I'm being pedantic, but I challenge you to prove how it's possible to have a penguin enter water and not displace 1 penguin's volume worth of water whether he slides in or is dropped from a plane.
I propose a week where people mind their damn business, and stop whining about how other people watch tv (or what they watch). Also, for the duration of the week, the self-righteous "I don't have a tv crowd" is banned from speaking, so we don't have to listen to how morally superior they are just because they don't have a tv. Shut the Hell Up Week pt. 2 will follow, in which people are forbidden from talking about non-educational programming, so we don't have to waste all those hours in those heated "Which Survivor candidate is cutest" conversations.
I knew you Canadians were a bunch of damned hippies, and it only took a blackout to prove it. I vote we change all our maps to refer to Canada as the "polar commune" and close the border.
Commercial farm fences may cycle, but I've seen some highly jury-rigged electric fences in my brief experiences in the boondocks. It's possible the poster is correct and the designers of said electrical fence were not wise enough to include said cycling feature.
$377 is more expensive then most PocketPC's. The top of the line Dell Axim X3 is $315. The specs on it far exceed the stats I've found(not 100% about their accuracy for the final model) for this Simputer. The cheap X3, at $200, still beats it. While it might have it's niche, it's definitly not cheap.
OEMs do not pay anything near that much. The numbers I've heard are $15-$20. If it actually was $100 those bargain basement pc's you see wouldn't be possible.The price for OEM copies of Windows is one of the strongest bargaining points in Microsoft's aresenal. Anyone who they refuse to sell OEM licenses to is pretty much out of the budget market.
I think your flat out wrong. Today the anti-nuclear rhetoric has reached such proportions people cringe in fear when they are reminded nuclear power plants exist. I remember awhile back it was in the local papers about a nuclear waste shipment scheduled, and some groups got all up in arms about the waste being transported through their community without realizing the powerplant itself was literally right in their backyard. The wow nuclear bombs are cool is just adolescent bullshit, and was probably stronger in the cold war then it is now (modern youth are reminded of nukes much less often). Having nukes without examples of their effects seems much worse then today. We can look at the Hiroshimas and Chernobyls and see the evidence of the mistakes of previous generations. As for new countries becoming nuclear powers, I suspect they realize the truths of nuclear war as much as we do. The reality is nuclear weapons are the only way small nations can cling to some semblance of military might in the presence of superpowers. I think we cause more harm by pandering to them instead of treating them with respect.
IIS does not come turned on, and at least in XP pro it is not part of the default install. Furthermore, OEM XP installs normally don't have any user passwords period. If OEM's shipped Linux you can bet they'd set it up to run as root anyway, just to avoid the hassle of tech support when people can't figure out why the password box comes up when they want to install Bonzi Buddy. Add to that even if they did have a seperate root account, they'd have to set some sort of default password and most people would never bother to change it. You don't score points with the clueless by adding in more steps and hassle for security reasons they don't understand. That said, I run Windows at home, and with only the most basic precautions (and yeah I run as Administrator cause I'm lazy, and use Outlook cause it sinks with my PocketPC) I've never gotten so much as a virus or piece of spyware. Windows or Linux, it comes down to the users anyway.
All units of the same console execute the code at the same rate, so it is common practice to use the hardware speed or frame rate as your time reference. This may not be the ideal, but it's how things are done in the console world (and was common in PC games before computers got so fast it was highly unreliable).
Bullshit, I'm part of that newer generation. When you first start learning programming the first thing you learn to do is fun with the console. I've never seen anyonr "freak out" at the sight of a command prompt. Usually those that never made use of the console before are intrigued to learn something new. Have you ever actually been to a classroom of the "newer generation" you like to make sweeping generalizations about, od must they freak out just cause they aren't an old-timer like you.
