I was diabetic for quite some time. Seems living in the wonderful state of Texas, it's humidity, etc. kept me from leaving the computer chair enough.
Moved back to California, went outside, rode my bike, etc. Back to 200 - 220 pounds (from nearly 375), Diabetes is GONE (although I do agree that there IS a genetic predisposition to diabetes, it isn't ONLY caused by that.... Mine was computer games and double whoppers with cheese, no tomatoes, heavy ketchup and mayo).
Yup, it goes both ways. Sedentary lifestyles contribute about as much as genetics, I'd be willing to bet.
Genetics plays little to no role in the OP's statements.
It's more about the amount of money in the bank, rather than the intelligence level.
I have someone in my family like that. Now that he has millions of dollars, he tries to buy his way into the other families in his extended one.
Yeah, that works well. I'd rather have my kids forgoe actually going out, meeting someone, taking the responsibility of RAISING a family (instead of attempting to purchase kids / teens of already made families) and the day to day problems that go with such.
Of course, others with money don't find my opinion on the subject that popular.... Those without an abundance scream "right on".
Leading one to believe, OP doesn't know what he's talking about, comes from an elevated situation financially, or is completely out of touch with reality.
Saving your time for your career and having kids later. YUP, we haven't been shown that waiting until the end of a womans reproductive cycle can be harmful, have we?
"Smart people", in your context could also be construed as "money grubbing assholes with no ideas other than getting ahead in life".
My uncle, to the T. Now, since he's too old to have kids, has literally millions of dollars, he thinks it's ok to attempt to purchase me and my kids.
Yeah, fuck you. Should have given up the chase for the dollar in the 70s and had a family of your own.
Having more smart kids be born? We aren't having that at all. Look at the rates of autism diagnoses. Autism isn't smarts, it's a genetic problem (one of my kids is autistic, to practice full disclosure). The reasons nobody knows, but we can say it (the diagnosed rate) is going through the roof.
Could be "older people" having kids, it's one popular theory.
Your people with a low IQ, are you sure your not confusing low IQ with low income, because it SURELY seems that's what you did above. Trading kids for a career is NOT the most noble thing to do, regardless of how many latch key kids your parents had:(
Because historically, democrats look out for themselves first and foremost.
Having lived in one of the most demo counties in the USA (Santa Cruz), I can speak from experience.
Democrats are the WORST when it comes to do what I tell you to, and everything will be OK (at least it will be OK on my end, since you have no idea what I'm actually doing. Be a good sheeple and vote me in, and I'll change everything (nothing). Thanks. --Democrat_nominee
Yeah, I noticed the same thing. Of course, Hillary is a cun7, no doubt about that. Palin, the doctor is out on that one.... She hasn't been in the public spotlight long enough to actually form an opinion about her (and anyone that has at this point, unless they LIVE in AK, is full of shit themselves).
Yup, real popular opinion here, but you are right. Democrats are one of the WORST when it comes to "good ol boy"isms. At least a Republican will TELL you he's fucking you. A democrat will lube your anus up with lydocaine first, so you never knew what hit you, until your anus is bleeding the next day. (and by that time, they are writing books and giving innane speeches, out of office, and out of the limelight).
Too bad, since your > trying to spew Apple Fanboism here.
Do the math. Do the research. GEOS was > LONG before NeXT had working stuff.
Not knocking NeXT, just pointing out the factually, historically accurate.... HISTORY.
Funny, when history contradicts you, for some reason, you attribute it to me not liking Apple? Yup, still remember programming the 6502, got out of school early by helping an entire apple network (dialup) in Jr. High, yup... Oh yeah, own a mac as well.
Guess I'm just seething, is all.. What with the truth and history on my side.
NeXTSTEP : Nextstep was the original object-oriented, multitasking operating system that NeXT Computer developed to run on its range of proprietary computers, such as the NeXTcube. Nextstep 1.0 was released on September 18, 1989 after several previews starting in 1986.
