>but found it, as they get older, increasingly difficult to do so because all those years (decades) they've wasted time on religion (sunk costs) may result in momumental losses (life without a meaning) if they would simply give it up at a later point in their lives.
Religion? Sounds like you are talking about World of Warcraft!
The tigers weren't captive, they were orphaned so the guy was doing his best to train them up to be independent hunters and release them into the wild. I didn't say anything about the area being "fenced", nor that it was small, nor that the prey animals were conveniently released right next to the tigers. I seem to recall the show described the park preserve as being many square miles in size. The tigers had to actually HUNT the animals. That was the point. Finally, these tigers were WILD to begin with. They just happened to be orphaned, so, yes, this person's experience DOES INDEED tell us how tigers would act in the wild.
I was watching a Discovery channel show on some guy who was raising two tigers in a park preserve to be eventually released in the wild. To avoid incurring any dependencies on humans in the tigers, he kept away from them as much as possible, only associating enough to feed them and care for any injuries. To train them to hunt, he would make the tigers chase a deer or goat carcass dragged behind a car. The tigers were rewarded with their "kill" once they managed to get a good bite on the carcass to hold it. Afterwards, to up their training, he simply released several live prey animals into the park (goats, gazelles, etc.) and let the tiger's instincts take over. One thing that impressed me, and that they did not know before studying these tigers, is that tigers tend to go on "killing frenzies". Without being hungry or being threatened, tigers will simply run from one prey animal to the next, slaughtering it, taking a bite or two, then rushing to find another. They are, quite simply, relishing their power as a predator. After the end of a frenzy, the two tigers had slaughtered almost 40 prey animals in a short while.
I don't know whether or not those boys taunted the tiger, and honestly, I'm not sure it would have made a difference. But I'm fairly certain the tiger would not have "settled down" after only killing a couple of people, not when the place was filled with fearful, slow two-legged animals acting like "prey". Welcome to the world of wild animals.
Sorry, but have you seen the pictures in the articles? This itty bitty car might be great for Indian and Asian people, who weigh all of 85 pounds - or the Olsen twins. But NO WAY is it going to fit the broad asses of a country like the US, where over half the populace is considered overweight and the average height is over 70" tall.
I would like to add a personal anecdote in support of this statement. For one week I paid very close attention to how I felt after I had eaten things like cookies, cokes, candies, etc., even bread and pasta. I noticed that even though I was gorged on food, I was still craving REAL FOOD. In marked contrast, if I ate a hearty salad and nice hunk of some meat, I felt perfectly satisfied and not even overly full. Sugar is exceedingly insidious in how it stimulates your appetite, while forcing your body to store extra calories that it has no nutritional use for. They're not kidding when they call sugar "empty calories".
So, why don't I just stop eating sugar? Because cookies, cakes and cokes are delicious! Plus, I feel it's mildly addicting. You really have to focus to avoid the temptation which surrounds you on a daily basis (office snacks and sweets) AND be vigilant in avoiding foods that come with ADDED SUGAR to improve the flavor (peanut butter anyone?).
Oh, another thing, eating healthy, natural foods is expensive. A nice cut of meat and DAILY fresh vegetables costs alot more than those 10 packages of ramen noodles. This is why obesity is more an epidemic among the poor than among the wealthy. Cheap food = sugary food = obesity.
Mod up please. This is why the Chinese manufacturers are getting in trouble. They are substituting cheaper, UNSAFE alternatives into commonly produced goods and then sending them off. The sad part is, the number of injuries and deaths we see in the U.S. and other countries, is *nothing* compared to the the number injuries and death suffered by the Chinese consumer. Their quality assurance for manufacturing is just NOT THERE!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/world/asia/08china.html?fta=y
Another problem nowadays is that we have so much light pollution, so we look up in the sky and can hardly see any stars. The milky way is completely gone. I heard you used to be able to see it like a long silver belt that stretches across the sky. I've never seen it with bare eyes in my life. What used to sparkle imagination and humility is like yesterday's fairytale.
