I'm not totally certain, but this may have happened to me a few years ago when I worked at ISP and had one of these under my desk. It basically started to smoke and burn and you could smell sodre in the whole building. We called them up and the response we got was that they'd never heard of one of them doing that before. I believe they sent us a new one under warranty. I wonder how many blew up before they issued the recall.
Re:"artificial turkey for the vegetarians"
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Christmas in 2050
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Funny, I am a vegetarian and can honestly say that even before I was a vegetarian, the only 'meat' I craved wasn't even real meat;(McDonald's). Now the only meat that I would say I occasionally consider eating is seafood, which tastes real good. Apart from that, I have no desire to eat any meat.
Besides, I believe that most 'cravings' are a result of a deficiency of one sort or another. If that's true, then apparently my vegetarian diet is fulfilling my dietary and nutritional needs and there's no need for me to want to eat meat.
When's the last time you ate meat plain? I don't think many people do, it wouldn't taste good if you didn't add a crapload of non-meat items to it. But you can go in the garden pull up a vegetable and it raw and it tastes fine. So maybe it's not even the meat that people want, but all the dressings on top of it that make it taste edible enough to eat.
A CS degress means you know how it all works, but you don't have be an expert in any particular langauge, operating system, or application. Instead you should be able to easily adapt to a quickly changing field.
For all we know, there may be some new radical ideas in the next few years that void the need to be an expert in Linux or Windows. What a horrible waste of time to work at perfecting a restricted set of skills for a proprietary system.
I recall Bill Gates mentioning a service exactly like this in his book he wrote a few years ago. I wonder if he still supports this technology or if other interests have influenced his thinking?
So if the PVR truly is 'The Napster of' then they have nothing to worry about, because it will just fail in the end anyway. (To be later surpassed by other technologies, etc.)
It's not 'loss'. There is no right to profit. It might be potential loss, but you have no reason to believe that all/any who download would buy otherwise.
The spam mentioned sounds a lot like a more recent method of spam spreading I've seen that uses the Windows Message Service to popup messages on user's computers that are dumb enough to have it enabled. This mostly only works on cable/DSL networks and on huge LANs like at universities.
I used my PDA for a little while my freshman year in college (Palm V), I'd take some quick notes on it and use it to store schedules, important dates and addresses. Aside from that I used it for games during boring lectures, or to beam stuff to other classmates about the teacher =]
Now it sits in my deskdrawer and I don't use it anymore. Batteries, syncing, and everything else weren't problems at all. In the end it was too cumbersome to enter data (even if you knew it well), and the software offered was minimal.
I probably would have been happier with a Windows CE device, since they come with a much larger, easier to use range of applications. It's hard to say. But, I don't miss it much.
On that note, how much is someone willing to give me for an old Palm V? =]
With the few distros I've tried out (redhat, debian, gentoo), I've found their mailing-lists and online forums very helpful. Of course, it's rarely someone who works for that distro that responds (but can be), you still get good help from people who have been through what you have before; or you get 100 "me too's".
I wouldn't "expect" a family member to do work for me for free; however, at least in my family, part of being family is that you take care of your family. So, if you can do something for them to help them out, and it isn't going to kill you, you do it!
So while you should never expect gifts from family in this way, you should always give them.
It was a combination of the 2 segments where they do "In the Year 2000" predictions with guests on the show (even though it's 2002), and they also do "If they mated" which is what you mentioned.
Re:did she ever hear of "autosave"?
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I'd say it's highly likely she could type 3 pages in 10 minutes; however, chances are if you're typing that fast you're doing it off the cuff and it isn't that good anyway, so the second time around after the crash might be a better version anyway.
I'm curious what hoops I am jumping through? I was stating that in order to actually 'create' you have to do it out of nothing. Thus, these scientists will not be 'creating' life, because they have to work with something.
If you don't believe that God (or other diety(s)) created the universe (emphasis on who not how), then you have to have some other explanation for how matter and energy came into existence.
I never stated that creatures popped into existence, but it is a pretty sketchy area of biology and evolutionary theory. They've been able to get amino acids from non-living things, but they haven't been able to get a living thing from non-living things. There are many theories as to how this took place and most of them boil down to something (single celled organism) just 'popping' into existence. It's what's needed to make that happen that they're trying to figure out.
