What the benchmarks mean is that if you do a lot of media encoding, compiling, etc, you would probably benefit from conroe. HOWEVER, if you play games, regardless of whether or not you are on an AMD/INTEL system currently--if your system is pretty new--Do not upgrade at this time, as you are GPU limited, not CPU limited.
Basically conroe:
Large performance gains in cpu bound applications
Little performance gain in gpu bound applications, obviously.
This is good for intel. My systems for the past 7 years or so have been AMD. My next one very well may not be.
The good news for everyone is that AMD is now the underdog again. Remember what happened last time they were the underdog? We got the athlon. The cpu speed wars went into a frenzy. For the last several years (5 or so) Intel has been sucking balls. Their chips have not been performance competitive. Clock speeds in both camps have stagnated. AMD chip prices have went way up compared to how they used to be.
This is good news, AMD will go into overdrive developing their next-gen chips. Amd chips will become dirt cheap again. We'll see a new performance war. This is something i've been waiting for anxiously for a few years. I am very excited.
Another thing is that the new intel chips take much less power than the old ones . (thank god)
Only care if they get caught? Sounds just like the corps to me.. Why should I feel sorry for them? Only instead of downloading a song, they are putting on rootkits on CDs that lead to new spam pathways, dumping toxic chemicals, creating artificial blackouts to screw consumers, etc.. why should I even care if they are getting ripped off?
While we cannot and should not assume that Microsoft has OpenOffice's best interests at heart (of course they don't) this is still excellent news.
This is extremely significant news. What this means is that, after years and years of MSO having no competition, years after they basically wiped out wordperfect etc... There is now significant competition to Microsoft Office, and they are being forced to acknowledge it.
Hopefully this will mean that Microsoft will start developing some new revolutionary stuff in Microsoft Office instead of just resting on their laurels (sorry but I don't think any version since 6.0 has been that huge of an upgrade compared to going to 6.0). This is good news. We are all going to get better products instead of everyone just copying each other's minor features.
Open Office is here to stay. They have succesfully gotten a multi-billion dollar company to acknowledge them as a serious competitor just like Linux forced them to acknowledge that windows has competition. Microsoft no longer has the monopoly they did a few years ago.
What the hell? Why is it on slashdot that people feel the need to randomly attack *EVERYTHING* that is posted?!?!?!
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you?!?! A low speed pentium chip doesn't take much power. Maybe the cost they saved by making it used standard off the shelf equipment is so great that you wouldn't recoup the costs as a customer over the life of the product from them using that, vs. a custom extremely low power chip. Really? WTF??
You call these guys nutweeds, and manage to also attack microsoft.net in your post as well! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? Do you attack any idea that comes along regardless of how much you know about it??? You are the kind of person that randomly attacks any idea that comes along, just because. You are the kind of person that attacks any kind of new technology for any reason they can regardless of if it makes any sense or is based on fact.
What is even sadder is that this got modded up as INSIGHTFUL! God, that is so frelling sad. News flash: it isn't insightful to randomly attack something you know very little about.
The fact is, this is a very neat idea. Taking the utility companies' exploitation and turning it around on them! AND YOU ATTACK IT! Seriously! Go get laid.
I'm posting this logged in, and with +karma, I know I'll get modded down as a troll, but by god...I don't care.
You can build or buy a system MUCH BETTER than the imac for a lot less but that Dell is not one of them I just want to point out why.
The mac system isn't that great, and needs 2gb of ram (or at least 1gb) but...
The Dell's processor is slower than the iMacs by a large amount. Not to mention the coreDou runs MUCH cooler. The Pentium D is a joke and no offense but anyone who would choose one over a dual core athlon is a retard (unless they didn't have a choice). The Intel CoreDou is an *excellent* chip.
The Dell's video card is a low end 7300. With turbocache. The X1600 is a better card for gaming. You realize that having the 256mb of ram on it is mostly marketing? The 7300 is suitable for a non-gamer, but not much more. The X1600 is a low-mid-range card that, although not being really suitable for playing stuff at high lvls of AA/aniso, is not bad.
