Left to their own devices, athletes didn't use EPO or other steroids to gain an edge. Athletes used HARD DRUGS and nightly blood transfusions to get ahead. And for a long time, it was just accepted. Everyone knew that athletes did these horrible things to themselves to win - it was the elephant in the room.
The push to stop doping was originally done NOT for "fairness" or because of concerns of cheating; cheating is what it became AFTER the push to stop it. Never forget that this push to stop doping started for their SAFETY; because many athletes, in their competitive fervor, were willing to do ANYTHING to win, and that wasn't right, safe, nor was it what was intended.
Look to the example of Tom Simpson who keeled over & died climbing Mont Ventoux during the 1967 Tour De France to know why we shouldn't let athletes do whatever they want. That guy doped himself up on 2 vials of amphetamines with a 3rd ready to be downed in his jersey pocket (never mind the dieuretics he used to 'weight down'). He was so doped up he didn't know he needed to stop, and literally exhausted himself to death.
Think about that. THAT is the mentality of an athlete who can do whatever he wants. THAT is what an athlete will do. It's not unlike an anorexic's compulsion against food or a bulimic's compulsion to expunge (not to say that they're the same, but only to compare the compulsion aspect).
We should be so lucky to be in a grey area where athletes resort to relatively tame attempts at getting an edge like EPO rather than snorting coke, shooting heroin, downing LSD and having a witch doctor lay hands on them. Because THAT'S HOW IT WAS BEFORE.
Pessimism towards athletic performance only comes from those who are ignorant of history and who fail to empathize with the pressure.
Listen and understand. Don't buy shit with HDMI. Don't buy HDMI cables. Don't buy shit that doesn't allow any other form of high-quality I/O than HDMI.
You might say it's unreasonable to have to do without, or to wait for shit that WILL allow you to bypass HDMI.
Well, THINK before you spend 2+ grand! I did, and I realized: I don't need high-def, and it's not worth supporting something so evil.
Did you forget that some of the target audience are only JUST coming into computers now?
Oh yeah. So sure, some people are going to have to learn to adapt. Life sucks, get a helmet. But for schoolchildren and people new to Office, what do you think would be easier - the ribbon bar or the menu?
A lot of the target audience has yet to use Office. Don't be so shortsighted.
Um... dude, they're not building an operating system for RIGHT NOW, for all you early adopters. They're building an operating system for a 5-6 year lifespan. If you go out & buy a new computer or upgrade equipment to run Vista, that's YOUR decision - not them strongarming you. You never had to buy it in the first place.
Thinking that they're doing this to force users to upgrade NOW is a rediculously narrow view. If anything, they're targeting people that already refresh their computers on a regular basis, who will do so IN THE FUTURE, and people that will buy new computers anyway - IN THE FUTURE.
You're totally right. The last time I really tried to install Linux (SuSE at the time) and do something useful with it, I couldn't because
1) There's 5 programs that sorta do the same thing bundled 2) Those programs were LISTED with names like "xiuty" and "rtegf". How was I supposed to know that "GIMP" was a drawing program? Sure it's a free Photoshop, but damn if I knew it at the time from the description.
So what if I only get Microsoft Paint with Windows? So what if I only get WordPad? At least I had a clue what those might be. "Internet Connection Wizard" makes a trillion zillion times more sense to a luddite than "kppp".
Yeah, but seriously. When I last installed Linux (a SuSE distro a while back in 2000) I ran KDE and tried nosing around.
Short application names in the bloody "start" menu. Sure, maybe I could have changed them - I didn't care enough. Why "kppp" wasn't called something else was beyond me - it's not like I was using this on a teletype.
Rebooted. Inserted boot floppy. FDisked. Installed Windows 2000. Frisbeed my SuSE cd's off a cliff (literally). That was the last time I ever tried Linux.
To see this is still an issue is flabbergasting. I'm not any closer to trying it again.
