with "burst of opportunities" being the cause, indeed, that doesn't necessarily mean that a "burst of evolution" ensues. I think that evolution accelerates when ther is NOT a plethora of opportunities, because species are forced to specialize in various niches.
I'm Romanian, I see more muslims in a month than you see in a year, most likely. They're all fine, I have no problem with them. I buy excellent food from a Syrian store and best sweets from a Lybian store. On the other hand, my country isn't regarded as "must destroy" by extremists.
The only problem with your rather well thought text is the definition of "refugee". If, out of 10,000 "refugees", 10% are terrorist posing as refugees, you're fucked.
It really depends. A basic PC with the bare minimum of components? Sure, it's no big deal. But try something a bit more complex, e.g. liquid cooled PC with SLI and dual-loop, with external radiators & hard tubing, not to mention proper wire management. Or build a PC with silent computing in mind. Or a L3p D3sk:)
My parents screwed me in ways most people can't imagine since I was 4. All types of screwing except sexual type. That's exactly why I am not going to ask anything from MY children.
As a parent myself, I expect NOTHING from my children in terms of help. Not now, not ever. They don't have to do shit for me. They have to grow, develop, live a happy life and I won't take it against them if they leave me to rot in a ditch when they won't need me anymore. I'd just go quietly into the night.
TRUTH. Also, "GT" could mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people, whereas ">" would mean the same thing to all (madmen aside). In my native language, "Greater Than" ("GT") should become "MMD". Ironically, "Lesser Than", in my native language, would also be shortened to "MMD" (because "Greater" and "Lesser" start with the same letter in my language). Of course, we could use "MMD" and "MmD" to differentiate, which would work under certain languages but not at all in others. Or stick to the English terms and have to retrain your brain away from the established operators.
Or, on a personal level, if my boss is giving me 2h worth of work every day, is my productivity bad or good? It's both, as a matter of fact. What I achieve in 2h would take a colleague 10h worth of manpower, so my productivity is awesome. At the same time, slacking for 6h means my productivity sucks, although that's not my fault to start with. Now, if my boss gives me enough work to keep me occupied for 8h, that amounts to 5 times what my colleague could achieve, but I'm paid the same salary as my colleague (in reality, I'm actually being paid less). So... how do you measure my productivity?
Do not Track was off by default on my installation as well. About bookmarks, he means the browser comes bundled with a gazillion bookmarks to shit I don't need.
Adding the following: - Huge memory footprint, on par with Chrome. This is the #1 issue I have with most modern browsers and Chrome is by far the worst offender. I understand RAM is fairly cheap, but fuck, 2 GB RAM occupied with 4 tabs (GMail, Forge of Empires, Google.com main page and Slashdot) achieves full retard status. - Bookmark import works, but creates a sub-folder in the Bookmarks Bar / Imported Bookmarks rather than the expected behavior of asking whether prepopulated bookmarks should be replaced. - You can't move multiple bookmark folders to the bookmark bar although you can select multiple folders (it only moves them one by one).
I bought lots of games after watching a livestream or Youtube "Let's Play". On the other hand, I could never watch eSports. They're way too competitive. To me, games are entertainment. eSports is "watch people work". No, thanks.
Yes, my PC is expensive. It's probably $2K if you buy all components now, maybe more. Yes, it's bulky. No, it's not noisy at all. It only becomes slightly noisy (meaning "you can hear it") when playing GPU-intensive games. The upcoming watercooling GPU upgrade will take care of that as well. When browsing or encoding, it's so silent that the noisiest things in the room are the mouse click sounds and my farts. But my 4 VMs, my generous internal storage space (7 TB), my ability to use 2x 1920x1200 monitors and work, game, watch movies, idly browse, listen to music all while using high quality keyboard, mouse and headphones more than balance out the "disadvantages" you mention.
So what if it's bulky? It's not as if I have to carry it around. It sits in my desk and does its job, much like a console.
Nevertheless, you can make a PC as thin as a console, while still retaining the ability to play games AND do a lot of other things as well. And if you happen to buy enough games, at some point the difference in price between console games and PC games will balance out the difference in cost between a console and a PC.
Consoles are like those inkjet printers which are cheap until you buy new consumables for them.
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with "burst of opportunities" being the cause, indeed, that doesn't necessarily mean that a "burst of evolution" ensues. I think that evolution accelerates when ther is NOT a plethora of opportunities, because species are forced to specialize in various niches.
Thumbs up for reference, Vernor Vinge FTW.
I'm Romanian, I see more muslims in a month than you see in a year, most likely.
