That's unfair in this case. It seems very likely that there is life elsewhere in the universe, and probably intelligent life at that....
No. The logical response is "I don't know if aliens exist or not." Why? Because their is no credible evidence of their existence and yet the cosmos is so vast they could easily be overlooked if they do exist. What evidence do you offer to make it "likely" that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? Possible I can accept, but 'likely' seems a stretch.
Says they chose Redhat due to the RHN software update feature... obviously they haven't used it recently:)
I don't know about software update that is strictly RedHat, but the Redcarpet updater has broken my system. Every RPM I try now fails to load, cites unmet dependencies for libraries I already show installed and I can't seem to find a work around. Maybe the folks at the Creature Shop can pull some strings...
Shrek was rendered on Linux boxes. The new animated film "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron" was both created on Linux workstations and rendered on Linux.
Actually, Kansas City is in both Kansas and Missouri (granted the core downtown area is on the MO side). Olathe is firmly planted on the Kansas side however so you'll have to brave the state line to watch in digital.
I wouldn't say Houston is MUCH larger than Phoenix. If you look at population by county, Maricopa is #4 in the nation. Maybe the demographics are better in KC and PHX. More likely it's the theater owners that are willing to part with the cash to make it happen (so the Peoria, AZ theater is obviously not owned by the same family that owns the football team).
...we don't need another loki to rise our hopes and then go bankrupt, we need a black isle (partially because they make the best games ever, period!) with the forsight to include linux versions, NOT linux ports.....
OK. There's the text. Because the poster mentions Loki does that mean they think Loki brought the came in question to Linux? Probably not, since Loki is down the tubes. As I read it, the poster expresses the wish that a company like Black Isle would step into the gap and start dishing out Linux games (not waiting for a third-party to contract to port their game). The reason the poster mentions Black Isle is in the text - because they think Black Isle makes the best games. While it's possible the writer is confused as to who makes what game it doesn't come through in the text. Perhaps it is the knowledge that the two logos appear together that allows you to read into the text something that isn't there.
You obviously aren't a gamer and therefore in this case CANNOT read in context.
I am not an MD (I don't even play one on TV!) but I can read articles in medical journals in context. I am not a stock analyst but I can still glean information from the financial pages.
This is going to be just like in Back to the Future...
So they could combine that movie with "Doc Hollywood" where he wants to be a plastic surgeon in Hollywood and he can still drive a cool car, be a country doc and travel ahead in time to learn new surgical techniques and bring back new gadgets and they could call it "Back to the Suture: A Stitch in Time"
Um, first it's Bioware that makes it, not Black Isle (they have nothing to do with this game).
Seeing as the poster acknowledged a Linux version in the box I'm pretty certain the reference to Black Isle was that it would be nice if some other companies (like Black Isle) would take a cue from Bioware.
Note, they can't do this even with the police and a search warrant.
No, but they can file suit and then go through a process called "discovery". Failure to comply during discovery can get you slapped with contempt I believe.
....security audits should not be used as a cure-all. It is only what it is: an "audit"....
Good point, and just like a financial audit, it shouldn't be used as a fix but as a check against what's being done now and map to where you need to be. No company I know of lets all their payroll, AR and AP sit on a desk unopened until they hire auditors to come in and do the work for them. It's just as silly to take that approach with security. You have a financial dept. (or people who do that sort of thing), payroll dept. etc. you should also have in-house security. The advice to hire someone who's already got the skills (or find someone internal with a strong interest AND give them the time to learn/do what's needed to keep current) is top notch.
Also, you can't go into this with a rent-a-cop mindset. For physical security, most places just need a body with a set of eyes and a walkie-talkie to deter would-be vandals. If what you're securing is more valuable than a block wall's paint job you ratchet your requirements up appropriately.
The contention was that this isn't really a hands-free device if you can't click "hands-free". Unless you're proposing pressing those keys without using your hands, in which case I probably don't want to know more.....
I think it's like "Annie Annie Over" where you throw a ball back and forth over the roof of your house. Or maybe it's an ally who is much better than the other allies.
In a field so ripe for picking, how'd you decide on this particular gem?
