On another note: I wish, 128k is 1.3 gigs a day which is not bad (you could have a new movie or a few TV shows every day on that speed) and even the 64k is not horrible.
In the US and Canada is seems more like we are moving to super high speed, super low caps, and huge charges for going over and no notification. Personally, I do not really care what my speed is, as even around dailup speed you can still get a decent amount per month downloaded. But it is easier to get a 50Mb connection, that you can only use for 6 hours straight on full speed before you ran out then get anything unlimited.
Never heard of that practice, and no why would they. It is not like they really care how much we use they just want to make more money so throttling is counter intuitive unless you are on a unlimited plan.
And it is more like $ per Mb. My plan for example is $.015/Mb (about $500/30GB) over 5 Gigs.
Unless the entire program is in 1 gigantic 8 billion billion billion line file why would it need that many resources or even be able to use 16 GB of RAM? Assuming it is like a normal program would it not just be a large collection of relatively small files that are compiled one after the other (theoretically number of CPUs + 1 threads running at a time with that many files being compiled concurrently being the optimal solution)? And I just do not see how you could ever use up 16 GB at any one time.
You don't seem to be paying much attention to what I am saying, but let me try this one more time.
"OR raise the prices where the demand is cut by 80%" "It's about market finding its efficiencies" YES, exactly, but market efficiency in terms of the profit of the retailers not distribution to those who need it. You raise prices to cut the demand, but that has very little to do with trimming off those who do not need the object.
Well I never said that it is impossible to find an example of a potential customer that is both richer then average and of higher need then average. Of course like how a broken clock is right twice a day, a broken theory can have a few situations where it is right. I am simply pointing out that raising the price of anything simply reduces its market and has nothing or very little to do with distribution to the ones who need it the most. And of course if you are rich enough then no matter the price you will find a way of getting what you need but if you are poor and need then the object you need better be cheap.
But of course this is assuming an economy that is at least somewhat like the US (aka capitalism). In a perfect Communism where all money is distributed equally then of course your theory would work, but that is a 100% different environment then basically the entire world.
No, this law would not threaten vaccines it would help them immensely. Mercury is only used as a preservative in vaccines, they can make them without it (either on the spot for use right away [most vaccines are used on mass in a short period of time anyways] or with a safer preservative). The mercury is basically the entire reason for all the anti vaccine stuff in the first place, this would solve all of that and also have the benefit of keeping tons and tons of mercury out of the already saturated bodies of the public.
It is the only way that even makes sense. Because the address bar refers only to one individual tab so it should be shown inside of that tab or it is simply confusing and does not make sense.
It is not like they are just catching unlucky break after unlucky break. They are showing time and again that they have no idea how to professionally run a company. It is not like this BBx thing is even not well known, it was on the top of the first page of a google search before RIM announced their BBX OS and it has a wikipedia entry.
And it cannot do that if from day to day it is worth large amounts different. Currency only works if people have faith in it and no one with any sense would have faith in a currency that has no solid value.
"YOUR JOB TO FULFILL THIS REQUEST, period. Users=customers, regardless of cost of software, and the adage, The Customer is ALWAYS RIGHT."
No they are not always right, and simply because you made something does not mean that you owe the world from then on.
Commercial and free software both can do what ever the hell they want. Maybe they want to listen to the users and implement some of their ideas or maybe they do not even read anything written about their software, either way at the end of the day they are the only ones who are responsible for the software, the only one(s) who actually have a reason to want to the best it could be overall, and that is why they should have the ultimate decision.
The user/customer is unqualified, he has a skewed perspective, and on average he is just a stupid ass.
"Thats why you the developer need to sift throught this to determine what is good and bad." but if "The Customer is ALWAYS RIGHT." then it is all good and all should be implemented even if it is inconsistent.
Free/commercial has nothing to do with this argument.
A developer simply has a far broader perspective of their product then any user and just blindly accepting user input is not a good idea.
I have been in control of software products before and users for the most part are simply looking out for their own personal best interests. They will tell you straight out and with perfect honesty how their favourite class should be super powered to the detriment of all others or how some particular strategy should be super powered.
Yes but would France, Britain, US, China, Russia, Pakistan, or India step in to save Iran from its enemies?
I would not consider a country simply trying to not have to rely on other countries and be at a huge disadvantage against them anything other then logical, even if we would be better off if they simply accepted their inferior fate or all nukes simply did not exist.
I would not call being slightly sarcastic as trolling, and you very well might have a president even more fanatically religious then GWB in a fairly short time. And besides there is only one country I know of that has ever proven that it is irresponsible enough to not only use Nukes but to use them against civilian populations.
But if Israel and Iran are fighting and only one of them has nukes then there really is not much of a deterrent where they are concerned. I too would prefer nukes did not exists but as long as some countries continue to have then then it is only logical that the others would want them as well.
I cannot seem to remember what the second time was? In fact iI seem to remember people who would know specifically saying once...
I would not call another country getting nukes a precursor to WW3 if anything it is a preventative measure.