They're all fine, I have no problem with them. I buy excellent food from a Syrian store and best sweets from a Lybian store.
On the other hand, my country isn't regarded as "must destroy" by extremists.
The only problem with your rather well thought text is the definition of "refugee".
If, out of 10,000 "refugees", 10% are terrorist posing as refugees, you're fucked.
What's next, different cost based on the amount of RAM installed?
This already exists. Some MS Operating Systems artificially support limited amounts of memory.
Random.org. Case Closed.
It really depends. A basic PC with the bare minimum of components? Sure, it's no big deal. But try something a bit more complex, e.g. liquid cooled PC with SLI and dual-loop, with external radiators & hard tubing, not to mention proper wire management. Or build a PC with silent computing in mind. Or a L3p D3sk :)
You remind me of dogs barking while the huge caravan is passing in front of their tiny courtyards.
My parents screwed me in ways most people can't imagine since I was 4. All types of screwing except sexual type.
That's exactly why I am not going to ask anything from MY children.
Which part of Asia are you from?
I like my lunch stilled.
Maybe you asked to be born, I haven't.
As a parent myself, I expect NOTHING from my children in terms of help. Not now, not ever. They don't have to do shit for me. They have to grow, develop, live a happy life and I won't take it against them if they leave me to rot in a ditch when they won't need me anymore. I'd just go quietly into the night.
Peer Pressure and Social Pressure can be powerful, powerful pushers when you're below 20.
TRUTH.
Also, "GT" could mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people, whereas ">" would mean the same thing to all (madmen aside).
In my native language, "Greater Than" ("GT") should become "MMD". Ironically, "Lesser Than", in my native language, would also be shortened to "MMD" (because "Greater" and "Lesser" start with the same letter in my language).
Of course, we could use "MMD" and "MmD" to differentiate, which would work under certain languages but not at all in others. Or stick to the English terms and have to retrain your brain away from the established operators.
You get to pick. I vote for the latter :)
And Kinder Eggs.
Are the Bangladeshians related to the Kardashians?
That's where he lives.
Or, on a personal level, if my boss is giving me 2h worth of work every day, is my productivity bad or good?
It's both, as a matter of fact. What I achieve in 2h would take a colleague 10h worth of manpower, so my productivity is awesome. At the same time, slacking for 6h means my productivity sucks, although that's not my fault to start with.
Now, if my boss gives me enough work to keep me occupied for 8h, that amounts to 5 times what my colleague could achieve, but I'm paid the same salary as my colleague (in reality, I'm actually being paid less). So... how do you measure my productivity?
Do not Track was off by default on my installation as well.
About bookmarks, he means the browser comes bundled with a gazillion bookmarks to shit I don't need.
Adding the following:
- Huge memory footprint, on par with Chrome. This is the #1 issue I have with most modern browsers and Chrome is by far the worst offender. I understand RAM is fairly cheap, but fuck, 2 GB RAM occupied with 4 tabs (GMail, Forge of Empires, Google.com main page and Slashdot) achieves full retard status.
- Bookmark import works, but creates a sub-folder in the Bookmarks Bar / Imported Bookmarks rather than the expected behavior of asking whether prepopulated bookmarks should be replaced.
- You can't move multiple bookmark folders to the bookmark bar although you can select multiple folders (it only moves them one by one).
2[superscript]4[/superscript].
2^4. Reformatting is for wussies anyway.
My type!
I bought lots of games after watching a livestream or Youtube "Let's Play".
On the other hand, I could never watch eSports. They're way too competitive. To me, games are entertainment. eSports is "watch people work". No, thanks.
Yes, my PC is expensive. It's probably $2K if you buy all components now, maybe more.
Yes, it's bulky.
No, it's not noisy at all. It only becomes slightly noisy (meaning "you can hear it") when playing GPU-intensive games. The upcoming watercooling GPU upgrade will take care of that as well. When browsing or encoding, it's so silent that the noisiest things in the room are the mouse click sounds and my farts.
But my 4 VMs, my generous internal storage space (7 TB), my ability to use 2x 1920x1200 monitors and work, game, watch movies, idly browse, listen to music all while using high quality keyboard, mouse and headphones more than balance out the "disadvantages" you mention.
So what if it's bulky? It's not as if I have to carry it around. It sits in my desk and does its job, much like a console.
Nevertheless, you can make a PC as thin as a console, while still retaining the ability to play games AND do a lot of other things as well. And if you happen to buy enough games, at some point the difference in price between console games and PC games will balance out the difference in cost between a console and a PC.
Consoles are like those inkjet printers which are cheap until you buy new consumables for them.