If congress men like to ride in their big jets and limos, they won't fuck with texas, which directly provides pretty much ALL of the fuel we use either directly from its wells or indirectly through refinaries and such that take in foreign oil for processing.
Contrary to popular belief, America produces almost ALL of its fuel internally, we use foreign oil for this like plastics and medicines were you need it specifically rather than the forms we can gather on our own lands.
And for reference, I drank beer in Texas, legally, as an 18 year old. Now they just changed the law to get funding and instead just dont fuck with kids as long as they aren't driving.
I really wish people would understand that Texans have this ego thing going, they will win the battle, even if it costs the farm to do it, you will loose in the end. It really is a whole different country.
For reference, I'm not a Texan, I am from the midwest, and just have a great deal of respect for people who tend to take care of their own problems in house.
This isn't Academia. That general field is about teaching and learning.
When you require that your professors do non-teaching related things so you can pad your paychecks rather than give a better education, then you are well outside of Academia and squarely into the business category.
This isn't about Academia, its about greed. It shows the problem with education systems around the world, they aren't about teaching anymore. They are in general about using (can speak for AU, only US) public funding to pay for research that then gets patented and sold to some company so that the research professor gets notability and a bonus, and the facility makes a nice chunk in profit. The classes and students are only there because the free government funding they use to do all their research essentially at 0 cost.
We really need to shut down pretty much every major university in America and start over, or at the VERY LEAST stop pretending they are about education. It hasn't been about education in years, and there for, its not Academia anymore either, its just another industry of money grubbing assholes that try to hide behind the flag of a noble profession such as 'teacher'.
9 times out of 10, thats all you need to 'edit' the swf. Yes, you loose some meta data and authoring information, but the important info is still there, certainly enough to just PLAY it somewhere else.
I know this because A) I do it all the time B) the flash spec with the file definitions makes it rather obvious they are the same format, one just trimmed. And lets not forget SWT files, which is actually what I deal with most, which are just compressed SWFs that almost any SWF/FLA reader will do fine with.
Just because adobe uses different file extensions doesn't mean the data is actually different. Didn't we learn this in high school hacking 101?
Yes, SVGs are GREAT for just such a purposes and work in any modern browser. Firefox had/has a SVG which displays live download stats, showing little dots for each time a new download starts somewhere in the world as they happen. (well, sorta, log consolidation and all that I'm sure plays into it)
Meh. Maybe I'm just cynical, but I'd think "moving forward" would involve building a new product, not just hacking out chunks of one that's shared with one's competitors and spinning them off.
Slashdot and GPL zealots rant and rave all the time about how awesome it is to use OSS because you can 'fork it'... funny how any time the situation arises where forking would get you right back to the state you desire... no one wants to do it.
What you'd rather do is bitch about someone else not doing exactly what you want them to do, and giving it to you at no cost while you have nothing to do with any of their products.
You're not bitching because Apple is doing something wrong. You're bitching because they aren't continuing to give you a free ride which benefits them in absolutely no way what so ever. Its not even like they get any good will out of it from the OSS community, douche bags like yourself bitch no matter how much they contribute back. This is why you're group of zealots will always be ignored. You do nothing but bitch about free shit given to you out of good will.
You're not cynical, you're just a selfish asshole.
It still is for most of the free world who isn't a bunch of raving nutters worried about what Google is doing with our data.
America really isn't that bad of a place, people really aren't afraid of the government looking them up for saying something that the government doesn't like. As much as people like yourself would like to pretend America is 1939 Nazi Germany, it isn't.
If you're that concerned with compartmentalizing your data, you're either doing something illegal or a raving lunatic. Yes, I understand why we don't operate that way to avoid the slippery slope behind that statement, but the reality of it is we're not on the slippery slope, so if you really ARE worrying about such things you're either doing something illegal, or are so unbalanced that your opinion is also something that should be considered silly.
Name one innocent person who has ACTUALLY been extradited by the US on BS chages for copyright violations.
Go ahead, I'll wait.
I'm not saying that its never going to happen, but it just hasn't happened yet, at least not in my life time.
