Let's assume all other drugs are no more dangerous or costly for society than alcohol. Then if the cost for alcohol is X, and alcohol + N other drugs are legal, the total cost becomes (X+1)*N which is clearly much larger than X. It is a really stupid argument to say that "well other drugs aren't any more bad than alcohol, so they should be legal too!" because alcohol is bad enough.
The assumption here is that prohibiting drugs carries no cost. Clearly, given the breadth and depth of problems around illegal drugs related entirely to the fact they're illegal, this assumption is absurd.
The real equation to be evaluating, is whether the costs incurred by prohibition are more or less than the costs incurred by being permissive.
I'm well aware of seek times. And honestly, they don't matter all that much.
Uh, what ? Latency is probably the single most important aspect of storage.
For a very small file they take you from 1-2 seconds to effectively instant yes, but for a significant file you're throughput limiting yourself anyway.
The problem is that most file accesses are "very small".
I do a lot more with 'big' (70-100MB files) than I do with small ones.
Then you're vastly better off with an SSD on, say, a SATA1 interface than you would be any mechanical drive on a SATA3 interface, from a performance perspective. Heck, even the fastest mechanical drives have only recently started to exceed SATA1 speeds with any sort of consistency.
Indeed, I would like to get hands on a wide reaching comparative study involving more languages than two. My guess is that finding people speaking more than 2 languages are not common... and you sir are a real exception.
I'd be willing to bet a fair chunk of people in (Continental) Europe and Africa can speak three languages.
I was in Scottsdale for a couple of years while I was living in the States, and the heat isn't anywhere near as bad as you say.
For three, maybe four months over Summer (June, July, August, maybe the end of May or beginning of September) it's definitely very hot, but the rest of the year is great weather.
The temperatures look high in terms of raw numbers, but the low humidity makes a huge difference. My friends and I were regularly cycling all the way into low 40s (deg C) temperatures (so 110ish F). The biggest problem is not the heat, but carrying enough water.
You can't send HD resolution video across WiFi (or even Gigabit Ethernet) uncompressed, so AirPlay mirroring requires compression. AppleTV hardware only supports the H.264 codec, so the format has to be H.264. While it's very efficient in terms of compression ratio, it's also very difficult to implement in software -- as in, it probably takes almost all of a quadcore CPU's cycles to encode 1080p in realtime. Since that would be pointless (you want to use your computer normally while mirroring, not have its fans howling just to send its display to the TV), Apple requires hardware H.264 encoding to implement AirPlay mirroring.
This would be a decent reason if the source material was uncompressed HD video.
However, it almost certainly is not. It's ridiculous (for multiple reasons) that if you have an existing H.264 encoded file, you need a Mac capable of realtime H.264 encoding to stream it to an AppleTV.
I have been woefully unimpressed with the illogic of many of its features, the inconsistencies in use and design, and some of the downright irritating PITA aspects.
Now, back to the abortion question. Remember that I started out by saying that, in my opinion, a fetus is a person rather than tissue. If that is so, then that unborn person's right to live trumps the mother's right to choose, to convenience, or to whatever other reason she might have for getting an abortion. In my viewpoint, just as my right to keep and bear arms ends the moment I start using a firearm in a way that creates an undue hazard to other people, the mother's freedom of choice ends at the point where it involves taking a baby's life. If you do not believe that a fetus is a person, then you will most likely come to a different conclusion, which is why I stated earlier that we cannot come to a consensus on abortion until we come to a consensus on when a fetus becomes a person.
So you would have abortifacient contraceptives like IUDs and the morning after pill made illegal ?
You want energy. I want energy. They want to sell us energy. Where is the evil in any of that?
This is called begging the question.
God Damn, man! They are selling gasoline cheaper than milk right now (US). All you have to do to get milk is feed cows and wait, gas needs a LOT of work to obtain, complex chemistry to refine and a complex worldwide distribution network for both crude and the end products. If you weren't a fool you would give thanks for the hard work being done daily by millions to supply the energy you take for granted. And those 'evil' profits flow into pensions, dividends and lots of other productive uses. And never forget that those evil profits are the thin sliver left over after expenses and a shocking amount of taxes flowing into the welfare state that I'd bet good yellow gold YOU depend on.
