So how do we reform the government is the issue we should be looking...
That's the entire point of a democratic government. And since the founding of America, we have been debating how best our government should represent us for over 200 years now. So I agree with Gunfighter. I don't have faith in our government because I don't have faith in my fellow citizens at large. Individually, we are smart. Collectively, we're a bunch of fucking morons. But at least our founding fathers knew this and broke up the delegation of powers into local and state rights. Unfortunately, we had a bunch of assholes that believed in slavery that forced us into civil-war. Good news: the south lost the war. Bad news: again, the south lost the war.
Even if booting off the fastest SSD available, booting into any version of Windows will take at least 20 seconds. Dropping in a CPU with infinity processing power will not reduce this. That's because during the POST process, there are wait states timed against the RTC conducting all sorts of hardware polling to enure everything connected is alive. It's not a bug, it's a feature. A standardized process. You can optimize BIOS settings however by turning off unused hardware, features, and SATA ports to decrease POST times however. But again, at minimum, POST times will never be instant for an IBM based PC. Also, Windows performs similar hardware polling against the RTC at bootup as well.
It should be noted that an Apple MacBook with an SSD boots almost instantly. But that should come to no surprise because Apple owns both the hardware and OS. They can optimize as they wish.
As a native Texan, I'm all for corporal punishment as a method of last resort. But not in the manor in which this was delivered. But if you have to go there, you have much bigger family problems in the first place. Such as lack of respect for others. Second, the parent delivering the punishment should never be in a state of hate and rage. Remember, corporal punishment is about sending a message of last resort. *NOT* to be used an excuse to vent rage and frustration like her parents did. The later only perpetuates family problems down the line.
Case in point. The daughter never forgave the father (big issue) to this day, and she blackmailed him for money (so he says). Either way, they're are much bigger problems within that family we do not know about. Absolutely broken! Sad.
Raising children is a full time job in of itself. For young parents, chances of them having time and money to pursue a PhD is next to nil. The ability to have a good career and be a young parent is pretty much impossible these days.
For most people, there's no middle ground. Either you're poor and/or because of having children, or you're successful because you pushed off parenthood for so long. Take your pick.
I'm not worried. Every super power has ICBM capability anyways. Unless you want to get creative with nukes, what's the point? Last man standing (in space)? For how long?
Men are constantly making new sperm were as a woman only has one set of eggs at birth that age over time. That's why you can graph genetic problems with children along a curve as women age when they have a baby. A women's prime is anywhere from 16 years to 25 years of age. Unfortunately, because we live longer and have careers, women push motherhood well into their 30s and beyond. It's a rather recent phenomenon in human history.
Actually, I'm curious to know how this breaks down by race. Also, how many of these children are of mixed-race parents? It's generally good to have mixed race children as they're often more healthy than "old-blood" regional pairing. Of course, with mass-transit these days in every major country, it's not much of an issue as it once was 50 years ago. So that should help.
Launching anything into space isn't cheap as mass costs time and energy. But it is nice to review cheaper and more effective methods. It's been known for some time that many asteroids are made up of smaller rocks and dust. They're held loosely together by gravity alone. Unless it's a chunk of iron ore from a super nova flying through space, it should be trivial to harpoon one of these (large) asteroids and push it with a booster. Just enough to alter its course.
No, I wasn't talking about universal healthcare. Though the entire concept is a symptom of a much bigger problem. But whatever. What I did mean by my comment however was this. With unemployment as high as it is, most would rather collect on benefits (based off their previous income bracket) that payout more than actually working a manual labor job for less or even going so far as to *gasp*, learn an entirely new job. Say, plumbing or automotive work instead of being another real estate agent. Maybe Houston, TX is an exception, but I still see a few "Now Hiring" signs posted now and then. Why haven't those jobs been filled yet? I don't see why not.
You sir, are a choking hazard. WTF! Berry has got to be the most left-wing radical POTUS our nation has ever had. Period. PERIOD!!! He surpassed Carter. And you, for all your folly want to spin him as a "moderate Republican". If the amount of spin you're making was in the form of a machine, you would have no problem enriching uranium what-so-ever.
You need some historical perspective here. Except for the political/wealthy elite, China has never in its epic long history ever had "Glory days". The concept has never existed for over 99.9% of its population. It has always been ruled by dynasties in one form or another. Even this current government made up of the CCP and PLA is just another dynasty. I don't discount periods of innovation and prosperity. They were there. But again, they might as well have never existed for many Chinese as almost everyone was a poor farmer.
