Last year is representative of all the data since 1960, and as one might assume if one were to have ones eyes open at any point in this century, the US 0wns everyone in GDP per capita
U.S. Canada Japan Korea Austria Belgium Denmark France Germany Italy Netherlands Norway Sweden U.K. 34,960 29,489 25,587 18,177 27,902 25,769 28,050 25,578 24,813 24,894 25,938 30,882 27,118 26,039
Or, normalized so that US = 100:
U.S. Canada Japan Korea Austria Belgium Denmark France Germany Italy Netherlands Norway Sweden U.K. 100.0 84.4 73.2 52.0 79.8 73.7 80.2 73.2 71.0 71.2 74.2 88.3 77.6 74.5
I notice you decided not to cite the source of your claim. Maybe there's some other way of calculating "productivity" besides GDP (but I can't think of it.) I'm sure you'll explain and back it up with a reference.
Thanks. I wonder why that's not on by default? If you've got the vidcard to handle 3d lighting efftcts, etc., you can certainly handle anti-aliasing.
And it looks like crap without it.
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No, he didn't, and neither did the mod who rated him +1 informative.
I've downloaded and installed the demo. It is a plugin to powerpoint only. It will neither install nor work in any capacity without powerpoint.
And it makes pretty animated 3d backgrounds, and makes everything do crazy spinning in 3d when you click on it. Right click and drag the screen, and the whole page can be twisted about in 3D, even flipping it around 180 degrees so you see the "back" of the text.
Very useful when presenting new world domination plans to the molemen who, of course, read everything from the back side.
Click on a line of text and all the letters spin independantly, with the first letters spinning first, then the next, etc. They even continue to spin while you right-click and spin the whole page into reverse-view, so you can see individually spinning letters from behind. Now if that doesn't add power to your point I don't know what will;)
But they still don't antialias the fucking fonts and you can still see the pixels. Sad. Like the moronic mod who modded that moron +1 informative.
What I'd like to see is US foreign policy that is far-sighted enough that it leads to an environment where military action is rarely necessary.
And I'd like a magic wand that can make Skittles fall from the sky at my whim. Oh, and a pony.
I think the U.S. government makes a lot of decisions without considering the long-term effects, and then looks to the military to bail them out when the shit hits the fan later on.
And I think you're being naieve to think that.
Your entire post assumes that such a foreign policy exists. I don't think it does. Why don't you tell us what this policy is and how you know it will do what you want?
Unemployment and bad credit both = no chance in hell of college.
I hope I'm not out of line (or dragging this out too long) when I say -- that's not true. You can still get grants and loans (cheap loans, with lots of deferment time before you have to pay.) Credit is irrelevant to grant/loan approval for students.
I was unemployed with horrendous credit when I decided to get a GED (yes, I dropped out in 11th grade) and go back to school at 23. I think you had to be, at the time, 24 to avoid having your parental income counted in your assets when checking your ability to get grants (loans are practically unlimited, and the rate I pay now is less than 3%). Unless, as I did, you can establish that you've been living on your own/supporting yourself for 12+ months. Grants would have been enough if I'd have been willing to give up ganja and girls a bit more.
Go to a state school (cheap, lots of aid.) If you're a minority of any kind it's even easier (lots of scholarships available, many earmarked for minorities.) Suck it up and take the loans. It's worth it. If you manage to graduate (with a useful degree -- we're not talking English or History major here, I hope) you'll never notice the debt.
I lived OK (in an apt., off campus, at Univ. Florida) but nothing fancy for 4 years. I accrued about $18k in debt (for living expense and tuition that grants didn't cover) but it's the best $18k I ever spent. I pay $120ish a month for that now, which I don't even notice (making well into 6-figs.)
If you're older, mature, ready to learn and work hard, you'll own those classes and come out with a fat GPA and a nice entry-level salary (I started at $50k in '97, more than triple that now 7 years later.) It was worth it to me, and most of those I know that did it.
