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Probably this.

However, there's more to it than syntax. For example, can you point out a decent Haskell IDE?

I did write, several times, that I was comparing languages by one example. Does that sound like I would know such stuff? Anyway, try this :P

Yes. All the sources that have found trojans on data storage from Chinese manufacturers are liars perpetrating this insidious 'sham'. Granted many of these problems are unrelated to the Chinese government, but that doesn't change the threat, only the underlying motivation for the threat.

At least, not to the best of my knowledge...

You know, even though you work for Microsoft and your search engine sucks, you could still use Google:

here

Since you seem to be incapable of following links, here's one of the links:

here.

Nope through continuous variable transmission http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=prius+transmission

Neither party wants to put up the money it would actually take to fly people to the Moon, much less Mars.

And so you blame... NASA? lol, wut?

I can't think of a single, published, peer-reviewed, scientific discovery made by people in low Earth orbit. Can anyone?

No, we all imagined the biological and chemical research done by the shuttle and sky lab. I mean really, because *you* don't know anything, we're supposed to assume nothing happened? Especially when your obvious bias inclines you to stick your fingers in your ears and go LALALALA?

No rational person is going to deny the importance of automated space exploration and experiments, but not everything can be automated. You are just plain nuts if you think humans have no role to play off planet.

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The over one hundred thousand apps speak otherwise. Some examples of truly innovative apps would be welcomed.

Of course 99% is crapware, in what kind of app store would be that different? But don't deny there are also great, innovative, and useful applications: Guitar Toolkit, Tap Tap, Ocarina, Remote, Shazam, Wobble, ...

I also love how Apple basically ripped off the 'classics' app guy, but that's another story.

FYI that classics guy asked Delicious Library creator Wil Shipley for his blessing before Classics was released because of the similarities between both applications. Wil recently twittered:

I guess it's not enough Apple has hired every employee who worked on Delicious Library, they also had to copy my product's look. Flattery?

and also

Pages. Numbers. Keynote. iTunes. All these started out as products at tiny companies, not Apple. Innovation comes from them.

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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=flash+settings+manager

Most people in IT aren't anti-authoritarian just to be an ass -- they are because they have a low tolerance for people who try to order them around that they have no respect for or feel are less capable of doing the job than they are. That's readily cured with training -- but that's an up-front cost that I don't think the military is willing to absorb because skimming off the top is cheaper. They haven't had to dig into the labor pool. Maybe they don't need to, I don't know -- but the whole point of basic is to change attitudes, which is all that is. It's an artificial barrier.

Well, your stereotype of basic training, like all your stereotypes is flat out wrong. The point of basic is to instill discipline and modify behavior. The military doesn't give a rat fuck about your attitude so long as it doesn't affect your discipline, behavior, or work. (And you also seem to be ignorant of the fact that the military does hire civilians in special cases, and even assigns them to operational and deployed units.)
 

I made a general statement that holds true for the general case.

Except, like each and every one of your other general statements and stereotypes, you are flat out wrong. I quoted one specific case, but that does not invalidate my other statement.
 

Care to point me in the direction of any women who have managed to make General, in any branch of service? Last I checked, there were none.

Why not just check Google? (I imagine you haven't bothered to check Google in a couple of decades because stereotypes are easy and you're lazy.)
 

And given the number of chiefs and senior offices I knew and know that are over thirty... Well, like the rest of your stereotypes, you're simply wrong.

I was referring to recruitment, and I am not wrong.

Well, other than your general laziness, why didn't you say recruiting? And even so, you're still wrong. The military has long waived the age requirements for narrow and specialized fields where civilian experience is desirable and not available among younger people. If they don't want to put them in uniform for some reason, they hire 'em as DoD civilians.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ipod+touch+read+books ... http://mekentosj.com/papers/iphone/

Let me Google that for you... in short assisted GPS is where you use the cell towers known physical position, along with the current time, to quickly locate and identify available satellites to speed up location acquisition.

Many devices that support AGPS will still work when cell towers are not available, but some won't.

