We (the U.S.) is a great deal larger and more spread out than *any* of those other countries. However, it is ridiculous that I can't easily get 100Mbs (compared to other countries) in cities like Portland or Seattle. I would expect to only be able to get 25Mbs where I live (and I can and do), as I am 45 from a major metro.
hey, I live in basicly downtown seattle, and I would love 25mbs where I live.
Yes, and for that I'm eternally grateful, in much the same way my mother once got free dental work in France because her father had fought in the war (though mainly in Belgium and the Netherlands, then into Germany) and the dentist thought it was the least he could do to repay the debt he felt he owed to America. I know its fashionable to make fun of France and whatnot, but they're not bad people, and they are America's oldest friend.
If we can't talk shit about our oldest friend, what are we going to talk about?
The truth is that one-on-one, if you explained a comparatively difficult concept to an individual, you have a higher chance of getting the idea across, because you're giving that person your attention and answering any specific questions they might have.
There's more to it than that. I've observed many times that stupidity is contagious. People who are smart tend not to be loud and obnoxious, but idiots love to holler. It's hard not to notice someone who's hollering, and as we can all attest, it seems the stupider you are, the louder you're going to holler. Talk radio has become a huge business on this principle alone. So now you've got a bunch of people who are at the fat part of the bell curve, who are all paying attention to the idiot hollering, and after a while, they start to think: "Well, he's pretty loud so he must know what he's talking about". And if the idiot is not only loud, but plays upon most peoples' preference for standing behind the bully instead of in front of him, then you've got a recipe for a stupid stampede. Finally, because a lot of people like to be in the biggest, loudest group just because it seems safest there, you've got a group that's inoculated against the incursion of information. Game over, stupidity becomes the new norm.
No, I'm inclined to believe the article, that crowds are indeed stupid, perhaps dangerously so.
But if someone is smart, they will know they will have to be loud to get to the masses.
To be honest, if Microsoft didn't exist until recently I bet they'd be a very innovative and nimble company....so much baggage in that company. Think of all of the windows tablets...it was the general consensus that tablets were an answer searching for a question. Someone else made that happen. Think of how long ago Windows phones started appearing. They tried so hard and perhaps succeeded very successfully to maintain their 'windows experience' across these three 3rd cousins platforms...to no avail.
Nearly 2 million Iphone4's sold in a few days time, over 100,000 Android activations a day, "blackberry" is now a verb...Hell, even the great-grandchild of the Palm Pilot made a more significant dent in the market years after schooling Microsoft in a different (but related) market years earlier....such interesting times.
Microsoft doesn't know it's market. All it knows is it wants to be the ruler of all, one way or another. And as long as people keep giving them money, it will keep trying.
One time in Malaysia with my family we stopped our car at a tourist spot and noticed that a monkey had been killed by another vehicle, probably quite recently. Another monkey stood on the road beside the dead body thumping its hands onto the top of its head in an expression of obvious grief.
We got out of the car and I stepped into a crowd of agitated primates, all about 40cm high. The tension between us was clear and frankly terrifying for me. I walked off slowly, trying not to make sudden movements.
I had no doubt that there was empathy between all players in that situation.
Why would you get out of a car, into a crowd of agitated primates, that are agitated because one of their own was killed by a car, not unlike the one you just got out of?
either your full of shit, or really fucking stupid.
I read your post and i'm not really sure why you are taking something someone else did and trying to keep "loyal" to his work.
If your making your own distro/branch/whatever. You snapshot whatever source your taking it from, and then just work from that. If you keep going back to the source and trying to add updates to your NOT finished work, you will never get your project finished.
You take the source, do what you need to do to get it working. Then you can go back to the updates and work them in.
Plus, if your going to follow someones source so close, just go help them out instead of stealing their crap and changing stuff for your own. Your just wasting your time, and then theirs if they are trying to help you fix something that's not working.