No, the point was that stimulus being removed == brain damage. If chronic pain (stimulus) were somehow cured (removed) for a sufferer (not necessarily Mann) that stimulus would be removed and it would be seen as a positive thing. I was merely prodding what seemed to be a rather doughy thought process.
It is excessive to assume brain damage when the problem was the removal of some probes that record data and weren't implanted in the brain and the removal of glasses that displayed additional information to the eyes, not jacked directly into the brain. When someone with limited visibility breaks their glasses nobody rushes them to the emergency room and demands a new prescription be ground before brain damage sets in. Yes, there's disorientation and it can cause the person to feel sick or become anxious. From what we can tell, the glasses were not for vision correction, but were simply a HUD. Why aren't fighter pilots brain damaged when the windshield in their car doesn't give them a display? This would be like expecting someone who watches TV all the time to become brain damaged if they were in a situation where it was not available (when arguably it would be the other way around).
I hope they duct tape an old Sinclair (tiny computer, not gas station icon) to his head and call it even for being so melodramatic. I sympathize with the removal of the probes being both painful and possibly causing nausea (from the sight of blood if nothing else), but the claims of brain damage are a bit much. Psychological damage maybe, but it sounds like he may have been pretty far down that road already.
I guess I just don't understand his situation if his brain can be damaged by rebooting this system he's attached to.
Well, I'd guess that he clearly doesn't have Intel inside and/or (more likely) is running a Microsoft OS and is used to crashes, but is afraid he may soon do a blue face of death....
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If seeing people who aren't there makes a "Beautiful Mind," what does not seeing people who really are there make?
It makes you a sysadmin?
I didn't believe in ESP.... but that was before the abduction. I knew I was going to say that!
That's unfair in this case. It seems very likely that there is life elsewhere in the universe, and probably intelligent life at that....
No. The logical response is "I don't know if aliens exist or not." Why? Because their is no credible evidence of their existence and yet the cosmos is so vast they could easily be overlooked if they do exist. What evidence do you offer to make it "likely" that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? Possible I can accept, but 'likely' seems a stretch.
Says they chose Redhat due to the RHN software update feature... obviously they haven't used it recently :)
I don't know about software update that is strictly RedHat, but the Redcarpet updater has broken my system. Every RPM I try now fails to load, cites unmet dependencies for libraries I already show installed and I can't seem to find a work around. Maybe the folks at the Creature Shop can pull some strings...
Shrek was rendered on Linux boxes. The new animated film "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron" was both created on Linux workstations and rendered on Linux.
I'd rather be in KC,KS than E. St. Louis though...whether there was a digital theater nearby or not.
Actually, Kansas City is in both Kansas and Missouri (granted the core downtown area is on the MO side). Olathe is firmly planted on the Kansas side however so you'll have to brave the state line to watch in digital.
I wouldn't say Houston is MUCH larger than Phoenix. If you look at population by county, Maricopa is #4 in the nation. Maybe the demographics are better in KC and PHX. More likely it's the theater owners that are willing to part with the cash to make it happen (so the Peoria, AZ theater is obviously not owned by the same family that owns the football team).
...we don't need another loki to rise our hopes and then go bankrupt, we need a black isle (partially because they make the best games ever, period!) with the forsight to include linux versions, NOT linux ports.....
OK. There's the text. Because the poster mentions Loki does that mean they think Loki brought the came in question to Linux? Probably not, since Loki is down the tubes. As I read it, the poster expresses the wish that a company like Black Isle would step into the gap and start dishing out Linux games (not waiting for a third-party to contract to port their game). The reason the poster mentions Black Isle is in the text - because they think Black Isle makes the best games. While it's possible the writer is confused as to who makes what game it doesn't come through in the text. Perhaps it is the knowledge that the two logos appear together that allows you to read into the text something that isn't there.
You obviously aren't a gamer and therefore in this case CANNOT read in context.
I am not an MD (I don't even play one on TV!) but I can read articles in medical journals in context. I am not a stock analyst but I can still glean information from the financial pages.
I stand by my earlier post.
This is going to be just like in Back to the Future...
So they could combine that movie with "Doc Hollywood" where he wants to be a plastic surgeon in Hollywood and he can still drive a cool car, be a country doc and travel ahead in time to learn new surgical techniques and bring back new gadgets and they could call it "Back to the Suture: A Stitch in Time"
Um, first it's Bioware that makes it, not Black Isle (they have nothing to do with this game).
