It's also been observed, when a spider egg hatches, for some of the baby spiders to eat each other in some species. Similarly, some spider species will prey on their own when other sources of food are scarce.
It's all part of the competition for limited resources.
The company I work for encourages me to buy its shares. If that is not insider trading I don't know what is.
That's not insider trading. It may or may not even be stock options. The company I work for (one of the top 3 computer companies in the world) also encourages us to buy their stock, and offers stock options to its employees. They also require we take annual training on business ethics, and that we understand exactly what constitutes insider trading. There's even a question on the final exam of said training dealing specifically with when it would be unethical to purchase stock.
Knowing the general scuttlebutt around the company for how we're doing doesn't give me inside information. Pretty much the whole world knows which markets we're leading, and wich markets we're behind in. If somebody on the front lines is buying stock, they probably don't know anything more about the company than the public at large. We have another category entirely of employees, however... people who are windowed. Those people are given a window in which they are allowed to buy/sell company stock, and periods when they are not allowed to buy.
An example of when a windowed employee would not be allowed to buy would be, say, after our sales figures for the last quarter have been tallied, but before they have been published. People in the upper echelons of the company will know this information, and would be able to predict how their announcement will affect our stock market. With this in mind, they can react accordingly. This, in turn, would allow them to buy a bunch of stock before a sudden spike, or dump a bunch of stock before it falls. That is insider trading.
Insider trading is illegal, because it gives those people an unfair advantage over the rest of the world. That's why we have windowed employees... if you're in a position where insider trading is possible, you're told when not to buy/sell stock so that you can't be accused of it.
C'mon, seriously, you can't accuse the GP of over-simplifying WoW then later say that FPSs without the graphics are basically adventure games with lots of camping. Go and play TF2 on a populated server, and after you get your ass handed to you and get to the bottom of the score board, come back and tell me it's just "Quake with prettier graphics".
The issue with FPS-type games isn't that, it's all the 13-year old retards who feel the need to rub it in after they kill you. I freely admit that I don't play pvp. At all. I won't touch it with a 10-foot pole, and have stopped playing RPGs if they try to force you into it at any point (I'm looking at you, GW). And one of the main reasons I don't like it is the idiots who send you a whisper or a tell.. "lolz I pwnd j00. j00 suk" after the fact. Tip from the wise, I don't give a fuck about that kind of cock measuring. I don't play that game. Probably has something to do with not being a guy.
That said, there's idiocy in RPGs as well... just yesterday, I was minding my own business when the following conversation happened....
idiot: are you a lezbian, or bi, or just straight? me: I don't see how that's any of your business. idiot: I'm just asking. idiot: I'm bi, and looking for a girl. me: uh huh. I believe you. me: you misspelled 'lesbian', btw. idiot: oh idiot: so what are you? me: I'm in a committed relationship, the nature of which is none of your business. idiot: ok ok
completely out of the blue. No prelude, no small talk, just comes right out and asks if I'm gay. Now... I think pretty much anybody with a brain can tell that this isn't really a girl... he's really got to work on his technique.
Personally, I like the constant reminders that the game doesn't take itself seriously. It's full of humour and pop culture references that I never really saw in other games. I almost fell out of my chair the first time I saw the statue at Janeiro Point, off Booty Bay....
It's a game that keeps itself light-hearted, while still providing a rich and detailed experience for the roleplayers, and a ton of content for the hardcore gamers.
Though we got our first level 80 Death Knight on Saturday morning, on my server, and when I see stuff like that, I have to ask whether some of these players are planning on going outside once in a while... For the non-players, DK is the *new* class that came with the expansion. You start at level 55, so unlike the other classes, you had 25 end-game levels to grind out in a day and a half, not just 10... and they did it before some of the other classes hit 80. >.>
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Your argument hinges on there actually being a cure for HIV. There isn't. Once you're infected, you're infected. All of the existing treatments focus on boosting your immune system, because it isn't HIV/AIDS that kills you, it's something else like a cold, or flu, once you have no immune system left.
TFA is talking about a course of treatments that effectively replaces your immune system with one that's immune to HIV. Once that's complete, getting "reinfected" doesn't matter: you're immune.
The same reason they tolerate laws making homosexuality illegal. Religious interference... I've been through the Bible Belt in the US, and you have no idea how ridiculous it is until you pass through an area with more churches than grocery stores.
In most of the country, particularly the areas with more wealth and denser populations, such a law would never stand. Or rather, no right-minded pharmacist would ever exert that right, because they'd just be driving business away to the competition. In a small, deeply religious community with no choice in businesses? Perhaps. But unlikely. I have a very hard time swallowing the idea of a pharmacist denying somebody their prescription on religious grounds... they are well aware of how the prescriptions they're filling are medically necessary, and it isn't a career you choose unless you want to help people.
