Several Reasons for Staying in the United States
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I moved to the U.S. at the age of fifteen and now, almost ten years later, I cannot imagine living elsewhere. You might think that I have become a spoiled young brat with a nice BMW in his garage because I say these things, and you're wrong. I am just an average American dude who works as a sys. admin and pays his taxes. Why would I maintain my average status in the United States if I could get a better life in India? Here are my reasons.
The beauty of the United States is its lack of a mainstream culture, an official religion and strong traditions. That is enough to keep me in this county because I can be whatever I want to be and theoretically I am protected under the Constitution.
I can choose my religion and whether I want to celebrate certain holidays. I am going to marry a girl of my choice and nobody will stop me from doing it. When I have kids, my daughter and my son will have equal opportunities and when they grow up, they will be allowed to date and live with their partners (regrdless of their partner's gender) before they get married. That is the beauty of the United States and this is priceless. I have visited many countries and I have met a lot of people; my experiences suggest that although the United States is not the perfect country, it is a good place to live and would like to stick with it.
Please do not get me wrong: I am not trying to put India down. I am sure that it is a great country that has a log of great people. However, if I had to choose between Boston and Bombay, I would stick with the former simply because my views are closer to Western culture and because I value personal freedoms that exist in the United States.
Since many of us may have grown up in a similar circumstance, I'm looking for suggestions from my fellow geeks on ideas for how to challenge him mentally, while building essential social skills.
Wow! I am a geek, yet I do not remember not having social skills. I've always been a life of any party. In high school I used to throw social event any time my parents were out and in college my first year was totally out of control. Weed, alcohol, girls, wild house parties, you name it. And not without computers and good grades where it counted. Just because I started writing programs at the age of thirteen does not mean that I am a social outcast. In fact, I know quite a few geeks who happen to be well-groomed individuals with good tastes in clothings and normal social manners. They go out for "happy hours," dress in matching colors and can talk to women about things other than computers and science. Is that normal? I do not know, maybe it is not and maybe it is.
Also, I know people who can't be discribed as "geeks" and who happen to be poorly dress individuals with zero social skills. If you want to start somewhere, please stop generalizing. Thank you.
P.S.: No, I won't help you to fix that kid. Trust me, he's fine right where he is.
Credit history can tell something about the person. People with perfect or normal credit histories are nothing to worry about. The question comes when you deal with a person with a poor credit history. If that person can't manage his/her own money, would you trust him with your company's finances?
My uncle was a member of one of the first rescue teams that were sent to Chernobyl after the disaster. This might be slightly off topic, but if you think that the pictures of the empty city are disturbing, take a look at people who were there after the tragic event.
I hate a lot of things about my former country, the Soviet Union, and its leaders. One of the things that I hated the most was the fact that people were never told the truth. In May of 1986 my uncle was told that he had to go to Chernobyl to help patch things up. Since he was a memeber of an elite task team that was a part of chemical forces, a special unit within the Soviet Army, he had no other options. He went there in May and he spent some quality time there. His major task was to drive tons of cement to a helicopter that would drop it off on the damaged reactor.
The not-so-funny thing was that nobody who was in my uncle's shoes knew what was going on there. The superior officers, had to tweak radiation meters down so nobody could find out the real level of radiation. People did not have proper protection, tools to work with; moreover, the Soviet leaders did try to play things down a notch. Afterall, how could a superpower have a major disaster?
Out of all of my uncle's rescue team, only a dozen or so people are alive now. All of them are disabled. My uncle has problems with his eyes and due to this fact he had to quit his job: he was a professional photographer. The Ukranian government pays him a small pension, not enough to buy food for a week. His immune system got reduced down to 60% of what he used to have. Still, he's better than his son. My cousin's system is 40% of the normal level. I remember reading a newspaper about a woman who had to buy a bottle of vodka every day. She did it because her husband could not surive through pain without it. Just as my uncle, he was in Chernobyl trying to fix the Soviet problem without exposing it to the rest of the world. That guy was lucky. His kids had been born before he went to Chernobyl. You won't believe how many stories I've heard when people just wanted to die without pain and suffering.