Sure one country having nukes could start WW3, since it now holds all the cards and can do whatever it wants to other countries without fear of losing but in a very real way multiple countries having nukes prevents WW3 because either everyone is afraid of using them and there is no war or everyone/some of them use them and there is no war just mass genocide.
"Having a dictatorship ruled by religious fundamentalists of the worst kind" Yes I also worry about the USA, a very frightening country.
Is that sure, maybe they could put off natural death for everyone until around 150 but that does not mean that 99.9% of people will still die around 60-80 of cancer or be near vegetables way before then because of being attacked by multiple brain issues.
"Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear"
I am not sure what this guy is smoking but I guaranty you that anything Apple releases will not integrate into your existing Wii, Xbox 360, or anything other then products owned by Apple.
The biggest concession Apple has ever made was allowing Ipods/pad/phones to plug into PCs and i suspect that this will continue to be their biggest concession for the foreseeable future.
lol, Let me guess you are a MAC fan boy, who apparently takes fan boyism to a a whole new level. "(Libre Office, Firefox, Tbird, Sunbird, etc, etc)" - Those all exist on Windows as well and many more. In fact I would say that windows has the biggest/best selection of FOSS. And while I personally have not looked for any MAC free software I can am fairly certain that Windows is far ahead in availability of free software in comparison to Linux.
Where is your evidence for either of your claims? Firstly, way way too many copies our sold to account a big percentage to developers and the game sold through the bundles are some of the most successful indie games out there.
Explain to me how the proximity and interaction with the opposite sex witch produces some chemicals in the brain is the only way to live. As far as I am concerned you might as well be saying that everyone should do hardcore drugs because the only things worth experiencing are just primary animistic chemical reactions in your brain.
While I cannot speak for this kid I would not consider the total isolation from your peers because of the huge disparity of intellect involved any kind of childhood I would want for even my worst enemy.
I have always considered myself a little above average in intelligence and while I went through High School I never even considered any of the children surrounding me as potentially interesting friends. So this kid would have to overcome 2 huge hurtles. now there are also a bunch of adult teachers in high school, who I befriended and spent all my time with, but it can come down to a lot of luck to find one who is receptive and interesting (and it kind-of defeats the purpose of going to high school in the first place).
Also if this kid can do university level math, then just hand him a history book and he could probably pass a grade 12 history exam in a weeks time.
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On another note: I wish, 128k is 1.3 gigs a day which is not bad (you could have a new movie or a few TV shows every day on that speed) and even the 64k is not horrible.
In the US and Canada is seems more like we are moving to super high speed, super low caps, and huge charges for going over and no notification.
Personally, I do not really care what my speed is, as even around dailup speed you can still get a decent amount per month downloaded. But it is easier to get a 50Mb connection, that you can only use for 6 hours straight on full speed before you ran out then get anything unlimited.
Never heard of that practice, and no why would they. It is not like they really care how much we use they just want to make more money so throttling is counter intuitive unless you are on a unlimited plan.
And it is more like $ per Mb.
My plan for example is $.015/Mb (about $500/30GB) over 5 Gigs.
Unless the entire program is in 1 gigantic 8 billion billion billion line file why would it need that many resources or even be able to use 16 GB of RAM?
Assuming it is like a normal program would it not just be a large collection of relatively small files that are compiled one after the other (theoretically number of CPUs + 1 threads running at a time with that many files being compiled concurrently being the optimal solution)?
And I just do not see how you could ever use up 16 GB at any one time.
You don't seem to be paying much attention to what I am saying, but let me try this one more time.
"OR raise the prices where the demand is cut by 80%"
"It's about market finding its efficiencies"
YES, exactly, but market efficiency in terms of the profit of the retailers not distribution to those who need it.
You raise prices to cut the demand, but that has very little to do with trimming off those who do not need the object.
Well I never said that it is impossible to find an example of a potential customer that is both richer then average and of higher need then average. Of course like how a broken clock is right twice a day, a broken theory can have a few situations where it is right.
I am simply pointing out that raising the price of anything simply reduces its market and has nothing or very little to do with distribution to the ones who need it the most. And of course if you are rich enough then no matter the price you will find a way of getting what you need but if you are poor and need then the object you need better be cheap.
But of course this is assuming an economy that is at least somewhat like the US (aka capitalism).
In a perfect Communism where all money is distributed equally then of course your theory would work, but that is a 100% different environment then basically the entire world.
I think you are confusing "truly need" with "rich".
No, this law would not threaten vaccines it would help them immensely.
Mercury is only used as a preservative in vaccines, they can make them without it (either on the spot for use right away [most vaccines are used on mass in a short period of time anyways] or with a safer preservative).
The mercury is basically the entire reason for all the anti vaccine stuff in the first place, this would solve all of that and also have the benefit of keeping tons and tons of mercury out of the already saturated bodies of the public.
It is the only way that even makes sense.
Because the address bar refers only to one individual tab so it should be shown inside of that tab or it is simply confusing and does not make sense.
It is not like they are just catching unlucky break after unlucky break.
They are showing time and again that they have no idea how to professionally run a company.
