Ahh... Then we don't really disagree. Of course you and I are in the minority. SIDS is not generally accepted as suffocation. I happen to think that it is, and apparently you do too.
Even for those of us that demand lossless, Multi-Terri byte is generally unneeded. Lets do the math.
700 MB - Largest CD Size.
1,000 CDs - A very large CD Collection.
----------
700,000 MB - Not even a Terabyte for a very large CD collection
Even as uncompressed wave files, one external 750GB drive is more than most people will ever need. My 400+ CD collection ripped to FLAC in less than 200GB. I expect that over the next week or two, I will run the whole thing through a transcoder and keep a copy of each song in MP3 as well. It will make it easier for my wife to use as her pap only uses MP3, and given that the whole collection takes less than 200GB of the 750GB, I still won't come close to filling the drive.
That's just it. Perhaps in infants, it is not easy to tell that they suffocated. Perhaps it is only obvious sometimes. Given that SIDS and suffocation have the same list of risk behaviors, it is a reasonable hypothesis that SIDS is suffocation.
I would have to agree. Right now, people keep trying to push me to have my two year old vaccinated for Chicken Pox. Now, I am all for vaccinating for polio, hepatitis, and all sorts of other diseases. The problem with the Chicken Pox vaccine is that instead of it being a vaccine that prevents a disease that is crippling, and has the same risks as a child and adult; it is a vaccine that it prevents a disease that is a major hassle as a child, but exposes you to a real risk of death as an adult.
The two biggest things that worry me about it are:
1) All of the literature that argues for the vaccine boils down to the argument that it is expensive to take the couple of weeks off of work to care for your child
2) It is well accepted that a booster may be need in 18 to 20 years to keep the immunity.
Now, we all know that people in their early 20s are not going to be a group rushing to get their vaccinations. In fact ~20 year olds are often very lucky to even have insurance. So, what are we going to have. A huge number of young 20 somethings that are now no longer immune, hit harder financially than their parents would have been, in far greater danger from the disease itself, and often without anyone there to care for them.
It seems that the Chicken Pox vaccine is short sighted, and we will be lucky if we don't run into serious problems because of it. But doctors are recommending it, so parents are giving it to their kids.
The problem with the 'liable' part is that all of the risks are not known. All of your examples seem to alway be grouped together. There are also the risks of putting a tiny baby in a bed with them, the risks of breastfeeding, risks of staying too close to the baby, risks of not feeding formula. And what foods are good, and what foods are bad is far from a certainty.
I have to agree with you on that. People keep telling me that "The doctors can tell if a baby has suffocated.", but since something is going on that 'The doctors' can't figure out, it is naive to think that it couldn't be that perhaps an infant can suffocate without causing the kind physical trauma that would show in an older person.
Have they tried offering to let him direct a live action Daffy Duck feature length movie? From everything I have heard, this guy just want's to be an American mover and shaker. One movie deal, and we just might have him distracted for a couple of years.
And in fact if it were not for Nintendo, you might have... Prior to the Nintendo being released the buttons were on the left hand side of the controller, and the joystick was on the right. This lead to games that were predomenantly joystick controlled. After the Nintendo, and all the controllers became in essance, left handed, more and more of the games became button mashers. I myself learned to play left handed when I was a kid, because when the game had button on both sides, the buttons on the left were always in better condition due to less use.
1) When it comes to advertising, t-shirts are indeed... "like creating bumper stickers and gift cards"
2) Man on the street to another guy: "Excuse me, but do you know what time it is?"
Second guy: "It's three P.M."
First guy: "Thank you... and I really really like your watch... I want to sell it to that guy over there."
Second guy: "What? Excuse me, it is my watch, I paid for it."
First guy (gathers a mob around him): "We don't care. We want it , and we're going to make our own and sell it." Second guy: "Ohhhhh....well, I'm glad that I could spark your creativity. Good luck. (shakes second guy's hand)
Actually, it's not a problem at all. It's a good thing. If AMD were already producing 45nm chips, and they were twice the size and slower than Intel's solution, THAT would be a problem. When you are doing well enough that you are outselling your ability to produce, and you still have not yet implemented your already developed technology, you are in a very good position.
