The biggest issue would not be that water isnt a renewable resource, its the location of the biofuel processing plants. Its like one of the more ridiculous things I had heard, where a company is opening an ethanol plan in eastern colorado. Eastern colorado already has a VERY limited water supply, especially potable water, given that its a bloody desert. Sure, a biofuel plant in louisiana or oregon probably wouldnt cause a MAJOR impact to the water table but some places its just not feasible.
I love how we all equate the end of the world with the end of humanity; Except for catastrophes that destroy the entire biosphere the end of humanity would just be another tick on earths timeline and life would continue. If life continues, another sentient race can always rise.
However i still feel that comets, radiation, etc are the not key dangers to humanity, neither is war between humans. The biggest danger I can see is that we're slowly making our most advanced populations weaker and weaker. The more we try to protect everyone from everything, the less likely it is or people to have to deal with protecting themselves. Imagine 5-6 generations down the line where people grow up never having to take responsibility for themselves as its always 'someone elses fault'. How do we expect THEM to deal with life threatening emergencies when they arise? Or rebuild in the case of a humanity destroying event?
If we werent so damned arrogant we wouldnt think that we're somehow exempt from the theoretical but highly probable rules of natural selection. Look at the traits that make up the most 'successful' individuals. By darwins reasoning, these traits will become more and more dominant as those considered less successful have a poorer chance of procreating. Sure the more robust and well rounded genes will still be around, but they will be the minority. In the society we're creating we all know how much power a small minority of rational individuals will have...
A masive disaster may be just what we need to ensure we can survive future disasters, or at least regain the will to do so, assuming of course that the first isnt insurmountable.
I sincerely doubt that would work as an argument though, since selling at a different rate depending on Volume has been around since someone decided to give a free chicken with every four they traded for. It would leave a fair bit of leeway if Microsoft decided the cost of losing out on other makers in a given volume range decides to order less due to this if the pressure it applied to a specific one seemed worth it. Unless they created a new volume price range or some such that only a single vendor fell into could I see this argument going far.
Promising not to retaliate against computer makers that support non-Microsoft software.
How precisely do they propose to differentiate between "retaliation against a computer maker" and "business decisions" due to any other little thing the maker may do that they decide they don't like? Would it be possible to argue that regardless of the actions of the maker, Microsoft could never stop selling to them or change pricing ever again without risking constant litigation? Seems like a disaster waiting to happen either way once a precedent is set(either against or for Microsoft).
I just could not leave this with only the flippant remark.. if FEAR OF DEATH is the only reason people around you can be polite, something is seriously screwed up with the people around you.
Speaking of growing up, have you ever tried to keep a 2 year old in order through any form of structured entertainment? I can see his choice of words being quite apt myself.
The number reported would be worthless even if we had every single hack documented UNLESS they also include the total number of operating websites in these years with a significant enough amount of traffic to consider the hack more than an isolated prank. Otherwise what are we even talking about? I'm sure the number of deaths due to car accidents increased a lot between 1890 and 1930....
yeah because the 'having a ton of cellphones activated with your info and then having massive balances forwarded to a collections agency and watching your beacon go down the tubes' part where they dont ASK for anything but a date of birth and ssn is just peachy.
we have welcomed people from every country in the world to America
welcomed? I have lived in various places in the states as the outside foreigner observer and not ONCE have I run into a subculture or region where there isn't huge issues due to bias against some group or another. Mexicans in Colorado, black population in maryland, puerto ricans in massachusetts....seems to me cultures are only welcome so long as a) they bring money or b) they shut up and do the crap work while the over paid white "majority" workers bitch that the current "they" are ruining their lives by not allowing them to make 40$ an hour pushing a button while the rest of the world moves to be globally competitive.
And this is only a small segment, i'm sure theres such issues I couldn't even imagine due to lack of exposure.
Stop trying to say the states is all encompassing to race and culture, its been proven decade after decade to be blatently untrue.
But again, this is only my opinion due to the events seen around me. Maybe theres some utopian american ideal i'm missing in the places i've lived in where everyone is treated equally regardless of background.
You mean cutting them from the cranky overpaid consistently striking europeans and bringing them to the expanding massive market of the Indus? THOSE BASTARDS, WHAT ARE THEY THINKING.
Unions need to face up to the fact that just because they have a union doesnt mean they're ENTITLED TO MORE AND MORE EVERY FUCKING YEAR. If they focused more on making sure their member labour force was GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE than the usual GIVE US MORE DAMNIT they wouldnt have this problem.
