The amiga hardware was way ahead of its time and so was the software for that matter. The mac hardware was basically a weak copy of the amiga stuff. Apple basically just stuck with the amiga copy stuff and incremental improvements to it until they switch over to using PC hardware piece by piece. Today a mac is basically just a severely overpriced pc that you have to buy to be able to use a user friendly operating system.
Where Amigas really shined was video editing. It was a very long time indeed before Amiga stopped being the tool of choice for video work. Everything up to the special effects on Babylon 5 were done with Amigas. After commadore died it took apple a long time to catch up with the Amiga.
They are re-releasing that as Windows 7... oh wait, no somebody said it has cool new features like... ummm new themes, a fade-in effect on the start button and the biggest revision to the task bar since win95... its 10 pixels taller.
This thing has no room for card slots. He works on the assumption that you will use onboard video. Garbage. Especially since the aluminum cases are currently made out of is recyclable and even profitable to recycle.
Reducing size of a desktop computer is a bad thing for anyone competent to operate a computer. Such a person needs to work in the case so the roomier the better.
The BTX design does allow for a small cooling improvement but that simply isn't needed for modern processors. BTX was designed to make the P4 operate correctly because it was so damn hot. The P4 is gone and the need for BTX went with it. Being better isn't enough, a form factor needs to be enough better to justify switching the world over to it. The only reason manufacturers use it now is that they skimp on fans and cooling in their cases.
Additionally, just because you aren't a big name manufacturer doesn't mean you are a mere hobbiest. You dismiss the vast majority of professional computer manufacturers who almost all use ATX designs.
"The same with ITX, its applications are not those that most hobbyists are into, yet big manufactuers are to a small degree, and they have some useful applications."
ITX is a nice little standard for compact systems. Unfortunately the cases are actually pricier than a full tower! This is ridiculous since the engineering involved is comparable and the raw materials cost is less.
The big manufacturers use proprietary power supplies, proprietary drives. Oh they start with normal drives, remove the front panels then stick a custom panel on it for a custom shape on the front of the case(over time they've made it difficult to impossible to move this panel and put it on a replacement drive). All this in the quest to keep HP, DELL, etc repair to people certified or contracted by these organizations and to make sure these people buy their parts from the manufacturer.
It amazes me that a dozen people posted this (oddly all getting modded up instead of redundant) when there is pretty much zero chance the FCC would ever know the content of the emails he sends with his laptop.
I've noticed that there are WAY too many mr. fcc ham radio operators who go out of their way to inform on their neighbors and rain on the parade of anyone making a minor technical violation of the rules.
Its against the rules for me to cross the road without a crosswalk too but I'll be damned if I don't cross wherever it is convenient and there is a break in the flow of traffic. It feels so good to be so bad.
A form of massage that doesn't involve massaging? Chiropractic doesn't involve rubbing, it is popping a bone back in place like a dislocated shoulder. If you would call popping a dislocated shoulder back in place a massage you have a warped definition.
"1. The rubbing or kneading of parts of the body especially to aid circulation, relax the muscles, or provide sensual stimulation."
There is no rubbing, no kneading, no intent to aid circulation, relax muscles, or provide sensual stimulation. There isn't even any interaction with muscles.
"You're telling me that double-blind studies do not work by providing an example of double-blind study"
Uhm. No its not. A misaligned vertebra can put pressure on the nerves in the spine. That doesn't require a neurosurgeon.
Again, there is no massaging of muscles involved with chiropractic. Only direct rapid adjustments design to push misaligned vertebra back into alignment.
"We do not NEED to thoroughly understand things to determine their efficacy."
Our methods of evaluating efficacy have been demonstrated to be false repeatedly. The miracle drug prozac doesn't even beat placebo in studies anymore.
As long as "studies" involving subjective feedback are used where objective feedback is required it is difficult to say the effectiveness of treatment.
Also, a chiropractic has NOT been determined to be ineffective. Even the whore insurance companies pay for chiropractic. What it can not do is treat the already herniated discs that most people go to the chiropractor for.
That is the result of misinterpretation. A vertebra out of alignment could cause damn near any symptom since our organs are controlled by impulses from the brain traveling down that path.
So yes, your bowel control problems could indeed be solved with chiropractic.
The mixup comes from the idea that every time you experience a symptom its being caused by vertebra misalignment. Chiropractic is best as a form of maintenance and diagnostic tool (if the same vertebra keeps needing adjusted then there is a root problem to fix).
People who finally get to a chiropractor for back pain likely already have a herniated disc. A chiropractor can help prevent this condition but can't do more for you than a good massage once it has already occurred.
Chiropractic has nothing to do with massage. Some do massage, light therepies, and other tangent crap but that isn't chiropractic.
