Sarah Palin put republicans in jail for fraud/corruption, IIRC. I've yet to see Obama achieve anything that compares.
Damn, you've got a skewed sense of reality. I would have thought for sure that killing Jihadis with remote-controlled drones would have been way higher on the badass scale than putting some useful idiots in jail.
Wait, I thought we were against the war on terror?
Hypothesis:/. postings don't establish constitutionality or lack thereof, the courts do.
I'll leave the rest to the interested readers.:-)
Really, what is it with you stupid americans and your socialism paranoia? This goes way beyond sanity.
Now you may want the doctors to simply let people croak who can't pay their medical bills anymore. But there's this thing called the hippocratic oath. That's hippocratic after the old greek Hippocrates guy, not hypocritic, which americans have more experience with.
But to what extent is the doctor obligated to help the patient? For a trivial solution in time and money, obviously. But what if the treatment costs $1,000? What if it costs $1,000,000? What if it would cost $1,000,000,000?
Holy shit, you mean preinstalled Windows box asks for MORE than your name, time zone, and passwords, and don't work right out of the box?
I call bullshit just like GP, because a modern preinstalled Windows box asks EVEN LESS than a new Mac box - they don't ask you for a name or password 90% of the time, as they're set up for "Owner". Special drivers? Oh yeah, only for arcane devices!
I have never bought a preinstalled Windows box, so I am unable to comment on that. In fact, you might notice in my previous post I made absolutely no mention of anything other than Macs.
But he was talking about the OS not being configured, and having to install a bunch of crap himself, and taking a day before it's usable. In my experience, this has never happened. Every Mac I have bought has been usable within minutes of plugging it in and pushing the power button.
I run at least five flavors of Windows and hafter as many Linux distros, am pretty solidly in the Ubuntu camp. I have a Mac and an iPhone and am going to be buying more for a laundry list of reasons.
HOWEVER, the first thing that struck me about the Mac and the iPhone was how much they did NOT "just work." I was ready to be converted. Oh, please, let me for once just buy a !@#$ing box and be able to plug it in and start working. It was NO different to me than setting up a Windows or Ubuntu box. The OS wasn't fully configured or even current. I had to install everything myself only to find it wanted to automatically run 2.9GBs of patches, rebooting about six times in the process. I didn't have a working computer until the next day.
The difference is that Apple has an army of well trained baby sitters who will, for a fee, put up with this crap for you and coddle your ego telling you what a special, pretty smart and interesting person you are and then hand your shiny box back.
I refuse to pay for that sort of saccharine bullshit, so I'm left with a computer that is just as much a pain in my ass as any other.
Strange. The past three Macs I have bought all worked right out of the box. Sure, you have to choose your language, create a user account, select a time zone, whatever. But then you're good to go. Now, if you have a bunch of arcane devices, you'll have to install their own drivers. But all the hardware in the computer will be working already.
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Well, I'm using i5-760, so not Xeon, but still 64-bit 2.8 GHz quad core. So to upgrade to an LGA-1366 mobo and W3530 processor would have cost $200 more.
Ubuntu is easier to install and supports more hardware and software.
Hackintoshes are like teaching a pig to sing. Even if you succeed, it just wastes your time and annoys Apple.
Some people prefer the software that is only available on OS X. Other people simply prefer the OS itself.
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As for the Mac Pro, people always forget/don't seem to realize that the Mac Pro is not a consumer desktop; it's a professional workstation. As such it is priced competitively with other workstations. People who are buying one are using it to edit sound/music/video/graphics for a living not simply to play games/edit their home movies/surf the web, etc. It's the same reason a professional DSLR camera costs a scale more than a digital consumer model.
Maybe, but I just built a Hack Pro that's equipped competitively with the entry level Mac Pro for $700.
I'm a life-long Mac user, but I really couldn't justify buying a new one at Apple's price.