I hear that regularly, and every time it sounds like the old "Nobody needs more than X amount of memory" line.
RMS started his crusade because he had a comercial product with broken code. The company would not fix the code, and the company had taken actions that would prevent Stallman from fixing the code himself.
The GPL was designed to allow developers to create code that would not be used in a manner that prevented people from making their own repairs. Yes, some companies have found ways to get around that purpose without violating the letter of the license. Ok, Stallman didn't just scream and yell about these companies intentionally trying to get around the license they agreed to. No, he went out and started making a newer revised version of his license that closed the holes that the license crackers found.
No, RMS is no less relevent today than he was when the GPL 1 was first written. Do you think that any closed source company thought that the GPL would even be a ping on the radar? Yes, RMS might be odd, but in this age of always trying to find a middle ground, there is an obvious need for an extreamist on the side of right, because without people like him, the middle ground would be closed everything.
Most banks will give you an ATM card that is not a Check Card if you demand one. They will automatically switch you to the 'give my money away for free cards (Check card) if you let them. If your bank does not have ATM only cards, you should switch banks immediatly, as your bank has no interest in protecting your money from being stolen. In fact they are encouraging people to steal your money. So, no you don't carry on because you want access to your money via an ATM. You carry one because it never struck you that you had the right to demand that your bank store your money in a secure manner.
They didn't use them because many vendors did not have a way to allow for pin number entry. Their POS systems just did not support it. They also wanted to take the risk of fraud and move it from the bank, to you. You are right though. It was a flawed scheme from the beginning. Personally, I would rather they make a credit card that requires a pin, than an ATM card that doesn't.
This is why I am always amazed that people carry the 'check cards'. It is so easy to commit credit card fraud that it is just silly. So, what do people do? They start carrying around a credit card that has access directly to their checking account. Of course the banks will try to tell you it is safe because if the money is stolen, they will return it in one business day. Of course that is one business day after you notify them, and the way you find out about it is that your mortgage/rent check bounces, and your real credit card bill check bounces causing all of your interest rates to shoot up from 6% to 22%. Hell, Visa's orginal check card TV adds showed exactly how to commit fraud with the cards!
There is absolutly no benifit to a check card over a real credit card, and huge drawbacks, but people keep carrying them.
You might be suprised at how quickly men will bend to the will of women if they have no other prospects for sex. They may hate them, but they will do their bidding.
Your description of sports games does not exist in schools. The fact is that schools do not enforce fair play. While you will see better enforcement of fair play in grade schools, once out of grade school, you can forget about it. It is that exact kind of denial that creates Columnbine scenerios.
It is amazing how violence can be encouraged in schools, and the whole time, people will support it by telling fairy tales about learning life lessions, and how there are rules (which are largely unenforcable) that prevent the violence.
Funny, I hear that kind of logic all the time when a kid is bringing pain down on another kid that is outwieghed by 30 pounds. Of course when the smaller kid uses his skills and competative edge to use a tool, and shoots the entire football team, out come the "Ooohhh... the schools are too violent crys." Make up your mind. It is either ok for kids to inflict bodily harm on each other or it is not.
Mind you a game of tag is rearly going to inflict bodily harm, and if one kid IS hurting other kids when playing tag, he is cheating, and just using the game as an excuse to commit violence. So, tag doesn't really apply to my statement.
My 2 year old son has been bitten by other humans 10 times in the last 12 weeks. This would indicate he is Eloi, yet, I am far to unattractive to be anything other than a Morlok. Can Morloks produce Eloi offspring? Or do the Morloks get eaten too, and Wells forgot to mention that?
"Funny, we have no problem with the advantages which athletic and beautiful people have."
[Sarcasm]That's be cause we all know that fat people are fat because they are bad people, and that we all look at the inner beauty of the people around us. What?!?! Do you think we are shallow?[/Sarcams]
I look at hybrids, and see a class of vehicle that doesn't get close to the gas milage of either my 1989 Geo Metro, or my 1999 Suzuki Swift. Now the hybrids being built are larger than these cars, but as far as I can tell there isn't a vehicle produced today that gets a real world 50 mpg.
