Someone had a very good point that, in the cave man days, what probably killed a lot of people was something as simple as a sprained ankle or a bad scrape. You can't catch food for a week, maybe it gets infected or you start running a fever... so even simple things could really cull a population.
I'm really sorry that I forgot to write "up to" and apparently ticked off so many people. The point was that some significant percentage would not, and this changes the population. This is something you are not disproving by the way, just because I didn't add every possible caveat to my statement.
Fuck you, too, asshole. I have several friends who are doctors, and they do in fact "give a shit" or they wouldn't have gone into medicine. There are always jerks in any profession, but that doesn't set the rule.
I was born from a C-section as well, to save my mother's life. So I'm not saying that this is a bad thing, or that all children would die, or that all of them were caused directly by genetic issues. But a very high percentage of them do.
Most doctors still do not prefer to do a C-section out of convenience - it's a safe surgery, but what I've read indicates that surgery of any kind is still more dangerous and leads to a longer recovery time than drug-assisted natural birth.
A change like that in a population doesn't necessarily have to be "evolutionary" yet. Just by allowing more people with "negative" traits to survive we're changing what the population as a whole looks like.
Take caesarean sections, for example. In the US, 31% of births are by caesarian section. That right there is 31% of the future population who would not exist in more primitive times, and who carry genetics that make it at least more likely than average that they themselves will not be able to give birth without modern medical assistance. You can't tell me that doesn't change the overall makeup of a population in terms of its ability to deal with that specific problem.
Not saying that the grandparent poster isn't a kook. Just saying that while 400 years is too short of a time to result in speciation, for example, it is plenty of time to cause significant shifts in a population because of major shifts in selective pressure.
Heck, screw airports. What about high school graduations? Football games? Manhattan traffic, malls on the day after Thanksgiving.. I could go on but I've probably already lost my ability to get a security clearance.
There are some many places where one guy and a couple pipe bombs or gas cans could make people terrified to even leave their houses.
But hey, that's what it's already like in places like Israel that have actual terrorist problems. But somehow it's actually easier getting through an airport there than it is here. Sure, you have to let a guy pat you down before you get on the plane, but from what I've read they let you keep your nail clippers.
I could have bought that argument - if they sued them eight years ago.
Why now? All of these companies are established as a core of the market. One could argue that Toshiba needed them to help establish the DVD-R marketplace as viable to begin with.
There should be a shorter limit on how long you can knowingly allow someone to profit off of your supposed patents before you decide to sue them.
And as someone who has worked in GLSL (which is a similar level of abstraction as OpenCL) I can say you'll still see major differences even between cards from the same vendor.
I remember several minor tweaks in our code that gave 20% performance boosts on one card and 20% loss on another, and that was without ever actually getting into the assembler. Video games already often have largely different rendering paths for different cards when it comes to specific shader effects.
It makes perfect sense or we wouldn't be doing it. Just in time delivery and lean manufacturing have completely revamped industry and in general allowed them to be MORE efficient.
Anecdotally, I can say I've reduced my stupid story ratio drastically since I've started lying about this, although I will definitely agree that other professions get it as well. There's something of a difference between "amateur hobbyists are annoying" and "everyone you meet is annoying."
Or even... I understand random ignorant people acting as though they're experts. That seems like a reasonable line of self-indulgence and self-importance. What I don't get is the "and now I'll tell you in excruciating detail how little I know about this subject."
So the real question is, why the hell did you still pay that shop to do any work on your car instead of getting it towed to someplace that *wasn't* blatantly trying to rip you off?
I think it comes from the representation of the system in software. Most computers only have on hard disk, and one partition on that disk. Most of people's relationship with the computer comes in terms of "What's in my computer" and "What is on the floppy disk I just put into my computer." I think that interior/exterior is one of the few points that people really had to learn, had trouble with, and finally forced themselves to understand.
