What I've never understood is why google can make their search page so blazingly fast, but orkut is a joke in terms of bandwidth and load speed. Hopefully wikipedia will get the main google computers and not whatever the hell they run orkut on.
Actually it seems to take away any justification. It wasn't bad luck, you weren't distracted, it wasn't just a bad day, you people just really suck at this. And by you people I'm including myself, btw.
There is zero probability that it would be shot as soon as it came to life. It would destroy NATO, irreparably damage relations with both Europe and China, and quite possibly lead to war. US foreign policy is bad enough without exagerrating.
And it's a shame the US threatened to shoot down [spacedaily.com] the alternative european/asian Galileo system if the US military couldn't have the right to shut the new system down when it wanted
Alright, that phrasing's just a bit overdone. The US didn't threaten to just shoot it down arbitrarily, they just said they might have to if it were used by a foreign power that was at war with the US.
So, getting back to my point of nothing here matters, drop the pretentious pointing out of argument fallacies. It's boring to read.
Then don't read it. Simple, eh? Jackass.
Besides, I just think you're taking your anger out on me because you got owned by benhocking, blugill, and atzanteol.
Uh, no, didn't, but thanks for playing.
Judging by your sig you're some idiotic little libertarian whining and weeping about the world from your parent's basement, and I can only presume the reason you foam at the mouth at word "strawmen" is because you basically use them a lot and get called on them. But you still don't seem to understand what they are. So hows about this, go get your GED, maybe take some courses at a community college in philosophy, then come back and maybe you'll recognize what they are, and won't embarass yourself whining about them again.
And did these people stop the launch? No, they didn't. THAT'S the point I'm attacking, the idea that's constantly being propounded on slashdot that the reason we don't have a huge nuclear plant industry in the US is because people protest. These people are marginalized, they're not influencing policy to any appreciable degree. Nuclear plants are hideously expensive, that's the major reason no new ones have been built in a long time.
new nuclear plants. But no: must... be... scared... of... anything..."nuclear"
Ah, the idiotic strawman of the pro-nuclear crowd rears its head again. Where are these mythical people who automatically engage in "endless ranting and raving" protests against anything involved with nuclear energy? I hear them vilified on slashdot a lot, but I never seem to meet any of them in real life. Probably because for the most part they don't exist. But it's a lot more convenient to blame these illusory people than to actually enter a serious debate about the subject. Strawmen don't hit back.
The problem with nuclear power isn't the threat of meltdowns. It's the waste that's produced. No, Yucca Mountain won't solve the problem permanently. If you think that you're just ignorant.
First of all we're not sure how safe it is. There's a moderate seismic activity in the area. There's also more water seepage than previously thought. Have some goddamn responsibility and think of this in the long-term; the casks have to maintain integrity for 10,000 years.
Secondly even after it's completed it can't hold an infinite amount of waste. Eventually we'll have the same problem, especially if the "Yucca will solve all our problems crowd" get all those new reactors built, greatly increasing the amount of radioactive waste that needs to be stored.
To be honest, the Pretender had its chance and blew it. They could have finished it in the series, then they had 3 made-for-TV movies afterwards. I used to be an avid fan of the show until I finally realized they never were really going to resolve anything, and lost interest.
Smells like FUD to me. A lot of people posting about how horrid Jeeves is, yet nobody yet stating why? Have you actually compared query results? These days I've found Jeeves results to be around equivalent to Google, and quite often more relevant since it is much less a target to spammers.
Jeeves may be better now, but it used to suck, and most people aren't going to keep checking old search engines to see whether they improved.
Askjeeves' big problem in the beginning was they promised a method of searching that just didn't work. You used to ask them a question, and instead of giving you the answer they just grabbed keywords out of your query and did separate searches on that. Which I could have done myself if I wanted to. It looks like they've improved their parser a lot, but maybe if they'd done a better job in the beginning they wouldn't be doing so dismally.
completely agree. Telling ads apart from search results is easy, and I have no idea how ANYONE could have trouble with it.
I really don't understand all the posts saying this. Who on earth said the problem was just that people couldn't tell the difference?
Let's say you're Louis Vuitton. You spend a fortune in advertising, product placement, etc. So now the consumers want to buy them, so they go on google and do a search. Some other company comes up, and they think, hey, maybe they have something good.
