You mean the southern Vietnamese regimes that the US propped up? The ones that supported war crimes on a scale far greater than the communists that the population actually wanted?
Java performance was very reasonable compared to C (e.g, 20% slower),
Right, except the entire point of high-performance computing is, well, high-performance. 20% means that a run that takes 5 days would now take 6. Or it means buying 120 computers instead of 100.
Many users of HPC try to eek out every possible bit of speed. "If I use network card X instead of network card y it shaves 2% off the run-time!". 20% is massive to them.
The fact that the marriages are arranged does not make them happy. The fact that arranged marriages have a lower divorce rate does not make them happier. Ever consider that maybe, just maybe, cultures with arranged marriages are a tad conservative? That in conservative societies, divorce rates are low. "You husband beats you? Oh, well". "Not happy? What can you do?".
when we treat drunk drivers and wife-beaters and child-abusers and rapists with the same ferocity
I'm all for harsher punishments for those crimes. But saying that some crimes have lax enforcement and so we should treat other crimes laxly too, seems a weird argument to me. We increase enforcement of some, not decrease it for others.
And before someone shouts Fox News, having one news source tailored to viewers of a particular political persuasion sympathetic to the current administration does not fascism make.
There is no overt and explicit censorship of the media in the Western media. However, the "free" media tends to support the "party line" of the government in very much the same fashion as government owned/censored media in authoritarian states.
The means may be different, but the ends are the same.
My god, no one is saying Windows doesn't have security permissions. What he's say is that for many/most users those permissions are effectively useless. Most people run as root, which bypasses security.
The Windows XP Home will, by default, create new accounts with administrator privileges.
How is something that happened (past tense) observable (present tense)?
It's observable that it happened. No life, then life! Therefore, abiogenesis. "Observable" doesn't mean that we have to be able to see it under the microscope, just that we can see that it happened.
Gravity is observable at will
You're not a scientist, are you? No shit gravity exists. We don't know why it works or even how it works. There are theories about how it works, but those could be completely wrong. For all we know gravity could really just be invisible faeries pushing things around.
Iraq was in violation of its UN mandated disarmament requirements, that Iraq was supporting terrorists, and that Iraq posed a threat to our national security
search, a grid, or any other means you care to name to figure out which of those thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of programming you want to watch.
You can accomplish the same thing with a TV guide. Yet another technogical "solution" that just makes things more complicated without solving anything.
Sure you want to know that? It'd make your freakin head spin.
It was a rhetorical question. The original poster seems to expect support levels (2 hours for a fix) for $15/month game that are better than most people will get for a multi-thousand dollar support contract for a mission-critical system.
Which is why they had the test victims remove all their glasses and contact lenses first?
probably don't even know about radiation
They're not idiots. No more so than the average American, who coincidently probably knows nothing about radiation apart retained Cold War era misguided fears.
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conquered by an oppressive regime
You mean the southern Vietnamese regimes that the US propped up? The ones that supported war crimes on a scale far greater than the communists that the population actually wanted?
Nope, the record of longest shot belongs to a member of Canada's JTF2 unit at 2,443 metres.
Java performance was very reasonable compared to C (e.g, 20% slower),
Right, except the entire point of high-performance computing is, well, high-performance. 20% means that a run that takes 5 days would now take 6. Or it means buying 120 computers instead of 100.
Many users of HPC try to eek out every possible bit of speed. "If I use network card X instead of network card y it shaves 2% off the run-time!". 20% is massive to them.
The fact that the marriages are arranged does not make them happy. The fact that arranged marriages have a lower divorce rate does not make them happier. Ever consider that maybe, just maybe, cultures with arranged marriages are a tad conservative? That in conservative societies, divorce rates are low. "You husband beats you? Oh, well". "Not happy? What can you do?".
when we treat drunk drivers and wife-beaters and child-abusers and rapists with the same ferocity
I'm all for harsher punishments for those crimes. But saying that some crimes have lax enforcement and so we should treat other crimes laxly too, seems a weird argument to me. We increase enforcement of some, not decrease it for others.
And before someone shouts Fox News, having one news source tailored to viewers of a particular political persuasion sympathetic to the current administration does not fascism make.
There is no overt and explicit censorship of the media in the Western media. However, the "free" media tends to support the "party line" of the government in very much the same fashion as government owned/censored media in authoritarian states.
The means may be different, but the ends are the same.
not much in the way of collision detection built in just yet, I was expecting crashes.
What does collision detection have to do with crashes?
Well, apart from objects crashing into one another, but I gather that isn't the type of crash you're refering to.
My god, no one is saying Windows doesn't have security permissions. What he's say is that for many/most users those permissions are effectively useless. Most people run as root, which bypasses security.
The Windows XP Home will, by default, create new accounts with administrator privileges.
How is something that happened (past tense) observable (present tense)?
It's observable that it happened. No life, then life! Therefore, abiogenesis. "Observable" doesn't mean that we have to be able to see it under the microscope, just that we can see that it happened.
Gravity is observable at will
You're not a scientist, are you? No shit gravity exists. We don't know why it works or even how it works. There are theories about how it works, but those could be completely wrong. For all we know gravity could really just be invisible faeries pushing things around.
This is not a bad thing. In today's economy, we should be trying to inflate the US dollar
Except it's deflating.
And then ask yourself: in a country which has effectively gutted its manufacturing industry, is deflating the dollar really a good thing to do?
However, sex in video games and sex on television does lead to sex in real life
Let's suppose that it does. Why is that bad?
Iraq was in violation of its UN mandated disarmament requirements, that Iraq was supporting terrorists, and that Iraq posed a threat to our national security
Well, one out of three ain't bad.
One benefit of the school system is that you get interact with other people. Prevents people from becoming bitter, anti-social, grumps.
search, a grid, or any other means you care to name to figure out which of those thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of programming you want to watch.
You can accomplish the same thing with a TV guide. Yet another technogical "solution" that just makes things more complicated without solving anything.
How so?
The original use of the first/second/third world terminology had nothing to do with wealth/poverty, but politics.
Sure you want to know that? It'd make your freakin head spin.
It was a rhetorical question. The original poster seems to expect support levels (2 hours for a fix) for $15/month game that are better than most people will get for a multi-thousand dollar support contract for a mission-critical system.
two hours
How much does a 24/7 support contract from Oracle cost?
probably don't even know about radiation
I'd prefer not to be shot at at all, thank you very much.
going blind? not likely
Which is why they had the test victims remove all their glasses and contact lenses first?
probably don't even know about radiation
They're not idiots. No more so than the average American, who coincidently probably knows nothing about radiation apart retained Cold War era misguided fears.
Hmm. My solution to tail-gaters is to give them the finger. They typically get so pissed off they pass by me just so they can reciprocate.
I did once have someone try to swing a crowbar at my car as went by. But at least they weren't tailgating.
Seriously? Whatever floats yer boat. If someone seems to lack the social skills and wants/needs help, I'll offer help
Ooh, snarky. Maybe people just play the games because it's a fun diversion, and a SOCIAL event.
I read you initial remark as a trollish and ignorant remark that women are greedy, evil creatures bend on dominating men with pussy power.
I had assumed you were serious, not being a joker.
many women into self-centered egotistical harpies
And many men too.
So, sorry, dumbass, but there's other ways to live a life that may be outside your blinkered existence,
That's rich. One comment that women aren't all evil, manipulative creatures and suddenly I'm a blinkered dumbass.
"Depending on the machine"
Reading comprehension problems? Not every machine needs that much time and crew.
You make that sound like a bad thing? My job is not my life.