Mr. Stones, I now know what tasty lunchtime treat I'm going to order! My hat's off to your excellent first post.
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... would be "Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry-And Made Himself the Richest Man in America". Microsoft is, surprisingly, everything the reviewer is looking for in a company.
An 'n-bit processor' refers to the size of an integer. This is *usually* the same size as a pointer, but not always.
Do you really need to allocate more than 2 GB of RAM to a single process on your desktop?
I just ordered a 512 MB chip for my 2 year old laptop.
I was doing a machine learning course just a few months ago. I had hacked together some code in Perl that did statistical analysis of language (much simpler than it sounds) which happened to build huge indexes. The fact that my laptop only had 256 megs of RAM was actually a real PITA.
More commonly, Photoshop users have always been the biggest consumers of RAM. Now they're going to be replaced with video editors and 3D modelers. Having 3 or 4 gigs of RAM would allow them to be productive on cheaper and cheaper machines.
To understand this, think cache lines.
You've got to think trade-offs. Remember:
It can be fast / good / cheap. Pick two.
64-bit pushes you towards "good". So the resulting chip could be slower, or it could be as fast but more expensive. It will take more wires to keep the cache as effective, but at the same time many operations (e.g. copies) will be sped up.
I notice that it's not happening in Canada. I notice that violent crime rates are continuosly significantly higher in American than in Canada, or any other western nation, for that matter.
As I've posted elsewhere, once you take out the black on black crime, the US is not particularly bad. If it works for you, great.
The UK banned guns and now London's crime rate has skyrocketed. So banning guns is not a surefire solution to anything, and it's stupid to compare completely different cultures and ways of life.
$1 trillion.
Right. You're overstating by about $200 billion. And the US population is ~ 250 million, so Canada's 30 million is more like one eighth.
But look, I'm not going to argue these details with you, since I already get most of my info from Canadians.
At least, not until we see Dubya thanking Prime Minister Jean Poutine for his support on national television again.
Talk about an inferiority complex! Good to see that when W pats you on the head, it shines some light in your bleak existence!
I completely agree that by that measure of poverty (how many people are dying off) that Sweden is doing better. The trouble is that being a welfare state, they take away any incentive to work. So it distributes the poor standard of living around more evenly and causes economic stagnation.
My mention of Swedish poverty was meant in a rhetorical sense, rather than trying to be perfectly accurate.
They most certainly are a right-wing organization, and make no secret of it. But if you're content to take a shoot the messenger approach to life, so be it.
Regardless, I've followed their methodology in the US and can't find any significant flaws.
As far as I can tell, the form calculates *ALL* taxes...
No. The form is specifically *income* taxes....don't pay any 'idiot' taxes, and take maximum advantage of tax shelters.
Well, the tax system should be progressive, right? So aren't "tax shelters" and "idiot taxes" regressive? Should the system really be tilted in favor of wealthy, well-educated whites with good accountants?
Actually, you can use that as an advantage. Often times employers will ask you to write a "prototype" and then when it's done, they fire you and hire some monkeys to do upgrades.
If you do prototyping in python and Cocoa, you can be sure that won't happen.
That's why you *never* pour organics down the drain. Ever. Aside from being illegal as hell. Get a big jar, and pour all the organics into that and dispose of them properly.
BTW, unless you have a license, you're not allowed to dispose of acid by neutralizing it with a base and pouring that down the sink. Always remember to make that part of the experiment, otherwise you need a treatment permit.
The poster assumes that Sweden, ostensibly a first world country, has a decent economy and that commodity goods are available at reasonable prices the way they are here.
Your response to this is to accuse him of ignorance of the fact that your country is a backwater with a poor standard of living.
If you didn't spend all your time worrying about American ignorance, you might be able to fix Swedish poverty. In fact, since we seem to have what you want (a good standard of living) it would be prudent to emulate us rather than scorn us.
A system that costs far less, proprtionally speaking (population-wise or by GDP), than the American one...
Yes, well since you don't honor our patents on drugs, we're doing all the R&D for you. Of course, in the long run you're denying yourselves lifesaving technology, but you're too shortsighted to see that. But that's typical: when important work has to be done, wars have to be fought, etc, the USA does the heavy lifting. We're used to it.
And yet, it's in an American community that a sniper has people locked up in their homes in fear.
Notice that it happened in the People's Republic of Maryland, where Parris Glendening deliberately put schools near (previously perfectly legal) pistol ranges in order to get them shut down. Notice that the killer chose an anti-gun area rather than, say, Texas.
An economy that will lead the G7 in growth this year, and is creating more jobs (in absolute terms!) than the American one.
Yeah, it's easy to grow a small economy. US GDP: $10 Trillion. What's Canada's again?
Moreover, when our economy gets the sniffles, the rest of the world feels it soon enough, so laugh while you can.
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Mr. Stones, I now know what tasty lunchtime treat I'm going to order! My hat's off to your excellent first post.
... would be "Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry-And Made Himself the Richest Man in America". Microsoft is, surprisingly, everything the reviewer is looking for in a company.
In your prefs, trying setting "Insightful", "Interesting" and "Funny" to -6. I find that helps quite a bit.
With my little 4-bit brain, I can't even count the number of responses this troll got.
If you hate Mac users, you'll love this.
Hit e-bay for decent prices. One nice thing about being put together by real engineers is that a second-hand Mac is still a good system.
An 'n-bit processor' refers to the size of an integer. This is *usually* the same size as a pointer, but not always.
Do you really need to allocate more than 2 GB of RAM to a single process on your desktop?
I just ordered a 512 MB chip for my 2 year old laptop.
I was doing a machine learning course just a few months ago. I had hacked together some code in Perl that did statistical analysis of language (much simpler than it sounds) which happened to build huge indexes. The fact that my laptop only had 256 megs of RAM was actually a real PITA.
