"It is not clear to me that one will need clinical trials - ever. You can be absolutely sure that there are hundreds if not thousands of people taking this already - off label - which is perfectly legal"
Sure, lots of people are probably taking it. But those people aren't also taking a bunch of other drugs because they have cancer. What if this drug plus one other drug results in an 80% mortality rate?
People might enjoy a wide variety of music, or they may have narrow tastes. But I've never met anyone who hated all music.
I know people who hate television and movies, calling them "useless time-wasters". I know people who don't like ice cream and hate dogs. I even know somebody who hates nearly everybody else. But music is different. Some people don't notice it much, but even they know what they like.
People know that their musical choices are very personal. If you ask what kind of music they like, they get a chance to talk about themselves. And many are proud of their musical taste. It's like fine wine. Some people are connoiseurs, and some just drink whatever is available. And a wine expert generally just LOVES to talk about wine.
For anybody who thinks that showing disdain for some form of music somehow increases their credibility on the subject, remember this: nothing turns off somebody else faster than saying their favorite band/artist sucks.
"Um, how was what he did criminal? The MySpace interface to the world allowed this. Just because MySpace did not like it? It is not like he went on someone else's property uninvited. Did he delete any data? Did he see he any data he was not supposed to see?"
If we're going to go with a "property" analogy then yes, he was invited to every building in the city. Then he spraypainted a wall with graffiti and moved on. Sure, 3 years might seem a bit much for vandalism, but then there were SO many buldings to clean up.
3 years of probation and 3 months community service? That's a slap on the wrist, and he should just suck it up and be happy he got off lightly.
I have a Dual 400mhz G4 with 1 gig of ram made in 1998 that runs the newest apple OS faster than my Dell P4 2.8 gig (with HT) with 2 gigs of ram running XP,
I don't believe you. Well... that's not really true. I think your Dell needs a good tuning.
Regardless, I have in my previous life been on the front lines of Macintosh support, all the way back to replacing endless numbers of power boards in the old beige Mac Plus's. I think I've still got my certificates somewhere. I never saw a performance increase from an OS upgrade. Admittedly the most recent years are out of my experience, as I moved on from support before OS X was released. OS X I'm familiar with mostly through helping people with it as favours.
We can talk about all the people left in the cold by the System 7 update, or the growing pains of OS 9 - I remember that. I recently put OS X on a early mode G4, and found that even after a memory upgrade it was clearly unhappy.
I remember selling upgraded motherboards for ridiculous prices to Mac LC owners back in the day. And I mean RIDICULOUS. I couldn't believe people paid it. And they had to send back the original motherboard to be used as refurbs or pay even more.
Our store went through a boom in Mac sales each OS revision.
Seriously, come on. The ad where the PC buys the Mac that C++ reference manual that he secretly lusts after himself is just so much blatant false image building it's ridiculous. Are they implying that Mac programmers live in a glorious world where technical manuals are unnecessary? Or that every windows user is a technical programmer? It's ludicrous.
The "home movie" comparisons where the shapely woman is the mac one and the ugly unshaven guy in drag is from the PC is just dumb.
The PC going in for surgery is another joke. At least he PC CAN be upgraded instead of simply requiring replacement for a major OS update.
They're great ads. Seriously, they're billiant. But they lie.
I think Microsoft should fire back. With one man representing one game they should show the PC addressing a full concert hall. Then the Mac should be addressing a hotel conference room with a bunch of empty seats. With five seats full of really old men, one should realize he's in the wrong room and leave.
Then show the PC calling in to some Microsoft-product-only connection and getting through, while the Mac gets, "I'm sorry - we can't help you."
"How can you go wrong with the formula of a devastated Earth, giant bugs, and mechs?"
I'm not sure how you can miss the fact that it isn't Earth - if memory serves it's covered in the very first minute of exposition before the game actually starts.
Don't you have to pay attention to a game if you intend to review it?
"Why not build a stable core - multitasking, networking, application sandboxing, list management, basic graphics with user-settable bitmaps and/or polygonal models -- the rest of the usual suspects like disk io and USB -- and then let the user decide if they want, for instance, to add a 3d desktop with voice and haptic features, widgets, zooming, 400 language compatibility (OSX carries a crapload of language stuff to your drive it doesn't really need to, for instance) and drivers for every printer ever known to man?"