So, it is highly likely that if this were the case that it would have occured in many places on earth simultaneously/in parallel, and it's also highly likely that not all of them would have survived or have been able to. Thus, I am basically saying that even if they were to get non-living to become living, chances are it would either die right away, or not last more than few generations.
Many people would claim this is a failure, but it's really not.
Yes, but to point it out and say "Hey look, a half black person actually acheived something!" is just as bad as saying "Hey look, a half black person got arrested!"
Race makes you special, but it doesn't make you better or worse than anyone else. If I were to put that I am "50% Netherlander, 40% Czech, and 10% random European" on my resume I'd get some pretty strange looks.
I find it incredibly annoying that the Halle Berry page you linked to thought it should tell us the race of her parents. Does it really matter? How can we combat racism if we find it necessary to point out all the time what race someone is? I'm too disgusted to read the rest of that thing.
The difference is that God the creator is able to create out of absolute nothing. No raw materials needed.
The scientist still needs some raw materials in order to create.
Also, it is likely that this organism (if it can be 'created', would not survive beyond a few generations and be a failed attempt. If you accept evolution of life here on earth (many people don't, so I feel I should address that); then you also realize that there were many different paths it could have taken, and tried to (numerous mass extinctions changed its course). So, it is also likely that early on that if these living things sprang out of nothing, that it could have happened simultaneously in different places and that not all variations would have survived for various reasons. After all, the odds are pretty much not in favor of the living thing have the proper characteristics to survive in its environment.
Funny, because I recall a news story that McDonald's new "All American Burger" contained considerable amount of foreign beef, mostly from New Zealand and Australias. more info.
I believe many people shy away from GMOs due to allergies and adverse reactions. Hence nearly all Chinese/Japanese restaurants you see advertise 'No-GMO'.
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I'm not totally certain, but this may have happened to me a few years ago when I worked at ISP and had one of these under my desk. It basically started to smoke and burn and you could smell sodre in the whole building. We called them up and the response we got was that they'd never heard of one of them doing that before. I believe they sent us a new one under warranty. I wonder how many blew up before they issued the recall.
Funny, I am a vegetarian and can honestly say that even before I was a vegetarian, the only 'meat' I craved wasn't even real meat;(McDonald's). Now the only meat that I would say I occasionally consider eating is seafood, which tastes real good. Apart from that, I have no desire to eat any meat.
Besides, I believe that most 'cravings' are a result of a deficiency of one sort or another. If that's true, then apparently my vegetarian diet is fulfilling my dietary and nutritional needs and there's no need for me to want to eat meat.
When's the last time you ate meat plain? I don't think many people do, it wouldn't taste good if you didn't add a crapload of non-meat items to it. But you can go in the garden pull up a vegetable and it raw and it tastes fine. So maybe it's not even the meat that people want, but all the dressings on top of it that make it taste edible enough to eat.
A CS degress means you know how it all works, but you don't have be an expert in any particular langauge, operating system, or application. Instead you should be able to easily adapt to a quickly changing field.
For all we know, there may be some new radical ideas in the next few years that void the need to be an expert in Linux or Windows. What a horrible waste of time to work at perfecting a restricted set of skills for a proprietary system.
I recall Bill Gates mentioning a service exactly like this in his book he wrote a few years ago. I wonder if he still supports this technology or if other interests have influenced his thinking?
So if the PVR truly is 'The Napster of' then they have nothing to worry about, because it will just fail in the end anyway. (To be later surpassed by other technologies, etc.)
Read up on the upcoming Sim City 4 (January 2003). It sounds pretty much like the 'Simville' you describe.
It's not 'loss'. There is no right to profit. It might be potential loss, but you have no reason to believe that all/any who download would buy otherwise.
The spam mentioned sounds a lot like a more recent method of spam spreading I've seen that uses the Windows Message Service to popup messages on user's computers that are dumb enough to have it enabled. This mostly only works on cable/DSL networks and on huge LANs like at universities.
I was thinking more like getting arrested when I get up to go to the bathroom during a TV commercial.
While searching eBay to see how much they sell for, I found this and couldn't resist posting it.
