Generally speaking, and this goes for us as well, Cosmonauts/Astronauts overwhelmingly come from military backgrounds, usually USAF or Navy/Marine aviators, or the Russian AF/Navy. ---------------------------------------- ----------------- I bent my wookie
And how, pray tell, do you know this? Sounds like you're just spouting the old saw from the anti-communist propaganda that people here in the US seem to somehow regard as the truth, without ever questioning whether or not we've been lied to about these things. ----------------------------------------- ---------------- I bent my wookie
I like to line up five AOL or other useless CD in a row of five, fifty yards away, hit the timer and pretend I'm in the Olympics shooting the Biathlon... ------------------------------------- -------------------- I bent my wookie
The headline on the article claims that the planetlet is in the Northern Milky Way. Is there such a thing as north in the milky way? ------------------------------------------------ --------- I bent my wookie
I like the Socialist version of humans rights better than the Capitalist version. ---------------------------------------- ----------------- I bent my wookie
Dude, you're wrong. Powell was never a secretary of state. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, yes, SoS, no. Sorry. ------------------------------------------ --------------- I bent my wookie
The supremes sent the case back to Florida because the Florida Supreme Court did not clearly spell out how they reached their decision.
Heh... I'm thinking about Diana Ross doing that whole "Stop! In the name of love..." thing right now... ------------------------------------------ --------------- I bent my wookie
Oh, there's always those "true believer" types. I use to work with a bunch of guys who used SmallTalk for years, and used to deride C++ as the language for losers. Now it appears that it's the same thing here. I've coded both Java and C++, and I have to say that public X extends Y is a helluva lot more readable than X::Y.
The performance issue is pretty much a dead one, and I have the suspicion that those who use that as an argument for why Java totally sucks haven't been exposed to Java as it's implemented today, and the kinds of apps that are built with it. I also doubt that they're aware of how much its used.
I do have one gripe about Java that seems to be legit, and that's that it is very verbose, and things can get weird, especially when it comes to things like iterating through lists. That being said, there are some nice advantages to the verbosity of Java, which is that people who are new to a prject can hit the ground running easier when the project is using Java than say, C++ where individual coding styles can really interfere with your learning curve. ------------------------------------------ --------------- I bent my wookie
Unless you bought a new car lately. My car is electronically limited to 130mph by the computer, although its capable of going about 15mph faster than that. Anyone know how to hack onboard computers? -------------------------------------- ------------------- I bent my wookie
why are there so many SUVs in capitol hill anyway?
Because the people who live on Capitol Hill are the trendiest, most fad-oriented people I have ever lived amongst.
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And the Republicans will make it so that people who make above $X won't have to pay tickets at all, they'll just take it out of some poor middle class schmoe. ------------------------------------------------ --------- I bent my wookie
Yeah, like "LA Blue Girl" and that other kooky but somehow also very erotic anime porn... ----------------------------------------- ---------------- I bent my wookie
This most popular Anime series on Japanese television, ever, Urusei Yatsura is neither violent nor anti-woman. In fact, the main character is a lecherous teenage boy, the heroine is a space alien girl with green hair, horns and fangs. To claim that all anime is overly violent or sexist is plain ignorant. Some of the most popular (and coolest) anime contains very little sexist or extremely violent content. Heck, one of the most succesful anime creators, Rumiko Takahashi, is a woman.
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Megadeth.... You know, Dave Mustaine was a host for a while on MTV. Even still, Megadeth sucks. Your taste in music sucks. You suck. ------------------------------------------- -------------- I bent my wookie
I probably shouldn't be telling any of you this, but there *is* affordable housing in the Bay Area. Not in SF, not in the peninsula, but in the East Bay, north of Hayward, you have San Leandro, Oakland and Berkeley, as well as Albany, Piedmont, all west of the 24 tunnel into Contra Costa. I pay US$640 for a rather spacious studio with nice old fixtures. BART is very accessible all over, the weather is nice, and there's culture everywhere (especially Oakland and Berkeley). Oakland is highly underrated, despite the reputation it has for being a rough town. When I left school, a lot of my classmates moved to San Francisco, but I opted out of that, mainly because I just can't get behind paying $2100 a month for a 12x15 closet in the Lower Haight.
