The author doesn't understand what the straw man argument is. He thinks it is bringing up anything that isn't specifically mentioned in the original argument. Nvidia stating that optimizing multi-core CPUs is difficult and that the Nvidia architecture has hundreds of applications seeing a huge gain in performance now is a valid point even if the Intel side never mentioned the difficulty of implementation.
Other than one being cheaper and more time consuming, there really isn't a difference. I know less about cars than a mechanic that works on them all the time. I have a greater chance about being wrong in any kind of diagnosis than a good mechanic. Other than the modifications to make it faster and a few simple repairs over the years, I don't do anything but check the oil and other fluids every couple of months. I'm also incredibly lazy, and have had some problems go on for months without repair, so the person who takes their car to the shop when something starts clanking should have a more reliable car than I. Plus, the modifications I made should have reduced the longevity, regardless of how well (or not) the car is maintained.
I got most of my instructions on how to do the modifications and repairs off of the internet. I knew next to nothing about cars before I got this one.
If you need further proof of the idiocy of the original posters claim, look at the used car ads, and see how many American cars are for sale in running condition from 1995 and earlier. According to his theory, they should all be foreign cars.
Buy Japanese, and you can drive that bitch around for 15+ years if you want to. I see the overpriced shit American manufacturers turn out, and then I understand why so many people buy a new car every few years.
While I've only been driving my overpriced American shit for 14 years, the 194,000 miles I've driven in it hasn't given me any indication of it disintegrating anytime soon, despite frequent trips to the dragstrip, autocross course, and several road courses. Also, it didn't seem to affect the longevity despite the fact I ported the heads, installed a new camshaft and other parts that added over 100 HP more than 150,000 miles ago.
I'm pretty sure every car sold in the US since the Yugo will last more than 15 years, unless you do something really stupid with it.
The sensors, which work in concert with surveillance cameras, are designed to spot potential crimes by recognizing specific behavior: Someone raising fist at another person, for example, or a car slowing down as it nears a man walking on a deserted street late at night. Each new crime recorded is programmed into the database.
High fives and stopping to talk to a friend on the roadside are now potential crimes?
The source claims that they can be fired if they suggest data blocks unless a customer specifically asks for them.
Verizon's defense was that no employee would be fired for adding a data block if a customer specifically asked for one.
What's really disturbing is that the reporter actually accepted this as a valid defense. Their answer covers when a customer specifically asks for a block, the firing in question occurs when a customer does not.
How specifically do the customers have to ask? Is asking for them to stop these ridiculous charges enough, or do you have to ask for a data block specifically? Would you still have to request download blocking, Vcast blocking, etc. by name?
They designed the phone interface to maximize the frequency of these charges, I'm pretty sure they make stopping them as difficult as possible. As far as companies go, Verizon is among the lowest of the low.
Yes, and the purchase and background check are officially done in your state, not the one the gun originated in. You still can't cross a state line and buy a gun.
[blockquote]But at the end of the day, if the customers ask for it, you give it to them. [/blockquote]
Like WGA, right?
I'm sorry, but this is Microsoft we're talking about. They have no problem shoving unpopular crap that no one wants into the OS. People have asked them for actual security for over a decade, and their response has mainly been that you should buy antivirus software from another vendor. Explorer is a joke, it's complete crap as a file handler and worse as an internet browser, customers have asked for it to be removed from day 1, but they don't give it to them. 12 years of a preloaded security nightmare is in no way, shape or form, giving customers what they ask for.
I have fun without worrying about what other people think I should or should not be doing at my age. Why would you feel silly playing a kids game in the privacy of your home? What is it in your personality that makes you ashamed of this? I'm not trying to ridicule or slam you with this, nor am I really wanting to know your answers to them, these are questions you should ask yourself.
A question that stumps most adults I ask is "What do you do for fun?"
I have two very good friends who work with people at the end of their lives, and nearly every one of their patients/clients wished they'd taken the time to have more fun. Don't waste your time worrying about what's supposedly age appropriate, just do what you find enjoyable. You'll be glad you did.
If you have kids, play with them, whatever they might be doing. Chances are you'll have a smile on your face and later look back on a good memory.
Complex thought develops when you urge kids to do so, not at 12 because our educational system does everything to hinder it. That just skews the study that "discovered" the 12 year old limit.
Kids are way smarter way earlier than most people think.
