So being a raver, a resident DJ @ a techno club and in the top 5 of grades in school, having never done drugs or even smoked a cigarette, what does that make me?
My group of friends and fellow DJs/promoters in Copenhagen stick much more to their education, earn more in general, are much more interested in the world, and all around nicer people than the general pop listener i would meet.
Each genre has their idiots, and i'm positive that it's much more widespread for trance or hardstyle folks.
You're correct, there is a large part of the anti-american / anti-western school of thought in the countries that are simply a result of not having asked for this external culture breaching a traditional society. But any rational and strong individual would be able to shrug it off and stick to the traditional values. These people don't, because their traditional values no longer really exist, seeing as their governments plainly accept the geopolitical reality today, and in many ways act against their populations. That is very often a positive thing seen from a western point of view, since quite a few dictators in the middle east are much more liberal (not democratic of course, there is a huge difference between these 2 positive elements, we tend to forget that as we have achieved one as a result of the other) than the general population, and actually strive to make a difference in terms of introducing human rights to their countries. Many terrorist attacks are within the middle eastern countries, or against muslim populations, simply because the war against the west is just one of the battles that the islamic fundamentalists are fighting against a modern way of thinking and living.
There is one crucial difference - Stalin etc did not go to war or commit atrocious acts in the name of religion or by utilizing scripture to legitimize their acts. Most of the terrorist leaders we're discussing here do, and in many ways organized religion has done this throughout history.
I'm a believer, i truly believe that is a higher purpose to this life, but i simply cannot accept that a single book or a single church has an understanding of this that i don't, and i will not accept that they influence policy or public thought by misrepresenting the core beliefs of those same books. But atheism, like religion, comes in many forms, and there are few militant atheists, just like the militant religious "warriors" are really in the minority. Just do not use the argument that atheists speak as one group, the world is relative.
I get the highest score in my class, albeit in Denmark but that should be comparable, this is high school and my average is very much above average - yet i spend at least 30 minutes each schoolday doing something else on the laptop that i also take notes on. This can be hugely beneficial to the class if used right, researching background material for the discussion in history classes has been a huge boost to the lessons more than a couple of times.
In all honesty the school should not punish for this, kids should learn how to properly balance these things, and the teachers should take these things into account when grading students.
Not if you close the sessions, public sessions usually do get influenced by lobby groups but closing the session and the discussions until the very final vote will prevent a large part of the lobbying activity.
More like moral nutjobs, it might be religiously based but it's more an archaic moral guideline for those politicians that might any rational argument inoperable. Religion is just an easy way to point a finger at some biblical references that mean some very good things to a lot of people, and twist them to their own means. Organized religion has unfortunately always been good at that.
An oligarchy that worked very well in old days, when leaders were respected and were seen as human beings that were above the average citizen, simply because they had a greater cause and a great knowledge. When everything became about the individual, politics became shortsighted and unable to set any clear reference points for the future.
Increased democratization leads to a more ineffective government, constitutionalism exists to remedy this problem and that is the reason why the rule of the majority will be restricted. The majority do not care about "petty details" like torture restrictions, as they can not relate to them in everyday life. Let's stop pretending that voters do not have a stake in this game, and rather face the reality that voters are quite fine as long as the promises are short-term gains.
This is the problem with politics, and as long as we keep believing that the public and the majority is right, we will keep seeing these things, and lobbyist groups will keep dominating.
See Zakaria, Tockqueville and other writers about democracy versus freedom and human rights for this.
And in terms of DRM, this is really the problem, it's a niche discussion with a major outreach, every single Windows user out there will at some point feel DRM restrictions, but seeing as they do not understand the problem they accept the status quo. If they did understand, Linux or at least another proprietary to Windows would have been the paradigm long ago.
You're exactly right, i hate the fact that demos are suddenly out of fashion, it used to be the best way to get a good preview of the game. These days i pirate every game that doesn't have a demo and check them out, and buy them if i want to keep playing after the first 20 minutes or so, did that with Storm of Zehir last week, CoD World at War the week before that - IMO it's the only way to do these things.
While that is of course true, do you really think that it's Microsofts problem that game developers are paranoid about useful tools? Of course it's a fault at Microsofts end that it doesn't unload correctly, but there is a much deeper and more interesting question as to why consumers have no control over their own computers.
'twas a joke it believe:)
Anyway, i'm extremely happy with my 4870 - but the drivers on my rig are absolutely terrible. There are some well documented and severe problems with AMD/dual screen/x64 combinations, and i found out about those after making the purchase. That means frequent crashes during games, random crashes when watching DVD and flickering screens.
