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Seems like no memory problem for me:

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on mac: 90MB "real memory", smaller than firefox at 101MB

Not only are you correct, but the OP is an idiot, and further, Microsoft's employees are simply not that stupid.

I submit that we tag this article as "Troll" and force the submitter to hand over both his geek card and his right to flame Microsoft.

OH MY GOD! (again)

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Found on this thread

...picture (SFW):
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This'll make for a good joke:

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It sounds like you're suggesting a package similar to television subscriptions. Something like this.

Never thought I'd see it actually suggested here.

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Here's a solution to all your problems. Right click on the taskbar and hit "properties" to see it.

This is how TigerDirect shipped me my Seagate 1.5 TB drive. http://i43.tinypic.com/2njjyqd.jpg/ A hard drive in a plastic clamshell rattling around a large box with two pieces of crumpled up brown paper.

You sir, have won in a way I would have never, in my entire life, imagined possible.

Bravo!

The subtle body language and signs women put out there?

What, you mean like this? :-)

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(damn those bad HTML habits, posting again)

well if you're donating your brain you usually get decapetated and then dephallicated after which the prankster ligates the penis shaft to your neck thus making you an in-the-flesh dickhead. Its even possible to pose the body however you want due to rigor mortis and all... at least thats what we did to this one dude: NSFW

"It sounds extreme, but the only way to be 100% safe is to smash your hard drive into smithereens."

And I know of a great way to do that.

Maybe the web developer pie chart will shift.

I'm all for dropping IE6. It is now nothing more than a bane to web developers and the advancement of web pages in general. But to stop accommodating IE6 in your websites simply becomes someone else says to do so is naive. You should support whatever your site's visitors need.

For my wife's site, I can drop support for 800x600 since they comprise of less than 2% of my visitors, and falling (hurray!). Yes, I know fluid design can accommodate all, but sometimes needs necessitate static widths.

However, IE6 still accounts for ~20% of my visitors, so no matter what Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/etc. says, until that number drops well below 10%, I will still support it.

If you go to www.mtv.com or www.comedycentral.com (or any other Viacom property) and you're coming from a Time Warner-served IP, you'll get a nice pop up message that indicates your channels will be dropped on your (assumed) cable service.

Screen cap of the alert he's talking about, for those on other ISPs.

They can also get in trouble for accepting a card that reads "Check ID" instead of a valid signature. The merchant agreement stipulates that in these cases the cashier must check ID and have the customer sign the card in their presence. If the customer won't agree to this, the transaction should be refused. The link below is to a picture of the relative portion of Visa's acceptance criteria: http://i41.tinypic.com/v2vb49.gif

I know. I just thought that CSI: Vegas series had alredy ended and I also had to shoutout to a meme.

NSFW

The key issue is, what's she up to now and will she redo the pose for me?

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You mean like this: http://i35.tinypic.com/21ez13n.png ?

"The point is, games have rules. Once you've learned the rules, you're unstoppable."

There is an enormous difference though, the computer doesn't have any of the deficiencies of the human mind to get in the way. Most human beings 'wing it', most thought is 98% unconscious, therefore most of the time what you are testing how good someones unconscious processing is.

You'll probably find the following interesting:

(Quick version)
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(Longer version)
http://www.linktv.org/video/2142

To get to the good part, watch from 15 minute mark to ~25:00

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Emotion and rational thought cannot ever be disconnected from one another, most people are unaware of what the cognitive sciences have discovered in the last 30 years. The elightenments/western view of science and reason right now is being undermined by the cognitive sciences, and many in the cognitive sciences are well aware of this fact.

(Quick version)
http://i35.tinypic.com/10fruxh.jpg

(Longer version)
http://www.linktv.org/video/2142

(to get to the good part, watch from 15 to 25 mins)

A few wise words from our old friend Ibn...

"Therefore, the seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and deficiency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency."--Ibn al-Haytham

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-haytham

What exactly does a screenshot of openldap-server look like?

Like this

You can't?

Your name is David (hence the "D" in your username, I suppose). You live in Smyrna, GA. You're a programmer. You own a house and you have a mortgage. You use Opera. You own a MacBook Pro (which doesn't really have 16 exabytes of RAM, of course – virtual or otherwise). I'd likely have a good chance of spotting you at the Papa John's on 1325 Powers Ferry Rd, Marietta, GA 30067 – probably in the drive-through.