Most people who just want a computer to use don't WANT a machine running at half mast. They don't want to have to discover and enable the cool stuff. They want to plug in their old printer and have it just work.
People who actually care can turn off the stuff they don't like.
"If I understand it correctly, my output resolution will be degraded unless I buy a MPAA-approved display device? Why would I bother upgrading from DVD if I'm not going to get any better quality?"
Devil's advocate here - don't label me pro-DRM.
If you're buying movies anyway, and the movie IS enforcing the downgrade requirement, then you won't see much difference from DVD... until you upgrade your television at some point in the future - at which time magically all the HD movies suddenly become viewable in their full glory.
Of course that assumes you buy a TV before they stop including HDMI ports on them.
" Although the idea of selling your creations or renting property is discussed, it's not plastered on the main page "Make Massive $$$$$$ Now" or something like that."
Search Phrase: linux sucks
1,630,000 hits
Well then. Good enough for me! Tonight the linux server in my closet gets wiped and Solaris goes on. Unless...
Search Phrase: Solaris sucks
602,000 hits
Damn. Linux sucks 2.7 times worse than Solaris, but apparently Solaris still sucks.
You are aware that your condition is not a uniform one correct? I am unsure from your post if you are claiming that because YOU could see it just fine that the statement is incorrect or something else. In any case I can also add a completely irrelevant anecdote to the story: my father in law cannot see red from green in MOST cases. My point is that unless you have some sort of evidence that the statistics mentioned in the article are incorrect then your statement is just as bad if not worse than theirs. Worse in that theirs is at least being published by someone and has some kind of review.
The article states that 4% of men "can't distinguish between red and green". "Can't" is a pretty strong statement. Deuteranomaly is the type that affects the distinguishing of red/green, and it's not complete, and only in 1% of men.
"NewVote received its final deathblow when it became clear that the one machine that stayed within the radiation limits used a green-on-red color-scheme for its screen. And that would be a small problem for the 4% of all men that cannot distinguish between red and green."
Good heavens. As a a person with good old-fashioned red/green colourblindness I assure you that this statement is false.
There is no way that 4% of men can't distinguish between red and green. There's some difficulty in some circumstances, but a green on red colour screen on a voting machine would almost certainly be readable. They'll use high-contrast hues.
The vast majority of red-green colourblindness results from a cone deficiency. In some circumstances it's difficult to make out some differences, but if I see a red shirt, I know it's red and not green. Green lettering on the red shirt would likely be completely readable.
However, I seldom see purple. Usually it looks blue to me.
First we'll toss in one some people will kick and scream about: Graphic Design. Yes, I know all about the Gimp. And naturally the artists know that it's a poor substitute for the industry standard.
Sonar and Cubase have no reasonable alternative - just a bunch of separated projects (usually midi or audio editors, but not both simultaneuously) that sort of work if your drivers run just right, and none of them coming anywhere close to the feature sets of the commercial packages.
The primary reason that people stop buying new CDs is because there are no good CDs being produced. I'd have lots of trouble naming 1 great CD that came out in the last 6 months (even though I've bought a couple).
If you think there's a lack of good music being produced, you're simply wrong. There's tons of it. You might have to do some searching, but no matter what your taste you will eventually be satisfied.
This "no good music these days" attitude is just the usual unnecessary and unwarranted elitist front worn by people from every period.
Either you got a bunch of racing titles as part of a bundle or you like them. If it is the later, give Project Gotham Racing a try. I know the title is lame. You are not racing in the bat mobile, it is a very good title.
I bought them. I dearly wish there were a Rallisport Challenge sequel coming out, but alas... the original developers don't own the title.
PGR2 (in my list) should actually be PGR3 (Project Gotham Racing 3). Being a launch title and consequently since reduced in price, I definitely had to get it.
If the Xbox was so hot, then why was it being offered with a $100 rebate during the Xmas buying season?