Why would anyone buy a PS2 if he can have a PS3. I never understood that. I would never play a PS2 game on a PS3. Why? For what? And if you have PS2 games it is highly likely you do have a PS2. So again, why?
I have a fat ps2. It has a harddrive in it. I have MCFreeboot, so I don't have to use the dvd drive for anything. Has a good SNES & Genesis emualtors (others seem a bit lacking, like no harddrive support). Oh, and I have a ton of games I can play off the harddrive. Plus new games are still being released for it.
Buddy paid me some money to do a ps2 up for him that way. For about the price of a new ps3, he has a ps2 with a bunch of games, like rockband 2 and stuff. He's happy, his kids are happy.
But by your logic, why buy a PS3 when you have a computer? It does all the same things a PS3 can. Play games, go online, etc.
Why not return the features that were removed? Why not add more features? I was going to buy a PS3, but scrapped those plans when several things went out the window. How many other people are like me?
Even the new testament criticises homosexual relationships (and the only laws of the old testament that were "updated" in the new testament were ones to do with sacrifices and what you could put into your body).
I just Googled to find passages and opinions on it. One site tries to say that the bible is simply criticising non-Christian worship practices when it complains about same sex relationships, but that's clearly a load of horse shit. It would just say so if that was the case.
It also tries to claim that the passage about Sodom and Gomorrah is nothing to do with Sodomy and that "know" literally means know rather than "have sex with", when Lot clearly offers his daughters to "do with what you will" instead of the men.
I don't believe in any of it any more, but like I said I find it pathetic when people try to twist their own scriptures to make them more politically correct instead of just manning up. If you don't agree with your scriptures, then stop worshipping your bigoted God.
Ya, them daughters of Lot. Nice ladies. They are very faithful to their dad. After all, he's the father of their children.
Unmarried hetro couples are now discriminated against. They should get the same as the Gay/Lesbian couples, some people may not believe in marrage or may not want to get married for one reason or another. Why should they be forced to marry just to avoid a tax?
Thats all "legal" marriage is. A tax break.
Love has nothing to do with marriage, regardless what the world wants to believe.
Sure, you can say marriage is the public commit process of your love. And maybe it is. But you have to go sign legal documents, that bonds you and your partner together, in a contract, that comes down to money.
Get divorced? It's all about the money split. Partner goes into debt, oh ya, they just put you in debt also. legally.
Boy, do I see a lawsuit brewing here. How can they legally justify paying straight people less than gays, if all other factors are equal? I don't care about any tax issues. Does Google pay an apartment dweller more just because they don't get a mortgage write-off? Do they pay a single person more because he can't claim to be a head-of-household under IRS rules like a married person does? Do they pay a blind person less because they get two personal exemptions rather than one on their ISR 1040? If their pay policy doesn't address these and a lot more tax inequities, then I hope that they get sued big time for a pay policy that actually favors gays over straight people. In short, it's not for Google to start correcting the unfairness of the tax system, and to do so in a discriminatory manner that favors gays over straights just isn't right or smart.
You bring up a good point.
I guess if your a "think only of himself" sort of straight person, then yes, you are getting shafted. Of course, i'm sure you'll figure out that maybe it would be better if you lied about being gay, so you could get more money.
And you do realize that google can keep that from happening by having people who paid more taxes for healthcare for partners, actually bring in forms and be reimbursed. That way they aren't paying anyone any more money then themselves.
And seeing as corporations have more power then people these days, there is nothing wrong with them doing that. Unjust laws are that, unjust. Google sees that and is doing what they can about it, for their employees.
In short, it's not your place to say what sort of decision Google can make regarding the tax system, seeing as they pay more in a year then you have earned so far in your life.
for all the crap about google being evil, they sure seem to take care of their employees better then other companies.
While I am not gay, transgendered, or a sexual minority (whatever that means), I have no problem with people being who they are, as long as it's not causing damage/hurting others. I wish more people would be like that, seeing as we are all human and stuck living on this planet.
I do hope though, google pulls out of china, since they are the ones who are trying to change things for the better.
