Most people are idiots, and in the United States, where people are indoctrinated by religious and educational establishments to have unquestioning faith in authority.
As opposed to the rest of the world, where no one pays any attention to the words of priests, teachers, or other authority figures, right?
But jeff sneezes and has an idea "i will give it a computer virus". So he proceeds to open his apple notebook and "gives" the alien spacecraft a virus. I wonder whether the aliens used usb ports or the "airport".
Actually, it was a PowerBook 5300, which didn't have Airport or USB. However, they did catch on fire, so just throwing it at the alien spacecraft might have caused it to explode;-)
It's not just Moz. It's every app under OS X. Apple didn't do scrolling right in 10.0 and 10.1. The entire window gets redrawn rather than just the scrolled bits. 10.2 fixes this.
The main reason for supporting something like biodiesel is that it reduces reliance on imported oil. Virtually any country can grow vegetable oil-producing crops, and they probably have tons of waste oil around. Not being self-reliant on something as important to a modern economy as energy is a recipe for blackmail.
What you get is a renewable resource that may not be better for the environment, but is better for geopolitical reasons. That's not so bad in my book.
RPI does rank among the best Engineering schools, consistently.
CS? Well, it's pretty good, but it doesn't hang with CMU, MIT, Stanford, U-C Berkeley, U-W Madison, or UMd College Park (or a few other schools that I'm forgetting) in research output.
However, RPI puts a lot more effort into undergrad education than a lot of other schools, so it's a tradeoff. Back in the day, even intro CS classes (heck, virtually EVERY class at every level) at RPI were taught by professors. I don't know if this is still true.
Do you have actual numbers to support your claim? I'm pretty sure that NYC is supporting the rest of the state, not the other way around.
Unless things have changed since the mid-1990's, I think you're wrong. Guiani yelled at Newt Gingritch for calling NYC a drain on the federal government. Rudy pointed out that NYC was a net giver of money to the feds, while Newt's home district of Marietta, GA was a net receiver of funds from the feds. Yes, I know this is federal funds, and not state funds, but I remember reading around that time that the costs of social services upstate are way more than what is brought in by taxes upstate.
"The armpit of New York", eh? When I was there it was "The armpit of America". I guess things have improved...
That is a great URL, BTW.
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Some people don't know a joke when they see it...
I haven't been in the Hudson Valley region in almost a decade, but when I was, I was at RPI. Any RPI student who had a tenth of the fun you are having would never have graduated (as a point of reference, I had several friends who did have the kind of fun you're describing, and they didn't make it out of RPI with a degree).
For a long time, your arguments held. Then it was decided that if you can build a circuit out of it, it becomes a real-world thing, and you can patent it. For a time, you had to submit the circuit for your algorithm. Then the circuit clause was dropped.
So, yeah, you can patent math, just like you can now patent genes that occur naturally. It's a wacky world we live in.
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The only coolness in the Hudson Valley area is the frigid temperatures that start right after Labor Day and end the day after finals at RPI...
As an RPI grad myself, I am stunned that anyone in Troy would worry about polution. The Hudson isn't exactly the cleanest river around. Didn't GE in Schenectady dumb a few billion tons of PCBs into the river right around there?
Troy was a mess when I was there years ago. I can't imagine that it's gotten better in the meantime.
Until Jobs, Gates, or Nealy can get on stage and say "This is the Nokia 3425, Ford Tunester, and Kenmore Neat-n-Shit and you can go to the store and buy them right now." These demo's are just Marketing/PR to make all the geeks love them.
Is this good enough for you? Look at www.apple.com/isync . It lists several cell phones that work with isync.
The idea is a great one. Enter the addresses/phone numbers/schedule on your Mac, then automatically sync with you iPod (yes, iPod)/Palm/Cell phone. This is very, very cool stuff. Made me think about getting a new cell phone for a half-second.
The core creed of anarchists. I'm just going to apply it to your stuff. I decided that I want it. So, where's the name and address, oh he who wants to share with the world?
And who are you to decide what makes me an anarchist?
Since you're very dense, why don't we try an existence proof. Please tell me why areas which live under anarchy (Somalia, Afghanistan) aren't paridises, with millions flocking to them? Why is it that absent the rule of law, people have LESS freedom, not more? If you can't answer these questions, then your stupid economic theory is pretty much shot, eh?
I'm guessing that you're a spoiled white kid who lives in a rather rich part of the US and who has never actually had to earn anything that he owns. Mommy and Daddy have give you everything, except a sense of value.
Now, isn't there a McDonald's that you should be looting near your bedroom in Mommy's house?
Well, I'm an anarchist, too, and I don't believe in your personal property. Or, more accurately, I believe that your personal property is my personal property. Give me you address so I can go exercise my anarchist rights to all of your stuff. Since you don't believe in government, I take it that you won't ask the government to protect you.
I can assure that most Jewish families didn't own Torahs. They are tremendously expensive. Torahs are copied by hand by a person who is trained in the art and law of creating a Torah, onto parchment made from a kosher animal, which is then assembled into a scroll. It usually takes one person a year to write a Torah.
If a family did have a Torah, there were NO names scribbed on it. Doing so would have been the highest sacrilege.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of Jews who tried to flee Eastern Europe in WWII were turned away by the West, and sent back to their deaths. The Nazis (as well as their willing helpers in countries they conquered) then destroyed much of the information indicating that Jews had ever been there.
Compared to the willful attempt to eradicate not only a people, but even the record of a people, a few crashing hard drives doesn't seem like the end of the world.
Due to a lack of information, most people can't trace their roots back more than 2-300 years, and at the extreme ends of that you have nothing more than a name, location, and occupation.
