I lost all respect for May when during the english debate she evaded answering a direct question on whether or not she would close all private clinics.
I have found that "Inside the Machine" by Jon Stokes is a great book for explaining the inner workings of processors to non-hardware engineers. Not too heavy, but not all fluff either.
Uh-huh. So your a licensed psychiatrist then? You can easily "anal[ize]... posting methods" and accuratly assign them to individual posters you have never met? Uh-huh.
Buds, listen: Your pathetic attemps to discredit twitter are 1000 times sadder than any post by twitter I've seen. At least he's insightful every once and a while. You however, are just a troll.
Three words man: Billy. Ray. Cyrus.
Also, if you are in western Canada you should know another famous mullet: Ryan Smyth, back when he played for Edmonton.
You can't expect major manufacturers to spend extra time/money on you just because you decided to paint your box a different color. The world doesn't work that way.
Right. Except that the guy contacted Xbox support and was told by the agent that his special request was not a problem.
I really hope you're being satirical here. If not, all I can say is that your attitude literally baffles me. I live in a country with socialized healthcare and I think it works very well. The significant benefit is certainly well worth the relatively small cost you actually pay. You must be very lucky not to have had a family member or loved one postpone or forgo medical treatment, or perhaps be ruined financially, because they didn't have proper insurance.
Exactly. Here in Canada we still use 'rustic' voting methods. When you arrive at your polling station you identify yourself and receive a paper ballot. The candidate's names and party affiliations are listed on the left. A circle where you mark your 'X' is lined up next to the names on the right. Mark your 'x' and drop in the ballot box. No fuss, no muss, no scandals over disenfranchisement or voter fraud. Plus, even though ballots are counted manually, we still know who our new government is before we go to bed that night...
* Well, I'd rather wait until that guy at Ars Technica does one of his in-depth analyses on the POWER6 architecture.
You mean Jon Stokes? He's got this writeup posted earlier today, though it isn't exactly indepth. Apropos, I'm halfway through a new book of his right now: "Inside the machine". Pretty good for a non-EE/CS duffer like me...
Whoa there Nelly! Now you are dragging the investors into this mud-slinging contest. I happen to be an investor in healthcare companies and I am definitely not rich, fat and wealthy.
Sure, granted that was a gross overgeneralization, but I stand by my point. I am not against investing, I am not against making money, and I am not against capitalism. I am not opposed to healthcare companies or drug companies, I am opposed to one particular drug company for a specific action they have taken ie: Merck, for the topic of this discussion. I am opposed to making money at the cost of more human misery. If you have money invested in Merck, you are implicitly supporting their actions, and I find that ethically questionable.
If you want to complain about a company's "right" to make its shareholders "rich, fat and wealthy", why isn't anyone looking at why gasoline shot-up in price during the last couple of weeks? Why isn't the Slashdot Magnifying Glass of Truth scrutinizing the profit margin on gasoline? You can't tell me that gasoline magically got a lot more expensive to produce in the last couple of months.
That is a red herring. If there was a slashdot discussion on that issue, I'd be right in there slinging mud as well, however, the issue is off topic for this discussion.
Are you seriously saying Merck's right to price gouge in order to make its rich, fat, and wealthy shareholders even richer and fatter outweighs hundreds of thousands of sick people's right to health and life? You sir, have some fucked up ethics.
Yeah, sure, Merck is well within their legal right to do this. Yeah, sure, R&D on drugs is expensive. Have you ever heard of a sliding scale? It's what ethical companies use to ensure they get paid while also ensuring that poor people get the product/service they need for a basic level of quality of life. A sliding scale is what Brazil asked for. Once again, greed wins the day. And toadies like you defend it.
But wait those are brown people, foreigners dying from a disease with a social stigma, so let's call them thieves.
Exactly
If Merck had instead developed a treatment/cure for a more socially acceptable disease such as cancer and priced it so only the most wealthy of people/nations could afford it then people would be marching on their headquarters with torches and pitchforks.
When faced with a life or death situation (even a slow motion life or death situation) people will do whatever it takes to stave it off.
Brazil tried their best to get the drug at a price they could afford. Merck could have gotten their due, but strait up greed has directly led to the situation we see here. Brazil has done what it must for the benefit of its people, and I say bully for them.
There's your problem. I can see the allure of using a portable drive, in that you can easily move the data around from computer to computer, but really, we have a better way to move the data: The bloody network! That HDD should have been screwed into a locked case mounted in a rack bolted to the floor of a securely locked room.
