I've seen the video but the explanation I heard is they were practicing for an air show and stalled the plane (this was on the discovery wings channel a while back).
The article made no mention of them not being native - can you cite a source? If they are not native, then no wonder they have no natural population control!
That CNN article is the most useless one I've read in ages. It fails to provide any of the following information:
1) How would nature control population growth in koalas?
2) Have we in some way removed that control and can it be re-introduced.
All the article talks about is why we should or should not shoot them. There is no indication whatsoever that anybody cares why the koalas are overpopulated (and no, a quick blurb about urbanization doesn't count).
I'm sure that I'm in the minority here - but I hate to see Google do this. It seems to me that once you go public, then you have to answer to your shareholders. No longer can one spend money on interesting but probably unprofitable exercises. No longer can you make decisions based on the right thing to do (i.e. text-only ads). And googlelabs will either dissapear or become really dull - and the main page will become cluttered with ads.
Google has been a bright spot on the internet for years - my guess is the ipo is the begining of the end.:(
Now, do these folks deserve as much money as they can get - I think so. But I also think that most of the origiinal google people already have more money than they know what to do with - is more money (even 2 billion) worth giving up creative control?
In the long honored tradition of slashbots, we must all mark him as foe and shame him for using an OS different from our own. For shame! For shame! How darest thou useth Windows, and how darest the Editors post a story that proclaims that windows is a good OS!!! Mark him as foe, mark him as foe I say!
This is too good to be true. Not only are we asked to not make fun of a windows user, but one who re-installs his OS every month!
What I want to know is *why* he reinstalls his OS every month. As much as I like to make fun of windows, there's no way it should degrade this fast (or at all with proper care and feeding).
I'd say you are both right. Zips were a huge sucess at first - they sold tons of the units. But when their low quality became apparent (click-of-death issues) and as cd-burners became less-expensive, zip media died the death it deserved.
I called SCO months ago and told them (truthfully) that I won and operate a 14 computer internet cafe all running linux. I asked them to send me a bill (which I would, of course, ignore).
But then I let slip I was going to forward it to the California State Attorney General and ask them to sue SCO for attempted fraud.
It's not the job of the CyberCafes to act as police -- the CyberCafes pay taxes that pay for cops and DAs, whose job it is to deal with crime. And where have those cops and DAs been, anyway?
An owner of a business that deals on a daily basis with minors has a responsibilty to the community (and to themselves) to make sure that kids who are there during school hours aren't skipping class (ie, homeschool or vacations or??). they also have a responsibilty to make sure it's a safe environment - no weapson, drugs or alcohol on or near the premises.
I deal with it simply by not being open when school is in session (see my earlier post above).
I truly believe that one has to be responsible about these things in order to be successful. I also believe this is not rocket science and should be intuitive to anybody who wants to run this kind of business.
All this is very fascinating, really. But nothing changes (or will change) the fact that people are asked to leave my place who are under the influence of drugs/alchohol, show any form of physical violence, or continue to swear or cuss after being reminded there are kids around. This is in no way discriminates against the public and is completly within my power as a business owner.
And yes, the original incedent occured outside the gaming center, but the owner still had some control over that. Most cities have anti-loitering ordinences just for that purpose.
All I'm saying is that if the owner decides to create a safe place for people to play video games, then it will be a safe place.
This is legislation designed to make up for incompetent busniess owners.
I own and run a gaming center and have zero problems with students skipping class and violence in or near the store. How?
1) I'm only open when the high school is closed. This means I open at 3pm on weekdays (noon on weekends and holidays). This may sound like a big deal, but it's not - 85% of my business comes from local high and jr. high schools (and most of the other are adults who work during the day).
2) I reserve the right to throw anybody out of the store I want. And I do, but only when someone gets out of hand (forgets that it's just a game). I set a tone of "have fun and be respectful" and my customers pick up on this.
No, I'm not in southern cal where there are more gangs, but still - this is not rocket science.
FWIW: I own a PC gaming cafe (dual-boot linux/winxp) - and I have ET. Great game (that runs just as well on wither OS) and it gets played almost every day (nothing like cs however). Looking forward to seeing Urban Terror on the newer engine.
BTW - all my HL keys are legit - I can buy it for less than $15 american.
Yet Another Useless Port That Wont Gain New Market Share.
