When the rumor mill first started going about the recent change to x86, I read somewhere that Apple's orders for PPC chips amounted to 5% of the annual capacity for 1 of IBM's PPC factories.
NeXTStep didn't support x86 until v3.1. Prior to that, it ran only on Moto 68k processors and before being ported to 68k, it ran on something else, which escapes me at this point in time. Version 3.1 also supported Sparc and PA-RISC.
NeXTStep itself was never ported to PPC. That was Apple's contribution in 1996/1997. Apple, with the engineers inherited from their acquisition of NeXT, ported the compiler toolchain and kernel of NeXTStep in the course of a few months. Rasphody was, in effect, the first version of NeXTStep for PPC.
The astonishing thing was that apps that targetted NeXT, for the most part, only needed new NIB files and a recompile to run on Rasphody.
I'll gladly concede that the Condorde was billed as a profit making venture. But that doesn't mean that a profit making venture was the real reason for the Concorde. I'll admit to being largely ignorant of European politics. Yet, I can't imagine that it is all that different from US politics in that the reasons politicians give for their pet projects are seldom the real reasons for those projects.
I wouldn't call a trip to the movies a `fiscal failure' even though it invariably brings about a net loss on my financial worth. But, as I'm not going to the theatre to make money, I don't think that a fiscal failure is quite the right word unless by going to the movies, I'm stepping outside of my budget. And, in fact, if my goal of going to the movies is to help the projectionists keep their jobs, and the theatre does stay in business and the projectionists do keep their jobs, then there is a limited sense in which my net loss is a fiscal success.
If the goal of the Concorde project was to make money off of the flights, then I would agree with you that it was a fiscal failure. But if the goal was to improve R&D or simply to put highly skilled workers to work, then the word failure doesn't make much sense unless the project failed at its stated goals.
Certain segments of the market might be competetive, but the US market as a whole suffers from the opposite problem, too much of it/isn't/ competetive. A good deal of the hubs are owned by single airlines who then fix the prices.
The reason that so many US airlines are going broke is because of incompetent management, not because of a supercompetetive market and increased fuel costs. I'll concede that the fuel costs don't help much, but the problems are far more systemic than a single marginal cost presently going through the roof.
Regarding the point about porn and the set of Americans containing more than one person: Americans who live in the Bible Belt have a higher per capita consumption of porn. The dissonance isn't quite as high as in Russia where more people claim to be Orthodox Christians than believe in God, but there is something that doesn't sit quite right with the claims made by some and the facts on the ground.
Regarding Saving Private Ryan, it was on TV once. But this past year, when one of the networks wanted to rebroadcast it on memorial day, the FCC refused to say one way or the other if the stations would have been fined for broadcasting the F Bomb. Consequently, most stations refused to air it because they had already gotten threats of complaints to the FCC should Private Ryan air.
That 17% may not be a sign of an impending apocalypse, but it certainly does make life uncomfortable when they have a disproportionate amount of power in the white house and congress.
Aside from colloquial usage, it is an oft-used mechanical engineering term.
Anyone want to take odds on the WTO stepping
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The Japanese government essentially just announced that they were going to subsidize the porn industry. How long will it take for pornographers in the rest of the world to sue?
But if this outcry were happening over a US law, I would just laugh. Anyone who has any sort of expectation of privacy over the internet is off of their rocker. That's like having a reasonable expectation of privacy while standing out in the middle of the highway.
You're arguing that no dictatorships exist which allow for free competition in the marketplace? Ever been to Singapore?
I dunno, I think Adam Smith had it right
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Smith suggested that the human reaction to death is mostly caused by our faculty for empathy. We imagine ourselves under the cold dirt, being eaten by worms and are mortified and saddened. In other words, just as people tend to anthropomorphizes animals, so too they also anthropomorphizes the dead.
