Frogive me for asking if this is stupid, but why exactly is everyone talking about AMD? I mean, SGI, among several other big companies, already HAS a working 64-bit processor on the market NOW that's world's better than the Itanium even promises to be. So what's the big deal with Intel going 64 bit almost two years after they promised they would? I mean, I understand that SGI chips are expensive and all, but how they don't have the 64-bit markt already tied up already?
Hey, the Holy Spirit's previous work, the Bible, was crammed FULL of plot holes, incredibly slow bits, unneccesary recap of the same events FOUR times, really shallow characterizations, and lots of historical innaccuracy.
Jesus was a carpenter with no acting experience- being a great public speaker does make you Anthony freakin Hopkins.
God I could see as a director though. Would have really cut down on the special effects budget.
The worst variant on this are the people who are constantly asking questions about the plot. Now I don't mean that they simply don't understand the plot, and need a recap- they actually want to know NOW what will happen later. If a piece of plot information is held back, they'll ask about it- oblivious to the fact that the whole freaking POINT of watching a movie in linear time is that eventually you'll SEE what happens. People can't just sit back and be immersed in an experience anymore.
Uh, well Ken Thompson actually helped do the gruntwork WRITING an OS that's lasted this long. Gates is not on the same level- he can't take credit for the windows code the way Thompson can for UNIX.
Yeah, that's basically it, except sometimes someone screams "Akira!" too. And the Tesuo hardware/blob mutation thing is one of the coolest, freakiest things you'll ever see fully realizied in Sci-Fi.
Also quite good, and in a genre not represented at all in this discussion so far: "His and Her Circumstances"
I groaned when a friend suggested I watch it. Anime with no mechs or gunfights? Just a story about a love relationship in High School? Blah.
But after watching 1-4, I got hooked. It's really creative, EXTREMELY fast paced, zany, and phsycoligically very incisive.
Again though, some research will be in order. Many people question the real efficacy of, for instance, the Heifer project. They've been involved in several debacles in which they gave animals to villages and ended up causing major problems instead of good things.
But the Bush campaign HAS and IS engaged in the same thing. The whole fluster over the absentee ballots revolves around stretching the law. By law, unpostmarked ballots shouldn't be counted. But the DEMOCRAT in charge of making that decision finally decided to bend the law and allow them. So in one case it's "screw the technical law- it's the will of the servicemen GOD COUNTRY BLAH BLAH AT TOP VOLUME" and in another it's "we MUST follow the strict technicality of the law! GOD COUNTRY ALL THAT IS HOLY AND GOOD!" It's isn't hard to find such positions totally hypocritical. In one famous example, Bush lawyers lobbied intensely to disqualify 13 absentee votes from country employees that they believed to be for Gore, but were without precisely proper ID. When they found out that the votes were mostly for Bush, however, they dropped all challenges.
I also find it hilarious that this supposedly "states rights" "we trust local politics over those fatcats in Washington (just not those good Republican fatcats- they're all right)" party is the one appealing to the Supreme Court (a move quite disturbing in it's implications for the ever expanding power of federal courts, espcially considering how flimsy the rationale for a federal suit is)- the one saying that local people just can't be trusted.
That doesn't exactly paint the Gore camp as saints. They are quite craven and willing to fight. But at least there's little question of that. But the fact is, there is legitimate ground for a fight here. I really can't say which side is right. And I'm fairly suspicious of someone who claims that they can.
And hey, you are a hypocrite, because you only look at a situation long enough until the view you get pleases your preconcieved notions.
Just a note- this has to be one of the most hypocritical stances of the Bush camp. Bush not only signed a Texas bill into declaring that hand recounts were superior to machine counts, but in the face of the very fact the hand recounts have shown such huge discrepancies even WITHOUT counting the "chad" controversy- it is simply disgraceful that his campaign would attempt to discredit the recounts when the election is this close.
