How do you prove that you have destroyed something like anthrax?
Saddam's regime, like the Third Reich, kept meticulous records of everything it did. If Saddam had papers that documented the destruction of his anthrax, he could have showed them. He didn't. If the regime had employees that physically incinerated or otherwise disposed of the anthrax, they could have been brought forward to make statements to the UN inspectors, giving places and dates when anthrax was destroyed. No such statements were given. Ergo, Saddam made zero effort to back up his claim that all the anthrax had been destroyed.
Let me get this straight -- if I go to a public library, my browsing is censored by mandate of the U.S. government
Let me get this straight -- you're in favor of putting copies of Penthouse and Hustler on the periodical shelves of our public libraries, whose clientele is composed of about 60% schoolkids? That would be effectively be the result of unfiltered surfing at libraries.
Saddam was bending over backwards to avoid war... Now countries which see themselves as threatened by the US know that behaving rationally will get them nowhere.
Sorry Vlad... Saddam would still be in power if he had simply produced a few shreds of evidence to support his contention that the anthrax he previously posessed had been destroyed. His failure to do that hardly constitues "bending over backwards."
The Clinton Administration agreed to send North Korea a considerable amount of petroleum in exchange for their refraining from nuclear weapons production. We honored our end of the bargain (did you know that much of the oil pumped in Alaska was shipped to North Korea?), but they didn't. If they had behaved rationally and honored their end of the bargain, tensions today would be greatly reduced, and Bush would not be saying "we remain hopeful that the situation can be resolved peacefully," because there would be no "situation."
I just don't understand the miswired brains of people who hold views like yours.
If I had an Intel/AMD box, I'd be more locked into a platform than with my Mac. Why? Virtual PC allows me to run Windows (or any x86 operating system) simultaneously with Mac OS X. You can even copy-'n-paste between Windows apps and Mac apps.
In fact, Virtual PC allows me to run multiple x86 operating systems (say, Win '98, Win XP, OpenStep, and QNX) simultaneously with each other, too.
Does the x86 emulation cause a performace hit? It's only noticable in the most demanding apps.
And of course, Linux runs natively on Macs.
In summary, I can run Windows apps on my Mac, but you can't run Mac apps on your PC. I'm less locked into a platform than you.
Sure, there are more games available for Windows. But how much does that matter, when both platforms have more games available than any human being has time to play?
Back when FDR first instituted Social Security, average life expectancy was approximately 58. The retirement age, of course, was 65 -- or 112% of average life expectancy. Think about it... the average worker didn't live long enough to collect a dime of SS retirement benefits. No wonder the SS payroll tax was low then, and SS appeared to be a sustainable system, not a pyramid scheme.
If a retirement age 112% of life expectancy was fair then, why wouldn't it be fair today? If that were true today, we'd have no fears of the system becoming insolvent when the baby boomers retire. And I think society would be a lot better off if there was an expectation that people would continue to be productive past the average life expectancy.
Yeah, the retirement age was recently raised to 68... big whoop. That's much too little too late to address the root cause of the problem. Hope to God the government doesn't get its mitts on my IRA ad 401k, or I'll really be screwed!
All of Burt Rutan's designs come from his intuition of aerodynamics. He uses "exactly zero" wind tunnel testing. Makes me think all the time I spent dinking around with wind tunnels back in school was wasted.
Why? I generally hope that law enforcement does not make mistakes; i.e., they arrest only guilty people, and they allow only innocent people to remain at large. Your hoping for the opposite outcome seems quite perverse!
Every technological innovation has led to an increase in standard of living and more jobs, not less. (Trivial example: there are more people employed today in the auto industry than were ever employed in the buggy industry that it replaced.) Robots will not be an exception to this rule.
His essay hits its lowest point where he claims that higher worker productivity is a bad thing. In fact, high worker productivity is the root reason we enjoy a standard of living our ancestors could not have imagined. If higher productivity is bad, then I guess all our ills would be cured if we all try to be as unproductive as possible. Let's replace all our power tools with hand tools, and all our automobiles with bicycles. Better yet, with bicycles that haven't been lubricated in five years -- because they're harder to pedal and will reduce our productivity!
A worker in the furniture industry gets credit for all the work he or she does, despite the fact he uses power tools. The power tool does not get the credit. His productivity statistics improve when he gets a more well-designed power tool. His productivity statistics will positively explode when he is in control of a workforce of 50 robots, instead of a single power-tool workstation.