You people just don't fucking get it.
We don't come get you and extradite you when we ACTUALLY want to get you. We just do that when we want to pretend you matter, but you really don't. See Julian Assange. When we actually want to get you, you just cease to exist one night. Its far cleaner and raises FAR fewer questions, even if a CIA agent comes out the next day and tells you he did it.
My computer has a processor designed to do h.264 decoding specifically with very lower power cost and leaving my CPU almost completely unused.
I don't particularly care whats coming in the future or that my CPU is plenty fast enough to do it. A Hummer is plenty capable of driving to work every day, but it still be pretty inefficient for anyone to do when you have a much more efficient car for driving to work, leaving the hummer free to do heavy lifting.
My built in decoder causes my CPU to use a percent or two... everyone elses runs 30%+ on a good day, god knows flash's crap eats all the CPU it can, though 10.1 seems to be down near the 30-40% range as well. 30% may not be a lot for you, but I use a lot of CPU time throughout the day, I notice 30% being used, not only in performance, but in battery life when I'm out and about.
Sigh, I'm gonna have to be a fanboy on this one cause its simply too easy and true...
If you want your phone not to stutter when you open an email then you shouldn't be buying a black berry or an android device. BlackBerry devices are just shit compared to anything else on the market now days and the Android UI design and implementation issues pretty much make getting rid of UI lag an impossible feat.
Interestingly, I don't really have that issue when opening messages on my iPhone;)/troll
I work for a company that sells USB flash memory devices. We've sold some rather high end ones... I've NEVER seen 45MB/s over USB in my life, I'm fairly certain due to over head in the USB protocol that its technically impossible to do, even if its technically possible, the reality of it is that no actual USB product of any kind does anywhere near the full 480mbs that USB has when you look at the spec sheets.
My single WD 5400 RPM green laptop drive can write a sustained 80MB/s, not sure where you've found a drive so crappy it can't sustain 45.
Have you ever actually done any of this stuff you're claiming?
Right cause the only thing google lets us get back in the form of our data from their services is EVERYTHING.
Name 1 thing bit of data that you've given to Google that they don't allow you to download them other than your ANONYMOUS search history.
You can't call it lock in when they give you a unencrypted well documented XML file with your data in it, moron. Thats what they do for all of their web services, you think they won't make an export feature for Chrome?
They don't need lock in. Instead of doing 'Lock In' they do 'Better than the competition' which is far more effective at retaining customers. You should look into it some time.
Of course, this new feature in order to be useful for lock in would have to diverge from the current feature of chrome that lets you look up previously stored passwords already.
Do you actually have any idea at all who or what you're talking about?
No american company has included messaging any anything except the highest of high end 'unlimited' plans.
All other american carriers sell texting as an add on to their normal plans.
I'm not certain which part of the US you live in, but for those of us who live in the normal parts, texting is optional.
I should also add that... us 'sans-text' people are carrying around a phone... THAT YOU CAN JUST FUCKING CALL ME ON YOU SOCIALLY INEPT FUCK. Jesus christ you think texting people and TV are important enough to determine someones general well being based on their usage of such tools. You need help.
A scientifically trained person, which you are not, would not assume all antivaxxers are stupid. A true scientist would disprove their statements 100%. You are not doing that.
You are infact, the opposite of scientific because you are assuming you know something without questioning it, and science requires disproof, faith.
We need to stop religious nutjobs, you included from effecting the rest of us too much, but neither your nor I have any right to tell them how tol live their lives.
Your pretending your not doing things for religious reasons, which means you clearly don't understand what religion or science is. Unless you have perform experiments yourself to disprove the antivaxxers you refer to then you yourself are acting soley on faith, making you just as much a religious nutjob as they are.
Congratulations, you're a hypocrite, religious nutjob, and an idiot to boot, you're exactly like the person you think needs handled.
Your assessment of the medical profession is rather out of range.
