I don't think you can call any man who was tortured for 5 1/2 years and is left with a permanent disability a whiner.
Either way, I think the difference we saw in electoral votes between those two time periods had more to do with pissed off Hillary supporters more than Palin haters.
(Helped immensely by the spread of Christianity and democracy)? How does Christianity have anything to do with this article? Christianity or any religion should not be spread, but embraced if and only if individuals want to embrace it. Your statement typifies how arrogant and ignorant some Christians are. Yeah, the crusades worked wonders: convert or die. I feel sorry for the poor (unfortunate) recipients of the religious babble forced on them by Christian missionaries. Instead of forcing your views on them, help them achieve worthy goals like getting an education, learning to farm, etc.
This post was predictable. An anonymous coward getting upset because someone said Christianity and implied that it was good in the same line.
Christianity, or most any religion for that matter, introduced to a country that has little or no religious structure gives the society a moral base to build from.
Instead of being driven by greed (as often is the case in Africa), the society become strongly influenced by the moral code of the religion in it's place.
I mean, what better incentive not to steal from people than believing that you're going to be spending eternity burning in a sulfur pool?
"Once you start to hurt their brands and people stop buying their products, because of the negative press, and the RIAA will cease to exist."
No, historically they have just used the loss of profit in their figures for pirated musics.
"We've had x loss this quarter! There is no explanation other than that people must be pirating music and causing us financial harm! Nevermind the shit music we produce and the media attention from the lawsuit we just filed against a dead person..."
FTA: "If the rings were really as old as Esposito suggests, then the moons would be much farther away than they are and the A ring would have fallen into the B ring, he says."
I don't know anything about the moon distances or rings, but isn't it possible that the rings were formed over time?
The outer rings could be much older than the inner rings, for example, and as they age they move outwards and are replaced by new rings formed by impacts.
FTA: "c:\Windows\ConfigSetRoot\ contained a software crack for the WinRar program...
So apparently an Asus employee happened to have a personal flash drive, and stored his resume (presumeably, conspiracy theorists may disagree) as well as a few harmless keygens and serials on it.."
It amazes me that this employee chose illegal means of getting an archiving program instead of using a FOSS solution such as 7-zip ( http://www.7-zip.org/).
I know some companies have protocols for handling FOSS software, but this should have never have happened if the employee had just turned to his company's legal department for obtaining software licenses.
Unlike in decades past, college admissions are much more competitive.
There are plenty of students with 4.0 gpa, leadership roles in different organizations, and lots of sports activities. When the college admissions officers are looking for students who have the lowest risk of failing out and the highest chance of succeeding, it's obvious why they'd not want the student who engages in illegal activities and parties when there are plenty of other students to take that spot.
FTA: ""We're seeing a lot of problems where people are being kicked off the data base rolls if their name is on as Alex as opposed to Alexander or they've put a middle initial in there name and it's not there," said Susan"
It sounds like these problems could have been avoided if the system was designed properly in the first place. Whoever was contracted for this should be made to solve the problem for providing a product that clearly lacked testing.
...were already being harmed by the RIAA. That much hasn't changed.
This new organization will likely be like most all other organizations in the government: understaffed, underfunded, and incompetent.
I can understand the steel failing at higher temperatures, but I thought the purpose of using ceramic insulators was to shield the steel from those high temperatures.
Wouldn't the research be better directed towards these ceramics?
I don't understand how the cost of developing DRM protection on games and then dealing with the support costs of having DRM can outweigh the "cost" of a few pirated copies of the game.
because it could mean that people who are vulnerable to these types of attacks are on the rise.
You would have thought that after all this time and the numerous virus-by-email crises, people would have learned better.
Do you really think it's impossible considering our current practices of obtaining wood? Many houses are built from pine wood grown on government subsidized pine tree farms that take 20+ years to grow before they are able to be harvested.
The same can be done with houses grown from trees on farms. It would take a powerful act to get a system such as that created for growing houses, but considering the current paradigm shift towards using energy efficient materials and the current energy crisis, I don't consider farming houses out of the question.
It seems a lot more realistic than shooting mirrors into space to slow global warming.
The image used in that article looks to be the same that was used in a similar article about houses made from shaped trees in Popular Science a few years back.
It really is a neat concept as wood is a fairly good insulator. As long as you have a good water supply, good soil, and a community that is liberal enough to allow such structures, it looks like a good alternative to houses made from chemically treated wood.
I don't understand your logic. Java is fast, powerful, portable, and clean.
Just because a lot of other people have realized how great it is doesn't mean that one shouldn't learn it.
Java seems to be one of those things that people don't want to use just because it's "too" good.
Many defense contractors that work with classified materials are required to use an operating system that is accredited as compliant with DoD security standards.
Becoming accredited is expensive on the order of millions of dollars per major release of the software. The only entities that can afford to repeat this process for every release are large companies offering enterprise licensed software.
RHEL 5 is one of the distros that is accredited.
Even when that stream of business runs out, they'll still have a large market with defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing.
"Who are you going to take business process advice from? While microsoft's ethics are dubious at best it's very hard to argue with success."
That sounds a lot like ENRON.
Advertising has worked for about.com. I know they're largely mirroring the Wikipedia articles but About seems to have found a good balance between advertisement and quality content.
Text type ads at the end of a Wikipedia article wouldn't bother me at all.
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I hope it does, as then we'd have more motivation to colonize other earths. :D
I don't think you can call any man who was tortured for 5 1/2 years and is left with a permanent disability a whiner.
Either way, I think the difference we saw in electoral votes between those two time periods had more to do with pissed off Hillary supporters more than Palin haters.
Oh really?
In every political commercial that I've seen so far, both McCain AND Obama were throwing poo at each other.
All that post sounds like is propaganda, not any "informative" input.