More commonly, Photoshop users have always been the biggest consumers of RAM. Now they're going to be replaced with video editors and 3D modelers. Having 3 or 4 gigs of RAM would allow them to be productive on cheaper and cheaper machines.
To understand this, think cache lines.
You've got to think trade-offs. Remember:
It can be fast / good / cheap. Pick two.
64-bit pushes you towards "good". So the resulting chip could be slower, or it could be as fast but more expensive. It will take more wires to keep the cache as effective, but at the same time many operations (e.g. copies) will be sped up.
This isn't a pissing contest.
/etc/hosts. That way you'll be able to tell when you're in a pissing contest straight from the address bar.
/machines/pissingcontest
/machines/pissingcontest ip_address 64.28.67.150
Just put:
pissingcontest 64.28.67.150
in
(Or for the NetInfo equivalent:
sudo niutil -create .
sudo niutil -createprop .
)
Not me. I've got all apps set to brushed metal ~~~
1. Patent lots of business plans
2. Sue the hell out of someone who works for a living
3. Profit!
Moral of the story: if it involves fucking someone else, it actually will make money!
A few points:
We don't honour US patents? BULLSHIT.
Lawsuits by US drug companies have been overturned repeatedly.
I thought you were Australian. Claiming the glory of the US too?
Born in Australia, family moved to the US when I was two.
I notice that it's not happening in Canada. I notice that violent crime rates are continuosly significantly higher in American than in Canada, or any other western nation, for that matter.
As I've posted elsewhere, once you take out the black on black crime, the US is not particularly bad. If it works for you, great.
The UK banned guns and now London's crime rate has skyrocketed. So banning guns is not a surefire solution to anything, and it's stupid to compare completely different cultures and ways of life.
$1 trillion.
Right. You're overstating by about $200 billion. And the US population is ~ 250 million, so Canada's 30 million is more like one eighth.
But look, I'm not going to argue these details with you, since I already get most of my info from Canadians.
At least, not until we see Dubya thanking Prime Minister Jean Poutine for his support on national television again.
Talk about an inferiority complex! Good to see that when W pats you on the head, it shines some light in your bleak existence!
I completely agree that by that measure of poverty (how many people are dying off) that Sweden is doing better. The trouble is that being a welfare state, they take away any incentive to work. So it distributes the poor standard of living around more evenly and causes economic stagnation.
My mention of Swedish poverty was meant in a rhetorical sense, rather than trying to be perfectly accurate.
Where was the U.S. when fascism threatened to overrun Europe?
Uh, dying on the beaches of Normandy?
Oh and by "important work" I'm sure what you actually meant was: "keeping U.S.-friendly dictators in power."
So who voted Libya and Sudan on to the UN Human Rights Council? Sure as hell wasn't the US.
They most certainly are a right-wing organization, and make no secret of it. But if you're content to take a shoot the messenger approach to life, so be it.
...don't pay any 'idiot' taxes, and take maximum advantage of tax shelters.
Regardless, I've followed their methodology in the US and can't find any significant flaws.
As far as I can tell, the form calculates *ALL* taxes...
No. The form is specifically *income* taxes.
Well, the tax system should be progressive, right? So aren't "tax shelters" and "idiot taxes" regressive? Should the system really be tilted in favor of wealthy, well-educated whites with good accountants?
Actually, you can use that as an advantage. Often times employers will ask you to write a "prototype" and then when it's done, they fire you and hire some monkeys to do upgrades.
If you do prototyping in python and Cocoa, you can be sure that won't happen.
Douse the students, yourself and the classroom with gasoline. Light a cigarette.
Real men use their nuts for demos.
That's why you *never* pour organics down the drain. Ever. Aside from being illegal as hell. Get a big jar, and pour all the organics into that and dispose of them properly.
BTW, unless you have a license, you're not allowed to dispose of acid by neutralizing it with a base and pouring that down the sink. Always remember to make that part of the experiment, otherwise you need a treatment permit.
Once you add an LCD monitor to it, you've got a rather ungainly iMac.
Try searching for "Zemanova" on Gnutella. I have 300 pics currently shared. Natural DD's, and she's a cutie.
Once you hide the scores, switch off the green gunk and browse at -1 Nested, Slashdot becomes far more enjoyable.
Let me get this straight:
The poster assumes that Sweden, ostensibly a first world country, has a decent economy and that commodity goods are available at reasonable prices the way they are here.
Your response to this is to accuse him of ignorance of the fact that your country is a backwater with a poor standard of living.
If you didn't spend all your time worrying about American ignorance, you might be able to fix Swedish poverty. In fact, since we seem to have what you want (a good standard of living) it would be prudent to emulate us rather than scorn us.
Smart midgets wear snorkels.
A system that costs far less, proprtionally speaking (population-wise or by GDP), than the American one...
Yes, well since you don't honor our patents on drugs, we're doing all the R&D for you. Of course, in the long run you're denying yourselves lifesaving technology, but you're too shortsighted to see that. But that's typical: when important work has to be done, wars have to be fought, etc, the USA does the heavy lifting. We're used to it.
And yet, it's in an American community that a sniper has people locked up in their homes in fear.
Notice that it happened in the People's Republic of Maryland, where Parris Glendening deliberately put schools near (previously perfectly legal) pistol ranges in order to get them shut down. Notice that the killer chose an anti-gun area rather than, say, Texas.
An economy that will lead the G7 in growth this year, and is creating more jobs (in absolute terms!) than the American one.
Yeah, it's easy to grow a small economy. US GDP: $10 Trillion. What's Canada's again?
Moreover, when our economy gets the sniffles, the rest of the world feels it soon enough, so laugh while you can.