this heinous video of him on the prowl - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcMuTsBFQTE
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This needed to start yesterday. I'm sick of this crap. If they can spread lies like truth then we should be able to spread truth about their dirty secrets. *obviously* I don't support doing anything illegal... I'm just saying that if someone happened to come across some really personal and destructive information about these clowns that it would be for the common good.
While we're at it, maybe we should make changes to the US Postal Service as well. I bet there are all kinds of shady documents, products, letters, checks, etc sent through the mail everyday. I mean, friends could be sending each other burned CDs or DVDs!!! USPS should read everything sent by everyone - just in case!
FYI - Lousy drivers aren't Microsoft's fault. They're the manufacturer's. Microsoft knows that they'll be blamed for the crappy experience if there aren't drivers and they do everything they can to get hardware vendors to pump out up-to-date versions, but they can't force them to. If you want to have some real fun... try running 64bit Vista like I am. Good luck finding drivers that are 64bit AND Vista AND any good.
Best water torture joke ever! A+++ would read and laugh at again.
*sigh* Silverlight IS cross platform. It works in Opera, FireFox, IE on PC and Mac (don't know about Linux). As to the "why" of switching - the next version of Silverlight is going to contain the .NET CLR which will make running client-side code in it quite fast. You'll also have access to a good portion of the .NET framework. So, if you're already a .NET coder and you don't want to learn ActionScript, I'd say it's a decent alternative.
This is a ridiculous article anyway - what're they expecting, dot-com-boom ads? Where'd you see "Must have 5 years HTML 4.0 experience" 1 year after it came out? And books? Of course their are more Flash books. Don't be ridiculous. Flash has been around for years and Silverlight just came out. That's like being shocked that there are more games available for PS2 than PS3 - duh.
These e-mail's don't paint a picture of a company that's dismayed with their own product, what they're obviously sad about is that they feel they have a good product but that they've screwed themselves over by caving to Intel. They *knew* that Vista required a certain level of GPU / memory performance and they pushed for that for 18 months, and then threw it all away when they let Intel convince them to lower the standards for "Vista Capable". Which went from meaning "Runs Vista ok - similar to XP" to meaning "Runs Vista, but don't plan on doing anything else".
It's like saying Crysis is "capable" of running on 5 year old hardware... yeah, sure, at 640x480 and 15 fps... If everyone ran it like that they'd say it's the biggest pile of crap ever made - and that's what happened to the Vista boys. They let outside vendors / OEMs define the requirements rather than them and then people got pissed when it ran like crap.
Yeah, the reverse chronological order is annoying. Had to read one or two before I noticed myself. Definitely an interesting read though.
Yeah, umm, maybe he doesn't have a name.
Oh please, anything but AOL. They were a designer's worst nightmare back then. Crazy non-standard browser that compressed the crap out of all of your finely tuned images until they looked like garbage. Your smooth gradient looks like a ribbon of crap on AOhelL. I always prayed that they would eventually go away... they never did... but at least people started using IE and Netscape/FireFox instead of the stupid AOL browser.
I read about this in Popular Science a month ago. I think it said it takes about a month.
Natalie Portscan!? Is that the one with the sweet interface and the nice rack?
I agree. I'll admit that I can sometimes be a little nit picky but mostly it boils down to communication. It can be really frustrating trying to determine what someone is trying to say when the language they're using isn't accurately conveying their thought.
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Also from Wikipedia - When caused by alcohol, it occurs only in individuals with a history of constant, long-term alcohol consumption.
Additionally, that same problem can be caused by other barbiturates.
So, I'd say that doing that is about equivalent to eating lead paint chips every day. It's your choice, and it's not too smart. Now, you may be able to convince me that the physical need to drink may at some point become a disease... but to say that you have some disease which has caused you to be an excessive drinker from day one is ridiculous (and that's the way you usually hear it handled). We live in an age where no one wants to be held accountable for anything. It's ridiculous. *You* drink too much; now gather up a little self-discipline and stop. You're not stricken one day with a sudden desire to drink to prevent yourself from feeling like crap. It's something you do to yourself, slowly, over time. I'm not saying we should expect people to be perfect, but if you've screwed up - own it. Don't push that off on society, or alcohol or whatever.
