At least the people in the second-most-recent wave of immigration don't demand reparations from the people in the most recent wave of immigration, unlike the people in the third-most-recent wave of immigration, who were somewhat more thoroughin their genocide.
The gov't medical coverage in the states only covers the latest and most expensive brand name drugs? That's crazy, though I guess it explains a few things.
Pharmacare's LCA (lowest cost alternative) rules switch to covering just the cost of the generic so fast that occasionally we have trouble getting it in. Though when there isn't a cheaper alternative, it can sometimes be overly generous - it will cover ridiculous $$$ amounts of triptans even when the patient is using the drug everyday and almost certainly getting medication-induced headaches.
This is an obvious marketing ploy - the website got slashdotted, but "alphatradefn.com"? Does that sound like a reputable medical site to anyone?
And there appears to be critical levels of astroturfing going on, part of it pushing this new drug (Yes, it's another class of meds for type II diabetes, but metfromin and Avandia/Actos work pretty good already. Actually, they will probably work better in the long term, since they don't work by stimulating insulin production... insulin production is usually increased early on, the main problem is insulin resistance, where the cells in the body don't respond properly and fail to take up enough glucose/stop glucose production.) and part of it pushing cinnamon/chromium (Which have some evidence to support them, but they aren't a serious treatment for diabetes that has progressed far enough for someone to consider trying this stuff.).
The Bureau distributed reports regarding such affairs to the executive branch, friendly reporters, potential coalition partners and funding sources of the SCLC, and King's family. The Bureau also sent anonymous letters to King threatening to reveal information if he didn't cease his civil rights work. One anonymous letter sent to King just before he received the Nobel Peace Prize read, in part, "...The American public, the church organizations that have been helping -- Protestants, Catholics and Jews will know you for what you are -- an evil beast. So will others who have backed you. You are done. King, there, is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. You have just 34 days in which to do (this exact number has been selected for a specific reason, it has definite practical significance). You are done. There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy fraudulent self is bared to the nation."[18] This is often interpreted as inviting King's suicide,[19] though William Sullivan argued that it may have only been intended to "convince Dr. King to resign from the SCLC." Finally, the Bureau's investigation shifted away from King's personal life to intelligence and counterintelligence work on the direction of the SCLC and the Black Power movement.
In January 31, 1977, in the cases of Bernard S. Lee v. Clarence M. Kelley, et al. and Southern Christian Leadership Conference v. Clarence M. Kelley, et al. United States District Judge John Lewis Smith, Jr., ordered all known copies of the recorded audiotapes and written transcripts resulting from the FBI's electronic surveillance of King between 1963 and 1968, be held in the National Archives and sealed from public access until 2027.
Across from the Lorraine Motel, next to the rooming house in which James Earl Ray was staying, was a vacant fire station. The FBI was assigned to observe King during the appearance he was planning to make on the Lorraine Motel second-floor balcony later that day, and utilized the fire station as a makeshift base. Using papered-over windows with peepholes cut into them, the agents watched over the scene until Martin Luther King was shot. Immediately following the shooting, all six agents rushed out of the station and were the first people to administer first-aid to King. Their presence nearby has led to speculation that the FBI was involved in the assassination.[20]
Well, clearly you haven't taken many English courses.
A lot of courses have lecture notes which are received at the beginning of the course or before each class. Some courses have class time purely for clarification and discussion, and students are expected to have read over the material before class. Reading notes or a textbook is hardly "cheating". Of course, I missed about 5 days in 5 years and was on the Dean's List each year, but I'm a little bit obsessive-compulsive.
Or daycare. The professor is there to help, but a student in university is ultimately responsible for his own education.
The only issue here should be copyright - if the prof is okay with his lecture being recorded, then students should be free to learn by watching the podcasts and using (or not using) whatever other resources they can find.
Because I'm TOO LAZY to do so! Try taking Reading Comprehension 101, please. I said in the post that I didn't have enough interest to go through the work and frustration of setting up the system and getting Myth to work ONCE, for MYSELF. Do you really think I would go to the additional difficulty of setting up something for mass production if I'm not willing to do it once?
I have plenty of money...if someone else sold systems like that working 100%, then I'd happily pay for their services. Me=Part of the market, get it?
I doubt it would use more than a fraction of that, even with a P4. With a low-wattage chip, and a laptop HD (quieter, too), a PC can be run off a DC power brick (really, truly silent, unlike this thing) supplying maybe 75W.
But even with low power, truly silent hardware, HTPCs are a pain. Getting the remote to work properly was an exercise in frustration...and standard remotes work so much better than any cludge I could find for the PC. I gave up long ago and got a Panasonic DVD/HD recorder as my TIVO, and a Panasonic DVD player with the ability to save my place on multiple DVDs.
The barebones machine in this article is worthless, overhyped garbage. However, I think there is a real market for a silent-as-a-good-DVD-player HTPC that "just works" out of the box and which is unencumbered by DRM. I'd like to see someone make such a system, using the same hardware and disk image on each system...since there's no way I'm going to go through the headache of trying to get a Myth box to work.