I had thought that he was talking about places like Africa... I could see people being denied treatment because of the stigma there, but in North America? o.O
In experiments, researchers found that an 86-microsecond exposure of the beam would bore a hole 40 meters into a block of copper.
That's pretty significant energy. Admittedly, it's probably a fairly small hole, but it does a good job of explaining why the beam needs to be diffused and scattered as it's being dumped into a block of graphite.
Civ has conditioned you wrong... you need to maximize beaker production first.... You can maximize shield production all you want, but I'll be attacking you with machine guns against your phalanxes....
The catharsis theory ("I go to martial arts school so I don't have to be violent at home", "I listen to pantera once I'm at home so I can be more calm when I'm at work") is a Freudian theory disproved ages ago as well. I'm sure people can peruse the relevant social and personality psychology literature themselves on this. (journal of personality and social psychology, etc. )
As a martial artist (TKD since I was 8, Karate since I was 14, Jiu Jitsu since I was 18, and Aikido since I was 22, I'm 27 now, and still training in Jiu Jitsu and Aikido), I take exception to your first statement... I realize you're using it as an example of false logic, but attending martial arts really *does* help reduce violence and violent behaviour.
But it's not because it gives a place to be violent. It's because it teaches discipline, and because it teaches people what they're capable of doing. Martial Arts give students self confidence, which does wonders for eliminating reasons/needs to act out. That, and getting a little exercise is always a good thing.:)
Likewise, my old laptop had a Radeon XPress 200M. It worked, but only if I set the BIOS to share RAM for video. The ATI drivers just couldn't see the 128MB of dedicated RAM that the video card had. And the drivers were slow as molasses in February, to boot. Windows was simply better.
My current laptop has a GeForce 8600M GT, and I don't regret it at all.
You have to spend money to make money. Remember The New Deal, or the Hoover Dam? Those projects ended the Great Depression. Sometimes, running a deficit is a good thing, if it means building the economic infrastructure which can later support itself and build wealth.
Perhaps a more practical example which you might be able to relate to is a student loan. You run a debt for 4 years while you study with the expectation that it'll help you land a career later in life with much bigger income. The $50,000 I spent on my education may seem like a lot of money when you're 20 (I'm in Canada, could easily have been twice that in the USA), but when you're pulling $80,000/year instead of $30,000, it's well worth it.
Um, we've already done that. It would be interesting to go back and we should do it, but it would be nothing new.
Really?!?! Where's the moon city? I haven't heard about it....
The GP was talking about establishing a *base* on the moon. Personally, I think either the moon, or at a Lagrange point... one of the Lagrange points (L4 or L5) would be a very good place to establish a launch point for the rest of the solar system, because something like 90% of the fuel consumed to get to Mars is used just leaving Earth's gravity well. The moon is probably a safer bet for now, though.
Side note: makes much more sense then the big bang theory, which reeks of creationism.
Until somebody asks where it all came from in the first place. Then you're back at square one, with the same problem that the Big Bang theory has.
Unless you adopt the Hindu/Buddhist take on the cosmology... it wasn't created, it didn't magically poof into existence out of nothing: it just is. Always has been, always will be, and goes through periodic cycles of growth and destruction, without end.
On the other hand, that doesn't explain why different distros can be significantly faster on the same benchmarks. Admittedly, I'm biased when I say this, but I'm a long-time Slackware user, and more recently switched to Zenwalk for the package management system, but both of those distros completely blow Ubuntu out of the water in terms of performance. Switching from Win to Ubuntu is a big difference in speed of everything. Switching from Ubuntu to Zenwalk is that same difference all over again. Even when you're comparing apples to apples and using XUbuntu v. Zenwalk, the latter is noticeably less sluggish, and I'm running on a relatively modern system: Dell Insprion 1520 notebook... 1.66GHz Core2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, 7200rpm 120GB SATA hard drive, Intel 8945J wireless LAN, Intel sound, and a 256MB GeForce 7600M GT video card. Theoretically, it should be fast enough that Ubuntu would be zippy, no?
Modern capabilities and demands on a system does *not* mean that it has to be bloaty or sluggish.
Train schedules required a single, universal time for the whole country (i.e. Britain, where there were the first long-enough distance trains). Previously, noon would be when the sun was exactly overhead, so there were a few minutes difference between the east and west of the island. That's no good for a train schedule, so all the clocks were set to Greenwich (London) time.