Completely off topic, but just find a nice place like a camping ground or natural park where they don't have natural light sources immediately around you. The pitch blackness of night should allow you to see the Milky Way easily on a clear night. I saw the Milky Way once and I was quite awestruck. If you have not done so already, I highly recommend it.
For standard applications like MS Office, e-mail, web browsing, etc. Yes, Macs are practially bullet proof. HOWEVER, intensive and complex graphics applications like Photoshop, Quark, etc. with their "color-profile this" and "monitor profile that" ARE a pain in the ass to support. It requires very specific knowledge about these applications. Color-matching is an entire industry unto itself. I believe this is where the complexity of support comes in. If all their graphics folks use Mac, and all their non-graphic folks use PC's and therefore, standard apps, I could see how the Mac might cost more in support time. This is what I understood from the article.
Also, it should not be discounted how much support time is spent because of crappy, third party software for Macs, but the Windows version is aces. Just look at HP's printer management software for an example.
Last I checked, people couldn't even agree on what "Computer Science" meant and what should be taught in the curriculum to accurately call a degree a "Computer Science" degree.
Does he mean more C# programmers? More System Administrators? More help desk support? More electrical engineers specializing in micro-processor design? More mathematicians creating a new MP3 algorithm that isn't patented? WTF does he mean "computer science employment??
What if all the students for the next four years got math degrees, but couldn't do computers worth a damn? Would that help the "CS worker" shortage?? Or would it just improve our worldwide math scores?
Yep, that's what I thought too as soon as I read the descriptions of his behavior. I had a friend that I had to stop hanging out with because he was so obtuse socially and we would end up arguing constantly. It wasn't until years later that I became familiar with Asperger Syndrome and realized that might be what he suffered from. I sent him an e-mail on it. Hope it helped him. I didn't hate him. It was just to much emotional work to be around him.
Hmm! Thank you for that! I hadn't considered all those uses past the obvious entertainment ones, but you're right. I'll add another. How about doctors and surgery? Imagine being able to bring up a magnified version of the area you are working with. Or in cosmetic surgery, actually superimposing before and after images so you can follow the photo model.
Wow! Suddenly this technology is ALOT more interesting.
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Totally offtopic, but I believe Heroes is addressing this by posting ALL the past episodes online so you can watch them. Finally! Somebody at the network had a CLUE! You want people to be interested in long story-lines? Let them catch up on past episodes!
I'm hoping this catches on with long-story-arc TV shows.
Simple. They witnessed an incident of rioting and mass sexual assaults occurring just after Ramadan during the festival of Eid. The bloggers were witnesses to the police standing by idly while gangs of frenzied men randomly attacked countless women. It was not just "harassment" (such a polite term). It was physical and sexual assaults, beatings, clothes tearing, and rape. It was so bad that shopkeepers and taxi drivers were having to hide women in their shops and cars to protect them from the mobs. The bloggers (many of them men themselves) were outraged.
The Egyptian government was embarrassed, but its response was to completely deny the incident and censor its press from reporting it. Hence, the outrage came out in the blogs. Note that this happened almost 4 weeks ago on Oct 24 and it's just NOW starting to come out. The government has also taken the stance that the bloggers are trying to "humiliate" Egypt and Islam by talking about the incidence and that's why they are persecuted. Please read these articles for more information
There is a difference between a mechanical engineers and auto repair guy. Don't complain about engineering schools when all you want to become is a mechanic. Dont expect an engineer's salary when you are repairing cars.
Exactly! Exactly! People still think of IT (here defined as tech support, programming, systems and network admining) as a "white collar" job, when really, it's simply the next phase of "blue collar" jobs. IMHO, this is why companies are so reluctant to pay IT workers as professionals. This is also why my spouse and his 10 years of high end corporate IT experience are getting the hell out, going back to school for a proper EE degree, and never looking back. Once he's done with his degree, it will be my turn to re-train into some other career. Now, I love network administration (the kind with Cisco routers, not the "setup Active Directory" bs) and I'm halfway through my CCNA class, but I have no illusions that I might have to just drop the whole thing and my own 10+ years of experience to go into a different career. Buh-bye IT!