These past few years have been the zenith of Chinese civilization. The modern world may not be glamorous or romantic as portrayed in historical literature, but it still their zenith none the less. Even the sweatshop laborers choose this work over farming just to improve their standard of living and that of their family. Hard, very hard labor. The kind of slave and self-sacrifice dedication long gone in western civilization whom would rather milk the titty of the Federal Gov than do that kind of work. But it's not over yet. China may become democratic at some point or something else entirely that *will* listen to the demands of the people. They will get their equality, justice, and freedom. And from it, their civilized growth and prosperity will go completely vertical at warp speed. That, or it breaks down into civil war and destroys everything they've known and taken for granted. Either is a possibility.
So to answer your question. "What can you possibly offer to the Chinese?". How about continued support for their people to have and maintain inalienable rights.
I'll tell you where this is all headed. It's obvious. While I may think sex offenders are some of the most mentally sick and twisted people to walk the earth, if I were to continue to plot a line as to where all these laws against these offenders point to, it becomes very clear. The next step is to chip these people like cattle and brand them on their forehead. Politicians will be praised and hardly any of their political enemies will fight them on this. Too politically suicidal to do so.
I say, give it another 10 years.
Nazism was a warning, not an example. Godwin! There, I said it. Happy now?
Oh man, let me tell you about that whole saving-face thing. It's not strictly Japanese. That attitude is more or less a common theme among most of the Eastern world. I'm not sure if Indian culture is this way or not though.But anyways, ya. The Chinese and Korean are all about that saving-face thing. As American, I could care less about that concept. But to my native Chinese wife, it's a very serious thing. I suppose this attitude centers around protecting the family first and foremost. But perhaps someone else from the East could is explain it better and with more clarity here on slashdot.
Hell, before modern society in primitive cultures, people with deformities likely were left out to die quickly.
You know, I'm sure I'm going to catch serious hell for this. So please don't view this in the wrong way.
Your chances of obtaining a good set genes have been statistically improved by removing them from the gene pool. Again, it doesn't make it right or humane. But it is what it is.
"The more you tighten your grip, CEO, the more profit will slip through your fingers"
You know, as a devout capitalist, I've always believed that customers service comes first. That, and the quality of your goods and services should be enough to advertise themselves via word of mouth.
I can't comment on that specific ATAPI issue. However it's been my experience that it's something else stepping in the same memory address of another driver. Yet, it's the driver that's the victim that gets reported. For that, I blame the OS kernel for false reporting. Or, at least not making it very clear. Sometimes you have to debug the dump files manually to find all offending drivers involved and isolate the common denominator. Thankfully, there are programs such as BlueScreenView that provide a GUI for easy readout. Highlighted line items and all.
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Absolutely! Just about everyone remotely computer savvy had either heard from a friend that uses an Apple product, or knows of all the reviews through the media. "It just works" is more than a catch phrase. It's backed up with user experience. Imagine for a moment. You're next computer is going to force you to relearn a whole bunch of stuff. Knowing your past computing experience and knowing how easy it's been for new Apple users, would you not be the least bit interested in demoing a new Apple iMac? Think of how well it plays together with iPhone, Apple TV, MacBook, and all the other stuff. Most people surf the web anyways, and MS Office 2011 is available for those that need it.
I live in breath in the MS Windows world because it's my profession as an MSP (Manged Service Provider). I roll out Microsoft SBS boxes only because Apple has shunned this market. Their own server and corporate offering are anemic at best. But Apple is hoovering up the home user / consumer base. It's these people that are infiltrating the corporate world with Apple iDevices. But it will reach a tipping point in where Apple (in a very short period) will capture the SMB market in one fell swoop. As an MSP, I too will take the Apple plunge if only to better serve my clients and their needs.
And this is coming from someone who has been working in the MS World for over 15 years as a professional! I have no reason to poo-poo Apple products.
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Windows 8 will bomb, but not for king of technical reasons that ME and Vista had. Win8 will bomb because MS decided to change shit around so much, that people still stuck XP may say something along the lines of... "I was going to replace my XP computer with Win7, but now that Win8 out, fuck it. I'm going Mac. I'm tired of MS moving the bar". I really think MS is slitting their own throat here with such an early release of -yet- another OS overhaul.
