Well, the only things you need to accept to figure out special relativity are the Pythagorian Theorem (from HS geometry) and that the speed of light is constant. It is not amazing to come up with special relativity, but what it implies IS truly amazing, at least to humans, who evolved moving extremely slowly relative to eachother. If you had a better physics prof perhaps it would be easier.
Wow, I bet you can tell us something about him based on his astrological sign, too!
In seriousness, in the US handwriting recongnition has been dismissed as useless. It is only countries like France who still use it (where the majority of job applications are examined by handwriting analysis before hiring). I have better than 20/20 and I like to write BIG, so nya!
Actually, for our side, war really is sort of like that. Our guys wear bullet-proof vests so they can take some hits. And in the not-too-distant future, there will be a lot of "video game" controlled machines replacing our troops out there. War is horrible, but when you can take over an entire country with 100 casualties, it may seem like a game to some of our troops.
"They should have slapped the RIAA fools with a libel lawsuit"
Sorry, libel only works if something is published that is false and ruins someone's reputation. This was not 'published', it was sent in a letter directly to penn state.
You like AUP because it makes your job easier. A phone is a potential weapon. You could call people and harrass them with it! The only solution is to make a telephone AUP where you can only call business or certain people durring certain times of the day. And the ISPs would enforce this AUP by listening to what you say on the phone and by disconnecting (firewalling) some calls. A phone is a potential weapon. I work at an ISP and I think the AUP we enforce (which includes having some of our users arrested for copyright infringement) is very idealistically flawed. Of course, it hasn't been estabilished that an ISP is a dumb carrier, like a phone company, so this AUP crap and self-policing continues. I am sure it would make the jobs of other cops easier if phone companies could tell you who and when you could make calls. That doesn't make it right.
So you are basically saying only companies should be able to run servers. I don't like that. The internet should be fore the people, on equal ground. All nodes should have equal rights and abilities limited only by their bandwidth. There should be no AUP. Upstream providers should pass anything that comes their way, and sniff none of it unless there is a search warrant.
I am not just a 'consumer' of the internet. It is not a 1-way tv station. I am a contributer like anyone else. You like ISPs policing and enforcing AUPs? Well how would you like it if your phone company listened to all of your phone conversations, told you who you were allowed to call, and what you were allowed to talk about?
My SMTP server has multiple DNS names pointing to it. If I send spam from name A, and it reverse-dns's to name B, then my mail doesn't work? Count me out.
If you did it the other way around (looking up the IP from the DNS and seeing if they match) that would help, but what about joe random DSL customer running his own SMTP server? Can't stop that.
And if you leave Mozilla loaded in the background (the quickstart option) IE pales in comparison when it comes to speed. Ever notice how the entire IE interface freezes while a page is loading? That's bad design. The only other complete web browser that is faster than Mozilla is Opera, which keeps a rendered copy of web pages in your history, so going back is instant (IE and Moz re-render and read from disk when you press the back button).
"IE exploits gives bad people access to your machines."
Someone please moderate this guy off the face of the earth. That is a completely false statement and he got modded up. Moderators: check facts before you moderate.
At The Ohio State University, we actually have a paperless office, at least in the IT department. It works great, and I can access all the documents and info that would normally be at my 'desk' from any internet connected computer with a web browser. Beats the hell out of lugging a briefcase around, and if I want to send a document to a coworker, I can do it instantly over our web-based system.
"I'm sure domestic any number of different things, cars, tobacco, alcohol, etc. kills more people each year on american soil than terrorism does. Yet, I see no huge overarching "war on speeding" for example."
The point of the war on terror is to make sure it stays that way. All a terrorist would need to do is get one working nuclear weapon into some port city to kill hundreds of thousands of people. This would make death due to tobacco look like nothing. We know that countries that hate us and support terrorism have been trying to make nuclear weapons (Iraq, for example). That's why there is a war on terrorism and not a war on tobacco. Don't forget.
"We ought to fix things by requiring companies who use foreign labor to pay equivalent U.S. for each overseas position into a fund used for improving living conditions in the countries these companies are abusing"
Well, if we do that, then the US companies will go out of business as other countries' businesses will be operating at a much lower cost. You can't beat a free market. Just can't be done, and fighting with it will put your contry behind competing countries.
