Comment no better than placebo??? (Score 2, Funny) 447
Yeah, but aren't placebos effective? I thought even the FDA agreed
Yeah, but aren't placebos effective? I thought even the FDA agreed
Take whatever story from back then, replace "Russia" with "USA" and "KGB" with "NSA" and you're good for another headline.
Shooting people dead for trying to leave the country?
I have 2 generic servers in my closet that use Thunderbolt to talk to big ass arrays of disks. Nothing Apple related about them.
FYI, on OS X 10.9, if you hook up a Thunderbolt disk array built using the appropriate adapter, the OS supports AHCI 1.30 with FIS in the port multiplier and you get good throughput. Hook up the same array to a Mac running OS X 10.10, and it reports that the port multiplier only supports AHCI 1.20, and does not support FIS, and your throughput goes to hell.
So it seems to me that Apple is at least partly responsible for lack of adoption. Right now, on the current OS, a more expensive and more capable Thunderbolt-enabled drive array gives me the exact same performance as the cheapest USB 3 box. All because of problems with OS/drivers--the TB box should be giving me much higher performance.
Disclaimer, I am only 99% sure it's the OS version. To be picky, I have not absolutely proven that the regression did not happen with later hardware. But I doubt that. (More testing to come--have to move the array to try one more different Mac/OS combination...)
In some US states only one party consent is needed...
Most US states, actually
The study is much better, and the link much stronger, than the foolishness about how sitting increases your risk of death no matter whether or not you exercise.
I've never spoken to an doctor for that long and I'd be suprised if any doctor had time or could afford such a thing.
No, but a decent doctor could do the differential diagnosis of reflux vs heart problems in about 1 minute flat, without spending most of an hour on irrelevant bullshit intended only to impress the gullible (which looks like it worked, at least in this case).
Never understood why it's called an Obamaphone since he actually had fuck all to do with it.
Because his administration allowed the ~$9/month subsidy to be applied to cell phones, instead of being restricted to land lines.
And it's clear that lazy unmotivated poor people deserve to be tied down to land lines, rather than be allowed the chance to bask in the stunning luxury of having a cell phone when looking for a job.
Now that Ebola is actually a threat to rich white people living in developed nations, we can expect that new treatments will be created soon.
Treatments were under development long before this outbreak. But of course, when they become available, you'll just assume that development started after the first cases in the US and Europe.
I suspect those that turned down other university offers for this one, only to find out they weren't accepted and no have no-where to go...
The email was corrected within 7 hours--pretty unlikely there are any damages to anyone other than the huge disappointment.
It's a lot like that, it just appears easier on the surface, misleading many middle-of-the-road developers in to thinking they've got it all figured out after a quick tutorial.
Good point. And I think those are the ones defending node, not the ones criticizing it
(FYI, I've been working with event-driven asynchronous programming daily since 2001. I do think I've got it mostly figure out...)
Javascript on the server-side is total bollocks. Now that the client has gone smart again, because the browser *is* the client-side env, therefore Javascript has clearly won as *the* client-side language, and this means the server may become lean and mean again, because it can dispense with all the GUI, HTML, etc.. nonsense.
Good point.
The JavaScript world meanwhile has developed a kind of Stockholm syndrome...
Yep. Go to any support forum for node and point out what a pain in the ass it is in node to actually handle all paths, including errors, correctly, and just watch the comments rain down reaming you for not understanding event-driven programming. When I started looking at newer backends that might handle reactive stuff better than RoR, all the info seemed to point to Node.js. When I actually started learning it, I was horrified.
Node.js isn't fast. It's concurrent.
For an extremely limited notion of "concurrent". Also, extremely outdated, even though an awful lot of people who are ignorant of computing history have convinced themselves that it's totally new & revolutionary. (I've been asynchronous reactive programming for nearly 15 years, and the way node does it is just awful.)
Ad hominem-ing your way through the slashdot echo chamber I see.
Nope. It is crystal clear that the poster is severely homophobic. Maybe you should read it again, carefully, and note the unfounded assertion based purely in bias, the deprecation of the suffering of a certain segment, the derogatory references to those who support them, and so on. The post was sickeningly vile.
People don't choose to get cancer. AIDS, however, is almost completely voluntary. Nice job, throwing slurs at dissenters, though. That's the way to show tolerance!
1) Many people in the west voluntarily choose to engage in behaviors which greatly increase their chances of getting cancer. So, in developed societies, much cancer is voluntary according to your definition. Meanwhile, in Africa, many women have no choice whatsoever about being forced into activities from which they contract AIDS, and their children are certainly not born with it voluntarily.
2) First off, the basic point the "dissenter" made was completely incorrect, there is not so vastly more research effort going to AIDS than there is to cancer and there is no factual basis that would lead one to such a conclusion, it was purely an unfounded assertion. Second off, my supposed "slur" was nothing more than reading what was obvious from the derogatory way he (yes, he, that too is obvious) referred to gays and those who advocate for their causes.
Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Schulz
