Well if its 10x then I *know* that preventative medicine is an overall loser.
...because, for every person who gets preventative test X for maybe risk factor Y, a large portion of them don't have a risk of serious-Y.
A case-in-point is that I get regular-old give-him-some-antibiotics type infections from time to time. A cut on my hand gets infected, a gum infection, and so on..
Not once have these been serious, IN ALL MY LIFE, and I have NEVER gone to the doctor to get anti-biotics. Yes, I know that infections can become deadly... but in the vast majority of cases, they don't even come close to deadly, and even when they do there is still ample time to stop a run-away infection because there are additional symptoms when it actualy becomes serious (fevor, etc..)
The human body is not fragile. It is actualy quite resiliant to ailments that are common (if common ailments killed us, nobody would be around to have this discussion.)
Most medicine should be a luxury item that you pay for out of your own pocket. I dont want to pay for my neighbors desire to have an extra day off from work.
For what it is worth, the Steam Hardware Survey is great for getting a feel for what people who run steam-based games have, which in many ways reflects Windows Geekdom..
Now everyone just has procedures that they cannot afford done.
Most of my friends from work go to their doctor whenever they have a cold. Its fucking ridiculous and it needs to stop, but it wont stop until people take responsibility for their own.
Nationalized coverage wont help. It will make it worse!
Um, the current "browser only" version that you are talking about does browsing, also has an email client, and instant messenger, and irc client, a bittorrent client, and so on...
Perhaps you should rethink your arguement, since Opera 9 is small, tight, and fast and is not a "browser only"
Beta builds come with a lot of cruft.. you know that, right? You didn't know?
The mechanicals may be able to stay ahead in capacity for a long long time, even though they obviously have no hope of competitng in the performance arena ever again.
Per the fine article, they did sell. They took the gold coins and immediately turned them around for their value as precious metal (or as collector's items, but either way it's the same).
I'm reading a different article. I'm reading one where the EMPLOYER is also being prosecuted.. a person who didnt sell any, but instead purchased labor with them.
Hard to put a price on labor without being one of the ones bartering, beyond the lower enforced limit called minimum wage.
Certainly in the scenerio where I actualy sell, the onus is on me to report income.
If I don't sell, however... its just face value, right?
In this story they go after the employer, regardless of the actions of the employees.
This is a very complicated subject that begs a lot of questions. Can my bank post a $100 loss for their mistake in giving me a $100 penny? Can they post a $100 win if they hand me a counterfeit $100?
So on the one hand we take Gold Coins and use the Ore Value, while on the other we take Quarters and use the Face Value.
So lets say I take my pay check and head off to the bank and when cashing it, get a roll of pennies. Further suppose that one these pennies has some rare quality making it worth $100 to a collector... is that an extra $100 of Income?
I have to question the "real power is with the clerics" arguement as it pertains to the "rigged election" arguement.
Seems to me that if the president didnt have significant power then there would be no reason to rig the election by those with said "real power." That the "real power" would only allow the rigging of the seat if there were significant benefits to doing so.
So I suspect that while the presedent has not demonstrated real power so far in the past, it is only because they have always been in the pockets of others, and that it is apparently very possible for the people with "real power" to lose it during an election if their puppet isn't chosen.
Finally, from my point of view anyone who can get hundreds of thousands of people marching in the streets clearly has some real power even if they do not hold any office. Being a leader doesnt require an office! Just ask Malcom X or Martin Luther King.
Yes I myself worked with 65816 (6502 with both 8 and 16-bit modes) and 8086 assembly back then.. and I felt that the 8086 was superior even though the platform it was on wasn't (PC vs IIgs)
..and the 65816 was also miles ahead of the 6800
Apple dropped the ball by abandoning the 6502/65816 line and going with the 68000, and then they were forced to make the same sort of tragedy abandoning the 68xxx line for the PPC chips
If apple had stuck with MOS, this would probably be a very different world. The 65816 had 24-bit addressing and was definately competitive with 8086's.
