I have to say that I thought the n64 controller was the stupidest design I had EVER seen. The way you're forced to hold it means half the pad is inaccessible to you without going through arm contortions.
And the little thumb joystick thingy had no resistance at all, which made it very difficult to aim with the thing.
The only conclusion I can draw is putting together random isolated statistics as if they somehow relate to one another is foolish and stupid. It's even worse when you try to use them to prop up your thinly veiled misogyny.
Regarding men in jails, what are the statistics over many decades, or centuries for that matter? Haven't men *always* been the majority? How is this suddenly new now?
WRT jobs, welcome to social conditioning. There very few women who do garbage. There are also comparatively few who work in hard science, or software development, etc. But there are relatively few men who are in nursing, or secretary positions. How many women CEOs are there? Virtually none. High ranking political figures? Very few. How many men take Aerobics classes? Very few. At any point in time was it illegal for men to vote? Not that I can recall.
Society itself has defined what men an d women should and should not do. And it takes a great deal of effort to break that programming. There used to be virtually no women doctors, and male nurses were unheard of.
So don't give some sob story about how only men are getting shafted. Yes, men have problems in some areas, but overall women have been shafted a LOT harder and for a lot LONGER than men.
Um... because there is no way in hell you would have that kind of easy access to a computer? At all the job fairs I've ever been to, I have *never* seen a PC available to the public that has a printer on it.
The vast majority of internet enabled machines are tightened down good and are in a kiosk so you don't have physical access to the actual computer.
Assuming that you do actually run into such an unlikely scenario, there are MUCH better options available, such as having OOo also on your USB flash.
If the product isn't doing what you want it to do, then that means you're trying to shoehorn the product into a role it's not designed for. I use a PDA for almost everything mobile now. It's not as good as a regular laptop in terms overall function, but it does 95% of what I need it for.
That includes usually not using it for extended data input. PDAs were NEVER designed to be a data entry terminal. They were meant for occasional input, frequent output, like looking up contacts, etc.
So for the vast majority of the time, that's what I use it for and the pen interface is perfectly adequate. Sometimes if I want to compose a lengthy email or something on it, I pull out my bluetooth keyboard. Everything works perfectly and I'm very satisfied with the setup.
If this doesn't suit your work style, well then for the love of Dog *don't buy it*. But a product that suits your work style! It's idiotic to buy a product that doesn't satisfy the need you're buying it for.
We currently have a nitix system deployed here. It works reasonably well. But the VPN is extremely flakey. Also, nitix is designed to be completely self-supporting and does NOT work well with other systems. I can't even say that it works well. Just that it works well enough for people to get their jobs done.
It's also so horribly modified that you almost can't even call it linux anymore. It's not possible to add functionality to it unless nitix has created a module for it, and you're willing to pay through the nose. Support costs are amazingly high as well.
I'm very not impressed with nitix, and the first chance I get, I'm replacing it with a redhat box.
Ok, for me this brings up a question and a couple points:
Where did the submitter get this "Christian Veto" thing if they don't (And I certainly hope they don't!) have one.
I find your arguments against the EU are completely unfair. The US doesn't WANT other countries to fund it, because that would take away from the absolute control the US currently has.
You also complaining about the EU "already admitted that they would allow countrys to limit control by their own people, exactly what they accuse the US of being capable of". If I am readin that statement properly, there is a HUGE difference between what the EU wants and what the US is doing. The EU wants individual countries to have the right to exercise some levels of control. The US wants to IMPOSE their brand of morality on the rest of the world.
I have to say that the way the US treats other countries, I can hardly blame the EU for wanting the US to give up some of its power.
I agree. It doesn't necessarily have to follow that when you create something, you have to be able to create the opposite.
Or, we have change the definition of "Opposite".
For example, when we want antigravity, what we are REALLY wanting is gravity that goes the OTHER WAY. So if we could, say, build a ship with a doohickey on top that creates it's own strong gravity, it would counteract the earths gravity and pull the ship up.