Contrast with out-of-high-school fuckoffs for whom mommy pays tuition and room/board. You've worked for a living and know what it's like. You've (presumably) got motivation. And very little to lose.
Please consider it.
If not, 's OK. It was fun talking to you. I've never met you but somehow I think you're a pretty cool person with something to offer the world and yourself. I don't think you're doing all you can. Which is fine, but may get boring for you. Just don't assume there are not other options -- I went to school with 45-year olds who kicked ass because of their motivation.
Verilog (and VHDL) for sure. I didn't list them all, but those are pretty much a given.
ABEL is a definite no-no. I think that's pretty much limited to FPGA and basic state-machine design. Or at least that's the only place I've seen it (college.)
Why not go to school and get more degreeage. You sound fairly smart and curious (most PC techs can't spell CPLD, in my experience.) I think you may be shortchanging yourself.
Yes always. I'm afraid you're confused. Nvidia's drivers are all unified (one update for all cards.) The 61.76 drivers are WHQL certified for all nvidia cards. Being all-in-one, it would be impossible for them to be certified for only some cards and not others. MS doesn't even provide a mechanism for that.
And I happen to have a 6900u as well. I run 61.76 also. Definitely WHQL-certified.
Hey! I've been promoted to flamebait! Bring on another, dicks. After all, that'd be easier than reading the rest of the thread and seeing how right I am.
I haven't seen any recent video drivers that are WHQL certified. At least, not nVidia drivers.
Eh? The 61.76 drivers from nvidia are whql-certified. In fact, all released (non-beta) nvidia drivers are whql-certified. Perhaps you're thinking of ATI? I wouldn't know about that.
But I challenge you to point to a non-beta nvidia driver release in the last 3 years that wasn't whql certified.
Well, I didn't mean to hit a nerve or anything, but I guess I did. I have to say though, if you've spent as much time as it seems you have debating and justifying it to yourself, it's probably not what employers want to see.
And if you're ashamed to say it's msword, then why is it msword? How can you go into an interview holding something you're ashamed of?
Then again, maybe you're looking for work in graphic design or something, in which case what you describe may well indeed be "restrained."
But if it's a tech career you're after, please take no offense when I say, as someone who hires ASIC engineers, only the text matters.
And, FWIW, my resume is a list of tools (Silison Ensemble/SOC Encounter, Cadence Composer/Virtuoso, Dracula, Calibre, Magma, Primetime, HSPICE, etc.) programming languages (Perl, TCL, Lisp, C, -- in that order BTW) and tapeouts including gate counts, operating rates, IP, and respins (0).
Frankly, I'd rather you lie about experience (and make up for the lie by learning something new, because my interview will reveal unprepared lies) than include "bezier lines," "columns," and "bullets." Unless of course I were hiring graphic designers. Which I'm not.
But I am hiring ASIC engineers, so please do send me your resume if you're into it. ASCII only please.
BECAUSE I'M NOT A FUCKING TROLL, I JUST HAVE AN OPINION THAT ISN'T INSANELY LEFT-WING AND I'M STUPID ENOUGH TO POST IT ON THIS GODDAMN FORUM IN A NEAR-FUTILE ATTEMPT TO ADD SOME BALANCE TO THIS CIRCLE JERK
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insisting I take my resume that I've carefully crafted and formatted over the years, and strip it down to plaintext and then upload it in a webform textarea.
What kind of resume do you have that's hard to represent in text? MS Word.doc? JPGs? Animated GIFs?
Not to be mean, but maybe that's you're problem. Resumes are about content, not form or presentation. Or at least mine is. And I'm doing well and hassled by recruiters weekly.
I have not problem with you in particular (other than you mean "you're" and "than," not "your" or "then") but you're facts are false. The mods I don't like.
Wait a minute -- mods mostly Republican? You must be new here.