Both sides have driver problems, let's not forget that. The main point here being that AMD actually have frequent updates - a better model than getting new Nvidia drivers, which is almost always done via any site but nvidia.com
I need all my music on my laptop, really good to be able to spontaneously make mixes, it's good as a backup for my desktop - and of course adding an external element to my DJ setup could prove to be a very bad idea. There are different needs for different situations:) I need at least 120GB of space for my music currently, i just bought a new laptop with a 250GB disk that should fit nicely.
And besides the "16GB is enough, so get an SSD with that" argument is terrible, as there already are solutions like this, and they obviously are not replacing regular laptops across the board. Lots of people use laptops as their primary computer:)
If you don't play games on a computer anymore, you have no one but yourself to blame for that to be honest.
Valve is doing a great job with Steam, there are great affordable graphics cards out, graphics are improving along with some simply awesome titles out + coming out. Many of those titles aren't PC exclusive, but that's a good thing, a good story and a fun game should be enjoyed by as many people as possible. Besides just in WoW there are 10 million players that would disagree with MSFT doing something wrong in terms of PC gaming.
Civilization is doing as good as ever, Heroes Of Might and Magic is right there in a huge new box with all the games for you to buy. And of course there's always the Total War games that combine the best of both worlds, with a high profile new edition coming out next year. So the turn based games definitely aren't dead.
PCI-E 2 can draw up to 150w from the slot itself i believe? Seeing as this card would probably be PCI-E 2 no matter what it wouldn't need the 75W connector.
In which case simply stopping support of the products/services from the company in question would be a much more efficient way of doing it. Everyone boycot Google and watch how their investors see things in 6 months, that's the real power of an individual in a capitalistic society.
Exactly the same here in Denmark, costs 0.2dkr to send a message, nothing to receive it. Also there are lots of free texting messages, i pay what would equal ~20USD for unlimited texting per month, and send about 1500 messages.
Data rates are about the same though unfortunately.
Well i played on one of their dual CD players at a gig a couple of months back, and it was absolutely terrible. It was unable to read a couple of CD's that i have had working on a good amount of other CD players and disc drives.
Besides that the buttons were terrible, weird criticism but having to almost take out a hammer to make the damn thing play isn't acceptable.
I have heard good things about their high-end audio gear though, that experience has just kind of ruined the brand for me.
No the government is not the courts. I'm not sure what it's called in english but most western countries have the power split between the courts, the senate/parlament/whatever-it-is-called and the government which carries out the decisions made by the senate. The courts are not to be affected by government decisions, and this is a very very important part of American politics, that everything is kept seperate. Even though the government usually has their members in the senate as well here in Denmark, it would be unthinkable for the courts to be affected by a ruling government.
It's a very important distinction to make, and you shouldn't forget Montesque's ideas that have helped so incredibly much in the making of the western world. I'm not saying that the muhammed cartoons should have been created, as much as i like public debate and radical moves, they were stupid, over the line and just a way to get some attention. However comparing them to a case against a well known torrent website(search engine, i know that it is that technically, but no court will care about that) is absurd, no laws were broken by JyllandsPosten, The Pirate Bay does however help break laws.
Now i'm off to go grab some TPB torrents, thankfully not blocked by other Danish ISP's yet.
That might apply to desktops but laptops don't have cooling systems even close to modern desktops.
Besides these chips will run a lot cooler no matter what, so for the overclockers it will have a lot of extra potential too.
This makes perfect sense, Vista will be out around this time, and with the new Windows Media Player with the MTV Urge service, which not only has prices & a selection rivalling ITMS but also a subscription feature.
Of course Napster, Musicmatch etc. already has this subscription opportunity, but having it integrated in WMP will probably get it a lot better distribution. Who knows, if we don't take care of all the DRM debate, people might just like it when they can pay 20$ to get as much as they want. Now if only they would lanch this in Europe:)
The problem is that today people are being raised by the video channels showing Jay-Z dancing around with 50 big breasted beautiful women, it gives some sick expectations.
Now i'm a 14 year old Jay-Z fan, but i would never expect any of my girlfriends to look anything like that, but i know some people in my class would.
In the end what really matters if you're statisfied with what you're doing, not how other people think you're doing.
I had email hosting with them for a while, their prices were quite a bit over average but it was very stable, fast, and easy to setup, so definately no problems there either. Got my own server so don't use that anymore but my 15 domains there work fine too.
Their support so fast have been completely statisfactory for me, short precise answers to my questions, no cut & paste replies ever.