Even prior to SP1, XP never threw a BSOD (and rebooted) unless it was something hardware or device driver related. Even Anti-Virus programs which needed to install a driver could trip a BSOD. Which was hardly surprising because it's based off the NT lineage and not MSDOS. In fact, it's quite miracle that random bits of hardware and peripherals could be slapped together with near infinite permutations and still had XP provide all the extended functionality for that specific device with as little problems as it has. Microsoft shouldn't have caught hell for this, but rather praised.
In AMERICA we have this problem. It's all about inflation and the combined exodus of US wealth to other nations. It's the poor and middle-class that get left holding the bag of shit called debt. We're developed as a nation. So the way I see it, all other developing nations can expend America like a used husk and copy every innovation, patent, and everything else valuable that's non-tangible. 3rd word nations will still have their brooding of children and remain unemployed for the cheapest price. All while their nation becomes more developed with running water and electricity. Only until the rest of the world catches up, America is too expensive for the rest of the world to purchase from.
So yes. All of you in your early 20s and 30s. You're stuck with either housing debt, student loans, medical expenses, low income job, and no possible way of affording children all while reaching or the middle-class bar. We are the lost generation paying for debt that we though would have been passed on into the future. Well guess what? You are the future. Ta daaa!!!
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People always do something with their time. It doesn't just get shelved, it's spent. So what happens when people are left unemployed? Two things really. Either they socialize and turn small events into larger ones, become introverted, or... focus their attention on others in a negative way. So while machines may provide food and shelter, people will spend more time on religion and criminal behavior. Flash mobs, war, self sacrifice. All of the emotions, behaviors, and other social constructs of humanity will become much more dynamic. Free time does that to society. It's also why keeping people busy with work tends to lower crime.
Sure. If you count the bees as the enemy. I often wondered if any of these truck drivers got spooked by a bee sting (or several) enough to take their attention off the road.
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So how do we reform the government is the issue we should be looking...
That's the entire point of a democratic government. And since the founding of America, we have been debating how best our government should represent us for over 200 years now. So I agree with Gunfighter. I don't have faith in our government because I don't have faith in my fellow citizens at large. Individually, we are smart. Collectively, we're a bunch of fucking morons. But at least our founding fathers knew this and broke up the delegation of powers into local and state rights. Unfortunately, we had a bunch of assholes that believed in slavery that forced us into civil-war. Good news: the south lost the war. Bad news: again, the south lost the war.
State rights? Hah, hardly anymore!
Even if booting off the fastest SSD available, booting into any version of Windows will take at least 20 seconds. Dropping in a CPU with infinity processing power will not reduce this. That's because during the POST process, there are wait states timed against the RTC conducting all sorts of hardware polling to enure everything connected is alive. It's not a bug, it's a feature. A standardized process. You can optimize BIOS settings however by turning off unused hardware, features, and SATA ports to decrease POST times however. But again, at minimum, POST times will never be instant for an IBM based PC. Also, Windows performs similar hardware polling against the RTC at bootup as well.
It should be noted that an Apple MacBook with an SSD boots almost instantly. But that should come to no surprise because Apple owns both the hardware and OS. They can optimize as they wish.
As a native Texan, I'm all for corporal punishment as a method of last resort. But not in the manor in which this was delivered. But if you have to go there, you have much bigger family problems in the first place. Such as lack of respect for others. Second, the parent delivering the punishment should never be in a state of hate and rage. Remember, corporal punishment is about sending a message of last resort. *NOT* to be used an excuse to vent rage and frustration like her parents did. The later only perpetuates family problems down the line.
Case in point. The daughter never forgave the father (big issue) to this day, and she blackmailed him for money (so he says). Either way, they're are much bigger problems within that family we do not know about. Absolutely broken! Sad.
Raising children is a full time job in of itself. For young parents, chances of them having time and money to pursue a PhD is next to nil. The ability to have a good career and be a young parent is pretty much impossible these days.
For most people, there's no middle ground. Either you're poor and/or because of having children, or you're successful because you pushed off parenthood for so long. Take your pick.
I'm not worried. Every super power has ICBM capability anyways. Unless you want to get creative with nukes, what's the point? Last man standing (in space)? For how long?