Hybrid owners can chime in if they have different expreience than what I have heard reported on their real world gas milage.
What in the world are you talking about. You point to a website that criticizes the interface of a decade old version that was replaced way back in 1998. You do realize it is now 2006, right? Even then the site you point to is largely BS. They complain that you have to double click on desktop icons, and single click on menues? They complain the an arrow is used to indicate a drop down menu? Every major OS short of Mac works exactly the same, and a good many programs. Including the Firefox browser I am using right now. That site has been debunked to death, but it keeps being dragged out for show, years after it stopped being relevent even as an opinion piece.
The developers that I have found complain about Notes, tend to be the ones who are not very good at it. Perticularly people who tend to work primarily in VB (and to a lesser extent C). They are so used to fighting their environment that they loose large amounts of the productivity Domino brings. What they end up with is a kludgy application that is designed to work against it's own operating environment.
I have yet to see a development envirnment that can produce an equal quality application in even twice the time.
There are legitimate reasons for HOAs. Any time you share a wall, an HOA is absolutly necessary. That being said, the idea that HOAs will go the way of the dodo if people don't want them doesn't fly here in California. We have laws that limit property taxes. So, the local governments have started taking the Ben Franklin approach to increasing revenue. Basically they figured out that 'A penny saved is a penny earned.', so, they now require new development projects to form an HOA if they permits. This means that for each of the houses built, they get to tax at the old maximum rate, but they do not supply the services that those taxes would have supplied in the past. It is basically a run around the tax laws.
Due to this, the number of houses per capita that are available that are not in an HOA is artifically limited. In fact, here in California, builders that successfully get houses built without an HOA, advertise that as a selling feature of the house.
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Ahh... Then we don't really disagree. Of course you and I are in the minority. SIDS is not generally accepted as suffocation. I happen to think that it is, and apparently you do too.
Even for those of us that demand lossless, Multi-Terri byte is generally unneeded. Lets do the math.
700 MB - Largest CD Size.
1,000 CDs - A very large CD Collection.
----------
700,000 MB - Not even a Terabyte for a very large CD collection
Even as uncompressed wave files, one external 750GB drive is more than most people will ever need. My 400+ CD collection ripped to FLAC in less than 200GB. I expect that over the next week or two, I will run the whole thing through a transcoder and keep a copy of each song in MP3 as well. It will make it easier for my wife to use as her pap only uses MP3, and given that the whole collection takes less than 200GB of the 750GB, I still won't come close to filling the drive.
That's just it. Perhaps in infants, it is not easy to tell that they suffocated. Perhaps it is only obvious sometimes. Given that SIDS and suffocation have the same list of risk behaviors, it is a reasonable hypothesis that SIDS is suffocation.
I would have to agree. Right now, people keep trying to push me to have my two year old vaccinated for Chicken Pox. Now, I am all for vaccinating for polio, hepatitis, and all sorts of other diseases. The problem with the Chicken Pox vaccine is that instead of it being a vaccine that prevents a disease that is crippling, and has the same risks as a child and adult; it is a vaccine that it prevents a disease that is a major hassle as a child, but exposes you to a real risk of death as an adult.
The two biggest things that worry me about it are:
1) All of the literature that argues for the vaccine boils down to the argument that it is expensive to take the couple of weeks off of work to care for your child
2) It is well accepted that a booster may be need in 18 to 20 years to keep the immunity.
Now, we all know that people in their early 20s are not going to be a group rushing to get their vaccinations. In fact ~20 year olds are often very lucky to even have insurance. So, what are we going to have. A huge number of young 20 somethings that are now no longer immune, hit harder financially than their parents would have been, in far greater danger from the disease itself, and often without anyone there to care for them.
It seems that the Chicken Pox vaccine is short sighted, and we will be lucky if we don't run into serious problems because of it. But doctors are recommending it, so parents are giving it to their kids.
