You mean like the nokia n770, n800 and n810. I have been using the n800 and my wife has been using the n810 for quite some time now and are very satisfied with them. I have stopped using my laptop now that I have the n800.
That player has existed for some time - the Toshiba gigabeat f series. Admittedly, it only goes up to 60 gb so I can't fit my music collection in there (mine is 40 gb) and you have to reflash it to rockbox. I got mine (40 gb) for ~$100 when it was still being sold and it now actually sells at a premium on ebay. I like the fact that its battery life is super long too (atleast 16 h) and that it comes with an AC adapter and remote by default and that it is well built enough to jog with even though it is hdd based. I did buy a zune when it was on woot for $85 but its worth is at best a quarter of the toshiba. It is pretty useless as an mp3 player for me as it doesn't have a directory structure (and because the creator of the id3 format is an idiot who didn't even leave fields for basic options in classical music like the conductor, orchestra, soloist etc. which makes the id3 quite useless for classical music).
And how, pray, does water exist without light? Were the electrons in the atoms bound with the use of non-EM forces (in which case it would no longer be water) or did the whole theory of EM change so drastically that quanta of the EM field (photons - aka light) did not exist (again, one can safely say that the material is not water)? You are trying to have your cake and eat it too.
I think parent is referring to the prediction of a non-static universe by GR which Einstein cooked by adding a cosmological constant to it. Ironically, it turns out that a cosmological constant is in fact needed but of a totally different size than what Einstein wanted (and about 120 orders of magnitude smaller than what seems reasonable given the rest of physics - this is probably the biggest outstanding puzzle in physics today).
Your reasoning falls apart due to not considering two vital things - the average wage in the world is very different from that in norway, and more importantly, total worldwide sales are generally going to be MUCH bigger than norwegian sales (2,000 or so times higher extrapolating purely on population).
I suppose one may as well dismiss windows as it does not support mips, s/390, powerpc etc. Windows 95 actually refused to install on my first computer as the processor was "too fast" (AMD K6-200, there was a bug in W95 at the time preventing installations on processors with more than 350 bogomips) though linux has no problem. Since I now choose my hardware with linux primarily in mind, I have no problems with drivers at all. I similarly expect windows users to choose hardware appropriate for their platform. This is just plain common sense.
Actually, those pages are only the start. I actually tried to find out precisely what treatments are covered (i.e. considered "medically necessary", the language used in the contract) and that is tens or even hundreds of thousands of pages long, since there are several pages for each diagnosis code. Try reading that during the term of the contract! (Even your lifetime is probably not going to be enough.) Anyway, after about $5,000 in medical bills which did not even cover the initial diagnostic tests (my copay was about $2000), I ended up going to India to get the treatment.
To parent post, yes, the waiting time was really long in the socialist national health care system. I had to wait four HOURS in the queue for my specialist appointments at the grand cost of 22c each, five DAYS for my EMG (free), would have had to wait for about six DAYS for the MRI which isn't subsidised as it is considered premium which is reasonable for one of the world's poorest countries but considering this interminable wait, I got it done privately where the queue was two HOURS and the cost about $120.
This compares to the really short waiting times in the US. In the fancy university hospital here, it took one MONTH to see a specialist, another MONTH to get the EMG (was not even completely done as it turned out but was really cheap at only $1700), the doctor wouldn't get the necessary MRI unless other results were in since he wasn't sure whether the insurance would cover it.
Oh yeah, you might be very interested in this very nice bridge in New York that I have to sell.:)
Are the cookies and wine free? If so, I might trouble myself to look up the building next door apparently dedicated to some primitive beliefs of the natives.:)
There were obviously many local floods (near all coastal areas) at the ends of the ice ages and the flood story probably comes from there (though could have spread through the Gilgamesh epic which was after all the first major literary work) and probably the mother of all floods was the filling of the Mediterranean about 5.5 million years. However, any suggestion of a global flood covering up mountains is absurd for the simple reason that that quantity of water doesn't exist on earth! Further, as pointed out by someone else, if the flood actually covered Mt. Everest in just 40 days and nights, no known flooding mechanism has that sort of continuous rate of water deposition even if we forget about the quantity.
Furthermore, some things exceed the grasp of science altogether. You take it on faith that you are not a brain in a vat. Indeed, you take the very basis of science--causality--on faith. Read Hume, then Kant's response, on the nature of experience.