Chiropractic is nothing more or less than checking the vertebrae down the length of the spine, through directly feeling them or checking misalignment of the legs and then forcefully popping those bones back into position. It isn't even particularly difficult and there is a Chiropractic at home video.
Misaligned vertebrae can cause almost any symptom since controlling impulses and sensations all travel through nerve bundles coming from the spine. But only if the misaligned vertebrae was the cause of the problem in the first place. Since one session will pop a vertebrae into place either your problem stops with that or not. If the vertebrae keeps popping out you need to address the reason why (probably posture) not keep correcting it.
The real problem is that while chiropractic maintenance can be very effective in identifying posture and habits that cause long term problems and can help to prevent herniated discs is that people generally don't go until after their backs are screwed up. By this point chiropractic is only going to bring you temporary relief.
If you are told its going to take many sessions to fix your problem, the "doc" probably just milking the insurance money.
"That's all there is to the vast majority of these cases - sometimes, stuff which demonstrably should not work does, because human bodies are funny things like that. Sometimes, a sugar pill really could save your life."
Actually all this does is demonstrate that modern western medicine has such a poor understanding of the body that no alternatives can be ruled out using the systems which developed it.
There is no such fact. Simply because you have chosen some random assortment of medical practices, fields of study, etc and chosen to label them as con artists, quacks, and so forth entirely upon the basis that you don't FEEL they are correct does NOT establish any sort of fact.
Modern medicine is NOT based on science it is based on clinical studies which fall far short. Almost all of these studies rely upon the placebo effect and yet placebos have been demonstrated to have become more effective over time.
If we determined prozac is 'valid' medicine because it beat a placebo does mean that faith healing is validated because placebos now beat prozac?
"No, it's a J1962 connector standardized by SAE. Just because it's not used in computers doesn't make it "standard". What kind of idiotic response is this?"
It is not any kind of idiotic response, though calling it such was a bit idiotic.
I and the GP were not referring to standard in the sense that some random standards body has published a spec on it. We referred to standard in reference to data ports in common use.
This is like making a special design for the air port on car tires so that air pumps designed for every other purpose can not be used for them. Simply publishing the details would not make said port a "standard air port" in the common lingo a "standard air port" will be a reference to the airport that is commonly found on most pumps and devices.
"And USB is a terrible connector for use by auto mechanics: it's too small and easily broken."
Are you really suggesting that auto mechanics are dumb fat fingered brutes who aren't capable of handling the same connectors that everyone else uses for just about everything else and rarely breaks?
That said, USB would probably foul too easily in a shop. I'd probably go with RJ45 and ethernet capable systems.
"You actually think everyone should be required to switch to an entirely different standard just because you don't like a connector?"
Correction, I'm saying everyone should switch to a different connector because I don't like the connector. And yes, since I'm suggesting moving to something that is interoperable with the equipment that most everyone (including almost every car owner let alone mechanic) already owns and completely free software... I don't see much of a barrier here. u?
Than again, maybe you spent a couple grand on a fancy diagnostic system and don't want every tom dick and harry who can figure out how to perform an oil change to have those capabilities and more at his fingertips for free.
"The start orb now has a fade-in highlight effect when the user moves the mouse over it."
Truly I was mistaken. Clearly these are the sort of things that distinguish one operating system from another and are not merely a fluff list.
Its not the size of the feature list, but how you use it. Quite frankly, if fade-in highlight effects are even on the list then it is obviously a slow newsday.
"Dell simply pre-install it using downgrade rights. Genius indeed."
Selling downgrade rights because nobody wants your new product is the same thing as selling the old product. You know it, I know it, they know it.
Vista bombed so they are releasing the next vista service pack as if it were a new version of windows and calling it windows 7.
He isn't some oddball holdout digging his own grave here he represents the vast majority of users. Most people who are running vista only have it because they couldn't find XP at the retail stores.
Apparently the marketing trick worked. People are talking about windows 7 as if it were something other than vista when in reality its vista with a service pack and a rename.
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The amiga hardware was way ahead of its time and so was the software for that matter. The mac hardware was basically a weak copy of the amiga stuff. Apple basically just stuck with the amiga copy stuff and incremental improvements to it until they switch over to using PC hardware piece by piece. Today a mac is basically just a severely overpriced pc that you have to buy to be able to use a user friendly operating system.
Where Amigas really shined was video editing. It was a very long time indeed before Amiga stopped being the tool of choice for video work. Everything up to the special effects on Babylon 5 were done with Amigas. After commadore died it took apple a long time to catch up with the Amiga.