The problem with the 'liable' part is that all of the risks are not known. All of your examples seem to alway be grouped together. There are also the risks of putting a tiny baby in a bed with them, the risks of breastfeeding, risks of staying too close to the baby, risks of not feeding formula. And what foods are good, and what foods are bad is far from a certainty.
I have to agree with you on that. People keep telling me that "The doctors can tell if a baby has suffocated.", but since something is going on that 'The doctors' can't figure out, it is naive to think that it couldn't be that perhaps an infant can suffocate without causing the kind physical trauma that would show in an older person.
Have they tried offering to let him direct a live action Daffy Duck feature length movie? From everything I have heard, this guy just want's to be an American mover and shaker. One movie deal, and we just might have him distracted for a couple of years.
And in fact if it were not for Nintendo, you might have... Prior to the Nintendo being released the buttons were on the left hand side of the controller, and the joystick was on the right. This lead to games that were predomenantly joystick controlled. After the Nintendo, and all the controllers became in essance, left handed, more and more of the games became button mashers. I myself learned to play left handed when I was a kid, because when the game had button on both sides, the buttons on the left were always in better condition due to less use.
yes it is a troll.
1) When it comes to advertising, t-shirts are indeed... "like creating bumper stickers and gift cards"
2) Man on the street to another guy: "Excuse me, but do you know what time it is?"
Second guy: "It's three P.M."
First guy: "Thank you... and I really really like your watch... I want to sell it to that guy over there."
Second guy: "What? Excuse me, it is my watch, I paid for it."
First guy (gathers a mob around him): "We don't care. We want it , and we're going to make our own and sell it."
Second guy: "Ohhhhh....well, I'm glad that I could spark your creativity. Good luck. (shakes second guy's hand)
Actually, it's not a problem at all. It's a good thing. If AMD were already producing 45nm chips, and they were twice the size and slower than Intel's solution, THAT would be a problem. When you are doing well enough that you are outselling your ability to produce, and you still have not yet implemented your already developed technology, you are in a very good position.
I hear that regularly, and every time it sounds like the old "Nobody needs more than X amount of memory" line.
RMS started his crusade because he had a comercial product with broken code. The company would not fix the code, and the company had taken actions that would prevent Stallman from fixing the code himself.
The GPL was designed to allow developers to create code that would not be used in a manner that prevented people from making their own repairs. Yes, some companies have found ways to get around that purpose without violating the letter of the license. Ok, Stallman didn't just scream and yell about these companies intentionally trying to get around the license they agreed to. No, he went out and started making a newer revised version of his license that closed the holes that the license crackers found.
No, RMS is no less relevent today than he was when the GPL 1 was first written. Do you think that any closed source company thought that the GPL would even be a ping on the radar? Yes, RMS might be odd, but in this age of always trying to find a middle ground, there is an obvious need for an extreamist on the side of right, because without people like him, the middle ground would be closed everything.
I would definitly call that stalking.
Most banks will give you an ATM card that is not a Check Card if you demand one. They will automatically switch you to the 'give my money away for free cards (Check card) if you let them. If your bank does not have ATM only cards, you should switch banks immediatly, as your bank has no interest in protecting your money from being stolen. In fact they are encouraging people to steal your money. So, no you don't carry on because you want access to your money via an ATM. You carry one because it never struck you that you had the right to demand that your bank store your money in a secure manner.
They didn't use them because many vendors did not have a way to allow for pin number entry. Their POS systems just did not support it. They also wanted to take the risk of fraud and move it from the bank, to you. You are right though. It was a flawed scheme from the beginning. Personally, I would rather they make a credit card that requires a pin, than an ATM card that doesn't.
This is why I am always amazed that people carry the 'check cards'. It is so easy to commit credit card fraud that it is just silly. So, what do people do? They start carrying around a credit card that has access directly to their checking account. Of course the banks will try to tell you it is safe because if the money is stolen, they will return it in one business day. Of course that is one business day after you notify them, and the way you find out about it is that your mortgage/rent check bounces, and your real credit card bill check bounces causing all of your interest rates to shoot up from 6% to 22%. Hell, Visa's orginal check card TV adds showed exactly how to commit fraud with the cards!