Finally, here is a surprise for you. Chernobyl is not the only empty city. In fact, if you want to see more of them, you should travel to southern Belarus. See, due to the winds and the rain that happened right after the disaster, most of the radiation that escaped in Chernobyl ended up miles away in the neighboring state. In fact, Belarus recieved more damage than the Ukraine due to the wind pattern for that day. Most of the winds blew from the Ukraine straight into my motherland and the damage was done. I was lucky. Although I was in the rain that day, most of the radiation passed around my town. However, many towns received a solid amount of radiated water but the government did not do anything until it was late. As I said above, the government did everything it could to cover up the problem.
We were told to burn our clothing and take a shower. That is it. That was the f*cking Soviet solution to the problem. Months later dozens of small towns were evacuated. People left leaving everything behind in hopes that they would return. Return my ass. The only people who returned were either looters or bums who scored nice houses where they could live. Years later, after the Soviet regime had collapsed, some reporters were providing us with information places that were emptied out. Most of these places are still there. They are a real time machine. If you go there, you'll see pretty much everything as it was in late 80's. Pictures of those places are distrubing, but not as bad as pictures of kids with cancer or disabilities due to the Chernobyl disaster. As for me, I am afraid of having a child myself. Who knows what got inside of me during that f*cking rain... All I know is that some of my friends started to develop problems already.
Hereis an intersting article about a car that was designed by women for women. This car has some tools that can assist women in their daily driving routines. For example, this car has a bumper all around it for "creative driving" and it has a system that assists you with parallel parking.
This is really scary... Should people who can't parallel park be allowed to drive at all? It is quite interesting that some people blame sport cars for agressive driving potential, yet an "all-around bumper" designed for "creative driving" ( I am quoting the article ) is okay...
I like cars that are fun to drive and personally, I would never buy a Volvo, especially that model, because of the whole "soccer-mom" image associated with those vehicles.
Why would HP deal with Napster? Song distribution does not bring any money. In fact, Apple claimed (in an old article on TheRegister.co.uk; sorry for no URL) that their iTunes online store did not bring any profit. The money that they recieved for the service was just enough to cover their legal expenses. Apple has created the store so they could sell iPods and provide an efficient way of music distribution. By giving people a player and a source for music, Apple said, "Here is our player that you can buy for a lot of money, and here is a source where you can get the tunes. It is stable and everything works together!" And this is why the whole scheme worked out perfectly fine. Within several weeks Apple has distributed a substantial amount of songs, and guess who bought them?
It is a perfect match for HP because they can profit from HP branded iPods and an existing (and stable) online distributor. For anybody in business it is a no brainer. What about Napster? Well, Napster was good when it counted. However, not is it completely useless, there are too many fish in the sea.
The fact is that their wireless unit has been the least profitable unit they ever had. With ever shrinking profit margins, they had to compete with companies like Verizon that offered better coverages for almost the same price. The company faced numerous layoffs and began to restructure itself in order to fit the market, however it was too late.
As of today, AT&T's best option was selling the unit, taking the money and covering the deficit that WS has generated over the years.
Re:Upgrading Chips != More Cheap Horsepower.
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You are absolutely right. However, people who do mod their cars expect that. I have a friend who would rather drive a 550HP Supra rather than a fuel efficient car.
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Heh, that is my hope as well. I have been saving for some time now, once the price drops to $25K, Hondas in the area beware.
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Good point, but you have to remember that you drive a car that has a good 'modding' potential. On n/a Camaros and Corvettes chips can do wonders just with improved airflow.
I know quite a few guys who went with all-engine modifications for their muscle cars. Then they added a chip and everything worked out beautifuly. Also, not to offend you, but American engines seem to be undertuned for some reason. I haven't met a tuner with a Mustang or a Camaro who was not able to get good gaines just with improved airflow and some engine work. However, in my case I am saving $ for a Cobra. Forced induction is the way to go:)
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Sorry for a confusion, but I guess you do not understand sarcasm. I expected Honda fans to reply and say how their Hondas are so fast with just a chip and a coffee-can exhaust. Well, I have been in several cars like that, not mine ( I never had extra money that I could throw away) and they sucked big time.
