If a Dell was exactly the same as the Mom and Pop Tiawanese beige box you can buy down on the high street, then why exactly would you buy a Dell?
The thing is, the Dell is superior to the Mom & Pop Whitebox system. Because the Mom & Pop systems by default are made with the shit components, i.e. 'Ali chipset', totally shit 'clone' ethernet card, etc. Likely bottom-barrel no-name memory, and the cheapest power supply they could source.
You have to do a LOT more than buy the default whitebox system to get something better than a stock Dell out of a 'corner' PC store.
They want to discourage you from pulling their stuff apart and putting new parts in.
Umm, they also can save money and design a tighter, smaller system, by not designing it to fit any Taiwanese garbage out there on the market.
I used to be absolutely zealous about no 'proprietary footprint' cases in my house. I got over it about the time I stopped having to worry about walking on loose phillips screws with my bare feet.
Even more troubling is that the contractors are not subject to Geneva convention rules of engagement like soldiers are.
They are also not protected by Geneva convention rules. Much as any 'insurgent' (rhymes with detergent) who is not in uniform should not be protected.
The Geneva Convention was established to guarantee that the everyday 'Citizen Soldiers' who get involved in regular military conflicts, are given decent treatment if captured. It has no bearing on the treatment of hardened fanatics.
Kerry has introduced very, very few bills of any sort. He's been remarkably unproductive as a legislator. One of the gas-emitters.
He's a cultivated, preened example of the stereotypical senator. All he needs is the layer of fat and another 20 years (in the Senate, which he's guaranteed, thank goodness, by the upcoming election) to be a perfect caricature. Ted Kennedy II one might say.
Pig Hogger, you don't know shit about healthcare in the United States. Why don't you go queue in line for your free tongue depresser and leave us all alone?
Health care is like roads. You can't have competition there; there isn't any real competition in the US.
Bullshit. Let me repeat, BULLSHIT.
I can check into any number of clinics, make appointments with any number of doctors. If I have the money to pay for a therapy, and can find a doctor who agrees it will be beneficial, I can get said therapy.
5) Cutting a lot of the fat out of the FDA. There is a collusion process between the FDA and the medical device/drugs industry. They effectively keep the regulatory cost of doing business in Medicine VERY high, with thick, redundant levels of testing, and a regulatory mess that belongs in a Stalinist era.
Did you know that one of the few 'short cuts' to get a new medical device on the market is to make the claim that it does nothing new? You make a '510K Equvalency' claim, and then are allowed to piggyback on the millions of dollars of clinical trials that others have conducted. So device and drug manufacturers go OUT OF THEIR WAY to produce more of the same. Radical new therapies, devices, and drugs, are automatically shunted to the most expensive trials and testing.
Safety is important, but this isn't the era of the Patent Medicine wagon rolling into an uninformed hick town. That's the danger that FDA bureaucrats STILL hearken back to to justify their existence.
A streamlined and private watchdog structure, similar to the Underwriter's Laboratory, could do far better.
He meant to, back when he was young and naive. Unfortunately, he ended up in this course by mistake which wasn't even taught by a professor in the economics department.
The stories of the long waiting periods for treatments that in the U.S. are a matter of making an appointment for 'later this week' are legion.
And I am not talking about elective surgery.
It's arrogant for a bureaucrat to decide how to dole out resources. Do you want a bureaucrat deciding if you 'deserve' that bypass surgery? Shouldn't you be able to get better medical care if you want to pay more for it?
These are important questions, and we need to make sure we don't let busybodies answer them for us.
Brainwashed by a comic strip that appears in print?
(do captioned cartoon drawings 'speak' to you? I'm not even sure how many times the word 'Linus' is even spoken in the few, infrequent, Peanuts animations).
Now, many of the volunteers end up getting paid, and maybe they can't be called "volunteers" any more if somebody ends up being silly enough to pay them for something they'd have done for free anyway.
Forcing a whole city of humans to breath underwater has never been 'tried' either. And it would have to be imposed on the population the same way an armchair ideology like Communism would have to be, and generally has been imposed, when it's been tried.
The truth is, small minority groups with ideologies have no business 'trying' anything on societies as a whole. When someone comes up to you and says 'I have the truth, help me apply it' the correct response is to reach for the nearest blunt weapon (or butterfly net.)
HALF OF THE WORKING-AGE POPULATION IS NOT EMPLOYED FULL-TIME. Companies have no respect for anything: skills, education, experience are all totally meaningless to these companies.
I fail to see how the all-caps sentence leads to the non-shouting sentence. When companies hire temps, or part-timers, they very much respect the skills, education, and experience of said people. Possibly more so than they would in a situation where they just had a stable of deadwood to issue salaries to and hope some work is getting done.
I rendered The Lord of the Rings from actual source code, in my head, by reading the original novels in a hammock in the back yard in the summer of 1974.
No animated, CGI, or acted out product I've seen or heard of can do justice for that.
As to why I would want it on film? Hmmm. . . The printed book would be less easy to read on microfiche. ..
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I personally find that Stephenson grows as a writer with each book.
I like The Big U best.
No, I am not kidding. No, I am not trolling.
The two psuedonym books are good, too. Can't remember their titles.
I just gather up the big tail of yellow teletype paper streaming over and behind the terminal and scan back with my eyes.
That's the beauty of this thing. You can't tell who did it if they do it discreetly.
So go mash up a bunch of your fellow sports bar troglodytes. The 'culprit' will probably find that amusing.
I'd like Bikers to be allowed to not wear helmets, as long as they are registered organ donors.
