First place time machine in a large open flat area of land. Second fill time machine with the most valuable materials such as gold, diamonds or platinum. Third move time machine and go back in time to the time when you first filled the time machine with all the valuable material. Now there are two time machines. Fourth move both time machines so that you can now take both machines back into time when there were only two. Repeat until one has millions of time machines all filled with very valuable materials.
Or you could just go into the future and steal a matter replicator.
Seriously, I've used several such systems over the past 12 years but never heard of Joomla!...
Seriously!?! Joomla! is the number one non-wikipedia result on Google for the search "content management system" (followed by Drupal, opensourceCMS and Alfresco). I've only been working with various CMS for 7 years (started with PHP-nuke/postNuke) and yet I don't know a single web developer/programmer who hasn't at least read about (if not tried out) Mambo/Joomla! and Drupal.
For crying out loud, there have been five slashdot articles about Joomla! since the beginning of 2010. I, for one, don't feel that slashdot readers need to be told such details when speaking about industry-leaders in a tech field. I fully accept that some slashdotters will be lost if an article mentions AMD without the phrase "the semiconductor and microprocessor manufacturer" - I just don't think it's that much effort for those who are lost to JFGI.
I guess we couldn't use fake IDs to circumvent this, now could we?
Are you kidding?! Using a fake ID is illegal! And besides, only criminals have easy access to fake IDs. Which is why this law will be so effec-- oh, wait...
Become hugely successful. Don't you know how evil that is? It's so evil that it controls the minds of the jealously unsuccessful, forcing them to spread FUD with out-of-context quotes and conspiratorial accusations - with about as much relevant supporting evidence as the truthers/birthers movements.
Oh, yeah!? Well, once I dreamed that I was playing World of World of Warcraft (don't ask me why I dreamed this game existed, or why I wanted to play it). In the game in my dream, my avatar's character had just gotten to level 80, so I decided to have my avatar shut off his computer and take a well-deserved nap, when he fell asleep he started dreaming of playing World of World of Warcraft... Then my alarm went off. I woke up, walked over to my computer, uninstalled WoW, deleted my entire Blizzard directory, and two days later, when I was canceling my subscription, I actually really woke up. I still play WoW today, but only because I'm convinced I'll be really waking up at any second.
According to this, the number of homes in the US with Verizon FIOS availability was 12.7 million. Top-tier speeds on FIOS are 30/15, 35/35 and 50/20 depending on your locale. Comcast offers a 50/10 "Extreme" service that I'm guessing comes with a free BMX bike (or maybe a snowboard). In July of last year Comcast claimed that this new faster tier service was available for about 25 million homes. While I'm sure that many of these homes are the same as the ones that Verizon FIOS is available for, and realizing that I'm not spending the time to check the others (AT&T, Time Warner, et al), I think it's safe to say at least 50 million homes have something 25/10 or higher available. Averaging 2.5 people per household, that's more than a third of the country. Not the majority, but still a significant, and somewhat representative sample of the U.S. at large.
Should it be "much" instead? I'm not a native English speaker, so if you could enlighten me on how to use the language correctly, I would be thankful.
"Much" would be correct. In general, "much" is used when speaking without reference to any kind of unit (e.g. oil, power, land, money, data, etc), while "many" is used when speaking with units (e.g. barrels, kilowatts, hectares, dollars, bytes).
Now let's calculate how much potential productivity is lost to Facebook. So, let's see: from Facebook's own statistics it's users spend over 500 billion minutes per month. Assuming a very conservative 5% of that time could/should be spent being productive (the other 95% we'll assume is a reasonable quantity of recreation), that's 25 billion minutes a month. Divide by 60 for hours, divide my 40 for work week, divide by 51 for year, divide by 45 for a lifetime of work and...
