My first MP3 player was a Rio Chiba with the thumbstick. I even put a 512MB SD card in there so that I could have 768 megabytes of music. It still works, even after more than 5 years.
I think you're under the mistaken impression that any corporation in America even thinks about where they'll be at more than 3 years from the current date. Our whole culture stresses the need to take the short view of things instead of the long view, and look at where we've ended up.
Did Gore really say that we could reduce our carbon emissions to 0? Because I just farted, and I'm pretty sure that that was a carbon emission.
On a more serious note, I don't really find the "supernatural" to be irreconcilable with science. Science just emphasizes the parts of the world that we can understand through logic. The only contract one signs when they become a scientist is that they will not bring up questions which are not scientifically verifiable. The biggest one that comes to mind for me is that of Tarot cards seeming to reveal truths about lives or persons. This is not at all scientifically verifiable, but it's fun sometimes to accept it.
A world without science would be bleak, but a world of nothing but science would also be bleak.
Howzabout us invading Iraq, a soverign nation with its own government, abolishing that government, hanging its leader, and then opening up the country for a civil war?
Oh, I get it. This is one of those posts that you make in order to inflame me against you! Wow, how clever.
I don't hate the ideals that the USA originally aspired to, especially the idea that we can govern ourselves as a group and still maintain a cohesive society. What I hate is what we've done as a country, consistently, to other countries. We interfere with their development, we ignore their soverignty, and we have even stolen land from them. Yes, it's been a while since we've invaded a country and taken land from them, but it's happened.
I love the ideals that we aspire to, but as a country there is a pattern of antisocial behavior which I find to be disturbing.
But we can never observe what actually happens at the speed of light, only what goes on as we pass infinitesimally close to it. Yes, time slows down to a dead crawl, but it's impossible for any observer to ever reach the speed of light. It's in effect a logical fallacy to attempt to apply our understanding of what goes on before the speed of light to what goes on at the speed of light.
Einstein made a similar mistake in that he often wondered what an observer traveling at the speed of light would see. But he realised when he was older that the fundamental flaw in his thoughts was that no observer can ever travel at the speed of light, and so all speculation is impossible to confirm or dispute. What you're doing when you say that photons experience an infinite amount of time is misusing Calculus. To put it simply, you've effectively taken the limit of a function as we approach what could be a discontinuity, but you're now misrepresenting the limit's value as the value of the function at that point instead of the value that the function approaches.
The solution that Linux has had to your problem is to add applications to a central database that contains information about dependencies and also allows people to retrieve any neccessary software from servers referenced in this database. But I think perhaps you misunderstood my meaning. My suggestion is that Windows ships with a base of support for very common applications like games and office software, but one could pay for and download extras like Aero and IIS for the base package online. This way there's one version of Windows for everyone, and if it needs to do something special, there's a download available which enables that particular feature.
What I never understood was this: If Vista is modular enough that certain pieces can be removed or added to create new SKUs, and the developers expected everyone installing the software to have a broadband connection, why didn't they just design a home basic OS that everyone could buy on the cheap with a very basic feature set, and then allow people to pay for different features a la carte so that they could buy only the addons that they actually wanted?
"With all due respect, Mr. Prosecutor, my wife never crashed in the middle of a compile or dumped half the data on her hard disk because her operating system was a piece of crap. I think your comparison of my wife to a computer is unfair, as she was a flesh and blood person and that computer was just a thing. It sounds to me like you have some deep personal issues with your mother, possibly because of her treatment of you or your father during childhood. Are you currently seeing a therapist?"
They do that every time we discover one of their rules. It keeps us on our toes, as well as providing them with hours of entertainment as they describe our latest fuckup to all their friends and coworkers.
I'd do that for a couple of 30" Apple Cinema displays. Hell, I'd give up sex for a year for that. Any kind of sexual activity. Interested parties, please contact me at the email address listed with the account for terms and conditions.