Apple's benchmarks... gave the Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 a 194.5% performance advantage over a 3GHz P4 in SPECfp_rate_base2000. The G5 getting a score of 15.7, and the P4 getting an 8.07.
15.7 is 94.5% greater than 8.07 -- not 194.5% greater.
Did you ever get the sense that Conflict Catcher was causing crashes? Or did you ever do a conflict test, and go through umpteen restarts, and it seemed like you were definitively and reproducibly narrowing down the cause of the crash to one culprit, but after the very last restart of the test, when everything had been disabled except the last suspect, you didn't get the crash/non-crash that you were expecting -- rendering the whole test worthless?
One trick I did with CC was a "reverse psychology" test: rather than using CC to determine which combination of extensions caused a crash, I would use it to determine which combination of extensions enabled a feature or a performance boost. But this type of test also often failed for the reasons mentioned above.
Automated conflict testing was a great concept that Conflict Catcher, in theory, should have done very well...
Last year I visited the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was created. The creator of the Grand Canyon was a natural process, namely, erosion by the Colorado River.
When I say the Grand Canyon was created, there's no need to put "created" in quotes. Indeed, it would be stupid to do so.
To be fair, there are some new positive findings that emerged after Carl Sagan's death. In 2000 it was discovered that the data from the Labeled Release experiment exhibited circadian rhythms that could only be explained by the presence of living organisms.
If Sagan had lived to see this work, I think he'd look more kindly on the Labeled Release results.
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Read why here.
Even if he is a gamer, he should not rule out the Mac. See http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=75595&cid=6763 125.
How do you prove that you have destroyed something like anthrax?
Saddam's regime, like the Third Reich, kept meticulous records of everything it did. If Saddam had papers that documented the destruction of his anthrax, he could have showed them. He didn't. If the regime had employees that physically incinerated or otherwise disposed of the anthrax, they could have been brought forward to make statements to the UN inspectors, giving places and dates when anthrax was destroyed. No such statements were given. Ergo, Saddam made zero effort to back up his claim that all the anthrax had been destroyed.
On a PC, the firmware and hardware are open
Funny you should claim that. Apple uses OpenFirmware. x86 PCs don't.
Let me get this straight -- if I go to a public library, my browsing is censored by mandate of the U.S. government
Let me get this straight -- you're in favor of putting copies of Penthouse and Hustler on the periodical shelves of our public libraries, whose clientele is composed of about 60% schoolkids? That would be effectively be the result of unfiltered surfing at libraries.
Saddam was bending over backwards to avoid war... Now countries which see themselves as threatened by the US know that behaving rationally will get them nowhere.
Sorry Vlad... Saddam would still be in power if he had simply produced a few shreds of evidence to support his contention that the anthrax he previously posessed had been destroyed. His failure to do that hardly constitues "bending over backwards."
The Clinton Administration agreed to send North Korea a considerable amount of petroleum in exchange for their refraining from nuclear weapons production. We honored our end of the bargain (did you know that much of the oil pumped in Alaska was shipped to North Korea?), but they didn't. If they had behaved rationally and honored their end of the bargain, tensions today would be greatly reduced, and Bush would not be saying "we remain hopeful that the situation can be resolved peacefully," because there would be no "situation."
I just don't understand the miswired brains of people who hold views like yours.
If I had an Intel/AMD box, I'd be more locked into a platform than with my Mac. Why? Virtual PC allows me to run Windows (or any x86 operating system) simultaneously with Mac OS X. You can even copy-'n-paste between Windows apps and Mac apps.
In fact, Virtual PC allows me to run multiple x86 operating systems (say, Win '98, Win XP, OpenStep, and QNX) simultaneously with each other, too.
Does the x86 emulation cause a performace hit? It's only noticable in the most demanding apps.
And of course, Linux runs natively on Macs.
In summary, I can run Windows apps on my Mac, but you can't run Mac apps on your PC. I'm less locked into a platform than you.
Sure, there are more games available for Windows. But how much does that matter, when both platforms have more games available than any human being has time to play?
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Read why here.
Back when FDR first instituted Social Security, average life expectancy was approximately 58. The retirement age, of course, was 65 -- or 112% of average life expectancy. Think about it... the average worker didn't live long enough to collect a dime of SS retirement benefits. No wonder the SS payroll tax was low then, and SS appeared to be a sustainable system, not a pyramid scheme.
