Parent's point I'd guess would be that it's an arms war. Not really, there are legal limits on what guns can be owned and who can own them. As a result law abiding citizens have easier access to weapons and training in how to use them. As a result the criminals are at a perpetual disadvantage.
If you're saying that the way to stop being knifed is to carry a knife yourself, then the criminals carry guns. No you carry around a gun, knife fights aren't something I wish to engage in.
If weapons stop crime, how come the USA, one of the most tooled up countries in the world, has so much crime and so many people die from gun injuries? The US crime rate is mostly due to gang violence between gang members as well as certain unfortunate people who are forced to live in gang territories. This in turn is due to the lovely war on drugs that should have never started. Also only half of murders are committed with guns and many of those are in areas with heavy gun restrictions for civilians. Amazing how the murder rate in Washington, DC is absurdly high (I do mean absurdly) and yet it is basically illegal for a civilian to own a gun.
Also if guns are the cause of all evil how come after they were mostly banned in the UK the crime rate hasn't budged, knife murders are way up, burglaries are 3 times that in the US and rapes are also close to 3 times that in the US (rate wise of course).
We can discuss the CONCEPT of infinity but we can never actually have infinity of anything. That is the difference. There is an infinite number of real number for example but a human mind can only store (in their full representation) a finite number of them.
At certain good MBA programs failing to pass would require killing half the faculty and even that may not do the job. Basically signing up for a class gives you a B and you can only go up from there not down (no matter how much you piss off the professor they just bow their heads because you're paying for it).
Connected backup is used where I work but users get to set when things get backed up and what things get backed up. You can also cancel backups but after a couple weeks you will get an email telling you to do a damn backup.
It's surprisingly hard to get good doors and locks in the US. There are better locks in parts of the Third World. Mostly because there is greater demand there.
Of course in such places the criminals simply find ways to not have to open the lock. I'm sure in some of those places the door literally has to withstand a battering ram, car powered one that is, or it isn't of much use. In Poland criminals didn't even bother to pick locks to apartments half the time, they simply found some old lady carrying groceries to her apartment then offered to help carry them for her. Then as soon as she opened the door they punched her out (or killed her or just pushed her out of the way if she was lucky) and robbed her apartment. And I don't mean a few did this, I mean all of them did this.
Well as the UK found out, a knife is just as effective as a gun when everyone is unarmed and knives are perfectly legal to carry about by convicted criminals (unlike guns). Your point being?
I oversimplified: Any gene on the Y chromosome that isn't on the X [I don't know if any duplicate, but most certainly don't] will have only one copy, and thus expresses even if "recessive" (assuming the gene is active at all). There is no other copy of the gene to interfere. Not always, sexual genetics can get really really weird as duplicate sex chromosomes (outside the normal XX,XY variants) are not universally fatal.
In each cell, one copy of the X will fold up and be largely non-functional. In each cell exactly WHICH copy folds up is essentially random, so women retain their diversity of X chromosome genes. Neat, huh? Not quite randomly. Or rather it happens randomly in the embryo at a given point but every descendant of a cell has the same X-chromosome inactive. so you get patches of cells with the same chromosome inactive which leads to mosaicism such as that in calico cats. This also means that human females can have stripes in rare cases.
Yet they keep coming to the US in droves. I guess all those Chinese Asian students are just idiots. Well either that or you're an idiot who seems to have so much hatred for the US it has removed all your ability to think rationality in such things.
What does MIT have over these schools? The ability to network with other people who will be tops of their fields.
Higher tuition in a politically backwards country which lacks such modern amenities as socialized health care. Why would someone who expects to make a lot of money even CARE about socialized medicine. You're projecting your own socialist biases onto other people who have no need of them. The Chinese kick our asses in capitalism and have for a long time.
The US is a good 200-350 years backwards compared to the rest of the countries mentioned in social policy and foreign policy. Interesting how all those countries had territories till the middle of the last century, a number of which rebelled and a number of which were permanently fucked over by them.
So why would a Chinese foreign national go to a place which has hated the People's Republic of China for the majority of the 20th century, and also costs more, The US and China are quite nice buddies and have been for a while.
with more restrictive laws about research (EG: stem-cells, reverse engineering, etc)? Interesting. On one hand you complain about the US not having socialized policies yet at the same time you also complain about it having them in certain areas (such as research).
IIRC that is the reason Con together with another person, whose name I can't can't be bothered to look up, wanted to merge plugsched to which they got a reply along the lines of "too much choice will split contributors" or some such Well too much choice leads to bad things. Essentially each will be optimized for a subset of users despite the fact that they aren't in reality disjoint subsets of users. People run tons of things on their systems that don't fall into a single category, sometimes it's for testing and sometimes it's for actual use. Add in all the people who pick the wrong one and you have trouble. Remember that there are likely TONS of areas where such choices can be added in.
OSS drivers for high-end hardware suck? Oh right, I'll go and tell the physicists who use our university's eight million pound supercomputer that they'd better switch to Windows.