Everyone is so busy Bush-bashing that they conveniently forget that Bush was roundly criticized for not mobilizing the Army to rush to the aid of Katrina victims in New Orleans. What people DO NOT REALIZE is that mobilizing the Army to use in civilan issues was strictly prohibited by the Posse Comitatus act. Why? Mainly so the government wouldn't abuse the army's power against it's populace. Of course, we all cry bitterly when then government doesn't marshall all of it's resources (including the army) to help citizen victims of a natural disaster. It couldn't, you see. It was illegal. From Wikipedia "The Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act substantially limit the powers of the Federal government to use the military for law enforcement." (emphasis mine)
That was the state's responsibility, but since everyone has pretty much accepted the incompetence and corruptness of Louisiana's government, we pretty much absolved them from being able to take care of themselves. Sooo, after much criticism about the government not jumping in to help out, Bush clears the way so that at the next natural disaster, the army can roll on in and restore order. That's what people ASKED for!
So everyone step away from the knee-jerk "ohmiGAWD!!! BUSH IS TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!" reaction and realize that this is what the majority of the people wanted. Don't want your government to be your mother? Then don't ask it to pick up your mess, your city's mess, and your state's mess when lack of foresight leads to disaster. It's the mark of an adult that they can pick up after themselves.
Just do any google search on Posse Comitatus and Katrina and you'll see why government felt it was ok to edit the Comitatus act. We WANTED our government to do it.
Early Ultima Online had this. Magic items were excruciatingly rare AND all items eventually suffered loss of durabilty and were destroyed. The result was that most people didn't become too attached to items and ran around with average loot. If you died and were looted, you ressed, ran back to your bank and re-equipped yourself with more of your own player crafted loot. I enjoyed that, since it placed more emphasis on having good PvP skills rather than on having "epix". Anyways, the point is, hardcore PvP'ers would not bother to collect "epix" and would instead just be happy with blue/greens or hell, even greys, for daily PvP.
I believe BootCamp was aimed more at the Windows user who likes the LOOK of a Mac, but is not willing to invest $$$ in a new computer AND buy all his Windows applications AGAIN for the Mac. It's not like Microsoft will offer an "exchange" program wherein you turn in your MS Office disks and they trade you for MS Office 2004 for Mac.:P
Eventually, they WILL try OS X. And some will like it, and some won't. But if it helps Apple sell more hardware, then what do they care which OS you run?
I believe part of the problem is that the question is framed in an inflammatory manner. By saying that gays want "gay marriage" then conservatives can say gays are trying to undermine the institution of marriage. However, if you REMOVE the word "marriage" and instead just start calling it civil rights (which is really what it is), then most people would shrug and say, "Oh sure. Gays deserve civil rights".
So, let's be clear on this. Gays are not interested in someone being able to declare their partnerships valid. They can do that on their own. What they DO want is the legal rights given to a heterosexual married couple that are taken for granted like, The right to make decisions for your partner in an emergency, the right to health benefits and insurance benefits from your partner's employment, the right to access banking and other legal records, etc.
Notice that unmarried hetero couples do NOT have those rights, but can "earn" them by legally declaring to the state "we are unified in family and finances" (i.e. get married), but no such legal action is available to same sex partners. This, to me, is a simple Right to Contract which is being artificially denied to gay couples. Notice that this has nothing to do with wether or not a gay union is recognized in certain churches, but the government MUST remain secular on this issue and it is not doing so.