Good luck with that man. Playboy has teh bandwidth to spare. Hugh punds hot babes on stacks of cash nightly. Whatever falls off the bed goes to the ISP.
Maybe you were thinking about this and just added a zero?
I realize that it's very important to the Kerry campaign to emphasize that (1) the economy is not doing well despite the tax cuts and (2) the war in Iraq is not doing well and should never have happened, but (1) won't fly and (2) is debatable.
The ferret, by the way, does seem to be an odd mascot choice for an organization devoted to strict legal adherence, given that the weasel-like mammals are outlawed in California and several other states.
Anyway, were I in 4th grade, I'd submit "nibbler."
You know. In honor of the old copy/backup programs often called "nibblers" frmo the C64/Apple2 days. Since they nibbled the disk bit-by-bit to make exact copies. And like ferrets.
Thanks for the reply. But I'm afraid I dont understand.
What makes you think he wants to humiliate prisoners? How does his ineffectiveness (or effectiveness, for that matter) at reducing recidivism make him a sadist? How does he humiliate prisoners?
I really don't get it. Some people dislike this guy a lot and make (unsubstantiated) claims such as yours. Others love him. Few are ambivalent.
I just don't get it. Really. Nothing he's done (not counting unfounded allegations) seems sadistic or humiliating to me.
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The only difference between AM and X-Ray is the frequency.
The only difference between visible light and X-Ray is the frequency.
What was your point again?
Wow, that would indeed be very interesting, as the credulous mod asserts with his mighty +1 of truth, were it not utter bullshit.
See here
Last year is representative of all the data since 1960, and as one might assume if one were to have ones eyes open at any point in this century, the US 0wns everyone in GDP per capita
U.S. Canada Japan Korea Austria Belgium Denmark France Germany Italy Netherlands Norway Sweden U.K.
34,960 29,489 25,587 18,177 27,902 25,769 28,050 25,578 24,813 24,894 25,938 30,882 27,118 26,039
Or, normalized so that US = 100:
U.S. Canada Japan Korea Austria Belgium Denmark France Germany Italy Netherlands Norway Sweden U.K.
100.0 84.4 73.2 52.0 79.8 73.7 80.2 73.2 71.0 71.2 74.2 88.3 77.6 74.5
I notice you decided not to cite the source of your claim. Maybe there's some other way of calculating "productivity" besides GDP (but I can't think of it.) I'm sure you'll explain and back it up with a reference.
Thanks. I wonder why that's not on by default? If you've got the vidcard to handle 3d lighting efftcts, etc., you can certainly handle anti-aliasing.
And it looks like crap without it.
No, he didn't, and neither did the mod who rated him +1 informative.
;)
I've downloaded and installed the demo. It is a plugin to powerpoint only. It will neither install nor work in any capacity without powerpoint.
And it makes pretty animated 3d backgrounds, and makes everything do crazy spinning in 3d when you click on it. Right click and drag the screen, and the whole page can be twisted about in 3D, even flipping it around 180 degrees so you see the "back" of the text.
Very useful when presenting new world domination plans to the molemen who, of course, read everything from the back side.
Click on a line of text and all the letters spin independantly, with the first letters spinning first, then the next, etc. They even continue to spin while you right-click and spin the whole page into reverse-view, so you can see individually spinning letters from behind. Now if that doesn't add power to your point I don't know what will
But they still don't antialias the fucking fonts and you can still see the pixels. Sad. Like the moronic mod who modded that moron +1 informative.
Wow, proposing rape for celebrities to stop them from making "slutty and trashy movies" achieves +1 Insightful on slashdot.
That's really pathetic.
What I'd like to see is US foreign policy that is far-sighted enough that it leads to an environment where military action is rarely necessary.
And I'd like a magic wand that can make Skittles fall from the sky at my whim. Oh, and a pony.
I think the U.S. government makes a lot of decisions without considering the long-term effects, and then looks to the military to bail them out when the shit hits the fan later on.