Antigravity is just an illusion. What we want is gravity to pull us in an arbitrary direction.
This is NOT something we should let go. It maybe a dead horse now, but it's a horse that should never have been born in the first place.
It's this sort of "forget about it, I don't care" mentality that is allowing corporations to steadily erode our rights. It gives the corporations the artistic license to experiment with new and whacky control schemes and see which ones stick and which ones cause a backlash.
I'm willing to bet that they'll try this exact same stunt again, or at least something similar to it, later on. They'll wait for the political environment to change a little more, maybe do a better job at testing and bug-fixing, and suddenly it'll be on all the disks again and people will think it's "normal". Just as CDs are twice as expensive as audio tapes and people consider that "normal". Or that region restrictions are "normal".
If people were actually paying attention and fighting back as they did with the rootkit debacle, there wouldn't be the problems there are now with things like DMCA, region-coding, etc.
Holy poop! A Geforce card in a SERVER? ANY decent 3D accelerator does not belong in a server. Hell, I had a Riva TNT in a spare desktop in case someone wanted to use it. It's better to put it somewhere it *might* be used, than somewhere where it's guaranteed to *never* be used.
Wow, I MUST be getting old.... For me, the ideal video card for a server is still the old S3 Trio64+ PCI card. Servers typically run text only or at best have very basic graphics needs, so what in the world would you need something better for?
It always annoys me when I see posts like this. "Duh! If you don't like it, code it yourself!"
It takes a great deal of skill and knowledge to code *any* piece of software. Coding something like a suspend/resume function is doubly so because you have to worry about all sorts of other stuff like hardware implementation screw-ups. Most people do NOT have the time to do something like this.
Similarly, it costs *money* to do that kind of development. Like many thousands of dollars. This isn't some stupid webpage that you can pay your 10 year old nephew 20 bucks to make for you.
It doesn't occur to most linux zealots that people just want to *use* Linux. Not everyone focuses their entire identity and reason for living, on an operating system. Given the state of everything, I think the question "Why doesn't it work yet?" is a perfectly reasonable question for a common user to ask. It works in Windows. Why doesn't it work in Linux? Comments like this are nothing more than blaming the victim.
And moderators call this sort of knee-jerk comment "insightful".... Wow.
So in other words, you're saying that this guy lost control of his life and did what he could to escape from reality, rather than dealing with it head on.
I'm sorry, but I have ZERO sympathy for someone like that. It's not like he didn't have the means to put himself on the right track. He had every opportunity and ability to do something about his situation.
My wife and I have *almost* been homeless, and we both suffer from clinical depression so sometimes it's *really* hard to do what it takes to move forward with our lives. But we *still* had enough self-control and critical thinking skills to do whatever it took to get back on track. We had to take our pride and roll it in the mud, but we made it out again and we're finally starting to do well again.
I used to have much more sympathy for homeless people. Then I worked in a gas station for a year, and I got to deal with these people on a regular basis. They are filthy creatures who only care about fleecing you out of whatever they can get their hands on to satisfy their craving for their chosen toxin. They are woefully dishonest, and I will never give them any kind of support again.
There are lots of services available to assist the homeless. Job services, housing services... They just need to use them. These people are on the street because they either want to be, or simply arn't interested in taking control of their lives. Either way, if they can't be bothered to try, I can't be bothered to help.
Do you know what a strawman argument is? You are changing the very concepts of how evolution functions just so you have an argument you can knock down.
Evolution has huge amounts of evidence behind it, a huge chunk of in in the form of short-time scale real world experiments.
Perfect example: Bacteria becoming resistant to medications? If you don't think that that is evolution, you're an unqualified idiot, and it's a waste of time arguing with you further because you're not actually interested in knowledge. You just want to push believes that someone told you from a pretty building you visit once a week.
