Yes, I suspect CIA-funded mafia hit men in league with south american sociealist revolutionaries and militant quilters. Or it could be smurfs. You never can trust lose little blue bastards.
Oh right, we forgot, it is the server admin's responsibility to provide you with a free online game server to play on. (maybe that is true for vendor servers, where you have actually paid something for the game and expect something in return, but not for a bunch of people who decide to shell out their own money to hosting company to have a server to let the public play on)
Which is the greater harm, banning your block, or ruining the whole game server? Faced with that choice, if I were an admin running a server that is FREE to the public, you bet I would ban your block (probably temporarily).
If you move frequently you can just save time and live out of your boxes...by the time you get all that shit unpacked and in its proper place it's time to move again.
I like the ones that tell me that it has been a few million years since I last posted and that I had better slow down cowboy.
But these days I am getting the "it's been 16 seconds since your last post" (when it has obviously been HOURS or even a day since my last post). I don't know what crack Slash is smoking.
This article at The New Republic argues that pharmaceutical companies are reaching for the low hanging fruit of rebranding drugs they already have created, rather than actually creating new drugs: Where Have All the New Meds Gone? Drug Abuse.
If the NIHCM report doesn't convince you, just turn on your television and note which drugs are being marketed most aggressively. Ads for Celebrex may imply that it will enable arthritics to jump rope, but the drug actually relieves pain no better than basic ibuprofen; its principal supposed benefit is causing fewer ulcers, but the FDA recently rejected even that claim. Clarinex is a differently packaged version of Claritin, which is of questionable efficacy in the first place and is sold over the counter abroad for vastly less. Promoted as though it must be some sort of elixir, the ubiquitous "purple pill," Nexium, is essentially AstraZeneca's old heartburn drug Prilosec with a minor chemical twist that allowed the company to extend its patent. (Perhaps not coincidentally researchers have found that purple is a particularly good pill color for inducing placebo effects.)
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A better explanation for the pharmaceutical slump is a shift in priorities toward marketing, particularly since the FDA first allowed companies to directly target consumers five years ago. According to data collected by Alan Sager, a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, the number of research and development (R&D) employees at companies making patented drugs declined slightly between 1995 and 2000, while the number of people working in marketing shot up 59 percent. "Drug companies trumpet the value of breakthrough research, but they seem to be devoting far fewer resources than their press releases suggest," says Sager.
Moreover, drug companies have learned that when they can't create a new drug to treat an existing illness, they can create a new illness to treat with existing drugs. GlaxoSmithKline's multimillion-dollar promotion of anxiety disorder as a pernicious national problem enabled the company to make billions more selling Paxil--a drug most experts believe is needed by only a small fraction of the people who take it. Unimed is busy pushing the idea that there's a national problem called male menopause--a problem that just happens to be treatable by a testosterone gel the company makes. The gel is currently FDA-approved for men with rare--and thus relatively unprofitable--problems such as underdeveloped testes. ...
The explosion has a couple of causes. One is simply growth in the field, but another is that companies have found they can significantly extend patents through various legal maneuvers--from agreeing to test on children (Congress passed this law to create incentives for companies to perform separate tests on kids) to filing new patent applications on old drugs about to lose their protection. By slightly tweaking Prilosec into Nexium, AstraZeneca got several years of additional protection for a hot-selling prescription drug. "Companies today have found that the return on investment for legal tactics is a lot higher than the return on investment for R&D," says Sharon Levine, the associate executive director of the HMO Kaiser Permanente. "Consumers today are paying an inordinate premium under the guise of the creating the stream of innovation in the future. But it's actually funding lawyers."
Even more important, the patent morass may be blocking new lines of research altogether. Every time a company wants to pursue research on a certain biological process, or even the individual genes involved, it has to find out who owns the patents and the price of a license, if one is even available. Last year Peter Ringrose, then the chief scientific officer at Bristol Myers Squibb, told The New York Times that there were "more than 50 proteins possibly involved in cancer that the company was not working on because the patent holders either would not allow it or were demanding unreasonable royalties." Rebecca Eisenberg, a law professor at the University of Michigan, has called this the "tragedy of the anti-commons," with companies and universities grabbing property that should remain in the public domain.
Ok, I have a stupid question. Why is GCC not optimizing out things like this? For instance, why does the size drop from 1340 to 372 by simply not using the stdlib? What exactly is it that is adding ~1000 bytes? Is that *ALL* unnecessary initialization overhead? Is it calling into a precompiled library object or is it just including the source for exit()? If it is just including the source for exit(), how can this end up larger than just manually including the instructions? The only thing I can think of is "unnecessary" initializations
A tip: I would suggest adding some sort of AI so that if a user does the same thing (and potentially fails) over and over again, then some sort of message or tip could be given to them. This could probably be made less obtrusive than Clippy. For example, if OO had just popped up a tooltip that said: "You have deleted an auto-completed date recognization several times - to turn this feature off go...blah blah". That would have saved a lot of frustration.
