Great you invented the Zero, maybe. The Babylonions were using a zero style placeholder several thousand years before the "invention" of zero by India in roughly 600AD.
I do also need to point out the completely independant use and understanding of the concept of Zero by the American Olmec civilization and is later adoption by the Mayans.
I will also mention the widespread use of a zero/placeholder by most of the BC civilizations surrounding the Babylonions, as well as the philosophical arguments surrounding use of a zero by the Greeks.
So, I don't think that you can really claim credit for the zero, but you sure are eager to claim credit for something that happened well over a thousand years ago as your claim to fame, but what has India done recently that is worth a damn?
The United States of America signed the declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The question was, what has India done for the USA in the 200+ years that our country has been in existence?
What the hell has India done for our country since then, hmm? Nothing in particular comes to mind. On the other hand, India has received more foreign aid from the USA than any other developing country since World War 2.
I really wish we could stop keeping your lame ass country afloat.
Yes, my apologies, Switzerland has a long history of somewhat democratic rule interspersed with civil wars and in 1848, I believe, Switzerland adopted a federal constitution, modeled after the US Constitution mixed in with French republican elements, which remains the basis of their government today.
And I also neglected to talk about Iceland, who established a democratic government back in 900AD or so. The Althing was a successful example of popular government, until the country was eaten and beaten by its Danish neighbor.
Well, my mother was a cop, and she studied case histories of murder investigations. Does that make her secretly want to be a serial killer?
When she moved and became a paralegal, she studied case histories of all sorts of criminal activity. Did that make her secretly want to rape, kidnap, or any other things involved in the sort of research she read up on?
Would a 17 year old girl in a bikini be child prostitution? I mean, I have seen tons of underage models wearing bikinis in newspaper advertisements. But, one of the pictures that was pointed out as being child pornography in the infamous case that was splashed all across/. was of a girl in a "sexy" pose wearing a bikini.
How DOES a person determine where the line is? I have a picture of my son when he was 2 years old in his diapers. Is that pornography?
If there is a single case where a person has a strange fetish, does that automatically make any image that MIGHT trigger a fetish pornographic?
Furries probably have to suck on pure oxygen anytime they walk into Disney World, because I am sure that a six foot tall Pluto would drive them wild. Should be outlaw Disney World because they are pandering a sexual fetish to children?
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that."
Justice Potter Stewart
Is it England? The Magna Carta, which is your first document which limits executive power, did start the long process of England to become somewhat democratic. It did, however, take some bloody battles and a a few executions before the House of Commons truly became more than a sop thrown by the nobility. So, if you are in England (Not Great Britain, but England only) then you have an argument. Any other part of Great Britain and you were, like us, victims of the English tyranny. Ask Ireland, they can explain what English Tyranny means in great and graphic detail.
Germany? Oh yeah, that is right, Hitler WAS elected. A real beacon of Democracy there. Kaiser Willhem of WW1 fames wasn't elected though, sorry.
France? Well, France did have their Republican revolution, and although it was a nasty, bloody one, they did get rid of the nobility which had plagued their country. Sure Napolean was a tyrant, but they have a pretty good track record in democracy.
Spain? Fransisco Franco - enough said.
Italy? - Benny Mussolini and a long history of
Greece? - Well, there you have it, the whole concept of democracy was pretty much fleshed out in Athens. Plato conceived the Republic. But Greek history hasn't been too friendly to democracy in many of the centuries past that.
Face it, we colonists here in America have been the shining beacon for representative governance. We fought a bloody civil war over the question of human rights, and we have shed blood over the rights of people many times. Whether it was appropriate to do so is another question. Many of us "Yanks" died to save Europe from its own clutches. It wasn't us that caused TWO world wars, it was Europe. Frankly, I think we would be better off pulling out of NATO completely, and let you Europeans self destruct like you always do.
Wow that is a really complicated way of doing things. What I would to is simply infect her computer with a rootkit and a keylogger and I can pretty much do whatever I want AND I have use of her usernames, passwords, credit cards, whatever..
You know that somebody in Hollywood is going to write a 'B' action movie entirely around this garment. We already had the movie Barb Wire, so maybe it will be a remake.
Really? Well consider this. Most of the stuff you buy at the store has to be transported over roads. The cost of transporting goods over those roads increases because of the crappy gravel. Now, would you like to take a wild guess as to who is going to pay for the increased cost of transporting Twinkies and Ding Dongs to your local store?
You will
There is a whole profession dedicated to this, and there is a major in college specifically designed to assist in organizing documents into meaningful collections.
I suggest your company look at hiring a library sciences major, since this is what they do.
Whisper? No. I have been screaming for years that Republicans are a bunch dishonest assholes. I have also screamed in rage, hate, and frustration at the entire Vista experience (that is, the experience from my point of view in Tech Support).
