An INCREASE in time is now considered a performance improvement?
Of course it's an improvement, because the service pack installs the new program that screens your jpeg images for copyrighted content, sends a copy to Microsoft, and asks for permission to continue the copying... all for a "slight increase" in copying time.
And the US tortures terror suspects before they are proven guilty in a court of law.
And holds them indefinitely on a military base in a third country, not exactly as prisoners of war, and not exactly as criminals. In fact, they might go home when the war ends. When is the war going to end, exactly? Remind me again what the goals were... because the Geneva convention clearly states that when you go to war you need to have concrete political goals for ending the war, and have to strive to end the war as soon as possible.
And the US raised a HUGE stink over their soldiers who were held in prison camps in Vietnam. Sigh. The people in Guantanamo have families, had lives before the fighting began. Either shoot them, or let them go already. But holding them like this only increases the hate from brothers, uncles and children.
We as a world full of people don't buy "Made in China" crap. Companies buy it and leave us no choice but to buy from them.
When the choice is to have a product or to not have a product, that doesn't count as a choice.
We companies have no choice but to sell you "Made in China" crap, because you consumers prefer to buy the cheapest products. It's called efficiency. This is what the free market always wants to head for, ever since Adam Smith noticed that at the end of a market day, all the products were sold.
At the moment, China is simply more efficient at manufacturing this stuff.
How come you don't want to go back to the $5000 personal computer IBM was trying to sell you 20 years ago? Oh, you prefer the Chinese $800 computer that does everything the $5000 machine does? Then you blame the companies? Blame the US worker, who demands his union and his sick days and his stress leave and his health insurance and dental, and $40k a year salary and his car and his big screen TV, etc, and is not willing to work for a bowl of rice a day. Blame yourself.
We (as a nation) still buy "Made in China" crap and help support their economy.
You really don't understand globalization, do you?
The Made in China "crap" is:
a) probably made by a US owned Chinese company or a Chinese company that bought technology/equipment from US firms, or licensed from a US company that gets a cut of the profits. b) made for a lot less than any other country could ever DREAM of to produce it
The best bit is - China is only STARTING to become industrialized. They (along with India) have the potential to dominate the entire world economically. Sure, as an American you can "boycott" China. But Europe won't. Russian won't. The third world (which is starving for cheaper goods) won't. The only thing you will be doing is digging your own grave.
Globalization brings countries together. How can you go to war with a country that sells you the products you need, and buys the technology you produce, and imports raw materials from you, and exports engineers to you, etc etc etc.
Oh wait, war is about politics, and politicians are rarely rational. Sure, go ahead and call for a boycott then. Pardon me if I snicker when you shoot yourself in the foot.
Oh, and I'm Canadian, not Chinese. Not a drop of oriental blood.
Sorry, but I've already patented the systematic use and manipulation of abstract symbols representing real world quantities in order to derive relationships.
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The are all manor of subtle mistakes that can be made in a program that could cause serious problems with a proof.
No mistakes. After all, the Ultimate Answer really is 42. My program proves it!
#define MYANSWER "42"
int main() {
printf("The result is: %s.", MYANSWER); }
No, you CAN'T have the source code... but look, my program proves it! LOOK AT THE PROGRAM!
As a physician I am well aware of the textbook definition of "addiction".
However this is one of those terms that eventually will be modified, as it has turned into a "label" and fails to identify the psychological conditions that usually drive "addiction" and addictive behaviour - anxiety disorder, depression, and bipolar mood disorder. "Addiction" is a symptom, not a pathology. Not everyone who smokes crack or shoots heroin or goes online becomes an instant "addict". Like everything else in medicine, pathology usually requires several predisposing factors.
My bending the term "addiction" to include common, every day acts (which happen to stimulate the same pathways in the brain) was an attempt to ridicule this "label". Just as we no longer say that patients are "retarded", soon the term "addict" will be used less frequently among health professionals.
but there are other things in life besides computers! Jobs, friends... school, exercise, and a whole lot more
Like onions.
Yes, the other day I planted some onion seeds, and I am thrilled to watch them sprout and I am excited because tomorrow I will have to transplant them... silly, I know. But it reminds me that there is more to life than NO CARRIER
Is life really a series of addictions? I dont like that thought.