As I mentioned here, I like SUSE (the only distro that worked 100% on my laptop and has WPA-PSK) and MEPIS (which used to be Debian-based and is now Ubuntu-based, but is much nicer than either IMHO...pity about WPA-PSK not working out of the box). I prefer KDE to Gnome, especially after tweaking the fonts a bit. I don't really understand Ubuntu's popularity.
Isn't page rank on distrowatch based on clicks to the various distros pages on that site, rather than what distro you're actually using?
"The Page Hit Ranking statistics have attracted plenty of attention and feedback. Originally, each distribution-specific page was pure HTML with a third-party counter at the bottom to monitor interest of visitors. Later the pages were transformed into plain text files with PHP generating all the HTML code, but the original counter remained unchanged. In May 2004 the site switched from publicly viewable third-party counters to internal counters. This was prompted by a continuous abuse of the counters by a handful of undisciplined individuals who had confused DistroWatch with a voting station. The counters are no longer displayed on the individual distributions pages, but all visits (on the main site, as well as on mirrors) are logged. Only one hit per IP address per day is counted."
...yeah, so what it actually means is that, because it's well known and at the top of the list, Ubuntu is usually the first page clicked. This records one hit, and then no other hits are recorded for that IP for the rest of the day.
So it doesn't really say whether it is the most commonly used distribution, merely that it gets the most clicks to its page within distrowatch.
Try another distro. I tried a few, and SUSE was the only one that detected and worked with the wireless (using WPA-PSK right "out of the box", compared to the horror that is Ubuntu) and audio on my laptop. It also uses KDE, which I prefer, and suspend/hibernate works fine.
Maybe I've had unusually bad experiences with it, and maybe my dislike of Gnome makes me biased, but I don't understand the popularity of Ubuntu. I certainly wouldn't introduce anyone to Linux using it. Besides SUSE, I've also used MEPIS on some systems...its LiveCD works well, though it doesn't boot with WPA-PSK ready.
Yeah, few products come with such information provided, even buried in the manual. Making it mandatory to have big, obvious labels on the packaging would help a lot. Personally, I had thought of max/"typical" use/standby as the information to give in watts.
In the TV series. The book starts earlier, with Lister having wound up on Mimas after going on a "Monopoly" pub crawl. He gets the idea to sign up on a ship heading to Earth (since his attempts at working and saving enough money to pay for a ticket fail miserably), but discovers too late that Red Dwarf will take years to get there. This is why he deliberately breaks quarantine regs by adopting the cat - knowing that the punishment will be being put into stasis for the rest of the trip.
The difference is that it will be very easy to make games that run on both Vista and XP/2000/etc compared to making a Linux or Mac port. While I'm sure there will be a large market for Vista, if a company can use OpenGL (or even DirectX 9) just as easily and sell the game for other versions of Windows as well, they would be stupid not to. There'd have to be a some feature in DirectX 10 or Vista that is essential to the game, which I find unlikely.
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At least the people in the second-most-recent wave of immigration don't demand reparations from the people in the most recent wave of immigration, unlike the people in the third-most-recent wave of immigration, who were somewhat more thorough in their genocide.
*Goes to check the property values in Iqualuit*
The gov't medical coverage in the states only covers the latest and most expensive brand name drugs? That's crazy, though I guess it explains a few things.
Pharmacare's LCA (lowest cost alternative) rules switch to covering just the cost of the generic so fast that occasionally we have trouble getting it in. Though when there isn't a cheaper alternative, it can sometimes be overly generous - it will cover ridiculous $$$ amounts of triptans even when the patient is using the drug everyday and almost certainly getting medication-induced headaches.
Seriously, I have no idea where to start. Every single statement you posted is wrong, with the partial expection that this is decent news for biotech.
IT guys, help me out here. How do you deal with someone who thinks the CD tray is a cupholder?
This is an obvious marketing ploy - the website got slashdotted, but "alphatradefn.com"? Does that sound like a reputable medical site to anyone?
And there appears to be critical levels of astroturfing going on, part of it pushing this new drug (Yes, it's another class of meds for type II diabetes, but metfromin and Avandia/Actos work pretty good already. Actually, they will probably work better in the long term, since they don't work by stimulating insulin production... insulin production is usually increased early on, the main problem is insulin resistance, where the cells in the body don't respond properly and fail to take up enough glucose/stop glucose production.) and part of it pushing cinnamon/chromium (Which have some evidence to support them, but they aren't a serious treatment for diabetes that has progressed far enough for someone to consider trying this stuff.).
If the PSP is an iPod killer, so is my GP2X. And unlike my PSP, it can do stuff without requiring a firmware downgrade after every time I play a game.
Brin WTFA
Rob Simpson
123 A Street
Townsville, Nunavut, Canada
H0H 0H0
World's 2nd Greatest Lover
Finest Swordsman
Outrageous Liar
Soldier of Fortune
Stepladders Repaired
Mod parent up. If they care so little about their own privacy, who knows what spyware they'd happily embed into HP hardware/computers?
...and it was the most worthless, pathetic course ever. Ridiculous paperwork from a prof who hadn't spent ten minutes in the real world.