Satisfied? Now go back to trolling.
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For those of you who are surprised, let me tell you have people have been tweaking chips for a good number of years. You can get aftermarket chips for pretty much any sports (and not so sports) car. However, the biggest gains are achieved only when you combine an upgraded chip with a number of performance parts such as headers, exhausts, turboes and superchargers. If you do not understand how cars work and have not done any performance tuning, you might be better off by going back to hacking your Linux box.
First of all, there are no cheap power gains. Just replacing a chip will not turn your grocery-getter into a Porsche. Secondly, if you do get enough extra ponies, you will have to upgrade your suspension and brakes; otherwise, I will see you in a telephone pole around the corner. Finally, not every engine can hanle a lot of horsepower, that is, even if you do upgrade everything but leave the block in a stock condition, you will have a greater chance of blowing it.
Normally, you would install any performance parts that you have and then tune the chip so it is optimized for your configuration. Is the chip worth the money by itself? Unless your car has forced induction it is; otherwise, it is a waste. Normally, you have to do a combination of things in order to get a significant increase in power. For example, Stage 1 upgrades include getting a new ECU and increasing pressure in your turbos, Stage 2 would require an additional part, usually an exhaust. Stage 3 may require changing your turbos or getting some upgrades for them; by the time you get to this point, you will notice the impact on your wallet. This varies from car to car, my knowledge is based on what I know about Nissan 300ZX and Subaru WRX.
If you do not have turbos or a blower, there is nothing much your chip can do, but void the warranty.
Also, when you get the stats, make sure that you understand them correctly. Ten extra horses to the flywheel are not equal to the ten extra horses to the wheels. If you are still nutty about all this, take a look what you can do to Subaru WRX, Audi (turboed models) and Corvettes. The latter do not have forced induction but are proven to be very nice when it comes to updated ECUs along with some performance parts.
P.S.: Yeah, if you feel like replying back to me and telling that your Honda does wonders with upgraded chips and how it can beat anything on the road. Do not bother, please. I have been there and done that.
Although this accidnet has happened in the United States, it gave me some food for thought. What if you expose companies that oursource personal data to foreign companies? Will people be motivated enough to stop doing business with firms that move private information across the world?
I think that it might work. See, despite everything that you have learned in high school, the world is a cruel place. Americans do not trust Russians and Russians do not trust Americans (take my world for it, I lived in both of the countries long enough to find that one out). What will happen if somebody tells people that their credit card numbers and bank accounts go to India, Russia, and China? Will Americans, who are still trying to forget racial inequality of the past, let _insert_your_racial_slur_here_ manage personal data of American citizens? I think not.
Mark my words, it will take only one person to sell personal information on the black market and Americans will look at outsourcing and offshoring through a different pair of glasses. You know that something has gone terribly wrong if you get a credit card statement stating that you have spend $10,000 in Bombay if you haven't traveled outside the U.S. in years.
From a social engineering point of view, selling penis enlargement pills can bring a very limited amount of loss. Just imagine, you are a guy who is concerned about his manhood. You buy tons of expensive pills to find out that none of them work. Would you advertise it to the rest of the world? Would you have enough balls to tell a sweet young lady on the other side of the phone that your penis is still small despite that four hundred dollars that you have spent in the past six months? Probably not.
Additionally, you cannot argue when it comes to shady products such as penis enlargement and dieting pills. Usually when you get those items, you get many disclosures that state "Not approved by FDA" and "results may vary." How are you going to argue against that? If you do not believe me, go to any GNC store and get a bottle of any *magic* pills that promise to turn you into a pro-bodybuilder with an eleven-inch manhood. Then read what it says on the bottle... then, if you dare, go and use it. Then go and complain about your results if you find them to be unsatisfactory. At best, everybody is going to laugh at you.