That's not all. I can do even better...

Your last name is Strube. Middle initial A. You're straight and you're unmarried. Your birthdate is late February or early March of 1979. You're white. You're an atheist. You're a Kennesaw State U. graduate and you went to Campbell High. You contributed $256 to Ron Paul in '08. You live at 473 Dan Pl SE, Smyrna, GA 30082. Your home has 3 bedrooms and was built in 1966.

You in 2005...
  Again...
  from '08...

And just for the record, I haven't even bothered to check your Slashdot posting history.

You can't?

Your name is David (hence the "D" in your username, I suppose). You live in Smyrna, GA. You're a programmer. You own a house and you have a mortgage. You use Opera. You own a MacBook Pro (which doesn't really have 16 exabytes of RAM, of course – virtual or otherwise). I'd likely have a good chance of spotting you at the Papa John's on 1325 Powers Ferry Rd, Marietta, GA 30067 – probably in the drive-through.

That's not all. I can do even better...

Your last name is Strube. Middle initial A. You're straight and you're unmarried. Your birthdate is late February or early March of 1979. You're white. You're an atheist. You're a Kennesaw State U. graduate and you went to Campbell High. You contributed $256 to Ron Paul in '08. You live at 473 Dan Pl SE, Smyrna, GA 30082. Your home has 3 bedrooms and was built in 1966.

You in 2005...
  Again...
  from '08...

And just for the record, I haven't even bothered to check your Slashdot posting history.

You can't?

Your name is David (hence the "D" in your username, I suppose). You live in Smyrna, GA. You're a programmer. You own a house and you have a mortgage. You use Opera. You own a MacBook Pro (which doesn't really have 16 exabytes of RAM, of course – virtual or otherwise). I'd likely have a good chance of spotting you at the Papa John's on 1325 Powers Ferry Rd, Marietta, GA 30067 – probably in the drive-through.

That's not all. I can do even better...

Your last name is Strube. Middle initial A. You're straight and you're unmarried. Your birthdate is late February or early March of 1979. You're white. You're an atheist. You're a Kennesaw State U. graduate and you went to Campbell High. You contributed $256 to Ron Paul in '08. You live at 473 Dan Pl SE, Smyrna, GA 30082. Your home has 3 bedrooms and was built in 1966.

You in 2005...
  Again...
  from '08...

And just for the record, I haven't even bothered to check your Slashdot posting history.

I'm sorry but you're not sophisticated enough in terms of conceptualization to engage my arguments. None of what you presented touches upon the parsimony of what I have said. You don't have the background to take on the above arguments and it would take too much time to educate you on such matters.

From our knowledge, knowability requires detectability (that is connection), there is no knowability without detectability, to trying to have a disembodied entity as you suggest goes against the grain of parsimony again. Hence the most parsimonious conceptions of god being that existence and god are one and the same, and god is the substance of all that exists.

I will simply suggest you look into the nature of truth and whether you are a derived from of reality (you being a derived form), whether there is one reality, and many subdistinctions, or there are 'many', your thinking is mired in fallacies of the enlightenment reasoning which the cognitive and brain sciences have shown to be false and quite erroneous.

Quick version)
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(Longer version)
http://www.linktv.org/video/2142

(to get to the good part, watch from 15 to 25 mins)

A few wise words from are good old friend Ibn...

"Therefore, the seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and deficiency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency."--Ibn al-Haytham

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-haytham [wikipedia.org]

I RTFPDF and here's the decrypted prison code
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... because it challenges all forms of knowledge. Math is actually an extension of philosophy, what George Boole and other mathematicians did, was they began to develop systems of logic under a mathematical style.

Most people here have no clue of what has been discovered in Cognitive linguistics in the last 30 years and it's implications for wester thought and mathematics as a whole. The mind does not use symbolic computation at all. Therefore it does not use the symbolic logic mathematicians developed over the centuries, and this has a lot of philosophical implications for math and scientific method as a whole.