Because we want to destroy their stereo, not their car.
Naw. I'll just switch it off and watch your withdrawl twitch.
My Dell boxes have embedded ATI video, and embedded 3Com ethernet. The 'integrated' clone boards are absolute junk by comparison.
The way I heard it, he wrote the Word Processor in the Model 100. You may be right.
The last piece of code that Bill Gates made a substancial contribution to is the Editor in the TRS-80 Model 100. He wrote that one, in Assembler.
It's pretty good.
If a Dell was exactly the same as the Mom and Pop Tiawanese beige box you can buy down on the high street, then why exactly would you buy a Dell?
The thing is, the Dell is superior to the Mom & Pop Whitebox system. Because the Mom & Pop systems by default are made with the shit components, i.e. 'Ali chipset', totally shit 'clone' ethernet card, etc. Likely bottom-barrel no-name memory, and the cheapest power supply they could source.
You have to do a LOT more than buy the default whitebox system to get something better than a stock Dell out of a 'corner' PC store.
They want to discourage you from pulling their stuff apart and putting new parts in.
Umm, they also can save money and design a tighter, smaller system, by not designing it to fit any Taiwanese garbage out there on the market.
I used to be absolutely zealous about no 'proprietary footprint' cases in my house. I got over it about the time I stopped having to worry about walking on loose phillips screws with my bare feet.
Yep. That's what I read today in Buck Rodgers In The Twenty-Fifth Century too. I can hardly wait for 1970 to come around.
Even more troubling is that the contractors are not subject to Geneva convention rules of engagement like soldiers are.
They are also not protected by Geneva convention rules. Much as any 'insurgent' (rhymes with detergent) who is not in uniform should not be protected.
The Geneva Convention was established to guarantee that the everyday 'Citizen Soldiers' who get involved in regular military conflicts, are given decent treatment if captured. It has no bearing on the treatment of hardened fanatics.
Kerry has introduced very, very few bills of any sort. He's been remarkably unproductive as a legislator. One of the gas-emitters.
He's a cultivated, preened example of the stereotypical senator. All he needs is the layer of fat and another 20 years (in the Senate, which he's guaranteed, thank goodness, by the upcoming election) to be a perfect caricature. Ted Kennedy II one might say.
Pig Hogger, you don't know shit about healthcare in the United States. Why don't you go queue in line for your free tongue depresser and leave us all alone?
Health care is like roads. You can't have competition there; there isn't any real competition in the US.
Bullshit. Let me repeat, BULLSHIT.
I can check into any number of clinics, make appointments with any number of doctors. If I have the money to pay for a therapy, and can find a doctor who agrees it will be beneficial, I can get said therapy.
Your ignorance in this matter is staggering.
We could also look at:
5) Cutting a lot of the fat out of the FDA. There is a collusion process between the FDA and the medical device/drugs industry. They effectively keep the regulatory cost of doing business in Medicine VERY high, with thick, redundant levels of testing, and a regulatory mess that belongs in a Stalinist era.
Did you know that one of the few 'short cuts' to get a new medical device on the market is to make the claim that it does nothing new? You make a '510K Equvalency' claim, and then are allowed to piggyback on the millions of dollars of clinical trials that others have conducted. So device and drug manufacturers go OUT OF THEIR WAY to produce more of the same. Radical new therapies, devices, and drugs, are automatically shunted to the most expensive trials and testing.
Safety is important, but this isn't the era of the Patent Medicine wagon rolling into an uninformed hick town. That's the danger that FDA bureaucrats STILL hearken back to to justify their existence.
A streamlined and private watchdog structure, similar to the Underwriter's Laboratory, could do far better.
Go take a basic Economics course.
He meant to, back when he was young and naive. Unfortunately, he ended up in this course by mistake which wasn't even taught by a professor in the economics department.
And boy, did it screw him up!!
I have family members with friends in Canada.
The stories of the long waiting periods for treatments that in the U.S. are a matter of making an appointment for 'later this week' are legion.
And I am not talking about elective surgery.
It's arrogant for a bureaucrat to decide how to dole out resources. Do you want a bureaucrat deciding if you 'deserve' that bypass surgery? Shouldn't you be able to get better medical care if you want to pay more for it?
These are important questions, and we need to make sure we don't let busybodies answer them for us.
Brainwashed by a comic strip that appears in print?
(do captioned cartoon drawings 'speak' to you? I'm not even sure how many times the word 'Linus' is even spoken in the few, infrequent, Peanuts animations).
Uh, wow.
Communism has never been tried at all.
The key word in your assertion is 'tried.'
Forcing a whole city of humans to breath underwater has never been 'tried' either. And it would have to be imposed on the population the same way an armchair ideology like Communism would have to be, and generally has been imposed, when it's been tried.
The truth is, small minority groups with ideologies have no business 'trying' anything on societies as a whole. When someone comes up to you and says 'I have the truth, help me apply it' the correct response is to reach for the nearest blunt weapon (or butterfly net.)
I fail to see how the all-caps sentence leads to the non-shouting sentence. When companies hire temps, or part-timers, they very much respect the skills, education, and experience of said people. Possibly more so than they would in a situation where they just had a stable of deadwood to issue salaries to and hope some work is getting done.
I rendered The Lord of the Rings from actual source code, in my head, by reading the original novels in a hammock in the back yard in the summer of 1974.
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No animated, CGI, or acted out product I've seen or heard of can do justice for that.
As to why I would want it on film? Hmmm. . . The printed book would be less easy to read on microfiche. .
Ah, you need a sharpie. An ordinary pen won't cut it.