But the posters suggestion that IBM should have used 6800's in the first PC is preposterous, unless he also suggests that the first PC's would be released many years ealier, prior to even AppleII's and TRS80's.
As of January 2009, Microsoft had still not released an XP-64 Service Pack 3, and unless that has changed very recently.. you really fucked up somewhere. Really.
Also, there was no Ultimate versions of XP-64, so you definately really fucked up somewhere.
Finally, service packs do not come with new drivers, so you are only getting drivers for hardware that existed when XP-64 was first introduced, assuming that you don't actualy have XP-32, in which case the drivers with it are even older.
...an OS service should be responsible for all the details of uploading files, you think? Like ummm... enforcing DRM too?
If I run Opera I want Opera to talk to the network stack, form the packets, and send them. If I run Firefox I want Firefox to talk to the network stack, form the packets, and send them. If I run Safari then I want Safari to...
(well, ok, I'd never run safari other then to test out how shitty it is on windows)
You obviously don't know that the only difference between the 8088 and 8086 was the width of the memory bus.. so lauding either the 8088 or 8086's compatability is equivilent.
..but you want my post modded as flamebait? Your entire point depends on your ignorance.
The up-to 2mhz MC6800 was an 8-bit computer with an 8-bit word, an 8-bit bus, and 16-bit (64K max memory) addressing.
The 4.77mhz 8088 was a 16-bit computer with a 16-bit word, an 8-bit bus, and 20-bit (1MB max memory) addressing.
The 4.77mhz 8086 was a 16-bit computer with a 16-bit word, a 16-bit bus, and 20-bit (1MB max memory) addressing.
The MC6800 is only comparable to the 8080, which is one of the very processors that the 8086 line was leveraging a compatability advantage with.
Spare us your ignorance, because that MC6800 you are talking about was garbage compared to an 8086 (or 8088.. need I remind you that their only difference was bus width.)
Microsoft isn't a poor old lady with no chance to defend herself, so no.. they would not go after Microsoft.
I am still suprised that Microsoft hasnt gotten into the p2p file sharing arena. Its the sort of thing they could dominate rather easily via simple bundling, and I dont even think the RIAA would consider going after them. Just make it gnutella-like with no central tracker and winning against it will be quite difficult because of the deep pocket effect.
Have you been following the discussion? The error message is Could Not Connect To The Internet.
This is beause the user clicked on the Install Internet Explorer button.
He did so because XYZ corporations program requires Internet Explorer, even though it does not require Internet.
XYZ corp requires Internet Explorer because it requires some markup rendering engine and it might as well be one that is ubiquitous.. well it used to be, until the E.U. courts got involved.
How do slashdotters work into this? THey work for XYZ corporation, and already have products in the wild. XYZ's tech support costs are going to jump through the roof if the E.U. gets its way, and that could cause the company to fail, costing the slashdotter his/her job.
Think about all the ramifications of such rulings. This sort of thing is only one of them. The myopic "computers are on my basement desk at home and connected to the internet" view doesn't represent the full reality.
I voted for bing on the one search I did, for Artificial Life.
Mostly the results were the same, however two things stood out.
One of the search engines did not link to the similar 'Synthetic Life' wikipedia page (which might have been what I was interrested in,) so I dropped it from the candidates...
..while only one of them felt that the NOVA Science Now page on Artificial Life was important (something I am happy I found,) maing it the clear winner of the remaining two.
Slashdot Mirror
Its worth more than guessing.
Well if its 10x then I *know* that preventative medicine is an overall loser.
...because, for every person who gets preventative test X for maybe risk factor Y, a large portion of them don't have a risk of serious-Y.
A case-in-point is that I get regular-old give-him-some-antibiotics type infections from time to time. A cut on my hand gets infected, a gum infection, and so on..
Not once have these been serious, IN ALL MY LIFE, and I have NEVER gone to the doctor to get anti-biotics. Yes, I know that infections can become deadly... but in the vast majority of cases, they don't even come close to deadly, and even when they do there is still ample time to stop a run-away infection because there are additional symptoms when it actualy becomes serious (fevor, etc..)
