While I think you have an excellent point, once can STILL claim that wars are more humane with preemptive striking with (some) degree of fairness. If the preemptive strike is well-reasoned, then in theory it ALSO saves lives.
Not that I know of any preemptive strikes that are well-reasoned, of course.
Hey man, I'm 22 and I've survived being born with two clubbed feet, run fully over by a large truck while on my bike, and cancer. No fucking heart attack is about to take me out while I have perfect cholesterol and the heart rate of an olympic athelete.
I definitely agree. I am the same way--if I'm bored I get lazy and sleep and feel like I haven't accomplished anything. But if I find a variety of interesting things which I can spend an hour each on per night (note the short attention span), I feel healthy and energetic, and I know how much I've accomplished. It never worked like this for me when I was in school because of the hours of studying that was necessary. But now while I can work on all different stuff, it's perfect.
Wow, this article is the first article I've ever read that confirms that people like me exist. Everyone always tells me I'm utterly insane because I work 70-90 hours a week banking and sleep 4-4.5 hours a night, and I love it. I've always been of the opinion that you take things as they come and deal with what you can. You also need to accept that you are responsible for most of what occurs in your life, both the successes and the failures, rather than shift responsibility anywhere else.
If at the end of the day you say "I did the best I could," then you're healthy and happy whether you accomplished anything or not. However, if at the end of the day you say "I was lazy," you'll probably be unhappy over the long term, regardless of whether you accomplished anything or not.
I cannot believe you just said equilibrium had a good plot. While I didn't dislike the movie, that is one of the most overdone plot devices in all of scifi. Pretty much not one bit of originality in there. Well put together, especially for the small budget, good acting, etc. But plot?
The organizational distribution of relevent data across the Internet is as about as unstructured a system as anyone out there could design. A random number generator would at least produce a predictable distribution for the mass of documents placed out there by millions of users. Getting this data into a form that is structured in such a way that it is relevant to knowledge seekers is very difficult, and Google is so successful largely because of its ability to do so.
"Structured" data (a term typically used to distinguish uniform data repositories from multi-user, non-uniform systems) are likewise not relevent to the average user without some degree of summarizing. You simply cannot just look at a million lines of user information and draw a meaningful conclusion from it. While traditional tools such as taking a mean average of a given variable are useful to a certain extent, the ability of any tool to draw more advanced conclusions has always been minimal. I have not personally evaluated this software, but if its claims of offering highly relevent data summaries of advanced insights are valid, then the comparison to Google may well be warranted.
No, you can physically make a backup of your beer if you can figure out how to brew more at a cost you can afford. Same with your drugs. The difference is that in those two cases buying more is cheaper, where with movies, music, etc., burning blanks is cheaper. You missed my point entirely, my man.
Like half the geeks I know, myself included, carry around both devices. They're all about utility, so the convergence makes sense. An ice cream maker shares virtually no commonalities of function or user with wifi.
You can make a backup of your prescription drugs (assuming your prescription covers the amount of your backup, it's perfectly legal to posses that new amount, though you might have trouble proving you weren't selling the rest).
You can even make a backup of your handgun, though you'd have to obtain a (government-issued, for-the-purpose-of-safety-not-protecting-dying-ind ustries) license to do so before you put the last piece on.
The only difference is that it's cheap for you to make a backup of your digital content, and Valenti seems to think that affects your rights with it.
Yeah, that's not really the argument to use. The fact is that once somebody has sold you a cognac glass, you can copy it as many times as you want (spending whatever requires spending in order to do so). You can hand copies to your friends. You can mod and H4X0R your cognac glass to make it run linux or splice it in with other cognac glasses or even champaigne glasses to create art. If the cognac glass has a trademarked design (say it's a plaid Burberry cognac glass) then you can't in any way pretend that you created that design or that you are affiliated with Burberry, which includes selling reproductions commercially. But it's YOUR cognac glass and if you're worried about breaking it, back it the fuck up, even if it has the McDonald's logo right on it, but never expect to interact with the company again regarding that glass. For some reason we treat DVDs differently, and I've yet to understand why.
I have backed up CDs when I've A) worn out one copy already or B) feel that I might wear it out through use. I've definitely backed up DVDs I value because I don't trust the medium and have had way too many small scratches render them unplayable in some devices. Moreover, as engadget points out, mothers with children are a perfect candidate for DVD-backing-up.
oh yeah, forgot to mention--big difference between Amish and menonites. Menonites dress pretty much the same, but use cars, wear nikes, etc. Amish are really pretty good about not doing that.
