Prometheus was cut down for no good reason by a clueless grad student. He had no justification in cutting down the tree, no proper permit, and it was opposed to standard practice. It was just some goofy kid playing Paul Bunyan. Bad science is bad.
Prometheus was older than Methuselah at the time, but Methuselah is now older than Prometheus was when it was killed. An even older tree was found in 2013.
The link was awesome for those of us who can read. I just sent it to my immediate family. Excellent illustrations, humorous writing style, and informative content. A+
I was just getting ready to say that AMD's drivers are terrible. But I'm primarily a Linux user. Nvidia binary blob drivers are on-par with (better than?) Windows drivers, while AMD binary and open drivers are both 3-10 times slower in games.
As for Windows, all I know is that AMD seems to release game-breaking updates from time to time. Remember when Diablo III came out? Blizzard was warning everyone not to update their drivers.
Finally, while I think OpenCL is the future, CUDA is the only game in town for deployed GPU compute at the moment. And coming from a hardware-oriented background, CUDA is actually a pleasure to work with.
Why do I care what browser my phone is running when selecting one for my desktop? I don't really understand the insistence on tying the two together.
From a syntactical perspective, "Firefox is only browser on android and desktop that will support adblock plugin soon," is ambiguous. You could be referring to the union "android and desktop" or to the intersection of "android and desktop". So I don't think the example above is out of line. (The inclusion of "both" removes ambiguity, per your second post.)
I have no problem naming things. I just go alphabetically down this list of fruit!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_culinary_fruits
Comments include deserts and alcohol products containing said fruit. Some editorializing as to the deliciousness is optional.
Yes? Opting out works when you are dealing with a real company. I have opted out of a number of advertisment newsletters (Newegg, Amazon, etc.) and I don't get any of them... As GP said, real companies care about their image and don't spam the shit out of you.
There's nothing keeping insurers from violating the the terms of their contracts except contract law, enforced by the courts.
Yeah, unless you die in the meantime. One example (off the top of my head): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Nataline_Sarkisyan Lawyering costs time and money. Now the insurer cannot drop you for "fraudulent" lack of disclosure. Quotes because the definition of fraud pre-AAA changed based on how expensive you were (they would gladly take your premiums until you got sick).
One of those downsides is that it is not economically efficient
This is a clear example of you either being a troll or totally un(mis)informed. Look at any socialized healthcare system. The complaints are not care/$ based.
Anyway, this conversation is clearly pointless, as you are just spouting garbage. Good day, sir.
You did bring up the Roberts opinion. And it was the majority opinion, which you seem to imply it was not... And the GOP appears to agree that arguements over bill origin are arcane and not winnable.
The fact of the matter is that the Constitution provides for revisions by the Senate to be sent back to the House, and that's exactly what happened. If your argument is that the bill was "invented" by the Senate, the onus is on you to prove that. Good luck.
As for cars, the Porsche is whatever amorphous dream-system you seem to want. I suspect you don't care about much other than winning your dogmatic battle. The current system of health insurance is broken for anyone whose employer does not offer coverage. I don't have time to write an essay about how individual health "insurance" has not been insurance so much as a gamble that the insurer won't find some way to kick you off the plan if you get expensive. Finally, I would not mind single payer (it is economically efficient, although has many downsides), but I'm perfectly happy with the conservative personal mandate.
I totally agree. I would LOVE to purchase AMD hardware, but I just can't justify the driver headaches. I have a Llano laptop and a 785G-based HTPC, both of which exhibit inferior performance whether I'm on open source or binary blob drivers. (For the HTPC I ended up buying a fanless low-mid nVidia card. WTB proper vsync...)
On the other hand, back when I still had XP on my gaming desktop, my 8800GT would actually give me better OpenGL performance on Linux than Windows.
Groups A and B agree that item 1 should be passed. Group B believes that item 2 should be passed. Group B will not vote for item 1 until item 2 is part of the deal.
There is no way to say in this circumstance that Group A is a faulty party, as both groups agree that item 1 should be passed and Group A would pass it immediately.
