I went to a Catholic grammar school back in the 70s, and they taught evolution. Religion and science were two completely different subjects. I wonder if this intelligent design crap is just a Baptist trend.
We home school our kids, we believe in the Bible,...
I believe in the Bible too. I've seen them. It's usually found with a black cover, often in hotel rooms. Don't open it and read it though. It is full of nonsense that can confuse even the most rational person. And especially don't read it to your kids, except as a cautionary tale of what not to believe.
Instead of having to police sick days, a simpler solution would be to combine sick days and vacation days into "earned time off" or similar. Let the employee use the time as they see fit, no policing required, and you probably get better morale in the deal too.
Does not work. If you give people 4 weeks combined time, they will schedule 4 weeks of vacation, and then have to come in to work when they are sick as a dog. One such company I worked for was filled with loud hacking and coughing all winter.
what makes you think this wont support the war in Afghanistan ? we can finally find the tallest man in Pakistan - from orbit - at night
I know that's meant as a joke, but it doesn't work like that. The reason that we need the telescope in orbit is to avoid the distortion of looking through the atmosphere. Looking down is no different. You would have a very detailed blur.
There are plenty of reasons to want BIOS/UEFI access. The problem with having a totally inaccessible one like Apple does is that if anything goes wrong or you need to change something, well then you are fucked.
Actually, you take it to the nearest Apple store, and they usually fix for the cost of parts. I've never seen the need to tinker with a PC myself. And yet my jobs usually have me in the guts of a Sun Enterprise or an IBM P series server.
And those number about the richest paying the most are skewed because that includes only what is called TAXABLE income, not all income. The joy of the rich is that most of their wealth is hidden from the tax man. At least any smart rich folks. Those who do not understand how it works end up bankrupt, like so many entertainers. The old money, they know how to hide it in things like foundations.
Oracle's patent moves probably didn't help, but Apple's normally not a company to be afraid of software patents - they have a big enough portfolio of their own.
I'd be REALLY surprised if Oracle sued Apple or visa versa, considering that Jobs and Ellison are smoking buddies.
Yeah it has nothing to do with all the fat that's consumed, because it's so much easier for the body to turn sugar into fat than to turn fat into fat. (sarcasm) Sugar intake is not the single scapegoat.
who got sacked for doing this? Who's going to jail? who's being charged with pedophilia? Who's on the sex crime watch list because of this?
Probably the students when the pedo-teachers post their naked pics on the interwebs, and the student becomes a certified sex offender for posing for the pics.
Have you ever met a lawyer who wasn't fabulously wealthy, upper middle class at least? Have you ever met a paralegal who not scamming cab receipts to try to make ends meet? I know a lot of people in the business, and paralegals are pretty much white collar slave labor, and lawyers are arrogant pricks. There is the odd pro-bono socially conscious public defender, but they are aberrations.
Somehow a lot of managers don't seem to get this simple fact straight.
I've worked for managers who's bonuses were tied to successful outsourcing. They then quit and do it again at the next company. They never suffer the repercussions down the line when your cut-rate support bites you in the ass.
What the hell are paper clips doing in a science kit anyway? Is it part of the module on the boring bureaucracy of science?
These things always say "250 Piece Kit" or some such. The marketing department wanted a bigger number, so they added things like paper clips to pad the numbers. Nothing new.
But if those unemployed had jobs they'd be paying more taxes...
As long as there are unemployed people competing for jobs, you can pay your workers much lower wages. Corporations LOVE high unemployment figures. Not to mention the military.
How do you make a better Civilization? Create an AI that can challenge the player without cheating, and perform diplomacy as well or better than a human player. It sounds like they missed yet another opportunity, and instead opted for graphics and ease of play. Again. Double sigh.
Whereas MS has been caught over the years programming around hardware bugs rather than saying no, we won't support it.
Not as such. Microsoft provides hooks and shims into the OS, and the hardware vendors write their own drivers. A lot of these drivers do get bundled into later versions of Windows, but Microsoft did not do the programming. This is the reason that it's so hard to get drivers for Linux. If it worked the other way, the hardware vendor providing freely available hooks and shims into their hardware, then Linux and Apple would be able to support a wider range of hardware. As long as Microsoft has the proverbial monopoly on the desktop, then they will continue to make the hardware vendors do the bulk of the work.
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I went to a Catholic grammar school back in the 70s, and they taught evolution. Religion and science were two completely different subjects. I wonder if this intelligent design crap is just a Baptist trend.
Exactly. They would have to enslave us for our own good.
We home school our kids, we believe in the Bible,...
I believe in the Bible too. I've seen them. It's usually found with a black cover, often in hotel rooms. Don't open it and read it though. It is full of nonsense that can confuse even the most rational person. And especially don't read it to your kids, except as a cautionary tale of what not to believe.
Instead of having to police sick days, a simpler solution would be to combine sick days and vacation days into "earned time off" or similar. Let the employee use the time as they see fit, no policing required, and you probably get better morale in the deal too.
