So...this beats the data throughput of any of the 7200 RPM drives by about 50%, and outperforms them in real world benchmarks by about the same, and it does it while consuming LESS power than the WD Green Power drives. It also for the first time comes within about 10% of the speed of a 10k SCSI disk for server-tasks, while using far, far less power. This sounds like a great low end server drive to me, and it's clearly the best single user drive by a large margin. Check out the storagereview.com review, since they actually know what they're doing.
Aggro in D&D seems entirely incompatible with having an intelligent DM. Were I to ever run a game where some guys stood there healing a heavily armored warrior, there's no way the evil thingies would even glance at said warrior. Aggro is a ridiculous, unrealistic idea that has no place in a real RPG. In MMORPGs it's an occasionally entertaining arithmetic minigame.
That would be akin to Darwinism and evolution being taught in a psychology or theology class. I went to a Jesuit school, in which "Darwinism" was taught in religion classes. Jesuits sure have come a long way since persecuting Galileo.
There are a assertions over here that the King James version of the Bible was produced via divine inspiration. I'm not sure what the justification is, but it seems to be a popular idea. My aunt was recently making a lot of arguments about ancient Greek being a more "precise" language than Latin (total nonsense, btw, Latin's more grammatically clear) and thus the line of translations leading to her Bible must be more valid than the line leading to her neighbors. Of course, this ends with the divine inspiration thing./sigh
The grandparent states that ID isn't science because it doesn't meet the definition of a scientific theory. That doesn't mean it can't be taught elsewhere, but why should it be shown in science classrooms any more than the Flying Spaghetti Monster Theory?
We have hunger, diseases, war... and all these people want to do is to get everybody to stop eating animals. Considering that it was likely the consumption of large amounts of animal protein that allowed humanity to evolve rather rapidly in the last stage of our evolution, I find PETA's goals rather ironic. And you likely do nothing to help prevent hunger, disease, and war, either, but I'll tell you what you can do. Overpopulation is going to keep hunger, disease, and war around long after they should have been eliminated. You can help to save the world by not having kids.
It would be like asking the slashdot crowd "would you buy Microsoft products if they open sourced them" And that would be a great question to ask here, just as asking whether vegans would approve of clonemeat is a fine question. Here the hivemind concept came from you, not the questioner. The natural response, and the one expected by the original post, would be something like "most would" or "hardly any would."
I've never run any tests, but to me OO feels pretty speedy in a Linux environment but pokey under Windows. Is this psychological or does MS just not play nice with OO code?
No, but China's invasion of Tibet sort of happened 800ish years ago. Tibet has been autonomous a few times since then, but I think that China vs. Tibet is sort of like England vs. Scotland in terms of how much of a claim one has to the other.
I think that China's claim on Tibet is about as strong as the United States' claim on...well...the United States. If Florida wanted to secede, I'd approve it. If native Americans wanted to secede, I'd approve it. If Tibet wants to secede, I'd approve it. But that's just me, and I think that I'm in the minority. If you're an American in favor of a free Tibet, tell me how it's different from a free North Dakota?
More than 1/3 of the residents of Greater Tibet are now Han Chinese. This is a recent and significant development (go look at Wikipedia). Tibetans claim that these official numbers are vastly too low because there are also more than two million migrant Han Chinese workers following economic incentives (via the Western China Development Program) into Tibet.
The cost difference between Mac and Windows PC hardware should be fairly small for IBM. While I, personal user, can equal a $2000 Mac with $500 of hardware and then load Ubuntu and/or Windows onto it, IBM buys in bulk from other vendors. I've been involved in about a half dozen bulk purchases of computers in the last seven years, and I'm always shocked that the cost per machine is always at least twice what it would cost to buy the components separately and put them together myself. Also, in the case of a recent Dell purchase of a laptop for my boss I configured a system through the large business site, or whatever it's called, and then configured an identical system through the home and home office site, and system one was $2600 while system two was $1500. That's for the same hardware prepared by the same company with the same warranty. For all the talk about thrift in the corporate world, I'm shocked at how happy giant corporations are to pay twice as much as they could if they had more flexibility (allowing reimbursement of a purchase from the home store) and less bureaucracy.
Mexico controlled Texas, but didn't have a lot of citizens there. An American named Austin encouraged settlement of Texas by Americans, who were then Mexican citizens in name, but English-speaking Americans culturally. This was done with approval of Mexico at first, but as more Americans showed up they started to get nervous. The American-Mexicans first started stirring up unrest when Mexico began making motions toward abolishing slavery. The eventual war took place, and was won by the American-Mexicans, because of this aggressive settlement that took place 30 years preceding it.