I am glad that my education is paying off. Although I got only twenty-six thousand dollars on start, I am happy to work for this kind of money because as long as I can beat all other IT wannabies, I have broad horizons in front of me.
Many of my friends made fun of me for going to college and obtaining a degree in Computer Science. They said that everybody could do without any significant education. Of course they did not need any math or advanced computer science courses! However, whenever we start talking about loop unrolling, compiler optimization, thread programming and state machines, they can't make any reasonable comments. I almost died from laughing when a friend of mine, a Software Engineer with four years of experience, asked me what threads were.
People like these keep my hope up.
I have heard this story many times and mostly from people who never went to college. Although you seem to have good points, you forget that four-year colleges are designed to expand your knowledge and not to give you a set of skills that you will use for the rest of your life. People who choose to continue their education after high school usually do it in order to broaden their horizons and learn what they really want to do in life. A Bachelor's degree is tailored to provide you with academic knowledge that you might use in your field. It is up to you whether you want to do it or not. If you want to get into research, you can always go for an advanced degree.
Also, that stuff that you have said about teachers is complete bullshit. I don't know where you went to school, but my professors had many years of professional experience besides their PhDs. None of them were foreign exchange students and most of them were old enought to be my parents. We had only one dude from China who could barely speak English, but he was a brilliant guy who would rip himself a second asshole in order to help his students out.
Let me give you an advice: if you want to learn something, read that "Yet Another Language in 21 Days" book or attend a vocational school.
I did not say that my statement was an argument. My statement is a slogan and it is up to people to like it or not; it is like Kerry's "Bring it on!" It is nothing but a sentence that calls for a discussion.
Actually, I agree with you on everything that you have mentioned, even when you said that gun owners sat and did nothing. There are other powerful things that are still in the Constitution and it is up to people to defend then. How they do that is up to them.
I do not understand Intel nor other companies that do not try to develop anything besides x86. Let's face it, the architecture is flawed at its root. There are several issues that have been there from its very beginning(that is a topic for another forum) and instead of coming up with something new, Intel tries to patch its products with more crap.
When Apple realized that MOS Technolgies' clone of 6800 was not the best solution, the architecture was replaced with a new one that better suited Apple's goals. Why can't Intel retire x86 and move up to something new. If you think about, they can make a good chunck of money by coming up with a processor that can put AMD and Apple next to nothing. If they want to compete with this CPU, they better have good branch prediction.
1. Unlike most of the Linux distros, you can upgrade the system from the source. You can get the latest source code via CVS and completely update the whole system to the latest version or use it in order to fix bug fixes. It works really well if you want to stay updated on crucial bugs.
2. Unlike most of the Linux distros, it has a good software management system, ports. You can update them via CVS as a part of your cron job, thus you can get the latest version of software anytime you want to install something.
3. Kernel configuration does not involve clicking on tons of buttons. Also, the default kernel configuration does not come with tons of stuff enabled. When I create a custom kernel, I have to add certain lines for my personal configuration and hardly disable anything beyond simple stuff.
4. So far, I have used Mandrake, RedHat, Slackware, Debian and FreeBSD. From my experience FreeBSD was the easiest system to install and manage for server/production environment. I do not care about a nice looking penguin or games, I want my computer to do work. If I wanted to play, I'd use Windows.
I am curious about the cost of this project. Really, if we want to put a man on Mars and a space station on the Moon, the money has to come from somewhere. Something tells me that a U.S. taxpayer will have to pay for it and it is not going to be pretty.
Let's see, American middle class is getting pinched by unemployment, off-shoring of labor and expensive wars in the Middle East while G.W. swipes yet another credit card through our asses. Nice! I got a better project for you, G.W. How about free higher education for every citizen and permanent resident? Can our wallet handle that for starters? Let's talk about space exploration after kids can afford going to school for engineering degrees.
I can only imagine what pay stubs are going to look like in the future. Something tells me that we are going to have a "Space Exploration" tax in the future, along with that 50% Social Security tax that has yet to come when all the damn baby-boomers retire.