1) My wife incurreed less than 150k total, most of it in med school, not undergrad. Its really not that difficult to get most of your undergrad paid for, if you aren't capable of this it means you put no effort into finding grants. There are litterally even grants for people who's parents make too much fucking money, so there is NO excuse for you to exit undergrad with massive debt other than your own
2) Doesn't get paid off, nor does it accumulate interest, just like every other graduate program. Medicine is no different.
3) Doctors get paid for residency, they don't pay someone else for the privledge of doing it. They are working at that point, just watched closer (though less than they should be!),
4) Bullshit. The cost compared to income is fucking trivial. You can pretend its bad, but my car insurance is more than my wife's malpractice costs, so again trivial compared to income. If you're doctor is paying high malpractice rates then you're intelligent move would be to find a new doctor cause yours has been sued one too many times, which indicates a pattern you might not want to be part of.
You're also pretending that someone called an 'engineer' after undergrad is impressive, except they aren't, and they really don't do anything like a doctor does. They may lay out a parking lot, or survey some land, but thats the end of it. Anyone who wants to do anything notable ALSO has to go to graduate school.
Being married to a doctor, I can assure you that your assessment is rather wrong and you've fallen into the trap of believing the greedy fuckers in the industry who make you think they really do have it hard.
They are now to be called health care profiteers, because thats exactly what they are doing and exactly why they are doing it.
There is no medical benefit at all to refusing to treat someone. That can not possibly be the best judgement, its just being an asshole cause you aren't getting your way. Unless you really think its better to let someone die because you're trying to prove your point, than to help them when they need help just because they didn't take the preemptive action you wanted.
When a doctor refuses to treat a patient, there is absolutely nothing medically related about it, its greed.
Many get sick even with having the shot as the shot is for a strain that isn't always the popular one that year.
The statistics show flu shots are dumb in almost every sense, and thats completely ignoring the fact that all we're actually doing is making the flu viruses more adapt at kicking our ass.
Vaccines only work if you irradicate the virus from the population. Don't iradicate it, it mutates and your vaccine becomes useless AND your body can't do anything about it either. NOW you're in trouble.
Really? The government controls *.co.uk? No, I didn't think they did.
All they 'control' are the silly generic domains that are too overpopulated to be useful anymore anyway. The rest of the world could rather quickly tell the US to go fuck themselves are far as DNS is concerned.
No, it doesn't have value because anyone with a clue realizes how silly the whole thing is.
Its only idiots who value bitcoin, and idiots tend to lose their money rapidly so you don't get much value out of taking advantage of them... meaning, once again, it has little to no value outside of idiots.
used to mandate refunds for DRM-protected materials in the event that the parent company shuts down / goes bankrupt, which is one of the biggest problems with our increasing use of digital media (books, movies, etc).
Right because companies that are shutting down or filing for bankruptcy have money to pay their debts...
You seem to have this silly idea that those are required to fight the military rather effectively.
I would think that the last several years of war where the enemy has been using improvised weapons of far lower quality than owned by most American's with a rather high rate of effectiveness would be some indication of you that high end automatic weapons aren't what decides the battle or the war.
It only takes one bullet to kill, spraying the wall with 100 bullets is a terror tactic used to suppress, not kill, you'll find most of those weapons you think are so great need massive quantities of supplies, and who is going to produce those supplies when they start attacking the factory workers that make them?
The amount of salt you would gather wouldn't make it worth the effort to bother collecting it when there are essentially limitless supplies (for our needs anyway) already laying all over the place on the ground or just under the surface. Hell, the entire world uses basically one mine anyway, and its not like its the only one.
We're not going to be using 'new' sources of salt anytime soon, all they do now is pick it up with bulldozers and dump it in a truck, its just like picking up dirt, except they essentially pick up bulldozers/dumptrucks full of it for just the cost of running the bulldozer/dump trucks
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If congress men like to ride in their big jets and limos, they won't fuck with texas, which directly provides pretty much ALL of the fuel we use either directly from its wells or indirectly through refinaries and such that take in foreign oil for processing.
Contrary to popular belief, America produces almost ALL of its fuel internally, we use foreign oil for this like plastics and medicines were you need it specifically rather than the forms we can gather on our own lands.