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I mean not just the Bay Area (although Berkeley has Chez Panisse and Oakland has the Bay Wolf) ------------------------------------------- -------------- I bent my wookie
San Francisco restaurants are still the best anywhere in the Bay Area
Nay, not just the East Bay, but North America in general. Dinner at The Flying Saucer, anyone? ----------------------------------------- ---------------- I bent my wookie
Exchange doesn't scale well, this much is known. When you go with more than approximately 1500 users, it starts to get glacier slow. You usually have to add more machines, which is something that lots of folks here know.
Also, in the 4 years or so that I've been using Exchange, (which works fine in my current company of 5 people) I have noticed a couple of things:
1. The calendar/groupware stuff gets used for a couple of months, but weird things happen. For example, I had two conflicting events on my calendar for more than a year. Why? The Exchange client wouldn't let me delete either one of them. An "internal error" jinxed my delete, consequently, I was bugged every week by a meeting that had long since come and gone, but I could never de-schedule it. That's a bug.
2. What I also began to notice was that people stopped using all the fun calendar and schedule features after a while. By the time I left my last job, yeah, we were using Exchange, but essentially only as a mail system. People abandoned the other stuff, perhaps because it was never configured correctly, but more I think, due to it really doesn't work as advertised. Most of the non-technical folks were scared by all the manual config stuff you have to do to use the groupware features, and they'd wet their pants when anything weird happened.
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If it didn't explicity say that it was "The Holy Grail", I would never have guessed. And what's with the Shell logos all over the place? ------------------------------------------ --------------- I bent my wookie
Well, then I bash Netscape on the fact that the thing is busted! This one needs to go back to QA for another pass. Normal, average, everyday submit buttons don't even work. I could care
less about the links to Netscape, I mean, it's their product. I would love to have a non-IE browser that works (no, Opera is not a reasonable substitute), but this ain't it.
The little 'security manager' dealie stroked out 6 or 7 times before it worked. This product is simply unacceptable. Is it AOL? Do they not understand what makes a product? ------------------------------------------------ --------- I bent my wookie
I don't think they did much of any QA on this at all. I got the latest preview release, and most of the time, standard HTML form buttons don't work. Screw Netscape, they suck now. -------------------------------------------- ------------- I bent my wookie
Considering that a good portion of the voters in the district in question are older than the rocks, it's not hard to see how mistakes could have been made, especially since this was a new layout for the ballot. Doddering 80 year olds are not usually as swift on the uptake as younger folks. While I probably wouldn't have made the mistake, I can certainly see how the slow-driving permanent left blinker crowd could have goofed, invalidating their votes.
As the recount is mandated by state law, I have no problem with this. I voted Gore in the election, but even if Bush ends up winning the state, the Dems should suck it up and deal with the fact that it appears that they have lost the election.
Suing would reflect very badly on them, painting them as sore losers, providing that they support any lawsuits. While I'm pretty sure that the Republicans would do the same under opposite circumstances, suing would be a bad idea.
Re-doing the vote, even for that county, would, I feel, unfairly tip the election to Gore, as now everyone who voted the first time could have a chance to re-cast their vote. In a district where there seems to be a good portion of Democrats, I see only a benefit for Gore. Should he win in this manner, the Republicans will pull out all the stops to see that Al Gore won't be able to get a job at a gas station, let alone government ever again.
So by all means, let's see what the recount says, stick with that, and try to not have any more events like this anymore.
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Generally speaking, and this goes for us as well, Cosmonauts/Astronauts overwhelmingly come from military backgrounds, usually USAF or Navy/Marine aviators, or the Russian AF/Navy.- -----------------
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And how, pray tell, do you know this? Sounds like you're just spouting the old saw from the anti-communist propaganda that people here in the US seem to somehow regard as the truth, without ever questioning whether or not we've been lied to about these things.- ----------------
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I like to line up five AOL or other useless CD in a row of five, fifty yards away, hit the timer and pretend I'm in the Olympics shooting the Biathlon...- --------------------
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The headline on the article claims that the planetlet is in the Northern Milky Way. Is there such a thing as north in the milky way?- ---------
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I like the Socialist version of humans rights better than the Capitalist version.- -----------------
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Dude, you're wrong. Powell was never a secretary of state. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, yes, SoS, no. Sorry.- ---------------
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3 words: Justice Clarence Thomas- ---------------
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Oh please, shut up Mr. I-don't-believe-in-evolution man.- ---------
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Heh... I'm thinking about Diana Ross doing that whole "Stop! In the name of love..." thing right now...- ---------------
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The performance issue is pretty much a dead one, and I have the suspicion that those who use that as an argument for why Java totally sucks haven't been exposed to Java as it's implemented today, and the kinds of apps that are built with it. I also doubt that they're aware of how much its used.