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I moved to the U.S. at the age of fifteen and now, almost ten years later, I cannot imagine living elsewhere. You might think that I have become a spoiled young brat with a nice BMW in his garage because I say these things, and you're wrong. I am just an average American dude who works as a sys. admin and pays his taxes. Why would I maintain my average status in the United States if I could get a better life in India? Here are my reasons.
The beauty of the United States is its lack of a mainstream culture, an official religion and strong traditions. That is enough to keep me in this county because I can be whatever I want to be and theoretically I am protected under the Constitution.
I can choose my religion and whether I want to celebrate certain holidays. I am going to marry a girl of my choice and nobody will stop me from doing it. When I have kids, my daughter and my son will have equal opportunities and when they grow up, they will be allowed to date and live with their partners (regrdless of their partner's gender) before they get married. That is the beauty of the United States and this is priceless. I have visited many countries and I have met a lot of people; my experiences suggest that although the United States is not the perfect country, it is a good place to live and would like to stick with it.
Please do not get me wrong: I am not trying to put India down. I am sure that it is a great country that has a log of great people. However, if I had to choose between Boston and Bombay, I would stick with the former simply because my views are closer to Western culture and because I value personal freedoms that exist in the United States.
Wow! I am a geek, yet I do not remember not having social skills. I've always been a life of any party. In high school I used to throw social event any time my parents were out and in college my first year was totally out of control. Weed, alcohol, girls, wild house parties, you name it. And not without computers and good grades where it counted. Just because I started writing programs at the age of thirteen does not mean that I am a social outcast. In fact, I know quite a few geeks who happen to be well-groomed individuals with good tastes in clothings and normal social manners. They go out for "happy hours," dress in matching colors and can talk to women about things other than computers and science. Is that normal? I do not know, maybe it is not and maybe it is.
Also, I know people who can't be discribed as "geeks" and who happen to be poorly dress individuals with zero social skills. If you want to start somewhere, please stop generalizing. Thank you.
P.S.: No, I won't help you to fix that kid. Trust me, he's fine right where he is.
Credit history can tell something about the person. People with perfect or normal credit histories are nothing to worry about. The question comes when you deal with a person with a poor credit history. If that person can't manage his/her own money, would you trust him with your company's finances?
Thank you.
My uncle was a member of one of the first rescue teams that were sent to Chernobyl after the disaster. This might be slightly off topic, but if you think that the pictures of the empty city are disturbing, take a look at people who were there after the tragic event.
I hate a lot of things about my former country, the Soviet Union, and its leaders. One of the things that I hated the most was the fact that people were never told the truth. In May of 1986 my uncle was told that he had to go to Chernobyl to help patch things up. Since he was a memeber of an elite task team that was a part of chemical forces, a special unit within the Soviet Army, he had no other options. He went there in May and he spent some quality time there. His major task was to drive tons of cement to a helicopter that would drop it off on the damaged reactor.
The not-so-funny thing was that nobody who was in my uncle's shoes knew what was going on there. The superior officers, had to tweak radiation meters down so nobody could find out the real level of radiation. People did not have proper protection, tools to work with; moreover, the Soviet leaders did try to play things down a notch. Afterall, how could a superpower have a major disaster?
Out of all of my uncle's rescue team, only a dozen or so people are alive now. All of them are disabled. My uncle has problems with his eyes and due to this fact he had to quit his job: he was a professional photographer. The Ukranian government pays him a small pension, not enough to buy food for a week. His immune system got reduced down to 60% of what he used to have. Still, he's better than his son. My cousin's system is 40% of the normal level. I remember reading a newspaper about a woman who had to buy a bottle of vodka every day. She did it because her husband could not surive through pain without it. Just as my uncle, he was in Chernobyl trying to fix the Soviet problem without exposing it to the rest of the world. That guy was lucky. His kids had been born before he went to Chernobyl. You won't believe how many stories I've heard when people just wanted to die without pain and suffering.
