Even if there isn't a response right now, it doesn't mean there won't be as right from the beginning there were a lot of unanswered question regarding evolution. Many of them have been answered, and many questions will yet be answered. In reality, evolution is a theory in name only. Not one piece of evidence has come up to refute evolution. Evolution is an important principle of biological science.
On the other hand, all the evidence has refuted creationism. Simply removing the word "god" and then trying to remove evidence like continental drift, fossils etc, is not science. In fact, by that very criteria of eliminating evidence (in the instance given) makes ID anti-scientific. Science is a process of getting data, analyzing it, testing it and then coming to a conclusion. The creationists are not about science, rather they are about eliminating information that conflicts with their beliefs.
Actually, unlikely you will see a bubble in this arena. Truth is that just before Y2K (remember that), schools were busy treddling out all kinds of techs to "meet the demand". This did two things: (1) Made a lot of tech diplomas not worth the paper they were printed on by creating a glut of tech people, and (2) made a lot of people flee from joining the micro-ghetto after seeing what happened to the people who entered the work force just after Y2K. It is one of the reasons I see there being a shortage of people in the field in about 10 years.
Lisa is stoned to death when Badr steals her burka while playing in a park and Omar is pummeled when he is found with contraband spare ribs and a copy of Maxim
Amd has thrashed intel for a few years now in terms of cpu performance so this is no surprise. What they really need to do is become more marking savvy. Most people don't know amd even makes chips. That includes many computer literate people as well, whereas even the luddites know who intel is
These types of frivolous patents just may bring down international patent law. Such patents should be ignored, and will be ignored by many countries when they need to do something with them.
Buddy, your whole problem is that you are trying to reason with the irrational. People who cling to illogical argument do not benefit from logic. Just be thankful that they have to keep reinventing things like creationism and can't simply resort to witch trials and torture like they did in the "good old days". Oh, wait, in some places they still do that don't they.
This has already turned into a religion versus science debate, but in reality I think this has more to do with other countries "catching" up the the US rather than the US falling behind. A lot of research still goes on in the US, but a lot of countries not formerly known (at least not for a long time) are starting to make some noise with their innovation and tech. Get used to it. This is apt to continue. As other countries increase their standards of living and research levels, they are going to make discoveries and advance. The US does not have a monopoly on science and development. Has religion held up some research, almost certainly in some areas like biology, but other research goes on and does produce results.
The US may not so much lose it's No. 1 status in science so much as have to share it. And that is actually a good thing.
This is actually a reply to both people who replied to this, and that is while I would like to believe I would keep my kid pure, if it left him/her really disadvantaged, I could see having no choice. How much worse could it be than now? Very. If it is one thing scientific progress has shown us is that it does not make us nicer, less grasping, or more content.
Put up your hand if you believe companies would not take advantage of "super" workers, or if it they would not prefer them?
The time is coming when people will alter themselves or their kids. They are actually working on super drugs to increase brain power, muscle power etc. Like it or not, this is coming. Genetic research is coming along too. So... in 20 years or so, if it will give your kid a leg up (or allow him/her) to keep up, will you do it? If not, what happens? A two-tier society. The enhanced and unenhanced. Who will companies prefer to hire? Someone with enhancements to help them work longer and be more effective - or a standard human. Who will be able to afford the treatments? What will happen to those that can't? What will become of those that choose not to do it?
The axiom of science is that if it can be done, it will be done. This declaration by IBM may be early, but in time it may be required.
The formats can and may exist side by side like they do now. Really, The laser in a DVD will read whatever it's firmware tells it to read. Therefore, it is a matter of whether manufacturer's will pay the various license fees. The consumers have shown they prefer multi-format players so they don't have to dick with compatibilities.
I liken it to athletes racing. Usually it all comes down to tenths or less of a second. Same with these cards. Buy what looks best to you because the performance differences are negligible. Very much like CPUs hitting the wall vis a vis performance. Now their only answer is to go dual core, quad core etc. Until someone makes a super breakthrough, this is the way it will be for quite a while I would think.
