Maybe we should take a step back and realize that if US military action was truly an honorable force for good, it wouldn't need propaganda shows? Instead of a wizz-bang look-at-those-planes event, maybe we should be investigating the internal military culture where it's acceptable to piss on enemy graves? Imagine all the stuff that the press DOESN'T know.
I don't buy Monsanto products. I buy vegetables from a number of names of companies which may or may not use Monsanto products. They're not required to be labeled in my country as such, so aren't. Even if they were, I doubt they would have a big Monsanto logo on the back proudly proclaiming they provided the seeds, or the seeds that produced the vegetables used in my purchased soup, or the seeds that produced the grains that were fed to the animals that provided the meat for my burger.
Gotta love sense of proportion. You've got companies like Monsanto and Academi (formerly Blackwater) and a raft of multinationals polluting and doing bad stuff - but the one that causes the outrage? EA.
Monsanto, Academi, and Polluting Multinational #32, Inc. don't market to the public. I would doubt the average person has never heard of any of the biggest offenders. Their customers probably like them a lot, and the problem is really that the government oversight is lacking or just plain looking the other way.
Of course, you could nominate them next year and see how they do.
They're right about claiming our hate doesn't matter as long as they get money.
Because for whatever reason, people still keep buying EA software no matter how buggy, no matter how user hostile, no matter how demeaning, no matter what the price.
I think it's just proof positive that the majority of gamers are, at heart, masochists searching for a sadist.
I thought we valued people paying their fair share of taxes.
The Googlers are certainly in the top 5% of earners in the US, many of them are probably in the top 1%.
Why wouldn't you want them paying their fair share?
Are we going to go after schoolchildren that trade desert cups at lunchtime because one has a higher value than another and can be called taxable income? If I pay the check for a date does that mean she has to declare it on her taxes?
Any company that provides free (to the employee) lunch is eating the cost, pardon the pun. If the issue is whether the lunch benefit is taxable, perhaps buying the food from a supplier should already pay the tax. I have no idea if it does right now or not, or what tax arrangements are to be had, but to call this a Google problem is just looking for a reason to be bitchy at those who have more than you.
Simple really. The flight height of the hard drive heads are tuned to the specific rotational rate of the drive. Change the RPM substantially and the heads fly at the wrong height, and your drive doesn't work anymore.
Drives that go to a slower speed while idling have to park the heads off the disk to prevent the heads from crashing into the disks at the lower speeds.
Thank you, that's the kind of educational stuff I was looking for.
See the current Slashdot poll about laptops. The winning request is better battery life. How much extra juice does it take to spin those platters at 7200RPM? Perhaps Seagate's manufacturing decision to use 5400 is better informed than it appears.
I would instead urge hard drive manufacturers to take a page from the CPU manufacturers and get busy on a variable speed hard drive. I see no reason why a hard drive can't just putt putt around at a slow speed and ramp up that speed if the IO queue starts filling faster than it can be emptied.
How about we avoid doing the same mistake with China this time ? The military buildup of China is all but neglectable.
Neither is the 1st world having outsourced all their dirty industry to appease the environmentalists. That ship has sailed, good luck relocating back without riots and protests.
During the transition period, the Pentagon will murder whoever the CIA asks them to, and vice versa, and it will be impossible to pin blame on either of them.
After the transition, the CIA will probably keep using drones the same way as before, just keeping it slightly more secret, and pulling out different legal nonsense when they get caught.
The CIA doesn't need drones to murder Americans. They've been doing it since founding. Favorite example: no one has ever been made to answer for MK-ULTRA and pay for their crimes.
So impeachment exists only for very important things like sex with the unpaid summer intern. So treason doesn't qualifies then.
Eh, the word "treason" gets tossed around a lot these days, in the continually escalating shouting match between self-righteous ideologues that is present day politics.
How to be successful: * Socialize the risks * Privatize the profits
Even commercial car washes have limits on pollutants they pass forward to water treatment plants. I guess someone just conveniently forgot to include these energy companies.
Confirmation bias. You've seen too many really bad consequences of drug use, but you don't see the invisible consequences of drug use because it doesn't cause problems by itself.