I know it was global cooling a couple decades ago, global warming now...etc...
The scary thing is people try to use this "well we aren't sure what is really going on, if it's natural, if it's us, etc" to say that we shouldn't care.
The fact that we don't KNOW exactly how we are impacting the environment is bad. However, the kyoto thing was just written up to be an economic attack against the U.S.
People also need to realize that using energy is not necessarily bad, it's the pollution that is bad. If those SUVs get terrible mileage, it's not necessarily bad if they don't pollute. Your little 4-banger from the early 80's may get great mileage but it pollutes a lot worse than a modern SUV.
Meh, I think part of being a kid is the desire to seek out new knowledge. Some of that knowledge will obviously be sexual and violent in nature. That's because the world has sex and violence. Kids will seek out knowledge about the world. And that is a good thing. It's when one form of knowledge takes all of their attention that you have a problem.
I, certainly, saw some porn magazines when I was like 12. Some actual porn, penthouse etc! I turned out fine. I watched some violent movies. I shot guns when I was young, still do. I've never even hurt anyone in a fist fight, only helped break things up. I have problems with spending too much time playing computer games. I RARELY played computer games when i was like 10-12, onyl when I got to be a teenager.
If someone gets fired from their job or something (as someone earlier in the thread was saying) because of a pr0n addiction. I hate to say it, but porn is NOT THE PROBLEM in that case.
If the person has such a pr0n addiction that they cannot function, I doubt it is the p0rns fault. If it werent that, it'd be somethign else. Instead they need to find an addictive behavior that they can live off of, such as running a porn site. (just kidding on that one lol)
You can get STDs from things other than sexual activity too.
Warts can grow all over your body (they usually don't, but it is POSSIBLE) and the virus CAN be transmitted by sex. You can get warts from a lot of stuff. Shoot I had some warts when I was 10. I don't have any now. I sure wasn't having sex when I was 10. But it CAN be an std as well.
You can get some other stuff as well. Sharing needles, accidents, blood transfusion oopsies, etc! Not having sex is NOT a 100% gaurantee against STD's, despite the fact that the "religious right" (religious wrong imho) always say that it is. OHHH and being gay makes you more likely to get them (hahaha, no dipshits, it's the whole multiple partners are more likely thing).
The Apocrypha have no basis in truth (whether you say the Bible does or not is up to you hehe). But the early Christians, the ones that formed the beginnings of the "accepted" documents knew that what was in the Apocrypha were falsehoods, thus they were not incorporated into the cannon of scripture. Remember, these were people who were only a generation or two (or longer in some cases for the apoc. down from Paul, and even Jesus himself). Read the Bible and then read some of the Apocrypha sometime. Don't take my word for it! Go check it out. It CLEARLY does not belong.
A LOT of the stuff that some Christians teach has NO basis in whats in the Bible either. Stuff like abortion (go find the text wher it says that it would have been better for the person to have been miscarried than to lead a miserable life), the rapture (no basis in scripture), the mormons believe some totally non-biblical stuff. Eternal damnation in hell (wait, don't you have to accept Jesus for eternal life? Apparently according to some Christians you can accept Satan and you'll get eternal life too! Just in hell, but still eternal life.)
Now, the people that think the KJV is the only good Bible are just as ridiculous imho as the people that think the apocrypha is truth. The only people I know (actually, KNEW) personally that believed the KJV was IT were some VERY VERY weird southern baptists. The kind of people Jesus warned against in the new testament. The ones that follow all the laws, but their heart isn't there. In historical reality, there is *great* evidence for the accuracy of the new testament we have now. The KJV was pretty accurate, but they did not have many (I want to say most, actually) of the oldest manuscripts that we have found. Probably the most accurate translation is the New American Standard Bible. The book(s) *are* historically accurate, and very few take the apocrypha to fit in with them at all.
Whether you want to believe the *content* of the new testament is obviously something very different indeed, as there is very substantial evidence for a very old earth, and macroevolution, etc!