For the price of the google ad the other company has effectively stolen all of Louis Vitton's advertising effect on that person.
if you have a company of 1000 employees, you buy windows on each machine you will get socked HARD with license tracking costs and nightmares the BSA loves companies that rely on the machine stickers, so you ned to buy a company/corperate license to make license tracking easier... oh! we just bought windows again!
Not true. The places I've worked where we've rolled out huge numbers of windows PCs always used Norton Ghost. Just about every machine had the same serial number Windows, and I'm fairly sure the companies didn't have site licenses. Whatever MS' flaws, and yes, they have many, overzealous anti-piracy crusades aren't one of them. The BSA is different, of course, but I've never even heard of anyone getting hassled by them, they're just too minor to worry about.
Not that I disagree, 128MB is too little, but you gets what you pays for.
They should just put a really old version of Linux on it, from back when 128MB was monstrous. I have an old copy of slackware from circa 1995 they can borrow if they want. It will scream.
How many people have bought the entire Knuth series just to occupy the moral high ground on their bookshelf?
That's absolute nonsense. I often will take one of his volumes off the bookshelf, put La Boheme on the stereo (the Pappano recording, of course) , pour myself a glass of Le Montrachet '78, and peruse Prof. Bluth's delightful words. You shouldn't be bitter just because you're too uncouth to understand them.
Now, there are many people in IT for the money and to them it's just a job, not a passion.
Nothing wrong with that. If they went into accounting or marketing or sales they probably wouldn't be passionate about that, either. Just because they can't get paid for playing with their hobbies, they should be closed out of the labor market?
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what makes you think any amount of technology could help? computers can't work miracles. psychiatry ... might.
Well the submitter mentioned that Typing of the Dead had actually helped, so maybe computers might be helpful here.
So don't trust any country on the F500 list. I've seen how they calculate the number, it's idiotic.
Seriously, why would anyone think this stuff is in danger? As if SBC wouldn't see it as an asset, part of their "goodwill" portfolio.
Don't trust a company that lists "goodwill" as an asset on its balance sheet.
You also didn't pay $15 for your entire music collection (I'm assuming). The price is the improvement for you.
They've got enough cash in the bank to run the business for decades if they never made another cent
Not anymore. Back in November they paid an enormous dividend and got rid of about 32 BILLION in cash all at once.
Orkut runs on 6 NT servers.
Well why? I mean it's not like google couldn't afford an extra few machines. It reflects badly on them I always thought.
What I've never understood is why google can make their search page so blazingly fast, but orkut is a joke in terms of bandwidth and load speed. Hopefully wikipedia will get the main google computers and not whatever the hell they run orkut on.
After a certain fine the actual number becomes meaningless, as most people will just declare bankruptcy.
Actually it seems to take away any justification. It wasn't bad luck, you weren't distracted, it wasn't just a bad day, you people just really suck at this. And by you people I'm including myself, btw.
There is zero probability that it would be shot as soon as it came to life. It would destroy NATO, irreparably damage relations with both Europe and China, and quite possibly lead to war. US foreign policy is bad enough without exagerrating.
And it's a shame the US threatened to shoot down [spacedaily.com] the alternative european/asian Galileo system if the US military couldn't have the right to shut the new system down when it wanted
Alright, that phrasing's just a bit overdone. The US didn't threaten to just shoot it down arbitrarily, they just said they might have to if it were used by a foreign power that was at war with the US.
So, getting back to my point of nothing here matters, drop the pretentious pointing out of argument fallacies. It's boring to read.
Then don't read it. Simple, eh? Jackass.
Besides, I just think you're taking your anger out on me because you got owned by benhocking, blugill, and atzanteol.
Uh, no, didn't, but thanks for playing.
Judging by your sig you're some idiotic little libertarian whining and weeping about the world from your parent's basement, and I can only presume the reason you foam at the mouth at word "strawmen" is because you basically use them a lot and get called on them. But you still don't seem to understand what they are. So hows about this, go get your GED, maybe take some courses at a community college in philosophy, then come back and maybe you'll recognize what they are, and won't embarass yourself whining about them again.
And did these people stop the launch? No, they didn't. THAT'S the point I'm attacking, the idea that's constantly being propounded on slashdot that the reason we don't have a huge nuclear plant industry in the US is because people protest. These people are marginalized, they're not influencing policy to any appreciable degree. Nuclear plants are hideously expensive, that's the major reason no new ones have been built in a long time.