Seriously, what are you smoking? How would the use of retarted propagators and the very weak arrow of time in current physical theory mean that causality is taken on faith or is even clearly meaningful? And how does the opinion of admittedly smart philosophers on science from hundreds of years before modern scientific theories and understanding matter?
A further problem is that the things outside the ambit of science are those for which we have no operational definitions and with regard to human thoughts, opinions etc. that is beginning to fast change with modern neuroscience.
Amen, brother. Samuel Johnson really captured the whole point with his prescient quote "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" - it is a pity this apt statement is not used more in the US.
I had the same shock after coming to the US from Singapore as well. I think it is related to the brainwashing that the media gives that the US is the best at everything so many Americans actually seem to think that it must be worse elsewhere so it is ok. The belief that the free market is always better which is factually untrue also ensures hobbled if any competition from the govt (which ensures pretty good service in Singapore with the govt usually having the best service).
Actually, it does not apply to just cancellation. It also seems to be a favourite of some hospitals (it has happened to me twice at Evanston Northwestern Hospital - an ok hospital otherwise but one which I am never going to go to again and whose billing department is also very probably a fraud center) which say they never received the payment from your insurance and want you to get the cancelled check and submit it to them and would otherwise send the account to a collection agency. Obviously, since the payments are electronic, there is no "cancelled check". I was getting nowhere going back and forth between the hospital and insurance representatives until one insurance representative finally setup a conference call and the hospital rep finally becomes polite after hearing the insurance rep. Finally, after a couple of hours, I get a promise that they will hash it out between themselves. I wonder how many give up before going through all this hassle. And socialized medicine is supposed to be less efficient?? (I have been through two socialized systems before getting to the US and would choose any of them in a heartbeat even if somehow I didn't have to pay for the treatment here - privatization in this case only seems to lead to patient abuse.)
Ah, but didn't you know that principles and morals are only important in America if they involve sex?? Otherwise, presidents need not obey even Supreme court judgements as shown by Andrew Jackson and the forcible moving of American Indians.
Ace (atleast three years ago) had some very good dimmable flourescent floor lamps which were quite reasonably priced too ($30 if I remember correctly). They have been working perfectly since I bought them and also are instant on.
On an aside, I actually prefer the bluish light of the flourescent tube variety (temperature ~9000K, I suppose) having grown up with them but can't seem to find them here in the US in the compact form except some terrible ones at a dollar shop.
Actually given that I mostly watch downloaded BBC stuff rather than cable (I am living in the US now) since the programmes are far superior, IMHO, any TV license under $50/month - the price of cable here - is really cheap. I would switch from all the 50 or so channels on my cable for BBC 1-4 and world without any hesitation if I actually had that choice and would actually set up a dvr as well.
"But I do know that Iraqi's and Al Qaeda apparently do not like being kept alive in W's prisons."
I find that hard to believe. After all, the LTTE terrorists/freedom fighters used to carry cyanide pills all the time with them and were rarely taken alive. The fact that the Iraqis and Al Qaeda do not do this seems that they only want to die if they actually kill others, i.e. they still do value their own life.
In general, you need a small genetically isolated population to evolve into a new species. No such population of humans exists today, and hasn't for some time. In the future, we might get such a small long-term genetically isolated population (human colonies on other planets, say) but it is very unlikely indeed for the human species to split into two subspecies on earth (closer to impossible unless we have a truly major disaster leading to complete civilization collapse to pre-agriculture).
I use my htpc for many other things like a file server, backup server and even a compute server sometimes. I resolved the silence issue in a trivial way, by running long toslink, keyboard and vga cables from the pc (totally about $50) to my receiver and projector so for the added mess of the cables, I have a truly silent htpc since it is in another room (even there, it is fairly silent but it wouldn't matter if it wasn't).
Overall, still much better than the US. For eg., the prison population in the US is treated incredibly badly (sold as sex slave, regular rapes in prison etc.), blacks are routinely tortured by police in Chicago and Los Angeles. In the US, I have to worried about the late night knock which might end up with me dragged to Guantanamo or Eastern Europe to be tortured with no rights at all.
The absolute insanity of a private medical system, of course, kills a lot of people in the US. For eg., the infant mortality rate in the US is now 4 times as high as in Singapore.
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You mean like the nokia n770, n800 and n810. I have been using the n800 and my wife has been using the n810 for quite some time now and are very satisfied with them. I have stopped using my laptop now that I have the n800.