Finally, here is a surprise for you. Chernobyl is not the only empty city. In fact, if you want to see more of them, you should travel to southern Belarus. See, due to the winds and the rain that happened right after the disaster, most of the radiation that escaped in Chernobyl ended up miles away in the neighboring state. In fact, Belarus recieved more damage than the Ukraine due to the wind pattern for that day. Most of the winds blew from the Ukraine straight into my motherland and the damage was done. I was lucky. Although I was in the rain that day, most of the radiation passed around my town. However, many towns received a solid amount of radiated water but the government did not do anything until it was late. As I said above, the government did everything it could to cover up the problem.
We were told to burn our clothing and take a shower. That is it. That was the f*cking Soviet solution to the problem. Months later dozens of small towns were evacuated. People left leaving everything behind in hopes that they would return. Return my ass. The only people who returned were either looters or bums who scored nice houses where they could live. Years later, after the Soviet regime had collapsed, some reporters were providing us with information places that were emptied out. Most of these places are still there. They are a real time machine. If you go there, you'll see pretty much everything as it was in late 80's. Pictures of those places are distrubing, but not as bad as pictures of kids with cancer or disabilities due to the Chernobyl disaster. As for me, I am afraid of having a child myself. Who knows what got inside of me during that f*cking rain... All I know is that some of my friends started to develop problems already.
Have a nice day.
I bet you $20 it does not :)
Hereis an intersting article about a car that was designed by women for women. This car has some tools that can assist women in their daily driving routines. For example, this car has a bumper all around it for "creative driving" and it has a system that assists you with parallel parking.
This is really scary... Should people who can't parallel park be allowed to drive at all? It is quite interesting that some people blame sport cars for agressive driving potential, yet an "all-around bumper" designed for "creative driving" ( I am quoting the article ) is okay...
I like cars that are fun to drive and personally, I would never buy a Volvo, especially that model, because of the whole "soccer-mom" image associated with those vehicles.
He is in the race. He is not pursuing the position actively. It means that his name is on the ballots and if people like him, they will vote for him.
Why would HP deal with Napster? Song distribution does not bring any money. In fact, Apple claimed (in an old article on TheRegister.co.uk; sorry for no URL) that their iTunes online store did not bring any profit. The money that they recieved for the service was just enough to cover their legal expenses. Apple has created the store so they could sell iPods and provide an efficient way of music distribution. By giving people a player and a source for music, Apple said, "Here is our player that you can buy for a lot of money, and here is a source where you can get the tunes. It is stable and everything works together!" And this is why the whole scheme worked out perfectly fine. Within several weeks Apple has distributed a substantial amount of songs, and guess who bought them? It is a perfect match for HP because they can profit from HP branded iPods and an existing (and stable) online distributor. For anybody in business it is a no brainer. What about Napster? Well, Napster was good when it counted. However, not is it completely useless, there are too many fish in the sea.
The fact is that their wireless unit has been the least profitable unit they ever had. With ever shrinking profit margins, they had to compete with companies like Verizon that offered better coverages for almost the same price. The company faced numerous layoffs and began to restructure itself in order to fit the market, however it was too late.
As of today, AT&T's best option was selling the unit, taking the money and covering the deficit that WS has generated over the years.
You are absolutely right. However, people who do mod their cars expect that. I have a friend who would rather drive a 550HP Supra rather than a fuel efficient car.
Heh, that is my hope as well. I have been saving for some time now, once the price drops to $25K, Hondas in the area beware.
Good point, but you have to remember that you drive a car that has a good 'modding' potential. On n/a Camaros and Corvettes chips can do wonders just with improved airflow.
I know quite a few guys who went with all-engine modifications for their muscle cars. Then they added a chip and everything worked out beautifuly. Also, not to offend you, but American engines seem to be undertuned for some reason. I haven't met a tuner with a Mustang or a Camaro who was not able to get good gaines just with improved airflow and some engine work. However, in my case I am saving $ for a Cobra. Forced induction is the way to go :)
Sorry for a confusion, but I guess you do not understand sarcasm. I expected Honda fans to reply and say how their Hondas are so fast with just a chip and a coffee-can exhaust. Well, I have been in several cars like that, not mine ( I never had extra money that I could throw away) and they sucked big time.
