All the steroids are doing is suppressing your immune system. This is not a cure you are simply treating the symptoms and depending on how severe the infection is, may be the worst possible thing you can do.
You might want to notice or respond to your GP, which argued fairly clearly that the only things worth treating in a cold are the symptoms.
For instance: right clicking the taskbar no longer results in a 10 second hdd thrashing pause before my dual-core 2gb ram machine figures out how to pull up a menu.
Vista is about 10x faster than that even on a netbook with 1 gig of ram. Something's not playing right with your hardware, I think.
Microsoft Vista? $200. Microsoft 7? $300. Losing your hard-drive and being unable to recover because your licence is tied to a particular disk in a particular physical machine? Priceless!
For well under $300 you can get about a hundred Windows 7 (10 for each version of 7, spread over the many versions) licenses for your family's computers via Technet. Or you can buy a single license for $100. Or you can buy 3 in a Family Pack for $50 each. Even the non-upgrade retail license is $170, not even close to your $300.
And there are no versions tied to a disk. The closest is an OEM version of the OS, which is tied to a motherboard. But even then, if you want to change motherboards you can just call MS and they'll happily let you reactivate provided the 5 word explanation, "I have a new motherboard."
And then there are people like me who accidentally distracted by the background. I take a look at it and then my eyes sort of complain about not being able to bring a backdrop object into focus. Totally kills the immersion for me.
That's a bigger problem than you make it out to be, and it affects everyone, from the directors to the viewers. Use of selective focus for dramatic purposes is an incredibly widespread and effective tool in film. However, it just doesn't work at all in 3-d. The 3-d director must make a choice between two bad options: 1) use normal selective focus, eliminating the point of a 3-d scene and going 3/4 of the way toward collapsing the illusion, or 2) allow the eye to focus anywhere, giving up the most successful technique in the artform for drawing the eye to a particular point. Even Avatar had this problem, and it's the main reason it was better in 2-d.
"This [Supreme] Court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty." - Reid v. Covert, October 1956, 354 U.S. 1, at pg 17
So we resort to poetry, and choose one that sounds good.
I'll go with "virii" over "viruses" in almost every situation.
Except in English we have no good way to pronounce "ii." Viruses sounds good because it never goes through an awkward double vowel phase. VIE-ree-IE is our best option for pronouncing virii, but it doesn't have great analogues in our language and involves a rare and limp lack of consonant sounds at the end.
Often, I hear people pronouncing virii VIE-REE, VIE-RIE, or VIE-REE-EE. It's simply unclear which is correct to the majority of people who have already settled on virii as their preferred spelling of the plural. Hence, I find that virii is an incredibly unsuccessful word with a clearly superior alternative.
If we wanted to go with a pseudo-Latin suffix, viri is clearly more familiar and more phonetically successful. The double i simply has no benefit.
Coincidental timing after China's latest strangling of rare earths, yes?
It just means that China is now doing significant in-country R&D and authorship that they have a vested interest in protecting.
Not yet. Or not yet enough to balance out what they plan to steal. No, in this case it just means that China knows they can continue to pretend to have some interest in protecting the IP of other nations while they maintain a massive, government funded practice in nearly every industry of blatantly stealing any IP they want. Making IP agreements is a great idea if you simply ignore them while your counterpart obeys each agreement and refuses to do anything about the fact that you don't.
Frankly, I would love nothing better than an OS I could put on my parents' computers and not have to worry about them calling me a month later complaining about all the pop-ups and viruses they have.
With my parents, Windows 7 with Firefox/Adblock as a browser finally accomplished this. By default they don't allow root privileges when prompted unless they were planning on installing something or it's on the very short list of annoying but safe autoupdaters they've seen and cleared with me.
From the summary: "I'd like to think that there really are (or were) drones over Austin, but would also like to see Google's explanation for the close-up images."
It's Google implementing a feature Bing has had available for over a year - the Bird's Eye view.
You're right; to an 18 year old, the boonies suck. To a 35 year old, the peace and quiet and the lower cost of living are hugely attractive. So what if there is no night life? I've got a four year old. I'm too fucking tired to go out.
