my debugger dramatically decreases the performance of the application, and my tests dramatically increase the threat of it creashing, but somehow, I'm under the illusion that my efforts are not making it worse.
Nobody said "ALL THE INSURGENTS BEING FOREIGN." But many are. Do you dispute that?
Saddam & his regime killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. That doesn't include Iranians and that doesn't include those that died from malnutrition & disease made worse by the trade embargo imposed after he invaded Kuwait and refused to dispose of his existing chemical weapons stockpiles. Those same stockpiles had a big part in killing those hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Do you deny the existence of Saddam's stockpiles of chemical weapons used before the invasion of Kuwait on his own citizens and upon the Iranian military?
I hope your terrorist neighbor is caught before he kills your daughter. Do you maintain that acts such as conspiracy, plotting, sedition, and espianage are undetectable or unpunishable?
It's in the constitution. American's don't have to worry about being subject to conviction by a show trial by puppets in Brussels. Texans in Texas can't be sued by Californians in California using Wyoming laws (and vice versa), excepting things like interstate commerce. And Federal civil courts don't have justiction over foreign or domestic militarists. Jose Padilla has every right to a civil trial, but the civil Judge has no juristiction over his military case.
But here, we believe the rights of the people are derived directly from God, and not from the government, whatever it's claims to authority may be.
By voting or paying taxes you are not relinquishing your liberty and acknowledging the sovereignty of the government. To the extent that your vote and/or money affects the government, you are participating in it. The truths that were deemed self-evident are the rights are still inalienable. If the government takes them away, that means either the democracy isn't working, or the majority has forsaken freedom (or both.)
You don't have to believe Jesus died for you to believe that slavery or tyranny or murder or jaywalking are wrong; or that freedom of belief & expression, a fair trail, elected representatives and apple pie are right. But there is a suprising strong correlation between the two, and an even stronger between the lack of the two beliefs.
Give them time. It took a while before AMD had a better 486 than Intel, and then it took them time to catch up with pentium. And then MMX was cross-licensed. And then Pentium 3 leapfrogged the K6-II. Though, that time, AMD's response was almost immediate and thunderous -- an architectural break.
Also, low end ATIs suck. Low end Nvidias are great. At the high end, ATI is aslo more expensive than performance would justify. Nvidia innovates. Check out their motherboard technology that allows lots of people to get sub $500 systems. ATIs idea of high tech is a fan on the GPU and 256MB of onboard RAM. Nobody even uses 64, your screen just isn't that big.
The fact of the matter is that 32 bits turned out to be enough for just about everyone. In the 1990s everyone rushed out and bought 64 bit CPUs (and SUNW soared) before there even existed feasible consumer technology to have enough memory (or even disk) space to address more than 32 bits.
In large part this was because everyone remembered how big of a leap moving from 16 to 32 registers was. But in even larger part because they didn't realize how big of a leap moving from 16 to 32 bits really was.
In 1993 everyone knew what EMM was. In 2003, nobody outside of a very few kernel hackers even worried about the the way extended memory was managed.
Most of AMDs 64 bit sales are to home systems anyway. Why? Because it's faster than their 32 bit architecture. And because it's cool. But an Alpha was a cool architecture. I'd like to see that spread.
I'll bet Intel still makes more profit on those 100,000 Itaniums than AMD makes in it's 2,000,000 Opterons. Of course there's the huge R&D cost that Intel (& HP) will probably never recover from Itanium. Still, Intel probably makes AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE more profit than AMD on their P4 vs. Athlon lines as well.
Bush gave irresposible tax cuts to the poor too. In fact, a lot more. He gave $300 to everyone and that is at least AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE MORE that went to people making less than $25,000 than to all the tax cuts (including estate and capital gains) that went to the top 1% of the population making over $200,000.
ANWR was created by Bush, dumbass. Clinton signed a non-enforceable executive order "halting" exploration in northern Alaska only weeks before leaving office. Bush chose to enforce it.
The man still drowned, the free course cost taxpayers $2000, and unbeknown to the Green Party member, the sharks are more than happy for the free food, I mean pollution.
You do know that "W" became president by a similar mandate.
He didn't have much intention of becoming a career politician, but the combination of a incompetent incumbent governor in Texas, Bush's likeability by and acceptance in the "good ole boy network" in Texas, his popularity from revitalizing the Texas Rangers baseball team, disillusionment in the corruption of the Democrat party, and approval of his father's policies thrust him into the Governorship and grooming to run for president.
