Does he understand a Tivo/Dreamcast/Email/can opener?
Do you understand how a clutch works? Do you need too? The "average" Joe Bloggs from Struggle St. wants one box to do everything - for the simple fact it'll be cheaper that way. Integration is the wave of the "naughties", as you so delicately put it.
IIRC, there were reports that during the Gulf war, all the GPS systems (including civilian units) suddenly became accurate to the 1cm resolution you speak of. This suggests the deliberate error is in the actual timing signals sent out and is controlled from the satellites, although this seems a little silly from the military's perspective.
Papyrus is made from the stems of the papyrus plant, a kind of water reed. The stems are crushed(flattened), soaked, laid flat and dried. It produces a really lumpy, striated style paper. Pretty cool tech for the Egyptians, but it just wouldn't hack it today.
Oh yeah, and IIRC there hasn't been any large papyrus "fields" on the nile for hundreds of years!
One thing common to all religions is the inclusion of a set of laws which must be obeyed or a penalty will apply.
Religion was once the only method of convincing people to take responsibility for their actions, and to function as a member of society. If someone has the threat of eternal damnation over their head, they'll think twice before acting in a manner that would be detrimental to society.
Religion is not the power it once was, in western society at least, so we have had to come up with new ways to deal with 'problematic citizens', namely the court system. This presents a much more immediate threat than the possibility of hell, and so is a more effective weapon - the people who defy religious teachings are not going to care what the zealots think anyway.
So, on to my point. I agree (in principle) with the ten commandments, however I do believe that the more intelligent among us do not need to be told to follow them.
The principle of all the major religions I am familiar with is the same - to allow society to function in an orderly and safe manner. This is an admirable goal, and indeed one which has brought modern civilisation to where it is today.
However, there are far too many people who consider their laws to be the 'best', and will kill, like uncivilised savages, to prove it. Unfortunately, the ability to kill has escalated to catastrophic levels in the past few years - suddenly even traditionally non threatening nations such as Pakistan have obtained nuclear capabilities. My only conclusion is that religion has gone too far - what once may have been necessary for survival now threatens civilisation's very existence.
I just graduated from UQ here is Brisbane, and applied for 5 jobs in my first week after exams. Now, I'm an average student, one that all the big companies overlook because of my gpa, but I sent these application letters to smaller engineering/it firms. Of the 5 letters, I recieved 4 requests for interviews. I got hired at my first interview.
What I'm trying to say here is that if you look in the right places, the jobs are plentiful. Especially here in Australia. Good luck to everyone out there trying to find a job..
This seems finally like a worthwhile use for distributed.net's power.. sure, cracking encryption is cool, but necessary? hmm...
Hopefully, there'll be some serious cooperation between nasa and groups like d.net, I know I look forward to lending my processing power towards anything other than fading the start menus on my win2k box:)
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Bollocks.
Does he understand a Tivo/Dreamcast/Email/can opener?
Do you understand how a clutch works? Do you need too? The "average" Joe Bloggs from Struggle St. wants one box to do everything - for the simple fact it'll be cheaper that way. Integration is the wave of the "naughties", as you so delicately put it.
tsf.
IIRC, there were reports that during the Gulf war, all the GPS systems (including civilian units) suddenly became accurate to the 1cm resolution you speak of.
This suggests the deliberate error is in the actual timing signals sent out and is controlled from the satellites, although this seems a little silly from the military's perspective.
Can anyone verify this?
Instead of just jamming the signals, what if you could fool them into giving false readings...
:)
Think of the possibilities
I bought my palm secondhand, and there was a copy of palmscape, netscape for the palm pilot included.
I can hook the palm into my LAN by dropping it in the cradle and starting up a dial up connection, and it will surf successfully.
Palms Rock!!
Papyrus is made from the stems of the papyrus plant, a kind of water reed. The stems are crushed(flattened), soaked, laid flat and dried. It produces a really lumpy, striated style paper. Pretty cool tech for the Egyptians, but it just wouldn't hack it today.
Oh yeah, and IIRC there hasn't been any large papyrus "fields" on the nile for hundreds of years!
One thing common to all religions is the inclusion of a set of laws which must be obeyed or a penalty will apply.
Religion was once the only method of convincing people to take responsibility for their actions, and to function as a member of society. If someone has the threat of eternal damnation over their head, they'll think twice before acting in a manner that would be detrimental to society.
Religion is not the power it once was, in western society at least, so we have had to come up with new ways to deal with 'problematic citizens', namely the court system. This presents a much more immediate threat than the possibility of hell, and so is a more effective weapon - the people who defy religious teachings are not going to care what the zealots think anyway.
So, on to my point. I agree (in principle) with the ten commandments, however I do believe that the more intelligent among us do not need to be told to follow them.
The principle of all the major religions I am familiar with is the same - to allow society to function in an orderly and safe manner. This is an admirable goal, and indeed one which has brought modern civilisation to where it is today.
However, there are far too many people who consider their laws to be the 'best', and will kill, like uncivilised savages, to prove it. Unfortunately, the ability to kill has escalated to catastrophic levels in the past few years - suddenly even traditionally non threatening nations such as Pakistan have obtained nuclear capabilities. My only conclusion is that religion has gone too far - what once may have been necessary for survival now threatens civilisation's very existence.
tsf.
I just graduated from UQ here is Brisbane, and applied for 5 jobs in my first week after exams. Now, I'm an average student, one that all the big companies overlook because of my gpa, but I sent these application letters to smaller engineering/it firms. Of the 5 letters, I recieved 4 requests for interviews. I got hired at my first interview.
What I'm trying to say here is that if you look in the right places, the jobs are plentiful. Especially here in Australia.
Good luck to everyone out there trying to find a job..
This seems finally like a worthwhile use for distributed.net's power.. sure, cracking encryption is cool, but necessary? hmm...
Hopefully, there'll be some serious cooperation between nasa and groups like d.net, I know I look forward to lending my processing power towards anything other than fading the start menus on my win2k box :)
TheSacrificialFly.