Well, Tom Cruise may not be paid by Scientology, but he still benefits as an actor due to help from Scientology. Having a large organization with a vested interest in giving you a lot of positive media exposure helps (even if you do get occasional backfires, e.g. the couch-jumping). Getting a lot of work is a bigger benefit than mere monetary payment.
Splitting left/right drastically constrains your peripheral vision in the horizontal plane. Given that 90%+ of the time you are on a surface that is either mostly flat, or at a fairly fixed slope, you don't need up/down very often. Add to that the fact that on a console (unlike a PC/mouse combo), turning can be laborious, and you only have about 45-60 degrees of useful up/down movement, but you always need to be able to go through 360 degrees of rotational movement, I'd much rather see more of the horizontal plane.
Of course, either approach is still better than Halo 3's moronic "if you play split screen, you are forced to 4:3, no widescreen for you" BS.
While AMD uses the least energy, a number of articles I've read indicate (e.g. this Tom's Hardware article shows a win for Intel about a year and a half ago, even before Intel's move to 45 nm) that if you factor in performance to get perf-per-watt, the Intel and AMD lines are much more similar. Granted, when neither chip is doing anything, AMD wins, but when placed under load Intel's slightly greater power usage seems to be offset by doing more actual *work*. I run Folding@Home to keep my machine busy doing something useful, alongside some video encoding, so for me, and anyone else with fairly high CPU loads, Intel is probably a better deal.
Regularly? People are really that interested in you? I have fairly good hearing (I still haven't lost the upper range that bad fluorescents and CRTs produce) and don't hear that sort of stuff wandering the streets of NYC. Seems like the most likely explanations are:
You're funny looking (no offense)
You may be misinterpreting comments that have nothing to do with you
You're a little delusional yourself
As for the whole "Red Scare/McCarthyism/CIA/KGB" justification, that's paranoid thinking right there. Most of those abuses are 50 years in the past. I can understand some worries about wiretapping or data sniffing, particularly if you are actually in a position that would be of interest to someone in the government (rightly or wrongly), but you have to keep practical limits in mind. The federal government in the U.S. employs ~14.5 million people (including the military, contractors and the post office). Most of them are administrative positions. It's simply not practical for the government to be tailing any significant number of people that closely, given that those people still have to fight wars, deliver the mail, distribute grants, etc. Unless these people have some realistic reason for why they would be followed, I'm inclined to blame paranoia.
The question is, does Tom Cruise really believe in Scientology, or is he a cynical opportunist? The upper echelons of the organization tend to benefit financially. The truly brainwashed deserve sympathy, but the cult leaders, who benefit from their underlings' credulity, deserve scorn.
The first two Fallout games *allowed* combat, but didn't require it. Via stealth, social skills and occasionally running away you could bypass all combat and still win the game. You got bigger XP awards for quests than for kills, so while advancement was slowed, it was still tenable to play without combat.
Unfortunately, from what I've heard, this may not be possible in Fallout 3.
Don't suppose you noticed, but African-Americans regularly give somewhere in the upper 80% range of their vote to the Democratic candidate. At worse, you could say that maybe 5-10% of African-Americans voted for Obama on the basis of skin color. Of course, it's equally possible that the additional enthusiasm about the election this year caused people who usually are apathetic voters to turn out, and it's generally accepted that Democrats flake out on voting more than Republicans (I don't know why, but it's fairly common for rain to depress Democratic turnout disproportionately; this is the opposite case).
As for the primaries, the positions were similar for both candidates (Hillary more centrist on positions aside from health care). I'm not inclined to be all that critical of voting for a candidate that inspires you, even if it is partially due to their skin color, if the substance of their positions is so similar as to be irrelevant. Given the equally tilted voting preferences by white voters in large sections of Appalachia, it's a bit hypocritical to attack the black voters alone.
