o/~ There comes a time...when we heed a certain cause, when the world must come together as one...
There are kids handwriting...it's time to lend a hand, let's send, some laptops to them allllllll o/~
o/~We arm the world
We arm the children
We haven't had enough attacks
So let's increase them o/~
to have its traffic owned and limited by large corporations, so you'll have to excuse those of us who remember that fact, and who were there during that time, while we either rebuild an alternative net, or mostly abandon the recreational use of computers altogether for something less corrupt, like basketball or poker.
Not only that, but more artists need a spine, and need to get into it for the long haul. Normal people work 40 hour weeks, it would not be a crime for someone who wants to be an "artist" as a living to do the same. A lot of people in music think they are going to become the next big thing, and be on easy street. That is not how it works now, and not how it ever worked, despite the cliches of "making it big." I know a few bands these days who tour *tirelessly.* They never pass on the opportunity to make new fans, and they are adding them one by one, the hard way, without banking on favors from someone else, and by relying mostly on word of mouth advertising and good old blood, sweat, and tears. Kind of how the Grateful Dead lived, basically. Music does not exist merely to rescue lazy people from jobs they don't like, or to crown them as alternate messiahs. It's a real lifestyle with real hard work and real trials.
As time goes on, and the blasted "Web 2.0" gets more and more full-featured, security gets worse. Money drives the economy, not safety. Features drive demand, and demand generates revenue. So products evolve based on features, with ever decreasing focus on security. Tools are built on tools, and tools/standards are built for ease of use (PHP? AJAX?) and we find ourselves immersed in an orgy of socially motivated functionality with nary a thought given to security...until shit blows up, everyone realizes their entire lives depend on a house of cards, and they then come screaming for the security people, who bill them heavily.
I should also point out that this may correlate to a tendency to procrastinate. More procrastinators make use of "pebble" tasks in order to either feel good about themselves while avoiding the more challenging "stone" tasks, or as a tactic to achieve a few of the more minor goals in order to ramp themselves up to get motivated for the bigger tasks they are avoiding.
The "doesn't bicker over operating system preferences because they all work fine and he's too busy trying to win back free time to get drunk, party, and dance around like a chicken" archetype seems to be missing...but maybe time, experience and the loss of the techno-evangelical insecurity complex turns one into a blathering simpleton
The mainstay of Creative's business in soundcards has, since the introduction of REAL competition like RME, MOTU, and M-Audio, been the low end market. Now you have companies like M-Audio producing better cards in the same price range, and so their niche really isn't there. Not to mention the fact that Creative earned a reputation early on for less than optimal noise/THD/latency/etc specs as well as driver installation and uninstallation problems...the soundblaster was awesome in the 90s but IMO Creative is nowhere near as relevant as they used to be.
*Walks into store*
"Say, sport, how much is this radio?"
"243 bucks," He opines.
*Froogles* "O'rly?"
Granted, you can do that now with printouts, and many people google from their phones, but widespread majority on-the-fly price lookups are gonna devastate local and regional retail mark-up.
Lol at the end of market exploitation by isolation. Even now the nemesis of the retail salesman is the guy who comes in to check a product out, and then goes home to buy it on the inertnet.
Bottle it and sell it to people for 50 times the cost of perfectly good, EPA regulated earthen tap water!
Oh nm Evian and Aquafina already do that much cheaper.
I use proprietary software both at home and work that will not run on Linux. Not being able to re-use Microsoft licenses eliminates the cost advantage of running Windows on homebuilt machines, when compared to more expensive Macs. Costs being equal, I dislike Microsoft more, so I will switch to Mac. It's pretty simple, but Microsoft continues to think that their Genuine Repudiation Tool is going to build their market, rather than lose it.
Nation moves from agrarian, to industrial, to information economy just as 50 or so sociologists have predicted in the last 100 years, suddenly becomes news, film at 11. Why would agrarian and industrial markets expand in a country where the labor and tax costs are higher? Quick! Protest the IMF/WTO!
The threat to national security is not the file sharing software it's the asshats who have access to classifed documents,who are installing Kazaa on their government owned work computers.
Those people are serious idiots, but the real problem is a lot more insidious...people are not installing private applications on company computers so much as installing private applications on private computers and then connecting those private computers to company resources via either VPN/extranet or sneakernet (laptops.) This problem is pervasive and promises to be one of the largest security challenges going forward.
Nothing is actually on the line, other than wild delusions of the the polarized egomaniacs on either side of the religion/science argument. Frothing at the mouth in order to fulfill the need for "certainty" ought to be listed in the DSM-IV/V as a psychological disorder, and it would be, if the crazies of both camps weren't legion...
BMI in sedentary populations is actually relatively accurate, barring weird genetic traits like extremely heavy bones. Where BMI fails is in the muscular, it consistently reports people with a lot of lean mass (strong) as obese.
