Every stinking intel/amd article has this same goddam statement. Who the hell is this insigtful to?
Me... I was thinking by moving to a single payer, government sponsored chip manufacturer we could eliminate wasteful overhead, advertising, executive salaries, and that irritating itch to upgrade every 6 months.
You damn Libertarians need to realize the free market isn't for everything...
In a rational society, either the people's law enforcement system would take care of the problem of crack users, prostitutes, and polluteres ruining woody ravines near their homes, or the people would be empowered to take care of the problem themselves using whatever force is necessary.
In a rational society perhaps we wouldn't criminalize crack using and prostitution (after all, they aren't inherently violent) so we would have more resources to go after the polluters. The crack users and prostitutes also wouldn't need to live unsafely/unsanitarily hiding in the woods.
Bah, what am I thinking we need to be scared of the terrorists and/or global warming! Sorry!
My previous development box was an Athlon XP 1700+. It did a full compile and test run of my current project in about sixteen minutes. I've just been upgraded to a Core Duo 2, which does it in three (make has a parallelise option, so it can use both cores). Give me a box that's twice as fast (which twice as many cores is, for compiling) and the compiler will finally be able to keep up with the coding, which means no time wasted sitting around.
We just got an IncrediBuild distributed compile license. We have around a dozen machines on the link (single core). Our compiles went from 20 minutes... to... wait for it... just over 1.
No, I don't work for them, just a happy user. Now I have to get back to work, the damn compile is done already.
PS: This doesn't mean I think quad-core is useless... quite the opposite... but just thought I'd share.
Liberterians often miss out an extremely important point:
When you have massive corporations dominating an infastructure heavy industry like telecoms then it is often not the government who 'meddles' but the corporations themselves.
Non-Libertarians often miss out an extremely important point:
Libertarianism does not mean Anrchist-Corpocracy.
If a corporation gets big enough to manipulate the market then any Libertarian who actually understands the philosophy will support anti-trust measures.
He'll just ask you nicely to please be careful about it, thank you very much.
He was successful in college and in work thanks to these drugs, but was he truly happy without poetry and music?
I'm not a big fan of permanently medicating the mind unless absolutely necessary... but when I had a episode of depression brought on by major illness, I wasn't thinking about poetry and music.
I was thinking pretty much constantly about killing myself. Not little fantasies "God I should just shoot myself." No... we're talking cold, calm, and consistent thoughts. Very frightening in retrospect and even more frightening that it felt so normal at the time.
Thank goodness I had family/friends to point me towards medical care. Lexapro changed that like a light switch, and the depression (and anti-depressants) are just a memory. But for some the depression is chronic and the treatment will probably need to be permanent.
And yes, before that happened I never understood the potential severity and use for anti-depressants either. Anti-depressants aren't just about turning off maudlin thoughts of missing your dead turtle.
Yeah, wake me up when we go a solid week without gross examples of cronyism, boards not doing their jobs, and investor fraud. Then do it again for a whole year, then we can complain about the "witch hunts". Instead I'm guessing there's a lot more stuff to uncover. In fact, the louder they complain, then the more there is. If they didn't have anything to worry about, well, there'd be nothing to complain about.
And I'm sure those all up in arms about wiretapping have nothing to worry about if they aren't terrorists... and speaking of terrorists.. let's get started on the racial profiling... all the terrorists in the last ten years have been from some Arab-istan so let's get going on that too.
Unfortunately innocent until proven guilty has a price. In this case it should be relatively easy to sort out the back-dating just by a little analysis which I hope we do.
But we can't just start locking people up without any proof they're guilty... I think they are running out of room at Guatanamo.
Well, optical mice need uneveness to track, that's why they don't work on a mirror, or a really smooth surface, they can't track details. One way to make them track better is to up the DPI. The smaller details they see, the more uniform a surface can be.
That's it! I'm off to sandpaper my desk! Who's sniping with the railgun NOW?