Men are constantly making new sperm were as a woman only has one set of eggs at birth that age over time. That's why you can graph genetic problems with children along a curve as women age when they have a baby. A women's prime is anywhere from 16 years to 25 years of age. Unfortunately, because we live longer and have careers, women push motherhood well into their 30s and beyond. It's a rather recent phenomenon in human history.
Actually, I'm curious to know how this breaks down by race. Also, how many of these children are of mixed-race parents? It's generally good to have mixed race children as they're often more healthy than "old-blood" regional pairing. Of course, with mass-transit these days in every major country, it's not much of an issue as it once was 50 years ago. So that should help.
Launching anything into space isn't cheap as mass costs time and energy. But it is nice to review cheaper and more effective methods. It's been known for some time that many asteroids are made up of smaller rocks and dust. They're held loosely together by gravity alone. Unless it's a chunk of iron ore from a super nova flying through space, it should be trivial to harpoon one of these (large) asteroids and push it with a booster. Just enough to alter its course.
No, I wasn't talking about universal healthcare. Though the entire concept is a symptom of a much bigger problem. But whatever. What I did mean by my comment however was this. With unemployment as high as it is, most would rather collect on benefits (based off their previous income bracket) that payout more than actually working a manual labor job for less or even going so far as to *gasp*, learn an entirely new job. Say, plumbing or automotive work instead of being another real estate agent. Maybe Houston, TX is an exception, but I still see a few "Now Hiring" signs posted now and then. Why haven't those jobs been filled yet? I don't see why not.
You sir, are a choking hazard. WTF! Berry has got to be the most left-wing radical POTUS our nation has ever had. Period. PERIOD!!! He surpassed Carter. And you, for all your folly want to spin him as a "moderate Republican". If the amount of spin you're making was in the form of a machine, you would have no problem enriching uranium what-so-ever.
You need some historical perspective here. Except for the political/wealthy elite, China has never in its epic long history ever had "Glory days". The concept has never existed for over 99.9% of its population. It has always been ruled by dynasties in one form or another. Even this current government made up of the CCP and PLA is just another dynasty. I don't discount periods of innovation and prosperity. They were there. But again, they might as well have never existed for many Chinese as almost everyone was a poor farmer.
These past few years have been the zenith of Chinese civilization. The modern world may not be glamorous or romantic as portrayed in historical literature, but it still their zenith none the less. Even the sweatshop laborers choose this work over farming just to improve their standard of living and that of their family. Hard, very hard labor. The kind of slave and self-sacrifice dedication long gone in western civilization whom would rather milk the titty of the Federal Gov than do that kind of work. But it's not over yet. China may become democratic at some point or something else entirely that *will* listen to the demands of the people. They will get their equality, justice, and freedom. And from it, their civilized growth and prosperity will go completely vertical at warp speed. That, or it breaks down into civil war and destroys everything they've known and taken for granted. Either is a possibility.
So to answer your question. "What can you possibly offer to the Chinese?". How about continued support for their people to have and maintain inalienable rights.
I'll tell you where this is all headed. It's obvious. While I may think sex offenders are some of the most mentally sick and twisted people to walk the earth, if I were to continue to plot a line as to where all these laws against these offenders point to, it becomes very clear. The next step is to chip these people like cattle and brand them on their forehead. Politicians will be praised and hardly any of their political enemies will fight them on this. Too politically suicidal to do so.
I say, give it another 10 years.
Nazism was a warning, not an example. Godwin! There, I said it. Happy now?
The last time I saw an ATAPI error involved an HP branded SCSI CDRW drive with an Adaptec 2940UW PCI card running under Windows 2000.
Google, Facebook, Twitter. You can be damned sure they already paid their campaign contributions. And they will continue to do so. Reform, my ass!
Oh man, let me tell you about that whole saving-face thing. It's not strictly Japanese. That attitude is more or less a common theme among most of the Eastern world. I'm not sure if Indian culture is this way or not though.But anyways, ya. The Chinese and Korean are all about that saving-face thing. As American, I could care less about that concept. But to my native Chinese wife, it's a very serious thing. I suppose this attitude centers around protecting the family first and foremost. But perhaps someone else from the East could is explain it better and with more clarity here on slashdot.
Hell, before modern society in primitive cultures, people with deformities likely were left out to die quickly.
You know, I'm sure I'm going to catch serious hell for this. So please don't view this in the wrong way.
