This "mix" is (or should be!) mandatory for any form of TBC, not only multi-resistive. These antibiotics are extremely hard on your liver and also damage your eyesight. One of them colors your urine in pink/red. One additional drawback is that, at the end of the 6-month regimen, your system defenses will be at an all-time low, and it will take several years before you can be back to what you were before the therapy.
IF you default on this therapy, however (if you stop the start taking the medicine again, or you don't take all the pills in the mix etc.) you are going to develop a resistive or multi-resistive strain of TBC. If you develop the multi-resistive strain, you're in GREAT trouble, and are a huge hazard for the people you spend time with (which is, presumibly, the ones that are most dear to you). There are very few antibiotics which are effective with such strains, and are both expensive and hugely damaging to the liver (that's why they are not used with normal strains). Even with them, your chances of survival are not great.
So, if you do happen to get TBC, don't fuck around wth it, be pedantic and take all the medication every day, without ever skipping a dose.
Are you seriously saying you don't see the middle class disappearing in he US?
As for the US currency value in other countries: if you think about countries where US jobs are "exported" (Pakistan, China, India etc.), there people use it NOT for buying US products of any kind. They use USD as a form of stable currency where they can keep their savings, but when it comes to spending, only local goods are bought, as they are much cheaper than US goods. Meanwhile, the USD is suffering from a a mild inflation. For now.
I am sure in the near future, the original poster's view will not be ridiculed as it is now. It won't matter, though.
Go back a little further and try to remember the furore over the required online or phone registration of new WinXP installs. For the poeple who do not desire to pay for their operating system, this was a similar inconvenience. Easily circumvented, but an annoyance to legitimate users.
You are exactly correct. And to expand a bit on your thoughts: don't you hate those copy-protected games that force you to keep the damn CD inside the drive? Resulting in constant noise, vibration (noticeable if you use a laptop), CD/DVD drive overheating and eventual breakdown? I do, and passionately. Mostly because of the noise, which drives me bonkers. Also, if you play your games on your laptop, during, for example, long flights, you really don't want that damn CD sucking the battery life incessantly. So while I really don't mind spending the money on games (I play strategy games, and since such a game gives me hundreds of hours of fun, I feel it's worth the money), I find myself ALWAYS downloading the no-cd crack. I have bought, some time ago, a pirated version of Heroes of Might and Magic with both expansion packs. This version has the enormeous advangate over the original that, once installed, you don't need to keep any CD in the drive. So what happens now is that I am a bit less motivated to buy the real thing, even though I used to be a loyal customer (bought HOMM 1, 2, 3, all expansion packs and even the platinum edition). I really don't know whether I will buy HOMM 4, ever. They just pissed me off one time too many.
Do they have humor up there in Finland, eh? We import that from other countries; USA, UK, Canada. (I'm not entirely kidding)
* It isn't like he ordered these new -- they were working units that had been discarded The production of these goods will require the same amount of resources, regardless of the price at which they were acquired, you'll probably agree with that, I hope. And the electricity to make them run, and the materials and goods used to wire them up, put them into frames, glue them etc. all required natural resources. The electrical energy, albeit small, is a constalntly running resource.
* I don't think he obscured a real view -- from the pictures (and the fact that there is a fireplace on that wall) there weren't any windows on that wall. Good point, and taken. Not *the* most relevant argument against my post, perhaps.
* Not everyone can live amongst acres of forest -- imagine the suburban sprawl if that happened. Of course, you are right about this. I don't even want to go there - we'd open a can of worms or, at least, a very interesting but long and complicated debate on a possibly fundamental issue for humanity.
Fake windows with a fake view, next to a FAKE PLANT.
When I see these things, I feel so lucky to live in Finland, surrounded by thousands of acres of forests and lakes, where I can easily meet with all sorts of wild animals doing what they do. Reminds you that there's some real life in this world still. Who knows how many natural resources were destroyed to make those LEDs and the electric and computing power to make it all work. The real thing is cheaper and looks better.
But aren't those the same problems one faces when writing apps for a multiprocessor system? And yet, you are still impressed if you get an 8-way system for the prce of a 4.
