Now that I have demolished your nice little playpen, you're resorting to whining?
While people like you play with toy soldiers and make "phoosh! phoosshh!! bang! boom!!" sounds, there are real soldiers dying out there in Iraq, who answered the call to duty and gave their all. The least you can do to honor their sacrifices is to pursue the truth, however unpalatable it may be!
Fuckin' liars like you are what we fought in Germany in WW2, and kicked their asses.
Make no mistake: truth will always prevail, regardless of the number of snivelling bastards like you trying to spin it.
I was reading in the Economist many months ago that being able to have a base in Iraq would be a godsend for the USA as they would be able to quit Saudi, a regime they've never got on with.
Nice theory, but not true. There are several little states out there (like Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, etc.) which would (a) love to have a US Base, and (b) wouldn't be able to say no anyways.
If noone else, Kuwait certainly is USA's bitch. They owe us bigtime for saving their hides in 1991.
Another case in point: A Q Khan. This guy was peddling nuclear know-how (and I literally mean peddling: he had distributed brochures on how his labs would give you the machinery to enrich Uranium and train your people at arms fairs) to all and sundry, and yet he was let off without even a slap on the wrist. This guy (AQK) gave nuclear know-how to North Korea, Libya, etc. and yet nothing happened to him.
It is fun to watch a brainwashed moron like you keep repeating the Party line, with his fingers in his ears while his head is up his ass.
Prepare for another reaming...
We were finally faced with the facts that Saddam was rebuilding his nuclear program,
Facts? What facts?? Everyone from the UNSCOM and IAEA down kept saying he had nothing. Oh, you mean like the Uranium he was buying from Niger as your messiah claimed? HA! Every one laughed at that sloppy forgery.
continued to do chemical weapons research
Well, guess what? Half the college Chem students can build "chemical weapons" (obviously, not in the college YOU came from, looking at the dull-as-a-snail brain that you have). Take a look at the Meth labs plaguing the midwest. Look at the nerve-gas attack in Japan. You don't need a tinpot tyrant to do chemical weapons research. Sling together some household cleaners and you'll have some pretty potent stuff.
helped fund Al-Qaeda through oil-for-food Again, the village idiot doesn't get it. There was no such link! And the Saudis gave 1000x more money to Al Qaeda (and continue to give to this very day). Stop cherry-picking your "facts" and open your blind-as-a-bat eyes, moran!
is implicated in numerous attacks on US soil
Another "fact" from the big ass of his.
I'm sure I've left a few things out.
The only things remaining are: Saddam helped bury Hoffa; Saddam actually trained Oswald; Saddam was seen crawling away from the alien crash site in Roswell; the palaces Saddam built were actually built for Elvis; and, just a few weeks ago, Saddam was seen digging around on Mt. St Helens.
Jesus! I never thought I'd meet anybody as dumb as you are.
Fuckin' idiot, here's what you wrote in the grandparent:
as their national paper described it a few months in advance, including the specific targets. It said Saddam would attack America with the vengeance of the bedouins, hitting the Pentagon and the White House, and strike America on the arm that is already hurting (ref. 1993 WTC), and that America would curse the name of Frank Sinatra (referring to his song, "New York, New York").
And here's what is written in the CBS News link that you provided:
According to the lawsuit, a columnist writing under the byline Naeem Abd Muhalhal described bin Laden thinking "seriously, with the seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert, about the way he will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White House."
The columnist also allegedly wrote that bin Laden was "insisting very convincingly that he will strike America on the arm that is already hurting," a possible reference to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
SEE THE NAMES I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED.
You take Bin Laden's quote, and attribute it to Saddam. Way to go, moran!
The only thing you have in common with an "analyst" is "anal". Take some friggin' remedial reading lessons, will ya?
LOL... the same guy who thinks that the fact a terrorist looked sideways at Iraq is confirmed proof that Iraq was involved, now dismisses hard evidence (phone records, money trail, etc.) as "hearsay".
You are quite the brainwashed puppy, aren't you?