In other words, if Ross Perot hadn't run for president in 1992 and cost George Bush Sr. the presidency, and if Bill Clinton hadn't been such an terrible president and Ann Richards such an incompetant governor, George Bush wouldn't have been thrust into the office that most of America regretted relinquishing from his father.
Alexander's teachers were Greek. It's not necessarily a good idea for someone who takes freedom for granted to indoctrinate someone who doesn't have the luxury.
Here is the most important fallacy people need to get out of their head. A court ruling is not a law. The only court rulings that have any binding on law are when the Supreme Court declares an existing law null because it is unconstitutional. Neither judges nor juries, write laws in America. That is left to legislators.
Any CEO that would dismiss the welfare of the public in favor of profits is breaking the law. If you head a corporation, you depend on having happy, healthy customers, or else you could not possibly increase shareholder value. Even Soylent Green's parent company has a vested interest in keeping as many people alive as possible.
You're confusing propaganda with reality. Socialists never claimed to provide a good life to the unwashed masses. They only claimed that they would, if given power, and that they already had, once having obtained that power.
Free market capitalism is those same unwashed masses deciding whether they want to buy a bar of soap, a tv, or give to their neighbor.
Funny thing is, I know for a fact (having no knowledge of Austria) that Austria has toll stations that charge (by weight) German trucks going to and from Italy. Probably some of that money goes for road maintenance. And even so, whole-EU taxes will theoretically distributed to build roads where they are need.
Actually, America's exceptional poor quality of education has been a severe handicap and a major motivator of offshore outsourcing as well as H1-Bs, etc. The only reason we're still competitive at all is that the spirit of individuality allows some to rise above the educational system.
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my debugger dramatically decreases the performance of the application, and my tests dramatically increase the threat of it creashing, but somehow, I'm under the illusion that my efforts are not making it worse.
Nobody said "ALL THE INSURGENTS BEING FOREIGN." But many are. Do you dispute that? Saddam & his regime killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. That doesn't include Iranians and that doesn't include those that died from malnutrition & disease made worse by the trade embargo imposed after he invaded Kuwait and refused to dispose of his existing chemical weapons stockpiles. Those same stockpiles had a big part in killing those hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Do you deny the existence of Saddam's stockpiles of chemical weapons used before the invasion of Kuwait on his own citizens and upon the Iranian military? I hope your terrorist neighbor is caught before he kills your daughter. Do you maintain that acts such as conspiracy, plotting, sedition, and espianage are undetectable or unpunishable?
They don't believe Bush either, but they can't make him go away.
It's in the constitution. American's don't have to worry about being subject to conviction by a show trial by puppets in Brussels. Texans in Texas can't be sued by Californians in California using Wyoming laws (and vice versa), excepting things like interstate commerce. And Federal civil courts don't have justiction over foreign or domestic militarists. Jose Padilla has every right to a civil trial, but the civil Judge has no juristiction over his military case.
But here, we believe the rights of the people are derived directly from God, and not from the government, whatever it's claims to authority may be.
By voting or paying taxes you are not relinquishing your liberty and acknowledging the sovereignty of the government. To the extent that your vote and/or money affects the government, you are participating in it. The truths that were deemed self-evident are the rights are still inalienable. If the government takes them away, that means either the democracy isn't working, or the majority has forsaken freedom (or both.)
You don't have to believe Jesus died for you to believe that slavery or tyranny or murder or jaywalking are wrong; or that freedom of belief & expression, a fair trail, elected representatives and apple pie are right. But there is a suprising strong correlation between the two, and an even stronger between the lack of the two beliefs.
Here's a funny story. I was at a rockin' party the other day, and I overheard this conversation:
I'll never touch a Cyrix after I saw one give a floating point error.
I laughed outloud and leapt to Cyrix's defense. What about the C7?
Give them time. It took a while before AMD had a better 486 than Intel, and then it took them time to catch up with pentium. And then MMX was cross-licensed. And then Pentium 3 leapfrogged the K6-II. Though, that time, AMD's response was almost immediate and thunderous -- an architectural break.
When the virus is written to execute in your email client, it doesn't really matter how you juggle numbers in the register.