Gee, GEOS was a year before NeXTSTEP was even previewed. And GEOS was Gold, RTM, in the hands of users, etc. BEFORE NeXT was around.
Nice try, but Commodore ate Apple up in the early days.
Again, Apple innovated how? Seems to me, their innovation is more waiting for existing copyrights / patents run out / are forgotten about, and then they "originate" them for profit.
Ever since Woz left / was forced out of Apple, they ceased to be the company they started out to be. Strange, funny, and sad, all at the same time.
Anyone that has to ask if we have the "right" to turn off a machine (speaking of the Human Race) is obviously flawed in their thought process.
I mean, C'mon. My truck has adaptive "thinking" technology.... Does this mean I can't turn it off?
Wait, I'm capable of thinking for myself, in the real world, and don't have to ask (really) stupid questions about can I (legally or morally) turn off a computer.
Really now. Can you step away from WoW long enough to actually think for yourself, instead of just moving to another "screen" and typing the question for the rest of the world to answer for you?
The T designator came out about 20 revisions later, and is designated as such.
Any X86 CPU is the same, right? Your argument would mean it would be. Or that my 64 bit CPU is the same, since it's still > a CPU.
My point is, they don't make an LM317T for cars, and a seperate one for consumer grade equipment.
Hell, FINDING a standard LM317 would take some doing now, since it predates the LM317T, and the T model is considered "standard".
I suggest you actually build something first. Search my moniker online, and find that I do, in fact, build HIGH power amplifiers and communication equipment.
Module level repair my ass. Next time you think you can tame a 3CW40,000 tube in an HF circuit doing 40Kw of carrier power and 160 to 175 Kw peak, you give me a call. Your "spanners and modules" can be toasted, literally, by the power in the filaments of one of my tubes.
But, I digress. Slashdot is full of people who read a book and become instant experts. Comparing similiar model / part numbers and expecting me to fall for that is, for lack of better terms, your stupidity at it's finest.
Or is the 5X86 the same thing as a Pentium chip? A 486 chip? I mean, it's ONLY one letter from being a 586, the (at the time) common, next designation of the lineage of the chip line, right? WAIT, they aren't the same, only similiar, built to do nearly the same end result.
Kind of like your LM317 / LM317T analogy upstairs, huh?
You don't agree with the word, but you think it's necessary evil, right? Just trying to actually figure out what and how you think.
Rape is OK, sex isn't? Assfucking is ok, asking isn't?:)
I know, I know, it's not the same.
But it is. You can't say that you want to abolish the patent system because YOU don't like it, then say that we have to have a way to protect inventors and innovators.
Wait, they call that a patent (or to a lessor extent, copyright).
This coming from someone with little to no ideas that need protection from others.
Guess when you have NOTHING to lose, screaming about patent process and law gives you meaning, right?
TiVo, if they did in fact, come up with "something new", deserve the fruits of their efforts.
I call bullshit, myself, since I had a "tivo" device based upon WinTV cards and linux years before TiVo was around.
Still, screaming patent patent patent just because your board (yes, like the piece of wood is stupid. Intelligence levels (pun intended) get lumped (again, pun intended) with like entities.
I guess Sony, et al, better be running for the hills, since Fast Forward on the Betamax and original consortium of VHS players will now have to defend themselves against a company holding a patent for things that where thought of before the company was.
And no, you can't bitch about the patent process, then just because TiVo runs linux, say it's OK, and defensive.
Really? I suggest you learn to look and read your electric bill, or actually state some facts from our side of the pond.
Because over here, your penalized for the more electricity you use.
I know, just went through this with So Cal Edison for my medical devices. I just increased my baseline power by 300%, and my bill dropped by about 50 percent.
Guess I'm wrong, though. Oh wait, maybe it's because your comparing gas to electric.
Problem still remains. Baseline power. 200 dollars a year still adds up to slightly less than 20 a month.
10 percent power savings, if everyone did, would add up tremendously.
Not to mention the fact that if everyone dropped baseline power demands off peak, then our nuclear needs (and hydroelectric and others) would drop a LOT.
