- avira antivir (threat to MS on their own 'defender' ?) - monaco optix xr pro (screen calibrator 'puck'; aka 'colorimeter'. pro photog guys NEED this) - oem nero6 (I need that for lightscribe work. MS doesn't do LS, I don't think, and sadly neither does unix) - cisco vpn (I use that to login to work remotely. this is a must-have for me.)
This kind of software almost NEVER works with a new OS.
vista is very close to shipping. and there are MAJOR failings. this does not bode well.
Come on. We've had 12 years of major OS releases where people have experienced the same problem as you. Guess what. Things were fine. These are not major failings. You're just being alarmist.
The recession isn't over yet. The major stock indexes have yet to achieve their 2000 highs on an inflation adjusted basis. Considering the 8-20% decline since May, it doesn't look like the 2000 highs will be achieved any time soon.
Since we haven't yet invented a practical form of transmutation or energy-matter conversion, everything is 'natural', in that it is made from things extracted from plants, animals, or rocks. 'Natural' is an emotive word with no scientific meaning.
In the realm of pharmacology and US patent law, it does have a scientific meaning. Natural drugs that come from plants cannot be patented. The entire point of his post is that Morphine is cheap and accessible. No new drug will be able to beat that.
Somewhat more to the point, drugs roughly equivalent to morphine (endorphins) are naturally produced by the body on its own, without any external intervention.
This is irrelvant to the discussion at band. Unless you are still quibbling about the meaning of the word "natural". Also, endorphins are very simple peptides. Morphine is actually quite different chemically from endorphins. It just happens to have affinity for certain opioid receptors.
You can even get addicted to them, if you can be bothered to engage in the heavy exercise necessary (many serious athletes become mildly addicted, and yes, it's real addiction - they show physical withdrawal symptoms if they stop exercising regularly, just like with any other opiate, and can occasionally require medical treatment to manage this if an injury prevents them from training). In no sense can you call an opiate, or any quantity of an opiate, 'unnatural'.
You are full of shit. You cannot provide a citation to a single medical journal article that even DISCUSSES such a preposterous theory. You clearly have no understanding that there are many different opioid receptors. And your reiteration of the meaning of the word "unnatural" is also completely irrelevant to this discussion. Morphine IS unnatural in that it is not selective to specific receptors, but broadly agonizes several. Duh. Do runners complain of respiratory suppression and constipation? Ahh, no.
People need to find something less pointless to talk about than whether something is 'natural'.
No, I think idiots like you need to stop posting on slashot. You haven't posted to contribute any useful information to the discussion. The parent poster was highlighting an important distinction between different kinds of drugs. His use of the word "natural" served a purpose. What have you done? Nothing. Your bullshit post has done nothing to help anyone understand anything.
I've got a cousin, went to Julliard, piano. They were thrilled to take him in because he knew how to play properly. He had been well trained. They're actually not used to that at Julliard. My cousin was an exception. Typically they have to spend the first year or so in remedial training.
Absolutely ridiculous. Knowledge of the piano is generally required of everyone; perhaps you are referring to there being many excelllent musicians for whom the piano is not their primary instrument.
If you are referring to people getting a BFA in piano performance... you are simply wrong. By the way, its spelled Juilliard.
Lawyers are how you get business done in civil society. They are in many ways even superior to violence, because they can be used to attack vaporous legal constructs that you can't well go out and shoot if you wanted to. They're like samurai: have enough of them, and you can do anything you want. Don't have any, and you're just a peasant.
In a civil society, the government exists to prevent these kinds of injustices. A peasant should be able to go to a government representative to settle such a dispute at no cost.
Companies would never pull this crap again if corporate leaders could go to jail for abusing the justice system.
For profit lawyers simply perpetuate this nonsense, as it makes them money.
When I was in high school, kids would do this all the time. They worked at grocery stores and would just keep credit cards on busy days. The hardest part of carding was staking out houses to find out which ones were vacant and/or the people were on vacation. Put a nice note on the door for the UPS man and the stuff gets put on the back porch.
Who the hell in their right mind would use a stolen credit card to buy shit and have it sent to YOUR house?
Actually, it was deliberate trolling. I don't have an opinion either way. But typically, nothing seems to galvanize heated debate like the suggestion that all men are in fact not created equal.