Also, low end ATIs suck. Low end Nvidias are great. At the high end, ATI is aslo more expensive than performance would justify. Nvidia innovates. Check out their motherboard technology that allows lots of people to get sub $500 systems. ATIs idea of high tech is a fan on the GPU and 256MB of onboard RAM. Nobody even uses 64, your screen just isn't that big.
The fact of the matter is that 32 bits turned out to be enough for just about everyone. In the 1990s everyone rushed out and bought 64 bit CPUs (and SUNW soared) before there even existed feasible consumer technology to have enough memory (or even disk) space to address more than 32 bits. In large part this was because everyone remembered how big of a leap moving from 16 to 32 registers was. But in even larger part because they didn't realize how big of a leap moving from 16 to 32 bits really was. In 1993 everyone knew what EMM was. In 2003, nobody outside of a very few kernel hackers even worried about the the way extended memory was managed. Most of AMDs 64 bit sales are to home systems anyway. Why? Because it's faster than their 32 bit architecture. And because it's cool. But an Alpha was a cool architecture. I'd like to see that spread.
I'll bet Intel still makes more profit on those 100,000 Itaniums than AMD makes in it's 2,000,000 Opterons. Of course there's the huge R&D cost that Intel (& HP) will probably never recover from Itanium. Still, Intel probably makes AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE more profit than AMD on their P4 vs. Athlon lines as well.
Bush gave irresposible tax cuts to the poor too. In fact, a lot more. He gave $300 to everyone and that is at least AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE MORE that went to people making less than $25,000 than to all the tax cuts (including estate and capital gains) that went to the top 1% of the population making over $200,000.
Bush got almost 43% of the popular vote in California in 2000. It will be alot closer this time.
ANWR was created by Bush, dumbass. Clinton signed a non-enforceable executive order "halting" exploration in northern Alaska only weeks before leaving office. Bush chose to enforce it.
The man still drowned, the free course cost taxpayers $2000, and unbeknown to the Green Party member, the sharks are more than happy for the free food, I mean pollution.
You do know that "W" became president by a similar mandate. He didn't have much intention of becoming a career politician, but the combination of a incompetent incumbent governor in Texas, Bush's likeability by and acceptance in the "good ole boy network" in Texas, his popularity from revitalizing the Texas Rangers baseball team, disillusionment in the corruption of the Democrat party, and approval of his father's policies thrust him into the Governorship and grooming to run for president. In other words, if Ross Perot hadn't run for president in 1992 and cost George Bush Sr. the presidency, and if Bill Clinton hadn't been such an terrible president and Ann Richards such an incompetant governor, George Bush wouldn't have been thrust into the office that most of America regretted relinquishing from his father.
Alexander's teachers were Greek. It's not necessarily a good idea for someone who takes freedom for granted to indoctrinate someone who doesn't have the luxury.
but I guess since their functions are flawed too, there's a possibility that bad data in a bad model will cancel each other out.
Here is the most important fallacy people need to get out of their head. A court ruling is not a law. The only court rulings that have any binding on law are when the Supreme Court declares an existing law null because it is unconstitutional. Neither judges nor juries, write laws in America. That is left to legislators.
Any CEO that would dismiss the welfare of the public in favor of profits is breaking the law. If you head a corporation, you depend on having happy, healthy customers, or else you could not possibly increase shareholder value. Even Soylent Green's parent company has a vested interest in keeping as many people alive as possible.
You're confusing propaganda with reality. Socialists never claimed to provide a good life to the unwashed masses. They only claimed that they would, if given power, and that they already had, once having obtained that power. Free market capitalism is those same unwashed masses deciding whether they want to buy a bar of soap, a tv, or give to their neighbor.
Funny thing is, I know for a fact (having no knowledge of Austria) that Austria has toll stations that charge (by weight) German trucks going to and from Italy. Probably some of that money goes for road maintenance. And even so, whole-EU taxes will theoretically distributed to build roads where they are need.
If you've got any kind of skills, I'll hire you.
Actually, America's exceptional poor quality of education has been a severe handicap and a major motivator of offshore outsourcing as well as H1-Bs, etc. The only reason we're still competitive at all is that the spirit of individuality allows some to rise above the educational system.
It's true. You can have any free enterprise you want as long as the government approves it (in practice... not very much)