If you want something different, try BattleField 1942. It is not just running around with a gun. You can get in tanks, jeeps, airplanes, battleships and submarines. I think adding vehicles adds a whole lot to an FPS game.
This is great news, or would be, if OpenBSD would actually work with our hardware. We use KVM switchs that have a mouse and keyboard plugged into a USB hub. OpenBSD just doesn't have good enough USB support to even install with a keyboard through a hub. And no, changing 'usb legacy support' in the bios does not help the problem. It is a pity. Linux kernel has the same issue, however all recent versions of Windows work fine with it.
"Actually, seeing as Navigator 2.0 was released in February, 1996, and the patents have invention dates of May, 1996 at the earliest, Netscape seems to be prior art."
In the USA, Prior Art must be documented 1 year prior to the challenged patent being filed for it to be legally meaningful. So this is no good unless netscape has a much older (and documented) internal beta or something.
"I'm sorry, but hasn't your president and administration spent the last few months painstakingly pointing out that the coalition liberated Iraq from it's evil ruler?"
To be accurate, it was part conquering and part liberating. In the begining, we had to fight an conquer at least slightly. By the time we got to Bagdad, the people kind of switched to our side. People were helping us by showing us where weapons caches and former leaders were. Most of the fighting in Bahdad was by very confused young men from other countries who came to Iraq to fight for a people who don't even want them there. It started out like conquering, but it really did end up more like a liberation.
Well, what's the problem with that? If trees being the same age isn't your idea of "healthy" I don't care. If it keeps our forests around in at least some useful form, then it's a good thing.
"Course, we'd have to assume that politicians are socially-conscious and intelligent persons capable of actually caring that the world is a better place for everyone"
Actually, politicians are supposed to care about the people they are representing, not 'the world'.
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Well, the only things you need to accept to figure out special relativity are the Pythagorian Theorem (from HS geometry) and that the speed of light is constant. It is not amazing to come up with special relativity, but what it implies IS truly amazing, at least to humans, who evolved moving extremely slowly relative to eachother. If you had a better physics prof perhaps it would be easier.
Wow, I bet you can tell us something about him based on his astrological sign, too!
In seriousness, in the US handwriting recongnition has been dismissed as useless. It is only countries like France who still use it (where the majority of job applications are examined by handwriting analysis before hiring). I have better than 20/20 and I like to write BIG, so nya!
"You replace those $20,000 cars by $400 bikes"
Ha! Try riding your bike to work in the winter when it is below freezing for weeks in a row! Sorry, that's just not an option.
Actually, for our side, war really is sort of like that. Our guys wear bullet-proof vests so they can take some hits. And in the not-too-distant future, there will be a lot of "video game" controlled machines replacing our troops out there. War is horrible, but when you can take over an entire country with 100 casualties, it may seem like a game to some of our troops.
That's why Python is called "Executeable Pseudocode". It is the easiest to use language ever written.
"They should have slapped the RIAA fools with a libel lawsuit"
Sorry, libel only works if something is published that is false and ruins someone's reputation. This was not 'published', it was sent in a letter directly to penn state.
You like AUP because it makes your job easier. A phone is a potential weapon. You could call people and harrass them with it! The only solution is to make a telephone AUP where you can only call business or certain people durring certain times of the day. And the ISPs would enforce this AUP by listening to what you say on the phone and by disconnecting (firewalling) some calls. A phone is a potential weapon. I work at an ISP and I think the AUP we enforce (which includes having some of our users arrested for copyright infringement) is very idealistically flawed. Of course, it hasn't been estabilished that an ISP is a dumb carrier, like a phone company, so this AUP crap and self-policing continues. I am sure it would make the jobs of other cops easier if phone companies could tell you who and when you could make calls. That doesn't make it right.
So you are basically saying only companies should be able to run servers. I don't like that. The internet should be fore the people, on equal ground. All nodes should have equal rights and abilities limited only by their bandwidth. There should be no AUP. Upstream providers should pass anything that comes their way, and sniff none of it unless there is a search warrant.
I am not just a 'consumer' of the internet. It is not a 1-way tv station. I am a contributer like anyone else. You like ISPs policing and enforcing AUPs? Well how would you like it if your phone company listened to all of your phone conversations, told you who you were allowed to call, and what you were allowed to talk about?