"Evolution has never been duplicated in a lab. Adaptation of moths or bacteria to environmental stress is not evolution."
You just proved how utterly ignorant you are, right from the very beginning of your post.
Evolution IS the adaptation of life due to environmental stress. Or at least, it is a significant factor. And even then, this is still a gross simplification of what evolution actually is. But then again, if you're refusing to believe that basic fact, then obviously you're going to think that evolution is just another religion.
Nice easy example: Take two hares, one white, and one brown, and plonk them in the middle of a snowfield.
Take a wild guess which one blends in, and which one sticks out like a sore thumb. Needless to say the brown hair will get eaten long before the white one, and the white one has an infinitely higher chance of surviving long enough to procreate. The organism that does a better job of surviving is the one that procreates. It's as simple as that.
And I'm not even going to touch on your misguided use of basic principles of physics to explain biology. The logic is so flawed I don't know where to begin.
I think what bothers me the most is that ignorant people like you are doing everything in their power to destroy science. You pervert the concept of theory. At the institutional level you force scientists to alter results to suit your preconcieved notions. It's disgusting.
Explain how Crytek is doing an exclusive deal with AMD?
Unless you can point me to a line that says, "Crytek checks the CPU ID and refuses to run if it's not an AMD chip", your comparison is invalid.
And this has nothing to do with being a fanboy. It has everything to do with restricting my choice in what processors to get for completely artificial reasons.
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I have to say that I thought the n64 controller was the stupidest design I had EVER seen. The way you're forced to hold it means half the pad is inaccessible to you without going through arm contortions.
And the little thumb joystick thingy had no resistance at all, which made it very difficult to aim with the thing.
Sadly, I was thinking the exact same thing. ^_^
The only conclusion I can draw is putting together random isolated statistics as if they somehow relate to one another is foolish and stupid. It's even worse when you try to use them to prop up your thinly veiled misogyny.
Regarding men in jails, what are the statistics over many decades, or centuries for that matter? Haven't men *always* been the majority? How is this suddenly new now?
WRT jobs, welcome to social conditioning. There very few women who do garbage. There are also comparatively few who work in hard science, or software development, etc. But there are relatively few men who are in nursing, or secretary positions. How many women CEOs are there? Virtually none. High ranking political figures? Very few. How many men take Aerobics classes? Very few. At any point in time was it illegal for men to vote? Not that I can recall.
Society itself has defined what men an d women should and should not do. And it takes a great deal of effort to break that programming. There used to be virtually no women doctors, and male nurses were unheard of.
So don't give some sob story about how only men are getting shafted. Yes, men have problems in some areas, but overall women have been shafted a LOT harder and for a lot LONGER than men.
Um... because there is no way in hell you would have that kind of easy access to a computer? At all the job fairs I've ever been to, I have *never* seen a PC available to the public that has a printer on it.
The vast majority of internet enabled machines are tightened down good and are in a kiosk so you don't have physical access to the actual computer.
Assuming that you do actually run into such an unlikely scenario, there are MUCH better options available, such as having OOo also on your USB flash.
It's not pink! It's *Salmon-coloured*!
(What makes this especially funny is that I heard someone once use this line!)
Actually it doesn't defeat the purpose at all.
If the product isn't doing what you want it to do, then that means you're trying to shoehorn the product into a role it's not designed for. I use a PDA for almost everything mobile now. It's not as good as a regular laptop in terms overall function, but it does 95% of what I need it for.
That includes usually not using it for extended data input. PDAs were NEVER designed to be a data entry terminal. They were meant for occasional input, frequent output, like looking up contacts, etc.
So for the vast majority of the time, that's what I use it for and the pen interface is perfectly adequate. Sometimes if I want to compose a lengthy email or something on it, I pull out my bluetooth keyboard. Everything works perfectly and I'm very satisfied with the setup.