This may be a bit OT, but I have to admit that the idea itself is actually quite cool. There's so much focus on physics engines and graphics engines, yet developers almost seem to forget that the marine in Doom should really just be peeing himself and freaking out.
At least in the original Half-Life, they acknowledge Gordon being freaked out by focusing on his breathing and heartbeat in the first early cutscene during the accident. Considering the stressful situations most protagonists in modern games go through, you would think that there would be some effect on their sanity and basis in the "real" world.
A really neat trick though would be using a sanity engine to actually inspire dread IN THE GAMER, instead of just to the gamer's character onscreen.
C'mon. The owner is just punishing another company for doing something CLEARLY and personally objectionable, and they're hiding behind the "oh, but you're this great big public good company, you should have stances we can follow, etc!"
This isn't some kind of ideology game. ZDNet got taken to task for being dicks. We ought to recognize them as such.
This brings up another point: sometimes, it's OK TO SPEED.
1) Passing 2) Escaping a dangerous situation
If they're going to limit a driver's ability to drive their own car, the gov't might as well use GPS to drive the whole damn car - speed limits, turns, and roundabouts alike. I'm sure that'll work quite well.
Thanks, you dictionary dickweeds. I had no idea what enlightenment and criticism were all about.
This submitter wasn't interested in EITHER - this article is just a pawn in the popularity contest that is OSS.
/. used to have REAL problems with MS - namely, bad technologies and bad security attached to them.
I think the editors here got themselves stuck in the "hate MS" rut - there's nothing newsworthy about MS here. And it's been consistent, too.
Yeah, there's the usual "MS has security updates! They must suck that much!" headline, but the last 3 MS headlines I saw were about (1) bashing a tech EVERYONE knew sucked, (2) showing B.G. posing for some spread, and now this.
Maybe the next newsworthy headline will be when I make a site and put up the MonkeyBoy videos.
The scale wouldn't tremble when you go to weight yourself, for one.
Also, if you had an unrelated accident that caused you to go unconscious, I assume you would have to have a Medic Alert bracelet that says you don't have a pulse so that rescue efforts wouldn't be prematurely terminated.
Yes, but this title screams out to me - I happen to own a WRT54G, and although I can't see myself hacking it in the near future, this article is still a rather interesting one.
1) *nix only. That doesn't sell copies, since everyone else is using Windows. This is the #1 way to cut out a gigantic market demographic for software developers these days, especially when we're talking about desktop software.
2) Multinational support: it's not just about translation. Different cultures really do have different needs, and most non-MS office software is aimed purely at Western markets. Try doing that in Asia. MS found out it didn't work that way, and these countries will discover that too.
3) Competition: This product is doomed to compete with other *nix spreadsheet programs as mentioned in this thread - there's no dominance to be had. Take point #1 above (market demographic), and then take a sliver out of that sliver. There's your sales. Good luck guys.
You retard. Nature does the same thing, but for longer than 5 seconds. You might as well say that nature tracks you through the use of leaving your fingerprints whereever you go.
The only difference here is that this is a man-made object, but the objective is to improve safety, not spy. The fact that it's used when you get into an accident is a function of collection of evidence, not covert intelligence gathering.
Airbags need to know the state of the car's level of acceleration and speed to deploy properly (or not deploy, as the case may be). Why don't you just do the right thing and reprogram that sensor in your car to not record anything. I'll do my best to be there when you start your car up so I can kick your car right in the sensor as you're pulling out of a spot.
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Left to their own devices, athletes didn't use EPO or other steroids to gain an edge. Athletes used HARD DRUGS and nightly blood transfusions to get ahead. And for a long time, it was just accepted. Everyone knew that athletes did these horrible things to themselves to win - it was the elephant in the room.
The push to stop doping was originally done NOT for "fairness" or because of concerns of cheating; cheating is what it became AFTER the push to stop it. Never forget that this push to stop doping started for their SAFETY; because many athletes, in their competitive fervor, were willing to do ANYTHING to win, and that wasn't right, safe, nor was it what was intended.