You don't see drunken people limping home on foot and passing out on the rug in their bathroom, you see the ones with amazingly poor judgement that decide to get behind the wheel. You don't see a pothead smoking out in his home ordering a pizza, you see the dealers shooting each other in the streets for turf. You don't see the cocaine user doing a line before sex, you see the OD in the emergency room.
The sooner society admits that some people can handle a little freedom and some can't, and crafts it's laws with these in mind instead of hard absolutes, the sooner we fix things.
The US wants to have a heavy influence (which is a form of power) over the rest of the world. It also tends to act like the world's police.
As someone in the US opposed to military spending for this purpose, how come the host countries aren't kicking the US military out? It seems they're more than happy having World Police in their country. Perhaps because that's military funding they don't have to spend themselves?
you can always pick of exceptions to what I said. Most of the people I know who complain about not having time or being to busy are just lying to themselves to prevent from having to do work. Even when I'm busy, which I can admit isn't every day I can still find a hour or even 1/2 hour to do something. On my busiest weeks I probably work 100+hours and yet someone manage to get a workout in. I'm not saying some people aren't to busy but the majority who say they are just have an issue with time management.
I wouldn't go so far to say that they're lying to themselves: they are legitimately busy. It's just that their order their priorities such that working out is a lower priority than watching American Talent Can Dance Island of Fortune.
Motivation is, perhaps, the number one factor in fitness. And key to motivation is expectations versus results. Unfortunately, society paints a picture that anybody can work out and have a movie star body, when really it's the genes, a personal trainer, and eight hours a day working out that does it. Framed up for such unrealistic goals, the average person might get motivated, suffer through the sweat and effort, maybe even feel the sting of humiliation when they try to perform physically, and get themselves completely psyched out. That's when thoughts that it's not worth it surface, and therefore giving up and making other things more important than fitness.
It's been the traditional male role...imposed by MEN. And, actually, once women got out into the workforce, they were still forced into the same gender roles as before, just with less time on their hands. But in any case, that's not an excuse, it's just part of a larger problem. Why do those gender roles exist? Why are we so bad at overturning them? Why do more women graduate with undergraduate degrees, but fewer complete graduate studies? Why are women expected to take care of children and put THEIR careers on hold? Hmm?
So, do you really believe all the men came together and said "mwa ha ha we're going to impose these roles on these people because they have no free will at all?"
You raise good questions, but I don't think we have all the answers, and certainly "men" is not the cause of these ills. It's a convenient answer, sure. It's an answer that can inspire guilt and therefore guilting men into doing what you want. But it's not the right answer, and the truth deserves more respect than that.
Stopped reading at Anita Sarkeesian. She's not only a fraud, but trollbaiter of the highest order. Check it out, she's the master of self-victimization.
As long as they're ripping off iOS features it would be nice if Android manufactures would copy Apple's policy of providing reliable system updates for several years. And no, Cynanogen doesn't count.
Hear hear. I had an unpleasant shock when Google decided to drop support for the Nexus S the day the Nexus 4 was announced, even though it has several outstanding reboot bugs.
Max Levchin, co-founder of Paypal, is right. Silicon Valley should instead focus on providing services that treat their customers like dirt and everyone hates, like Paypal.
So..Life is difficult.Jobs are hard...should the FCC investigate them?
All I did was call the #, tell them to cancel.Said no 4 times, Reiterated to cancel it, received confirmation #..not that bad.
Is there any legal standards for cancelling a subscription? If I opened up a service that offered a free trial and my cancellations department was one guy who only answered one call between 3:03:00 am and 3:03:15 am, Monday through Wednesday excluding holidays, would that still be acceptable?
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Maybe we should take a step back and realize that if US military action was truly an honorable force for good, it wouldn't need propaganda shows? Instead of a wizz-bang look-at-those-planes event, maybe we should be investigating the internal military culture where it's acceptable to piss on enemy graves? Imagine all the stuff that the press DOESN'T know.
We're supposed to be better than that, right?
"Monsanto doesn't market to the public"
You do eat, right?