Hello Trolly McTroll. Windows 95 did not demonize the command line, it demonized DOS. Microsoft desperatly wanted everyone to ditch the mess that is DOS and develop Windows GUI programs. If you remember Windows 3.1, a lot of programs still switched to DOS to run. That said, Windows 2k and XP have very powerful command lines. Almost every aspect of windows can be manipulated and scripted through the command line. Microsoft's Active Directory relies heavily on these capabilities. If Microsoft wanted it to die, why would the keep improving it in every version of Windows? Why teach people to use it as part of their MSCE training?
Those stories aren't canon, and as such have the same impact on the "official" story as fan-fiction. They, and the other books have already been directly contradicted by the prequels many times.
I'm not suggesting doctors not be held responsible for their actions at all. I'm just saying giving out million dollar settlements doesn't seem like justice to me. If the doctor commits gross negligence the requires much more than a honest mistake, he should be charged as criminally negligent and sent to jail and his license revoked. If, however, I was in a hospital and got an infection like the case the parent presented, and lsot my legs because of it, I would be more satisfied if the reward for any malpractice was my medical expenses, a modest amount to support myself until I could return to employment, and the hospital was subject to new safety regulations and required to improve the standards of it's care or face censure. Hospitals and medical staff must be held to maintain the highest level of care possible, but it's inevitable that mistakes will be made. The punishment should be constructive in that it actively causes an improvement in the level of care and helps others rather then lining the pockets of the victims. Hospitals are often understaffed and overworked due to financial issues. Except for some specialists, hospital doctors are usually the hardest worked and the least paid. It seems to me that when a patient is harmed because the hospital can not afford to give him better care, taking even more money to supposedly make "reparations" to one person is not the answer. My mother is a RN, through her I've had the priviledge to meet or hear about many of her colleagues. I've come to the conclusion that while there are some who are incompetent or just apathetic, the majority actually want to help people and do the best with what they have. I have little sympathy for people who say "I was mistreated, now I am entitled to everything I can get my hands on, and damn the people I hurt who had nothing to do with it."
Infections are a fact of life. Even with the best sterilization procedures hospitals are still hotbeds of infection, especially antibiotic resistant strains. The real question is where the doctors actually incompetent, or was it just bad luck?
Let's presume for a second it actually was the fault of the doctors. Presumably, he was the patient of one or two doctors in a large hospital. He sues and gets a couple million. Now he is a couple million richer (and his lawyer several million richer), but he doesn't have his legs back. Now the hospital is even more stretched for cash. The hospital can afford fewer doctors and nurses, can pay the competent doctors it has less (encouraging them to seek employment in private clinics) and their malpractice insurance costs sky-rocket to even higher. Now the hospital and it's patients are even worse off then before and someone else is going to lose his legs, or his arm or his life. Lot of good that lawsuit did, it made one double amputee moderatly wealthy, got some sleazy contingency lawyer a shiny new boat, cost some doctors who may or may not even be at fault their license, and cause more pain and suffering to the patients of the hospital. When did getting a lot of money become justice?
The FDA process is long for a reason. Just one drug that turned out to be fatal after a year of taking it could kill thousands. Also, if you have a fatal disease and are not responding to normal treatment, most new medicines still in the FDA process are available on an expiremental basis.
Why would pharaceutical companies want to shut down soft drink manufaturers of fast food restaraunts? Do you expect them to say "if you weren't such a lard ass, we'd help you"? Pharmaceutical companies have no right telling people how to live, if you chose to live an unhealthy life, that's your problem. Furthermore, if they do suffer from these problems why shouldn't the drug companies sell them medicine? While it's better to elminate the cause of the problem, it's better to treat the symptoms then do nothing at all.
MS is far from perfect, but worrying constantly about reverse compatibility is one of the major reasons windows is so insecure IMO. Microsoft can't take any big leaps in security as long as they have to work around 5 years of hacks and tweaks to keep things working. Microsoft seems to be doing a good job of giving developers fair warning. Furthermore, Windows actually has an excellent method for rolling back service packs, so even if it does break that mission critical app you can roll back and wait for an update.
