If you disregard the fact that - MS caters mainly to enterprises, Apple almost exclusively to consumers - MS is a purely software business, Apple is hardware + software - MS is a convicted monopolist, Apple is not - Last time MS innovated was... when, again ? Apple does regularly innovate, if only with interfaces and product concepts
yes, both are evil in that they use proprietary software, formats and DRM, with an eye to creating as much lock-in and network effect as possible.
1- Yes. Doing something yourself even if you don't know exactly how is better than having someone else do it.
2- Yes it does. I hurt for 2 years, regular medecine can not possibly have chosen the precise 45 minutes I spent at the Chiro, 6 months after my last 'regular' treatment, to suddenly work. And to work again 6 months later when I re-hurt my back help my brother move. I don't think it was magic ponies. Do you ?
3- In a way, yes. Same as all faith healers. That's wxhat the placebo effect is, look it up. The converse is also true: if you're convinced a treatment cannot work, it probably won't, or you won't realize/acknowledge if it does.
4- So one the one hand, you think Chiro can't cure people because it does nothing, on the other hand, you argue it harms people because it does do something ? Color me confused. I do agree that an incompetent Chiro could hurt me. I've had ample proof that mine is competent, and reliable. I wouldn't go to just any Chiro.
I remember back when I was in high school of teachers telling me US's gas mileage was not measured in anything close to real conditions, basically with the clutch disengaged and at constant speed, which totally canceled the effect of the car's mass and aerodynamics, among other things.
Is it still the case or have the US, like the EU, worked up a realistic measurement ?
1- Non-medicine that works is better than medicine that works because healing myself is better than being healed in the same way that getting back on my feet on my own is better than crying for daddy. Not knowing how something works does not make it worse than knowing, just more challenging. If you think about it, we don't actually know how most of nature works.
2- Yes, me getting fixed means chiropractic works. Maybe not always, maybe not for everyone, but at least in some cases. It even means it works better than regular medicine in some cases - at least mine-.
3- You seem to misunderstand what the placebo effect is: people have to believe it's real medicine for it to work.
4- Well, I was countering your " I haven't got hard data to hand, but I've read reports in the past of people being seriously injured by chiropractors", now you're changing your tune. There's hard data about classic medicine's deaths in another answer to my grandparent.
Thanks for the figures, which are actually much worse than I thought. 200K deaths/year in the US alone, and 1.5m harmed / year too. Puts Chiropaxy's figures in perspective.
1- It's even better if it's placebo. The only thing better that medecine that works, is non-medicine that works.
I got fixed for less money, side effects, suffering and hassle than by my 2 trys at regular medicine.
I'm 100% sure there IS some psychological part to any illness and cure, indeed. Your point is ? Placebo cures are bad, and non-placebo -non-cures are good ?
2- I've heard reports of people seriously injured by regular medicine. Plenty of them actually. My take is that medicine is not a perfect science ?
I spent 2 years - TWO - having so much back pain that I had trouble tying my shoes, picking stuff up, couldn't do dishes, vacuum... Feeling like crying, not so much because of the actual pain, as because of the despair of not being able to do much anymore.
I went to a regular doctor, gave me pain killers and muscle relaxants. Felt goofy, but not healed. So relaxed I had trouble holding anything, actually.
He then sent me to a Kinesitherapeute, which is the officially anointed cure for back pain in France. Massages, rubing stuff on it, pills again... same results. I felt a bit less goofy, the treatment hurt like hell, and I didn't actually feel much better afterwards.
A friend of a friend sent me to his Chiropractor. In 1 one 45-minutes session, that guy put me back to normal. I could tie my shoes, I actually still remember I felt like tap-dancing in the streets right out of that first session: for the first time in 2 years, I didn't hurt anymore. That was 8 years ago. I've gone back a few times, twice because I was hurting again, then every 3-6 months for an oil change. I once had to go to another Chiro, nowhere near as good results.
Best 75 bucks I ever spent. I agree that's not scientific at all, it just worked for me, may not work for you, may not work for me next time...
I did gave regular medicine 2 shots at my back pain before going rogue, and it failed me.
Back pain / headaches is really the core of what Chiropracy is about, so I'm a bit doubtful about claims in other areas. I'll be willing to try it just in case though. Worst case, it won't do damage, best case, it'll actually be as good as for my back.
I'm wondering how much I'd (and you'd) be willing to pay for more privacy. It shouldn't be too hard to modify a browser to go through some kind of anonymizing proxy, to change IP adress, user-agent footprint, control cookies... But that service does have a running cost. Opera for example already has a 'turbo' mode that uses their servers as proxies to speed things up on low-bandwidth links (image compression...).
As a side benefit, that service could include at least basic malware/scam protection (on the fly antivirus, server/IP blacklists...)
To me, at $1/month it would be a no-brainer. but at $10/month it would be too expensive.
please do explain to me how byte code gives them more control than machine code ? especially with mono around ? and how the ARM in phones is the same as x86 ?
back in your day - when someone committed suicide, it was swept under the rug so they could get a church burial - news about a suicide was local news, at best. this never would have made national news
so yay, there were kids' suicides, back in your days. you just never heard of them.
actually, there's a lot less violence today than in your day. it just gets reported and advertised a lot more. dead kids sell.