It's misleading because video card manufacturers tweak their drivers to perform better in timedemos versus real world gameplay so that hardware review sites will do reviews touting the game as playable on such-and-such a card at maximum settings even though real world gameplay never comes close to what the time demo is doing to the game. Wow, that was one sentence. Oh, and how can you say that card A outperforms card B without ever comparing them in gameplay? That would be like me going into a hardware store and swinging two different hammers to compare them, then buying one based on that test only to find out that its total crap at actually hammering.
The root of the issue is that timedemos give the video card manufacturers something to tweak their drivers around besides gameplay. And there are also some arguments over how representative of your actual experience a timedemo will be. At least HardOCP gives a crap about their methodology, as opposed to other hardware sites which don't use any sort of statistical analysis.
Yeah, totally. Obviously since they haven't had any more formal study of the subject they can't possibly understand it at all. And therefore you don't have to object to their arguments, only to their credentials. Because unqualified people have never made any interesting contributions to anything.
No, but what Microsoft could have done would be to check IPv6 registries, then if no entry is found in those registries or the entry is broken, fall through to IPv4.
And at least he bothered to get statistics of some sort before saying that all his buddies in their moms' basements also prefer using XP and therefore nobody in general likes XP. I will say that, aside from his Facebook experience, all his other criticisms are valid.
If you withdraw our troops and redefine the army's role as one of defense of our own borders, than we don't need to strike anywhere quickly because we aren't going to fight unless it's in defense of our borders. If it's strategically important to defend another country _because their opponent will be moving on to us next_, then it stands to reason that our new ally will gladly allow us to stage troops and equipment in their territory. In short, we don't need to maintain a permanent presence in any region that is not one of the 50 United States or a territory thereof.
Umm, you're actually missing both of our points, which was that in a cost-benefit analysis, Ubuntu is only cheaper if you don't value your time at all. When I included the amount of money which was potentially lost through my wasting time trying to get stuff working, it was almost cheaper just to use Windows. If I hadn't had a decent knowledge of computers and wasn't used to working with the command line and text editors, it would've taken me even longer to get things working and I might've given up sooner.
It honestly felt a little masochistic to be trying this operating system where it was hard for me to do exactly what I wanted unless the people running the repositories for Ubuntu had also wanted to do it too.
I'm not saying that Ubuntu is worthless in general, just that in this case when I factor in the opportunity cost of using it, it was cheaper for me to switch back to Windows.
When I tried Ubuntu for 3 months, I found that it took longer for me to get one app installed than it did for me to get Windows installed and all the apps that I was using tracked down on the internet and installed. This isn't true if the app actually has the permutation that you're looking for installed in the repository, but there are a lot of apps that were not supported through the repository but that I wanted or needed. And their Wine version was at least a year out of date. I was having trouble getting my MTP music player working with Ubuntu. It took me about 2 or 3 hours of fiddling with the OS with practically no explanations as to what I was doing wrong. With Windows I plug the damn thing in and install the software for it.
Yeah, it would've saved me $200 or so on a new copy of Windows, but in the amount of time I spent fiddling with it trying to get stuff working I easily lost that amount of money.
It will be as long as the ship, and only be able to fire once before depleting the ship's energy reserves, and delivering awesome destructive power. But it will still only be able to take out one Zerg hive.
If they found me in posession of the data, this means I somehow had a way of finding it. At that point I'd declare my job interview over and ask them when I start.
My father used to tell me stories related to him by my grandfather about some of the disinformation operations performed in WWII. He mentioned that at one point the Allies had gotten a small group of jeeps to drive up and down the same road all day to make it look to the Germans as if a huge number of troops were massing in a single area. But the point is that we've been creating red herrings for a very long time. It's effective at distracting people from what's really going on. After all, if you've just seen a brilliant red herring in a glass-bottomed boat, you're not going to notice when 1000 other more exotic fish flit by underneath it.
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My first MP3 player was a Rio Chiba with the thumbstick. I even put a 512MB SD card in there so that I could have 768 megabytes of music. It still works, even after more than 5 years.