My SMTP server has multiple DNS names pointing to it. If I send spam from name A, and it reverse-dns's to name B, then my mail doesn't work? Count me out.
If you did it the other way around (looking up the IP from the DNS and seeing if they match) that would help, but what about joe random DSL customer running his own SMTP server? Can't stop that.
And if you leave Mozilla loaded in the background (the quickstart option) IE pales in comparison when it comes to speed. Ever notice how the entire IE interface freezes while a page is loading? That's bad design. The only other complete web browser that is faster than Mozilla is Opera, which keeps a rendered copy of web pages in your history, so going back is instant (IE and Moz re-render and read from disk when you press the back button).
"IE exploits gives bad people access to your machines."
Someone please moderate this guy off the face of the earth. That is a completely false statement and he got modded up. Moderators: check facts before you moderate.
At The Ohio State University, we actually have a paperless office, at least in the IT department. It works great, and I can access all the documents and info that would normally be at my 'desk' from any internet connected computer with a web browser. Beats the hell out of lugging a briefcase around, and if I want to send a document to a coworker, I can do it instantly over our web-based system.
"I'm sure domestic any number of different things, cars, tobacco, alcohol, etc. kills more people each year on american soil than terrorism does.
Yet, I see no huge overarching "war on speeding" for example."
The point of the war on terror is to make sure it stays that way. All a terrorist would need to do is get one working nuclear weapon into some port city to kill hundreds of thousands of people. This would make death due to tobacco look like nothing. We know that countries that hate us and support terrorism have been trying to make nuclear weapons (Iraq, for example). That's why there is a war on terrorism and not a war on tobacco. Don't forget.
Look up the word "than" in the dictionary.
"We ought to fix things by requiring companies who use foreign labor to pay equivalent U.S. for each overseas position into a fund used for improving living conditions in the countries these companies are abusing"
Well, if we do that, then the US companies will go out of business as other countries' businesses will be operating at a much lower cost. You can't beat a free market. Just can't be done, and fighting with it will put your contry behind competing countries.
If you want something different, try BattleField 1942. It is not just running around with a gun. You can get in tanks, jeeps, airplanes, battleships and submarines. I think adding vehicles adds a whole lot to an FPS game.
Already own the hardware, any OS will do for the particular project.
This is great news, or would be, if OpenBSD would actually work with our hardware. We use KVM switchs that have a mouse and keyboard plugged into a USB hub. OpenBSD just doesn't have good enough USB support to even install with a keyboard through a hub. And no, changing 'usb legacy support' in the bios does not help the problem. It is a pity. Linux kernel has the same issue, however all recent versions of Windows work fine with it.
Wow, I just pulled that out of my ass and it turned out to be correct. Good for me!
"Actually, seeing as Navigator 2.0 was released in February, 1996, and the patents have invention dates of May, 1996 at the earliest, Netscape seems to be prior art."
In the USA, Prior Art must be documented 1 year prior to the challenged patent being filed for it to be legally meaningful. So this is no good unless netscape has a much older (and documented) internal beta or something.
"Remember: we conquered Iraq."
"I'm sorry, but hasn't your president and administration spent the last few months painstakingly pointing out that the coalition liberated Iraq from it's evil ruler?"
To be accurate, it was part conquering and part liberating. In the begining, we had to fight an conquer at least slightly. By the time we got to Bagdad, the people kind of switched to our side. People were helping us by showing us where weapons caches and former leaders were. Most of the fighting in Bahdad was by very confused young men from other countries who came to Iraq to fight for a people who don't even want them there. It started out like conquering, but it really did end up more like a liberation.
Well, what's the problem with that? If trees being the same age isn't your idea of "healthy" I don't care. If it keeps our forests around in at least some useful form, then it's a good thing.
"Course, we'd have to assume that politicians are socially-conscious and intelligent persons capable of actually caring that the world is a better place for everyone"
Actually, politicians are supposed to care about the people they are representing, not 'the world'.
I did assembly in college. I can code in something other than java. But what's the difference between a heap and a stack who should I care?
"My two Debian boxes on woody stable run 2+ yr old software. Guess what? They don't crash."
What's the IP address of your servers witht he 2 year old linux distros? ; )