I do have one gripe about Java that seems to be legit, and that's that it is very verbose, and things can get weird, especially when it comes to things like iterating through lists. That being said, there are some nice advantages to the verbosity of Java, which is that people who are new to a prject can hit the ground running easier when the project is using Java than say, C++ where individual coding styles can really interfere with your learning curve.- ---------------
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Unless you bought a new car lately. My car is electronically limited to 130mph by the computer, although its capable of going about 15mph faster than that. Anyone know how to hack onboard computers?- -------------------
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Because the people who live on Capitol Hill are the trendiest, most fad-oriented people I have ever lived amongst.- ---------
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And the Republicans will make it so that people who make above $X won't have to pay tickets at all, they'll just take it out of some poor middle class schmoe.- ---------
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Yeah, like "LA Blue Girl" and that other kooky but somehow also very erotic anime porn...- ----------------
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I suggest that you have virtually no idea what you're talking about.- ---------------
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She had 3 cervices.... Weird. That was a bizarre movie.- ---------------
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Megadeth.... You know, Dave Mustaine was a host for a while on MTV. Even still, Megadeth sucks. Your taste in music sucks. You suck.- --------------
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I mean not just the Bay Area (although Berkeley has Chez Panisse and Oakland has the Bay Wolf)- --------------
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Nay, not just the East Bay, but North America in general. Dinner at The Flying Saucer, anyone?- ----------------
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Also, in the 4 years or so that I've been using Exchange, (which works fine in my current company of 5 people) I have noticed a couple of things:
1. The calendar/groupware stuff gets used for a couple of months, but weird things happen. For example, I had two conflicting events on my calendar for more than a year. Why? The Exchange client wouldn't let me delete either one of them. An "internal error" jinxed my delete, consequently, I was bugged every week by a meeting that had long since come and gone, but I could never de-schedule it. That's a bug.
2. What I also began to notice was that people stopped using all the fun calendar and schedule features after a while. By the time I left my last job, yeah, we were using Exchange, but essentially only as a mail system. People abandoned the other stuff, perhaps because it was never configured correctly, but more I think, due to it really doesn't work as advertised. Most of the non-technical folks were scared by all the manual config stuff you have to do to use the groupware features, and they'd wet their pants when anything weird happened.
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If it didn't explicity say that it was "The Holy Grail", I would never have guessed. And what's with the Shell logos all over the place?- ---------------
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The little 'security manager' dealie stroked out 6 or 7 times before it worked. This product is simply unacceptable. Is it AOL? Do they not understand what makes a product?- ---------
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I don't think they did much of any QA on this at all. I got the latest preview release, and most of the time, standard HTML form buttons don't work. Screw Netscape, they suck now.- -------------
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As the recount is mandated by state law, I have no problem with this. I voted Gore in the election, but even if Bush ends up winning the state, the Dems should suck it up and deal with the fact that it appears that they have lost the election.
Suing would reflect very badly on them, painting them as sore losers, providing that they support any lawsuits. While I'm pretty sure that the Republicans would do the same under opposite circumstances, suing would be a bad idea.
Re-doing the vote, even for that county, would, I feel, unfairly tip the election to Gore, as now everyone who voted the first time could have a chance to re-cast their vote. In a district where there seems to be a good portion of Democrats, I see only a benefit for Gore. Should he win in this manner, the Republicans will pull out all the stops to see that Al Gore won't be able to get a job at a gas station, let alone government ever again.
So by all means, let's see what the recount says, stick with that, and try to not have any more events like this anymore.
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