I think you're under the mistaken impression that any corporation in America even thinks about where they'll be at more than 3 years from the current date. Our whole culture stresses the need to take the short view of things instead of the long view, and look at where we've ended up.
Did Gore really say that we could reduce our carbon emissions to 0? Because I just farted, and I'm pretty sure that that was a carbon emission.
On a more serious note, I don't really find the "supernatural" to be irreconcilable with science. Science just emphasizes the parts of the world that we can understand through logic. The only contract one signs when they become a scientist is that they will not bring up questions which are not scientifically verifiable. The biggest one that comes to mind for me is that of Tarot cards seeming to reveal truths about lives or persons. This is not at all scientifically verifiable, but it's fun sometimes to accept it.
A world without science would be bleak, but a world of nothing but science would also be bleak.
As responsible citizens, then, we need to ensure that when they get their needs met, we also get our needs met. There's no easy method for that.
Howzabout us invading Iraq, a soverign nation with its own government, abolishing that government, hanging its leader, and then opening up the country for a civil war?
Oh, I get it. This is one of those posts that you make in order to inflame me against you! Wow, how clever.
I don't hate the ideals that the USA originally aspired to, especially the idea that we can govern ourselves as a group and still maintain a cohesive society. What I hate is what we've done as a country, consistently, to other countries. We interfere with their development, we ignore their soverignty, and we have even stolen land from them. Yes, it's been a while since we've invaded a country and taken land from them, but it's happened.
I love the ideals that we aspire to, but as a country there is a pattern of antisocial behavior which I find to be disturbing.
Don't copy that floppy.
But we can never observe what actually happens at the speed of light, only what goes on as we pass infinitesimally close to it. Yes, time slows down to a dead crawl, but it's impossible for any observer to ever reach the speed of light. It's in effect a logical fallacy to attempt to apply our understanding of what goes on before the speed of light to what goes on at the speed of light.
Einstein made a similar mistake in that he often wondered what an observer traveling at the speed of light would see. But he realised when he was older that the fundamental flaw in his thoughts was that no observer can ever travel at the speed of light, and so all speculation is impossible to confirm or dispute. What you're doing when you say that photons experience an infinite amount of time is misusing Calculus. To put it simply, you've effectively taken the limit of a function as we approach what could be a discontinuity, but you're now misrepresenting the limit's value as the value of the function at that point instead of the value that the function approaches.
The solution that Linux has had to your problem is to add applications to a central database that contains information about dependencies and also allows people to retrieve any neccessary software from servers referenced in this database. But I think perhaps you misunderstood my meaning. My suggestion is that Windows ships with a base of support for very common applications like games and office software, but one could pay for and download extras like Aero and IIS for the base package online. This way there's one version of Windows for everyone, and if it needs to do something special, there's a download available which enables that particular feature.
What I never understood was this: If Vista is modular enough that certain pieces can be removed or added to create new SKUs, and the developers expected everyone installing the software to have a broadband connection, why didn't they just design a home basic OS that everyone could buy on the cheap with a very basic feature set, and then allow people to pay for different features a la carte so that they could buy only the addons that they actually wanted?
Nonsense. There are no girls on the Internet.
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"With all due respect, Mr. Prosecutor, my wife never crashed in the middle of a compile or dumped half the data on her hard disk because her operating system was a piece of crap. I think your comparison of my wife to a computer is unfair, as she was a flesh and blood person and that computer was just a thing. It sounds to me like you have some deep personal issues with your mother, possibly because of her treatment of you or your father during childhood. Are you currently seeing a therapist?"
They do that every time we discover one of their rules. It keeps us on our toes, as well as providing them with hours of entertainment as they describe our latest fuckup to all their friends and coworkers.
Beauty is when all the pieces fall together to create something new. ODEs and Linear Algebra are both beautiful in that respect.
I'd do that for a couple of 30" Apple Cinema displays. Hell, I'd give up sex for a year for that. Any kind of sexual activity. Interested parties, please contact me at the email address listed with the account for terms and conditions.