First, your statement is only true from a rather reductionist viewpoint that is foreign to normative Christianity, that physical human bodies have no value and that death is not a sad event regardless of the status of the soul. The scriptures suggest the opposite. Jesus wept over Lazarus' death despite knowing that he was going to raise him back to life.
Secondly, throughout history, Christians have mostly abstained from passing judgment on whether or not particular individuals were going to heaven. (There is the exception of the notion of sainthood, but only a relatively small number of persons are alleged to be saints.) Presumably, a person's salvation is a matter between that person and God and other people are not privy to it. Consequently, most Christians in most places don't presume that those who die are going to heaven.
Obviously, some of the dissent comes from individuals with a vested interest.
And you seem to have misunderstood what I wrote. I never argued that psychopaths wouldn't qualify for the APSD checklist.
Not to mention that your counter argument fails to address that not all impairments in personality disorders require the failure to observe rules and laws.
And where can I read up on on both the studies that have examined the rates of misdiagnosis of ASPD for BPD and the assertion that psychopaths are split 50/50 between the sexes?
The Greeks defined virtue as the golden mean between two extremes. For example, courage was held to be the mean between rashness and cowardice. Self-control was held to be the mean between wantoness and total abstinence.
And I also know that the indicators that suggest a person has BDP are different from the indicators that suggest a person is psychopathic. Both are clinical terms with specific meanings. While there may be overlap between people that meet the criteria for each disorder, if women were truly psychopathic, they would be diagnosed as such alongside the diagnosis of BPD rather than be given the diagnosis of BPD instead of being determined to be psychopathic.
The post you responded to did not mention capitalism, but only governments based on ideologies that compete with the ideology you linked to. Given that you linked to examples of state totalitarianists, it is sensible to assume that ideologies opposed to them would be various forms of government. There is, after all, no reason that a totalitarian government can't back free market capitalism.
Psychopaths are a subset of sociopaths who are a subset of persons with Anti-Social Personality Disorder. Successfully being able to hide one's psychopathic behavior, as in your example, doesn't make one a sociopath as the indicator is one's behavior and not being able to successfully hide one's behavior. The difference between a sociopath and a psychopath is largely being able to control the impulses towards psychopathic behavior.
Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy, and Psychopathy is a good overview.
The last article I read suggested a 1 to 5 ratio
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According to most recent research, around 5% of all men and 1% of all women are psychopathic to some extent. And do note that being prone to physical abuse of others is not one of the indicators of psychopathy. All of the indicators of psychopathy measure emotional and psychological traits such as a lack of empathy for others.
The Psychiatric community currently has no present consensus on the matter. But most psychiatrists would agree that not all persons with APSD are psychopathic, rather they just have a certain number of psychopathic traits.
The argument that there are only different levels of the disorder is probably technically true, but it is misleading. There is no one psychopathy. Instead, there are a multitude of psychopathies. Having one out of between seven and forty (depending on who you talk to) indicators is, on a certain level, only different in extent from having most of those same indicators. Yet, on another level, having more indicators certainly qualifies as a difference in kind, not just extent.
Most psychopaths (with the exception of those who somehow manage to plow their way through life without coming into formal or prolonged contact with the criminal justice system) meet the criteria for ASPD, but most individuals with ASPD are not psychopaths. [Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Case of Diagnostic Confusion]
The equivocation of psychopathy with APSD in the DSM-IV is very controversial. Most clinical psychiatrists will still use tests such as the Hare Psychopathy Checklist to test for psychopathy. This checklist is much more narrow than the very general seven point checklist for APSD in the DSM-IV.
The bottom line is that Jeffry Dahmer was not only a sociopath, but also a psychopath. Not all sociopaths, however, become psychotic.
Once synched, I could do pretty much whatever I wanted with the text. For input, I splurged to buy one of those folding keyboards. It worked fairly well. The best bit was that I could work on papers pretty much anywhere.
