I work in industry, so what I'm about to say applies to industry, and may only be allegorical in medicine.
One of the axioms we have for preventative maintenance is whenever you touch a piece of equipment, there's a risk of causing a failure that wouldn't have otherwise happened. Modern maintenance programs will often determine that you'll achieve better reliability on a piece of equipment by leaving it alone and letting it run.
On the other side of things, there's a cost/benefit. For the possibility of causing harm through unnecessary preventative maintenance, you may avoid an illness that for most people won't be anywhere near fatal. It's a flu. We've had a flu every single year for millennia. Even if you get it, you're looking at two weeks untreated, or fourteen days treated.
So you're causing a risk just by doing something, there's a low chance you'll get anything, and if you do get something, it'll likely be comparable to the seasonal flu. Calling the choice not to waste your time "insane" is utterly lacking in any sense of scale.
The term is relatively meaningless, though, because the term "engineer" is unregulated. Anyone can call themselves an Engineer regardless of their lack of training or skill or experience -- Behold, the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, who took a 6 week course and wrote a test for their esteemed title.
Even basic human decency is for sale. Why would any nation bother fighting when bribing/lobbying is so much cheaper, and the system is so very corrupt?
I think in the United States, it's illegal for anyone but congress to create legal tender.
The purpose of creating a federal government was to standardize trade between the states, and the creation of a common form of currency was one of those standardizations. It's a power given to the congress directly by the constitution, rather than the later programs which are given by loopholes in section 8.
This seems like a lose-lose scenario for NVidia. Either they support other GPUs and risk getting smacked down with conspiracy theories or "lol nvidia is crap" when the famously shitty drivers from companies like S3 break PhysX, or they lock out competitors GPUs to maintain their reputation and get smacked down with conspiracy theories or "lol nvidia is crap".
But it does seem like win-win for nvidia in a sense if they take the first option. If PhysX takes off but ATI has a better gpu, then Nvidia still gets a sale from the hardcore crowd who want an accelerator. If Nvidia has the better gpu, then Nvidia gets the sale anyway.
It's a smart idea becoming an essential part to all PCs.
You have a different definition of violent than I do.
"Oh, I know what I'll do! I'll beat the tar out of him! NO! Better! I'll post an angry message to his facebook page! Why, he'll be so upset he'll start to cry! That's way better than beating the tar out of him!"
The guy with the 4x4 sounds like natural selection to me.
Let's put the pieces together.
1. Man with a mullet 2. and a 4x4 3. that was poorly maintained 4. but altered for 'better off-road performance' 5. and of his seven kids 6. who were all in the vehicle at the time
four died.
I don't care if this guy was from Lincolnshire, that guy's a redneck through and through.
That could be turned around real quick. "Son, you better settle down, or I'll belt you and you'll get taken away by the government and you'll never get to see me or anyone else in your family again!"
I agree, from a policy point of view. I don't think it's right that copyrights for works by long dead artists are still in effect. On the other hand, it IS their right under the law, and I'd rather hate on the copyright industry for lobbying for the laws and the congress for passing them than hating on the estate for simply following the law to their benefit.
I don't think we should move to iconographic languages until you learn to read and comprhend this one.
I did not refute some imaginary point you'd made about Japanese or Chinese. Behold: "To give you an idea of where things are headed, consider this"; this sentence fragment establishes the context of why I'm talking about movement between different written language systems.
My point was that existing iconographic languages are actually moving towards phoenetics because of the impracticalities of iconographic languages.
So maybe you should forget research for now, forget about creating a new alphabet, and work on just reading the posts you're replying to.
A little research would help put things into perspective.
The Latin/Roman alphabet actually descended from Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Over time, the symbols came to represent words.
Phonetic written languages are incredibly powerful because of their amazing flexibility. To be literate in Japanese, you need to learn 2000 characters. To be literate in Chinese, you need to learn 4000 characters. To be literate in English, you need to learn 26 characters and half a dozen punctuation marks.
To give you an idea of where things are headed, consider this: Japanese and Chinese alphabets now include symbols from the Roman alphabet as well as our punctuation marks. There has been some adoption of western alphabets in China because of the ease of writing compared to the logographic language. Besides douchebags with tatoos, is there any place that we've picked up parts of the Japanese or Chinese alphabets in our writing?
There was a story recently about Lord of the Rings, how the estate of J. R. R. Tolkien was to receive no royalties because of Hollywood accounting -- a movie that grossed 6 billion dollars worldwide had been put down on paper to show it hadn't turned a profit. Peter Jackson sued the studios as well, claiming their accounting methods understated revenues, and settled for an undisclosed sum.
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I work in industry, so what I'm about to say applies to industry, and may only be allegorical in medicine.
One of the axioms we have for preventative maintenance is whenever you touch a piece of equipment, there's a risk of causing a failure that wouldn't have otherwise happened. Modern maintenance programs will often determine that you'll achieve better reliability on a piece of equipment by leaving it alone and letting it run.
Some flu vaccinations can increase your H1N1 risk, so I'd argue this idea has merit.
On the other side of things, there's a cost/benefit. For the possibility of causing harm through unnecessary preventative maintenance, you may avoid an illness that for most people won't be anywhere near fatal. It's a flu. We've had a flu every single year for millennia. Even if you get it, you're looking at two weeks untreated, or fourteen days treated.