It's misleading because video card manufacturers tweak their drivers to perform better in timedemos versus real world gameplay so that hardware review sites will do reviews touting the game as playable on such-and-such a card at maximum settings even though real world gameplay never comes close to what the time demo is doing to the game. Wow, that was one sentence. Oh, and how can you say that card A outperforms card B without ever comparing them in gameplay? That would be like me going into a hardware store and swinging two different hammers to compare them, then buying one based on that test only to find out that its total crap at actually hammering.
The root of the issue is that timedemos give the video card manufacturers something to tweak their drivers around besides gameplay. And there are also some arguments over how representative of your actual experience a timedemo will be. At least HardOCP gives a crap about their methodology, as opposed to other hardware sites which don't use any sort of statistical analysis.
Yeah, totally. Obviously since they haven't had any more formal study of the subject they can't possibly understand it at all. And therefore you don't have to object to their arguments, only to their credentials. Because unqualified people have never made any interesting contributions to anything.
No, but what Microsoft could have done would be to check IPv6 registries, then if no entry is found in those registries or the entry is broken, fall through to IPv4.
And at least he bothered to get statistics of some sort before saying that all his buddies in their moms' basements also prefer using XP and therefore nobody in general likes XP. I will say that, aside from his Facebook experience, all his other criticisms are valid.
If you withdraw our troops and redefine the army's role as one of defense of our own borders, than we don't need to strike anywhere quickly because we aren't going to fight unless it's in defense of our borders. If it's strategically important to defend another country _because their opponent will be moving on to us next_, then it stands to reason that our new ally will gladly allow us to stage troops and equipment in their territory. In short, we don't need to maintain a permanent presence in any region that is not one of the 50 United States or a territory thereof.
Umm, you're actually missing both of our points, which was that in a cost-benefit analysis, Ubuntu is only cheaper if you don't value your time at all. When I included the amount of money which was potentially lost through my wasting time trying to get stuff working, it was almost cheaper just to use Windows. If I hadn't had a decent knowledge of computers and wasn't used to working with the command line and text editors, it would've taken me even longer to get things working and I might've given up sooner.
It honestly felt a little masochistic to be trying this operating system where it was hard for me to do exactly what I wanted unless the people running the repositories for Ubuntu had also wanted to do it too.
I'm not saying that Ubuntu is worthless in general, just that in this case when I factor in the opportunity cost of using it, it was cheaper for me to switch back to Windows.
Ding ding ding.
When I tried Ubuntu for 3 months, I found that it took longer for me to get one app installed than it did for me to get Windows installed and all the apps that I was using tracked down on the internet and installed. This isn't true if the app actually has the permutation that you're looking for installed in the repository, but there are a lot of apps that were not supported through the repository but that I wanted or needed. And their Wine version was at least a year out of date. I was having trouble getting my MTP music player working with Ubuntu. It took me about 2 or 3 hours of fiddling with the OS with practically no explanations as to what I was doing wrong. With Windows I plug the damn thing in and install the software for it.
Yeah, it would've saved me $200 or so on a new copy of Windows, but in the amount of time I spent fiddling with it trying to get stuff working I easily lost that amount of money.
It will be as long as the ship, and only be able to fire once before depleting the ship's energy reserves, and delivering awesome destructive power. But it will still only be able to take out one Zerg hive.
If they found me in posession of the data, this means I somehow had a way of finding it. At that point I'd declare my job interview over and ask them when I start.
My father used to tell me stories related to him by my grandfather about some of the disinformation operations performed in WWII. He mentioned that at one point the Allies had gotten a small group of jeeps to drive up and down the same road all day to make it look to the Germans as if a huge number of troops were massing in a single area. But the point is that we've been creating red herrings for a very long time. It's effective at distracting people from what's really going on. After all, if you've just seen a brilliant red herring in a glass-bottomed boat, you're not going to notice when 1000 other more exotic fish flit by underneath it.