But once I got into upper level classes, I found that the my notes needed a level of organization that was much easier to enforce with pencil and paper. When taking notes, I would put the date in the left margin along with key words to use as something of an index. I used the equivalent of a second margin to keep track of page number of texts. The remainder of the page, I used to either jot down selected quotations or explanations.
Obviously, this could be replicated in software, but I've found the paper and pen to be both quicker, harder to destroy, easier to work with and more flexible. (On the last point, replicating diagrams from the chalkboard or writing down formulas is far easeir via pen and paper.) Interestingly, once I started to take notes this way, I began to write outlines for papers with ink instead of my word processor, and eventually began writing my first drafts for my papers with ink.
Now, all my notes live in manilla folders in a filebox. There have been several times when I've had to go back and find specific information. Despite that some of my notes survive only in electronic format, I find it easier to find information in my paper based notes. The ability to search through the digital version doesn't make up for the ability to visually scan the index. Many times, the word I think I'm looking for is not the word that is actually used in my notes. When looking things up by looking through the index, this is almost never a problem.
The best of both worlds, IMO, would be to use pen and paper and, as others have mentioned, scan the notes into digital format. But another consideration here is to keep in mind that different people have different brains and, consequently, different learning styles. A method of taking notes that works well for one person won't necessarily work well for another person.
I think one of the most innovative things to happen to comics was Ang Lee's use of panels in some of the cut sequences in The Hulk. Those sequences, moreso than the rest of the movie, really brought out the feel of the story's comic book origin. In a certain sense, its the maturation of the process that started with the visually graphic sound effects from the Batman TV show.
What was most interesting about Ang Lee's work was the way that those cut sequences framed the sequences as individual "shots" and made the total movement of the scene larger than merely the sum of the parts. IMO, this is the real innovation that the web has to offer comics, the ability to frame motion and sound. The web also offers one additional capability: the ability of the user to interact with the frames.
Unfortunately, it seems that most web comics ignore these innovations. The vast majority of comics on the web are simply digital reproduction of comics as they appeared on paper. This isn't any more innovative than transferring any other image or text from print to electrons. It's more like the transition from pulp to glossies during the heyday of the graphic novel. It's the same format, only presented in a slightly more sophisticated medium.
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When the rumor mill first started going about the recent change to x86, I read somewhere that Apple's orders for PPC chips amounted to 5% of the annual capacity for 1 of IBM's PPC factories.
NeXTStep didn't support x86 until v3.1. Prior to that, it ran only on Moto 68k processors and before being ported to 68k, it ran on something else, which escapes me at this point in time. Version 3.1 also supported Sparc and PA-RISC.
NeXTStep itself was never ported to PPC. That was Apple's contribution in 1996/1997. Apple, with the engineers inherited from their acquisition of NeXT, ported the compiler toolchain and kernel of NeXTStep in the course of a few months. Rasphody was, in effect, the first version of NeXTStep for PPC.
The astonishing thing was that apps that targetted NeXT, for the most part, only needed new NIB files and a recompile to run on Rasphody.
The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience
Why don't Christians live what they preach?
Ronald J. Sider
Christianity Today, Jan/Feb 2005
I'll gladly concede that the Condorde was billed as a profit making venture. But that doesn't mean that a profit making venture was the real reason for the Concorde. I'll admit to being largely ignorant of European politics. Yet, I can't imagine that it is all that different from US politics in that the reasons politicians give for their pet projects are seldom the real reasons for those projects.
I wouldn't call a trip to the movies a `fiscal failure' even though it invariably brings about a net loss on my financial worth. But, as I'm not going to the theatre to make money, I don't think that a fiscal failure is quite the right word unless by going to the movies, I'm stepping outside of my budget. And, in fact, if my goal of going to the movies is to help the projectionists keep their jobs, and the theatre does stay in business and the projectionists do keep their jobs, then there is a limited sense in which my net loss is a fiscal success.