Survivor and the other realisty shows have suceeded mainly because they are dirt cheap to make. Survivor deserves some credit for being a halfway original idea (I've never watched an entire episode) so when it got big they made money hand over fist, thus the spawn of reality shows. I've never met a person who actually claimed to be a big fan, the pople who do watch them seem to just because there's a lack of anything better. Tv is all about money, not viewer satisfaction.
The executive branch was given the power to use military force without a formal declaration of war by congress. If they really want it back, they just need to repeal those laws. If the Executive still tries to push it's power's, Congress can just cut all funding to the military. It's my opinion Congress prefers it when the executive branch has to make the tough decisions when it comes to military force, that way if it goes well they can take credit and if it goes poorly they can condemn the president.
Your right. Playing GTA3 has made me realize killing hookers with stolen cars is the life for me. Good think I can ditch the police by spray painting my car, and when I hop in the passenger seat, the drivers of cars politely get out so I can steal it. You talk about a society plagued by people who cannot accept responsiblity for themselves. It seems to me gamers have no problem accepting responsibilty when they kill a hooker, it's the anti-game people like yourself that claim the video games are gonna make us do it. The line between right and wrong seems pretty damn clear to me, things I do in an imaginary game world aren't real and don't hurt anyone, so theres nothing wrong with them. Acts committed in the real world however, have moral import, and no relation exists between them and the game world. The only people who try to blame their behavior on games are screwed up in the head to begin with, and are jsut looking for a scapegoat the "think of the children!" group are all to willing to supply. It's also worth pointing out the violence in GTA3 is just the dressing on what is actually excellent gameplay. Games aren't much different conceptually then they were in the Atari days, gamers just expect developers to use modern technology to tell some sort of halfassed excuse to why your doing the fun stuff.
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I'm being pedantic, but I challenge you to prove how it's possible to have a penguin enter water and not displace 1 penguin's volume worth of water whether he slides in or is dropped from a plane.
I propose a week where people mind their damn business, and stop whining about how other people watch tv (or what they watch). Also, for the duration of the week, the self-righteous "I don't have a tv crowd" is banned from speaking, so we don't have to listen to how morally superior they are just because they don't have a tv. Shut the Hell Up Week pt. 2 will follow, in which people are forbidden from talking about non-educational programming, so we don't have to waste all those hours in those heated "Which Survivor candidate is cutest" conversations.
I knew you Canadians were a bunch of damned hippies, and it only took a blackout to prove it. I vote we change all our maps to refer to Canada as the "polar commune" and close the border.
My mailman will still manage to deliver it to the neighbor's house by accident.
Commercial farm fences may cycle, but I've seen some highly jury-rigged electric fences in my brief experiences in the boondocks. It's possible the poster is correct and the designers of said electrical fence were not wise enough to include said cycling feature.
$377 is more expensive then most PocketPC's. The top of the line Dell Axim X3 is $315. The specs on it far exceed the stats I've found(not 100% about their accuracy for the final model) for this Simputer. The cheap X3, at $200, still beats it. While it might have it's niche, it's definitly not cheap.
Nuke-powered monorail salesman?
So you were a dick in 94/95, and want the chance to be a dick without reprecussion again?
USA likes things that benefit it. USA doesn't like things that hurt it. News at 11.
WTO has a lot more to gain from the US then the US has to gain from it anyway.
OEMs do not pay anything near that much. The numbers I've heard are $15-$20. If it actually was $100 those bargain basement pc's you see wouldn't be possible.The price for OEM copies of Windows is one of the strongest bargaining points in Microsoft's aresenal. Anyone who they refuse to sell OEM licenses to is pretty much out of the budget market.
You missed the point. It's a hobby.
