He said "real severe clinical depression". That's the 1/3 you're talking about where the drugs work. Many people are diagnosed with depression based on just the most general definition (feeling "down" for longer than 2 weeks). And most people should only be treated with therapy. Today the drugs are handed out like candy. If they were only handed to the people that genuinely need them you'd find anti-depressants work quite well, which seems to be what TFA is saying.
6 million people is about 10% of the total population. Maybe if such a large portion of its citizens want to do something it shouldn't be illegal. If the government were obeying the will of the people this shouldn't even be an issue.
In considering the environmental impact of a particular vehicle, there are a number of factors to consider
Very good post, but don't forget the impact of building and maintaining the vehicle. Current hybrids are complex and still have a gasoline engine that needs maintenance. From what I've read, no engine seems simpler than an electric. They have few moving parts and are easy to build. The tradeoff is batteries have a huge environmental impact. It would be great to have a vehicle that's both environmentally friendly to build and operate.
My comment was about people agreeing to the terms without reading them, assuming they have easy access to the license before/during purchase. The article is more about the content of the license than access to it.
I agree with the issue of access. Everyone should be able to easily read a license before purchase, but that's not the point of the article.
Again, if you don't agree to or understand the terms, don't use the software. Find a competitor who offers a better license or don't use the software at all.
it would be unreasonable to expect an average consumer to understand the terms to which they were agreeing
Then they shouldn't agree to it. As long as the license is available before purchase, people should not be buying a license they don't comprehend. It's just that simple. Just like the mortgage lending problems people are agreeing to terms they don't understand or don't have the patience to read. What we need is not regulation as much as consumer education.
While I like to see computer systems help in solving problems, there's a much simpler solution. Use a niche personals site. The smaller the niche, the less people will be on it, the less bombarded the women are with initial messages, and the higher the response rate. The larger and more diverse a site, of course the less likely you are to see a response.
Also avoid the sites that are completely ad supported or ones with obvious fake postings.
It would be great if it hits their bottom line. Except for many people the choice is between Comcast broadband, AOL dialup, or no internet. Which do most people choose?
Microsoft is continually looking for companies to purchase. They've acquired more than 80 companies since 1994. So they've obviously discussed acquisitions with many times that number of companies. This looks like business as usual.
Leela: They're going to destroy the entire Earth if they don't see some stupid TV show about some bimbo lawyer? Fry: It's crazy! How could they even know about a show from a thousand years ago? Farnsworth: Well, Omicron Persei 8 is about a thousand light years away. So the electro-magnetic waves would just recently have gotten there. You see- Fry: Magic. Got it.
Standard desktop OSs and applications do not yet really take much advantage of parallel processing. Once you get past 2 or 4 CPUs/cores there won't be any drastic speed improvements until individual applications are written for parallel processing.
I don't know your exact situation, so I can't comment on the 418 queries. But I am very intimate with Drupal's internals. All of the useless function calls keep module development simple. And it does cause excessive PHP code to run. Since most module functions are very short it's cheap. But unless your external modules are very poorly coded they should not cause any extra database calls. I've professionally built a number of very complex sites with Drupal and I've extensively debugged the hooks and database queries. It's extremely rare that any part of the core, including the built-in modules, run any extra database queries.
Let's say, for example, that you have a basic Drupal site with every module turned on and just the user block in a sidebar. If you browse the blog, hooks in the forum module will be called (nodeapi, for example, since any module can append to the behavior of any node). But no queries from the forum module will be executed.
How does it look like OO? It's functional. It doesn't pretend to be object oriented. Maybe you're confusing modular code layout with classes?
Instead, they use their own hooking system, which makes the software slow (talking about hundreds of DB queries to build a simple page) and more complex then necessary.
What does the choice of building a custom hooking system have to do with the number of database queries? An object oriented design could easily cause the same number of queries to be executed.
As for speed I haven't found Drupal any slower than any other PHP CMS. They fixed the big performance bottlenecks years ago.
And the advantage to the large number of queries is the simplicity of the code. In Drupal's case, consolidating queries would make the code (and modularity, specifically) much more complicated. MySQL's strength is in running many small queries very fast, so in some cases it's beneficial to build a simple CMS with many smaller queries when using MySQL.
These are CHRISTIANS we are talking about. the "Turn the other Cheek" people. the "Treat others like you want to be treated" people.
What country do you live in? I've travelled throughout many parts of the United States and never met a true "turn the other cheek" Christian. I also don't recall ever seeing one on television or reading about one in a newspaper. If they do exist in the US I believe (anecdotally) they're a minority.
The most religious Christians I've met were happy to tell everyone how they should be living their lives. The "turn the other cheek" people need to spread the word better if that's how Christians are really supposed to be.