I'm not so sure of that. At this point the only free Office Suite for OS X requires X11 (openeoffice) and while a native port of openoffice *is* in the works, I bet these folks get koffice running in OS X (w/o needing X11) much sooner that the OO port.
My favorite so far has been one of the local tv stations that users windows to schedule programming, and when it crashed, their channel showed a bsod for 3 hours.....:)
Listen - this is what happens when we ask someone else to make decisions for us.
If you are a parent, you have 3 choices:
1) Sit down with your child and explain what sites are acceptabe and which are not. Then either monitor their activity or trust them.
2) Assign the responsibilty of deciding which sites are acceptable by purchasing and using filtering software. Just remember that you are not going to agree 100% with the decisions made by any of these software makers as to which content is appropriate and which is not.
3) allow unfiltered, unmonitored access to the internet.
Just my 2 cents
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That's a great map. My only complaint is there are 3 large active fires in Humboldt County that have been burning for weeks and aren't listed.
The good news is that none of them are threatening homes or other structures at the momemt, and no lives have been lost as a result of them.
WINE is a lot of work, just to provide a crutch for people who want to say they run Linux, but are afraid of learning a different way to get their stuff done.
WINE *is* a lot of work. Even to set up. I use it. But not because I'm afraid of learning a different way.
I use it to play games. There are some awesome games that run native in linux (AA, NWN, ET And RtCW, Quake3, BZFlag, and all the games Loki ported and many, many others). but there are some games I choose to not live without.
Counterstrike, Warcraft3, and JediKnights2 Jedioutcast.
So, remember, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to use wine(x).:)
For the last couple of years I've felt that voice recognition was the next "killer app" that would push computer hardware. This chip, if it's possible to make, could give us the computational ability to have verbal conversations with our computers.....
Either that - or it will help me become #1 on seti@home's list of data crunchers....
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I've seen the video but the explanation I heard is they were practicing for an air show and stalled the plane (this was on the discovery wings channel a while back).
The article made no mention of them not being native - can you cite a source? If they are not native, then no wonder they have no natural population control!
That CNN article is the most useless one I've read in ages. It fails to provide any of the following information:
1) How would nature control population growth in koalas?
2) Have we in some way removed that control and can it be re-introduced.
All the article talks about is why we should or should not shoot them. There is no indication whatsoever that anybody cares why the koalas are overpopulated (and no, a quick blurb about urbanization doesn't count).
I'm sure that I'm in the minority here - but I hate to see Google do this. It seems to me that once you go public, then you have to answer to your shareholders. No longer can one spend money on interesting but probably unprofitable exercises. No longer can you make decisions based on the right thing to do (i.e. text-only ads). And googlelabs will either dissapear or become really dull - and the main page will become cluttered with ads.
:(
Google has been a bright spot on the internet for years - my guess is the ipo is the begining of the end.
Now, do these folks deserve as much money as they can get - I think so. But I also think that most of the origiinal google people already have more money than they know what to do with - is more money (even 2 billion) worth giving up creative control?
Greg
This is too good to be true. Not only are we asked to not make fun of a windows user, but one who re-installs his OS every month!
What I want to know is *why* he reinstalls his OS every month. As much as I like to make fun of windows, there's no way it should degrade this fast (or at all with proper care and feeding).
So, fess up, what *are* you doing wrong?
I'd say you are both right. Zips were a huge sucess at first - they sold tons of the units. But when their low quality became apparent (click-of-death issues) and as cd-burners became less-expensive, zip media died the death it deserved.
just my 2 cents...
You're being funny, right? I have little experience with OSX, but it seems to be pretty sane as far as where files go....
Greg
If this is an april fools joke, it's by far the most extensive one I have ever seen.
Their news site (which is computer generated without human input) already shows 120+ news sites with the announcement of gmail.
google also has a very believable FAQ and Privacy Policy.
I for one think this is a hoax, but I hope it's not. I'd sign up in a heartbeat.
yeah, I'm a dork:
:)
s/won/own/
I called SCO months ago and told them (truthfully) that I won and operate a 14 computer internet cafe all running linux. I asked them to send me a bill (which I would, of course, ignore).
:(
But then I let slip I was going to forward it to the California State Attorney General and ask them to sue SCO for attempted fraud.
Guess that scared them - I never got a bill.