In your defense, the only reason I know about this is having participated in the Openmoko mailing lists when the FreeRunner shipped and there was an initial issue with the GPS antenna picking up interference off one of the capacitors (?) connected to the microSD slot.

Here, let me Google that for you.

Humans also have the ability of cognitive reasoning and this allows us to control our actions and urges and society expects us to do so. There are other options if Celibacy restrains someone to the point they can't fight urges, one of which is to leave the priesthood or completely ignore the celibacy with themselves or a consenting adult in secret.

You know, I'm almost tempted to go to an area which is just as reprehensible as molesting children and teenagers. This are would be rape, you seem to be thinking that women not wanting to screw a certain person is why the person decided to rape a women. It's all of their faults then right? Of course not and I don't suspect you were attempting to say that. But the same logic of requiring celibacy stands here if we are to believe you. If no woman will screw a guy, then his urges build up until he rapes one of them, so it's all the women who wouldn't give him some fault.

You mention that the Greek Orthodox doesn't have this problem. Have you ever googled that info?

Now, normally, I don't like to be a jerk. But, I'm sick. So I feel justified. Is it really so hard to look this up when you have an entire internet to help you search plus an article linked above?!

Seriously.
(I'm being an anonymous jerk.)

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Based on your subject line, I was sure your post was going to contain this link: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=affordable+video+conferencing

Let me Google that for you: install firefox 3.6 in ubuntu karmic.

Let me google that for you:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=EMI+earnings

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Sony+BMG+earnings

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Warner+music+earnings

Was that hard?

Let me google that for you:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=EMI+earnings

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Sony+BMG+earnings

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Warner+music+earnings

Was that hard?

Let me google that for you:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=EMI+earnings

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Sony+BMG+earnings

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Warner+music+earnings

Was that hard?

No.

The whole point of copyright is only to protect a creator's work for a limited time so that they may be encouraged to create it; to allow, if you will, it to be profitable to create something by restricting the right of others to duplicate it.

It has nothing to do with leaving behind a body of works to be built upon -- that describes a function closer to that of a patent, than of copyright.

Google it yourself.

Here is some info that you might find helpful.

Uhh, a quick google search shows these links:

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/12/04/how-to-convert-hexxehs-chrome-os-build-image-to-a-virtualbox-v/

http://www.unixmen.com/news-today/706-chromium-os-zero-released-

WTF is a MiFi??

Let me Google that for you.

The speed of sound in air is about 35cm/sec.

WHAT?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=speed%20of%20sound

The speed of sound at sea level is 340.29 m / s

1cm = 0.01m, so 35cm = 0.35m, therefore you're off by a factor of 10^3

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There can be and there are alternatives to GPS. Get your head out of your ass with your American bashing and your conspiracy theories. Jesus fuck, is everyone around here so fucking stupid?

How far, exactly, do you need to be from the show floor before you're not trying to "get a free ride"?

Pahrump? http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=pahrump+brothels

Here's all the help you need: http://www.google.com/

And for people who still need a bit more help...

http://lmgtfy.com/

I have a personal favorite for an ad that makes no sense today and has to make you wondering what the people back then were thinking. I give you.... The Ode to Why.

Since we know Google is never wrong, the Golden Ratio is exactly 1.61803399, not 1.618 as stated in the summary.

Right now, if you want to do something on the web, you need a web server.

Or a Google account. Or a Myspace/Facebook/etc account. Aside from renting one, there are tons of free ways to get your content up there.

I agree, it's not ideal. But I think the right approach here is to make it easier to run a server out of your house, and to upgrade to ipv6 so ISP's aren't tempted to NAT you. Beyond that, just about all the advantages you describe are available now, with existing techniques.

The model in a peer-to-peer content distribution network is more like if you need to put something up, you just do it by connecting your computer to the rest of the world. The network distributes the content according to demand. If your machine goes down, the content doesn't disappear.

Maybe you missed the part where I cited Freenet. In fact, you can have that reality right now, and you'll discover almost immediately why we don't do that.