And for reference, I drank beer in Texas, legally, as an 18 year old. Now they just changed the law to get funding and instead just dont fuck with kids as long as they aren't driving.
I really wish people would understand that Texans have this ego thing going, they will win the battle, even if it costs the farm to do it, you will loose in the end. It really is a whole different country.
For reference, I'm not a Texan, I am from the midwest, and just have a great deal of respect for people who tend to take care of their own problems in house.
This isn't Academia. That general field is about teaching and learning.
When you require that your professors do non-teaching related things so you can pad your paychecks rather than give a better education, then you are well outside of Academia and squarely into the business category.
This isn't about Academia, its about greed. It shows the problem with education systems around the world, they aren't about teaching anymore. They are in general about using (can speak for AU, only US) public funding to pay for research that then gets patented and sold to some company so that the research professor gets notability and a bonus, and the facility makes a nice chunk in profit. The classes and students are only there because the free government funding they use to do all their research essentially at 0 cost.
We really need to shut down pretty much every major university in America and start over, or at the VERY LEAST stop pretending they are about education. It hasn't been about education in years, and there for, its not Academia anymore either, its just another industry of money grubbing assholes that try to hide behind the flag of a noble profession such as 'teacher'.
mv flash.swf flash.fla
9 times out of 10, thats all you need to 'edit' the swf. Yes, you loose some meta data and authoring information, but the important info is still there, certainly enough to just PLAY it somewhere else.
I know this because A) I do it all the time B) the flash spec with the file definitions makes it rather obvious they are the same format, one just trimmed. And lets not forget SWT files, which is actually what I deal with most, which are just compressed SWFs that almost any SWF/FLA reader will do fine with.
Just because adobe uses different file extensions doesn't mean the data is actually different. Didn't we learn this in high school hacking 101?
Yes, SVGs are GREAT for just such a purposes and work in any modern browser. Firefox had/has a SVG which displays live download stats, showing little dots for each time a new download starts somewhere in the world as they happen. (well, sorta, log consolidation and all that I'm sure plays into it)
They send a valid P3P header that says 'we're not complying with your privacy request'
IE says 'Thanks for complying! with our policy!'
How exactly is that googles fault?
Meh. Maybe I'm just cynical, but I'd think "moving forward" would involve building a new product, not just hacking out chunks of one that's shared with one's competitors and spinning them off.
Slashdot and GPL zealots rant and rave all the time about how awesome it is to use OSS because you can 'fork it' ... funny how any time the situation arises where forking would get you right back to the state you desire ... no one wants to do it.
What you'd rather do is bitch about someone else not doing exactly what you want them to do, and giving it to you at no cost while you have nothing to do with any of their products.
You're not bitching because Apple is doing something wrong. You're bitching because they aren't continuing to give you a free ride which benefits them in absolutely no way what so ever. Its not even like they get any good will out of it from the OSS community, douche bags like yourself bitch no matter how much they contribute back. This is why you're group of zealots will always be ignored. You do nothing but bitch about free shit given to you out of good will.
You're not cynical, you're just a selfish asshole.
It still is for most of the free world who isn't a bunch of raving nutters worried about what Google is doing with our data.
America really isn't that bad of a place, people really aren't afraid of the government looking them up for saying something that the government doesn't like. As much as people like yourself would like to pretend America is 1939 Nazi Germany, it isn't.
If you're that concerned with compartmentalizing your data, you're either doing something illegal or a raving lunatic. Yes, I understand why we don't operate that way to avoid the slippery slope behind that statement, but the reality of it is we're not on the slippery slope, so if you really ARE worrying about such things you're either doing something illegal, or are so unbalanced that your opinion is also something that should be considered silly.
Name one innocent person who has ACTUALLY been extradited by the US on BS chages for copyright violations.
Go ahead, I'll wait.
I'm not saying that its never going to happen, but it just hasn't happened yet, at least not in my life time.
You people just don't fucking get it.
We don't come get you and extradite you when we ACTUALLY want to get you. We just do that when we want to pretend you matter, but you really don't. See Julian Assange. When we actually want to get you, you just cease to exist one night. Its far cleaner and raises FAR fewer questions, even if a CIA agent comes out the next day and tells you he did it.