If this story was about Gmail, I have a strange feeling it wouldnt involve forcing unwashed "standards" down the users throats.
And how precisely do you propose that this is going to fight spam in a manner that is at all related to microsofts vulnerabilities? All its doing is _filtering it from hotmail_. Doesn't stop the spam generated through the countless vulns from taking up precious bandwidth before our own filters.
Honestly, how can one say that its due to the choice of fields that causes people in the IT field to have issues passing on our precious genes. The number of undergrad computer science people who are reasonably well balanced socially seems to be much larger than the stereotypical dorkhermit that everyone associates with the field.
Just because CS is a field that happens to attract the social anxiety stricken leper-dorks, it doesnt mean its a problem in the field, merely that some people have problems in general.
The stigma is almost gone now, stop trying to blame CS for those who decide to invest so much of their lives to their profession or who are unable to deal with society in general.
This is my biggest complaint against people who claim that one has to have everything they need to know comitted to memory to be useful, when it would be so much MORE useful to spend some of that time and effort into learning how to apply knowledge and FIND information.
I mean, do you honestly think the internet and the huge changes to the way information is store and communicated is a fad? Do you think this process is going to stop or slow down?
Barring armageddon, I shouldnt think so.
So, rather than re-iterate over the parents reasons, I shall leave it that. Most of you know where i'm going with this anyways.
As far as copper goes, I have no clue, but in the steel and lumber industries prices have skyrocketed in the American markets as a direct result of the Bush Administration's actions. Look into the changes in lumber tarrifs in the past 6 years, and the ensuing reactions of foreign markets, as well as the situation with imported steel (most notably China), and you'll find yourself facepalming yourself into a coma.
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The biggest issue would not be that water isnt a renewable resource, its the location of the biofuel processing plants. Its like one of the more ridiculous things I had heard, where a company is opening an ethanol plan in eastern colorado. Eastern colorado already has a VERY limited water supply, especially potable water, given that its a bloody desert. Sure, a biofuel plant in louisiana or oregon probably wouldnt cause a MAJOR impact to the water table but some places its just not feasible.
I love how we all equate the end of the world with the end of humanity; Except for catastrophes that destroy the entire biosphere the end of humanity would just be another tick on earths timeline and life would continue. If life continues, another sentient race can always rise.
However i still feel that comets, radiation, etc are the not key dangers to humanity, neither is war between humans. The biggest danger I can see is that we're slowly making our most advanced populations weaker and weaker. The more we try to protect everyone from everything, the less likely it is or people to have to deal with protecting themselves. Imagine 5-6 generations down the line where people grow up never having to take responsibility for themselves as its always 'someone elses fault'. How do we expect THEM to deal with life threatening emergencies when they arise? Or rebuild in the case of a humanity destroying event?
If we werent so damned arrogant we wouldnt think that we're somehow exempt from the theoretical but highly probable rules of natural selection. Look at the traits that make up the most 'successful' individuals. By darwins reasoning, these traits will become more and more dominant as those considered less successful have a poorer chance of procreating. Sure the more robust and well rounded genes will still be around, but they will be the minority. In the society we're creating we all know how much power a small minority of rational individuals will have...
A masive disaster may be just what we need to ensure we can survive future disasters, or at least regain the will to do so, assuming of course that the first isnt insurmountable.
theres a missing who in there, where I leave to you.
I sincerely doubt that would work as an argument though, since selling at a different rate depending on Volume has been around since someone decided to give a free chicken with every four they traded for. It would leave a fair bit of leeway if Microsoft decided the cost of losing out on other makers in a given volume range decides to order less due to this if the pressure it applied to a specific one seemed worth it. Unless they created a new volume price range or some such that only a single vendor fell into could I see this argument going far.
How precisely do they propose to differentiate between "retaliation against a computer maker" and "business decisions" due to any other little thing the maker may do that they decide they don't like? Would it be possible to argue that regardless of the actions of the maker, Microsoft could never stop selling to them or change pricing ever again without risking constant litigation? Seems like a disaster waiting to happen either way once a precedent is set(either against or for Microsoft).
I just could not leave this with only the flippant remark.. if FEAR OF DEATH is the only reason people around you can be polite, something is seriously screwed up with the people around you.
I suppose that explains why canadians are assholes and the rest of the world loathes us.
hey wait...
Speaking of growing up, have you ever tried to keep a 2 year old in order through any form of structured entertainment? I can see his choice of words being quite apt myself.
