I followed the case and read every article on it I saw on ESPN as they popped up. It came down to a 2-1 vote by the judges, with several experts and analysts calling the affair a travesty.
I asked people to clarify, and then thanked someone for adding a piece of information I hadn't seen before, that apparently the key issue was an isotope test that showed a foreign testosterone that isn't naturally generated in the human body.
That would suggest he is guilty. Why would I thank someone for that information if I didn't want to be enlightened?
You're making a baseless personal attack. Don't be like that.
I like sarcasm. Using sarcasm does not mean someone's feelings were hurt. However, if you insist on infering something from it, know that I tend to use sarcasm more often when I'm being dismissive towards a comment I feel was stupid.
You still have a major logical fallacy.
Just because someone else cheated and wasn't caught doesn't suggest Armstrong is guilty.
But since you want me to take an asinine statement seriously, let's digest it a little longer.
Jones wasn't tested nearly as much, nor were tests as stringent or accurate as they are today. And if you believe athletes of that time, they said it was easy to evade tests because you usually knew exactly when they were going to happen.
Armstrong is routintely surprised. And he isn't taking simple piss tests. They're taking hair.
It is very hard to pass a hair test if you're a cheater.
Every single clean test is further evidence of his evidence. There is a LITANY of evidence that he is clean, and no evidence that he is guilty.
So yes, please try to argue that we shouldn't assume he is innocent.
Except the OP is trying to claim that Armstrong is definitively guilty. There is no proof that he is guilty. The best argument you're making is that he isn't necessarily definitively innocent.
Microsoft loses money on the hardware sales. If you're hacking your XBox and pirating games (last time I checked their wasn't a homebrew scene for the 360, and the only reason to hack is to pirate games), then Microsoft lost money on the hardware, and can't make it up with game sales.
Why should Microsoft then cater to you and help you out?
I hacked my original XBox because I could, and because I wanted to try out XBMC. I also finally jailbroke my iPhone. I have no qualms paying for apps, but I wanted some functionality that Apple is reticent to every provide (customzing the springboard, customizing alert tones, running Google Voice, running NES emulators).
Wow, we're now taking articles from 2008 and putting them on the front page of Slashdot. We're already discovered there is nothing to see here. So please allow me an OT question here, but are there any really good Linux bloggers out there?
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is just one of the many writers I really don't like and so I started thinking. Are there any Linux bloggers out there I do like? I'm at a loss.
Matt Asay is also incredibly popular, but his blog is supposedly dedicated to open source. Yet he spends about 30-40% of his time praising Apple and IBM for closed-source proprietary products, and another 30-40% bashing Microsoft for anything and everything. Then he spends a very small amount of time trying to advocate or report on actual FOSS products. A good chunk of that time is promoting his company, Alfresco.
I'd love to find a good Linux/FOSS blog worth reading.
Again, except that his levels were only out of bounds for one single day. He decided to cheat on one day, and one day alone, in the middle of the race when he knew he was already being tested.
And it just so happens that is the day he crashed.
I didn't say he was definitely innocent. I said I admit I'm biased because of the Lance Armstrong story. However the details that I've read don't add up.
Perhaps you can enlighten me on the details I'm apparently missing out on.
The official decision was to strip him of his title. I just don't understand why. Perhaps someone can clarify. He had daily tests. One day he is clean. The next day he crashed, had a surge of adrenaline and made up tons of ground after the crash. His testosterone was exceptionally high the day of the crash. It was normal again the next day. No drugs were found in his system.
So his crime was having exceptionally high testosterone for one day after a natural massive adrenaline surge.
I admit I'm biased in not trusting Tour de France officials after they repeatedly let in tons of known cheaters who have failed all kinds of doping tests (so long as they are European) and then go on crusades to try and discredit Lance Armstrong. So when they went after Floyd Landis with what appears to be very little proof, I tend to assume this is part of their crusade.
This isn't about development, but rather about revenue.
AT&T, Verizon, etc. all used to make all the money by selling directly to the customers.
AT&T decided to pay Apple for the right to hand their revenue stream over to Apple. It was an all-time brilliant move by AT&T that screwed the industry.
Apple dictates to the music industry how they will operate now that they are an industry leader with iTunes. Apple is now going to be selling music, movies, books and software through iTunes. But ultimately the company that should be the most concerned is Amazon.
The wii is a very small system. What I find impressive is when he takes much larger systems that run pretty hot and find ways to rebuild them into much smaller form factors.
A standard notebook shouldn't be compared to the iPad. But a hybrid notebook where you can turn the screen around, lay it flat, and turn it into a tablet is another story.