How about Sweden at 20 people/km^2 then? I call shenanigans on this excuse.
Given that they are on a roll, the next one is going to assert that the moon landings were fake. ;)
That player has existed for some time - the Toshiba gigabeat f series. Admittedly, it only goes up to 60 gb so I can't fit my music collection in there (mine is 40 gb) and you have to reflash it to rockbox. I got mine (40 gb) for ~$100 when it was still being sold and it now actually sells at a premium on ebay. I like the fact that its battery life is super long too (atleast 16 h) and that it comes with an AC adapter and remote by default and that it is well built enough to jog with even though it is hdd based. I did buy a zune when it was on woot for $85 but its worth is at best a quarter of the toshiba. It is pretty useless as an mp3 player for me as it doesn't have a directory structure (and because the creator of the id3 format is an idiot who didn't even leave fields for basic options in classical music like the conductor, orchestra, soloist etc. which makes the id3 quite useless for classical music).
And how, pray, does water exist without light? Were the electrons in the atoms bound with the use of non-EM forces (in which case it would no longer be water) or did the whole theory of EM change so drastically that quanta of the EM field (photons - aka light) did not exist (again, one can safely say that the material is not water)? You are trying to have your cake and eat it too.
I think parent is referring to the prediction of a non-static universe by GR which Einstein cooked by adding a cosmological constant to it. Ironically, it turns out that a cosmological constant is in fact needed but of a totally different size than what Einstein wanted (and about 120 orders of magnitude smaller than what seems reasonable given the rest of physics - this is probably the biggest outstanding puzzle in physics today).
Your reasoning falls apart due to not considering two vital things - the average wage in the world is very different from that in norway, and more importantly, total worldwide sales are generally going to be MUCH bigger than norwegian sales (2,000 or so times higher extrapolating purely on population).
I suppose one may as well dismiss windows as it does not support mips, s/390, powerpc etc. Windows 95 actually refused to install on my first computer as the processor was "too fast" (AMD K6-200, there was a bug in W95 at the time preventing installations on processors with more than 350 bogomips) though linux has no problem. Since I now choose my hardware with linux primarily in mind, I have no problems with drivers at all. I similarly expect windows users to choose hardware appropriate for their platform. This is just plain common sense.
Actually, those pages are only the start. I actually tried to find out precisely what treatments are covered (i.e. considered "medically necessary", the language used in the contract) and that is tens or even hundreds of thousands of pages long, since there are several pages for each diagnosis code. Try reading that during the term of the contract! (Even your lifetime is probably not going to be enough.) Anyway, after about $5,000 in medical bills which did not even cover the initial diagnostic tests (my copay was about $2000), I ended up going to India to get the treatment.
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To parent post, yes, the waiting time was really long in the socialist national health care system. I had to wait four HOURS in the queue for my specialist appointments at the grand cost of 22c each, five DAYS for my EMG (free), would have had to wait for about six DAYS for the MRI which isn't subsidised as it is considered premium which is reasonable for one of the world's poorest countries but considering this interminable wait, I got it done privately where the queue was two HOURS and the cost about $120.
This compares to the really short waiting times in the US. In the fancy university hospital here, it took one MONTH to see a specialist, another MONTH to get the EMG (was not even completely done as it turned out but was really cheap at only $1700), the doctor wouldn't get the necessary MRI unless other results were in since he wasn't sure whether the insurance would cover it.
Oh yeah, you might be very interested in this very nice bridge in New York that I have to sell.
Cool, so how many living people have seen George Washington, Julius Caesar, the building of the pyramids etc.?
Are the cookies and wine free? If so, I might trouble myself to look up the building next door apparently dedicated to some primitive beliefs of the natives. :)
There were obviously many local floods (near all coastal areas) at the ends of the ice ages and the flood story probably comes from there (though could have spread through the Gilgamesh epic which was after all the first major literary work) and probably the mother of all floods was the filling of the Mediterranean about 5.5 million years. However, any suggestion of a global flood covering up mountains is absurd for the simple reason that that quantity of water doesn't exist on earth! Further, as pointed out by someone else, if the flood actually covered Mt. Everest in just 40 days and nights, no known flooding mechanism has that sort of continuous rate of water deposition even if we forget about the quantity.
