I know she'll do some *really* nasty things when legally drunk, but come on, it's cheap. She won't have to do the unspeakable nasty things to BUY alcohol, she'll just do them ON alcohol. And yes, it IS horrid... But so's Darfur, what can you do...
Oh wait, or did you mean to make a point about *illegal* drugs? Because I am having an *awful* hard time trying to figure out why it's better for your daughter to have unprotected sex when wasted on Smirnoff Ice at the frat party than to have unprotected sex while high on pot at the frat party.
I'm talking about a life destroying situation that takes years to occur, not the 10 seconds it takes for you to get your rocks off with some drunk or stoned chick. Drug fucked hookers at the bottom end of the market get a pretty rough time. If you want to get some life experience in the darker side of drugs try long term dating some of the drugged up chicks that you can pick up at rave parties and see what you can learn.
You seem to be saying that all drugs are harmless. Tell this to any father whose daughter has been introduced to drugs like Cocaine at a party, gotten addicted, travelled down the path to where she has to do unspeakable things for money to buy more, and then eventually died from an overdose or suicide. I think you'll have an argument on your hands. I've seen this happen. It's horrid. You can't group all drugs in the same backet. Drug pushers destroy lives for their own profit, and they have some pretty devastating, instantly addictable weapons in their arsenal that they use to draw young people, particulary girls, into their net.
I forgot to add the topic-relevent bit.
Calling music piracy a major problem when society is full of stuff like quoted above is laughable.
As much as I hate to step on the toes on someone advocating civil liberties there is a thing I would like to argue with you about.
You seem to be saying that all drugs are harmless. Tell this to any father whose daughter has been introduced to drugs like Cocaine at a party, gotten addicted, travelled down the path to where she has to do unspeakable things for money to buy more, and then eventually died from an overdose or suicide. I think you'll have an argument on your hands. I've seen this happen. It's horrid. You can't group all drugs in the same backet. Drug pushers destroy lives for their own profit, and they have some pretty devastating, instantly addictable weapons in their arsenal that they use to draw young people, particulary girls, into their net.
I guess you could say that people should be allow to make the choice about whether to be enslaved by drugs, but often young people don't understand the nature of the enslavement until it's too late. Experience is often something you get after you needed it.
The answer is simple, just follow what other's do. Accept Microsoft's offer, work there until you have a high profile, and then quit and go work for Google.
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IT and Divorce?
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Marriage is the leading cause of divorce.
I think marrying a crazy, lying, nagging bitch would rate pretty highly as a cause too god dammit.
Interesting point. In this country American history isn't covered at all, and so few people have cable tv you'd be pressed to find someone who even knows what the "History Channel" is. I've seen the Discovery channel, but only in hotels when travelling overseas. So basically we learn about the Cold War from James Bond movies. Definately a problem there.
It does seem an interesting thing though, having plane loads of nuclear bombs flying around, just in case you need to quickly wipe out another country. It's just not the sort of thing we plan for these days when purchasing equipment.
According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_arrow/ there are 11 weapons known missing from the United States' arsenal. An enemy could just be a small group of people with a grudge. I guess it depends on the life of a nuclear weapon as to how much of a risk losing one is.
I knew the political answer to my original question, the cold war is pretty much common knowledge, but I'm more interested in how people currently rationalize the cold war in their heads. Also, given North Korea's recent activities it would be interesting to spark a little slashdot debate about nukes in the wild.
I'm not really good at history, so I'm wondering if someone could explain why in 1966 the Americans had B-52 bombers flying over Spain carrying 4 nuclear bombs.
Was this some kind of pre-emptive strike plan?
We're ICBMs not so good back then?
It seems to me that if you could damage and capture one of these planes, you could lay your hands on 4 nuclear bombs. Something that would be a bit of a security risk.
I know between 5 and 10 people who are going to buy a Wii. Assuming all other people also know 5-10 people who are going to buy a Wii, that's 30 to 60 billion sales in the first week alone!
Who let these RIAA/MPAA mathematicians in here? This is a gaming forum goddamit! Oh wait..Is that you Sony?
I had an Indonesian girlfriend for nearly 6 months and I was just starting to pick up Bahasa (the Indonesian language) but then we split. For the last 18 months I've been learning Mandarin Chinese. I'm moving to Taiwan where people learn some English in school, but yes it's going to be tricky. Fortunately I'm a programmer, and it's not too hard for a programmer to find jobs in other countries. The reason why I've met women in the Asian region is because I'm from Australia, and Asia is in our timezone, so it makes it better for communicating by IM chat programs and Webcam. One tip, always get into web cam and stuff before you fly over to another country, just to make sure it's not another guy playing a joke on you or some mail order bride agency. Not that I ever fell for that, but I did meet a few people who raised my suspicions and refused to do webcam.