But you have high profile transvestites calling for canine mastication of her gluteus maximus. Are you saying you want that to happen to the Thai royal family?!?;-)
You know, it is possible, if a bit of a hassle and more costly, to get the vaccines separately. Why make non-insane parents spend more money and time vaccinating their kids by mandating a separation of the MMR components when the paranoid still have the option to separate them? People who avoid the vaccines right now are often doing so for reasons unrelated to autism. I had a college buddy whose parents told him that only people who received vaccinations were susceptible to HIV/AIDS. These are not rational beliefs, and acquiescing to them just gives them legitimacy, leading less paranoid parents to buy into them.
When you steal a book, and keep it permanently without compensation, that makes you no better than the Plantation Masters. IMHO.
Wow. Hyperbole anyone? Last I checked we are not:
Whipping the authors
Raping the authors
Taking their children away
Denying them any personal rights
In case you weren't aware, you can dislike a particular viewpoint without making strained comparisons to slave holders (or any of the other favorites, e.g. Nazis).
Autism rates are up all over North America. Lots of research points to the ridiculous amount of cocktail vaccines that are now given to children. The drugs are approved in isolation but handed out mixed together and no one knows what happens when you combine them.
Research points to no such thing. Anecdotes point to that. And unfortunately, since autism symptoms appear right around the same time that the vaccines are administered, you get a lovely case of post hoc, ergo propter hoc. Spreading out the vaccines is more likely to reduce the correlation by delaying the vaccines past the point where symptoms occur, and creating periods in a child's life where they are vulnerable to diseases that deafen, deform or kill them.
The far more likely hypothesis is better screening (and in some cases, false diagnoses) increasing the observed rate. In many cases, one or both parents have a familial history of autistic symptoms, but the lack of a described and well known disorder during their childhood meant they were never diagnosed. The increased incidence in Silicon Valley is likely linked to this; tech geeks tend to fall on the autistic end of the spectrum, so a whole community of tech geeks marrying tends to increase the odds of autistic children.
I actually favor open source over the alternative, but there is nothing morally wrong with wanting to develop with a closed source philosophy. It's up to consumers to pick their poison. From Microsoft's point of view they have a legitimate reason to dislike the GPL, in that inclusion (accidental or otherwise) of GPL code is a danger to their business model.
Even the (disputed) reports of Ballmer throwing a chair never indicated he threw it at anybody, merely "across the room, hitting a table in his office." With only one witness (a man who was leaving for Google), and Ballmer denying it, even that much is not really confirmed.
Many open source licenses do behave rather similarly to a cancer (though admittedly, the characterization contains grossly unfair pejorative connotations). I'd think virus would be a more appropriate characterization, (with two notable exceptions, cancers aren't transmissible in any significant way), though admittedly pejorative, but there's an argument to be made.
See point 1. Single witness, with his own reasons to lie.
Please, attack Microsoft on legitimate issues (e.g. prior extreme anticompetitive behavior, and incomplete reform), not pointless ad hominem attacks.
While valid points, neither the cell phone nor broadband problems have anything to do with Microsoft, which distracts from your central point. You need to provide evidence for why MS vs. *NIX vs. some other option would necessarily lead to a lack of technical progress. I've programmed and run both, and while I somewhat prefer the simplicity of the Linux APIs, I don't see how it makes any real difference in technological advancement.
Maybe the GP meant it in the sense of that Microsoft will now no doubt pull out the old "zomg open sores is SOCIALIST!!11!1!" chestnut, only this time with "SEE?!?/?1! IT IS AN U DIDNT BELEIVE US!!1!" to back it up.
If your argument stands on its own, it shouldn't require you to belittle your opponents. Last I checked (at the risk of providing an opening for a moronic joke), MS is not staffed by immature 11 year olds.
I'm neither here nor there on the merits of your argument, but please argue with facts, not some hideously exaggerated caricature of your opponent.
Walk? Or take a cab, or rent a cheapo car for gap days. Seriously, the cost to keep a car, with insurance, gas, depreciation, etc. starts at about $1500/year if you buy a decent used car and goes up from there. If you have to take a cab or rent a car a couple times, you still come out way ahead.
60 MB/s is usually for sequential reads, not random (which is what you'd be looking at in the situation I described if you're under RAM pressure which limits your disk cache). It's only a problem if the speed really is *slow*, which the summary seemed to imply, even though on reading the article it appears to be quite competitive. As for the six hard drives, that's for gaming and data backup, not for video.
