USA has a lot of nationalism, except you guys call it patriotism. The nationalism in China is far worse (mostly because it's easier to influence hte population with propaganda under totalitarian systems) but don't for a minute assume that USA is not nationalist...
The US isn't really patriotic. It's fashionable to call yourself patriotic, but there's no real patriotism here.
From the American flags and yellow ribbon stickers that are made in China, to shopping at Wal-Mart where everything is made in China, people are buying into the "look" of patriotism without really supporting the country in any way. Most Americans are sheep, so conditioned to be consumers that they have little ability to see past a fascade and think for themselves.
Then they vote for George Bush who is viewed as "All American" and patriotic, yet he's driving this country into the ground.
People here lack the understanding of how to be patriotic. They're just going through the motions.
Another thing that most people don't think about is that Chinese people are proud of their country. This comes as a strange thought to most people who went through university indoctrination in the West, but Chinese people will prefer a Chinese solution when one is available. Even if it's a poorer alternative than the foreign one (it'll get better if we use it, they think).
Sadly, in the US, such nationalism is frowned upon. If you do think that way, you'll be called a racist/sexist/nationalist/somethingist. Choosing one of your own is not politically correct as it's not diverse, and that sickening trend has infiltrated everyday life.
Well, with the removal of the albums directory, I decided to redirect all requests for images in it to this annoyingly animated strobing GIF. This has the wonderful affect of making many, many crappy sites blink horribly. Like this and this.
I believe proper 1337 }{aX0r etiquette is to change hotlinked images to goatse.
So, you're saying you can build a motorcycle from scratch while remodeling your kitchen?
MTV will rot your brain for sure, but watching Discovery, PBS, and TLC is like watching Macguyver and thinking you can build a bomb from some gum and a D-cell battery. They leave a lot of stuff out. Have the Teutels ever shown you how to work that TIG welder?
Sadly, TLC and Discovery have really taken a dump lately. They used to have shows that were educational, like Nova on PBS. Now they're mostly "edu-tainment!" shows. You can still occasionally catch a show that's educational on those channels, but those shows won't be profitable to show during prime time hours.
As a criminal defense attorney specializing in computer crimes, I can say authoritatively that the investigators are typically poorly trained. Most that I have dealt with are not IT or CS degree holders.
Having a degree is not the end-all of computer skills. Compare someone who goes to college "just because" to someone whose interests drive them to learn something new every day. Sitting for 4 years in a classroom won't even compare.
I know many people who don't seem to learn anything outside of school. They're either in school or watching MTV. I never liked school, but I've never liked MTV either, I'm always watching PBS, Discovery, TLC, etc. Over time these habits show results.
The thing is, until I can install OSX on my current Windows system IN PLACE OF windows, comparisons between Windows and OSX have no meaning precisely because I am required to buy new hardware to use OSX
You can, right now in fact.
It's not legal to run OSX86 on a non-Mac, but it's not legal to run a copied version of WinXP, either. Let's face it, among computer geeks, there's a lot of software "sharing" going around.
At this point you're just making up false "facts" to support your invalid argument.
The fastest P4s and Athlon64s are faster than the G5s. Despite your claim of not being a Mac fanboy, your actions speak louder than words. You'll never admit that your G5 is slower no matter how much proof you're confronted with. You *are* the typical Mac fanboy.
If you look at the benchmarks (not the PR benchmarks released by Apple), you'll see that both the Athlon64 and the P4 outperform the G5 by quite a margin.
Even the developers who are testing OSX86 commented how the speed on the P4 developer systems is impressive. Hell, even Steve Jobs must have seen something on Intel's side.
To get the Mac to win common benchmarks, you need to compare a dual G5 system to a single P4 system. But single vs. single? Speed revisions for the G5 have been slow to come. The P4 surpassed it long ago with its constant speed increases.
Nothing in my interpretation stated any kind of preference. It only stated fact. Form your own opinion on those facts.
The OP stated that a caveman diet would be fine if you wanted to live the 20-25 year lifespan of a caveman. I pointed out that this is totally inaccurate, as for one it implies that cavemen lived to be about 25 years old, and for another it implies that diet is responsible for that lifespan.
