MAFIAA go after casual downloaders, destroying people for having downloaded a few songs which are usually freely available on the radio anyway. In the meantime, people are scanning and selling other people's books for profit - and getting away with it. Wasn't this exactly the sort of thing that copyright was supposed to prevent in the first place?
Porn is a masturbation tool. Soft porn has no use at all, except maybe to pretend to be porn where real porn doesn't or can't exist.
However as a masturbation tool anyone who tries to build a business model by showing porn in public is doomed to failure because no one is encouraged to masturbate in public. In fact that would be kind of creepy. It's why porn magazines, books and videos (which you can take home) and internet porn (which you can view at home) are successful, whereas porn cinemas often do poorly - especially since the 1970's and the invention of video tapes.
The only exception to this is the strip club/peep show genre, since live women are hard to reproduce at home by those that seek them.
I dunno, I guess some people are willing to pay for anything. And teenagers are always desperate to see a pair of tits. I find it hard to see this as a long term revenue generator however.
Hello? Just because we can't explain something fully doesn't mean we can't spot repetitive behavior. These observations have value, if only to serve as the starting point for an explanation by someone smarter than us at some point in the future.
As a physician I would venture that not only caffeine but pretty much anything can produce those symptoms. That is why they're called "non specific symptoms". Of course this reminds me of the guy who claimed to be ill from signals coming from a cell phone tower, only to discover that the cell phone tower in question hadn't actually been turned on for the past 12 months...
Seriously, there are a lot of sick people. However sadly there are also people who claim to be sick in order to obtain a secondary benefit. These people can be understood in that, for whatever reason, they feel that malingering is the easiest way to get what they want. Unfortunately they tie up health resources that could be used to help those who are really sick when they do so.
On the other side the german economy has the biggest growth in europe with over 2%, looks we do get something right.
I would argue that copying the "American school" of economics and printing money to stimulate growth isn't really growth at all. It's like the Americans rejoicing that their exports are up. Well yeah, their dollar is worth next to nothing, of course buying American is getting cheaper for the rest of the world. Just wait till Joe Sixpack wants to buy his Made in China, well, everything, at Wal Mart or Target...
That in a country that was just told by the government of the EU to violate the Maastricht limit and increase their debt to GDP ratio to 90% (instead of the cap at 60%) by taking on bad debt from WestLB and Hypo Real Estate, they still have money for this. Because in Europe most universities and their expensive research programs are fully dependent on government subsidies. You tax dollars at work. Or at play, in this case. At least every German citizen should get to have a go for free.
Perhaps you're giving them too much credit and they really are trying to emulate network news - news for retards. See why your local dentist may be more than a mouthful. Coming up next!
Sounds like you have issues with religion, Christianity in particulate.
No, all religions in general. Christianity is just the most popular one in the West.
so it really depends on what they are counting,
Yes it does. And since neither of us have that fact, we resort to speculation. I suppose if they have values stored in a look up table rather than created on the fly by an algorithm, that would increase program speed but also add to the overall size of the program. However I am sure you agree, professor, that there's a fundamental difference between "code" and "data". But like we have both said - speculation. So I won't bother carrying on.
Accurate or not I can not say but I have come across the line count elsewhere so it is likely to be reasonably close.
Yep and everyone believes in Jesus so it must be true.
20 million lines of code my ass. Unless they are keeping track of the cumulative lines in each build. Unless they're writing the damned thing in assembly language there is no excuse for using so much code. And you're not allowed to count the standard libraries you're linking to that end up bloating your program as your own code. This is just some marketing droid who thinks one byte = 1 line, saw a 20MB compile, and decided it was 20 million lines of code. OR some other idiot decided that "data" = "code" and is counting some database tables.
'Now let's talk about innovation. Apple is the poster child for tech innovation; it releases one groundbreaking product after another.
[citation needed]
There's nothing particularly earth-shattering about any of the products they have released. The iPad is inferior to a 2001 tablet PC by HP. The iPod is an MP3 player in a shiny case. And the iPhone is just a cell phone with a touch screen - palm devices have had those for a long time.
What Apple is good at is marketing. So good, in fact, that they convince people that their products are revolutionary. When actually they're just black, shiny and expensive.
offsetting this by the fuel savings coming from reduced family size. People simply have fewer children on average than they used to.
Wow you really can make numbers say anything you want. Remember that thanks to all the SUV's, the weight of the average car has increased since the 60's, not decreased as you would expect from losing the chassis and moving to a monocoque design.
