Yep. That's me. My new Prius has behavior that doesn't seem quite right, and the best answer I can get out of two different Toyota dealerships when I ask if the behavior is correct is "I don't know. We can run a diagnostic for $125."
You are right, of course, and I am probably the exception rather than the rule when it comes to getting a questionable car from Toyota.
The whole comparison is backwards. The fact that people 'agonize' over a $1 app isn't the odd thing. The fact that they don't over a $4 latte is the dysfunctional behavior. Many people who definitly cannot afford it are spending enough on lattes that they could afford to buy a brand new car if they would just redirect the funds. I 'agonize' over the $1 app because I am fully aware of the 'nickle and dimeing' system that they are working in. The point of the $1 app is to separate you from your money in small enough increments that you don't notice how much you are spending.
Not everyone is like you, and has no anus. You are suggesting that 100% of energy contained in the food you eat gets converted to energy or fat right? Did you have your anus surgically removed? Or were you born without it?
Yes, I am being snide, but pointing out the fallacy in the calories consumed - calories burned argument without being snide always leads to the person just making more absurd statements.
I can't prove Tharsman's assertion, BUT either the current food government food recommendations are completely backwards, or I am and X-Man. Yes, as in one of these mutant superheros. It must be something in the environment that mutated me because I know many other superhero X-Men. When I eat the by the the current 'scientifically accepted healthy diet', I pack on fat. If I get lots of exercise while eating that way, I pack on lots of muscle AND lots of fat. Irrelevant of the amount of exercise, I am always tired and feel like crap.
When I eat a high fat high protein diet, I shed body fat, and build muscle. No extra exercise necessary. If I exercise while eating lots of fat and protien, I pack on even more muscle, and shed about the same amount of fat. The whole time I have lots of energy and feel great.
No matter what I eat, when I don't exercise at all, my lean body mass (determined via hydrostatic weighing) is only 10 to 15lbs below the total weight that the government/health/insurance industries declare to be 'over weight'. This means that for me to become a 'normal' weight, I have to get down below ~3% body fat. That is the MAXIMUM body fat I can have to be considered 'normal' weight. If I get the recommended amount of exercise, my lean body mass exceeds the maximum weight for 'normal' weight. So, avoid being considered 'overweight', I would literally need to amputate body parts. A leg might do it, but I could amputate both legs, because then I would be 'overweight' again.
So, as I said. Tharsman MIGHT be wrong. But if he is, I would have to accept that I am some kind of comic book super hero, and that seems just a tad unlikely.
No. Working 3 jobs is not typical. That is a total fabrication, and shows that you are unwilling to even consider a reasonable discussion on the matter.
The solution is actually pretty straight forward. Multi-core is the present. To make a complete clean sweep, the solution is for Intel to make a processor that has say, 4 x86 cores, and 2 xWayBetterThan86 cores. They then design the system to allow code that is written for the xWBT86 cores to run in parallel with the x86 cores. Get MS to port Windows to use the xWBT86 cores for the OS, and advocate to the developers. Basically turn the old x86 into a legacy compatibility co-processor. They would want to contribute the code necessary to make this happen on Linux while they were at it.
Since in theory, the xWBT86 cores would be Way Better Than the x86 cores, software developers would want to write code that runs on them, and the x86 legacy cores would become less and less necessary. As demand dictates, Intel could then start reducing the number of x86 cores, and increasing the number of xWBT86 cores. When demand for x86 gets low enough, they could switch to emulation.
If they really wanted to make it slick, they could design the chips so that the cores could be changed from x86 to xWBT86 by swapping out the microcode. The x86 command set is basically emulated now anyway.
The Parent didn't say it was bad to want those things. He didn't even say that he didn't want them himself. His point was that most people CAN live just fine on one salary. Once you acknowledge that it is possible to live on one salary, the conversation changes to asking what your priority is with the income you have.
I will be less aggressive than the AC, but he is right that the "Both parents must work" line is a myth, as often as not. I won't claim that there are no families that require both parents to work, but more often than not, the claim is more of an excuse than a reasoned financial decision. I know several families that actually take home LESS money by having both parents work than if one of them would just stay home.
This is why the article is ridiculous. Nobody chooses to send their child to public school because "books are too expensive". The only cost that is a factor is in the cost of not working. There are lots of other reasons that people choose to home school, or send their child to public school, but tablets are not even on the radar when it comes time to choose.
Not only can any non-Android based device link into and utilize Google search, any android device can completely remove Google search from the device. Each of them can exist completely separate from each other.
I really wanted for Myth to work for me. It is just too much of a pain to set up. The OS install is easy. The MythTV software install is easy. The problem is when you get to the video capture and remote control setup. I don't know if it has gotten any easier, but there seems to be a lot of compiling, command line configuration, and finger crossing. I found the only benefit it had over XBMC was the live television capabilities. Once I cancelled Dish, XBMC covered 100% of my needs with dramatically easier installation.
It is also great when you travel. It is tiny, so packing it is trivial. Most hotels offer Wifi. Just bring a short HDMI and a short RCA set and you are set to connect to a huge number of hotel TVs. There are even remote apps for Android so you don't need even need to bring the remote.