I think your flat out wrong. Today the anti-nuclear rhetoric has reached such proportions people cringe in fear when they are reminded nuclear power plants exist. I remember awhile back it was in the local papers about a nuclear waste shipment scheduled, and some groups got all up in arms about the waste being transported through their community without realizing the powerplant itself was literally right in their backyard. The wow nuclear bombs are cool is just adolescent bullshit, and was probably stronger in the cold war then it is now (modern youth are reminded of nukes much less often). Having nukes without examples of their effects seems much worse then today. We can look at the Hiroshimas and Chernobyls and see the evidence of the mistakes of previous generations. As for new countries becoming nuclear powers, I suspect they realize the truths of nuclear war as much as we do. The reality is nuclear weapons are the only way small nations can cling to some semblance of military might in the presence of superpowers. I think we cause more harm by pandering to them instead of treating them with respect.
Thank you for not coming to America. Your respect for our feelings (we didn't ask you to come anyway) is admirable.
IIS does not come turned on, and at least in XP pro it is not part of the default install. Furthermore, OEM XP installs normally don't have any user passwords period. If OEM's shipped Linux you can bet they'd set it up to run as root anyway, just to avoid the hassle of tech support when people can't figure out why the password box comes up when they want to install Bonzi Buddy. Add to that even if they did have a seperate root account, they'd have to set some sort of default password and most people would never bother to change it. You don't score points with the clueless by adding in more steps and hassle for security reasons they don't understand. That said, I run Windows at home, and with only the most basic precautions (and yeah I run as Administrator cause I'm lazy, and use Outlook cause it sinks with my PocketPC) I've never gotten so much as a virus or piece of spyware. Windows or Linux, it comes down to the users anyway.
All units of the same console execute the code at the same rate, so it is common practice to use the hardware speed or frame rate as your time reference. This may not be the ideal, but it's how things are done in the console world (and was common in PC games before computers got so fast it was highly unreliable).
Bullshit, I'm part of that newer generation. When you first start learning programming the first thing you learn to do is fun with the console. I've never seen anyonr "freak out" at the sight of a command prompt. Usually those that never made use of the console before are intrigued to learn something new. Have you ever actually been to a classroom of the "newer generation" you like to make sweeping generalizations about, od must they freak out just cause they aren't an old-timer like you.
Hello Trolly McTroll.
Windows 95 did not demonize the command line, it demonized DOS. Microsoft desperatly wanted everyone to ditch the mess that is DOS and develop Windows GUI programs. If you remember Windows 3.1, a lot of programs still switched to DOS to run. That said, Windows 2k and XP have very powerful command lines. Almost every aspect of windows can be manipulated and scripted through the command line. Microsoft's Active Directory relies heavily on these capabilities. If Microsoft wanted it to die, why would the keep improving it in every version of Windows? Why teach people to use it as part of their MSCE training?
Those stories aren't canon, and as such have the same impact on the "official" story as fan-fiction. They, and the other books have already been directly contradicted by the prequels many times.
I'm not suggesting doctors not be held responsible for their actions at all. I'm just saying giving out million dollar settlements doesn't seem like justice to me. If the doctor commits gross negligence the requires much more than a honest mistake, he should be charged as criminally negligent and sent to jail and his license revoked. If, however, I was in a hospital and got an infection like the case the parent presented, and lsot my legs because of it, I would be more satisfied if the reward for any malpractice was my medical expenses, a modest amount to support myself until I could return to employment, and the hospital was subject to new safety regulations and required to improve the standards of it's care or face censure. Hospitals and medical staff must be held to maintain the highest level of care possible, but it's inevitable that mistakes will be made. The punishment should be constructive in that it actively causes an improvement in the level of care and helps others rather then lining the pockets of the victims. Hospitals are often understaffed and overworked due to financial issues. Except for some specialists, hospital doctors are usually the hardest worked and the least paid. It seems to me that when a patient is harmed because the hospital can not afford to give him better care, taking even more money to supposedly make "reparations" to one person is not the answer. My mother is a RN, through her I've had the priviledge to meet or hear about many of her colleagues. I've come to the conclusion that while there are some who are incompetent or just apathetic, the majority actually want to help people and do the best with what they have. I have little sympathy for people who say "I was mistreated, now I am entitled to everything I can get my hands on, and damn the people I hurt who had nothing to do with it."