I just gave up watching TV when they switched. I haven't missed it at all. I did buy a 55" rear projection TV right after the switch for $50 that I watch DVDs on, but I haven't wished I had a converter box even once.
Is there any compelling reason that I should have bought one? No one's been able to give me a good answer so far.
And I, just like the cyber-criminals, can see 50 million unattacked people and see they're ripe for the picking, rather than 850 million repeatedly attacked people.
50 million is way too many to ignore, regardless of how many are on the other side of the equation.
Umm, guys? How this works is just speculation, ripping on it for just being a VPN or damning it for being a reimplementation of existing stuff is like bitching about the plot of a movie before they've even released a summary, let alone the script or the movie itself.
6-8% of the market is still over 50 million computers. There were somewhere between 30-40 million Macs sold in the last 5 years. That is way more than enough for cyber-criminals to target.
Nothing was said about silently installing an extension to Firefox being completely wrong. No mention that it won't happen again. They've just about publicly admitting that they see nothing wrong with secretly installing changes to other companies software without need, notice, justification or a way to remove it.
Fuck Microsoft. Everybody who had this happened needs to file a complaint with the police under the hacking laws, installing unauthorized modifications to software of a competitor without permission is illegal, it doesn't matter if Microsoft does it, it's still illegal. Here in Kentucky, it's either a class A or B misdemeanor, depending on whether your time undoing it can be considered monetary damage.
Also, we only have Microsoft's word that it just affects search results in their toolbar. For all we know it's logging credit card numbers, recording your webcam, and copying your personal information and contents of your c:/porn folder for public display/blackmail later. They probably aren't, but then again, what have they done that's trustworthy lately?
"WGA thinks your copy of XP is unauthorized because you added memory and a graphics card. Your credit card has been charged $399.99 for a license."
You've got the units wrong. It needs to be measured in dollars per mile. To 90% of people, it's the deciding factor in the end.
Ideally, gas pumps would electronically transmit how much you spent filling your tank, and your car would have a little display that shows the money draining away. When the gauge says broke, your car is too. Maybe link the GPS into it, and it can show that you have enough in the gas tank to get to Joe's house, and putting in the tank the $3.82 in change from your last $10 you will have if you buy the 12 pack instead of the $5.54 in change if you get the 6 pack will give you enough gas to get you home but is not enough to get you to work in the morning too. Personal circumstances may vary, but damn, I know a few people who could use that system.
So what you're saying is, if you change the design substantially and it wouldn't work, this is proof of the original design not working?
Just because you can't understand how this actually works and don't understand the aerodynamics doesn't mean that it's impossible. This situation is not analogous to either of your examples, you really don't even understand how this car works.
It's a wind powered car. The wind has a lot of energy, it has been harnessed to go faster than it's own speed long ago by tacking sailboats, why do some insist it must be a violation of the conservation of energy to do so downwind?
This country was running a friggin' oil embargo around Japan,
I just noticed you've misunderstood what an embargo is. It's the cessation of trade, not a blockade. We stopped selling Japan our oil, we did not block oil shipments to Japan. Other countries were free to sell and ship oil to Japan.
Cherry picking, indeed. How long had we been supplying war planes to China?
Less than three weeks before Yamamoto's plan was submitted, Roosevelt approved for the first time selling China aircraft. in 1937, the US was selling planes to Japan, that ended after the Rape of Nanking, when the Japanese soldiers massacred hundreds of thousands of civillians and raped between 20,000-80,000 women. No warplanes were actually delivered to China (actually, Burma) until late 1941. Large scale invasion plans involving three separate fleets attacking and/or invading multiple islands across thousands of miles take longer than a few weeks to put together. They had been building their fleets for years. The attack on Pearl Harbor was so we couldn't stop them while they invaded and took over of our territories in the Pacific. None of this was caused by us agreeing to sell a few planes to China at the end of 1940, or by an oil embargo in mid 1941.
They shot first. They invaded our territories. We were not, in any way, shape, or form about to attack them. We weren't even a threat at the time, their army was larger, more experienced and better trained. We did not have the landing craft necessary to conduct an invasion. How in the hell is that provoking an attack?
I'm done teaching History 102, 1937-1941 for now. Read some history outside of Wikipedia.
A conditional surrender only hinders the victors. The Allies stated repeatedly during the war that they would accept nothing but the unconditional surrender of Germany. Read Churchill's history of WWII, it contains the correspondence between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin concerning this if you'd like to learn why.