I used my PDA for a little while my freshman year in college (Palm V), I'd take some quick notes on it and use it to store schedules, important dates and addresses. Aside from that I used it for games during boring lectures, or to beam stuff to other classmates about the teacher =]
Now it sits in my deskdrawer and I don't use it anymore. Batteries, syncing, and everything else weren't problems at all. In the end it was too cumbersome to enter data (even if you knew it well), and the software offered was minimal.
I probably would have been happier with a Windows CE device, since they come with a much larger, easier to use range of applications. It's hard to say. But, I don't miss it much.
On that note, how much is someone willing to give me for an old Palm V? =]
With the few distros I've tried out (redhat, debian, gentoo), I've found their mailing-lists and online forums very helpful. Of course, it's rarely someone who works for that distro that responds (but can be), you still get good help from people who have been through what you have before; or you get 100 "me too's".
I wouldn't "expect" a family member to do work for me for free; however, at least in my family, part of being family is that you take care of your family. So, if you can do something for them to help them out, and it isn't going to kill you, you do it!
So while you should never expect gifts from family in this way, you should always give them.
You should be able to just hit 'refresh' at the 2 minute warning page and tell it to resend the form data. Works fine with Mozilla and IE.
It was a combination of the 2 segments where they do "In the Year 2000" predictions with guests on the show (even though it's 2002), and they also do "If they mated" which is what you mentioned.
I'd say it's highly likely she could type 3 pages in 10 minutes; however, chances are if you're typing that fast you're doing it off the cuff and it isn't that good anyway, so the second time around after the crash might be a better version anyway.
In the year 2000:
What if Ellen Feiss and the Dell Dude mated?
I'm curious what hoops I am jumping through? I was stating that in order to actually 'create' you have to do it out of nothing. Thus, these scientists will not be 'creating' life, because they have to work with something.
If you don't believe that God (or other diety(s)) created the universe (emphasis on who not how), then you have to have some other explanation for how matter and energy came into existence.
I never stated that creatures popped into existence, but it is a pretty sketchy area of biology and evolutionary theory. They've been able to get amino acids from non-living things, but they haven't been able to get a living thing from non-living things. There are many theories as to how this took place and most of them boil down to something (single celled organism) just 'popping' into existence. It's what's needed to make that happen that they're trying to figure out.
So, it is highly likely that if this were the case that it would have occured in many places on earth simultaneously/in parallel, and it's also highly likely that not all of them would have survived or have been able to. Thus, I am basically saying that even if they were to get non-living to become living, chances are it would either die right away, or not last more than few generations.
Many people would claim this is a failure, but it's really not.
Yes, but to point it out and say "Hey look, a half black person actually acheived something!" is just as bad as saying "Hey look, a half black person got arrested!"
Race makes you special, but it doesn't make you better or worse than anyone else. If I were to put that I am "50% Netherlander, 40% Czech, and 10% random European" on my resume I'd get some pretty strange looks.
I find it incredibly annoying that the Halle Berry page you linked to thought it should tell us the race of her parents. Does it really matter? How can we combat racism if we find it necessary to point out all the time what race someone is? I'm too disgusted to read the rest of that thing.
Hmm, how do black holes contradict the Bible? Interesting people in this world, there are.
The difference is that God the creator is able to create out of absolute nothing. No raw materials needed.
The scientist still needs some raw materials in order to create.
Also, it is likely that this organism (if it can be 'created', would not survive beyond a few generations and be a failed attempt. If you accept evolution of life here on earth (many people don't, so I feel I should address that); then you also realize that there were many different paths it could have taken, and tried to (numerous mass extinctions changed its course). So, it is also likely that early on that if these living things sprang out of nothing, that it could have happened simultaneously in different places and that not all variations would have survived for various reasons. After all, the odds are pretty much not in favor of the living thing have the proper characteristics to survive in its environment.
Funny, because I recall a news story that McDonald's new "All American Burger" contained considerable amount of foreign beef, mostly from New Zealand and Australias. more info.
I think its a misnomer. Probably most consumed fries, but that doesn't translate into 'favorite'.
I believe many people shy away from GMOs due to allergies and adverse reactions. Hence nearly all Chinese/Japanese restaurants you see advertise 'No-GMO'.