Very simple. Canada and Western Europe is composed mostly of white people. Those who aren't white in Canada are typically oriental, who have relatively high intelligence ability.
The US however, is less than 70% white, and the vast majority of its non-white population is composed of racial groups of lower intelligence, ie blacks and hispanics.
You used your grandmother's memory to dismiss the idea in general, but were the warnings of your grandmother's time correct? There is some evidence that people are, in general, less literate then they were a century ago before radio, television, and now video games.
The evidence is flawed as it is based on the belief that egaltiarianism is scientifically true. Negroes score a full standard deviation lower than other races on standard intelligence measuring tests. Their large numbers, and recent inclusion in such statistics, greatly skews literacy statistics. Negroes, no matter what their country of origin, have abysmal literacy rates. In 1960, the United States was approximately 96% white. Today, it is less than 70%, and will be less than 50% by 2050.
Literacy has declined in the US every year since racial quotas on immigration were removed. Especially when you consider that other countries (which presumably have equal access to television and video games) have higher rates of literacy (say, Japan at near 100%), it is logical to infer that the problem is not technology, but certain people simply are not capable of reading or writing. The unfortunate reality is those people tend to have more animalistic instincts, and will thus reproduce at rapid rates. This causes population pressures in their home countries resulting in mass emigration, and once they are in the US, they continue to rapidly multiply.
Every white person in the US should ask themselves: When we are a minority in our own country, will our new rulers treat us with the same goodwill as we treated them?
Art is an outgrowth of abstract thought and tool use. Doesn't serve any purpose really, it just happens to be a side-effect of the kind of brain that could produce gunpowder.
I highly disagree with that statement. Just look at the armies of aimless, mindless youths who are easily manipulated by mass-media entertainment. Look at how television programs directly influence how people behave.
Art is propaganda. What makes humans special is not merely our ability to think abstractly, but to work together as a group. There is a reason the most intelligent predators all operate as a team.
Art is the means by which dominant members of a group sway others to join their side. Without, the empires of the past could never have risen, and the ideals of religions would die after a few generations.
The guy on the bottom doesn't have the balls to quit, create a company, and run it in the way they feel.
Name one company anyone can start that simply requires "balls".
Last time I checked, starting a company required money. Money to rent an office, pay for computers, employees, and a host of other operating expenses an idiot like you couldn't even appreciate it.
Wait, wasn't it MS that created MS-DOS that outshined IBM's PC-DOS which then became Windows?
Umm, no. IBM didn't write an OS for their product. You had several options at the time, and the dominant one was CP/M. Microsoft sold a cheaper alternative, that was hundreds of dollars less and thus became popular.
So it was MS that put the squash on IBM (at least in the OS category).
No, IBM was not a software company during the 1980's. It tried, a bit, with OS/2 in the 1990's, but failed.
That oppressive American occupation was a direct consequence of Japan's inhuman wartime conduct.
Ahh, so its justified. Well then, why waste my time with the rest of your jabber?
Why do you think this hasn't happened in Japan? How are they *so* pathetic, such an inferior culture, that they haven't gotten over an occupation that happened a generation ago?
The occupation has never ended. There are 100,000 US soldiers, incredible amounts of ordinance, nuclear weapons, and many other fun weapons of war to keep the Japanese in line. The American bases in Japan are despised by MANY people there. The Americans will not leave.
I won't even respond to the rest of your post, since the crucial issue here is apparently unknown to you. Make no mistake, the army we keep in Japan is not there to protect the Japanese, but to control them.
Japanese society and culture is decidedly decadent and depraved, a result of oppressive American occupation policies.
America succeeded in killing the spirit of the Japanese and Germans, but the ideals of a discplined, militaristic society surely live on. With the likely escalated competition for scarce natural resources on this planet, the importance of military tactics and militaristic societal organization will again become apparent.
The art is dead in Japan because it has no relevance to the world. What need is there for an art of war when your people disavow war itself?
A new nation, stronger and untained by the pathetic pacifistic ideals of internationalists, will rise again.
It really is amusing, that oft repeated story about the Nova. As if any nominally educated spanish speaking person isn't familiar with the language shift in Spanish from the latin nova, to nueva.