I'm merely pointing out that his suggestion is inaccurate from the beginning. Cavemen often lived to be old, but many babies died at birth. This has to do with healthcare, not their diet.
You just have to wonder about the chips Intel is going to produce for Apple. Most likely they'll end up in iPods and Macs. When Apple came out with the iMac it was revolutionary in that it had only USB for serial communications. Wouldn't it be nice if they could convince Intel to do the same for their processors? I mean Apple doesn't need x86 backward compatibility (just low power and high performance).
Intel isn't making any special chips for Apple. Apple is using standard Intel chips, so you're not going to see Intel design a chip without X86 compatibility for Apple.
Along comes a computer that can run OS X or Windows and does both really well. That has to scare companies like Dell. They can compete on price but their machines won't run OS X... so unless they can license them from Apple, like HP did with the iPod, what are they going to offer that compares?
Dells can run OSX, many are doing it right now. In fact, I'm running OSX on my HP machine. Yes, it's not 100% legit according to the EULA, but neither is the version of windows that most people use.
eah, great, that's a perfect plan if you intend to life the 20~25 years lifespan of a cave man.
People often seem to misunderstand the meaning of average lifespan. Back then, you didn't see healthy 25 year olds dropping dead. People were capable of living long back then just like they live long now. The difference is that many babies died at birth, and many died as little kids. So you have to average out the 60 year old cavemen with the ones that died at birth.
Sugar is sugar, our bodies process the sugar from apples the same as the sugar from coke and pepsi,
This is dead wrong. Sugar is not just sugar. The body definitely does not process the sugar from apples the same as the sugar from coke or pepsi.
There are different kinds of sugars, which are chemically different. You have glucose, sucrose, dextrose, etc. They're not the same, and the body handles them differently. The glycemic index is different.
Well, his FTL thing just looks like an oversimplified variation of Alcubierre's warp drive. The latter might actually work, if we had a supply of negative mass of galactic order of magnitude.
And my car might actually be able to travel back in time, if I had a flux capacitor to put in it.
That site has been torn apart numerous times for it's nonsense. Please don't even link to it in a technical discussion if you want to maintain any kind of credibility.
Browsing around on his site will also give you lots of "info" on aliens and other garbage.
Which is why when I'm in a confrontation I throw a haymaker (low probability all-out swing) at their head.
In the event it misses, I'll claim that it was just to intimidate and there's no harm done.
In the event that it hits, they'll be knocked out and they won't remember me from the easter bunny.
In all actuality, it's mostly a dream that there are cops around all the time to protect little geeks who talk trash. Usually you can get away with it, or the cop will have better things to do with his time. I've never been arrested for beating another man up.
You are well deserving of the title of "ass" which I saw someone call you.
It annoys people when there is a person around who thinks that they are so important that their phone must be on at all times to annoy others. Maybe you should consider some places sacred. It's stressful to be around others who think they're "on call" (usually for their social life) all the time.
If we're in a movie and your phone is making noise and you see nothing wrong with that, I'm going to get you kicked out of the theater. Or, if you annoy me enough, I'll kick your ass in the parking lot. It wouldn't be the first time I've had to do that.
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USA has a lot of nationalism, except you guys call it patriotism. The nationalism in China is far worse (mostly because it's easier to influence hte population with propaganda under totalitarian systems) but don't for a minute assume that USA is not nationalist...
The US isn't really patriotic. It's fashionable to call yourself patriotic, but there's no real patriotism here.
From the American flags and yellow ribbon stickers that are made in China, to shopping at Wal-Mart where everything is made in China, people are buying into the "look" of patriotism without really supporting the country in any way. Most Americans are sheep, so conditioned to be consumers that they have little ability to see past a fascade and think for themselves.
Then they vote for George Bush who is viewed as "All American" and patriotic, yet he's driving this country into the ground.
People here lack the understanding of how to be patriotic. They're just going through the motions.
In moments like this I ask myself if we here in Germany are the only ones that learned something from WW2
The WW2 years seemed to be the high point for Germany. They seem to be in decline now.