2-300 years? I bet most Americans couldn't go more than 2 or 3 generations back, maybe 100 years, tops.
The reason is simple: the vast majority of Americans came here to run away from the Old Country. When you're on the run, taking along stacks of family memorabilia isn't exactly a high priority.
The fact that the US is a highly mobile society and people don't tend to stay in one spot for their whole lives also breaks these chains.
You want to ban private property? Great! Let's start with you. Please post your real name and address.
You don't want government? Fine! The guy with the biggest gun will be in charge, and don't expect him to allow you to appeal to a judge.
I believe the warlord areas of Afghanistan and Somalia have exactly what you are looking for. Why don't you ask those residents how well your system works?
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As opposed to the rest of the world, where no one pays any attention to the words of priests, teachers, or other authority figures, right?
People are people, world-wide.
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A conservative is someone who thinks that all Democrats are inherently evil.
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Actually, it was a PowerBook 5300, which didn't have Airport or USB. However, they did catch on fire, so just throwing it at the alien spacecraft might have caused it to explode ;-)
-jon
It's not just Moz. It's every app under OS X. Apple didn't do scrolling right in 10.0 and 10.1. The entire window gets redrawn rather than just the scrolled bits. 10.2 fixes this.
-jon
What you get is a renewable resource that may not be better for the environment, but is better for geopolitical reasons. That's not so bad in my book.
-jon
CS? Well, it's pretty good, but it doesn't hang with CMU, MIT, Stanford, U-C Berkeley, U-W Madison, or UMd College Park (or a few other schools that I'm forgetting) in research output.
However, RPI puts a lot more effort into undergrad education than a lot of other schools, so it's a tradeoff. Back in the day, even intro CS classes (heck, virtually EVERY class at every level) at RPI were taught by professors. I don't know if this is still true.
-jon
Unless things have changed since the mid-1990's, I think you're wrong. Guiani yelled at Newt Gingritch for calling NYC a drain on the federal government. Rudy pointed out that NYC was a net giver of money to the feds, while Newt's home district of Marietta, GA was a net receiver of funds from the feds. Yes, I know this is federal funds, and not state funds, but I remember reading around that time that the costs of social services upstate are way more than what is brought in by taxes upstate.
BTW, I'm not an NYC dweller. Well, not anymore.
-jon
That is a great URL, BTW.
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I haven't been in the Hudson Valley region in almost a decade, but when I was, I was at RPI. Any RPI student who had a tenth of the fun you are having would never have graduated (as a point of reference, I had several friends who did have the kind of fun you're describing, and they didn't make it out of RPI with a degree).
Maybe things are different now, but I doubt it.
-jon
So, yeah, you can patent math, just like you can now patent genes that occur naturally. It's a wacky world we live in.
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Troy was a mess when I was there years ago. I can't imagine that it's gotten better in the meantime.
This would be great news for RPI, though.
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The list of new UNIX things in 10.2: http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/unix.html
Development environment information: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/projectbuilde r.html
The list of UNIX things in the current OS (10.1.5): http://developer.apple.com/darwin/
The tools that OS X ships with are a superset of what you get with most Linux distribs, so I think you'd be pleasantly surprised.
-jon
That's why 802.11b was invented, isn't it?
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Is this good enough for you? Look at www.apple.com/isync . It lists several cell phones that work with isync.
The idea is a great one. Enter the addresses/phone numbers/schedule on your Mac, then automatically sync with you iPod (yes, iPod)/Palm/Cell phone. This is very, very cool stuff. Made me think about getting a new cell phone for a half-second.
-jon
"What do you see when YOU close your eyes?"
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It's well-known that the Soviets created the "US made AIDS" rumor as disinformation during the Cold War.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_783 000/783533.stm
Please adjust your tin foil hat so that you can pick up a different conspiracy theory.
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That is false.
iTunes has AIFF importing as an option.
-jon
The core creed of anarchists. I'm just going to apply it to your stuff. I decided that I want it. So, where's the name and address, oh he who wants to share with the world?
And who are you to decide what makes me an anarchist?
Since you're very dense, why don't we try an existence proof. Please tell me why areas which live under anarchy (Somalia, Afghanistan) aren't paridises, with millions flocking to them? Why is it that absent the rule of law, people have LESS freedom, not more? If you can't answer these questions, then your stupid economic theory is pretty much shot, eh?
I'm guessing that you're a spoiled white kid who lives in a rather rich part of the US and who has never actually had to earn anything that he owns. Mommy and Daddy have give you everything, except a sense of value.
Now, isn't there a McDonald's that you should be looting near your bedroom in Mommy's house?
-jon
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If a family did have a Torah, there were NO names scribbed on it. Doing so would have been the highest sacrilege.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of Jews who tried to flee Eastern Europe in WWII were turned away by the West, and sent back to their deaths. The Nazis (as well as their willing helpers in countries they conquered) then destroyed much of the information indicating that Jews had ever been there.
Compared to the willful attempt to eradicate not only a people, but even the record of a people, a few crashing hard drives doesn't seem like the end of the world.
-jon
2-300 years? I bet most Americans couldn't go more than 2 or 3 generations back, maybe 100 years, tops.
The reason is simple: the vast majority of Americans came here to run away from the Old Country. When you're on the run, taking along stacks of family memorabilia isn't exactly a high priority.
The fact that the US is a highly mobile society and people don't tend to stay in one spot for their whole lives also breaks these chains.
-jon
You don't want government? Fine! The guy with the biggest gun will be in charge, and don't expect him to allow you to appeal to a judge.
I believe the warlord areas of Afghanistan and Somalia have exactly what you are looking for. Why don't you ask those residents how well your system works?
-jon