i just copied a high rated comment from a previous article id did not disagree on and got some karma points.....
And nobody noticed....nobody read the previous articles or comments.
Globalism is not the problem: Government is
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Defining Globalism
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Globalism is never a problem for anyone -- it allows competition to level the paying field for even the poorest nations as long as they have the people who want to work for it.
Where globalism, capitalism, and "Big Business" get ugly is when the government (any government) intervenes in any way: whether its a subsidy, a tariff, an embargo, even a bailout (a la airlines). The minute a government steals from the citizens in order to help a business, the system falls apart. Those who worked hard to make their business profitable get hurt for their smarts (Look at the airline industry, there are numerous airlines HIRING right now, and some of which who are still profitable). Instead, our government takes the biggest ones, with the worst track record of profitability, and bail them out, hurting the little guy who was making it work.
Big Business will always fail with no government intervention, eventually. 10 smaller companies in a co-op situation will always do better in the long run if they have the competitive edge and no sanctions to hurt them or subsidies to help the Big Business competition.
It's evident that totally free trade can "save the world." It's more evident that our country will never allow it. Sanctions against Iraq destroyed that country (NOT Saddam Hussein as the media and government portrays as the culprit). Sanctions and subsidies destroyed the wheat crop in Columbia, then destroyed the coffee crop. What was left? Coca. Now our government intervenes to destroy that crop.
In order to have a peaceful society, we need to get government ENTIRELY out of free trade. Let businesses and people deal with whomever they want, bar none. I can understand if government may want to limit arms sales, but other than that, I can see no reason to ever limit or subsidies trade or business of any kind. In a totally free economy, there will always be winners and losers. Unfortunately, government intervention makes losers into smaller losers, and the winners into big losers. Tell them to stay out, and you'll see happy people all over the world, able to buy and sell their wares at prices that they deem proper.
We believe that without the government, prices would skyrocket (they wouldn't, supply and demand and competition prevent that), or we'd have shortages (again, suppy and demand and competition would help), or we'd see our economy fail because other countries do it cheaper (they do, and better, sometimes its even our unions that make our businesses unprofitable, not necessarily our business tactics).
I wonder if Intel's compiler is binary compatible with gcc. While it's probably against the licensing to redistribute the compiler's math or C library, I wonder if you could compile the gnu math/C/X library with icc and produce a shared object? An optimized math or other system (X-)library would give some decent improvement in performance.
When I see crap like this, I am immediately reminded of the phrase "replace the word 'internet' with the word 'telephone', and see if it still makes sense."
What they fail to realise is that the internet is a communications medium. Just like the telephone.
The two have remarkable similarities: they are both large-scale networks, designed to facilitate information flow across large or small distances. (In fact the only real technical difference is that the telephone was designed to transmit sound, and the internet was designed to transmit data.)
When someone says "How do you make money off the internet?" - just replace that with "How do you make money off the telephone?"
Try it with this article - once you put everything in context, you'll see just how stupid the quotes are.
In contrast to many critics of Windows Product Activation, we think that WPA does not prevent typical hardware modifications and, moreover, respects the user's right to privacy.
Typical hardware modifications....
If you change more than three things, you have to go through whatever hoops Microsoft wants to put you through to use something you've already paid for...
I don't know about you (or the guys who did this), but the last time I upgraded a machine, I increased the memory (1 change), added a hard drive (2 changes), replaced both the modem and the video card (3 and 4 changes)... Whoops... Went too far, must now cope with Mr. Bill and the XP nonesense...
I haven't run an RC5 client for about 2 years now, but if I remember correctly there was something the license / terms of use / whatever that said you're not allowed to use it on computers you don't have permission to install it on.
I assume they wouldn't be suing him if he'd asked whether he could install this and use their bandwidth. So he's got no one to blame but himself.
It's like people at work that think they have a "right" to not have their email or web usage monitored. You're using someone elses resources, you have to follow their rules. If you don't like it, don't use it.
Well, Nasa, quite honestly, works out to the ultimate missile defense system (well, lets neglect the fact that they directly help the military right now, I'm not looking at that;) ). Colonization is the key to the indefinite survival of the human race. Right now, we can get an ICBM to any point on the planet in under 30 minutes. It is quite easy to destroy us all. Once we blanket space - not just close stars, but random, scattered outposts in the darkness, in the void... we become near impossible to destroy, if not completely impossible to destroy. Sure, we'll begin to diverge as a species in places... but. Some form of sentient life will carry on. That is the reason for NASA (in my opinion:) ).
-= troll =-
P.S. - I just have to add this - this time, its not the fault of the company I work for that NASA is over budget!!!:) (it was our fault a few years back).