If a retirement age 112% of life expectancy was fair then, why wouldn't it be fair today? If that were true today, we'd have no fears of the system becoming insolvent when the baby boomers retire. And I think society would be a lot better off if there was an expectation that people would continue to be productive past the average life expectancy.
Yeah, the retirement age was recently raised to 68... big whoop. That's much too little too late to address the root cause of the problem. Hope to God the government doesn't get its mitts on my IRA ad 401k, or I'll really be screwed!
Why did you make the letter 'z' in X-Prize boldface?
All of Burt Rutan's designs come from his intuition of aerodynamics. He uses "exactly zero" wind tunnel testing. Makes me think all the time I spent dinking around with wind tunnels back in school was wasted.
And you can, in time, make the place look like a Rastafarian rumpus room and smell like Strawberry Shortcake's sock drawer.
Funniest line I've read all year!
I had really hoped that the US Gov was wrong
Why? I generally hope that law enforcement does not make mistakes; i.e., they arrest only guilty people, and they allow only innocent people to remain at large. Your hoping for the opposite outcome seems quite perverse!
...cheaper than most types of cheese.
Every technological innovation has led to an increase in standard of living and more jobs, not less. (Trivial example: there are more people employed today in the auto industry than were ever employed in the buggy industry that it replaced.) Robots will not be an exception to this rule.
His essay hits its lowest point where he claims that higher worker productivity is a bad thing. In fact, high worker productivity is the root reason we enjoy a standard of living our ancestors could not have imagined. If higher productivity is bad, then I guess all our ills would be cured if we all try to be as unproductive as possible. Let's replace all our power tools with hand tools, and all our automobiles with bicycles. Better yet, with bicycles that haven't been lubricated in five years -- because they're harder to pedal and will reduce our productivity!
A worker in the furniture industry gets credit for all the work he or she does, despite the fact he uses power tools. The power tool does not get the credit. His productivity statistics improve when he gets a more well-designed power tool. His productivity statistics will positively explode when he is in control of a workforce of 50 robots, instead of a single power-tool workstation.
"Actual people" cost the bank money. It's right for the bank to give its customers incentives to use the ATM instead. sheesh
I would hate the expense of inkjet printing too, if I didn't know about this source for ink: MegaToners.com.
For example, the black ink cartridge for my Epson 600 normally sells for about $23. MegaToners sells a compatible cartridge for only $1.40!
No, they're not brand-name cartridges, but I've had zero problems with them.
Apple's benchmarks... gave the Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 a 194.5% performance advantage over a 3GHz P4 in SPECfp_rate_base2000. The G5 getting a score of 15.7, and the P4 getting an 8.07.
15.7 is 94.5% greater than 8.07 -- not 194.5% greater.
Did you ever get the sense that Conflict Catcher was causing crashes? Or did you ever do a conflict test, and go through umpteen restarts, and it seemed like you were definitively and reproducibly narrowing down the cause of the crash to one culprit, but after the very last restart of the test, when everything had been disabled except the last suspect, you didn't get the crash/non-crash that you were expecting -- rendering the whole test worthless?
One trick I did with CC was a "reverse psychology" test: rather than using CC to determine which combination of extensions caused a crash, I would use it to determine which combination of extensions enabled a feature or a performance boost. But this type of test also often failed for the reasons mentioned above.
Automated conflict testing was a great concept that Conflict Catcher, in theory, should have done very well...
I have seen the incorrect capitalization "MAC" many times. It bugs me as much as people who write "viola" when they mean "voilÃ."
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The article is by Marc Zeedar. The source URL is
http://macopinion.com/columns/tangible/03/03/14
I think the article is, on the whole, very well done, although I understand your concern that he may be trivializing the n-word.
zoloto -- please read this article:
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http://macopinion.com/columns/tangible/03/03/14
What is that last character in your sig? Ø© Ø© Ø© Ø©
Last year I visited the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was created. The creator of the Grand Canyon was a natural process, namely, erosion by the Colorado River.
When I say the Grand Canyon was created, there's no need to put "created" in quotes. Indeed, it would be stupid to do so.
To be fair, there are some new positive findings that emerged after Carl Sagan's death. In 2000 it was discovered that the data from the Labeled Release experiment exhibited circadian rhythms that could only be explained by the presence of living organisms.
If Sagan had lived to see this work, I think he'd look more kindly on the Labeled Release results.