Hmm, maybe investors are starting to wonder based on this
Computerworld article FEBRUARY 07, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Ray Noorda is back. On Dec. 17, the man who built Novell fired his trusted protege, Ralph Yarro, for pocketing upward of $20 million from "self-dealing transactions" at Noorda's investment company, The Canopy Group. Noorda replaced Yarro and took control again of the venture capital firm he founded and funded.
Think this is some obscure industry sideshow? Think again. Yarro was the architect of The SCO Group's assault on Linux and its corporate users. Yarro used his position to turn a Noorda-funded Linux start-up named Caldera into the anti-Linux litigation machine SCO.
IANAL, but I would consider it satire if the guy (perp) had NOT signed up for the e-mail account under the identity of guy2 (victim). At that point, it's bordering on fraud and possibly, libel. Even the judge was curious as to why the guy was so determined to keep his name secret.
My personal opinion is that situations like these can be avoided by simple common courtesy and remembering that your ARE NOT ANONYMOUS when sending a freakin' e-mail.
I know it did for me. When I couldn't find WoW in any of the standard stores (just after Christmas) like Circuit City, MicroCenter, Best Buy, etc. I finally found 4 little copies in the Apple Store. Hah! Guess no one actually expected a popular game to be immediately available for the Mac.:P
Gotta disagree with you buddy. I detest spam as much as the next person, but sending someone to jail for simply spamming is unjustly harsh - especially considering that one person's junk mail may be another person's list mail.
However, if you read the article, the couple was given prison time for fraud, not just for sending out advertisements, but for actually bilking people out of money. Much more serious offense and, therefore, warranting a prison sentence. They just happened to use the e-mail method to find their dupes.
Absolutely! If the person leaves me a message for callback then I can assume that they want to speak to me. But that's still no guarantee that when I call back will be a good time for them. So, yes, phone tag is a "danger" of using an answering machine. But then, what's the difference between that and e-mail?
The point I'm making is that CallerID was supposed to allow you control of whether or not you choose to answer the call. CallerID spoofing tries to take that control away. So, again, where's the improvement over just a plain old answering machine?
Sheesh, despite the fact that I work in the IT industry I have only the most minimal service for telephone. We have a crappy 6 years old answering machine which we leave on all the time. The important people in my life know to leave a message and if we want to talk to them we will actually pick up the phone. You can *69 your call (or whatever key combo it is) until you are blue in the face. It won't make a damn bit of difference to me until I hear your voice and decide if I want to speak to you or not.
Honestly, it's much simpler and cheaper than constantly trying to "one up" the next technological doohickey.
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>but found it, as they get older, increasingly difficult to do so because all those years (decades) they've wasted time on religion (sunk costs) may result in momumental losses (life without a meaning) if they would simply give it up at a later point in their lives.
Religion? Sounds like you are talking about World of Warcraft!
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I don't know whether or not those boys taunted the tiger, and honestly, I'm not sure it would have made a difference. But I'm fairly certain the tiger would not have "settled down" after only killing a couple of people, not when the place was filled with fearful, slow two-legged animals acting like "prey". Welcome to the world of wild animals.
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Sorry, but have you seen the pictures in the articles? This itty bitty car might be great for Indian and Asian people, who weigh all of 85 pounds - or the Olsen twins. But NO WAY is it going to fit the broad asses of a country like the US, where over half the populace is considered overweight and the average height is over 70" tall.
So, why don't I just stop eating sugar? Because cookies, cakes and cokes are delicious! Plus, I feel it's mildly addicting. You really have to focus to avoid the temptation which surrounds you on a daily basis (office snacks and sweets) AND be vigilant in avoiding foods that come with ADDED SUGAR to improve the flavor (peanut butter anyone?).
Oh, another thing, eating healthy, natural foods is expensive. A nice cut of meat and DAILY fresh vegetables costs alot more than those 10 packages of ramen noodles. This is why obesity is more an epidemic among the poor than among the wealthy. Cheap food = sugary food = obesity.
Just my $.02.