And I think you're being naieve to think that.
Your entire post assumes that such a foreign policy exists. I don't think it does. Why don't you tell us what this policy is and how you know it will do what you want?
Unemployment and bad credit both = no chance in hell of college.
I hope I'm not out of line (or dragging this out too long) when I say -- that's not true. You can still get grants and loans (cheap loans, with lots of deferment time before you have to pay.) Credit is irrelevant to grant/loan approval for students.
I was unemployed with horrendous credit when I decided to get a GED (yes, I dropped out in 11th grade) and go back to school at 23. I think you had to be, at the time, 24 to avoid having your parental income counted in your assets when checking your ability to get grants (loans are practically unlimited, and the rate I pay now is less than 3%). Unless, as I did, you can establish that you've been living on your own/supporting yourself for 12+ months. Grants would have been enough if I'd have been willing to give up ganja and girls a bit more.
Go to a state school (cheap, lots of aid.) If you're a minority of any kind it's even easier (lots of scholarships available, many earmarked for minorities.) Suck it up and take the loans. It's worth it. If you manage to graduate (with a useful degree -- we're not talking English or History major here, I hope) you'll never notice the debt.
I lived OK (in an apt., off campus, at Univ. Florida) but nothing fancy for 4 years. I accrued about $18k in debt (for living expense and tuition that grants didn't cover) but it's the best $18k I ever spent. I pay $120ish a month for that now, which I don't even notice (making well into 6-figs.)
If you're older, mature, ready to learn and work hard, you'll own those classes and come out with a fat GPA and a nice entry-level salary (I started at $50k in '97, more than triple that now 7 years later.) It was worth it to me, and most of those I know that did it.
Contrast with out-of-high-school fuckoffs for whom mommy pays tuition and room/board. You've worked for a living and know what it's like. You've (presumably) got motivation. And very little to lose.
Please consider it.
If not, 's OK. It was fun talking to you. I've never met you but somehow I think you're a pretty cool person with something to offer the world and yourself. I don't think you're doing all you can. Which is fine, but may get boring for you. Just don't assume there are not other options -- I went to school with 45-year olds who kicked ass because of their motivation.
Verilog (and VHDL) for sure. I didn't list them all, but those are pretty much a given.
ABEL is a definite no-no. I think that's pretty much limited to FPGA and basic state-machine design. Or at least that's the only place I've seen it (college.)
Why not go to school and get more degreeage. You sound fairly smart and curious (most PC techs can't spell CPLD, in my experience.) I think you may be shortchanging yourself.
Yes always. I'm afraid you're confused. Nvidia's drivers are all unified (one update for all cards.) The 61.76 drivers are WHQL certified for all nvidia cards. Being all-in-one, it would be impossible for them to be certified for only some cards and not others. MS doesn't even provide a mechanism for that.
And I happen to have a 6900u as well. I run 61.76 also. Definitely WHQL-certified.
Hey! I've been promoted to flamebait! Bring on another, dicks. After all, that'd be easier than reading the rest of the thread and seeing how right I am.
It's easier to mod than to debate.
Especially if you're a moron with mod points.
Fucking idiots.
Yes you.
Interesting post.
Microsoft Windows XP Professional limitations
Such as? I'm really curious.
I haven't seen any recent video drivers that are WHQL certified. At least, not nVidia drivers.
Eh? The 61.76 drivers from nvidia are whql-certified. In fact, all released (non-beta) nvidia drivers are whql-certified. Perhaps you're thinking of ATI? I wouldn't know about that.
But I challenge you to point to a non-beta nvidia driver release in the last 3 years that wasn't whql certified.
Well, I didn't mean to hit a nerve or anything, but I guess I did. I have to say though, if you've spent as much time as it seems you have debating and justifying it to yourself, it's probably not what employers want to see.
And if you're ashamed to say it's msword, then why is it msword? How can you go into an interview holding something you're ashamed of?
