As our great leaders have said to Russia time and time again in recent weeks, "The time for nations invading nations and deposing their leaders through force, are over."
(for countries not named U.S.A, anyway...we're not dangerous, we're just...helping. >_>)
Okay. I don't know much about SSDs, but one thing I've heard tossed around in the past was limited writes. Does this present a concern? Are there certain usages that may involve abnormal amount of write cycles such that you'd have to worry about the limited writes?
Also, perhaps my ear is untrained, but I think 256kbps is pretty darn good quality. Maybe my standards are just too low, but it's good enough for me. (Then, I've never had the luxury of a 7.1 sound system).
They should change the wording on those warning labels:
WARNING: This product contains materials, such as lead, which are known to cause cancer in the state of California. No worries though, hop on over to Nevada and you'll be alright.
Are you also one of those "Frankly, if you don't want your public actions recorded and stored somewhere on the internet, don't appear in public, because you have no expectation of privacy" people?
As some others have said, defining the standard by "x number of atoms" is useless unless it is easily reproducible. (Which is what the scientists in the article are trying to do, make it easily producible).
Yeah, Chinese companies are not meeting standards, and they are probably cutting corners. BIG shock.
As far as openly executing executives? I've heard of one case where that's happened, and - I don't have any sources handy - it was for something egregious, like intentionally shipping a product resulting in hundreds of deaths (I'll stop because admittedly, I don't remember the details. I wouldn't say the guy deserved to die, but that's just me). So what are you suggesting with the "kill themselves" in quotes? That the Chinese government is running some secret program whereby company execs who embarrass the name of the country are killed off?
Someone needs to drink less of the Western media kool-aid.
But well, China is clearly a world threat, given its aggressive tendencies...you know, Red China ramping up their military, how dare any country do such a thing. But we're in no position to point fingers here, because we've been the country going around, occupying other countries, for - as time goes by - reasons which become more and more farcical.
There's a much stronger argument that the US is the biggest threat to the world, but thankfully, this could change with a new administration. (+1 for democracy).
But you know what, China's economic and military growth IS a threat to the US's status as a superpower, something which we would very much like to hold on to, so you bet the US government and our "free, independent" media wants us all to think of China as a dangerous, evil "dragon" waiting to rise and destroy us all. That's propaganda.
They have fostered a hostile attitude toward the U.S. through years of propaganda, and this, too, the Americans have ignored in the interests of making money.
One thing I'd like to point out is, this is much less due to "years of propaganda", as you say, than the fact that the US has not exactly made friends throughout the world recently. It's viewed as an arrogant superpower trying to police the world.
On the flip side, US media is doing its best to foster a national sentiment that is very unfriendly towards China.
Then fifty years later three thousand out of two hundred million yanks die in the first attack on her home soil...well ever, and the biggest tantrum in the last fifty years is thrown... I think your post was very well written, and I agree with the larger points of it. But just so we are clear about truth in history, that particular statement is wrong.
Even discounting the Revolutionary War, you have the War of 1812 and Pearl Harbor.
Not that it takes much away from your point as a whole, mind.
Those comments ARE insensitive, hurtful, and ignorant, to me. I'm not advocating censorship, but *I* have a huge fucking problem with it. You can call it better or worse, but that's why I respond to them.
I don't get why you are getting so uppity defending these people, or why you are making such a stand.
Have I witnessed people sitting in the comfy confines of their rooms? No. Do you think otherwise, though? Well, I guess that's just my arrogance, huh.
Here's my thing: I know people from Sichuan, whose families are in Sichuan. Granted, it's a large province, and odds are they're OK. But when I see the kind of posts I see, I get mad, and I'll respond.
I really do not see why you feel the need to challenge my legitimacy to respond, tough guy.
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My point - hm, we seem to be having two parallel conversations, but anyway - is this:
It's not gallow's humor, at least not the way I read the intro to that article.
There are a lot of people here who actually know people who are living in the Sichuan region. And there are a lot of people who couldn't care less, which, is not their fault if they're not personally connected to this. BUT, they could try not to be an insensitive jerk about it, for the sake of those who are more affected than they are.
"Everyone dies"... is a rather empty justification for that being gallow's humor, by the way. It makes *everything* gallow's humor, since apparently were are all living stressful, life-threatening lives.
I'm not saying, "you should all react the way I do."
Nope, I'm just seeing a lot of jokers sitting in the comfy confines of their rooms making light of a situation. Normally, I probably wouldn't say anything, but, well, my friends have family there.
So, you know, it kind of irks to see others 'cope' in this manner. It's an emotional response, not a reasoned one. Read some of those comments, and you might see why I'd be pissed.
Gallows humor is a type of humor that arises from stressful, traumatic or life-threatening situations such as accidents, wartime events, natural disasters; often in circumstances where death is perceived as impending and unavoidable.
...ahhh, yes, for those posters, death is just impending! Man...sitting at their computers, they're just going to collapse dead any second now. No wonder they have little choice but to respond with 'gallows humor', as you say.
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As our great leaders have said to Russia time and time again in recent weeks, "The time for nations invading nations and deposing their leaders through force, are over."
(for countries not named U.S.A, anyway...we're not dangerous, we're just...helping. >_>)
Okay. I don't know much about SSDs, but one thing I've heard tossed around in the past was limited writes. Does this present a concern? Are there certain usages that may involve abnormal amount of write cycles such that you'd have to worry about the limited writes?
Nah, you don't want to know. It'd make a sailor blush.
Rest into peace?
Requiescat in pace. Learn your Latin.