They are re-releasing that as Windows 7... oh wait, no somebody said it has cool new features like... ummm new themes, a fade-in effect on the start button and the biggest revision to the task bar since win95... its 10 pixels taller.
This thing has no room for card slots. He works on the assumption that you will use onboard video. Garbage. Especially since the aluminum cases are currently made out of is recyclable and even profitable to recycle.
Apparently you haven't opened one. There aren't many plastic cases around. There are aluminum cases with plastic molding on the outside.
Reducing size of a desktop computer is a bad thing for anyone competent to operate a computer. Such a person needs to work in the case so the roomier the better.
The BTX design does allow for a small cooling improvement but that simply isn't needed for modern processors. BTX was designed to make the P4 operate correctly because it was so damn hot. The P4 is gone and the need for BTX went with it. Being better isn't enough, a form factor needs to be enough better to justify switching the world over to it. The only reason manufacturers use it now is that they skimp on fans and cooling in their cases.
Additionally, just because you aren't a big name manufacturer doesn't mean you are a mere hobbiest. You dismiss the vast majority of professional computer manufacturers who almost all use ATX designs.
"The same with ITX, its applications are not those that most hobbyists are into, yet big manufactuers are to a small degree, and they have some useful applications."
ITX is a nice little standard for compact systems. Unfortunately the cases are actually pricier than a full tower! This is ridiculous since the engineering involved is comparable and the raw materials cost is less.
The big manufacturers use proprietary power supplies, proprietary drives. Oh they start with normal drives, remove the front panels then stick a custom panel on it for a custom shape on the front of the case(over time they've made it difficult to impossible to move this panel and put it on a replacement drive). All this in the quest to keep HP, DELL, etc repair to people certified or contracted by these organizations and to make sure these people buy their parts from the manufacturer.
This dude does know that cases are normally made of aluminum and recycling them is profitable and kills no trees like his cardboard does right?
interesting, I'm pretty sure that is why the have stages and poles too
It amazes me that a dozen people posted this (oddly all getting modded up instead of redundant) when there is pretty much zero chance the FCC would ever know the content of the emails he sends with his laptop.
I've noticed that there are WAY too many mr. fcc ham radio operators who go out of their way to inform on their neighbors and rain on the parade of anyone making a minor technical violation of the rules.
Its against the rules for me to cross the road without a crosswalk too but I'll be damned if I don't cross wherever it is convenient and there is a break in the flow of traffic. It feels so good to be so bad.
But the women tend to be old.
*whips out a string of garlic, a wooden stake, and a mallet*
Stay back grammar boy.
"Which is just a form of massage."
A form of massage that doesn't involve massaging? Chiropractic doesn't involve rubbing, it is popping a bone back in place like a dislocated shoulder. If you would call popping a dislocated shoulder back in place a massage you have a warped definition.
According to http://www.thefreedictionary.com/massage
"1. The rubbing or kneading of parts of the body especially to aid circulation, relax the muscles, or provide sensual stimulation."
There is no rubbing, no kneading, no intent to aid circulation, relax muscles, or provide sensual stimulation. There isn't even any interaction with muscles.
"You're telling me that double-blind studies do not work by providing an example of double-blind study"
A double blind study that didn't work...
'Uhm. But that's wrong.'
Uhm. No its not. A misaligned vertebra can put pressure on the nerves in the spine. That doesn't require a neurosurgeon.
Again, there is no massaging of muscles involved with chiropractic. Only direct rapid adjustments design to push misaligned vertebra back into alignment.
"We do not NEED to thoroughly understand things to determine their efficacy."
Our methods of evaluating efficacy have been demonstrated to be false repeatedly. The miracle drug prozac doesn't even beat placebo in studies anymore.
As long as "studies" involving subjective feedback are used where objective feedback is required it is difficult to say the effectiveness of treatment.
Also, a chiropractic has NOT been determined to be ineffective. Even the whore insurance companies pay for chiropractic. What it can not do is treat the already herniated discs that most people go to the chiropractor for.
That is the result of misinterpretation. A vertebra out of alignment could cause damn near any symptom since our organs are controlled by impulses from the brain traveling down that path.
So yes, your bowel control problems could indeed be solved with chiropractic.
The mixup comes from the idea that every time you experience a symptom its being caused by vertebra misalignment. Chiropractic is best as a form of maintenance and diagnostic tool (if the same vertebra keeps needing adjusted then there is a root problem to fix).
People who finally get to a chiropractor for back pain likely already have a herniated disc. A chiropractor can help prevent this condition but can't do more for you than a good massage once it has already occurred.
Chiropractic has nothing to do with massage. Some do massage, light therepies, and other tangent crap but that isn't chiropractic.