I disagree about the Baguette, monsieur. It's just bread, not particularly fat, though with a lot of slow sugar. It's basically cereals, and in a healthier form that what you yankees eat for breakfast. But then, it has to be made daily, and also purchased daily by walking to the boulangerie du quartier before breakfast, which explains why you understand nothing about it:-p
I'm wondering: If I'm running WIndows, and setup the bank's Linux in a VM, am I still vulnerable to windows's trojans and keyloggers ? I would guess Yes, because keystrokes go WIndows -> VM manager -> Linux VM ? Or not ?
It will be very interesting to see if MS can get it right this time. WinMob grabbed some marketshare thanks to OEMs' efforts to hide all the suckiness... They were not that successful, and MS now says they can make their suckiness go away at the cost of openness and customization... I'm not convinced.
MS has not been very successfull outside their seminal OS monopoly. I'm not sure how they can leverage that for the mobile market... and it seems they aren't, either.
I'm still looking for something that WinMob 7 does that others don't.
My guess is Opera have no hope of getting it approved, buyt are starting to build a case to force the iGarden open the same way they forced the Wintel one. Will take a while, though.
The issue is that SSDs are not really a revolution, just an evolution. A bit less power consumption, a bit less noise, a bit more performance, at the cost of mucho money, more performance variability, and an untested lifespan.
I personally am not in the market for an SSD yet. Gaining a handful of seconds every time I launch apps is irrelevant, since I no longer launch apps that much: Windows and Linux are stable enough to never require a reboot, so I start the PC, launch my apps... and they stay launched for a few days or weeks.
At work, I imagine there's plenty of tiered solutions already.
What would really make me think about it is some kind of ReadyBoost for SSDs, where the SSD acts as a cache for the HD. This way, even a smallish SSD (30 gigs ?) would provide a sizable performance gain. Right now, putting a whole OS or App on an SSD, while prolly only 1/3rd f their code gets read regularly, is majorly inefficient. Hopefully MS and Linux are working on it.
I don't understand. Time is that totally arbitrary number we put out, and change twice yearly, as arbitrarily. Basically, make yoiur clocks run 1 hour early. You'll feel soooo much better, if you believe what the say.
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could we have a maximum of 1 apple story a day, and 3-4 a week ? I'm reaching saturation with the fanboi blabber on both sides.
you can tweak settings in windows to make newer version look and feel much like older ones.
If you disregard the fact that
- MS caters mainly to enterprises, Apple almost exclusively to consumers
- MS is a purely software business, Apple is hardware + software
- MS is a convicted monopolist, Apple is not
- Last time MS innovated was... when, again ? Apple does regularly innovate, if only with interfaces and product concepts
yes, both are evil in that they use proprietary software, formats and DRM, with an eye to creating as much lock-in and network effect as possible.
1- Yes. Doing something yourself even if you don't know exactly how is better than having someone else do it.
2- Yes it does. I hurt for 2 years, regular medecine can not possibly have chosen the precise 45 minutes I spent at the Chiro, 6 months after my last 'regular' treatment, to suddenly work. And to work again 6 months later when I re-hurt my back help my brother move. I don't think it was magic ponies. Do you ?
3- In a way, yes. Same as all faith healers. That's wxhat the placebo effect is, look it up. The converse is also true: if you're convinced a treatment cannot work, it probably won't, or you won't realize/acknowledge if it does.
4- So one the one hand, you think Chiro can't cure people because it does nothing, on the other hand, you argue it harms people because it does do something ? Color me confused. I do agree that an incompetent Chiro could hurt me. I've had ample proof that mine is competent, and reliable. I wouldn't go to just any Chiro.
I remember back when I was in high school of teachers telling me US's gas mileage was not measured in anything close to real conditions, basically with the clutch disengaged and at constant speed, which totally canceled the effect of the car's mass and aerodynamics, among other things.
Is it still the case or have the US, like the EU, worked up a realistic measurement ?
1- Non-medicine that works is better than medicine that works because healing myself is better than being healed in the same way that getting back on my feet on my own is better than crying for daddy. Not knowing how something works does not make it worse than knowing, just more challenging. If you think about it, we don't actually know how most of nature works.
2- Yes, me getting fixed means chiropractic works. Maybe not always, maybe not for everyone, but at least in some cases. It even means it works better than regular medicine in some cases - at least mine-.
3- You seem to misunderstand what the placebo effect is: people have to believe it's real medicine for it to work.
4- Well, I was countering your " I haven't got hard data to hand, but I've read reports in the past of people being seriously injured by chiropractors", now you're changing your tune. There's hard data about classic medicine's deaths in another answer to my grandparent.
Thanks for the figures, which are actually much worse than I thought. 200K deaths/year in the US alone, and 1.5m harmed / year too. Puts Chiropaxy's figures in perspective.
ad hominem. Shooting the messenger does NOT invalidate the message.
1- It's even better if it's placebo. The only thing better that medecine that works, is non-medicine that works.
I got fixed for less money, side effects, suffering and hassle than by my 2 trys at regular medicine.