Then again, maybe you're looking for work in graphic design or something, in which case what you describe may well indeed be "restrained."
But if it's a tech career you're after, please take no offense when I say, as someone who hires ASIC engineers, only the text matters.
And, FWIW, my resume is a list of tools (Silison Ensemble/SOC Encounter, Cadence Composer/Virtuoso, Dracula, Calibre, Magma, Primetime, HSPICE, etc.) programming languages (Perl, TCL, Lisp, C, -- in that order BTW) and tapeouts including gate counts, operating rates, IP, and respins (0).
Frankly, I'd rather you lie about experience (and make up for the lie by learning something new, because my interview will reveal unprepared lies) than include "bezier lines," "columns," and "bullets." Unless of course I were hiring graphic designers. Which I'm not.
But I am hiring ASIC engineers, so please do send me your resume if you're into it. ASCII only please.
Yep, you're a mcuh better troll than I.
BECAUSE I'M NOT A FUCKING TROLL, I JUST HAVE AN OPINION THAT ISN'T INSANELY LEFT-WING AND I'M STUPID ENOUGH TO POST IT ON THIS GODDAMN FORUM IN A NEAR-FUTILE ATTEMPT TO ADD SOME BALANCE TO THIS CIRCLE JERK
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I was with you right up to:
.doc? JPGs? Animated GIFs?
insisting I take my resume that I've carefully crafted and formatted over the years, and strip it down to plaintext and then upload it in a webform textarea.
What kind of resume do you have that's hard to represent in text? MS Word
Not to be mean, but maybe that's you're problem. Resumes are about content, not form or presentation. Or at least mine is. And I'm doing well and hassled by recruiters weekly.
I have not problem with you in particular (other than you mean "you're" and "than," not "your" or "then") but you're facts are false. The mods I don't like.
Wait a minute -- mods mostly Republican? You must be new here.
Or really slow.
Can I get one more you fuck-wit ass-pirate turd-burglaring bone-headed shit-sucking worthless left-wing nut-nuzzlers?
Good luck with that man. Playboy has teh bandwidth to spare. Hugh punds hot babes on stacks of cash nightly. Whatever falls off the bed goes to the ISP.
Uphill battle indeed.
Hit it again, asshat. I've plenty of karma to burn.
Fuckwit kerry knob-slobberers.
Offtopic. Riight.
Suck it mods.
Maybe you were thinking about this and just added a zero?
I realize that it's very important to the Kerry campaign to emphasize that (1) the economy is not doing well despite the tax cuts and (2) the war in Iraq is not doing well and should never have happened, but (1) won't fly and (2) is debatable.
Don't blame me -- I'm voting for Nader.
Because I live in MA.
As the article says:
;)
The ferret, by the way, does seem to be an odd mascot choice for an organization devoted to strict legal adherence, given that the weasel-like mammals are outlawed in California and several other states.
Anyway, were I in 4th grade, I'd submit "nibbler."
You know. In honor of the old copy/backup programs often called "nibblers" frmo the C64/Apple2 days. Since they nibbled the disk bit-by-bit to make exact copies. And like ferrets.
Get it?
Yes it does. But I find nothing there to support your claim of a "50% growth the first few years of the Bush administration."
Thanks for the reply. But I'm afraid I dont understand.
What makes you think he wants to humiliate prisoners? How does his ineffectiveness (or effectiveness, for that matter) at reducing recidivism make him a sadist? How does he humiliate prisoners?
I really don't get it. Some people dislike this guy a lot and make (unsubstantiated) claims such as yours. Others love him. Few are ambivalent.
I just don't get it. Really. Nothing he's done (not counting unfounded allegations) seems sadistic or humiliating to me.
Well, prison growth is largely due to the War on Some Drugs.
we are looking at over 50% growth the first few years of the Bush administration
But that isn't true. 50% growth in 3 years would be news. It wasn't because it didn't happen. Cite?