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Mod up please. This is why the Chinese manufacturers are getting in trouble. They are substituting cheaper, UNSAFE alternatives into commonly produced goods and then sending them off. The sad part is, the number of injuries and deaths we see in the U.S. and other countries, is *nothing* compared to the the number injuries and death suffered by the Chinese consumer. Their quality assurance for manufacturing is just NOT THERE! http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/world/asia/08china.html?fta=y
Completely off topic, but just find a nice place like a camping ground or natural park where they don't have natural light sources immediately around you. The pitch blackness of night should allow you to see the Milky Way easily on a clear night. I saw the Milky Way once and I was quite awestruck. If you have not done so already, I highly recommend it.
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For standard applications like MS Office, e-mail, web browsing, etc. Yes, Macs are practially bullet proof. HOWEVER, intensive and complex graphics applications like Photoshop, Quark, etc. with their "color-profile this" and "monitor profile that" ARE a pain in the ass to support. It requires very specific knowledge about these applications. Color-matching is an entire industry unto itself. I believe this is where the complexity of support comes in. If all their graphics folks use Mac, and all their non-graphic folks use PC's and therefore, standard apps, I could see how the Mac might cost more in support time. This is what I understood from the article.
Also, it should not be discounted how much support time is spent because of crappy, third party software for Macs, but the Windows version is aces. Just look at HP's printer management software for an example.
Last I checked, people couldn't even agree on what "Computer Science" meant and what should be taught in the curriculum to accurately call a degree a "Computer Science" degree. Does he mean more C# programmers? More System Administrators? More help desk support? More electrical engineers specializing in micro-processor design? More mathematicians creating a new MP3 algorithm that isn't patented? WTF does he mean "computer science employment??
What if all the students for the next four years got math degrees, but couldn't do computers worth a damn? Would that help the "CS worker" shortage?? Or would it just improve our worldwide math scores?
Yep, that's what I thought too as soon as I read the descriptions of his behavior. I had a friend that I had to stop hanging out with because he was so obtuse socially and we would end up arguing constantly. It wasn't until years later that I became familiar with Asperger Syndrome and realized that might be what he suffered from. I sent him an e-mail on it. Hope it helped him. I didn't hate him. It was just to much emotional work to be around him.
Wow! Suddenly this technology is ALOT more interesting.
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I'm hoping this catches on with long-story-arc TV shows.
The Egyptian government was embarrassed, but its response was to completely deny the incident and censor its press from reporting it. Hence, the outrage came out in the blogs. Note that this happened almost 4 weeks ago on Oct 24 and it's just NOW starting to come out. The government has also taken the stance that the bloggers are trying to "humiliate" Egypt and Islam by talking about the incidence and that's why they are persecuted. Please read these articles for more information
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/world/africa/15c airo.html
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56301& SelectRegion=Middle_East
http://www.sandmonkey.org/2006/10/30/the-eid-sexua l-harassment-incident/
Exactly! Exactly! People still think of IT (here defined as tech support, programming, systems and network admining) as a "white collar" job, when really, it's simply the next phase of "blue collar" jobs. IMHO, this is why companies are so reluctant to pay IT workers as professionals. This is also why my spouse and his 10 years of high end corporate IT experience are getting the hell out, going back to school for a proper EE degree, and never looking back. Once he's done with his degree, it will be my turn to re-train into some other career. Now, I love network administration (the kind with Cisco routers, not the "setup Active Directory" bs) and I'm halfway through my CCNA class, but I have no illusions that I might have to just drop the whole thing and my own 10+ years of experience to go into a different career. Buh-bye IT!
That was the state's responsibility, but since everyone has pretty much accepted the incompetence and corruptness of Louisiana's government, we pretty much absolved them from being able to take care of themselves. Sooo, after much criticism about the government not jumping in to help out, Bush clears the way so that at the next natural disaster, the army can roll on in and restore order. That's what people ASKED for!