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So being a raver, a resident DJ @ a techno club and in the top 5 of grades in school, having never done drugs or even smoked a cigarette, what does that make me? My group of friends and fellow DJs/promoters in Copenhagen stick much more to their education, earn more in general, are much more interested in the world, and all around nicer people than the general pop listener i would meet. Each genre has their idiots, and i'm positive that it's much more widespread for trance or hardstyle folks.
You're correct, there is a large part of the anti-american / anti-western school of thought in the countries that are simply a result of not having asked for this external culture breaching a traditional society. But any rational and strong individual would be able to shrug it off and stick to the traditional values. These people don't, because their traditional values no longer really exist, seeing as their governments plainly accept the geopolitical reality today, and in many ways act against their populations. That is very often a positive thing seen from a western point of view, since quite a few dictators in the middle east are much more liberal (not democratic of course, there is a huge difference between these 2 positive elements, we tend to forget that as we have achieved one as a result of the other) than the general population, and actually strive to make a difference in terms of introducing human rights to their countries. Many terrorist attacks are within the middle eastern countries, or against muslim populations, simply because the war against the west is just one of the battles that the islamic fundamentalists are fighting against a modern way of thinking and living.
There is one crucial difference - Stalin etc did not go to war or commit atrocious acts in the name of religion or by utilizing scripture to legitimize their acts. Most of the terrorist leaders we're discussing here do, and in many ways organized religion has done this throughout history. I'm a believer, i truly believe that is a higher purpose to this life, but i simply cannot accept that a single book or a single church has an understanding of this that i don't, and i will not accept that they influence policy or public thought by misrepresenting the core beliefs of those same books. But atheism, like religion, comes in many forms, and there are few militant atheists, just like the militant religious "warriors" are really in the minority. Just do not use the argument that atheists speak as one group, the world is relative.
I get the highest score in my class, albeit in Denmark but that should be comparable, this is high school and my average is very much above average - yet i spend at least 30 minutes each schoolday doing something else on the laptop that i also take notes on. This can be hugely beneficial to the class if used right, researching background material for the discussion in history classes has been a huge boost to the lessons more than a couple of times. In all honesty the school should not punish for this, kids should learn how to properly balance these things, and the teachers should take these things into account when grading students.
Not if you close the sessions, public sessions usually do get influenced by lobby groups but closing the session and the discussions until the very final vote will prevent a large part of the lobbying activity.
More like moral nutjobs, it might be religiously based but it's more an archaic moral guideline for those politicians that might any rational argument inoperable. Religion is just an easy way to point a finger at some biblical references that mean some very good things to a lot of people, and twist them to their own means. Organized religion has unfortunately always been good at that.
Increased democratization leads to a more ineffective government, constitutionalism exists to remedy this problem and that is the reason why the rule of the majority will be restricted. The majority do not care about "petty details" like torture restrictions, as they can not relate to them in everyday life. Let's stop pretending that voters do not have a stake in this game, and rather face the reality that voters are quite fine as long as the promises are short-term gains.
This is the problem with politics, and as long as we keep believing that the public and the majority is right, we will keep seeing these things, and lobbyist groups will keep dominating.
See Zakaria, Tockqueville and other writers about democracy versus freedom and human rights for this.
And in terms of DRM, this is really the problem, it's a niche discussion with a major outreach, every single Windows user out there will at some point feel DRM restrictions, but seeing as they do not understand the problem they accept the status quo. If they did understand, Linux or at least another proprietary to Windows would have been the paradigm long ago.
You're exactly right, i hate the fact that demos are suddenly out of fashion, it used to be the best way to get a good preview of the game. These days i pirate every game that doesn't have a demo and check them out, and buy them if i want to keep playing after the first 20 minutes or so, did that with Storm of Zehir last week, CoD World at War the week before that - IMO it's the only way to do these things.
While it should be easy to disable your bandwidth cap is your ISP's fault and in that regards your fault for picking that ISP.
While that is of course true, do you really think that it's Microsofts problem that game developers are paranoid about useful tools? Of course it's a fault at Microsofts end that it doesn't unload correctly, but there is a much deeper and more interesting question as to why consumers have no control over their own computers.
'twas a joke it believe :)
Anyway, i'm extremely happy with my 4870 - but the drivers on my rig are absolutely terrible. There are some well documented and severe problems with AMD/dual screen/x64 combinations, and i found out about those after making the purchase. That means frequent crashes during games, random crashes when watching DVD and flickering screens.