I don't buy Monsanto products. I buy vegetables from a number of names of companies which may or may not use Monsanto products. They're not required to be labeled in my country as such, so aren't. Even if they were, I doubt they would have a big Monsanto logo on the back proudly proclaiming they provided the seeds, or the seeds that produced the vegetables used in my purchased soup, or the seeds that produced the grains that were fed to the animals that provided the meat for my burger.
Gotta love sense of proportion. You've got companies like Monsanto and Academi (formerly Blackwater) and a raft of multinationals polluting and doing bad stuff - but the one that causes the outrage? EA.
Monsanto, Academi, and Polluting Multinational #32, Inc. don't market to the public. I would doubt the average person has never heard of any of the biggest offenders. Their customers probably like them a lot, and the problem is really that the government oversight is lacking or just plain looking the other way.
Of course, you could nominate them next year and see how they do.
They're right about claiming our hate doesn't matter as long as they get money.
Because for whatever reason, people still keep buying EA software no matter how buggy, no matter how user hostile, no matter how demeaning, no matter what the price.
I think it's just proof positive that the majority of gamers are, at heart, masochists searching for a sadist.
Blame Regan... He started the insanity
No, blame John Keynes, he advocated what the various world governments started doing in the 1930s.
I thought we valued people paying their fair share of taxes.
The Googlers are certainly in the top 5% of earners in the US, many of them are probably in the top 1%.
Why wouldn't you want them paying their fair share?
Are we going to go after schoolchildren that trade desert cups at lunchtime because one has a higher value than another and can be called taxable income? If I pay the check for a date does that mean she has to declare it on her taxes?
Any company that provides free (to the employee) lunch is eating the cost, pardon the pun. If the issue is whether the lunch benefit is taxable, perhaps buying the food from a supplier should already pay the tax. I have no idea if it does right now or not, or what tax arrangements are to be had, but to call this a Google problem is just looking for a reason to be bitchy at those who have more than you.
Simple really. The flight height of the hard drive heads are tuned to the specific rotational rate of the drive. Change the RPM substantially and the heads fly at the wrong height, and your drive doesn't work anymore.
Drives that go to a slower speed while idling have to park the heads off the disk to prevent the heads from crashing into the disks at the lower speeds.
Thank you, that's the kind of educational stuff I was looking for.
I know YOU see no reason for not having vari speed in mechanics.
then again, its very clear to me that you have no clue how the electronics, clocking and mechanics would DO that.
maybe, just maybe, its not do-able within reason.
varispeed is marketing BS. it makes no sense to vary platter speed. stupid idea, in fact!
So light a candle instead of damning the darkness and clue us all in to how it won't work.
I remember when CD drives were all CAV and only ran at that one speed. I don't think you give engineers proper consideration for their craft.
See the current Slashdot poll about laptops. The winning request is better battery life. How much extra juice does it take to spin those platters at 7200RPM? Perhaps Seagate's manufacturing decision to use 5400 is better informed than it appears.
I would instead urge hard drive manufacturers to take a page from the CPU manufacturers and get busy on a variable speed hard drive. I see no reason why a hard drive can't just putt putt around at a slow speed and ramp up that speed if the IO queue starts filling faster than it can be emptied.
Remember when higher education was concerned with, well, education, instead of "branding"?
How about we avoid doing the same mistake with China this time ?
The military buildup of China is all but neglectable.
Neither is the 1st world having outsourced all their dirty industry to appease the environmentalists. That ship has sailed, good luck relocating back without riots and protests.
Hello it's 2013, 2006 want's it's PS2 issue back.
Hello, 1998 calling, it wants it overused condescending unfunny phrase back.
During the transition period, the Pentagon will murder whoever the CIA asks them to, and vice versa, and it will be impossible to pin blame on either of them.
After the transition, the CIA will probably keep using drones the same way as before, just keeping it slightly more secret, and pulling out different legal nonsense when they get caught.
The CIA doesn't need drones to murder Americans. They've been doing it since founding. Favorite example: no one has ever been made to answer for MK-ULTRA and pay for their crimes.
So impeachment exists only for very important things like sex with the unpaid summer intern. So treason doesn't qualifies then.
Eh, the word "treason" gets tossed around a lot these days, in the continually escalating shouting match between self-righteous ideologues that is present day politics.
Wow, you substituted a dollar sign for the 's'. That is pretty cool and original!