Actually, standardized timezones were invented by Sanford Fleming, a Canadian. He chose 1h differences in timezones because Canada is really big. Really big. And wide. Rather than have the whole country set to a single clock, the whole country was set to 4 clocks, as a concession to the fact that people are used to getting up and working during the hours we normally equate with daylight. 9-5, am/pm, etc. It wouldn't make sense to have sunrise in Nova Scotia at 6am and have it rise in BC at 10am. People would adjust, but because we're human and not machines, it was decided to have time differences in set 1h increments: it's a nice round number, and as there's 24h in a day, the width of timezones was decided to be 1/24 of the circumference of the world. That way, at least the whole world would be on the same calendar date. You'll notice that the differentiating lines tend to zig-zag along political boundaries, and *that* is a concession to the idea of smaller countries having the entire country in the same zone.
Using Greenwich to set the mean time is an idea that came from a symposium years later.
The worldwide inter-connectedness of business is a strong argument AGAINST the 9-5 schedule. What good is standardizing on "9-5" when your customer on the west coast and your partners in India, Japan, and England all have their own, different 9-5?
Depends on what you're doing... if you're dealing with business partners, then yes, it's a good idea to have similar working hours. However, when dealing with business partners, it's also a good idea to conduct your business in writing so there's a paper trail of your transactions and interactions.
When you're in the business of dealing with customers, it's best to provide service when they're awake. Depending on what service you're providing, it may make sense to limit your working hours to 9-5, or some version thereof, particularly if you're doing some kind of outbound or proactive customer service (say... calling customers when their order is having delivery troubles or will be delayed, as an example). It's majorly bad karma to try to call your customer at 3am.
If every business adopted a very simple "go to work when you have to and leave when you have to" policy, we wouldn't care what the damn clock said, and would need neither time zones nor daylight saving time.
Many modern workplaces do allow for flex time. I'm on it myself.... I show up when I am able, I leave when the work is done. As long as I don't bill for time I don't put in, and as long as the work gets done, they don't care what time of day it gets done. This falls apart when you're in the field of inbound customer service, however... technical support, customer care, sales... there, they have service levels they need to worry about, and that is why they schedule you for set times, and why they schedule when you go on break.
No matter what you propose, however... the only way we are going to get rid of timezones is if we adopt a single timezone for the whole world. Once we're on the UTC standard or something similar, then we won't need to worry about timezones... until then, we still need specific timings. Why? Think about why timezones were invented in the first place: train schedules. These days, it's delivery schedules and other transit methods like air travel, but the point stands. They *need* stuff like timezones and standardized time in order to coordinate.
My pc is digital. Wasn't there some talks of integrating something called Palladium (drm...) in all PC hardware ? And Vista (and possibly -lol- Windows7) integrates DRM by default.
Called a TPM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module... And it's not talk. My laptop has one. It was disabled by default when the laptop shipped out, and I have yet to find reason to turn it on. I doubt I will.
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It's also been observed, when a spider egg hatches, for some of the baby spiders to eat each other in some species. Similarly, some spider species will prey on their own when other sources of food are scarce.
It's all part of the competition for limited resources.
That's not insider trading. It may or may not even be stock options. The company I work for (one of the top 3 computer companies in the world) also encourages us to buy their stock, and offers stock options to its employees. They also require we take annual training on business ethics, and that we understand exactly what constitutes insider trading. There's even a question on the final exam of said training dealing specifically with when it would be unethical to purchase stock.
Knowing the general scuttlebutt around the company for how we're doing doesn't give me inside information. Pretty much the whole world knows which markets we're leading, and wich markets we're behind in. If somebody on the front lines is buying stock, they probably don't know anything more about the company than the public at large. We have another category entirely of employees, however... people who are windowed. Those people are given a window in which they are allowed to buy/sell company stock, and periods when they are not allowed to buy.
An example of when a windowed employee would not be allowed to buy would be, say, after our sales figures for the last quarter have been tallied, but before they have been published. People in the upper echelons of the company will know this information, and would be able to predict how their announcement will affect our stock market. With this in mind, they can react accordingly. This, in turn, would allow them to buy a bunch of stock before a sudden spike, or dump a bunch of stock before it falls. That is insider trading.
Insider trading is illegal, because it gives those people an unfair advantage over the rest of the world. That's why we have windowed employees... if you're in a position where insider trading is possible, you're told when not to buy/sell stock so that you can't be accused of it.