Of course, someone still needs to run a computer somewhere, but the fact is that there's a gazillion of computers out there idling. If you can tap into them...

Then you'll be making those computers consume more power, shortening their life, using their bandwidth quotas, and quite possibly breaking some laws unless the users are aware of what's happening.

The current way of organising computers with DNS is really fairly static

Oh really?

More relevantly, even if you assume DNS is going to point to a relatively static IP, that's still something CDNs can deal with.

So it's about lower cost

By stealing the resources of "idle" computers...

seamless handling of failures

Already perfectly manageable -- you seem to be assuming one IP == one server, or even == one load balancer. That's simply not the case.

scaling

That's what virtual servers are for -- but again, it's scaling on your dime, not using my CPU/power/bandwidth.

It also seems like a lot of this is latching onto the perverse idea of reducing bandwidth by doing peer-to-peer. That doesn't reduce bandwidth, it increases it overall. It just reduces the bandwidth needed for any given node.

But Multicast does both.

Of course, this kind of thing is not going to happen overnight,

As evidenced by the awesome lack-of-success of Freenet.

Given what we know today, how could we redesign IP or DNS or the web to avoid some of their flaws?

I can think of a few things, but they are mostly much smaller, and incremental.

Unfortunately, just about every one of these proposals that I've seen has obvious flaws, so it's always a question of tradeoffs. For example, suppose we switch to looking things up by key, as Freenet does? But right now, it's at least possible for URLs to be memorable and meaningful, and it's possible to print your email address or domain on a business card and expect people to type it in. Or suppose we built ipsec into the protocol? But then that's extra overhead on everything, without improving anything unless you have an authentication mechanism -- which pushes the problem back to either keys-as-URLs or a scheme like SSL certificates.

And suppose I do want to access a specific machine? Suppose I want to go to http://192.168.1.1/ -- how do I do that?

I'm not saying there's no room for improvement. What I am saying is that the ideas presented are generally either technologies people are already playing with and using today, or they're minor improvements (and thus not worth the "you won't recognize it!!!" hype, or they're truly radical and thus will never see the light of day.

Let me Google that for you...

What is "balkanization"?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=balkanization

Give a man a fish feed him for a day, beat a man to death with a fish and he's never hungry again.

Let me google that for you.

You conveniently forget that without these necessary DRM restrictions, nobody will be bothered to actually write articles and books in the first place.

Citation needed.

Here you go: Necessity of DRM

Somebody should send those IBMers a link to Let me google that for you

and I for you

Let me Google that for you.

Linus has yet to answer me on how to install the Linux. If he doesn't have time, then he's no deity.

Perhaps he lets his prophet speak for him. He's funny that way.

let me Google that for you: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=goldilocks+planet

you're not going to see any open source DRM systems any time soon.

While I can't be clear on their efficacy, it would be incorrect to say there are no DRM systems available.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=open+source+drm+solutions

I assume a "porky pie" is something like a "chicken pie"

No, that would be a pork pie.

I assume you're a dumbass, but just to be sure how about I fucking google it for you?

Here's a brief explanation

And here's a snarkier internet response

Understeer can happen in any vehicle with even weight distribution (mid-engine) or front-heavy design. The famous Porsche 911 has massive understeer - big deal.

A rear engined 911 understeers? You don't know WTF you are talking about. Seriously. Take some public transportation or something. Use the time to learn what the big words mean that you are typing. Porsche 911 is the poster child for oversteer, not understeer. When I google that for you, it seems to me that most of the top ten results are expressing incredulity at a corner case of a modern 911 exhibiting this handling characteristic.

Your basic misunderstanding of a simple and well documented aspect of one of the more famous cars the world over leads me to believe that the rest of your post might just be garbage.

Estoppel. [...] look this one up.

It would probably help even more if you told us what it meant.

Let me Google that for you.

Let me Bing it for you, it says:

"Vista is a much more worthy operating system than Linux, you should upgrade today."

There you have it, the unbiased truth.

                -Charlie

Estoppel. [...] look this one up.

It would probably help even more if you told us what it meant.

Let me Google that for you.