This isn't the same as the mark of the beast, however it DOES prove that indeed there is no new idea under the sun:)
Anyway, I don't think the mark of the beast is something physical (i mean how could they control your thoughts right)... Instead I believe it means that it is in their minds (what they think) and in their hands (what they do, their actions)...
So the world will think and do a certain way, after the beast... my input lol
Still, this is an interesting thing for employee rights in that it brings up a: how far will it go? question.
This is flamebait but he makes a valid point. "Mainstream science" aka the ones that get all the credence around here have a huge double standard in that a testable hypothesis derived from the idea of interventionism is automatically discredited where as a non-testable idea from the naturalism school of thought is given a fair look.
Science just works inside whatever paradigm is currently going...Anythign else is discredited... The evolutionist fundies are just as bad as the right wing religious fundies in that they cannot admit that maybe, just maybe, some of the other side makes valid points.
/ I am not a scientist , I am not experienced, therefore feel free to attack me and discredit me because I don't know what I'm talkign about.. go ahead.. I won't blame you.. I see it done all the time on here, it's what i've come to expect when slashdot has a discussion mentioning any part of origins.
Well, it is a very well established theory. It is the one we have which best (and surprisingly closely explains in most cases) what we currently know about cosmology. It is a theory in the scientific sense! We can propose testable experiments from the theory to help solidify it, or to invalidate it.
AND off topic, but flame on! "Intelligent Design" in the form of interventionism is also a theory in the same way that the theory of evolution is. I'd go so far as to say that in NO WAY is belief in a God scientific BUT you can include religion in science. Belief in the Bible flood, or in stories from the Bible, can give you ideas for testable hypothesis. You cannot however, scientifically prove the Bible stories true. But you could form valid scientific theories to explain Biblical events and get evidence to solidify such theories. Just the same for evolution. You can't go back and see exactly what happened, but you can use the idea to formulate experiments to test and solidify the theory that life originated from common ancestors. I don't see the problem..../flame on
Sorry, his arguement is fine. "You feel that abortion should be legal, but I disagree because you are uneducated and poor." That quote/arguement is totally different and unrelated. It tries to compare two things which are not necessarily correlated.
In this case, Bill would NOT HAVE HAD THE PRODUCT TO SELL if he had not produced it with stuff he stole from someone else. Bill's arguement is an example of applying rules and laws unequaly to serve one's own interests. Pointing this out is a good thing.
Oh, and I own a legal copy of windows xp, so stuff it, I'm not a pirate.
What if some scumbag sends me a link and I visit it and it's some sick shit like child porn. I immediately close it BUT THERE'S A COPY MADE IN MY BROWSER CACHE.
Have I just produced child pron? Dear god I hope not, but it seems like that could be argued based on this ruling...
scary
Why wasn't this guy just put in jail for possession of it. Posession of it is illegal and by burning it to a cd well.. he pretty much proved his guild, there.
High quality XVID-encoded downloads from the internet...(probably from your favorite bit-torrent site)...
Anyone have a way to get HD content? OH THAT'S RIGHT!!! Hd-dvd and blu-ray aren't available yet, you can't. DiVX/XVID/whatever variation you use, IS HERE NOW and you can get the content. It might be a civil infraction but what the hell... Why don't the studios offer some divx encoded movies for download for a comparable price to going to blockbuster and renting it, or something?
Yeah, yeah, you could keep the file forever OH NOES!!!11eleven. Someone could go to blockbuster and rent somethign and rip it, keeping it forever. Yet most people don't. Even if they did, I doubt it would make people slow down in their spending, only speed up! Sigh/shrug (haven't bought a movie in a longgg longgg time, did buy some tv-series tho)
The porn industry is usually the first to embrace new technology. Bit-torrent, etc, probably helps them out a lot. THe thing they DON'T like I would imagine, is other for-pay sites selling their work illegaly:) But like, if you are downloading some HOT WET LESBIANS and it's the h0ttest evah and you see the sapphic erotica logo on the bottom your like shitttt i should go sign up for that it'd be wayyy faster to download... lol..
