Who cares? The economy doesn't depend on that shit.
You obviously don't understand the basics. Yes, the economy depends on that shit. Any form of trade or investment is a part of the economy. And seeing how we contribute to perhaps a trillion dollars a year (I don't know the numbers, so this is just a wild guess) to China's GDP... all of that money is a part of our economy and that much money is a HUGE part of our economy, and if we were to eliminate it then there goes Wal-Mart. There goes dollar stores. There goes much of our electronics industry. There goes auto parts, furniture, garage door openers, dog beds, alarm clocks, and perhaps every single computer in the country.
A trade embargo with China is not a thought to be taken lightly.
or perhaps trauma from the sound of New Year's fireworks killed them.
Oh don't say something like that without proof. Just the fact that such a wild guess was even thrown about is more than enough reason for the animal welfare dickheads to want to ban fireworks outright.
This has got to be one of the stupidest moves they could make. Make and repeal all the laws you want, but there's no getting around the fact that there are some people that just hate gays. The Don't Ask Don't Tell policy wasn't about discrimination by their superiors, it was about discrimination by their peers. You're not allowed to ask someone if they're gay, and you're not allowed to tell someone if you're gay, and if you do either you will be met with disciplinary action. That was to prevent being discriminated against by the people you work with in the potentially-life-endangering industry of violence and death that is the military.
Why is it that I only hear about Al Gore from AGW deniers?
Because he's the posterchild for the global warming tragedy, and there aren't any real scientists that I know the names of that can actually back up the claims.
It's happening all right, but I still have my doubts if it is happening due to man or if it's part of some unknown cycle of Earth which is too complicated for us to grasp yet.
It's not an unknown cycle of Earth which is too complicated for us to grasp. We HAVE grasped it. It's just that Al Gore and friends and politicians who like to hop on the green bandwagon and people who think being "green" is going to stop global warming refuse to believe it.
Now, that's not to say that being "green" (whatever the fuck that means) is a bad thing. There's plenty of other things that can be stopped by producing less emissions, including lowering the amount of smog in the air and indirectly reducing our dependance on foreign energy sources (because god forbid we drill for oil off OUR coast). Global warming just isn't one of them, and this apocalypse that's going to happen in 10 years if we don't drastically alter our energy habits... simply won't.
And no one ever so much as suggested banning pens and pencils as a means of controlling obstreperous students.
I can only WISH that personal writing implements were banned when I was in grade school. That would have saved me from forgetting my pencils countless times.
Indeed. Plus Apple have never used it yet but Google have. So who are the bad guys?
Google has used it because the Android app store is not strictly regulated for entry. Google takes down malicious apps AFTER they've been made available to the world. So their use of the kill switch is actually a good thing.
Yes. Is it so fucking difficult of a concept to understand that somebody is praising something under the condition that its effects weren't manually enhanced?
Do you even know what this article is about? It's about a device that has an array of microphones and a downward-facing wideangle lens. You look at a screen with the view from the camera, click somewhere, and the device automatically singles out that small area to pick up sound from. It's automatic. Not done in post-production. Automatic.
To "improve" it in post-production in the way Man Eating Duck used the word "improve" would be to use the recordings from the microphones to manually single out a particular area. Manually. As in, not automatic. So "Assuming that it's not been 'improved' in any way it's really quite impressive" means "This thing is damn impressive... as long as it actually works the way the video says it works -- automatically (not manually) -- and they didn't do it themselves in post-production."
It was free because they spent money to provide you a service in exchange for the voice clip they got from you.
When you get stuff for free, it's not because you're the customer; you're the product.
So... I guess I'm supposed to think of that as a bad thing?
I use an awesome free service that's only free so that my participation can be used to make other free services more awesome. What's the problem here?
He said he didn't want it, didn't pay for it, and then when push came to shove, he actually wanted it, and was willing to pay for it.
EXACTLY. He wanted to buy into what is essentially fire insurance after his house caught fire. Do you think it only costs $75 to put out a house fire? No, because that's ridiculous. It costs more in the thousands of dollars. If he had said "here, I'll cut you a check for however much it costs to put out my fire," that would be fine and dandy. What he wanted to do was akin to buying life insurance when your doctor tells you you're going to die next week.