It is not like this BBx thing is even not well known, it was on the top of the first page of a google search before RIM announced their BBX OS and it has a wikipedia entry.
And it cannot do that if from day to day it is worth large amounts different.
Currency only works if people have faith in it and no one with any sense would have faith in a currency that has no solid value.
"YOUR JOB TO FULFILL THIS REQUEST, period. Users=customers, regardless of cost of software, and the adage, The Customer is ALWAYS RIGHT."
No they are not always right, and simply because you made something does not mean that you owe the world from then on.
Commercial and free software both can do what ever the hell they want. Maybe they want to listen to the users and implement some of their ideas or maybe they do not even read anything written about their software, either way at the end of the day they are the only ones who are responsible for the software, the only one(s) who actually have a reason to want to the best it could be overall, and that is why they should have the ultimate decision.
The user/customer is unqualified, he has a skewed perspective, and on average he is just a stupid ass.
"Thats why you the developer need to sift throught this to determine what is good and bad."
but if "The Customer is ALWAYS RIGHT." then it is all good and all should be implemented even if it is inconsistent.
Free/commercial has nothing to do with this argument.
A developer simply has a far broader perspective of their product then any user and just blindly accepting user input is not a good idea.
I have been in control of software products before and users for the most part are simply looking out for their own personal best interests. They will tell you straight out and with perfect honesty how their favourite class should be super powered to the detriment of all others or how some particular strategy should be super powered.
While I disagree I respect them for having a vision and going for it, ignoring the inevitable complaining when they have a good reason for doing so.
Yes but would France, Britain, US, China, Russia, Pakistan, or India step in to save Iran from its enemies?
I would not consider a country simply trying to not have to rely on other countries and be at a huge disadvantage against them anything other then logical, even if we would be better off if they simply accepted their inferior fate or all nukes simply did not exist.
I would not call being slightly sarcastic as trolling, and you very well might have a president even more fanatically religious then GWB in a fairly short time.
And besides there is only one country I know of that has ever proven that it is irresponsible enough to not only use Nukes but to use them against civilian populations.
But if Israel and Iran are fighting and only one of them has nukes then there really is not much of a deterrent where they are concerned.
I too would prefer nukes did not exists but as long as some countries continue to have then then it is only logical that the others would want them as well.
I cannot seem to remember what the second time was? In fact iI seem to remember people who would know specifically saying once...
I would not call another country getting nukes a precursor to WW3 if anything it is a preventative measure.
Sure one country having nukes could start WW3, since it now holds all the cards and can do whatever it wants to other countries without fear of losing but in a very real way multiple countries having nukes prevents WW3 because either everyone is afraid of using them and there is no war or everyone/some of them use them and there is no war just mass genocide.
"Having a dictatorship ruled by religious fundamentalists of the worst kind"
Yes I also worry about the USA, a very frightening country.
Is that sure, maybe they could put off natural death for everyone until around 150 but that does not mean that 99.9% of people will still die around 60-80 of cancer or be near vegetables way before then because of being attacked by multiple brain issues.
Or will the world finally realize that he is not as fantastic a person as everyone is claiming he was.
Everyone should know who that is, at the very very least he is as important at Jobs and many people would say much more.
"Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear"
I am not sure what this guy is smoking but I guaranty you that anything Apple releases will not integrate into your existing Wii, Xbox 360, or anything other then products owned by Apple.
The biggest concession Apple has ever made was allowing Ipods/pad/phones to plug into PCs and i suspect that this will continue to be their biggest concession for the foreseeable future.
lol,
Let me guess you are a MAC fan boy, who apparently takes fan boyism to a a whole new level.
"(Libre Office, Firefox, Tbird, Sunbird, etc, etc)" - Those all exist on Windows as well and many more.
In fact I would say that windows has the biggest/best selection of FOSS. And while I personally have not looked for any MAC free software I can am fairly certain that Windows is far ahead in availability of free software in comparison to Linux.
Where is your evidence for either of your claims?
Firstly, way way too many copies our sold to account a big percentage to developers and the game sold through the bundles are some of the most successful indie games out there.
I may only be a few chemicals dancing around in my brain but that does not mean I should spend half my life satisfying every animal instinct I have.
Explain to me how the proximity and interaction with the opposite sex witch produces some chemicals in the brain is the only way to live. As far as I am concerned you might as well be saying that everyone should do hardcore drugs because the only things worth experiencing are just primary animistic chemical reactions in your brain.
While I cannot speak for this kid I would not consider the total isolation from your peers because of the huge disparity of intellect involved any kind of childhood I would want for even my worst enemy.
I have always considered myself a little above average in intelligence and while I went through High School I never even considered any of the children surrounding me as potentially interesting friends. So this kid would have to overcome 2 huge hurtles. now there are also a bunch of adult teachers in high school, who I befriended and spent all my time with, but it can come down to a lot of luck to find one who is receptive and interesting (and it kind-of defeats the purpose of going to high school in the first place).
Also if this kid can do university level math, then just hand him a history book and he could probably pass a grade 12 history exam in a weeks time.