But it means that the box becomes very directly linked to the little icon of a hard disk on their computer, because that's where their pictures are now, because they had to copy it off of their floppy disk to be able to see them.
The worst part is that they never leave it at that. They want to go into their whole life story of how they fail miserably to learn basic computer tasks, but some hotshot 12-year-old nephew does it all the time, and isn't it amazing. It's like saying "I know nothing about cars, but I'm going to try to talk about engine repair for fifteen minutes." If you don't know anything, stop talking!
I have stopped telling contractors and salesmen that I work in computing. If you say you work construction, they're say that's neat, and go on with whatever they were doing. If you say computers, you get fifteen minutes of the most boring tales of computer failure you have ever heard. I literally once thanked a saleswoman for *not* doing that, as I had been shopping around and had heard the stories at every stop. She immediately proceeded to go into EXACTLY THE SAME STORY I just thanked her for skipping.
So to anyone who is not in the tech industry, I am now a part time carpenter, because no one loves to tell a carpenter how much they just don't understand wood.
It didn't help that some people learned about this stuff in the age of RAM Doubler and other Virtual Memory products. It took years for my dad to understand why he couldn't just bump his virtual memory to 10x his physical and run anything he wanted.
The problem is that the default combination of "easy" and "cheap" is horrible for you.
If I go to a fast food place (or heck, any restaurant) I can get 64 oz of soda (about 800 calories, or a third of what a man my size should have in a day) as a main menu item, for $1.50. For that same money, I can get bottled water (ie, tasteless, boring, and even more overpriced), tea with as much sugar as the soda, or 8 oz of milk.
I can make cheap and healthy food at home - but it's still probably actually going to cost about the same as frozen dinners, and I'll have to spend 30-60 minutes cooking. And I have to know how to cook (I do, but I'm amazed at how many people don't).
Tell me where I can stop for a quick meal on a road trip and get something healthy for $5. I can think of one: subway, and even then you need to read the fine print.
I'm saying this as someone who packs all of his lunches from home, makes a home-cooked meal every night, bakes his own whole wheat bread, and limits himself to one can of soda a day. But this is not the default behavior encouraged by the structure of our society, our stores, or our restaurants. The natural paths of least resistance in this country are expensive and healthy, or cheap and fried with MSG. We're a culture of nouveau riche peasants who have only barely discovered that we can't eat the same way we did when manual labor was standard.
By the way, I don't even own a mac any more, I build my own PC and pirate windows on it like most people I know. I'm just ticked off at how much getting an actually legit copy of windows can cost. Spending $287 on a copy of vista that I can transfer to my next PC is about 50% of what I spend on hardware.
Comparing what the license costs on a new system is pointless, because the price of your copy of OS X is rolled in with the hardware just like when you buy a prebuilt PC.
You could make the point that you *can* get an OEM copy of XP and run it on whatever you want, but then you are paying $120 to be no more legal than if you just pirated the software to begin with.
Personality it's the transience of natural areas like this that makes me like them so much.
Places like that are such a beautiful representation of time. Your little flicker of life walking past trees that have been there hundreds of years, perched precariously and temporarily on rocks that have been there for thousands of years, but showing such clear signs of erosion and fall that you know that their state, too, is temporary. The whole world we even know about is a blink in the eye of the universe.
Makes me feel far too much like a hippie to put it into words, but there is a beauty in realizing just how small our world is, both physically and temporally. Just a particular arrangement of atoms that things happen to be in right now.
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That seems as though it would make livestock fences a legal nightmare.
Someone had a very good point that, in the cave man days, what probably killed a lot of people was something as simple as a sprained ankle or a bad scrape. You can't catch food for a week, maybe it gets infected or you start running a fever... so even simple things could really cull a population.
Yeah, but you need *something* to do during work breaks.
I'm really sorry that I forgot to write "up to" and apparently ticked off so many people. The point was that some significant percentage would not, and this changes the population. This is something you are not disproving by the way, just because I didn't add every possible caveat to my statement.
