>BeOS could run eight movies simultaneously while still being responsive >in all of its GUI controls, and launching programs almost >instantaneously.
You should have seen IBM's OS/2 circa 1993-95. I'm not saying it could play 8 movies at once, but, when the alternative was Win95 (shared memory), OS/2 was pretty responsive.
It took about 5 minutes to load on a 386 (386's were long in the tooth...Pentiums were out by 1995), but after that, you had true video scaling, true multitasking, i.e. a real workstation. Very fun when you weren't playing Warcraft II on Windows.
According to RMS's Wiki, he started programming at the AI Lab as a freshman. He graduated Harvard with a degree in Physics, and then officially transfered to the AI Lab.
So, I don't think it's unfair to say he is MIT trained. According to his bio, he was hacking at MIT for his entire college career.
That's funny. If you notice, all the people in that cartoon know the footage is fake, but they don't know why.
Even funnier are the Occam's Razor people, who say things like, "It would be easier to do something for real than to fake it." As if that isn't a complete contradiction.
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Panasonic was also the company to introduce sub-$1600 42" plasmas, which generally were ED displays running at 640x480 (or some other low rez). Last year, cheap plasmas were Panasonic's big marketing push. This year, 1080i/p are the new buzzwords.
A good 780i plasma cost $5000 five years ago, and a good 1080p plasma still costs $5000 today. It's difficult to justify spending that much on a monitor. Now that all the early adopters are gone, Panasonic and the other companies are wondering how to bring an expensive technology to the masses. It ain't easy. You have to justify $1-2k/year in tech depreciation, and that's only for the rich. A lot more LCD's and DLP's will be sold on sheer cost.
The current Hitachi 42" is boasting 1Mpixel+ on its specs. Meanwhile, 19" CRT's have been pushing 3Mpixels (2048x1536) for over seven years, at 1/10th the cost.
Size is the difference. Is it worth a few grand for you?
Nice troll. Saying that plasmas are more fragile than LCD's is like saying that automobiles are more fragile than happy meal toys.
If you mean that automobiles are more complex, then you're right. If you mean that automobiles are made from cheap plastic and happy meal toys are made from tempered steel, then you're wrong.
Saying AIDS isn't caused by HIV is essentially a pseudoscientific view ("crackpot" as you put it), but it doesn't benefit anyone with money or power to try and make it look like actual science. Unless there's some angle I'm missing.
Well THAT's a loaded question!
As James Pinkerton noted in his recent Newsday column, AIDS workers in South Africa make "10 times as much money" as non-AIDS workers.
AIDS drugs are very expensive and patentable.
The "viral cancer war" of the 1970's was running out of steam.
And the gay community would hate to admit that their lifestyle is a problem.
>Right, because nobody ever caught aids without having unprotected sex with strangers first.
Actually, care to cite some research showing that someone has in fact contracted AIDS from physical contact?
If all your research shows is that someone picked up HIV from someone else, that's not enough. I'm sure HIV gets passed around. But then you have to show that HIV develops into AIDS, which is a lot harder.
Good luck, by the way. People have been working on this for 30 years.
So what you're saying is, astronauts did not report being at 1500ft altitude 18 seconds into their Apollo 17 liftoff. The Pentagon did not know it was under attack after the second plane strike. Newsday did not report on at least 2 occasions that the incidence of Gulf War Syndrome is close to 200,000.
Somehow I think you're going to have a hard time backing up those claims.
You're right. Now why don't you post logged-in so you can increase your credibility?
What else can I add...AZT is a failed chemotherapy from the 1960's, regarded as highly toxic until it was approved for AIDS therapy. AZT is known as a "chain terminator" which means it indiscriminantly attacks all DNA in the body.
People who go on AZT die. Very quickly, in fact.
I wonder if Magic Johnson is taking his meds? Somehow I tend to doubt it.
I've been providing them all over this discussion. Start reading.
Or maybe you could use, you know, Google? It's funny, you seem to be implying that I've fabricated whole careers and yet you still need *me* to prove your case.
>According to your logic, because smart scientists say something, they must be right.
Isn't that your position regarding HIV/AIDS? That a bunch of TV stories told you so, so it must be right?
>You then try to say that because some things presented at press conferences were fakes, that all things presented at press conferences were fakes. Logic 101, anyone?