So you're causing a risk just by doing something, there's a low chance you'll get anything, and if you do get something, it'll likely be comparable to the seasonal flu. Calling the choice not to waste your time "insane" is utterly lacking in any sense of scale.
I really don't know why you're being modded down.
Vaccines for diseases with high mortality rates makes sense. Vaccines for the seasonal flu is fixing what ain't broke, which always introduces risk.
There is no food in the universe cheaper than no-name ramen.
If you can't pay off $25k within 10 years and you have a college education, then you're doing something wrong.
IT'S NOT MY FAULT!!!!! I MAJORED IN KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS!
You guys are so ignorant.
I love it. Keep it up.
The trades can't make any money! We're all doomed! White collar forever!
If it's only 4 years, I really don't see how a history degree could give you nearly the scope necessary to be more useful than continuous study.
If women are attracted to money and power, why wouldn't women be more attracted to the geeks with money and power?
If what you say is true, I think you should talk to the marketing departments for these places.
Nearly ever university and college on the planet sells itself on career promises.
The term is relatively meaningless, though, because the term "engineer" is unregulated. Anyone can call themselves an Engineer regardless of their lack of training or skill or experience -- Behold, the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, who took a 6 week course and wrote a test for their esteemed title.
I have seen the enemy and it is us.
Even basic human decency is for sale. Why would any nation bother fighting when bribing/lobbying is so much cheaper, and the system is so very corrupt?
I think in the United States, it's illegal for anyone but congress to create legal tender.
The purpose of creating a federal government was to standardize trade between the states, and the creation of a common form of currency was one of those standardizations. It's a power given to the congress directly by the constitution, rather than the later programs which are given by loopholes in section 8.
This seems like a lose-lose scenario for NVidia. Either they support other GPUs and risk getting smacked down with conspiracy theories or "lol nvidia is crap" when the famously shitty drivers from companies like S3 break PhysX, or they lock out competitors GPUs to maintain their reputation and get smacked down with conspiracy theories or "lol nvidia is crap".
But it does seem like win-win for nvidia in a sense if they take the first option. If PhysX takes off but ATI has a better gpu, then Nvidia still gets a sale from the hardcore crowd who want an accelerator. If Nvidia has the better gpu, then Nvidia gets the sale anyway.
It's a smart idea becoming an essential part to all PCs.
He WAS disbarred.
You have a different definition of violent than I do.
"Oh, I know what I'll do! I'll beat the tar out of him! NO! Better! I'll post an angry message to his facebook page! Why, he'll be so upset he'll start to cry! That's way better than beating the tar out of him!"
The guy with the 4x4 sounds like natural selection to me.
Let's put the pieces together.
1. Man with a mullet
2. and a 4x4
3. that was poorly maintained
4. but altered for 'better off-road performance'
5. and of his seven kids
6. who were all in the vehicle at the time
four died.
I don't care if this guy was from Lincolnshire, that guy's a redneck through and through.
That could be turned around real quick. "Son, you better settle down, or I'll belt you and you'll get taken away by the government and you'll never get to see me or anyone else in your family again!"
Sounds like an extreme sport more dangerous than base jumping and bungee jumping combined.
"lol doin 120 now im dead kthxbai"
Keep your eyes
On the road
Or you'll die
and you'll be dead
Burma-Shave
What makes you think any of that is unique to satnav?
Obama seeks this universe's ultimate cup of coffee! Black!!
Don't worry, we don't hate you for that. We're not ALL bourgeois Sartre reading bohemians. ta ha ha, I say!
(note: Previous sentence may or may not make sense. Too lazy to look up various B-words)
I agree, from a policy point of view. I don't think it's right that copyrights for works by long dead artists are still in effect. On the other hand, it IS their right under the law, and I'd rather hate on the copyright industry for lobbying for the laws and the congress for passing them than hating on the estate for simply following the law to their benefit.
I don't think we should move to iconographic languages until you learn to read and comprhend this one.
I did not refute some imaginary point you'd made about Japanese or Chinese. Behold: "To give you an idea of where things are headed, consider this"; this sentence fragment establishes the context of why I'm talking about movement between different written language systems.
My point was that existing iconographic languages are actually moving towards phoenetics because of the impracticalities of iconographic languages.
So maybe you should forget research for now, forget about creating a new alphabet, and work on just reading the posts you're replying to.
A little research would help put things into perspective.
The Latin/Roman alphabet actually descended from Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Over time, the symbols came to represent words.
Phonetic written languages are incredibly powerful because of their amazing flexibility. To be literate in Japanese, you need to learn 2000 characters. To be literate in Chinese, you need to learn 4000 characters. To be literate in English, you need to learn 26 characters and half a dozen punctuation marks.
To give you an idea of where things are headed, consider this: Japanese and Chinese alphabets now include symbols from the Roman alphabet as well as our punctuation marks. There has been some adoption of western alphabets in China because of the ease of writing compared to the logographic language. Besides douchebags with tatoos, is there any place that we've picked up parts of the Japanese or Chinese alphabets in our writing?
There was a story recently about Lord of the Rings, how the estate of J. R. R. Tolkien was to receive no royalties because of Hollywood accounting -- a movie that grossed 6 billion dollars worldwide had been put down on paper to show it hadn't turned a profit. Peter Jackson sued the studios as well, claiming their accounting methods understated revenues, and settled for an undisclosed sum.