This only shows your basic confusion of what "32bit" color actually is, and how that relates to the amount of colors the eyes can "see." It's a VERY complex issue, and I suggest you take a longer look at it before declaring it to be as fanciful as vinyl zealotry. It's not- it's a real issue, especially when you start doing things like throwing it up on a huge public screen, using compression and different bit-level pipelines for editing, etc.
Especialy if done as an adult, this would be quite difficult. Once you hit a certain age, your brain gets a lot more set in its ways, and maybe most importantly- it already has a complete coherent "body image"- making additions to it is a HUGE change. While it certainly could reallocate some neurons to control this third arm (often done when brain damage victims relearn tasks they lost when the part of the brain that contorlled them was damaged), they would be really sloppy and awkward even after tons and tons of practice.
A child could certainly learn a third arm, though of course it would have difficultly because it would hav no human models to imitate in the use of it (but since it'd be pretty similar to other arms, that wouldn't be a major problem)
I did remember a story in the New Yorker about a totally paralyzed guy who could move a mouse on the computer screen just by thinking about it. They simply put a switch in his brain in the part that used to control his wrist functions, read the simple and generalized movement impulses, and translated it into x and y movement for the program it was hooked up to. REALLY neat. Think of how this could change human society if everyone grew up with such embedded switches that they learned to use, and that could be put to a myriad of tasks outside of our own body motion!
I don't really have any idea how to go about answering your question, knowing nothing about the physics involved. Sorry. Perhaps you should have asked someone more informed.
There's been an amazing amount of controversial instances of voter fraud this election. From broken machines in New York, to poll closing in Missouri, to absentee ballot stuffing all over the country. I'd say this probably has a lot to do with the fact that we no longer have several competing organizations working on election results- we now only have one. But Geez America- this election has looked more like a Third World/South American election than a First World one.
Where did you find me contradicting myself? You know why I say "NEVER"? Get ready for a big surprise: the vast majority of Americans are far more conservative than you and most Nader voters. Nader is already nailed down as a extreme leftist, and he is. The majority of America disagrees with his policies. They probably always will. Get Real. Nader isn't even running seriously. He's going for 5%. That means that, instead of having to appeal to the majority of the American people- all he has to do is tell a slim subsection exactly what they want to hear. Sure- if you're in that subsection, that's really exicting- look at all that personal attention you're getting! But it's not a real campaign, and its entirely self-serving.
Abortion isn't the only issue that stands on a tipping Supreme Court- so does "the market interfereing with government" By electing Bush, you're actually kissing goodbye the one issue you claim to care about.
Yup, you have. And you're using NT, which can't use any the real features of IE5 (since it's basically just the hacked 95 version of explorer). On 98SE you can choose to browse in a separate process, which splits the web browser from "explorer" writ large
Hmm... tradeoffs would imply that there are some advantages to using Netscape- and you haven't noted any. "Doesn't integrate itself with the OS" isn't inherently good or bad, and IE also loads instantly depending on whether you open each window a new process or not (if you do, the crash of one doesn't mean the crash of the others- and in IE you actually have this choice)
Big deal, almost every window managing system ever made has incorporated the dimension of time. Though some implementations are spottier than others. For instance, the dimension of time seemed to crash and freeze quite often on my old windows box, though the other two dimensions seemed mostly unaffected.
You didn't cover: blacks, latinos, women... etc... Not that it really matters. Zealots like you have simply decided that your crusade is the only issue that matters, ever. With piss poor strategy, and a perchance for declaring victory when we lose, modern day progressive left is WEAKER and more dismissable than ever before. I just wish someday people will see what a TERRIBLE example Seattle and Prauge are- a lot of hubbub and patting each other on the back for accomplishing absolutely nothing for dubious and poorly thought out causes. If that's what you call "coming to the fore" we are doomed for sure. Such protests are practically irrelevant in this day and age for anything but cheering yourselves on. Real work is there to be done to affect policies that hurt real people, but too many leftists would rather run around on the streets chanting slogans and railing about "the system" without understanding anything about it. You have no idea what a colosal rout things like Seattle were- playing right into the hands of those seeking to demonize and sideline some legitimate concerns. They laughed at us. Too many zealous idiots spouting senseless nonsense about the unqualified evils of gobalization- all too easy to poke huge gaping holes in their poorly thought out positions- make fools of them and then write off the entire movement. That's no way to build a coalition. I hear plenty, from left and right.