A more cynical man than I would posit that you were actually being paid to put forth these half-baked and half-assed theories on sites like Slashdot. There can be no other explanation as to why you seem dumb as a brick.
as their national paper described it a few months in advance, including the specific targets. It said Saddam would attack America with the vengeance of the bedouins, hitting the Pentagon and the White House, and strike America on the arm that is already hurting (ref. 1993 WTC), and that America would curse the name of Frank Sinatra (referring to his song, "New York, New York").
Wow.. that ass from which you dragged this "factoid" out must be pretty big.
Can you point to any sources? In particular, can you point out the page of the 9/11 report where this is mentioned? After all, if the Iraqi dictator had used these exact words, then surely the 9/11 commission would have looked into it, right? (Hint: I did a Google search with your phrases, and got no hits).
It just boggles the mind to see someone claim to be a "Programmer/Analyst" and yet fail to show the analytical skills of a 2-year old.
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Actually, I think that the war in Iraq will prevent the future slaughter of the innocent.
And what makes you think this? Have you ever seen how many Americans (and 100x that many innocent Iraqis) have been killed since "Mission Accomplished" ?
You have to start somewhere.....
The hope is that after Iraq becomes stable, in 15-30 years it will help stabilize the whole region. That might not be true, but forgive me if I have a little hope for the world.
Just 'hoping' without some common sense is sheer idiocy. Have you read the history of this region? Do you know that while you are preaching "democracy" right now, for decades the US has gone out of its way to prop up totalitarian and brutal regimes? Even today, who is the biggest supporter of the Saudis? Yeah, you got it right: the US. The same Saudis who refuse to shut down the pipeline of funding for "charities" (which are a front for terrorists). Where 100s of little schoolgirls were allowed to burn to death in a shool fire because they weren't suitably covered up when trying to escape from the flames! And don't forget: 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis.
Of course, if you disagreed w/ Saddam, he'd cut off your hands
ROTFLMAO... you dimwit. The same system of "justice" is practiced in many Islamic countries. Look at the number of beheadings that are done in Saudi Arabia.
No, they were killed because Saddam didn't use Oil-for-Food to get food, he used it to bribe leaders, support Al-Qaeda, and other things.
Ha.. I knew you'd trot out the Party line. Your critical thinking skills are as close to zero as I've ever seen anywhere. The 9/11 commission itself said there was no link between Saddam and Al-Qaeda.
Just to show how ignorant you are, let me tell you one more thing. Did you know that the head of Pakistani Intelligence wired $100K to Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker, a few weeks before 9/11 ?? Here's a fucking smoking gun proof that points to Pakistani state sponsorship of the 9/11 hijackers. And what does your messiah W do?? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Please don't think I'm angry at you. I feel pity for you: for, one should pity the fool that knows not, and knows not that he knows not. And you are one big fool who knows not.
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You should see what Iraqis think about this.
Yeah, I'd like to hear what Iraqis think about this. But the link you provided does NOT point to what Iraqis think; it points to a partisan outfit that is interested in peddling its own "truth" (somewhat like the "Swift Boat veterans for truth"). You want to know the "truth about Iraq"? How about you look at Iraq before the 1991 Gulf War. The children that Jim Hake cites were "killed under Saddam" ? They were killed by the UN sanctions. Before GW-1, Iraq was a pretty decent country. The Iran-Iraq war sent it on a downward spiral, but the GW-1 and sanctions prevented it from ever coming back up.
I'm sure none of this will make any difference to you because your colored glasses won't make you see any different. But remember this: Iraq was the only secular regime in that region! Today, the muslim mullahs run the place.
It was a place where women and minorities had equal rights. Women could fucking DRIVE in IRAQ! Something they cannot do even today in Saudi Arabia, your "ally". Women held high positions of power. Remember Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi PM? He was a Christian! Imagine, that: a Christian PM in a 95% Muslim country! Let me know if you find such a thing ever again in the Middle East.
Regarding your "good reasons" for invading Iraq: your cherry-picking of the facts leaves much to be desired. In isolation: yes, Saddam was a bad man. But, why not apply the same reasoning to states like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia? Just because their leaders were shrewd enough to hoodwink Bush into thinking they're his "allies"?? While you point to the passports, etc. as evidence of Iraqi hand in terrorism, you conveniently ignore the fact that countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have been openly funding and training terrorists for decades! Almost every single terrorist of the past decade got training and support in Pakistan.