Well, clearly you haven't taken many English courses.
A lot of courses have lecture notes which are received at the beginning of the course or before each class. Some courses have class time purely for clarification and discussion, and students are expected to have read over the material before class. Reading notes or a textbook is hardly "cheating". Of course, I missed about 5 days in 5 years and was on the Dean's List each year, but I'm a little bit obsessive-compulsive.
Or daycare. The professor is there to help, but a student in university is ultimately responsible for his own education.
The only issue here should be copyright - if the prof is okay with his lecture being recorded, then students should be free to learn by watching the podcasts and using (or not using) whatever other resources they can find.
"Wow, what's with all this rust?"
"Oh wait, that's my blood..."
Because I'm TOO LAZY to do so! Try taking Reading Comprehension 101, please. I said in the post that I didn't have enough interest to go through the work and frustration of setting up the system and getting Myth to work ONCE, for MYSELF. Do you really think I would go to the additional difficulty of setting up something for mass production if I'm not willing to do it once?
I have plenty of money...if someone else sold systems like that working 100%, then I'd happily pay for their services. Me=Part of the market, get it?
I doubt it would use more than a fraction of that, even with a P4. With a low-wattage chip, and a laptop HD (quieter, too), a PC can be run off a DC power brick (really, truly silent, unlike this thing) supplying maybe 75W.
But even with low power, truly silent hardware, HTPCs are a pain. Getting the remote to work properly was an exercise in frustration...and standard remotes work so much better than any cludge I could find for the PC. I gave up long ago and got a Panasonic DVD/HD recorder as my TIVO, and a Panasonic DVD player with the ability to save my place on multiple DVDs.
The barebones machine in this article is worthless, overhyped garbage. However, I think there is a real market for a silent-as-a-good-DVD-player HTPC that "just works" out of the box and which is unencumbered by DRM. I'd like to see someone make such a system, using the same hardware and disk image on each system...since there's no way I'm going to go through the headache of trying to get a Myth box to work.
As I mentioned here, I like SUSE (the only distro that worked 100% on my laptop and has WPA-PSK) and MEPIS (which used to be Debian-based and is now Ubuntu-based, but is much nicer than either IMHO...pity about WPA-PSK not working out of the box). I prefer KDE to Gnome, especially after tweaking the fonts a bit. I don't really understand Ubuntu's popularity.
Isn't page rank on distrowatch based on clicks to the various distros pages on that site, rather than what distro you're actually using?
...yeah, so what it actually means is that, because it's well known and at the top of the list, Ubuntu is usually the first page clicked. This records one hit, and then no other hits are recorded for that IP for the rest of the day.
"The Page Hit Ranking statistics have attracted plenty of attention and feedback. Originally, each distribution-specific page was pure HTML with a third-party counter at the bottom to monitor interest of visitors. Later the pages were transformed into plain text files with PHP generating all the HTML code, but the original counter remained unchanged. In May 2004 the site switched from publicly viewable third-party counters to internal counters. This was prompted by a continuous abuse of the counters by a handful of undisciplined individuals who had confused DistroWatch with a voting station. The counters are no longer displayed on the individual distributions pages, but all visits (on the main site, as well as on mirrors) are logged. Only one hit per IP address per day is counted."
So it doesn't really say whether it is the most commonly used distribution, merely that it gets the most clicks to its page within distrowatch.
Try another distro. I tried a few, and SUSE was the only one that detected and worked with the wireless (using WPA-PSK right "out of the box", compared to the horror that is Ubuntu) and audio on my laptop. It also uses KDE, which I prefer, and suspend/hibernate works fine.
Maybe I've had unusually bad experiences with it, and maybe my dislike of Gnome makes me biased, but I don't understand the popularity of Ubuntu. I certainly wouldn't introduce anyone to Linux using it. Besides SUSE, I've also used MEPIS on some systems...its LiveCD works well, though it doesn't boot with WPA-PSK ready.
Heh, I actually tried something like that, but ended up just disabling virtual memory. I haven't had any problems with games or anything else.
Yeah, few products come with such information provided, even buried in the manual. Making it mandatory to have big, obvious labels on the packaging would help a lot. Personally, I had thought of max/"typical" use/standby as the information to give in watts.
In the TV series. The book starts earlier, with Lister having wound up on Mimas after going on a "Monopoly" pub crawl. He gets the idea to sign up on a ship heading to Earth (since his attempts at working and saving enough money to pay for a ticket fail miserably), but discovers too late that Red Dwarf will take years to get there. This is why he deliberately breaks quarantine regs by adopting the cat - knowing that the punishment will be being put into stasis for the rest of the trip.
And you've gotta love a system that makes you read out your credit card number in a loud, clear voice...
The difference is that it will be very easy to make games that run on both Vista and XP/2000/etc compared to making a Linux or Mac port. While I'm sure there will be a large market for Vista, if a company can use OpenGL (or even DirectX 9) just as easily and sell the game for other versions of Windows as well, they would be stupid not to. There'd have to be a some feature in DirectX 10 or Vista that is essential to the game, which I find unlikely.
...except spam and identity theft. Whee.