If this doesn't suit your work style, well then for the love of Dog *don't buy it*. But a product that suits your work style! It's idiotic to buy a product that doesn't satisfy the need you're buying it for.
We currently have a nitix system deployed here. It works reasonably well. But the VPN is extremely flakey. Also, nitix is designed to be completely self-supporting and does NOT work well with other systems. I can't even say that it works well. Just that it works well enough for people to get their jobs done.
It's also so horribly modified that you almost can't even call it linux anymore. It's not possible to add functionality to it unless nitix has created a module for it, and you're willing to pay through the nose. Support costs are amazingly high as well.
I'm very not impressed with nitix, and the first chance I get, I'm replacing it with a redhat box.
You've forgotten that toilet seats cost $500. $4200 seems like a pretty respectable markup by comparison. :)
Ok, for me this brings up a question and a couple points:
Where did the submitter get this "Christian Veto" thing if they don't (And I certainly hope they don't!) have one.
I find your arguments against the EU are completely unfair. The US doesn't WANT other countries to fund it, because that would take away from the absolute control the US currently has.
You also complaining about the EU "already admitted that they would allow countrys to limit control by their own people, exactly what they accuse the US of being capable of". If I am readin that statement properly, there is a HUGE difference between what the EU wants and what the US is doing. The EU wants individual countries to have the right to exercise some levels of control. The US wants to IMPOSE their brand of morality on the rest of the world.
I have to say that the way the US treats other countries, I can hardly blame the EU for wanting the US to give up some of its power.
I can't wait to read in the news that Steve built himself a chair-ballista.
Anyone else tickled by the fact that an AC accuses someone of being a moron, and then proceeds to MISSPELL the word? Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, Pot!
Oh, and if someone uses this idea to make some newfangled starship, then I demand royalties. :)
I agree. It doesn't necessarily have to follow that when you create something, you have to be able to create the opposite.
Or, we have change the definition of "Opposite".
For example, when we want antigravity, what we are REALLY wanting is gravity that goes the OTHER WAY. So if we could, say, build a ship with a doohickey on top that creates it's own strong gravity, it would counteract the earths gravity and pull the ship up.
Antigravity is just an illusion. What we want is gravity to pull us in an arbitrary direction.
This is NOT something we should let go. It maybe a dead horse now, but it's a horse that should never have been born in the first place.
It's this sort of "forget about it, I don't care" mentality that is allowing corporations to steadily erode our rights. It gives the corporations the artistic license to experiment with new and whacky control schemes and see which ones stick and which ones cause a backlash.
I'm willing to bet that they'll try this exact same stunt again, or at least something similar to it, later on. They'll wait for the political environment to change a little more, maybe do a better job at testing and bug-fixing, and suddenly it'll be on all the disks again and people will think it's "normal". Just as CDs are twice as expensive as audio tapes and people consider that "normal". Or that region restrictions are "normal".
If people were actually paying attention and fighting back as they did with the rootkit debacle, there wouldn't be the problems there are now with things like DMCA, region-coding, etc.
Holy poop! A Geforce card in a SERVER? ANY decent 3D accelerator does not belong in a server. Hell, I had a Riva TNT in a spare desktop in case someone wanted to use it. It's better to put it somewhere it *might* be used, than somewhere where it's guaranteed to *never* be used.
Wow, I MUST be getting old.... For me, the ideal video card for a server is still the old S3 Trio64+ PCI card. Servers typically run text only or at best have very basic graphics needs, so what in the world would you need something better for?
