The new Deeds of Paks series is really good so far. Elizabeth Moons writing has improved 10 fold since she last visited the series. And it went from a 3 book series to 5 books I think at this point. The woman is a machine... story gets into her head and she cannot stop writing.
Thanks, I had read the original 3 but had no idea she had written more. Off to the bookstore I go(and here I'm trying to save money this month).
I've been using a program with ubuntu for a year or so now that you just connect your phone and laptop with bluetooth and then tell it to lock/suspend/logout when the phone gets X feet away. Works great as long as you keep your phone in your pocket at all times.
That is a very compelling case made, and not just on two data points. IIRC someone actually tracked Internet availability vs rape incidence by year and state, and it's a damn compelling case.
And I remember reading somewhere that violent crime actually goes down on the days they premiere violent movies in movie theatres. Apparently either for some people seeing it on the screen is a reasonable substitute for the real thing, or at the very least they can't be both watching the movie and outside mugging someone at the same time.
So, who knows? Maybe video games are doing us all a similar service. There must be someone out there who would have been the next Ted Bundy, if not for the fact that he's busy grinding his epic equipment in WoW or the last achievement in <insert brutal fps> instead.
The Romans figured it out a long time ago, gladiator contests kept the population's blood lust at a controllable level so they didn't turn on the government or each other. This started the whole Bread and Circuses issue.
Will mankind one day without the net expenditure of energy be able to restore the sun to its full youthfulness even after it had died of old age?
Or maybe it could be put more simply like this: How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?
My highschool opened the first internet lab in a school in our state thanks to a grant one of our history teachers got. He started up a class that ran an online magazine and it was listed as an english class. He has a doctorate in english, a masters in history, and a couple of bachelors in other areas, but because he was "registered" at the school as a history teacher, they took the class away from him a few years later and gave it to an english teacher because he wasn't "qualified". The same school allowed an ex-hospital lab technician teaching on-level and honors biology because of her degree in nursing.
Schools generally don't follow any logical thought processes when doing anything.
No, the office suite would be named FOO. The FUBAR part would be the MS ribbon clone; which was, fucked up beyond all reason, so the name would be a literal description of it's function...
I also figured everyone on/. would get the joke because everyone uses "foo" and "bar" when writing test/pseudo code.
Free Open Office. Then you guys can release a "Ribbon" like MS did, only you can call it the "Bar". That way we can discuss about things the "FOO Bar" can do.
As one of my programming teachers said in one of our first classes "it doesn't matter if you spell things correctly, only that you misspell them consistently."
If you were, you would definitely have a different moral outlook on so much of you hard work being taken from you and your family and wasted by the government. But I was born and raised in the US and my house on Jersey is a family home so maybe I fail to see the animosity towards people who happen to live in a certain place. However it's not much of a stretch to replace it with "Jews" or "blacks" or "Mexicans" and see your statement as racist, it just happens to be against a geographic group and not a race.
It would probably be easier to do the whole satellite power beaming thing and stationing mercenary troops to defend the collectors than to accomplish the first two; and just let That Lucky Old Sun choose who gets the power.
One of our clients where I work required us to modify our application in such a way that they could use FTP on their own server for the file transmission instead of using our already built application which every other one of our clients uses; and yes, it's become the biggest pain to manage and constantly causes issues.
So yea, people still use it, even with much better systems available.
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The difficulty isn't the design, it's getting ahold of enough enriched U-235 to actually have a working bomb.
Simple design, extremely complex materials.
I see your xkcd and raise you an onion: http://www.theonion.com/articles/mars-rover-beginning-to-hate-mars,2072/
DON'T DATE ROBOTS!
Lawyer: "Now little Timmy, on this doll, show me where the robot touched you."
The new Deeds of Paks series is really good so far. Elizabeth Moons writing has improved 10 fold since she last visited the series. And it went from a 3 book series to 5 books I think at this point. The woman is a machine... story gets into her head and she cannot stop writing. Thanks, I had read the original 3 but had no idea she had written more. Off to the bookstore I go(and here I'm trying to save money this month).