It's like a couple of weeks, actually. Not that they don't party other times, too, but it's really pretty tame. A couple of us visited a non-amish friend in Lancaster county and met some of them, hung out, and even got invited to a saturday-night cornfield party in the middle of nowhere. Nothing very exciting, really. Most of the teenagers we talked to were planning on spending their time at the beach.
Throughout history, if you have not had private healthcare, you have had nothing. Only in the last few decades has anyone guaranteed healthcare, and almost all of the systems which have are very poor at it, producing a significant number of users who would rather have it privatized.
In the US, if you want healthcare, you fucking work for it. This provides a great incentive to people in our country. As for your claim that increasingly few jobs come with healthcare coverage, do you even know what you're talking about? Granted, Wal-Mart sucks ass. However, even my friend who works part-time at starbucks has basic healthcare coverage after only a few months. Apart from anecdotal evidence, the number of US citizens currently without healthcare is roughly 15%. That stat is roughly the same from the eighties, but it's way, way better than estimates of the sixties (though exact census data apparently does not exist). More people than ever before in history have healthcare, and they have to work and contribute to society in order to get it.
Is it optimal? No! Not until we hit ST:TNG-levels will it be optimal. But it's better than ever and likely to improve as the cost of healthcare drops (it has risen for the past eight years due to increased acceptance of cosmetic and semi-necessary treatments, but that will taper off over time).
I wasn't talking about the soviet gov't at all. I was reflecting on his statement that criticizing the EPA for its idiocy after the attacks was somehow unpatriotic. I was merely pointing out that it was valid criticism, not that it was somehow comparable to chernobyl.
What the hell is wrong with you? He's absolutely right; I was up by columbia (116th) then and a few days after, and even there you could smell the dust. When we visited near the site it was absolutely lung-clogging. I was incredibly thankful that I didn't have to live or work there.
Yeah, I'm with you. Yes, it makes sense to plan a project, but the fact that they have to ask demonstrates that they are willing to do the bare minimum. The best products out there are frequently the ones where people have just said "I'm going to create a really great product, and people will eventually come around." Microsoft hasn't done that for years (since the original office, probably, though the XBOX may be another example).
1. I'm sorry, last I checked, MS was planning on paying out as much as $75 billion over the next four years between an increased quarterly dividend, a one-time ex-dividend, and progressive stock buybacks.
2. Microsoft is not the largest corporation in the country. The company's market value is $295b right now. This is behind General Electric's market cap of $342b. Moreover, its enterprise value is only $235b. General Electric's is $669b, Citigroup's is $644.95. These companies also have many times the revenue of microsoft. Enterprise value is calculated by subtracting out cash from and adding in long-term debt to a company's market capitalization. This removes the some of the financial aspects of that valuation and attempts to value the business itself. Clearly Microsoft is dwarfed in this respect by other companies. Again, they are NOT the largest company in the country.
3. Stock fraud is committed by brokers or other securities dealers when they encourage clients to purchase a stock against the client's best interest.
4. Microsoft until recently was paying a lower dividend because it expected better growth prospects and a better alternative use for its cash. This included acquisitions such as its discussions with SAP, and also internal growth efforts such as throwing money at the XBOX and other products (and they are now winning out in that product line). Once some major aspects of their growth efforts fell through, the company revised its efforts and deemed a payout in shareholders' best interests.
Like someone just below you said, Snow Crash is really considered to be his defining work. I once heard Microsoft's Linda Stone say on stage at a con something about how much Snow Crash had "affected us all" (I don't remember all the exact words), and half the audience (techies and many execs) went up in applause. While I think Cryptonomicon has a lot of good stuff, it's in pretty much no way a harbinger of things to come, and does not, like many defining works out there, guide technologists towards future creation like Snow Crash is capable of doing.
Yeah, I'm surprised more people haven't called you on that. Final Cut Pro is incredible and blows premier out of the water. Even though PPCs have been benchmarked as no longer as speedy in terms of rendering as x86 (intel/amd, at least), the mac is still holding its multimedia users because of programs like that.
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While I think you have an excellent point, once can STILL claim that wars are more humane with preemptive striking with (some) degree of fairness. If the preemptive strike is well-reasoned, then in theory it ALSO saves lives.
Not that I know of any preemptive strikes that are well-reasoned, of course.