Oh, I see.
The number reported would be worthless even if we had every single hack documented UNLESS they also include the total number of operating websites in these years with a significant enough amount of traffic to consider the hack more than an isolated prank. Otherwise what are we even talking about? I'm sure the number of deaths due to car accidents increased a lot between 1890 and 1930....
yeah because the 'having a ton of cellphones activated with your info and then having massive balances forwarded to a collections agency and watching your beacon go down the tubes' part where they dont ASK for anything but a date of birth and ssn is just peachy.
or as we like to call it, Esso
we have welcomed people from every country in the world to America
welcomed? I have lived in various places in the states as the outside foreigner observer and not ONCE have I run into a subculture or region where there isn't huge issues due to bias against some group or another. Mexicans in Colorado, black population in maryland, puerto ricans in massachusetts....seems to me cultures are only welcome so long as a) they bring money or b) they shut up and do the crap work while the over paid white "majority" workers bitch that the current "they" are ruining their lives by not allowing them to make 40$ an hour pushing a button while the rest of the world moves to be globally competitive.
And this is only a small segment, i'm sure theres such issues I couldn't even imagine due to lack of exposure.
Stop trying to say the states is all encompassing to race and culture, its been proven decade after decade to be blatently untrue.
But again, this is only my opinion due to the events seen around me. Maybe theres some utopian american ideal i'm missing in the places i've lived in where everyone is treated equally regardless of background.
(please give direct references.)
touche, i hadnt looked at it that way.
You mean cutting them from the cranky overpaid consistently striking europeans and bringing them to the expanding massive market of the Indus? THOSE BASTARDS, WHAT ARE THEY THINKING.
Unions need to face up to the fact that just because they have a union doesnt mean they're ENTITLED TO MORE AND MORE EVERY FUCKING YEAR. If they focused more on making sure their member labour force was GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE than the usual GIVE US MORE DAMNIT they wouldnt have this problem.
Suck it up, they brought it on themselves.
If this story was about Gmail, I have a strange feeling it wouldnt involve forcing unwashed "standards" down the users throats.
And how precisely do you propose that this is going to fight spam in a manner that is at all related to microsofts vulnerabilities? All its doing is _filtering it from hotmail_. Doesn't stop the spam generated through the countless vulns from taking up precious bandwidth before our own filters.
False parallels are fun.
...has a moral responsibility...
Corporation....moral responsibility...
I think you almost shocked my brain into a coma.
...mostly
No noticeable performance increases with 512 megs of video ram? Who would have thought!
...
Its not like there`s many games which take into account the possibility of 512 megs of elbow room (this being the first...)
1) Bias
2)
3) Valid Opinions?
WAHHHH
he`s dead jim.
WAHHHHHHHHHHHH
he`s dead jim.
AUUUUUUGH
he`s dead jim.
Don't forget, you can always DoS a box with a hammer.
woah there,
Honestly, how can one say that its due to the choice of fields that causes people in the IT field to have issues passing on our precious genes. The number of undergrad computer science people who are reasonably well balanced socially seems to be much larger than the stereotypical dorkhermit that everyone associates with the field.
Just because CS is a field that happens to attract the social anxiety stricken leper-dorks, it doesnt mean its a problem in the field, merely that some people have problems in general.
The stigma is almost gone now, stop trying to blame CS for those who decide to invest so much of their lives to their profession or who are unable to deal with society in general.
This is my biggest complaint against people who claim that one has to have everything they need to know comitted to memory to be useful, when it would be so much MORE useful to spend some of that time and effort into learning how to apply knowledge and FIND information.
I mean, do you honestly think the internet and the huge changes to the way information is store and communicated is a fad? Do you think this process is going to stop or slow down?
Barring armageddon, I shouldnt think so.
So, rather than re-iterate over the parents reasons, I shall leave it that. Most of you know where i'm going with this anyways.
As far as copper goes, I have no clue, but in the steel and lumber industries prices have skyrocketed in the American markets as a direct result of the Bush Administration's actions. Look into the changes in lumber tarrifs in the past 6 years, and the ensuing reactions of foreign markets, as well as the situation with imported steel (most notably China), and you'll find yourself facepalming yourself into a coma.
were where what now?
Honestly, as far as the computer is concerned, what difference if characters being displayed are displayed to be read left to right or right to left?
now...CODING from right to left would make for some fun revamping of parsers and parser generators, but nothing that would be all THAT complicated.