And this article and thread is making my head hurt, it never ceases to amaze me how many people are constantly searching for little nuances and gotchas to cling onto, as an excuse to deemphasize the importance of teaching exercise to children. I never knew a kid who was active in school, who went home and zonked out and became more slothful than the lazy kids in PE class. The lazy stayed lazy. This article is a sham, and I'd like to see its motives/funding traced. What sample size, who were the kids, how well were they fed, did they overtrain the kids?
Yes, the BMR of a child is going to be much more important in relation to calories burned in exercise, but most of the people I know who are now happy, healthy adult athletes got their start in organized, adult encouraged athletics as a kid, which is a point completely lost on the dipshit who wrote this article.
Add to that the fact that lean mass INCREASES BMR, and guess what...exercise increases lean mass...
Sure, maybe if you're a meth head or someone with a congenital defect or a terrible diet, but I prefer to focus on the norms rather than the strange exceptions. All other things being equal, people with lower bodyfat ARE going to be more healthy than those with higher bodyfat, so let's not comfort people unnecessarily with anomalies, that's how denial happens.
I'd wager most people's "evidence" consists of high school resentment for the cliquish sort who obsessed on athletics and ignored academics. "I got picked on" is neither double blind nor peer reviewed data. Common sense tells us that the main reason athletes seem dumb is because "form follows function" and so they don't need to be academically intelligent, just kinesthetically. It's the same reason caribou don't have saber teeth.
Elite sports are so competitive that most of the pros in thinking roles ARE actually quite near genius level intelligence, or at least above average, because they could not compete otherwise.
That is because the stress hormone Cortisol antagonizes the immune system:
"Cortisol prevents proliferation of T-cells by rendering the interleukin-2 producer T-cells unresponsive to interleukin-1 (IL-1), and unable to produce the T-cell growth factor (Palacios)Isoptera 22:03, 11 December 2006 (UTC) = Isoptera. It reflects leukocyte redistribution to lymph nodes, bone marrow, and skin (Cohen, 1972; Cox & Ford, 1982; Dhabhar & McEwen, 1996; Dhabhar and Dhabhar; Fauci, 1975; Fauci & Dale, 1974; Fauci & Dale, 1975; Yu et al., 1974)."
So "Don't Worry Be Happy" is more than a saying, it's a warning.
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o/~ There comes a time...when we heed a certain cause, when the world must come together as one... There are kids handwriting...it's time to lend a hand, let's send, some laptops to them allllllll o/~ o/~We arm the world We arm the children We haven't had enough attacks So let's increase them o/~
to have its traffic owned and limited by large corporations, so you'll have to excuse those of us who remember that fact, and who were there during that time, while we either rebuild an alternative net, or mostly abandon the recreational use of computers altogether for something less corrupt, like basketball or poker.
I don't know what they mean by unlimited, but my antisocial personality disorder urges me to try and help them find out.
Not only that, but more artists need a spine, and need to get into it for the long haul. Normal people work 40 hour weeks, it would not be a crime for someone who wants to be an "artist" as a living to do the same. A lot of people in music think they are going to become the next big thing, and be on easy street. That is not how it works now, and not how it ever worked, despite the cliches of "making it big." I know a few bands these days who tour *tirelessly.* They never pass on the opportunity to make new fans, and they are adding them one by one, the hard way, without banking on favors from someone else, and by relying mostly on word of mouth advertising and good old blood, sweat, and tears. Kind of how the Grateful Dead lived, basically. Music does not exist merely to rescue lazy people from jobs they don't like, or to crown them as alternate messiahs. It's a real lifestyle with real hard work and real trials.
As time goes on, and the blasted "Web 2.0" gets more and more full-featured, security gets worse. Money drives the economy, not safety. Features drive demand, and demand generates revenue. So products evolve based on features, with ever decreasing focus on security. Tools are built on tools, and tools/standards are built for ease of use (PHP? AJAX?) and we find ourselves immersed in an orgy of socially motivated functionality with nary a thought given to security...until shit blows up, everyone realizes their entire lives depend on a house of cards, and they then come screaming for the security people, who bill them heavily.
is that the RIAA is going to start suing schools. And that is when I pop the popcorn.
I should also point out that this may correlate to a tendency to procrastinate. More procrastinators make use of "pebble" tasks in order to either feel good about themselves while avoiding the more challenging "stone" tasks, or as a tactic to achieve a few of the more minor goals in order to ramp themselves up to get motivated for the bigger tasks they are avoiding.
didn't accomplish anything.
The "doesn't bicker over operating system preferences because they all work fine and he's too busy trying to win back free time to get drunk, party, and dance around like a chicken" archetype seems to be missing...but maybe time, experience and the loss of the techno-evangelical insecurity complex turns one into a blathering simpleton
M-Audio, Delta, RME, MOTU, Creamware, Aardvark, Echo, Tascam.......
The mainstay of Creative's business in soundcards has, since the introduction of REAL competition like RME, MOTU, and M-Audio, been the low end market. Now you have companies like M-Audio producing better cards in the same price range, and so their niche really isn't there. Not to mention the fact that Creative earned a reputation early on for less than optimal noise/THD/latency/etc specs as well as driver installation and uninstallation problems...the soundblaster was awesome in the 90s but IMO Creative is nowhere near as relevant as they used to be.
