The Federal Reserve played a part, but it only has about $2tn in Assets.
Lack of assets never interfered with Federal Reserve's God-given right to create insane amounts of internationally recognized currency out of thin air.
The whole point is to prevent OTHERS from innovating. Microsoft Research is more or less a place where they store scientists, so those scientists won't work for someone else. Pampering MBA interns is in line with this policy, too -- it propagates a proper attitude for a company that fights for domination against good ideas and innovation.
You have missed the point. A lot of trial ended up being run as I have described because the disease is so poorly defined and mis-diagnosed, it ends up being tried on groups with a large number of healthy people, or people with unrelated conditions mixed in, thus compromising the trial by introducing potentially uneven distribution of "wrong" people into groups. The problem then is not with treatment but with diagnosis, however the results are interpreted as if they apply to treatment while no one questions the diagnosis.
Firefox should not crash because of a bad plugin. It should let the plugin crash, and continue to run.
Then the plugin will have to run in its own process and allocate more memory. While it's a valid solution, and there are video player plugins that do just that, last time I checked, all browser users clamored for reducing the memory use. So plugins run in the browser's address space and therefore can crash it.
And here is the typical level of "knowledge" exhibited by Microsoft marketing people:
Stability isn't the only issue. GIMP and Cinelerra under Linux are heaps more stable than Photoshop and Premiere under Windows,
Most likely rest of anti-FOSS comments are written by Microsoft astroturfers like this one. Especially ones that claimed to use Linux and "abandoned" their whole production system over some trivial UI issue.
The only real problem is marketing, the rest is strawmen.
Effect is still a subject to the dilution in a noise. Imagine a trial with most subjects not being sick in the first place, or having random conditions with similar symptoms. Unless the groups are enormous, distribution of sick people between test groups will likely be randomly skewed, and trial will mostly give random results completely unrelated to the condition or treatment being tested.
Most people who go into marketing do it for the same reason as anyone else who goes to college: They want to make money.
Everyone but law and business majors go to college so they will be able to do something they love doing. Law and business majors go to college so they will make a lot of money. Because they hate all each and every kind of work.
Oh yeah, one country that you are so happy of seeing "defeated" is a perfectly valid justification to abandon each and every aspect of Socialsim that is successfully used everywhere in the world.
About 10 or 12 years ago I purchased - yes PURCHASED - a copy of Red Hat linux to play with. It came in a neat little 3 CD package with the neat little penguin logo all over it. I installed it fine, played around with it, but ultimately didn't have much use for it. I was in my early teens and was into gaming, and if WINE existed (I think it did, actually, I just never used it) it didn't work with any of the games I wanted to play, so I switched back to Windows 98. "Switching back" is a bit of a misnomer, because I installed it as a dual-boot and just slowly stopped running Linux.
Wine existed, and supported plenty of games. If you didn't even know that it exists (what would be the first result from Google for "linux" and the name of a game you were trying to play), you are either lying or didn't even try.
Some futzing around and it worked, but now Rythmbox didn't work, and I used Rythmbox ALL THE TIME.
No one uses Rythmbox. Literally no one.
It took a buttload of research including delving into the state of the art in Linux sound ("state of the art" is a real stretch) before discovering the only sound mixer that will work with everything is Alsa, and you can't run more than one sound app at a time. WTF? Ok, whatever, it worked.
Your marketing "education" is seriously messed up. OSS was the system that only allowed one application to use sound at a time. It was abandoned in favor of ALSA that did not have that limitation. Long time ago the user had to specify a software mixer in a configuration file, however now it comes out of the box that way -- and with esd or pulseaudio to further insulate user applications from hardware drivers.
Open source drivers don't have this problem. Neither does NVIDIA. Of all companies, ATI and only ATI has trouble releasing Linux drivers -- and they never worked right to begin with, so definitely it's not a change in interface that keeps them from releasing decent drivers.
That's because ATI sucks ass while NVIDIA does not.
Or, like Intel, they could've just opened their specs. To think of it, my laptop's ATI graphics adapter stopped being a pain the moment when open source driver was released for it. It's only proprietary ATI drivers that have problems, nothing else.
How is this post a Troll? I've used Linux off and on for years, these aren't talking points or even linux bashing, this an honest critique from a former Linux user.
You are not a "former Linux user".