Look to the example of Tom Simpson who keeled over & died climbing Mont Ventoux during the 1967 Tour De France to know why we shouldn't let athletes do whatever they want. That guy doped himself up on 2 vials of amphetamines with a 3rd ready to be downed in his jersey pocket (never mind the dieuretics he used to 'weight down'). He was so doped up he didn't know he needed to stop, and literally exhausted himself to death.
Think about that. THAT is the mentality of an athlete who can do whatever he wants. THAT is what an athlete will do. It's not unlike an anorexic's compulsion against food or a bulimic's compulsion to expunge (not to say that they're the same, but only to compare the compulsion aspect).
We should be so lucky to be in a grey area where athletes resort to relatively tame attempts at getting an edge like EPO rather than snorting coke, shooting heroin, downing LSD and having a witch doctor lay hands on them. Because THAT'S HOW IT WAS BEFORE.
Pessimism towards athletic performance only comes from those who are ignorant of history and who fail to empathize with the pressure.
Let the Wookie win.
So, what you're saying is...
INVISIBLE PRICE DROP
I've seen 1080p movies displayed over both digital and analogue connections.
I see a great reason to use component: it's nearly just as good as makes no difference, and it's not evil.
Listen and understand. Don't buy shit with HDMI. Don't buy HDMI cables. Don't buy shit that doesn't allow any other form of high-quality I/O than HDMI.
You might say it's unreasonable to have to do without, or to wait for shit that WILL allow you to bypass HDMI.
Well, THINK before you spend 2+ grand! I did, and I realized: I don't need high-def, and it's not worth supporting something so evil.
Seriously. Fucking do without.
Did you forget that some of the target audience are only JUST coming into computers now?
Oh yeah. So sure, some people are going to have to learn to adapt. Life sucks, get a helmet. But for schoolchildren and people new to Office, what do you think would be easier - the ribbon bar or the menu?
A lot of the target audience has yet to use Office. Don't be so shortsighted.
Um... dude, they're not building an operating system for RIGHT NOW, for all you early adopters. They're building an operating system for a 5-6 year lifespan. If you go out & buy a new computer or upgrade equipment to run Vista, that's YOUR decision - not them strongarming you. You never had to buy it in the first place.
Thinking that they're doing this to force users to upgrade NOW is a rediculously narrow view. If anything, they're targeting people that already refresh their computers on a regular basis, who will do so IN THE FUTURE, and people that will buy new computers anyway - IN THE FUTURE.
You're totally right. The last time I really tried to install Linux (SuSE at the time) and do something useful with it, I couldn't because
1) There's 5 programs that sorta do the same thing bundled
2) Those programs were LISTED with names like "xiuty" and "rtegf". How was I supposed to know that "GIMP" was a drawing program? Sure it's a free Photoshop, but damn if I knew it at the time from the description.
So what if I only get Microsoft Paint with Windows? So what if I only get WordPad? At least I had a clue what those might be. "Internet Connection Wizard" makes a trillion zillion times more sense to a luddite than "kppp".
Yeah, but seriously. When I last installed Linux (a SuSE distro a while back in 2000) I ran KDE and tried nosing around.
Short application names in the bloody "start" menu. Sure, maybe I could have changed them - I didn't care enough. Why "kppp" wasn't called something else was beyond me - it's not like I was using this on a teletype.
Rebooted. Inserted boot floppy. FDisked. Installed Windows 2000. Frisbeed my SuSE cd's off a cliff (literally). That was the last time I ever tried Linux.
To see this is still an issue is flabbergasting. I'm not any closer to trying it again.
Here's how it'll work:
1) Kill person
2) Cut off person's finger with pruning shears
3) Remove money from their account using their finger
And, if they've gone that far:
2b) Remove person's eye.
In the race to get rich quick, believe that criminals will do this.
Pft. If Steve was so great at stealing another look & feel, then improving upon it, he'd be where Microsoft is now.