Chiropractic is nothing more or less than checking the vertebrae down the length of the spine, through directly feeling them or checking misalignment of the legs and then forcefully popping those bones back into position. It isn't even particularly difficult and there is a Chiropractic at home video.
Misaligned vertebrae can cause almost any symptom since controlling impulses and sensations all travel through nerve bundles coming from the spine. But only if the misaligned vertebrae was the cause of the problem in the first place. Since one session will pop a vertebrae into place either your problem stops with that or not. If the vertebrae keeps popping out you need to address the reason why (probably posture) not keep correcting it.
The real problem is that while chiropractic maintenance can be very effective in identifying posture and habits that cause long term problems and can help to prevent herniated discs is that people generally don't go until after their backs are screwed up. By this point chiropractic is only going to bring you temporary relief.
If you are told its going to take many sessions to fix your problem, the "doc" probably just milking the insurance money.
Exactly.
"That's all there is to the vast majority of these cases - sometimes, stuff which demonstrably should not work does, because human bodies are funny things like that. Sometimes, a sugar pill really could save your life."
Actually all this does is demonstrate that modern western medicine has such a poor understanding of the body that no alternatives can be ruled out using the systems which developed it.
'But the fact remains they can't.'
There is no such fact. Simply because you have chosen some random assortment of medical practices, fields of study, etc and chosen to label them as con artists, quacks, and so forth entirely upon the basis that you don't FEEL they are correct does NOT establish any sort of fact.
Modern medicine is NOT based on science it is based on clinical studies which fall far short. Almost all of these studies rely upon the placebo effect and yet placebos have been demonstrated to have become more effective over time.
If we determined prozac is 'valid' medicine because it beat a placebo does mean that faith healing is validated because placebos now beat prozac?
"Adapters that go from J1962 to USB are cheap and easy to find."
"You can build your own, it's GPLed IIRC."
That does change things then. It sounds like our concerns are already addressed. If the adapters wear out you can toss and replace them.
"Most low end scan tools amount to that and some software. "
Wouldn't high end scan tools amount to the same thing with some fancier software?
"No, it's a J1962 connector standardized by SAE. Just because it's not used in computers doesn't make it "standard". What kind of idiotic response is this?"
It is not any kind of idiotic response, though calling it such was a bit idiotic.
I and the GP were not referring to standard in the sense that some random standards body has published a spec on it. We referred to standard in reference to data ports in common use.
This is like making a special design for the air port on car tires so that air pumps designed for every other purpose can not be used for them. Simply publishing the details would not make said port a "standard air port" in the common lingo a "standard air port" will be a reference to the airport that is commonly found on most pumps and devices.
"And USB is a terrible connector for use by auto mechanics: it's too small and easily broken."
Are you really suggesting that auto mechanics are dumb fat fingered brutes who aren't capable of handling the same connectors that everyone else uses for just about everything else and rarely breaks?
That said, USB would probably foul too easily in a shop. I'd probably go with RJ45 and ethernet capable systems.
"You actually think everyone should be required to switch to an entirely different standard just because you don't like a connector?"
Correction, I'm saying everyone should switch to a different connector because I don't like the connector. And yes, since I'm suggesting moving to something that is interoperable with the equipment that most everyone (including almost every car owner let alone mechanic) already owns and completely free software... I don't see much of a barrier here. u?
Than again, maybe you spent a couple grand on a fancy diagnostic system and don't want every tom dick and harry who can figure out how to perform an oil change to have those capabilities and more at his fingertips for free.
Actually he would have a case. It breaks up completely here "their intellectual property".
Intellectual property does not exist. It is an artificial construct that results from government interference in the free market.
"They have a standard connector"
No they have an industry specific connector. This forces you to buy hardware and represents a barrier to entry in automotive work.
There is no reason that a usb connector and a free download gpl'd app couldn't be used instead.
"The start orb now has a fade-in highlight effect when the user moves the mouse over it."
Truly I was mistaken. Clearly these are the sort of things that distinguish one operating system from another and are not merely a fluff list.
Its not the size of the feature list, but how you use it. Quite frankly, if fade-in highlight effects are even on the list then it is obviously a slow newsday.
"Dell simply pre-install it using downgrade rights. Genius indeed."
Selling downgrade rights because nobody wants your new product is the same thing as selling the old product. You know it, I know it, they know it.
Vista bombed so they are releasing the next vista service pack as if it were a new version of windows and calling it windows 7.
He isn't some oddball holdout digging his own grave here he represents the vast majority of users. Most people who are running vista only have it because they couldn't find XP at the retail stores.
Apparently the marketing trick worked. People are talking about windows 7 as if it were something other than vista when in reality its vista with a service pack and a rename.
I for one welcome our nonhuman intelligent marble eating overlords...