Heck, just to have an 8-way system in the SPACE of a 1-way, is very damn impressive. But of course your apps have to be written to take advantage of them.
I have to disagree: we have about 200 Sun servers in our R&D lab, and dozens of Blade workstations. All this stuff, including the recently acquired dual Opteron box, is rock solid, no downtime machinery.
In any case, I think it's unwise to judge the total output quality of a company, based on just your particular experience, with possibly one single computer or application.
That sounds kinda lot. At least, compared to what Intel AMD and IBM have achieved (or are going to). IBM seems to be in a better position than the other two big chipmakers, but nowhere near 8 cores. And These cores are not some simple, transputer-ish processor implementation. They are quite complex 64-bit SPARC cores (but probably with a much shorter pipeline).
Second, just because one is against pornography and gambling, doesn't make him either a taliban or a fascist.
Third: the one thing that is common between taliban and fascists is their incapacity of accepting other thoughts and opinions, called intollerance. What you did in your first and expecially in the post to which I am replying, is show a bit of intollerance.
When I was 15 or 16, I learned a bit of RPG during my summer assignment in a company, which used Honeywell mainframes running... GICOS or something like that.
But my impression has always been that RPG is not a real programming language, as it's so damn specialized for batch processing. More than COBOL.
Nowadays, I collect vintage computer stuff. I just got a dual 8" floppy drive. Hmmmm.. wonder if RPG has ever been run on CP/M....
Good! One of the things that most annoyed me in the previous system (now my homecountry has "changed") was the unabashed attacks agaisnt the single dissenting voice, under the banner of "the people's opinion" and "proletariat democracy".
I am no friend of FOX, but when I see the demonstrators picketing FOX I think to myself: hey, these people have all the other media on their side, why not leave this one alone? They can't stand it.
For the last 4 years, the media has given Bush a free ride.
Is this even true? Looking from Europe, I see that all the media are pro-democrat, except FOX. All the shows have Bush, Cheney and the rest constantly on the floor: Conan O'Bryen, Jay Leno, MSNBC.
FOX seems to attract a lot of indignation, but I question whether it's because it's so biased, or because it's the only one biased in a different direction. In other words: is it possible that hard-core democrats can't stand one single voice of opposition? It looked so, seeing some of the protests during the republican convention.
I am aware that my view is very unusual for a European, but I am a European who came from an ex-communics country, so I developed a refined smell for bullshit.
Seeing as though all his documentaries have been released for the big screen, that he has received an Oscar for one of them, that his shows are all airing on TV and that even F. 9/11 will (probably) be aired on TV prior to the elections, the USA is treating Moore utterly unfairly. Obviously, censorship is rampant and this country is a police state where free speech is suppressed in the most brutal ways.
What kind of a lame title is that!? Roomba is a vacuum cleaner, and as such, it sucks! Call spade a spade: "So your Rooomba sucks..." would have been both more appropriate and more catchy. To hell with political correctness.
3. Floppy quality is going down. The last box of floppies that I bought, I threw away about 30%! Not only that, I've noticed that they don't seem to hold files like they used to. I write a file on floppy, check it two weeks later and the file is unreadable. I format the floppy and come up with 200k of bad sectors when previously there were none.
So true. WTF is with the floppy manufacturers? Even renowned brands, just suck nuts. Most of my 15 year-old software on 5.25" HD floppies is perfectly readable. Not only that - some of that stuff is formatted to more than 1.2 MB (typically, 1.44 or 1.72) and they are perfectly readable!
I even have a very old (1977) bootdisk (hard-sectored) which is perfectly readable! You can clearly see deep signs of tear and wear, and yet, I can read each file on the floppy.
I must question your comparison of RedHat (I presume Advanced Server) vs. Solaris license costs. We have the opposite situetion: solaris costs us significantly less than RedHat, even though it's a bit appleas and oranges, as the two OS run on different hardware - mostly (we do have some x86 servers).