At the rate things are going in the US, we're in decline also.
Another thing that most people don't think about is that Chinese people are proud of their country. This comes as a strange thought to most people who went through university indoctrination in the West, but Chinese people will prefer a Chinese solution when one is available. Even if it's a poorer alternative than the foreign one (it'll get better if we use it, they think).
Sadly, in the US, such nationalism is frowned upon. If you do think that way, you'll be called a racist/sexist/nationalist/somethingist. Choosing one of your own is not politically correct as it's not diverse, and that sickening trend has infiltrated everyday life.
Well, with the removal of the albums directory, I decided to redirect all requests for images in it to this annoyingly animated strobing GIF. This has the wonderful affect of making many, many crappy sites blink horribly. Like this and this.
I believe proper 1337 }{aX0r etiquette is to change hotlinked images to goatse.
By "lately", I mean the last 5 or 6 years. Don't remind me that I'm getting old and time is flying by. Soon I'll be calling 40 year olds "kids".
Later DNA tests revealed that the child wasn't a hybrid at all, but 100% human. It shared no DNA with that of neanderthals.
So, you're saying you can build a motorcycle from scratch while remodeling your kitchen?
MTV will rot your brain for sure, but watching Discovery, PBS, and TLC is like watching Macguyver and thinking you can build a bomb from some gum and a D-cell battery. They leave a lot of stuff out. Have the Teutels ever shown you how to work that TIG welder?
Sadly, TLC and Discovery have really taken a dump lately. They used to have shows that were educational, like Nova on PBS. Now they're mostly "edu-tainment!" shows. You can still occasionally catch a show that's educational on those channels, but those shows won't be profitable to show during prime time hours.
As a criminal defense attorney specializing in computer crimes, I can say authoritatively that the investigators are typically poorly trained. Most that I have dealt with are not IT or CS degree holders.
Having a degree is not the end-all of computer skills. Compare someone who goes to college "just because" to someone whose interests drive them to learn something new every day. Sitting for 4 years in a classroom won't even compare.
I know many people who don't seem to learn anything outside of school. They're either in school or watching MTV. I never liked school, but I've never liked MTV either, I'm always watching PBS, Discovery, TLC, etc. Over time these habits show results.
The thing is, until I can install OSX on my current Windows system IN PLACE OF windows, comparisons between Windows and OSX have no meaning precisely because I am required to buy new hardware to use OSX
You can, right now in fact.
It's not legal to run OSX86 on a non-Mac, but it's not legal to run a copied version of WinXP, either. Let's face it, among computer geeks, there's a lot of software "sharing" going around.
You can download OSX86 and install it on your PC.
At this point you're just making up false "facts" to support your invalid argument.
The fastest P4s and Athlon64s are faster than the G5s. Despite your claim of not being a Mac fanboy, your actions speak louder than words. You'll never admit that your G5 is slower no matter how much proof you're confronted with. You *are* the typical Mac fanboy.
Jail time for running OSX86 on a Dell? Keep dreaming.
Unless you're caught running a piracy ring, you're not going to see jailtime. Let's be realistic here.
If you look at the benchmarks (not the PR benchmarks released by Apple), you'll see that both the Athlon64 and the P4 outperform the G5 by quite a margin.
Even the developers who are testing OSX86 commented how the speed on the P4 developer systems is impressive. Hell, even Steve Jobs must have seen something on Intel's side.
To get the Mac to win common benchmarks, you need to compare a dual G5 system to a single P4 system. But single vs. single? Speed revisions for the G5 have been slow to come. The P4 surpassed it long ago with its constant speed increases.
That interpretation is preferable how?
Nothing in my interpretation stated any kind of preference. It only stated fact. Form your own opinion on those facts.
The OP stated that a caveman diet would be fine if you wanted to live the 20-25 year lifespan of a caveman. I pointed out that this is totally inaccurate, as for one it implies that cavemen lived to be about 25 years old, and for another it implies that diet is responsible for that lifespan.
I'm merely pointing out that his suggestion is inaccurate from the beginning. Cavemen often lived to be old, but many babies died at birth. This has to do with healthcare, not their diet.