* Libraries were not allowed and even encouraged because the were inconvenient. In fact, the opposite is true. Libraries have tried to make access to books a easy and 'frictionless' as possible.
* Libraries were not allowed and even encouraged because the books wear out. In fact the opposite is true. Libraries have tried to keep books in as good of condition as they could.
We are currently faced with making a cultural decision. Are libraries like slavery or absolute monarchies? An idea that we now consider evil, and attribute to the "bad old days", or do we consider libraries to be a good thing?
Yes. A better analogy would be comparing candles vs. the electric light. The cost of producing a candle's worth of light is so small as to be basically free. It isn't totally free, but it takes me less than one second to earn enough to pay for what a months worth of work could buy in candles 200 years ago. There are still candle makers. They just needed to find a different way to sell their wares than by trying to be the sellers of functional light.
They would have made the exact same argument if they were talking about the founding of public libraries. In 1930, how was there more 'friction' from the library than from the publisher. Answer, there wasn't. Media Barons just want to use the shift in book 'manufacturing' as an excuse to get rid of the libraries that they no doubt always thought were stealing from them.
FOX News doesn't give a crap about "the Rich, Conservative agenda..." Fox News is just one part of the Fox Network. The Fox Network is shock television. If they could get you riled up by spewing left wing crap, they would. They just realize that left wing spewing crap stations are a saturated market that has lost it's shock edginess. So, they stick to the shock television that still shocks you.
If they don't take North American or European programmers who's parent's or grandparents immigrated from some other country, it would be racist. If they only care what country you come from, and not your race, then at worst it would be nationalist. Most people don't understand the difference though.
While it is possible to splice the wrong gene into a GM food, you are kidding yourself if you think that 'Organic' in any way even remotely implies safety.
Most of the foods you eat (Yes, even the 'organic' ones) would never appear in nature without man's meddling. If you are going to use human intervention as the line between 'artificial' and 'natural', then you are fooling yourself when you buy 99% of the 'natural' foods in a Whole Foods store.
Because US unions are corrupt, and frequently worse than the employers they are trying to rein in. US unions are not collective bargaining. They are a corporation unto themselves that bargain against another corporation. The Unions are representing the Unions. Not the union members.
That's easy. Just have everyone's Out Of Office settings to show them out of the office at 5pm. The mail will go through, but the company will be making a very clear statement that no email is expected to be looked at between 5PM and 8AM.
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Yep. That's me. My new Prius has behavior that doesn't seem quite right, and the best answer I can get out of two different Toyota dealerships when I ask if the behavior is correct is "I don't know. We can run a diagnostic for $125."
You are right, of course, and I am probably the exception rather than the rule when it comes to getting a questionable car from Toyota.
The whole comparison is backwards. The fact that people 'agonize' over a $1 app isn't the odd thing. The fact that they don't over a $4 latte is the dysfunctional behavior. Many people who definitly cannot afford it are spending enough on lattes that they could afford to buy a brand new car if they would just redirect the funds. I 'agonize' over the $1 app because I am fully aware of the 'nickle and dimeing' system that they are working in. The point of the $1 app is to separate you from your money in small enough increments that you don't notice how much you are spending.
Not everyone is like you, and has no anus. You are suggesting that 100% of energy contained in the food you eat gets converted to energy or fat right? Did you have your anus surgically removed? Or were you born without it?
Yes, I am being snide, but pointing out the fallacy in the calories consumed - calories burned argument without being snide always leads to the person just making more absurd statements.
Actually, from a thermodynamic perspective, it would only apply to those without an anus.
I can't prove Tharsman's assertion, BUT either the current food government food recommendations are completely backwards, or I am and X-Man. Yes, as in one of these mutant superheros. It must be something in the environment that mutated me because I know many other superhero X-Men. When I eat the by the the current 'scientifically accepted healthy diet', I pack on fat. If I get lots of exercise while eating that way, I pack on lots of muscle AND lots of fat. Irrelevant of the amount of exercise, I am always tired and feel like crap.
When I eat a high fat high protein diet, I shed body fat, and build muscle. No extra exercise necessary. If I exercise while eating lots of fat and protien, I pack on even more muscle, and shed about the same amount of fat. The whole time I have lots of energy and feel great.
No matter what I eat, when I don't exercise at all, my lean body mass (determined via hydrostatic weighing) is only 10 to 15lbs below the total weight that the government/health/insurance industries declare to be 'over weight'. This means that for me to become a 'normal' weight, I have to get down below ~3% body fat. That is the MAXIMUM body fat I can have to be considered 'normal' weight. If I get the recommended amount of exercise, my lean body mass exceeds the maximum weight for 'normal' weight. So, avoid being considered 'overweight', I would literally need to amputate body parts. A leg might do it, but I could amputate both legs, because then I would be 'overweight' again.
So, as I said. Tharsman MIGHT be wrong. But if he is, I would have to accept that I am some kind of comic book super hero, and that seems just a tad unlikely.
No. Working 3 jobs is not typical. That is a total fabrication, and shows that you are unwilling to even consider a reasonable discussion on the matter.
