You are so out of the loop, it's not even funny. This tiresome argument is so fucking late 1990s!!! Seriously, ever since ATI moved to a unified driver architecture known as Catalyst (equivalent to nVidia's ForceWare), problems of instability have long since vanished.
So for the love of all that's holy, please stop spreading OUTDATED INFORMATION!!!
Is that any different from buying tickets on a country's national airline to visit said country? Do you condemn as unpatriotic people who fly to Beijing on Air China, or Dublin on Aerlingus?
I think the core of his argument was all about pride. It's pride that provides the social momentum to forge ahead and aspire to be better than we are. Without pride, we sulk and eventually have an attitude of "I don't give a damn". I don't know about you, but I'd rather live in a country that's optimistic about the future AND makes progress. Life's too short to live in a depressed society.
Bush will be out of office soon enough, so we might as well start to climb out of the dark ages now.
With regards to biotech, I agree. But don't think World War III is going to end anytime soon. In fact, it might take two or three administrations before the culture of Islamo fascism fades to oblivion. But I digress.
Point I'm trying to make is this. As much as I'm all for science and prosperity, we can't forge ahead when we still have dark pockets of humanity willing to hold the rest of us back in conflict.
Just run a google search for "China blocks skype" and you will understand why.
The problem with opening up the protocol means that the Chinese government can now effectively program their firewall to stop all Skype VOIP traffic going in and out of the country. The primary reason is so it does not cut into the government owned telcom industry. That's #1. Always follow the money trail first. Second, it's to censor the free flow of international communication as it will aid in dissent. The last think the CCP wants is a democratic movement to overthrow them.
Jewelry is more than the sum of it's matter. People seem for forget artwork plays a huge part in it! Think about it for a moment. Clay in its raw form is almost worthless. However, you can shape and fire it into pottery.
More to the point. It's not just matter and energy that's worth something, but rather its application of them.
Exactly correct! Vaporization is CRITICAL to getting gasoline to burn.
One reason an engine can misfire is due to inadequate atomization of the fuel. The only two known methods are with a carburetor or fuel injector. If the fuel squirts in the combustions chamber rather then "spray or mist", you can forget about getting the sparkplug to ignite the air/fuel mixture. The unburned fuel just blows right out the tail pipe.
A clock in only accurate within its own space and time. For example, moving this clock to another area of the universe may slow or speed it up. However, say you are in the same area as this clock...would you notice the change in pace? No. The only way to measure change is against another point of reference such as another clock located in another part of the universe.
Don't you just love relativity?;) It's a topic which defines nothing being absolute.
Ya, back when I was working in the Dell safety lab (which researched what equipment broke and why), we found most of the faulty batteries to be of the Sanyo brand. When they fail, they don't explode...they just get really really fucking hot (and smoke a lot). However, there have been instances of exploding batteries. Of these, all of them were refurbished 3rd party, or flat-out pirated battery packs being sold as an original Dell part. The cells are basically unbranded. Most likely made in Asia.
By the way, modern laptop battery packs (from Dell) have a built-in EEPROM chips. It's always updated with how many times you've charged it among other trivial usage statistics. I'm sure Dell will start encrypting them too in the future to prevent unauthorized battery packs from being used for obvious liability reasons.
If they do break the 0*C barrier, it'll likely be at the cost of the patient's life. At the point where water freezes, cell's rupture from the ice crystals forming within. I don't know how the hell they could get around that, unless they can somehow dehydrate the body and rehydrate it on revival
Maybe I've been working on cars too much, but why not use anti-freeze? Obviously you can't use the same stuff. However, could there be an organic (or anything safe) form of anti-freeze injected into the blood stream prior to freezing below 0c?
Sorry, but prior knowledge of how government regulation works, it's all or none. You can NEVER EVER EVER EVER have partial regulation. Once the government has something to feed on, it finds a way to grow and expand like some parasite/fungus. You see, most of us THINK government is to serve the population when in fact it's just an excuse to serve itself. When shit does hit the fan however, the "problem" is patched with even more regulation further compounding the issue even more. Case in point: look at our current tax system in place. Totally micromanaged to hell. Even the FCC has grown way beyond its original purpose.
I'm sorry, but I now take an extremist view. No goverment regulation is good regulation. I'll pay the price of fraud, spamming, and phishing in order to keep the net free. We all make sacrifices for the greater good, and this is mine.
Lately, we haven't had any problems with dropouts for a few months now. I'm not sure exactly what the problem was, but I suspected packet loss between our connection. In fact, I suspect it was her ISP and/or cable modem connection to the ISP. She's always complaining of a slow connection and other issues when using her internet connection for other reasons.
Currently, we're both using the latest version of Skype (v2.5) for WinXP. Maybe this new version contains extra "stealth" to get past all the layers of filtering through the Chinese firewall, thus eliminating drops outs from its excessive bottlenecking. Who knows really at this point? I'm just glad the issue cleared up and never comes back
Which is why I use Skype to talk to my girlfriend located in China. The connection is encrypted for both voice and file transfer. Can't trust what's being filtered through the "Great Firewall of China" you know...
Maybe China will become democratic due to an increase in the standard of living provided by capitalism. Or maybe you would rather have them wallow in poverty because you have something against capitalism?
Dude, thats ALL of china. Haggling is a way of life in China...even for a bottle of Coke at a corner market. However, more advanced retail chains use standard price tags. It's all part of the process of going from a communist society to one built on capitalism. It will take time for them to learn the "ropes" of how to keep and retain customers.
BTW, the marketing system still needs much refinement too. Again, I'm personally seeing progress each time I go back to China (namely Shanghai). All very good news for the citizens of China.
Trust me, I know racism all too well. My GF is Chinese, and I'm from the US (I'm white BTW). Her parents object her being with me because I'm "western" and not Chinese. Based on what I've read and who I've talked to about this, it's perfectly normal. This happens all the time when any Chinese women is with some guy outside of China. The parents *will* object and often with bitterness.
I've also been told the Japanese are just as racist too. Wouldn't suprise me as both the Chinese and Japanese have an imperial history.
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If it wasn't for the Music, I'd sware that was legit! Holy shit! That level of marketing is Sooooo Microsoft.
become as unstable as ATI drivers.
You are so out of the loop, it's not even funny. This tiresome argument is so fucking late 1990s!!! Seriously, ever since ATI moved to a unified driver architecture known as Catalyst (equivalent to nVidia's ForceWare), problems of instability have long since vanished.
So for the love of all that's holy, please stop spreading OUTDATED INFORMATION!!!
Is that any different from buying tickets on a country's national airline to visit said country? Do you condemn as unpatriotic people who fly to Beijing on Air China, or Dublin on Aerlingus?
I think the core of his argument was all about pride. It's pride that provides the social momentum to forge ahead and aspire to be better than we are. Without pride, we sulk and eventually have an attitude of "I don't give a damn". I don't know about you, but I'd rather live in a country that's optimistic about the future AND makes progress. Life's too short to live in a depressed society.
Bush will be out of office soon enough, so we might as well start to climb out of the dark ages now.
With regards to biotech, I agree. But don't think World War III is going to end anytime soon. In fact, it might take two or three administrations before the culture of Islamo fascism fades to oblivion. But I digress.
Point I'm trying to make is this. As much as I'm all for science and prosperity, we can't forge ahead when we still have dark pockets of humanity willing to hold the rest of us back in conflict.
Just run a google search for "China blocks skype" and you will understand why.
The problem with opening up the protocol means that the Chinese government can now effectively program their firewall to stop all Skype VOIP traffic going in and out of the country. The primary reason is so it does not cut into the government owned telcom industry. That's #1. Always follow the money trail first. Second, it's to censor the free flow of international communication as it will aid in dissent. The last think the CCP wants is a democratic movement to overthrow them.
Jewelry is more than the sum of it's matter. People seem for forget artwork plays a huge part in it! Think about it for a moment. Clay in its raw form is almost worthless. However, you can shape and fire it into pottery.
More to the point. It's not just matter and energy that's worth something, but rather its application of them.
Exactly correct! Vaporization is CRITICAL to getting gasoline to burn.
One reason an engine can misfire is due to inadequate atomization of the fuel. The only two known methods are with a carburetor or fuel injector. If the fuel squirts in the combustions chamber rather then "spray or mist", you can forget about getting the sparkplug to ignite the air/fuel mixture. The unburned fuel just blows right out the tail pipe.
These creatures also didn't fly at sub-sonic speeds either. Perhaps nature failed by *not* providing a set of jet engines for them. :P
You never grow out of toys. They just get more expensive as you get older.
