One way to harvest the moon: Shave it into 1 trillion billion moon slices. Then ship all of that back to Earth. After that initial work... all we would have to do is strip mine the resulting moon heap. I propose we put that moon heap into your backyard. I certainly don't want that heaping pile of moon in my backyard.
I'm sure many of you got into this business during the boom. You learned how to employ quick-fix algorithms (such as adding an ending table tag to your HTML, or adding a sub-query to your JDBC call). But now those skills are useless... because your unemployed. During this critical time... go and learn some low-level things that will teach you to think. In a few years or so... when your ending table tag skills are useful again... then you'll add the ending tables smarter than your peers.
I think someone should download the entire archive, print it all out onto "edible paper" (patent pending), and then stack it all into one giant spam sandwich. Add mustard as desired.
If I tried to teach it to do the dishes... it
would probably put my cat in the dishwasher. If I tried to teach it to do the laundry... it would probably put my cat in the dryer. If I tried to teach it to vacuum... then the cat would probably use kitty-ninja-claws to destroy it. When will
these problems be fixed? I implore you!
Q. Why isn't there a single successful Australian IT company competing and shining on the world stage? Can you name one?
A. I think that's a bit misleading in some ways. I don't know if you should put all your eggs in one basket. In many ways it's better to have a series of smaller companies coming through.
... That is truncated. I agree with that statement. The net was probably better off in the US when there were many small ISP's (rather than just AOL, AT&T, etc).
Martin Fowler's books that outline such things
as extreme programming and refactoring are tops
in my opinion. But in my experience, many
middle-tier and upper-level managers think that
such concepts are useless and timewasting.
I've read about Project Blue Book, Roswell,
and big-eyed aliens all my life. I don't know why... but it didn't occur to me that other countries had UFO-coverup stories. What else
is out there?
I imagine that the Sims Online will be a
non-killing haven for people who kill
each other online. Whoever wins the
frag-match has to buy the online espresso
(or online McNuggets... eww).
People would be hesitant to donate their
faces. You definitely could not have
an open casket funeral if your face is
gone. For many families... that is a big
deal.
People would be hesitant to donate their
faces. You definitely could not have
an open casket funeral if your face is
gone. For many families... that is a big
deal.
"This week, the Initiative for Software Choice counterattacked, telling the Defense Information Systems Agency that the Pentagon should not "openly promote the use" of open-source software, arguing that proprietary products are not inherently less secure."
That emphasis is mine. Nothing in the article indicates that Microsoft said their products were better than open source. In this particular case... Microsoft is arguing that their software is as good as open source software.
I think its funny that Microsoft didn't say that their stuff is better. They can only argue that their stuff isn't worse.
From the article: "... gazing upward and knowing that there are countless stars we cannot see because not enough time has passed since the birth of the universe for their light to shine our way; they are beyond our light cone."
This would seem to indicate that if we looked out far enough into space, we would see nothing. We've yet to find any boundary. When will we? When I was about 10 years old... I remember reading on the side of my McDonalds Happy Meal box that we'd see the "edge" of the universe within the decade. Why haven't we found it yet?
What we can do is try to be the best democracy in the
world, and try to be the best capitalists in
the world. If we continue doing that, then that
will give us the wealth and opportunity to also be the best philanthropists and teachers in the world.
In the short run, I don't think it makes any difference that some entrepeneurs are making money from the tyrants. In the long
run, those who are oppressed by tyranny will eventually be freed by nothing but knowlege.
Sorry if this is off-topic... but it was
mentioned in the Slashback. Happy
Thanksgiving everybody. If your family
get-together gets boring... show or talk about
this stupid link:
The majority of the net infrastructure is open
source... and everyone uses that.
Right? A more modern example of an open source
success story is dmoz.org. That site is quickly
becoming a large part of the back-end infrastructure of many
search engines (such as google).
All companies do it... but monopolies do it best..
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Linux Spurs MS Price Cuts
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Underbidding the competition is something that all companies do when they need to make the sale. The difference with Microsoft is that they always need to make the sale. They don't want any competitition.
Overall, as long as patient care wasn't diminished (the degree of diminishment is debateable), it is probably good that things like this occasionally happen. It's a great way to test non-technical systems that usually only get tested in a wide-spread disaster.
There just isn't enough room on my cell-phone
screen to fit any (more) advertisements.
Besides... what difference does it make
where I am? There is always a Starbucks within
a one-block radius.
Re:I'm horrified... (sperm/egg combo in a mouse?)
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Human-Mouse Hybrids?
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Could a human egg actually be fertilized by
a human sperm outside of a human body? I
understand that it could be forced to work
under lab conditions (with really small tweezers...:-)), but could it happen naturally inside of a mouse? I'm not
sure the human sperm would know what to do inside
of a female mouse.
Slashdot Mirror
Just another use for spam (jaufs)
Q. Why isn't there a single successful Australian IT company competing and shining on the world stage? Can you name one?
A. I think that's a bit misleading in some ways. I don't know if you should put all your eggs in one basket. In many ways it's better to have a series of smaller companies coming through.
... That is truncated. I agree with that statement. The net was probably better off in the US when there were many small ISP's (rather than just AOL, AT&T, etc).
Sex, for one thing."
It is amusing when people looking for sex find this link:
That emphasis is mine. Nothing in the article indicates that Microsoft said their products were better than open source. In this particular case... Microsoft is arguing that their software is as good as open source software.
I think its funny that Microsoft didn't say that their stuff is better. They can only argue that their stuff isn't worse.
This would seem to indicate that if we looked out far enough into space, we would see nothing. We've yet to find any boundary. When will we? When I was about 10 years old... I remember reading on the side of my McDonalds Happy Meal box that we'd see the "edge" of the universe within the decade. Why haven't we found it yet?
In the short run, I don't think it makes any difference that some entrepeneurs are making money from the tyrants. In the long run, those who are oppressed by tyranny will eventually be freed by nothing but knowlege.
Overall, as long as patient care wasn't diminished (the degree of diminishment is debateable), it is probably good that things like this occasionally happen. It's a great way to test non-technical systems that usually only get tested in a wide-spread disaster.
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