As usual, a JREF-style skeptic takes 1/7th of the facts I posted and tries to blow the significance of it out of proportion. I made 6 other claims, and your only other response is that smart people aren't to be trusted.
>The overwhelming evidence for the link between the presence of HIV antibodies in human beings and the development of AIDS is convincing enough.
Funny, all the people I listed say they've been looking for that link in the science journals and have never seen it.
Well among the crackpots are Kary Mullis, who won a nobel prize for inventing the polymerase chain reaction (used for "viral load" calculations), and David Rasnick, who makes protease inhibitors (an HIV therapy).
So you see, even the people whose research forms the core of the HIV/AIDS theory are claiming that their work is being misused.
Dr. Charles Thomas, former Harvard and Johns Hopkins Professor Dr. Roger Cunningham, Director of the Centre for Immunology at SUNY Buffalo Dr. Richard Strohman, former (emeritus) professor of UC Berkeley Dr. Alfred Hässig, former (emeritus) professor at the University of Bern Dr. Heinz Ludwig Sänger, former director of virology at Max-Planck Institutes Dr. Walter Gilbert, 1980 nobel prize winner in chemistry Dr. Andrew Herxheimer, former (emeritus) professor at UK Cochrane Centre Dr. Steven Jonas, medical professor at SUNY Stony Brook Dr. Etienne de Harven, professor at the University of Toronto Dr. Harry Rubin, professor at UC Berkeley
I've left out the math professors, the law professors, the science journalists, etc. The people I listed are all in the medical field.
Most of my sources come from the movie The Other Side of AIDS, where these people are personally interviewed. If you think I'm misquoting them, then it's your burden of proof. These researchers positions on AIDS are well-known.
Mullis: "You know, to say that all 30 of those are somehow caused, in at least some cases called AIDS cases, by a virus called HIV, I think -- I haven't seen any evidence for that. I haven't even seen anybody trying to bring evidence forth for that."
I'm not a space engineer, but how does a craft moving 40mph escape the moon's gravity?
I'm not an air force dispatcher, but how does a guy in a cave divebomb (or slidebomb, actually) the Pentagon forty minutes after the Pentagon knew it was under attack?
I'm not a doctor, but how do 200,000 soldiers (Newsday, two separate articles) all come down with the same disease in the same 3-day war?
How about I post evidence that people infected with HIV don't die of AIDS? You can start with the movie The Other Side of AIDS. There's plenty of people interviewed in that movie who went off meds and survived, including the woman who made the film. A few who went off meds and died, and a bunch stayed on meds and died.
"Indeed, the HIV-researchers David Ho et al. inadvertantly provided the key to long-term survival: 'none had received antiretroviral therapy'. Likewise, Alvaro Munoz reported that not one of the long-term survivors of the largest federally funded study of male homosexuals at risk for AIDS, the MAC study, had used AZT.
"In December 1995 The Advocate, the largest national gay magazine, published the story of Dennis Leoutsakas, a man who is HIV-positive 'for at least 17 years [but] doesnt have AIDS - and no one knows why'.
"Similar observations have been made by the late homosexual AIDS activist Michael Callen: In researching his 1990 book Surviving AIDS, Callen interviewed nearly fifty people who had lived for many years not just after being pronounced HIV-positive, but after an AIDS diagnosis. He found that only four had ever used AZT; three of those had since died, and one was dying of AZT-induced lymphoma. But the overwhelming majority of long-term survivors had somehow managed to resist the enormous pressure to take AZT."
(I get modded -1 for mentioning a control group, and you get +1 for talking about living forever.)
It's not as stupid as you think. I made a nearly-identical post myself.
We might know that a lot of Slashdot mods aren't smart enough to Google HIV and AIDS before modding us down, but that doesn't mean we're not giving you the benefit of the doubt.
HIV is a retrovirus. According to Duesberg, who was a nobel candidate in retrovirology, retroviruses never cause disease.
David Rasnick, who invented protease inhibitors, says that HIV has "never been found in a human being."
Rodney Richards, who helped found AmGen, says that HIV tests are "an illusion."
Kary Mullis, nobel prize winner, who invented PCR, says "I haven't seen any evidence, or even anybody trying to show evidence," that HIV causes the 30 diseases known as AIDS.