That's a mistatement of what I said, and you know it. I'm not advocated voting for the winner- just for someone who represents a large enough consensus to potentially win. Nader doesn't and NEVER will. And look- it's just nuts to argue that the Democrats need to go left to win. They aren't going to chase a measely 3% on the left when there's a huge chunk in the center up for grabs. If you REALLY cared about the influence of big corporations, instead of jsut mouthing it, you'd notice that abortion isn't the only major issue the Supreme Court has on its contemporary docket: campaign finance reform efforts are as well. GW has made it pretty clear the kind of Justice he'll elect, and it's sure to be the sort that thinks that money is free speech, and that corporations are inviolate. Gore's range of choices do NOT favor this outlook. But of course you're so commited to claiming that there's no difference between Gore and Bush that you probably can't even see that. The bottom line is, if Gore doesn't win, you can kiss goodbye the very issue you claim to care so much about. So you know what? I think the average American voter is quite well informed: it's you who has their head up their ass.
I disagree. Because in some cases, there is no way to make the effect zero. For the tax scheem to be truly representative of what's going on, the revenue generated must simply be spent equally on all the people effected- they are essentially getting paid for their forfiture of reasources which are being consumed. Cleanup is only one of the ways "they" could choose to spend that money.
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Geez guys- the above post is not Flamebait, it's a Troll. Can't you morons tell the difference? THIS ONE is Flamebait.
Frogive me for asking if this is stupid, but why exactly is everyone talking about AMD? I mean, SGI, among several other big companies, already HAS a working 64-bit processor on the market NOW that's world's better than the Itanium even promises to be. So what's the big deal with Intel going 64 bit almost two years after they promised they would? I mean, I understand that SGI chips are expensive and all, but how they don't have the 64-bit markt already tied up already?
You must be color blind, or watched the 6th sense again by accident- but the color red is not relevant to this movie. Green and Purple are.
Hey, the Holy Spirit's previous work, the Bible, was crammed FULL of plot holes, incredibly slow bits, unneccesary recap of the same events FOUR times, really shallow characterizations, and lots of historical innaccuracy. Jesus was a carpenter with no acting experience- being a great public speaker does make you Anthony freakin Hopkins. God I could see as a director though. Would have really cut down on the special effects budget.
The worst variant on this are the people who are constantly asking questions about the plot. Now I don't mean that they simply don't understand the plot, and need a recap- they actually want to know NOW what will happen later. If a piece of plot information is held back, they'll ask about it- oblivious to the fact that the whole freaking POINT of watching a movie in linear time is that eventually you'll SEE what happens. People can't just sit back and be immersed in an experience anymore.
Uh, well Ken Thompson actually helped do the gruntwork WRITING an OS that's lasted this long. Gates is not on the same level- he can't take credit for the windows code the way Thompson can for UNIX.
Can you get comic books on DVD?
D is okay, but something about it never really excited me. Worth a watch, but it's not a classic.
Yeah, that's basically it, except sometimes someone screams "Akira!" too. And the Tesuo hardware/blob mutation thing is one of the coolest, freakiest things you'll ever see fully realizied in Sci-Fi.
Also quite good, and in a genre not represented at all in this discussion so far: "His and Her Circumstances" I groaned when a friend suggested I watch it. Anime with no mechs or gunfights? Just a story about a love relationship in High School? Blah. But after watching 1-4, I got hooked. It's really creative, EXTREMELY fast paced, zany, and phsycoligically very incisive.