I'm 100% sure there IS some psychological part to any illness and cure, indeed. Your point is ? Placebo cures are bad, and non-placebo -non-cures are good ?
2- I've heard reports of people seriously injured by regular medicine. Plenty of them actually. My take is that medicine is not a perfect science ?
does anyone have comparable stats for regular medicine ?
I spent 2 years - TWO - having so much back pain that I had trouble tying my shoes, picking stuff up, couldn't do dishes, vacuum... Feeling like crying, not so much because of the actual pain, as because of the despair of not being able to do much anymore.
I went to a regular doctor, gave me pain killers and muscle relaxants. Felt goofy, but not healed. So relaxed I had trouble holding anything, actually.
He then sent me to a Kinesitherapeute, which is the officially anointed cure for back pain in France. Massages, rubing stuff on it, pills again... same results. I felt a bit less goofy, the treatment hurt like hell, and I didn't actually feel much better afterwards.
A friend of a friend sent me to his Chiropractor. In 1 one 45-minutes session, that guy put me back to normal. I could tie my shoes, I actually still remember I felt like tap-dancing in the streets right out of that first session: for the first time in 2 years, I didn't hurt anymore. That was 8 years ago. I've gone back a few times, twice because I was hurting again, then every 3-6 months for an oil change. I once had to go to another Chiro, nowhere near as good results.
Best 75 bucks I ever spent. I agree that's not scientific at all, it just worked for me, may not work for you, may not work for me next time...
I did gave regular medicine 2 shots at my back pain before going rogue, and it failed me.
Back pain / headaches is really the core of what Chiropracy is about, so I'm a bit doubtful about claims in other areas. I'll be willing to try it just in case though. Worst case, it won't do damage, best case, it'll actually be as good as for my back.
you're right. But only 2% of internet users do that.
who cares about anything else on a tablet ? you want to run superpi on it ?
I'm wondering how much I'd (and you'd) be willing to pay for more privacy. It shouldn't be too hard to modify a browser to go through some kind of anonymizing proxy, to change IP adress, user-agent footprint, control cookies... But that service does have a running cost. Opera for example already has a 'turbo' mode that uses their servers as proxies to speed things up on low-bandwidth links (image compression...).
As a side benefit, that service could include at least basic malware/scam protection (on the fly antivirus, server/IP blacklists...)
To me, at $1/month it would be a no-brainer. but at $10/month it would be too expensive.
http://violentdeathproject.com/countries/united-states
please do explain to me how byte code gives them more control than machine code ? especially with mono around ? and how the ARM in phones is the same as x86 ?
back in your day
- when someone committed suicide, it was swept under the rug so they could get a church burial
- news about a suicide was local news, at best. this never would have made national news
so yay, there were kids' suicides, back in your days. you just never heard of them.
actually, there's a lot less violence today than in your day. it just gets reported and advertised a lot more. dead kids sell.
I disagree about the Baguette, monsieur. It's just bread, not particularly fat, though with a lot of slow sugar. It's basically cereals, and in a healthier form that what you yankees eat for breakfast. But then, it has to be made daily, and also purchased daily by walking to the boulangerie du quartier before breakfast, which explains why you understand nothing about it :-p
I'm wondering: If I'm running WIndows, and setup the bank's Linux in a VM, am I still vulnerable to windows's trojans and keyloggers ? I would guess Yes, because keystrokes go WIndows -> VM manager -> Linux VM ? Or not ?
It will be very interesting to see if MS can get it right this time. WinMob grabbed some marketshare thanks to OEMs' efforts to hide all the suckiness... They were not that successful, and MS now says they can make their suckiness go away at the cost of openness and customization... I'm not convinced.
MS has not been very successfull outside their seminal OS monopoly. I'm not sure how they can leverage that for the mobile market... and it seems they aren't, either.
I'm still looking for something that WinMob 7 does that others don't.
My guess is Opera have no hope of getting it approved, buyt are starting to build a case to force the iGarden open the same way they forced the Wintel one. Will take a while, though.
The issue is that SSDs are not really a revolution, just an evolution. A bit less power consumption, a bit less noise, a bit more performance, at the cost of mucho money, more performance variability, and an untested lifespan.
I personally am not in the market for an SSD yet. Gaining a handful of seconds every time I launch apps is irrelevant, since I no longer launch apps that much: Windows and Linux are stable enough to never require a reboot, so I start the PC, launch my apps... and they stay launched for a few days or weeks.
At work, I imagine there's plenty of tiered solutions already.
What would really make me think about it is some kind of ReadyBoost for SSDs, where the SSD acts as a cache for the HD. This way, even a smallish SSD (30 gigs ?) would provide a sizable performance gain. Right now, putting a whole OS or App on an SSD, while prolly only 1/3rd f their code gets read regularly, is majorly inefficient. Hopefully MS and Linux are working on it.
so you're the one finding all those confidential documents on discarded government PCs !
I don't understand. Time is that totally arbitrary number we put out, and change twice yearly, as arbitrarily. Basically, make yoiur clocks run 1 hour early. You'll feel soooo much better, if you believe what the say.
and then I figured it's not even worth it.