Disclaimer, I live in the (as I know it) biggest wind driven city in the US (world??)
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Diabetes is NOT always an inherited trait (gene).
I was diabetic for quite some time. Seems living in the wonderful state of Texas, it's humidity, etc. kept me from leaving the computer chair enough.
Moved back to California, went outside, rode my bike, etc. Back to 200 - 220 pounds (from nearly 375), Diabetes is GONE (although I do agree that there IS a genetic predisposition to diabetes, it isn't ONLY caused by that.... Mine was computer games and double whoppers with cheese, no tomatoes, heavy ketchup and mayo).
Yup, it goes both ways. Sedentary lifestyles contribute about as much as genetics, I'd be willing to bet.
--Toll_Free
Sorry, but Hitler, in the text given, IS the source of your argument.
Take his name out of the text, and all of a sudden your argument makes no sense.
Debate 101, my friend. Don't make claims, or claim things against other "things" that can't be backed up by scientific methodology.
I agree with your underlying statement, but using Hitler was ludicrous.
--Toll_Free
You're actually quoting a methamphetamine addicted dictator and expecting people to take you seriously?
--Toll_Free
If people here on Slashdot where busy hooking up and having sex, they wouldn't be here arguing about sexual reproduction and genetics.
C'mon, this is Slashdot. Unless you HAVE a couple kids in tow, nobody in the public eye will believe your not the 40 yr old virgin :)~
--Toll_Free
Genetics plays little to no role in the OP's statements.
It's more about the amount of money in the bank, rather than the intelligence level.
I have someone in my family like that. Now that he has millions of dollars, he tries to buy his way into the other families in his extended one.
Yeah, that works well. I'd rather have my kids forgoe actually going out, meeting someone, taking the responsibility of RAISING a family (instead of attempting to purchase kids / teens of already made families) and the day to day problems that go with such.
Of course, others with money don't find my opinion on the subject that popular.... Those without an abundance scream "right on".
Leading one to believe, OP doesn't know what he's talking about, comes from an elevated situation financially, or is completely out of touch with reality.
Saving your time for your career and having kids later. YUP, we haven't been shown that waiting until the end of a womans reproductive cycle can be harmful, have we?
--Toll_Free
"Smart people", in your context could also be construed as "money grubbing assholes with no ideas other than getting ahead in life".
My uncle, to the T. Now, since he's too old to have kids, has literally millions of dollars, he thinks it's ok to attempt to purchase me and my kids.
Yeah, fuck you. Should have given up the chase for the dollar in the 70s and had a family of your own.
Having more smart kids be born? We aren't having that at all. Look at the rates of autism diagnoses. Autism isn't smarts, it's a genetic problem (one of my kids is autistic, to practice full disclosure). The reasons nobody knows, but we can say it (the diagnosed rate) is going through the roof.
Could be "older people" having kids, it's one popular theory.
Your people with a low IQ, are you sure your not confusing low IQ with low income, because it SURELY seems that's what you did above. Trading kids for a career is NOT the most noble thing to do, regardless of how many latch key kids your parents had :(
--Toll_Free
Because historically, democrats look out for themselves first and foremost.
Having lived in one of the most demo counties in the USA (Santa Cruz), I can speak from experience.
Democrats are the WORST when it comes to do what I tell you to, and everything will be OK (at least it will be OK on my end, since you have no idea what I'm actually doing. Be a good sheeple and vote me in, and I'll change everything (nothing). Thanks. --Democrat_nominee
Yeah, I noticed the same thing. Of course, Hillary is a cun7, no doubt about that. Palin, the doctor is out on that one.... She hasn't been in the public spotlight long enough to actually form an opinion about her (and anyone that has at this point, unless they LIVE in AK, is full of shit themselves).
Yup, real popular opinion here, but you are right. Democrats are one of the WORST when it comes to "good ol boy"isms. At least a Republican will TELL you he's fucking you. A democrat will lube your anus up with lydocaine first, so you never knew what hit you, until your anus is bleeding the next day. (and by that time, they are writing books and giving innane speeches, out of office, and out of the limelight).