Robert Gallo, who announced HIV's connection with AIDS at a press conference, stole his sample from a French lab. What other scientific breakthroughs were announced at press conferences...cold fusion, human cloning.
Not only do I think they faked the moon landings, but I think they faked Cassini, Huygens, NEAR, and the Mars rovers as well.
"How would they keep it quiet" is the #1 argument used by holocaust deniers such as yourself (September 11 was certainly a type of holocaust). When I hit you with 500 technical arguments for why these missions are fake, make sure to bring up that argument each and every time.
I just got done watching the liftoff video from Apollo 17. At 20 seconds into the flight, they announce 1500 feet. That works out to 40 miles per hour. Not only is that impossibly low takeoff speed, but it contradicts the listed LEM acceleration of 224 G's (enough to crush your brain two times over).
How do they keep it quiet? I dunno, what are YOU going to do, now that you know the LEM takeoff speed is either 40mph or 224 G's, depending on which part of NASA you ask?
Interoperability with EVERYTHING (including over the air (OTA)) broadcast has been and continues to be one of the biggest draws for me with TiVo, though there's many indications of providers trying to shut TiVo out. Sigh.
Maybe TiVo is shutting themselves out?
The first thing I noticed when using TiVo in late 2001 was that it needed dual-tuners. That only took 5 years.
Meanwhile, I first saw an HD DirecTivo over 2 years ago. Can you get an HD Tivo right now? Nope. Not out yet.
And when the series3 does come out, it's not going to have any HD inputs, so there goes your DVD player, your X-Box, your satellite tuner, and...come to think of it, your premium cable channels as well.
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IT is a "trade" degree where your employers will view you as a manager.
Go figure.
>BeOS could run eight movies simultaneously while still being responsive
>in all of its GUI controls, and launching programs almost
>instantaneously.
You should have seen IBM's OS/2 circa 1993-95. I'm not saying it could play 8 movies at once, but, when the alternative was Win95 (shared memory), OS/2 was pretty responsive.
It took about 5 minutes to load on a 386 (386's were long in the tooth...Pentiums were out by 1995), but after that, you had true video scaling, true multitasking, i.e. a real workstation. Very fun when you weren't playing Warcraft II on Windows.
"On Mars, dust cleans itself."
If you don't know what I mean, read about the Mars Rover program.
According to RMS's Wiki, he started programming at the AI Lab as a freshman. He graduated Harvard with a degree in Physics, and then officially transfered to the AI Lab.
So, I don't think it's unfair to say he is MIT trained. According to his bio, he was hacking at MIT for his entire college career.
Here's one: Their Hayabusa asteroid mission failed to collect a sample and is returning to earth with an empty container.
That's funny. If you notice, all the people in that cartoon know the footage is fake, but they don't know why.
Even funnier are the Occam's Razor people, who say things like, "It would be easier to do something for real than to fake it." As if that isn't a complete contradiction.
Panasonic was also the company to introduce sub-$1600 42" plasmas, which generally were ED displays running at 640x480 (or some other low rez). Last year, cheap plasmas were Panasonic's big marketing push. This year, 1080i/p are the new buzzwords.
A good 780i plasma cost $5000 five years ago, and a good 1080p plasma still costs $5000 today. It's difficult to justify spending that much on a monitor. Now that all the early adopters are gone, Panasonic and the other companies are wondering how to bring an expensive technology to the masses. It ain't easy. You have to justify $1-2k/year in tech depreciation, and that's only for the rich. A lot more LCD's and DLP's will be sold on sheer cost.
The current Hitachi 42" is boasting 1Mpixel+ on its specs. Meanwhile, 19" CRT's have been pushing 3Mpixels (2048x1536) for over seven years, at 1/10th the cost.
Size is the difference. Is it worth a few grand for you?
Nice troll. Saying that plasmas are more fragile than LCD's is like saying that automobiles are more fragile than happy meal toys.
If you mean that automobiles are more complex, then you're right. If you mean that automobiles are made from cheap plastic and happy meal toys are made from tempered steel, then you're wrong.
Saying AIDS isn't caused by HIV is essentially a pseudoscientific view ("crackpot" as you put it), but it doesn't benefit anyone with money or power to try and make it look like actual science. Unless there's some angle I'm missing.
Well THAT's a loaded question!
As James Pinkerton noted in his recent Newsday column, AIDS workers in South Africa make "10 times as much money" as non-AIDS workers.