There are a dozen countries out there that have been international pariahs for decades (while Rumsfeld was shaking hands with Saddam), but the US never chose to invade them. Countries like Syria have given shelter for terrorists since the 60s; and yet Colin Powell prefers to talk to them.
Your "good reasons" are nothing more than a poor attempt at justification after the fact.
It reminds me of the old fable of the wolf and the lamb. Both are drinking from a stream. The lamb is downstream from the wolf, but the wolf has designs on it. The wolf accuses him of polluting the water he's drinking. "But, I'm downstream", bleats the lamb. "How could I be polluting your water?". The wolf thinks about this for a second, and then says "Your mother insulted me the other day" and promptly proceeds to eat him.
It is quite surprising that you claim to be a follower of Christ, and yet you look away when innocents are being slaughtered. Where's your religion? Where are your teachings? Oh right! They don't apply to Muslims! That must be it.
You don't have to read in all the six sectors[sic].
Firstly, you aren't dealing with sectors; you are dealing with blocks. But we'll use your terminology and stick to "sectors" for this discussion.
Assuming you start with blank sectors, you don't have to worry about the sectors corresponding to the stripe which are empty. Why? Because 0 ^ 0 is still 0. So, no dreaded reading of the 6 sectors in this case.
Now, if you are updating a sector that has already been written, then you need to just read the parity sector(P) as well as the contents of the sector being overwritten (O). Assume the new data is (N). Then, your new parity sector becomes P' = (P ^ O ^ N). So, what would have been just a write gets translated into 2 reads (of P and O), an XOR (trivial) and 2 writes (of N and P').
Talk about an advertisement! Jeez... can we cut out the hyperbole a little bit, please?
The MyFi's live mode enables users to listen live to all of XM's 68 commercial-free music channels, plus premier news, sports, talk, traffic and weather channels.
Wow... what a way to work in the number of channels, etc. into the schpiel.
What else did you expect? That MyFi would not allow some channels to be heard??
I don't see how VW would get sued for having those features.
A loser gets into an accident when its raining. Claims the wiper distracted him by speeding up/slowing down (or the wiper wasn't working or something). There ya go.
I'll give you an example. My friend was stopped at a red light. A pedestrian was crossing in front of him. He got rear-ended, and ended up hitting the pedestrian. The pedestrian turned around and sued both him and the person who rear-ended him. He had to waste a lot of time fighting the case, when it is obvious to anybody with a double-digit IQ or higher that it wasn't his fault. But he got sued nevertheless.
Between 95 and 97 percent of all lawsuits filed end in settlement.
That's because the cost of lawyers is so high that it often makese sense to settle.
If you sue a company for $1000, it will cost the company more to just file a response in the court. The company might be better off just giving you the $1000 to go away (and never come back).
Ballmer wants a $100 computer? How about lowering the prices on his products too? Why does he expect Intel/AMD to forego profits, while Microshaft amasses billions?
Compare the prices of hardware from 6 years ago and today. While hardware capabilities have grown by orders of magnitude, the "32-bit shell on an 8-bit OS" hasn't changed much (except for CPU-hogging purtiness).
Let's see Ballmer offer WinXP Pro for $10, then he can talk about a $100 computer.
a properly trained one will make it harder to create pages with blinking text, loads of images etc.
Why should it? What if I want to create such a page? Why should someone (or something) tell me what to say, or how to say it? And who will "train" such a thing? The Government??
There are several numbers quoted in that article that will put to rest some of the popular misconceptions being touted here.
1. Healthcare is expensive in the US because of high malpractice insurance.
From the article: Trehan, 58, a former assistant professor at New York University Medical School who said he earned nearly $2 million a year from his Manhattan practice... Moreover, he added, a New York heart surgeon "has to pay $100,000 a year in malpractice insurance.
This guy was making $2mil a year, and paying $100K for MI; just 5%.
2. Doctors there are bad
The founder (as quoted above) was an Asst Prof at NYU, making $2M a year. In fact, a lot of the doctors you find here (in the US) are graduates from the same Indian schools. And many of them working at these top hospitals are those who returned from US/UK. You'll find a good number of them holding advanced degrees (like FRCS) from institutions in US/UK. A good friend of mine (an Indian who finished his residency here) is going back because he couldn't get into the top school he wanted for research. He has his choice of places where he can practice, but he prefers to go back because he says "if I'm going to practice, might as well do it at home". There, the good doctors are put on a pedestal and have a lot of clout in society.