From experience OS/X guzzle memory like no other OS I know. I use two boxes at work, a Linux HP PC with 4GB of RAM that never ever swaps, and a MBP laptop with 4GB of RAM that becomes slow as molasses after a week of use due to memory issues.
That's interesting, since I just restarted my MacBook with 2 GB of memory a couple nights ago for software updates, after about six weeks of uptime. And it was as responsive then as it is now.
I believe that the laws in the USA confer the right of the famous to control the use of their likeness in publicity for things that are not related to them or what they do, meaning that companies have to have a contract with the person before any endorsement or advertising can occur.
I'm pretty sure you don't even have to be famous. This is why photographers have model release forms.
I created an account and was banned almost immediately.
They have extremely vigilant forum monitors who will bring the banhammer down for the slightest offense.
My offense? I insinuated that gays might be able to serve in the military just as well as straights.
That's nothing! I was preemptively banned from the Huffington Post for merely attempting to comment on an article. Or something weird like that. I followed a link from Google News to what I considered an interesting article, attempted to post a comment, and was informed that I was banned from commenting, although I had never attempted to do so before. An email to them received no response, so I haven't been back since...
How do you go through life knowing that you are relying on a muscle to beat regularly, every second or two at least, almost without interruption, for more than 2,207,520,000 seconds? Such a minute, weak mass of carbon in a soulless universe, somehow managing to keep itself together for that long... and so many things could go wrong, both within and without.
Yet the majority, while young, neither seem nor need to give it a second thought.
Don't exercise.:)
I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Buzz Aldrin
According to Wikipedia, the dissociation energy of N2 is about twice that of H2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_dissociation_energy), but it weighs seven times as much. So unless the two N atoms are significantly closer together (I was unable to quickly determine their distance), it would seem the H2 molecule could spin faster than the N2 molecule. (I'm assuming they would dissociate when the rotational energy exceeds the dissociate energy.)
the most interesting thing is that they don't actually work, because the force they exert on something is always perpendicular to the direction of motion of that something.
Except when they're moving something toward or away from them.
GOG has been gaining popularity and consumer visibility, ESPECIALLY in the past few months. Unless they were hit with a huge lawsuit or financial disaster, there would be no reason for them to close permanently.
Sincerely,
A not surprised (yet very relieved!) gamer
And since they only distribute games for which they have agreements with the appropriate agencies, I see no reason for this to happen.
Sadly, technical degrees still do not provide very valuable training in the world of evaluation and judgement[sic].
I realize since you don't have an engineering degree that you are speaking out of ignorance, but the engineering process begins with evaluation and judgment. Engineers must evaluate requirements, options, goals, costs, etc., and then make judgment calls on their relative importance. In most cases, there is no single "right way" of engineering a solution. There are myriad possible solutions, and different engineers using their own judgment will select different solutions as the best.
Those prices are still higher than comcast service is.
TWC just jacked my rate up (which I will cancel if they won't lower it) to $48.99/mo for 6 Mbit. This place is offering 30 Mbit for $57.99/mo. Sounds like a good deal, to me.
Of course, AT&T offers 6 Mbit DSL for $20/mo... but apparently my apartment is too far away to get service.
It's all about the brand for packaged food companies. That's why there are so many commercials for breakfast cereals and candy to convince people that only real Coco-Pops taste like Coco-Pops.
To be fair, a lot of cereals using the same nominal ingredients end up tasting considerably different. For example, with raisin bran, both the bran flakes and the raisins are different between Post and the store brand. That doesn't mean the name brand tastes better, but it is definitely different. Same thing with Honey Nut Cheerios and Honey Bunches of Oats.
Here's my anecdotal experience: I was homeschooled through high school. Then I went to college for three years and got my BSE. Now I am a happy, well-adjusted, productive member of society.
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Sarah Palin put republicans in jail for fraud/corruption, IIRC. I've yet to see Obama achieve anything that compares. Damn, you've got a skewed sense of reality. I would have thought for sure that killing Jihadis with remote-controlled drones would have been way higher on the badass scale than putting some useful idiots in jail.