If you're like most people and running a single 1280 by 1024 monitor resolution tops, the best thing about these cards is they make the top end of the previous generation cheaper. I can only see one of these cards (nvidia or ati) being a must buy if you are running 1600 by 1200 or multiple monitors. Especially as many games are frame locked at certain rates. My 9800XT still plays any game I throw at it just fine regardless of what the hardware sites say. Between the two manufacturers, it's a matter of preference regarding the image quality. Me, I think ati is a little sharper, but that is subjective.
When politicians do this, it is called a trial balloon. My guess is they want to see if the public's position vis a vis this crappy idea has changed.
I think not. The whole point of buying a dvd is to keep it and rewatch it. For rental places, maybe there is a value, but at six British pounds a disc, that's more expensive than renting or video on demand by twice.
Actually I'm kind of the same, though I am not cranky. I tend to do what I have to do when required and then move on. I believe all cycles good and bad end. You just need a little patience and perspective.
Mind you, I didn't grow up expecting instant gratification which I think is a big part of a lot of people's unhappiness.
I think you are talking about something out of the ordinary as opposed to most people who haven't had the suffering you describe. I am not a counsellor or a shrink, but that you had to deal with prescription drugs and professional help to me indicates something different. Brain chemistry or extreme trauma can cause profound suffering which you seem to describe.
That said, no one is happy all the time except an idiot. Rather, it is the attitude that unhappiness is transitory and will pass. Have faith. It does work that way. I am not religious at all, and I am no less happy than someone who professes such.
You have to accept these things and ride them, We get in trouble when we try to control the things out of our control and get further into trouble when we fail to control the things we can. Religion helps some with that.
But if the problem is medical, that is a different animal. And, just to note, there is no good attitude or bad attitude, either the attitude serves you or it does not.
Sleep deprivation is not attitude. When you sleep your body re-adjusts its seratonin levels. Get lousy sleep - you feel lousy. Exhausted - go to sleep, your body has work to do.
Really, happiness is subjective, but it like so many emotions is largely controlled by your attitude. If you're a cynic and prone to expect the worst, you can expect that to colour your outlook. If you think about it (at least here in the western world), most of our problems are transitory in nature. Things you sweated bricks about 10 years ago have little impact to how you feel today. Things that seemed insurmountable change with perspective and distance. It's the in-the-moment gut wrenching that take a lot of us down. If you can keep things in perspective, even your worst problems will not drag you down to the mud. If you can stand your ground and hold your attitude, your sense of self respect will keep you above water.
Simple perhaps, but the saying goes that you are only as happy as you decide to be
While we may all feel that the RIAA has all all the trappings and actions of the Soprano crew, somehow I don't think that particular claim is going to wash with the the courts. On the other hand, it is out of the books of law enforcement in terms of hitting the accused with a large number of charges, most of which get thrown out, but some stick. Enough to make it worthwhile to go to court. This is a civil case, but the idea is the same.
The interesting thing to me is that is a sign of the RIAA cases startng to get out-of-hand from the RIAA's point of view. People are counter-suing, and now with omnibus claims. Rather than backing down against their legal might, some people are starting to fight back and they run the case of making sympathetic figures of those they are going after and making themselves out to be bad guys to the general public. Up to now, all the publicity in the mainstream has gone for the most part, the RIAA's way. This type of thing if it continues can harden the general public against the RIAA making their present tactics counter-productive. And as a by-product, can make it harder to find sympathetic jurors and judges to their cause.
The big fear I would have if I were the RIAA, is that sooner or later unless they change tactics, they could face class action lawsuits.
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Even if there isn't a response right now, it doesn't mean there won't be as right from the beginning there were a lot of unanswered question regarding evolution. Many of them have been answered, and many questions will yet be answered. In reality, evolution is a theory in name only. Not one piece of evidence has come up to refute evolution. Evolution is an important principle of biological science.