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Silly posts like this seem custom made for Idle, where they can be safely ignored...
Wish I'd saved a mod point earlier.
Well, Tom Cruise may not be paid by Scientology, but he still benefits as an actor due to help from Scientology. Having a large organization with a vested interest in giving you a lot of positive media exposure helps (even if you do get occasional backfires, e.g. the couch-jumping). Getting a lot of work is a bigger benefit than mere monetary payment.
Splitting left/right drastically constrains your peripheral vision in the horizontal plane. Given that 90%+ of the time you are on a surface that is either mostly flat, or at a fairly fixed slope, you don't need up/down very often. Add to that the fact that on a console (unlike a PC/mouse combo), turning can be laborious, and you only have about 45-60 degrees of useful up/down movement, but you always need to be able to go through 360 degrees of rotational movement, I'd much rather see more of the horizontal plane.
Of course, either approach is still better than Halo 3's moronic "if you play split screen, you are forced to 4:3, no widescreen for you" BS.
While AMD uses the least energy, a number of articles I've read indicate (e.g. this Tom's Hardware article shows a win for Intel about a year and a half ago, even before Intel's move to 45 nm) that if you factor in performance to get perf-per-watt, the Intel and AMD lines are much more similar. Granted, when neither chip is doing anything, AMD wins, but when placed under load Intel's slightly greater power usage seems to be offset by doing more actual *work*. I run Folding@Home to keep my machine busy doing something useful, alongside some video encoding, so for me, and anyone else with fairly high CPU loads, Intel is probably a better deal.
Regularly? People are really that interested in you? I have fairly good hearing (I still haven't lost the upper range that bad fluorescents and CRTs produce) and don't hear that sort of stuff wandering the streets of NYC. Seems like the most likely explanations are:
As for the whole "Red Scare/McCarthyism/CIA/KGB" justification, that's paranoid thinking right there. Most of those abuses are 50 years in the past. I can understand some worries about wiretapping or data sniffing, particularly if you are actually in a position that would be of interest to someone in the government (rightly or wrongly), but you have to keep practical limits in mind. The federal government in the U.S. employs ~14.5 million people (including the military, contractors and the post office). Most of them are administrative positions. It's simply not practical for the government to be tailing any significant number of people that closely, given that those people still have to fight wars, deliver the mail, distribute grants, etc. Unless these people have some realistic reason for why they would be followed, I'm inclined to blame paranoia.
The question is, does Tom Cruise really believe in Scientology, or is he a cynical opportunist? The upper echelons of the organization tend to benefit financially. The truly brainwashed deserve sympathy, but the cult leaders, who benefit from their underlings' credulity, deserve scorn.
Entitled to a product that functions as advertised? Wow, people are so spoiled!
Seriously, is it so unreasonable to expect a drive to not hang randomly during normal usage?
The first two Fallout games *allowed* combat, but didn't require it. Via stealth, social skills and occasionally running away you could bypass all combat and still win the game. You got bigger XP awards for quests than for kills, so while advancement was slowed, it was still tenable to play without combat.
Unfortunately, from what I've heard, this may not be possible in Fallout 3.
Don't suppose you noticed, but African-Americans regularly give somewhere in the upper 80% range of their vote to the Democratic candidate. At worse, you could say that maybe 5-10% of African-Americans voted for Obama on the basis of skin color. Of course, it's equally possible that the additional enthusiasm about the election this year caused people who usually are apathetic voters to turn out, and it's generally accepted that Democrats flake out on voting more than Republicans (I don't know why, but it's fairly common for rain to depress Democratic turnout disproportionately; this is the opposite case).
As for the primaries, the positions were similar for both candidates (Hillary more centrist on positions aside from health care). I'm not inclined to be all that critical of voting for a candidate that inspires you, even if it is partially due to their skin color, if the substance of their positions is so similar as to be irrelevant. Given the equally tilted voting preferences by white voters in large sections of Appalachia, it's a bit hypocritical to attack the black voters alone.