I want them to address the vulnerability which allows people to post pictures which depict themselves as 1o times hotter than they actually are.
Let's see you telecommute from oblivion on 12/23/2012.
*Walks into store*
"Say, sport, how much is this radio?"
"243 bucks," He opines.
*Froogles*
"O'rly?"
Granted, you can do that now with printouts, and many people google from their phones, but widespread majority on-the-fly price lookups are gonna devastate local and regional retail mark-up. Lol at the end of market exploitation by isolation. Even now the nemesis of the retail salesman is the guy who comes in to check a product out, and then goes home to buy it on the inertnet.
Bottle it and sell it to people for 50 times the cost of perfectly good, EPA regulated earthen tap water!
Oh nm Evian and Aquafina already do that much cheaper.
MARS NEEDS WOMEN!
I use proprietary software both at home and work that will not run on Linux. Not being able to re-use Microsoft licenses eliminates the cost advantage of running Windows on homebuilt machines, when compared to more expensive Macs. Costs being equal, I dislike Microsoft more, so I will switch to Mac. It's pretty simple, but Microsoft continues to think that their Genuine Repudiation Tool is going to build their market, rather than lose it.
Nation moves from agrarian, to industrial, to information economy just as 50 or so sociologists have predicted in the last 100 years, suddenly becomes news, film at 11. Why would agrarian and industrial markets expand in a country where the labor and tax costs are higher? Quick! Protest the IMF/WTO!
The threat to national security is not the file sharing software it's the asshats who have access to classifed documents,who are installing Kazaa on their government owned work computers.
Those people are serious idiots, but the real problem is a lot more insidious...people are not installing private applications on company computers so much as installing private applications on private computers and then connecting those private computers to company resources via either VPN/extranet or sneakernet (laptops.) This problem is pervasive and promises to be one of the largest security challenges going forward.
Haha I said "going forward"
Nothing is actually on the line, other than wild delusions of the the polarized egomaniacs on either side of the religion/science argument. Frothing at the mouth in order to fulfill the need for "certainty" ought to be listed in the DSM-IV/V as a psychological disorder, and it would be, if the crazies of both camps weren't legion...
Another good reason: maybe we consider RIAA related threads to be automatic flamebait.
BMI in sedentary populations is actually relatively accurate, barring weird genetic traits like extremely heavy bones. Where BMI fails is in the muscular, it consistently reports people with a lot of lean mass (strong) as obese.
And this article and thread is making my head hurt, it never ceases to amaze me how many people are constantly searching for little nuances and gotchas to cling onto, as an excuse to deemphasize the importance of teaching exercise to children. I never knew a kid who was active in school, who went home and zonked out and became more slothful than the lazy kids in PE class. The lazy stayed lazy. This article is a sham, and I'd like to see its motives/funding traced. What sample size, who were the kids, how well were they fed, did they overtrain the kids?
Yes, the BMR of a child is going to be much more important in relation to calories burned in exercise, but most of the people I know who are now happy, healthy adult athletes got their start in organized, adult encouraged athletics as a kid, which is a point completely lost on the dipshit who wrote this article.
Add to that the fact that lean mass INCREASES BMR, and guess what...exercise increases lean mass...
Sure, maybe if you're a meth head or someone with a congenital defect or a terrible diet, but I prefer to focus on the norms rather than the strange exceptions. All other things being equal, people with lower bodyfat ARE going to be more healthy than those with higher bodyfat, so let's not comfort people unnecessarily with anomalies, that's how denial happens.
I'd wager most people's "evidence" consists of high school resentment for the cliquish sort who obsessed on athletics and ignored academics. "I got picked on" is neither double blind nor peer reviewed data. Common sense tells us that the main reason athletes seem dumb is because "form follows function" and so they don't need to be academically intelligent, just kinesthetically. It's the same reason caribou don't have saber teeth. Elite sports are so competitive that most of the pros in thinking roles ARE actually quite near genius level intelligence, or at least above average, because they could not compete otherwise.
but it certainly isn't my friends and family after I've been eating burritos and drinking beer.
That is because the stress hormone Cortisol antagonizes the immune system: "Cortisol prevents proliferation of T-cells by rendering the interleukin-2 producer T-cells unresponsive to interleukin-1 (IL-1), and unable to produce the T-cell growth factor (Palacios)Isoptera 22:03, 11 December 2006 (UTC) = Isoptera. It reflects leukocyte redistribution to lymph nodes, bone marrow, and skin (Cohen, 1972; Cox & Ford, 1982; Dhabhar & McEwen, 1996; Dhabhar and Dhabhar; Fauci, 1975; Fauci & Dale, 1974; Fauci & Dale, 1975; Yu et al., 1974)." So "Don't Worry Be Happy" is more than a saying, it's a warning.