Fuck you, too, asshole. I have several friends who are doctors, and they do in fact "give a shit" or they wouldn't have gone into medicine. There are always jerks in any profession, but that doesn't set the rule.
I was born from a C-section as well, to save my mother's life. So I'm not saying that this is a bad thing, or that all children would die, or that all of them were caused directly by genetic issues. But a very high percentage of them do.
Most doctors still do not prefer to do a C-section out of convenience - it's a safe surgery, but what I've read indicates that surgery of any kind is still more dangerous and leads to a longer recovery time than drug-assisted natural birth.
A change like that in a population doesn't necessarily have to be "evolutionary" yet. Just by allowing more people with "negative" traits to survive we're changing what the population as a whole looks like.
Take caesarean sections, for example. In the US, 31% of births are by caesarian section. That right there is 31% of the future population who would not exist in more primitive times, and who carry genetics that make it at least more likely than average that they themselves will not be able to give birth without modern medical assistance. You can't tell me that doesn't change the overall makeup of a population in terms of its ability to deal with that specific problem.
Not saying that the grandparent poster isn't a kook. Just saying that while 400 years is too short of a time to result in speciation, for example, it is plenty of time to cause significant shifts in a population because of major shifts in selective pressure.
This is such a core difference of philosophy between libertarians and... apparently... everyone else.
It all boils down to how much you trust your government to do something useful when they decide to do something.
Heck, screw airports. What about high school graduations? Football games? Manhattan traffic, malls on the day after Thanksgiving.. I could go on but I've probably already lost my ability to get a security clearance.
There are some many places where one guy and a couple pipe bombs or gas cans could make people terrified to even leave their houses.
But hey, that's what it's already like in places like Israel that have actual terrorist problems. But somehow it's actually easier getting through an airport there than it is here. Sure, you have to let a guy pat you down before you get on the plane, but from what I've read they let you keep your nail clippers.
I could have bought that argument - if they sued them eight years ago.
Why now? All of these companies are established as a core of the market. One could argue that Toshiba needed them to help establish the DVD-R marketplace as viable to begin with.
There should be a shorter limit on how long you can knowingly allow someone to profit off of your supposed patents before you decide to sue them.
And as someone who has worked in GLSL (which is a similar level of abstraction as OpenCL) I can say you'll still see major differences even between cards from the same vendor.
I remember several minor tweaks in our code that gave 20% performance boosts on one card and 20% loss on another, and that was without ever actually getting into the assembler. Video games already often have largely different rendering paths for different cards when it comes to specific shader effects.
It makes perfect sense or we wouldn't be doing it. Just in time delivery and lean manufacturing have completely revamped industry and in general allowed them to be MORE efficient.
So was this the first thought for anyone else when they read this story?
http://bash.org/?111338
Yes, this makes me feel like a horrible person.
Anecdotally, I can say I've reduced my stupid story ratio drastically since I've started lying about this, although I will definitely agree that other professions get it as well. There's something of a difference between "amateur hobbyists are annoying" and "everyone you meet is annoying."
Or even... I understand random ignorant people acting as though they're experts. That seems like a reasonable line of self-indulgence and self-importance. What I don't get is the "and now I'll tell you in excruciating detail how little I know about this subject."
So the real question is, why the hell did you still pay that shop to do any work on your car instead of getting it towed to someplace that *wasn't* blatantly trying to rip you off?
I think it comes from the representation of the system in software. Most computers only have on hard disk, and one partition on that disk. Most of people's relationship with the computer comes in terms of "What's in my computer" and "What is on the floppy disk I just put into my computer." I think that interior/exterior is one of the few points that people really had to learn, had trouble with, and finally forced themselves to understand.
But it means that the box becomes very directly linked to the little icon of a hard disk on their computer, because that's where their pictures are now, because they had to copy it off of their floppy disk to be able to see them.
