Since the site only has scientific value because it has been sealed away for millennia, I'd have thought they'd take more care about preserving its microbial integrity and not just go diving in it.
I believe BMW was actually the first to pump completely fake engine nosies (electronically created not just amplified) through the stereo quite a while back, and I think nearly all their models do that now. Its one of the bigger reasons I wouldn't ever buy a BMW, and apparently now you can add Ford to that list.
That said, where do you stop in being critical? Nearly all sports car makers invest a LOT of money on tuning exahusts to get the sound they want, even possibly at the cost of some performance. I guess at least if its coming out the exhuast its orignally an actual engine noise, and that people outside the car can hear too.
What they REALLY need to do to prevent ebola outbreaks in the first place is to get over their illogical social moires and accept cremation as being an acceptable alternative to burial for ebola victims.
I totally agree. Adjusting to the US business culture of "Don't offend anyone even with the truth" thing took a LOT of getting used to when I emigrated to the US from England about 12 years ago. Not least because I don't actually agree with the sentiment.
I'm fairly sure I still unintentionally offend people sometimes by saying stuff that would be considered perfectly polite in the UK.
Unfortunately the most successful reporters are the ones that sold out their professionalism on their first day. A sensationalist headline and article easily trumps a sane, balanced and informative one in attracting views/viewers therefore money. Welcome to the new age.
>> If you're a Linux fan, I'd be surprised if the only reason you like Linux is it's script-based init system.
For me at least, its not the only reason but its certainly one of the big benefits. I like being able to non-ambiguously see and control exactly what is really going on, and to even be able to run those scripts individually in a sandbox if I want.
I also really like plaintext system log files, having to now use some commandline tool to continually create them first is nothing but a giant pain in the ass.
For me at least, Systemd takes a lot of simplicity and usability away, with nothing even close to a correspondingly sized gain in other benefits.
...except the difference here is that we're talking about someone's life not just a few bucks, and also the doctors didn't say they couldn't do it for the money, they misdiagnosed it the first time, then just said they couldn't do it at all.
Is ist just me or is anyone else actually concerned that a have-a-go engineer can apparently quite easily achieve significantly bettr results than a team of so-called expert doctors in their own field?
The occulus team have put a massive amount of resource and effort into identifying and minimizing motion blur, input lag, head tracking lag and other artifacts that cause nausea and other subconcious effects that make their unit less useable and/or realistic.
Consequently there is literally no way that you do or even could ever get the same experience just from strapping a phone to your head. This is yet another example of sloppy unprofessional reviewing based on only the most superficial and immediately apparent aspects of the product.
>> Pandora is 99.65% accurate at picking music I like
wow thats amazing. personally I find its only about 25% sucessful at that. My own experience (only of the free version) is that it refuses to stay with whatever band or even genre I actually selected as a channel.
Really? so either the crusades did not occur 1k years ago, or multiple fatalities of innocent people from islamic terrorist attacks are not happening daily?...and you are seriously claiming that Christianity instructs the killing of people if they insult jesus and/or Christianity does not teach us to forgive?..and that Christianity teaches the denial of basic human rights?
Perhaps you'd share where in the new testament is all this?
dude the old testament bible hasn't hardly been relevant let alone dictated the tenets of modern Christianity for over 2000 years. Its what Jesus was all about.
All your comments are about a few examples of isolated loony supposedly christian radical groups who's actions aren't even close to being in line with the teachings of the religion itself (New testament).
ISIS (or whatever they currently call themselves) and most other radical islamic groups like Boku Haram are operating on a whole different scale to everything you mentioned, and you either know it and you're trolling, or you are VERY badly informed.
Your 4th example is probably the biggest in terms of deaths but is factually way off; The Bosnian Serb army was entirely responsible for the killings, not the christian church. You can blame Radovan Karadzic for dictatorial powermongering, radical nationalism and ethnic cleansing far more than you can legitimately claim the siege of Sarajevo had anything to do with promoting Christianity.
Not the Pope or any other legitimate Christian leader ever preaches death or even bad treatment of muslims or anyone else, yet many if not most imams publically support jihad: literally the armed struggle against, and therefore death of, everyone who isn't muslim. In fact the qu'ran makes it clear that jihad is actually the duty of all good muslims. Thats one major key difference. Whilst I agree that Christianity has its own issues and a violent past, Your implication that Christianity as a religion even comes close to being as fucked-up as islam is, especially these days, is completely unfounded.