Over 4,500 entire lifetimes of potential productivity are wasted every month on Facebook (assuming, of course, that the other 95% of the time spent is a reasonable amount of recreation/socialization). Virtual socialization? Simulated productivity (Farmville, et al)? Lives spent plugged in? The Matrix, thy name is Facebook. Now imagine the not-too-distant day when there are products/services that can combine the appeal(s) of WoW, Facebook and T.V./movies/music into one gigantic escapist experience.
I will say that just about every episode with a special guest star were the worst by far.
This is practically universal for all T.V. shows. The primary purpose of special guest stars is to advertise the show (and in return the guest commonly gets to plug their pet project/cause), not to increase the entertainment value of the show. This is why you almost never have a "special guest appearance" without numerous commercials in the days/hours leading up to the episode all reminding the viewer of the guest star's appearance. In worst case scenarios the writers shoehorn the guest star into the show at the sacrifice of dialogue, plot structure, and character consistency - sometimes even writing the entire episode to revolve-around/allow-for the guest star.
No, no, no. His career had died years before. The movie you're thinking of was the Double Tap to the groaning, brain-hungry remains of what used to be his career.
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Think of government as a compute cluster, or cluster of clusters, if you will...
You lost me here... can you rephrase that using motor-driven wheeled vehicles, please?
First place time machine in a large open flat area of land. Second fill time machine with the most valuable materials such as gold, diamonds or platinum. Third move time machine and go back in time to the time when you first filled the time machine with all the valuable material. Now there are two time machines. Fourth move both time machines so that you can now take both machines back into time when there were only two. Repeat until one has millions of time machines all filled with very valuable materials.
Or you could just go into the future and steal a matter replicator.
Yeah, but then you have to imagine the kind of rat that's immune to being nuked from orbit.
I don't need to imagine - Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird did that for me. The rat's name is Master Splinter. :-P
You're in too deep.
In contrast, if you kill them all with fire (which they are very unlikely to be immune to) ...
Yeah, but can you imagine the kind of rat that would be immune to fire?! I say nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
In those days, the little town newspapers used boilerplate from the larger city newspapers and only added in a few local articles...
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Now get off my lawn!
Ye Gods! You are old!
Seriously, I've used several such systems over the past 12 years but never heard of Joomla!...
Seriously!?! Joomla! is the number one non-wikipedia result on Google for the search "content management system" (followed by Drupal, opensourceCMS and Alfresco). I've only been working with various CMS for 7 years (started with PHP-nuke/postNuke) and yet I don't know a single web developer/programmer who hasn't at least read about (if not tried out) Mambo/Joomla! and Drupal.
For crying out loud, there have been five slashdot articles about Joomla! since the beginning of 2010. I, for one, don't feel that slashdot readers need to be told such details when speaking about industry-leaders in a tech field. I fully accept that some slashdotters will be lost if an article mentions AMD without the phrase "the semiconductor and microprocessor manufacturer" - I just don't think it's that much effort for those who are lost to JFGI.
"Identity theft" is where the bank performs legalized fraud to harm people because the bank got robbed due to their own negligence.
Here's the obligatory Mitchell and Webb clip:
I guess we couldn't use fake IDs to circumvent this, now could we?
Are you kidding?! Using a fake ID is illegal! And besides, only criminals have easy access to fake IDs. Which is why this law will be so effec-- oh, wait...
When I read his post I assumed he meant 1 Googol. Needless to say, I was awed by his optimism.
What's Google DONE that is evil lately?
Become hugely successful. Don't you know how evil that is? It's so evil that it controls the minds of the jealously unsuccessful, forcing them to spread FUD with out-of-context quotes and conspiratorial accusations - with about as much relevant supporting evidence as the truthers/birthers movements.
Oh, yeah!? Well, once I dreamed that I was playing World of World of Warcraft (don't ask me why I dreamed this game existed, or why I wanted to play it). In the game in my dream, my avatar's character had just gotten to level 80, so I decided to have my avatar shut off his computer and take a well-deserved nap, when he fell asleep he started dreaming of playing World of World of Warcraft... Then my alarm went off. I woke up, walked over to my computer, uninstalled WoW, deleted my entire Blizzard directory, and two days later, when I was canceling my subscription, I actually really woke up. I still play WoW today, but only because I'm convinced I'll be really waking up at any second.