But hey, let's bash fat people. How about that fat tax?
Calm down HP shareholders. HP sucks because HP sucks. They've come a long way from the days when they made the best adding machines (and laser printers) in the world. Too bad most of it has been downhill. I just downloaded a 400MB file as, apparently, a driver for my printer. Then I found out that honestly it was 400MB of bloat and god knows what other hidden "features" that I "opted into" when I downloaded it. Good thing Microsoft had a copy of the real driver available through Windows Update.
HP sucks, and Hurd's departure has nothing to do with it.
Microsoft is a company that is trying to point in all directions at once. This wouldn't be the first idea they have poured time and effort into, only to drop it. I am sick and tired of having to learn new development techniques just because Microsoft thinks that this year MFC/WPF/XNA/.NET/C#/F# is going to be **IT**, skimming through thousands of completely unhelpful reference pages on MSDN that merely hint at what functions/objects/libraries/tools are supposed to do but point to other pages in circular references worse than any 1990's porn sites.
Programming is supposed to make life easier, not harder. Microsoft is the expert in obfuscated standards, obfuscated libraries, and especially obfuscated documentation. It's a wonder they get anything done at all.
Afghanistan was where Al Qaeda established it training camps and bases, and organized several attacks on the US including 9/11 which killed about 3000 Americans.
But that was only possible because they used box cutters that were made in China. So how come no Chinese invasion?
Do these people think they can interact with a Sim the same way they would with a real patient (other than a pre-canned script)?
Sure, because I am positive that the programmers will introduce the "baby won't stop crying and mommy is getting mad", "mommy's hidden agenda is a prescription of amphetamines", "daddy has an STD and doesn't want mommy to find out", "teenage daughter is making eyes at you and is trying to seduce you because she's drawn to the lab coat, position of authority and social status and can't control her hormones", "no one helps grandma take car of her diabetic feet and she's going to lose a toe", "grandpa just passed out at the sight of a needle and his BP is 70/40 in your office" scenarios that will make it just like real medical practice.
Seriously I have 2 comments. Firstly I remember the thing that wasn't in the books but I kept hearing over and over again during my medical training from every single tutor: "There are no absolutes in medicine". I wonder how a "computer simulation" is going to deal with that. Secondly I have to argue that the US is internationally famous for having doctors with excellent knowledge of pathology and technology, and practically zero hands on/clinical knowledge. What use is it to be able to know which of Ranson's criteria wasn't postulated by Ranson and the year it was added to the list, or how to read a PET scan, if you can't tell the difference between a migraine and a CVA WITHOUT a CT scan. What use is it to be able to diagnose Paramyotonia congenita if you can't diagnose a heart attack without an EKG or an enzyme test? Sadly the US has a bad rep in this field. Widespread use of something like this - removing the actual patient from medical training - is not something I can see helping.
I was fortunate in that I received my medical training in a third world government health care system where, frankly, patients are treated just a little better than cattle. It's not ideal for them, but for me it means that I had seen, interacted with, interviewed and even performed procedures on thousands of patients even before graduating. In the US, I assume that access to patients is much more restricted due to liability issues - plus the attitude from the patient that "if I'm paying then only the attending is allowed to touch me".
I would venture that increasing awareness among patients to help them accept the role of the medical student would be far more effective than a simulator. Because medical students aren't all that learning impaired. You will never know, however, that you're acting like a pompous ass until a patient tells you to your face. And I don't think the simulator will do that for some reason. My 2 cents, as a doctor.
It's the fact that you think I'm jealous of a silly gadget that makes you the type of person you are. I mean, we're not talking the $5 million mansion in the south of France, or the $2 million Bugatti here. You think I am jealous of your $400 phone? Right...
Take a look in the mirror and tell me what you see.
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MAFIAA go after casual downloaders, destroying people for having downloaded a few songs which are usually freely available on the radio anyway. In the meantime, people are scanning and selling other people's books for profit - and getting away with it. Wasn't this exactly the sort of thing that copyright was supposed to prevent in the first place?
We'll pay for that miniaturization technology. ;-)
Apple users will pay for anything, so long as they can get another little white Apple sticker.
"Defending freedom!"
Read that as : "Defending the profits of the military industrial complex".
Porn is a masturbation tool. Soft porn has no use at all, except maybe to pretend to be porn where real porn doesn't or can't exist.