--Toll_Free
There is a LARGE difference in genetic mutations and genetic mistakes.
A mutation would mean an entirely new race or breed that didn't have the ATP gene.
A mistake would be one or two people within an actual race or breed of humans had the ATP problem.
Let's not confuse mutations with mistakes.
--Toll_Free
This will be popular with the kiddies of today.
Genetic mutations are more than likely, at an all time high, due to the fact of interbreeding within the different races today.
It's not like we had interracial marriages by the millions what????? Like a couple decades ago?
And to think that males have genetically "different" makeup as they age is ludicrous.
--Toll_Free
Ahh, then you agree with the MPAA and their tactics of doing whatever it takes to get the people in court, right?
Can't have your cake and eat it too... Guess it's nice to see where you HONESTLY reside on that subject.
--Toll_Free
You're right, it doesn't change history.
Too bad, since your > trying to spew Apple Fanboism here.
Do the math. Do the research. GEOS was > LONG before NeXT had working stuff.
Not knocking NeXT, just pointing out the factually, historically accurate.... HISTORY.
Funny, when history contradicts you, for some reason, you attribute it to me not liking Apple? Yup, still remember programming the 6502, got out of school early by helping an entire apple network (dialup) in Jr. High, yup... Oh yeah, own a mac as well.
Guess I'm just seething, is all.. What with the truth and history on my side.
--Toll_Free
GEOS was the beginning of NeXT.
GEOS was the product of Broderbund software. mID 80S.
GEOS Graphic Environment Operating System, v1.2 (Berkeley Softworks, 1985, d,o,b,m)
Taken from : http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/6757/CARTS.HTML
NeXTSTEP : Nextstep was the original object-oriented, multitasking operating system that NeXT Computer developed to run on its range of proprietary computers, such as the NeXTcube. Nextstep 1.0 was released on September 18, 1989 after several previews starting in 1986.
Taken from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP
Gee, GEOS was a year before NeXTSTEP was even previewed. And GEOS was Gold, RTM, in the hands of users, etc. BEFORE NeXT was around.
Nice try, but Commodore ate Apple up in the early days.
Again, Apple innovated how? Seems to me, their innovation is more waiting for existing copyrights / patents run out / are forgotten about, and then they "originate" them for profit.
Ever since Woz left / was forced out of Apple, they ceased to be the company they started out to be. Strange, funny, and sad, all at the same time.
--Toll_Free
And real intelligence will continue to be questioned when idiots pose a question of "can we turn it off" (talking about machines).
Good post. My 3, 4 and 2 yr old give me the same thing. Wait until Kindergarten, my friend... THEN you will be amazed.
--Toll_Free
The last comment in the article is telling....
Anyone that has to ask if we have the "right" to turn off a machine (speaking of the Human Race) is obviously flawed in their thought process.
I mean, C'mon. My truck has adaptive "thinking" technology.... Does this mean I can't turn it off?
Wait, I'm capable of thinking for myself, in the real world, and don't have to ask (really) stupid questions about can I (legally or morally) turn off a computer.
Really now. Can you step away from WoW long enough to actually think for yourself, instead of just moving to another "screen" and typing the question for the rest of the world to answer for you?
--Toll_Free
And you, getting all your information under false pretenses (doesn't matter where you live, you got the info by lying, admittedly), are no better.
Guess in your eyes, committing fraud is ok, as long as you are going against something you don't find agreeable?
Just wondering, how you can possibly count yourself as a "dogooder", when your doing the exact same thing you accuse the spammers of doing.
lol.
--Toll_Free
What about the original GeOS?
Graphical Environment Operating System.
Circa the 80s. On 8 bits. And 64K.
--Toll_Free
So, Apple continually barrages the patent office with things that already exist.
Typing this from Vista, with QuickLaunch bar activated. Doesn't seem much different than my Apple Mac sitting 8 feet away.