If the goal of the Concorde project was to make money off of the flights, then I would agree with you that it was a fiscal failure. But if the goal was to improve R&D or simply to put highly skilled workers to work, then the word failure doesn't make much sense unless the project failed at its stated goals.
Certain segments of the market might be competetive, but the US market as a whole suffers from the opposite problem, too much of it /isn't/ competetive. A good deal of the hubs are owned by single airlines who then fix the prices.
The reason that so many US airlines are going broke is because of incompetent management, not because of a supercompetetive market and increased fuel costs. I'll concede that the fuel costs don't help much, but the problems are far more systemic than a single marginal cost presently going through the roof.
Regarding the point about porn and the set of Americans containing more than one person: Americans who live in the Bible Belt have a higher per capita consumption of porn. The dissonance isn't quite as high as in Russia where more people claim to be Orthodox Christians than believe in God, but there is something that doesn't sit quite right with the claims made by some and the facts on the ground.
Regarding Saving Private Ryan, it was on TV once. But this past year, when one of the networks wanted to rebroadcast it on memorial day, the FCC refused to say one way or the other if the stations would have been fined for broadcasting the F Bomb. Consequently, most stations refused to air it because they had already gotten threats of complaints to the FCC should Private Ryan air.
That 17% may not be a sign of an impending apocalypse, but it certainly does make life uncomfortable when they have a disproportionate amount of power in the white house and congress.
Aside from colloquial usage, it is an oft-used mechanical engineering term.
The Japanese government essentially just announced that they were going to subsidize the porn industry. How long will it take for pornographers in the rest of the world to sue?
But if this outcry were happening over a US law, I would just laugh. Anyone who has any sort of expectation of privacy over the internet is off of their rocker. That's like having a reasonable expectation of privacy while standing out in the middle of the highway.
You're arguing that no dictatorships exist which allow for free competition in the marketplace? Ever been to Singapore?
Smith suggested that the human reaction to death is mostly caused by our faculty for empathy. We imagine ourselves under the cold dirt, being eaten by worms and are mortified and saddened. In other words, just as people tend to anthropomorphizes animals, so too they also anthropomorphizes the dead.
First, your statement is only true from a rather reductionist viewpoint that is foreign to normative Christianity, that physical human bodies have no value and that death is not a sad event regardless of the status of the soul. The scriptures suggest the opposite. Jesus wept over Lazarus' death despite knowing that he was going to raise him back to life.
Secondly, throughout history, Christians have mostly abstained from passing judgment on whether or not particular individuals were going to heaven. (There is the exception of the notion of sainthood, but only a relatively small number of persons are alleged to be saints.) Presumably, a person's salvation is a matter between that person and God and other people are not privy to it. Consequently, most Christians in most places don't presume that those who die are going to heaven.
Hardly.
Obviously, some of the dissent comes from individuals with a vested interest.
And you seem to have misunderstood what I wrote. I never argued that psychopaths wouldn't qualify for the APSD checklist.
Not to mention that your counter argument fails to address that not all impairments in personality disorders require the failure to observe rules and laws.
And where can I read up on on both the studies that have examined the rates of misdiagnosis of ASPD for BPD and the assertion that psychopaths are split 50/50 between the sexes?
The Greeks defined virtue as the golden mean between two extremes. For example, courage was held to be the mean between rashness and cowardice. Self-control was held to be the mean between wantoness and total abstinence.
And I also know that the indicators that suggest a person has BDP are different from the indicators that suggest a person is psychopathic. Both are clinical terms with specific meanings. While there may be overlap between people that meet the criteria for each disorder, if women were truly psychopathic, they would be diagnosed as such alongside the diagnosis of BPD rather than be given the diagnosis of BPD instead of being determined to be psychopathic.
The post you responded to did not mention capitalism, but only governments based on ideologies that compete with the ideology you linked to. Given that you linked to examples of state totalitarianists, it is sensible to assume that ideologies opposed to them would be various forms of government. There is, after all, no reason that a totalitarian government can't back free market capitalism.