The only leverage Group B extracts from withholding item 1 is the "gun to your head" sort. Everyone agrees that item 1 should pass, but Group B will not vote for it because they want to use the chaos of not(item A) as a bargaining chip.
You're absolutely right. When you have a Honda and want a Porsche, first you trash the Honda, then you try to figure out how to get the Porsche.
Also John Roberts ruled that the mandate was effectively a tax and therefore fell within the powers of Congress to legislate. Where the bill "originated" is an arcane arguement with little clarity... Per the constitution, in the case of appropriations the "Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills,"
Right. Because there are no protections against price fixing;)
In reality, if you have enough insurance companies to choose from, there is a competative market and the companies have to respond to market pressure. Car insurance is a pretty good example of this in most states.
Sadly, market pressure usually involves everyone going straight to the bottom of the barrel, which is conducive to garbage service. (See Airlines)
That said, my experience with my car ensurance company has been quite equitable. My parents thought their payment on a total car was too low and argued it and got ~50% more money. (The original offer was actually equitable in retrospect, but the insurance company caved to have a happy customer.)
I assume you are venting upset over Obamacare, but the real problem is when mandated coverage meets limited provider options. Thankfully Obamacare forces the lionshare of your premiums going to services, so your worst case is paying for Timmy's unnecessary MRI. As it was, you were paying for all of Timmy's MRI because he was uninsured... At least now Timmy pays in a little bit and goes to the doctor before he's septic.
Maybe if you performed no optimizations you could do this. Modern compilers would almost never output identical binaries these days, because the compiler is secretly making your code not suck for the architecture.
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Prometheus was cut down for no good reason by a clueless grad student. He had no justification in cutting down the tree, no proper permit, and it was opposed to standard practice. It was just some goofy kid playing Paul Bunyan. Bad science is bad.
Prometheus was older than Methuselah at the time, but Methuselah is now older than Prometheus was when it was killed. An even older tree was found in 2013.
The link was awesome for those of us who can read. I just sent it to my immediate family. Excellent illustrations, humorous writing style, and informative content. A+
I was just getting ready to say that AMD's drivers are terrible.
But I'm primarily a Linux user. Nvidia binary blob drivers are on-par with (better than?) Windows drivers, while AMD binary and open drivers are both 3-10 times slower in games.
As for Windows, all I know is that AMD seems to release game-breaking updates from time to time. Remember when Diablo III came out? Blizzard was warning everyone not to update their drivers.
Finally, while I think OpenCL is the future, CUDA is the only game in town for deployed GPU compute at the moment. And coming from a hardware-oriented background, CUDA is actually a pleasure to work with.
Incidentally, I've never really been a big fan of Greenpeace either, but I try not to let the messenger colour the message.
Intended? :D
It loaded for me on Mint 14 and Firefox 24. I had to enable access to "akamaihd.com" and "stripe.com".
Why do I care what browser my phone is running when selecting one for my desktop? I don't really understand the insistence on tying the two together.
From a syntactical perspective, "Firefox is only browser on android and desktop that will support adblock plugin soon," is ambiguous. You could be referring to the union "android and desktop" or to the intersection of "android and desktop". So I don't think the example above is out of line. (The inclusion of "both" removes ambiguity, per your second post.)
Lastly, Chromium?
Many Macs are desktops...
I use a Linux desktop :) :)
It happens to be my personal computer
The first commercial WQXGA displays were released in 2010, so (barring time travel) I call shenanigans.
And I think you overestimate the dot pitches discernible by the human eye :)
4k is just a hype machine.
Why don't we just give the lunatic an armed guard?
Linus for God 2016
It helps if you do your math on a napkin and ignore source impedence.
I have no problem naming things. I just go alphabetically down this list of fruit! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_culinary_fruits Comments include deserts and alcohol products containing said fruit. Some editorializing as to the deliciousness is optional.
Yes? Opting out works when you are dealing with a real company. I have opted out of a number of advertisment newsletters (Newegg, Amazon, etc.) and I don't get any of them... As GP said, real companies care about their image and don't spam the shit out of you.
Really? I thought Apple was an Irish company. Or maybe it was Dutch? Or maybe Irish.