So I'm considering waiting for a PS3. The Blu-Ray aspect is semi-enticing, as I have an HDTV widescreen TV, and I'm mildly interested in Gran Turismo HD. I'm not a fanboy of either variety.
Then along comes Gears of War, and I'm suddenly reconsidering my decision. And then, boxing day, I discover I can get an XBOX360 for $100 less than before, with 'Ghost Recon', 'Live Arcade' and 'The Outfit' included.
The result? I now own an XBOX360, two additional controllers, and the following titles:
Madden '07
Gears of War
Burnout Revenge
PGR2
Ghost Recon
The Outfit
Tiger Woods '07
Live Arcade
Need For Speed Carbon
Test Drive Unlimited
So what did they gain from dropping the price for Christmas? Clearly my business.
Why in heavens name would I buy the PS3? Certainly not for the lousy launch lineup.
And coming back to India - that's brilliant news. Think that India has over 1 billion people. All of them will be Linux users. And finally they will come as cheap labour (IT support) to UK/US to promote FOSS. And don't forget about opportunities of opening cheap Linux support call centres there.
By my calculation we're talking about 0.003% of those 1 billion people. And Indian call centres for linux will likely be pricier than their Windows counterparts (smaller pool, rising demand). Those call centres are already rising in cost anyway.
Not that it isn't a promising sign... but to suggest all of India will embrace linux seems unrealistic.
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"They'll probably stop supporting XP any day now."
It's a troll because Microsoft actually has a GOOD record of supporting their OS's for a few years after they've moved to new versions.
When did they end Windows 98 support? Wasn't it in 2006?
According to links from this page mainstream support for XP will end in 2009, and extended support in 2014.
So the original post made a completely false claim that cast FUD. Isn't that a troll by definition?
"It is not clear to me that one will need clinical trials - ever. You can be absolutely sure that there are hundreds if not thousands of people taking this already - off label - which is perfectly legal"
Sure, lots of people are probably taking it. But those people aren't also taking a bunch of other drugs because they have cancer. What if this drug plus one other drug results in an 80% mortality rate?
I'm deaf, you insensitive clod.
Trust me. If you could hear it, you'd like it.
Besides, even deaf people can dance if the bass is loud enough. You dance to a beat - not to a melody.
People might enjoy a wide variety of music, or they may have narrow tastes. But I've never met anyone who hated all music.
I know people who hate television and movies, calling them "useless time-wasters". I know people who don't like ice cream and hate dogs. I even know somebody who hates nearly everybody else. But music is different. Some people don't notice it much, but even they know what they like.
People know that their musical choices are very personal. If you ask what kind of music they like, they get a chance to talk about themselves. And many are proud of their musical taste. It's like fine wine. Some people are connoiseurs, and some just drink whatever is available. And a wine expert generally just LOVES to talk about wine.
For anybody who thinks that showing disdain for some form of music somehow increases their credibility on the subject, remember this: nothing turns off somebody else faster than saying their favorite band/artist sucks.
"Um, how was what he did criminal? The MySpace interface to the world allowed this. Just because MySpace did not like it? It is not like he went on someone else's property uninvited. Did he delete any data? Did he see he any data he was not supposed to see?"
If we're going to go with a "property" analogy then yes, he was invited to every building in the city. Then he spraypainted a wall with graffiti and moved on. Sure, 3 years might seem a bit much for vandalism, but then there were SO many buldings to clean up.
3 years of probation and 3 months community service? That's a slap on the wrist, and he should just suck it up and be happy he got off lightly.
I have a Dual 400mhz G4 with 1 gig of ram made in 1998 that runs the newest apple OS faster than my Dell P4 2.8 gig (with HT) with 2 gigs of ram running XP,
I don't believe you. Well... that's not really true. I think your Dell needs a good tuning.
Regardless, I have in my previous life been on the front lines of Macintosh support, all the way back to replacing endless numbers of power boards in the old beige Mac Plus's. I think I've still got my certificates somewhere. I never saw a performance increase from an OS upgrade. Admittedly the most recent years are out of my experience, as I moved on from support before OS X was released. OS X I'm familiar with mostly through helping people with it as favours.