On the other hand, all the evidence has refuted creationism. Simply removing the word "god" and then trying to remove evidence like continental drift, fossils etc, is not science. In fact, by that very criteria of eliminating evidence (in the instance given) makes ID anti-scientific. Science is a process of getting data, analyzing it, testing it and then coming to a conclusion. The creationists are not about science, rather they are about eliminating information that conflicts with their beliefs.
Actually, unlikely you will see a bubble in this arena. Truth is that just before Y2K (remember that), schools were busy treddling out all kinds of techs to "meet the demand". This did two things: (1) Made a lot of tech diplomas not worth the paper they were printed on by creating a glut of tech people, and (2) made a lot of people flee from joining the micro-ghetto after seeing what happened to the people who entered the work force just after Y2K. It is one of the reasons I see there being a shortage of people in the field in about 10 years.
It's really because we don't want to screw up the TV schedules and miss our favourite shows.
Lisa is stoned to death when Badr steals her burka while playing in a park and Omar is pummeled when he is found with contraband spare ribs and a copy of Maxim
I agree, vis a vis nvidia chipsets at any rate, with the balkiness of their usb controllers being a prime example
Amd has thrashed intel for a few years now in terms of cpu performance so this is no surprise. What they really need to do is become more marking savvy. Most people don't know amd even makes chips. That includes many computer literate people as well, whereas even the luddites know who intel is
Let me see if I have it right:
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1. Create a product
2. Sell product and build market
3. Ruthlessly through any means stomp on competitors trying to enter market
4. Profit!
Really, this goes back to robber baron days... or are they still with us
These types of frivolous patents just may bring down international patent law. Such patents should be ignored, and will be ignored by many countries when they need to do something with them.
Buddy, your whole problem is that you are trying to reason with the irrational. People who cling to illogical argument do not benefit from logic. Just be thankful that they have to keep reinventing things like creationism and can't simply resort to witch trials and torture like they did in the "good old days". Oh, wait, in some places they still do that don't they.
This has already turned into a religion versus science debate, but in reality I think this has more to do with other countries "catching" up the the US rather than the US falling behind. A lot of research still goes on in the US, but a lot of countries not formerly known (at least not for a long time) are starting to make some noise with their innovation and tech. Get used to it. This is apt to continue. As other countries increase their standards of living and research levels, they are going to make discoveries and advance. The US does not have a monopoly on science and development. Has religion held up some research, almost certainly in some areas like biology, but other research goes on and does produce results.
The US may not so much lose it's No. 1 status in science so much as have to share it. And that is actually a good thing.
Thank you. I've had my share of scars, but scars heal if you let them.
Blessed are the cheesemakers!
Golly Gosh you're right. Good thing nobody has used either in warfare.
This is actually a reply to both people who replied to this, and that is while I would like to believe I would keep my kid pure, if it left him/her really disadvantaged, I could see having no choice. How much worse could it be than now? Very. If it is one thing scientific progress has shown us is that it does not make us nicer, less grasping, or more content.
Put up your hand if you believe companies would not take advantage of "super" workers, or if it they would not prefer them?
The time is coming when people will alter themselves or their kids. They are actually working on super drugs to increase brain power, muscle power etc. Like it or not, this is coming. Genetic research is coming along too. So... in 20 years or so, if it will give your kid a leg up (or allow him/her) to keep up, will you do it? If not, what happens? A two-tier society. The enhanced and unenhanced. Who will companies prefer to hire? Someone with enhancements to help them work longer and be more effective - or a standard human. Who will be able to afford the treatments? What will happen to those that can't? What will become of those that choose not to do it?
The axiom of science is that if it can be done, it will be done. This declaration by IBM may be early, but in time it may be required.
The formats can and may exist side by side like they do now. Really, The laser in a DVD will read whatever it's firmware tells it to read. Therefore, it is a matter of whether manufacturer's will pay the various license fees. The consumers have shown they prefer multi-format players so they don't have to dick with compatibilities.
I liken it to athletes racing. Usually it all comes down to tenths or less of a second. Same with these cards. Buy what looks best to you because the performance differences are negligible. Very much like CPUs hitting the wall vis a vis performance. Now their only answer is to go dual core, quad core etc. Until someone makes a super breakthrough, this is the way it will be for quite a while I would think.