However as a masturbation tool anyone who tries to build a business model by showing porn in public is doomed to failure because no one is encouraged to masturbate in public. In fact that would be kind of creepy. It's why porn magazines, books and videos (which you can take home) and internet porn (which you can view at home) are successful, whereas porn cinemas often do poorly - especially since the 1970's and the invention of video tapes.
The only exception to this is the strip club/peep show genre, since live women are hard to reproduce at home by those that seek them.
I dunno, I guess some people are willing to pay for anything. And teenagers are always desperate to see a pair of tits. I find it hard to see this as a long term revenue generator however.
Finally some evidence to prove my new theory I will soon propose: Global Cooling.
You're going to have to wait a few thousand millenia though before people will believe you. You're just a little ahead of your time.
While your comment adds no end of profundity to the discussion, I'm sure.
a 'cycle' is invented.
Yes because there are no cycles at all in nature.
Hello? Just because we can't explain something fully doesn't mean we can't spot repetitive behavior. These observations have value, if only to serve as the starting point for an explanation by someone smarter than us at some point in the future.
As a physician I would venture that not only caffeine but pretty much anything can produce those symptoms. That is why they're called "non specific symptoms". Of course this reminds me of the guy who claimed to be ill from signals coming from a cell phone tower, only to discover that the cell phone tower in question hadn't actually been turned on for the past 12 months...
Seriously, there are a lot of sick people. However sadly there are also people who claim to be sick in order to obtain a secondary benefit. These people can be understood in that, for whatever reason, they feel that malingering is the easiest way to get what they want. Unfortunately they tie up health resources that could be used to help those who are really sick when they do so.
On the other side the german economy has the biggest growth in europe with over 2%, looks we do get something right.
I would argue that copying the "American school" of economics and printing money to stimulate growth isn't really growth at all. It's like the Americans rejoicing that their exports are up. Well yeah, their dollar is worth next to nothing, of course buying American is getting cheaper for the rest of the world. Just wait till Joe Sixpack wants to buy his Made in China, well, everything, at Wal Mart or Target...
That in a country that was just told by the government of the EU to violate the Maastricht limit and increase their debt to GDP ratio to 90% (instead of the cap at 60%) by taking on bad debt from WestLB and Hypo Real Estate, they still have money for this. Because in Europe most universities and their expensive research programs are fully dependent on government subsidies. You tax dollars at work. Or at play, in this case. At least every German citizen should get to have a go for free.
Perhaps you're giving them too much credit and they really are trying to emulate network news - news for retards. See why your local dentist may be more than a mouthful. Coming up next!
Sounds like you have issues with religion, Christianity in particulate.
No, all religions in general. Christianity is just the most popular one in the West.
so it really depends on what they are counting,
Yes it does. And since neither of us have that fact, we resort to speculation. I suppose if they have values stored in a look up table rather than created on the fly by an algorithm, that would increase program speed but also add to the overall size of the program. However I am sure you agree, professor, that there's a fundamental difference between "code" and "data". But like we have both said - speculation. So I won't bother carrying on.
and then it is claimed as millions of computer instructions
I have a better one:
int main()
{
while(1){
printf("Here you go, billions and billions of computer instructions!\r\n");
}
return 0; // to shut the compiler up
}
Accurate or not I can not say but I have come across the line count elsewhere so it is likely to be reasonably close.
Yep and everyone believes in Jesus so it must be true.
20 million lines of code my ass. Unless they are keeping track of the cumulative lines in each build. Unless they're writing the damned thing in assembly language there is no excuse for using so much code. And you're not allowed to count the standard libraries you're linking to that end up bloating your program as your own code. This is just some marketing droid who thinks one byte = 1 line, saw a 20MB compile, and decided it was 20 million lines of code. OR some other idiot decided that "data" = "code" and is counting some database tables.
'Now let's talk about innovation. Apple is the poster child for tech innovation; it releases one groundbreaking product after another.
[citation needed]
There's nothing particularly earth-shattering about any of the products they have released. The iPad is inferior to a 2001 tablet PC by HP. The iPod is an MP3 player in a shiny case. And the iPhone is just a cell phone with a touch screen - palm devices have had those for a long time.
What Apple is good at is marketing. So good, in fact, that they convince people that their products are revolutionary. When actually they're just black, shiny and expensive.
Much of the fear comes from worries about terrorists
I suspect that the rest of the fear comes from worries about pedophiles.