There is no town of westchester in Westchester County. At least, there hasn't been for a long time. There is a neighborhood of the Bronx nominally known as Westchester, from before it was part of New York City. There is however a town of Eastchester.
Anyway, its IBM that is located in Westchester, Armonk to be exact.
I think the new hybrid hard drives will address many of those concerns. With several gigs of flash memory onboard and intelligent caching, speech will be greatly improved.
Windows Mobile 5 has its issues... but the memory design is now totally different. PRevious versions of WIndows CE used main memory for storing files AND program execution. It was never really 128 megs of ram, it was whatever you set as memory allocation (usually 64/64 for most people)
Now, that is no longer the case. All files are stored on regular flash memory, and main memory is used for program execution only. My Dell Axim X51v, which has a VGA screen, comes with 192megs of flash memory built in. That is quite a bit.
Anyway... It works well enough. I'd prefer a slightly bigger form factor though. I don't need a PDA to be smaller than my hand. If it was about 50% bigger, I'd be real happy.
Is there not one person in this thread that will speak the obvious?
Rise up, risk your pathetic waste of a life and seize the future for yourself!
You whine that you've wasted your life following the rules set by a powerful elite determined to rape you for every last penny you are worth, but what have you done? What do you have to lose?
The truth is most of you would never risk what job security you have left for even a slight increase in your standard of living.
Most of you will die forgotten, an embarassment to the next generation.
Yeah, the world is pretty fucked up. But most of you are cowards who would rather play Quake all day than learn to fight.
If you think for a minute 1,000,000 people could not take over this country in a week, you are crazy. Give up the video games, the porn, the masturbation, and whatever other vices waste your life away. We need to simply mobilize 0.33% of the US population and change will be immediate!
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- avira antivir (threat to MS on their own 'defender' ?)
- monaco optix xr pro (screen calibrator 'puck'; aka 'colorimeter'. pro photog guys NEED this)
- oem nero6 (I need that for lightscribe work. MS doesn't do LS, I don't think, and sadly neither does unix)
- cisco vpn (I use that to login to work remotely. this is a must-have for me.)
This kind of software almost NEVER works with a new OS.
vista is very close to shipping. and there are MAJOR failings. this does not bode well.
Come on. We've had 12 years of major OS releases where people have experienced the same problem as you. Guess what. Things were fine. These are not major failings. You're just being alarmist.
No one uses facebook except kids in college or recent college grads. It is useless. It serves no purpose and will disappear in 2 years.
Umm, what's so freaky about 35 year old men hooking up with 15 year olds? This is pretty standard in most of the world, and was in the US as well.
The recession isn't over yet. The major stock indexes have yet to achieve their 2000 highs on an inflation adjusted basis. Considering the 8-20% decline since May, it doesn't look like the 2000 highs will be achieved any time soon.
Since we haven't yet invented a practical form of transmutation or energy-matter conversion, everything is 'natural', in that it is made from things extracted from plants, animals, or rocks. 'Natural' is an emotive word with no scientific meaning.
In the realm of pharmacology and US patent law, it does have a scientific meaning. Natural drugs that come from plants cannot be patented. The entire point of his post is that Morphine is cheap and accessible. No new drug will be able to beat that.
Somewhat more to the point, drugs roughly equivalent to morphine (endorphins) are naturally produced by the body on its own, without any external intervention.
This is irrelvant to the discussion at band. Unless you are still quibbling about the meaning of the word "natural". Also, endorphins are very simple peptides. Morphine is actually quite different chemically from endorphins. It just happens to have affinity for certain opioid receptors.
You can even get addicted to them, if you can be bothered to engage in the heavy exercise necessary (many serious athletes become mildly addicted, and yes, it's real addiction - they show physical withdrawal symptoms if they stop exercising regularly, just like with any other opiate, and can occasionally require medical treatment to manage this if an injury prevents them from training). In no sense can you call an opiate, or any quantity of an opiate, 'unnatural'.
You are full of shit. You cannot provide a citation to a single medical journal article that even DISCUSSES such a preposterous theory. You clearly have no understanding that there are many different opioid receptors. And your reiteration of the meaning of the word "unnatural" is also completely irrelevant to this discussion. Morphine IS unnatural in that it is not selective to specific receptors, but broadly agonizes several. Duh. Do runners complain of respiratory suppression and constipation? Ahh, no.