For those up for it you should begin you adventues here:

What has been discovered in the neurological sciences over the last 30 years undermines the enlightenments view of reason and enlightenment's view of education., most people still operate under the enlightenment's view of reason:

(quick version)
http://i35.tinypic.com/10fruxh.jpg [tinypic.com]

Longer version:
http://www.linktv.org/video/2142 [linktv.org]

Philosophy is important and is highly under-rated, those who disdain it know nothing much about it. You can tell people who are intelligent from who is not, from their opinions about philosophy and the kinds of things they know or say about it. I think Ibn Al-Haytham expresses the need to always question societies sacred dogma's.

"Therefore, the seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and deficiency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency."--Ibn al-Haytham

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-haytham [wikipedia.org]

This is what too few human beings do, they always trust in what they have been taught... when much of what they know is fraught with error. I am weary of anything I say as well as anything any other man says, that cannot be demonstrated. Therefore, I only defend what can be demonstrated.

The majority of people do not take the above view, they are overconfident in what they think they know when they hardly know anything at all.

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Hah, screencapped for posterity (0 is a post!) http://i38.tinypic.com/dr8gzn.jpg

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Pardon the Danish. But clicking on the arrow extending "Paste" is, actually, so easy. And yes, as the AC pointed out, it appears in the right-click context menu as well.

"A little elitism is a good thing. You don't want just people making judgments in fields that they know little to nothing about."

Your comment assumes that men (elite men) have the universal capacity to separate truth from it's illusions, this is not the case. Elitism actually stems from the enlightenment fallacy, about the nature of reasoning and truth.

(Quick version)
http://i35.tinypic.com/10fruxh.jpg

(Longer version)
http://www.linktv.org/video/2142

A few wise words from are good old friend Ibn...

"Therefore, the seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and deficiency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency."--Ibn al-Haytham

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-haytham

Elitism = bad, having people knowing how to separate truth from it's illusions = good, but NO man has a monopoly on the truth. Experts have been frequently shown to be wrong throughout history, one only has to see the history of science to know how stupid experts are. They just don't get caught until after they are dead. Notice how when we look back in time, histories "experts" look childish as knowledge advances. Lots of histories world changers were resisted, criticized, or ignored by the "elites", especially in mathematics.

George Cantor, and George boole, just to name a few

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cantor

"Cantor's theory of transfinite numbers was originally regarded as so counter-intuitiveâ"even shockingâ"that it encountered resistance from mathematical contemporaries such as Leopold Kronecker and Henri Poincaré[3] and later from Hermann Weyl and L. E. J. Brouwer, while Ludwig Wittgenstein raised philosophical objections. Some Christian theologians (particularly neo-Scholastics) saw Cantor's work as a challenge to the uniqueness of the absolute infinity in the nature of God,[4] on one occasion equating the theory of transfinite numbers with pantheism.[5] The objections to his work were occasionally fierce: Poincaré referred to Cantor's ideas as a "grave disease" infecting the discipline of mathematics,[6] and Kronecker's public opposition and personal attacks included describing Cantor as a "scientific charlatan", a "renegade" and a "corrupter of youth."[7] Writing decades after Cantor's death, Wittgenstein lamented that mathematics is "ridden through and through with the pernicious idioms of set theory," which he dismissed as "utter nonsense" that is "laughable" and "wrong".[8] Cantor's recurring bouts of depression from 1884 to the end of his life were once blamed on the hostile attitude of many of his contemporaries,[9]..."

One could write entire volumes about the errors in reasoning and mistakes of the "elite" throughout history, the truth is hard, and no one has a monopoly on the truth. Therefore we should all be careful about being dogmatic about anything, and not tie our identities up with what we think we know, because as knowledge advances new information will likely upset our current conceptions of what we accept as truth or not truth.

The problem goes deeper then that, the author comes across to me as missing the deep links between religion, gossip, and ideology -- that they trump the facts every time.

That religious or slopping thinking is the standard for all human beings, even science is subject to the same sloppy thinking they accuse creationists and other "nonscience" disciplines, peoples and opinions of and hence the dire need for peer review, criticism, and understanding, etc.

But the truth is, all truths people think are true are riddled with errors and misconceived ideas based on flawed understandings that pass as "true" during the historical period and culture in which the people exist. Cognitive science has shown that sciences understanding of truth and objectivity is deeply flawed also, science has shown the enlightenment's ideas about science and reasoning are deeply flawed also.