The lack of a day life and the fact that your four year old will miss out a lot of the exposure to different cultures possible in a larger metropolitan area can drive the astute 35 year olds away as well.
Unfortunatelly, your proof is not valid. You are trying to prove something which you postulate in your first step. How do you know 1/9 equals 0.1111111.... ?
He begged the question! For anyone confused about the term "beg the question," this is exactly what it means: assuming the proposition to be proved in the premise.
But that begs the question: is the classical meaning already dead, replaced with the much more easily understood modern usage demonstrated here?
Why does the mainland Chinese government get better treatment from the "free world" than any other petty dictatorship? They've repeatedly shown that they aren't prepared to act in a respectable manner, so why should they get respect?
The man's a brilliant lawyer. I've read a number of opinions he offered as AG. They are uniformly well argued, even when I wish the conclusions were otherwise. Worse, from the perspective of those who support Mann, Cuccinelli thoroughly analyzes the relevant law and doesn't misinterpret it to fit his preconceptions. Unlike former Virginia AG's, I didn't find a single example where I said, "No, that's obviously not what the law you just quoted means."
If Mann cut any corners, Cuccinelli will crucify him.
Of course if you read TFS you'd have an example of a much more qualified person than you, Judge Paul M. Peatross Jr. of the Albemarle County Circuit Court, saying, "No, that's obviously not what the law you just quoted means" about this specific case!
Yep. Unlike the XKCD version, the graph examples in TFA are unreadable messes of spaghetti lines. While the concept is a great one, this implementation from (naturally) data visualization researcher Michael Ogawa is embarrassing.
The same side is facing earth because earth's gravity has absorbed/slowed/negated its angular momentum.
The moon is moving closer to earth, very slowly.
Although it generally accepted that the moon is a product of a collision of a body with earth.
Replying to undo my informative moderation because though correct about the tidal locking, you got the Moon's slow change in orbital distance backwards. It's slowly moving farther away from Earth.
Amazing! A friend of mine has done his Ph.D. in exactly this field. He was shining a beam of light right THROUGH an opaque sheet of material (paper, I think) already a few years ago, and published about it in 2008. I think it's pretty much the same idea, from what I understand of it (but keep in mind, I chose the evil path of Business instead of Science, so I have no brain).
Anyway; on his page there's a much better explanation, with cute pictures and all that, of the same idea.
Thanks, I thought I read some journal articles about this a year or two ago.
Sorry. I'm as anti-Apple and the next Linux fanboi, but that's just simply not true. Apple made the MacBook Pro famous by running Windows XP/Vista/7 better than most PCs "designed for Windows."
Since when are poor performance and the lack of solid drivers signs of running "better?" The main high point of MacBooks, the very good battery life, is cut in half when running Windows, as Anandtech shows every few months.
Interesting. I suppose you have not noticed that Steam uses OpenGL,
I'll let someone else defend that, since my experience with Steam (generally, that it's a steaming pile of crap) is not typical and isn't even representative of a sample of people that I know.
that Left For Dead 2 just launched on Steam
It's a game essentially written to run on the XBox 360. A game written to run on hardware over five years old is not a great argument for the state of the art. That's multiple generations ago in terms of computer hardware.
and that all of those iOS games on iPhones and iPads all use OpenGL ES?
Along the same lines, a phone and its stripped-down processing power (relative to a laptop, desktop, etc.) isn't a great argument for the state of the art.
Maybe I should have been a little more clear: OpenGL fell behind DirectX badly around 2005, give or take. If you are dealing with something meant to run on hardware specs that didn't exist five years ago, OpenGL doesn't qualify as good. If you are writing for legacy processing power (which an iPhone is, even if it's a newer piece of hardware), it certainly can be good because it was, back in the day.
Remember that Anandtech showed that the Mac version runs at half the speed of the Windows version, too. But that's not unique to any particular game.
They have more than half of the web using their browser, compared to all other browsers COMBINED, and they failed ???
Interesting concept of failure you have there.
Something like a tug of war, with a really fat guy on one end, and ten olympic athletes on the other, and the athletes all shouting "haw haw you fail" because the fat guy moved half an inch.
