[not to single out the Russians as heavy drinkers, iirc whiskey (the english mangling of the original gaelic anyway) meant "water of life"]
Getting off on an offtopic tangent here, but I once read a Scientific American article on the history of alcohol consumption. Turns out that the Gaelic translation is closer to the mark than you'd think, and not as a play on the joys of inebriation.
See, before we had nifty things like water treatment and chlorination, drinkng plain water was pretty risky. Cholera, for example, was a severe problem in many urban areas in the last few centuries. So how does one get rehydrated without killing themselves? The answer, my friends, is booze. The alcohol kills whatever nasty microorganisms might be there, so going on a bender would have been much healthier then than we would consider it today. ('Course, to be fair, they didn't know microorganisms caused disease, but I can imagine common wisdom saying "Ah, a nip of scotch never killed anyone...")
It's only a matter of time until some business-owner sues to remove a tag that reflects badly on their business, even if it is the truth. Imagine seeing something like "This restraunt failed Health Department inspection in 1998!" on your way in the door of an establishment. Any organization whose image may be tarnished by a tag at a certain location will want a say in what tags are allowed in their "airspace", and will scream bloody murder if people post negative comments. We've already seen it with web pages that users have to put some actual activity into reaching. It's not going to be long after this goes mainstream that somebody tries to criminalize "digital graffiti".
As soon as Oil has to COMPETE for markets against alternatives (not just oil from another supplier) prices will come down - they will have to - hopefully they will drop below viability and the oil cos will have to stop extraction.
Not necessarily. Fuel is not the only application that petroleum is used for. Petrochemicals are a prime example (who didn't see that one coming). Plastics and lubricants are others. Fuel may be a leading use for petroleum prodcts, but alternative energy sources won't necessarily cause everyone to stop producing it.
IE won't launch a file that is declared as a.EXE by the HTML header without asking permission. What we're saying here is that IE doesn't check the TLE of the file it downloads, just the type declared in HTML. So IE thinks it passed a text file to the OS, and doesn't pop a warning of a possible malicious executable.
However, once the OS gets a hold of it, it looks at the TLE and says, "Executable! Gotta run it!" And if the code slags your hard drive, you're just SOL.
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Hmm. Then the.50cal sniper rifles that the SEALS and other forces use are anti-equipment weapons? Pardon my cognitive dissonance here...
I thought the rule was anything larger than.50cal. 'Course, I'm sure that being strafed by 20mm is no picnic... (Hell, being attacked with anything would put a crimp in my day...)
Compromised? How long until somebody drops a jammer in a trash can? Talk about pissed-off customers.
'Course, I'm totally clueless about the jam-resistance qualities of 802.11. I suppose that it's actually pretty hard to disrupt the signal with interference, otherwise it wouldn't make a terribly good wireless protocol...
Since these laws don't exist in most states, Microsoft is in a great position on this one. They can't be sued because the computer purchasers get Windows from the OEMs, but the OEMs are forced by Microsoft to provide nothing but Windows with their systems... And the computer purchaser gets screwed six ways to Sunday.
Funny, in this case their EULA is effectively accurate. As far as state laws are concerned, they're not obliged to offer any warantee for anything, as there's no law that allows them to be sued.
That was pretty funny... But the idea that Galileo is just revisionist history cooked up by "liberals" kinda stretched it for me. (I could put more work into making that one plausible, but I'm lazy...)
Forget about "dream hackers"... Be worried about whether or not that squirrel soul is still floating around the 'net... Talk about a nasty case of posession.
(3) Inciting division of the country, harming national unification;
This provision is pretty interesting too... It basically says that any site suggesting that Taiwan is anything but a rightful province of mainland China is subversive... Which counts out just about every outside opinion on the subject.
I wish. It's more like "Attempt delivery at a time that is incompatible with a young, single professional's work schedule." Most of the time I end up driving half an hour to pick the damned thing up at the distribution center.
And yeah, the few times that I've actually tried to wait for them... *shrug*
My perception is pretty much the same. My job is decent and we're a legacy WCOM group, although we're horribly understaffed. Our app feeds data to a number of diverse groups, and since each of them has their own way of doing things and totally different requirements, it can be pretty stressful trying to keep everything running smoothly. But hey, I work with competent people, and our manager does a good job of sheilding us developers from the chaos that comes from trying to keep many diverse groups happy.
Bottom line: it depends. Legacy WCOM is a decent environment. Our dealings with legacy MCI haven't been all that much fun though (caused our most experienced guy to bail, unfortunately).
And yeah, don't even think about the stock options.
Might do you some good to tweak up the gain on your sarcasm detector... You might run across a lethal concentration of the stuff and not realize it. (And it's reeeeeeeal hard to get off the bottom of your shoes...
Actually, I was thinking this would be great for a dual-processor system... Have one chip that generates heat and one that consumes it, slap them back-to-back and say goodbye to clunky cooling fans!
Yah, I realized that once I read down the thread a little farther... *grin* The way I read your statement was that scientists never act like religious zealots facing a heretic. And I really thought that this was a case of violent rejection simply because the prevailing thought didn't happen to like the idea.
And yeah, I was a bit cavalier with the wording there. As you can see, I thought I was replying to a much simpler challenge.
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Always remember that the phrase "Loosen up!" was some poor schmuck's last words... And make sure that anyone who tells you to knows it.
Wow... People who have actually heard of Jack Flanders... What an odd day this is.
And they just traded it at the beginning of August for a B-52H, 61-0025. *shrug*
Yeah... I read the "about" link on the site, and the first thing that popped into my head was "Grand Theft Data".
Ah well.
