That's a bold faced-lie. They knew within hours what had happened, not half a day.
Cities were being plastered with leaflets about more to come.
The fact is simple: The Japanese did not think that the Americans had more than one bomb, in regard to the Atomic Bomb.
Also, did you not ever learn that the Military of Japan staged a coup when they heard the news after the second bomb that the Emperor planned to surrender?
Just like how people are so damn stupid about the fact that dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki actually saved lives, and that the Japanese were not going to surrender after the first but before the second.
BEDEVERE: Tell me, when you are walking through the castle, what do you always slip on? ARTHUR-KING: Sheep's Piss. BEDEVERE: And where does that piss come from? ARTHUR-KING: Sheep! BEDEVERE: And earthquakes are caused by? ARTHUR-KING: Friction! BEDEVERE: Exactly. So... ARTHUR-KING: If we put the bladders... in the faults... They'll reduce friction... BEDEVERE: And therefore, logically... ARTHUR: No earthquakes!
Why the hell is this Modded funny? Did someone not understand that what the AC is saying is actually true? Why do you think it is that creatures such as Salmon die during reproduction, and other creatures, such as humans, will do rediculously dangerous and stupid things just to impress a mate?
The desire to disperse one's genes is the greatest drive there is.
If I had a gene that made me entirely unresistable to the ladies, but killed me when I hit 30, it would spread like wildfire -- genes only care about spreading themselves around as much as possible. What do you think 'junk' or 'non-coding' DNA is? Genes that were good at getting themselves copied.
What? The point that the HAL-9000 used Holographic memory because Arthur C. Clarke and others seriously expected our technology to have advanced that far by then?
We know what happened to the HAL-9000 computer that caused it to kill crewmen Dave Bowman and Frank Poole, along with the 3 Hybernauts.
The HAL-9000's primary operating objective was the accurate processing of information. However, he had also been given another order, of equal priority, and that was that the true objective of the mission to Jupiter (Saturn, in the book,) was to remain hidden from the Beta Crew (Bowman and Poole). This caused a conflict.
For HAL to function as he had been designed, he could not hold anything back from Bowman and Poole -- and to function as he was designed he had to do just that. This created a logical paradox within HAL. The way HAL saw to fix the situation was to remove Bowman and Poole by killing them, since he was also programmed, in the event of crew incapacitation, to carry out the mission by himself.
That is why he killed Bowman and Poole, as revealed by Doctor Chandra in 2010: Odyssey Two.
Talking of five minute walks, My roommate and I are paying out of our noses to get an apartment close to the University we attend. There are a few small restaraunts nearby, along with a convienence store or two, but if I actually want to goto, say, a Grocery Store, or to the Mall, or to somewhere to pick up specialised materials/tools I need for my hobbies, I'm looking at several miles to walk.
I would not enjoy walking 40 minutes with forty pounds of groceries, or 20 pounds of steel in various forms, or bolts of fabric, or anything else.
I live in Florida. We get hurricanes all the time. Now, I realise that New Orleans is pretty much wiped off the face of the Earth, and all your prisoners were let loose, and now you have to pay for it since the first thing they all did was break into pawn shops and get guns. But really. Just like the Law of Gravitation, I don't need to be constantly reminded of it.
I didn't need so much reminding of 9/11, either.
I also happen to live in Gainesville, Florida, where Danny Rollins killed 5 people 15 years ago.
There is a section of wall in town, called 'The Wall,' where one is allowed to commit the crime of graffiti and no one really cares. There is a section of wall there that reads 'We will always remember,' or maybe it's 'We will never forget,' but you get the idea.
I don't need to be reminded of depressing, horrible events every day. There's something called letting go of the past, so that you can move forward.
I don't suggest to forget it -- I'll never forget that, say, the Holocaust occured -- but I don't let it run my life.
Now, I realise this is somewhat silly with the Hurricane having destroyed your city from the face of Terra so recently, but you get the idea, right?
Also, as you point out,/. is a technology website. Or, it claims to be. How exactly does Katrina impact the world of Computers and Technology?
Ebola Reston can infect humans, and was found to circulate in the blood of atleast four humans who came into contact with it (two workers at the Monkey House and 2 workers at USAMRIID) several months after the event.
It's not that Reston doesn't infect humans, it's just that Reston doesn't seem to do anything to humans.
Moore's Law *will* hit the barrier. You cannot make something out matter smaller then an atom.
Next step wont be evolutionary, but revolutionary. This is when we get into quantum computing.
I thought you couldn't make something out of matter smaller than an atom, eh?
I guess I'm going to have to go disappoint all those quantum computation researchers.
Mike will probably be around to correct us both in a little bit, but as I recall, in reality, there are several health hazards that come about from staying in such a low gravitational field for so long -- bone loss is prime among them. They're the reasons Astronauts have to do such strenuous exercises in space.