Thanks for the link to Radiolab, I'll have to check it out. Psychology fascinates me.
I think the problem is that there is little differentiation between severe depression and just depression. In TFA it mentions that only patients with the most severe depression are affected by the drugs. This would cause me to believe that those are the only people actually being affected by their brain chemistry. Whether those changes are physiological or purely outside of the control of the patient - I don't know - but that would be the differentiator between it being a disease vs not a disease (in my mind at least). If your brain chemistry has slowly changed over time because you live your life in an altered state of mind, there's a difference between that and Alzheimer's where your brain slowly stops functioning on its own.
Yeah... I went looking for a dictionary definition too, but there are so many it quickly becomes useless. You can pretty easily find one to fit either side of the argument. :)
If you do a study comparing steroid users to non-steroid users there's going to be huge physical differences. If there weren't, it wouldn't be illegal in athletics now would it? I've seen steroid users in sports and their strength next to people that work just as hard is insane.
TFA says that there was only a significant difference in the performance of drugs vs placebo in SEVERELY depressed patients. Everybody else did the same whether they were on real drugs or not. How are you going to argue with that? Clearly the drugs themselves are doing nothing for patients with mild depression.
Based on the article I would infer that only the most severely depressed patients are being affected by their brain's chemistry. The rest are just sad about crap that's happened in their lives and they've never dug themselves out of that pit. Once they see a light at the end of the tunnel - in this case a placebo that they've been told will make them feel better - they start to convince themselves that life isn't that bad.
Even *with* the drugs there's still no guarantee that they're helping as much as we think they are. Even in the article they state that they're prescribed drugs which will *hypothetically* balance their brain's chemistry.
I absolutely agree that the "disease" label gets thrown around far too much. I see it used as a crutch and almost a source of justification - "I have a disease, I can't help it". This is true of people addicted to alcohol. Alcoholism isn't a disease any more than being a meth addict is a disease. You may get various diseases as a result of those activities, but a there is no "Alcoholism" disease which has caused you to unwillingly drink yourself into a stupor every night.
Depression can be awful but I think that labeling it as a disease only adds to the helpless feeling that depressed people have. Placebos / drugs work because they're empowering - I'm doing something, I'm taking something, things will get better. That's the opposite of being told you have a disease that means you're sad all the time - then you feel doomed.
No, no, they'll have a separate knob for that - similar to the old "turbo" buttons which everyone just left on all the time. That way you can "crank it to 11" when you need it and then turn it back down when you get tired of the noise of the fans running at 11 too.
Great, I can't wait to give one of these to my gramma. She's always sitting around complaining about being sore. Well, this will get her in shape! Even setting it up should be exciting. I hope that rickety nightstand she has can handle the weight... it's already full of old coins, moth balls and jars of preserves.
Oddly enough, that appears to be the same thickness as the GP's head. Hmmm.
Yeah, I immediately thought the exact same thing. This isn't new, and it's not for 12 year olds. It's for old nerds and it's been around for a few years. Additionally, I'd say these are more like lego knock-offs than action figures. GI Joe is an action figure - he's got the grippy hands and movable limbs. He can hold a gun and shoot people. These little plastic thingies can sit on your desk and serve as evidence that you're the biggest nerd in the office... that's about it.
I *have* a commercial grade link and I'm *still* getting throttled. It wasn't too much of a problem until this last month or so. Steam updates get dropped. VPN connections take forever. Netflix movie downloads that used to be fast are a joke now (from nearly instant to 10 minutes, ugh). It's infuriating. Nearly everything I do everyday requires a fast Internet connection and even though I'm paying specifically for one, I'm not getting it. :-/
You guys should take this lawsuit more seriously. Prince is ferocious... anyone needing proof only needs to watch this heinous video of him on the prowl - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcMuTsBFQTE