Thanks for being so profoundly stupid that you didn't even bother to click the article, let alone read it.
The ramps are about three inches high. The up and down involved here isn't really of the magnitude you're thinking of.
So, while it might be nice to compare Japan and Pakistan, the need for change has to come from within. Pakistan has made a choice of putting religion about science, of putting military conquests above infrastructure and putting the people and their betterment below everything else.
Woah, for a second there, I thought you were talking about America.
3 months may not seem very good, but keep in mind that most Americans NEVER get to see a specialist. The affluent don't have to wait, but that's because they don't have to worry about the rest of the population getting in the way.
If you actually look at ALL Americans, our wait times suddenly look pretty reasonable.
The US really isn't that insecure. It's a remarkably safe country. Nevertheless, Americans seem to live in constant terror of everything, whether it's the British, communists, terrorists, blacks, liberals, neocons, or whatever. An entire nation of panicky cowards with guns.
There's a reason Clinton is often referred to as America's greatest Republican president. Almost every single one of Bush's policies has been a continuation of Clinton's. Clinton just lied about them better.
Burning wood products is usually okay, because the carbon coming out of the fire came from the atmosphere in the first place. It's just moving around in the cycle. It's not quite the same as long-sequestered carbon from petroleum or natural gas.
It's good that Solaris is heating up again. Linux has this "OS for all seasons" thing going on, and needs healthy competitors in all of its areas of utility to keep things real. Competition is GOD in the software and computer hardware world -- even in the OSS world where competition and collaboration run hand in hand.
Yeah Right. The democrats are no better -- they're in the pockets of exactly the same people. As long as Americans are stupid enough to buy the crap about it being a two-party system, they'll never have anything more than a facsimile of democracy.
Only a fool would vote for a party that they already know is corrupt and incompetent. So why do the the republican and democratic parties even exist anymore? Could it be that Americans are fools? Lots of other countries don't have to put up with this crap; although, to be fair, those countries usually ensure that their citizens are literate enough to actually READ a ballot.
In the context of labour, "replacing" Humans is the same as "liberating" them. The entire existence of things like art and science are the result of replacing farmers and hunters by using superior tools.
Why waste labour on work, when you can expend that labour on paintings or theories of stuff?
Aren't there techniques for providing software memory protection? Software threading does have advantages. Of course, I think what we're really debating here is precisely which mistakes Microsoft made. There certainly no doubt that concurrency in Windows suffers from... issues.
Creating thousands of threads seems like a horribly inacurrate way to gauge performance. Creating a process is something that only goes on every once in a while -- threads or state machines are what are used when high levels of concurrency are required. The problem is that any code being executed repeatedly will be cached and often optomized by modern processors. P4s are especially aggressive about this thanks to their microcode cache. And different code will be optomized and perform from cache differently. So you wont get a very realistic idea about how long single process creations will take.
I could be wrong -- I'm hardly an OS or computer hardware expert. But the above is what my limited knowledge of those two areas would suggest.
Some small software companies are great. In fact, those companies are probably the best in the biz. One of the biggest tragedies in all of business in when one of those slick little companies gets bought and turned into a mismanaged dev team for a big software house that needs to create the illusion of growth.
But that's not the kind of company Sony contracted this work out to, was it? Some small software companies are literally parasites -- tiny little corporate organisms that suck the money out of larger companies while infecting them with diseased, broken products. The larger companies are usually too poorly managed to actually realize what's going on. And the makers of DRM software are almost always of that variety.
Notice how it's always the most pathetically shitty little software companies that make these things? You'd think Sony could field a good programming team to develop their DRM software. Instead, they subcontract to the worst that the field has to offer.
They probably thought they could save some money, and are now facing class-action lawsuits. A classic example of penny-wise pound-foolish, as the Brits used to say.
Scientists make assumptions all the time. That's how many proof techniques work -- reduction ad absurdum, conditional proof, disjunctive proof, etcetera.
Just a little quibble from someone who really enjoyed his "Natural Deductive Logic" class.:)
What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is Bad? Everything that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. Not contentedness but more power; not peace but war; not virtue but fitness. The weak and the failures shall perish: first principle is our love of man. And they shall even be given every possible assistance. What is more Harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity.
--Nietzsche, The Antichrist
If that isn't social darwinism, then what the hell is?
I'm sorry to dump on your hero, but Nietsche DID inspire most of the Nazi movement. The only thing his sister changed about his work were the parts about race.
That's possibly the stupidest thing I've ever seen written. Ever heard of Smallpox? Gone. And where are all the polio cases? Relegated to tiny corners of the earth. Where is leprosy? How many people died of Ruebella in the US or Canada last year?
Immunity is for animals and savages. Civilization means wiping out the disease, not the people who are vulnerable. Welcome to civilization -- start getting used to it. Of course, you could go find some empty island and implement your insane nietsche-esque ideas. I hope dying of whatever you're vulnerable to is worth it. The rest of us will happily watch as disease after disease is scoured from the earth. I hear that chicken pox is high the WHO's agenda as a candidate for extermination.
The hard part is actually realizing what a big company might try to patent. A lot of ideas that are being patented llately are things that are so ridiculously obvious that it would never occur to anyone other than a parasitic patent lawyer.
Canada and the US aren't just each other's biggest trading partners, they are THE biggest trading partners. Our economies are inseperably intertwined. There really aren't any two nations on earth with a closer relationship, despite our rather interesting political and social differences.
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Thanks for being so profoundly stupid that you didn't even bother to click the article, let alone read it. The ramps are about three inches high. The up and down involved here isn't really of the magnitude you're thinking of.
If you actually look at ALL Americans, our wait times suddenly look pretty reasonable.
The US really isn't that insecure. It's a remarkably safe country. Nevertheless, Americans seem to live in constant terror of everything, whether it's the British, communists, terrorists, blacks, liberals, neocons, or whatever. An entire nation of panicky cowards with guns.
You obviously don't know as much as you think. The scientific method is a form of INDUCTIVE reasoning, not deductive.
There's a reason Clinton is often referred to as America's greatest Republican president. Almost every single one of Bush's policies has been a continuation of Clinton's. Clinton just lied about them better.
Burning wood products is usually okay, because the carbon coming out of the fire came from the atmosphere in the first place. It's just moving around in the cycle. It's not quite the same as long-sequestered carbon from petroleum or natural gas.
What's the point? As long as the American Taliban doesn't believe in global warming, reasearching renewable energy is a waste of time.
It's good that Solaris is heating up again. Linux has this "OS for all seasons" thing going on, and needs healthy competitors in all of its areas of utility to keep things real. Competition is GOD in the software and computer hardware world -- even in the OSS world where competition and collaboration run hand in hand.
Only a fool would vote for a party that they already know is corrupt and incompetent. So why do the the republican and democratic parties even exist anymore? Could it be that Americans are fools? Lots of other countries don't have to put up with this crap; although, to be fair, those countries usually ensure that their citizens are literate enough to actually READ a ballot.
You can't settle a criminal suit out of court.
Why waste labour on work, when you can expend that labour on paintings or theories of stuff?
Aren't there techniques for providing software memory protection? Software threading does have advantages. Of course, I think what we're really debating here is precisely which mistakes Microsoft made. There certainly no doubt that concurrency in Windows suffers from ... issues.
Suck. I thought that lightweight threads had been added to the Linux kernel in the last couple years?
I could be wrong -- I'm hardly an OS or computer hardware expert. But the above is what my limited knowledge of those two areas would suggest.
But that's not the kind of company Sony contracted this work out to, was it? Some small software companies are literally parasites -- tiny little corporate organisms that suck the money out of larger companies while infecting them with diseased, broken products. The larger companies are usually too poorly managed to actually realize what's going on. And the makers of DRM software are almost always of that variety.
They probably thought they could save some money, and are now facing class-action lawsuits. A classic example of penny-wise pound-foolish, as the Brits used to say.
Just a little quibble from someone who really enjoyed his "Natural Deductive Logic" class. :)
It's simple -- Americans like cars, and they hate other cultures. The 4000 deaths are just an excuse.
Wait a minute. Are these guys saying that Google is some sort... BUSINESS?! Good god!
If that isn't social darwinism, then what the hell is?
I'm sorry to dump on your hero, but Nietsche DID inspire most of the Nazi movement. The only thing his sister changed about his work were the parts about race.
When will Americans try electing government that isn't all about cronyism, corporatism, and pissing on the masses?
Immunity is for animals and savages. Civilization means wiping out the disease, not the people who are vulnerable. Welcome to civilization -- start getting used to it. Of course, you could go find some empty island and implement your insane nietsche-esque ideas. I hope dying of whatever you're vulnerable to is worth it. The rest of us will happily watch as disease after disease is scoured from the earth. I hear that chicken pox is high the WHO's agenda as a candidate for extermination.
The hard part is actually realizing what a big company might try to patent. A lot of ideas that are being patented llately are things that are so ridiculously obvious that it would never occur to anyone other than a parasitic patent lawyer.
Canada and the US aren't just each other's biggest trading partners, they are THE biggest trading partners. Our economies are inseperably intertwined. There really aren't any two nations on earth with a closer relationship, despite our rather interesting political and social differences.