Is profit more important then humanity and human rights?
What does sincerity have to do with guessing? After all, that all they did, was take wild guess to explain life. I don't give a fuck if someone in sincere in the crap they spew, or just trying to make money. It's still false bullshit.
I went to a talk last week given by BBC R&D with the Institute of Engineering and Technology and the Royal Television Society. The problem with children was raised, however research that is currently being conducted and is finding that children adapt better than adults. We will have to wait until they are finished and peer reviewed however.
What is more worrying is driving a car after watching 3D TV. You eyes focus on a 40 inch screen 3-4m away, however you brain thinks you are looking in the distance because the image is converging at a different point (not 3m away). This isn't really a problem in the cinema as the distance to the screen is far greater, as at 50 feet your eyes are focused at almost infinity. Stepping out of the living room and in to a car can easily have an effect on judgement of distance, and give you headaches.
Headaches, incidentally, is a problem with all consumer home 3D TVs. They will give the vast majority of people a headache after 10 minutes. That's a fact!
I still have a pair of those glasses. Using them for 3D with a crappy sis based vid card because I can't find a decent Nvidia Geforce 4 or better with a headjack lcd shutter glasses input. =(
Seriously, lets get a class action lawsuit against uwe boll for making such crappy movies. his punishment should be, at the very least, never allowed to make movies/tv/internet shows again. I'm sure we can think of some other fitting punishments.
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>>>100Mbs
BTW why do you need 100 Mbit/s?
porn of course.
Live action porn, with the upcoming sex robot attachment.
What else pushes industries, but porn?
We (the U.S.) is a great deal larger and more spread out than *any* of those other countries. However, it is ridiculous that I can't easily get 100Mbs (compared to other countries) in cities like Portland or Seattle. I would expect to only be able to get 25Mbs where I live (and I can and do), as I am 45 from a major metro.
hey, I live in basicly downtown seattle, and I would love 25mbs where I live.
Yes, and for that I'm eternally grateful, in much the same way my mother once got free dental work in France because her father had fought in the war (though mainly in Belgium and the Netherlands, then into Germany) and the dentist thought it was the least he could do to repay the debt he felt he owed to America. I know its fashionable to make fun of France and whatnot, but they're not bad people, and they are America's oldest friend.
If we can't talk shit about our oldest friend, what are we going to talk about?
There's more to it than that. I've observed many times that stupidity is contagious. People who are smart tend not to be loud and obnoxious, but idiots love to holler. It's hard not to notice someone who's hollering, and as we can all attest, it seems the stupider you are, the louder you're going to holler. Talk radio has become a huge business on this principle alone. So now you've got a bunch of people who are at the fat part of the bell curve, who are all paying attention to the idiot hollering, and after a while, they start to think: "Well, he's pretty loud so he must know what he's talking about". And if the idiot is not only loud, but plays upon most peoples' preference for standing behind the bully instead of in front of him, then you've got a recipe for a stupid stampede. Finally, because a lot of people like to be in the biggest, loudest group just because it seems safest there, you've got a group that's inoculated against the incursion of information. Game over, stupidity becomes the new norm.
No, I'm inclined to believe the article, that crowds are indeed stupid, perhaps dangerously so.
But if someone is smart, they will know they will have to be loud to get to the masses.
To be honest, if Microsoft didn't exist until recently I bet they'd be a very innovative and nimble company. ...so much baggage in that company. Think of all of the windows tablets...it was the general consensus that tablets were an answer searching for a question. Someone else made that happen. Think of how long ago Windows phones started appearing. They tried so hard and perhaps succeeded very successfully to maintain their 'windows experience' across these three 3rd cousins platforms...to no avail.
Nearly 2 million Iphone4's sold in a few days time, over 100,000 Android activations a day, "blackberry" is now a verb...Hell, even the great-grandchild of the Palm Pilot made a more significant dent in the market years after schooling Microsoft in a different (but related) market years earlier. ...such interesting times.