The worst part is that they never leave it at that. They want to go into their whole life story of how they fail miserably to learn basic computer tasks, but some hotshot 12-year-old nephew does it all the time, and isn't it amazing. It's like saying "I know nothing about cars, but I'm going to try to talk about engine repair for fifteen minutes." If you don't know anything, stop talking!
I have stopped telling contractors and salesmen that I work in computing. If you say you work construction, they're say that's neat, and go on with whatever they were doing. If you say computers, you get fifteen minutes of the most boring tales of computer failure you have ever heard. I literally once thanked a saleswoman for *not* doing that, as I had been shopping around and had heard the stories at every stop. She immediately proceeded to go into EXACTLY THE SAME STORY I just thanked her for skipping.
So to anyone who is not in the tech industry, I am now a part time carpenter, because no one loves to tell a carpenter how much they just don't understand wood.
It didn't help that some people learned about this stuff in the age of RAM Doubler and other Virtual Memory products. It took years for my dad to understand why he couldn't just bump his virtual memory to 10x his physical and run anything he wanted.
But they are *always* willing to point out some reason that they are not *quite* as nerdy as the other guys :)
Video gamers make fun of tabletop gamers make fun of larpers make fun of magic players.
I still find it strange that it seems to be only old-world, *major* corporations that have this problem so badly.
Every random kid's blog and webcomic has archives dating back to the day the thing started and easily accessible.
I thought Netscape already did that. At least that's how it felt on the old school celerons.
The problem is that the default combination of "easy" and "cheap" is horrible for you.
If I go to a fast food place (or heck, any restaurant) I can get 64 oz of soda (about 800 calories, or a third of what a man my size should have in a day) as a main menu item, for $1.50. For that same money, I can get bottled water (ie, tasteless, boring, and even more overpriced), tea with as much sugar as the soda, or 8 oz of milk.
I can make cheap and healthy food at home - but it's still probably actually going to cost about the same as frozen dinners, and I'll have to spend 30-60 minutes cooking. And I have to know how to cook (I do, but I'm amazed at how many people don't).
Tell me where I can stop for a quick meal on a road trip and get something healthy for $5. I can think of one: subway, and even then you need to read the fine print.
I'm saying this as someone who packs all of his lunches from home, makes a home-cooked meal every night, bakes his own whole wheat bread, and limits himself to one can of soda a day. But this is not the default behavior encouraged by the structure of our society, our stores, or our restaurants. The natural paths of least resistance in this country are expensive and healthy, or cheap and fried with MSG. We're a culture of nouveau riche peasants who have only barely discovered that we can't eat the same way we did when manual labor was standard.
Blind adoration won't get you anywhere.
By the way, I don't even own a mac any more, I build my own PC and pirate windows on it like most people I know. I'm just ticked off at how much getting an actually legit copy of windows can cost. Spending $287 on a copy of vista that I can transfer to my next PC is about 50% of what I spend on hardware.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116473
That is for an XP Pro OEM license, which cannot be transferred. A leopard license can be installed on any mac you want.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16837116195
XP Pro retail license: $264.99.
Comparing what the license costs on a new system is pointless, because the price of your copy of OS X is rolled in with the hardware just like when you buy a prebuilt PC.
You could make the point that you *can* get an OEM copy of XP and run it on whatever you want, but then you are paying $120 to be no more legal than if you just pirated the software to begin with.
Personality it's the transience of natural areas like this that makes me like them so much.
Places like that are such a beautiful representation of time. Your little flicker of life walking past trees that have been there hundreds of years, perched precariously and temporarily on rocks that have been there for thousands of years, but showing such clear signs of erosion and fall that you know that their state, too, is temporary. The whole world we even know about is a blink in the eye of the universe.
Makes me feel far too much like a hippie to put it into words, but there is a beauty in realizing just how small our world is, both physically and temporally. Just a particular arrangement of atoms that things happen to be in right now.