That's why it's 'charged with' and not 'convicted of' or 'guilty of'
Hey man, I'm 22 and I've survived being born with two clubbed feet, run fully over by a large truck while on my bike, and cancer. No fucking heart attack is about to take me out while I have perfect cholesterol and the heart rate of an olympic athelete.
I was one of the commentors above, and no, emotional stuff does not get to me in the slightest (just to add a comment to yours).
I definitely agree. I am the same way--if I'm bored I get lazy and sleep and feel like I haven't accomplished anything. But if I find a variety of interesting things which I can spend an hour each on per night (note the short attention span), I feel healthy and energetic, and I know how much I've accomplished. It never worked like this for me when I was in school because of the hours of studying that was necessary. But now while I can work on all different stuff, it's perfect.
Wow, this article is the first article I've ever read that confirms that people like me exist. Everyone always tells me I'm utterly insane because I work 70-90 hours a week banking and sleep 4-4.5 hours a night, and I love it. I've always been of the opinion that you take things as they come and deal with what you can. You also need to accept that you are responsible for most of what occurs in your life, both the successes and the failures, rather than shift responsibility anywhere else.
If at the end of the day you say "I did the best I could," then you're healthy and happy whether you accomplished anything or not. However, if at the end of the day you say "I was lazy," you'll probably be unhappy over the long term, regardless of whether you accomplished anything or not.
I cannot believe you just said equilibrium had a good plot. While I didn't dislike the movie, that is one of the most overdone plot devices in all of scifi. Pretty much not one bit of originality in there. Well put together, especially for the small budget, good acting, etc. But plot?
The organizational distribution of relevent data across the Internet is as about as unstructured a system as anyone out there could design. A random number generator would at least produce a predictable distribution for the mass of documents placed out there by millions of users. Getting this data into a form that is structured in such a way that it is relevant to knowledge seekers is very difficult, and Google is so successful largely because of its ability to do so.
"Structured" data (a term typically used to distinguish uniform data repositories from multi-user, non-uniform systems) are likewise not relevent to the average user without some degree of summarizing. You simply cannot just look at a million lines of user information and draw a meaningful conclusion from it. While traditional tools such as taking a mean average of a given variable are useful to a certain extent, the ability of any tool to draw more advanced conclusions has always been minimal. I have not personally evaluated this software, but if its claims of offering highly relevent data summaries of advanced insights are valid, then the comparison to Google may well be warranted.
No, you can physically make a backup of your beer if you can figure out how to brew more at a cost you can afford. Same with your drugs. The difference is that in those two cases buying more is cheaper, where with movies, music, etc., burning blanks is cheaper. You missed my point entirely, my man.
I've never seen a knife with a crimper--do they exist??
Like half the geeks I know, myself included, carry around both devices. They're all about utility, so the convergence makes sense. An ice cream maker shares virtually no commonalities of function or user with wifi.
James Bond?? Try MacGyver!
You can make a backup of your computer.
d ustries) license to do so before you put the last piece on.
You can make a backup of your beer.
You can make a backup of your prescription drugs (assuming your prescription covers the amount of your backup, it's perfectly legal to posses that new amount, though you might have trouble proving you weren't selling the rest).
You can even make a backup of your handgun, though you'd have to obtain a (government-issued, for-the-purpose-of-safety-not-protecting-dying-in
The only difference is that it's cheap for you to make a backup of your digital content, and Valenti seems to think that affects your rights with it.
Yeah, that's not really the argument to use. The fact is that once somebody has sold you a cognac glass, you can copy it as many times as you want (spending whatever requires spending in order to do so). You can hand copies to your friends. You can mod and H4X0R your cognac glass to make it run linux or splice it in with other cognac glasses or even champaigne glasses to create art. If the cognac glass has a trademarked design (say it's a plaid Burberry cognac glass) then you can't in any way pretend that you created that design or that you are affiliated with Burberry, which includes selling reproductions commercially. But it's YOUR cognac glass and if you're worried about breaking it, back it the fuck up, even if it has the McDonald's logo right on it, but never expect to interact with the company again regarding that glass. For some reason we treat DVDs differently, and I've yet to understand why.
I have backed up CDs when I've A) worn out one copy already or B) feel that I might wear it out through use. I've definitely backed up DVDs I value because I don't trust the medium and have had way too many small scratches render them unplayable in some devices. Moreover, as engadget points out, mothers with children are a perfect candidate for DVD-backing-up.