That a lot of places have really sleazy ways of dealing with people. Fred Meyers in Alaska (they are retards that voted not to unionize, I worked there for a summer to earn some cash) has a contract that you sign that says if you don't show up to work, you have quit. That way you can't collect unemployment. Just to screw you over...Wow... lol...
When I quit from there, I gave them my 2 weeks notice, they said I could leave at the end of the week however, and I did. I came back there to go shopping (no hard feelings, I was going back to college) and my superviser (not my manager/boss) was pissed at me for not showing up to work. The idiot manager hadn't even told the guy!!! LoL.. anyway just wanted to tell my funny story.
On the other hand, last summer I worked at an alaska native health clinic. The work was really, really boring. But I was treated VERY well. I got more work done in a couple days than the person that was in my previous position got done in weeks. We were both sad when I went off to school. I am basically gauranteed a great chance of getting hired to work there again if I am back in town looking for a job. A real employer doesn't care about the little things, as long as you get your ****ing work done fast and efficiently and don't bitch. The way it should be!
ritalin is NOT an amphetamine last i checked... and is not really too similar to meth at all!!! Well, of course it is similar, but you know what i mean... Last i checked it was actually very similar in action to.. cocaine...
So yes
Ritalin=similar to coke Adderall=a mix of 4 amphetamine salts designed to be the smoothest acting (seriously, and you wonder why it gets abused)...
but since no one has bothered to link to any reputable sites, lemme just go
Slashdot Mirror
What the benchmarks mean is that if you do a lot of media encoding, compiling, etc, you would probably benefit from conroe. HOWEVER, if you play games, regardless of whether or not you are on an AMD/INTEL system currently--if your system is pretty new--Do not upgrade at this time, as you are GPU limited, not CPU limited. Basically conroe: Large performance gains in cpu bound applications Little performance gain in gpu bound applications, obviously. This is good for intel. My systems for the past 7 years or so have been AMD. My next one very well may not be. The good news for everyone is that AMD is now the underdog again. Remember what happened last time they were the underdog? We got the athlon. The cpu speed wars went into a frenzy. For the last several years (5 or so) Intel has been sucking balls. Their chips have not been performance competitive. Clock speeds in both camps have stagnated. AMD chip prices have went way up compared to how they used to be. This is good news, AMD will go into overdrive developing their next-gen chips. Amd chips will become dirt cheap again. We'll see a new performance war. This is something i've been waiting for anxiously for a few years. I am very excited. Another thing is that the new intel chips take much less power than the old ones . (thank god)
There is lots of evidence and eye-witness accounts that it has happened before, in the U.S.
TWA Flight 800
Only care if they get caught? Sounds just like the corps to me.. Why should I feel sorry for them? Only instead of downloading a song, they are putting on rootkits on CDs that lead to new spam pathways, dumping toxic chemicals, creating artificial blackouts to screw consumers, etc.. why should I even care if they are getting ripped off?
I find this difficult to believe. I would think that google would have more visits than myspace, for sure.
While we cannot and should not assume that Microsoft has OpenOffice's best interests at heart (of course they don't) this is still excellent news.
This is extremely significant news. What this means is that, after years and years of MSO having no competition, years after they basically wiped out wordperfect etc... There is now significant competition to Microsoft Office, and they are being forced to acknowledge it.
Hopefully this will mean that Microsoft will start developing some new revolutionary stuff in Microsoft Office instead of just resting on their laurels (sorry but I don't think any version since 6.0 has been that huge of an upgrade compared to going to 6.0). This is good news. We are all going to get better products instead of everyone just copying each other's minor features.
Open Office is here to stay. They have succesfully gotten a multi-billion dollar company to acknowledge them as a serious competitor just like Linux forced them to acknowledge that windows has competition. Microsoft no longer has the monopoly they did a few years ago.
What the hell? Why is it on slashdot that people feel the need to randomly attack *EVERYTHING* that is posted?!?!?!