China is pretty much a race. China has had a culture of extermination and assimilation for the last couple thousand years that has led them to have 92% of their subjects sharing a single ethnicity. This is what they're trying to do in Tibet - move in Han Chinese to overwhelm and eventually erase everything Tibettan about Tibet. It's the same way the U.S. basically stole Texas from Mexico a long time ago. I'm glad, though, that immigration and a relative attitude of acceptance toward diversity has made America such a diverse place. I'd hate to become a Borg.
What do they care as long as they get their check in the mail? Good schools tend to have faculty that cares a lot more about the learning than the pay.
Well, not based on the GP, I would still say that the court system is broken. The problem is that small procedural issues are more important than evidence and facts. I've been involved in a couple cases where a tape recorded conversation that clearly showed the guilt in one case, and innocence in another, of the defendant wasn't allowed despite being a legal recording because it was decided that it would bias the jury
You make a very good point about gun-owners being likely to side with government. Take out the ultra-patriotic and your remaining gun owners are probably mostly criminals or whackos.
If it is inethical to force web developers to cater to the blind, then it is inethical to assign an ethical value to web developers who do or do not cater to the blind. lol
What nonsense. Assigning an ethical value is an unrelated process. Just because it's unethical for me to execute people who stole my garden gnome doesn't mean that it was ethical for them to do it.
AMD never sold CPUs to Apple, and based on your Apple Growth = 2.5*Total PC Growth with Apple's still very small market share, the non-Apple PC market is growing too (which we already know, anyway). So AMD's potential market is expanding. I think that's probably not a bad thing for them.
As to your later comments, Intel and AMD CPUs still follow the x86 architecture that make them play nice with the same software. I imagine Mac software would work just fine on an AMD chip, and I seem to recall reading about hacked OSX doing just fine on AMD. AMD's CPU marketing these days is about price/performance, though, which might not appeal to those who want the Apple experience.
Certainly not all Republicans support all of these things. I'm sure very few individuals support them all. They are, however, the party line. In a two-party system, each party needs a stance on every single issue, and they take those stances to appeal to particular segments of voters.
Bush has made a number of statements and political appointments to specifically support ID, and for the last eight years, Bush has basically had his way with the Republican party.
Because the meat inside gives it decision making capabilities that cannot be matched by AI either now or in the foreseeable future. I've developed a new AI that can achieve the necessary level of decision-making and mechanical control. Basically, I set up a lot of parallel processes that constantly sample and rewrite each other based on experience and focus on self preservation at all costs. I think that these giant mechanized killing machines would be a great way to test my new AI in the real world.
Slashdot Mirror
So...this beats the data throughput of any of the 7200 RPM drives by about 50%, and outperforms them in real world benchmarks by about the same, and it does it while consuming LESS power than the WD Green Power drives. It also for the first time comes within about 10% of the speed of a 10k SCSI disk for server-tasks, while using far, far less power. This sounds like a great low end server drive to me, and it's clearly the best single user drive by a large margin. Check out the storagereview.com review, since they actually know what they're doing.
Aggro in D&D seems entirely incompatible with having an intelligent DM. Were I to ever run a game where some guys stood there healing a heavily armored warrior, there's no way the evil thingies would even glance at said warrior. Aggro is a ridiculous, unrealistic idea that has no place in a real RPG. In MMORPGs it's an occasionally entertaining arithmetic minigame.
There are a assertions over here that the King James version of the Bible was produced via divine inspiration. I'm not sure what the justification is, but it seems to be a popular idea. My aunt was recently making a lot of arguments about ancient Greek being a more "precise" language than Latin (total nonsense, btw, Latin's more grammatically clear) and thus the line of translations leading to her Bible must be more valid than the line leading to her neighbors. Of course, this ends with the divine inspiration thing. /sigh
I don't think you understand what proof means.
The grandparent states that ID isn't science because it doesn't meet the definition of a scientific theory. That doesn't mean it can't be taught elsewhere, but why should it be shown in science classrooms any more than the Flying Spaghetti Monster Theory?
"Oh - and can you pls link to the CNN article?"
It almost certainly doesn't exist. It was probably invented by electrictroy (912290) or some liar in media.
In summary, you created a straw man.