AIDS drugs are very expensive and patentable.
The "viral cancer war" of the 1970's was running out of steam.
And the gay community would hate to admit that their lifestyle is a problem.
Is that enough rationale for ya?
>Right, because nobody ever caught aids without having unprotected sex with strangers first.
Actually, care to cite some research showing that someone has in fact contracted AIDS from physical contact?
If all your research shows is that someone picked up HIV from someone else, that's not enough. I'm sure HIV gets passed around. But then you have to show that HIV develops into AIDS, which is a lot harder.
Good luck, by the way. People have been working on this for 30 years.
So what you're saying is, astronauts did not report being at 1500ft altitude 18 seconds into their Apollo 17 liftoff. The Pentagon did not know it was under attack after the second plane strike. Newsday did not report on at least 2 occasions that the incidence of Gulf War Syndrome is close to 200,000.
Somehow I think you're going to have a hard time backing up those claims.
You're right. Now why don't you post logged-in so you can increase your credibility?
What else can I add...AZT is a failed chemotherapy from the 1960's, regarded as highly toxic until it was approved for AIDS therapy. AZT is known as a "chain terminator" which means it indiscriminantly attacks all DNA in the body.
People who go on AZT die. Very quickly, in fact.
I wonder if Magic Johnson is taking his meds? Somehow I tend to doubt it.
>And yet you fail to provide any of them.
I've been providing them all over this discussion. Start reading.
Or maybe you could use, you know, Google? It's funny, you seem to be implying that I've fabricated whole careers and yet you still need *me* to prove your case.
>Oh, please. This is just like "proving" someone that 9/11 was an inside job by telling that person to watch Loose Change.
You ignored the whole section of quotes showing that people in peer-reviewed studies do survive HIV.
When a person ignores arguments as a way of making a "rebuttal", I start to wonder if they have a vested interest.
I am serious.
>According to your logic, because smart scientists say something, they must be right.
Isn't that your position regarding HIV/AIDS? That a bunch of TV stories told you so, so it must be right?
>You then try to say that because some things presented at press conferences were fakes, that all things presented at press conferences were fakes. Logic 101, anyone?
As usual, a JREF-style skeptic takes 1/7th of the facts I posted and tries to blow the significance of it out of proportion. I made 6 other claims, and your only other response is that smart people aren't to be trusted.
>The overwhelming evidence for the link between the presence of HIV antibodies in human beings and the development of AIDS is convincing enough.
Funny, all the people I listed say they've been looking for that link in the science journals and have never seen it.
Nice try. I provided a transcript. And as I said, these people make the same claims outside of the movie, in papers and in other interviews.
"Only an utter nitwit would ever use a single movie for evidence of anything." Single movie?? Talk about putting words in my mouth.
Well among the crackpots are Kary Mullis, who won a nobel prize for inventing the polymerase chain reaction (used for "viral load" calculations), and David Rasnick, who makes protease inhibitors (an HIV therapy).
So you see, even the people whose research forms the core of the HIV/AIDS theory are claiming that their work is being misused.
Some other dissenters, as per http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data2/citations.htm
Dr. Charles Thomas, former Harvard and Johns Hopkins Professor
Dr. Roger Cunningham, Director of the Centre for Immunology at SUNY Buffalo
Dr. Richard Strohman, former (emeritus) professor of UC Berkeley
Dr. Alfred Hässig, former (emeritus) professor at the University of Bern
Dr. Heinz Ludwig Sänger, former director of virology at Max-Planck Institutes
Dr. Walter Gilbert, 1980 nobel prize winner in chemistry
Dr. Andrew Herxheimer, former (emeritus) professor at UK Cochrane Centre
Dr. Steven Jonas, medical professor at SUNY Stony Brook
Dr. Etienne de Harven, professor at the University of Toronto
Dr. Harry Rubin, professor at UC Berkeley
I've left out the math professors, the law professors, the science journalists, etc. The people I listed are all in the medical field.
Most of my sources come from the movie The Other Side of AIDS, where these people are personally interviewed. If you think I'm misquoting them, then it's your burden of proof. These researchers positions on AIDS are well-known.
In fact, here you go:
http://www.theothersideofaids.com/transcript.html
Mullis: "You know, to say that all 30 of those are somehow caused, in at least some cases called AIDS cases, by a virus called HIV, I think -- I haven't seen any evidence for that. I haven't even seen anybody trying to bring evidence forth for that."