Great selection of apps. Now all you need is a Palm EMULATOR so that they can be run on a PPC.
http://www.conduits.com/ce/apps/copilot.asp
Sounds like something we should be encouraging. That's the best way for evolution to take it's natural course. :)
In soviet Russia, shiny metal asses bite YOU! (Someone had to say it! ;) )
It always annoys me when I see posts like this. "Duh! If you don't like it, code it yourself!" It takes a great deal of skill and knowledge to code *any* piece of software. Coding something like a suspend/resume function is doubly so because you have to worry about all sorts of other stuff like hardware implementation screw-ups. Most people do NOT have the time to do something like this. Similarly, it costs *money* to do that kind of development. Like many thousands of dollars. This isn't some stupid webpage that you can pay your 10 year old nephew 20 bucks to make for you. It doesn't occur to most linux zealots that people just want to *use* Linux. Not everyone focuses their entire identity and reason for living, on an operating system. Given the state of everything, I think the question "Why doesn't it work yet?" is a perfectly reasonable question for a common user to ask. It works in Windows. Why doesn't it work in Linux? Comments like this are nothing more than blaming the victim. And moderators call this sort of knee-jerk comment "insightful".... Wow.
So in other words, you're saying that this guy lost control of his life and did what he could to escape from reality, rather than dealing with it head on. I'm sorry, but I have ZERO sympathy for someone like that. It's not like he didn't have the means to put himself on the right track. He had every opportunity and ability to do something about his situation. My wife and I have *almost* been homeless, and we both suffer from clinical depression so sometimes it's *really* hard to do what it takes to move forward with our lives. But we *still* had enough self-control and critical thinking skills to do whatever it took to get back on track. We had to take our pride and roll it in the mud, but we made it out again and we're finally starting to do well again. I used to have much more sympathy for homeless people. Then I worked in a gas station for a year, and I got to deal with these people on a regular basis. They are filthy creatures who only care about fleecing you out of whatever they can get their hands on to satisfy their craving for their chosen toxin. They are woefully dishonest, and I will never give them any kind of support again. There are lots of services available to assist the homeless. Job services, housing services... They just need to use them. These people are on the street because they either want to be, or simply arn't interested in taking control of their lives. Either way, if they can't be bothered to try, I can't be bothered to help.
Bah... what do you think this is, the States?
Canada has a long way to go before it reaches that level of paranoid dictatorship.
Do you know what a strawman argument is? You are changing the very concepts of how evolution functions just so you have an argument you can knock down.
Evolution has huge amounts of evidence behind it, a huge chunk of in in the form of short-time scale real world experiments.
Perfect example: Bacteria becoming resistant to medications? If you don't think that that is evolution, you're an unqualified idiot, and it's a waste of time arguing with you further because you're not actually interested in knowledge. You just want to push believes that someone told you from a pretty building you visit once a week.
"Evolution has never been duplicated in a lab. Adaptation of moths or bacteria to environmental stress is not evolution."
You just proved how utterly ignorant you are, right from the very beginning of your post.
Evolution IS the adaptation of life due to environmental stress. Or at least, it is a significant factor. And even then, this is still a gross simplification of what evolution actually is. But then again, if you're refusing to believe that basic fact, then obviously you're going to think that evolution is just another religion.
Nice easy example: Take two hares, one white, and one brown, and plonk them in the middle of a snowfield.
Take a wild guess which one blends in, and which one sticks out like a sore thumb. Needless to say the brown hair will get eaten long before the white one, and the white one has an infinitely higher chance of surviving long enough to procreate. The organism that does a better job of surviving is the one that procreates. It's as simple as that.
And I'm not even going to touch on your misguided use of basic principles of physics to explain biology. The logic is so flawed I don't know where to begin.
I think what bothers me the most is that ignorant people like you are doing everything in their power to destroy science. You pervert the concept of theory. At the institutional level you force scientists to alter results to suit your preconcieved notions. It's disgusting.
What I want to know is.... is it Static Convergence or Dynamic Convergence?
And when do we sell them the plates?
Explain how Crytek is doing an exclusive deal with AMD?
Unless you can point me to a line that says, "Crytek checks the CPU ID and refuses to run if it's not an AMD chip", your comparison is invalid.
And this has nothing to do with being a fanboy. It has everything to do with restricting my choice in what processors to get for completely artificial reasons.