.net in your post as well! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? Do you attack any idea that comes along regardless of how much you know about it??? You are the kind of person that randomly attacks any idea that comes along, just because. You are the kind of person that attacks any kind of new technology for any reason they can regardless of if it makes any sense or is based on fact.
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you?!?! A low speed pentium chip doesn't take much power. Maybe the cost they saved by making it used standard off the shelf equipment is so great that you wouldn't recoup the costs as a customer over the life of the product from them using that, vs. a custom extremely low power chip. Really? WTF??
You call these guys nutweeds, and manage to also attack microsoft
What is even sadder is that this got modded up as INSIGHTFUL! God, that is so frelling sad. News flash: it isn't insightful to randomly attack something you know very little about.
The fact is, this is a very neat idea. Taking the utility companies' exploitation and turning it around on them! AND YOU ATTACK IT! Seriously! Go get laid.
I'm posting this logged in, and with +karma, I know I'll get modded down as a troll, but by god...I don't care.
Sigh.. you are missing the point entirely. That was the retailers that raked in the huge profit, not microsoft. :)
"well, I'm not impressed with the keyboard. Why should the way I enter data into the computer depend so much upon learning to type?"
"I'm not that impressed with the remote control. Why should my ability to change the channel be so dependant upon this thingy i can hold in my hand?"
"I'm not impressed with google, why should my ability to find porn on the internet be..." oh nevermind
This is not flamebait you dumbasses, it's humor. (posting with no karma bonus yadda yadda)
You can build or buy a system MUCH BETTER than the imac for a lot less but that Dell is not one of them I just want to point out why.
The mac system isn't that great, and needs 2gb of ram (or at least 1gb) but...
The Dell's processor is slower than the iMacs by a large amount. Not to mention the coreDou runs MUCH cooler. The Pentium D is a joke and no offense but anyone who would choose one over a dual core athlon is a retard (unless they didn't have a choice). The Intel CoreDou is an *excellent* chip.
The Dell's video card is a low end 7300. With turbocache. The X1600 is a better card for gaming. You realize that having the 256mb of ram on it is mostly marketing? The 7300 is suitable for a non-gamer, but not much more. The X1600 is a low-mid-range card that, although not being really suitable for playing stuff at high lvls of AA/aniso, is not bad.
Very true. However, the days of windows being unstable are long gone as well. XP is stable. As stable as OS X? Probably.
I know it was global cooling a couple decades ago, global warming now...etc...
The scary thing is people try to use this "well we aren't sure what is really going on, if it's natural, if it's us, etc" to say that we shouldn't care.
The fact that we don't KNOW exactly how we are impacting the environment is bad. However, the kyoto thing was just written up to be an economic attack against the U.S.
People also need to realize that using energy is not necessarily bad, it's the pollution that is bad. If those SUVs get terrible mileage, it's not necessarily bad if they don't pollute. Your little 4-banger from the early 80's may get great mileage but it pollutes a lot worse than a modern SUV.
Meh, I think part of being a kid is the desire to seek out new knowledge. Some of that knowledge will obviously be sexual and violent in nature. That's because the world has sex and violence. Kids will seek out knowledge about the world. And that is a good thing. It's when one form of knowledge takes all of their attention that you have a problem. I, certainly, saw some porn magazines when I was like 12. Some actual porn, penthouse etc! I turned out fine. I watched some violent movies. I shot guns when I was young, still do. I've never even hurt anyone in a fist fight, only helped break things up. I have problems with spending too much time playing computer games. I RARELY played computer games when i was like 10-12, onyl when I got to be a teenager. If someone gets fired from their job or something (as someone earlier in the thread was saying) because of a pr0n addiction. I hate to say it, but porn is NOT THE PROBLEM in that case. If the person has such a pr0n addiction that they cannot function, I doubt it is the p0rns fault. If it werent that, it'd be somethign else. Instead they need to find an addictive behavior that they can live off of, such as running a porn site. (just kidding on that one lol)
You can get STDs from things other than sexual activity too. Warts can grow all over your body (they usually don't, but it is POSSIBLE) and the virus CAN be transmitted by sex. You can get warts from a lot of stuff. Shoot I had some warts when I was 10. I don't have any now. I sure wasn't having sex when I was 10. But it CAN be an std as well. You can get some other stuff as well. Sharing needles, accidents, blood transfusion oopsies, etc! Not having sex is NOT a 100% gaurantee against STD's, despite the fact that the "religious right" (religious wrong imho) always say that it is. OHHH and being gay makes you more likely to get them (hahaha, no dipshits, it's the whole multiple partners are more likely thing).
