As an Apple kind of a guy I used to view IBM as the enemy. No longer. Big Blue has been taking an approach to computing and IT over the past decade or so that is technically astute, and thus over the long haul economically astute.
Thanks! I appreciate, and am relieved by your comment.
Also, note that you might consider that some times folks engage in sarcasm in their posts on slashdot.
PS
I've actually done astronomy, and have the master's thesis to prove it.
So bow down amateur posers, and pay head to the voice of truth!
Here's the scoop. Heating from solar radiation when an astroid is absorbed by the 'side' of the astroid facing the Sun. As the astroid rotates that 'side' away from the Sun IR is radiated away from the astroid. This absorption, and radiation of Solar energy is in the form of photons. Over a long period of time the cumulative effect of this thermal thrusting can alter an astroids orbit. This along with gravitational perturbations cause impacts of astroids within the belt to collide, fragment, and eventually to have their orbits altered to such a degree as to place some of these objects on an intercept trajectory with the Earth-Moon system.
What I believe that the authors are alluding to is that Earth-Moon impactors undergo a lengthy process. If it can be shown that the K-T event was the result of an astroid from the astroid belt being dislodged, and if further corroborating evidence can be discovered then a lot of the Chicken Little reports, shows, etc. will eventually calm down. If Earth-Moon impactors are by and large, if not almost totally from such an event as is described in tfa then the odds of the Earth-Moon system encountering an impactor from a rouge orbit, or trajectory will be very much lessened.
I'm not surprised by this. In terms of Apple computer products the iBook is the closest thing to the iPod. Also laptops tend to be viewed by the public as more personal in nature than desktops. The question is now: how far up the Mac line the iPod carryover will go?
There's nothing odd or so forth about filtering light at certain wavelengths. If as stated it the article there is a specific color, i.e. wavelength, that is particularly effective then it would be no stretch to fabricate optical filters and incorporate those filters into glass, goggles, etc. to defeat the barf wavelength.
Which of course explains why the hoods of white pickup setting out in the Summer Sun in Texas are just as hot as the hoods of black pickups in the same situation. NOT.
Back in the 'golden age' of personal computing there were UGs galore. MacUGs, Commodore UGs, Atari UGs, and just plain ol' UGs.
Being a Mac kind of a guy, I was very active in the local Mac UG here in East Texas TAMU. The death of UGs can be directly traced to the advent of the internet, especially broadband. Two of the main attractions of UGs were BBS, which the internet just flat out killed, and file swapping, which the internet also killed, especially broadband.
That attitude is intellectually, and morally lazy. Furthermore, it in a grotesque display of the 'Who the hell are you?", "So you think you're better than everybody else?" mentality that human lemmings are so wed to.
My canned responses to those attitudes are respectively: "Your better." and "Based on the statistical probabilities indicated by the data I consider it to be highly likely."
Not that my canned answers are likely to 'win friends and influence people,' still sometimes I'll make those responses just to see the look on the lemmings face.
Why would the lady have to pay $48k? The judgement stated that the rate that her legal counsel set for her via fee agreement was $175 per hour. I would suspect that the bill that her counsel initially submitted was purposely set high under the assumption that the court would not grant the initial fee request. Sort of an initial horse-trading position.
The problem with many judges, AND many lawmakers is that they're both morally , and intellectually lazy.
I really do get tired of hearing people in comfortable circumstances belittle others who's circumstances are not so comfortable for being lazy. That is to say for being physically lazy. While physical laziness is no virtue, intellectual, and moral laziness are very much more serious shortcomings when the ones being so are in positions of advantage, and more to the point positions of responsibility.
The reason that younger generations look to the WWII/Depression generation as being the 'Greatest Generation' is precisely because the WWII/Depression generation did not have a lazy bone in its collective body. They were neither physically, morally, nor intellectually lazy.
Ok so Ibn Warraq has been debunked. Now where exactly is the empirical evidence of this debunking. It's not in the linked article. This article provides an interpretation/s of various portions of the Quran, but does not counter the assertions of Warraq.
I would point out that in aviation, especially military, navel, and commercial aviation, you never hear talk of gallons of fuel, but rather pounds, or kilos of fuel. This is precisely because the proper metric for the determination of the energy content of a fuel payload is the mass of the fuel rather than the volume of the fuel.
If your from Texas then you can contact Senator John Cornyn http://cornyn.senate.gov/.
Senator Cornyn serves on:
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on the Constitution Civil Rights and Property Rights
Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law
Subcommittee on Immigration Border Security and Citizenship
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But IBM in this case is free right?
So, is it true that
Nobody gets fired for getting IBM for free, and not buying Microsoft?
PS
As an Apple kind of a guy I used to view IBM as the enemy. No longer. Big Blue has been taking an approach to computing and IT over the past decade or so that is technically astute, and thus over the long haul economically astute.
PS
Thanks! I appreciate, and am relieved by your comment. Also, note that you might consider that some times folks engage in sarcasm in their posts on slashdot. PS
I've actually done astronomy, and have the master's thesis to prove it.
So bow down amateur posers, and pay head to the voice of truth!