>> if cable companies are finally forced to unbundle their services it may actually result in higher prices and worse service....in which case people just won't buy cable. It will finally HAVE to get significantly better or die. I honestly don't believe the cable companies literally can't increase programming quality especially when their existence is at stake. In fact thats probably what it takes before they stop acting like greedy monopolies. And if they can't, they will fail and leave a big gap for someone to come along that can. I really don't see the problem here.
If you're one of the few who's listening tastes are completely satisfied by Pandora then for you of course you're right, but you need to understand that not many people are actually like that.
Also it sounds very much like you're not even close to comparing apples to apples, from your figures it appears your script is including the theoretical purchase price of music that Pandora chooses to play at you rather than just the musicyou actively selected. I mean it could play something you don't even like or would ever buy but your script would still include the cost.
>> even in the rare instances that my nearly-always-on Internet connection is down
what about when you're not at home, or in an area where your cell can't/aren't allowed to get data? What about the extra hidden cost of your internet connections themselves and the necessary extra bandwidth usage?
Ok so add up all the dead from every christian-initiated incident you mentioned from the last 1000 years and compare that to than the number of innocent people killed by islamic terrorist activity every month. Starting to get it now?
Monthly Jihad Report December, 2014:
Jihad Attacks: 233
Countries: 30
Allah Akbars: 33
Dead Bodies: 2497
Critically Injured: 2225
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Since the site only has scientific value because it has been sealed away for millennia, I'd have thought they'd take more care about preserving its microbial integrity and not just go diving in it.
I second that. AMD sucks hard on linux compared to nVidia.
I believe BMW was actually the first to pump completely fake engine nosies (electronically created not just amplified) through the stereo quite a while back, and I think nearly all their models do that now. Its one of the bigger reasons I wouldn't ever buy a BMW, and apparently now you can add Ford to that list.
That said, where do you stop in being critical? Nearly all sports car makers invest a LOT of money on tuning exahusts to get the sound they want, even possibly at the cost of some performance. I guess at least if its coming out the exhuast its orignally an actual engine noise, and that people outside the car can hear too.
I guess the real truth is in what does "supported lifetime" actually mean?
This isn't about determining reality, it's about determining which politicians will openly accept reality.
What they REALLY need to do to prevent ebola outbreaks in the first place is to get over their illogical social moires and accept cremation as being an acceptable alternative to burial for ebola victims.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
I totally agree.
Adjusting to the US business culture of "Don't offend anyone even with the truth" thing took a LOT of getting used to when I emigrated to the US from England about 12 years ago. Not least because I don't actually agree with the sentiment.
I'm fairly sure I still unintentionally offend people sometimes by saying stuff that would be considered perfectly polite in the UK.
Unfortunately the most successful reporters are the ones that sold out their professionalism on their first day.
A sensationalist headline and article easily trumps a sane, balanced and informative one in attracting views/viewers therefore money. Welcome to the new age.
systemd doesn't reduce complexity, all it does is hide it away where you can't see it anymore (even if you need to).
>> If you're a Linux fan, I'd be surprised if the only reason you like Linux is it's script-based init system.
For me at least, its not the only reason but its certainly one of the big benefits. I like being able to non-ambiguously see and control exactly what is really going on, and to even be able to run those scripts individually in a sandbox if I want.
I also really like plaintext system log files, having to now use some commandline tool to continually create them first is nothing but a giant pain in the ass.
For me at least, Systemd takes a lot of simplicity and usability away, with nothing even close to a correspondingly sized gain in other benefits.
...except the difference here is that we're talking about someone's life not just a few bucks, and also the doctors didn't say they couldn't do it for the money, they misdiagnosed it the first time, then just said they couldn't do it at all.
Is ist just me or is anyone else actually concerned that a have-a-go engineer can apparently quite easily achieve significantly bettr results than a team of so-called expert doctors in their own field?
The occulus team have put a massive amount of resource and effort into identifying and minimizing motion blur, input lag, head tracking lag and other artifacts that cause nausea and other subconcious effects that make their unit less useable and/or realistic.