We actually are much less than what we give ourselves credit for. We consider ourselves to be above our basic biochemical urges and impulses, however it's a constant struggle. Yet we choose to delude ourselves into believing that denying our desires to others somehow makes us a better human being. And we cast out from our society those that decide to act on them.
Where is our intelligence? Truly you have hit the nail on the head. Perhaps you don't like to think that often you don't know why you act in a certain manner, but more often than not this is the case. We can choose to believe that we are cool, rational beings, however often the reason behind a specific decision we make comes from deep inside some primitive part of our identity. Anyway, this gives us something to blame when things don't turn out the way we wanted...
Several notable human "addictions" include food, air, sex (alone or with others)...
Except for air, these things stimulate the release of dopamine (the "reward" neurotransmitter) when acquired. Take them away and expect a violent response from the subject. I'd say those were pretty solid "addictions".
Oh wait, the plebs think "addiction" only implies "negative" things...
They knew how to take advantage of rope tension......But to come up with the design is the hard part.
Meh, trial and error becomes easy if you have countless slaves to practice with. What the Inca were REALLY famous for was their ability to direct and control the flow of water. Their canals were really impressive, apparently.
The Aztecs were in and around the region of Mexico, the Incas were in South America roughly where Peru is today. The ones who had died out were the Maya, although there were several small tribes in Central America (Chorotega, Guatuso, etc) between the two mighty empires.
Not to mention the fact that coal dust is extremely explosive. I wouldn't like to see a few sparks in there after a major quake. But then again I guess they know what they are doing.
If there's a sign in front of the house that says "come on in and use my phone for free" I won't think twice about it. You don't HAVE to broadcast that your net is available.
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And you can bet your ass it's going to nerf all the pirate copies of XP out there.
An INCREASE in time is now considered a performance improvement?
Of course it's an improvement, because the service pack installs the new program that screens your jpeg images for copyrighted content, sends a copy to Microsoft, and asks for permission to continue the copying... all for a "slight increase" in copying time.
oh please, how can you even compare the US to the Chinese...
Native Americans? African Americans?
Every empire has to crush a few people to establish itself. Enough of the double standards already.
And the US tortures terror suspects before they are proven guilty in a court of law.
And holds them indefinitely on a military base in a third country, not exactly as prisoners of war, and not exactly as criminals. In fact, they might go home when the war ends. When is the war going to end, exactly? Remind me again what the goals were... because the Geneva convention clearly states that when you go to war you need to have concrete political goals for ending the war, and have to strive to end the war as soon as possible.
And the US raised a HUGE stink over their soldiers who were held in prison camps in Vietnam. Sigh. The people in Guantanamo have families, had lives before the fighting began. Either shoot them, or let them go already. But holding them like this only increases the hate from brothers, uncles and children.
We as a world full of people don't buy "Made in China" crap. Companies buy it and leave us no choice but to buy from them.
When the choice is to have a product or to not have a product, that doesn't count as a choice.
We companies have no choice but to sell you "Made in China" crap, because you consumers prefer to buy the cheapest products. It's called efficiency. This is what the free market always wants to head for, ever since Adam Smith noticed that at the end of a market day, all the products were sold.
At the moment, China is simply more efficient at manufacturing this stuff.
How come you don't want to go back to the $5000 personal computer IBM was trying to sell you 20 years ago? Oh, you prefer the Chinese $800 computer that does everything the $5000 machine does? Then you blame the companies? Blame the US worker, who demands his union and his sick days and his stress leave and his health insurance and dental, and $40k a year salary and his car and his big screen TV, etc, and is not willing to work for a bowl of rice a day. Blame yourself.
We (as a nation) still buy "Made in China" crap and help support their economy.
You really don't understand globalization, do you?
The Made in China "crap" is:
a) probably made by a US owned Chinese company or a Chinese company that bought technology/equipment from US firms, or licensed from a US company that gets a cut of the profits.
b) made for a lot less than any other country could ever DREAM of to produce it
The best bit is - China is only STARTING to become industrialized. They (along with India) have the potential to dominate the entire world economically. Sure, as an American you can "boycott" China. But Europe won't. Russian won't. The third world (which is starving for cheaper goods) won't. The only thing you will be doing is digging your own grave.