He specifically said they failed at their goal of a web monoculture. They absolutely failed in that sense, and that's good for nearly everyone. It might even be good for Microsoft.
Why not use Anonymizer or any other anonymizing proxy service?
General purpose anonymizing proxies are designed for something else.
1. Most will mask your IP address, but not the identifying information in your HTTP headers. Google will still know who you are based on your Cookies, User Agent, etc...
2. If the proxy does attempt to anonymize HTTP headers, they will do it by completely stripping cookies from your request. Google does not like this, and will tag you as a SPAM bot (how convient for them to do), which will force you to type in a CAPTCHA every time you issue a Google search, and will prevent you from issuing Maps requests at all.
3. These types of proxies can be slow. It's not necessary to proxy all of your internet traffic if you're just trying to protect yourself from Google. Since GoogleSharing only proxies Google traffic, our bandwidth needs are much lower and thus our performance is much greater.
For reference, Scroogle strips the headers, addressing GS's point #1, and then generates dummy cookies that prevent point #2 from being a problem. There's no noticeable difference in speed between direct Google and use of Scroogle, which like GS doesn't proxy non-Google traffic, and has a for efficient default search result screen than Google itself.
The other responses to my reasonable question (which got modded troll because...well I have no idea) actually pointed out meaningful differences, though. Scroogle lacks image and map searching, for instance, and could feasibly spy on your traffic before they delete their logs in 48 hours.
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All the steroids are doing is suppressing your immune system. This is not a cure you are simply treating the symptoms and depending on how severe the infection is, may be the worst possible thing you can do.
You might want to notice or respond to your GP, which argued fairly clearly that the only things worth treating in a cold are the symptoms.
For instance: right clicking the taskbar no longer results in a 10 second hdd thrashing pause before my dual-core 2gb ram machine figures out how to pull up a menu.
Vista is about 10x faster than that even on a netbook with 1 gig of ram. Something's not playing right with your hardware, I think.
Microsoft Vista? $200. Microsoft 7? $300. Losing your hard-drive and being unable to recover because your licence is tied to a particular disk in a particular physical machine? Priceless!
For well under $300 you can get about a hundred Windows 7 (10 for each version of 7, spread over the many versions) licenses for your family's computers via Technet. Or you can buy a single license for $100. Or you can buy 3 in a Family Pack for $50 each. Even the non-upgrade retail license is $170, not even close to your $300.
And there are no versions tied to a disk. The closest is an OEM version of the OS, which is tied to a motherboard. But even then, if you want to change motherboards you can just call MS and they'll happily let you reactivate provided the 5 word explanation, "I have a new motherboard."
And then there are people like me who accidentally distracted by the background. I take a look at it and then my eyes sort of complain about not being able to bring a backdrop object into focus. Totally kills the immersion for me.
That's a bigger problem than you make it out to be, and it affects everyone, from the directors to the viewers. Use of selective focus for dramatic purposes is an incredibly widespread and effective tool in film. However, it just doesn't work at all in 3-d. The 3-d director must make a choice between two bad options: 1) use normal selective focus, eliminating the point of a 3-d scene and going 3/4 of the way toward collapsing the illusion, or 2) allow the eye to focus anywhere, giving up the most successful technique in the artform for drawing the eye to a particular point. Even Avatar had this problem, and it's the main reason it was better in 2-d.
Treaties do NOT supersede the Constitution.
"This [Supreme] Court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty." - Reid v. Covert, October 1956, 354 U.S. 1, at pg 17
Mod parent up, GP down, case closed.
So we resort to poetry, and choose one that sounds good.
I'll go with "virii" over "viruses" in almost every situation.
Except in English we have no good way to pronounce "ii." Viruses sounds good because it never goes through an awkward double vowel phase. VIE-ree-IE is our best option for pronouncing virii, but it doesn't have great analogues in our language and involves a rare and limp lack of consonant sounds at the end.
Often, I hear people pronouncing virii VIE-REE, VIE-RIE, or VIE-REE-EE. It's simply unclear which is correct to the majority of people who have already settled on virii as their preferred spelling of the plural. Hence, I find that virii is an incredibly unsuccessful word with a clearly superior alternative.