He wanted the service AFTER it became necessary. Before his house started burning to the ground, he was the prick that refused to give $75 to the government.
So if we take my example about socialism and your explanation of the actions he's taken, then I guess my property taxes should only go up to pay for the fire department after my house burns down... which isn't socialism at all.
This is what happens when you don't have socialism.
Translation: "When you don't have socialism, the prick that refuses to subscribe to a voluntary fire service from a neighboring city because he doesn't want to have to pay money for things he doesn't think he needs doesn't get fire service. When you DO have socialism, the prick is FORCED to pay for the fire service that he doesn't want." Yeah, sounds like a great plan.
Though, to be fair, there are a few things that really ought to be socialized, fire service being one of them. I'm more using the above as a metaphor for other various government and non-government services that aren't as important to the lives of other people around you.
and Windows XP does everything I need windows to do
And why do people keep missing my point? My whole point is that Windows XP will not be usable when IPv6 is out and we're out of v4 addresses. Stop being so defensive and read.
Unlike Windows 9x and 3.1, Windows XP "just works" for most people
Yeah, it just works. For now. Most individual users who won't upgrade to Windows 7 either fear change or are still stuck in the notion that Windows Vista sucks (even though it doesn't) so Windows 7 must suck, too. There are a few of you who don't wish to upgrade because XP "just works" and that's fine, but this article and my comment above are about the impending IPv6 rollout and its compatibility with Windows XP... which exists but in a laughable iteration. XP "just works" for now, but you will have to upgrade soon because when we run out of v4 addresses, Windows XP won't work.
Damn, I wish somebody would come out with a pre-bottled sweet tea that wasn't so badly overdone (or lemon-flavored, bleh).
AriZona does a great job with their teas. I like their Green Tea... it's sweetened -- but just a little bit -- with honey, and it's like $4.00 for a gallon bottle.
Table sugar is pure sucrose, for all intent and purpose. Fructose is also very different than High Fructose Corn Syrup, which itself is around 55% fructose.
Sucrose is a disaccharide. It consists of 50% glucose and 50% fructose.
You must not have been around before the switch to corn syrup. Coca Cola was awesome back then.
And Pepsi Throwback and Heritage Dr Pepper are awesome today. It's unfortunate that they only make them in occasional limited batches.
I don't much care for Mt Dew Throwback, though. The HFCS version is my favorite soft drink and the real sugar I guess just doesn't taste artificial enough.
I also hate their new Image search page which, instead of just displaying image, runs some CPU intensive script that expands/shrinks images as you pass over them. What used to be a fast, pleasant browse is now like walking through molasses. It's so annoying that I'm trying to figure out how to turn if off and go back to the "old" plain images without any kind of Java enhancement.
CPU-intensive? Perhaps you should upgrade from your Commodore 64 to a computer manufactured in the last 5 years. My dad's crappy 6-year-old work laptop handles the new Google just fine, and my gaming machine doesn't even notice the difference.
Whenever someone mentions how planes can fly themselves these days, I'm reminded Northwest Flight 188: the one that overshot MSP by 150 miles.
Clearly, if planes can fly themselves, it should have landed on its own and not overshot.
Planes aren't drones. During cruise, they only follow explicit instructions. ATC tells the pilot what bearing, altitude, and airspeed to use, and the pilot dials that into the autopilot. As long as the pilot doesn't change those settings, the aircraft will continue indefinitely. Most commercial aircraft do follow approach and departure patterns automatically by GPS, but the pilot still has to tell the craft WHICH patterns to follow and WHEN to start following them.
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Who cares? The economy doesn't depend on that shit.
You obviously don't understand the basics. Yes, the economy depends on that shit. Any form of trade or investment is a part of the economy. And seeing how we contribute to perhaps a trillion dollars a year (I don't know the numbers, so this is just a wild guess) to China's GDP... all of that money is a part of our economy and that much money is a HUGE part of our economy, and if we were to eliminate it then there goes Wal-Mart. There goes dollar stores. There goes much of our electronics industry. There goes auto parts, furniture, garage door openers, dog beds, alarm clocks, and perhaps every single computer in the country.
