I grew up around Los Angeles, I've been to San Francisco, and New York City, so I think I deserve a LITTLE more credit than "quick dislike". And I think I'm a little less white than you might think.
Well, I'd be fine if you didn't destroy the whole city - a well place small scale bomb would do just fine. Besides - the USA has a heck of a lot more redeeming features than NY and SF. If you consider NY a redeeming feature for it's cultural aspect - Broadway, etc, and it's history, that's fine. Go for a walk around the Bronx or Queens at night. As for other redeeming features in the US, Yosemite remains entirely intact. Zion national park, untouched. Redwood forest, untouched. Philadelphia, Seattle, New Orleans, untouched. If you think NY and SF are the only worthwhile places in the US, someone needs to get out and travel. Oh yeah, and while you're out... check out the Smithsonians. They're awesome.
Actually, the use of shooting small, fast moving objects out of the sky is a heck of a lot more important than you're giving him credit for. It's billed as an ICBM defense initiative. It's the same technology that would allow us to possible change the path of large fast moving objects traveling toward earth. And maybe some other important uses that I'm not brilliant enough to think of.
I can answer that - I'd destroy New York City in a heartbeat, and I'm not even a malevolent alien race:)
I've always said I could solve most of the US's problems with 5 nuclear bombs: LA, San Francisco, New York City, Washington DC, and Mexico City
That's not even malevolence - That's disinfecting the human gene pool. The fact that there are aliens kind enough to do it for us isn't something to be complaining about. There's no committees to get it through, no environmental impact surveys, no lawsuits, it's just clean and simple.
I fall under the same category as CmdrTaco and about half of all the people who posted in starting out on slackware. That would make a good poll, is finding out what distro people started out on, or tried first.
That way of thinking is like back in the 80s when phreaking and cracking and stuff was fresh and new, that the internet should be shut down... that it should be shunned and it's evil because there are all these illegal things you can learn to do from it... It's silly. There's so much potential for good... but every bandwagon that people get on to do bad things, it's because it makes doing something incredibly easy. And it can be used to ANYBODY's advantage.
A question... if our world were to suddenly switch to the idyllic utopia of free software comletely, for every job, and it were developed collaboratively, instead of competitively, how many people would be out of paying jobs? The only paying work in the field that I can identify would be the solutions providers, the people who take existing tools, and adapt them to work for a particular company's needs. As far as I can tell, that's not enough to buy the bacon for the existing base of computer scientists/software engineers
now, considering the case where we just talk about making the world free [speech] and not necessarily free [beer], that might create the kind of world that we're actually looking for, but I think we blur the distinction way too much.
IIRC, the plan is to have x86 emulation code to run old x86 apps, but on the software level.
AMD's "strategic alliance" with Transmeta probably has more to do with x86 emulation on their 64 bit processor line than anything else... Transmeta does have some cool patents on hardware recompilers (or something like that)
The creams exist, and they work, they're just not terribly practical because sensitive, or even moderately resistant skin gets very irritated by it's repeated use.
well... the complaint is sorta too little too fast...
I guess what some would rather have is a montly "bugfixes" patch monthly rather than a "bugfix" patch weekly.
wouldn't this make really fast broadcast of data over arbitrary distances? Assuming you could stabilize the entanglement, or create a continuous supply of entangled quanta cheaply, and transport them reliably, (many assumptions... but who knows what the future holds?) you could make a quantum backbone... forget laying transatlantic fiber.
Now if we could only entangle arbitrary quanta without having to have them in proximity... Can you say quantum switching? Good... I knew you could.
Well, the issue is WHERE they broke the law. They broke Russian law, but that is out of their jurisdiction, so that action is ONLY viewable as illegal under either 1) international treaties, or 2) Russian law.
The only thing that could bite them is international treaty. What they need to do is lure those FBI agents over to Russia so they can be prosecuted for their little hacking gig.
Now THAT one deserves to be a quote of the day:
Let's not go to the lengths to say that science research - meant to further the human race - is in any way comparable to Britney Spears - meant to move us in the other direction while mesmerizing us with jiggly boobies moving across the stage.
a score:3 troll? A well thought out, intelligent, post? Funny, I agree that's it's worth the pointage, I agree that it's a troll... and yet... it feels oxymoronic to me...
Now if only we could use them to reboot the electric company's billing computers...
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CALIFORNIA..............