People need to find something less pointless to talk about than whether something is 'natural'.
No, I think idiots like you need to stop posting on slashot. You haven't posted to contribute any useful information to the discussion. The parent poster was highlighting an important distinction between different kinds of drugs. His use of the word "natural" served a purpose. What have you done? Nothing. Your bullshit post has done nothing to help anyone understand anything.
I've got a cousin, went to Julliard, piano. They were thrilled to take him in because he knew how to play properly. He had been well trained. They're actually not used to that at Julliard. My cousin was an exception. Typically they have to spend the first year or so in remedial training.
Absolutely ridiculous. Knowledge of the piano is generally required of everyone; perhaps you are referring to there being many excelllent musicians for whom the piano is not their primary instrument.
If you are referring to people getting a BFA in piano performance... you are simply wrong. By the way, its spelled Juilliard.
I stopped reading the article after it started to suggest 1100 watt power supplies are necessary for this nonsense.
I'm sorry. No video game is worth that much power.
Lawyers are how you get business done in civil society. They are in many ways even superior to violence, because they can be used to attack vaporous legal constructs that you can't well go out and shoot if you wanted to. They're like samurai: have enough of them, and you can do anything you want. Don't have any, and you're just a peasant.
In a civil society, the government exists to prevent these kinds of injustices. A peasant should be able to go to a government representative to settle such a dispute at no cost.
Companies would never pull this crap again if corporate leaders could go to jail for abusing the justice system.
For profit lawyers simply perpetuate this nonsense, as it makes them money.
No kidding.
When I was in high school, kids would do this all the time. They worked at grocery stores and would just keep credit cards on busy days. The hardest part of carding was staking out houses to find out which ones were vacant and/or the people were on vacation. Put a nice note on the door for the UPS man and the stuff gets put on the back porch.
Who the hell in their right mind would use a stolen credit card to buy shit and have it sent to YOUR house?
Actually, it was deliberate trolling. I don't have an opinion either way. But typically, nothing seems to galvanize heated debate like the suggestion that all men are in fact not created equal.
Egalitarianism is the new religion.
Very simple. Canada and Western Europe is composed mostly of white people. Those who aren't white in Canada are typically oriental, who have relatively high intelligence ability.
The US however, is less than 70% white, and the vast majority of its non-white population is composed of racial groups of lower intelligence, ie blacks and hispanics.
Sure Met Life is still domociled in NY; advantages as a NY Insurer, but a lot of the jobs were moved to NJ and elsewhere.
Not only that, the Met Life building will soon be converted into condominium apartments.
You used your grandmother's memory to dismiss the idea in general, but were the warnings of your grandmother's time correct? There is some evidence that people are, in general, less literate then they were a century ago before radio, television, and now video games.
The evidence is flawed as it is based on the belief that egaltiarianism is scientifically true. Negroes score a full standard deviation lower than other races on standard intelligence measuring tests. Their large numbers, and recent inclusion in such statistics, greatly skews literacy statistics. Negroes, no matter what their country of origin, have abysmal literacy rates. In 1960, the United States was approximately 96% white. Today, it is less than 70%, and will be less than 50% by 2050.
Literacy has declined in the US every year since racial quotas on immigration were removed. Especially when you consider that other countries (which presumably have equal access to television and video games) have higher rates of literacy (say, Japan at near 100%), it is logical to infer that the problem is not technology, but certain people simply are not capable of reading or writing. The unfortunate reality is those people tend to have more animalistic instincts, and will thus reproduce at rapid rates. This causes population pressures in their home countries resulting in mass emigration, and once they are in the US, they continue to rapidly multiply.
Every white person in the US should ask themselves: When we are a minority in our own country, will our new rulers treat us with the same goodwill as we treated them?
It will happen in your lifetime.
Art is an outgrowth of abstract thought and tool use. Doesn't serve any purpose really, it just happens to be a side-effect of the kind of brain that could produce gunpowder.
I highly disagree with that statement. Just look at the armies of aimless, mindless youths who are easily manipulated by mass-media entertainment. Look at how television programs directly influence how people behave.
Art is propaganda. What makes humans special is not merely our ability to think abstractly, but to work together as a group. There is a reason the most intelligent predators all operate as a team.