But you have high profile transvestites calling for canine mastication of her gluteus maximus. Are you saying you want that to happen to the Thai royal family?!? ;-)
You know, it is possible, if a bit of a hassle and more costly, to get the vaccines separately. Why make non-insane parents spend more money and time vaccinating their kids by mandating a separation of the MMR components when the paranoid still have the option to separate them? People who avoid the vaccines right now are often doing so for reasons unrelated to autism. I had a college buddy whose parents told him that only people who received vaccinations were susceptible to HIV/AIDS. These are not rational beliefs, and acquiescing to them just gives them legitimacy, leading less paranoid parents to buy into them.
I mean, does there even exist Windows XP or Vista in Swahili?
Yes, there is.
Damn you Rule 34!
When you steal a book, and keep it permanently without compensation, that makes you no better than the Plantation Masters. IMHO.
Wow. Hyperbole anyone? Last I checked we are not:
In case you weren't aware, you can dislike a particular viewpoint without making strained comparisons to slave holders (or any of the other favorites, e.g. Nazis).
Autism rates are up all over North America. Lots of research points to the ridiculous amount of cocktail vaccines that are now given to children. The drugs are approved in isolation but handed out mixed together and no one knows what happens when you combine them.
Research points to no such thing. Anecdotes point to that. And unfortunately, since autism symptoms appear right around the same time that the vaccines are administered, you get a lovely case of post hoc, ergo propter hoc. Spreading out the vaccines is more likely to reduce the correlation by delaying the vaccines past the point where symptoms occur, and creating periods in a child's life where they are vulnerable to diseases that deafen, deform or kill them.
The far more likely hypothesis is better screening (and in some cases, false diagnoses) increasing the observed rate. In many cases, one or both parents have a familial history of autistic symptoms, but the lack of a described and well known disorder during their childhood meant they were never diagnosed. The increased incidence in Silicon Valley is likely linked to this; tech geeks tend to fall on the autistic end of the spectrum, so a whole community of tech geeks marrying tends to increase the odds of autistic children.
If you want a better definition of car, you might require that the primary motive force be applied by means of the wheels.
I actually favor open source over the alternative, but there is nothing morally wrong with wanting to develop with a closed source philosophy. It's up to consumers to pick their poison. From Microsoft's point of view they have a legitimate reason to dislike the GPL, in that inclusion (accidental or otherwise) of GPL code is a danger to their business model.
Please, attack Microsoft on legitimate issues (e.g. prior extreme anticompetitive behavior, and incomplete reform), not pointless ad hominem attacks.
While valid points, neither the cell phone nor broadband problems have anything to do with Microsoft, which distracts from your central point. You need to provide evidence for why MS vs. *NIX vs. some other option would necessarily lead to a lack of technical progress. I've programmed and run both, and while I somewhat prefer the simplicity of the Linux APIs, I don't see how it makes any real difference in technological advancement.
Maybe the GP meant it in the sense of that Microsoft will now no doubt pull out the old "zomg open sores is SOCIALIST!!11!1!" chestnut, only this time with "SEE?!?/?1! IT IS AN U DIDNT BELEIVE US!!1!" to back it up.
If your argument stands on its own, it shouldn't require you to belittle your opponents. Last I checked (at the risk of providing an opening for a moronic joke), MS is not staffed by immature 11 year olds.
I'm neither here nor there on the merits of your argument, but please argue with facts, not some hideously exaggerated caricature of your opponent.
Walk? Or take a cab, or rent a cheapo car for gap days. Seriously, the cost to keep a car, with insurance, gas, depreciation, etc. starts at about $1500/year if you buy a decent used car and goes up from there. If you have to take a cab or rent a car a couple times, you still come out way ahead.
They make baby trailers for bikes. Use one of them. Bonus: Babies can use them when you're not shopping.
60 MB/s is usually for sequential reads, not random (which is what you'd be looking at in the situation I described if you're under RAM pressure which limits your disk cache). It's only a problem if the speed really is *slow*, which the summary seemed to imply, even though on reading the article it appears to be quite competitive. As for the six hard drives, that's for gaming and data backup, not for video.