Does not work. If you give people 4 weeks combined time, they will schedule 4 weeks of vacation, and then have to come in to work when they are sick as a dog. One such company I worked for was filled with loud hacking and coughing all winter.
Call me a traditionalist, but a font is not defined to be antialiased. That's a color image, not a demonstration of a font.
And more importantly the name is kewl and sensational. If they called it SQLSecurityVerificationTool, they would have no problems.
That rounds up to 667, the neighbor of the beast.
what makes you think this wont support the war in Afghanistan ? we can finally find the tallest man in Pakistan - from orbit - at night
I know that's meant as a joke, but it doesn't work like that. The reason that we need the telescope in orbit is to avoid the distortion of looking through the atmosphere. Looking down is no different. You would have a very detailed blur.
There are plenty of reasons to want BIOS/UEFI access. The problem with having a totally inaccessible one like Apple does is that if anything goes wrong or you need to change something, well then you are fucked.
Actually, you take it to the nearest Apple store, and they usually fix for the cost of parts. I've never seen the need to tinker with a PC myself. And yet my jobs usually have me in the guts of a Sun Enterprise or an IBM P series server.
And supposedly it would cost $10 to $20 billion to get to Mars. I'm glad we have our priorities straight.
But I am a little jealous of our forebearers, for whom there existed unknown frontiers. And solitude is extinct.
Excuse me? I see those frontiers every time I look up at the night sky. You are just looking in the wrong direction.
And those number about the richest paying the most are skewed because that includes only what is called TAXABLE income, not all income. The joy of the rich is that most of their wealth is hidden from the tax man. At least any smart rich folks. Those who do not understand how it works end up bankrupt, like so many entertainers. The old money, they know how to hide it in things like foundations.
Oracle's patent moves probably didn't help, but Apple's normally not a company to be afraid of software patents - they have a big enough portfolio of their own.
I'd be REALLY surprised if Oracle sued Apple or visa versa, considering that Jobs and Ellison are smoking buddies.
Yeah it has nothing to do with all the fat that's consumed, because it's so much easier for the body to turn sugar into fat than to turn fat into fat. (sarcasm) Sugar intake is not the single scapegoat.
who got sacked for doing this? Who's going to jail? who's being charged with pedophilia? Who's on the sex crime watch list because of this?
Probably the students when the pedo-teachers post their naked pics on the interwebs, and the student becomes a certified sex offender for posing for the pics.
Have you ever met a lawyer who wasn't fabulously wealthy, upper middle class at least? Have you ever met a paralegal who not scamming cab receipts to try to make ends meet? I know a lot of people in the business, and paralegals are pretty much white collar slave labor, and lawyers are arrogant pricks. There is the odd pro-bono socially conscious public defender, but they are aberrations.
Somehow a lot of managers don't seem to get this simple fact straight.
I've worked for managers who's bonuses were tied to successful outsourcing. They then quit and do it again at the next company. They never suffer the repercussions down the line when your cut-rate support bites you in the ass.
What the hell are paper clips doing in a science kit anyway? Is it part of the module on the boring bureaucracy of science?
These things always say "250 Piece Kit" or some such. The marketing department wanted a bigger number, so they added things like paper clips to pad the numbers. Nothing new.
But if those unemployed had jobs they'd be paying more taxes...
As long as there are unemployed people competing for jobs, you can pay your workers much lower wages. Corporations LOVE high unemployment figures. Not to mention the military.
But is realism entirely desirable?
Realism? In a game where it takes 5 years for your navy to reach your enemy's shore? I don't think there was ever any concept of realism in Civ.
How do you make a better Civilization? Create an AI that can challenge the player without cheating, and perform diplomacy as well or better than a human player. It sounds like they missed yet another opportunity, and instead opted for graphics and ease of play. Again. Double sigh.
1) They're going to change their name in a couple months / years. Guaranteed. Bet you won't notice.
I wonder if they saved all those Shell signs that were replaced with BP signs a few years back...
Anecdotes are useless. The diseases you mention are all killers, over half a million kids die every year from measles alone. Your infectious spawn should be kept out of public schools.
They will probably be home schooled, and be graced with all the ignorances and prejudices of their parents without any dissenting viewpoints.
Whereas MS has been caught over the years programming around hardware bugs rather than saying no, we won't support it.
Not as such. Microsoft provides hooks and shims into the OS, and the hardware vendors write their own drivers. A lot of these drivers do get bundled into later versions of Windows, but Microsoft did not do the programming. This is the reason that it's so hard to get drivers for Linux. If it worked the other way, the hardware vendor providing freely available hooks and shims into their hardware, then Linux and Apple would be able to support a wider range of hardware. As long as Microsoft has the proverbial monopoly on the desktop, then they will continue to make the hardware vendors do the bulk of the work.
Specific algorithms to do either one, sure, but you can't patent general concepts.
Actually patenting algorithms is also absurd, although allowed under our bizarre patent system.