Heinlein just overestimated exactly how bad those effects would be, but I have no doubt he was probably right for what would happen for someone raised in 1/6th Gee trying to get around in a 1 G field, i.e. Lunie on Terra.
It would not be pleasant, if my experience having a seizure (and thus loss of function of the limbs) is anything similar.
I believe you meant no remove root exploits in the default installation in the past N years. OpenBSD is by far the most secure operating system there is.
As for NetBSD not bringing alot to the community, my roommate and uncle just came back from Linuxworld as part of the NetBSD team (you may have seen pictures of their toaster.) NetBSD is designed for ease of portability. People often bicker and argue about which runs on more platforms: NetBSD or Linux. While it's a toss-up between NetBSD and the Linux Kernal for that point, the fact is that the NetBSD Operating System as a Whole Runs on far more architectures than Linux. It's used for imbedded applications in lots of places. And since you're using the Regents' License instead of the Evil GPL (Which, for something supposed to support freedom, denies me freedoms -- but that's neither here nor there), while there must be the standard 'The Regents take no responsibility yada yada yada,' disclaimer somewhere in documentation, you may never know that the device you're using uses NetBSD. For example, the PSP uses code from NetBSD. Look in the back of the Manual if you can get your hands on the Manual to one.
NetBSD is at the very least under-reported in its usage, and more likely very, very under-reported.
Yet again, something absolutely useless on Slashdot has made me dumber. This time it was unfunny too. Thanks Slashdot! Two or three more like this and I'll be too retarded to type.
Uncontrolled Immigration did not kill the Roman Empire. What killed the Roman Empire was Caesar Augustus' setting of the boundaries of the empire, and forbiding further expansion.
The entirety of the Roman Economy was based on Military Conquest. Take some Legions, send them off to attack some country, bring it under your control, along with a goodly ammount of gold and slaves (Rome was built on Slave Labour.)
Without further expansion, there was no good way to get new materials and slaves. Also, the empire was just too big to effectively keep it under control. If Augustus had not forbidden expansion, or if Hero of Alexandria had actually gotten a steam engine working, we'd all be speaking Latin right now.
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That's a bold faced-lie. They knew within hours what had happened, not half a day.
Cities were being plastered with leaflets about more to come.
The fact is simple: The Japanese did not think that the Americans had more than one bomb, in regard to the Atomic Bomb.
Also, did you not ever learn that the Military of Japan staged a coup when they heard the news after the second bomb that the Emperor planned to surrender?
Yes! Thank you. I couldn't remember where it was.
Just like how people are so damn stupid about the fact that dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki actually saved lives, and that the Japanese were not going to surrender after the first but before the second.
BEDEVERE: Tell me, when you are walking through the castle, what do you always slip on?
ARTHUR-KING: Sheep's Piss.
BEDEVERE: And where does that piss come from?
ARTHUR-KING: Sheep!
BEDEVERE: And earthquakes are caused by?
ARTHUR-KING: Friction!
BEDEVERE: Exactly. So...
ARTHUR-KING: If we put the bladders... in the faults... They'll reduce friction...
BEDEVERE: And therefore, logically...
ARTHUR: No earthquakes!
Why the hell is this Modded funny? Did someone not understand that what the AC is saying is actually true? Why do you think it is that creatures such as Salmon die during reproduction, and other creatures, such as humans, will do rediculously dangerous and stupid things just to impress a mate?
The desire to disperse one's genes is the greatest drive there is.
If I had a gene that made me entirely unresistable to the ladies, but killed me when I hit 30, it would spread like wildfire -- genes only care about spreading themselves around as much as possible. What do you think 'junk' or 'non-coding' DNA is? Genes that were good at getting themselves copied.
What? The point that the HAL-9000 used Holographic memory because Arthur C. Clarke and others seriously expected our technology to have advanced that far by then?
I think you're just being silly.
To do that joke correctly, you need a more random distribution of cha@#$%sdGF2Fhg254H^^7324561s34%Y2gfe54^%Hwe^trYWe 4NO CARRIER
We know what happened to the HAL-9000 computer that caused it to kill crewmen Dave Bowman and Frank Poole, along with the 3 Hybernauts.
The HAL-9000's primary operating objective was the accurate processing of information. However, he had also been given another order, of equal priority, and that was that the true objective of the mission to Jupiter (Saturn, in the book,) was to remain hidden from the Beta Crew (Bowman and Poole). This caused a conflict.
For HAL to function as he had been designed, he could not hold anything back from Bowman and Poole -- and to function as he was designed he had to do just that. This created a logical paradox within HAL. The way HAL saw to fix the situation was to remove Bowman and Poole by killing them, since he was also programmed, in the event of crew incapacitation, to carry out the mission by himself.
That is why he killed Bowman and Poole, as revealed by Doctor Chandra in 2010: Odyssey Two.