Wait, I thought we were against the war on terror?
Hypothesis: /. postings don't establish constitutionality or lack thereof, the courts do.
I'll leave the rest to the interested readers. :-)
Really, what is it with you stupid americans and your socialism paranoia? This goes way beyond sanity.
Now you may want the doctors to simply let people croak who can't pay their medical bills anymore. But there's this thing called the hippocratic oath. That's hippocratic after the old greek Hippocrates guy, not hypocritic, which americans have more experience with.
But to what extent is the doctor obligated to help the patient? For a trivial solution in time and money, obviously. But what if the treatment costs $1,000? What if it costs $1,000,000? What if it would cost $1,000,000,000?
Holy shit, you mean preinstalled Windows box asks for MORE than your name, time zone, and passwords, and don't work right out of the box?
I call bullshit just like GP, because a modern preinstalled Windows box asks EVEN LESS than a new Mac box - they don't ask you for a name or password 90% of the time, as they're set up for "Owner". Special drivers? Oh yeah, only for arcane devices!
I have never bought a preinstalled Windows box, so I am unable to comment on that. In fact, you might notice in my previous post I made absolutely no mention of anything other than Macs.
But he was talking about the OS not being configured, and having to install a bunch of crap himself, and taking a day before it's usable. In my experience, this has never happened. Every Mac I have bought has been usable within minutes of plugging it in and pushing the power button.
Baloney...
I run at least five flavors of Windows and hafter as many Linux distros, am pretty solidly in the Ubuntu camp. I have a Mac and an iPhone and am going to be buying more for a laundry list of reasons.
HOWEVER, the first thing that struck me about the Mac and the iPhone was how much they did NOT "just work." I was ready to be converted. Oh, please, let me for once just buy a !@#$ing box and be able to plug it in and start working. It was NO different to me than setting up a Windows or Ubuntu box. The OS wasn't fully configured or even current. I had to install everything myself only to find it wanted to automatically run 2.9GBs of patches, rebooting about six times in the process. I didn't have a working computer until the next day.
The difference is that Apple has an army of well trained baby sitters who will, for a fee, put up with this crap for you and coddle your ego telling you what a special, pretty smart and interesting person you are and then hand your shiny box back.
I refuse to pay for that sort of saccharine bullshit, so I'm left with a computer that is just as much a pain in my ass as any other.
Strange. The past three Macs I have bought all worked right out of the box. Sure, you have to choose your language, create a user account, select a time zone, whatever. But then you're good to go. Now, if you have a bunch of arcane devices, you'll have to install their own drivers. But all the hardware in the computer will be working already.
Well, I'm using i5-760, so not Xeon, but still 64-bit 2.8 GHz quad core. So to upgrade to an LGA-1366 mobo and W3530 processor would have cost $200 more.
Ubuntu is easier to install and supports more hardware and software.
Hackintoshes are like teaching a pig to sing. Even if you succeed, it just wastes your time and annoys Apple.
Some people prefer the software that is only available on OS X. Other people simply prefer the OS itself.
As for the Mac Pro, people always forget/don't seem to realize that the Mac Pro is not a consumer desktop; it's a professional workstation. As such it is priced competitively with other workstations. People who are buying one are using it to edit sound/music/video/graphics for a living not simply to play games/edit their home movies/surf the web, etc. It's the same reason a professional DSLR camera costs a scale more than a digital consumer model.
Maybe, but I just built a Hack Pro that's equipped competitively with the entry level Mac Pro for $700.
I'm a life-long Mac user, but I really couldn't justify buying a new one at Apple's price.
From experience OS/X guzzle memory like no other OS I know. I use two boxes at work, a Linux HP PC with 4GB of RAM that never ever swaps, and a MBP laptop with 4GB of RAM that becomes slow as molasses after a week of use due to memory issues.