Section 8, clause 1 of the Constitution gives the government the right to collect taxes. It makes sense that in order to do so, they require some information about how much money you made and how much money your company made. Even if they didn't collect information from you directly, they would collect data from your employer in pursuit of their official duties.
I have the right to shoot people who come into my house unauthorized. Doesn't mean I'm going to. (Or could since I don't happen to own a gun.)
And furthermore they collected taxes for over a century without that? How DID they manage?
For independent work I need to document both my own income and any expenses so they get a damn good picture of everything I do. Either we are worried about our government having information or we aren't. Choose one please!
What amazes me is that around here, all of those that decry the NSA wiretapping, Gitmo, loss of privcy, et al., have no problem with the gov't running health care, and all sorts of programs.
Thank you thank you thank you. Why is it we collectively burst into flames when someone whispers wiretapping, but then spend countless hours and billions of dollars to send the government EXPLICIT information on EVERY dollar we earned, how we earned it, and often as not... how we SPENT it?!!
Well, at least I don't check out books from the library. God forbid they know I spend thirty minutes reading Harry Potter after the nine hours I spend at my day job, and the couple more hours consulting and running my rental.
Really, I'm willing to respect either side... but can we at least be consistent? Alright, alright... I'll settle for sane.
That depends. For many people, it would be "while the computer is on", because there's something that runs in the background. I leave AIM (Gaim really, but on the AIM protocol (now Jabber too)) running whenever my computer is on (well usually), so it's sending out packets pretty regularily. 'course, I don't have a laptop and aren't on wireless.
The laptop is exclusively used by my wife to browse MySpace and Victoria's Secret. I suppose she also reads e-mail so they would be able to bust into her account and see her conversations about baby showers and the like.
Fine. Open invitation it is then. Like I said, I don't DO anything secure over the wireless network. Yes, I suppose it leaves my wired network somewhat insecure, but like running away from a bear... I don't have to outrun the bear... just the guy next to me. Meaning they'll quickly move onto to the other half-dozen completely unsecured networks on the block.
It's a shame that I have to protect my router somehow, especially because one of my devices (a Nintendo DS) doesn't support WPA at all.
A really easy method is to allow access only to specific MAC addresses. I hate encryption since it's such a pain and I don't do anything secure wirelessly anyways. Now all I have to do is set the MAC address on the router and I'm in!
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Whats more exciting throwing a football about in the park with a random selection of friends ? Or playing in a team in a large competion ? Anyone who has done both will tell you the thrill of playing with serious intent in an organised competition is far more exciting.
And which takes less of a time committment on my part? I LOVE single player because I can get in, out, and back to the demands of the rest of my life. Similarly, I'm not really interested in devoting weeks of time in getting REALLY REALLY good at reviving people in Battlefield 2. I'm also not particularly interested in playing against people who roam in packs with a couple of those people mixed in.
I'm sure that's fun for people... but not what I want.
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The same way a martian lander could fall back from space and go crazy trying to kill everyone?
That is until Bigfoot came and rescued them.
Every stinking intel/amd article has this same goddam statement. Who the hell is this insigtful to?
Me... I was thinking by moving to a single payer, government sponsored chip manufacturer we could eliminate wasteful overhead, advertising, executive salaries, and that irritating itch to upgrade every 6 months.
You damn Libertarians need to realize the free market isn't for everything...
In a rational society, either the people's law enforcement system would take care of the problem of crack users, prostitutes, and polluteres ruining woody ravines near their homes, or the people would be empowered to take care of the problem themselves using whatever force is necessary.
In a rational society perhaps we wouldn't criminalize crack using and prostitution (after all, they aren't inherently violent) so we would have more resources to go after the polluters. The crack users and prostitutes also wouldn't need to live unsafely/unsanitarily hiding in the woods.
Bah, what am I thinking we need to be scared of the terrorists and/or global warming! Sorry!