Seeing as the poster acknowledged a Linux version in the box I'm pretty certain the reference to Black Isle was that it would be nice if some other companies (like Black Isle) would take a cue from Bioware.
I'm not a gamer but I can read in context....
Note, they can't do this even with the police and a search warrant.
No, but they can file suit and then go through a process called "discovery". Failure to comply during discovery can get you slapped with contempt I believe.
....security audits should not be used as a cure-all. It is only what it is: an "audit"....
Good point, and just like a financial audit, it shouldn't be used as a fix but as a check against what's being done now and map to where you need to be. No company I know of lets all their payroll, AR and AP sit on a desk unopened until they hire auditors to come in and do the work for them. It's just as silly to take that approach with security. You have a financial dept. (or people who do that sort of thing), payroll dept. etc. you should also have in-house security. The advice to hire someone who's already got the skills (or find someone internal with a strong interest AND give them the time to learn/do what's needed to keep current) is top notch.
Also, you can't go into this with a rent-a-cop mindset. For physical security, most places just need a body with a set of eyes and a walkie-talkie to deter would-be vandals. If what you're securing is more valuable than a block wall's paint job you ratchet your requirements up appropriately.
The contention was that this isn't really a hands-free device if you can't click "hands-free". Unless you're proposing pressing those keys without using your hands, in which case I probably don't want to know more.....
I think it's like "Annie Annie Over" where you throw a ball back and forth over the roof of your house. Or maybe it's an ally who is much better than the other allies.
In a field so ripe for picking, how'd you decide on this particular gem?
....if you got nutmeged (ball through the legs) by a robot!
That brings up an interesting point. Is anybody building a Robo-cup for protection against such an event?
Would a robot specifically programmed for this move be referred to as a rack server?
Abio.... is that the new Japanese robot that looks like a long-haired model for romance novels?
Steven Wright: comedian. Very dry sense of humor.
"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it."
"If you're in a vehicle travelling the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, would they do anything?"
"The Stones.... can't believe they're still doin' it after all these years.... Fred and Barney."
"Everything's within walking distance if you've got the time."
OT
My eyes are getting tired. I just read the headline as "Introduction to DISTURBED Computing."
...he who has the money dictates the morales.
No wonder my friend, juan morales, seems to feel he's being opressed......
No, the point was that stimulus being removed == brain damage. If chronic pain (stimulus) were somehow cured (removed) for a sufferer (not necessarily Mann) that stimulus would be removed and it would be seen as a positive thing. I was merely prodding what seemed to be a rather doughy thought process.
It is excessive to assume brain damage when the problem was the removal of some probes that record data and weren't implanted in the brain and the removal of glasses that displayed additional information to the eyes, not jacked directly into the brain. When someone with limited visibility breaks their glasses nobody rushes them to the emergency room and demands a new prescription be ground before brain damage sets in. Yes, there's disorientation and it can cause the person to feel sick or become anxious. From what we can tell, the glasses were not for vision correction, but were simply a HUD. Why aren't fighter pilots brain damaged when the windshield in their car doesn't give them a display? This would be like expecting someone who watches TV all the time to become brain damaged if they were in a situation where it was not available (when arguably it would be the other way around).
I hope they duct tape an old Sinclair (tiny computer, not gas station icon) to his head and call it even for being so melodramatic. I sympathize with the removal of the probes being both painful and possibly causing nausea (from the sight of blood if nothing else), but the claims of brain damage are a bit much. Psychological damage maybe, but it sounds like he may have been pretty far down that road already.
Because they're shoving the waves through your head?
Oh, then you'll want our new digital pen with a full QWERTY keyboard embedded in the clip.
I guess I just don't understand his situation if his brain can be damaged by rebooting this system he's attached to.
Well, I'd guess that he clearly doesn't have Intel inside and/or (more likely) is running a Microsoft OS and is used to crashes, but is afraid he may soon do a blue face of death....
....but brain damange in the 'neural stimulus has been removed....
So, in your estimation, someone who has suffered chronic pain for an extended period of time could never be cured, only brain damaged?