Art is the means by which dominant members of a group sway others to join their side. Without, the empires of the past could never have risen, and the ideals of religions would die after a few generations.
The guy on the bottom doesn't have the balls to quit, create a company, and run it in the way they feel.
Name one company anyone can start that simply requires "balls".
Last time I checked, starting a company required money. Money to rent an office, pay for computers, employees, and a host of other operating expenses an idiot like you couldn't even appreciate it.
Wait, wasn't it MS that created MS-DOS that outshined IBM's PC-DOS which then became Windows?
Umm, no. IBM didn't write an OS for their product. You had several options at the time, and the dominant one was CP/M. Microsoft sold a cheaper alternative, that was hundreds of dollars less and thus became popular.
So it was MS that put the squash on IBM (at least in the OS category).
No, IBM was not a software company during the 1980's. It tried, a bit, with OS/2 in the 1990's, but failed.
That oppressive American occupation was a direct consequence of Japan's inhuman wartime conduct.
Ahh, so its justified. Well then, why waste my time with the rest of your jabber?
Why do you think this hasn't happened in Japan? How are they *so* pathetic, such an inferior culture, that they haven't gotten over an occupation that happened a generation ago?
The occupation has never ended. There are 100,000 US soldiers, incredible amounts of ordinance, nuclear weapons, and many other fun weapons of war to keep the Japanese in line. The American bases in Japan are despised by MANY people there. The Americans will not leave.
I won't even respond to the rest of your post, since the crucial issue here is apparently unknown to you. Make no mistake, the army we keep in Japan is not there to protect the Japanese, but to control them.
Japanese society and culture is decidedly decadent and depraved, a result of oppressive American occupation policies.
America succeeded in killing the spirit of the Japanese and Germans, but the ideals of a discplined, militaristic society surely live on. With the likely escalated competition for scarce natural resources on this planet, the importance of military tactics and militaristic societal organization will again become apparent.
The art is dead in Japan because it has no relevance to the world. What need is there for an art of war when your people disavow war itself?
A new nation, stronger and untained by the pathetic pacifistic ideals of internationalists, will rise again.
It really is amusing, that oft repeated story about the Nova. As if any nominally educated spanish speaking person isn't familiar with the language shift in Spanish from the latin nova, to nueva.
There is no town of westchester in Westchester County. At least, there hasn't been for a long time. There is a neighborhood of the Bronx nominally known as Westchester, from before it was part of New York City. There is however a town of Eastchester.
Anyway, its IBM that is located in Westchester, Armonk to be exact.
Microsoft was in the same situation with Windows 3.0 and IBM. What did they Do? Come out with Windows 3.1, and later Win32s.
All Microsoft would have to do is release the latest and greatest office suite, and that would be it.
I think the new hybrid hard drives will address many of those concerns. With several gigs of flash memory onboard and intelligent caching, speech will be greatly improved.
Gee thanks for knocking every major brand and telling us that all laptops suck.
So, what the fuck are we supposed to get?
Windows Mobile 5 has its issues... but the memory design is now totally different. PRevious versions of WIndows CE used main memory for storing files AND program execution. It was never really 128 megs of ram, it was whatever you set as memory allocation (usually 64/64 for most people)
Now, that is no longer the case. All files are stored on regular flash memory, and main memory is used for program execution only. My Dell Axim X51v, which has a VGA screen, comes with 192megs of flash memory built in. That is quite a bit.
Anyway... It works well enough. I'd prefer a slightly bigger form factor though. I don't need a PDA to be smaller than my hand. If it was about 50% bigger, I'd be real happy.
Is there not one person in this thread that will speak the obvious?
Rise up, risk your pathetic waste of a life and seize the future for yourself!
You whine that you've wasted your life following the rules set by a powerful elite determined to rape you for every last penny you are worth, but what have you done? What do you have to lose?
The truth is most of you would never risk what job security you have left for even a slight increase in your standard of living.
Most of you will die forgotten, an embarassment to the next generation.
Yeah, the world is pretty fucked up. But most of you are cowards who would rather play Quake all day than learn to fight.
If you think for a minute 1,000,000 people could not take over this country in a week, you are crazy. Give up the video games, the porn, the masturbation, and whatever other vices waste your life away. We need to simply mobilize 0.33% of the US population and change will be immediate!