America has engaged in some finger wagging lately because California doesn't have enough electricity to meet its needs. The rest of the country (including George W. Bush's energy secretary Spencer Abraham, who wants Californians to suffer through blackouts as justification for drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) seems to be just fine with letting Californians dangle in the breeze without enough power to meet their needs. They laugh at Californians' frivolity.
Well, everybody. Here's how it really is:
California ranks 48th in the nation in power consumed per person.
If things don't change, the rest of the country will be hit, too. Trust me... it'll happen.
One interesting thing to note is that the idea of porting MacOS over to the Linux kernel was presented....
The Linux kernel itself is incredibly mature, enoughso that it could be used in a modern operating system just as well as any other kernel. The Linux distributions that are out there admittedly aren't as friendly. Whenever you read "Linux", ask yourself "Linux OS, or Linux kernel?"
(note to the purists: Linux OS is abbreviated from Linux-based OS)
When talking about technical merits, it might be more valid to compare BSD kernel to Linux kernel. When talking about usability and friendliness, you're talking about MacOS vs. Gnome-KDE/X (basically).
Whoa, cowboy! Cool down them boots!
I don't think this article was so much as a rant of another bug as it was a warning about the non-fix, and a rant about Microsoft's botched fix.
It seems to me that there's the beginnings of a revolt here... singers/songwriters can stand up to the RIAA without shooting themselves in the head because they can now publish on the internet. Writers standing up to publishers because they now have other forums and means to publish their work. This could be beginning of the end for the media oligopolies. Or they could win the legal battle to retain their stranglehold on the american public and artists.
If it were such a simple matter as them trying to rip us off before we rip them off, it wouldn't be such an issue... But we've kinda got this hate triangle thing goin. Publishers are trying to rip off both artists and customers, and I've never heard of an artist trying to rip off the publisher, and customer theft of published materials is (in some markets "was") nominal.
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I'd imagine, considering the demographics, that a 6 pack would would make them happy... one way or another =)
I don't think the issue is about dynamic IP assignment... dhcp works fine for that. Isn't that the worst? Wasted biting sarcasm?
I grew up around Los Angeles, I've been to San Francisco, and New York City, so I think I deserve a LITTLE more credit than "quick dislike". And I think I'm a little less white than you might think.
Well, I'd be fine if you didn't destroy the whole city - a well place small scale bomb would do just fine. Besides - the USA has a heck of a lot more redeeming features than NY and SF. If you consider NY a redeeming feature for it's cultural aspect - Broadway, etc, and it's history, that's fine. Go for a walk around the Bronx or Queens at night. As for other redeeming features in the US, Yosemite remains entirely intact. Zion national park, untouched. Redwood forest, untouched. Philadelphia, Seattle, New Orleans, untouched. If you think NY and SF are the only worthwhile places in the US, someone needs to get out and travel. Oh yeah, and while you're out... check out the Smithsonians. They're awesome.
Actually, the use of shooting small, fast moving objects out of the sky is a heck of a lot more important than you're giving him credit for. It's billed as an ICBM defense initiative. It's the same technology that would allow us to possible change the path of large fast moving objects traveling toward earth. And maybe some other important uses that I'm not brilliant enough to think of.
Technically, it is not the star wars program, but son of star wars... minor clarification
I can answer that - I'd destroy New York City in a heartbeat, and I'm not even a malevolent alien race :)
I've always said I could solve most of the US's problems with 5 nuclear bombs: LA, San Francisco, New York City, Washington DC, and Mexico City That's not even malevolence - That's disinfecting the human gene pool. The fact that there are aliens kind enough to do it for us isn't something to be complaining about. There's no committees to get it through, no environmental impact surveys, no lawsuits, it's just clean and simple.
I fall under the same category as CmdrTaco and about half of all the people who posted in starting out on slackware. That would make a good poll, is finding out what distro people started out on, or tried first.
That way of thinking is like back in the 80s when phreaking and cracking and stuff was fresh and new, that the internet should be shut down... that it should be shunned and it's evil because there are all these illegal things you can learn to do from it... It's silly. There's so much potential for good... but every bandwagon that people get on to do bad things, it's because it makes doing something incredibly easy. And it can be used to ANYBODY's advantage.
uhhh... yeah. That would make sense. It's the IA-64 that doesn't... sorry. brain fart.