Installing non-repository software is one of a couple reasons I switched back to Vista (after having a horrible experience, naturally).
The second one was ending the one-hour "getting familiar with Linux so you can pretend you know" course you got at your marketing company.
Fortunately for me, in the year I used Linux as my desktop, Vista improved significantly. It would take quite a bit to get me to switch back now.
Except, of course, Vista didn't change at all, it had two service packs with minor fixes.
I think, you ARE the parent poster replying to yourself.
I recently decided to get myself an up to date Ubuntu capable laptop, that would run wifi, etc without 4 hours of installing ndiswrapper
If you need 4 hours to install a package, something is seriously wrong with you.
or other weird stuff from odd sites.
You mean, Windows drivers, right?
Wow, Windows astroturfers switched to attacking Ubuntu -- a distribution that is their actual competitor in consumer desktops and laptops, as opposed to relying on misdirection. Too bad for them, they have big fat nothing against Ubuntu -- as far as consumer OS distributions are concerned, it's miles ahead of them.
I see. "Stable ABI" is the new "Gimp doesn't support CMYK".
Both false, of course -- CMYK is supported by each and every color printer driver, plus color separation plugins, Linux ABI is stable enough that Quake 3 runs on any current x86 Linux box, neither has even a slightest degree of relevance for users.
Just reflect the light STRAIGHT BACK WHERE IT CAME FROM, and all those distortions will lead it to the point of origin. Three mirrors arranged as a corner of a cube do just that -- this is how a bicycle reflector works.
I have to point out that in the context of this discussion (and by virtue of being Anonymous Coward) GP may be male or female, and independently of that be or not be a dick.
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The Federal Reserve played a part, but it only has about $2tn in Assets.
Lack of assets never interfered with Federal Reserve's God-given right to create insane amounts of internationally recognized currency out of thin air.
What exactly was irrational about investing in houses between, oh, 1944 and 2008 ? Inquiring minds want to know.
Not knowing when 2008 is going to happen.
The whole point is to prevent OTHERS from innovating. Microsoft Research is more or less a place where they store scientists, so those scientists won't work for someone else. Pampering MBA interns is in line with this policy, too -- it propagates a proper attitude for a company that fights for domination against good ideas and innovation.
You have missed the point.
A lot of trial ended up being run as I have described because the disease is so poorly defined and mis-diagnosed, it ends up being tried on groups with a large number of healthy people, or people with unrelated conditions mixed in, thus compromising the trial by introducing potentially uneven distribution of "wrong" people into groups. The problem then is not with treatment but with diagnosis, however the results are interpreted as if they apply to treatment while no one questions the diagnosis.
Firefox should not crash because of a bad plugin. It should let the plugin crash, and continue to run.
Then the plugin will have to run in its own process and allocate more memory. While it's a valid solution, and there are video player plugins that do just that, last time I checked, all browser users clamored for reducing the memory use. So plugins run in the browser's address space and therefore can crash it.
And here is the typical level of "knowledge" exhibited by Microsoft marketing people:
Stability isn't the only issue. GIMP and Cinelerra under Linux are heaps more stable than Photoshop and Premiere under Windows,
Most likely rest of anti-FOSS comments are written by Microsoft astroturfers like this one. Especially ones that claimed to use Linux and "abandoned" their whole production system over some trivial UI issue.
The only real problem is marketing, the rest is strawmen.
And I thought, the purpose of testing was to find, select and approve treatments that cure diseases.
Silly me, it's actually all about companies' interests -- all benefits for humans are purely incidental.
Effect is still a subject to the dilution in a noise. Imagine a trial with most subjects not being sick in the first place, or having random conditions with similar symptoms. Unless the groups are enormous, distribution of sick people between test groups will likely be randomly skewed, and trial will mostly give random results completely unrelated to the condition or treatment being tested.
Most people who go into marketing do it for the same reason as anyone else who goes to college: They want to make money.
Everyone but law and business majors go to college so they will be able to do something they love doing. Law and business majors go to college so they will make a lot of money. Because they hate all each and every kind of work.
Oh yeah, one country that you are so happy of seeing "defeated" is a perfectly valid justification to abandon each and every aspect of Socialsim that is successfully used everywhere in the world.
