Viewing it as such is cultural imperialism as we attempt to judge another culture using our own value system What does a value system have to do with the basic fact that it's unsanitary and can lead to illness?
"Can Solitaire really eat up more hours than have been sacrificed to Tetris?"
On a Per-Person level, I think there are more people that have spent 20 hours in a day playing Tetris, than Windows Solitaire.
But, I think more people play Solitaire than play(ed) Tetris, so collectively its more hours.
Alternatively, we can blame Microsoft's monopoly for this one --- after all, Tetris isn't bundled, so it won't get played as much...;)
I think it adds up in more ways than one, though. I spent a few weeks playing Tetris obsessively during my early teens. On the other hand, I can't even count the amount of time I've spent playing a "quick game" of Solitaire here and there in the two decades since that time.
The common solution for that kind of dilemma is to create a read-only copy of the DB, refreshed from actual data nightly, which the customer has access to. This will allow you run it either on a separate box entirely; or at minimum set a max on the CPU(s) allocated to this new DB -- so that your production app doesn't fall to its knees the first time some ninny performs a Cartesian join.
I'll usually just mute it if it gets loud. 'course I'm usually not giving full attention to the TV anyway -- often it's more 'background noise' than entertainment.
For those shows that I do watch, I'll always record them and watch them later. Football games recorded at about a 1.5 hour lag are great. You catch up to see the ending in real time, and can skip all of the commercials and noise.
It's the same incorrect argument that people make that "shoplifting costs everyone more money". No, it doesn't. Shoplifting costs the store owner money, and is morally wrong. But the shop owner can't raise prices because the store next door (who has a more efficient loss prevention program) will undercut their prices. And yet both stores are paying for the loss prevention program - and passing that cost on to the consumer. (That being said, I agree with what you're saying as relates to the topic at hand...)
I think the nature vs nurture debate has been done to death. Yes, environment has an impact; and the belief that environment alone determines someone's abilities died out decades ago.
That being said - the key differentiator is in opportunity. I agree that if a kid of any race and of reasonable potential was in the same situation you described above, he would probably not do well -- but not strictly because of how he was raised; but rather the lack of opportunity available for him to learn about his own potential.
Take one of those African kids and raise him in an enlightened industrial society and he'll excel as much as anyone. It isn't about self esteem, it's about quality of life. This is patently incorrect - look to any inner city of an enlightened industrial nation for tons of examples of some very intelligent individuals who never realize their potential. (This is independent of race.)
As to your own stupidity, racism is a tool of the rich to keep everyone else at each others' throats so they won't notice who's really using and abusing them, tool. I agree that GP is stupid, but as to the rest... must be some good stuff you're smoking there.
Machines using AMD hardware.... seem to have several modes of failure; others affect Intel machines. So those machines using VIA chips will be fine - nothing to see here people, move along.
Just because it hasn't broken in the past 30 years is no indicator that you won't hit something in the next 30 that won't break it. In almost any other industry, that's true - but in software, it's patently false. If a process is running that properly handles all of its inputs and does what it is supposed to do in every conceivable scenario that it may be exposed to, then there's no reason to expect it would break in the next 30 or 300 years. This doesn't mean that you should never replace your systems - there are other valid reasons; only that saying "it's old and may break" is not really a valid reason to replace it.
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I'm sad because I agree with you. When I was younger, the world was much more black and white.
Removing Norton is simple, it just takes few steps.
Just ... uninstall it... Reboot... password ... uninstall ... reboot... download... run
Yep. Simple.Odd; I just deleted it from the 'run' key and never heard from it again.
So Tux becomes Tuces? :D
Oh, a real Indian! Yeah, sorry we took that land from you when we moved into your continent...
(Yes. This was a joke.)
You have a strange definition of "everyone"...
Alternatively, we can blame Microsoft's monopoly for this one --- after all, Tetris isn't bundled, so it won't get played as much... ;)
I think it adds up in more ways than one, though. I spent a few weeks playing Tetris obsessively during my early teens. On the other hand, I can't even count the amount of time I've spent playing a "quick game" of Solitaire here and there in the two decades since that time.
"No matter how powerful the wizard, a knife in the back will severely cramp his style" - Vladimir Taltos
A most compelling argument...
select table1.somefield, table2.somefield, table3.somefield from table1, table2, table3
The common solution for that kind of dilemma is to create a read-only copy of the DB, refreshed from actual data nightly, which the customer has access to. This will allow you run it either on a separate box entirely; or at minimum set a max on the CPU(s) allocated to this new DB -- so that your production app doesn't fall to its knees the first time some ninny performs a Cartesian join.
In other words, we're the 0.91 release.
For those shows that I do watch, I'll always record them and watch them later. Football games recorded at about a 1.5 hour lag are great. You catch up to see the ending in real time, and can skip all of the commercials and noise.
Not to be confused with Javid Iqbal or Javid Iqbal.
That being said - the key differentiator is in opportunity. I agree that if a kid of any race and of reasonable potential was in the same situation you described above, he would probably not do well -- but not strictly because of how he was raised; but rather the lack of opportunity available for him to learn about his own potential.
Take one of those African kids and raise him in an enlightened industrial society and he'll excel as much as anyone. It isn't about self esteem, it's about quality of life. This is patently incorrect - look to any inner city of an enlightened industrial nation for tons of examples of some very intelligent individuals who never realize their potential. (This is independent of race.) As to your own stupidity, racism is a tool of the rich to keep everyone else at each others' throats so they won't notice who's really using and abusing them, tool. I agree that GP is stupid, but as to the rest... must be some good stuff you're smoking there.Ah, jealousy...
If the software doesn't use dates, why would it matter?
What is this world coming to when even 7-digiters are able to mod?!
Hah, well said.
That's okay, they're Microsoft's servers too. I agree with GP - if you don't like it, use a different service.