You know I used to think like that. I tried match.com for a while, and initially I limited it to women who lived within 15 minutes of where I lived, and I met a lot but they were all the same and I was looking for something that was different to my past experiences. Fast forward a year, I had gone international. When you go international it takes a lot of work. Sometimes you would find like 2000 matches to your criteria, and you go through them and find like the top 10,20,100 whatever. This is when you need a standard letter, it also gives you an oppotunity to try different etters and see what gets the most reponses. You meet someone, go to their country, and learn the culture from and insiders view, often it won't work out, so split and do it again.
Fast forward 2 more years, I've had a relationship with woman from another country who's been living with me in my country and I've been staying in hers for over 12 months now. Of course eventually you have to pick a country to stay in if the relationship goes that far. We picked hers. And so begins my new life.
If the same thing had happened now do you think people in other countries trust America enough that they would be confident that America hadn't launched a pre-emptive nuclear strike?
Unrealistic stuff in movies causes real difficulties in the real world.
There was a problem with a line item in a database that had no part number against it. It had originated from an order from a group of people who are allowed to order anything they want. The item description was "A sword that cuts through anything". There was no part number, so we had to try to track down this item. We figured it was probabaly something someone had seen in a catalogue where the capabilities were exagerated a bit. Eventually we tracked down the source - apparently it was something they had seen in a Lara Croft movie. [sigh]
While your about it you might as well mention the negative experiences of the F18 down under, such as the double control inversion points (controls reverse themselves - a real oh shit moment) due to the fact that the damn thing twists longitudinally and laterally at speed. Not to mention the mods added to stop the damn tail ripping off during low altitude maneauvres that the aussies are so fond of. I hope the JSF isn't a dud. The F1-11 has been pretty good. Any piece of high tech has it's problems, you just need the right maintenance schedule.
To keep on topic, I think the F14 was a beautiful piece of Aviation history and it was designed in a time where thing got accomplished. The current state of the development of such things has reached a point where I'm amazed that anything actually ever gets achieved.
Don't worry about American healthcare workers not being able to afford health care, many of them are taking "Medical Holidays" to places in Asia where they can get cheap operations. Yes many years ago that might have been a bit risky, but these days in places like Taiwan, American patients can get first class treatment at 1/10th of the price and it's probably safer than being treated by overworked American medical staff.
I just laughed my ass off at this. Should be modded up. It helps to show what a stupid article it was about how RC1 of Vista heated up a Mac laptop more than OS X.
Windows has always been a resource hog on the PC, [...]
Compared to what ? Certainly not any OS of comparable functionality.
Commpared to whatever version of windows came on the PC that people are upgrading.
Windows 3.1 promoted me to upgrade my RAM from 1MB to 4MB
NT 3.1 then needed 16MB and a new CPU
NT 3.51 ran great in 16MB
NT 4.0 prmoted the jump to 64MB and some other new hardware
With Windows 2000 I think I got up to about 256MB with new hardware
Right now I'm developing for Vista x64, and I've got 4GB in my machine with Dual CPUs and a 7800GTX video card, and I'm using a lot of the grunt available.
For the rest of your comment your sort of conflicting yourself. Your saying that every OS bolts on more overhead with each release, so you agree with me that each subsequent OS requires more hardware, but then you say that 4.0 was faster than 3.51. My memory of 3.51 was that MS had hit a kind of sweetspot with it. It felt very snappy. I think with 4.0 the churn of MFC started to come into play a bit as it's the point when MFC started to take on a lot of stuff with the release of Win 95 and so the apps started getting a lot heavier.
This shouldn't be a surprise. Windows has always been a resource hog on the PC, and it's always the case that when the hardware improves to handle the current version of Windows, Microsoft goes and releases a new version with some extra bells and whistles that have been bolted on and thus require more hardware capability. There are exceptions of course. I remember the first time I upgraded from NT 3.1 to NT 3.51 and the improvement in speed and responsiveness on the same hardware was amazing! Then they went and killed it with NT 4.0:-/
Vista is a big experiment for Microsoft, and it's pretty obvious that the design goal of Vista was to not let any piece of hardware go to waste, thus it's definately going to drive any laptop or desktop to be hotter.
Just releasing a product doesn't guarantee anything. It has to live up to expectations or else the first few adopters will trash it on the net and general media and then demand will dry up. Same goes for the PS3.