3. Facilities are bad
The hospital mentioned, Escorts, is top-notch and was founded by an Asst Prof at NYU who gave up a $2M/yr package to go back. Here's another quote from the article: Escorts is one of only a handful of treatment facilities worldwide that specialize in robotic surgery,
4. Quality of care will be bad
From the article: the death rate for coronary-bypass patients at Escorts is.8 percent. By contrast, the 1999 death rate for the same procedure at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where former president Bill Clinton recently underwent bypass surgery, was 2.35 percent, according to a 2002 study by the New York State Health Department.
5. It is cheap because it is bad
Again, from the article: For example, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan costs $60 at Escorts, compared with roughly $700 in New York
I will relate a personal story. A very good friend of mine hurt his back (slipped disk) while travelling in India in 1997. He had to be hospitalised, and operated upon. After operation, he got 1 month of in-home nursing care. The total bill? $4000.
When he came back, he told his insurance company about this. They asked him to go to a local doctor. He checked him out, and said that the job the Indian doctors had done was as good as anything they would have done locally. And the insurance company paid the $4K even though he hadn't followed procedure (called them and sought approval), saying that just the MRI alone here would have cost $4K. There, the MRI, surgery, post-operative care, etc. all came at the price of just an MRI here.
if you are using Server 2003 O/S to cruise the web with an admin rights role, you are the security problem, not the OS.
And how do you download the latest service packs? Check on MS advisories?? etc. etc. Unless you have some sort of a telepathic connection to Ballmer, where are you going to get this information from?
The Internet has become critical in the delivery of upgrades and new features. Gone are the days of floppies and CDs being shipped in the mail. For Microsoft to leave its browser so bug-ridden and standards-averse is negligent.
I'm reading the review right now (I know, I should burn my/. membership card), and the first thing that jumped out at me were the difference in memory specs between the AMD setup and the P4 setup:
AMD: 2 x 512MB OCZ PC3200 EL Dual Channel DIMMs 2-2-2-10
Intel P4: 2 x 512MB Crucial DDR-II 533 Dual Channel DIMMs 3-3-3-12
Why not keep the rest of the components exactly the same, so we can have a _real_ comparison?
I'm no Intel fanboy (or an AMD fanboy, for that matter), but when you're doing such benchmarking, some attention to details would help.
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While people like you play with toy soldiers and make "phoosh! phoosshh!! bang! boom!!" sounds, there are real soldiers dying out there in Iraq, who answered the call to duty and gave their all. The least you can do to honor their sacrifices is to pursue the truth, however unpalatable it may be!
Fuckin' liars like you are what we fought in Germany in WW2, and kicked their asses.
Make no mistake: truth will always prevail, regardless of the number of snivelling bastards like you trying to spin it.
I was reading in the Economist many months ago that being able to have a base in Iraq would be a godsend for the USA as they would be able to quit Saudi, a regime they've never got on with.
Nice theory, but not true. There are several little states out there (like Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, etc.) which would (a) love to have a US Base, and (b) wouldn't be able to say no anyways.
If noone else, Kuwait certainly is USA's bitch. They owe us bigtime for saving their hides in 1991.
Sigh... need I point you to the source ?
Another case in point: A Q Khan. This guy was peddling nuclear know-how (and I literally mean peddling: he had distributed brochures on how his labs would give you the machinery to enrich Uranium and train your people at arms fairs) to all and sundry, and yet he was let off without even a slap on the wrist. This guy (AQK) gave nuclear know-how to North Korea, Libya, etc. and yet nothing happened to him.
Must be, since I've never heard of it....
Prepare for another reaming...