About 10 or 12 years ago I purchased - yes PURCHASED - a copy of Red Hat linux to play with. It came in a neat little 3 CD package with the neat little penguin logo all over it. I installed it fine, played around with it, but ultimately didn't have much use for it. I was in my early teens and was into gaming, and if WINE existed (I think it did, actually, I just never used it) it didn't work with any of the games I wanted to play, so I switched back to Windows 98. "Switching back" is a bit of a misnomer, because I installed it as a dual-boot and just slowly stopped running Linux.
Wine existed, and supported plenty of games. If you didn't even know that it exists (what would be the first result from Google for "linux" and the name of a game you were trying to play), you are either lying or didn't even try.
Some futzing around and it worked, but now Rythmbox didn't work, and I used Rythmbox ALL THE TIME.
No one uses Rythmbox. Literally no one.
It took a buttload of research including delving into the state of the art in Linux sound ("state of the art" is a real stretch) before discovering the only sound mixer that will work with everything is Alsa, and you can't run more than one sound app at a time. WTF? Ok, whatever, it worked.
Your marketing "education" is seriously messed up. OSS was the system that only allowed one application to use sound at a time. It was abandoned in favor of ALSA that did not have that limitation. Long time ago the user had to specify a software mixer in a configuration file, however now it comes out of the box that way -- and with esd or pulseaudio to further insulate user applications from hardware drivers.
Open source drivers don't have this problem. Neither does NVIDIA. Of all companies, ATI and only ATI has trouble releasing Linux drivers -- and they never worked right to begin with, so definitely it's not a change in interface that keeps them from releasing decent drivers.
That's because ATI sucks ass while NVIDIA does not.
Or, like Intel, they could've just opened their specs. To think of it, my laptop's ATI graphics adapter stopped being a pain the moment when open source driver was released for it. It's only proprietary ATI drivers that have problems, nothing else.
How is this post a Troll? I've used Linux off and on for years, these aren't talking points or even linux bashing, this an honest critique from a former Linux user.
You are not a "former Linux user".
Installing non-repository software is one of a couple reasons I switched back to Vista (after having a horrible experience, naturally).
The second one was ending the one-hour "getting familiar with Linux so you can pretend you know" course you got at your marketing company.
Fortunately for me, in the year I used Linux as my desktop, Vista improved significantly. It would take quite a bit to get me to switch back now.
Except, of course, Vista didn't change at all, it had two service packs with minor fixes.
I think the poster has a significant point.
I think, you ARE the parent poster replying to yourself.
I recently decided to get myself an up to date Ubuntu capable laptop, that would run wifi, etc without 4 hours of installing ndiswrapper
If you need 4 hours to install a package, something is seriously wrong with you.
or other weird stuff from odd sites.
You mean, Windows drivers, right?
Wow, Windows astroturfers switched to attacking Ubuntu -- a distribution that is their actual competitor in consumer desktops and laptops, as opposed to relying on misdirection. Too bad for them, they have big fat nothing against Ubuntu -- as far as consumer OS distributions are concerned, it's miles ahead of them.
I see. "Stable ABI" is the new "Gimp doesn't support CMYK".
Both false, of course -- CMYK is supported by each and every color printer driver, plus color separation plugins, Linux ABI is stable enough that Quake 3 runs on any current x86 Linux box, neither has even a slightest degree of relevance for users.
Just reflect the light STRAIGHT BACK WHERE IT CAME FROM, and all those distortions will lead it to the point of origin. Three mirrors arranged as a corner of a cube do just that -- this is how a bicycle reflector works.
US population is about 5% of the world population, you moron!
now where is that flying spaghetti monster? i am hungry and got some bolognese sauce.... it's communion time!...LOL
You will also need pirate regalia for that.
A lot more people (about 20 million) are wealthy enough to get insurnace but don't want it (like me).
I hope, you will get cancer and a heart disease.
But Estonia is the second best US sycophant in Europe!
within a 3 mile radius
I see, Estonians switched from metric system to Imperial, to please their OTHER overlords.
he seems kind of like a dick.
I have to point out that in the context of this discussion (and by virtue of being Anonymous Coward) GP may be male or female, and independently of that be or not be a dick.
There's a huge difference between "government healthcare" and "public health" at least as the term is used in the U.S.
And this is exactly your problem -- you can't separate the two. If people are already sick, they will stay sick unless they will get help.
1. Macrovision, not Macromedia (orders of magnitude more evil).
2. SafeDisc, not SecuROM (orders of magnitude more stupid).