It's interesting how you assume that XBOX 360 will be number 1 and that the Wii won't get past it. I know many people who would have never bought a console who are definately going to be buying a Wii. Even my girlfriend has been bugging me every week asking me when we can go buy one. This could be Nintendo's finest hour.
Actually I was sort of going for the conspiracy angle where the government delibrately criples the pace of commercial technology so that they have time to create new laws that govern the use of new technology.
Personally I think Software Patents are bad from the start, but have been manipulated by lawyers to be even worse. There is a kind of insurance like angle to taking out defensive patents, but then you just end up in court. Look at the mess that they lawyers have driven the medical insurance / medical indemnity / medical practitioner industry into, there is a lot of tidying up to be done in the legal system.
If you have been following recent history you will see that Microsoft have been sued for just about anything they do with software, and often they have lost for even things like including something like an interactive control on a web page.
Given this, it only makes sense for them, or any company for that matter, to patent any ideas for present or future functionality that they might have.
Software patents are here to throttle the rapid development of technology to the point that the powers that be can keep up with what's going on.
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This is the fastest I've ever seen news hit the front page on slashdot.
In fact since this news broke an hour ago I've received 1 phone call, 4 SMS's and 6 e-mails about it. A coworker came running to tell me about it and 88+ news items about it have appeared so far on Google News. Just goes to show that people really care about Steve Irwin.
With that kind of influence it makes you wonder what he might have achieved if he hadn't died.
I'm an Engineer. We solve problems period. It's just up to the person in charge to formulate the problem correctly. Of course some Engineers provide good solutions and others don't, but the point is, is that a good Engineer can easily be retargeted. In fact the morale of an Engineer increases greatly when you give them somthing new to do.
A game console is a platform, the Engineers wouldn't be creating the content. I think that taking the Engineers from Sun and giving them a problem formulated by Steve Jobs could give rise to a very interesting solution.
The key to beating Microsoft is to unseat Windows. Having a new board member at Apple isn't going to do that.
If Apple was serious about unseating Windows then they would copy Microsoft's strategies. Microsoft can see threats coming. The Playstation was a trojan horse into the living room. MS pumped a lot of money into putting a machine into people's living rooms that would stop them from needing to buy a Playstation. This is a long term strategy.
What Apple should do is buy Sun and put those hardware engineers to work on making the worlds best game console. That console should be a server with thin clients around the house, it should serve up great games and movies to the tv, and also let you wirelessly connect a Monitor and keyboard thin client and use Googles internet office suite for working on all your work like needs. TV and music on demand would be served up through Apples iTunes store. With this strategy Apple/Google/Sun could take over the entire household computing needs. And you know it would be cool because it comes from Apple.
Of course in the meantime I'm going to end up buying Vista, Office 2007, a Nintendo Wii and think about an Xbox 360.
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I'm talking about a life destroying situation that takes years to occur, not the 10 seconds it takes for you to get your rocks off with some drunk or stoned chick. Drug fucked hookers at the bottom end of the market get a pretty rough time. If you want to get some life experience in the darker side of drugs try long term dating some of the drugged up chicks that you can pick up at rave parties and see what you can learn.
I forgot to add the topic-relevent bit.
Calling music piracy a major problem when society is full of stuff like quoted above is laughable.
As much as I hate to step on the toes on someone advocating civil liberties there is a thing I would like to argue with you about.
You seem to be saying that all drugs are harmless. Tell this to any father whose daughter has been introduced to drugs like Cocaine at a party, gotten addicted, travelled down the path to where she has to do unspeakable things for money to buy more, and then eventually died from an overdose or suicide. I think you'll have an argument on your hands. I've seen this happen. It's horrid. You can't group all drugs in the same backet. Drug pushers destroy lives for their own profit, and they have some pretty devastating, instantly addictable weapons in their arsenal that they use to draw young people, particulary girls, into their net.
I guess you could say that people should be allow to make the choice about whether to be enslaved by drugs, but often young people don't understand the nature of the enslavement until it's too late. Experience is often something you get after you needed it.
The answer is simple, just follow what other's do. Accept Microsoft's offer, work there until you have a high profile, and then quit and go work for Google.
I think marrying a crazy, lying, nagging bitch would rate pretty highly as a cause too god dammit.
Interesting point. In this country American history isn't covered at all, and so few people have cable tv you'd be pressed to find someone who even knows what the "History Channel" is. I've seen the Discovery channel, but only in hotels when travelling overseas. So basically we learn about the Cold War from James Bond movies. Definately a problem there.