The issue with FPS-type games isn't that, it's all the 13-year old retards who feel the need to rub it in after they kill you. I freely admit that I don't play pvp. At all. I won't touch it with a 10-foot pole, and have stopped playing RPGs if they try to force you into it at any point (I'm looking at you, GW). And one of the main reasons I don't like it is the idiots who send you a whisper or a tell.. "lolz I pwnd j00. j00 suk" after the fact. Tip from the wise, I don't give a fuck about that kind of cock measuring. I don't play that game. Probably has something to do with not being a guy.
That said, there's idiocy in RPGs as well... just yesterday, I was minding my own business when the following conversation happened....
idiot: are you a lezbian, or bi, or just straight?
me: I don't see how that's any of your business.
idiot: I'm just asking.
idiot: I'm bi, and looking for a girl.
me: uh huh. I believe you.
me: you misspelled 'lesbian', btw.
idiot: oh
idiot: so what are you?
me: I'm in a committed relationship, the nature of which is none of your business.
idiot: ok ok
completely out of the blue. No prelude, no small talk, just comes right out and asks if I'm gay. Now... I think pretty much anybody with a brain can tell that this isn't really a girl... he's really got to work on his technique.
Personally, I like the constant reminders that the game doesn't take itself seriously. It's full of humour and pop culture references that I never really saw in other games. I almost fell out of my chair the first time I saw the statue at Janeiro Point, off Booty Bay....
It's a game that keeps itself light-hearted, while still providing a rich and detailed experience for the roleplayers, and a ton of content for the hardcore gamers.
Though we got our first level 80 Death Knight on Saturday morning, on my server, and when I see stuff like that, I have to ask whether some of these players are planning on going outside once in a while... For the non-players, DK is the *new* class that came with the expansion. You start at level 55, so unlike the other classes, you had 25 end-game levels to grind out in a day and a half, not just 10... and they did it before some of the other classes hit 80. >.>
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Very short thread, that... *mutters something about hardware lock-in and DRM*
To make matters worse, he completely missed the joke he was replying to....
mm.. self-deprecating humour....
Your argument hinges on there actually being a cure for HIV. There isn't. Once you're infected, you're infected. All of the existing treatments focus on boosting your immune system, because it isn't HIV/AIDS that kills you, it's something else like a cold, or flu, once you have no immune system left.
TFA is talking about a course of treatments that effectively replaces your immune system with one that's immune to HIV. Once that's complete, getting "reinfected" doesn't matter: you're immune.
The same reason they tolerate laws making homosexuality illegal. Religious interference... I've been through the Bible Belt in the US, and you have no idea how ridiculous it is until you pass through an area with more churches than grocery stores.
In most of the country, particularly the areas with more wealth and denser populations, such a law would never stand. Or rather, no right-minded pharmacist would ever exert that right, because they'd just be driving business away to the competition. In a small, deeply religious community with no choice in businesses? Perhaps. But unlikely. I have a very hard time swallowing the idea of a pharmacist denying somebody their prescription on religious grounds... they are well aware of how the prescriptions they're filling are medically necessary, and it isn't a career you choose unless you want to help people.
I had thought that he was talking about places like Africa... I could see people being denied treatment because of the stigma there, but in North America? o.O
If the stone's big enough, you can kill far more than 2. *nodnod*
Waaaay too much. You'll blow the flux capacitor. You only need to channel one point twenty one of them....
TFA did exactly that. One of them, at least. This one: http://spectrum.ieee.org/aug08/6558
That's pretty significant energy. Admittedly, it's probably a fairly small hole, but it does a good job of explaining why the beam needs to be diffused and scattered as it's being dumped into a block of graphite.
The whole system has to be zero torque... you can get around that problem by holding the pot/cup in your hand as you stir.
Civ has conditioned you wrong... you need to maximize beaker production first.... You can maximize shield production all you want, but I'll be attacking you with machine guns against your phalanxes....
As a martial artist (TKD since I was 8, Karate since I was 14, Jiu Jitsu since I was 18, and Aikido since I was 22, I'm 27 now, and still training in Jiu Jitsu and Aikido), I take exception to your first statement... I realize you're using it as an example of false logic, but attending martial arts really *does* help reduce violence and violent behaviour.
But it's not because it gives a place to be violent. It's because it teaches discipline, and because it teaches people what they're capable of doing. Martial Arts give students self confidence, which does wonders for eliminating reasons/needs to act out. That, and getting a little exercise is always a good thing. :)
Likewise, my old laptop had a Radeon XPress 200M. It worked, but only if I set the BIOS to share RAM for video. The ATI drivers just couldn't see the 128MB of dedicated RAM that the video card had. And the drivers were slow as molasses in February, to boot. Windows was simply better.
My current laptop has a GeForce 8600M GT, and I don't regret it at all.
