If I only bought the songs I already knew I wanted, I would have missed out on a LOT of my favorite songs. There is a reason songs get packaged together in a CD or album -- to expose you to the musician's entire current corpus, not just something that someone somewhere was paid to promote.
Why do people trust alternative medicine?
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...because the same standards these authors applied to alternative medicine have never been applied to conventional medicine, especially in the realm of mental illness. APA Psychiatrists still use the untested, unproven theory of "chemical imbalance" to prescribe major drugs which CREATE a chemical imbalance, in the name of "controlling the patient" -- not even controlling the symptoms, but the patient him/herself -- doing immeasurable damage.
Even if the alternatives are not proven, they are proven to be harmless (with a few caveats).
See http://alt-therapies4bipolar.info/ for information gathered from patients on alternatives to drugs for patients with bipolar disorder.
Disclaimer: Yes, I wrote the website. All data is gathered from the ALT-therapies4bipolar Yahoogroup, and is anecdotal, because we can't get any doctors or scientists to take us seriously enough to study this. And I personally have been off psychiatric medication for over 5 years, with nobody threatening to commit me (and many local mental health agencies asking me to counsel with some of their patients).
LOL Commodore didn't LOSE its CEO, they FIRED him. He then went and bought Atari from Warner, and plowed THAT into the ground... nice moves, no consistency, and people stopped caring about Jack Tramiel.
Charter Cable offers cable modem without cable service... it costs about $10 more than it would WITH cable service, but the cheapest cable service available is $20, so it's a net savings.
AT&T is already the sole service provider for the iPhone in the US... are they talking about discontinuing the iPhone, or merely adding some Symbian phones from Nokia to give more options?
How is this different from what China is doing? Well, for one, it's not China that is doing this. It is a supposed Western-style democracy, and one where the degree of freedom from government intervention has been held as holy as it was in the Old West.
Back in the 90s, someone was producing all three Foundation movies simultaneously, to be released a month apart. Not a minute of film was ever seen. I'm not holding my breath this time either.
Also, these texts are each TWO books, for a total of SIX... it would make a more ambitious project, but a more manageable one per movie, to film them in this sense.
...which, I think moments later, might be why Apple doesn't want PsyStar in business -- allowing any hacker to run MacOS on virtually any equipment will expose the open holes...
Apple still is taking credit for a better operating system. The facts are, it is only better if you use their hardware and approved peripherals. Most of the problems with Windoze and Linux come from people using whatever they can find (read: afford, which eliminates Mac as a possibility). Sure, if you spend enough money you can expect your machine to work... um, unless it runs Vista...
[quote] IBM has a history of burying its best stuff (like OS/2 for instance). [/quote[
OS/2 was it's "best stuff"? That's a sad commentary about IBM.
OS/2 was an operating system for a processor that was replaced before the OS was done (the 286, which could switch INTO Extended Mode from REAL Mode, but not back out of it). When the 386 came along, they released it just to say they finished it... Sort of reminiscent of Microchannel... a solution without a problem, or at least they never developed the solution far enough for it to address a real problem...
Send $4M to http://getlaidtonight.com/ and within months we will send you 1 or 2 matches who will ask for even MORE money and still not sleep with you.
Small in what sense? India has 3 times the population of the US, and is the seventh largest country geographically.
India is also civilized enough to have currently incarcerated fewer than 250,000 people (compared to our 2,200,000). Obviously they have more people to work on solving scientific problems... unless our space program is an outgrowth of the prison industry.
I tend to think of it as the Green Team... with the elephantines as the Brown Team. Sort of symbolizes what these parties claim to be for in terms of our environment.
I quite like my Xandros installation on my 701 (4G Surf), and am trying to convince myself why I should bother to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix. However, the update feature at Asus tends to actually disable, rather than upgrade, the software.
OK. Only problem with this is, Google has an EXTREMELY long maturity cycle. Google started Orkut.com in January 2004... Fully functional and tested... and Google still calls it Beta. While it was developed in California, Google waited 3 years to go public in the US... The majority of users are in Brazil, followed by India. In fact, in August 2008, they moved all management of the system to Google Brazil.
So how long will it take Google to go beyond Beta with Chrome?
I have had three major problems with OOo, which keep me from using it in my work.
1..doc to.rtf conversions totally mess up the formatting and changes some of the fonts.
2. MailMerge, quite simply, sux, and if you're trying to generate documents for email, it can only generate an attachment in.odt format, which is unusable for most people I would be sending the emails to.
3. Grabbing text from a website is a royal pain. While MS Word does this just fine, OOo tries to cram it all on the first page, resulting in most of the text being shoved under the bottom margin. Yes, you can get it out, but it ain't easy or quick, and OOo *does* manage to see how much text there is and create sufficient pages to put it all there.
All three of these have been reported; two of them have resulted in some part being listed as a bug, and the third just gets me "you're using the wrong tool" comments.
GM announced today that they are going to include a CD of engine noises with their Volt, due out in 2010. Crank it up, and you can avoid hitting people.
My Eee PC 701 works fine... until I attempt to do updates. I don't have a problem with the implementation of Xandros that comes on the machine, but when I "update" it, suddenly all my programs that give me access to the Internet EXCEPT Update go away. So I'll just muddle along... fortunately, the original installation is in ROM, so you just have to poke the reset button with a paperclip and hit F9 while rebooting to get it back.
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If I only bought the songs I already knew I wanted, I would have missed out on a LOT of my favorite songs. There is a reason songs get packaged together in a CD or album -- to expose you to the musician's entire current corpus, not just something that someone somewhere was paid to promote.