Microsoft doesn't know it's market. All it knows is it wants to be the ruler of all, one way or another. And as long as people keep giving them money, it will keep trying.
One time in Malaysia with my family we stopped our car at a tourist spot and noticed that a monkey had been killed by another vehicle, probably quite recently. Another monkey stood on the road beside the dead body thumping its hands onto the top of its head in an expression of obvious grief.
We got out of the car and I stepped into a crowd of agitated primates, all about 40cm high. The tension between us was clear and frankly terrifying for me. I walked off slowly, trying not to make sudden movements.
I had no doubt that there was empathy between all players in that situation.
Why would you get out of a car, into a crowd of agitated primates, that are agitated because one of their own was killed by a car, not unlike the one you just got out of?
either your full of shit, or really fucking stupid.
the discovery of an axe that had the word “axe” written on it in Ugaritic
A conversation in Semitic times:
"What's that?"
"Dunno..." examines the object "...it says on here that it's an axe."
Honestly, i would think that it was the name of the person who owned it myself.
I read your post and i'm not really sure why you are taking something someone else did and trying to keep "loyal" to his work.
If your making your own distro/branch/whatever. You snapshot whatever source your taking it from, and then just work from that. If you keep going back to the source and trying to add updates to your NOT finished work, you will never get your project finished.
You take the source, do what you need to do to get it working. Then you can go back to the updates and work them in.
Plus, if your going to follow someones source so close, just go help them out instead of stealing their crap and changing stuff for your own. Your just wasting your time, and then theirs if they are trying to help you fix something that's not working.
Why would anyone buy a PS2 if he can have a PS3. I never understood that. I would never play a PS2 game on a PS3. Why? For what? And if you have PS2 games it is highly likely you do have a PS2. So again, why?
I have a fat ps2. It has a harddrive in it. I have MCFreeboot, so I don't have to use the dvd drive for anything.
Has a good SNES & Genesis emualtors (others seem a bit lacking, like no harddrive support).
Oh, and I have a ton of games I can play off the harddrive. Plus new games are still being released for it.
Buddy paid me some money to do a ps2 up for him that way. For about the price of a new ps3, he has a ps2 with a bunch of games, like rockband 2 and stuff. He's happy, his kids are happy.
But by your logic, why buy a PS3 when you have a computer? It does all the same things a PS3 can. Play games, go online, etc.
Why not return the features that were removed? Why not add more features? I was going to buy a PS3, but scrapped those plans when several things went out the window. How many other people are like me?
A cheaper turd is still a turd.
I'm with you on that.
Even the new testament criticises homosexual relationships (and the only laws of the old testament that were "updated" in the new testament were ones to do with sacrifices and what you could put into your body).
I just Googled to find passages and opinions on it. One site tries to say that the bible is simply criticising non-Christian worship practices when it complains about same sex relationships, but that's clearly a load of horse shit. It would just say so if that was the case.
It also tries to claim that the passage about Sodom and Gomorrah is nothing to do with Sodomy and that "know" literally means know rather than "have sex with", when Lot clearly offers his daughters to "do with what you will" instead of the men.
I don't believe in any of it any more, but like I said I find it pathetic when people try to twist their own scriptures to make them more politically correct instead of just manning up. If you don't agree with your scriptures, then stop worshipping your bigoted God.
Ya, them daughters of Lot. Nice ladies. They are very faithful to their dad. After all, he's the father of their children.
Unmarried hetro couples are now discriminated against. They should get the same as the Gay/Lesbian couples, some people may not believe in marrage or may not want to get married for one reason or another. Why should they be forced to marry just to avoid a tax?
Thats all "legal" marriage is. A tax break.
Love has nothing to do with marriage, regardless what the world wants to believe.
Sure, you can say marriage is the public commit process of your love. And maybe it is. But you have to go sign legal documents, that bonds you and your partner together, in a contract, that comes down to money.
Get divorced? It's all about the money split.
Partner goes into debt, oh ya, they just put you in debt also. legally.