It does seem an interesting thing though, having plane loads of nuclear bombs flying around, just in case you need to quickly wipe out another country. It's just not the sort of thing we plan for these days when purchasing equipment.
According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_arrow/ there are 11 weapons known missing from the United States' arsenal. An enemy could just be a small group of people with a grudge. I guess it depends on the life of a nuclear weapon as to how much of a risk losing one is.
I knew the political answer to my original question, the cold war is pretty much common knowledge, but I'm more interested in how people currently rationalize the cold war in their heads. Also, given North Korea's recent activities it would be interesting to spark a little slashdot debate about nukes in the wild.
So a "Broken Arrow" isn't a security risk then. Maybe you should do some research on risk so you can back you your argument about it being nonsense.
I'm not really good at history, so I'm wondering if someone could explain why in 1966 the Americans had B-52 bombers flying over Spain carrying 4 nuclear bombs.
Was this some kind of pre-emptive strike plan?
We're ICBMs not so good back then?
It seems to me that if you could damage and capture one of these planes, you could lay your hands on 4 nuclear bombs. Something that would be a bit of a security risk.
Who let these RIAA/MPAA mathematicians in here? This is a gaming forum goddamit! Oh wait..Is that you Sony?
I had an Indonesian girlfriend for nearly 6 months and I was just starting to pick up Bahasa (the Indonesian language) but then we split. For the last 18 months I've been learning Mandarin Chinese. I'm moving to Taiwan where people learn some English in school, but yes it's going to be tricky. Fortunately I'm a programmer, and it's not too hard for a programmer to find jobs in other countries. The reason why I've met women in the Asian region is because I'm from Australia, and Asia is in our timezone, so it makes it better for communicating by IM chat programs and Webcam. One tip, always get into web cam and stuff before you fly over to another country, just to make sure it's not another guy playing a joke on you or some mail order bride agency. Not that I ever fell for that, but I did meet a few people who raised my suspicions and refused to do webcam.
You know I used to think like that. I tried match.com for a while, and initially I limited it to women who lived within 15 minutes of where I lived, and I met a lot but they were all the same and I was looking for something that was different to my past experiences. Fast forward a year, I had gone international. When you go international it takes a lot of work. Sometimes you would find like 2000 matches to your criteria, and you go through them and find like the top 10,20,100 whatever. This is when you need a standard letter, it also gives you an oppotunity to try different etters and see what gets the most reponses. You meet someone, go to their country, and learn the culture from and insiders view, often it won't work out, so split and do it again. Fast forward 2 more years, I've had a relationship with woman from another country who's been living with me in my country and I've been staying in hers for over 12 months now. Of course eventually you have to pick a country to stay in if the relationship goes that far. We picked hers. And so begins my new life.
If the same thing had happened now do you think people in other countries trust America enough that they would be confident that America hadn't launched a pre-emptive nuclear strike?
Unrealistic stuff in movies causes real difficulties in the real world.
There was a problem with a line item in a database that had no part number against it. It had originated from an order from a group of people who are allowed to order anything they want. The item description was "A sword that cuts through anything". There was no part number, so we had to try to track down this item. We figured it was probabaly something someone had seen in a catalogue where the capabilities were exagerated a bit. Eventually we tracked down the source - apparently it was something they had seen in a Lara Croft movie. [sigh]
While your about it you might as well mention the negative experiences of the F18 down under, such as the double control inversion points (controls reverse themselves - a real oh shit moment) due to the fact that the damn thing twists longitudinally and laterally at speed. Not to mention the mods added to stop the damn tail ripping off during low altitude maneauvres that the aussies are so fond of. I hope the JSF isn't a dud. The F1-11 has been pretty good. Any piece of high tech has it's problems, you just need the right maintenance schedule.
To keep on topic, I think the F14 was a beautiful piece of Aviation history and it was designed in a time where thing got accomplished. The current state of the development of such things has reached a point where I'm amazed that anything actually ever gets achieved.
Don't worry about American healthcare workers not being able to afford health care, many of them are taking "Medical Holidays" to places in Asia where they can get cheap operations. Yes many years ago that might have been a bit risky, but these days in places like Taiwan, American patients can get first class treatment at 1/10th of the price and it's probably safer than being treated by overworked American medical staff.
Check out articles found by google http://www.google.com/search?num=50&complete=1&hl= en&lr=&safe=off&q=medical+tourism+taiwan/
BTW the article missed out Lawyers from the groups that will benefit.
I just laughed my ass off at this. Should be modded up. It helps to show what a stupid article it was about how RC1 of Vista heated up a Mac laptop more than OS X.