Again though, some research will be in order. Many people question the real efficacy of, for instance, the Heifer project. They've been involved in several debacles in which they gave animals to villages and ended up causing major problems instead of good things.
But the Bush campaign HAS and IS engaged in the same thing. The whole fluster over the absentee ballots revolves around stretching the law. By law, unpostmarked ballots shouldn't be counted. But the DEMOCRAT in charge of making that decision finally decided to bend the law and allow them. So in one case it's "screw the technical law- it's the will of the servicemen GOD COUNTRY BLAH BLAH AT TOP VOLUME" and in another it's "we MUST follow the strict technicality of the law! GOD COUNTRY ALL THAT IS HOLY AND GOOD!" It's isn't hard to find such positions totally hypocritical. In one famous example, Bush lawyers lobbied intensely to disqualify 13 absentee votes from country employees that they believed to be for Gore, but were without precisely proper ID. When they found out that the votes were mostly for Bush, however, they dropped all challenges. I also find it hilarious that this supposedly "states rights" "we trust local politics over those fatcats in Washington (just not those good Republican fatcats- they're all right)" party is the one appealing to the Supreme Court (a move quite disturbing in it's implications for the ever expanding power of federal courts, espcially considering how flimsy the rationale for a federal suit is)- the one saying that local people just can't be trusted. That doesn't exactly paint the Gore camp as saints. They are quite craven and willing to fight. But at least there's little question of that. But the fact is, there is legitimate ground for a fight here. I really can't say which side is right. And I'm fairly suspicious of someone who claims that they can. And hey, you are a hypocrite, because you only look at a situation long enough until the view you get pleases your preconcieved notions.
Just a note- this has to be one of the most hypocritical stances of the Bush camp. Bush not only signed a Texas bill into declaring that hand recounts were superior to machine counts, but in the face of the very fact the hand recounts have shown such huge discrepancies even WITHOUT counting the "chad" controversy- it is simply disgraceful that his campaign would attempt to discredit the recounts when the election is this close.
This only shows your basic confusion of what "32bit" color actually is, and how that relates to the amount of colors the eyes can "see." It's a VERY complex issue, and I suggest you take a longer look at it before declaring it to be as fanciful as vinyl zealotry. It's not- it's a real issue, especially when you start doing things like throwing it up on a huge public screen, using compression and different bit-level pipelines for editing, etc.
Yup, And I believe the constitutional test for obscenity is still: "I'll know it when I see it." Sigh...
Especialy if done as an adult, this would be quite difficult. Once you hit a certain age, your brain gets a lot more set in its ways, and maybe most importantly- it already has a complete coherent "body image"- making additions to it is a HUGE change. While it certainly could reallocate some neurons to control this third arm (often done when brain damage victims relearn tasks they lost when the part of the brain that contorlled them was damaged), they would be really sloppy and awkward even after tons and tons of practice. A child could certainly learn a third arm, though of course it would have difficultly because it would hav no human models to imitate in the use of it (but since it'd be pretty similar to other arms, that wouldn't be a major problem) I did remember a story in the New Yorker about a totally paralyzed guy who could move a mouse on the computer screen just by thinking about it. They simply put a switch in his brain in the part that used to control his wrist functions, read the simple and generalized movement impulses, and translated it into x and y movement for the program it was hooked up to. REALLY neat. Think of how this could change human society if everyone grew up with such embedded switches that they learned to use, and that could be put to a myriad of tasks outside of our own body motion!
I don't really have any idea how to go about answering your question, knowing nothing about the physics involved. Sorry. Perhaps you should have asked someone more informed.
There's been an amazing amount of controversial instances of voter fraud this election. From broken machines in New York, to poll closing in Missouri, to absentee ballot stuffing all over the country. I'd say this probably has a lot to do with the fact that we no longer have several competing organizations working on election results- we now only have one. But Geez America- this election has looked more like a Third World/South American election than a First World one.