I have been amazed with the wealth of knowledge stored in Wikipedia. Even useful information about vintage computers, which I though I can only find on specialized/club sites, can be found there. And chemistry, physics and mathematics, there are a incredibly large number of topics in these areas. In fact, if I had to chose which part of the Internet I want to preserve, I would opt for Wikipedia any day.
Is this yet another travel-in-time nonsense movie?
I would really like to see ONE movie or novel that deals with the time-travel impossibility. Or are paralleluniverses just too complex for the average viewer's brain?
Just the other day I heard the news that "The hunger for coal is rising again"; the point was that China's economy is increasing at such an incredible rate, and their economy relies so heavily on coal, that they are now increasing coal imports (and China itself has a lot of coal mines already). So much so, in fact, that a giant new coal terminal (that's right, just coal, at a ginormous scale) is being built somewhere in southern England.
So, hearing these news, I got quite upset, knowing that the amount of CO2 generated is the highest in the history of human civilization already. Flash floods, disappearing ice-sheets and disappearing islands flashed in front of my eyes.
But these news, about a lot more nuclear power, really are lifting up my hopes quite a bit. The sooner the better, I say.
I do like the USA, but objectively, China is taking over. It seems likely that one day (and it's coming soon), China will have a more advanced energy structure than the USA, which also heavily relies on that antiquated, very polluting fuel - coal.
BTW, coal is not only bad because it produces a lot of CO2, or because it produces a lot of SO2 either. It's also bad because, get this, produces quite a bit of radioactive waste in the form of aerosols. Just that these are more difficult (impossible) to contain, unlike in the case of nuclear plants. So, there, for the misguided green activists that oppose nucelar energy.
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This "mix" is (or should be!) mandatory for any form of TBC, not only multi-resistive.
These antibiotics are extremely hard on your liver and also damage your eyesight. One of them colors your urine in pink/red. One additional drawback is that, at the end of the 6-month regimen, your system defenses will be at an all-time low, and it will take several years before you can be back to what you were before the therapy.
IF you default on this therapy, however (if you stop the start taking the medicine again, or you don't take all the pills in the mix etc.) you are going to develop a resistive or multi-resistive strain of TBC. If you develop the multi-resistive strain, you're in GREAT trouble, and are a huge hazard for the people you spend time with (which is, presumibly, the ones that are most dear to you). There are very few antibiotics which are effective with such strains, and are both expensive and hugely damaging to the liver (that's why they are not used with normal strains). Even with them, your chances of survival are not great.
So, if you do happen to get TBC, don't fuck around wth it, be pedantic and take all the medication every day, without ever skipping a dose.
Are you seriously saying you don't see the middle class disappearing in he US?
As for the US currency value in other countries: if you think about countries where US jobs are "exported" (Pakistan, China, India etc.), there people use it NOT for buying US products of any kind. They use USD as a form of stable currency where they can keep their savings, but when it comes to spending, only local goods are bought, as they are much cheaper than US goods. Meanwhile, the USD is suffering from a a mild inflation. For now.
I am sure in the near future, the original poster's view will not be ridiculed as it is now. It won't matter, though.
Go back a little further and try to remember the furore over the required online or phone registration of new WinXP installs. For the poeple who do not desire to pay for their operating system, this was a similar inconvenience. Easily circumvented, but an annoyance to legitimate users.
You are exactly correct. And to expand a bit on your thoughts: don't you hate those copy-protected games that force you to keep the damn CD inside the drive? Resulting in constant noise, vibration (noticeable if you use a laptop), CD/DVD drive overheating and eventual breakdown? I do, and passionately. Mostly because of the noise, which drives me bonkers. Also, if you play your games on your laptop, during, for example, long flights, you really don't want that damn CD sucking the battery life incessantly.
So while I really don't mind spending the money on games (I play strategy games, and since such a game gives me hundreds of hours of fun, I feel it's worth the money), I find myself ALWAYS downloading the no-cd crack.
I have bought, some time ago, a pirated version of Heroes of Might and Magic with both expansion packs. This version has the enormeous advangate over the original that, once installed, you don't need to keep any CD in the drive. So what happens now is that I am a bit less motivated to buy the real thing, even though I used to be a loyal customer (bought HOMM 1, 2, 3, all expansion packs and even the platinum edition). I really don't know whether I will buy HOMM 4, ever. They just pissed me off one time too many.