I mean, those are the two biggest excuses to subvert freedom and expand government power in the West, so why not in India, right?
And be immediately disqualified.
I can't wait until they get around to killing MySQL.
Everyone is using Postgre SQL anyway.
offsetting this by the fuel savings coming from reduced family size. People simply have fewer children on average than they used to.
Wow you really can make numbers say anything you want. Remember that thanks to all the SUV's, the weight of the average car has increased since the 60's, not decreased as you would expect from losing the chassis and moving to a monocoque design.
But hey, let's bash fat people. How about that fat tax?
Calm down HP shareholders. HP sucks because HP sucks. They've come a long way from the days when they made the best adding machines (and laser printers) in the world. Too bad most of it has been downhill. I just downloaded a 400MB file as, apparently, a driver for my printer. Then I found out that honestly it was 400MB of bloat and god knows what other hidden "features" that I "opted into" when I downloaded it. Good thing Microsoft had a copy of the real driver available through Windows Update.
HP sucks, and Hurd's departure has nothing to do with it.
Microsoft is a company that is trying to point in all directions at once. This wouldn't be the first idea they have poured time and effort into, only to drop it. I am sick and tired of having to learn new development techniques just because Microsoft thinks that this year MFC/WPF/XNA/.NET/C#/F# is going to be **IT**, skimming through thousands of completely unhelpful reference pages on MSDN that merely hint at what functions/objects/libraries/tools are supposed to do but point to other pages in circular references worse than any 1990's porn sites.
Programming is supposed to make life easier, not harder. Microsoft is the expert in obfuscated standards, obfuscated libraries, and especially obfuscated documentation. It's a wonder they get anything done at all.
Afghanistan was where Al Qaeda established it training camps and bases, and organized several attacks on the US including 9/11 which killed about 3000 Americans.
But that was only possible because they used box cutters that were made in China. So how come no Chinese invasion?
"Trash Island" must be worth serious cash. It's only a matter of time before someone goes and harvests it.
Do these people think they can interact with a Sim the same way they would with a real patient (other than a pre-canned script)?
Sure, because I am positive that the programmers will introduce the "baby won't stop crying and mommy is getting mad", "mommy's hidden agenda is a prescription of amphetamines", "daddy has an STD and doesn't want mommy to find out", "teenage daughter is making eyes at you and is trying to seduce you because she's drawn to the lab coat, position of authority and social status and can't control her hormones", "no one helps grandma take car of her diabetic feet and she's going to lose a toe", "grandpa just passed out at the sight of a needle and his BP is 70/40 in your office" scenarios that will make it just like real medical practice.
Seriously I have 2 comments. Firstly I remember the thing that wasn't in the books but I kept hearing over and over again during my medical training from every single tutor: "There are no absolutes in medicine". I wonder how a "computer simulation" is going to deal with that. Secondly I have to argue that the US is internationally famous for having doctors with excellent knowledge of pathology and technology, and practically zero hands on/clinical knowledge. What use is it to be able to know which of Ranson's criteria wasn't postulated by Ranson and the year it was added to the list, or how to read a PET scan, if you can't tell the difference between a migraine and a CVA WITHOUT a CT scan. What use is it to be able to diagnose Paramyotonia congenita if you can't diagnose a heart attack without an EKG or an enzyme test? Sadly the US has a bad rep in this field. Widespread use of something like this - removing the actual patient from medical training - is not something I can see helping.
I was fortunate in that I received my medical training in a third world government health care system where, frankly, patients are treated just a little better than cattle. It's not ideal for them, but for me it means that I had seen, interacted with, interviewed and even performed procedures on thousands of patients even before graduating. In the US, I assume that access to patients is much more restricted due to liability issues - plus the attitude from the patient that "if I'm paying then only the attending is allowed to touch me".
I would venture that increasing awareness among patients to help them accept the role of the medical student would be far more effective than a simulator. Because medical students aren't all that learning impaired. You will never know, however, that you're acting like a pompous ass until a patient tells you to your face. And I don't think the simulator will do that for some reason. My 2 cents, as a doctor.
You are SO JEALOUS
It's the fact that you think I'm jealous of a silly gadget that makes you the type of person you are. I mean, we're not talking the $5 million mansion in the south of France, or the $2 million Bugatti here. You think I am jealous of your $400 phone? Right...
Take a look in the mirror and tell me what you see.