A whisper campaign would be the systematic planting of rumors, lies, and half-truths to destroy someone's, or something's, credibility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_campaign
For example, getting an article written to plant untruths in the minds of readers about an open standard, lets say ODF. Then using the same technique of lies and half truths to talk about the advantage of a competing "standard" like MSOOXML.
Wow, yeah the Constitution, I've heard of that. Except that if the Supreme Court rules those damages constitutional, then you have no other recourse.
The constitution also has a thing about due process, and we saw how well that was treated over the last eight years.
The same way Reagan did earlier. If you look at this graph, it kind of shows that despite Republican accusations to the contrary, the Democrats are not the wasteful spendthrifts that Republicans claim they are.
The truth is, both parties spend like drunken frat boys at a strip club. Its just that the Republicans are worse, both in the amount and in the fact they claim its not them, but the other party at fault.
There hasn't been a Republican president since Nixon that didn't spend like hell and cause the national debt to skyrocket. All that Clinton's administration did to lower the national debt was erased by Bush #2. True we are in the middle of a war, but it was a war we were pushed into by Bush and Cheney's lies.
I am certainly no fanatic, but Dubya is the former president's nickname, and he was fine with people using it. How does me using his nickname make me a fanatic in any way? Personally, I would have been overjoyed had some miraculous circumstance put Ron Paul into the White House. That would never have happened, though.
Perhaps the next election will see all the major republican and democratic candidate swallowed up by an earthquake, leaving libertarians in charge.
It wouldn't help anything, but at least it would be a change.
Right, well, actually George "Dubya" Bush mortgaged your daughter's future over the last eight years. That's not to say that Obama won't do the same thing, its just he's going to mortgage her future to buy different crap.
And as far as being a butt boy for the RIAA/MPAA why are you surprised? Didn't Hollywood come out in force to support him? That's the nature of politics. They help him get elected, and he helps them in return. Despite people's insistence that they are not influenced by celebrity endorsements, reality seems to say otherwise.
For that matter, why wouldn't Barack Obama support the media industry? They are defending their intellectual property. True, they are slimebags who would look much better after a massage with a steamroller, but the copyright infringers and file sharers are the ones which are breaking the law, after all. It doesn't matter whether the DMCA is an abomination, it is the law. And the President of the United States isn't put into office to make up his own rules, aka George W Cheney, but to enforce and abide by the laws in place.
For all the venom poured at the feet of Gartner, they are only saying what I have been saying since for months.
Gartner is only giving advice that many IT analysts have been saying for quite some time. Skip vista, hold on to Windows XP, and wait for the next release before considering upgrading. Hardly a controversial statement, especially with Windows 7 due to go Gold by the holiday season.
I know Slashdot has a tradition of instantly hating everything remotely associated with Microsoft, but Gartner is an IT firm that spends a great deal of time advising businesses on how to best implement Microsoft products. They aren't the Mouth of Sauron, speaking what the Eye of Mordor wants spoken.
Honestly, Microsoft would really prefer that businesses upgrade to Vista now, then upgrade to Windows 7 a year from now. That means more money to them. Gartner is only giving common sense advise and saying, hold off on spending your money because Vista is dead end.
Yes, we would all like to see more businesses switch to Linux, but that isn't going to happen very quickly, if at all. But if your company is thinking of migrating from XP to a more modern operating system, it would come as no surprise if the analyst they hired said, "don't go to Vista, wait for Windows 7".
No that is incorrect. To continue in the analogy of a department store, I go into a department store and ask an associate to direct me to Armani suits. The associate shows me Gucci because Gucci paid the department store to misdirect anyone looking for Armani to instead be shown Gucci.
The associate says, here is what you are searching for. Oh, and if you want Armani, those suits are somewhere on this same floor. The associate, by not accurately showing you the brand name you asked for, is acting in bad faith. It would be acceptable for that associate to show the Armani suits, then say here are the Gucci suits, as you might like them also, but downright misdirecting a person's search is an act of bad faith on Google's part.
Google's service is providing information to searchers. The good faith assumption here is that Google will provide accurate information, and searching for a registered trademark should provide a link to the trademark holder, not its competitor.
Absolutely. When I rob a liqueur store to supply my crack habit, its actually my way of expressing dissatisfaction with the prohibition of drugs.
Oh, and I beat my wife to make a political point against woman's suffrage.
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I am sure the builders of the Maginot Line would probably disagree with you.
Great you invented the Zero, maybe. The Babylonions were using a zero style placeholder several thousand years before the "invention" of zero by India in roughly 600AD.
I do also need to point out the completely independant use and understanding of the concept of Zero by the American Olmec civilization and is later adoption by the Mayans.
I will also mention the widespread use of a zero/placeholder by most of the BC civilizations surrounding the Babylonions, as well as the philosophical arguments surrounding use of a zero by the Greeks.