Do they have humor up there in Finland, eh?
We import that from other countries; USA, UK, Canada. (I'm not entirely kidding)
* It isn't like he ordered these new -- they were working units that had been discarded
The production of these goods will require the same amount of resources, regardless of the price at which they were acquired, you'll probably agree with that, I hope. And the electricity to make them run, and the materials and goods used to wire them up, put them into frames, glue them etc. all required natural resources. The electrical energy, albeit small, is a constalntly running resource.
* I don't think he obscured a real view -- from the pictures (and the fact that there is a fireplace on that wall) there weren't any windows on that wall.
Good point, and taken. Not *the* most relevant argument against my post, perhaps.
* Not everyone can live amongst acres of forest -- imagine the suburban sprawl if that happened.
Of course, you are right about this. I don't even want to go there - we'd open a can of worms or, at least, a very interesting but long and complicated debate on a possibly fundamental issue for humanity.
Just look this pic
Fake windows with a fake view, next to a FAKE PLANT.
When I see these things, I feel so lucky to live in Finland, surrounded by thousands of acres of forests and lakes, where I can easily meet with all sorts of wild animals doing what they do. Reminds you that there's some real life in this world still. Who knows how many natural resources were destroyed to make those LEDs and the electric and computing power to make it all work. The real thing is cheaper and looks better.
But aren't those the same problems one faces when writing apps for a multiprocessor system? And yet, you are still impressed if you get an 8-way system for the prce of a 4.
Heck, just to have an 8-way system in the SPACE of a 1-way, is very damn impressive. But of course your apps have to be written to take advantage of them.
I have to disagree: we have about 200 Sun servers in our R&D lab, and dozens of Blade workstations. All this stuff, including the recently acquired dual Opteron box, is rock solid, no downtime machinery.
In any case, I think it's unwise to judge the total output quality of a company, based on just your particular experience, with possibly one single computer or application.
That sounds kinda lot. At least, compared to what Intel AMD and IBM have achieved (or are going to). IBM seems to be in a better position than the other two big chipmakers, but nowhere near 8 cores. And These cores are not some simple, transputer-ish processor implementation. They are quite complex 64-bit SPARC cores (but probably with a much shorter pipeline).
OK, I think this is impressive.
Now, who's going to fab this baby? TI?
From TFA They had been tracking the probes using the giant dishes of Nasa's Deep Space Network.
This doesn't quite quench my thirst for information: does this mean the probes are still sending radio waves/signals, or just irradiating passively?
First of all, I didn't call you names.
Second, just because one is against pornography and gambling, doesn't make him either a taliban or a fascist.
Third: the one thing that is common between taliban and fascists is their incapacity of accepting other thoughts and opinions, called intollerance. What you did in your first and expecially in the post to which I am replying, is show a bit of intollerance.
PayPal has been very reliable for me, and I did about 60 payments through them, and sometimes received money, too. Never any problem.
As for being Big Brother, I kinda agree with punishing gambling and porn sites.
When I was 15 or 16, I learned a bit of RPG during my summer assignment in a company, which used Honeywell mainframes running... GICOS or something like that.
But my impression has always been that RPG is not a real programming language, as it's so damn specialized for batch processing. More than COBOL.
Nowadays, I collect vintage computer stuff. I just got a dual 8" floppy drive. Hmmmm.. wonder if RPG has ever been run on CP/M....
Well, there is some competition there, too. There's SAP and then also Baan - is Baan still in business?
Good! One of the things that most annoyed me in the previous system (now my homecountry has "changed") was the unabashed attacks agaisnt the single dissenting voice, under the banner of "the people's opinion" and "proletariat democracy".
I am no friend of FOX, but when I see the demonstrators picketing FOX I think to myself: hey, these people have all the other media on their side, why not leave this one alone? They can't stand it.
For the last 4 years, the media has given Bush a free ride.