A trade embargo with China is not a thought to be taken lightly.
or perhaps trauma from the sound of New Year's fireworks killed them.
Oh don't say something like that without proof. Just the fact that such a wild guess was even thrown about is more than enough reason for the animal welfare dickheads to want to ban fireworks outright.
This has got to be one of the stupidest moves they could make. Make and repeal all the laws you want, but there's no getting around the fact that there are some people that just hate gays. The Don't Ask Don't Tell policy wasn't about discrimination by their superiors, it was about discrimination by their peers. You're not allowed to ask someone if they're gay, and you're not allowed to tell someone if you're gay, and if you do either you will be met with disciplinary action. That was to prevent being discriminated against by the people you work with in the potentially-life-endangering industry of violence and death that is the military.
Why is it that I only hear about Al Gore from AGW deniers?
Because he's the posterchild for the global warming tragedy, and there aren't any real scientists that I know the names of that can actually back up the claims.
It's happening all right, but I still have my doubts if it is happening due to man or if it's part of some unknown cycle of Earth which is too complicated for us to grasp yet.
It's not an unknown cycle of Earth which is too complicated for us to grasp. We HAVE grasped it. It's just that Al Gore and friends and politicians who like to hop on the green bandwagon and people who think being "green" is going to stop global warming refuse to believe it.
Now, that's not to say that being "green" (whatever the fuck that means) is a bad thing. There's plenty of other things that can be stopped by producing less emissions, including lowering the amount of smog in the air and indirectly reducing our dependance on foreign energy sources (because god forbid we drill for oil off OUR coast). Global warming just isn't one of them, and this apocalypse that's going to happen in 10 years if we don't drastically alter our energy habits... simply won't.
And no one ever so much as suggested banning pens and pencils as a means of controlling obstreperous students.
I can only WISH that personal writing implements were banned when I was in grade school. That would have saved me from forgetting my pencils countless times.
Yes. Somebody has ported Crazy Taxi and will be selling it on PSN and XBLA without Sega's permission. That's definitely what's happening.
Indeed. Plus Apple have never used it yet but Google have. So who are the bad guys?
Google has used it because the Android app store is not strictly regulated for entry. Google takes down malicious apps AFTER they've been made available to the world. So their use of the kill switch is actually a good thing.
Okay then. It won't go rancid because it's made of petroleum, rather than fat.
Mineral oil is better because it's inorganic and therefore won't go rancid.
did YOU RTFA,
Yes. Is it so fucking difficult of a concept to understand that somebody is praising something under the condition that its effects weren't manually enhanced?
Do you even know what this article is about? It's about a device that has an array of microphones and a downward-facing wideangle lens. You look at a screen with the view from the camera, click somewhere, and the device automatically singles out that small area to pick up sound from. It's automatic. Not done in post-production. Automatic.
To "improve" it in post-production in the way Man Eating Duck used the word "improve" would be to use the recordings from the microphones to manually single out a particular area. Manually. As in, not automatic. So "Assuming that it's not been 'improved' in any way it's really quite impressive" means "This thing is damn impressive... as long as it actually works the way the video says it works -- automatically (not manually) -- and they didn't do it themselves in post-production."
Clear enough for you?
Of course its been *improved*, that's the point...isolating sounds that are normally inaudible because of too many other sounds around them
He means "improved" in post-production. How do you not get that?
It was free because they spent money to provide you a service in exchange for the voice clip they got from you. When you get stuff for free, it's not because you're the customer; you're the product.
So... I guess I'm supposed to think of that as a bad thing?
I use an awesome free service that's only free so that my participation can be used to make other free services more awesome. What's the problem here?
He said he didn't want it, didn't pay for it, and then when push came to shove, he actually wanted it, and was willing to pay for it.