According to cannon...
Personally, I only trust howitzer for original source material.
Term limits probably eliminate at least as many good representatives as they do bad.
My mind boggles at the implication in your post that the ratio of good representatives to bad representatives is 1:1.
According to this, the number of homes in the US with Verizon FIOS availability was 12.7 million. Top-tier speeds on FIOS are 30/15, 35/35 and 50/20 depending on your locale. Comcast offers a 50/10 "Extreme" service that I'm guessing comes with a free BMX bike (or maybe a snowboard). In July of last year Comcast claimed that this new faster tier service was available for about 25 million homes. While I'm sure that many of these homes are the same as the ones that Verizon FIOS is available for, and realizing that I'm not spending the time to check the others (AT&T, Time Warner, et al), I think it's safe to say at least 50 million homes have something 25/10 or higher available. Averaging 2.5 people per household, that's more than a third of the country. Not the majority, but still a significant, and somewhat representative sample of the U.S. at large.
Should it be "much" instead? I'm not a native English speaker, so if you could enlighten me on how to use the language correctly, I would be thankful.
"Much" would be correct. In general, "much" is used when speaking without reference to any kind of unit (e.g. oil, power, land, money, data, etc), while "many" is used when speaking with units (e.g. barrels, kilowatts, hectares, dollars, bytes).
...an old-fashioned hard drive would still be cheaper and hold many, many more data at the same time.
You keep on using that word... I don't think it means what you think it means.
:-P
This. Is. SLASHDOT!!
*kicks paper-triangle-football into empty KFC bucket*
Now let's calculate how much potential productivity is lost to Facebook. So, let's see: from Facebook's own statistics it's users spend over 500 billion minutes per month. Assuming a very conservative 5% of that time could/should be spent being productive (the other 95% we'll assume is a reasonable quantity of recreation), that's 25 billion minutes a month. Divide by 60 for hours, divide my 40 for work week, divide by 51 for year, divide by 45 for a lifetime of work and...
Over 4,500 entire lifetimes of potential productivity are wasted every month on Facebook (assuming, of course, that the other 95% of the time spent is a reasonable amount of recreation/socialization). Virtual socialization? Simulated productivity (Farmville, et al)? Lives spent plugged in? The Matrix, thy name is Facebook. Now imagine the not-too-distant day when there are products/services that can combine the appeal(s) of WoW, Facebook and T.V./movies/music into one gigantic escapist experience.
Correlation != Causation. You might as well say "Injecting mice with carcinogens is scientifically proven to cause cancer". As if!
I will say that just about every episode with a special guest star were the worst by far.
This is practically universal for all T.V. shows. The primary purpose of special guest stars is to advertise the show (and in return the guest commonly gets to plug their pet project/cause), not to increase the entertainment value of the show. This is why you almost never have a "special guest appearance" without numerous commercials in the days/hours leading up to the episode all reminding the viewer of the guest star's appearance. In worst case scenarios the writers shoehorn the guest star into the show at the sacrifice of dialogue, plot structure, and character consistency - sometimes even writing the entire episode to revolve-around/allow-for the guest star.
...most people associate diaspora with slavery, oppression, and other painful historical memories...
You have a very high opinion of most people's vocabulary.
Yeah, well, you are Wyatt Earp. There's no way you're going lose out to cancer.
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Oh...right...uhm...yeah. Sorry, dude, I didn't know.
No, no, no. His career had died years before. The movie you're thinking of was the Double Tap to the groaning, brain-hungry remains of what used to be his career.
And on an even more serious note, and based on 666,666 hogsheads per day, this is 777,859 acres of oil, 40 rods deep, every fortnight!!