We can talk about all the people left in the cold by the System 7 update, or the growing pains of OS 9 - I remember that. I recently put OS X on a early mode G4, and found that even after a memory upgrade it was clearly unhappy.
I remember selling upgraded motherboards for ridiculous prices to Mac LC owners back in the day. And I mean RIDICULOUS. I couldn't believe people paid it. And they had to send back the original motherboard to be used as refurbs or pay even more.
Our store went through a boom in Mac sales each OS revision.
Seriously, come on. The ad where the PC buys the Mac that C++ reference manual that he secretly lusts after himself is just so much blatant false image building it's ridiculous. Are they implying that Mac programmers live in a glorious world where technical manuals are unnecessary? Or that every windows user is a technical programmer? It's ludicrous.
The "home movie" comparisons where the shapely woman is the mac one and the ugly unshaven guy in drag is from the PC is just dumb.
The PC going in for surgery is another joke. At least he PC CAN be upgraded instead of simply requiring replacement for a major OS update.
They're great ads. Seriously, they're billiant. But they lie.
I think Microsoft should fire back. With one man representing one game they should show the PC addressing a full concert hall. Then the Mac should be addressing a hotel conference room with a bunch of empty seats. With five seats full of really old men, one should realize he's in the wrong room and leave.
Then show the PC calling in to some Microsoft-product-only connection and getting through, while the Mac gets, "I'm sorry - we can't help you."
At least those would sort of represent reality.
"How can you go wrong with the formula of a devastated Earth, giant bugs, and mechs?"
I'm not sure how you can miss the fact that it isn't Earth - if memory serves it's covered in the very first minute of exposition before the game actually starts.
Don't you have to pay attention to a game if you intend to review it?
"Why not build a stable core - multitasking, networking, application sandboxing, list management, basic graphics with user-settable bitmaps and/or polygonal models -- the rest of the usual suspects like disk io and USB -- and then let the user decide if they want, for instance, to add a 3d desktop with voice and haptic features, widgets, zooming, 400 language compatibility (OSX carries a crapload of language stuff to your drive it doesn't really need to, for instance) and drivers for every printer ever known to man?"
Most people who just want a computer to use don't WANT a machine running at half mast. They don't want to have to discover and enable the cool stuff. They want to plug in their old printer and have it just work.
People who actually care can turn off the stuff they don't like.
The terrorists have won.
"It's really quite disingeneous to compare OSX releases to service packs, tho..."
I can't tell if you're THE anonymous coward that uses this word all the time, but I'll correct it anyway, and hope the repeat offender sees it.
Did you mean to say "incorrect" or "unreasonable"? Because disingenous means "lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity".
"If I understand it correctly, my output resolution will be degraded unless I buy a MPAA-approved display device? Why would I bother upgrading from DVD if I'm not going to get any better quality?"
Devil's advocate here - don't label me pro-DRM.
If you're buying movies anyway, and the movie IS enforcing the downgrade requirement, then you won't see much difference from DVD... until you upgrade your television at some point in the future - at which time magically all the HD movies suddenly become viewable in their full glory.
Of course that assumes you buy a TV before they stop including HDMI ports on them.
" Although the idea of selling your creations or renting property is discussed, it's not plastered on the main page "Make Massive $$$$$$ Now" or something like that."
Well... from the front page:
US$ Spent Last 24h: $1,017,876
Search Phrase: linux sucks 1,630,000 hits Well then. Good enough for me! Tonight the linux server in my closet gets wiped and Solaris goes on. Unless... Search Phrase: Solaris sucks 602,000 hits Damn. Linux sucks 2.7 times worse than Solaris, but apparently Solaris still sucks.
"Is anyone on /. rich enough to be Republican?"
Maybe not today... but for a brief shining period around 1999, there were lots of republicans in these circles!
"If there was a Penthouse for nerds, this could be the start of a great story"
Nerds are considered the primary audience. Penthouse IS for nerds, in a very direct way.
Somebody who actually gets laid on occasion is more likely to read Playboy (and the articles, for real).