EXACTLY. He wanted to buy into what is essentially fire insurance after his house caught fire. Do you think it only costs $75 to put out a house fire? No, because that's ridiculous. It costs more in the thousands of dollars. If he had said "here, I'll cut you a check for however much it costs to put out my fire," that would be fine and dandy. What he wanted to do was akin to buying life insurance when your doctor tells you you're going to die next week.
Funny, I hear him saying he wanted the service.
He wanted the service AFTER it became necessary. Before his house started burning to the ground, he was the prick that refused to give $75 to the government.
So if we take my example about socialism and your explanation of the actions he's taken, then I guess my property taxes should only go up to pay for the fire department after my house burns down... which isn't socialism at all.
This is what happens when you don't have socialism.
Translation: "When you don't have socialism, the prick that refuses to subscribe to a voluntary fire service from a neighboring city because he doesn't want to have to pay money for things he doesn't think he needs doesn't get fire service. When you DO have socialism, the prick is FORCED to pay for the fire service that he doesn't want." Yeah, sounds like a great plan.
Though, to be fair, there are a few things that really ought to be socialized, fire service being one of them. I'm more using the above as a metaphor for other various government and non-government services that aren't as important to the lives of other people around you.
and Windows XP does everything I need windows to do
And why do people keep missing my point? My whole point is that Windows XP will not be usable when IPv6 is out and we're out of v4 addresses. Stop being so defensive and read.
Unlike Windows 9x and 3.1, Windows XP "just works" for most people
Yeah, it just works. For now. Most individual users who won't upgrade to Windows 7 either fear change or are still stuck in the notion that Windows Vista sucks (even though it doesn't) so Windows 7 must suck, too. There are a few of you who don't wish to upgrade because XP "just works" and that's fine, but this article and my comment above are about the impending IPv6 rollout and its compatibility with Windows XP... which exists but in a laughable iteration. XP "just works" for now, but you will have to upgrade soon because when we run out of v4 addresses, Windows XP won't work.
Except for all the people still on XP, which has no native IPv6 support...
Well then perhaps it's time to upgrade to an operating system that's not 9 years old.
Damn, I wish somebody would come out with a pre-bottled sweet tea that wasn't so badly overdone (or lemon-flavored, bleh).
AriZona does a great job with their teas. I like their Green Tea... it's sweetened -- but just a little bit -- with honey, and it's like $4.00 for a gallon bottle.
Table sugar is pure sucrose, for all intent and purpose. Fructose is also very different than High Fructose Corn Syrup, which itself is around 55% fructose.
Sucrose is a disaccharide. It consists of 50% glucose and 50% fructose.
You must not have been around before the switch to corn syrup. Coca Cola was awesome back then.
And Pepsi Throwback and Heritage Dr Pepper are awesome today. It's unfortunate that they only make them in occasional limited batches.
I don't much care for Mt Dew Throwback, though. The HFCS version is my favorite soft drink and the real sugar I guess just doesn't taste artificial enough.
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I also hate their new Image search page which, instead of just displaying image, runs some CPU intensive script that expands/shrinks images as you pass over them. What used to be a fast, pleasant browse is now like walking through molasses. It's so annoying that I'm trying to figure out how to turn if off and go back to the "old" plain images without any kind of Java enhancement.
CPU-intensive? Perhaps you should upgrade from your Commodore 64 to a computer manufactured in the last 5 years. My dad's crappy 6-year-old work laptop handles the new Google just fine, and my gaming machine doesn't even notice the difference.
Whenever someone mentions how planes can fly themselves these days, I'm reminded Northwest Flight 188: the one that overshot MSP by 150 miles.
Clearly, if planes can fly themselves, it should have landed on its own and not overshot.
Planes aren't drones. During cruise, they only follow explicit instructions. ATC tells the pilot what bearing, altitude, and airspeed to use, and the pilot dials that into the autopilot. As long as the pilot doesn't change those settings, the aircraft will continue indefinitely. Most commercial aircraft do follow approach and departure patterns automatically by GPS, but the pilot still has to tell the craft WHICH patterns to follow and WHEN to start following them.