I don't quite get it. Advertising supports TV just fine. Furthermore, all TV gives you is a rough guesstimate of how many viewers watched an ad. They have no idea who is channel surfing, snacking or going to the bathroom. How is it that TV advertising is so expensive and profitable to the stations that sell it?
On the internet, you can target your audience to a much greater degree than with TV. Additionally you can, to some degree, directly track response to your ads. On top of that, it could easily be proved that the internet audience is wealthier and better educated as a whole than TV audiences, and therefore has more money to spend on an advertisers product.
I am guessing that the 'direct response' aspect of internet ads is also its downfall. If advertisers are primarily looking for click-throughs, then that is the problem. Based on an entirely subjective and anecdotal survey of how internet ads are used, very few(none) of my friends and family click on the ads. However, most of us have learned of companies or products through these ads and later patronized these companies.
The reason we don't click on the ads is because as a whole, we are not impulsive buyers. Since we have the whole internet at our disposal, we will usually do some research on your company and product and compare those to other companies and products. Its not that we didn't read your ad - we just did some more research before buying.
If ads were sold by the number of eyeballs, rather than the number of click-throughs, then theres no reason that advertising shouldn't work.(Right?) However, if its the other way around, then I can easily see how advertising on the net might be tanking.
Miranda's murder was never solved because the suspect invoked his right to remain silent. Now that's ironic.
Maybe this time they'll put in some of the old game functionality, such as bribing guards, keeping your passes in order, etc. I think I'm getting TMJ from all these shoot-em-ups.
Aus pass!
There is!
Maybe this time they won't have you kill off Hitler in only the 3rd of 6 misssions.
And hopefully they'll keep all the german sound bites for when the guards die, etc. "Schutzstaffel!" Bang! "Mein Leiben!"
That was my sole reason for owning a Soundblaster.
One more thing I notice right away from the screenshots is that they've gone and made the world all dark and depressing like Doom and Quake was. Wolf3D was kinda cool in that all the rooms were brightly lit, of course that was cause there was only one brightness level throughout the game...
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there are aboute 10 times more mod points given out lately, follow cmdr'r taco's log.
(This is offtopic, I know)
had 2 basic error messages:
-what
-how
figure out what went wrong with your basic program from that!
i just copied a high rated comment from a previous article id did not disagree on and got some karma points.....
And nobody noticed....nobody read the previous articles or comments.
Globalism is never a problem for anyone -- it allows competition to level the paying field for even the poorest nations as long as they have the people who want to work for it.
Where globalism, capitalism, and "Big Business" get ugly is when the government (any government) intervenes in any way: whether its a subsidy, a tariff, an embargo, even a bailout (a la airlines). The minute a government steals from the citizens in order to help a business, the system falls apart. Those who worked hard to make their business profitable get hurt for their smarts (Look at the airline industry, there are numerous airlines HIRING right now, and some of which who are still profitable). Instead, our government takes the biggest ones, with the worst track record of profitability, and bail them out, hurting the little guy who was making it work.
Big Business will always fail with no government intervention, eventually. 10 smaller companies in a co-op situation will always do better in the long run if they have the competitive edge and no sanctions to hurt them or subsidies to help the Big Business competition.
It's evident that totally free trade can "save the world." It's more evident that our country will never allow it. Sanctions against Iraq destroyed that country (NOT Saddam Hussein as the media and government portrays as the culprit). Sanctions and subsidies destroyed the wheat crop in Columbia, then destroyed the coffee crop. What was left? Coca. Now our government intervenes to destroy that crop.
In order to have a peaceful society, we need to get government ENTIRELY out of free trade. Let businesses and people deal with whomever they want, bar none. I can understand if government may want to limit arms sales, but other than that, I can see no reason to ever limit or subsidies trade or business of any kind. In a totally free economy, there will always be winners and losers. Unfortunately, government intervention makes losers into smaller losers, and the winners into big losers. Tell them to stay out, and you'll see happy people all over the world, able to buy and sell their wares at prices that they deem proper.
We believe that without the government, prices would skyrocket (they wouldn't, supply and demand and competition prevent that), or we'd have shortages (again, suppy and demand and competition would help), or we'd see our economy fail because other countries do it cheaper (they do, and better, sometimes its even our unions that make our businesses unprofitable, not necessarily our business tactics).
I wonder if Intel's compiler is binary compatible with gcc. While it's probably against the licensing to redistribute the compiler's math or C library, I wonder if you could compile the gnu math/C /X library with icc and produce a shared object? An optimized math or other system (X-)library would give some decent improvement in performance.