My computer has a processor designed to do h.264 decoding specifically with very lower power cost and leaving my CPU almost completely unused.
I don't particularly care whats coming in the future or that my CPU is plenty fast enough to do it. A Hummer is plenty capable of driving to work every day, but it still be pretty inefficient for anyone to do when you have a much more efficient car for driving to work, leaving the hummer free to do heavy lifting.
My built in decoder causes my CPU to use a percent or two ... everyone elses runs 30%+ on a good day, god knows flash's crap eats all the CPU it can, though 10.1 seems to be down near the 30-40% range as well. 30% may not be a lot for you, but I use a lot of CPU time throughout the day, I notice 30% being used, not only in performance, but in battery life when I'm out and about.
While I agree with you, I would like to point something out.
The simple test is boot time on the devices. A relatively small OS which typically takes 2+ minutes to cold boot, yeah sounds like a storage issue.
If it takes 2+ minute to boot, its not a small OS, even on flash. I think we underestimate just how much crap we're asking these devices to do.
You add open to your list, the rest of us have shit to do rather than play around Stallman's land of politics and agenda viruses.
Sigh, I'm gonna have to be a fanboy on this one cause its simply too easy and true ...
If you want your phone not to stutter when you open an email then you shouldn't be buying a black berry or an android device. BlackBerry devices are just shit compared to anything else on the market now days and the Android UI design and implementation issues pretty much make getting rid of UI lag an impossible feat.
Interestingly, I don't really have that issue when opening messages on my iPhone ;) /troll
I work for a company that sells USB flash memory devices. We've sold some rather high end ones ... I've NEVER seen 45MB/s over USB in my life, I'm fairly certain due to over head in the USB protocol that its technically impossible to do, even if its technically possible, the reality of it is that no actual USB product of any kind does anywhere near the full 480mbs that USB has when you look at the spec sheets.
My single WD 5400 RPM green laptop drive can write a sustained 80MB/s, not sure where you've found a drive so crappy it can't sustain 45.
Have you ever actually done any of this stuff you're claiming?
Right cause the only thing google lets us get back in the form of our data from their services is EVERYTHING.
Name 1 thing bit of data that you've given to Google that they don't allow you to download them other than your ANONYMOUS search history.
You can't call it lock in when they give you a unencrypted well documented XML file with your data in it, moron. Thats what they do for all of their web services, you think they won't make an export feature for Chrome?
They don't need lock in. Instead of doing 'Lock In' they do 'Better than the competition' which is far more effective at retaining customers. You should look into it some time.
Of course, this new feature in order to be useful for lock in would have to diverge from the current feature of chrome that lets you look up previously stored passwords already.
Do you actually have any idea at all who or what you're talking about?
No american company has included messaging any anything except the highest of high end 'unlimited' plans.
All other american carriers sell texting as an add on to their normal plans.
I'm not certain which part of the US you live in, but for those of us who live in the normal parts, texting is optional.
I should also add that ... us 'sans-text' people are carrying around a phone ... THAT YOU CAN JUST FUCKING CALL ME ON YOU SOCIALLY INEPT FUCK. Jesus christ you think texting people and TV are important enough to determine someones general well being based on their usage of such tools. You need help.
A scientifically trained person, which you are not, would not assume all antivaxxers are stupid. A true scientist would disprove their statements 100%. You are not doing that.
You are infact, the opposite of scientific because you are assuming you know something without questioning it, and science requires disproof, faith.
We need to stop religious nutjobs, you included from effecting the rest of us too much, but neither your nor I have any right to tell them how tol live their lives.
Your pretending your not doing things for religious reasons, which means you clearly don't understand what religion or science is. Unless you have perform experiments yourself to disprove the antivaxxers you refer to then you yourself are acting soley on faith, making you just as much a religious nutjob as they are.
Congratulations, you're a hypocrite, religious nutjob, and an idiot to boot, you're exactly like the person you think needs handled.
Your assessment of the medical profession is rather out of range.