We were finally faced with the facts that Saddam was rebuilding his nuclear program,
Facts? What facts?? Everyone from the UNSCOM and IAEA down kept saying he had nothing. Oh, you mean like the Uranium he was buying from Niger as your messiah claimed? HA! Every one laughed at that sloppy forgery.
continued to do chemical weapons research
Well, guess what? Half the college Chem students can build "chemical weapons" (obviously, not in the college YOU came from, looking at the dull-as-a-snail brain that you have). Take a look at the Meth labs plaguing the midwest. Look at the nerve-gas attack in Japan. You don't need a tinpot tyrant to do chemical weapons research. Sling together some household cleaners and you'll have some pretty potent stuff.
helped fund Al-Qaeda through oil-for-food
Again, the village idiot doesn't get it. There was no such link! And the Saudis gave 1000x more money to Al Qaeda (and continue to give to this very day). Stop cherry-picking your "facts" and open your blind-as-a-bat eyes, moran!
is implicated in numerous attacks on US soil
Another "fact" from the big ass of his.
I'm sure I've left a few things out.
The only things remaining are: Saddam helped bury Hoffa; Saddam actually trained Oswald; Saddam was seen crawling away from the alien crash site in Roswell; the palaces Saddam built were actually built for Elvis; and, just a few weeks ago, Saddam was seen digging around on Mt. St Helens.
Fuckin' idiot, here's what you wrote in the grandparent:
as their national paper described it a few months in advance, including the specific targets. It said Saddam would attack America with the vengeance of the bedouins, hitting the Pentagon and the White House, and strike America on the arm that is already hurting (ref. 1993 WTC), and that America would curse the name of Frank Sinatra (referring to his song, "New York, New York").
And here's what is written in the CBS News link that you provided:
According to the lawsuit, a columnist writing under the byline Naeem Abd Muhalhal described bin Laden thinking "seriously, with the seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert, about the way he will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White House."
The columnist also allegedly wrote that bin Laden was "insisting very convincingly that he will strike America on the arm that is already hurting," a possible reference to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
SEE THE NAMES I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED.
You take Bin Laden's quote, and attribute it to Saddam. Way to go, moran!
The only thing you have in common with an "analyst" is "anal". Take some friggin' remedial reading lessons, will ya?
LOL... the same guy who thinks that the fact a terrorist looked sideways at Iraq is confirmed proof that Iraq was involved, now dismisses hard evidence (phone records, money trail, etc.) as "hearsay".
You are quite the brainwashed puppy, aren't you?
A more cynical man than I would posit that you were actually being paid to put forth these half-baked and half-assed theories on sites like Slashdot. There can be no other explanation as to why you seem dumb as a brick.
I just can't stop laughing at your sheer lunacy. And why didn't you try this with Saddam?
God.. if people like you are what "programmer/analysts" are like these days, no wonder we are outsourcing work to India.
Wow.. that ass from which you dragged this "factoid" out must be pretty big.
Can you point to any sources? In particular, can you point out the page of the 9/11 report where this is mentioned? After all, if the Iraqi dictator had used these exact words, then surely the 9/11 commission would have looked into it, right? (Hint: I did a Google search with your phrases, and got no hits).
It just boggles the mind to see someone claim to be a "Programmer/Analyst" and yet fail to show the analytical skills of a 2-year old.
And what makes you think this? Have you ever seen how many Americans (and 100x that many innocent Iraqis) have been killed since "Mission Accomplished" ?
You have to start somewhere..... The hope is that after Iraq becomes stable, in 15-30 years it will help stabilize the whole region. That might not be true, but forgive me if I have a little hope for the world.
Just 'hoping' without some common sense is sheer idiocy. Have you read the history of this region? Do you know that while you are preaching "democracy" right now, for decades the US has gone out of its way to prop up totalitarian and brutal regimes? Even today, who is the biggest supporter of the Saudis? Yeah, you got it right: the US. The same Saudis who refuse to shut down the pipeline of funding for "charities" (which are a front for terrorists). Where 100s of little schoolgirls were allowed to burn to death in a shool fire because they weren't suitably covered up when trying to escape from the flames! And don't forget: 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis.
Of course, if you disagreed w/ Saddam, he'd cut off your hands
ROTFLMAO... you dimwit. The same system of "justice" is practiced in many Islamic countries. Look at the number of beheadings that are done in Saudi Arabia.
No, they were killed because Saddam didn't use Oil-for-Food to get food, he used it to bribe leaders, support Al-Qaeda, and other things.
Ha.. I knew you'd trot out the Party line. Your critical thinking skills are as close to zero as I've ever seen anywhere. The 9/11 commission itself said there was no link between Saddam and Al-Qaeda.