The Apocrypha have no basis in truth (whether you say the Bible does or not is up to you hehe). But the early Christians, the ones that formed the beginnings of the "accepted" documents knew that what was in the Apocrypha were falsehoods, thus they were not incorporated into the cannon of scripture. Remember, these were people who were only a generation or two (or longer in some cases for the apoc. down from Paul, and even Jesus himself). Read the Bible and then read some of the Apocrypha sometime. Don't take my word for it! Go check it out. It CLEARLY does not belong.
A LOT of the stuff that some Christians teach has NO basis in whats in the Bible either. Stuff like abortion (go find the text wher it says that it would have been better for the person to have been miscarried than to lead a miserable life), the rapture (no basis in scripture), the mormons believe some totally non-biblical stuff. Eternal damnation in hell (wait, don't you have to accept Jesus for eternal life? Apparently according to some Christians you can accept Satan and you'll get eternal life too! Just in hell, but still eternal life.)
Now, the people that think the KJV is the only good Bible are just as ridiculous imho as the people that think the apocrypha is truth. The only people I know (actually, KNEW) personally that believed the KJV was IT were some VERY VERY weird southern baptists. The kind of people Jesus warned against in the new testament. The ones that follow all the laws, but their heart isn't there. In historical reality, there is *great* evidence for the accuracy of the new testament we have now. The KJV was pretty accurate, but they did not have many (I want to say most, actually) of the oldest manuscripts that we have found. Probably the most accurate translation is the New American Standard Bible. The book(s) *are* historically accurate, and very few take the apocrypha to fit in with them at all.
Whether you want to believe the *content* of the new testament is obviously something very different indeed, as there is very substantial evidence for a very old earth, and macroevolution, etc!
I'm a Christian so here's my input.
:)
This isn't the same as the mark of the beast, however it DOES prove that indeed there is no new idea under the sun
Anyway, I don't think the mark of the beast is something physical (i mean how could they control your thoughts right)... Instead I believe it means that it is in their minds (what they think) and in their hands (what they do, their actions)...
So the world will think and do a certain way, after the beast... my input lol
Still, this is an interesting thing for employee rights in that it brings up a: how far will it go? question.
This is flamebait but he makes a valid point. "Mainstream science" aka the ones that get all the credence around here have a huge double standard in that a testable hypothesis derived from the idea of interventionism is automatically discredited where as a non-testable idea from the naturalism school of thought is given a fair look. Science just works inside whatever paradigm is currently going...Anythign else is discredited... The evolutionist fundies are just as bad as the right wing religious fundies in that they cannot admit that maybe, just maybe, some of the other side makes valid points. / I am not a scientist , I am not experienced, therefore feel free to attack me and discredit me because I don't know what I'm talkign about.. go ahead.. I won't blame you.. I see it done all the time on here, it's what i've come to expect when slashdot has a discussion mentioning any part of origins.
Well, it is a very well established theory. It is the one we have which best (and surprisingly closely explains in most cases) what we currently know about cosmology. It is a theory in the scientific sense! We can propose testable experiments from the theory to help solidify it, or to invalidate it.
/flame on
AND off topic, but flame on! "Intelligent Design" in the form of interventionism is also a theory in the same way that the theory of evolution is. I'd go so far as to say that in NO WAY is belief in a God scientific BUT you can include religion in science. Belief in the Bible flood, or in stories from the Bible, can give you ideas for testable hypothesis. You cannot however, scientifically prove the Bible stories true. But you could form valid scientific theories to explain Biblical events and get evidence to solidify such theories. Just the same for evolution. You can't go back and see exactly what happened, but you can use the idea to formulate experiments to test and solidify the theory that life originated from common ancestors. I don't see the problem....