Here's the scoop. Heating from solar radiation when an astroid is absorbed by the 'side' of the astroid facing the Sun. As the astroid rotates that 'side' away from the Sun IR is radiated away from the astroid. This absorption, and radiation of Solar energy is in the form of photons. Over a long period of time the cumulative effect of this thermal thrusting can alter an astroids orbit. This along with gravitational perturbations cause impacts of astroids within the belt to collide, fragment, and eventually to have their orbits altered to such a degree as to place some of these objects on an intercept trajectory with the Earth-Moon system.
What I believe that the authors are alluding to is that Earth-Moon impactors undergo a lengthy process. If it can be shown that the K-T event was the result of an astroid from the astroid belt being dislodged, and if further corroborating evidence can be discovered then a lot of the Chicken Little reports, shows, etc. will eventually calm down. If Earth-Moon impactors are by and large, if not almost totally from such an event as is described in tfa then the odds of the Earth-Moon system encountering an impactor from a rouge orbit, or trajectory will be very much lessened.
PS
I'm not surprised by this. In terms of Apple computer products the iBook is the closest thing to the iPod. Also laptops tend to be viewed by the public as more personal in nature than desktops. The question is now: how far up the Mac line the iPod carryover will go?
PS
There's nothing odd or so forth about filtering light at certain wavelengths. If as stated it the article there is a specific color, i.e. wavelength, that is particularly effective then it would be no stretch to fabricate optical filters and incorporate those filters into glass, goggles, etc. to defeat the barf wavelength.
PS
Which of course explains why the hoods of white pickup setting out in the Summer Sun in Texas are just as hot as the hoods of black pickups in the same situation. NOT.
PS
Back in the 'golden age' of personal computing there were UGs galore. MacUGs, Commodore UGs, Atari UGs, and just plain ol' UGs.
Being a Mac kind of a guy, I was very active in the local Mac UG here in East Texas TAMU. The death of UGs can be directly traced to the advent of the internet, especially broadband. Two of the main attractions of UGs were BBS, which the internet just flat out killed, and file swapping, which the internet also killed, especially broadband.
PS
Actually the potatoe was considered correct in the 19th century. Phonetically speaking the e following the o gives the o the long-o sound. PS
"That attitude bugs the hell out (of) me."
That attitude is intellectually, and morally lazy. Furthermore, it in a grotesque display of the 'Who the hell are you?", "So you think you're better than everybody else?" mentality that human lemmings are so wed to.
My canned responses to those attitudes are respectively: "Your better." and "Based on the statistical probabilities indicated by the data I consider it to be highly likely."
Not that my canned answers are likely to 'win friends and influence people,' still sometimes I'll make those responses just to see the look on the lemmings face.
PS
Why would the lady have to pay $48k? The judgement stated that the rate that her legal counsel set for her via fee agreement was $175 per hour. I would suspect that the bill that her counsel initially submitted was purposely set high under the assumption that the court would not grant the initial fee request. Sort of an initial horse-trading position.
PS
The problem with many judges, AND many lawmakers is that they're both morally , and intellectually lazy.
I really do get tired of hearing people in comfortable circumstances belittle others who's circumstances are not so comfortable for being lazy. That is to say for being physically lazy. While physical laziness is no virtue, intellectual, and moral laziness are very much more serious shortcomings when the ones being so are in positions of advantage, and more to the point positions of responsibility.
The reason that younger generations look to the WWII/Depression generation as being the 'Greatest Generation' is precisely because the WWII/Depression generation did not have a lazy bone in its collective body. They were neither physically, morally, nor intellectually lazy.
PS
So you're saying that Scots prefer redhead movie stars to brunette farm girls? PS
Riddle me this Batman...
Why is gayness considered anything but a type of sexual fetish?
I mean there are guys/gals that are 'into' all manner of kinkiness.
Is there a leather fetish gene?
How about a S/M gene?
A bondage gene?
Why should gayness alone require a genetic component?
PS
Ok so Ibn Warraq has been debunked. Now where exactly is the empirical evidence of this debunking. It's not in the linked article. This article provides an interpretation/s of various portions of the Quran, but does not counter the assertions of Warraq.
PS
I would point out that in aviation, especially military, navel, and commercial aviation, you never hear talk of gallons of fuel, but rather pounds, or kilos of fuel. This is precisely because the proper metric for the determination of the energy content of a fuel payload is the mass of the fuel rather than the volume of the fuel.
determination
1.) Remove the wheels 2.) Attach to jon boat 3.) Haul to Everglades 4.) Advertise to eco-tourist as Everglades rickshaw 5.) Profit!!!!$$$$$!!!! PH
I've just checked your grammer nazi link. It is in error. The proper symbol for grammer nazis is an upsidedown lower case 'e' on an adhesive label.
You know...
A schwa-sticker...
PS
If your from Texas then you can contact Senator John Cornyn http://cornyn.senate.gov/. Senator Cornyn serves on: Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on the Constitution Civil Rights and Property Rights Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law Subcommittee on Immigration Border Security and Citizenship
No, the one with the indestructible chair with indestructible straps, where you're straped in and forced spend eternity watching, and even wose listining to, Bill O'Reilly...
So... You're husband is a woman...