If we wanted to go with a pseudo-Latin suffix, viri is clearly more familiar and more phonetically successful. The double i simply has no benefit.
Coincidental timing after China's latest strangling of rare earths, yes?
It just means that China is now doing significant in-country R&D and authorship that they have a vested interest in protecting.
Not yet. Or not yet enough to balance out what they plan to steal. No, in this case it just means that China knows they can continue to pretend to have some interest in protecting the IP of other nations while they maintain a massive, government funded practice in nearly every industry of blatantly stealing any IP they want. Making IP agreements is a great idea if you simply ignore them while your counterpart obeys each agreement and refuses to do anything about the fact that you don't.
Frankly, I would love nothing better than an OS I could put on my parents' computers and not have to worry about them calling me a month later complaining about all the pop-ups and viruses they have.
With my parents, Windows 7 with Firefox/Adblock as a browser finally accomplished this. By default they don't allow root privileges when prompted unless they were planning on installing something or it's on the very short list of annoying but safe autoupdaters they've seen and cleared with me.
From the summary: "I'd like to think that there really are (or were) drones over Austin, but would also like to see Google's explanation for the close-up images."
It's Google implementing a feature Bing has had available for over a year - the Bird's Eye view.
Here's a list of 150 cities with bird's eye imagery on Bing: http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cid=546E7E30AC2C5011!250
I seem to recall an MS mapping page predating Bing having the feature since 2006ish.
It's cool that Google is doing this, too, and I bet they're doing it the legal way: with small aircraft containing real pilots, not drones.
You're right; to an 18 year old, the boonies suck. To a 35 year old, the peace and quiet and the lower cost of living are hugely attractive. So what if there is no night life? I've got a four year old. I'm too fucking tired to go out.
The lack of a day life and the fact that your four year old will miss out a lot of the exposure to different cultures possible in a larger metropolitan area can drive the astute 35 year olds away as well.
Unfortunatelly, your proof is not valid. You are trying to prove something which you postulate in your first step.
How do you know 1/9 equals 0.1111111.... ?
He begged the question! For anyone confused about the term "beg the question," this is exactly what it means: assuming the proposition to be proved in the premise.
But that begs the question: is the classical meaning already dead, replaced with the much more easily understood modern usage demonstrated here?
The art of our necessities is strange,
And can make vile things precious.
--King Lear, Act III, scene 2
Suing is how you say "hello" in the cell phone business.
Can you sue me now? Good!
Can you sue me now? Good!
Can you sue me now? Good!
Why does the mainland Chinese government get better treatment from the "free world" than any other petty dictatorship? They've repeatedly shown that they aren't prepared to act in a respectable manner, so why should they get respect?
Because they have money and a giant military.
1) Cell phone jamming hardware like they use in some theaters.
2) Lightbulbs
3) Whiteboards
4) Ergonomically appropriate chairs and desks
1776: "We lack representation in government and have no other recourse."
2010: "We are the government and have recourse to change laws."
Are you writing this from the perspective of a lobbyist?
The man's a brilliant lawyer. I've read a number of opinions he offered as AG. They are uniformly well argued, even when I wish the conclusions were otherwise. Worse, from the perspective of those who support Mann, Cuccinelli thoroughly analyzes the relevant law and doesn't misinterpret it to fit his preconceptions. Unlike former Virginia AG's, I didn't find a single example where I said, "No, that's obviously not what the law you just quoted means."
If Mann cut any corners, Cuccinelli will crucify him.
Of course if you read TFS you'd have an example of a much more qualified person than you, Judge Paul M. Peatross Jr. of the Albemarle County Circuit Court, saying, "No, that's obviously not what the law you just quoted means" about this specific case!
Even with SVG!
Yep. Unlike the XKCD version, the graph examples in TFA are unreadable messes of spaghetti lines. While the concept is a great one, this implementation from (naturally) data visualization researcher Michael Ogawa is embarrassing.
You need to read more astronomy textbooks.
The same side is facing earth because earth's gravity has absorbed/slowed/negated its angular momentum.