Seriously, what are you smoking? How would the use of retarted propagators and the very weak arrow of time in current physical theory mean that causality is taken on faith or is even clearly meaningful? And how does the opinion of admittedly smart philosophers on science from hundreds of years before modern scientific theories and understanding matter?
A further problem is that the things outside the ambit of science are those for which we have no operational definitions and with regard to human thoughts, opinions etc. that is beginning to fast change with modern neuroscience.
Amen, brother. Samuel Johnson really captured the whole point with his prescient quote "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" - it is a pity this apt statement is not used more in the US.
I had the same shock after coming to the US from Singapore as well. I think it is related to the brainwashing that the media gives that the US is the best at everything so many Americans actually seem to think that it must be worse elsewhere so it is ok. The belief that the free market is always better which is factually untrue also ensures hobbled if any competition from the govt (which ensures pretty good service in Singapore with the govt usually having the best service).
Actually, it does not apply to just cancellation. It also seems to be a favourite of some hospitals (it has happened to me twice at Evanston Northwestern Hospital - an ok hospital otherwise but one which I am never going to go to again and whose billing department is also very probably a fraud center) which say they never received the payment from your insurance and want you to get the cancelled check and submit it to them and would otherwise send the account to a collection agency. Obviously, since the payments are electronic, there is no "cancelled check". I was getting nowhere going back and forth between the hospital and insurance representatives until one insurance representative finally setup a conference call and the hospital rep finally becomes polite after hearing the insurance rep. Finally, after a couple of hours, I get a promise that they will hash it out between themselves. I wonder how many give up before going through all this hassle. And socialized medicine is supposed to be less efficient?? (I have been through two socialized systems before getting to the US and would choose any of them in a heartbeat even if somehow I didn't have to pay for the treatment here - privatization in this case only seems to lead to patient abuse.)
Ah, but didn't you know that principles and morals are only important in America if they involve sex?? Otherwise, presidents need not obey even Supreme court judgements as shown by Andrew Jackson and the forcible moving of American Indians.
Ace (atleast three years ago) had some very good dimmable flourescent floor lamps which were quite reasonably priced too ($30 if I remember correctly). They have been working perfectly since I bought them and also are instant on.
On an aside, I actually prefer the bluish light of the flourescent tube variety (temperature ~9000K, I suppose) having grown up with them but can't seem to find them here in the US in the compact form except some terrible ones at a dollar shop.
Actually given that I mostly watch downloaded BBC stuff rather than cable (I am living in the US now) since the programmes are far superior, IMHO, any TV license under $50/month - the price of cable here - is really cheap. I would switch from all the 50 or so channels on my cable for BBC 1-4 and world without any hesitation if I actually had that choice and would actually set up a dvr as well.
"The 9/11 attacks affected us all. This doesn't affect anyone in the United States"
us all=people in the United States?? No wonder, the 95% of "us all" outside the United States think that the Americans are too self-centred.
"But I do know that Iraqi's and Al Qaeda apparently do not like being kept alive in W's prisons."
I find that hard to believe. After all, the LTTE terrorists/freedom fighters used to carry cyanide pills all the time with them and were rarely taken alive. The fact that the Iraqis and Al Qaeda do not do this seems that they only want to die if they actually kill others, i.e. they still do value their own life.
In general, you need a small genetically isolated population to evolve into a new species. No such population of humans exists today, and hasn't for some time. In the future, we might get such a small long-term genetically isolated population (human colonies on other planets, say) but it is very unlikely indeed for the human species to split into two subspecies on earth (closer to impossible unless we have a truly major disaster leading to complete civilization collapse to pre-agriculture).
My yogurt is in a Klein bottle, you insensitive clod!
I use my htpc for many other things like a file server, backup server and even a compute server sometimes. I resolved the silence issue in a trivial way, by running long toslink, keyboard and vga cables from the pc (totally about $50) to my receiver and projector so for the added mess of the cables, I have a truly silent htpc since it is in another room (even there, it is fairly silent but it wouldn't matter if it wasn't).
Overall, still much better than the US. For eg., the prison population in the US is treated incredibly badly (sold as sex slave, regular rapes in prison etc.), blacks are routinely tortured by police in Chicago and Los Angeles. In the US, I have to worried about the late night knock which might end up with me dragged to Guantanamo or Eastern Europe to be tortured with no rights at all.
The absolute insanity of a private medical system, of course, kills a lot of people in the US. For eg., the infant mortality rate in the US is now 4 times as high as in Singapore.