The human body is not fragile. It is actualy quite resiliant to ailments that are common (if common ailments killed us, nobody would be around to have this discussion.)
Most medicine should be a luxury item that you pay for out of your own pocket. I dont want to pay for my neighbors desire to have an extra day off from work.
As far as your 'average user' specs..
..with 1.31% sporting less than 512MB
For what it is worth, the Steam Hardware Survey is great for getting a feel for what people who run steam-based games have, which in many ways reflects Windows Geekdom..
As of May, 2009..
512..999 MB : 7.32%
1 GB : 17.87%
2 GB : 36.04%
3 GB : 26.02%
4 GB : 8.09%
5+ GB : 3.34%
..thats in addition to opera using memory for something useful (caching.)
My current Opera 9.64 working set is 53,200KB right now posting here on slashdot, and 161,644KB virtual.
Thats right... 53,200KB.
I'm not convinced that preventative medicine is a cost saver when you factor in people going to the doctor for colds and other complete bullshit.
Now everyone just has procedures that they cannot afford done.
Most of my friends from work go to their doctor whenever they have a cold. Its fucking ridiculous and it needs to stop, but it wont stop until people take responsibility for their own.
Nationalized coverage wont help. It will make it worse!
Billions? Don't you mean Trillions?
And how long will it take for them to figure out they need a hole in the firewall before anybody can see it ?
I guess you missed the features, and point, of Unite. Perhaps you should investigate about why you are wrong.
Um, the current "browser only" version that you are talking about does browsing, also has an email client, and instant messenger, and irc client, a bittorrent client, and so on...
Perhaps you should rethink your arguement, since Opera 9 is small, tight, and fast and is not a "browser only"
Beta builds come with a lot of cruft.. you know that, right? You didn't know?
I have been wondering about that.
Anybody here have a low memory system with an Intel or OCZ Vertex SSD?
Flash isnt a new technology.
The mechanicals may be able to stay ahead in capacity for a long long time, even though they obviously have no hope of competitng in the performance arena ever again.
Per the fine article, they did sell. They took the gold coins and immediately turned them around for their value as precious metal (or as collector's items, but either way it's the same).
I'm reading a different article. I'm reading one where the EMPLOYER is also being prosecuted.. a person who didnt sell any, but instead purchased labor with them.
Hard to put a price on labor without being one of the ones bartering, beyond the lower enforced limit called minimum wage.
Certainly in the scenerio where I actualy sell, the onus is on me to report income.
If I don't sell, however... its just face value, right?
In this story they go after the employer, regardless of the actions of the employees.
This is a very complicated subject that begs a lot of questions. Can my bank post a $100 loss for their mistake in giving me a $100 penny? Can they post a $100 win if they hand me a counterfeit $100?
So on the one hand we take Gold Coins and use the Ore Value, while on the other we take Quarters and use the Face Value.
So lets say I take my pay check and head off to the bank and when cashing it, get a roll of pennies. Further suppose that one these pennies has some rare quality making it worth $100 to a collector... is that an extra $100 of Income?
I have to question the "real power is with the clerics" arguement as it pertains to the "rigged election" arguement.
Seems to me that if the president didnt have significant power then there would be no reason to rig the election by those with said "real power." That the "real power" would only allow the rigging of the seat if there were significant benefits to doing so.
So I suspect that while the presedent has not demonstrated real power so far in the past, it is only because they have always been in the pockets of others, and that it is apparently very possible for the people with "real power" to lose it during an election if their puppet isn't chosen.
Finally, from my point of view anyone who can get hundreds of thousands of people marching in the streets clearly has some real power even if they do not hold any office. Being a leader doesnt require an office! Just ask Malcom X or Martin Luther King.
Yes I myself worked with 65816 (6502 with both 8 and 16-bit modes) and 8086 assembly back then.. and I felt that the 8086 was superior even though the platform it was on wasn't (PC vs IIgs)
..and the 65816 was also miles ahead of the 6800
Apple dropped the ball by abandoning the 6502/65816 line and going with the 68000, and then they were forced to make the same sort of tragedy abandoning the 68xxx line for the PPC chips
If apple had stuck with MOS, this would probably be a very different world. The 65816 had 24-bit addressing and was definately competitive with 8086's.