If I wanted your opinion I'd beat it out of you you pretentious little twit.
new nuclear plants. But no: must ... be ... scared ... of ... anything ..."nuclear"
Ah, the idiotic strawman of the pro-nuclear crowd rears its head again. Where are these mythical people who automatically engage in "endless ranting and raving" protests against anything involved with nuclear energy? I hear them vilified on slashdot a lot, but I never seem to meet any of them in real life. Probably because for the most part they don't exist. But it's a lot more convenient to blame these illusory people than to actually enter a serious debate about the subject. Strawmen don't hit back.
The problem with nuclear power isn't the threat of meltdowns. It's the waste that's produced. No, Yucca Mountain won't solve the problem permanently. If you think that you're just ignorant.
First of all we're not sure how safe it is. There's a moderate seismic activity in the area. There's also more water seepage than previously thought. Have some goddamn responsibility and think of this in the long-term; the casks have to maintain integrity for 10,000 years.
Secondly even after it's completed it can't hold an infinite amount of waste. Eventually we'll have the same problem, especially if the "Yucca will solve all our problems crowd" get all those new reactors built, greatly increasing the amount of radioactive waste that needs to be stored.
And bravo for knowing that he's what's making ST suck.
Not really, the ST universe just wasn't interesting, complex, or consistent enough to carry 5 TV series. Let it die.
To be honest, the Pretender had its chance and blew it. They could have finished it in the series, then they had 3 made-for-TV movies afterwards. I used to be an avid fan of the show until I finally realized they never were really going to resolve anything, and lost interest.
Smells like FUD to me. A lot of people posting about how horrid Jeeves is, yet nobody yet stating why? Have you actually compared query results? These days I've found Jeeves results to be around equivalent to Google, and quite often more relevant since it is much less a target to spammers.
Jeeves may be better now, but it used to suck, and most people aren't going to keep checking old search engines to see whether they improved.
Askjeeves' big problem in the beginning was they promised a method of searching that just didn't work. You used to ask them a question, and instead of giving you the answer they just grabbed keywords out of your query and did separate searches on that. Which I could have done myself if I wanted to. It looks like they've improved their parser a lot, but maybe if they'd done a better job in the beginning they wouldn't be doing so dismally.
TV shows come and go; none are so important that they should become the target for charitable giving.
They should at least have picked a better show, geeze...
Yeah, but at least be a little subtle about it.
completely agree. Telling ads apart from search results is easy, and I have no idea how ANYONE could have trouble with it.
I really don't understand all the posts saying this. Who on earth said the problem was just that people couldn't tell the difference?
Let's say you're Louis Vuitton. You spend a fortune in advertising, product placement, etc. So now the consumers want to buy them, so they go on google and do a search. Some other company comes up, and they think, hey, maybe they have something good.
For the price of the google ad the other company has effectively stolen all of Louis Vitton's advertising effect on that person.
if you have a company of 1000 employees, you buy windows on each machine you will get socked HARD with license tracking costs and nightmares the BSA loves companies that rely on the machine stickers, so you ned to buy a company/corperate license to make license tracking easier... oh! we just bought windows again!
Not true. The places I've worked where we've rolled out huge numbers of windows PCs always used Norton Ghost. Just about every machine had the same serial number Windows, and I'm fairly sure the companies didn't have site licenses. Whatever MS' flaws, and yes, they have many, overzealous anti-piracy crusades aren't one of them. The BSA is different, of course, but I've never even heard of anyone getting hassled by them, they're just too minor to worry about.
Not that I disagree, 128MB is too little, but you gets what you pays for.
They should just put a really old version of Linux on it, from back when 128MB was monstrous. I have an old copy of slackware from circa 1995 they can borrow if they want. It will scream.
How many people have bought the entire Knuth series just to occupy the moral high ground on their bookshelf?
That's absolute nonsense. I often will take one of his volumes off the bookshelf, put La Boheme on the stereo (the Pappano recording, of course) , pour myself a glass of Le Montrachet '78, and peruse Prof. Bluth's delightful words. You shouldn't be bitter just because you're too uncouth to understand them.
Now, there are many people in IT for the money and to them it's just a job, not a passion.
Nothing wrong with that. If they went into accounting or marketing or sales they probably wouldn't be passionate about that, either. Just because they can't get paid for playing with their hobbies, they should be closed out of the labor market?