It's called BlueProximity, so it's probably the exact same thing that ceoyoyo is talking about.
I've been using a program with ubuntu for a year or so now that you just connect your phone and laptop with bluetooth and then tell it to lock/suspend/logout when the phone gets X feet away. Works great as long as you keep your phone in your pocket at all times.
Threatening someone with jail time or fines if they don't volunteer is like saying there is a mandatory donation required to attend a free event.
The exact percentage of IE marketshare?
That is a very compelling case made, and not just on two data points. IIRC someone actually tracked Internet availability vs rape incidence by year and state, and it's a damn compelling case.
And I remember reading somewhere that violent crime actually goes down on the days they premiere violent movies in movie theatres. Apparently either for some people seeing it on the screen is a reasonable substitute for the real thing, or at the very least they can't be both watching the movie and outside mugging someone at the same time.
So, who knows? Maybe video games are doing us all a similar service. There must be someone out there who would have been the next Ted Bundy, if not for the fact that he's busy grinding his epic equipment in WoW or the last achievement in <insert brutal fps> instead.
The Romans figured it out a long time ago, gladiator contests kept the population's blood lust at a controllable level so they didn't turn on the government or each other. This started the whole Bread and Circuses issue.
If you fingerprint the soul and use it for authentication, you'll be excluding politicians and lawyers from any services you offer.
It's a quote from The Last Question written by Asimov.
Will mankind one day without the net expenditure of energy be able to restore the sun to its full youthfulness even after it had died of old age?
Or maybe it could be put more simply like this: How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?
"We do not copy results from any of our competitors. Period. Full stop."
The original draft
"We do not copy results from any of our competitors..."
Piracy with due process is privateering. Makes sense you can have the opposite.
My highschool opened the first internet lab in a school in our state thanks to a grant one of our history teachers got. He started up a class that ran an online magazine and it was listed as an english class. He has a doctorate in english, a masters in history, and a couple of bachelors in other areas, but because he was "registered" at the school as a history teacher, they took the class away from him a few years later and gave it to an english teacher because he wasn't "qualified". The same school allowed an ex-hospital lab technician teaching on-level and honors biology because of her degree in nursing. Schools generally don't follow any logical thought processes when doing anything.
No, the office suite would be named FOO. The FUBAR part would be the MS ribbon clone; which was, fucked up beyond all reason, so the name would be a literal description of it's function... I also figured everyone on /. would get the joke because everyone uses "foo" and "bar" when writing test/pseudo code.
Free Open Office. Then you guys can release a "Ribbon" like MS did, only you can call it the "Bar". That way we can discuss about things the "FOO Bar" can do.
Something like this? http://freestateproject.org/
Well at least it explains where all the other time lords went, they wiped themselves out with inbreeding.
As one of my programming teachers said in one of our first classes "it doesn't matter if you spell things correctly, only that you misspell them consistently."
If you were, you would definitely have a different moral outlook on so much of you hard work being taken from you and your family and wasted by the government. But I was born and raised in the US and my house on Jersey is a family home so maybe I fail to see the animosity towards people who happen to live in a certain place. However it's not much of a stretch to replace it with "Jews" or "blacks" or "Mexicans" and see your statement as racist, it just happens to be against a geographic group and not a race.
It would probably be easier to do the whole satellite power beaming thing and stationing mercenary troops to defend the collectors than to accomplish the first two; and just let That Lucky Old Sun choose who gets the power.
One of our clients where I work required us to modify our application in such a way that they could use FTP on their own server for the file transmission instead of using our already built application which every other one of our clients uses; and yes, it's become the biggest pain to manage and constantly causes issues.
So yea, people still use it, even with much better systems available.
You're just mad at the Chanel Islands because they rejected your application to live there.