That's interesting, since I just restarted my MacBook with 2 GB of memory a couple nights ago for software updates, after about six weeks of uptime. And it was as responsive then as it is now.
I believe that the laws in the USA confer the right of the famous to control the use of their likeness in publicity for things that are not related to them or what they do, meaning that companies have to have a contract with the person before any endorsement or advertising can occur.
I'm pretty sure you don't even have to be famous. This is why photographers have model release forms.
Halogen headlights are the normal ones. The problem is when people put xenon bulbs in their halogen housings.
I created an account and was banned almost immediately.
They have extremely vigilant forum monitors who will bring the banhammer down for the slightest offense.
My offense? I insinuated that gays might be able to serve in the military just as well as straights.
That's nothing! I was preemptively banned from the Huffington Post for merely attempting to comment on an article. Or something weird like that. I followed a link from Google News to what I considered an interesting article, attempted to post a comment, and was informed that I was banned from commenting, although I had never attempted to do so before. An email to them received no response, so I haven't been back since...
How do you go through life knowing that you are relying on a muscle to beat regularly, every second or two at least, almost without interruption, for more than 2,207,520,000 seconds? Such a minute, weak mass of carbon in a soulless universe, somehow managing to keep itself together for that long... and so many things could go wrong, both within and without.
Yet the majority, while young, neither seem nor need to give it a second thought.
Don't exercise. :)
I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Buzz Aldrin
According to Wikipedia, the dissociation energy of N2 is about twice that of H2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_dissociation_energy), but it weighs seven times as much. So unless the two N atoms are significantly closer together (I was unable to quickly determine their distance), it would seem the H2 molecule could spin faster than the N2 molecule. (I'm assuming they would dissociate when the rotational energy exceeds the dissociate energy.)
I imagine they would be quite happy to shut down an open proxy if it was contributing to file sharing.
the most interesting thing is that they don't actually work, because the force they exert on something is always perpendicular to the direction of motion of that something.
Except when they're moving something toward or away from them.
GOG has been gaining popularity and consumer visibility, ESPECIALLY in the past few months. Unless they were hit with a huge lawsuit or financial disaster, there would be no reason for them to close permanently.
Sincerely,
A not surprised (yet very relieved!) gamer
And since they only distribute games for which they have agreements with the appropriate agencies, I see no reason for this to happen.
Sadly, technical degrees still do not provide very valuable training in the world of evaluation and judgement[sic].
I realize since you don't have an engineering degree that you are speaking out of ignorance, but the engineering process begins with evaluation and judgment. Engineers must evaluate requirements, options, goals, costs, etc., and then make judgment calls on their relative importance. In most cases, there is no single "right way" of engineering a solution. There are myriad possible solutions, and different engineers using their own judgment will select different solutions as the best.
Those prices are still higher than comcast service is.
TWC just jacked my rate up (which I will cancel if they won't lower it) to $48.99/mo for 6 Mbit. This place is offering 30 Mbit for $57.99/mo. Sounds like a good deal, to me.
Of course, AT&T offers 6 Mbit DSL for $20/mo... but apparently my apartment is too far away to get service.
I seem to recall back when I used a landline that there were more than 5 minutes every year where I had no service.
The idea is that it's not really at the expense of the poor, since they didn't pay taxes, anyway.
I don't know whether you're aware of this, but lawyer do a lot more than lawsuits.
It's all about the brand for packaged food companies. That's why there are so many commercials for breakfast cereals and candy to convince people that only real Coco-Pops taste like Coco-Pops.
To be fair, a lot of cereals using the same nominal ingredients end up tasting considerably different. For example, with raisin bran, both the bran flakes and the raisins are different between Post and the store brand. That doesn't mean the name brand tastes better, but it is definitely different. Same thing with Honey Nut Cheerios and Honey Bunches of Oats.
Here's my anecdotal experience: I was homeschooled through high school. Then I went to college for three years and got my BSE. Now I am a happy, well-adjusted, productive member of society.
That was my first though, also.