So everyone step away from the knee-jerk "ohmiGAWD!!! BUSH IS TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!" reaction and realize that this is what the majority of the people wanted. Don't want your government to be your mother? Then don't ask it to pick up your mess, your city's mess, and your state's mess when lack of foresight leads to disaster. It's the mark of an adult that they can pick up after themselves.
Want links? Here's one blog on how long the Posse Comitatus act has been being undermined since the 1980's by both Republicans and Democrats alike http://www.thenationaldebate.com/blog/archives/200 5/09/katrina.html
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Or how about another that predicts (in Sept of 2005) that the mandate against using federal troops will be loosened? http://newsmine.org/archive/security/posse-comita
Just do any google search on Posse Comitatus and Katrina and you'll see why government felt it was ok to edit the Comitatus act. We WANTED our government to do it.
Early Ultima Online had this. Magic items were excruciatingly rare AND all items eventually suffered loss of durabilty and were destroyed. The result was that most people didn't become too attached to items and ran around with average loot. If you died and were looted, you ressed, ran back to your bank and re-equipped yourself with more of your own player crafted loot. I enjoyed that, since it placed more emphasis on having good PvP skills rather than on having "epix". Anyways, the point is, hardcore PvP'ers would not bother to collect "epix" and would instead just be happy with blue/greens or hell, even greys, for daily PvP.
It's not like Microsoft will offer an "exchange" program wherein you turn in your MS Office disks and they trade you for MS Office 2004 for Mac.
Eventually, they WILL try OS X. And some will like it, and some won't. But if it helps Apple sell more hardware, then what do they care which OS you run?
So, let's be clear on this. Gays are not interested in someone being able to declare their partnerships valid. They can do that on their own. What they DO want is the legal rights given to a heterosexual married couple that are taken for granted like, The right to make decisions for your partner in an emergency, the right to health benefits and insurance benefits from your partner's employment, the right to access banking and other legal records, etc.
Notice that unmarried hetero couples do NOT have those rights, but can "earn" them by legally declaring to the state "we are unified in family and finances" (i.e. get married), but no such legal action is available to same sex partners. This, to me, is a simple Right to Contract which is being artificially denied to gay couples. Notice that this has nothing to do with wether or not a gay union is recognized in certain churches, but the government MUST remain secular on this issue and it is not doing so.
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Hmmm, according to his website his "day job" is computer programmer. Ok, fess up. Which one of you /.'s is it?
FEBRUARY 07, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Ray Noorda is back. On Dec. 17, the man who built Novell fired his trusted protege, Ralph Yarro, for pocketing upward of $20 million from "self-dealing transactions" at Noorda's investment company, The Canopy Group. Noorda replaced Yarro and took control again of the venture capital firm he founded and funded.
Think this is some obscure industry sideshow? Think again. Yarro was the architect of The SCO Group's assault on Linux and its corporate users. Yarro used his position to turn a Noorda-funded Linux start-up named Caldera into the anti-Linux litigation machine SCO.
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My personal opinion is that situations like these can be avoided by simple common courtesy and remembering that your ARE NOT ANONYMOUS when sending a freakin' e-mail.
Just my $.02
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I know it did for me. When I couldn't find WoW in any of the standard stores (just after Christmas) like Circuit City, MicroCenter, Best Buy, etc. I finally found 4 little copies in the Apple Store. Hah! Guess no one actually expected a popular game to be immediately available for the Mac. :P
However, if you read the article, the couple was given prison time for fraud, not just for sending out advertisements, but for actually bilking people out of money. Much more serious offense and, therefore, warranting a prison sentence. They just happened to use the e-mail method to find their dupes.
Just my $.02
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The point I'm making is that CallerID was supposed to allow you control of whether or not you choose to answer the call. CallerID spoofing tries to take that control away. So, again, where's the improvement over just a plain old answering machine?
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Honestly, it's much simpler and cheaper than constantly trying to "one up" the next technological doohickey.
Just my Luddite $.02
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