(Helped immensely by the spread of Christianity and democracy)? How does Christianity have anything to do with this article? Christianity or any religion should not be spread, but embraced if and only if individuals want to embrace it. Your statement typifies how arrogant and ignorant some Christians are. Yeah, the crusades worked wonders: convert or die. I feel sorry for the poor (unfortunate) recipients of the religious babble forced on them by Christian missionaries. Instead of forcing your views on them, help them achieve worthy goals like getting an education, learning to farm, etc.
This post was predictable. An anonymous coward getting upset because someone said Christianity and implied that it was good in the same line.
Christianity, or most any religion for that matter, introduced to a country that has little or no religious structure gives the society a moral base to build from.
Instead of being driven by greed (as often is the case in Africa), the society become strongly influenced by the moral code of the religion in it's place.
I mean, what better incentive not to steal from people than believing that you're going to be spending eternity burning in a sulfur pool?
According to this: http://www.langpop.com/ , C# is only the 9th most popular language, only competing with scripting languages.
It comes nowhere close to the more popular programming languages in terms of usage.
I dual boot. Switching from Windows(gaming/schoolwork) to Linux(software development, general use) is a common thing for me.
So is this like what they did with Half life 2: Episode 1/2?
Steam is selling Crysis and Crysis Warhead for the same price, so I'm a bit confused.
"Once you start to hurt their brands and people stop buying their products, because of the negative press, and the RIAA will cease to exist."
No, historically they have just used the loss of profit in their figures for pirated musics.
"We've had x loss this quarter! There is no explanation other than that people must be pirating music and causing us financial harm! Nevermind the shit music we produce and the media attention from the lawsuit we just filed against a dead person..."
FTA:
"If the rings were really as old as Esposito suggests, then the moons would be much farther away than they are and the A ring would have fallen into the B ring, he says."
I don't know anything about the moon distances or rings, but isn't it possible that the rings were formed over time?
The outer rings could be much older than the inner rings, for example, and as they age they move outwards and are replaced by new rings formed by impacts.
FTA:
"c:\Windows\ConfigSetRoot\ contained a software crack for the WinRar program...
So apparently an Asus employee happened to have a personal flash drive, and stored his resume (presumeably, conspiracy theorists may disagree) as well as a few harmless keygens and serials on it.."
It amazes me that this employee chose illegal means of getting an archiving program instead of using a FOSS solution such as 7-zip ( http://www.7-zip.org/).
I know some companies have protocols for handling FOSS software, but this should have never have happened if the employee had just turned to his company's legal department for obtaining software licenses.
Unlike in decades past, college admissions are much more competitive.
There are plenty of students with 4.0 gpa, leadership roles in different organizations, and lots of sports activities. When the college admissions officers are looking for students who have the lowest risk of failing out and the highest chance of succeeding, it's obvious why they'd not want the student who engages in illegal activities and parties when there are plenty of other students to take that spot.
FTA:
""We're seeing a lot of problems where people are being kicked off the data base rolls if their name is on as Alex as opposed to Alexander or they've put a middle initial in there name and it's not there," said Susan"
It sounds like these problems could have been avoided if the system was designed properly in the first place. Whoever was contracted for this should be made to solve the problem for providing a product that clearly lacked testing.
...were already being harmed by the RIAA. That much hasn't changed. This new organization will likely be like most all other organizations in the government: understaffed, underfunded, and incompetent.
I can understand the steel failing at higher temperatures, but I thought the purpose of using ceramic insulators was to shield the steel from those high temperatures. Wouldn't the research be better directed towards these ceramics?
I don't understand how the cost of developing DRM protection on games and then dealing with the support costs of having DRM can outweigh the "cost" of a few pirated copies of the game.
because it could mean that people who are vulnerable to these types of attacks are on the rise. You would have thought that after all this time and the numerous virus-by-email crises, people would have learned better.
Do you really think it's impossible considering our current practices of obtaining wood? Many houses are built from pine wood grown on government subsidized pine tree farms that take 20+ years to grow before they are able to be harvested. The same can be done with houses grown from trees on farms. It would take a powerful act to get a system such as that created for growing houses, but considering the current paradigm shift towards using energy efficient materials and the current energy crisis, I don't consider farming houses out of the question. It seems a lot more realistic than shooting mirrors into space to slow global warming.
The image used in that article looks to be the same that was used in a similar article about houses made from shaped trees in Popular Science a few years back. It really is a neat concept as wood is a fairly good insulator. As long as you have a good water supply, good soil, and a community that is liberal enough to allow such structures, it looks like a good alternative to houses made from chemically treated wood.
I don't understand your logic. Java is fast, powerful, portable, and clean. Just because a lot of other people have realized how great it is doesn't mean that one shouldn't learn it. Java seems to be one of those things that people don't want to use just because it's "too" good.
Many defense contractors that work with classified materials are required to use an operating system that is accredited as compliant with DoD security standards. Becoming accredited is expensive on the order of millions of dollars per major release of the software. The only entities that can afford to repeat this process for every release are large companies offering enterprise licensed software. RHEL 5 is one of the distros that is accredited. Even when that stream of business runs out, they'll still have a large market with defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing.
Read the previous comments. This has already been explained.
"Who are you going to take business process advice from? While microsoft's ethics are dubious at best it's very hard to argue with success." That sounds a lot like ENRON.
I didn't know child pornography was available from Comcast...
Advertising has worked for about.com. I know they're largely mirroring the Wikipedia articles but About seems to have found a good balance between advertisement and quality content.
Text type ads at the end of a Wikipedia article wouldn't bother me at all.
"871,368,364... 7.5% of that is a hair over $6.5 million."
Actually, 7.5% of $871,368,364 is a hair over $65.3 million. Newline payed them about 1/1000th of what they owed.