Except that Windows has had QuickLaunch for how many years? And GEOS before that?
I mean, C'mon Patent Ripping Fanbois, where are you now?
--Toll_Free
You answered your own question, stupid.
An LM317 is (outdated as hell) an LM317.
The T designator came out about 20 revisions later, and is designated as such.
Any X86 CPU is the same, right? Your argument would mean it would be. Or that my 64 bit CPU is the same, since it's still > a CPU.
My point is, they don't make an LM317T for cars, and a seperate one for consumer grade equipment.
Hell, FINDING a standard LM317 would take some doing now, since it predates the LM317T, and the T model is considered "standard".
I suggest you actually build something first. Search my moniker online, and find that I do, in fact, build HIGH power amplifiers and communication equipment.
Module level repair my ass. Next time you think you can tame a 3CW40,000 tube in an HF circuit doing 40Kw of carrier power and 160 to 175 Kw peak, you give me a call. Your "spanners and modules" can be toasted, literally, by the power in the filaments of one of my tubes.
But, I digress. Slashdot is full of people who read a book and become instant experts. Comparing similiar model / part numbers and expecting me to fall for that is, for lack of better terms, your stupidity at it's finest.
Or is the 5X86 the same thing as a Pentium chip? A 486 chip? I mean, it's ONLY one letter from being a 586, the (at the time) common, next designation of the lineage of the chip line, right? WAIT, they aren't the same, only similiar, built to do nearly the same end result.
Kind of like your LM317 / LM317T analogy upstairs, huh?
--Toll_Free
there has to be a way to protect yourself.
Funny you bring that up. They call it a patent.
You don't agree with the word, but you think it's necessary evil, right? Just trying to actually figure out what and how you think.
Rape is OK, sex isn't? :)
Assfucking is ok, asking isn't?
I know, I know, it's not the same.
But it is. You can't say that you want to abolish the patent system because YOU don't like it, then say that we have to have a way to protect inventors and innovators.
Wait, they call that a patent (or to a lessor extent, copyright).
--Toll_Free
WinTV cards had DVR functionality at least a year before TiVo.
TiVo just mass marketed the device to the consumer.
Congrats to them on patenting common sense.
--Toll_Free
Send me your TiVo units.
I'll hack them to work on everything. :)
No, seriously.
--Toll_Free
This coming from someone with little to no ideas that need protection from others.
Guess when you have NOTHING to lose, screaming about patent process and law gives you meaning, right?
TiVo, if they did in fact, come up with "something new", deserve the fruits of their efforts.
I call bullshit, myself, since I had a "tivo" device based upon WinTV cards and linux years before TiVo was around.
Still, screaming patent patent patent just because your board (yes, like the piece of wood is stupid. Intelligence levels (pun intended) get lumped (again, pun intended) with like entities.
Don't like it, learn.
--Toll_Free
Nope.
I guess Sony, et al, better be running for the hills, since Fast Forward on the Betamax and original consortium of VHS players will now have to defend themselves against a company holding a patent for things that where thought of before the company was.
And no, you can't bitch about the patent process, then just because TiVo runs linux, say it's OK, and defensive.
That argument is just, offensive :)
--Toll_Free
Really? I suggest you learn to look and read your electric bill, or actually state some facts from our side of the pond.
Because over here, your penalized for the more electricity you use.
I know, just went through this with So Cal Edison for my medical devices. I just increased my baseline power by 300%, and my bill dropped by about 50 percent.
Guess I'm wrong, though. Oh wait, maybe it's because your comparing gas to electric.
--Toll_Free
You're reversing something to fit your argument.
Problem still remains. Baseline power. 200 dollars a year still adds up to slightly less than 20 a month.
10 percent power savings, if everyone did, would add up tremendously.
Not to mention the fact that if everyone dropped baseline power demands off peak, then our nuclear needs (and hydroelectric and others) would drop a LOT.
Disclaimer, I live in the (as I know it) biggest wind driven city in the US (world??)
--Toll_Free