Are you trolling, or just selectively blind?
There's nothing keeping insurers from violating the the terms of their contracts except contract law, enforced by the courts.
Yeah, unless you die in the meantime. One example (off the top of my head):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Nataline_Sarkisyan
Lawyering costs time and money. Now the insurer cannot drop you for "fraudulent" lack of disclosure. Quotes because the definition of fraud pre-AAA changed based on how expensive you were (they would gladly take your premiums until you got sick).
One of those downsides is that it is not economically efficient
This is a clear example of you either being a troll or totally un(mis)informed. Look at any socialized healthcare system. The complaints are not care/$ based.
Anyway, this conversation is clearly pointless, as you are just spouting garbage. Good day, sir.
You did bring up the Roberts opinion. And it was the majority opinion, which you seem to imply it was not... And the GOP appears to agree that arguements over bill origin are arcane and not winnable.
The fact of the matter is that the Constitution provides for revisions by the Senate to be sent back to the House, and that's exactly what happened. If your argument is that the bill was "invented" by the Senate, the onus is on you to prove that. Good luck.
As for cars, the Porsche is whatever amorphous dream-system you seem to want. I suspect you don't care about much other than winning your dogmatic battle.
The current system of health insurance is broken for anyone whose employer does not offer coverage. I don't have time to write an essay about how individual health "insurance" has not been insurance so much as a gamble that the insurer won't find some way to kick you off the plan if you get expensive.
Finally, I would not mind single payer (it is economically efficient, although has many downsides), but I'm perfectly happy with the conservative personal mandate.
Sadly the voting habits of C do not support that theory. :)
AFAIK they only offer hyperthreading on i7 now.
I totally agree. I would LOVE to purchase AMD hardware, but I just can't justify the driver headaches. I have a Llano laptop and a 785G-based HTPC, both of which exhibit inferior performance whether I'm on open source or binary blob drivers. (For the HTPC I ended up buying a fanless low-mid nVidia card. WTB proper vsync...) On the other hand, back when I still had XP on my gaming desktop, my 8800GT would actually give me better OpenGL performance on Linux than Windows.
Groups A and B agree that item 1 should be passed. Group B believes that item 2 should be passed. Group B will not vote for item 1 until item 2 is part of the deal. There is no way to say in this circumstance that Group A is a faulty party, as both groups agree that item 1 should be passed and Group A would pass it immediately. The only leverage Group B extracts from withholding item 1 is the "gun to your head" sort. Everyone agrees that item 1 should pass, but Group B will not vote for it because they want to use the chaos of not(item A) as a bargaining chip.
You're absolutely right. When you have a Honda and want a Porsche, first you trash the Honda, then you try to figure out how to get the Porsche.
Also John Roberts ruled that the mandate was effectively a tax and therefore fell within the powers of Congress to legislate. Where the bill "originated" is an arcane arguement with little clarity... Per the constitution, in the case of appropriations the "Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills,"
Right. Because there are no protections against price fixing ;)
In reality, if you have enough insurance companies to choose from, there is a competative market and the companies have to respond to market pressure. Car insurance is a pretty good example of this in most states.
Sadly, market pressure usually involves everyone going straight to the bottom of the barrel, which is conducive to garbage service. (See Airlines)
That said, my experience with my car ensurance company has been quite equitable. My parents thought their payment on a total car was too low and argued it and got ~50% more money. (The original offer was actually equitable in retrospect, but the insurance company caved to have a happy customer.)
I assume you are venting upset over Obamacare, but the real problem is when mandated coverage meets limited provider options. Thankfully Obamacare forces the lionshare of your premiums going to services, so your worst case is paying for Timmy's unnecessary MRI.
As it was, you were paying for all of Timmy's MRI because he was uninsured... At least now Timmy pays in a little bit and goes to the doctor before he's septic.
Maybe if you performed no optimizations you could do this. Modern compilers would almost never output identical binaries these days, because the compiler is secretly making your code not suck for the architecture.
I would clap and dance. Java is such trash... L2pointer n00bs.
Long live Tastykake! http://www.tastykake.com/
Oh, that's not how it is pronounced?