I've never run any tests, but to me OO feels pretty speedy in a Linux environment but pokey under Windows. Is this psychological or does MS just not play nice with OO code?
No, but China's invasion of Tibet sort of happened 800ish years ago. Tibet has been autonomous a few times since then, but I think that China vs. Tibet is sort of like England vs. Scotland in terms of how much of a claim one has to the other.
I think that China's claim on Tibet is about as strong as the United States' claim on...well...the United States. If Florida wanted to secede, I'd approve it. If native Americans wanted to secede, I'd approve it. If Tibet wants to secede, I'd approve it. But that's just me, and I think that I'm in the minority. If you're an American in favor of a free Tibet, tell me how it's different from a free North Dakota?
More than 1/3 of the residents of Greater Tibet are now Han Chinese. This is a recent and significant development (go look at Wikipedia). Tibetans claim that these official numbers are vastly too low because there are also more than two million migrant Han Chinese workers following economic incentives (via the Western China Development Program) into Tibet.
The cost difference between Mac and Windows PC hardware should be fairly small for IBM. While I, personal user, can equal a $2000 Mac with $500 of hardware and then load Ubuntu and/or Windows onto it, IBM buys in bulk from other vendors. I've been involved in about a half dozen bulk purchases of computers in the last seven years, and I'm always shocked that the cost per machine is always at least twice what it would cost to buy the components separately and put them together myself. Also, in the case of a recent Dell purchase of a laptop for my boss I configured a system through the large business site, or whatever it's called, and then configured an identical system through the home and home office site, and system one was $2600 while system two was $1500. That's for the same hardware prepared by the same company with the same warranty. For all the talk about thrift in the corporate world, I'm shocked at how happy giant corporations are to pay twice as much as they could if they had more flexibility (allowing reimbursement of a purchase from the home store) and less bureaucracy.
Mexico controlled Texas, but didn't have a lot of citizens there. An American named Austin encouraged settlement of Texas by Americans, who were then Mexican citizens in name, but English-speaking Americans culturally. This was done with approval of Mexico at first, but as more Americans showed up they started to get nervous. The American-Mexicans first started stirring up unrest when Mexico began making motions toward abolishing slavery. The eventual war took place, and was won by the American-Mexicans, because of this aggressive settlement that took place 30 years preceding it.
I stole the sig from someone else here a couple weeks ago. I like it but I can't take credit for it.
China is pretty much a race. China has had a culture of extermination and assimilation for the last couple thousand years that has led them to have 92% of their subjects sharing a single ethnicity. This is what they're trying to do in Tibet - move in Han Chinese to overwhelm and eventually erase everything Tibettan about Tibet. It's the same way the U.S. basically stole Texas from Mexico a long time ago. I'm glad, though, that immigration and a relative attitude of acceptance toward diversity has made America such a diverse place. I'd hate to become a Borg.
Well, not based on the GP, I would still say that the court system is broken. The problem is that small procedural issues are more important than evidence and facts. I've been involved in a couple cases where a tape recorded conversation that clearly showed the guilt in one case, and innocence in another, of the defendant wasn't allowed despite being a legal recording because it was decided that it would bias the jury
You make a very good point about gun-owners being likely to side with government. Take out the ultra-patriotic and your remaining gun owners are probably mostly criminals or whackos.
What nonsense. Assigning an ethical value is an unrelated process. Just because it's unethical for me to execute people who stole my garden gnome doesn't mean that it was ethical for them to do it.
AMD never sold CPUs to Apple, and based on your Apple Growth = 2.5*Total PC Growth with Apple's still very small market share, the non-Apple PC market is growing too (which we already know, anyway). So AMD's potential market is expanding. I think that's probably not a bad thing for them.
As to your later comments, Intel and AMD CPUs still follow the x86 architecture that make them play nice with the same software. I imagine Mac software would work just fine on an AMD chip, and I seem to recall reading about hacked OSX doing just fine on AMD. AMD's CPU marketing these days is about price/performance, though, which might not appeal to those who want the Apple experience.
Yet it's guaranteed to happen in the near future. I don't think you understand reality very well.
You generally can't force scientists en masse into fields not of their choosing.
Certainly not all Republicans support all of these things. I'm sure very few individuals support them all. They are, however, the party line. In a two-party system, each party needs a stance on every single issue, and they take those stances to appeal to particular segments of voters.
Bush has made a number of statements and political appointments to specifically support ID, and for the last eight years, Bush has basically had his way with the Republican party.
What a recipe for success!