The moon is moving closer to earth, very slowly.
Although it generally accepted that the moon is a product of a collision of a body with earth.
Replying to undo my informative moderation because though correct about the tidal locking, you got the Moon's slow change in orbital distance backwards. It's slowly moving farther away from Earth.
Amazing! A friend of mine has done his Ph.D. in exactly this field. He was shining a beam of light right THROUGH an opaque sheet of material (paper, I think) already a few years ago, and published about it in 2008. I think it's pretty much the same idea, from what I understand of it (but keep in mind, I chose the evil path of Business instead of Science, so I have no brain).
Anyway; on his page there's a much better explanation, with cute pictures and all that, of the same idea.
Thanks, I thought I read some journal articles about this a year or two ago.
Sorry. I'm as anti-Apple and the next Linux fanboi, but that's just simply not true. Apple made the MacBook Pro famous by running Windows XP/Vista/7 better than most PCs "designed for Windows."
Since when are poor performance and the lack of solid drivers signs of running "better?" The main high point of MacBooks, the very good battery life, is cut in half when running Windows, as Anandtech shows every few months.
Interesting. I suppose you have not noticed that Steam uses OpenGL,
I'll let someone else defend that, since my experience with Steam (generally, that it's a steaming pile of crap) is not typical and isn't even representative of a sample of people that I know.
that Left For Dead 2 just launched on Steam
It's a game essentially written to run on the XBox 360. A game written to run on hardware over five years old is not a great argument for the state of the art. That's multiple generations ago in terms of computer hardware.
and that all of those iOS games on iPhones and iPads all use OpenGL ES?
Along the same lines, a phone and its stripped-down processing power (relative to a laptop, desktop, etc.) isn't a great argument for the state of the art.
Maybe I should have been a little more clear: OpenGL fell behind DirectX badly around 2005, give or take. If you are dealing with something meant to run on hardware specs that didn't exist five years ago, OpenGL doesn't qualify as good. If you are writing for legacy processing power (which an iPhone is, even if it's a newer piece of hardware), it certainly can be good because it was, back in the day.
Remember that Anandtech showed that the Mac version runs at half the speed of the Windows version, too. But that's not unique to any particular game.
They have more than half of the web using their browser, compared to all other browsers COMBINED, and they failed ???
Interesting concept of failure you have there.
Something like a tug of war, with a really fat guy on one end, and ten olympic athletes on the other, and the athletes all shouting "haw haw you fail" because the fat guy moved half an inch.
He specifically said they failed at their goal of a web monoculture. They absolutely failed in that sense, and that's good for nearly everyone. It might even be good for Microsoft.
From GoogleSharing's FAQ:
Why not use Anonymizer or any other anonymizing proxy service?
General purpose anonymizing proxies are designed for something else.
1. Most will mask your IP address, but not the identifying information in your HTTP headers. Google will still know who you are based on your Cookies, User Agent, etc...
2. If the proxy does attempt to anonymize HTTP headers, they will do it by completely stripping cookies from your request. Google does not like this, and will tag you as a SPAM bot (how convient for them to do), which will force you to type in a CAPTCHA every time you issue a Google search, and will prevent you from issuing Maps requests at all.
3. These types of proxies can be slow. It's not necessary to proxy all of your internet traffic if you're just trying to protect yourself from Google. Since GoogleSharing only proxies Google traffic, our bandwidth needs are much lower and thus our performance is much greater.
For reference, Scroogle strips the headers, addressing GS's point #1, and then generates dummy cookies that prevent point #2 from being a problem. There's no noticeable difference in speed between direct Google and use of Scroogle, which like GS doesn't proxy non-Google traffic, and has a for efficient default search result screen than Google itself.
The other responses to my reasonable question (which got modded troll because...well I have no idea) actually pointed out meaningful differences, though. Scroogle lacks image and map searching, for instance, and could feasibly spy on your traffic before they delete their logs in 48 hours.
How is this different from the SSL version of Scroogle search, which has been around for at least a year?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12506/
Honestly, I'm too lazy to read TFA tonight, but if there's a benefit to GoogleSharing, what is it?