Just to show how ignorant you are, let me tell you one more thing. Did you know that the head of Pakistani Intelligence wired $100K to Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker, a few weeks before 9/11 ?? Here's a fucking smoking gun proof that points to Pakistani state sponsorship of the 9/11 hijackers. And what does your messiah W do?? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Please don't think I'm angry at you. I feel pity for you: for, one should pity the fool that knows not, and knows not that he knows not. And you are one big fool who knows not.
Yeah, I'd like to hear what Iraqis think about this. But the link you provided does NOT point to what Iraqis think; it points to a partisan outfit that is interested in peddling its own "truth" (somewhat like the "Swift Boat veterans for truth"). You want to know the "truth about Iraq"? How about you look at Iraq before the 1991 Gulf War. The children that Jim Hake cites were "killed under Saddam" ? They were killed by the UN sanctions. Before GW-1, Iraq was a pretty decent country. The Iran-Iraq war sent it on a downward spiral, but the GW-1 and sanctions prevented it from ever coming back up.
I'm sure none of this will make any difference to you because your colored glasses won't make you see any different. But remember this: Iraq was the only secular regime in that region! Today, the muslim mullahs run the place.
It was a place where women and minorities had equal rights. Women could fucking DRIVE in IRAQ! Something they cannot do even today in Saudi Arabia, your "ally". Women held high positions of power. Remember Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi PM? He was a Christian! Imagine, that: a Christian PM in a 95% Muslim country! Let me know if you find such a thing ever again in the Middle East.
Regarding your "good reasons" for invading Iraq: your cherry-picking of the facts leaves much to be desired. In isolation: yes, Saddam was a bad man. But, why not apply the same reasoning to states like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia? Just because their leaders were shrewd enough to hoodwink Bush into thinking they're his "allies"?? While you point to the passports, etc. as evidence of Iraqi hand in terrorism, you conveniently ignore the fact that countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have been openly funding and training terrorists for decades! Almost every single terrorist of the past decade got training and support in Pakistan.
There are a dozen countries out there that have been international pariahs for decades (while Rumsfeld was shaking hands with Saddam), but the US never chose to invade them. Countries like Syria have given shelter for terrorists since the 60s; and yet Colin Powell prefers to talk to them.
Your "good reasons" are nothing more than a poor attempt at justification after the fact.
It reminds me of the old fable of the wolf and the lamb. Both are drinking from a stream. The lamb is downstream from the wolf, but the wolf has designs on it. The wolf accuses him of polluting the water he's drinking. "But, I'm downstream", bleats the lamb. "How could I be polluting your water?". The wolf thinks about this for a second, and then says "Your mother insulted me the other day" and promptly proceeds to eat him.
It is quite surprising that you claim to be a follower of Christ, and yet you look away when innocents are being slaughtered. Where's your religion? Where are your teachings? Oh right! They don't apply to Muslims! That must be it.
Try screwing in the socket.. the lightbulb's sealed.
Firstly, you aren't dealing with sectors; you are dealing with blocks. But we'll use your terminology and stick to "sectors" for this discussion.
Assuming you start with blank sectors, you don't have to worry about the sectors corresponding to the stripe which are empty. Why? Because 0 ^ 0 is still 0. So, no dreaded reading of the 6 sectors in this case.
Now, if you are updating a sector that has already been written, then you need to just read the parity sector(P) as well as the contents of the sector being overwritten (O). Assume the new data is (N). Then, your new parity sector becomes P' = (P ^ O ^ N). So, what would have been just a write gets translated into 2 reads (of P and O), an XOR (trivial) and 2 writes (of N and P').
The MyFi's live mode enables users to listen live to all of XM's 68 commercial-free music channels, plus premier news, sports, talk, traffic and weather channels.
Wow... what a way to work in the number of channels, etc. into the schpiel.
What else did you expect? That MyFi would not allow some channels to be heard??
A loser gets into an accident when its raining. Claims the wiper distracted him by speeding up/slowing down (or the wiper wasn't working or something). There ya go.