A question... if our world were to suddenly switch to the idyllic utopia of free software comletely, for every job, and it were developed collaboratively, instead of competitively, how many people would be out of paying jobs? The only paying work in the field that I can identify would be the solutions providers, the people who take existing tools, and adapt them to work for a particular company's needs. As far as I can tell, that's not enough to buy the bacon for the existing base of computer scientists/software engineers
now, considering the case where we just talk about making the world free [speech] and not necessarily free [beer], that might create the kind of world that we're actually looking for, but I think we blur the distinction way too much.
IIRC, the plan is to have x86 emulation code to run old x86 apps, but on the software level. AMD's "strategic alliance" with Transmeta probably has more to do with x86 emulation on their 64 bit processor line than anything else... Transmeta does have some cool patents on hardware recompilers (or something like that)
Removing facial hair using a depilatory cream.
The creams exist, and they work, they're just not terribly practical because sensitive, or even moderately resistant skin gets very irritated by it's repeated use.
well... the complaint is sorta too little too fast...
I guess what some would rather have is a montly "bugfixes" patch monthly rather than a "bugfix" patch weekly.
wouldn't this make really fast broadcast of data over arbitrary distances? Assuming you could stabilize the entanglement, or create a continuous supply of entangled quanta cheaply, and transport them reliably, (many assumptions... but who knows what the future holds?) you could make a quantum backbone... forget laying transatlantic fiber. Now if we could only entangle arbitrary quanta without having to have them in proximity... Can you say quantum switching? Good... I knew you could.
Well, the issue is WHERE they broke the law. They broke Russian law, but that is out of their jurisdiction, so that action is ONLY viewable as illegal under either 1) international treaties, or 2) Russian law.
The only thing that could bite them is international treaty. What they need to do is lure those FBI agents over to Russia so they can be prosecuted for their little hacking gig.
Now THAT one deserves to be a quote of the day: Let's not go to the lengths to say that science research - meant to further the human race - is in any way comparable to Britney Spears - meant to move us in the other direction while mesmerizing us with jiggly boobies moving across the stage.
a score:3 troll? A well thought out, intelligent, post? Funny, I agree that's it's worth the pointage, I agree that it's a troll... and yet... it feels oxymoronic to me...
Now if only we could use them to reboot the electric company's billing computers...
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CALIFORNIA..............
America has engaged in some finger wagging lately because California doesn't have enough electricity to meet its needs. The rest of the country (including George W. Bush's energy secretary Spencer Abraham, who wants Californians to suffer through blackouts as justification for drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) seems to be just fine with letting Californians dangle in the breeze without enough power to meet their needs. They laugh at Californians' frivolity.
Well, everybody. Here's how it really is:
California ranks 48th in the nation in power consumed per person.
If things don't change, the rest of the country will be hit, too. Trust me... it'll happen.
One interesting thing to note is that the idea of porting MacOS over to the Linux kernel was presented....
The Linux kernel itself is incredibly mature, enoughso that it could be used in a modern operating system just as well as any other kernel. The Linux distributions that are out there admittedly aren't as friendly. Whenever you read "Linux", ask yourself "Linux OS, or Linux kernel?"
(note to the purists: Linux OS is abbreviated from Linux-based OS)
When talking about technical merits, it might be more valid to compare BSD kernel to Linux kernel. When talking about usability and friendliness, you're talking about MacOS vs. Gnome-KDE/X (basically).
Whoa, cowboy! Cool down them boots!
I don't think this article was so much as a rant of another bug as it was a warning about the non-fix, and a rant about Microsoft's botched fix.
makes me wanna go out and register open.gl (greenland)...
and make a website about open green pastures.
and then anonymously report myself to SGI.
I think the number of shootings has gone way up because more and more desperate kids are seeing that as an option as it gets more visibility.
It seems to me that there's the beginnings of a revolt here... singers/songwriters can stand up to the RIAA without shooting themselves in the head because they can now publish on the internet. Writers standing up to publishers because they now have other forums and means to publish their work. This could be beginning of the end for the media oligopolies. Or they could win the legal battle to retain their stranglehold on the american public and artists.
If it were such a simple matter as them trying to rip us off before we rip them off, it wouldn't be such an issue... But we've kinda got this hate triangle thing goin. Publishers are trying to rip off both artists and customers, and I've never heard of an artist trying to rip off the publisher, and customer theft of published materials is (in some markets "was") nominal.