It's generally the environmentalists yelling about global warming the loudest, and shortly thereafter telling everyone that the solution is to go back to living in caves (quite literally).
That's because they want to move as many people onto Windows Marketplace as soon as they can. They've seen Apple lock folks in and want some of that action. This is pretty clearly a 'loss leader' move my Microsoft - and most people don't know and don't care about it - suckers.
So when Apple does it, it's awesome, but when Microsoft does it, they're trawling for suckers ?
With bloatware like these how the hell they can survive in the tablet / smartphone platforms, where the CPU/GPU/RAM specs are much MUCH lower than that of the desktop ?
Same way Mercedes manage to survive in the sports car market even though they also make vans.
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I'd be willing to bet his change rate isn't 24TB/day.
The 51st ? That would be the UK. Thatcher started them off down that course a good decade and a half before the neo-cons took solid grip on Australia.
It's more like we're the 52nd state. What that makes NZ in that context I couldn't say. :)
I think I went to New Zealand once, it's right beside Florida at the edge of the World..... right?
New Zealand is like Australia's Canada.
The assumption here is that prohibiting drugs carries no cost. Clearly, given the breadth and depth of problems around illegal drugs related entirely to the fact they're illegal, this assumption is absurd.
The real equation to be evaluating, is whether the costs incurred by prohibition are more or less than the costs incurred by being permissive.
Hard disks are quite capable of keeling over with no warning whatsoever. I've seen many do it.
Uh, what ? Latency is probably the single most important aspect of storage.
The problem is that most file accesses are "very small".
Then you're vastly better off with an SSD on, say, a SATA1 interface than you would be any mechanical drive on a SATA3 interface, from a performance perspective. Heck, even the fastest mechanical drives have only recently started to exceed SATA1 speeds with any sort of consistency.
Pretty sure the Amiga was doing this back in the '80s.
(I must say I struggle to see a significant use case, however.)
I'd be willing to bet a fair chunk of people in (Continental) Europe and Africa can speak three languages.
"Past performance is not an indication of future returns."
Or, another good one: "house prices double every 7-10 years".
I was in Scottsdale for a couple of years while I was living in the States, and the heat isn't anywhere near as bad as you say.
For three, maybe four months over Summer (June, July, August, maybe the end of May or beginning of September) it's definitely very hot, but the rest of the year is great weather.
The temperatures look high in terms of raw numbers, but the low humidity makes a huge difference. My friends and I were regularly cycling all the way into low 40s (deg C) temperatures (so 110ish F). The biggest problem is not the heat, but carrying enough water.
This would be a decent reason if the source material was uncompressed HD video.
However, it almost certainly is not. It's ridiculous (for multiple reasons) that if you have an existing H.264 encoded file, you need a Mac capable of realtime H.264 encoding to stream it to an AppleTV.
Sounds like an arbitrary distinction to me (and an inaccurate one, at that).
Actually, the Pentium Pro (1995) was the first Intel chip to use this design. AMD's K5 (1996) was another early CPU that used the same model.
For example ?
Now, back to the abortion question. Remember that I started out by saying that, in my opinion, a fetus is a person rather than tissue. If that is so, then that unborn person's right to live trumps the mother's right to choose, to convenience, or to whatever other reason she might have for getting an abortion. In my viewpoint, just as my right to keep and bear arms ends the moment I start using a firearm in a way that creates an undue hazard to other people, the mother's freedom of choice ends at the point where it involves taking a baby's life. If you do not believe that a fetus is a person, then you will most likely come to a different conclusion, which is why I stated earlier that we cannot come to a consensus on abortion until we come to a consensus on when a fetus becomes a person.
So you would have abortifacient contraceptives like IUDs and the morning after pill made illegal ?
But then it would all run out onto the ground !
This is called begging the question.
Not sure if serious.
If/when either Apple or Microsoft make it impossible to install software that isn't on their respective App Stores, you'll have a point.
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So when Apple does it, it's awesome, but when Microsoft does it, they're trawling for suckers ?
Check.
Same way Mercedes manage to survive in the sports car market even though they also make vans.
The same way you like the night sky, I assume, as something to look at from a distance ?
Like I said, run it in a VM. More than adequate for "new users that want to try out Linux but aren't comfortable messing around in their BIOS".