The solution is actually pretty straight forward. Multi-core is the present. To make a complete clean sweep, the solution is for Intel to make a processor that has say, 4 x86 cores, and 2 xWayBetterThan86 cores. They then design the system to allow code that is written for the xWBT86 cores to run in parallel with the x86 cores. Get MS to port Windows to use the xWBT86 cores for the OS, and advocate to the developers. Basically turn the old x86 into a legacy compatibility co-processor. They would want to contribute the code necessary to make this happen on Linux while they were at it.
Since in theory, the xWBT86 cores would be Way Better Than the x86 cores, software developers would want to write code that runs on them, and the x86 legacy cores would become less and less necessary. As demand dictates, Intel could then start reducing the number of x86 cores, and increasing the number of xWBT86 cores. When demand for x86 gets low enough, they could switch to emulation.
If they really wanted to make it slick, they could design the chips so that the cores could be changed from x86 to xWBT86 by swapping out the microcode. The x86 command set is basically emulated now anyway.
The Parent didn't say it was bad to want those things. He didn't even say that he didn't want them himself. His point was that most people CAN live just fine on one salary. Once you acknowledge that it is possible to live on one salary, the conversation changes to asking what your priority is with the income you have.
I will be less aggressive than the AC, but he is right that the "Both parents must work" line is a myth, as often as not. I won't claim that there are no families that require both parents to work, but more often than not, the claim is more of an excuse than a reasoned financial decision. I know several families that actually take home LESS money by having both parents work than if one of them would just stay home.
This is why the article is ridiculous. Nobody chooses to send their child to public school because "books are too expensive". The only cost that is a factor is in the cost of not working. There are lots of other reasons that people choose to home school, or send their child to public school, but tablets are not even on the radar when it comes time to choose.
Not only can any non-Android based device link into and utilize Google search, any android device can completely remove Google search from the device. Each of them can exist completely separate from each other.
I really wanted for Myth to work for me. It is just too much of a pain to set up. The OS install is easy. The MythTV software install is easy. The problem is when you get to the video capture and remote control setup. I don't know if it has gotten any easier, but there seems to be a lot of compiling, command line configuration, and finger crossing. I found the only benefit it had over XBMC was the live television capabilities. Once I cancelled Dish, XBMC covered 100% of my needs with dramatically easier installation.
It is also great when you travel. It is tiny, so packing it is trivial. Most hotels offer Wifi. Just bring a short HDMI and a short RCA set and you are set to connect to a huge number of hotel TVs. There are even remote apps for Android so you don't need even need to bring the remote.
Yeah, that list if funny, but it is not something to be taken seriously.
Their points are moot.
* Libraries were not allowed and even encouraged because the were inconvenient. In fact, the opposite is true. Libraries have tried to make access to books a easy and 'frictionless' as possible.
* Libraries were not allowed and even encouraged because the books wear out. In fact the opposite is true. Libraries have tried to keep books in as good of condition as they could.
We are currently faced with making a cultural decision. Are libraries like slavery or absolute monarchies? An idea that we now consider evil, and attribute to the "bad old days", or do we consider libraries to be a good thing?
Yes. A better analogy would be comparing candles vs. the electric light. The cost of producing a candle's worth of light is so small as to be basically free. It isn't totally free, but it takes me less than one second to earn enough to pay for what a months worth of work could buy in candles 200 years ago. There are still candle makers. They just needed to find a different way to sell their wares than by trying to be the sellers of functional light.
They would have made the exact same argument if they were talking about the founding of public libraries. In 1930, how was there more 'friction' from the library than from the publisher. Answer, there wasn't. Media Barons just want to use the shift in book 'manufacturing' as an excuse to get rid of the libraries that they no doubt always thought were stealing from them.
FOX News doesn't give a crap about "the Rich, Conservative agenda..." Fox News is just one part of the Fox Network. The Fox Network is shock television. If they could get you riled up by spewing left wing crap, they would. They just realize that left wing spewing crap stations are a saturated market that has lost it's shock edginess. So, they stick to the shock television that still shocks you.
Unfortunately, today, it is considered child abuse not to raise your child to be raised stupid, gullible, and without critical thinking.
If they don't take North American or European programmers who's parent's or grandparents immigrated from some other country, it would be racist. If they only care what country you come from, and not your race, then at worst it would be nationalist. Most people don't understand the difference though.
That is a fine analogy.
While it is possible to splice the wrong gene into a GM food, you are kidding yourself if you think that 'Organic' in any way even remotely implies safety.
Most of the foods you eat (Yes, even the 'organic' ones) would never appear in nature without man's meddling. If you are going to use human intervention as the line between 'artificial' and 'natural', then you are fooling yourself when you buy 99% of the 'natural' foods in a Whole Foods store.
Because US unions are corrupt, and frequently worse than the employers they are trying to rein in. US unions are not collective bargaining. They are a corporation unto themselves that bargain against another corporation. The Unions are representing the Unions. Not the union members.
That's easy. Just have everyone's Out Of Office settings to show them out of the office at 5pm. The mail will go through, but the company will be making a very clear statement that no email is expected to be looked at between 5PM and 8AM.