Where did you find me contradicting myself? You know why I say "NEVER"? Get ready for a big surprise: the vast majority of Americans are far more conservative than you and most Nader voters. Nader is already nailed down as a extreme leftist, and he is. The majority of America disagrees with his policies. They probably always will. Get Real. Nader isn't even running seriously. He's going for 5%. That means that, instead of having to appeal to the majority of the American people- all he has to do is tell a slim subsection exactly what they want to hear. Sure- if you're in that subsection, that's really exicting- look at all that personal attention you're getting! But it's not a real campaign, and its entirely self-serving.
Abortion isn't the only issue that stands on a tipping Supreme Court- so does "the market interfereing with government" By electing Bush, you're actually kissing goodbye the one issue you claim to care about.
Yup, you have. And you're using NT, which can't use any the real features of IE5 (since it's basically just the hacked 95 version of explorer). On 98SE you can choose to browse in a separate process, which splits the web browser from "explorer" writ large
Hmm... tradeoffs would imply that there are some advantages to using Netscape- and you haven't noted any. "Doesn't integrate itself with the OS" isn't inherently good or bad, and IE also loads instantly depending on whether you open each window a new process or not (if you do, the crash of one doesn't mean the crash of the others- and in IE you actually have this choice)
Big deal, almost every window managing system ever made has incorporated the dimension of time. Though some implementations are spottier than others. For instance, the dimension of time seemed to crash and freeze quite often on my old windows box, though the other two dimensions seemed mostly unaffected.
You didn't cover: blacks, latinos, women... etc... Not that it really matters. Zealots like you have simply decided that your crusade is the only issue that matters, ever. With piss poor strategy, and a perchance for declaring victory when we lose, modern day progressive left is WEAKER and more dismissable than ever before. I just wish someday people will see what a TERRIBLE example Seattle and Prauge are- a lot of hubbub and patting each other on the back for accomplishing absolutely nothing for dubious and poorly thought out causes. If that's what you call "coming to the fore" we are doomed for sure. Such protests are practically irrelevant in this day and age for anything but cheering yourselves on. Real work is there to be done to affect policies that hurt real people, but too many leftists would rather run around on the streets chanting slogans and railing about "the system" without understanding anything about it. You have no idea what a colosal rout things like Seattle were- playing right into the hands of those seeking to demonize and sideline some legitimate concerns. They laughed at us. Too many zealous idiots spouting senseless nonsense about the unqualified evils of gobalization- all too easy to poke huge gaping holes in their poorly thought out positions- make fools of them and then write off the entire movement. That's no way to build a coalition. I hear plenty, from left and right.
That's a mistatement of what I said, and you know it. I'm not advocated voting for the winner- just for someone who represents a large enough consensus to potentially win. Nader doesn't and NEVER will. And look- it's just nuts to argue that the Democrats need to go left to win. They aren't going to chase a measely 3% on the left when there's a huge chunk in the center up for grabs. If you REALLY cared about the influence of big corporations, instead of jsut mouthing it, you'd notice that abortion isn't the only major issue the Supreme Court has on its contemporary docket: campaign finance reform efforts are as well. GW has made it pretty clear the kind of Justice he'll elect, and it's sure to be the sort that thinks that money is free speech, and that corporations are inviolate. Gore's range of choices do NOT favor this outlook. But of course you're so commited to claiming that there's no difference between Gore and Bush that you probably can't even see that. The bottom line is, if Gore doesn't win, you can kiss goodbye the very issue you claim to care so much about. So you know what? I think the average American voter is quite well informed: it's you who has their head up their ass.
I disagree. Because in some cases, there is no way to make the effect zero. For the tax scheem to be truly representative of what's going on, the revenue generated must simply be spent equally on all the people effected- they are essentially getting paid for their forfiture of reasources which are being consumed. Cleanup is only one of the ways "they" could choose to spend that money.