You have to spend money to make money. Remember The New Deal, or the Hoover Dam? Those projects ended the Great Depression. Sometimes, running a deficit is a good thing, if it means building the economic infrastructure which can later support itself and build wealth.
Perhaps a more practical example which you might be able to relate to is a student loan. You run a debt for 4 years while you study with the expectation that it'll help you land a career later in life with much bigger income. The $50,000 I spent on my education may seem like a lot of money when you're 20 (I'm in Canada, could easily have been twice that in the USA), but when you're pulling $80,000/year instead of $30,000, it's well worth it.
Really?!?! Where's the moon city? I haven't heard about it....
The GP was talking about establishing a *base* on the moon. Personally, I think either the moon, or at a Lagrange point... one of the Lagrange points (L4 or L5) would be a very good place to establish a launch point for the rest of the solar system, because something like 90% of the fuel consumed to get to Mars is used just leaving Earth's gravity well. The moon is probably a safer bet for now, though.
Until somebody asks where it all came from in the first place. Then you're back at square one, with the same problem that the Big Bang theory has.
Unless you adopt the Hindu/Buddhist take on the cosmology... it wasn't created, it didn't magically poof into existence out of nothing: it just is. Always has been, always will be, and goes through periodic cycles of growth and destruction, without end.
It's called Zenwalk
On the other hand, that doesn't explain why different distros can be significantly faster on the same benchmarks. Admittedly, I'm biased when I say this, but I'm a long-time Slackware user, and more recently switched to Zenwalk for the package management system, but both of those distros completely blow Ubuntu out of the water in terms of performance. Switching from Win to Ubuntu is a big difference in speed of everything. Switching from Ubuntu to Zenwalk is that same difference all over again. Even when you're comparing apples to apples and using XUbuntu v. Zenwalk, the latter is noticeably less sluggish, and I'm running on a relatively modern system: Dell Insprion 1520 notebook... 1.66GHz Core2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, 7200rpm 120GB SATA hard drive, Intel 8945J wireless LAN, Intel sound, and a 256MB GeForce 7600M GT video card. Theoretically, it should be fast enough that Ubuntu would be zippy, no?
Modern capabilities and demands on a system does *not* mean that it has to be bloaty or sluggish.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Actually, standardized timezones were invented by Sanford Fleming, a Canadian. He chose 1h differences in timezones because Canada is really big. Really big. And wide. Rather than have the whole country set to a single clock, the whole country was set to 4 clocks, as a concession to the fact that people are used to getting up and working during the hours we normally equate with daylight. 9-5, am/pm, etc. It wouldn't make sense to have sunrise in Nova Scotia at 6am and have it rise in BC at 10am. People would adjust, but because we're human and not machines, it was decided to have time differences in set 1h increments: it's a nice round number, and as there's 24h in a day, the width of timezones was decided to be 1/24 of the circumference of the world. That way, at least the whole world would be on the same calendar date. You'll notice that the differentiating lines tend to zig-zag along political boundaries, and *that* is a concession to the idea of smaller countries having the entire country in the same zone.
Using Greenwich to set the mean time is an idea that came from a symposium years later.
Depends on what you're doing... if you're dealing with business partners, then yes, it's a good idea to have similar working hours. However, when dealing with business partners, it's also a good idea to conduct your business in writing so there's a paper trail of your transactions and interactions.
When you're in the business of dealing with customers, it's best to provide service when they're awake. Depending on what service you're providing, it may make sense to limit your working hours to 9-5, or some version thereof, particularly if you're doing some kind of outbound or proactive customer service (say... calling customers when their order is having delivery troubles or will be delayed, as an example). It's majorly bad karma to try to call your customer at 3am.
Many modern workplaces do allow for flex time. I'm on it myself.... I show up when I am able, I leave when the work is done. As long as I don't bill for time I don't put in, and as long as the work gets done, they don't care what time of day it gets done. This falls apart when you're in the field of inbound customer service, however... technical support, customer care, sales... there, they have service levels they need to worry about, and that is why they schedule you for set times, and why they schedule when you go on break.
No matter what you propose, however... the only way we are going to get rid of timezones is if we adopt a single timezone for the whole world. Once we're on the UTC standard or something similar, then we won't need to worry about timezones... until then, we still need specific timings. Why? Think about why timezones were invented in the first place: train schedules. These days, it's delivery schedules and other transit methods like air travel, but the point stands. They *need* stuff like timezones and standardized time in order to coordinate.
Called a TPM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module ... And it's not talk. My laptop has one. It was disabled by default when the laptop shipped out, and I have yet to find reason to turn it on. I doubt I will.