Consequently there is literally no way that you do or even could ever get the same experience just from strapping a phone to your head. This is yet another example of sloppy unprofessional reviewing based on only the most superficial and immediately apparent aspects of the product.
Because anyone with a masters degree in computing could be earning double or triple what teachers get paid.
I'm ignoring you from now on because you're completely clueless at least about EU history.
WW1 was actually caused by stress about the balance of political power between the "Great Power" countries (i.e. the majority) in Europe.
WW2 was directly caused by Germany invading Poland, a result of the rise of the Nazi party (who were elected by a majority coalition).
...because WW1 and WW2 was really all about enforcing christianity.
_SO_ NOT.
>> They launched an assault on both sites at once, killed all the terrorists
Thanks goodness that the bad guys in the middle didn't think to duck.
>> You can make the exact same argument about the varying factions including ISIS
I disagree. ISIS's entire objective is to set up an ISLAMIC state. The IRA weren't ever trying to set up a catholic state, just an independent one.
>> Pandora is 99.65% accurate at picking music I like
wow thats amazing. personally I find its only about 25% sucessful at that. My own experience (only of the free version) is that it refuses to stay with whatever band or even genre I actually selected as a channel.
>> False, False, false, false
Really? so either the crusades did not occur 1k years ago, or multiple fatalities of innocent people from islamic terrorist attacks are not happening daily? ...and you are seriously claiming that Christianity instructs the killing of people if they insult jesus and/or Christianity does not teach us to forgive? ..and that Christianity teaches the denial of basic human rights?
Perhaps you'd share where in the new testament is all this?
dude the old testament bible hasn't hardly been relevant let alone dictated the tenets of modern Christianity for over 2000 years. Its what Jesus was all about.
All your comments are about a few examples of isolated loony supposedly christian radical groups who's actions aren't even close to being in line with the teachings of the religion itself (New testament).
ISIS (or whatever they currently call themselves) and most other radical islamic groups like Boku Haram are operating on a whole different scale to everything you mentioned, and you either know it and you're trolling, or you are VERY badly informed.
Your 4th example is probably the biggest in terms of deaths but is factually way off; The Bosnian Serb army was entirely responsible for the killings, not the christian church. You can blame Radovan Karadzic for dictatorial powermongering, radical nationalism and ethnic cleansing far more than you can legitimately claim the siege of Sarajevo had anything to do with promoting Christianity.
Not the Pope or any other legitimate Christian leader ever preaches death or even bad treatment of muslims or anyone else, yet many if not most imams publically support jihad: literally the armed struggle against, and therefore death of, everyone who isn't muslim. In fact the qu'ran makes it clear that jihad is actually the duty of all good muslims.
Thats one major key difference.
Whilst I agree that Christianity has its own issues and a violent past, Your implication that Christianity as a religion even comes close to being as fucked-up as islam is, especially these days, is completely unfounded.
>> I am assuming you are an American, who knows many christians.
Wrong on both counts there friend.
>> if cable companies are finally forced to unbundle their services it may actually result in higher prices and worse service. ...in which case people just won't buy cable. It will finally HAVE to get significantly better or die. I honestly don't believe the cable companies literally can't increase programming quality especially when their existence is at stake. In fact thats probably what it takes before they stop acting like greedy monopolies. And if they can't, they will fail and leave a big gap for someone to come along that can. I really don't see the problem here.
If you're one of the few who's listening tastes are completely satisfied by Pandora then for you of course you're right, but you need to understand that not many people are actually like that.
Also it sounds very much like you're not even close to comparing apples to apples, from your figures it appears your script is including the theoretical purchase price of music that Pandora chooses to play at you rather than just the musicyou actively selected. I mean it could play something you don't even like or would ever buy but your script would still include the cost.
>> even in the rare instances that my nearly-always-on Internet connection is down
what about when you're not at home, or in an area where your cell can't/aren't allowed to get data? What about the extra hidden cost of your internet connections themselves and the necessary extra bandwidth usage?
Ok so add up all the dead from every christian-initiated incident you mentioned from the last 1000 years and compare that to than the number of innocent people killed by islamic terrorist activity every month. Starting to get it now?
Monthly Jihad Report
December, 2014:
Jihad Attacks: 233
Countries: 30
Allah Akbars: 33
Dead Bodies: 2497
Critically Injured: 2225