1) My wife incurreed less than 150k total, most of it in med school, not undergrad. Its really not that difficult to get most of your undergrad paid for, if you aren't capable of this it means you put no effort into finding grants. There are litterally even grants for people who's parents make too much fucking money, so there is NO excuse for you to exit undergrad with massive debt other than your own
2) Doesn't get paid off, nor does it accumulate interest, just like every other graduate program. Medicine is no different.
3) Doctors get paid for residency, they don't pay someone else for the privledge of doing it. They are working at that point, just watched closer (though less than they should be!),
4) Bullshit. The cost compared to income is fucking trivial. You can pretend its bad, but my car insurance is more than my wife's malpractice costs, so again trivial compared to income. If you're doctor is paying high malpractice rates then you're intelligent move would be to find a new doctor cause yours has been sued one too many times, which indicates a pattern you might not want to be part of.
You're also pretending that someone called an 'engineer' after undergrad is impressive, except they aren't, and they really don't do anything like a doctor does. They may lay out a parking lot, or survey some land, but thats the end of it. Anyone who wants to do anything notable ALSO has to go to graduate school.
Being married to a doctor, I can assure you that your assessment is rather wrong and you've fallen into the trap of believing the greedy fuckers in the industry who make you think they really do have it hard.
Then they are no longer to be called doctors.
They are now to be called health care profiteers, because thats exactly what they are doing and exactly why they are doing it.
There is no medical benefit at all to refusing to treat someone. That can not possibly be the best judgement, its just being an asshole cause you aren't getting your way. Unless you really think its better to let someone die because you're trying to prove your point, than to help them when they need help just because they didn't take the preemptive action you wanted.
When a doctor refuses to treat a patient, there is absolutely nothing medically related about it, its greed.
You should look at statistics a little closers.
The shot makes many sick.
Many get sick even with having the shot as the shot is for a strain that isn't always the popular one that year.
The statistics show flu shots are dumb in almost every sense, and thats completely ignoring the fact that all we're actually doing is making the flu viruses more adapt at kicking our ass.
Vaccines only work if you irradicate the virus from the population. Don't iradicate it, it mutates and your vaccine becomes useless AND your body can't do anything about it either. NOW you're in trouble.
Really? The government controls *.co.uk? No, I didn't think they did.
All they 'control' are the silly generic domains that are too overpopulated to be useful anymore anyway. The rest of the world could rather quickly tell the US to go fuck themselves are far as DNS is concerned.
Other countries run root servers too.
No, it doesn't have value because anyone with a clue realizes how silly the whole thing is.
Its only idiots who value bitcoin, and idiots tend to lose their money rapidly so you don't get much value out of taking advantage of them ... meaning, once again, it has little to no value outside of idiots.
As a former ruby fan ...
Finally, something useful to do with Rails developers!
used to mandate refunds for DRM-protected materials in the event that the parent company shuts down / goes bankrupt, which is one of the biggest problems with our increasing use of digital media (books, movies, etc).
Right because companies that are shutting down or filing for bankruptcy have money to pay their debts ...
You seem to have this silly idea that those are required to fight the military rather effectively.
I would think that the last several years of war where the enemy has been using improvised weapons of far lower quality than owned by most American's with a rather high rate of effectiveness would be some indication of you that high end automatic weapons aren't what decides the battle or the war.
It only takes one bullet to kill, spraying the wall with 100 bullets is a terror tactic used to suppress, not kill, you'll find most of those weapons you think are so great need massive quantities of supplies, and who is going to produce those supplies when they start attacking the factory workers that make them?
The amount of salt you would gather wouldn't make it worth the effort to bother collecting it when there are essentially limitless supplies (for our needs anyway) already laying all over the place on the ground or just under the surface. Hell, the entire world uses basically one mine anyway, and its not like its the only one.
We're not going to be using 'new' sources of salt anytime soon, all they do now is pick it up with bulldozers and dump it in a truck, its just like picking up dirt, except they essentially pick up bulldozers/dumptrucks full of it for just the cost of running the bulldozer/dump trucks