So you argue that no one should bash all Christians for the actions of a few, then in the next paragraph proceed to bash all liberals. I've never seen a liberal "go out of their way to excuse the most heinous behavior of Muslims", yet you seem to think all liberals are this way.
Your comment is the typical hypocrisy that promotes the "Christian hate" which you're complaining about.
The first people to publish information about a new secret product can easily get a massive amount of page views. Profits for blogs and news sites are mostly from traffic, so they tend to choose topics that drive traffic to their site. A hot new product from Apple is definitely one of them.
For some it's simply fanboyism. Just like a fan of a band can't wait to hear their new songs, big Apple fans can't wait to hear about the next product.
I was wondering why Spore was so delayed. I can now blame it on Mac porting.
I can understand not reading the article. But how about reading the summary? "In Spore's case, the magic of cross-platform portability is achieved through the use of a special software layer supplied by Toronto-based TransGaming Technologies." Spore wasn't coded at all for the Mac, so porting can hardly be blamed for the delay. They could have released it on Windows first and Mac later, like most games.
Microsoft told Computerworld support cases "are reviewed regularly so that we can ensure we're resolving customer issues in a timely fashion
I guess everything is relative. Every time I had a support issue that required contact with a Microsoft developer it took days to even speak with one. And this was "enterprise" paid support, so I can only imagine what others must go through.
To their credit, once we were in contact with a developer they were usually helpful and always fast. But getting to the right person required telling our problem over and over to various levels of support staff.
When he says "succeeded" he means popular and profitable. Available != Succeeded. How popular and profitable are XBox Live Marketplace movie rentals? This is the first time I've heard of them, if that's any indication.
But Real IDs will not be harder to forge. States like NY and CA are already close to following the Real ID standards, yet very good fakes are easy to get. It's simply not true that seeing someone's "Real ID" will guarantee (or even come close to guaranteeing) that it's real.
I don't think you read the comment correctly. The hijackers had valid IDs, not fakes. Meaning they could do anything we would normally do with those IDs.
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He said "real severe clinical depression". That's the 1/3 you're talking about where the drugs work. Many people are diagnosed with depression based on just the most general definition (feeling "down" for longer than 2 weeks). And most people should only be treated with therapy. Today the drugs are handed out like candy. If they were only handed to the people that genuinely need them you'd find anti-depressants work quite well, which seems to be what TFA is saying.
6 million people is about 10% of the total population. Maybe if such a large portion of its citizens want to do something it shouldn't be illegal. If the government were obeying the will of the people this shouldn't even be an issue.
In considering the environmental impact of a particular vehicle, there are a number of factors to consider
Very good post, but don't forget the impact of building and maintaining the vehicle. Current hybrids are complex and still have a gasoline engine that needs maintenance. From what I've read, no engine seems simpler than an electric. They have few moving parts and are easy to build. The tradeoff is batteries have a huge environmental impact. It would be great to have a vehicle that's both environmentally friendly to build and operate.
My comment was about people agreeing to the terms without reading them, assuming they have easy access to the license before/during purchase. The article is more about the content of the license than access to it.
I agree with the issue of access. Everyone should be able to easily read a license before purchase, but that's not the point of the article.
Again, if you don't agree to or understand the terms, don't use the software. Find a competitor who offers a better license or don't use the software at all.
it would be unreasonable to expect an average consumer to understand the terms to which they were agreeing
Then they shouldn't agree to it. As long as the license is available before purchase, people should not be buying a license they don't comprehend. It's just that simple. Just like the mortgage lending problems people are agreeing to terms they don't understand or don't have the patience to read. What we need is not regulation as much as consumer education.
While I like to see computer systems help in solving problems, there's a much simpler solution. Use a niche personals site. The smaller the niche, the less people will be on it, the less bombarded the women are with initial messages, and the higher the response rate. The larger and more diverse a site, of course the less likely you are to see a response.
Also avoid the sites that are completely ad supported or ones with obvious fake postings.
It would be great if it hits their bottom line. Except for many people the choice is between Comcast broadband, AOL dialup, or no internet. Which do most people choose?
Microsoft is continually looking for companies to purchase. They've acquired more than 80 companies since 1994. So they've obviously discussed acquisitions with many times that number of companies. This looks like business as usual.
Leela: They're going to destroy the entire Earth if they don't see some stupid TV show about some bimbo lawyer?
Fry: It's crazy! How could they even know about a show from a thousand years ago?
Farnsworth: Well, Omicron Persei 8 is about a thousand light years away. So the electro-magnetic waves would just recently have gotten there. You see-
Fry: Magic. Got it.