Psychopaths are a subset of sociopaths who are a subset of persons with Anti-Social Personality Disorder. Successfully being able to hide one's psychopathic behavior, as in your example, doesn't make one a sociopath as the indicator is one's behavior and not being able to successfully hide one's behavior. The difference between a sociopath and a psychopath is largely being able to control the impulses towards psychopathic behavior. Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy, and Psychopathy is a good overview.
According to most recent research, around 5% of all men and 1% of all women are psychopathic to some extent. And do note that being prone to physical abuse of others is not one of the indicators of psychopathy. All of the indicators of psychopathy measure emotional and psychological traits such as a lack of empathy for others.
The Psychiatric community currently has no present consensus on the matter. But most psychiatrists would agree that not all persons with APSD are psychopathic, rather they just have a certain number of psychopathic traits.
The argument that there are only different levels of the disorder is probably technically true, but it is misleading. There is no one psychopathy. Instead, there are a multitude of psychopathies. Having one out of between seven and forty (depending on who you talk to) indicators is, on a certain level, only different in extent from having most of those same indicators. Yet, on another level, having more indicators certainly qualifies as a difference in kind, not just extent.
The bottom line is that Jeffry Dahmer was not only a sociopath, but also a psychopath. Not all sociopaths, however, become psychotic.
Once synched, I could do pretty much whatever I wanted with the text. For input, I splurged to buy one of those folding keyboards. It worked fairly well. The best bit was that I could work on papers pretty much anywhere.
But once I got into upper level classes, I found that the my notes needed a level of organization that was much easier to enforce with pencil and paper. When taking notes, I would put the date in the left margin along with key words to use as something of an index. I used the equivalent of a second margin to keep track of page number of texts. The remainder of the page, I used to either jot down selected quotations or explanations.
Obviously, this could be replicated in software, but I've found the paper and pen to be both quicker, harder to destroy, easier to work with and more flexible. (On the last point, replicating diagrams from the chalkboard or writing down formulas is far easeir via pen and paper.) Interestingly, once I started to take notes this way, I began to write outlines for papers with ink instead of my word processor, and eventually began writing my first drafts for my papers with ink.
Now, all my notes live in manilla folders in a filebox. There have been several times when I've had to go back and find specific information. Despite that some of my notes survive only in electronic format, I find it easier to find information in my paper based notes. The ability to search through the digital version doesn't make up for the ability to visually scan the index. Many times, the word I think I'm looking for is not the word that is actually used in my notes. When looking things up by looking through the index, this is almost never a problem.
The best of both worlds, IMO, would be to use pen and paper and, as others have mentioned, scan the notes into digital format. But another consideration here is to keep in mind that different people have different brains and, consequently, different learning styles. A method of taking notes that works well for one person won't necessarily work well for another person.
It's only using the word 'Linux' in your company or product name that isn't free.
I think one of the most innovative things to happen to comics was Ang Lee's use of panels in some of the cut sequences in The Hulk. Those sequences, moreso than the rest of the movie, really brought out the feel of the story's comic book origin. In a certain sense, its the maturation of the process that started with the visually graphic sound effects from the Batman TV show.
What was most interesting about Ang Lee's work was the way that those cut sequences framed the sequences as individual "shots" and made the total movement of the scene larger than merely the sum of the parts. IMO, this is the real innovation that the web has to offer comics, the ability to frame motion and sound. The web also offers one additional capability: the ability of the user to interact with the frames.
Unfortunately, it seems that most web comics ignore these innovations. The vast majority of comics on the web are simply digital reproduction of comics as they appeared on paper. This isn't any more innovative than transferring any other image or text from print to electrons. It's more like the transition from pulp to glossies during the heyday of the graphic novel. It's the same format, only presented in a slightly more sophisticated medium.