Commpared to whatever version of windows came on the PC that people are upgrading.
Windows 3.1 promoted me to upgrade my RAM from 1MB to 4MB
NT 3.1 then needed 16MB and a new CPU
NT 3.51 ran great in 16MB
NT 4.0 prmoted the jump to 64MB and some other new hardware
With Windows 2000 I think I got up to about 256MB with new hardware
Right now I'm developing for Vista x64, and I've got 4GB in my machine with Dual CPUs and a 7800GTX video card, and I'm using a lot of the grunt available.
For the rest of your comment your sort of conflicting yourself. Your saying that every OS bolts on more overhead with each release, so you agree with me that each subsequent OS requires more hardware, but then you say that 4.0 was faster than 3.51. My memory of 3.51 was that MS had hit a kind of sweetspot with it. It felt very snappy. I think with 4.0 the churn of MFC started to come into play a bit as it's the point when MFC started to take on a lot of stuff with the release of Win 95 and so the apps started getting a lot heavier.
This shouldn't be a surprise. Windows has always been a resource hog on the PC, and it's always the case that when the hardware improves to handle the current version of Windows, Microsoft goes and releases a new version with some extra bells and whistles that have been bolted on and thus require more hardware capability. There are exceptions of course. I remember the first time I upgraded from NT 3.1 to NT 3.51 and the improvement in speed and responsiveness on the same hardware was amazing! Then they went and killed it with NT 4.0 :-/
Vista is a big experiment for Microsoft, and it's pretty obvious that the design goal of Vista was to not let any piece of hardware go to waste, thus it's definately going to drive any laptop or desktop to be hotter.
Just releasing a product doesn't guarantee anything. It has to live up to expectations or else the first few adopters will trash it on the net and general media and then demand will dry up. Same goes for the PS3.
It's interesting how you assume that XBOX 360 will be number 1 and that the Wii won't get past it. I know many people who would have never bought a console who are definately going to be buying a Wii. Even my girlfriend has been bugging me every week asking me when we can go buy one. This could be Nintendo's finest hour.
Actually I was sort of going for the conspiracy angle where the government delibrately criples the pace of commercial technology so that they have time to create new laws that govern the use of new technology.
Personally I think Software Patents are bad from the start, but have been manipulated by lawyers to be even worse. There is a kind of insurance like angle to taking out defensive patents, but then you just end up in court. Look at the mess that they lawyers have driven the medical insurance / medical indemnity / medical practitioner industry into, there is a lot of tidying up to be done in the legal system.
If you have been following recent history you will see that Microsoft have been sued for just about anything they do with software, and often they have lost for even things like including something like an interactive control on a web page.
Given this, it only makes sense for them, or any company for that matter, to patent any ideas for present or future functionality that they might have.
Software patents are here to throttle the rapid development of technology to the point that the powers that be can keep up with what's going on.
This is the fastest I've ever seen news hit the front page on slashdot.
In fact since this news broke an hour ago I've received 1 phone call, 4 SMS's and 6 e-mails about it. A coworker came running to tell me about it and 88+ news items about it have appeared so far on Google News. Just goes to show that people really care about Steve Irwin.
With that kind of influence it makes you wonder what he might have achieved if he hadn't died.
I'm an Engineer. We solve problems period. It's just up to the person in charge to formulate the problem correctly. Of course some Engineers provide good solutions and others don't, but the point is, is that a good Engineer can easily be retargeted. In fact the morale of an Engineer increases greatly when you give them somthing new to do.
A game console is a platform, the Engineers wouldn't be creating the content. I think that taking the Engineers from Sun and giving them a problem formulated by Steve Jobs could give rise to a very interesting solution.
The key to beating Microsoft is to unseat Windows. Having a new board member at Apple isn't going to do that.
If Apple was serious about unseating Windows then they would copy Microsoft's strategies. Microsoft can see threats coming. The Playstation was a trojan horse into the living room. MS pumped a lot of money into putting a machine into people's living rooms that would stop them from needing to buy a Playstation. This is a long term strategy.
What Apple should do is buy Sun and put those hardware engineers to work on making the worlds best game console. That console should be a server with thin clients around the house, it should serve up great games and movies to the tv, and also let you wirelessly connect a Monitor and keyboard thin client and use Googles internet office suite for working on all your work like needs. TV and music on demand would be served up through Apples iTunes store. With this strategy Apple/Google/Sun could take over the entire household computing needs. And you know it would be cool because it comes from Apple.
Of course in the meantime I'm going to end up buying Vista, Office 2007, a Nintendo Wii and think about an Xbox 360.