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The author doesn't understand what the straw man argument is. He thinks it is bringing up anything that isn't specifically mentioned in the original argument. Nvidia stating that optimizing multi-core CPUs is difficult and that the Nvidia architecture has hundreds of applications seeing a huge gain in performance now is a valid point even if the Intel side never mentioned the difficulty of implementation.
Other than one being cheaper and more time consuming, there really isn't a difference. I know less about cars than a mechanic that works on them all the time. I have a greater chance about being wrong in any kind of diagnosis than a good mechanic. Other than the modifications to make it faster and a few simple repairs over the years, I don't do anything but check the oil and other fluids every couple of months. I'm also incredibly lazy, and have had some problems go on for months without repair, so the person who takes their car to the shop when something starts clanking should have a more reliable car than I. Plus, the modifications I made should have reduced the longevity, regardless of how well (or not) the car is maintained.
I got most of my instructions on how to do the modifications and repairs off of the internet. I knew next to nothing about cars before I got this one.
If you need further proof of the idiocy of the original posters claim, look at the used car ads, and see how many American cars are for sale in running condition from 1995 and earlier. According to his theory, they should all be foreign cars.
While I've only been driving my overpriced American shit for 14 years, the 194,000 miles I've driven in it hasn't given me any indication of it disintegrating anytime soon, despite frequent trips to the dragstrip, autocross course, and several road courses. Also, it didn't seem to affect the longevity despite the fact I ported the heads, installed a new camshaft and other parts that added over 100 HP more than 150,000 miles ago.
I'm pretty sure every car sold in the US since the Yugo will last more than 15 years, unless you do something really stupid with it.
Great news! Unicorns aren't endangered anymore!
"Sir, Apple has released the iPad, it's eating into our sales what will we do?"
"Apple's selling a lot of iPads? Then we'll make a DOUBLE iPad!"
High fives and stopping to talk to a friend on the roadside are now potential crimes?
The source claims that they can be fired if they suggest data blocks unless a customer specifically asks for them.
Verizon's defense was that no employee would be fired for adding a data block if a customer specifically asked for one.
What's really disturbing is that the reporter actually accepted this as a valid defense. Their answer covers when a customer specifically asks for a block, the firing in question occurs when a customer does not.
How specifically do the customers have to ask? Is asking for them to stop these ridiculous charges enough, or do you have to ask for a data block specifically? Would you still have to request download blocking, Vcast blocking, etc. by name?
They designed the phone interface to maximize the frequency of these charges, I'm pretty sure they make stopping them as difficult as possible. As far as companies go, Verizon is among the lowest of the low.
Am I the only one who had the "Two Potato Clock" when they were a kid?
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Yes, and the purchase and background check are officially done in your state, not the one the gun originated in. You still can't cross a state line and buy a gun.
[blockquote]But at the end of the day, if the customers ask for it, you give it to them. [/blockquote]
Like WGA, right?
I'm sorry, but this is Microsoft we're talking about. They have no problem shoving unpopular crap that no one wants into the OS. People have asked them for actual security for over a decade, and their response has mainly been that you should buy antivirus software from another vendor. Explorer is a joke, it's complete crap as a file handler and worse as an internet browser, customers have asked for it to be removed from day 1, but they don't give it to them. 12 years of a preloaded security nightmare is in no way, shape or form, giving customers what they ask for.
I have fun without worrying about what other people think I should or should not be doing at my age. Why would you feel silly playing a kids game in the privacy of your home? What is it in your personality that makes you ashamed of this? I'm not trying to ridicule or slam you with this, nor am I really wanting to know your answers to them, these are questions you should ask yourself.
A question that stumps most adults I ask is "What do you do for fun?"
I have two very good friends who work with people at the end of their lives, and nearly every one of their patients/clients wished they'd taken the time to have more fun. Don't waste your time worrying about what's supposedly age appropriate, just do what you find enjoyable. You'll be glad you did.
If you have kids, play with them, whatever they might be doing. Chances are you'll have a smile on your face and later look back on a good memory.
Complex thought develops when you urge kids to do so, not at 12 because our educational system does everything to hinder it. That just skews the study that "discovered" the 12 year old limit.
Kids are way smarter way earlier than most people think.
I just gave up watching TV when they switched. I haven't missed it at all. I did buy a 55" rear projection TV right after the switch for $50 that I watch DVDs on, but I haven't wished I had a converter box even once.