So, I don't think that you can really claim credit for the zero, but you sure are eager to claim credit for something that happened well over a thousand years ago as your claim to fame, but what has India done recently that is worth a damn?
The United States of America signed the declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The question was, what has India done for the USA in the 200+ years that our country has been in existence?
What the hell has India done for our country since then, hmm? Nothing in particular comes to mind. On the other hand, India has received more foreign aid from the USA than any other developing country since World War 2.
I really wish we could stop keeping your lame ass country afloat.
Yes, my apologies, Switzerland has a long history of somewhat democratic rule interspersed with civil wars and in 1848, I believe, Switzerland adopted a federal constitution, modeled after the US Constitution mixed in with French republican elements, which remains the basis of their government today.
And I also neglected to talk about Iceland, who established a democratic government back in 900AD or so. The Althing was a successful example of popular government, until the country was eaten and beaten by its Danish neighbor.
When she moved and became a paralegal, she studied case histories of all sorts of criminal activity. Did that make her secretly want to rape, kidnap, or any other things involved in the sort of research she read up on?
Would a 17 year old girl in a bikini be child prostitution? I mean, I have seen tons of underage models wearing bikinis in newspaper advertisements. But, one of the pictures that was pointed out as being child pornography in the infamous case that was splashed all across
How DOES a person determine where the line is? I have a picture of my son when he was 2 years old in his diapers. Is that pornography?
If there is a single case where a person has a strange fetish, does that automatically make any image that MIGHT trigger a fetish pornographic?
Furries probably have to suck on pure oxygen anytime they walk into Disney World, because I am sure that a six foot tall Pluto would drive them wild. Should be outlaw Disney World because they are pandering a sexual fetish to children?
Who decides what is child pornography and what is not, because Australia would really like to know.
I am sorry what country are you in?
Is it England? The Magna Carta, which is your first document which limits executive power, did start the long process of England to become somewhat democratic. It did, however, take some bloody battles and a a few executions before the House of Commons truly became more than a sop thrown by the nobility. So, if you are in England (Not Great Britain, but England only) then you have an argument. Any other part of Great Britain and you were, like us, victims of the English tyranny. Ask Ireland, they can explain what English Tyranny means in great and graphic detail.
Germany? Oh yeah, that is right, Hitler WAS elected. A real beacon of Democracy there. Kaiser Willhem of WW1 fames wasn't elected though, sorry.
France? Well, France did have their Republican revolution, and although it was a nasty, bloody one, they did get rid of the nobility which had plagued their country. Sure Napolean was a tyrant, but they have a pretty good track record in democracy.
Spain? Fransisco Franco - enough said.
Italy? - Benny Mussolini and a long history of
Greece? - Well, there you have it, the whole concept of democracy was pretty much fleshed out in Athens. Plato conceived the Republic. But Greek history hasn't been too friendly to democracy in many of the centuries past that.
Face it, we colonists here in America have been the shining beacon for representative governance. We fought a bloody civil war over the question of human rights, and we have shed blood over the rights of people many times. Whether it was appropriate to do so is another question. Many of us "Yanks" died to save Europe from its own clutches. It wasn't us that caused TWO world wars, it was Europe. Frankly, I think we would be better off pulling out of NATO completely, and let you Europeans self destruct like you always do.
Wow that is a really complicated way of doing things. What I would to is simply infect her computer with a rootkit and a keylogger and I can pretty much do whatever I want AND I have use of her usernames, passwords, credit cards, whatever..
Offline?
Oh yeah, I can see that. Her high school yearbook photo shows her picture and the caption Jammie "xogirl423" Thomas.
You know that somebody in Hollywood is going to write a 'B' action movie entirely around this garment. We already had the movie Barb Wire, so maybe it will be a remake.
Really? Well consider this. Most of the stuff you buy at the store has to be transported over roads. The cost of transporting goods over those roads increases because of the crappy gravel. Now, would you like to take a wild guess as to who is going to pay for the increased cost of transporting Twinkies and Ding Dongs to your local store? You will
There is a whole profession dedicated to this, and there is a major in college specifically designed to assist in organizing documents into meaningful collections.
I suggest your company look at hiring a library sciences major, since this is what they do.
Whisper? No. I have been screaming for years that Republicans are a bunch dishonest assholes. I have also screamed in rage, hate, and frustration at the entire Vista experience (that is, the experience from my point of view in Tech Support). A whisper campaign would be the systematic planting of rumors, lies, and half-truths to destroy someone's, or something's, credibility. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_campaign For example, getting an article written to plant untruths in the minds of readers about an open standard, lets say ODF. Then using the same technique of lies and half truths to talk about the advantage of a competing "standard" like MSOOXML.
Sometimes innovation changes things you take for granted. For example, this reinvented hammer http://www.tarzantools.com/vaughanhammers
So did the teams Babe Ruth played against.