A clock in only accurate within its own space and time. For example, moving this clock to another area of the universe may slow or speed it up. However, say you are in the same area as this clock...would you notice the change in pace? No. The only way to measure change is against another point of reference such as another clock located in another part of the universe.
;) It's a topic which defines nothing being absolute.
Don't you just love relativity?
Ya, back when I was working in the Dell safety lab (which researched what equipment broke and why), we found most of the faulty batteries to be of the Sanyo brand. When they fail, they don't explode...they just get really really fucking hot (and smoke a lot). However, there have been instances of exploding batteries. Of these, all of them were refurbished 3rd party, or flat-out pirated battery packs being sold as an original Dell part. The cells are basically unbranded. Most likely made in Asia.
By the way, modern laptop battery packs (from Dell) have a built-in EEPROM chips. It's always updated with how many times you've charged it among other trivial usage statistics. I'm sure Dell will start encrypting them too in the future to prevent unauthorized battery packs from being used for obvious liability reasons.
"Oh oh...must have been a Sanyo (battery)"
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Now THAT was a stupid question...of course not. But it will be fast enough to run the latest in spyware in the years to follow.
If they do break the 0*C barrier, it'll likely be at the cost of the patient's life. At the point where water freezes, cell's rupture from the ice crystals forming within. I don't know how the hell they could get around that, unless they can somehow dehydrate the body and rehydrate it on revival
Maybe I've been working on cars too much, but why not use anti-freeze? Obviously you can't use the same stuff. However, could there be an organic (or anything safe) form of anti-freeze injected into the blood stream prior to freezing below 0c?
Exactly! I couldn't have said it better myself. I agree, this is totally pathetic.
What's next? We get special disability handouts from the government at the expense of your fellow tax payers?
Sorry, but prior knowledge of how government regulation works, it's all or none. You can NEVER EVER EVER EVER have partial regulation. Once the government has something to feed on, it finds a way to grow and expand like some parasite/fungus. You see, most of us THINK government is to serve the population when in fact it's just an excuse to serve itself. When shit does hit the fan however, the "problem" is patched with even more regulation further compounding the issue even more. Case in point: look at our current tax system in place. Totally micromanaged to hell. Even the FCC has grown way beyond its original purpose.
I'm sorry, but I now take an extremist view. No goverment regulation is good regulation. I'll pay the price of fraud, spamming, and phishing in order to keep the net free. We all make sacrifices for the greater good, and this is mine.
Ya, but the idea of shitting gold flakes the morning after is COOL!
Lately, we haven't had any problems with dropouts for a few months now. I'm not sure exactly what the problem was, but I suspected packet loss between our connection. In fact, I suspect it was her ISP and/or cable modem connection to the ISP. She's always complaining of a slow connection and other issues when using her internet connection for other reasons.
Currently, we're both using the latest version of Skype (v2.5) for WinXP. Maybe this new version contains extra "stealth" to get past all the layers of filtering through the Chinese firewall, thus eliminating drops outs from its excessive bottlenecking. Who knows really at this point? I'm just glad the issue cleared up and never comes back
Which is why I use Skype to talk to my girlfriend located in China. The connection is encrypted for both voice and file transfer. Can't trust what's being filtered through the "Great Firewall of China" you know...
Also see how the present administration was complicit in the California Energy Crisis.
Explain please. Sounds like your spreading FUD. Wiki covers this issue fairly well here.
Maybe China will become democratic due to an increase in the standard of living provided by capitalism. Or maybe you would rather have them wallow in poverty because you have something against capitalism?
Dude, thats ALL of china. Haggling is a way of life in China...even for a bottle of Coke at a corner market. However, more advanced retail chains use standard price tags. It's all part of the process of going from a communist society to one built on capitalism. It will take time for them to learn the "ropes" of how to keep and retain customers.
BTW, the marketing system still needs much refinement too. Again, I'm personally seeing progress each time I go back to China (namely Shanghai). All very good news for the citizens of China.
Trust me, I know racism all too well. My GF is Chinese, and I'm from the US (I'm white BTW). Her parents object her being with me because I'm "western" and not Chinese. Based on what I've read and who I've talked to about this, it's perfectly normal. This happens all the time when any Chinese women is with some guy outside of China. The parents *will* object and often with bitterness.
I've also been told the Japanese are just as racist too. Wouldn't suprise me as both the Chinese and Japanese have an imperial history.