Is this even true? Looking from Europe, I see that all the media are pro-democrat, except FOX. All the shows have Bush, Cheney and the rest constantly on the floor: Conan O'Bryen, Jay Leno, MSNBC.
FOX seems to attract a lot of indignation, but I question whether it's because it's so biased, or because it's the only one biased in a different direction. In other words: is it possible that hard-core democrats can't stand one single voice of opposition? It looked so, seeing some of the protests during the republican convention.
I am aware that my view is very unusual for a European, but I am a European who came from an ex-communics country, so I developed a refined smell for bullshit.
Seeing as though all his documentaries have been released for the big screen, that he has received an Oscar for one of them, that his shows are all airing on TV and that even F. 9/11 will (probably) be aired on TV prior to the elections, the USA is treating Moore utterly unfairly. Obviously, censorship is rampant and this country is a police state where free speech is suppressed in the most brutal ways.
Poor Michael Moore.
What kind of a lame title is that!? Roomba is a vacuum cleaner, and as such, it sucks! Call spade a spade: "So your Rooomba sucks..." would have been both more appropriate and more catchy. To hell with political correctness.
watching the new Atari try to be cool is like watching your father disco dancing. It's just lame and embarrasing.
"Disco dancing"? Man, you're so '80s! I think it would be lame enough watching *you* dancing!
Just kindding - the '80s rule!
Only with the newly bough 3.5" floppies. Old HD 5.25" are rock solid, for some reason.
3. Floppy quality is going down. The last box of floppies that I bought, I threw away about 30%! Not only that, I've noticed that they don't seem to hold files like they used to. I write a file on floppy, check it two weeks later and the file is unreadable. I format the floppy and come up with 200k of bad sectors when previously there were none.
So true. WTF is with the floppy manufacturers? Even renowned brands, just suck nuts. Most of my 15 year-old software on 5.25" HD floppies is perfectly readable. Not only that - some of that stuff is formatted to more than 1.2 MB (typically, 1.44 or 1.72) and they are perfectly readable!
I even have a very old (1977) bootdisk (hard-sectored) which is perfectly readable! You can clearly see deep signs of tear and wear, and yet, I can read each file on the floppy.
I must question your comparison of RedHat (I presume Advanced Server) vs. Solaris license costs. We have the opposite situetion: solaris costs us significantly less than RedHat, even though it's a bit appleas and oranges, as the two OS run on different hardware - mostly (we do have some x86 servers).
I have been amazed with the wealth of knowledge stored in Wikipedia. Even useful information about vintage computers, which I though I can only find on specialized/club sites, can be found there.
And chemistry, physics and mathematics, there are a incredibly large number of topics in these areas. In fact, if I had to chose which part of the Internet I want to preserve, I would opt for Wikipedia any day.
Is this yet another travel-in-time nonsense movie?
I would really like to see ONE movie or novel that deals with the time-travel impossibility. Or are paralleluniverses just too complex for the average viewer's brain?
Just the other day I heard the news that "The hunger for coal is rising again"; the point was that China's economy is increasing at such an incredible rate, and their economy relies so heavily on coal, that they are now increasing coal imports (and China itself has a lot of coal mines already). So much so, in fact, that a giant new coal terminal (that's right, just coal, at a ginormous scale) is being built somewhere in southern England.
So, hearing these news, I got quite upset, knowing that the amount of CO2 generated is the highest in the history of human civilization already. Flash floods, disappearing ice-sheets and disappearing islands flashed in front of my eyes.
But these news, about a lot more nuclear power, really are lifting up my hopes quite a bit. The sooner the better, I say.
I do like the USA, but objectively, China is taking over. It seems likely that one day (and it's coming soon), China will have a more advanced energy structure than the USA, which also heavily relies on that antiquated, very polluting fuel - coal.
BTW, coal is not only bad because it produces a lot of CO2, or because it produces a lot of SO2 either. It's also bad because, get this, produces quite a bit of radioactive waste in the form of aerosols. Just that these are more difficult (impossible) to contain, unlike in the case of nuclear plants. So, there, for the misguided green activists that oppose nucelar energy.
Thank you for sharing all this precious knowledge with me. I am genuinely grateful.