How well does Windows run on a Cell processor, by the way? Well since we were talking about video hardware guess what sort of high performance hardware I was referring to. I mean your response it actually hilarious. In an attempt to ignore my argument you posted something that makes you look like an idiot (who can't comprehend simple arguments or meaning from context).
So how well does that supercomputer play Quake4, by the way?
In response to your ad-hominem: the only set of closed-source drivers I've used on Linux that worked well have been the Nvidia ones. All others have been buggy and unstable (some, such as the ATi drivers, unusable), not from lack of effort on my part to get them working properly. At least the less-featurefull open source drivers don't kill my system. My opinion of closed-source drivers is based on hard-won experience. And this makes me an idiot, does it? Of course since the Nvidia closed source drivers give you better performance than any video card+OSS drivers using the later for high performance graphic applications would make you an idiot. And yes ATI drivers suck because they don't give a damn about linux and have said so themselves (less than 1% of the market is simply not worth the cost to them). That's why you use nvidia and closed source drivers.
I'm still not quite sure if you're an idiot or are trying to side track the argument (by taking what I say out of context, etc.). Either way I doubt I'll reply again, zealots and morons aren't worth my effort.
I never said it's surprising. I simply stated that right now for high end hardware OSS drivers are yugos if you're lucky. You can give excuses and reasons all you want but that's the truth and trying to ignore it when someone says why they use closed source drivers is idiotic.
*sigh* Think of a video card as an airplane and the software as the pilot. If your pilot is a moron even a jet plane won't do much. Likewise even if your pilot is god like he can't make a low end prop plane reach 600mph. The software is there to take the best advantage of the hardware which DOESN'T mean that the hardware is pointless. The software also covers up limitations of the hardware and bugs that would cost too much to fix in hardware. A car analogy is that cars don't self-diagnose most problems but rather require a human to do so even though the former is doable to a large degree. There are also patents and license agreements involved in there.
The fact that they don't do it, is evidence that these overpriced 3D watt-burning powerhogs aren't really all they are hyped up to be. No it shows that some things can be done more cheaply in software than in hardware especially on something as complex as a modern video card. It's as a simple as that. It's like saying that the OS should be hard coded into the CPU as otherwise the CPU is worthless.
Well if I had to choose between a closed hood car and a yugo (or moped or bike if you want to be nice) I'd choose the former. Open source drivers exist but their performance is apparently not that good.
But I question why anyone would have to travel across country anyway. If you find yourself doing that often, then something is wrong. Better to move there entirely. 1. Businessman. My father does a lot of contract work for various groups (workaholic and all that) and travels across the WORLD on a monthly basis. 2. College students. We got kicked out for winter break, a plane ticket costs less than a motel for three weeks. 3. Those with friends/family in various places. Weddings, general visits and so on. 4. Vacations.
I've flown dozens of times and I have never had many problems. Never got sick not counting the couple times I had congestion and slept till right before landing, sinus pressure is not fun. Took me a good week to get over one, my ears kept popping at the slightest change in elevation.
Never missed a connecting flight save the one time I missed my original then was stupid enough to believe that "well this connecting flight may have open seats but we can't know till boarding" meant anything other than "no way in hell will there be free seats but you can't bitch at me when you're at another airport." Snowstorm at a hub airport canceled another flight for me but they got me a new one 6 hours later (despite half their flights probably being delayed or canceled) in first class.
That's what happens when you mass-hire Stanford frat boys straight from the classes. The highly qualified programmers have programmed applications in the real world for a number of years and not just applied what-I-just-learned in non-real-world environments. Google wanted innovation instead of glorified code monkeys. They got it by every sane metric. Seems you're just upset that they didn't hire you.
Get screwed both ways, I hope you get as many foreign developers on your projects as possible. Might as well start the outsourcing. Have you ever worked at any large company? I doubt there are any projects where most of the developers weren't born overseas.
# A proper paper trail needs to be provided including a receipt for both the voter themself and the voting district in the event of a recount. Receipt is pointless and worthless.
# The design, production, and upkeep of electronic voting systems needs to be taken out of the the hands of the private sector and instead be taken care of by the government. Since we all know that the government is the epiphany of proper management and lack of abuse. I mean politicians would never do things to further their own careers at the cost of the public.
* Electronic systems need to have an operating system that is dratically different and absolutely proprietary to itself and further be completely open source so it can reviewed by the public at will. So you want to add massive increases in costs (I do mean massive) for what comes out to a false sense of security. Likely since it will have less overview than existing OSes the new one will be massively LESS secure thus opening up tons of abuse possibilities. Like say having non-trivial to detect code tightly integrated into it that allows for even worse abuse.
* The interfaces to and from the devices need to be proprietary and not be simply a reshaped version of an existing interface. No more USB ports. So you yet again want to add massive increases in costs (I do mean massive) for what comes out to a false sense of security. Since we all know that no one will ever be able to make a reader/writer using either reverse engineering or publicly available descriptions. Not to mention that a new interface will likely have bugs and less overview than USB does.