Infections are a fact of life. Even with the best sterilization procedures hospitals are still hotbeds of infection, especially antibiotic resistant strains. The real question is where the doctors actually incompetent, or was it just bad luck?
Let's presume for a second it actually was the fault of the doctors. Presumably, he was the patient of one or two doctors in a large hospital. He sues and gets a couple million. Now he is a couple million richer (and his lawyer several million richer), but he doesn't have his legs back. Now the hospital is even more stretched for cash. The hospital can afford fewer doctors and nurses, can pay the competent doctors it has less (encouraging them to seek employment in private clinics) and their malpractice insurance costs sky-rocket to even higher. Now the hospital and it's patients are even worse off then before and someone else is going to lose his legs, or his arm or his life. Lot of good that lawsuit did, it made one double amputee moderatly wealthy, got some sleazy contingency lawyer a shiny new boat, cost some doctors who may or may not even be at fault their license, and cause more pain and suffering to the patients of the hospital. When did getting a lot of money become justice?
The FDA process is long for a reason. Just one drug that turned out to be fatal after a year of taking it could kill thousands. Also, if you have a fatal disease and are not responding to normal treatment, most new medicines still in the FDA process are available on an expiremental basis.
Why would pharaceutical companies want to shut down soft drink manufaturers of fast food restaraunts? Do you expect them to say "if you weren't such a lard ass, we'd help you"? Pharmaceutical companies have no right telling people how to live, if you chose to live an unhealthy life, that's your problem. Furthermore, if they do suffer from these problems why shouldn't the drug companies sell them medicine? While it's better to elminate the cause of the problem, it's better to treat the symptoms then do nothing at all.
MS is far from perfect, but worrying constantly about reverse compatibility is one of the major reasons windows is so insecure IMO. Microsoft can't take any big leaps in security as long as they have to work around 5 years of hacks and tweaks to keep things working. Microsoft seems to be doing a good job of giving developers fair warning. Furthermore, Windows actually has an excellent method for rolling back service packs, so even if it does break that mission critical app you can roll back and wait for an update.
Survivor and the other realisty shows have suceeded mainly because they are dirt cheap to make. Survivor deserves some credit for being a halfway original idea (I've never watched an entire episode) so when it got big they made money hand over fist, thus the spawn of reality shows. I've never met a person who actually claimed to be a big fan, the pople who do watch them seem to just because there's a lack of anything better. Tv is all about money, not viewer satisfaction.
The executive branch was given the power to use military force without a formal declaration of war by congress. If they really want it back, they just need to repeal those laws. If the Executive still tries to push it's power's, Congress can just cut all funding to the military. It's my opinion Congress prefers it when the executive branch has to make the tough decisions when it comes to military force, that way if it goes well they can take credit and if it goes poorly they can condemn the president.
Your right. Playing GTA3 has made me realize killing hookers with stolen cars is the life for me. Good think I can ditch the police by spray painting my car, and when I hop in the passenger seat, the drivers of cars politely get out so I can steal it. You talk about a society plagued by people who cannot accept responsiblity for themselves. It seems to me gamers have no problem accepting responsibilty when they kill a hooker, it's the anti-game people like yourself that claim the video games are gonna make us do it. The line between right and wrong seems pretty damn clear to me, things I do in an imaginary game world aren't real and don't hurt anyone, so theres nothing wrong with them. Acts committed in the real world however, have moral import, and no relation exists between them and the game world. The only people who try to blame their behavior on games are screwed up in the head to begin with, and are jsut looking for a scapegoat the "think of the children!" group are all to willing to supply. It's also worth pointing out the violence in GTA3 is just the dressing on what is actually excellent gameplay. Games aren't much different conceptually then they were in the Atari days, gamers just expect developers to use modern technology to tell some sort of halfassed excuse to why your doing the fun stuff.