You are aware that your condition is not a uniform one correct? I am unsure from your post if you are claiming that because YOU could see it just fine that the statement is incorrect or something else. In any case I can also add a completely irrelevant anecdote to the story: my father in law cannot see red from green in MOST cases. My point is that unless you have some sort of evidence that the statistics mentioned in the article are incorrect then your statement is just as bad if not worse than theirs. Worse in that theirs is at least being published by someone and has some kind of review.
Start HERE.
The article states that 4% of men "can't distinguish between red and green". "Can't" is a pretty strong statement. Deuteranomaly is the type that affects the distinguishing of red/green, and it's not complete, and only in 1% of men.
"NewVote received its final deathblow when it became clear that the one machine that stayed within the radiation limits used a green-on-red color-scheme for its screen. And that would be a small problem for the 4% of all men that cannot distinguish between red and green."
Good heavens. As a a person with good old-fashioned red/green colourblindness I assure you that this statement is false.
There is no way that 4% of men can't distinguish between red and green. There's some difficulty in some circumstances, but a green on red colour screen on a voting machine would almost certainly be readable. They'll use high-contrast hues.
The vast majority of red-green colourblindness results from a cone deficiency. In some circumstances it's difficult to make out some differences, but if I see a red shirt, I know it's red and not green. Green lettering on the red shirt would likely be completely readable.
However, I seldom see purple. Usually it looks blue to me.
First we'll toss in one some people will kick and scream about: Graphic Design. Yes, I know all about the Gimp. And naturally the artists know that it's a poor substitute for the industry standard.
Sonar and Cubase have no reasonable alternative - just a bunch of separated projects (usually midi or audio editors, but not both simultaneuously) that sort of work if your drivers run just right, and none of them coming anywhere close to the feature sets of the commercial packages.
Games. Enough said.
The primary reason that people stop buying new CDs is because there are no good CDs being produced. I'd have lots of trouble naming 1 great CD that came out in the last 6 months (even though I've bought a couple).
If you think there's a lack of good music being produced, you're simply wrong. There's tons of it. You might have to do some searching, but no matter what your taste you will eventually be satisfied.
This "no good music these days" attitude is just the usual unnecessary and unwarranted elitist front worn by people from every period.
Either you got a bunch of racing titles as part of a bundle or you like them. If it is the later, give Project Gotham Racing a try. I know the title is lame. You are not racing in the bat mobile, it is a very good title.
I bought them. I dearly wish there were a Rallisport Challenge sequel coming out, but alas... the original developers don't own the title.
PGR2 (in my list) should actually be PGR3 (Project Gotham Racing 3). Being a launch title and consequently since reduced in price, I definitely had to get it.
Somebody already modified the article. It's not the end of 2007, it's the end of their fiscal year, or March.
If the Xbox was so hot, then why was it being offered with a $100 rebate during the Xmas buying season?
So I'm considering waiting for a PS3. The Blu-Ray aspect is semi-enticing, as I have an HDTV widescreen TV, and I'm mildly interested in Gran Turismo HD. I'm not a fanboy of either variety.
Then along comes Gears of War, and I'm suddenly reconsidering my decision. And then, boxing day, I discover I can get an XBOX360 for $100 less than before, with 'Ghost Recon', 'Live Arcade' and 'The Outfit' included.
The result? I now own an XBOX360, two additional controllers, and the following titles:
Madden '07
Gears of War
Burnout Revenge
PGR2
Ghost Recon
The Outfit
Tiger Woods '07
Live Arcade
Need For Speed Carbon
Test Drive Unlimited
So what did they gain from dropping the price for Christmas? Clearly my business.
Why in heavens name would I buy the PS3? Certainly not for the lousy launch lineup.
Does the guy have to lie about a blowjob to get impeached?
And coming back to India - that's brilliant news. Think that India has over 1 billion people. All of them will be Linux users. And finally they will come as cheap labour (IT support) to UK/US to promote FOSS. And don't forget about opportunities of opening cheap Linux support call centres there.
By my calculation we're talking about 0.003% of those 1 billion people. And Indian call centres for linux will likely be pricier than their Windows counterparts (smaller pool, rising demand). Those call centres are already rising in cost anyway.
Not that it isn't a promising sign... but to suggest all of India will embrace linux seems unrealistic.