An owner of a business that deals on a daily basis with minors has a responsibilty to the community (and to themselves) to make sure that kids who are there during school hours aren't skipping class (ie, homeschool or vacations or??). they also have a responsibilty to make sure it's a safe environment - no weapson, drugs or alcohol on or near the premises.
I deal with it simply by not being open when school is in session (see my earlier post above).
I truly believe that one has to be responsible about these things in order to be successful. I also believe this is not rocket science and should be intuitive to anybody who wants to run this kind of business.
All this is very fascinating, really. But nothing changes (or will change) the fact that people are asked to leave my place who are under the influence of drugs/alchohol, show any form of physical violence, or continue to swear or cuss after being reminded there are kids around. This is in no way discriminates against the public and is completly within my power as a business owner.
And yes, the original incedent occured outside the gaming center, but the owner still had some control over that. Most cities have anti-loitering ordinences just for that purpose.
All I'm saying is that if the owner decides to create a safe place for people to play video games, then it will be a safe place.
This is legislation designed to make up for incompetent busniess owners.
I own and run a gaming center and have zero problems with students skipping class and violence in or near the store. How?
1) I'm only open when the high school is closed. This means I open at 3pm on weekdays (noon on weekends and holidays). This may sound like a big deal, but it's not - 85% of my business comes from local high and jr. high schools (and most of the other are adults who work during the day).
2) I reserve the right to throw anybody out of the store I want. And I do, but only when someone gets out of hand (forgets that it's just a game). I set a tone of "have fun and be respectful" and my customers pick up on this.
No, I'm not in southern cal where there are more gangs, but still - this is not rocket science.
just my experience.
FWIW: I own a PC gaming cafe (dual-boot linux/winxp) - and I have ET. Great game (that runs just as well on wither OS) and it gets played almost every day (nothing like cs however). Looking forward to seeing Urban Terror on the newer engine.
BTW - all my HL keys are legit - I can buy it for less than $15 american.
Yeah, I guess I had that one coming.....
:)
Damn spell checkers broken.
Down boy - I think they were trying to make a funny.
:)
Try taking a deap breath and come to the conclusion that we are not as dumb as we look.
Yet Another Useless Port That Wont Gain New Market Share.
I'm not so sure of that. At this point the only free Office Suite for OS X requires X11 (openeoffice) and while a native port of openoffice *is* in the works, I bet these folks get koffice running in OS X (w/o needing X11) much sooner that the OO port.
Nope it's a way of storing data with attributes. Same with XML.
Nope, wrong again. PHP actually can be used to compute stuff and access databases. Can't do that with HTML or XML.
My favorite so far has been one of the local tv stations that users windows to schedule programming, and when it crashed, their channel showed a bsod for 3 hours..... :)
You are 100% correct - this is a valid option (and maybe the most reasonable of the lot).
Listen - this is what happens when we ask someone else to make decisions for us.
If you are a parent, you have 3 choices:
1) Sit down with your child and explain what sites are acceptabe and which are not. Then either monitor their activity or trust them.
2) Assign the responsibilty of deciding which sites are acceptable by purchasing and using filtering software. Just remember that you are not going to agree 100% with the decisions made by any of these software makers as to which content is appropriate and which is not.
3) allow unfiltered, unmonitored access to the internet.
Just my 2 cents
That's a great map. My only complaint is there are 3 large active fires in Humboldt County that have been burning for weeks and aren't listed.
The good news is that none of them are threatening homes or other structures at the momemt, and no lives have been lost as a result of them.
WINE *is* a lot of work. Even to set up. I use it. But not because I'm afraid of learning a different way.
I use it to play games. There are some awesome games that run native in linux (AA, NWN, ET And RtCW, Quake3, BZFlag, and all the games Loki ported and many, many others). but there are some games I choose to not live without.
Counterstrike, Warcraft3, and JediKnights2 Jedioutcast.
So, remember, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to use wine(x).
Am I the only one that thinks sucking out post-combustion gasses (which will ge replaced by nice fresh air full of oxygen) is a terrible idea?
For the last couple of years I've felt that voice recognition was the next "killer app" that would push computer hardware. This chip, if it's possible to make, could give us the computational ability to have verbal conversations with our computers.....
Either that - or it will help me become #1 on seti@home's list of data crunchers....