Standard desktop OSs and applications do not yet really take much advantage of parallel processing. Once you get past 2 or 4 CPUs/cores there won't be any drastic speed improvements until individual applications are written for parallel processing.
I don't know your exact situation, so I can't comment on the 418 queries. But I am very intimate with Drupal's internals. All of the useless function calls keep module development simple. And it does cause excessive PHP code to run. Since most module functions are very short it's cheap. But unless your external modules are very poorly coded they should not cause any extra database calls. I've professionally built a number of very complex sites with Drupal and I've extensively debugged the hooks and database queries. It's extremely rare that any part of the core, including the built-in modules, run any extra database queries.
Let's say, for example, that you have a basic Drupal site with every module turned on and just the user block in a sidebar. If you browse the blog, hooks in the forum module will be called (nodeapi, for example, since any module can append to the behavior of any node). But no queries from the forum module will be executed.
Their code structure looks like OO, but it isn't.
How does it look like OO? It's functional. It doesn't pretend to be object oriented. Maybe you're confusing modular code layout with classes?
Instead, they use their own hooking system, which makes the software slow (talking about hundreds of DB queries to build a simple page) and more complex then necessary.
What does the choice of building a custom hooking system have to do with the number of database queries? An object oriented design could easily cause the same number of queries to be executed.
As for speed I haven't found Drupal any slower than any other PHP CMS. They fixed the big performance bottlenecks years ago.
And the advantage to the large number of queries is the simplicity of the code. In Drupal's case, consolidating queries would make the code (and modularity, specifically) much more complicated. MySQL's strength is in running many small queries very fast, so in some cases it's beneficial to build a simple CMS with many smaller queries when using MySQL.
These are CHRISTIANS we are talking about. the "Turn the other Cheek" people. the "Treat others like you want to be treated" people.
What country do you live in? I've travelled throughout many parts of the United States and never met a true "turn the other cheek" Christian. I also don't recall ever seeing one on television or reading about one in a newspaper. If they do exist in the US I believe (anecdotally) they're a minority.
The most religious Christians I've met were happy to tell everyone how they should be living their lives. The "turn the other cheek" people need to spread the word better if that's how Christians are really supposed to be.
So you argue that no one should bash all Christians for the actions of a few, then in the next paragraph proceed to bash all liberals. I've never seen a liberal "go out of their way to excuse the most heinous behavior of Muslims", yet you seem to think all liberals are this way.
Your comment is the typical hypocrisy that promotes the "Christian hate" which you're complaining about.
The first people to publish information about a new secret product can easily get a massive amount of page views. Profits for blogs and news sites are mostly from traffic, so they tend to choose topics that drive traffic to their site. A hot new product from Apple is definitely one of them.
For some it's simply fanboyism. Just like a fan of a band can't wait to hear their new songs, big Apple fans can't wait to hear about the next product.
I was wondering why Spore was so delayed. I can now blame it on Mac porting.
I can understand not reading the article. But how about reading the summary? "In Spore's case, the magic of cross-platform portability is achieved through the use of a special software layer supplied by Toronto-based TransGaming Technologies." Spore wasn't coded at all for the Mac, so porting can hardly be blamed for the delay. They could have released it on Windows first and Mac later, like most games.
1. It's a recent event of interest to some.
2. Taco, which is why it's on his blog that you are currently reading.
I guess everything is relative. Every time I had a support issue that required contact with a Microsoft developer it took days to even speak with one. And this was "enterprise" paid support, so I can only imagine what others must go through.
To their credit, once we were in contact with a developer they were usually helpful and always fast. But getting to the right person required telling our problem over and over to various levels of support staff.
Though I highly doubt much will be in operation in 30 years. ... said the COBOL developer in 1970...
When he says "succeeded" he means popular and profitable. Available != Succeeded. How popular and profitable are XBox Live Marketplace movie rentals? This is the first time I've heard of them, if that's any indication.
And they wonder why their stock is in the toilet. They're trying to stop free marketing of their products. How dumb is that?
But Real IDs will not be harder to forge. States like NY and CA are already close to following the Real ID standards, yet very good fakes are easy to get. It's simply not true that seeing someone's "Real ID" will guarantee (or even come close to guaranteeing) that it's real.
You already have to show your state i.d. to the airport people, all this does is make sure it's a real i.d.
No, you don't. You can board a plane without a government ID, but you have to be willing to undergo a more thorough search. The TSA rules allow this.
I don't think you read the comment correctly. The hijackers had valid IDs, not fakes. Meaning they could do anything we would normally do with those IDs.
theres nothing wrong with have a solid method of making sure people are who they say they are
What does Real ID have to do with that? It does nothing to truly prevent fake identification.