[not to single out the Russians as heavy drinkers, iirc whiskey (the english mangling of the original gaelic anyway) meant "water of life"]
Getting off on an offtopic tangent here, but I once read a Scientific American article on the history of alcohol consumption. Turns out that the Gaelic translation is closer to the mark than you'd think, and not as a play on the joys of inebriation.
See, before we had nifty things like water treatment and chlorination, drinkng plain water was pretty risky. Cholera, for example, was a severe problem in many urban areas in the last few centuries. So how does one get rehydrated without killing themselves? The answer, my friends, is booze. The alcohol kills whatever nasty microorganisms might be there, so going on a bender would have been much healthier then than we would consider it today. ('Course, to be fair, they didn't know microorganisms caused disease, but I can imagine common wisdom saying "Ah, a nip of scotch never killed anyone...")
It's only a matter of time until some business-owner sues to remove a tag that reflects badly on their business, even if it is the truth. Imagine seeing something like "This restraunt failed Health Department inspection in 1998!" on your way in the door of an establishment. Any organization whose image may be tarnished by a tag at a certain location will want a say in what tags are allowed in their "airspace", and will scream bloody murder if people post negative comments. We've already seen it with web pages that users have to put some actual activity into reaching. It's not going to be long after this goes mainstream that somebody tries to criminalize "digital graffiti".
What a wonderful world we live in. *sigh*
*chuckle* Read that as Dahlmer-Chrysler... Which conjures up all sorts of gruesome yet vaguely amusing mental images.
As soon as Oil has to COMPETE for markets against alternatives (not just oil from another supplier) prices will come down - they will have to - hopefully they will drop below viability and the oil cos will have to stop extraction.
Not necessarily. Fuel is not the only application that petroleum is used for. Petrochemicals are a prime example (who didn't see that one coming). Plastics and lubricants are others. Fuel may be a leading use for petroleum prodcts, but alternative energy sources won't necessarily cause everyone to stop producing it.
IE won't launch a file that is declared as a .EXE by the HTML header without asking permission. What we're saying here is that IE doesn't check the TLE of the file it downloads, just the type declared in HTML. So IE thinks it passed a text file to the OS, and doesn't pop a warning of a possible malicious executable.
However, once the OS gets a hold of it, it looks at the TLE and says, "Executable! Gotta run it!" And if the code slags your hard drive, you're just SOL.
Hmm. Then the .50cal sniper rifles that the SEALS and other forces use are anti-equipment weapons? Pardon my cognitive dissonance here...
.50cal. 'Course, I'm sure that being strafed by 20mm is no picnic... (Hell, being attacked with anything would put a crimp in my day...)
I thought the rule was anything larger than
Uh... *wibbles*
Is that... Is that 10' vibrator made of concrete, or a 10' device for vibrating concrete? Beeeeeg Deeference. Although both peg my silliness meter...
*wibbles some more*
Compromised? How long until somebody drops a jammer in a trash can? Talk about pissed-off customers.
'Course, I'm totally clueless about the jam-resistance qualities of 802.11. I suppose that it's actually pretty hard to disrupt the signal with interference, otherwise it wouldn't make a terribly good wireless protocol...
Ace's Hardware? Why do I see a nasty trademark violation in some poor webmaster's future?
*sigh* Probably because we've seen enough of it in the past...
Yeah, I noticed that point as well.
Since these laws don't exist in most states, Microsoft is in a great position on this one. They can't be sued because the computer purchasers get Windows from the OEMs, but the OEMs are forced by Microsoft to provide nothing but Windows with their systems... And the computer purchaser gets screwed six ways to Sunday.
Funny, in this case their EULA is effectively accurate. As far as state laws are concerned, they're not obliged to offer any warantee for anything, as there's no law that allows them to be sued.
That was pretty funny... But the idea that Galileo is just revisionist history cooked up by "liberals" kinda stretched it for me. (I could put more work into making that one plausible, but I'm lazy...)
Forget about "dream hackers"... Be worried about whether or not that squirrel soul is still floating around the 'net... Talk about a nasty case of posession.
That's definitely my vote for dream job... I have no idea how to break into that field though... Been an aviation nut for as long as I can remember.
(3) Inciting division of the country, harming national unification;
This provision is pretty interesting too... It basically says that any site suggesting that Taiwan is anything but a rightful province of mainland China is subversive... Which counts out just about every outside opinion on the subject.
And yeah, the few times that I've actually tried to wait for them... *shrug*
My perception is pretty much the same. My job is decent and we're a legacy WCOM group, although we're horribly understaffed. Our app feeds data to a number of diverse groups, and since each of them has their own way of doing things and totally different requirements, it can be pretty stressful trying to keep everything running smoothly. But hey, I work with competent people, and our manager does a good job of sheilding us developers from the chaos that comes from trying to keep many diverse groups happy.
Bottom line: it depends. Legacy WCOM is a decent environment. Our dealings with legacy MCI haven't been all that much fun though (caused our most experienced guy to bail, unfortunately).
And yeah, don't even think about the stock options.
Might do you some good to tweak up the gain on your sarcasm detector... You might run across a lethal concentration of the stuff and not realize it. (And it's reeeeeeeal hard to get off the bottom of your shoes...
*smacks forehead* It's an airliner! Boeing had to have made it! They make all airliners!
*gags*
Actually, I was thinking this would be great for a dual-processor system... Have one chip that generates heat and one that consumes it, slap them back-to-back and say goodbye to clunky cooling fans!
And yeah, I was a bit cavalier with the wording there. As you can see, I thought I was replying to a much simpler challenge.
Holy living waffle iron. I think that's the most disturbing thing I've seen in years. And I read PLIF. *shudder*