I'll give you an example. My friend was stopped at a red light. A pedestrian was crossing in front of him. He got rear-ended, and ended up hitting the pedestrian. The pedestrian turned around and sued both him and the person who rear-ended him. He had to waste a lot of time fighting the case, when it is obvious to anybody with a double-digit IQ or higher that it wasn't his fault. But he got sued nevertheless.
That's because the cost of lawyers is so high that it often makese sense to settle.
If you sue a company for $1000, it will cost the company more to just file a response in the court. The company might be better off just giving you the $1000 to go away (and never come back).
Compare the prices of hardware from 6 years ago and today. While hardware capabilities have grown by orders of magnitude, the "32-bit shell on an 8-bit OS" hasn't changed much (except for CPU-hogging purtiness).
Let's see Ballmer offer WinXP Pro for $10, then he can talk about a $100 computer.
Why should it? What if I want to create such a page? Why should someone (or something) tell me what to say, or how to say it? And who will "train" such a thing? The Government??
is a GPS kit with an embedded processor that runs Linux. Costing no more than, say, $200. Any ideas?
1. Healthcare is expensive in the US because of high malpractice insurance. ... Moreover, he added, a New York heart surgeon "has to pay $100,000 a year in malpractice insurance.
From the article: Trehan, 58, a former assistant professor at New York University Medical School who said he earned nearly $2 million a year from his Manhattan practice
This guy was making $2mil a year, and paying $100K for MI; just 5%.
2. Doctors there are bad
The founder (as quoted above) was an Asst Prof at NYU, making $2M a year. In fact, a lot of the doctors you find here (in the US) are graduates from the same Indian schools. And many of them working at these top hospitals are those who returned from US/UK. You'll find a good number of them holding advanced degrees (like FRCS) from institutions in US/UK. A good friend of mine (an Indian who finished his residency here) is going back because he couldn't get into the top school he wanted for research. He has his choice of places where he can practice, but he prefers to go back because he says "if I'm going to practice, might as well do it at home". There, the good doctors are put on a pedestal and have a lot of clout in society.
3. Facilities are bad
The hospital mentioned, Escorts, is top-notch and was founded by an Asst Prof at NYU who gave up a $2M/yr package to go back. Here's another quote from the article: Escorts is one of only a handful of treatment facilities worldwide that specialize in robotic surgery,
4. Quality of care will be bad .8 percent. By contrast, the 1999 death rate for the same procedure at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where former president Bill Clinton recently underwent bypass surgery, was 2.35 percent, according to a 2002 study by the New York State Health Department.
From the article: the death rate for coronary-bypass patients at Escorts is
5. It is cheap because it is bad
Again, from the article: For example, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan costs $60 at Escorts, compared with roughly $700 in New York
I will relate a personal story. A very good friend of mine hurt his back (slipped disk) while travelling in India in 1997. He had to be hospitalised, and operated upon. After operation, he got 1 month of in-home nursing care. The total bill? $4000.
When he came back, he told his insurance company about this. They asked him to go to a local doctor. He checked him out, and said that the job the Indian doctors had done was as good as anything they would have done locally. And the insurance company paid the $4K even though he hadn't followed procedure (called them and sought approval), saying that just the MRI alone here would have cost $4K. There, the MRI, surgery, post-operative care, etc. all came at the price of just an MRI here.
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Erm... these two might be related, you know ;-)
And how do you download the latest service packs? Check on MS advisories?? etc. etc. Unless you have some sort of a telepathic connection to Ballmer, where are you going to get this information from?
The Internet has become critical in the delivery of upgrades and new features. Gone are the days of floppies and CDs being shipped in the mail. For Microsoft to leave its browser so bug-ridden and standards-averse is negligent.
Err, hate to break it to ya chief, but Antarctica is in the Southern Hemisphere, which means it is going to be summer there starting next month.
Oops, my bad: I didn't notice the "DDR-II" in the specs.
AMD: 2 x 512MB OCZ PC3200 EL Dual Channel DIMMs 2-2-2-10
Intel P4: 2 x 512MB Crucial DDR-II 533 Dual Channel DIMMs 3-3-3-12
Why not keep the rest of the components exactly the same, so we can have a _real_ comparison?
I'm no Intel fanboy (or an AMD fanboy, for that matter), but when you're doing such benchmarking, some attention to details would help.