Eh, he missed a few. I'm not impressed.
How about similar sentences courts are handing out for file sharing?
If file sharing is linked to poisoning thousands for profit, sure.
How to be successful:
* Socialize the risks
* Privatize the profits
Even commercial car washes have limits on pollutants they pass forward to water treatment plants. I guess someone just conveniently forgot to include these energy companies.
Confirmation bias. You've seen too many really bad consequences of drug use, but you don't see the invisible consequences of drug use because it doesn't cause problems by itself.
You don't see drunken people limping home on foot and passing out on the rug in their bathroom, you see the ones with amazingly poor judgement that decide to get behind the wheel. You don't see a pothead smoking out in his home ordering a pizza, you see the dealers shooting each other in the streets for turf. You don't see the cocaine user doing a line before sex, you see the OD in the emergency room.
The sooner society admits that some people can handle a little freedom and some can't, and crafts it's laws with these in mind instead of hard absolutes, the sooner we fix things.
The US wants to have a heavy influence (which is a form of power) over the rest of the world. It also tends to act like the world's police.
As someone in the US opposed to military spending for this purpose, how come the host countries aren't kicking the US military out? It seems they're more than happy having World Police in their country. Perhaps because that's military funding they don't have to spend themselves?
you can always pick of exceptions to what I said. Most of the people I know who complain about not having time or being to busy are just lying to themselves to prevent from having to do work. Even when I'm busy, which I can admit isn't every day I can still find a hour or even 1/2 hour to do something. On my busiest weeks I probably work 100+hours and yet someone manage to get a workout in. I'm not saying some people aren't to busy but the majority who say they are just have an issue with time management.
I wouldn't go so far to say that they're lying to themselves: they are legitimately busy. It's just that their order their priorities such that working out is a lower priority than watching American Talent Can Dance Island of Fortune.
Motivation is, perhaps, the number one factor in fitness. And key to motivation is expectations versus results. Unfortunately, society paints a picture that anybody can work out and have a movie star body, when really it's the genes, a personal trainer, and eight hours a day working out that does it. Framed up for such unrealistic goals, the average person might get motivated, suffer through the sweat and effort, maybe even feel the sting of humiliation when they try to perform physically, and get themselves completely psyched out. That's when thoughts that it's not worth it surface, and therefore giving up and making other things more important than fitness.
It's been the traditional male role...imposed by MEN. And, actually, once women got out into the workforce, they were still forced into the same gender roles as before, just with less time on their hands. But in any case, that's not an excuse, it's just part of a larger problem. Why do those gender roles exist? Why are we so bad at overturning them? Why do more women graduate with undergraduate degrees, but fewer complete graduate studies? Why are women expected to take care of children and put THEIR careers on hold? Hmm?
So, do you really believe all the men came together and said "mwa ha ha we're going to impose these roles on these people because they have no free will at all?"
You raise good questions, but I don't think we have all the answers, and certainly "men" is not the cause of these ills. It's a convenient answer, sure. It's an answer that can inspire guilt and therefore guilting men into doing what you want. But it's not the right answer, and the truth deserves more respect than that.
Stopped reading at Anita Sarkeesian. She's not only a fraud, but trollbaiter of the highest order. Check it out, she's the master of self-victimization.
As long as they're ripping off iOS features it would be nice if Android manufactures would copy Apple's policy of providing reliable system updates for several years. And no, Cynanogen doesn't count.
Hear hear. I had an unpleasant shock when Google decided to drop support for the Nexus S the day the Nexus 4 was announced, even though it has several outstanding reboot bugs.
Max Levchin, co-founder of Paypal, is right. Silicon Valley should instead focus on providing services that treat their customers like dirt and everyone hates, like Paypal.
So..Life is difficult.Jobs are hard...should the FCC investigate them?
All I did was call the #, tell them to cancel.Said no 4 times, Reiterated to cancel it, received confirmation #..not that bad.
Is there any legal standards for cancelling a subscription? If I opened up a service that offered a free trial and my cancellations department was one guy who only answered one call between 3:03:00 am and 3:03:15 am, Monday through Wednesday excluding holidays, would that still be acceptable?