I'm not a space engineer, but how does a craft moving 40mph escape the moon's gravity?
I'm not an air force dispatcher, but how does a guy in a cave divebomb (or slidebomb, actually) the Pentagon forty minutes after the Pentagon knew it was under attack?
I'm not a doctor, but how do 200,000 soldiers (Newsday, two separate articles) all come down with the same disease in the same 3-day war?
How about I post evidence that people infected with HIV don't die of AIDS? You can start with the movie The Other Side of AIDS. There's plenty of people interviewed in that movie who went off meds and survived, including the woman who made the film. A few who went off meds and died, and a bunch stayed on meds and died.
Here's a paper by Duesberg and Rasnick:
http://www.healtoronto.com/survivors.html#lts
"Indeed, the HIV-researchers David Ho et al. inadvertantly provided the key to long-term survival: 'none had received antiretroviral therapy'. Likewise, Alvaro Munoz reported that not one of the long-term survivors of the largest federally funded study of male homosexuals at risk for AIDS, the MAC study, had used AZT.
"In December 1995 The Advocate, the largest national gay magazine, published the story of Dennis Leoutsakas, a man who is HIV-positive 'for at least 17 years [but] doesnt have AIDS - and no one knows why'.
"Similar observations have been made by the late homosexual AIDS activist Michael Callen:
In researching his 1990 book Surviving AIDS, Callen interviewed nearly fifty people who had lived for many years not just after being pronounced HIV-positive, but after an AIDS diagnosis. He found that only four had ever used AZT; three of those had since died, and one was dying of AZT-induced lymphoma. But the overwhelming majority of long-term survivors had somehow managed to resist the enormous pressure to take AZT."
(I get modded -1 for mentioning a control group, and you get +1 for talking about living forever.)
It's not as stupid as you think. I made a nearly-identical post myself.
We might know that a lot of Slashdot mods aren't smart enough to Google HIV and AIDS before modding us down, but that doesn't mean we're not giving you the benefit of the doubt.
Some of them do. A lot of them don't.
HIV is a retrovirus. According to Duesberg, who was a nobel candidate in retrovirology, retroviruses never cause disease.
David Rasnick, who invented protease inhibitors, says that HIV has "never been found in a human being."
Rodney Richards, who helped found AmGen, says that HIV tests are "an illusion."
Kary Mullis, nobel prize winner, who invented PCR, says "I haven't seen any evidence, or even anybody trying to show evidence," that HIV causes the 30 diseases known as AIDS.
Robert Gallo, who announced HIV's connection with AIDS at a press conference, stole his sample from a French lab. What other scientific breakthroughs were announced at press conferences...cold fusion, human cloning.
Not only do I think they faked the moon landings, but I think they faked Cassini, Huygens, NEAR, and the Mars rovers as well.
"How would they keep it quiet" is the #1 argument used by holocaust deniers such as yourself (September 11 was certainly a type of holocaust). When I hit you with 500 technical arguments for why these missions are fake, make sure to bring up that argument each and every time.
I just got done watching the liftoff video from Apollo 17. At 20 seconds into the flight, they announce 1500 feet. That works out to 40 miles per hour. Not only is that impossibly low takeoff speed, but it contradicts the listed LEM acceleration of 224 G's (enough to crush your brain two times over).
How do they keep it quiet? I dunno, what are YOU going to do, now that you know the LEM takeoff speed is either 40mph or 224 G's, depending on which part of NASA you ask?
It would be nice if someone did a control first to see if people infected with HIV actually die.
(Ooh, someone's going to mod me troll. Nice try.)
Interoperability with EVERYTHING (including over the air (OTA)) broadcast has been and continues to be one of the biggest draws for me with TiVo, though there's many indications of providers trying to shut TiVo out. Sigh.
Maybe TiVo is shutting themselves out?
The first thing I noticed when using TiVo in late 2001 was that it needed dual-tuners. That only took 5 years.
Meanwhile, I first saw an HD DirecTivo over 2 years ago. Can you get an HD Tivo right now? Nope. Not out yet.
And when the series3 does come out, it's not going to have any HD inputs, so there goes your DVD player, your X-Box, your satellite tuner, and...come to think of it, your premium cable channels as well.