Satisfied? Now go back to trolling.
For those of you who are surprised, let me tell you have people have been tweaking chips for a good number of years. You can get aftermarket chips for pretty much any sports (and not so sports) car. However, the biggest gains are achieved only when you combine an upgraded chip with a number of performance parts such as headers, exhausts, turboes and superchargers. If you do not understand how cars work and have not done any performance tuning, you might be better off by going back to hacking your Linux box.
First of all, there are no cheap power gains. Just replacing a chip will not turn your grocery-getter into a Porsche. Secondly, if you do get enough extra ponies, you will have to upgrade your suspension and brakes; otherwise, I will see you in a telephone pole around the corner. Finally, not every engine can hanle a lot of horsepower, that is, even if you do upgrade everything but leave the block in a stock condition, you will have a greater chance of blowing it.
Normally, you would install any performance parts that you have and then tune the chip so it is optimized for your configuration. Is the chip worth the money by itself? Unless your car has forced induction it is; otherwise, it is a waste. Normally, you have to do a combination of things in order to get a significant increase in power. For example, Stage 1 upgrades include getting a new ECU and increasing pressure in your turbos, Stage 2 would require an additional part, usually an exhaust. Stage 3 may require changing your turbos or getting some upgrades for them; by the time you get to this point, you will notice the impact on your wallet. This varies from car to car, my knowledge is based on what I know about Nissan 300ZX and Subaru WRX.
If you do not have turbos or a blower, there is nothing much your chip can do, but void the warranty.
Also, when you get the stats, make sure that you understand them correctly. Ten extra horses to the flywheel are not equal to the ten extra horses to the wheels. If you are still nutty about all this, take a look what you can do to Subaru WRX, Audi (turboed models) and Corvettes. The latter do not have forced induction but are proven to be very nice when it comes to updated ECUs along with some performance parts. P.S.: Yeah, if you feel like replying back to me and telling that your Honda does wonders with upgraded chips and how it can beat anything on the road. Do not bother, please. I have been there and done that.
Literally.
Although this accidnet has happened in the United States, it gave me some food for thought. What if you expose companies that oursource personal data to foreign companies? Will people be motivated enough to stop doing business with firms that move private information across the world?
I think that it might work. See, despite everything that you have learned in high school, the world is a cruel place. Americans do not trust Russians and Russians do not trust Americans (take my world for it, I lived in both of the countries long enough to find that one out). What will happen if somebody tells people that their credit card numbers and bank accounts go to India, Russia, and China? Will Americans, who are still trying to forget racial inequality of the past, let _insert_your_racial_slur_here_ manage personal data of American citizens? I think not.
Mark my words, it will take only one person to sell personal information on the black market and Americans will look at outsourcing and offshoring through a different pair of glasses. You know that something has gone terribly wrong if you get a credit card statement stating that you have spend $10,000 in Bombay if you haven't traveled outside the U.S. in years.
From a social engineering point of view, selling penis enlargement pills can bring a very limited amount of loss. Just imagine, you are a guy who is concerned about his manhood. You buy tons of expensive pills to find out that none of them work. Would you advertise it to the rest of the world? Would you have enough balls to tell a sweet young lady on the other side of the phone that your penis is still small despite that four hundred dollars that you have spent in the past six months? Probably not.
Additionally, you cannot argue when it comes to shady products such as penis enlargement and dieting pills. Usually when you get those items, you get many disclosures that state "Not approved by FDA" and "results may vary." How are you going to argue against that? If you do not believe me, go to any GNC store and get a bottle of any *magic* pills that promise to turn you into a pro-bodybuilder with an eleven-inch manhood. Then read what it says on the bottle... then, if you dare, go and use it. Then go and complain about your results if you find them to be unsatisfactory. At best, everybody is going to laugh at you.