My previous development box was an Athlon XP 1700+. It did a full compile and test run of my current project in about sixteen minutes. I've just been upgraded to a Core Duo 2, which does it in three (make has a parallelise option, so it can use both cores). Give me a box that's twice as fast (which twice as many cores is, for compiling) and the compiler will finally be able to keep up with the coding, which means no time wasted sitting around.
We just got an IncrediBuild distributed compile license. We have around a dozen machines on the link (single core). Our compiles went from 20 minutes... to... wait for it... just over 1.
No, I don't work for them, just a happy user. Now I have to get back to work, the damn compile is done already.
PS: This doesn't mean I think quad-core is useless... quite the opposite... but just thought I'd share.
Always billed as a wonderful multiplayer system... comes with one controller...
Hell, I remember my Colecovision didn't have the right connector to go from coaxial cable to the two little screws on the back of the TV set.
I believe the technical term is sliding scale which means the more you can afford, the more you will pay.
Damn Socialists are everywhere nowadays I tell you!
Can it be spliced into Dick Cheney with a retro-virus?
Liberterians often miss out an extremely important point:
When you have massive corporations dominating an infastructure heavy industry like telecoms then it is often not the government who 'meddles' but the corporations themselves.
Non-Libertarians often miss out an extremely important point:
Libertarianism does not mean Anrchist-Corpocracy.
If a corporation gets big enough to manipulate the market then any Libertarian who actually understands the philosophy will support anti-trust measures.
He'll just ask you nicely to please be careful about it, thank you very much.
As any libertarian will tell you, government regulation and meddling in a market can only hurt consumers.
Incidentally, any Libertarian won't tell you this. I think you have confused Libertarianism for Anarchism.
Saying they would is like saying all Democrats want Totalitarian Communism and all Republicans want a Theocratic Corpocracy.
It's a strawman used to villify the other side... politics as usual by those that wish to remain in power using fear.
I am a Libertarian. I support Government taxation and regulation for a broad variety of social programs including education and the environment.
He was successful in college and in work thanks to these drugs, but was he truly happy without poetry and music?
I'm not a big fan of permanently medicating the mind unless absolutely necessary... but when I had a episode of depression brought on by major illness, I wasn't thinking about poetry and music.
I was thinking pretty much constantly about killing myself. Not little fantasies "God I should just shoot myself." No... we're talking cold, calm, and consistent thoughts. Very frightening in retrospect and even more frightening that it felt so normal at the time.
Thank goodness I had family/friends to point me towards medical care. Lexapro changed that like a light switch, and the depression (and anti-depressants) are just a memory. But for some the depression is chronic and the treatment will probably need to be permanent.
And yes, before that happened I never understood the potential severity and use for anti-depressants either. Anti-depressants aren't just about turning off maudlin thoughts of missing your dead turtle.
Except that we're destroying the planet's water supply to get it.
Oh my god I can't believe you got modded informative.
You do realize that when use hydrogen for fuel you get water?
It's sad how much faith they have in people who are genuinely trying to screw them.
Or perhaps encouraging how little they care about watching Buffy: Season Three in 2018.
Yeah, wake me up when we go a solid week without gross examples of cronyism, boards not doing their jobs, and investor fraud. Then do it again for a whole year, then we can complain about the "witch hunts". Instead I'm guessing there's a lot more stuff to uncover. In fact, the louder they complain, then the more there is. If they didn't have anything to worry about, well, there'd be nothing to complain about.
And I'm sure those all up in arms about wiretapping have nothing to worry about if they aren't terrorists... and speaking of terrorists.. let's get started on the racial profiling... all the terrorists in the last ten years have been from some Arab-istan so let's get going on that too.
Unfortunately innocent until proven guilty has a price. In this case it should be relatively easy to sort out the back-dating just by a little analysis which I hope we do.
But we can't just start locking people up without any proof they're guilty... I think they are running out of room at Guatanamo.
I wonder if blood banks are being screened for such cancers.
I am a cancer survivor and can tell you at least that the blood banks are explicitly not interested in me donating.