Asus has at least two models. The one I looked at recently has a 10" screen (better than the iPad) comes with Windows (but you can install Linux if you like), has a webcam, 160 GB of storage (as opposed to 16 GB), faster processor, support for peripherals, and can do more overall.
It is effectively a notebook and a tablet, for less money and available today.
Apple and HP both use the same hard drive vendors. Apple often makes better laptop cases, but it isn't like Apple's Western Digital HDDs are better than HP's Western Digital HDDs.
I keep hearing how the iPad will have superior construction. My iPhone fell out of my case, less than 3 feet from the ground. I've got a bad scratch on the screen and an actual deep gouge on the back of the case. Given that the iPad looks to have the same type of case, I wouldn't say the case is exactly superior construction.
Most people here seem to insist you need a new OS and new UI for the tablet, but I expect most users will want to take their Windows apps with them in the tablet mode.
Windows 7 added multi-touch gestures for precisely this reason.
Yes, extensions work with the go-oo version. Again, many Linux distros are already using the go-oo version. You may be running it today without realizing it.
Asus makes a convertible/hybrid notebook/tablet today for $450. It is cheaper than the Kindle, has a larger screen than the iPad, a faster processor, 10 times the storage, and far more functionality.
It also boasts a 10 hour battery, not to mention a webcam.
The iPad can't recognize hand gestures without a camera.
The iPhone at $99 has a camera. The iPad at $499 (and up!) does not. Penny cell phones are coming with cameras built in. Apple did certainly miss the boat there.
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Really?
I followed the case and read every article on it I saw on ESPN as they popped up. It came down to a 2-1 vote by the judges, with several experts and analysts calling the affair a travesty.
I asked people to clarify, and then thanked someone for adding a piece of information I hadn't seen before, that apparently the key issue was an isotope test that showed a foreign testosterone that isn't naturally generated in the human body.
That would suggest he is guilty. Why would I thank someone for that information if I didn't want to be enlightened?
You're making a baseless personal attack. Don't be like that.
I like sarcasm. Using sarcasm does not mean someone's feelings were hurt. However, if you insist on infering something from it, know that I tend to use sarcasm more often when I'm being dismissive towards a comment I feel was stupid.
You still have a major logical fallacy.
Just because someone else cheated and wasn't caught doesn't suggest Armstrong is guilty.
But since you want me to take an asinine statement seriously, let's digest it a little longer.
Jones wasn't tested nearly as much, nor were tests as stringent or accurate as they are today. And if you believe athletes of that time, they said it was easy to evade tests because you usually knew exactly when they were going to happen.
Armstrong is routintely surprised. And he isn't taking simple piss tests. They're taking hair.
It is very hard to pass a hair test if you're a cheater.
Every single clean test is further evidence of his evidence. There is a LITANY of evidence that he is clean, and no evidence that he is guilty.
So yes, please try to argue that we shouldn't assume he is innocent.
You ascii a stupid question, you get a stupid ansi. ::ducks::
Except the OP is trying to claim that Armstrong is definitively guilty. There is no proof that he is guilty. The best argument you're making is that he isn't necessarily definitively innocent.
That does not prove definitive guilt.
Microsoft loses money on the hardware sales. If you're hacking your XBox and pirating games (last time I checked their wasn't a homebrew scene for the 360, and the only reason to hack is to pirate games), then Microsoft lost money on the hardware, and can't make it up with game sales.
Why should Microsoft then cater to you and help you out?
I hacked my original XBox because I could, and because I wanted to try out XBMC. I also finally jailbroke my iPhone. I have no qualms paying for apps, but I wanted some functionality that Apple is reticent to every provide (customzing the springboard, customizing alert tones, running Google Voice, running NES emulators).
I have never once in my life watched OLN.
You evade my questions and points.
I haven't backed out of a statement. I qualified it, and I stand by it.
I don't know if the statement is entirely true. I'm wary of absolute statements I can't verify. I believe it is true as far as I can tell.
You're trying to lecture me on critical thinking while making baseless asumptions on my agenda, and failing to comprehend basic semantics.
How about you answer my question? If you're so upset at my claim, then can you name another athlete who is tested more frequently?
That means that everyone else who has ever tested clean is guilty?
I'm sorry, but that is a massive logical fallacy.
Note I said perhaps.
Name another athlete who gets tested nearly as often as him.
Michael Phelps comes to mind, who volunteers for constant testing all the time. But I can't think of many.
Wow, we're now taking articles from 2008 and putting them on the front page of Slashdot. We're already discovered there is nothing to see here. So please allow me an OT question here, but are there any really good Linux bloggers out there?