Most people and scientists don't even have a clue what has been discovered in the neurological sciences over the last 30 years and how it undermines the enlightenment's view of reason and enlightenment's view of education. Most people still operate under the enlightenment's view of reason

(quick version)
http://i35.tinypic.com/10fruxh.jpg [tinypic.com]

Longer version:
http://www.linktv.org/video/2142 [linktv.org]

Today, with authoritarian governments in power around much of the world, increasing authoritarian tendencies in democratic governments, and increasing amounts of power vested in unaccountable corporations, the need for openness and transparency is greater than ever, and despite wikipedia's flaws, the fact that the internet exists and "anti wikipedia" sites exist, allow us to balance it's shortcomings through open criticism.

But you have to realize that this is a fundamental human problem for every human being, regardless of status, class, intellect, or education, many of histories brightest minds were horribly wrong in enormous ways about other things. Look at Newton for instance and the amount he wrote concerning religion, etc.

(site for those interested)
http://www.isaac-newton.org/

Socrates showed a long time ago that all knowledge and claims to morals and truth is political. The truth is political, hence the phrase:

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell

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http://i35.tinypic.com/x3xxz5.jpg Me too, Buddy. Me too.

"This is the major reason why we still unfortunately need paper journals. We need somebody to read it and say yes this follows basic scientific procedures and to the best of his/her knowledge there are no mistakes."

Darwin did not do any of this with the origin of the species and many scientific ideas from the past came out in lay/not overseen books for the reader. The fact that ideas are peer reviewed or not is quite irrelevant to it's truth. In fact peer review is flawed now knowing what we know about human reasoning, and the fact that reasoning is not as the enlightenment had us believe.

Most scientists don't even have a clue what has been discovered in the neurological sciences over the last 30 years and how it undermines the enlightenment's view of reason and enlightenment's view of science and education. Most people still operate under the enlightenment's false view of reason.

The enlightenment fallacy:

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Longer version:
http://www.linktv.org/video/2142

Bush & co have taken the long con to its very extreme.

Never before have so few stolen so much from so many

Welcome to the Great Treasury Robbery of 2008
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There is supposed to be a paypal option. See here it is. Well let's try to checkout. Hey ! Where's the Paypal option ? Well if you REALLY don't want to take my money I'll just buy something else.

There is supposed to be a paypal option. See here it is. Well let's try to checkout. Hey ! Where's the Paypal option ? Well if you REALLY don't want to take my money I'll just buy something else.

"Yeah, but as a life long geek and software development major, I find that these kids are the best kind of competition. Seriously, I know a bunch of kids that just don't have a passion for CS, and I can run circles around them just from experiences I've had messing around as a kid."

Have you ever considered most kids don't have access to an environment that allows them to grow? Have you ever considered their talents will bloom with age? i.e. is their mind ripe for the task at hand, in terms of development and maturity?

When I was a kid I needed guidance, I wasted a lot of years because the place I grew up was a small town filled with christian fundies, not the brightest bunch in the drawer. Not only that most teachers don't even have a clue what has been discovered in the neurological sciences over the last 30 years and how it undermines the enlightenments view of reason and enlightenment's view of education. Most people still operate under the enlightenment's view of reason

(quick version)
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Longer version:
http://www.linktv.org/video/2142

This idea that kids can be forced to develop is due to mistaken ideas of how reasoning works and how people's bodies biologically develop over time. No one understands fully what reason is, and how it works, not mathematicians, not scientists, not anyone right now, that is for certain.

"When it gets to the harder subject matter (SPARC ASM, anyone?), they just can't compete unless they've got a passion for the subject. Passion will get you further than talent any day of the week."

Passion can only take you so far, a retarded kid with a lot of passion will not get to the same place as someone who hates their job but has incredible ability and can focus and keep on task.

The truth is they both matter, you have to have some amount of ability and some amount of passion. Passion can make up for some lack of ability, and ability can make up for some lack of passion.

It still comes down to discipline whether you love your job or not, what drives a person to work hard and learn.

For more information, see this helpful drawing:

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I didn't understand the diagram until I sat down and re-drew it with cars instead of stars.

FWIW, I just opened a similar document in Foxit and Adobe Reader simultaneously and they look almost identical. Nothing like the link. Foxit's actually a little sharper and clearer.

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Bit of mixed message though.