...because the same standards these authors applied to alternative medicine have never been applied to conventional medicine, especially in the realm of mental illness. APA Psychiatrists still use the untested, unproven theory of "chemical imbalance" to prescribe major drugs which CREATE a chemical imbalance, in the name of "controlling the patient" -- not even controlling the symptoms, but the patient him/herself -- doing immeasurable damage. Even if the alternatives are not proven, they are proven to be harmless (with a few caveats). See http://alt-therapies4bipolar.info/ for information gathered from patients on alternatives to drugs for patients with bipolar disorder. Disclaimer: Yes, I wrote the website. All data is gathered from the ALT-therapies4bipolar Yahoogroup, and is anecdotal, because we can't get any doctors or scientists to take us seriously enough to study this. And I personally have been off psychiatric medication for over 5 years, with nobody threatening to commit me (and many local mental health agencies asking me to counsel with some of their patients).
We all know the Martians shot it down. They're just trying to cover the facts up.
LOL Commodore didn't LOSE its CEO, they FIRED him. He then went and bought Atari from Warner, and plowed THAT into the ground... nice moves, no consistency, and people stopped caring about Jack Tramiel.
Get a trackball. Then you only have to move your thumb and wiggle your fingers.
Charter Cable offers cable modem without cable service... it costs about $10 more than it would WITH cable service, but the cheapest cable service available is $20, so it's a net savings.
AT&T is already the sole service provider for the iPhone in the US... are they talking about discontinuing the iPhone, or merely adding some Symbian phones from Nokia to give more options?
OK, I want to register william.tel ... someone sharpen my arrows...
How is this different from what China is doing? Well, for one, it's not China that is doing this. It is a supposed Western-style democracy, and one where the degree of freedom from government intervention has been held as holy as it was in the Old West.
Back in the 90s, someone was producing all three Foundation movies simultaneously, to be released a month apart. Not a minute of film was ever seen. I'm not holding my breath this time either. Also, these texts are each TWO books, for a total of SIX... it would make a more ambitious project, but a more manageable one per movie, to film them in this sense.
If Google really wants to take on Microsoft, how come they aren't developing their own OS? It's not as if Windows were unassailable...
...which, I think moments later, might be why Apple doesn't want PsyStar in business -- allowing any hacker to run MacOS on virtually any equipment will expose the open holes...
Apple still is taking credit for a better operating system. The facts are, it is only better if you use their hardware and approved peripherals. Most of the problems with Windoze and Linux come from people using whatever they can find (read: afford, which eliminates Mac as a possibility). Sure, if you spend enough money you can expect your machine to work... um, unless it runs Vista...
[quote] IBM has a history of burying its best stuff (like OS/2 for instance). [/quote[ OS/2 was it's "best stuff"? That's a sad commentary about IBM. OS/2 was an operating system for a processor that was replaced before the OS was done (the 286, which could switch INTO Extended Mode from REAL Mode, but not back out of it). When the 386 came along, they released it just to say they finished it... Sort of reminiscent of Microchannel... a solution without a problem, or at least they never developed the solution far enough for it to address a real problem...
Send $4M to http://getlaidtonight.com/ and within months we will send you 1 or 2 matches who will ask for even MORE money and still not sleep with you.
Small in what sense? India has 3 times the population of the US, and is the seventh largest country geographically. India is also civilized enough to have currently incarcerated fewer than 250,000 people (compared to our 2,200,000). Obviously they have more people to work on solving scientific problems... unless our space program is an outgrowth of the prison industry.
I tend to think of it as the Green Team... with the elephantines as the Brown Team. Sort of symbolizes what these parties claim to be for in terms of our environment.
I quite like my Xandros installation on my 701 (4G Surf), and am trying to convince myself why I should bother to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix. However, the update feature at Asus tends to actually disable, rather than upgrade, the software.
Where I come from 25-50k is MIDDLE income. I'm on Disability and get about 9k. Talk to me when you find sales among the POOR are increasing.
Seriously is there anyone on /. that isn't a "me too, me too" Microsoft sucks, Linux is good person?
Um, no. Why, should there be?
OK. Only problem with this is, Google has an EXTREMELY long maturity cycle. Google started Orkut.com in January 2004... Fully functional and tested... and Google still calls it Beta. While it was developed in California, Google waited 3 years to go public in the US... The majority of users are in Brazil, followed by India. In fact, in August 2008, they moved all management of the system to Google Brazil. So how long will it take Google to go beyond Beta with Chrome?
I have had three major problems with OOo, which keep me from using it in my work. 1. .doc to .rtf conversions totally mess up the formatting and changes some of the fonts.
2. MailMerge, quite simply, sux, and if you're trying to generate documents for email, it can only generate an attachment in .odt format, which is unusable for most people I would be sending the emails to.
3. Grabbing text from a website is a royal pain. While MS Word does this just fine, OOo tries to cram it all on the first page, resulting in most of the text being shoved under the bottom margin. Yes, you can get it out, but it ain't easy or quick, and OOo *does* manage to see how much text there is and create sufficient pages to put it all there.
All three of these have been reported; two of them have resulted in some part being listed as a bug, and the third just gets me "you're using the wrong tool" comments.
Don't know if they could manage Wangs. Might have to settle for NBIs.
GM announced today that they are going to include a CD of engine noises with their Volt, due out in 2010. Crank it up, and you can avoid hitting people.
My Eee PC 701 works fine... until I attempt to do updates. I don't have a problem with the implementation of Xandros that comes on the machine, but when I "update" it, suddenly all my programs that give me access to the Internet EXCEPT Update go away. So I'll just muddle along... fortunately, the original installation is in ROM, so you just have to poke the reset button with a paperclip and hit F9 while rebooting to get it back.