If you buy an entire album from Amazon, it'll be at an album price. The 0.99 or 0.89 thing is only when buying individual songs.
For example: Maroon 5 Album
Price: $8.99. Songs: 18.
The price of the CD version is $9.99, actually.
Also, perhaps my ear is untrained, but I think 256kbps is pretty darn good quality. Maybe my standards are just too low, but it's good enough for me. (Then, I've never had the luxury of a 7.1 sound system).
Speaking of the Bush administration and violating wiretapping laws...
Parent is not flamebait. Sheesh.
They should change the wording on those warning labels:
WARNING: This product contains materials, such as lead, which are known to cause cancer in the state of California. No worries though, hop on over to Nevada and you'll be alright.
Features an apostrophe that's pretty freaking huge!
http://www.themaninblue.com/articles/handwritten_typographers/images/handwriting_eduardo_thumb.jpg
Are you also one of those "Frankly, if you don't want your public actions recorded and stored somewhere on the internet, don't appear in public, because you have no expectation of privacy" people?
As some others have said, defining the standard by "x number of atoms" is useless unless it is easily reproducible. (Which is what the scientists in the article are trying to do, make it easily producible).
"Microsoft recall" - search pulls 711k results.
Yeah, Chinese companies are not meeting standards, and they are probably cutting corners. BIG shock.
As far as openly executing executives? I've heard of one case where that's happened, and - I don't have any sources handy - it was for something egregious, like intentionally shipping a product resulting in hundreds of deaths (I'll stop because admittedly, I don't remember the details. I wouldn't say the guy deserved to die, but that's just me). So what are you suggesting with the "kill themselves" in quotes? That the Chinese government is running some secret program whereby company execs who embarrass the name of the country are killed off?
Someone needs to drink less of the Western media kool-aid.
But well, China is clearly a world threat, given its aggressive tendencies...you know, Red China ramping up their military, how dare any country do such a thing. But we're in no position to point fingers here, because we've been the country going around, occupying other countries, for - as time goes by - reasons which become more and more farcical.
There's a much stronger argument that the US is the biggest threat to the world, but thankfully, this could change with a new administration. (+1 for democracy).
But you know what, China's economic and military growth IS a threat to the US's status as a superpower, something which we would very much like to hold on to, so you bet the US government and our "free, independent" media wants us all to think of China as a dangerous, evil "dragon" waiting to rise and destroy us all. That's propaganda.
You mean tor?
One thing I'd like to point out is, this is much less due to "years of propaganda", as you say, than the fact that the US has not exactly made friends throughout the world recently. It's viewed as an arrogant superpower trying to police the world.
On the flip side, US media is doing its best to foster a national sentiment that is very unfriendly towards China.
But I do agree with the rest of your post.
Wow. How is this post troll?!
Imagine if they had a tech support TV show...
Cust#1: "Hi, this is Bill in Missouri. Can you extend Windows XP for m--" *cut*
TS: "And, moving on, onto our next caller. This is Joe from Montana. Hi, Joe! How are you doing?"
Cust#2: "Fine, thank you."
TS: "I'm fine. What can we do for you today, Joe?"
Cust#2: "Well, I'm having a little trouble setting the clock on my XP machine..."
TS: "Is that all? Just right-click the clock display and click 'Adjust Date/Time.'"
Cust#3: "Great! Thanks!"
TS: "You're welcome; is there anything else I can do for you today?..."
Me: "Well, now that you mention it, what do you think of extending Howard Stern's...copy of windows XP--" *cut*
TS: "...and, onto our next call. Sorry you had to hear that. I don't know what's up with the callers today."
*whoooooooooooooooooooooooooosh.*
Crumbs.
Even discounting the Revolutionary War, you have the War of 1812 and Pearl Harbor.
Not that it takes much away from your point as a whole, mind.
Those comments ARE insensitive, hurtful, and ignorant, to me. I'm not advocating censorship, but *I* have a huge fucking problem with it. You can call it better or worse, but that's why I respond to them.
I don't get why you are getting so uppity defending these people, or why you are making such a stand.
Have I witnessed people sitting in the comfy confines of their rooms? No. Do you think otherwise, though? Well, I guess that's just my arrogance, huh.
Here's my thing: I know people from Sichuan, whose families are in Sichuan. Granted, it's a large province, and odds are they're OK. But when I see the kind of posts I see, I get mad, and I'll respond.
I really do not see why you feel the need to challenge my legitimacy to respond, tough guy.
My point - hm, we seem to be having two parallel conversations, but anyway - is this:
... is a rather empty justification for that being gallow's humor, by the way. It makes *everything* gallow's humor, since apparently were are all living stressful, life-threatening lives.
It's not gallow's humor, at least not the way I read the intro to that article.
There are a lot of people here who actually know people who are living in the Sichuan region. And there are a lot of people who couldn't care less, which, is not their fault if they're not personally connected to this. BUT, they could try not to be an insensitive jerk about it, for the sake of those who are more affected than they are.
"Everyone dies"
I'm not saying, "you should all react the way I do."
Nope, I'm just seeing a lot of jokers sitting in the comfy confines of their rooms making light of a situation. Normally, I probably wouldn't say anything, but, well, my friends have family there.
So, you know, it kind of irks to see others 'cope' in this manner. It's an emotional response, not a reasoned one. Read some of those comments, and you might see why I'd be pissed.
You clearly don't understand China.
People don't LOVE the government there - at least, not most of them.
One of the worst offenders of the human race? Puh-lease.
Just like any human being would, most of them are more concerned with scrapping a manageable living out of very poor conditions.
Thank you! Agreed in full.