Sorry, his arguement is fine. "You feel that abortion should be legal, but I disagree because you are uneducated and poor." That quote/arguement is totally different and unrelated. It tries to compare two things which are not necessarily correlated.
In this case, Bill would NOT HAVE HAD THE PRODUCT TO SELL if he had not produced it with stuff he stole from someone else. Bill's arguement is an example of applying rules and laws unequaly to serve one's own interests. Pointing this out is a good thing.
Oh, and I own a legal copy of windows xp, so stuff it, I'm not a pirate.
What if some scumbag sends me a link and I visit it and it's some sick shit like child porn. I immediately close it BUT THERE'S A COPY MADE IN MY BROWSER CACHE.
Have I just produced child pron? Dear god I hope not, but it seems like that could be argued based on this ruling...
scary
Why wasn't this guy just put in jail for possession of it. Posession of it is illegal and by burning it to a cd well.. he pretty much proved his guild, there.
E85 is offered in places here in Nebraska as well.
DVD is dead... /Agree... What's next?
/shrug (haven't bought a movie in a longgg longgg time, did buy some tv-series tho)
High quality XVID-encoded downloads from the internet...(probably from your favorite bit-torrent site)...
Anyone have a way to get HD content? OH THAT'S RIGHT!!! Hd-dvd and blu-ray aren't available yet, you can't. DiVX/XVID/whatever variation you use, IS HERE NOW and you can get the content. It might be a civil infraction but what the hell... Why don't the studios offer some divx encoded movies for download for a comparable price to going to blockbuster and renting it, or something?
Yeah, yeah, you could keep the file forever OH NOES!!!11eleven. Someone could go to blockbuster and rent somethign and rip it, keeping it forever. Yet most people don't. Even if they did, I doubt it would make people slow down in their spending, only speed up! Sigh
The porn industry is usually the first to embrace new technology. Bit-torrent, etc, probably helps them out a lot. THe thing they DON'T like I would imagine, is other for-pay sites selling their work illegaly :) But like, if you are downloading some HOT WET LESBIANS and it's the h0ttest evah and you see the sapphic erotica logo on the bottom your like shitttt i should go sign up for that it'd be wayyy faster to download... lol..
That a lot of places have really sleazy ways of dealing with people. Fred Meyers in Alaska (they are retards that voted not to unionize, I worked there for a summer to earn some cash) has a contract that you sign that says if you don't show up to work, you have quit. That way you can't collect unemployment. Just to screw you over...Wow... lol...
When I quit from there, I gave them my 2 weeks notice, they said I could leave at the end of the week however, and I did. I came back there to go shopping (no hard feelings, I was going back to college) and my superviser (not my manager/boss) was pissed at me for not showing up to work. The idiot manager hadn't even told the guy!!! LoL.. anyway just wanted to tell my funny story.
On the other hand, last summer I worked at an alaska native health clinic. The work was really, really boring. But I was treated VERY well. I got more work done in a couple days than the person that was in my previous position got done in weeks. We were both sad when I went off to school. I am basically gauranteed a great chance of getting hired to work there again if I am back in town looking for a job. A real employer doesn't care about the little things, as long as you get your ****ing work done fast and efficiently and don't bitch. The way it should be!
uhhhhh.. yo
ritalin is NOT an amphetamine last i checked... and is not really too similar to meth at all!!! Well, of course it is similar, but you know what i mean... Last i checked it was actually very similar in action to.. cocaine...
So yes
Ritalin=similar to coke
Adderall=a mix of 4 amphetamine salts designed to be the smoothest acting (seriously, and you wonder why it gets abused)...
but since no one has bothered to link to any reputable sites, lemme just go
http://slate.msn.com/id/2076413/