Your chances of obtaining a good set genes have been statistically improved by removing them from the gene pool. Again, it doesn't make it right or humane. But it is what it is.
If I may borrow from Starwars a bit...
"The more you tighten your grip, CEO, the more profit will slip through your fingers"
You know, as a devout capitalist, I've always believed that customers service comes first. That, and the quality of your goods and services should be enough to advertise themselves via word of mouth.
I can't comment on that specific ATAPI issue. However it's been my experience that it's something else stepping in the same memory address of another driver. Yet, it's the driver that's the victim that gets reported. For that, I blame the OS kernel for false reporting. Or, at least not making it very clear. Sometimes you have to debug the dump files manually to find all offending drivers involved and isolate the common denominator. Thankfully, there are programs such as BlueScreenView that provide a GUI for easy readout. Highlighted line items and all.
Absolutely! Just about everyone remotely computer savvy had either heard from a friend that uses an Apple product, or knows of all the reviews through the media. "It just works" is more than a catch phrase. It's backed up with user experience. Imagine for a moment. You're next computer is going to force you to relearn a whole bunch of stuff. Knowing your past computing experience and knowing how easy it's been for new Apple users, would you not be the least bit interested in demoing a new Apple iMac? Think of how well it plays together with iPhone, Apple TV, MacBook, and all the other stuff. Most people surf the web anyways, and MS Office 2011 is available for those that need it.
I live in breath in the MS Windows world because it's my profession as an MSP (Manged Service Provider). I roll out Microsoft SBS boxes only because Apple has shunned this market. Their own server and corporate offering are anemic at best. But Apple is hoovering up the home user / consumer base. It's these people that are infiltrating the corporate world with Apple iDevices. But it will reach a tipping point in where Apple (in a very short period) will capture the SMB market in one fell swoop. As an MSP, I too will take the Apple plunge if only to better serve my clients and their needs.
And this is coming from someone who has been working in the MS World for over 15 years as a professional! I have no reason to poo-poo Apple products.
Windows 8 will bomb, but not for king of technical reasons that ME and Vista had. Win8 will bomb because MS decided to change shit around so much, that people still stuck XP may say something along the lines of... "I was going to replace my XP computer with Win7, but now that Win8 out, fuck it. I'm going Mac. I'm tired of MS moving the bar". I really think MS is slitting their own throat here with such an early release of -yet- another OS overhaul.
Even prior to SP1, XP never threw a BSOD (and rebooted) unless it was something hardware or device driver related. Even Anti-Virus programs which needed to install a driver could trip a BSOD. Which was hardly surprising because it's based off the NT lineage and not MSDOS. In fact, it's quite miracle that random bits of hardware and peripherals could be slapped together with near infinite permutations and still had XP provide all the extended functionality for that specific device with as little problems as it has. Microsoft shouldn't have caught hell for this, but rather praised.
In AMERICA we have this problem. It's all about inflation and the combined exodus of US wealth to other nations. It's the poor and middle-class that get left holding the bag of shit called debt. We're developed as a nation. So the way I see it, all other developing nations can expend America like a used husk and copy every innovation, patent, and everything else valuable that's non-tangible. 3rd word nations will still have their brooding of children and remain unemployed for the cheapest price. All while their nation becomes more developed with running water and electricity. Only until the rest of the world catches up, America is too expensive for the rest of the world to purchase from.
So yes. All of you in your early 20s and 30s. You're stuck with either housing debt, student loans, medical expenses, low income job, and no possible way of affording children all while reaching or the middle-class bar. We are the lost generation paying for debt that we though would have been passed on into the future. Well guess what? You are the future. Ta daaa!!!
People always do something with their time. It doesn't just get shelved, it's spent. So what happens when people are left unemployed? Two things really. Either they socialize and turn small events into larger ones, become introverted, or... focus their attention on others in a negative way. So while machines may provide food and shelter, people will spend more time on religion and criminal behavior. Flash mobs, war, self sacrifice. All of the emotions, behaviors, and other social constructs of humanity will become much more dynamic. Free time does that to society. It's also why keeping people busy with work tends to lower crime.
So you agree with Rick Perry than. Good to know.
Sure. If you count the bees as the enemy. I often wondered if any of these truck drivers got spooked by a bee sting (or several) enough to take their attention off the road.