Yeah...you know, Your comment is really sort of creepy.
Wow, yeah the Constitution, I've heard of that. Except that if the Supreme Court rules those damages constitutional, then you have no other recourse. The constitution also has a thing about due process, and we saw how well that was treated over the last eight years.
I never saw apple products as having a cool factor. Really, its more of a douchbag factor.
The same way Reagan did earlier. If you look at this graph, it kind of shows that despite Republican accusations to the contrary, the Democrats are not the wasteful spendthrifts that Republicans claim they are.
The truth is, both parties spend like drunken frat boys at a strip club. Its just that the Republicans are worse, both in the amount and in the fact they claim its not them, but the other party at fault.
There hasn't been a Republican president since Nixon that didn't spend like hell and cause the national debt to skyrocket. All that Clinton's administration did to lower the national debt was erased by Bush #2. True we are in the middle of a war, but it was a war we were pushed into by Bush and Cheney's lies.
I am certainly no fanatic, but Dubya is the former president's nickname, and he was fine with people using it. How does me using his nickname make me a fanatic in any way? Personally, I would have been overjoyed had some miraculous circumstance put Ron Paul into the White House. That would never have happened, though.
Perhaps the next election will see all the major republican and democratic candidate swallowed up by an earthquake, leaving libertarians in charge. It wouldn't help anything, but at least it would be a change.
Right, well, actually George "Dubya" Bush mortgaged your daughter's future over the last eight years. That's not to say that Obama won't do the same thing, its just he's going to mortgage her future to buy different crap.
And as far as being a butt boy for the RIAA/MPAA why are you surprised? Didn't Hollywood come out in force to support him? That's the nature of politics. They help him get elected, and he helps them in return. Despite people's insistence that they are not influenced by celebrity endorsements, reality seems to say otherwise.
For that matter, why wouldn't Barack Obama support the media industry? They are defending their intellectual property. True, they are slimebags who would look much better after a massage with a steamroller, but the copyright infringers and file sharers are the ones which are breaking the law, after all. It doesn't matter whether the DMCA is an abomination, it is the law. And the President of the United States isn't put into office to make up his own rules, aka George W Cheney, but to enforce and abide by the laws in place.
I like that idea. Of course, I like it because I could charge those people to install their operating system for them at 60 bucks an hour.
Seriously, female terrorists.
There are even a few famous female terrorists, such as Ulrike Meinhof
For all the venom poured at the feet of Gartner, they are only saying what I have been saying since for months.
Gartner is only giving advice that many IT analysts have been saying for quite some time. Skip vista, hold on to Windows XP, and wait for the next release before considering upgrading. Hardly a controversial statement, especially with Windows 7 due to go Gold by the holiday season.
I know Slashdot has a tradition of instantly hating everything remotely associated with Microsoft, but Gartner is an IT firm that spends a great deal of time advising businesses on how to best implement Microsoft products. They aren't the Mouth of Sauron, speaking what the Eye of Mordor wants spoken.
Honestly, Microsoft would really prefer that businesses upgrade to Vista now, then upgrade to Windows 7 a year from now. That means more money to them. Gartner is only giving common sense advise and saying, hold off on spending your money because Vista is dead end.
Yes, we would all like to see more businesses switch to Linux, but that isn't going to happen very quickly, if at all. But if your company is thinking of migrating from XP to a more modern operating system, it would come as no surprise if the analyst they hired said, "don't go to Vista, wait for Windows 7".
No that is incorrect. To continue in the analogy of a department store, I go into a department store and ask an associate to direct me to Armani suits. The associate shows me Gucci because Gucci paid the department store to misdirect anyone looking for Armani to instead be shown Gucci.
The associate says, here is what you are searching for. Oh, and if you want Armani, those suits are somewhere on this same floor. The associate, by not accurately showing you the brand name you asked for, is acting in bad faith. It would be acceptable for that associate to show the Armani suits, then say here are the Gucci suits, as you might like them also, but downright misdirecting a person's search is an act of bad faith on Google's part.
Google's service is providing information to searchers. The good faith assumption here is that Google will provide accurate information, and searching for a registered trademark should provide a link to the trademark holder, not its competitor.
AMD Broke the 1 GHz barrier on their CPU, and now they break the 1GHz barrier on their GPU.
It doesn't matter what base you use, AMD owns that achievement.
According to AMD top researchers, whether it was base-9, base-10, or base-11 doesn't matter. According to AMD,
"All your base are belong to us."
Quit trying to argue with Dick Cheney, you won't make an impact, and people will laugh at you when they constantly see you near Dick.
Absolutely. When I rob a liqueur store to supply my crack habit, its actually my way of expressing dissatisfaction with the prohibition of drugs. Oh, and I beat my wife to make a political point against woman's suffrage.