Globalization brings countries together. How can you go to war with a country that sells you the products you need, and buys the technology you produce, and imports raw materials from you, and exports engineers to you, etc etc etc.
Oh wait, war is about politics, and politicians are rarely rational. Sure, go ahead and call for a boycott then. Pardon me if I snicker when you shoot yourself in the foot.
Oh, and I'm Canadian, not Chinese. Not a drop of oriental blood.
Oblig Dr. Evil:
We should ask for ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
Modded flamebait by a touchy american who refuses to accept that his currency is in a nosedive. Heh.
Yeah hey I just noticed that - why is this thing more expensive in Canada?
Sorry, but I've already patented the systematic use and manipulation of abstract symbols representing real world quantities in order to derive relationships.
The are all manor of subtle mistakes that can be made in a program that could cause serious problems with a proof.
No mistakes. After all, the Ultimate Answer really is 42. My program proves it!
#define MYANSWER "42"
int main()
{
printf("The result is: %s.", MYANSWER);
}
No, you CAN'T have the source code... but look, my program proves it! LOOK AT THE PROGRAM!
As a physician I am well aware of the textbook definition of "addiction".
However this is one of those terms that eventually will be modified, as it has turned into a "label" and fails to identify the psychological conditions that usually drive "addiction" and addictive behaviour - anxiety disorder, depression, and bipolar mood disorder. "Addiction" is a symptom, not a pathology. Not everyone who smokes crack or shoots heroin or goes online becomes an instant "addict". Like everything else in medicine, pathology usually requires several predisposing factors.
My bending the term "addiction" to include common, every day acts (which happen to stimulate the same pathways in the brain) was an attempt to ridicule this "label". Just as we no longer say that patients are "retarded", soon the term "addict" will be used less frequently among health professionals.
but there are other things in life besides computers! Jobs, friends ... school, exercise, and a whole lot more
Like onions.
Yes, the other day I planted some onion seeds, and I am thrilled to watch them sprout and I am excited because tomorrow I will have to transplant them... silly, I know. But it reminds me that there is more to life than NO CARRIER
Is life really a series of addictions? I dont like that thought.
We actually are much less than what we give ourselves credit for. We consider ourselves to be above our basic biochemical urges and impulses, however it's a constant struggle. Yet we choose to delude ourselves into believing that denying our desires to others somehow makes us a better human being. And we cast out from our society those that decide to act on them.
Where is our intelligence? Truly you have hit the nail on the head. Perhaps you don't like to think that often you don't know why you act in a certain manner, but more often than not this is the case. We can choose to believe that we are cool, rational beings, however often the reason behind a specific decision we make comes from deep inside some primitive part of our identity. Anyway, this gives us something to blame when things don't turn out the way we wanted...
Several notable human "addictions" include food, air, sex (alone or with others)...
Except for air, these things stimulate the release of dopamine (the "reward" neurotransmitter) when acquired. Take them away and expect a violent response from the subject. I'd say those were pretty solid "addictions".
Oh wait, the plebs think "addiction" only implies "negative" things...
I wonder what this camp's relapse rate is.
I just feel like playing "one up" with the submitter. I sent my first email in 1986...
These kids today, sheesh
after a night of twisting
In a different time and place that phrase would have a completely different meaning. (whistling "Let's twist again!"...)
They knew how to take advantage of rope tension... ...But to come up with the design is the hard part.
Meh, trial and error becomes easy if you have countless slaves to practice with. What the Inca were REALLY famous for was their ability to direct and control the flow of water. Their canals were really impressive, apparently.
The Aztecs were in and around the region of Mexico, the Incas were in South America roughly where Peru is today. The ones who had died out were the Maya, although there were several small tribes in Central America (Chorotega, Guatuso, etc) between the two mighty empires.
The only thing they took away was gold!
No. They took silver, too.
Trap door?
No, we make him stand on a chair...
When you skip Vista, they loose money thay had planned on.
Oh that's easy, they'll just double the price of the next version (again).
Not to mention the fact that coal dust is extremely explosive. I wouldn't like to see a few sparks in there after a major quake. But then again I guess they know what they are doing.
If there's a sign in front of the house that says "come on in and use my phone for free" I won't think twice about it. You don't HAVE to broadcast that your net is available.
Allard sounds like Ballmer.
Only without the chairs.