When I see crap like this, I am immediately reminded of the phrase "replace the word 'internet' with the word 'telephone', and see if it still makes sense." What they fail to realise is that the internet is a communications medium. Just like the telephone. The two have remarkable similarities: they are both large-scale networks, designed to facilitate information flow across large or small distances. (In fact the only real technical difference is that the telephone was designed to transmit sound, and the internet was designed to transmit data.) When someone says "How do you make money off the internet?" - just replace that with "How do you make money off the telephone?" Try it with this article - once you put everything in context, you'll see just how stupid the quotes are.
By the way, you missed this post where they explain they will repair it.
But if you investigated you would have found in the news that items got lost before the message of battle.net. i.e. here on US-WEST
But battle.net will explain here .....8-) why your "item" was not found.
---------- Damn. I just reacted to a troll. Mod me down for this! At least i could resist to the "Not pay" part.
In contrast to many critics of Windows Product Activation, we think that WPA does not prevent typical hardware modifications and, moreover, respects the user's right to privacy.
Typical hardware modifications....
If you change more than three things, you have to go through whatever hoops Microsoft wants to put you through to use something you've already paid for...
I don't know about you (or the guys who did this), but the last time I upgraded a machine, I increased the memory (1 change), added a hard drive (2 changes), replaced both the modem and the video card (3 and 4 changes)... Whoops... Went too far, must now cope with Mr. Bill and the XP nonesense...
and you cannot use this to get an activation key.
I haven't run an RC5 client for about 2 years now, but if I remember correctly there was something the license / terms of use / whatever that said you're not allowed to use it on computers you don't have permission to install it on.
I assume they wouldn't be suing him if he'd asked whether he could install this and use their bandwidth. So he's got no one to blame but himself.
It's like people at work that think they have a "right" to not have their email or web usage monitored. You're using someone elses resources, you have to follow their rules. If you don't like it, don't use it.
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Well, Nasa, quite honestly, works out to the ultimate missile defense system (well, lets neglect the fact that they directly help the military right now, I'm not looking at that ;) ). Colonization is the key to the indefinite survival of the human race. Right now, we can get an ICBM to any point on the planet in under 30 minutes. It is quite easy to destroy us all. Once we blanket space - not just close stars, but random, scattered outposts in the darkness, in the void... we become near impossible to destroy, if not completely impossible to destroy. Sure, we'll begin to diverge as a species in places... but. Some form of sentient life will carry on. That is the reason for NASA (in my opinion :) ).
:) (it was our fault a few years back).
-= troll =-
P.S. - I just have to add this - this time, its not the fault of the company I work for that NASA is over budget!!!
I don't quite get it. Advertising supports TV just fine. Furthermore, all TV gives you is a rough guesstimate of how many viewers watched an ad. They have no idea who is channel surfing, snacking or going to the bathroom. How is it that TV advertising is so expensive and profitable to the stations that sell it?
On the internet, you can target your audience to a much greater degree than with TV. Additionally you can, to some degree, directly track response to your ads. On top of that, it could easily be proved that the internet audience is wealthier and better educated as a whole than TV audiences, and therefore has more money to spend on an advertisers product.
I am guessing that the 'direct response' aspect of internet ads is also its downfall. If advertisers are primarily looking for click-throughs, then that is the problem. Based on an entirely subjective and anecdotal survey of how internet ads are used, very few(none) of my friends and family click on the ads. However, most of us have learned of companies or products through these ads and later patronized these companies.
The reason we don't click on the ads is because as a whole, we are not impulsive buyers. Since we have the whole internet at our disposal, we will usually do some research on your company and product and compare those to other companies and products. Its not that we didn't read your ad - we just did some more research before buying.
If ads were sold by the number of eyeballs, rather than the number of click-throughs, then theres no reason that advertising shouldn't work.(Right?) However, if its the other way around, then I can easily see how advertising on the net might be tanking.
Miranda's murder was never solved because the suspect invoked his right to remain silent. Now that's ironic.
Maybe this time they'll put in some of the old game functionality, such as bribing guards, keeping your passes in order, etc. I think I'm getting TMJ from all these shoot-em-ups. Aus pass! There is!
Maybe this time they won't have you kill off Hitler in only the 3rd of 6 misssions. And hopefully they'll keep all the german sound bites for when the guards die, etc. "Schutzstaffel!" Bang! "Mein Leiben!" That was my sole reason for owning a Soundblaster. One more thing I notice right away from the screenshots is that they've gone and made the world all dark and depressing like Doom and Quake was. Wolf3D was kinda cool in that all the rooms were brightly lit, of course that was cause there was only one brightness level throughout the game...