Both sides have driver problems, let's not forget that. The main point here being that AMD actually have frequent updates - a better model than getting new Nvidia drivers, which is almost always done via any site but nvidia.com
I need all my music on my laptop, really good to be able to spontaneously make mixes, it's good as a backup for my desktop - and of course adding an external element to my DJ setup could prove to be a very bad idea. There are different needs for different situations :) I need at least 120GB of space for my music currently, i just bought a new laptop with a 250GB disk that should fit nicely.
And besides the "16GB is enough, so get an SSD with that" argument is terrible, as there already are solutions like this, and they obviously are not replacing regular laptops across the board. Lots of people use laptops as their primary computer :)
Very true but like current Nvidia cards they could just scale back performance if given less than full power. Not sure if AMD cards do this too.
If you don't play games on a computer anymore, you have no one but yourself to blame for that to be honest. Valve is doing a great job with Steam, there are great affordable graphics cards out, graphics are improving along with some simply awesome titles out + coming out. Many of those titles aren't PC exclusive, but that's a good thing, a good story and a fun game should be enjoyed by as many people as possible. Besides just in WoW there are 10 million players that would disagree with MSFT doing something wrong in terms of PC gaming.
Civilization is doing as good as ever, Heroes Of Might and Magic is right there in a huge new box with all the games for you to buy. And of course there's always the Total War games that combine the best of both worlds, with a high profile new edition coming out next year. So the turn based games definitely aren't dead.
PCI-E 2 can draw up to 150w from the slot itself i believe? Seeing as this card would probably be PCI-E 2 no matter what it wouldn't need the 75W connector.
In which case simply stopping support of the products/services from the company in question would be a much more efficient way of doing it. Everyone boycot Google and watch how their investors see things in 6 months, that's the real power of an individual in a capitalistic society.
Exactly the same here in Denmark, costs 0.2dkr to send a message, nothing to receive it. Also there are lots of free texting messages, i pay what would equal ~20USD for unlimited texting per month, and send about 1500 messages. Data rates are about the same though unfortunately.
Well i played on one of their dual CD players at a gig a couple of months back, and it was absolutely terrible. It was unable to read a couple of CD's that i have had working on a good amount of other CD players and disc drives. Besides that the buttons were terrible, weird criticism but having to almost take out a hammer to make the damn thing play isn't acceptable. I have heard good things about their high-end audio gear though, that experience has just kind of ruined the brand for me.
No the government is not the courts. I'm not sure what it's called in english but most western countries have the power split between the courts, the senate/parlament/whatever-it-is-called and the government which carries out the decisions made by the senate. The courts are not to be affected by government decisions, and this is a very very important part of American politics, that everything is kept seperate. Even though the government usually has their members in the senate as well here in Denmark, it would be unthinkable for the courts to be affected by a ruling government.
It's a very important distinction to make, and you shouldn't forget Montesque's ideas that have helped so incredibly much in the making of the western world. I'm not saying that the muhammed cartoons should have been created, as much as i like public debate and radical moves, they were stupid, over the line and just a way to get some attention. However comparing them to a case against a well known torrent website(search engine, i know that it is that technically, but no court will care about that) is absurd, no laws were broken by JyllandsPosten, The Pirate Bay does however help break laws.
Now i'm off to go grab some TPB torrents, thankfully not blocked by other Danish ISP's yet.
That might apply to desktops but laptops don't have cooling systems even close to modern desktops. Besides these chips will run a lot cooler no matter what, so for the overclockers it will have a lot of extra potential too.
This makes perfect sense, Vista will be out around this time, and with the new Windows Media Player with the MTV Urge service, which not only has prices & a selection rivalling ITMS but also a subscription feature. Of course Napster, Musicmatch etc. already has this subscription opportunity, but having it integrated in WMP will probably get it a lot better distribution. Who knows, if we don't take care of all the DRM debate, people might just like it when they can pay 20$ to get as much as they want. Now if only they would lanch this in Europe :)
Ya cause normal electricity is cheap?
The problem is that today people are being raised by the video channels showing Jay-Z dancing around with 50 big breasted beautiful women, it gives some sick expectations. Now i'm a 14 year old Jay-Z fan, but i would never expect any of my girlfriends to look anything like that, but i know some people in my class would. In the end what really matters if you're statisfied with what you're doing, not how other people think you're doing.
I had email hosting with them for a while, their prices were quite a bit over average but it was very stable, fast, and easy to setup, so definately no problems there either. Got my own server so don't use that anymore but my 15 domains there work fine too. Their support so fast have been completely statisfactory for me, short precise answers to my questions, no cut & paste replies ever.