IMHO, OpenOffice still has a ways to go. It's not enough that all the functionality is present, it has to be present and accessible in an intuitive manner. I don't mind OpenOffice. I use it at home, and at work (where I've had a license for MS Office for like 4 years) mainly as a viewer, and sometimes as a creator. However, my girlfriend (an average- to power- user) does not like it. There are many little annoyances. Like, for instance, if tables, things that look like date are AUTOMATICALLY CONVERTED TO DATES, no matter what you do. Is the preference in auto-complete? No. You have to right click the cell and turn number recognition off. If you look in the prefs, you will find it is under the "Table" setting. Do you think users will automatically look at preferences for tables when a number is auto-completing? Apparently not in the case of my girlfriend. It took a few days to figure out what the fuck was going on (it would NOT happen outside a table). Those few days is plenty time for a user to get frustrated an throw OpenOffice in the trash bin and just reinstall MS Office. So while the functionality might be there, the hard problem is really usability (hell, most people don't even USE most of the MS Office functionality). Add to the that not-quite-right look and feel, and it give the impression to the average user that they are working with a low-quality piece of software. Until OO can stand on its merits, it will have to make sure to keep up with the latest MS look and feel (well, it should as a matter of principle). Complain about them all you want, but MS users (and Mac OS users) have come to expect a certain consistency in the UI.
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Yes, I suspect CIA-funded mafia hit men in league with south american sociealist revolutionaries and militant quilters. Or it could be smurfs. You never can trust lose little blue bastards.
You. Have. Thirty. One. Thousand. Three. Hundred. and Thirty. Seven. Messages. Last. Message. From. "HAXXOR" At. Two. AM. To. Hear. Message. Press. One.
Oh right, we forgot, it is the server admin's responsibility to provide you with a free online game server to play on. (maybe that is true for vendor servers, where you have actually paid something for the game and expect something in return, but not for a bunch of people who decide to shell out their own money to hosting company to have a server to let the public play on)
Which is the greater harm, banning your block, or ruining the whole game server? Faced with that choice, if I were an admin running a server that is FREE to the public, you bet I would ban your block (probably temporarily).
If you move frequently you can just save time and live out of your boxes...by the time you get all that shit unpacked and in its proper place it's time to move again.
Yet another strategy: acquire less shit.
I like the ones that tell me that it has been a few million years since I last posted and that I had better slow down cowboy.
But these days I am getting the "it's been 16 seconds since your last post" (when it has obviously been HOURS or even a day since my last post). I don't know what crack Slash is smoking.
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these?! /me ducks
"build a 100 Teraflop super computer employing AMD's Opteron (Hammer) processors"
In other news...scientists predict a 10 degree average temperature increase on the West coast this winter.
Yes, but then you lose the benefits of branch prediction...
"but is there really a huge loss in sustained synchonous data transfer?"
I'll answer that question, right after I look up the answer in memory...
No, * is for all acronyms. The second star is for fail-over/HA.
No, the Bible belt will spawn a proprietary email program called 'Creation'. Unfortunately the two mail clients will be unable to interoperate.
Ok, I have a stupid question. Why is GCC not optimizing out things like this? For instance, why does the size drop from 1340 to 372 by simply not using the stdlib? What exactly is it that is adding ~1000 bytes? Is that *ALL* unnecessary initialization overhead? Is it calling into a precompiled library object or is it just including the source for exit()? If it is just including the source for exit(), how can this end up larger than just manually including the instructions? The only thing I can think of is "unnecessary" initializations
What is stopping them from kindly taking the returned CDs and SENDING THEM BACK OUT? Are they destroying the CDs somehow?
It's a great tool called: "production"
heh
1) Drill Some Holes
2) Get Kicked Out
3) $$$!
"You might be better off buying colored Cat5e to match the color of the walls."
Or even this fabulous rumored substance called "paint".
What a coincidence...I just started reading Yevgeny Zamyatin's _We_. Is the name 'INTEGRAL' inspired by this novel?
After some number of iterations of gagging, somebody probably gets shot.
We do that a lot. We let our less "civilized" allies, who have no qualms with torture, handle our suspects. Why is this surprising?
A tip: I would suggest adding some sort of AI so that if a user does the same thing (and potentially fails) over and over again, then some sort of message or tip could be given to them. This could probably be made less obtrusive than Clippy. For example, if OO had just popped up a tooltip that said: "You have deleted an auto-completed date recognization several times - to turn this feature off go...blah blah". That would have saved a lot of frustration.
IMHO, OpenOffice still has a ways to go. It's not enough that all the functionality is present, it has to be present and accessible in an intuitive manner. I don't mind OpenOffice. I use it at home, and at work (where I've had a license for MS Office for like 4 years) mainly as a viewer, and sometimes as a creator. However, my girlfriend (an average- to power- user) does not like it. There are many little annoyances. Like, for instance, if tables, things that look like date are AUTOMATICALLY CONVERTED TO DATES, no matter what you do. Is the preference in auto-complete? No. You have to right click the cell and turn number recognition off. If you look in the prefs, you will find it is under the "Table" setting. Do you think users will automatically look at preferences for tables when a number is auto-completing? Apparently not in the case of my girlfriend. It took a few days to figure out what the fuck was going on (it would NOT happen outside a table). Those few days is plenty time for a user to get frustrated an throw OpenOffice in the trash bin and just reinstall MS Office. So while the functionality might be there, the hard problem is really usability (hell, most people don't even USE most of the MS Office functionality). Add to the that not-quite-right look and feel, and it give the impression to the average user that they are working with a low-quality piece of software. Until OO can stand on its merits, it will have to make sure to keep up with the latest MS look and feel (well, it should as a matter of principle). Complain about them all you want, but MS users (and Mac OS users) have come to expect a certain consistency in the UI.
Ahh Classic!
Yeah, leave it to slashdot to not get it and mark it a troll.
STOOOPAD! YOU SOO STOOOPAD!