If you're like most people and running a single 1280 by 1024 monitor resolution tops, the best thing about these cards is they make the top end of the previous generation cheaper. I can only see one of these cards (nvidia or ati) being a must buy if you are running 1600 by 1200 or multiple monitors. Especially as many games are frame locked at certain rates. My 9800XT still plays any game I throw at it just fine regardless of what the hardware sites say. Between the two manufacturers, it's a matter of preference regarding the image quality. Me, I think ati is a little sharper, but that is subjective.
When politicians do this, it is called a trial balloon. My guess is they want to see if the public's position vis a vis this crappy idea has changed.
I think not. The whole point of buying a dvd is to keep it and rewatch it. For rental places, maybe there is a value, but at six British pounds a disc, that's more expensive than renting or video on demand by twice.
Colour this duck dead.
Actually I'm kind of the same, though I am not cranky. I tend to do what I have to do when required and then move on. I believe all cycles good and bad end. You just need a little patience and perspective. Mind you, I didn't grow up expecting instant gratification which I think is a big part of a lot of people's unhappiness.
The labels are greedy bastards. How? What? When did this happen?
Geez.
As for how long they can go on like this, it took a hail of bullets to stop Bonnie and Clyde.
I think you are talking about something out of the ordinary as opposed to most people who haven't had the suffering you describe. I am not a counsellor or a shrink, but that you had to deal with prescription drugs and professional help to me indicates something different. Brain chemistry or extreme trauma can cause profound suffering which you seem to describe.
That said, no one is happy all the time except an idiot. Rather, it is the attitude that unhappiness is transitory and will pass. Have faith. It does work that way. I am not religious at all, and I am no less happy than someone who professes such.
You have to accept these things and ride them, We get in trouble when we try to control the things out of our control and get further into trouble when we fail to control the things we can. Religion helps some with that.
But if the problem is medical, that is a different animal. And, just to note, there is no good attitude or bad attitude, either the attitude serves you or it does not.
Sleep deprivation is not attitude. When you sleep your body re-adjusts its seratonin levels. Get lousy sleep - you feel lousy. Exhausted - go to sleep, your body has work to do.
Really, happiness is subjective, but it like so many emotions is largely controlled by your attitude. If you're a cynic and prone to expect the worst, you can expect that to colour your outlook. If you think about it (at least here in the western world), most of our problems are transitory in nature. Things you sweated bricks about 10 years ago have little impact to how you feel today. Things that seemed insurmountable change with perspective and distance. It's the in-the-moment gut wrenching that take a lot of us down. If you can keep things in perspective, even your worst problems will not drag you down to the mud. If you can stand your ground and hold your attitude, your sense of self respect will keep you above water.
Simple perhaps, but the saying goes that you are only as happy as you decide to be
Emotions by their very nature are transitory.
Good luck I suppose is in order.
While we may all feel that the RIAA has all all the trappings and actions of the Soprano crew, somehow I don't think that particular claim is going to wash with the the courts. On the other hand, it is out of the books of law enforcement in terms of hitting the accused with a large number of charges, most of which get thrown out, but some stick. Enough to make it worthwhile to go to court. This is a civil case, but the idea is the same.
The interesting thing to me is that is a sign of the RIAA cases startng to get out-of-hand from the RIAA's point of view. People are counter-suing, and now with omnibus claims. Rather than backing down against their legal might, some people are starting to fight back and they run the case of making sympathetic figures of those they are going after and making themselves out to be bad guys to the general public. Up to now, all the publicity in the mainstream has gone for the most part, the RIAA's way. This type of thing if it continues can harden the general public against the RIAA making their present tactics counter-productive. And as a by-product, can make it harder to find sympathetic jurors and judges to their cause.
The big fear I would have if I were the RIAA, is that sooner or later unless they change tactics, they could face class action lawsuits.
This is a nice shot across the bow of the RIAA.
And this explains why Canukistan has such a higher crime rate than the Excited States.