You just have to wonder about the chips Intel is going to produce for Apple. Most likely they'll end up in iPods and Macs. When Apple came out with the iMac it was revolutionary in that it had only USB for serial communications. Wouldn't it be nice if they could convince Intel to do the same for their processors? I mean Apple doesn't need x86 backward compatibility (just low power and high performance).
Intel isn't making any special chips for Apple. Apple is using standard Intel chips, so you're not going to see Intel design a chip without X86 compatibility for Apple.
Along comes a computer that can run OS X or Windows and does both really well. That has to scare companies like Dell. They can compete on price but their machines won't run OS X... so unless they can license them from Apple, like HP did with the iPod, what are they going to offer that compares?
Dells can run OSX, many are doing it right now. In fact, I'm running OSX on my HP machine. Yes, it's not 100% legit according to the EULA, but neither is the version of windows that most people use.
BS! no stupid p4 is faster than a g5. they're obviously stripping something down on it for it to boot that fast.
Incorrect. P4's have continually been released in faster revisions while the G5's have been stuck at nearly the same clock speed for quite a while.
The performance of newer P4's easily exceeds that of the G5's.
eah, great, that's a perfect plan if you intend to life the 20~25 years lifespan of a cave man.
People often seem to misunderstand the meaning of average lifespan. Back then, you didn't see healthy 25 year olds dropping dead. People were capable of living long back then just like they live long now. The difference is that many babies died at birth, and many died as little kids. So you have to average out the 60 year old cavemen with the ones that died at birth.
Sugar is sugar, our bodies process the sugar from apples the same as the sugar from coke and pepsi,
This is dead wrong. Sugar is not just sugar. The body definitely does not process the sugar from apples the same as the sugar from coke or pepsi.
There are different kinds of sugars, which are chemically different. You have glucose, sucrose, dextrose, etc. They're not the same, and the body handles them differently. The glycemic index is different.
PC crusaders won't let a little facts get in the way of their blindly emotional outpourings.
Even if a study proved beyond a shadow of a doubt something which is not "PC", you'd have people disagreeing with it simply out of emotion.
It's doubtful that this study proves anything, but it won't stop people from making knee-jerk reactions to it.
Somehow your post managed to negate any point you were trying to make.
When your "technical specs" are filled with marketing buzzwords, you KNOW you are in trouble
No way. their synergistic units orchestrate dynamic e-services, as well as expedite enterprise relationships and grow e-business solutions.
To think that you can't embrace magnetic action-items or empower vertical applications shows you lack of understand of the Cell processor.
As a great philosopher/gangsta rapper once said:
"e-enable interactive e-tailer vortals,
productize 24/7 portals,
envisioneer distributed niches
word to my bitches"
Well, his FTL thing just looks like an oversimplified variation of Alcubierre's warp drive. The latter might actually work, if we had a supply of negative mass of galactic order of magnitude.
And my car might actually be able to travel back in time, if I had a flux capacitor to put in it.
That site has been torn apart numerous times for it's nonsense. Please don't even link to it in a technical discussion if you want to maintain any kind of credibility.
Browsing around on his site will also give you lots of "info" on aliens and other garbage.
Which is why when I'm in a confrontation I throw a haymaker (low probability all-out swing) at their head.
In the event it misses, I'll claim that it was just to intimidate and there's no harm done.
In the event that it hits, they'll be knocked out and they won't remember me from the easter bunny.
In all actuality, it's mostly a dream that there are cops around all the time to protect little geeks who talk trash. Usually you can get away with it, or the cop will have better things to do with his time. I've never been arrested for beating another man up.
You are well deserving of the title of "ass" which I saw someone call you.
It annoys people when there is a person around who thinks that they are so important that their phone must be on at all times to annoy others. Maybe you should consider some places sacred. It's stressful to be around others who think they're "on call" (usually for their social life) all the time.
If we're in a movie and your phone is making noise and you see nothing wrong with that, I'm going to get you kicked out of the theater. Or, if you annoy me enough, I'll kick your ass in the parking lot. It wouldn't be the first time I've had to do that.