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Also if guns are the cause of all evil how come after they were mostly banned in the UK the crime rate hasn't budged, knife murders are way up, burglaries are 3 times that in the US and rapes are also close to 3 times that in the US (rate wise of course).
We can discuss the CONCEPT of infinity but we can never actually have infinity of anything. That is the difference. There is an infinite number of real number for example but a human mind can only store (in their full representation) a finite number of them.
At certain good MBA programs failing to pass would require killing half the faculty and even that may not do the job. Basically signing up for a class gives you a B and you can only go up from there not down (no matter how much you piss off the professor they just bow their heads because you're paying for it).
Connected backup is used where I work but users get to set when things get backed up and what things get backed up. You can also cancel backups but after a couple weeks you will get an email telling you to do a damn backup.
Of course in such places the criminals simply find ways to not have to open the lock. I'm sure in some of those places the door literally has to withstand a battering ram, car powered one that is, or it isn't of much use. In Poland criminals didn't even bother to pick locks to apartments half the time, they simply found some old lady carrying groceries to her apartment then offered to help carry them for her. Then as soon as she opened the door they punched her out (or killed her or just pushed her out of the way if she was lucky) and robbed her apartment. And I don't mean a few did this, I mean all of them did this.
Well as the UK found out, a knife is just as effective as a gun when everyone is unarmed and knives are perfectly legal to carry about by convicted criminals (unlike guns). Your point being?
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can't be bothered to look up, wanted to merge plugsched to which they got a
reply along the lines of "too much choice will split contributors" or some such Well too much choice leads to bad things. Essentially each will be optimized for a subset of users despite the fact that they aren't in reality disjoint subsets of users. People run tons of things on their systems that don't fall into a single category, sometimes it's for testing and sometimes it's for actual use. Add in all the people who pick the wrong one and you have trouble. Remember that there are likely TONS of areas where such choices can be added in.
How well does Windows run on a Cell processor, by the way? Well since we were talking about video hardware guess what sort of high performance hardware I was referring to. I mean your response it actually hilarious. In an attempt to ignore my argument you posted something that makes you look like an idiot (who can't comprehend simple arguments or meaning from context).
So how well does that supercomputer play Quake4, by the way? In response to your ad-hominem: the only set of closed-source drivers I've used on Linux that worked well have been the Nvidia ones. All others have been buggy and unstable (some, such as the ATi drivers, unusable), not from lack of effort on my part to get them working properly. At least the less-featurefull open source drivers don't kill my system. My opinion of closed-source drivers is based on hard-won experience. And this makes me an idiot, does it? Of course since the Nvidia closed source drivers give you better performance than any video card+OSS drivers using the later for high performance graphic applications would make you an idiot. And yes ATI drivers suck because they don't give a damn about linux and have said so themselves (less than 1% of the market is simply not worth the cost to them). That's why you use nvidia and closed source drivers.
I'm still not quite sure if you're an idiot or are trying to side track the argument (by taking what I say out of context, etc.). Either way I doubt I'll reply again, zealots and morons aren't worth my effort.
I never said it's surprising. I simply stated that right now for high end hardware OSS drivers are yugos if you're lucky. You can give excuses and reasons all you want but that's the truth and trying to ignore it when someone says why they use closed source drivers is idiotic.
*sigh* Think of a video card as an airplane and the software as the pilot. If your pilot is a moron even a jet plane won't do much. Likewise even if your pilot is god like he can't make a low end prop plane reach 600mph. The software is there to take the best advantage of the hardware which DOESN'T mean that the hardware is pointless. The software also covers up limitations of the hardware and bugs that would cost too much to fix in hardware. A car analogy is that cars don't self-diagnose most problems but rather require a human to do so even though the former is doable to a large degree. There are also patents and license agreements involved in there.
Well if I had to choose between a closed hood car and a yugo (or moped or bike if you want to be nice) I'd choose the former. Open source drivers exist but their performance is apparently not that good.
2. College students. We got kicked out for winter break, a plane ticket costs less than a motel for three weeks.
3. Those with friends/family in various places. Weddings, general visits and so on.
4. Vacations.
I've flown dozens of times and I have never had many problems. Never got sick not counting the couple times I had congestion and slept till right before landing, sinus pressure is not fun. Took me a good week to get over one, my ears kept popping at the slightest change in elevation.
Never missed a connecting flight save the one time I missed my original then was stupid enough to believe that "well this connecting flight may have open seats but we can't know till boarding" meant anything other than "no way in hell will there be free seats but you can't bitch at me when you're at another airport." Snowstorm at a hub airport canceled another flight for me but they got me a new one 6 hours later (despite half their flights probably being delayed or canceled) in first class.
Caltrain is short distance not long distance. It can replace a car not a plane.
I haven't seen any bad congestion myself so I guess it's cleared up but in general Bay Area transit is at best passable.
The problem is that without power the heaters don't run, without heaters the components get too cold and stop working permanently..
You have the fuel manufactured from stuff on Mars itself using energy from solar panels, wind or I guess RTGs.
There is wasabi ice cream.