Talking of five minute walks, My roommate and I are paying out of our noses to get an apartment close to the University we attend. There are a few small restaraunts nearby, along with a convienence store or two, but if I actually want to goto, say, a Grocery Store, or to the Mall, or to somewhere to pick up specialised materials/tools I need for my hobbies, I'm looking at several miles to walk.
I would not enjoy walking 40 minutes with forty pounds of groceries, or 20 pounds of steel in various forms, or bolts of fabric, or anything else.
Where is Carmen Sandiego, Carmen Sandiego, where on Earth can she be?
(Those were fun games...)
I haven't eaten bait in a while. Here I go.
I live in Florida. We get hurricanes all the time. Now, I realise that New Orleans is pretty much wiped off the face of the Earth, and all your prisoners were let loose, and now you have to pay for it since the first thing they all did was break into pawn shops and get guns. But really. Just like the Law of Gravitation, I don't need to be constantly reminded of it.
I didn't need so much reminding of 9/11, either.
I also happen to live in Gainesville, Florida, where Danny Rollins killed 5 people 15 years ago.
There is a section of wall in town, called 'The Wall,' where one is allowed to commit the crime of graffiti and no one really cares. There is a section of wall there that reads 'We will always remember,' or maybe it's 'We will never forget,' but you get the idea.
I don't need to be reminded of depressing, horrible events every day. There's something called letting go of the past, so that you can move forward.
I don't suggest to forget it -- I'll never forget that, say, the Holocaust occured -- but I don't let it run my life.
Now, I realise this is somewhat silly with the Hurricane having destroyed your city from the face of Terra so recently, but you get the idea, right?
Also, as you point out, /. is a technology website. Or, it claims to be. How exactly does Katrina impact the world of Computers and Technology?
We spell it with a 'ph' in Leonardo. Snoogins.
Who was it that said, "The question isn't whether or not [the theory] is crazy. The question is whether it's crazy enough."
Ebola Reston can infect humans, and was found to circulate in the blood of atleast four humans who came into contact with it (two workers at the Monkey House and 2 workers at USAMRIID) several months after the event.
It's not that Reston doesn't infect humans, it's just that Reston doesn't seem to do anything to humans.
I thought you couldn't make something out of matter smaller than an atom, eh?
I guess I'm going to have to go disappoint all those quantum computation researchers.
Mike will probably be around to correct us both in a little bit, but as I recall, in reality, there are several health hazards that come about from staying in such a low gravitational field for so long -- bone loss is prime among them. They're the reasons Astronauts have to do such strenuous exercises in space.
Heinlein just overestimated exactly how bad those effects would be, but I have no doubt he was probably right for what would happen for someone raised in 1/6th Gee trying to get around in a 1 G field, i.e. Lunie on Terra.
It would not be pleasant, if my experience having a seizure (and thus loss of function of the limbs) is anything similar.
What about the toaster powered by netBSD that was shown at LinuxWorld?
Yes, but there was one that pretty much did them in.
"A single bullet kill me? Indeed, not! But the last tends to help!"
I believe you meant no remove root exploits in the default installation in the past N years. OpenBSD is by far the most secure operating system there is.
As for NetBSD not bringing alot to the community, my roommate and uncle just came back from Linuxworld as part of the NetBSD team (you may have seen pictures of their toaster.) NetBSD is designed for ease of portability. People often bicker and argue about which runs on more platforms: NetBSD or Linux. While it's a toss-up between NetBSD and the Linux Kernal for that point, the fact is that the NetBSD Operating System as a Whole Runs on far more architectures than Linux. It's used for imbedded applications in lots of places. And since you're using the Regents' License instead of the Evil GPL (Which, for something supposed to support freedom, denies me freedoms -- but that's neither here nor there), while there must be the standard 'The Regents take no responsibility yada yada yada,' disclaimer somewhere in documentation, you may never know that the device you're using uses NetBSD. For example, the PSP uses code from NetBSD. Look in the back of the Manual if you can get your hands on the Manual to one.
NetBSD is at the very least under-reported in its usage, and more likely very, very under-reported.
Why don't you give credit to the person who actually made the list? It's at http://www.eviloverlord.com/.
Oi! That be dumberber.
Linux is for Supervillians. The Good Guys use NetBSD.
The Western Empire did not fall until the city was sacked in 476 or thereabouts AD.
Oh, just wait. We've got till December.
/me eagerly awaits the coming of the Cursed Wave.
Uncontrolled Immigration did not kill the Roman Empire. What killed the Roman Empire was Caesar Augustus' setting of the boundaries of the empire, and forbiding further expansion.
The entirety of the Roman Economy was based on Military Conquest. Take some Legions, send them off to attack some country, bring it under your control, along with a goodly ammount of gold and slaves (Rome was built on Slave Labour.)
Without further expansion, there was no good way to get new materials and slaves. Also, the empire was just too big to effectively keep it under control. If Augustus had not forbidden expansion, or if Hero of Alexandria had actually gotten a steam engine working, we'd all be speaking Latin right now.
Ave Caesar!