Boy, do I see a lawsuit brewing here. How can they legally justify paying straight people less than gays, if all other factors are equal? I don't care about any tax issues. Does Google pay an apartment dweller more just because they don't get a mortgage write-off? Do they pay a single person more because he can't claim to be a head-of-household under IRS rules like a married person does? Do they pay a blind person less because they get two personal exemptions rather than one on their ISR 1040? If their pay policy doesn't address these and a lot more tax inequities, then I hope that they get sued big time for a pay policy that actually favors gays over straight people. In short, it's not for Google to start correcting the unfairness of the tax system, and to do so in a discriminatory manner that favors gays over straights just isn't right or smart.
You bring up a good point.
I guess if your a "think only of himself" sort of straight person, then yes, you are getting shafted. Of course, i'm sure you'll figure out that maybe it would be better if you lied about being gay, so you could get more money.
And you do realize that google can keep that from happening by having people who paid more taxes for healthcare for partners, actually bring in forms and be reimbursed. That way they aren't paying anyone any more money then themselves.
And seeing as corporations have more power then people these days, there is nothing wrong with them doing that. Unjust laws are that, unjust. Google sees that and is doing what they can about it, for their employees.
In short, it's not your place to say what sort of decision Google can make regarding the tax system, seeing as they pay more in a year then you have earned so far in your life.
for all the crap about google being evil, they sure seem to take care of their employees better then other companies.
While I am not gay, transgendered, or a sexual minority (whatever that means), I have no problem with people being who they are, as long as it's not causing damage/hurting others. I wish more people would be like that, seeing as we are all human and stuck living on this planet.
I do hope though, google pulls out of china, since they are the ones who are trying to change things for the better.
Is profit more important then humanity and human rights?
What does sincerity have to do with guessing? After all, that all they did, was take wild guess to explain life. I don't give a fuck if someone in sincere in the crap they spew, or just trying to make money. It's still false bullshit.
I'm not ever paying for anything you produce.
Just thought you should know.
. Maybe IRC would see a comeback.
When did IRC leave?
Yeap, this means it's time to get a hard copy of the entire internet so we can just keep surfing in offline mode.
I know you kid, but I have downloaded and stored a large collection of stuff for when the day comes I can't get it online.
At worse, I figure maybe, someday in the future, if my stuff survives, someone else will appreciate all the porn, I mean, stuff.
I went to a talk last week given by BBC R&D with the Institute of Engineering and Technology and the Royal Television Society. The problem with children was raised, however research that is currently being conducted and is finding that children adapt better than adults. We will have to wait until they are finished and peer reviewed however.
What is more worrying is driving a car after watching 3D TV. You eyes focus on a 40 inch screen 3-4m away, however you brain thinks you are looking in the distance because the image is converging at a different point (not 3m away). This isn't really a problem in the cinema as the distance to the screen is far greater, as at 50 feet your eyes are focused at almost infinity. Stepping out of the living room and in to a car can easily have an effect on judgement of distance, and give you headaches.
Headaches, incidentally, is a problem with all consumer home 3D TVs. They will give the vast majority of people a headache after 10 minutes. That's a fact!
Um, my 40" hdtv is like 3 feet away.
Wikipedia link about SegaScope 3-D Glasses. And for the nostalgia of it, the commercial for the glasses.
I still have a pair of those glasses. Using them for 3D with a crappy sis based vid card because I can't find a decent Nvidia Geforce 4 or better with a headjack lcd shutter glasses input. =(
... on my G1?
No? good.
title says it all.
Did you ever notice how many of our great physicists were running from the Nazis?
I heard the nazi's had a bad retirement plan, we offered better.
Maybe they're being sued for bad taste?
Sorry, Bad Taste http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092610/ was made by Peter Jackson.
Seriously, lets get a class action lawsuit against uwe boll for making such crappy movies. his punishment should be, at the very least, never allowed to make movies/tv/internet shows again. I'm sure we can think of some other fitting punishments.