I am glad that my education is paying off. Although I got only twenty-six thousand dollars on start, I am happy to work for this kind of money because as long as I can beat all other IT wannabies, I have broad horizons in front of me.
Many of my friends made fun of me for going to college and obtaining a degree in Computer Science. They said that everybody could do without any significant education. Of course they did not need any math or advanced computer science courses! However, whenever we start talking about loop unrolling, compiler optimization, thread programming and state machines, they can't make any reasonable comments. I almost died from laughing when a friend of mine, a Software Engineer with four years of experience, asked me what threads were. People like these keep my hope up.
I have heard this story many times and mostly from people who never went to college. Although you seem to have good points, you forget that four-year colleges are designed to expand your knowledge and not to give you a set of skills that you will use for the rest of your life. People who choose to continue their education after high school usually do it in order to broaden their horizons and learn what they really want to do in life. A Bachelor's degree is tailored to provide you with academic knowledge that you might use in your field. It is up to you whether you want to do it or not. If you want to get into research, you can always go for an advanced degree.
Also, that stuff that you have said about teachers is complete bullshit. I don't know where you went to school, but my professors had many years of professional experience besides their PhDs. None of them were foreign exchange students and most of them were old enought to be my parents. We had only one dude from China who could barely speak English, but he was a brilliant guy who would rip himself a second asshole in order to help his students out.
Let me give you an advice: if you want to learn something, read that "Yet Another Language in 21 Days" book or attend a vocational school.
I did not say that my statement was an argument. My statement is a slogan and it is up to people to like it or not; it is like Kerry's "Bring it on!" It is nothing but a sentence that calls for a discussion.
Actually, I agree with you on everything that you have mentioned, even when you said that gun owners sat and did nothing. There are other powerful things that are still in the Constitution and it is up to people to defend then. How they do that is up to them.
we will always have the rest of the Constitution.
I do not understand Intel nor other companies that do not try to develop anything besides x86. Let's face it, the architecture is flawed at its root. There are several issues that have been there from its very beginning(that is a topic for another forum) and instead of coming up with something new, Intel tries to patch its products with more crap.
When Apple realized that MOS Technolgies' clone of 6800 was not the best solution, the architecture was replaced with a new one that better suited Apple's goals. Why can't Intel retire x86 and move up to something new. If you think about, they can make a good chunck of money by coming up with a processor that can put AMD and Apple next to nothing. If they want to compete with this CPU, they better have good branch prediction.
1. Unlike most of the Linux distros, you can upgrade the system from the source. You can get the latest source code via CVS and completely update the whole system to the latest version or use it in order to fix bug fixes. It works really well if you want to stay updated on crucial bugs.
2. Unlike most of the Linux distros, it has a good software management system, ports. You can update them via CVS as a part of your cron job, thus you can get the latest version of software anytime you want to install something.
3. Kernel configuration does not involve clicking on tons of buttons. Also, the default kernel configuration does not come with tons of stuff enabled. When I create a custom kernel, I have to add certain lines for my personal configuration and hardly disable anything beyond simple stuff.
4. So far, I have used Mandrake, RedHat, Slackware, Debian and FreeBSD. From my experience FreeBSD was the easiest system to install and manage for server/production environment. I do not care about a nice looking penguin or games, I want my computer to do work. If I wanted to play, I'd use Windows.
I am curious about the cost of this project. Really, if we want to put a man on Mars and a space station on the Moon, the money has to come from somewhere. Something tells me that a U.S. taxpayer will have to pay for it and it is not going to be pretty.
Let's see, American middle class is getting pinched by unemployment, off-shoring of labor and expensive wars in the Middle East while G.W. swipes yet another credit card through our asses. Nice! I got a better project for you, G.W. How about free higher education for every citizen and permanent resident? Can our wallet handle that for starters? Let's talk about space exploration after kids can afford going to school for engineering degrees.
I can only imagine what pay stubs are going to look like in the future. Something tells me that we are going to have a "Space Exploration" tax in the future, along with that 50% Social Security tax that has yet to come when all the damn baby-boomers retire.