Whether they actually can/do screen I don't know.
Well, optical mice need uneveness to track, that's why they don't work on a mirror, or a really smooth surface, they can't track details. One way to make them track better is to up the DPI. The smaller details they see, the more uniform a surface can be.
That's it! I'm off to sandpaper my desk! Who's sniping with the railgun NOW?
"Here"? Where, the US? You're not asserting that the US has no working nuclear reactors, are you?
Hmmm, no, of course we have reactors.
This is what I was talking about.
My apologies for the lack of clarity.
How do these Germans know so much about the atomic nucleus? Did Neils Bohr leave them a working model or something?
No, their government allows them working models.
We aren't allowed nuclear reactors here so we are falling massively behind. But at least it's safe... for the children.
Except for the bears that is.
Section 8, clause 1 of the Constitution gives the government the right to collect taxes. It makes sense that in order to do so, they require some information about how much money you made and how much money your company made. Even if they didn't collect information from you directly, they would collect data from your employer in pursuit of their official duties.
I have the right to shoot people who come into my house unauthorized. Doesn't mean I'm going to. (Or could since I don't happen to own a gun.)
And furthermore they collected taxes for over a century without that? How DID they manage?
For independent work I need to document both my own income and any expenses so they get a damn good picture of everything I do. Either we are worried about our government having information or we aren't. Choose one please!
To be honest it is ridiculous to try to present the Madisonian view of this clause - the US has never been governed in this manner.
And we never allowed women the vote... until we did.
Politically something is ridiculous only until it stops being so.
What amazes me is that around here, all of those that decry the NSA wiretapping, Gitmo, loss of privcy, et al., have no problem with the gov't running health care, and all sorts of programs.
Thank you thank you thank you. Why is it we collectively burst into flames when someone whispers wiretapping, but then spend countless hours and billions of dollars to send the government EXPLICIT information on EVERY dollar we earned, how we earned it, and often as not... how we SPENT it?!!
Well, at least I don't check out books from the library. God forbid they know I spend thirty minutes reading Harry Potter after the nine hours I spend at my day job, and the couple more hours consulting and running my rental.
Really, I'm willing to respect either side... but can we at least be consistent? Alright, alright... I'll settle for sane.
That depends. For many people, it would be "while the computer is on", because there's something that runs in the background. I leave AIM (Gaim really, but on the AIM protocol (now Jabber too)) running whenever my computer is on (well usually), so it's sending out packets pretty regularily. 'course, I don't have a laptop and aren't on wireless.
The laptop is exclusively used by my wife to browse MySpace and Victoria's Secret. I suppose she also reads e-mail so they would be able to bust into her account and see her conversations about baby showers and the like.
Anything less is an open invitation.
Fine. Open invitation it is then. Like I said, I don't DO anything secure over the wireless network. Yes, I suppose it leaves my wired network somewhat insecure, but like running away from a bear... I don't have to outrun the bear... just the guy next to me. Meaning they'll quickly move onto to the other half-dozen completely unsecured networks on the block.
Would you have benefitted more if I'd not said anything?
No. You would have.
It's a shame that I have to protect my router somehow, especially because one of my devices (a Nintendo DS) doesn't support WPA at all.
A really easy method is to allow access only to specific MAC addresses. I hate encryption since it's such a pain and I don't do anything secure wirelessly anyways. Now all I have to do is set the MAC address on the router and I'm in!
Whats more exciting throwing a football about in the park with a random selection of friends ? Or playing in a team in a large competion ? Anyone who has done both will tell you the thrill of playing with serious intent in an organised competition is far more exciting.
And which takes less of a time committment on my part? I LOVE single player because I can get in, out, and back to the demands of the rest of my life. Similarly, I'm not really interested in devoting weeks of time in getting REALLY REALLY good at reviving people in Battlefield 2. I'm also not particularly interested in playing against people who roam in packs with a couple of those people mixed in.
I'm sure that's fun for people... but not what I want.