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is just one of the many writers I really don't like and so I started thinking. Are there any Linux bloggers out there I do like? I'm at a loss.
Matt Asay is also incredibly popular, but his blog is supposedly dedicated to open source. Yet he spends about 30-40% of his time praising Apple and IBM for closed-source proprietary products, and another 30-40% bashing Microsoft for anything and everything. Then he spends a very small amount of time trying to advocate or report on actual FOSS products. A good chunk of that time is promoting his company, Alfresco.
I'd love to find a good Linux/FOSS blog worth reading.
I do believe I've been using this already for a year. (I'm bad with time). But I know I've been using it for some time now.
The previous release wasn't considered an alpha?
What comes before alpha? My greek alphabet must be really rusty.
Again, except that his levels were only out of bounds for one single day. He decided to cheat on one day, and one day alone, in the middle of the race when he knew he was already being tested.
And it just so happens that is the day he crashed.
Explain to me how that makes sense.
Again, I find it odd that he would have this huge imbalance for one day, but not the next day.
I thought the effect of steroids lasted more than a single day.
It is a shame when people make informative posts as an AC, because many people filter ACs out.
Armstrong is perhaps the single most tested athlete on the planet, and he has never failed a single test.
Surely common sense would dictate that means he is guilty. Wait, how does that add up?
Nevermind, you're an AC troll.
I hadn't heard about the isotope test, but that makes more sense. Thanks.
I didn't say he was definitely innocent. I said I admit I'm biased because of the Lance Armstrong story. However the details that I've read don't add up.
Perhaps you can enlighten me on the details I'm apparently missing out on.
The official decision was to strip him of his title. I just don't understand why. Perhaps someone can clarify. He had daily tests. One day he is clean. The next day he crashed, had a surge of adrenaline and made up tons of ground after the crash. His testosterone was exceptionally high the day of the crash. It was normal again the next day. No drugs were found in his system.
So his crime was having exceptionally high testosterone for one day after a natural massive adrenaline surge.
I admit I'm biased in not trusting Tour de France officials after they repeatedly let in tons of known cheaters who have failed all kinds of doping tests (so long as they are European) and then go on crusades to try and discredit Lance Armstrong. So when they went after Floyd Landis with what appears to be very little proof, I tend to assume this is part of their crusade.
This isn't about development, but rather about revenue.
AT&T, Verizon, etc. all used to make all the money by selling directly to the customers.
AT&T decided to pay Apple for the right to hand their revenue stream over to Apple. It was an all-time brilliant move by AT&T that screwed the industry.
Apple dictates to the music industry how they will operate now that they are an industry leader with iTunes. Apple is now going to be selling music, movies, books and software through iTunes. But ultimately the company that should be the most concerned is Amazon.
The wii is a very small system. What I find impressive is when he takes much larger systems that run pretty hot and find ways to rebuild them into much smaller form factors.
A standard notebook shouldn't be compared to the iPad. But a hybrid notebook where you can turn the screen around, lay it flat, and turn it into a tablet is another story.
Asus has at least two models. The one I looked at recently has a 10" screen (better than the iPad) comes with Windows (but you can install Linux if you like), has a webcam, 160 GB of storage (as opposed to 16 GB), faster processor, support for peripherals, and can do more overall.
It is effectively a notebook and a tablet, for less money and available today.
Apple and HP both use the same hard drive vendors. Apple often makes better laptop cases, but it isn't like Apple's Western Digital HDDs are better than HP's Western Digital HDDs.
I keep hearing how the iPad will have superior construction. My iPhone fell out of my case, less than 3 feet from the ground. I've got a bad scratch on the screen and an actual deep gouge on the back of the case. Given that the iPad looks to have the same type of case, I wouldn't say the case is exactly superior construction.
I run Windows 7 at home on a dual-boot box. I don't mind it.
That being said, you can solve that problem with an openSUSE install DVD in a matter of minutes.
Most people here seem to insist you need a new OS and new UI for the tablet, but I expect most users will want to take their Windows apps with them in the tablet mode.
Windows 7 added multi-touch gestures for precisely this reason.
Yes, extensions work with the go-oo version. Again, many Linux distros are already using the go-oo version. You may be running it today without realizing it.
Asus makes a convertible/hybrid notebook/tablet today for $450. It is cheaper than the Kindle, has a larger screen than the iPad, a faster processor, 10 times the storage, and far more functionality.
It also boasts a 10 hour battery, not to mention a webcam.
The iPad can't recognize hand gestures without a camera.
The iPhone at $99 has a camera. The iPad at $499 (and up!) does not. Penny cell phones are coming with cameras built in. Apple did certainly miss the boat there.