But the posters suggestion that IBM should have used 6800's in the first PC is preposterous, unless he also suggests that the first PC's would be released many years ealier, prior to even AppleII's and TRS80's.
Just a note...
As of January 2009, Microsoft had still not released an XP-64 Service Pack 3, and unless that has changed very recently.. you really fucked up somewhere. Really.
Also, there was no Ultimate versions of XP-64, so you definately really fucked up somewhere.
Finally, service packs do not come with new drivers, so you are only getting drivers for hardware that existed when XP-64 was first introduced, assuming that you don't actualy have XP-32, in which case the drivers with it are even older.
Knock Knock. Clue up, Linux fanboi.
...an OS service should be responsible for all the details of uploading files, you think? Like ummm... enforcing DRM too?
...
If I run Opera I want Opera to talk to the network stack, form the packets, and send them. If I run Firefox I want Firefox to talk to the network stack, form the packets, and send them. If I run Safari then I want Safari to
(well, ok, I'd never run safari other then to test out how shitty it is on windows)
You obviously don't know that the only difference between the 8088 and 8086 was the width of the memory bus.. so lauding either the 8088 or 8086's compatability is equivilent.
..but you want my post modded as flamebait? Your entire point depends on your ignorance.
The up-to 2mhz MC6800 was an 8-bit computer with an 8-bit word, an 8-bit bus, and 16-bit (64K max memory) addressing.
The 4.77mhz 8088 was a 16-bit computer with a 16-bit word, an 8-bit bus, and 20-bit (1MB max memory) addressing.
The 4.77mhz 8086 was a 16-bit computer with a 16-bit word, a 16-bit bus, and 20-bit (1MB max memory) addressing.
The MC6800 is only comparable to the 8080, which is one of the very processors that the 8086 line was leveraging a compatability advantage with.
Spare us your ignorance, because that MC6800 you are talking about was garbage compared to an 8086 (or 8088.. need I remind you that their only difference was bus width.)
Microsoft isn't a poor old lady with no chance to defend herself, so no.. they would not go after Microsoft.
I am still suprised that Microsoft hasnt gotten into the p2p file sharing arena. Its the sort of thing they could dominate rather easily via simple bundling, and I dont even think the RIAA would consider going after them. Just make it gnutella-like with no central tracker and winning against it will be quite difficult because of the deep pocket effect.
Have you been following the discussion? The error message is Could Not Connect To The Internet.
This is beause the user clicked on the Install Internet Explorer button.
He did so because XYZ corporations program requires Internet Explorer, even though it does not require Internet.
XYZ corp requires Internet Explorer because it requires some markup rendering engine and it might as well be one that is ubiquitous.. well it used to be, until the E.U. courts got involved.
How do slashdotters work into this? THey work for XYZ corporation, and already have products in the wild. XYZ's tech support costs are going to jump through the roof if the E.U. gets its way, and that could cause the company to fail, costing the slashdotter his/her job.
Think about all the ramifications of such rulings. This sort of thing is only one of them. The myopic "computers are on my basement desk at home and connected to the internet" view doesn't represent the full reality.
Short sighted marketing decision?
If it werent for the 8086 being designed to easily handle 8085, 8080, and 8008 binaries, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
The reason the x86 line was successfull has ALWAYS, in part, been compatability.
You can argue that other processors were better... but being better wasn't good enough, was it?
I dont have internet. Period.
No wired. No wireless. No Internet.
Now what?
On slashdot of all places, you should know that many computers do not have internet connections on purpose.
I voted for bing on the one search I did, for Artificial Life.
..while only one of them felt that the NOVA Science Now page on Artificial Life was important (something I am happy I found,) maing it the clear winner of the remaining two.
Mostly the results were the same, however two things stood out.
One of the search engines did not link to the similar 'Synthetic Life' wikipedia page (which might have been what I was interrested in,) so I dropped it from the candidates...