It's anyone who disrupts business interests, isn't that obvious?
Oh wait, I'm a banker, I'm not supposed to say things like that...
oh yeah, forgot to mention--big difference between Amish and menonites. Menonites dress pretty much the same, but use cars, wear nikes, etc. Amish are really pretty good about not doing that.
It's like a couple of weeks, actually. Not that they don't party other times, too, but it's really pretty tame. A couple of us visited a non-amish friend in Lancaster county and met some of them, hung out, and even got invited to a saturday-night cornfield party in the middle of nowhere. Nothing very exciting, really. Most of the teenagers we talked to were planning on spending their time at the beach.
Throughout history, if you have not had private healthcare, you have had nothing. Only in the last few decades has anyone guaranteed healthcare, and almost all of the systems which have are very poor at it, producing a significant number of users who would rather have it privatized.
In the US, if you want healthcare, you fucking work for it. This provides a great incentive to people in our country. As for your claim that increasingly few jobs come with healthcare coverage, do you even know what you're talking about? Granted, Wal-Mart sucks ass. However, even my friend who works part-time at starbucks has basic healthcare coverage after only a few months. Apart from anecdotal evidence, the number of US citizens currently without healthcare is roughly 15%. That stat is roughly the same from the eighties, but it's way, way better than estimates of the sixties (though exact census data apparently does not exist). More people than ever before in history have healthcare, and they have to work and contribute to society in order to get it.
Is it optimal? No! Not until we hit ST:TNG-levels will it be optimal. But it's better than ever and likely to improve as the cost of healthcare drops (it has risen for the past eight years due to increased acceptance of cosmetic and semi-necessary treatments, but that will taper off over time).
I wasn't talking about the soviet gov't at all. I was reflecting on his statement that criticizing the EPA for its idiocy after the attacks was somehow unpatriotic. I was merely pointing out that it was valid criticism, not that it was somehow comparable to chernobyl.
What the hell is wrong with you? He's absolutely right; I was up by columbia (116th) then and a few days after, and even there you could smell the dust. When we visited near the site it was absolutely lung-clogging. I was incredibly thankful that I didn't have to live or work there.
Yeah, I'm with you. Yes, it makes sense to plan a project, but the fact that they have to ask demonstrates that they are willing to do the bare minimum. The best products out there are frequently the ones where people have just said "I'm going to create a really great product, and people will eventually come around." Microsoft hasn't done that for years (since the original office, probably, though the XBOX may be another example).
1. I'm sorry, last I checked, MS was planning on paying out as much as $75 billion over the next four years between an increased quarterly dividend, a one-time ex-dividend, and progressive stock buybacks.
2. Microsoft is not the largest corporation in the country. The company's market value is $295b right now. This is behind General Electric's market cap of $342b.
Moreover, its enterprise value is only $235b. General Electric's is $669b, Citigroup's is $644.95. These companies also have many times the revenue of microsoft. Enterprise value is calculated by subtracting out cash from and adding in long-term debt to a company's market capitalization. This removes the some of the financial aspects of that valuation and attempts to value the business itself. Clearly Microsoft is dwarfed in this respect by other companies. Again, they are NOT the largest company in the country.
3. Stock fraud is committed by brokers or other securities dealers when they encourage clients to purchase a stock against the client's best interest.
4. Microsoft until recently was paying a lower dividend because it expected better growth prospects and a better alternative use for its cash. This included acquisitions such as its discussions with SAP, and also internal growth efforts such as throwing money at the XBOX and other products (and they are now winning out in that product line). Once some major aspects of their growth efforts fell through, the company revised its efforts and deemed a payout in shareholders' best interests.
Check my sig for how I feel about your post.
Like someone just below you said, Snow Crash is really considered to be his defining work. I once heard Microsoft's Linda Stone say on stage at a con something about how much Snow Crash had "affected us all" (I don't remember all the exact words), and half the audience (techies and many execs) went up in applause. While I think Cryptonomicon has a lot of good stuff, it's in pretty much no way a harbinger of things to come, and does not, like many defining works out there, guide technologists towards future creation like Snow Crash is capable of doing.
Just my two cents.
Yeah, I'm surprised more people haven't called you on that. Final Cut Pro is incredible and blows premier out of the water. Even though PPCs have been benchmarked as no longer as speedy in terms of rendering as x86 (intel/amd, at least), the mac is still holding its multimedia users because of programs like that.