Is there any compelling reason that I should have bought one? No one's been able to give me a good answer so far.
Amendment 28 : The right of a corporation to earn the same or more profits as last year shall not be infringed by congress or reality.
Mine the lithium, then give it in pill form to the insurgents, that'll calm them down. Takes care of the economy and the jihad at the same time.
And I, just like the cyber-criminals, can see 50 million unattacked people and see they're ripe for the picking, rather than 850 million repeatedly attacked people.
50 million is way too many to ignore, regardless of how many are on the other side of the equation.
Umm, guys? How this works is just speculation, ripping on it for just being a VPN or damning it for being a reimplementation of existing stuff is like bitching about the plot of a movie before they've even released a summary, let alone the script or the movie itself.
I'm sure the EULA says all sorts of things. That doesn't make them legal.
6-8% of the market is still over 50 million computers. There were somewhere between 30-40 million Macs sold in the last 5 years. That is way more than enough for cyber-criminals to target.
Nothing was said about silently installing an extension to Firefox being completely wrong. No mention that it won't happen again. They've just about publicly admitting that they see nothing wrong with secretly installing changes to other companies software without need, notice, justification or a way to remove it.
Fuck Microsoft. Everybody who had this happened needs to file a complaint with the police under the hacking laws, installing unauthorized modifications to software of a competitor without permission is illegal, it doesn't matter if Microsoft does it, it's still illegal. Here in Kentucky, it's either a class A or B misdemeanor, depending on whether your time undoing it can be considered monetary damage.
Also, we only have Microsoft's word that it just affects search results in their toolbar. For all we know it's logging credit card numbers, recording your webcam, and copying your personal information and contents of your c:/porn folder for public display/blackmail later. They probably aren't, but then again, what have they done that's trustworthy lately?
"WGA thinks your copy of XP is unauthorized because you added memory and a graphics card. Your credit card has been charged $399.99 for a license."
You've got the units wrong. It needs to be measured in dollars per mile. To 90% of people, it's the deciding factor in the end.
Ideally, gas pumps would electronically transmit how much you spent filling your tank, and your car would have a little display that shows the money draining away. When the gauge says broke, your car is too. Maybe link the GPS into it, and it can show that you have enough in the gas tank to get to Joe's house, and putting in the tank the $3.82 in change from your last $10 you will have if you buy the 12 pack instead of the $5.54 in change if you get the 6 pack will give you enough gas to get you home but is not enough to get you to work in the morning too. Personal circumstances may vary, but damn, I know a few people who could use that system.
So what you're saying is, if you change the design substantially and it wouldn't work, this is proof of the original design not working?
Just because you can't understand how this actually works and don't understand the aerodynamics doesn't mean that it's impossible. This situation is not analogous to either of your examples, you really don't even understand how this car works.
It's a wind powered car. The wind has a lot of energy, it has been harnessed to go faster than it's own speed long ago by tacking sailboats, why do some insist it must be a violation of the conservation of energy to do so downwind?
I just noticed you've misunderstood what an embargo is. It's the cessation of trade, not a blockade. We stopped selling Japan our oil, we did not block oil shipments to Japan. Other countries were free to sell and ship oil to Japan.
Less than three weeks before Yamamoto's plan was submitted, Roosevelt approved for the first time selling China aircraft. in 1937, the US was selling planes to Japan, that ended after the Rape of Nanking, when the Japanese soldiers massacred hundreds of thousands of civillians and raped between 20,000-80,000 women. No warplanes were actually delivered to China (actually, Burma) until late 1941. Large scale invasion plans involving three separate fleets attacking and/or invading multiple islands across thousands of miles take longer than a few weeks to put together. They had been building their fleets for years. The attack on Pearl Harbor was so we couldn't stop them while they invaded and took over of our territories in the Pacific. None of this was caused by us agreeing to sell a few planes to China at the end of 1940, or by an oil embargo in mid 1941.
They shot first. They invaded our territories. We were not, in any way, shape, or form about to attack them. We weren't even a threat at the time, their army was larger, more experienced and better trained. We did not have the landing craft necessary to conduct an invasion. How in the hell is that provoking an attack?
I'm done teaching History 102, 1937-1941 for now. Read some history outside of Wikipedia.
A conditional surrender only hinders the victors. The Allies stated repeatedly during the war that they would accept nothing but the unconditional surrender of Germany. Read Churchill's history of WWII, it contains the correspondence between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin concerning this if you'd like to learn why.