There is absolutly no benifit to a check card over a real credit card, and huge drawbacks, but people keep carrying them.
You might be suprised at how quickly men will bend to the will of women if they have no other prospects for sex. They may hate them, but they will do their bidding.
That's a pretty disingenuous arguement.
Your description of sports games does not exist in schools. The fact is that schools do not enforce fair play. While you will see better enforcement of fair play in grade schools, once out of grade school, you can forget about it. It is that exact kind of denial that creates Columnbine scenerios.
It is amazing how violence can be encouraged in schools, and the whole time, people will support it by telling fairy tales about learning life lessions, and how there are rules (which are largely unenforcable) that prevent the violence.
Or, the massive glut of women in the USSR could start matching up with the massive glut of men in China.
Funny, I hear that kind of logic all the time when a kid is bringing pain down on another kid that is outwieghed by 30 pounds. Of course when the smaller kid uses his skills and competative edge to use a tool, and shoots the entire football team, out come the "Ooohhh... the schools are too violent crys." Make up your mind. It is either ok for kids to inflict bodily harm on each other or it is not.
Mind you a game of tag is rearly going to inflict bodily harm, and if one kid IS hurting other kids when playing tag, he is cheating, and just using the game as an excuse to commit violence. So, tag doesn't really apply to my statement.
My 2 year old son has been bitten by other humans 10 times in the last 12 weeks. This would indicate he is Eloi, yet, I am far to unattractive to be anything other than a Morlok. Can Morloks produce Eloi offspring? Or do the Morloks get eaten too, and Wells forgot to mention that?
"Funny, we have no problem with the advantages which athletic and beautiful people have."
[Sarcasm]That's be cause we all know that fat people are fat because they are bad people, and that we all look at the inner beauty of the people around us. What?!?! Do you think we are shallow?[/Sarcams]
I look at hybrids, and see a class of vehicle that doesn't get close to the gas milage of either my 1989 Geo Metro, or my 1999 Suzuki Swift. Now the hybrids being built are larger than these cars, but as far as I can tell there isn't a vehicle produced today that gets a real world 50 mpg.
Hybrid owners can chime in if they have different expreience than what I have heard reported on their real world gas milage.
What in the world are you talking about. You point to a website that criticizes the interface of a decade old version that was replaced way back in 1998. You do realize it is now 2006, right? Even then the site you point to is largely BS. They complain that you have to double click on desktop icons, and single click on menues? They complain the an arrow is used to indicate a drop down menu? Every major OS short of Mac works exactly the same, and a good many programs. Including the Firefox browser I am using right now. That site has been debunked to death, but it keeps being dragged out for show, years after it stopped being relevent even as an opinion piece.
The developers that I have found complain about Notes, tend to be the ones who are not very good at it. Perticularly people who tend to work primarily in VB (and to a lesser extent C). They are so used to fighting their environment that they loose large amounts of the productivity Domino brings. What they end up with is a kludgy application that is designed to work against it's own operating environment.
I have yet to see a development envirnment that can produce an equal quality application in even twice the time.
What do you do if there is a repaire that is necessary on a shared piece of the building? Who pays to fix it?
There are legitimate reasons for HOAs. Any time you share a wall, an HOA is absolutly necessary. That being said, the idea that HOAs will go the way of the dodo if people don't want them doesn't fly here in California. We have laws that limit property taxes. So, the local governments have started taking the Ben Franklin approach to increasing revenue. Basically they figured out that 'A penny saved is a penny earned.', so, they now require new development projects to form an HOA if they permits. This means that for each of the houses built, they get to tax at the old maximum rate, but they do not supply the services that those taxes would have supplied in the past. It is basically a run around the tax laws.
Due to this, the number of houses per capita that are available that are not in an HOA is artifically limited. In fact, here in California, builders that successfully get houses built without an HOA, advertise that as a selling feature of the house.