This may be a bit OT, but I have to admit that the idea itself is actually quite cool. There's so much focus on physics engines and graphics engines, yet developers almost seem to forget that the marine in Doom should really just be peeing himself and freaking out.
At least in the original Half-Life, they acknowledge Gordon being freaked out by focusing on his breathing and heartbeat in the first early cutscene during the accident. Considering the stressful situations most protagonists in modern games go through, you would think that there would be some effect on their sanity and basis in the "real" world.
A really neat trick though would be using a sanity engine to actually inspire dread IN THE GAMER, instead of just to the gamer's character onscreen.
C'mon. The owner is just punishing another company for doing something CLEARLY and personally objectionable, and they're hiding behind the "oh, but you're this great big public good company, you should have stances we can follow, etc!"
This isn't some kind of ideology game. ZDNet got taken to task for being dicks. We ought to recognize them as such.
Oh don't be so dramatic.
It's based on money. Control ensures money - that's the bottom line. Literally.
This brings up another point: sometimes, it's OK TO SPEED.
1) Passing
2) Escaping a dangerous situation
If they're going to limit a driver's ability to drive their own car, the gov't might as well use GPS to drive the whole damn car - speed limits, turns, and roundabouts alike. I'm sure that'll work quite well.
Thanks, you dictionary dickweeds. I had no idea what enlightenment and criticism were all about. This submitter wasn't interested in EITHER - this article is just a pawn in the popularity contest that is OSS.
It's enlightening until it's critical. I see.
The two aren't mutually exclusive. You weren't looking for enlightenment, you were looking to see someone agree with you.
Thank you for the obvious. That's exactly one of the reasons stated in the article.
You ain't discovering shit or being insightful. Thanks for nothing.
/. used to have REAL problems with MS - namely, bad technologies and bad security attached to them.
I think the editors here got themselves stuck in the "hate MS" rut - there's nothing newsworthy about MS here. And it's been consistent, too.
Yeah, there's the usual "MS has security updates! They must suck that much!" headline, but the last 3 MS headlines I saw were about (1) bashing a tech EVERYONE knew sucked, (2) showing B.G. posing for some spread, and now this.
Maybe the next newsworthy headline will be when I make a site and put up the MonkeyBoy videos.
The scale wouldn't tremble when you go to weight yourself, for one.
Also, if you had an unrelated accident that caused you to go unconscious, I assume you would have to have a Medic Alert bracelet that says you don't have a pulse so that rescue efforts wouldn't be prematurely terminated.
As if they're already not making enough money...
Yes, but this title screams out to me - I happen to own a WRT54G, and although I can't see myself hacking it in the near future, this article is still a rather interesting one.
Thanks for the dupe, guys. =)
1) *nix only. That doesn't sell copies, since everyone else is using Windows. This is the #1 way to cut out a gigantic market demographic for software developers these days, especially when we're talking about desktop software.
2) Multinational support: it's not just about translation. Different cultures really do have different needs, and most non-MS office software is aimed purely at Western markets. Try doing that in Asia. MS found out it didn't work that way, and these countries will discover that too.
3) Competition: This product is doomed to compete with other *nix spreadsheet programs as mentioned in this thread - there's no dominance to be had. Take point #1 above (market demographic), and then take a sliver out of that sliver. There's your sales. Good luck guys.
Unfortunately for us, if satellites can more precisely measure this rise of the Earth's temperature, they cannot cure this fever.
We will construct a "la-zer"...You retard. Nature does the same thing, but for longer than 5 seconds. You might as well say that nature tracks you through the use of leaving your fingerprints whereever you go.
The only difference here is that this is a man-made object, but the objective is to improve safety, not spy. The fact that it's used when you get into an accident is a function of collection of evidence, not covert intelligence gathering.
Airbags need to know the state of the car's level of acceleration and speed to deploy properly (or not deploy, as the case may be). Why don't you just do the right thing and reprogram that sensor in your car to not record anything. I'll do my best to be there when you start your car up so I can kick your car right in the sensor as you're pulling out of a spot.