So does that mean you could theoretically create a virus that would make all RFID enabled passports identify themselves as belonging to known/suspected terrorists? That would make for a million laughs on April 1...
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I lost all respect for May when during the english debate she evaded answering a direct question on whether or not she would close all private clinics.
He's not inaccurate. I think he is trying to say that the laws of Quebec rival those of a communist country...least that's my reading.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, is it Montreal??
I have found that "Inside the Machine" by Jon Stokes is a great book for explaining the inner workings of processors to non-hardware engineers. Not too heavy, but not all fluff either.
I have had good luck with my M-Audio Revolution 5.1 card. Probably a little old now but sounds _way_ nicer than the Audigy I used to use.
Keep up with the market much? 0.02 USD --> CAD
Three words man: Billy. Ray. Cyrus.
Also, if you are in western Canada you should know another famous mullet: Ryan Smyth, back when he played for Edmonton.
Right. Except that the guy contacted Xbox support and was told by the agent that his special request was not a problem.
I really hope you're being satirical here. If not, all I can say is that your attitude literally baffles me. I live in a country with socialized healthcare and I think it works very well. The significant benefit is certainly well worth the relatively small cost you actually pay. You must be very lucky not to have had a family member or loved one postpone or forgo medical treatment, or perhaps be ruined financially, because they didn't have proper insurance.
Exactly. Here in Canada we still use 'rustic' voting methods. When you arrive at your polling station you identify yourself and receive a paper ballot. The candidate's names and party affiliations are listed on the left. A circle where you mark your 'X' is lined up next to the names on the right. Mark your 'x' and drop in the ballot box. No fuss, no muss, no scandals over disenfranchisement or voter fraud. Plus, even though ballots are counted manually, we still know who our new government is before we go to bed that night...
Johnny? Surely you mean Tommy
You just trying to continue the theme with your post?
OH NO! Geeks! Run!
Do you live in Kansas?
Jesus, we wouldn't want the race being decided by something as stupid as driver skill would we?
You mean Jon Stokes? He's got this writeup posted earlier today, though it isn't exactly indepth. Apropos, I'm halfway through a new book of his right now: "Inside the machine". Pretty good for a non-EE/CS duffer like me...
You went too far. You were supposed to bury them in the Pet Semetary (sic), not the Micmac burial grounds...
Sure, granted that was a gross overgeneralization, but I stand by my point. I am not against investing, I am not against making money, and I am not against capitalism. I am not opposed to healthcare companies or drug companies, I am opposed to one particular drug company for a specific action they have taken ie: Merck, for the topic of this discussion. I am opposed to making money at the cost of more human misery. If you have money invested in Merck, you are implicitly supporting their actions, and I find that ethically questionable.
That is a red herring. If there was a slashdot discussion on that issue, I'd be right in there slinging mud as well, however, the issue is off topic for this discussion.
Are you seriously saying Merck's right to price gouge in order to make its rich, fat, and wealthy shareholders even richer and fatter outweighs hundreds of thousands of sick people's right to health and life? You sir, have some fucked up ethics.
Yeah, sure, Merck is well within their legal right to do this. Yeah, sure, R&D on drugs is expensive. Have you ever heard of a sliding scale? It's what ethical companies use to ensure they get paid while also ensuring that poor people get the product/service they need for a basic level of quality of life. A sliding scale is what Brazil asked for. Once again, greed wins the day. And toadies like you defend it.
Exactly
If Merck had instead developed a treatment/cure for a more socially acceptable disease such as cancer and priced it so only the most wealthy of people/nations could afford it then people would be marching on their headquarters with torches and pitchforks.
When faced with a life or death situation (even a slow motion life or death situation) people will do whatever it takes to stave it off.
Brazil tried their best to get the drug at a price they could afford. Merck could have gotten their due, but strait up greed has directly led to the situation we see here. Brazil has done what it must for the benefit of its people, and I say bully for them.
There's your problem. I can see the allure of using a portable drive, in that you can easily move the data around from computer to computer, but really, we have a better way to move the data: The bloody network! That HDD should have been screwed into a locked case mounted in a rack bolted to the floor of a securely locked room.
Thanks for the links. Despite the guy who modded me funny, it was a serious question
McDonalds jokes are a medium rarely well done.
So does that mean you could theoretically create a virus that would make all RFID enabled passports identify themselves as belonging to known/suspected terrorists? That would make for a million laughs on April 1...